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The March 2012 issue of the Cardinal Columns, student newspaper at Fond du Lac High School. For more news, see us online at www.cardinalcolumns.org.
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Bizarre and Unique Holidays in March
Some people are holiday fanatics. For these happy few, March is actually a pret-ty good month. “I love holidays!” says Natasha Smack. The best-known holidays in March are St. Patty’s day and National Women’s His-tory Month. However, have you looked at some of the bizarre and unique holi-days For March? The first day of March is National Pig Day, which recognizes and gives thanks to do-mesticated pigs. Pigs are clever and intelligent animals. Most people are unaware of the high level of intelligence a pig has. They can be taught to do tricks, even sometimes acting as a dog. Some people even keep them as pets. Some people on farms actually take this day so seriously they won’t eat hot dogs, ham etc. If you love peanut butter, the first of march is your day, too. One of the common holidays in March is National Women’s History Month. One of the reasons for this is that women got working rights on March 8, 1911. Along with that, it’s Social Work-ers Month. In the United States in 2006, 81% of social workers were women social workers, and that percent is increasing in recent years. Ever wanted to change your middle name? Well, talk about a weird holiday: Middle Name Pride Day! This day honors the seldom-used middle name that often sets you apart from others. For exam-ple, there are three Rachael Schnei-der at Fondy high. Some intelligent person once said, “There is a holiday for every-one.” He wasn’t kidding. The 14th of March is National Pi Day. Why? Because today is 3.14, the value of Pi. National Pi Day celebrates pi, a math concept, and a number that never ends. At least, no one has found the end yet. All math teach-ers and students, this is your day! Einstein was also born on March 14, 1879. Attention lovers, March 20 is the day for you! This could be a big day; it’s Proposal Day! Valentine’s Day last month came and went. He didn’t, or couldn’t, gather up the nerve to ask you. Along comes
another day and another opportunity. For those in love, this could very well be the big day that will change your lives. Use caution on this day. When he begins by saying: “I would like to propose to you . . .,” he may end with “. . . that we go see a movie.” Remember, it’s Proposal Day. It is a day to make proposals. However,
it may not be the one you want to hear. So if we don’t have enough holidays to start with, the 26th of March is Make Your Own Holiday! Make Your Own Holiday Day allows you to make today a
special day for anything you want. The objective of today is to al-low one day for any topic or event that has otherwise escaped recognition. Until now! Today, is your day to skip all of the red tape, bypass all of the effort and cre-ate a special day of any kind. You like or eat any of this food? If so, this is the day for you! March 28th is Something on a Stick Day! Celebrate this fun day by serving food for meals and
snacks on a stick. The family will love it, and so will you! It is also Take a Walk in the Park day! Don’t miss out on “ Take a Walk in the Park Day.” It is an opportu-nity for exercise and relaxation. Stressed out? A walk in the park is just what the doctor would order. It’s calming and therapeutic. Taken after a busy work day, it helps clear your mind and re-energize you. Or, take the walk during lunch, and you will find the afternoon of work goes by quicker and easier. Last but not least, for all the lovers of science and the science teachers, the 31st of March is Bunsen burner Day. It celebrates the birthday of its creator. German chemist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen was born on March 31, 1811. And, you guessed it, Von Bunsen created the Bunsen burner. You should know all about the Bunsen burner: if you have worked in a chemistry lab, biology or physical science, you have used the burner in your work. The Bunsen Burner is a long, hollow tube. Gas and air are combined to create a hot flame. The burner is used in a wide range of scientific and laboratory projects. Spend a few min-utes today to appreciate the value of this important scientific tool.
Who said you couldn’t like any holiday?Brittany Eckerstaff writer
“I love Holidays, said Natasha Smack
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Snowball or Bloomball?
It’s that time of year again, when the snow is falling and girls are in short dresses, cak-ing on hairspray to withstand the wind, and walking through slush in their open toed heels. The Snowball has arrived. Wait, that doesn’t sound like this year. True, but maybe this is a good thing. Friday, March 16th, was an average of 55 degrees with no snow on the ground and felt as though students were at prom instead of Snowball. Some may argue that this could take away the magic of snowfalls, cuddling up to your date in the cold and the beauty of ici-cles and decorations, but who would complain against the spring coming early? “Person-ally, I think the name should be changed to the Springball!” se-nior Abby Schaefer expressed, or “Bloomball” as Anna Kraus came up with. Along with the abnormal weather, Fondy chose to re-schedule the date of our win-
ter semi-formal, the Snowball, in order to accommodate the large number of students wish-ing to attend the Fondy Boys’ Hockey sectionals game. “On one hand, I thought students should have to pick between the two events because that’s life; you have to make choic-es,” said Mr. Poquette, student council advisor, “but on the other hand, as a business guy, I figured that due to the large number of students express-ing interest in both events, we would make a profit by splitting up the dates.” For some students, this choice ruined their plans or ul-timately sabotaged their chance to attend the Snowball all to-gether. “I was supposed to go with someone else, but now I am just going with friends, be-cause of the date change,” says freshman Ashly Stout. Some seniors may feel differ-ently though, because this may be their last Snowball ever at-tended. “No I can’t go, but yes, it’s a little disappointing,” says
senior Liz Dilling. Although there have only been two Snowballs here at Fondy high, the amount of people is usually around 500 to 600 students, according to Poquette. “Who knows, they may surprise us and we could get 700 students attend, but we won’t know until the last day when last minute tickets are sold,” says Poquette. He also mentions that even though some students had to return their ticket due to the change of dates, most people are “not too upset.” “I went to the hockey game, so I was very happy the date was changed. Otherwise I was scheming to get out of it,” ad-mitted Mrs. Heitzman, “but I always love to see the kids out-side of classes, and the guys all gussied up- It’s rare.” No matter the weather, stu-dents still had a memorable time at the 2012 snowball and look forward to many more to come.
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If you don’t like bass flood-ing your ears, you won’t know what hit you when you go to Bassnectar in Madsion, April 13. Bassnectar falls along the genre of dubstep. This is mu-sic completely made from the computer. “The process of making dubstep and being a DJ is a very complicated process which involves motivation, knowledge, creativity, dedica-tion and most importantly the drive to sit on a computer for hours on end. People think dubstep is overrated but they don’t understand the com-plication of the music,” says
Cody Michler, senior. Cody enjoys producing this genre of music. “People just think ‘oh, any-one can make dubstep, it’s just computer music.’ Well, they are wrong. It took T.C.M.P (aka The Cody Michler Project) 4 months just to get my setup just right. Plus, more time than I ever thought just to figure out how to use the equipment. I learned through trial and er-ror!” says Michler. “It’s fun seeing all the crazy people, the big happy vibes of the room, the lights and the way the funky baselines make your body feel!” says Dominic
Welnatz, senior. Dominic is a local “raver” here at Fondy High. A “raver,” for those of you who don’t understand the term, is a person who attends dubstep concerts. They wear crazy outfits including fuzzy boots, fish nets and of course the main accessory, bracelets. The bracelets are a big thing for ravers. They collect up to 100 a night. “PLUR: peace-love-unity-respect. It’s just a great atmo-sphere. I mean, honestly, when you got 7-8000 people all jam-min’ to the same stuff, it’s gon-na be a great time,” says Wel-natz.
