Central York High School June 2011 Volume 53 Issue V &VI

Senior Paperpg. 17-28

PSU students flood streets over bin Laden’s deathby Falon KeithSTAFF WRITER After a successful attack by the Navy SEALS May 2, an announcement was made by President Obama, stating that Osama bin Ladan had been killed. This news spread across the nation and soon reached Penn State Univer-sity campus where nearly 6,000 students gathered to show their pride. Central 2010 alum-ni Maggie Golden, Anna Orso and Sean Zortman ran through the streets of the campus with their fellow classmates that night in cel-ebration. “They [the riots] randomly started around 11:30-ish in Beaver Canyon, which is just a street in State College where a lot of apart-ment buildings are. Usu-ally a big party area, but I’ve never seen a riot there. It was ridiculous,” Orso said.

The police at the event let everything go, claiming it was “all to sup-port a good cause.” People ran the streets waving flags, playing the national anthem, and burning pictues of bin Laden. “There were chants and t-shirts and there really was just a lot of patriotism,” Orso said. Bin Laden’s death happened on the same week as finals for these college freshmen. Zortman thought that the excitement may have been built up even more be-cause of that very reason. “It was the night be-fore finals week and we were all looking for something to get excited about and blow off some steam after so much time spent up studying. But I think that most of it was in celebration of America and

our brave men and women,” Zortman said. Golden agreed with Zortman, saying: “I think the main reason for the cel-ebration was more that the deaths that occurred on Sep-tember 11, 2001 finally got the justice they deserved but I’m sure it helped that all of Penn State needed to blow off some steam.” Many things were being yelled during the riots. Things like “USA” and “bin Laden’s dead” were chanted throughout the streets. Some students even changed their PSU chants to USA. “[The riots] were a patriotic celebration in PSU fashion,” said Golden. America The Beau-tiful was sung, along with the national anthem. Other songs screamed were Born In The USA and Living On a Prayer. President Obama’s speech could be heard out-side from people blaring it

out of their apartments. Although the riots were “for a good cause,” some things did get out of hand. “At one point the crowd around me started pushing and I thought may-be riot police had come but then a few fireworks shot off and I realized they were just making room for them.” Also, students made a bonfire in the middle of the street to jump over. The stu-dents claimed that the flames got high but were quickly put to a safe size after some time. “It got scary, but we all felt safe and I was actual-ly really proud to see that we could keep it safe and things didn’t get too out of hand,” Zortman said. According to Orso, Beaver Canyon was com-

pletely “trashed” after all the students had cleared out. “[The streets] were filled with burned pictures of bin Laden,” Orso said. Being the for-mer editor-in-chief of The Prowler, Orso said the event caught her attention right away. “I could hear music playing all the way from my on-campus dorm, and natu-rally, as a reporter, I wanted to check it out. So I actually walked down by myself and met up with two friends from the paper while I was down there. We were seriously in awe,” she said. Perspectives were changed on America because of this event. Zortman and Orso said that they obtained a new appreciation, while Golden said that she has always been really proud to live here in America.

“I just try to be re-spectful and confident in the government at all times. We never let our own die without bringing those responsible to justice,” Golden said. “I think it really shows that this generation truly cares about this nation and are proud of all that our brace men and women have accomplished and sacrificed. Above all, I think that it shows that we are proud to be Americans and want this world to know how much we care about this nation,” Zort-man said. “It’s simply amaz-ing to see people coming together in celebration of an American victory -and also in support of the so many lives affected after the 9/11 tragedy. I feel proud to be at a college, and in a country, where we can all band to-gether and forget our differ-ences when it really counts,” Orso said. Along with the students, people around the world celebrated that night in appreciation. Like many other Americans right now, these students wonder what will happen next. “I do fear retali-ation on the US and I pray al-Qaeda will not launch another attack on our soil,” Orso said. Golden is also afraid of the continuing act of ter-rorism. She said, “Someone else will just come up and take his place and the fight

against terrorism will go on like it has been.” “But I think that his death will help a lot of peo-ple come to terms with what happened with September 11 and many other countries as well,” she said. Zortman says, “I think America will continue

to fight terror and attempt to eliminate al-Qaeda for good. I have complete confidence in our armed forces and trust that America will always stand up for what is right.” State College stu-dents had a chance to show their appreciation and pride that night and set an example

Students overlook those gathering in Beaver Canyon seven stories up on the balconies of apartments. (Photo courtesy of Jake Kaplan of The Collegian).

Students gather around a fire in Beaver Canyon’s streets during the celebration of bin Ladan’s death May 2. (Photo courtesy of Alex Gilliland of The Collegian).

for those fighting for us. Zortman said, “It actually gave me such hope for my school. I really found out how much college-age kids care about the na-tion and our troops and all that they have done and I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of this nation.”

“We never let one of our own die

without bringing those responsible

to justice.”~Maggie Golden

PROM RECAPSee all the styles and

celebs from this year’s prom. Also read what went on during and

after at the post prom celebration.

pg. 14

JUNIOR

PAGE 8-9

Young student passes with flying colors

by Breanna HeilmanFEATURES EDITOR

Central’s Marco Quintana, junior, found an interest in insurance early on. Recently Quinta-na took an exam called the National Insurance exam for Property and Casualty Insurance that would even-tually allow him to sell in-surance to people when he turns 18 years old. Rating the test he was required to take as a “9 out of 10,” Quintana pre-pared for this test several months in advance. His tutor and he met every Wednesday until April 18 2011, when he was scheduled to take the test.

At 18, Marco Quintana will be able to do what a normal teenager can’t.

* See INSURANCE on page 10

Marcro Quintana holds his award for the National Insur-ance exam for Property and Casualty Insurance. (Photo by Breanna Heilman, FEATURES EDITOR).

SECTION

Annual Powder Puff Game pg. 6

2 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

OPI

NIO

N

The Prowler StaffThe Prowler is published three times per semester by the students enrolled in Journalism I and II at Central York High School, located on 601 Mundis Mill Road, York, PA. The views expressed on the opinion pages represent those of the bylined writer and not necessarily those of the entire Prowler staff.

Editor-in-Chief: Addy PetersonManaging Editor: Megan BrattonCo-Features Editor: Breanna HeilmanAsst. Features Editor: Danae Taylor Opinion Editor: Corinne ElliottCo-News Editor: Morgen SnowadzkyCo-News Editor: Wareesha TariqArts Editor: Kelsey FlinchbaughSports Editor: Chris CappellaAdviser: Lucinda Hogentogler

Staff Writers: Paige Benjamin, Abbey Miklitsch, Zach-ary Sheffer, Alex Strickler, Samantha Holt, Marissa Fauth, Falon Keith, Holly Michaels

Bullying: How it affects all

The big bad wolf is dead

Osama Bin Laden was announced dead by President Barack Obama May 1 of this year. The mas-termind behind the ghastly terrorist attacks on Septem-ber 11, 2001 is gone. All over the nation people rioted in celebration over this man’s death. Times Square, Washington D.C. and colleges spanning the country, held celebratory ri-ots. A grey cloud hang-ing above millions of Amer-icans was blown away with his death and relief took its place. Justice was served in the houses missing fa-thers, wives, brothers and cousins. The world’s biggest

connotation with it. Where are most bullies pictured? In schools. On the playground. An image of a bully is a big kid standing over a meek child against a locker. It may have been that way at one point but it’s not anymore. Boys and girls, adults and children are bul-lies. Bullying is not so much physical now but both emo-tional and verbal. In the age we live in it does not stop when the final bell rings at school but continues on past its walls and into the victims’ own homes. Recently in Central a student was bullied to the point where she could not take it any longer and no one knew the pain that she was going through. Most students hear stories like this someplace far away. They think it is a problem that will not ever touch them. This one, however, is right here in this school district. This story was a

There is probably much more he has done that we do not know about. Bin Laden was a bully in all sense of the word. America spent more then 10 years hunting down this man. President Bill Clin-ton started the search for bin Laden after his involvement of a bombing of a United States embassy in 1998. Thousands and thousands of people have died from the “War on Ter-ror,” which Congress spent about $1.28 trillion. It was quite a sacrifice to stop him. After 9/11, all of America was united against a common enemy. When ev-eryone has a common enemy they stop being harsh to one another and come together for a common purpose. America became strongly united against the threat of terrorism. Every-one wanted this monster to be found and killed. They wanted jus-tice for the acts that he had done. They wanted the bully to be stopped. Bully has a certain

bully is now dead. It is interesting to put it that way: the world’s biggest bully. Isn’t that what bin Laden was? Was he not a bully to the world? Bullying is repeti-tive harassing, gossiping, and name-calling, hitting and/or threatening or impos-ing fear upon another. Doing this fre-quently can cause the vic-tims to experience a variety of emotions such as insecu-rity, hopelessness, fear and depression. Is not this what al Qaeda did and is continuing to do? The terrorists use vicious acts of terror, and threats to scare others into listening to them or giving into their demands. They bully govern-ment and the people that are opposed to their ways.Bin Laden was a bully to the world, was he not? He bullied Amer-ica on that September day in 2001 and he bullied the people in his own country.

shock to most and it calls for a change. People need to band together like they did after 9/11 to stop the bully-ing. Students need to band together like our na-tion did 10 years ago on that memorable day. School boards, ad-ministrators and parents can create all the bullying poli-cies and rules they choose but unfortunately it is not going to stop bullying. Anti-bullying poli-cies are a solid foundation to have but are sadly inef-fective and meaningless to some. Students (and people) will always find a way to bully. To stop bullying and to start making things better at this level, it has to come from the students and the parents. Parents: talk to your children about the danger of bullying and tell them that it could have serious conse-quences. Students: listen to what your parents have to say. You must make the

by Alex StricklerSTAFF WRITER

Stepping in another’s shoes*Both stories written by Megan Bratton and

Paige Benjamin are not real accounts. They are to emphasize the view points of the bully and

bullied, and how important it is to put a stop to harrassment.

You walk down the bleak hallway, glancing at the familiar faces surround-ing you. Expressions of ex-citement, satisfaction, and acceptance light up the eyes of the people you both idol-ize and hate. There’s just one problem; you don’t really hate them. After everything they’ve done to you. After all of the rude names, whispers, and silly pranks, after all of the hor-rible emotions that they have caused within you, you still wish to be just like them. Because the truth is, you envy them. All you want is to feel accepted. In-stead, you’re just unwanted. You spend your mornings watching them smile and share inside jokes, your afternoons are filled with being tormented for

whatever they feel is appro-priate for the time, and your evenings are spent alone. You often wonder what makes you different; why you just can’t seem to fit in. You want to have friends to text on the weekend. You want to have a day where you don’t have to worry about being excluded or picked on. Is there really a reason for all this? So you begin to start changing your-self. You decide to start with one of the biggest causes of your “unwantedness”—your weight. You start working out every day. You cut back

on calories. You skip meals. When you go to school, you know that you have something to strive for, so their harassment doesn’t affect you as strongly as before. And you notice that they stop picking on you as much. You hope things will change for you. They ignore you and move on to something else. Or should I say someone else. So then you begin to talk more, in an effort to break out of your shell. May-be if you pretend to be one of them, they will forget about the old you.

One student begins to talk with you. You think you finally made a friend. Then you over-hear them talking about why you’re so “weird” and “ugly” as you walk behind them in the hallway. They were fake to you. You are still unwanted. At this point, there’s nothing else for you to try. You feel hopeless and alone. You don’t under-stand why all of these cruel, heartless people can be giv-en so much happiness and you can be given so much hatred. What did you do to be treated like this?

It was just a joke. We didn’t think she would take it so personally. I can’t believe I’m the one at fault. I’m the one responsible for the harm I caused for one of my classmates. People have been mean to me before and I didn’t get depressed to the point where I would turn to physically harming myself. I put up with it, bullying is a part of everyone’s life. It all happened so fast my friends and I don’t know how we let it get this far. I guess it started when we began making fun of the clothes that people wear. Maybe it was when we kicked a group of girls out

of our lunch table. What if it was when we made up those rumors? I know I’m not all that. Maybe it went a little too far once we started post-ing statuses, comments and pictures making fun of peo-ple on facebook. When all of my friends pick on people everyone thinks it’s funny. It wasn’t until her parents started noticing the cuts and the depression that they deided to take a look at what I saying about her. Now I have to face criminal charges and face her and her family. How am I ever go-ing to get over this? It’ll af-fect jobs that I could have

gotten or opportunities that I could have had. I only did those things in the first place to make myself feel like I be-longed. Guess they stopped making fun of me once I be-came meaner than the rest of them. You can’t stop the cycle of bullying; it’s how it is. I never physically hurt her. But I drove her to the point where she was will-ing to hurt herself to make the pain go away. I wish I knew how much harm I was actually causing her. I never thought a joke here, a joke there, would cause something so

drastic. All I have ever wanted is to fit in and I was willing to make people feel like dirt to become “cool.” It’s certainly not cool that now I will always be seen as the bully. Or should I say, criminal now. My trial is tomor-row. I have to face her parents, and face the felony I may recieve. They are go-ing to know I was one of the ones who contributed to all of the jokes. I want everyone to know how sorry I am and realize that this will rest on my shoulders for the rest of my life. I don’t want to be the bully anymore.

The unwanted

The Bully

by Paige BenjaminSTAFF WRITER

by Megan BrattonMANAGING EDITOR

DiD you know?* 56 percent of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school* It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other stu-dents. (Source: National Education Association).* Suicide rates among 10 to 14-year-olds have grown more than 50 percent over the last three decades. (Source: The American Association of Suicidology, AAS).

3THE PROWLER OPIN

ION

Whether you’re big or small...

-Your younger sister Kendra comes home from school. She’s just reached middle school and is on the fence about how she feels about it. One day after school she comes home and seems a bit upset. You: A: Invite her to go on a walk with you so you can talk about her first couple of days at school B: Wait to see if she says anything to you C: Leave her alone because she may just be in a bad mood

-It’s the weekend and you’re trying to find plans. It’s warm out and the sun is shining. Kendra hasn’t really settled in yet and can’t seem to find a solid group of friends. She has been begging you to take her to the park but you really want to hang out with your friends. You: A: Take her to the park for a little bit then hang out with your friends later B: Promise her you’ll take her out tomorrow C: Tell her that you don’t feel like doing it today -A few weeks pass and Kendra invites her friends over for a slumber party. You notice that one of her friends is talking about how pretty she is and gossiping about other girls at the school. Kendra has told you about this friend and how much she bugs her but Kendra has never had the chance to stand up and say anything. You walk past your sister’s room and you hear one of her friends saying Kendra would have more friends if she spent more time on her appearance. You: A: Wait until the friend is alone to talk to her about how the comment might have effected your sister B: Ask what the girls are talking about to find the context of the comment C: Let the comment slide because it may just be a joke. Besides, it can’t be that bad if your sister is still friends with her.

