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Lawrence Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana Volume 64, Issue 1
September 7, 2012
Cub photo/Katie Billman
Beware the Bears
Witness the winners on page 25
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3Contact us.Lawrence Central High School7300 E. 56th St.Indianapolis, IN 46226(317) 964-7400
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Purpose.To provide news to the Lawrence Central community.
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Clear, concise reporting on the good, the bad and the ugly. Someone’s got to do it.
In-depth coverage of students, global issues, rising trends and the not-so-average Bear.
Students’ perspectives on problems affecting Lawrence Central’s halls and the world beyond 56th Street.
Trends are changing, the popcorn’s popping and yesterday’s in is tomorrow’s out. Don’t worry, we’ll help you keep up.
Scores, matches, games, meets and touchdowns. Lawrence Central Bears are back and with a vengence.
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Corrections.The Cub Reporter corrects its mistakes. If you believe the Cub Reporter made a mistake in a previous issue, please let us know by contacting a member of the staff or sending an email to [email protected].
Staff.Editor-in-ChiefSamantha Strong
News EditorCarley Lanich
Features EditorKatie Billman
Sports EditorsAlex KryahJacob Helmus
Web MasterLeah Arenz
Foreign CorrespondantCaroline Varie
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ReportersDarian BensonAli DuffHaley HamiltonViola HeidornGlynnis KingColeman LaBarrMeredith NordmannMitch PratherAnna Zanoni
AdviserElizabeth Granger
PrincipalRocky Valadez
A new face has settled into the main office this year.
Again. Rocky Valadez is LC’s
newest principal, the fourth in four years. However, it is not his first time walking through these halls. Valadez began his career in education here in January 2001 as an art teacher and cross country coach.
“This is a very special place; this is where I learned the possibilities of what teach-ers could do, and the staff that is here is still very similar to the staff that was here in 2001… the people that guided me along that path (of educa-tion) are still in this building, and the opportunity to work with them again was just too sweet to pass up.”
Valadez was here until the summer of 2008 when he moved to Fall Creek Valley Middle School as an assistant principal. Three years later he became Lawrence North’s freshman principal.
While Valadez has aspira-tions of changing Lawrence Central, he said he is not look-ing for drastic changes, simply to improve.
“I don’t know necessarily that I will change things, but I want to get better,” he said. “I
CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 3NEWS
‘That’s my dream job’SamanthaStrong
think we limit ourselves a lot; we think about school in the same way we’ve thought about school for so many years. With the exception of block sched-ule, the high school today looks very similar to what it was when I was in high school, and when my parents were in high school. I think now more than ever, we have the opportunity to embrace not just technology but a different way of thinking about what is education.”
Valadez said he will keep things that were put into place last year that benefit the stu-dents, such as the school’s Twitter feed, @LCHSBears, and the tipline.
“The things that I want to keep are the things that work well for the building,” he said. “It’s a matter of is it working regardless of who initiated it, and if it is and it’s benefiting students, then let’s keep it.”
Va l a d e z said his goal is to turn pos-sibility into reality, and he plans to start with the mind-set in the classroom.
“I want to make sure we are thinking about having an open mind when it comes to the way that we teach and the
ways that we put information out there,” he said. “I don’t want any of our teachers to be dispensers of information; I want our teachers to be facilitators of learning.”
Valadez said he has aspira-tions to bring LC to everyone’s at-tention as a great place to be. And he has one plan of action: “Get better every day.”
“I want this to be a school where people outside of these walls hear about it and want to be a part of it,” he said.
“When I walk away from be-ing the principal of Lawrence Cen-tral High School, I want people to fight over this job, the way that I fought for it. It didn’t take me two seconds to realize, ‘I’m going for that, that’s my dream job, that’s where I want to be.’ That’s the way I want everyone to feel about this building, ‘I want to be a part of that building.’”
The position of principal has been a con-stant churn of educators as the position continues to be held for one year, no more and no less.