by Sydney InksLayout Director
Bassnectar coming April 13by Leah Wempner
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Changes of the Seasons, changes of the dates
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Lindsey Wagner’s phone buzzes. The teacher says, “Lindsey, please shut off your phone.” She looks around, class-mates’ eyes all on her. Lindsey’s friends snicker and smile. She reaches into her pocket. The phone says one new text message...from her mom. She looks at what it says, then her teacher clears her throat and asks for her cell phone free pass. This is how last year school year was for many students just like Lindsey. Fondy High students have been given the okay to text on their cell phones and jam to songs on their iPods while going between classes, eating lunch and hang-ing before and after school because of a rule change in the cell phone policy. In the 2011-2012 school year Fondy made it so that students could text be-tween classes during school hours. The rule used to be that cell phones must be turned off and put in lockers at 7:55a.m..Now phones are allowed between classes, and it is up to each teacher whether it is allowed in class. A 2011 study done by Nielsen shows that cell phone use during school hours is becoming more and more popular in the state and even nationwide. Across the country high school officials struggle over whether to banish cell phones or al-low the use. Many still ban but in the past year and a half a wide majority are start-ing to relax on the rules. “If we give a little you give a little.” says Principal Wiltzius. “You may use cell phones during school but only between class and at lunch. Then they must be turned off and put away during class time.” “I noticed it more last semester that stu-dents would try and sneak their phones in gym class, but not so much this se-mester,” says gym teacher Mr.Stokes. “I like the policy so that students can use phones between classes so they’re not as
tempted to use it during class.” Teachers have been given the right to establish cell phone use in their class rooms. But most do try to stay away from allowing the use because they can be such a big distraction. Some teachers allow the use of cell phones but only for educational purpos-es. Others are a strict no on cell phones. You may still use your cellphone free pass from your planner, but teachers are allowed to take your phone from you de-pending on their class room rules.“I really hate when you’re sitting in class and you look over and see someone tex-ting behind their bag on their lap.” says sophomore Samm Nelson, “Its like seriously? You’re disrespecting the teacher. And its annoying to me.” High school officials see that students can’t just live without their cell phones. Because they’re not just phones anymore, they’re the Internet, phone, texting, music, games, GPS,etc. They decided to let students use their phones between classes so there wasn’t as much sneaking phones during class. “If a friend is sick, you can send them a picture of what you did during class that day,”says sophomore Ari Ebling-hopf. “Depending on the assignment you could even get a head start at home.” “It’s really nice to be able to use my phone without sneaking it around and worried about getting caught. It’s easier to get a hold of people when I need to and when I want to.” says sophomore Andrea Dawson.“And it’s easier to up-date my best pal Rachael on things with-out getting in trouble or waiting till math class.”
A national survey from CTIA and Har-ris Interactive says 42% of teenagers can text with their eyes closed. So, walking down the hallway and not running into people wouldn’t be that tough for many students.So many teenagers and adults say that they cannot live without their cellphones. We know we won’t actually die without them. But could it become possible in this technology era? “If students are texting in the hall between class I have no problem with phones,” says French teacher Mrs. Daniels. “Its when they’re texting during classes or during class in the hallway that it both-
ers me. 50 m i n u t e s really isn’t that hard to wait to use your phone.” Math t e a c h e r M r s .K i e s a u says, “I don’t feel like it’s
necessary for students to use their phone in math class. I don’t mind if they use it between classes, though. It doesn’t both-er me.” Class ends. Lindsey’s phone vibrates. One new text message from Morgan. Morgan asks, “Hey, what was the assignment to-day for English, I’m home sick.” Lindsey can respond without getting in trouble from a teacher. She loves the advantag-es of being able to text between classes and at lunch. Lindsey responds“Yeah the assignment was p.147 10-35” Morgan instantly replies “thanks(:”. Class starts again, and Lindsey puts her phone away. Then class begins.
by Rachael Schneiderstaff writer
Wassup?!
“I really hate when you’re sitting in class and you look over and see some-one texting behind their bag,”says Samm Nelson
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When you see somebody reading the Hunger Games, you know they’re a goner to the out-side world. They may cry, laugh or gasp in complete horror. Their facial expressions foretell the mood in the book, and any
form of communication with them is useless. Caitlin Joseph, sitting in her pre-calculus class, is a perfect example of what read-ing The Hunger Games does to you. She isn’t hearing a word of the lecture on mathemati-cal induction, she’s in a whole different world called Panem. “I’m so excited for the movie to come out because the books were amazing. I read them in like a week,” gushes ju-nior Morgan Sass. The first book seems to be a favorite by far, due to the romance, excitement, and overall new concept. “Supremely great, it’s the best action-packed sh*t I’ve ever read,” ex-claims junior Caitlin Joseph. Kelsey Schultz, anoth-er junior, adds, “One of the best books I’ve read in a long time!” The New York Times writes, “The text disappears in the way a good font does: nothing stands between Katniss and the reader, between Panem and America.” With the movie finally out, the Hunger Games hype has never been more intense. It is a common conversation piece, and as you look around your classroom, you’re likely to see multiple people reading it. So, why the excitement? The an-swer is simple: it’s a good book. A great book. It sucks read-ers in and keeps them reading. The Hunger Games brings us to a time in the fu-ture, after the destruction of North America. The new nation is called ‘Panem,’ and is divided into twelve districts, formerly 13. The 13th district was destroyed by the government, (referred to as ‘The Capitol’ in the books), when the citizens of Panem re-belled. That rebellion was what
brought up the creation of the Hunger Games, which serves as a yearly reminder of the Capi-tol’s authority. Each year, the games are held, a battle to the death between 24 tributes, (one girl and one boy tribute between the ages 12-18 from each dis-trict.) They compete in an arena where the terrain is controlled by the game makers, and chang-es each year. The tributes battle against mother nature, hunger, dehydration, and each other. It is a story of murder, survival, control and romance, and keeps you interested every second. The first book of the trilogy, written by Suzanne Col-lins, was published September 14, 2008. The sequel, Catching Fire, followed almost exactly a year after, on September 1, 2009, and Mockingjay finished it off on August 24, 2010. The idea was formed when Col-lins was channel surfing and viewed both a reality show and an invasion in Iraq. She re-calls, according to Wikipedia, that “the two began to blur in this very unsettling way.” Thus, the Hunger Games were born. With a star-studded cast lined up, Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale, it’s a sure bet to be a very well-played movie. “I think Jen-nifer Lawrence is a little old, but I’m sure she’ll d amazing! Josh Hutcherson is so incred-ibly good looking! I think all the actors are going to play their roles perfectly,” predicts Morgan Sass. To say the least, millions of girls will be jealous of Katniss and her close relations to both of the special boys in her life. The movie is getting quite a following, even from peo-
ple who haven’t read the books. “I can’t wait to see the arena where the games are held, and I want to see how they put on the games,” says Emily Nett, junior. Sara Kirchhoff adds, “even though I know it’s gonna suck, I want to see how they portray the games.” Seeing the games portrayed seems to be the most exciting factor about the movie. Senior Abby Runge is looking forward to Katniss’ outfit in the parade. Nicole Fur-tak is most excited to see how the actors play their characters.i. Two big parts of the movie are the two facially gift-ed male costars. Avid Hunger Games readers debate Peeta or Gale all the time. Most people will say Peeta, but a few have chosen the latter. Emily Nett votes Gale in the books, but Peeta in the movie. “I feel like Peeta deserves Katniss more,” says Nhou Xiong, “he went through the whole game with her, while Gale was at home.” People that choose Gale ar-gue that he has been there for Katniss her whole life, not just since the games started. They help each other get through the rough times and put food of the tables of their families, although Peeta is company to Katniss in one of her roughest times. Ei-ther way, all Hunger Games fans agree that they absolutley don’t want it to end up like Twlight’s ‘Team Edward’ nonsense. No teams, it’s just Peeta or Gale. As class ends, Cait-lin is still reading. “I like the Hunger Games because of the new ideas that it has to of-fer. It’s not the same old stuff that’s in all of the other books out there today. It offers ac-tion, romance, and suspense.”