-It’s now the middle of the school year and Kendra’s grades have dropped drastically. She isn’t as talkative as she used to be and she doesn’t seem to care much about any-thing anymore. Your parents yell at her and tell her to that she needs to straighten up. That method works for a little bit but doesn’t stop her downhill spiral. You: A: Talk to her to see what is wrong and listen to where she’s coming from B: Tell your parents to lighten up and not be so hard on her C: Assume it’s just a phase that she’s going through

Now check over your answers. If you an-swered with mostly Cs you’re not as aware as you should be. According to an i-Safe American survey, about 58 percent of kids admit to never telling someone that they’ve been a victim of bully-

ing. Waiting for them to open up should not be an option if someone shows the signs of being bullied. If you answered with mostly Bs then you’re too passive. You’re some-what aware that some-thing may be going on but not as alert as you should be. Choice A is the most effective answer in all of these situa-tions. On www.bul-lyingstatistcs.org the number one tip for deal-ing with bullying or with a bully is to get in-

put from the child. Sometimes we don’t notice what others are going through be-cause we’re too caught up in our own lives. It’s ironic how bullying can sometimes be categorized as an overdone topic to dis-cuss until it happens close to home. In 2007 Penn-sylvania was number four in the country for

The Top Five Worst Places to Live to Avoid Bullying according to www.how-to-stop-bul-lying.com. With our society being more focused on appearances and per-ceptions it’s important for young people to be comfortable with whom they are. People who bul-ly are not the most se-cure people in the world

by Holly MichaelsSTAFF WRITER When we’re little we are taught that bullying is simply part of life. The Evil step-sis-ters, Ursula, Cuerella de Vil, are all bullies we’ve grown up with. Sitting with our families, we watched these characters pick on poor Cin-derella or helpless puppies. How can anyone be that mean? But we’re little, and everything ends with a hap-pily ever after. Bullying is abusive treatment that typically in-volves an imbalance of either social or physical power. Bullies can be found everywhere, in school, on sports teams; even teachers and parents can be bullies. There are three types of bullying: emotional, verbal, and physical. And teenagers encounter them every day. There’s your typi-cal stereotype of the muscle-head jock that pushes the skinny nerd into lockers, and the popular girl who spreads nasty rumors about even her closest friends. But in high schools across America, almost ev-ery student is guilty of bully-ing. Almost everyone has been bullied. In fact one in every four kids is bullied, and it can cause depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and may even lead to suicide. So why do we do it? Why do we feel the need to belittle others? To make them feel sad and alone? What does it do for us? Does it make us happy? Give us that warm fuzzy feeling inside? Truth is most bullies are simply scared and insecure. And these are the people that fill a student’s mind. Consume their every thought. These bullies make kids scared to go to the bathroom, scared to walk in the halls, scared to eat their lunch. 8 percent of students miss one day of school per month because they are scared of being bullied. Can we get rid of bullies? No. If horrible trag-edies like Columbine, and the death of Phoebe Prince, both caused

If you need help... by bullying haven’t scared kids into respecting their peers, then what will? There will always be that one kid who finds it hilarious to pick on some-one else. Whose job is it to stop him? Should schools improve their bullying poli-cies? Should parents punish their children? This can be done, but the problem will never go away. Instead we must come together and stop the pain bullying causes. How did Peter Pan and Snow White get through their bouts with bullies? They had friends by their side. The Lost Boys, the Seven Dwarfs, sometimes people just need a support system. The know people care about them, people who can make them smile and make them feel safe. We can all be that person. We encounter the opportunity everyday. It isn’t hard. Smile at an old friend; invite someone new to sit with you at lunch. We can’t stop bul-lying but we can make those being bullied feel better. As we grow older, we get smarter and the bul-lying gets worse. We are no longer simply shoving a kid on the playground. Instead bullies do things that are harder to be detected. They bully over the Internet, without even having to look at the face of the person they are harm-ing. Teenagers start rumors that destroy reputa-tions. You can’t see this bul-lying it leaves no bruises. But it still leaves scars.You may never see a student being pushed or yelled at but that doesn’t mean they aren’t being bul-lied. So be nice to every-one, offer everyone a help-ing hand and a warm smile. Look for common signs of bullying in your friends. These include: a decrease in interest in school and extra-curricular activities, numerous absenc-es from school, anxiety, and depression. Don’t be afraid to stand up for someone who may be too scared to do it themselves. Come together and make everyone feel loved. Make students want to come to school. Stop the fear that lingers in their mind. Be a good friend because you never know what horrible tragedy you may be helping to prevent.

What would you do?

Now Check your results...

by Danae TaylorASST.-FEATURES EDITOR

either. They need to help too. Not only do we have to support vic-tims but we must also acknowledge the issues that cause people to bully others. One out of four kids is bullied. Taking the time out to talk to a person who shows the symp-toms of being bullied or someone who is in-

secure may save their life or stop their de-structive behavior. Although bul-lying has a small chance of ending, peo-ple should spread more awareness about it. We need to reach out to bully-ing victims because sometimes they are too afraid to speak up because of fear or em-barassment.

Bullying can take on many forms. Some of the most com-mon are physical, verbal, social and more recently, cyber-bullying. This can be anywhere from hateful text messag-es to wall posts on facebook. Bullying is very serious and although you may just be playing around and poking fun, you don’t know what happens behind closed doors. Bully-ing has life long mental effects and can cause depression.

If you are being bullied or know someone who is being bullied do not be afraid to speak up!

If you are being bullied here are some options: -Tell your parents or an adult

-Contact a local school administrator -Talk to a counselor

For more information visit these help websites:* http://www.stopbullying.gov

* http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org * http://www.cyberbullyhelp.com

4 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

OPI

NIO

NIs nuclear power worth the cause?

Snubs *Snubs to all the accidents on the bridge on our way to school*Snubs to Obama not being invited to the royal wedding*Snubs to the spray painted stop signs in the parking lot*Snubs to it raining all of April and May*Snubs to finals*Snubs to budget cuts in schools

It began with a bomb. On July 16, 1945, the Trinity nuclear test on the white sands of Alamogor-do, New Mexico, propelled

mankind into the Atomic Age. It was with this successful detonation of a fission bomb that people harnessed the great power within atoms. Soon after the deto-nation of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists and innovators be-gan devising other applica-tions for nuclear fission. These civil and practical uses for nuclear en-ergy promised to satiate our energy needs forever. However, in 1979, the public began to think twice about the future of atomic energy with the par-tial meltdown of Three Mile Island. We fast forward to March of 2011. Where we find parts of Japan in sham-bles from earthquakes and a tsunami. Many politicians and spokespeople assure us that there is no need to turn our backs on nuclear power, but now appears to be an ideal time to examine our current energy policies and pose the question: is nuclear energy really worth the risk? Everyone can be assured that there is tremen-dous planning, and engineer-ing that goes into building a nuclear power plant. Nuclear power plants provide energy by Fission, which is break-ing down larger atoms into smaller parts. Plants are built with numerous “safety redundan-cies” that are supposed to kick into action if something goes wrong. So what happened

to the plant in Japan if they had all these safety precau-tions? The reactor was still extremely hot and addi-tional water would have been pumped in to cool the plant. Diesel-powered pumps were intended to pump in cool water, however the ensuing inundation by the tsunami ruined the machinery. Many people are quick to label nuclear power as green power. Nuclear power has no emission of air pollution or greenhouse gasses as with the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil (the cooling towers you see at TMI are just giving off water vapor). But truth be told, all power sources have their costs and risks. Even wind power and solar power have their inherent costs. Windmills generate little energy and landowners hate them, those suckers are actually quite loud. Solar power is ex-pensive and the technology is not yet developed enough to be commercially viable on large-scale generation. It is because of all these omnipresent draw-backs that I’m not calling for an immediate end of nuclear power. Germany has sus-pended its construction of nuclear plants in a move I see as reactionary. The best thing we can do as a nation is move away from nuclear power while diversifying our pow-er sources. There is not a single energy source that can cure our energy crisis, however

Props *Props to a wonderful yearbook*Props to the seniors graduating*Props to warmer weather*Props to catching bin Laden*Props to boys’ volleyball team for winning Divisions*Props to the final Harry Potter coming soon to the movies*Props to the Barbra Streisand song

Every generation has that one questionable trend, whether it was free love in the 60’s, roller dis-cos in the 70’s, wavy mullets in the 80’s, or prints in the 90’s. Well I’m just going to take a shot in the dark and say that guido’s is ours. Be honest, do you think in 10 or 15 years we’re going to look back and say “awh yeah! fist-pump yeah!” What were we thinking? How did that car-toonish guy they call the “Situation” even get fa-mous?

On the more posi-tive note, the show is hilari-ous! I mean seriously where did they find these people? Does everybody in Jersey act like this, or did a producer walk into a tanning salon and have an epipha-ny? The answer is nei-ther. What they really do is host auditions for the show and look for individuals with good storylines and appear-ance. After selecting their cast they make them sign an agreement. This essentially means anyone appearing on the show is stripped of most

of their rights making them a puppet of the network. If they would hap-pen to let anything slip about the confidentiality of the show, that individual would be pounded into the ground by a team of top notch law-yers. So ask yourself. Would you make that com-mitment? There’s a secret to not just Jersey Shore but all reality television. What you don’t realize is your being manipulated every time you tune in. How you ask? Well through a se-ries of editing techniques. Trust me, the people who do it are professionals. For example, each season of Jersey Shore lasts an entire summer, but all you really see is an hour of foot-age every week. This means there are roughly thousands of hours to hand-select and distort however the produc-ers choose. This is accom-plished using certain tech-niques such as “Franken bit-ing.” This term, as sim-ply as I can define it means to fill in audio, music or fa-cial expressions to make a scene appear different than the original footage. Also if a producer really likes a certain event or situation in a scene but the camera angle was off, the lighting wasn’t up to par or the producer just felt it could’ve been better, they reshoot the scene. So that way they can make it more present-able to the audience. That’s not to say all of Jersey Shore is fake. According to the Washington Post, a writer for reality television summed it up very well. “We’re not sitting in a room writing dialogue. Instead, typically, we write outlines, with beats. We write specific jokes. We contrive come-dic situations and then we

The idea of Jersey Shore

by Andrew Schmidt GUEST WRITER

by Grant Meckley GUEST WRITER

we can minimize our eco-nomic and environmental impacts by using a variety of sources. Even though we live in a relatively safe area (it would take a pretty big wave to reach us) no one wants to live in the shadow

of impending nuclear doom. On the home front, green sustainability prac-tices that promote energy conservation will slow our insatiable consumption of electricity. The question of nu-clear power’s future is not an

easy one bringing up many ethical, environmental, and economic implications. New energy sourc-es are being researched everyday but like their pre-cursors, they will have to be examined for their benefits and costs.

help edit them, and we go back and reshoot scenes to bring out the various stories. And sometimes we just tell the contestants you’re mad, you’re happy, whatever. Act that way. And if they’re not getting it, we feed them a line.” So that grenade whistle that you were plan-ning to bring to your senior week house was probably not thought up by a “fist pumping guido,” but a writer instead. So you decide real-ity or manipulation? You may think that the audience majority of Jersey Shore is high school and middle school students. But what you don’t realize is this is a show broadcast-ed through every television across the country. Which means your little elementary brothers and sisters are probably tun-ing in just as much as you. These kids still probably be-lieve that a stork delivered them into the arms of their parents and are not even aware sex and puberty exist. But yet they are fluent in words like; “one night stand,” “creeping,” “smooshing” and probably could identify a “grenade.” Also the only le-gitimate relationship they are observing is Ron and Sam… I think that one ex-plains itself. So ask yourself is MTV trying to corrupt the youth of America or just breeding an international guido and guidette army? Now rounding the corner to season 15 Jersey Shore is still going strong. I hear the next season is sup-posed to take place in Italy which I will be tuning in for. Why? Well because over half of the cast isn’t Italian and guido is considered a ra-cial slur in Italy. So that is pretty much setting itself up to be great. Until then stay classier than Jersey Shore, Central High!

by Miranda BrindzaGUEST WRITER

by Sam KapralGUEST WRITER

“There’s a secret to not just Jersey

Shore but all reality television. What you don’t realize is your being manipulated every time you tune

in.”

Taking too long, change now

In spite of all the promises he made, President Obama has fallen short on many of them and the econ-omy continues its downward spiral. To bolster the struggling economy, Presi-dent Obama needs to be less indecisive and focus on the resolution of more press-ing issues. Firstly, President Obama needs to pick a side and stay there. Playing monkey in the middle with both the Republican and Democratic parties is getting old. It’s certainly not benefitting the economy or

American citizens. Secondly, there’s the controversial issue of President Obama’s Health-care plan. The government wants everyone to have uni-versal health insurance by introducing the Healthcare bill. But the government is broke. So how just will they afford to pay for this program? The answer: higher taxes. That means com-panies would have higher expenses, and less money to expand their businesses. To make up for the loss in profits, companies would have to cut back on capital spending and em-ployee growth. In return it would restrict new job creation. The unemployment rates would rise even higher than they are now. President Obama also needs to crack down on illegal immigration.

Over 11 million il-legal immigrants live in the United States. It’s absurd that these lawbreakers are getting paid anything at all and ben-efiting from free healthcare while Americans are suffer-ing from unemployment. Mass deportation would be a good solution. Is it harsh? Is it extreme? Maybe it is. But in the past, both Roosevelt and Reagan supported amnesty for illegal immigrants, and they proceeded to drain our economy and resources. In other countries, there is zero tolerance for illegal aliens. All these il-legal immigrants are doing is harming our economy. They’ve got to go. Of course, there are numerous other important issues affecting the growth of our economy. President Obama needs to be more decisive and prioritize those issues if he really wants to get the economy back on its feet.

Obama made his first promise to the United States citizens with his “Change For America” slo-gan. Since being in of-fice, ideas have been devel-oped and bills have been passed. However, the change that was promised has been too subtle. One of Obama’s ideas to help fix the econo-my targeted the producers. Obama developed the Stim-ulus Package, which makes

it easier for small businesses to get tax breaks, credit, and a greater chance of govern-ment contracts. The problem with this seemingly bulletproof plan is that it’s taking too long for companies to take advantage of the program. In some cases, it has been years and businesses are still waiting to feel the benefits. Obama developed a great idea on paper, but he isn’t doing anything to further the plan. Investing in alter-native “green” resources has also become a major fo-cus of Obama’s to help the economy. Obama is using millions of dollars invest-ing in “going green” when America doesn’t have that money to spend. In the years since Obama has taken office, we developed an electric

“green” vehicle, but I don’t see how Toyota is going to solely fix the economy. In another attempt to please people, Obama took a spin on the controversial health care plan bill. The hope is that the money that they have saved because of the cheap health-care, they will spend to fix the economy. The problem is, it’ll take way too long for the economy to grow again. Consumers do help, but if their money doesn’t run up the business ladder fast enough, the whole plan be-comes unreliable. Obama is taking great ideas from the past. His next step, learn from the past! Do more to make the ideas that helped before, help again, and leave behind the ideas that were just a waste.