However, Valadez said he is here to not only lead Lawrence Central, but to live his dream.
“There are no guarantees in this field, but this is my dream. I want the opportunity to live this dream as long as I can.”
Rocky Valadez, no stranger to Lawrence Township, has worked at Lawrence Central, Lawrence North and Fall Creek Valley before be-coming Lawrence Central’s principal. Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
LC welcomes new athletic directorThis year there have been
many new and exciting chang-es. Many of these changes have not only brought about new policies, expectations or rules, but also new faces. One of them is LC’s new athletic di-rector (AD), Jeff Irwin.
Irwin has been a high school athletic director for six years at two separate high schools.
He was the AD at South-
mont High School in Craw-fordsville from 2007 to 2009; then from 2009 to 2012 he held the same position at Western Boone High School in Thorn-town.
Prior to being a high school athletic director, Irwin was a part of the athletic administra-
tion at Purdue University for six years. There he oversaw game operations for the athletic department and was also proj-ect manager for athletic facili-ties.
Now at LC, Irwin is looking forward to making the athletic program even better.
“It’s great! I’m excited to be here. Everyone’s welcoming,” Irwin said.
“LC has always been a place that I knew had great po-tential in athletics, and it’s one of the top big schools in Indy,”
he continued. Irwin’s role as athletic di-
rector consists of hiring officials and scheduling buses, just to name a few.
Most importantly, Irwin is looking to move forward with the program.
“I want to be more of a leader as much as I can be rath-er than manage,” Irwin said. “We want to have as much suc-cess as possible in all of our ath-letics. Our goal is to have great sportsmanship and represent LC in the best way possible.”
[email protected] Jeff
Irwin,athletic director
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I want... to live this dream as long as I can.
Rocky Valadezprincipal
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Counselors available after grad’s death
Grief counselors were at LC on Tuesday to help students cope with the unexpected death of Xavier Somerville.
According to the India-napolis Metropolitan Police De-partment (IMPD), the 2012 LC graduate fell from the fifth floor balcony of the Avenue Apart-ments near the IUPUI campus.
At 3 a.m. Monday, an IMPD officer responded to a report of loud music within the Avenue Apartments. “Frantic people” informed the officer that some-one had fallen from the balcony, according to the IMPD report. The officer immediately called for an ambulance and Somer-ville was transported to Wis-hard Hospital, where he “suc-cumbed to his injuries a short time later,” according to the IMPD report. It calls his death “an unfortunate accident.”
According to the police, “The subject got scared when told there was a police officer at the door, and tried to swing down from the fifth floor bal-cony to the fourth floor balcony below. He lost his grip and fell.”
LC students and friends of Somerville gathered Monday night at the Avenue Apartments for a candlelight remembrance.
Guidance counselors and members of LC’s crisis team were here Tuesday to help stu-dents. “Shock. There’s a lot of shock,” counselor Robin Hold-en said. “There’s a lot of ‘I can’t believe it. I was just talking to him the other day.’”
Somerville, who graduated from LC in May, was a fresh-man at Purdue University.
“The biggest thing I’d like people to focus on are the good memories,” Holden said. “His smile, being homecoming king, (we should) focus on the mem-ories.”
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The LC Spirit of Central marching band’s competitive season will begin Sept. 29 when LC hosts the ISMAA (Indiana State School Music Association) district contest.
The band’s theme this year is Col Legno, an Italian phrase
that means literally, “to hit with the wood.” Though the term is usually only applied to stringed instruments, the band plans to incorporate the use of sticks into their show this year.
With enrollment in the band being up, fi nding people willing to work with the sticks should not be a problem. Band director Matt James said he wants his students to “work
hard and enjoy performing.” The Spirit of Central is a
two-time Bands of America G r a n d Champion and has also per-formed in the Macy’s Thanksgiv-ing Day parade and the Fiesta Bowl parade.