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“Why are we getting them?” asked Alicia Rodriguez, a junior.“What will they cost the students?” asked Sage Beck-mann, a sophomore. “I think that a ChromeBook is a nice idea, I just would rather make a poster or feel the success of seeing the physical product of my work as opposed to just keeping it on the computer,” said Erin Steward, a junior, “I also really like being able to talk to a teacher face-to-face about how I did on something or about questions in general, as opposed to doing something via the computer,” she continued. “I think Chromebooks are a good because they will teach students respect for property, and give them some responsibility, and they will be able to do there homework at home if they have too,” said Cody Bunkert a senior. Chromebooks can be a great tool for every student to use. Many students do not understand the reason for getting Chromebooks and are confused to what they can do. With many students having never used the Chromebooks, they’re just making assumptions about them. Starting next year, all students will be receiving a Chromebook, and this has led to many questions.
by Natalee OlsonStaff Writer
Will we have to pay for them? According to Mr. Sitter, yes, there will be a deposit of $50 for the Chromebooks. This will not increase the net cost of students’ fees because of the restriction here at FHS.
Will students be able to keep them after graduation, and are they going to be able to keep the same one all the years they’re here? Mr. Sitter says that yes, you will be able to keep the same one all the years you’re
here. If you want to keep them after gradu-ation you will have to pay the rest of the cost. They still don’t know if you get to keep them during the summer.
Will the Chromebooks be covered by insurance? Mr. Sitter says that there will be insur-ance available for families if they choose to purchase it.
There are students with no WiFi; are they able to connect into the regular Internet?
According to Mr. Sitter, Chromebooks do not have an Internet jack that you can plug into. You can get Internet apps; also you can do papers offline through multiple apps.
How will we distinguish ours from others? According to Mr. Sitter, all the Chrome-books have a code on the bottom. You could also use stickers, but only if they can be removed. They are also working on something called ChromeSkinz that will personalize and protect them.
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Why are we getting Chrome-books? Chromebooks are just a laptop that only connects to the Internet. According to the Chrome website, Chromebooks are made by Samsung and Acer. Samsung Chrome-books have an eight and a half hour con-tinuous battery life and they cost $449 per year with WiFi. Acer have a six hour con-tinuous battery life and they cost $20 per month with WiFi. Chromebooks have a built in WiFi system and optional 3G. There are no issues with things not saving because everything is saved in the I Cloud. So teach-ers and students can continue to do things outside the classroom without the fear of it not saving. Unlike a traditional computer that starts up and connects to a network, it takes a Chromebook eight seconds to boot and resumes instantly. Also Chromebooks have a long battery life which means they will last the whole school day and it eas-ily connects to any WiFi in the area. This will allow for students to have access to the Internet when they need it and also allow teachers to give more work time on projects that require the Internet since there won’t be the issue of not having a computer lab to go to. “We have limited computer lab space in this building, way under-sized for the use of technology available, and this is just ini-tially one of many positive I see,” said Mr. Wiltzius, principal. “We need to work on 21st century skills, also working on the four C’s: creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking,” said Mr. Sitter, one of the tech-nology integration specialists here.
How are teachers going to be monitoring that students are actually using Chromebooks ap-propriately, and how private will they be from the school? Teachers will not have software that they can see what is on everyone’s screen. The only thing the Chromebooks will be mon-itored by is the filter that is built into the school district. They are going to trust that the students are going to use them right, otherwise you may lose the privilege of us-ing the Chromebooks. “I see our students rising to the occasion.” said Mr. Wiltzius, “It can be a win win for everyone.”
How is the school going to han-dle the amount of students who forget to charge their Chrome-books? According to Mr. Sitter, every student is expected to come to school every day with a fully charged Chromebook. There will be disciplinary action for multiple violation of this rule.
What happens if they break, are stolen or damaged? If you break your Chromebook on pur-pose or on accident, it’s your responsibility to fix it. If your Chromebook is stolen, you will have to fill out a police report. Accord-ing to the Fond du Lac High School 1-1 Initiative Parent FAQs put together by the 1-to-1 Implementation Team, if the proper-ty is damaged, lost or stolen you are respon-sible for the reasonable cost to repair it or its fair market value on the date of loss. If lost or stolen, it must be reported to the school district as soon as possible. All seniors must clear all records and pay all fees before they can walk in the graduation ceremonies. Another 1-1 computing school suggests that it is rare to have problems of lost, sto-len or broken hardware. A 1-1 computing school is a school that gives each student a computer for the use of school work during the day and after school hours.
How is the use of technology go-ing to affect proper social skills during face to face conversation? According to Mr. Sitter, Chromebooks will not stop face to face conversation. If anything it will increase face-to-face con-versation. Chromebooks will allow stu-dents to work together like have never done before.
Technology sitting right next to them? “I don’t think grades are going to go down, actually I think grades will go up.” said Mr. Sitter. The school is trying to change the way they test our knowledge. When you can just look something up on Google in less then five seconds, that is just a recall of information, and Mr. Wiltzius thinks that these devices are going to help aid the students to deeper and more critical understanding of things.
Why aren’t Chromebooks op-tional? According to the Fond du lac High School 1-1 Initiative Parents FAQs, you can not opt out of the 1-1 program; it is being brought to the school district to provide the best education possible, and by giving us this device, they feel like we can be more actively participating in our learning. This will also allow for a better learning enviro-ment and for educators to have more of a standard platform to work with. They do know that you cannot bring a laptop from home and use it instead of a Chromebook. Some students here disagree with this, “ I think that if you have your own laptop, you should be able to use that instead of pay-ing to use the Chromebook,” said Natasha
Jewson a junior. “We have piloted them in some classes and I just feel like I can do more with my own laptop, a teacher, some textbooks and some notebooks,” said Erin Steward.
Will the usage in the classroom be by teacher or is there going to be one general rule for all class-es? The decision on how much the Chrome-books will be used in the classroom will be totally by teacher. There will be no general rule that all teachers have to use them for a certain number of hours.
With some teachers using the In-ternet for tests, how are they go-ing to control the cheating that could easily go on during them? Mr. Sitter would like to turn this question around and ask you, “With some students using the Internet for cheating how are they going to control themselves?” If they’re ask-ing you to do some higher level thinking question and just not remembering facts, how are you going to cheat? The only per-son you’re hurting is yourself.