Obama Opinions

5THE PROWLER SPORTS

Girls stay positive on field

Central senior forward Jen Mills leaps over a defender en route to a goal. (Borrowed Photo).

by Chris CappellaSPORTS EDITOR

Cappella’s columnby Chris CappellaSPORTS EDITOR

Boys’ tennis finishes season strongby Morgen SnowadzkyC0-NEWS EDITOR

Culture changing for girls volleyball

by Megan BrattonMANAGING EDITOR

for as long as she was. Without Morrison, the girls did not reach their main goal of making it to Counties. But, according to senior Kelsey Smith, not reaching counties didn’t take away from the fun season they had together. Smith said that this was one of the most fun teams she’s been on be-cause of the personalities of the girls. Smith added that overall, it’s been a memo-rable four years.

She said that this season did not go according to plan, but that wasn’t really anything they could control at points. “There were a lot of injuries, so a lot of people had to step up and play that normally don’t.” Wilkerson added that at times it became diffi-cult for the girls to stay posi-tive when they were down. Sophomore Sam Sweeney played an impor-tant role on the team at for-ward. She said that, while they didn’t reach the point

termined and focused. We re-ally wanted to be successful this season,” said Sweeney. The girls weren’t far out from a postseason birth, finishing with a record of 6-7-3. Because of all the injuries, the biggest problem was generating enough of-fense to score. Overall, the memo-ries they have will always last. “Through all of the tough points in the season, we still managed to have fun and laugh,” said Wilkerson.

“I wanted to keep everyone together. I always like helping other players get

better.”~Ryan Keffer

and his role in leading the team toward improvement in the overall season. The team started off the season with a couple

dorf, a junior who plays in the number two singles spot. He went on to de-scribe number one singles player, junior Ryan Keffer,

Central’s boy’s tennis team started off the season on unsure feet, after losing five of their top seven players from the previous season. This year’s starters included three players who were new to starting, lead-ing to a shaky beginning for a team known in the past for their dominance in the area. “It took us awhile to get into the groove. We didn’t start off the season with the leadership we had last year,” said Connor Nix-

of early losses, including losses to rivals Dallastown and Southwestern, but the team ended up finishing with a winning record of 8-4. “I was distraught. We were all getting excited. But the momentum was lost and it was kind of sad when we ended up losing,” said Keffer on the loss to Dal-lastown, which came down to one point for a doubles match. With a team of 30, mostly junior varsity play-ers, the team was limited in how much one-on-one play-ing time they could get at practice.

The combination of a loss of seniors, an unsure team, and a large team made strong leadership a require-ment. Nixdorf said that Keffer was the one to step up for the job, elaborating with a story of Keffer watching a match of Nixdorf’s when he was struggling. Sweitzer also added that seniors, like Tijay Hil-debrand, Alex Greene and Eric Beiber, played a similar leader role. The team took pride in their depth, according to Nixdorf and Keffer, as they counted on victories in the

With only six courts, a majority of prac-tices were spent doing drills as opposed to gaining match experience, said Nixdorf. “Despite start-ing the season as a young, inexperienced team they turned themselves into a district contender through hard work, teamwork, and belief,” said head coach Eric Sweitzer, who along with his assistant coaches Makesh Desai and Jensennious, kept the 30-person team together and developing. “I wanted to keep everyone together. I always like helping other players get better,” said Keffer.

number three, four, and five slots. Senior Matt Stanley played number three, as well as doubles, and especially helped the team in matches where Keffer or Nixdorf were struggling. Ten of the team’s wins were clinched in sin-gles play but Sweitzer was pleased with doubles play, especially with the Keffer and Stanley team making it to the county finals and qual-ifying for district play. “We improved a lot, and really stepped up. We grew together as a team. It became more enjoyable as we grew together and meshed,” said Nixdorf.

New dynamic stretching, new procedures and new goals have been set for the Central York girls’ volleyball team. With states as their essential goal, new coach Nate Ocasio has the high school gym booked with volleyball for the sum-mer. Ocasio started coaching the Central York High School girls’ volley-ball in Fall of 2010. After the season ended in early November, Ocasio started a club team for Central fresh-men and sophomore volley-ball players. The new club team is called White Rose of York and the team is specifically called 15-black. White Rose prac-tices twice a week for three hours. They also have two open gyms, which are op-tional and more laid back, said freshman player Abby Rill, 15. Rill plays outside attack for her team and said they have really improved in their club season and it will definitely carry over for the school season. While practices are time consuming, Rill said she did not miss a single practice. “I went to all four every week. It kept me in shape and I just love volley-ball that much.” Rill said at a typical White Rose practice the girls go to the weight room to lift for 30-45 minutes. “After our dynamic warm up and lifting we work on goals set for that week,” Rill said. “Sometimes our goal would be on serve re-ceive, maybe hitting or defense it varied upon the week,” said Rill. The two days of open gym are much more relaxed. ”Depending on how many people show up we would do much more skill work,” Rill said. These practices aren’t just for fun and games. White Rose works hard for their success at earning 2nd

place at three different tour-naments. “Playing on a Cen-tral club team really helped us because we all worked together with the same peo-ple that we will be working with for the next four years,” said Rill. We improved skills that we will need for school and club seasons. This just brought us a lot closer.” Rill said their sea-son wasn’t all success. Their biggest struggle on the court was serve receive, like it is for many teams. “Being on this club team made us feel like we’re all improving a lot and learn-ing the higher levels of vol-leyball. It makes you want to see how far you can go with your team,” Rill said. With new stan-dards, a new coach and a new team the girls decided to get new uniforms to rep-resent the club. “Our White Rose uniform is a red t-shirt with white going down the sides,” said Rill. “There’s a white rose on the back of the shirt and they’re worn with black spandex. “Just because our club season is over doesn’t mean we stop playing vol-leyball,” said Rill. Coach Ocasio planned a busy schedule for the returning Central volleyball girls. “The practices are optional but they are four days a week, two sessions a day, from June to August,” Rill said. Junior Brooklyn Smith said, “I’m really ex-cited. I think it will be a great way for all of the girls to get prepared for next sea-son but it’s going to be a lot of work.” “Coach Nate changed my views on vol-leyball greatly. He taught us the aspect of volleyball as well as how people depend on one another on the court. Most importantly, he taught us that the greatest teams weren’t the one’s with the best talent but with the most chemistry,” Rill said. “Coach Nate changed Central York girl’s volleyball.”

they were at last year, the girls on the team had a great time playing together. “This year’s team was really funny, we bal-anced humor and hard work well,” said Sweeney. All three girls com-mented on the focus the whole team had this season. Despite losing numerous players to injuries and key seniors from last year’s team to graduation, the girls never had any bad losses. “The personality of the team as a whole was de-

Although the girls soccer season did not go ac-cording to plan, it doesn’t mean they still didn’t have fun. “We’re not the best team, but we still try hard and have a good time play-ing together,” said senior midfielder, Maura Wilker-son. There has been some unfortunate luck that struck the ladies this year. Casey Morrison, a senior midfielder rated as the num-ber two high school prospect in the state, was injured and missed nearly the entire sea-son with an ankle injury.

“This year’s team was realy funny,

we balanced hard work and humor

well.”~Sam Sweeney

The blow of losing their best player definitely affected their team, said Wilkerson. She added that getting the flow of the team together without her on the field was difficult, and they didn’t expect her to be out

The last edition of Cappella’s column will be dedicated to Central’s spring sports, almost all of which had very good success this season. The girls softball season has been full of adver-sity, but you wouldn’t know it from the 15-4 record. With star athlete Lauren Walker unable to pitch with a stress fracture in her foot, sopho-more Taylor Rohrbaugh has made a name for herself around York County, pitch-ing in nearly every game since. Walker has played first base since she has been unable to pitch. There have been other key contributors to the team besides Rohrbaugh and Walker, like sophomore shortstop Jordyn Miller, who hit an outstanding .453 this season and made only one error. As a team eight of nine people in the line-up hit over .300 this year and they made only eight total errors as a team. Staying on the diamond, the baseball team barely missed out on a trip to districts finishing with a re-cord of 9-11. Props to catch-er Levi Rentzel, who played at a consistently high level all season despite playing through the last couple games with a torn labrum muscle in his throwing shoulder. Pitch-er Evan Heidlbaugh, center-fielder Austin Allison, and shortstop Dan Royer all had outstanding seasons. Junior second baseman Roy Walker had a very productive season at the plate too. The boys and girls lacrosse team both had slow starts to their seasons, but really found their groove by the end. The guys had a memorable senior night game where they defeated Spring Grove. Seniors Aus-tin Wright and Jimmy Dwyer had memorable seasons for the guys while Jacki Belker and Megan Dubs had good seasons for the ladies. The track team had a great year this year, es-pecially the girls. The girls team finished with an unde-feated record and won the division. Some key girls this year were Khaddisha Ar-nold, Megan Lundy, Brianna Fells, Lindsay Herbst, and Emily Loefenholtz. The guys team didn’t quite reach the high level of consistency they were hoping for this year. They had a bit of a disap-pointing record but it didn’t discourage several individu-als from having great years such as Angelo and Sam Koimene, Lialdon Donovan-Greene, Semi Ibukunle, and Drew Belnick.

Senior Anand Ganjam steps forward to complete a back hand serve to his opponent in a match at Central. (Photo courtesy of Larry Jones).

6 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

SPO

RTS Rain, redemption highlight Powder Puff game

by Addy PetersonEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Voices in the HallWhat are your thoughts on the social net-

working era for athletes?

“It gives another aspect of the players lives that

the fans can experi-ence. It’s like minor press conferences

everyday.”~Kyler Jelonek, 11

“I think that a lot of athletes talk trash just to hype up games, but it makes it more excit-

ing.”~Andrew Wesner, 12

“I dont think its good because it can start

problems with a lot of players and people. It can give them a bad

image.”~Mike Holley, 12

New playground for athletes

Star gymnast working hard

by Abbey MiklitschSTAFF WRITER

Lindsey Litten, a junior at Central York high school, has recently made an impressive mark for herself in the competitive gymnas-tics community. Litten, who is only 17, competed in the Women’s Junior Olympics National Championships in Long Beach California May 14-17. After tying for first in the uneven bars at the level 10 regional champion-ships, Litten earned her spot to compete in the national competition. “Honestly its com-pletely breathtaking watch-ing her compete,” says Dan-ielle Olson, a close friend of

Litten. And after 10 years of hard work and training, Litten walked away from the national championships with her silver second place medal around her neck. “It was really excit-ing, as soon as I landed my dismount my coach jumped up and down and hugged me and picked me up off the ground,” Litten said. “It was a really exciting moment.” Olson attends Lit-ten’s competitions as much as possible to support her in a sport that Olson describes as “scary all the time.” “Some-times it looks like she’s go-ing to fall,” Olson says. “But

then she proves you wrong and lands it. She sticks ev-erything.” Sacrificing a lot of her free time to train, Litten describes as one of the big-gest downsides to gymnas-tics. “I’m at the gym five days a week for three and a half hours,” she said. Litten also said she finds time to see her friends and enjoy life outside of the gym. “It’s a love-hate relationship,” says Litten. “Some days I want to give up and just quit, and other days I have so much fun and want to go back.” Litten trains at A.S.A.P in Harrisburg, al-though she was a former member of Skyline. “I start-ed when I was seven years old,” said Litten. “My sister was a gymnast when I was little, and I asked my parents to sign me up for my seventh birthday.” Although gym-nastics is something Litten loves, dreams of winning the Olympic gold are not something Litten sees in her future. Already at level ten, which is the highest level a gymnast can achieve, she says she does not plan to train to become an elite gymnast. “The training is twice as much, and I already sacrifice a whole lot now,” Litten said. “If I got to the elite level, I’d have even less free time.” However Litten does plan on sticking with gymnastics in college. “It’s always been a dream of mine,” she said.

by Zack ShefferSTAFF WRITER

Moving forwardby Chris CappellaSPORTS EDITOR We’ve had a lot of great athletes come through Central, and the class of 2011 in no exception. This upcoming year, several ath-letes will be moving on to play all levels of collegiate sports. For the fall sea-son, two teammates will be teaming up and taking their talents to the same college. Fullback Chris Englar and lineman Andy Sipe will be attending Lock Haven Uni-versity. Defensive back Tay Covington will be playing at Stevenson University. Emily Wolf and Cpourtney Peterson will both be running cross coun-try at Juniata University for the fall season. In guys soc-cer, Trent Landis will be playing at Penn State Altoo-na and goalie Austin Wright will be attending Marywood University. There are several athletes from the winter sea-son moving on to the next level. The wrestling team features state qualifier Jake English wrestling at Mes-siah College and district medalist Andrew Wesner at Kutztown. Matt Newman is hoping to wrestle on Lock Haven in the future. Ricky Mosley will be playing basketball at Al-legheny College of Mary-land, where he may transfer out of after two years and try and play at a higher level. Allison Jacobs will be at-tending Penn State Altoona to swim and John Ingari hopes to play in varsity polo at Penn State Erie. The Spring sports season is definitely the most crowded season of athletes playing collegiate sports, starting with the baseball team. Shortstop Dan Royer will be attending Method-ist University, first baseman Jeremy Pagano will be at-tending Penn State Mont Alto, catcher Levi Rentzel will be attending Penn State Altoona, and outfielder Aus-tin Allison hopes to walk-on to Shippensburg University. Softball star Lauren Walker will be attending the University of North Caroli-na, while in volleyball, Kyle Wisner, Wes Richardson, and David Moler will all be attending Stevenson Univer-sity. Paul Kuhn will be play-ing at Juniata University. Casey Morrison will be playing at Boston College University and teammate Kelsey Smith will be attending Shepherd Uni-versity in West Virginia. For track, Semi Ibi-kunle will be attending the University of Pennsylvania. Good luck to all of our athletes continuing their athletic careers.

“We’re all glad we won. It was what we needed to re-deem ourselves.”~Allison Dykeman

The game started off with sunny skies and optimism for both teams. Within ten minutes after the opening kickoff, rain began to flood the field. Junior McKenna Harter said that even though the weather was making it hard to hold the ball and

The junior girls kicked off the game at six p.m. in the 2011 Powder Puff game at Central York High School. Dressed in sky blue shirts, the seniors took to the field in hopes of redeeming themselves over their shut out by the seniors in last year’s game. This year’s oppo-nents were the 2012 juniors decked out in brown shirts and purple shorts and banan-as.

stay on their feet, the juniors were still “staying strong even though we’re all a little nervous.” After a bad snap that resulted in a safety and an early 2-0 lead for the seniors, the seniors striked again on a trick play. Allison Jacobs took the ball and ran into the end zone for an 8-0 lead. It was all the points they would need to score. The rain didn’t seem to have an impact on their [seniors] defense, led by Katie Tyson and Kelsey Smith. “She [Tyson] went

for everything. Kelsey and her worked really well to-gether,” said defensive se-nior Allison Dykeman. Fellow senior and defensive player, Maura Wilkerson, said that for the seniors to score the first touch down of the game “was the best feeling in the world.” Leading the score-board early on proved the seniors to have a leg up on the juniors for the remainder of the night. The senior girls were coached by Jeremy Pa-gano, Chris Cappella, Andy Sipe, Dan Royer and Levi

Rentzel. “The defense had a strong hold and we were in really great shape with an early 8-0 lead,” said Royer. “The coaches were all awesome and they knew what they were talking about,” Dykeman said. “At the end with all the rain, the cheerleaders really pumped us up and to hold onto the lead too.” Towards the end of the fourth quarter, the ju-niors looked strong and con-fident in getting points up on the board. A crucial intercep-tion by senior Sarah Bode stopped them and turned the ball over to the seniors once again, locking their victory.

With multiple at-tempts to move the ball into their end zone, and motiva-tion from their fellow boy cheerleaders, the juniors came up short. The seniors shut them out with a final score of 8-0. “The atmosphere was good between us girls. Much better than last year and the coaches were awe-some in helping us,” said offensive player Regan Lun-ny. The game ended shortly after 7:30 p.m. with clear skies and good sports-manship from both teams. “We’re all glad we won. It was what we needed to re-deem ourselves,” Dykeman said.

Central student Lindsey Litten performes her routine on the uneven bars. (Photo courtesy of Lindsey Litten).

The First Amend-ment of the U.S. Constitu-tion guarantees, among oth-er things, your right to free speech. This being said, it is hard to believe that the fram-ers of our nation could have envisioned sites like Twitter and Facebook that give peo-ple the ability to have their every thought or comment read by anyone, anywhere at anytime. This is convenient and harmless most of the time, but sites like these can also offend and cause vast amounts of controversy. Celebrities and many others have gravitated toward social networking sites. Twitter and Facebook give their members a mas-sive audience at all hours of the day and night. This is just another effect of our information-crazed society. People want to know things and they want to know them now. These sites provide a way for the everyday person to keep up with the lives of the rich and famous. Athletes and sports

“These players are certainly within their rights to say what they have said, but they must comment

at their own risk.”~Zack Sheffer

fans have not been immune to the global Twitter obses-sion. Athletes like Cincinnati Bengal’s controversial wide receiver Chad Ochocinco have grown their fame using Twitter. Ochocinco is con-stantly sending in updates about his life as well as ev-ery thought that crosses his mind. Ochocinco’s tweets have landed him in trouble with NFL management when he complains about rules or criticizes referees. Ochocinco is not the only player that has re-ceived fines based on his Twitter comments and he will not be the last. The con-stant stream of nonsense that Ochocinco and some other athletes produce is mostly harmless and is done simply to amuse the fans and the players themselves. However, in recent weeks a more serious trend has emerged on the Twitter

feeds of NFL athletes. Adrian Peterson, the all-pro running back for the Minnesota Vikings, start-ed a Twitter firestorm when he commented on the cur-rent NFL lockout, which has stemmed from the league’s failure to establish a collec-tive bargaining deal. Peterson report-edly commented in March that the current NFL labor situation is “modern-day slavery.” Oh sure, aside from the millions of dollars you’re getting to play a sport it’s just like slavery. Fellow players, fans, and the media jumped all over Peterson and bashed the running back for his ignorant and insulting comments. Peterson’s words were certainly eye-opening and stirred up heavy contro-versy, but they are only the tip of the ridiculous iceberg. Another popular running back, Pittsburgh Steeler Rashard Mendenhall, stirred up controversy of his own by tweeting about the death of Osama bin Laden among other things. Mendenhall tweet-ed Monday following bin Laden’s death saying, “What kind of person celebrates death... It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak.” Mendenhall went on to question the 9/11 at-tacks on the World Trade Center. “We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscrap-er down demolition style,” Mendenhall tweeted. Mendenhall went on to support the earlier claims made by Peterson regarding NFL labor. The timing of these comments is very questionable and has offended many across the country. These players are certainly within their rights to say what they have said, but they must comment at their own risk. Fans in Minne-sota and Pittsburgh as well as people nationwide have turned against these play-ers based on what they have said. Mendenhall even lost an apparel endorsement with Champion as a result. It’s fine if you want to stir up a little controversy now and then, but the ques-tion remains, what price do you pay for a little media buzz?

The seniors (left) and the juniors (right) meet on the line of srim-mage for the next play. (Photo courtesy of Addy Peterson, EDI-TOR -IN-CHIEF).

Senior boy cheerleaders strut their stuff during their performance. (Photo courtesy of Addy Peterson, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF).

7THE PROWLER SPORTS

Boys volleyball strives for success

Seniors Paul Kuhn (left) and Kyle Wisner (right) celebrate after a win. (Borrowed photo).

by Chris CappellaSPORTS EDITOR

Central York has had some very good vol-leyball teams in the past. In fact, last year’s team won the district tournament and had high expectations heading into the state tournament. But, according to senior outside hitter Paul Kuhn, this team is different. “We don’t fall apart when there’s a tough match. We just stay calm and take care of business, which comes with experience,” said Kuhn. Experience is a big reason why this year’s team is the number one ranked Pennsylvania AAA team in the state and forty third in the country. Although they lost four players last year to graduation, not all were start-ers and the team returns four senior starters in Paul Kuhn, David Moler, Kyle Wisner, and Wes Richardson. It’s been hard work to get to the point they are. According to Kuhn, the team plays year-around on the Central club team, First Capital Volley-ball Club. The team, consist-ing of only Central students, participates in practices, lifts

played a motivating factor for them to try and bring their best to every game and Kuhn said that the team still felt confident despite a sec-ond place finish. The team has defeated nearly every opponent since then, with their only losses coming in the State College tourna-ment. They have defeated top ranked opponents like Spring Grove and Northeast-ern. Senior setter David Moler is confident that this is the best team in the state and if they get a chance to face Northern Allegheny again, they’ll beat them. “I think our team is the best team in the country. I think we’ll win states, but it won’t be a shock to us,” said Moler. He also went on to say that he knows this team is different from past teams he’s been on because of the experience they have and the expectation that they’ll win every match they play. The team has a bright future too. According to Wisner, the freshman and sophomore classes are fur-ther along in their develop-ment than the current senior class was when they were freshmen and sophomores. As for now, the

weights, and goes to tourna-ments outside of the season. The First Capital Volley-ball Club team is run by the Central coaches, head coach Brad Livingston and assis-tant Todd Goodling. Accord-ing to senior middle hitter Kyle Wisner, the coaching staff has played a large role in their success as volleyball players. “Coach Livings-ton is a motivator, he has a football background and

he brings that mentality to volleyball. He’s also a good coach with knowledge of the game.” Said Wisner about assistant Coach Todd Good-ling: “He knows everything there is to know about vol-leyball. Any skill or just any part with the game he can help you out.”Kuhn added, “He’s a vol-leyball God.” Goodling was the former coach of Duke University’s women’s team.

Kuhn also added that he thinks they have the best coaching staff in the state. Like all teams, there have been a few bumps in the road throughout the season. Central lost in the finals of the Northern Al-legheny tournament the first weekend of the season to Northern Allegheny 26-24 in a one set final. Not all the effects from that (the finals loss) were negative though. Wisner said it has

On the right track to States

by Samantha HoltSTAFF WRITER

three agree on the task at hand. “We want to win states. We know we can do it and we’re going to keep working hard and staying focused and calm,” said Wisner.

Striving to be the best is what track is all about. For Khaddisha Arnold, a ju-nior, and Brianna Fells, a se-nior, their ‘best’ might not be good enough. With an undefeated season, the girls have one thing on their mind: going farther. Arnold runs the 100, 200, 4x1, and 4x4 this season. Starting out playing basketball, soccer, and cross country, Arnold found track and realized that it was the

sport for her. “I started track at the Jeffery L. Fox Memorial Track Meet in elementary school,” Arnold says. “Peo-ple told me I should join track because I was really fast.” Fells started her love of track at the same meet a year prior. This year, Fells runs the 200, 400 open, 4x1, and 4x4. Along with the events, she also takes on new chal-lenges as being a senior cap-tain of the team. “I have to make sure everyone’s doing the proper warm-ups, to help

with roll, and to lead the team in stretching,” Fells says. “I have to act as a role model to the underclassmen.” Sophomore, Kadie Surgenor, who runs with Fells and Arnold in the re-lays, agrees that Fells is an inspiration. “I really look up to Bri,” Kadie says. “She works hard and she gets stuff done.” With this as her last year running track at Cen-tral, Fells says she is excited to move on to run at Ship-pensburg, but says she will miss her track “family.” “I’m sad this is my last year because I’m going to miss everyone so much,” Fells says. “I’ll miss my re-lay team the most because they’re like my sisters.”

Q & A with Wes

Richardson

Central’s Khaddisha Arnold (right) sprints towards the finish line. (Borrowed photo).

Athletes bring baseball to college

by Marissa FauthSTAFF WRITER

Baseball is Amer-ica’s pastime. It is just like any other sport, as young kids playing the game aspire to break barriers and have hopes of making it big. Two of Central’s senior baseball players, Dan Royer and Jeremy Pagano are taking the first step to further their playing careers as they look forward to playing in col-lege. Shortstop, Dan Royer, is planning to attend Methodist University in North Carolina while First baseman; Jeremy Pagano will be attending Penn State Mont Alto. “I’ve loved the sport ever since I was a kid. In high school, the competi-tion got better and I like to compete. I wanted to keep on competing at a higher level,” Royer said. He said he is look-ing forward to the college atmosphere and the opportu-nity to play the game in new parts of the country. “I get to play in a lot of new states like Geor-gia and Alabama; I’m pretty excited about that,” Royer said. However, baseball has been more to him than just a sport to play for leisure or a mean of passing time. “I’ve learned a lot of life lessons,” Royer said. He added that baseball play-ers fail seventy percent of the time when they go up to bat. Therefore, a player fails more than he succeeds. “I always have a positive attitude (in baseball) and it’s helped me to have a positive attitude about other things,” Royer said. In order to be suc-cessful in the sport, it takes a lot of hard work. With hard work come rewards that both hope will pay off in college. Royer said that his summers have consisted of baseball almost every single day and that baseball is a very regi-mented sport. It requires a lot of effort to play the game at a high level, he said. However, Royer says he feels prepared to play college baseball and feels confident that he will be able to hold his own. Al-though he feels prepared,

there is always room for im-provement. “I feel my hitting I still need to improve on and covering the whole plate,” Royer said; adding that he needs to make sure he stays in the game and focused the entire time. Playing baseball in college is just an addition to the already long list of re-sponsibilities that come with being a college student. As a college athlete, the respon-sibility of being their best on the field lies upon their responsibilities in the class-room. “I can’t procrasti-nate anymore and have to make sure I time my sched-ule properly. My time man-agement will have to be bet-ter than the average college student,” Royer said. As a player, Royer brings a crucial aspect to the game and his future team. “I’m a good com-petitor who will try his best and play the game the right way. I’m just going to leave everything out on the table,” said Royer. His expectations for his college baseball sea-son include hitting above 300 and a fielding percent-age of 90. Pagano has been playing the sport for 13 years and looking to the fu-ture, says he’s ready for the more competitive quality of college baseball. He said he is looking forward to getting more playing time and that it will keep him going. “What I enjoy most about baseball is that it’s re-laxing. I love it. The sounds, the smells, all of it,” Pagano said. He added: “It’s taken hard work, dedication, and long hours,” said Pa-gano. Pagano says that his expectations for himself as a player in college are to make himself a better base-ball player. Although two of Central’s seniors continuing their baseball career in col-lege have different goals and expectations for themselves and their seasons, both Royer and Pagano are look-ing forward to the addition of playing baseball on their respective teams to their col-lege agenda.

Class: SeniorSport: VolleyballPosition: Outside hitter

Q: Describe your personal goals.A: “ I wanted to improve my game to help improve the play of the team. I also wanted to help the under-classmen.”

Q: What are your team goals? A: “We want to win districts and states.” Q: How do you plan on reaching the goals you’ve set out for. A: “We need to stay fo-cused in practice and playing our game that we know how to play.”

Q: What has this season been like emotionally? A: “Lately, its been stress-ful. Practice has been very intense because it’s that time of the year. Have to stay composed because every game is a big game now.” Q: What was the best part to the season thus far? A: “Beating Northeastern on senior night. It felt good because it was senior night and they are our rivals. It was a hyped up game and we played really well... It was a good atmosphere.” Q: What’s the person-ality of the team like? A: “Everyone on the team is different, but we try and go out on the court focused, and we’re almost always re-laxed. For big games every-one is zoned in.”

Q: Whats the best part about playing for this team? A: “Everyone has a lot of experience, we spend a lot of time together.” Q: Why did you decide upon Stevenson Univer-sity (to play volleyball)? A: “ Their academics, the team shows a lot of promise, the coach is cool and they’re a good young team. At first I was surprised by the e-mails I received from him. I’m ex-cited to play with Kyle (Wis-ner) and David (Moler) and learn and play with my col-lege teammates.”

Arnold and Fells agree that they have a good relationship on the team and outside of the team too. “I love Khad-disha,” Fells says with a smile. “She’s like my little co-captain, sister, and relay member. I see her as a lot of things and I’m going to miss her a lot.” With Arnold step-ping up next year for her last, she hopes that she can

once again make districts and shoot for states too. She knows that with any hard work comes dedication and always strives to be her best and lower her times. “I don’t let anybody put me down,” Arnold says. “No one should. Just go for your dream and work hard.” Fells believes that with her absence next year, the team will be equally as powerful. “I think they’re go-ing to be strong,” Fells says. “They still have almost ev-eryone and if not, there will be a lot of new talent coming up next year.” Arnold, Fells, and Surgenor took their own ad-vice and worked hard this year to get their relay team to districts. “That was our main goal, to make it to districts,” Surgenor said. “I wanted the relay team to make it to Districts as well as myself individually. As for States, I think we have a pretty good shot at making it.” With the season wrapping up by defeating Dallastown, the girls team has no losses. The 4x4 team placed fourth in Districts and qualified for States which was held May 27-28 “You just have to believe in yourself,” Surgenor says. “If you keep trying you can keep getting faster and keep improving your times. What’s so great about track is that you can be what you want to be.”