Many students are concerned about being distracted by Face-book or Twitter. How are the teachers going to over come this? The simple answer to this question is to put your lids down and either put it under your desk or just leave it on top of your desk. The students are required to finish their homework or projects just like they did without them and will have to take over control of their learning. All students and parents will sign a district acceptable use policy to address these problems as well. According to Mr. Sitter, the Chromebooks are not going to replace the human inter-action that goes on now. They are going to be used for assisting students and teachers in deeper thinking through more problem solving and collaborating with each other. “I think it a great opportunity for stu-dents and our school to jump into the use of technology to improve our teaching,” said Mr. Wiltzius. With some questions still up in the air no one knows how well the chromebooks will work until every student has one in their hands. Hopefully this answered some of the questions, and cleared some of the confusions about the Chromebooks com-ing to Fondy High next year. If you would like more information about Chromebooks you can visit the Chromebook policy page at www.goo.gl/TdhQy.
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You log onto Facebook and see the same,boring statuses again such as “Like for truth is!!!!” and “Text me!!! <3.” Scrolling down your news feed, you shake your head at the stupidity of your peers. Occasionally there’s a status that doesn’t make you want to punch a baby; you “like” it to show your appre-ciation. A notification pops up: someone you don’t even to talk to sends you a request on Farmville. You deny it and keep scrolling. Sick of the useless updates and notifications from your “friends,” you open a new tab and sign into Twitter, another website that allows you to update people on your oh-so exciting life. Here,
you’re greeted by “tweets” - which are simi-lar to statuses but limited to only 140 char-acters - from friends, favor-ite celebrities, bands and even fictional char-
acters (Look up @Lord_Voldemort7 and you’ll understand). The Facebook tab is soon forgotten as you check your @replies and see that several of your friends have men-tioned you in their tweets. You reply back to them and pro-ceed to make your own tweet, ending it in what you think is a clever phrase that, of course, begins with a hashtag. So what’s the big deal with Twitter? Why do some stu-dents now prefer it over the biggest social networking site? Per-haps it’s because Twitter is just easier to use, or the fact that not all of the students at Fondy have one yet. Whatever the reason is, Twitter is quickly becoming popular among the students here. “You don’t have to listen to people complain,” says junior Taylor Schubert, who has had a Twitter since August and prefers it over Facebook. He barely uses Facebook now. “People don’t ran-domly add you. You’re able to get info from the people you want.” “I don’t want to speak for everybody,” says senior Shan-non Burns, “but I think people who have a Twitter think it’s bet-ter than Facebook. But at the same time, I like using both.” “There aren’t any teachers on Twitter,” jokes Nolan Cunning-ham, a junior, who joined in September. “More people like it because it’s easier to connect to people you’re close with. Not everyone has
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Twitter (right now), so there, I don’t have to deal with annoying people.” Created in 2006, Twitter now has over 300 million users, while Facebook has more than 845 million. Surprisingly, High-Beam Research reported that Twitter had 50% of mentions when talking about social networks in 2011. Facebook only had 45%. And according to Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, people can get a lot out of the site without ever having an account, which makes it much easier to use. Over on Facebook, however, in or-der to access most parts of it people need to sign up for an account first. “I think people like it more because it’s easier to use,” says Callen Farina, a junior, who joined Twitter in the sum-mer. “All you have to manage is typing 140 characters ver-sus all the other stuff on Facebook. This makes it easier to look through. (...) People are less annoying and they post more often, but it’s usually more interesting than whatever is on Facebook.” And with all the obnoxious advertisements and no-tifications on Facebook, it’s no wonder that some people like Twitter more. The layout is less complicated; there are no ads on the sides, only promoted Trending Topics and tweets. “The Twitter feed doesn’t have all the annoying pictures or games or dumb ‘truth is’ statuses,” said Callen. “It’s still really simple - just a list of tweets and then lists of followers. There’s no timeline or interests or stuff. And then there is the fact that a lot of people don’t have it and it feels almost exclusive, you know? Like, the more people from Fondy who get it, the less people like it.” Some students not only use Twitter to communicate with their friends, but they use it to keep up with the news as well. Taylor follows CNN, which has over six million followers. Unlike Facebook, Twitter doesn’t have a “like” and “comment” feature, which makes it easier to share your opin-
ions and not worry about how many people agree or dis-agree with you. The pressure of having a “cool” status is less. Of course, people can still reply, “favorite” and “retweet” (the act of quoting or taking someone’s tweet and making it ap-pear on your profile as well), but it’s done in a more private way. “You can say whatever you want and it’s not related or directed towards anyone,” said Taylor. “On Twitter you can’t really comment on anything, so you can post more,” Nolan says. “It’s not uncommon for people to tweet at least ten times a day. On Facebook, that would be really annoying, but Twitter is more personal, so you can basically tweet whatever.” Perhaps the best thing about Twitter is the fact that we can follow our favorite celebrities. Not only can we keep up with their professional lives, but we can follow their personal ones as well. Their tweets are more intimate than Facebook posts (which usually sound like a robot wrote them.) You get to read their opinions and thoughts - and not thoughts from the people who work for them. These celebs are actually taking their time to write out their tweets, not paying other people to do it for them. Junior Cassidy Duquaine joined Twitter in 2009 with the intent of following only celebrities. She follows peo-ple like Norman Reedus, Patrick Carney and Tom Hiddleston. “I like following them. I can stalk them easily!” she jokes. So as you scroll through your Twitter feed and talk to people you can actually tolerate, you remember the Facebook tab you had opened. You go back to it, and, once again, you see the same, pointless statuses that aren’t nearly as entertaining as the tweets you just read. You decide to log out of it and go back to Twitter - one of the few social networking sites nowadays that doesn’t have annoying people (and most hope it never does!)
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#5 - @patrickcarneyKlifford rT @shemnavalta: @patrickcarney which kardashian sister would you be?
“look at me now” -Basilisk#3 - @Lord_voldemort7 #6 - @veryrudetweets
Veggie Tales is on TV. i didn’t know they made a show about Terri Schiavo.
Musicians, fictional characters, old men - everybody speaks their mind on Twitter, and we love them for it! Here are the top six people to follow:
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by Sydney InksLayout Director
Fondy Thrives to be unique; Musical expression is their answer
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fined? I don’t believe you can just define music from one person or multiple peo-ple’s point of view, because it is such a much loved cate-gory,” says Junior Laderrick Taylor. An epidemic of musical expression has spread to many of our students here at Fondy High. There are those who believe a certain few genres are not to be defined as music, but others who disagree. We have seen movements of music drift through the ages, and our most recent could be con-sidered the hip hop era. A handful of students at Fondy High contribute to the new music being written right in
our home town. Students have formed what you could call “groups,” which are fellow rappers who join together to make music. Although Laderrick and other rappers around Fondy are very proud of the music they are making, oth-er music scholars disagree. “I personally don’t call rap music. It’s talking while a producer lays a beat under-neath you,” says music stu-dent Alaina Leisten. Alaina, who plays bas-soon, saxophone, violin, viola and piano, the earliest of which she started at age 3, says “it’s disappointing how simplified music has become these days. The music today portrays party-ing, drinking, smoking, and women. They are not musi-cians who understand what
goes into music, how it’s put together, and the magic of a performance.” Whether you agree with the quality of music, or lack of quality, rap contains, many could argue that music is art. “Peoples’ level of goodness, what is good when you are talking about art?” questions Fondy musician Isaiah Voss. Another rapper, writer and poet who belongs to Fondy High has a more open out-look on any musician he comes across. “I rap with everybody and anybody who provides an opportunity,” says Marcus Crain. A majority of the musi-cians around Fondy have expressed that they enjoy to make music with any artist of mutual interests as well as learn from each other’s styles and from other suc-
cessful musicians. “I don’t dis other rap-pers, I respect their thrive to come up in the business and be like everybody else; to try to appeal to everyone,” says Laderrick, referring to Marcus Crain, Hayden Geischen, and other rappers around Fondy. “We are all on equal terms, but I’m not gonna back down from a battle, even though we are all like a ‘joyful rivalry.’” Despite the typically large ego many rappers possess, outsiders sometimes look down on their lifestyle or “swagger.” “They are definitely an interesting “crew,”” says musical revolutionist, Isaiah Voss. “Unfortunately, their lyrics have no depth and they strike me as superficial in general.”