“I don’t let anyone put me down. No one should. Just go for you dream nad work hard.”~Khaddisha Ar-

nold“What’s so great

about track is that you can be what you want to be.”~Kadie Surgenor

by Chris CappellaSPORTS EDITOR

Junior SectionThe time has come for you juniors to take the next step and become to ‘big kids on campus’ next year. Remember that your junior year con-

sisted of PSSA’s, SAT’s, jobs and anticipation for the next year to come. With strong athletes and different interests, the juniors show that Cen-

tral will have a successful senior class in 2012.

8 9

20 12

Junior

Lucky juniors head to Europe this summer

by Corinne ElliottOPINION EDITOR

Traveling to the an-cient ruins of Pompeii, Ven-ice and Rome sounds like a dream vacation. Time stands still in these early civiliza-tions, where the Romans and Gladiators roared, and colos-seums still stand high. Seven students from Barrett Reynolds’ Latin classes are going on a trip this summer to these destinations and more. Reynolds has been teaching at Central for four years now, and this is her sec-ond time she has planned this trip. She teaches Latin one through four and all stu-dents were offered at the be-ginning of the year the chance to take this trip. “To be able to actu-ally go and to have the stu-dents see what they are learn-ing in class, I think the kids will appreciate it more,” said Reynolds. Central is not af-

filiated with this trip; Reyn-olds plans these trips outside of school with the help of EF Educational Tours. This company works side by side with teachers and students to help them plan itineraries and tours. This 12-day trip from June 13 to 25 will in-clude destinations like: Rome, Florence, Pompeii, Milan and Venice. Reynolds said that the trip would cost about $3,500. This would include meals, transportation, tours and educational activities for the students to be involved in. Reynolds said, “This trip is something that is really important, so the kids can see beyond the text book.” Junior, Jack Cardel-lo is one of the seven that are included in this summer’s trip. Cardello said that he took Latin originally to see if it would help him with his SATs. He said, “Latin is basically the origin of all lan-guages.”

When Cardello heard of the chance to go on this trip he jumped on it. “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” he said. When it came to planning, Cardello said, “There was a lot more plan-ning going into this than peo-ple think.” The 12-day trip was completely orchestrated out-side of school with meetings that each student going on the trip must attend. Cardello said that the meetings consisted of online payments, itinerar-ies, rules and expectations of the students and fundraising ideas. Cardello and the stu-dents raised money with fund-raisers like selling Wolfgang Candy, Sammy Sandwiches and hosting a car wash. Cardello said, “We are really excited for this trip. I want to see the coliseums the most. Miss Reynolds was the one who really organized this whole thing and orches-trated it. We could not have done it with out her.” Smith’s dedication pays off on court

by Paige BenjaminSTAFF WRITER

Junior, Brooklyn Smith’s love and passion for volleyball started because of the Burd family and her long time best friend, Ashlee Burd. “When Lauren [Ashlee’s sister] played for Buffalo University, I would always go up with Ashlee. We always passed the ball around and they told me to try out for Yorktowne, so I did and that’s how it all started,” Smith said. What began as an interest in the sport soon turned into a fierce passion that helped make Smith into a highly skilled athlete focused on performing to her full-est potential. Between play-ing for a club team and the school, Smith consistently juggles playing several other sports, excelling in school and maintaining a social life. “When I go out of town, I miss school, so it’s tough making up the work and getting caught up some-times. Sometimes it also gets very tiring and I lack sleep, which makes me even more exhausted,” she said. Smith explained how playing both school and club volleyball has not only showcased her skills, “leadership, competitiveness,

and defense,” but has also strengthened her social re-lationships and changed her overall perspective on life. “My favorite thing is all the girls who I have become close with through all the teams I’ve been on, and going on all the trips and vacations we went on. I also love the competition and just playing the sport. I’m really

competitive so I love compet-ing especially in challenging games,” Smith said. Despite facing the huge setback of breaking her back last year, which caused her to be out of the season for three months, Smith remem-bered her desire to pursue volleyball in college and used this to motivate her in her re-covery. “Volleyball has made me more focused on the things that matter in life. It showed and shows me that if you want something bad you have to work for it because it’s not just going to come to

you,” she said. This perspective has helped to make Smith into a standout in volleyball both within Central and in York County. Smith said that club volleyball has especially helped her because of the en-hanced competition. “Club has helped me so much. It has me play-ing against the best volleyball players around the country.” Smith’s club volley-ball coach, Josh Brenneman, commented on how Smith’s

dedication has helped to make her into an outstanding athlete. “What impressed me the most about Brooklyn was she was willing to do what-ever it takes to make herself a better volleyball athlete,” Brenneman said. “That means on the court running through drills or in the weight room train-ing to make herself stronger. Brooklyn had an excellent tryout at the beginning of our season competing among 38

other athletes.” “Her passing and defensive skills stood out during the tryouts, which is the reason she was selected to be part of the Yorktowne 17 Open Blue Team.” Smith said how she plans to pursue a college ca-reer in volleyball if given the chance.“I plan to play volley-ball in college. I want to keep playing volleyball because I have been playing for so long now that I don’t want to give it up. Volleyball is my favor-

What are you looking forward to going into your senior year?

Brooklyn Smith (center) jumps up and spikes the ball over the net during one of the Central’s varsity volleyball games. (Photo Courtesy of Brooklyn Smith).

by Danae TaylorASST. FEATURES EDITOR

To her, taking graph-ic design was more fun than she thought it was going to be, but she did have some dif-ficulties along the way. “It’s really hands on. You have to get used to the keys and what each tool does.”

Last semester Zoe Evanitus landed an internship with a filing cabinet business named Datum Filing with the help of career counselor Con-nie Sohnleitner. She interned for a marking period for graphic design in their marketing de-partment. She has been in-volved with art since she was child; however coming to the high school narrowed her fo-cus. “I liked drawing when I was younger, but when I came to high school I took graphic design and it in-terested me more,” Evanitus said.

“Less hours in school because you’ll have more flexiblity

with your classes.”~Jenn Paulino

Evanitus’ internship prepares her for future

“She went be-yond what we asked her to

do.”~Jim Howard

While at Datum Filing, Evanitus said she en-joyed seeing their printer and how the products looked once they were printed. The hard-est adjustment to her intern-ship was following the com-pany’s designs. “They already had their own logos so I didn’t have complete free range to do whatever I wanted,” said Evanitus. “I had to base my work off of what the customer wants more than what I think looks best.” She said her favor-ite project during her intern-ship was making postcards because it allowed her to be “witty” with her wording. Her internship has caused to look at commercial advertisements differently. She said she notices that the advertisements are based on what the customer wants to see whether it’s “cool” or not. Evanitus was the only high school junior in-terning at Datum Filing, and at the end of her internship she received a letter of rec-ommendation from her men-tor based on her workcprefor-mance. She is looking at Kutztown University and Syracuse University because she plans to major in graphic design. Evanitus said her career goals are to work for

an advertising agency and to possibly own an agency later on in her life. She is involved in doing graphic designs for Gung Ho Bikes and said that her teachers have had the most influence on her art. Her graphic design teacher Jim Howard had Evanitus as a student last semester for Graphic Design II. During the course, the students created their own children’s book in which the class was able to purchase two copies. Howard said Evan-itus was always interested, involved, and able to take criticism. “She went beyond what we asked her to do,” said Howard. He felt that she was always positive and worked well in groups and stepped up as a leader. Howard knew about Evanitus’s internship and said he had similar ex-periences in internships he ahs had, which he thinks has had an effect on his success. Howard said he hopes that Evanitus pursues design as her career. “My dream is to work for a student. I want someone to make it big and have an agency where I would be the creative direc-tor. It’s a dream, but it might happen,” he said.

National Geographic Magazine gets in touch with junior

by Holly MichaelsSTAFF WRITER Carleigh Stoll has always had an interest in art. And in the few years since National Geographic began “sending her stuff,” her love for art turned into a passion for pho-tography. A n d r e w Wertz, one of Stoll’s teachers, said, “if left to her own devices, we will find Carleigh Stoll suspended between two trees in hammock, be it Colorado or Brazil, cheerfully texting a close friend in the late afternoon, of course, with her art supplies and a sketchbook within arm’s reach.” S t o l l ’ s freshman year, Na-tional Geographic began sending her information. “It looked interesting so I contacted them.” Stoll said she al-ways liked playing with cameras but she never thought p h o t o g r a p h y would take her somewhere. Stoll trav-eled to Ecuador and The Galapagos last July for about a month. Only 12 of those people she traveled with were apsiring photogra-phers like her. Stoll found herself focusing on photographing the little children she met. “We were working a lot in the community and the little kids loved playing with the cameras.” Stoll said the best part of the trip was visiting Cotopaxi, a volcano. They hiked to the top of it. “It was one of the places we got to interact with kids.” Stoll did not find enjoyment in their various

how people live over there.” She advises students who have the opportunity to travel take advantage of ev-erything, especially staying in the community they are visiting. Participating in the trip with National Geograph-ic is beneficial in many ways, one being that they will write you letters saying you have traveled through a program with them. “If you want to get a job with them it’s a huge advantage,” Stoll says. “That would be a sweet job,” she added. Wertz said, “Al-though trips abroad have

Art, as a junior. Stoll went to visit the school and they have already accepted her port-folio. “It’s defiantly a huge weight off my shoulders.” Stoll plans to ma-jor in photography at either Maine College of Art or Sa-vannah College of Art and Design. She wants to become a professional photographer. “I want to do portraits and travel photography career-wise.” Stoll said.

boat rides, however. “They were little boats. It was very bumpy and everybody got sick.” Stoll said the expe-rience allowed her to learn a lot more about photography. It also opened her eyes to different cultures. ”It’s crazy

helped shape her, she is still very thoughtful, deliberate, and bashful in the ways she openly expresses her craft.” Her travels have already had a positive effect on her art ca-reer. Stoll has been ac-cepted to Maine College of

“Senior release and big cookie day!”

~Lynn McGowan

“Finally graduating because you’ve been through all

these years and it’s bitter-sweet.”

~Carly Stauffer

“The senior prank and big cookie day.”

~Charlie Brautigan

“I’m looking forward to prom and post prom, being

with all my friends, and get-ting to graduation.”

~Olivia Rehman

How has having your license been

so far?

“It’s convenient because I don’t have to rely on my friends or parents so it’s

easier.”~Sara Reyonlds

What has been your favorite

memory from ju-nior year?

“Hanging with my bff cousin a.k.a. Zach Tro-

na.”~Jain Albert

“It’s been awesome because you’re really independent and if you need something done you can just go in your car

and get it yourself.”~Sean Shaffer

“Bonding with the volley-ball team and David Moler

in particular.”~Jesse Munson

“PSSA’s were the fun-nest thing during this

year.”~David Grow

Stoll kneels down to photograph a starfish during one of her family vaca-tions in the Bahamas. (Photo Courtesy of Carleigh Stoll).

Clayton and Colton TraynhamCaila and Caitlin Leiphart

Erin and Eric Murphy Austin and Brandon Mohn

Ameila and Jessica Smith

Adrian and Angel Camacho

ite sport and I love playing it.” Coach Brenneman backs Smith’s aspiration, saying, “I would like to see Brooklyn keep pursuing her goal/dream of playing D1 Collegiate Volleyball.” “Brooklyn has worked hard to get to where she is today in her volleyball career. She has had a very successful volleyball career and I’m sure will have many more years of this success in college,” he said.

“Volleyball has made me more focused on the

things that matter in life.”

~Brooklyn Smith

Twins

10 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

FEAT

UR

ES

Q: When did you decide to go on the Appalachian Trail?

Nate: It is with our Boy Scout troop, 25. We have been planning this awhile, we will be going right after school lets out, we will be hiking for about a week.

Kyle: I’ve been planning on going on this trip since I did the other 60 mile trip three years ago on the Loyal Sock Trail. I had a lot of fun, so I was looking forward to do-ing a new trail.

Q: When did you start planning this trip?

Nate: Well it’s with the boy scouts and we do a trip every

Q&A with Nate Ashbaugh and Kyle Ablee

Juniors Lee, Crabill represent Central’s Distinguished Young Women

by Breanna HeilmanFEATURES EDITOR Twenty-eight con-testants from high schools all over York County made up the 46th annual Distin-guished Young Women com-petition. Formally known as Junior Miss, all 28 junior girls met at Central High School on April 30 to com-pete for $12500 in scholar-ships given out by the Dis-tinguished Young Women program. Four junior girls out of the 28 were from Cen-tral. The Distinguished Young Women Program is open to any junior girl who wants to participate. To be considered a finalist in this program all girls applying need to have a talent that they must perform onstage, while also being in good academic standing and are involved in many extra-curricular activities outside of school. Two out of the four girls from Central that made the final 28 as contes-tants were juniors Elyse Lee and Sammi Crabill. Both girls heard great things about the Dis-tinguished Young Women program, which was a part of their reasoning for why

they chose to be involved in the show. Crabill said, “I de-cided to apply for Jr. Miss because I had heard so many fantastic things about the program. I knew a number of people who were in it in years past and they couldn’t say enough about the friends they made, experiences they had, and how much they had grown within the few months with Jr. Miss.” On the day of the show Crabill and Lee were at the school from seven in the morning until 12 mid-night. Crabill enjoyed this day the most out of all the experiences she had with the program. “In that time, we do dress rehearsals of our rou-tines and interviews are go-ing on all day. Then, in the evening, we have the actual show. It was one of the most rewarding days I’ve ever had and being able to spend so much time with those girls just made us feel even closer,” said Crabill. Crabill and Lee both loved how close they became with the other 26 contestants involved in the Distinguished Young Wom-en program.

They encourage any future junior girls to get involved with this program next year. “Be prepared to have a great experience and form bonds with girls that will develop into friends,” said Lee. Crabill wants any future junior contestants to know that this experience will be one of the most re-warding ones of your high school career.

She also adds that even though there is a lot of stress involved at times, it is still 100 percent worth it. While neither of the girls from Central were named the Distinguished Young Woman for York County, both Lee and Crabill are happy for the junior girl from Dallastown who did win. “I think all of the girls, myself included, were overjoyed when she won. She completely represents what the program is about and we are so proud to have her representing us,” said Crabill. (Photos courtesy of Elyse Lee).

Mascoto’s life with 13 children and counting, keep expandingby Samantha HoltSTAFF WRITER

year. Don Lutz is in charge of this hike. Every year we do a different trip, last year we did a bike trip. Kyle: I started helping with a little bit of planning in the winter.

Q: How much of the Appa-lachian Trail do you plan on hiking?