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Rappers who write their own music here at Fondy all have their own style. “My swag is obviously not com-parable to anyone else’s. For me, my swagger means my demeanor, the ultimate way people view my char-acter as a person, the way I carry myself with my mind, body, and overall appear-ance,” says Marcus Crain. Along with the unique way each rapper thinks of himself, each also has their own process of writing lyrics and style of what they write about. “I started writing po-etry in 2nd grade,” accord-ing to Laderrick, “but I was young and close minded. Now I can spread out at the age that I am, 17, and do different types of music. I consider myself a casanova type dude. I love women
and I appreciate them in general, it’s always been about girls.” While Lader-rick takes the romantic side of rapping, his partner in producing, Bob Frank, has a different style of lyric writ-ing- “I am uncensored and talk about the weirdest stuff possible; my music is like a horror movie.” To anyone who slightly understands music, it would be obvious that music comes from deep within one’s heart and mind, and expresses someone’s innermost thoughts and feel-ings. “...[rapping] is a way to put our your emotions and display yourself in ways that you can’t do otherwise. It helps evaluate my life and thoughts, it’s like a vent,” says Laderrick Taylor. Due to their individuality, each musician have their
own reason of pursuing their musical interests.“When I started it just fell into place; it happened on its own. Even-tually when I started rapping, becoming a big time rapper became thoughts, goals, and part of the motivation. Then when I started out I re-alized I did have the skill and the talent and things molded themselves together,” com-mented Marcus Crain. Con-tradictory to Marcus, Isaiah Voss was inspired by an-other successful musician, Icky Thump from the White Stripes. Along with their unique beginnings that lead them to music, every musician also has their own goals for the future. For most around Fondy, their future does not depend on music, but many of these artists could see it
in their future. “I would like to make music a big part of my future,” says Isaiah Voss, “I plan to take one year off of school after I graduate to save money and take les-sons in classical, jazz, and latin guitar. The next year, I plan to go to college for mo-lecular or nuclear physics and continue to write and play music.” Marcus and Laderrick both can see music in their fu-ture when it falls into place, Bob plans to go to school to “make beats,” and Alaina “could not see herself go-ing into any other profession than music.” No matter what music is defined as, it is always a part of someone’s individuality and will continually express their spirit, thoughts, and emotions.
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We Can Walk on Water
Wherever Fondy players and Brookefield players reigned, and in Milwaukee, one question was on every lip: who would win finals and go to state? The elderly mumbled it. High schoolers texted it. In-fants lisped it. The Cardinals boys varsity hockey team did not make state though having a 1-2 loss against Brookefield in MIlwaukee. Although they started the season with losses, the varsity boys proved they’ve got talent by going all the way to finals. Varsity boys hockey season started with three losses only to bring home their first win against Appleton on Dec. 8 with a 4-2 score. They ended the season with a seven-game winning streak beating Janesville, Wisconsin Rapids, Appleton, Neenah, Oshkosh and Springs. “The season was was a very successful season that like all seasons had its ups and downs,” says Coach Sarazin. “The key factor is we ended on such a posi-tive note and that I feel we will drive our underclassmen even further next year.
We lost six games in a row to difficult teams before stringing together seven consecutive wins which resulted one game short of the state tournament. For our seniors they provided leadership that sparked that run at the end of the sea-son. I believe some of our seniors had the talent to move forward in Hockey but it doesn’t look like they are choosing to do so at this time.The most memorable game for me was actually our playoff game against USM. We came into the game confident we could upset the number two seeded Wildcats. Our kids executed and our fans and parents believed we could do it. This lead into an another outstand-ing win against the Springs with 14 sec-onds left in front of nearly 2000 fans. It was a memorable year that ended with a great run in the playoffs.”
Even though the boys didn’t have an outstanding season, they didn’t have a terrible sea-son either. They had a 4-4 tie with St. Mary’s Springs. They also beat Springs in a 5-4 win in the semi-finals. They did have one strange win in the season against Wis-consin Rap-
ids. The score had stayed 0-0 for three full periods. They had an eight minute overtime and three minutes in which Rex Whealon scored the one and only win-ning point for Fondy. ”Being a freshman on varsity was a very cool thing. I loved playing at that level,” says freshman Jack Nedjedlo. “I was very
scared of the big-ger play-ers on o t h e r t e a m s . I think once the s e a s o n got going I wasn’t a
freshman. I was just a hockey player. It was still the coolest thing that has happened. The other players on my team did treat me differently only because I needed to earn respect from them. As we got into the sea-son I had their respect and they treated me like a regular boy on the team. I was just one of the boys by the end of the season.” Boys went to finals the night of the snow-ball, but due to most people wanting to go to the game the dance was postponed. This was one of the most challenging seasons the boys have faced in awhile. However, they showed that even with the losses they still love the game of hockey and brought home wins. Junior Ty Rebedew says, “Some advice i would give on how to handle Coach Sarazin is just be upfront with him. Re-spectful. DON’T TAKE HIM TOO SE-RIOUSLY. Just tell him the truth, and don’t be afraid to talk to him.” “I have advice for the whole team; we should improve on our work ethic,” says junior Charlie Blagoue. “Some of my favorite quotes from Coach Sarazin this year were ‘Sauce-ability’ and ‘You look like Joe Dirt’.”
by Rachael Schneiderstaff writer
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“I was scared of the big-ger players on other teams,”says Jack Nejedlo.
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Boys look to bounce back from disappoint-ing season: The 2012 Fond du Lac High School boys’ baseball season is looking very promising this year. There are many return-ing players. They didn’t have the greatest team last year. However, the upcoming un-
derclassmen from last year have a promis-ing future on the team. “It’s looking like we have a good group of guys coming to play this season. I have had the opportunity to see some of them perform, but all will have to prove themselves to myself and their fel-low teammates,” says fondy coach Marty Paulsen. The boys finished with a 6-16 re-cord. After starting off the season by losing their first 13 games, the team attempted to
turn it around by winning two games, but the streak didn’t last very long. “We did not have a good season at all last year. We didn’t play well together as a team, and it seemed like everyone gave up about half way through the season. This is a new year which hope-fully comes with new and better results,” says junior Tyler Kryzanowski, who pitches for the Cardinals. The boys begin their sea-son on thursday, April 5 against Watertown.