Nate: We plan on hiking about 50 to 60 miles of it. Kyle: We’re doinga 60-mile portion that goes through Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Q: Have you hiked the Ap-palachian Trail before?

Nate: Yeah, small portions though. Kyle: I’ve done many 10-mil-ers on the Appalachian, but nothing huge.

by Corinne ElliottOPINION EDITOR

Quintana said the hardest parts of the test were the scenario questions. “They added twists and tried to confuse you,” said Quintana, referring to the scenario part of the exam. Much of Quintana’s influence and interest in sell-ing insurance as a future ca-reer were due to the fact that his stepfather is apart of his own financial group. Furthering his ex-periences in this career field was done with the help of Connie Sohnleitner, who is in charge of the career center at Central. Sohnleitner has set Quintana up with internships and job shadows to help him with his future in insurance. She said that she was also very happy that Quintana passed such a dif-

ficult exam on his first at-tempt, adding that he also was the first Central student to ever pass this exam as well.

“He is driven to be successful and has demon-strated his success through passing the National Insur-ance exam for Property and Casualty Insurance. I wish Marco the very best,” said Sohnleitner. Sohnleitner said that Quintana was a leader in

Central’s career opportuni-ties program this year. “He has served as a spokesperson for the group and school as we visit differ-ent businesses,” said Sohn-leitner. As Quintana moves forward in his insurance ca-reer, he hopes to get a paid internship at Glatfelter In-surance Company for the summer. Eventually, if he is able to get the internship, Quintana hopes to work for Glatf. Quintana says he sees the great job outlook for the insurance business in the future but his favorite part about it is that insurance will always be needed. “Everybody needs insurance, it’s never going out of business,” said Quin-tana.

“We are so proud to have her represent-

ing us.”~Sammi Crabill

Q: Who is going on this trip?

Nate: Me, Kyle Able, David Grow, maybe Dallas Diehl and possibly Alex Davis. Kyle: Mostly older experi-enced scouts that can hike at a good pace.

Q: What are you doing to prepare this trip?

Nate: We have been going on 15-mile hikes during the weekends to prepare. Kyle: Going on warm-up hikes to get in shape.

Q: What are you most ex-cited about going on this trip?

Nate: Get out there with some friends and hike.Kyle: Being with my friends in the beautiful outdoors.

The average Amer-ican family has about three children. The Moscato fam-ily is home to 13 children, all of whom were adopted from countries such as Bul-garia, Vietnam, China, and the States. Maddy Moscato, a sophomore, is one of those 13. She moved here from Vietnam when she was five months old after being put into adoption at the hos-pital where she was born. “My mom couldn’t support me,” Maddy says. “She gave a fake name to the hospital so they couldn’t track her down and so the hospital put me into adop-tion. I didn’t really think much of it because I was so young.” Mother, Pam Moscato, was lucky to find Maddy as well as her 12 oth-er children. After suffering multiple miscarriages, Pam says she turned to adoption to fulfill her dream of having a large family. “The most reward-ing part, I think, is seeing a child that had very little hope of a good life – espe-cially one with a loving and caring family – now blossom into a wonderful person and knowing that in some way I helped them do that,” Pam says. Of the children, the first four were adopted from the United States. Two were

from foster care, one from NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit), and one from a mother who wanted to place him in an interracial family of her choosing.

“When we decided to adopt again, our one son who was fairly young and the only one of the four who was not African American, announced that he didn’t want to be the only child who looked different from his brothers and sister,” Pam shares. “We understood

his concern and looked to Vietnam as a country with many children in great need of a family. Once we were in Vietnam and saw how im-poverished the orphanages

were, we decided to do an-other adoption there.” In Vietnam, at the time, the orphanages had the children sleeping two to three per crib on wooden slats instead of mattresses. The medical care was poor and many of the babies died from being treat-ed horribly. The Moscato

family adopted six kids from Vietnam. They turned to Chi-na for their daughter Anne. She had been in the orphan-age for five years and no one

was interested in her because of her age. They ended up adopting her as well as Kyr-cho from Bulgaria. Kyrcho had also been treated poorly and ne-glected because his ethnic-ity was Roma, which was thought of as a gypsy. He wasn’t allowed

to go to school and he was illiterate when he moved into the Moscato household. Many of the children were on “waiting lists” in order to be adopted.

The adoption pro-cess itself isn’t easy. The family must attend informa-tional and preparatory meet-ings to ensure that they are ready for the responsibility of adopting a child. Along with the meetings, there are inter-views, applications, finan-cial obligations, and refer-

ence checks to be made. If someone is adopting an older child, they must meet with the child multiple times to make sure he or she feels comfortable. After the adoption, there are normally follow up visits with the social worker and a court date so the adop-tion can be finalized. With overseas adoptions, the adoptive fam-ily promises to send regular updates to the native coun-try.

Although some-times difficult, Maddy said enjoys being part of such a huge, loving family. “When we go out in public everyone just thinks we’re like a huge church group or something because none of us look alike,” Mad-dy says. “There just always seemed to be one more child who needed us,” Pam says. “I never needed the ‘blond haired blue eyed’ newborn that so many fami-lies wanted. What was im-portant was that they were sent to us in some way by Him and that they needed me as much as I needed chil-dren in my life.”

“When we go out in public everyone just thinks we’re like a huge church group

or something.”~Maddy Mascato

Insurance continued from page 1

“He has served as a spokesperson for the group and school as we visit different business-

es.”~Connie Sohnliet-

ner

Maddy Moscato (center) unites with her family for Easter Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Maddy Mascato).

11THE PROWLER NEW

S

Budget cuts to affect current students and graduates

Our na-tion has a deficit of over $14 trillion. How to solve this crisis has be-come the hot topic in Congress, especially after the near-shut-down Friday, April 7. There are two ways to reduce a defi-cit: cut spending and increase revenue. The Demo-crats and Repub-licans disagree on which to do more of. With the Repub-licans as the majority, the decision has been made to cut spending on a federal and state level in areas including welfare and education. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Cor-bett proposed $810

meetings and seek out information that is open to the general public.” He added it is important for students and district families to be aware of what’s go-ing on in the district. “Experienced teachers are equipped to teach and help students in big classes learn, but let’s face it, it makes it more difficult to estab-lish those relationships that makes teaching so special,” Spanish teacher Ginny Miller. “Even first year teachers know that it takes a bit longer for 30 kids to settle down and begin the day’s tasks than it does for 20 students,” Miller said about the increas-ing of class sizes. Classes are expected next year

said Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) President Jim Testerman. He fears cuts will lead to steps back-ward in student achieve-ments and progress. Cuts on a state level may seem far away, but there are cuts being made within Cen-tral York School Dis-trict as a direct result. The district faced a $1.7 million deficit in the proposed budget for the 2011-2012 school year. Some of the increases for revenue that will directly af-fect students include higher ticket prices at athletic events and more expensive driv-ers education training. There will be some cuts in spend-ing on technology, staffing and an admin-

“School boards will be forced to raise property taxes, elimi-nate programs that have contributed to our stu-dents’ outstanding aca-demic achievements, and slash teaching jobs. That means that our students will ulti-mately pay the price,”

million in cuts from public schools. In ad-dition, he proposed cutting $625 million in funding for state universities including Temple University and Penn State University.

istration pay freeze. All informa-tion about the district budgets is available to the public on the school board website. Brent Kessler, business manager for the district, said the administration is dis-appointed to say that the state of Pennsylva-nia will not reimburse students taking Dual Enrollment next year. “I think that students are definitely stoke holders in our education system and that they have a respon-sibility to be informed of any major decisions that might affect them,” social studies teacher Robert Davenport said. “They have the same right as any other member of the district to attend school board

Teacher supports cause close to her heartLisa Sands went through a traumatic birth experience, which changed her outlook on life and motivated her to participate in the March for Babies.

Language arts teacher, Lisa Sands has been doing her part in the commu-nity to save lives by raising money and spreading aware-ness about premature births. For the past five years, Sands has participat-ed in the March for Babies charity event, sponsored by the March of Dimes, former-ly known as Walk America. P a r t i c i p a n t s make a monetary pledge and then commit to walk-ing or running in an event in their area that is spon-sored by the organization. In York, the event was held at John Rudy Park Sunday, May 1.The event frequently has a successful turnout and always draws a large crowd, according to Sands. Sands was inspired to participate in the event be-cause of a frightening person-al experience. Sands’ daugh-ter, Campbell, now five, was born prematurely and forced to stay in the Neonatal Inten-sive Care Unit for 18 days. “My pregnancy turned rather traumatic around 30 weeks. Doc-tors didn’t know what was

wrong and I was in the hos-pital for five days. When they finally “diagnosed” me, they determined they needed to give me an emer-gency c-section immediately in order to possibly save

both our lives,” Sands said. Sands feels so strongly about Walk for Ba-bies because, not only was her own life in danger, but her new baby’s was as well—and being a mother, her child was her highest priority. “I believe in the cause because I think we need to keep research-ing how to keep women

by Paige BenjaminSTAFF WRITER

Lisa Sands marches for babies with her daughter, Camp-bell, in the 2010 March for Babies. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Sands).

by Morgen Snowadzky CO-NEWS EDITOR

Girls attend the Strong Women’s Conference led by area women in the working force. (Photo courtesy of Wendolyn Hewitt).

Ambriel Bowen, a 14-year-old former Cen-tral York Student and New Hope eighth grader, took her life Monday, May 2. It was believed to be a re-sult of the severe bully-ing she was dealing with. While at a park

across the street from her home, she was beaten up by a girl from her neighbor-hood. Even after charges were pressed, the bully-ing continued to occur. Her mother claimed during a FOX 43 interview that Ambriel came home with bruises and swollen hands. Also in that inter-view, her mother said, “At

first, I didn’t even want to talk about it. But I want people to know that, everyone, the bul-lies the people that are being bullied, that it’s got to stop.” Kids from Ambri-el’s class have written letter to Tami, Ambriel’s mother, saying they know what it feels like to be bullied. “Bullies need help too,” says Ambriel’s sis-ter Ashley Bean. “They’re hurting inside too. You may think they are the mean-est person in the world and they may be. But they are hurting as well which is why they are bullies.” The story above shows the relevance of this topic. Teens all over York County have been bul-lied and some even to the extent of Ambriel’s story. For students wish-ing to seek help or advice in ways to stop the bully-ing or help cope with it’s pain, stopbullying.gov is a website to assist in doing so.

Summarized by Falon Kieth, STAFF WRITER

Do you feel like bullying is a prevalent issue in our high school?

Mea MichaelsGrade 10

“I think bullying is an issue in everyone’s high school. In Central, most

of our bullying issues are online.”

Patrick Mills, Grade 9

“I think for the most part, people are cool with each other and bullying really isn’t that big of a deal.”

Meg AndrewsGrade 11

“I don’t feel like its a problem for me, but I feel like there are people who

would disagree.”

and the babies safe and healthy. I led a healthy life throughout my pregnancy. I got good neonatal care while pregnant. I ex-ercised and avoided things that might have caused harm to the growing baby, and yet, I suddenly became so ill, we weren’t sure I would survive.” Sands’ best friend, Myronda Schiding, also a teacher at Central York High School, said how Sands’ traumatic birth experience has made a distinct im-pact on her outlook on life. “The whole inci-dent was life changing to Mrs. Sands because she tru-ly realized that life is a spe-cial gift. Having Campbell definitely gave Mrs. Sands a deep appreciation for“grace”, and Campbell’s mid-dle name is “Grace”.” Sands also shared the story of one of her “dear friends,” who had her baby at just 21 weeks. She explained how, if the baby had been born five years ago, the technol-ogy would not have been sufficient enough to save his life. Schiding commented on Sands’ dedication to the pro-gram, saying, “Mrs. Sands is a very caring and empa-thetic individual and found that there was a very im-portant cause that she could become involved in related to her circumstances.” Contrary to Sands’ modest attitude, her peers have definitely noticed the noble contribution she has made to her cause. “Mrs. Sands is pas-sionate about making the world a better place and is never afraid to take the first step in being a facilitator of change,” Schiding said.

“Mrs. Sands is passionate about making the world

a better place and is never

afraid to take the first step in being

a facilitator of change”

-Myronda Schiding

“I was heavily bullied and verbally abused by a group of boys who were very close to me. They would say nasty comments towards me whenever I was with them even though they claimed they cared about me. They would call me fat, tell me nobody liked me, and said I was ugly several times a day. While the bullying and abuse was going on, I just kept telling myself they were joking around. Now, though, I can truly see that what they were doing was not right and not, in any way, just joking around. I started hanging out with the whole group of boys less and less and I found myself a new group of friends. It was then that I realized it is not normal to be taunted and teased by those who are closest to you. My advice to anyone in the same situation as myself would be that you can always find new peo-ple to hang out with. Nobody should have to be put down and called names by people who they are closest to.”

as a result of retired teachers not being re-placed for next year. Also, classes of less than 12 stu-dents may not run, which will affect some of the usually smaller classes. Class size is of concern to PSEA, as is cutting full-day kindergarten funding. “Research has shown that class size does affect perfor-mance, however my classes have always been large so I do not expect much change in grades or behavior,” said math teacher Ben Lucia. “I am not a fan of the decision to cut spending in education; however, I do under-stand that everyone has to make sacrifices in order to get the bud-get under control.”

Bullying comes to traumatic climax in Central Community

*this account is from an anonymous source

“That means that our students will ultimately pay the

price.”-President Jim

Testerman

12 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

NEW

S

JAPAN

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S DEATH

DONALD TRUMP RUNNING FOR PRESIDENCY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami

Library Council promotes reading

On Saturday, April 30 2011, children from elementary schools from across Central gath-ered at the high school li-brary for story time. This event, dubbed as Read-a-Thon, was held by the high school’s Library Council. The reading was only one part of the event, as children could busy themselves with crafts and games, or grab a snack on the way to face painting. The books read were Rainbow Fish, The Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly, Curious George Vis-its the Library, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Activities were related to the stories; for Curious George Visits the Library, oranges and mini

bananas were provided and kids could color in a Curious George bookmark Children could be seen running around in the games section. Many had rain-bows and flowers on their cheeks. One boy decid-ed to get his whole face painted as Spiderman. Aruba Tariq, one of the founders of Li-brary Council explained, “Read-a-thon was a big success. The adults were really happy with our set-up and how we orga-nized everything.” Tariq, herself, had been helping with preparing the food. A lot of steps went into preparing for Read-a-thon. Devki Gami, another officer for Library Council said, “We had numerous meetings. We had to send out letters to every single kid from kindergarten to third grade range in our

district.” Nicole Milwicz, 6-years-old, said that her favorite part of The Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly was, “When she died!” Deb Wilson, the librarian and advisor for Library Council had chap-eroned the whole event. She said, “I think it is great they [Library Coun-cil] are doing this. It is just great to see the kids dedi-cated enough to do this sort of thing.” Ameena Khairat, a member from Library Council said, “It was nice seeing the kids’ reac-tions during story time.” In charge of the games was Antho-ny Mace, a junior, who commented, “My favor-ite game would prob-ably be Overlord Says

or Duck, Duck, Goose.” Gami said that she was satisfied with the turnout. The many kids who attended said that they had a lot of fun. Isabella, a 2nd grader who attended Read-a-thon, said, “I love read-ing. I like the crafts.” “It’s very reward-ing to work with kids,” Gami added. “It was re-ally nice how everyone just worked together.” Next year, Li-brary Council plans on advertising more. Ad-ditionally, with the spring weather roll-ing around, activities may be held outside. In the end, Li-brary Council’s planning and hard work paid off. Read-a-thon took advan-tage of the high school library, while simulta-neously spreading the joy of reading to kids.

Class of 2012 emerges as B.O.B Champions The CYHS juniors claimed a hard fought victory at Central’s tenth Battle of the

Buildings held on April 8 in the high school gymnasium. Every other year for the past 20 years, ath-letes from Central’s se-

nior and junior classes and teachers from the Central York District have come to compete against each other. Central’s Battle of the Buildings always draws a large crowd and was sold out this year. The gym was packed with fans from all Central schools, who were there to cheer their teams on to Battle of the Buildings glory. The teams fought hard in every event and the games came down to the wire. The 2011 Battle of the Build-ings did not disappoint as ac-tion packed games brought the fans to their feet. To prepare for the vigorous challenges of the event junior Kwe Parker said, “I ate some spinach and got my arms jacked.” Battle of the Build-ings 2011 kicked off with the obstacle course. Two members from each team raced through the obsta-cles striving to finish in the least amount of time. The race was close and resulted in a tie between the Primary Powerhouse and the Jammin’ Juniors. The battle con-tinued with the burlap bag race. The Super Seniors took the lead and ended up

winning the race with the juniors finishing second. The Super Seniors and the Jammin’ Juniors would continue a neck and neck race all through the event. The next event was the highly anticipated tug of war. The high school teach-

ers claimed victory over the Middle School Muscle in an amazing six seconds. Not to be out-done, the Jammin Juniors defeated the Super Se-niors in only five seconds. The High School teachers would go on to claim overaJll victory in the

tug of war over the juniors. The goalie for the junior’s handball team, Jesse Munson, said that handball was an, “exhilarating rush.” The juniors met the seniors in the handball final. The Super Seniors won a hard fought, dramat-

ic victory over the juniors. The competi-tion was intense all night. Teams experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of a narrow defeat. Each team had their own section of sup-porters that cheered tire-lessly for their team.

lect as many of their team color balloons as they could. The teams pre-pared for the final and went into a frenzy when the balloons dropped. When the dust settled the results were calculated. The Super Seniors

THE ROYAL WEDDING

An under-water earthquake of 9.0(M) magnitude hit Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011. This earth-quake had an epicenter of 70 kilometers and raised tsunami waves as high as 38 meters. In addition to loss of countless lives and destruction of prop-erty, the tsunami also caused a number of nu-clear accidents, making it the worst earthquake in J a p a n ’ s h i s t o r y . A c c o r d i n g to latest estimates, the damage from this earth-quake exceeds the cost of $300 billion dollars, which makes it the most expensive natural disas-ter of the world to date.

Donald Trump a 64-year-old real estate develop-er, author, and reality TV star, recently announced his plans about running for the presi-dential elections in 2012. The American population displayed mixed emotions about this an-nouncement, with 50 per-cent saying that he would make a “poor” or “terrible” president (USA TODAY).

CENTRAL: Would you vote fot Donald Trump as President in 2012?

Japan: in the midst of crisis

Most wanted in the world, finally found

Prince William ties the knot

Trump wants p r e s i d e n c y

Osama bin Laden, the founder of the militant organization, al-Qaeda, and the most hunted man

in the world, was killed on May 2, 2011 in a raid by the United States special opera-tions forces. This operation, authorized by President Ba-rack Obama, was carried out by a team of United States Navy SEALs and launched on bin Laden’s safe house

in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden died as a result of gunshot wounds to his chest and head, and his body was taken to Af-ghanistan for identification purposes. Within 24 hours the body was buried at sea. Al-Qaeda con-firmed the death of bin Laden on May 6 and made vows to take revenge for their militant leader’s death. As Obama disclosed bin Laden’s death, he declared that, “justice has been done.”

Prince William, one of the most eligible bachelors of the world, finally tied the knot with Catherine Middle-

ton on April 29, 2011. The prince, who is second in line of succes-sion to Queen Elizabeth II, is the older of the two sons of Prince Charles and late Lady Diana. The wedding was a much-anticipated event, as this was the first royal wed-ding since Charles and

Founder of Al-Qaeda; Osama bin Laden, is shown in this photo-graph. (Photo borrowed from Google images).

Prince William and Catherine Middleton pose on their wed-ding day. (Photo borrowed from Google).

In Other News...

Diana’s wedding in 1981. The service was broadcasted live around the world and was watched by an estimated 300 million people glob-ally. Much of the attention was focused on the fact that a prince was mar-rying a commoner. The cost of the wedding has been estimated as being about 33 million USD.

Central gets National recognition

By Wareesha Tariq

by Zack ShefferSTAFF WRITER

The Jammin’ Juniors celebrate their victory at the end of B.O.B. (Photo courtesy of CTV).

by Amanda ChanGUEST WRITER

Jasmine Graham, a senior, and member of Library Council reads to the kids attending Read-A-Thon. (Photo courtesy of Wareesha Tariq).

George Lucas, best known for his creation and productions of the Star Wars franchise, is the founder of an educational founda-tion that advocates and pro-motes the use of innovative

strategies in K-12 Ameri-can educational system. Lucas, along with venture capitalist Steve Ar-nold, founded Edutopia in 1991. In a published state-ment for his website, Lucas said that as a student in the public school system, he was quite “bored.” He said that he always wondered, “Why can’t school be en-gaging all of the time?” It was because of his own school experiences that Lucas, founded Edu-topia. In an effort to pro-mote non-traditional learn-ing strategies, he began his work by documenting the most “exciting” classrooms across the United States. The goal of Edutopia is to determine “what works in education” through the use of classroom practices and activities that engage, mo-tivate, and inspire students. They focus on proj-ect-based learning and edu-cational technology as the means to accomplish this. According to 21

Centrury Literature teacher, Lisa Turner, who was picked as an example teacher by Edutopia, “Edutopia finds schools and teachers who are using what is considered to be ‘best practices’ or in-novative teaching to moti-vate their students to learn.” “They highlight them on their website and in DVD’s as a way to encour-age and show others how to do the same,” she said. Central was first picked out as a potential candidate for “Schools that work” section of Edutopia. The teachers selected initial-ly were interviewed exten-sively about their innovative learning styles and the strate-gies they used in their every-day classroom environment. Art teacher, Kat-lyn Wolfgang, who was also picked out for this program, said that it is due to Central’s support from the adminis-tration and encouragement that classes that are taught to be unique in their design. She then elaborated on her

nomination from Eduto-pia by saying, “I believe that my creativity and out-side of the box thinking is my strength. I think that this aided in my selection

by Wareesha TariqCO-NEWS EDITOR

Students from Katie Anderson’s English II class rehearse for the pre-school play. (Photo courtesy of Katie Anderson).

Definitely

Might Consider

Definitely Not

10.5%

11.6%

77.9%

This poll was independently conducted by Wareesha Tariq, Co-News Editor of The Prowler. The participants were informed about their answer being published in The Prowler.

as they liked the ideas and concepts that I was incorpo-rating into my classroom.” Two other teach-ers selected for this honor were English teacher, Katie Anderson and AP Govern-

ment teacher, Dayna Laur. The students in those selected classes were very excited at Edutopia’s arrival. The filmmaking took place during their nor-

mal classes and students were videotaped while work-ing on their specific projects. Gloria Adjabeng, a senior in Wolfgang’s Sculpture I class said that she thinks Wolfgang got

this nomination because of her great teaching style. She said, “She [Wolfgang] does her best to make sure each student understands what is going

on and she is always there to help when we need it.” The movies of Cen-tral’s different and innova-tive classes can be viewed online on www.edutopia.org, in the coming months.

tied the Middle School Mus-cle for second in the over-all event with the Jammin Juniors claiming first prize. “Never had I ever before felt such a rush of emotions,” Munson said. “I was more proud of the Class of 2012 at that point in time than I have ever been.”

13THE PROWLER ARTS

Central grad films documentaryby Kelsey FlinchbaughARTS EDITOR

Going to Belize for half a year to film a docu-mentary may sound like an unreachable dream to some, but for Central alumnus Dy-lan Hammill, this dream has become his reality. Hammill,

19-years-old, who graduated from Central in 2010, was given the rare opportunity to document the building of one of his family mem-ber’s expanding cigar com-pany in Central America. The company, named J. Castanon Cigar Company, began in York but

has recently spread its borders outside the United States. Hammill was asked to film the November to April process so that business part-ners in Belize and America could witness what was go-ing on during the expansion. Hammill said he filmed everything himself and with his own video cameras. “There were no problems filming in Be-lize, if anything we were catered to because of the filming,” said Hammill. While filming, the alum accumulated more than several hundred gigabytes of videos and more than enough footage to sift through. “My final outcome is still unknown with the piece. I’m not quite sure what to do with all of the video,” admitted Hammill. During the trip, he also got to meet with ministers, government of-ficials, and business own-ers to discuss the product.

During the long months of filming, Ham-mill was able to come back

“I enjoyed do-ing something

new every day” ~ Dylan Ham-

mill

to York County to visit. “I missed seeing fa-miliar faces, friends and fam-

ily, and being away from my girlfriend for that long was hard. It was also difficult try-ing to bring all of my posses-sions that would fit in a suit case for several months.” While filming, Hammill also learned a lot about Belize; trekking through the jungle , scuba div-ing, and exploring the parks. “I enjoyed do-ing something new every-day, not really having a set plan or schedule because Belize is unplannable.” Currently, Ham-mill has continued to cre-ate documentaries; staying with his brother’s band, Cold Fronts, in New York, filming their shows and their recording process. To further his edu-cation, Hammill is attending a college in Philadelphia in the fall and will also be work-ing all Summer, so a trip back to Belize is not in his plans. “I want to do some-thing involved with a cam-

era, either filming or theproduction aspect,“ he said of his career plans. “My overall experi-ence was great, I was really happy and fortunate to bethere filming and help-ing with the business.”

Dylan Hammill at Laughingbird Caye National Park in Belize’s barrier reef . (Photo courtesy of Dylan Hammill).

Juniors steal the showby Addy PetersonEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Two familiar faces of the Performing Arts De-partment at Central York High School took the leads to the stage in the studio play Romeo and Juliet. Juniors Jessica Ilko and Austin Mohn were the fa-mous love couple during the show’s viewings in mid April. “We’ve grown to-gether. We’ve learned to trust each other because of the characters and it has helped us with our friendship,” Ilko said about her co-star. Being friends off the stage, Ilko said that her and Mohn had been in sever-al of Central’s plays together but had never co-starred with one another as leads.

“I think through this process, and him hav-ing the lead role, had helped him grow and

has helped me see him as a great actor and

to know that he knows he’s doing.”~Jessica Ilko

The state competi-tion level is not just for sports. Seniors Kiersten Levens and Jesus Rosario have both qualified and are soon on their way to states May 24. “The teach-ers saw potential,” Kier-sten said. “I took the con-structive criticism and worked to make it better.” Levens and Rosa-rio both walked away from the regional computer fair with first place ribbons. Levens won the computer fair logo contest, and Rosario placed first in the digital movie category. The seniors are now looking forward to the state competition. Je-sus says, “I’ve got a lot to do to get ready. I have to re-shoot, but that calls for nice weather, which just

isn’t happening right now.” At regionals in March, Levens set up her tri-fold board, t-shirt, cup, and hat all printed with her logo to display for the judges. “I was nervous,” Levens said. “There was another logo there that looked really good.” After set up, the students went to a vari-ety of workshops while

“It’s a really great experience, defi-nitely compete”

~ Kiersten Levens

First place for Central stu-dents in computer fair

If I could have two of me, or a best friend who is another me, that’d be per-

fect.” ~ Jesus Rosario

by Abbey MiklitschSTAFF WRITER the judges have free reign

of the competitors work. After about three hours, Levens found out that she had won. “I was so ex-cited, it was really sat-isfying” Levens said. Rosario also said that he enjoyed the regional computer fair. “It was great,” Rosario said. “They had Egg Mcmuffin sandwiches.” Rosario’s film that won the regional compe-tition was three minutes and thirty-one seconds long. Rosario describes the video as a “music video meant to entertain people.” Rosario only took one year of graphic design, and ended up discover-ing his love for filmmak-ing in Myronda Schid-ing’s current event class. “We had to do a week in rap, which is ba-sically 10 current events that you learn about and record into music videos,” Rosario said. “It was so much fun, a ton of fun.” From there, Ro-sario decided to make an-other video which ended up being his winning film. “The purpose be-hind this one was just to see what I could really do, to chal-lenge myself.” Rosario said. Levens also dis-covered her interest in com-puter art her senior year. Levens also won the post prom ticket competition that the Graphic Design classes held. The ticket was used for the 2011 Senior Post Prom.

Having taken both graphic design one and two in her final year of high school, Levens was surprised with how much

she enjoyed the courses. “It ended up being something I really liked, I like art in general, but I didn’t think I’d like it this much.” Levens said that she wishes she had taken more graphic design and art cours-es earlier in high school, and encourages others to enter the computer fair next year. “It’s a really great experience, definit-ly compete” Levens said. “There’s always a chance you could win.” Rosario says that filmmaking is just flat out fun and something he plans to pursue in college. Al-though there are negatives that come along with the trade, Rosario said his big-gest problem is only being able to do one thing at a time. “When I have an idea I know exactly what I want. But when I’m acting in the video, I can’t be filming it too. If I could have two of me, or a best friend who is an-

2011

FAIRTECH

*(Photos courtesy of Jessica George)

“I’ve been in six plays here,” Ilko said.On their first day of prac-tice, Mohn explained that it wasn’t “awkward” while Ilko and him were run-ning through their lines. “She [Ilko] was great. It was just her and I on the first day of practice and I had to keep repeating this line to her over and over again. It was really funny,” Mohn said. Mark Zortman and Central graduate Paige Nel-son worked with both Ilko

and Mohn on the studio play. “I’ve been working with Paige since freshman year,” Mohn said. “She was really great to work with.” Ilko said that some people confuse the differ-ence between a main stage play and a studio play. “Stu-dio plays are more up close and they [the audience] can see every little thing you do.” Mohn said, “Romeo and Juliet was a three-quarter stage. It was intense to have the people right up in front of you but it made it more natural for us to work with.” With Ilko having had a lead role in Guys and Dolls during this school year, Mohn was the newcomer in taking on a “major” role. He explained that he went into the audition for Romeo’s role “assum-ing that I wouldn’t get it.” When he had gotten word that he had gotten the part, he said, “bring it on.” Ilko said that the connection that she and Mohn had during their prac tices together was helpful when it came to actually performing them on stage. “I think this through this process, and him having the lead role, has helped him grow and has also helped me see him as a great actor and to know that he knows what he’s doing,” Ilko said. With this being Ilko’s seventh play at Cen-tral, she said that, just like Mohn, she still gets ner-vous before going on stage. “I don’t think be-ing nervous is a weakness. I’ve heard that nerves make a performance stronger and if you’re not nervous, some-thing is wrong,” she said. Though the

nerves have gotten to her, Ilko explained that she has gotten used to get-ting them under control in time for her performance. “We do these body warm-ups and focus on

Jessica Ilko (left) and Michael Bohn (right) perform with one another in Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. (Photo courtesy of Jessica Ilko).