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The grass is getting greener once again and the spring semester has begun, which means time for the sports, and girls soccer is once again back in ses-sion.The girls season just started mid-March and already have two games on March 31st against Kiel and Sheboygan South at Fond du Lac soccer complex. The girls are coming back off an av-erage season with 16 wins and only 6 losses. Their conference record was an impressive 6 wins to 3 losses, and they are returning quite a few players back into the mix. “This is our last chance,” says senior
Shannon Burns. “All or nothing.” This is Greg Winkler’s’ 6th season as the girls head coach, and he has had plenty of success in his tenure. “This is my last season as a car-dinal,” says Sophie Chertos, “I want to end my season with a bang.” The car-dinals first game is just right around the corner starting on March 31 at the Fond du Lac soccer complex in a quad game meet against four other schools.Returning varsity letter winners are se-niors Sophie Chertos, Shannon Burns and Sammy Sabel. Juniors Kyra Grav-elle, Jenny Smit, Kristina Konen, and Sam Greuel. Sophomores Brianna Wag-ner, Erica Daniels, Kelsey Schneider and Shelby Sabel.
Social studies teacher Michael Gnewuch will be the new coach of the varsity football team next year. Gnewuch joins Fondy from Arrowhead, where he was successful as an assistant football coach for the past 9 years. The new coach will bring in some new assis-tant staff, as well, including former Kimberly head coach Steve Jorgenson, whose resume includes three state football championships.
Cards Strike Back Gnewuch Takes Reins of Fondy football
by Tim SimmonsStaff Writer
by Esteban MartinezStaff Writer
Boys Baseball hopes for a better season
By Nick McEsseyStaff Writer
The lights were shining bright on Cam-eron Van Beek, a long distance swimmer, as he lead the Cardinals to a state appear-ance. The Sophomore was the only qualifi-er for Fondy. He qualified in an impressive fashion at sectionals as he dropped more than 13 seconds off his conference time to give him a time of 4:56.86. The time placed him as runner up in the 500 free-style at sectionals to an Appleton North/ East swimmer. At state Van Beek didn’t let us down as he finished sixteenth with a time of 4:58.22, scoring points for Fondy. “My high school season was awesome, and went out with a bang. I drop ten sec-onds in the 500 at sectional, and qualified for WIAA division one state,” says Van Beek.
At sectionals, Van Beek also just missed state in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:50.64, missing the state cut by .5 hun-dredths of a second. His time was good for fifth at the sectional meet. Van Beek was also voted on by his teammates as he took home the most valuable swimmer award and Honorable Mention All-Conference by placing in the top three at conference. The other swimmer to place at sectional was Freshmen Riley Pankratz, who placed sixth in the 100 Back with a time of 58.8. Pankratz also won Rookie of the year and Honorable mention All-conference. Senior caption Nate Swanson took home the Hardest Work award. Most improved went to Hunter Develice. The Most Improved Rookie went to Klayton Porter, and the Best Teammate/Team Spirit Award was taken
home by Conner Doll. The other cap-tions were senior Zach Wagner and senior Hunter Aviles. The boys swim team also won their first meet in over a year taking the Cudahy In-vite, breaking a meet record on the way and also winning against Berlin/Green Lake. One highlight from the Berlin/Green Lake dual meet was when Junior Hunter Develice, an autistic teen, lettered in the 400 meter freestyle. Another high-light from this season was the return of Junior Ian Lock to the pool, after a year off to fight his way through cancer. He is going to continue swimming with the club team in the off season. “We had a really good year. We basically improved at every meet we had. Attitude were fantastic, and it was fun to coach,” said Mr. McBride, Boy swim coach.
A state Appearance Leads the Way for /fondy boys Swimming
By: Natalee Olson Staff Writer
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Has anyone ever made a crazy face at you when you started talking to them? Maybe you decided they were weird and walked away? Well, maybe you should jump onto YouTube and check out Jenna Marbles’ vid-eo “How To Avoid Talking To People You Don’t Want To Talk To.” If that face looks anything like the one this person made, this means they probably watch Jenna Marbles. This also means they don’t like you. Jenna Marbles’ video “How To Avoid Talking To People You Don’t Want To Talk To” was featured in an August arti-cle in the New York Times and ABC News, in which she was quoted as saying, “I’m sick and tired of guys thinking that just because I showed up at a club or a dance or a bar, that I want to have their !@#$ touching my butt.” The video has over 20,302,020 views as of March 14. Her videos have gotten a total of 411,053,689 views as of March 14. She has a total of 2,551,135 subscribers as of March 14. Jenna is the 8th most sub-scribed YouTuber in the world and the most subscribed female YouTuber in the world.
Jenna “Marbles” Mourey, 25, is orig-inally from Upstate New York, Roch-ester to be exact. Jenna moved to Boston where she attended under-graduate school at Suffolk University, obtaining a BS in Psychology and staying for graduate school where she received a Masters in Sport Psychol-ogy and Counseling from Boston Uni-versity. Jenna joined YouTube in February 2010, but she first started getting really pop-ular this last year. She has two dogs, a Italian Greyhound named Kermit and a Chihuahua named Marbles, who she features in many of her videos. “She’s really funny, especially when
she impersonates people,” Fondy junior, Katrina Kaliomaa says. “The dogs are really adorable too.” Jenna expresses her unique sense of humor in her videos, which consists of topics that viewers request with her usual cussing and sexual vocabulary. In one of her videos called “Things To Do Instead of Cleaning Your Room,” she shows you what she would rather be doing with her spare time than cleaning. The video consists of her putting chili or peanut butter on her face, making beer smoothies, smoking/snorting chocolate and baking her dogs. This video has received a total of 7,551,043 as of March 20. In her sarcastic video called “How To Trick People Into
Thinking You’re Good Looking,” she ex-plains the first step which is “bleaching the absolute !@#$ out of your hair and tan your skin because if you didn’t you would look like an albino.” That video has gotten a total of 38,084,066 views as of March 20. Senior Elle Waters says “Thanks to Jenna Marbles, I have been able to successfully ward off several creepers using ‘the face’.”
Jenna Marbles doing “the face”.
Jenna dressed as Justin Bieber for her video, “Justin Bieber’s Tricks for Pick-ing Up Chicks”
Nick Jonas is back on Broadway, taking the place of Darren Criss in “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.” I, as a huge Jonas fan, (four years and counting, don’t judge...) am so excited to be seeing this production in April. I expect it to be the most amazing show ever, especially the storyline (okay, who am I kidding, it’s be-cause Nick is in it.) He is not a new face on the theatre stage. He was in multiple plays as a child and restarted his Broadway career in 2010 when he performed in Les Miserables. Nick now plays the role of J. Pierpont Finch, a young man who dreams of breaking it big in the business world. He receives a job in a mail room and catches the eye of the secretary. He begins to climb his way up the business ladder, and well, the rest is saved for the big
stage. The youngest Jonas lets his inner su-perstar shine through in songs such as “I Believe in You,” and “Brother-hood of Man.” He has to use that serenading voice of his at some point, and just like a JoBros concert, I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Jenna dressed as Ke$ha
How To Succeed... on Broadway!Nick Jonas Takes Broadway Once AgainKayla MarcoeStaff Writer
youTube Personality: Jenna “Marbles” MoureyBy Ashley ScarpitaStaff Writer
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game of Thrones and gossip girl return as The Walking Dead endsTV lovers welcome back and say good-bye to their favorite shows this spring
g a m e o F t h R o n e sHBO’s highly anticipated show Game of Thrones finally returns for its second season in April, after ending its first with the execu-tion of Eddard Stark, the birth of dragons, a rising fight to claim a king’s throne and se-crets between unlikely lovers. The ten-month long wait has been unendurable for hard-core fans of the show, but they should ex-pect nothing short of amazing from this sea-son, which is based off of A Clash of Kings, the second book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series written by George R.R. Martin. “I’m especially excited for this season,” says junior Cassidy Duquaine, an avid fan who has been counting down since season one ended. “The world ex-pands more and I get to see some of my new, favorite characters. From what I’ve seen, all the characters in the promos look like the way they’re described in the book.” And perhaps that’s another rea-son why Game of Thrones is so well-loved: it’s faithful to the books. “As far as sea-son one, it stays almost word-for-word in most scenes,” Duquaine says. “The last scene was almost the same as it was in the book; it’s accurate to the very last line. And
the differences are only improvements.” So what can we all expect from season two? “Lots of battle scenes,” says Duquaine. “I think they’re going to do a good job with that.” Author George R.R. Martin wrote the screenplay for the epi-sode “Blackwater,” which contains an epic battle between a Baratheon and a Lannister. With more characters being intro-duced, bigger battles and even more conflict, the second season of Game of Thrones looks as if it won’t be a disappointment to anyone. It airs Sunday, April 1 at 8 p.m. on HBO.
g o s s i p g i R lIn February, Gossip Girl left us all hanging on the edge of our seats (and clutching at our hearts with joy at the very last scene) with even more conflict between the fake Charlie Rhodes and the Van der Woodsens, a vengeful and heart-broken Chuck Bass, and, of course, a passionate kiss between Dan and Blair. As season five slowly came to a close, fans of “Dair” finally got the wish they were hoping for: for Blair to re-alize that Dan, a.k.a. “Lonely Boy” and the last person on earth that Blair would ever choose to be with, was her knight in shin-
ing armor. But the season’s not done just yet. April 2nd premieres the next and last epi-sode, and, judging by the previews, it looks like it could be one of the funniest ones yet. Gossip Girl airs Monday, April 2 at 7 p.m.
t h e W a l k i n g d e a dThis season’s been a good one; from fights between long-time friends to sac-rifices, murders, lots of gun shooting and, of course, cool-looking zombies.Highlights from this season include zom-bie-Sophia; Shane’s transformation from a lovable and acceptable human being into, literally, a monster; Lori’s unexpected preg-nancy (Yeah, good luck with that during a zombie apocalypse!); the reveal of what Jen-ner whispered to Rick in season one; and Rick’s I-have-to-do-the-right-thing attitude changing into an I-have-to-do-the-BEST-thing attitude. And after the shocking deaths of certain important characters, The Walking Dead will have to make season three even better compared to this one, which dulls in comparison to the first. The already highly anticipated third season returns this fall, and when it does there will be no doubt that fans will be glued to the television.
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If you don’t pay attention to TV but follow the music industry, you may have gotten slapped in the face by the British boy band “one Direction.” This group of 5 singing boys originally premiered on “The X Fac-tor” where they were rejects for the single boys competition and were placed together in the group section. I heard about them about two weeks ago, and when I went to check them out they had 69 million views on their music video for “What Makes You Beautiful.” If you look at the comments you can see they already have a cult of fans only comparable to the “Beliebers” and they call themselves “Directioners” (creative, right?). Now I’m going to go on the record and say that I do enjoy Justin Bieber, so I’m not a raging metalhead/rap hypebeast that likes
to attack any pop YouTube videos with “l0l u r lik 12 i herd bettr musick from my f4rts LMAo.” With that, I don’t think the next Beatles have crossed the ocean to change our lives. All this band has shown me so far is that they’re Big Time rush without a tv show. repetitive songs with the same structure; verse, buildup, happy girls in a convert-ible summer-esque chorus, repeat x2, and a singing and piano only bridge thrown in right before the last happy go lucky chorus. I’m not saying they aren’t talented, they seem to be really tight together and they have the personality and faces to make bil-lions of girls wet themselves over them, but they don’t seem to branch out from that stupid “girl getting over a breakup” pop sound that was cool in 2001.
Besides a streamlined regurgi-tated Backstreet Boys sound they have a good amount of music videos where they go pretty out of the ordinary with stories about breakups and reuniting in the end or getting over the breakup and moving on (it’s so groundbreaking it’s hard to tell), and they even go as far as to sing on a beach scene! The “pretty boy” harmonized sound that was hardly cool back in the early 2000s when The Backstreet Boys and New Kids on The Block did it and alright when Big Time rush did it (because they have a tv show to go with it) is really making me want to hate them. They’re really just doing the exact thing Big Time rush is doing just they’re replac-ing a show with a stupid YouTube video se-ries of them “goofing around.” When I go on YouTube I either want to listen to music with at least a sliver of depth or watch stuff I’m going to see on Tosh.0 in a week, not see some British kids rip off a Nickelodeon show. Why they are shining way above Big Time rush (at least view wise, the highest BTr video I saw was at 10 million compared to one Direction’s 69 million) is something I can not understand besides the fact that Big Time rush is more focused on their show than music and that one Direction’s “show” is on YouTube (Big Time rush even has a video with Snoop Dogg!) All in all I don’t believe that one Direc-tion deserves the attention they’re getting and are just a product of the unoriginal boy band scene that’s been getting regurgitated through the four stomachs of the cow of this decade.
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One Direction ...that has been taken beforeby Bob Frank
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Fond du Lac High School’s band, orchestra, and choir students participated in Solo and Ensemble performances on Saturday, March 3. Solo/Ensemble is an event de-signed to give music students feedback on their performance in groups of up to 16, or in solos. Judges rate students on five or six
standards with Roman numerals one to four, one being the highest. They also respond with written or spoken comments. If a stu-dent receives all ones, they go to state. Exemplary soloist awards are given to the top two performances of the day in each room or site. Last year, ten Fondy students were awarded. Band teacher Mr. Manka says that 102 band students alone participat-ed this year. “I would probably say ninety
percent of the kids [are involved],” he states. Fondy students involved in music are encouraged to take part, but are only re-quired to if they are in concert choir. Senior Austin Riel performed at Solo and Ensemble for the first time at Fon-dy High. “I enjoy it, and there were actually quite a few who participated,” says Riel. He earned a *1 for a saxophone solo and is go-ing to state.
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by Anna Turskystaff writer
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Walking through school we all know that the first thing you think is “Wow, everyone is so unique!” Then you take off your sun-glasses and realize that there’s a good four people that don’t fit into a stereotype. Trends have been around since 1874 and I don’t see them ever going away. Some trends have been growing rapidly through all ages and some grow as the generation grows up. Kids modeling after their family or after what their family doesn’t want, either way it’s just a way for kids to try and define themselves.