“I really want to get into film. I’m most ly looking

forward to that.”~Jessica Ilko

breathing and to just stretch out our bodies and that real-ly helps me focus,” she said. Mohn and Ilko both said that they wish to continue on in doing shows for Central next year when they become seniors. As far as making a career out of acting, Ilko has been in several independent films and a “small movie” that will be put on TV. She said that pur-suing it outside of high school that “if I have the op-portunity to be in it, I will.” “I really want to get into film. I’m mostly looking for-ward to that,” Ilko said. Mohn explained that he also would like to get into theater in col-lege but “wouldn’t want to do it as a career.” Mohn and Ilko are both up for Best Leads in the Performing Arts Depart-ment Individual Excellence Awards or the PADIES. “It’s almost like the MTV Awards for theater,” Mohn said. Ilko was nominat-ed for Best Lead as Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls and as Juliet and Mohn was nominated for Best Lead as Romeo May 31.

14 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

ART

S New year, new themeby Danae TaylorASST. FEATURES EDITOR Drawing and Paint-ing teacher and art show co-ordinator Kaitlyn Wolfgang said whimsical was the theme of this spring’s art show. “We were trying to go for a spring feeling,” said Wolfgang. This show also gave out an art scholar-ship to a qualifying senior. The spring show took place Thursday May 19 and displayed students working on art projects. This fea-ture was added so the audi-ence could see their works in progress. Another addition to the art show was a live band for the people to enjoy. Wolfgang said the purpose for this installment was so the show could be an all-encompassing event dis-playing other forms of art. Some of the art students had a choice to be a part of this event, and for others it is a curricu-lum requirement. “You can say we’ve been preparing since the beginning of the semester,” said Wolfgang. To advertise the show Wolfgang said the National Art Honors So-ciety made pamphlets and helped decorate the show. She added that her favorite part is having the students hang up their work, being proud of it, and exem-plifying excitement when showing off their work. However, she said she was not looking for-ward to giving her speech to NAHS. “Someone always video tapes me and I hate lis-tening to myself,” Wolfgang said. From this experience Wolfgang wanted the students to gain knowledge of plan-ning and executing events. She said she hopes it has encouraged students to partake in more art related

events, whether it is more art classes or their first art class. Senior Sydney Bennett she said could at-

Have fun expressing your-self through art,” she said. She has been in-volved with art through-out her high school career; taking Sculpture 3D, Fine Art, Traditional 3D, Draw-ing and Painting I, and Drawing and Painting II. Bennett is an in-tern for the Sculpture 3D and Fine Arts classes taught by Barbara Wilke. She was also involved in the fall art show, but was more involved with the spring show because she was try-ing to inspire the students. “[As an intern] it’s a little different, but having the opportunity to work and

test to that concept. “Just go with it. Let loose and regardless of how others may view your artwork, it’s all about how you see it.

be guided by Ms. Wilke has helped me a lot,” said Ben-nett. “For the most part they [the students] are already gifted and don’t need that much help. But I offer ideas when they are stuck and lend a hand when needed.” Bennett submit-ted her self-portrait se-ries and a few of her drawings into the show. She said her most difficult piece was making her self-portrait out of clay. Bennett also en-joyed the outcome of the show regarding attendance. “I think they support it a decent amount but not as much as a football game,” said Bennett.

“Let loose and regardless of how others may view your artwork, it’s all about how you

see it.” ~Sydney Bennett

Sydney Bennett carves an art project. (Photo courtesy of Sydney Bennet).

Comedic timing a difficult challengeby Alex StricklerSTAFF WRITER

This Ain’t Your Average Fairy Tale poster displayed around the school. (Photo Courtesy of Benjamin Hodge).

The walls of Central York High School were splat-tered with posters saying, “Mickey who?” and “This ain’t your average fairy tale.” That’s because acting teacher, Benjamin Hodge, and his Acting II class put on a performance of The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, a fast-paced show that parodies many classic fairy tales in a style similar to Family Guy and The Simpson’s. The show, performed May 19 and 20 in the Black Box Theater, was a one-act version that ran about 45 to 50 minutes. “We are mocking fairy tales,” said Rebecca Lease, 17, a senior in the show. Lease played one of the narrators and one of the devils in the show. Some fairy tales included were Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gre-tel, Repunzel, and a few lesser known stories. The play emphasizes that the fairy tale people grew up with do not have as happy of endings as portrayed. Hodge said that the stories are made into happy ones and songs. “Jack and Jill isn’t really that nice

of a story they break their heads,” said Hodge. The sto-ries are presented in a satiri-cal way. “We are celebrating it and making fun of it at the same time,” said Hodge. Acting II puts on a major production every year but this is their first comedy. In years past they have done more dramatic productions such as Reach. “This is 100 percent com-edy and we are really ex-cited about it,” said Hodge. Lease said she was a bit nervous about the show since she has never done a comedy like this before. She has been in other pro-ductions including Reach, Almost Maine, The Musi-cal Comedy Murders of 1940, and Romeo and Juliet.Comedy does not come without its challenges, Lease said of the show, “We make ourselves laugh too much.” All the participants seemed to agree that do-ing comedy is a lot of fun. “It’s unpredict-able,” said Hodge. “Comedic timing is a totally different beast. It’s different than dra-matic. It’s a much faster pace.” Another challenge is being able to focus and maintain concentration dur-ing the funny parts. “You want to laugh with the audi-

ence,” said Lease. Accord-ing to Hodge, “With comedy there is a lot more chaos, and it’s my job as a director is to keep it limited and orga-nized. It’s a new challenge.” The class and Hodge are trying to learn all the nuances of comedy. “Less is more. If you try to be fun-ny then you aren’t. It’s funny when you are completely se-rious. Believe in the line,” said Hodge. Lease said Hodge wanted them to be “big” with their characters, but mostly let them develop the characters on their own. “He is one of those directors who tends to let you play with your charac-ter and do what you want with it,” said Lease. Hodge made suggestions along the way though. “He is big on knowing the meaning be-hind the lines,” said Lease. The class first saw this show performed at a Thespian Confer-ence and found it funny. They then pulled up the script in class and read it. “We all said we are doing this and that’s it,” said Hodge. He believes there will be something in the show for everyone.“If you are moved by it then the audience will be,” said Hodge.

by Marissa FauthSTAFF WRITER Art can be in-terpreted in many ways, unique to every individual’s perspective. Senior artist Brandon Schofield not only appreciates art but also in-tends to pursue it as a career. “I like being able to create something my own,” Schofield said. He said he in-tends on majoring in Art Education at Millersville University with the art pro-gram the college offers, which was his first choice. “It’s really high ranked in the Art Educa-tion field,” Schofield said. He said he will at-tend the Art Institute of York where he can earn a two-year degree. Schofield will then transfer to Millersville where he will complete his next two years and gradu-ate with a four-year degree. While there is usually no common theme to Schofield’s artwork, he said in order to be ac-cepted into the program he was required to complete a 12-page portfolio that car-ried out a common theme. The Department of Art and Design at Mill-ersville is accredited with National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Schofield said in a few years

he sees himself probably being an art teacher. How-ever, it was not his intention when he first got started a few years ago. He said he decided to take some easy classes and consequently chose several art classes. “I took a lot of art classes and just got better at it,” he said. Schofield describes his art as “out there.” “It’s kind of outgoing and spontaneous,” he said. Schofield said his most prominent influence on his artwork has been Mr. Walker’s art class. He said the type of styles Mr. Walk-er draws in interest him. “You could tell from the beginning that he just had it,” Walker said. “Scho-field thought about things and had a good approach.” “He was good at taking the problem and translating it into a statement,” Walker said. “Taking great ideas and backing them up with artistic efficiency makes the statement to the viewer more powerful and cred-ible,” Walker said. “Skill is not everything. Scho-field is truly capable of success in the art field and wants to pass on the appre-ciation for art to others.” Although it seemed to come naturally to Scho-field, one has to keep at it in order to attain the highest lev-el, Walker said. As an alum-nus of Millersville Universi-ty, Walker said he knows the college has a reputable pro-gram and will provide Scho-field with good experience. During the course of his high school art career, Schofield has participated in a chalk walk that takes place in Philadelphia, PA, in which he claimed first place. Although in the world of art many uncon-ventional and different ma-terials are used to produce artwork from charcoal and oil pastels to tissue paper and soapstone, Schofield said he uses only pencil. Schofield said he hopes that the art pro-gram at Millersville will prepare him to help oth-ers with their artwork and obtain the skills necessary to be a good art teacher. Although Scho-field enjoys art for many reasons, he appreciates the calmness that it brings. “It’s peaceful, it’s relaxing,” Schofield said.

Schofield paints bright future

2011 SHOWART

15THE PROWLER ARTS

P R OMAfter the homecoming experience this year, Central students were anxious about how prom would turn out. The prom outcome came to a surprise for many and between prom and post prom students here at

Central overall had a great ending to thier senior year.

King Eric Bieber

No wristbands, no contracts, no problem. May 7, 2011 Central seniors spent hours getting ready, hopped in their limos and strutted through the Valencia doors looking forward to the best night of their lives. To kick off the night students mingled around commenting on one another’s dresses and how excited everyone was to be there in the high hopes that it they would not be asked to leave.

Dinner was served minutes after 6 but no one paid attention to their ceasar salad and chicken parmesan because seniors were anx-ious to get out of their seats and dance. Once the music started, the dance floor was overflowing with dresses and tuxedos. “Before prom, the administrators made the rules and expectations of the dancing clear,” said senior Abbey Stephens. “Everyone was mature about it and re-spected the rules.” Tension was high because of what happened

Prom news- the facts by Megan Bratton MANAGING EDITOR

Queen

Tanya Brenner

*Cou

rtsey

pho

tos b

y La

rry

Jone

s

at Central’s homecoming in the fall. Stephens said “Prom was definitely more enjoy-able than homecoming be-cause it was a more mature setting. The whole event really made me realize how close we are to graduation so I took more time to enjoy it.” Not only did Ste-phens say Prom was more enjoyable but more date oriented as well. “I think it’s better to go with a date because then you’re guaran-teed a dance partner for the night!’With exquisite dresses, fan-

cy tuxedos and great danc-ing the night turned out to be flawless. Stephens said her favorite part of prom was waiting outside of the Valen-cia before they opened the doors. “I got to see a ton of people and the weather was super nice so it was perfect for pictures.” Stephens said she attended last year’s prom as well. “Prom this year was really fun. Last year I didn’t know a ton of people but this time around I was surrounded by my friends.” Unfortunately the amazing dance ended, but the night

Students stand outside the Valencia while they wait for the doors to open. (Photo Courtesy of Larry Jones).

was still young. After prom Central students headed to Post Prom which started at 12 a.m. and ended at 6 a.m. Walking into the decorated school with “Party in the USA” blaring on the speakers, Stephens said post prom was a lot of fun. Senior Andrew Rayner said he also enjoyed post prom. “My favorite part was the obstacle course. It was something I have never seen before. I probably went through it eight times.” After the obstacle course races Rayner said he headed over to the casino area to play poker. “I love playing poker and did really well,” said Rayner. “I won $3.”“There were a lot of games going on in the cafe-teria,” said Rayner. “I played ring toss, the golf game and won candy.”With multiple tables set up Rayner and senior Evan Heildelbaugh participated in ping pong. As the night came to an end Rayner said she had trouble staying awake once it was time for the hyp-notist. “I thought he was pretty cool,” said Rayner. “It was just hard to stay awake at 4 a.m.” “I think post prom is a really fun time to spend with friends before college,” Rayner said. “For the class of 2012, I definitely recom-mend you guys go.” Stephens said post prom is a great way to end the night. “Prom was amaz-ing”, said Stephens. “For girls going next year get your dress early and be sure

16 CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL

ENTE

RTA

INM

ENT Firework dates for

Summer 2011

-Sunset Lane ParkTuesday,July 26, 9:15pm

-Springettsbury park,July 3, Fireworks will start right after

final performance

-Hellam Carnival & Fireworks,Saturday,August 7, Fireworks

start at dark

-Cousler Park Saturday, August 6, 9pm

Senior week in the sandThe day after graduation many of Central’s seniors will be making their way to the beaches for a week. Spending the last week with all their close friends from high school, before later this summer starting their career or going to college. Here

are some tips to make your last experience together a great one.

Make a list before you leave CAR POOL! Bring things to have fun

with on the beach

Buddy System: Don’t travel alone Pack food from home!Limit the clothes

you pack

New anticipated movies

July 1Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows, Part 2

July 15

Green Lantern

Transformers: Dark of the mood

June 17

Cars 2 June 24

Bring your blankets, your family and your friends. It’s fireworks season! Multiple events located in york are

showing fireworks this summer, come out and enjoy the shows at some of these

popular places.

B e -fore arriving

at the beach, remem-ber to make a detailed list

of what you will need and want on the trip. This way, you and your friends

won’t forget any-thing!

Don’t expect to not

be bored with ly-ing on the beach all day.

Bring a football, volleyball, or a beach ball to occupy you and your friends

all week. Bring an ihome too.

Keep yourself safe

while walking on the boardwalk or the streets

of Ocean City! Everyone is a target so make sure you have a buddy system

with members in your house.

Only bring the es-

sentials! Lessen the amount of clothing in

your suitcase to save room for purchased items! You’ll probably wear your

bathing suit 24/7 anyways!

B r i n g a homemade

dish for your house-mates! Assigning a per-

son to a day of the week to make dinner is a great idea and will prevent contro-

versy over meals.

W h e n you and your

friends head to the beach after graduation,

don’t all drive separately! Most condos only pay for one parking spot so save

money for other fun activities!