The stereotypical “cool kids” of the movies, and although the movies aren’t always correct, that doesn’t stop the preps/jocks of Fondy High (and across the nation) from having heads bigger than the hulk’s bicep after making out with Popeye. Si-mon Riter noted, “Just because they have the “cool clothes” doesn’t set them apart, but you could never convince them that.” Of course the jocks are different than the preps gaining their small bits of fame through school sports, but the preps just make it happen for themselves through a big ego and mommy and daddy’s money. Ego is always a big part of their life, it’s hard to make your way into their “group” unless you are connected to their families in some way or if you have a underage drinking party for them to bomb. Jocks tend to be easier to get along with, but they all group together in a weird instinctual way.
The unseen masses of Fond du Lac hiding behind camo and 12-foot-tall trucks. The typical redneck can be found arguing with their teacher about how they should be allowed to wear their overly bent billed camo hat and talking about how they can down a 30 case of keystone in a night and live The higher their truck the bigger they feel. Redneck enjoy all outdoor activities that involve speed and violence. (ex. snowmobiles, hunting, homebuilt go karts). Like most other social groups they have se-cretive battles about who’s more redneck.
The hipster talks about the worst band as “revolutionary” while wearing clothes that look as if they were found in Goodwill’s trash and cost them more than average clothing. The poorer the recording of the band the better, the hipster will describe it as “warm and aesthetically enticing” (and have the unspoken thought that they’ll have less fans because of it, think about how cool you’ll look showing this to that girl at the coffee shop with the fixie!) On that note I must add hipsters enjoy fixed gear bikes, locally owned coffee shops, (although the will go to Starbucks drivethru with tinted windows frequently) anything reminding of Paul Bunyan or the woods, (although they don’t do anything more hardcore than walk on a trail while smoking an American Spirit), Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) and any designer drug they can get their hands on. (they did it in the 60s!)
Darkness fills the room and a pentagram sears into the wall as everyone screams and a dark figure comes out leaving a flaming upside down cross in the floor while dead babies fall from the ceiling around it. The goth then turns off the horror movie he was watching and falls asleep in his black blanketed bed curled up like the bat he thinks he is, feeling apathetic at best. They are separated by a few things, the biggest being music. Emo is short for emotional, their music being induced by the Kurt Cobain + chart topping angst induced music of the 2000-2005 era. (Hawthorne Heights, My chemical romance, anything that has eyeliner and self loathing lyrics involved) Goth kids cover the music the metal kids think is weird, (Everywhere from mainstream weirdos Black Veil Brides to the church burning Norwegian black metal overlords Mayhem.) They are both known for draping themselves in black, eyeliner and skin tight jeans, but they differenciate by how hard they act. Goth kids tend to actually follow through with 50% of the weird things they do (cutting a frogs head off and tying it on a kittens back, painting their bike black and ride around egging prep houses in the night, etc.) while emo kids tend to just just act upset about the world.If a leather, denim, and metal stud monster threw
up, you may find a punk kid beating up his lamp listening to “The Causalities” in bedroom. Punks at our school are diluted but easily found by a quick scan for a personalized denim jacket and any hair-style that was left in the 90s (I’m still waiting for the Will Smith eraser top to appear in red and gold). Punks enjoy underground music (preferably live in a shady venue; warehouses and basements are well suited) and the worse the recording the more likely it is to succeed. (unlike the hipster who enjoys poor-recording for the “warmth” the punk just enjoys the chaotic sense. Like every stereotype, some may not fit into all the criteria, but generally punk kids enjoy vandalism, harassing the innocent, and cheap beer.
Commentary
An in depth review on the cycling of cliques throughout high school students
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by Bob FrankStaff Writer
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Editorials
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Even if you’re rarely online, you’ve still probably seen the numerous posts about “KONY.” It has been unimaginably everywhere on Face-book, Twitter, Tumblr and any web-site known to man. Yet, for as much as you see it, a lot of people are still unaware of this online protest, this apparent eye-opening viral video about it, who Joseph Kony is and why everyone is trying to make him “famous.”Kony 2012 orginated as a viral film released at 12 am on March 5, 2012
by the charity organization known as Invisible Children to shed light on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerilla group caus-ing the genocide of many children “soldiers” through war. This touch-ing documentary, explaining a lot if the brutality that goes on under his lead, has caused many people online to take action against his gruesome crimes to increase awareness and have him arrested by April 20th.You can take action as well by going to http://www.kony2012.com and signing the petition against having him be free. You can also make dona-tions, buy merchandise and organize protests to support the cause.
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I agree with you about check-ing out Undeworld: Awakening. It is a really good series, and it has a good plot line. If you really want to see werewolves and vampires fight, this is the movie for it, not Twilight. In this one they actually get the humans more involved in the war between them.-Devon Pierce
I disagree that finals should have more days. I usually get done with my finals and have a lot of time afterwards.-Chris Meyers
I really liked the article about how defense still wins cham-pionships. It is very true. Who would have thought that the New York Giants, much less anyone from the NFC East, would win the Super Bowl after the season the Pack had. But the only way a defense can get
a lot of sacks is due to a poor offensive line, which is what the Packers have. Our O-line had a lot of injuries this past year, and we didn’t have good enough people to replace them. I don’t know how, but the Giants went from underdog to Super Bowl champions, and it is all because of their defense.-Sean White
I was caught up in the article about Frau Keck. She has kept her cool while the fire hap-pened and even when she came back to class. She acted as if it never happened and kept teach-ing my fellow peers and I the exact same. I know I couldn’t keep it together like she did. Good luck, Frau.-Alex M-S
I think it is great that Fondy lent a hand when someone had their house burn down, and
they lost everything. Fondy helped when someone truly needed it. Times like this I am proud to live in Fondy.-Sam Bond
Everyone says bad things about any high school. After anyone reads this [“Fondy Lends a Hand”], they will think way different about any teenager. I have never heard of Miss Keck, but she has really inspired me. Even the worst things in life can have a good end.-Madi Zipp
I agree that finals should be spread out. All students need some time to really think about each subject. If it’s just all crammed into two days, we get confused more easily. Also, hav-ing finals spread out would help relieve stress and make it easier to take the tests.-Kate Matysik
I agree with Marcus Crain’s article about being a more productive person. A lot of kids take teachers for granted. People at Fondy always “lose” their work. If kids would be more orga-nized, they would be able to learn more.-Avery Skortz
I think “Tebowmania” is complete garbage. Tebow didn’t take the show from anyone. Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers had the show all season long. Brees broke the single-season passing yard record, record, and Rodgers had one of the best seasons by a quarterback ever. I com-pletely agree that offense can only take you so far, and that is what happened to the Packers this year.-Tyler Schram
Letters to the Editor
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Blast from the Past
We chose to use The Clothes Line article from April 4, 1944, for this month’s flashback because of all the differences from then and now that the article shows. In the article you can see all the different lingo that people used. Also, the fashion has changed tremendously. Letter sweaters, plaid shirts and overalls? Things have most definitely changed since the 1944. The Misery article from March 26, 1964, was chosen for the same reason. Look at all the responses from different stu-dents. There was a lot of great
quotes from various people. This shows the school spirit and inter-est in activities happening at school that the students in 1964 had. Today, it’s hard to get even ¼ of the school to show up for a pep assembly. The school spirit is slowly vanishing into nothing. Also, this article shows the similarities of the teens of 1964’s thoughts and teen’s thoughts today. I’m sure there are some teens out there that
don’t like Algebra II and smelly chemistry labs.
So different, and yet so much the same . . .
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