In addition, the band has also lent their talents to the Tournament of Roses parade in
Pasadena, Calif. This year,
the band will be taking a trip over Thanksgiv-ing break to per-form in a special
holiday event in Disneyland, along with members of the LC
@LC_BearClaw informs on LC sports
Senior Mitch Prather has a passion for sports broadcast-ing. It’s what he wants to major in when he goes off to college next year. He has such a passion that he has created the Twitt er account Bear Claw, or @LC_BearClaw, to give updates on
Twitt er about diff erent sports at the school.
“Because I want to ma-jor in sports broadcasting in college, I thought do-ing some-thing like this would give me good experience,”
Prather said. “I also created it to promote sports here at LC. I’m a swimmer here, and I know that doesn’t always get the most recognition, so I want to spread the word about other sports
here that don’t get as much
publicity.”Prather att ends diff erent
sporting events and tweets about what is happening in the matches or meets to the accounts’ followers. He said he wants to att end diff erent kinds of sports so everyone can get publicity.
“This will be a lot easier, too, when there are more peo-ple involved,” Prather said.
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I want to spread the word about other sports here that don’t get as much publicity.
Mitch Prathersenior
““When we can get updates about every sport, that will be great.”
The Spirit of Central marching band performs at the Perry Meridian game last Friday. The band’s competitive season begins on Sept. 29 when LC
Spirit of Central kicks o� its seasonchoirs and orchestra.
In order to further ensure the band places well in compe-titions and invitationals, James said he plans to spend more time in rehearsals.
The members of Spirit of Central spend the fi rst 12 weeks of school in daily rehearsals, along with the Guard team. In addition to their practices af-ter school, band members par-ticipate in summer band camp during August.
Junior Dana Oakes, who plays mellaphone, said she is looking forward to learning the closer piece of music for their fi eld show, and she adds that the band’s ultimate goal this year is to make it to the top three in the state.
“It’s good that we have more people in the band this year,” Oakes says. “Bigger bands place higher in competi-tions.”
Placing high is certainly not a rarity to Spirit of Central. The marching band is a four-time ISSMA State Marching Band Champion and has been a con-sistent fi nalist in the Bands of America Grand Nationals com-petition every year since 1996.
The Spirit of Central per-forms at every home football game.
In addition, they will per-form when they host the Spirit of Central invitational on Sept. 15. Prices for the invitational are $7 for adults and $5 for chil-dren 6 or younger.”
Bigger bands place higher in competition.
Dana Oakesjunior
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hosts the ISSMA District competition. But it will perform on Sept. 15 when it hosts the Spirit of Central Invitational. Courtesy photo/Makayla Johnson
CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 5NEWS
Sept. 8: ACT, Student Life Center, 8 a.m. Sept. 12: Rookie Show, 7 p.m., auditoriumSept. 15: SAT/ACT test prep, 8 a.m., Rooms 410,411Sept. 17: Fall play auditions, auditorium, 4 p.m. Sept. 19: Greater Indianapolis Northeast College Fair, 6:30 p.m., Fishers High School (13000 Promise Road in Fishers)Sept. 28: Homecoming (LC vs. Southport), 7 p.m. Sept. 29: ISSMA district marching band competition, all day, entire LC campus
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FOR PARENTS
Senior pics by Oct. 22 Seniors are to have their yearbook pictures taken at Prestige Studios by Oct. 22. They are to call 890-2900 to make an appointment. Only Prestige photos will be al-lowed in the senior section of the book. Students are not required to purchase these photos.
Reminder of dress code Students and their parentsare reminded that LC’s dress code is in effect. Items include:- shorts and skirts need to be at lease at fingertip length- no midriff is to be showing, and no spaghetti straps on tops- no excessive cleavage- no excessive sagging in pants- no “muscle” shirts for males- no basketball jerseys with- out a shirt underneath
Counseling info online Students and their parents can find valuable information from the guidance office on-line at LC’s home page: www.lawrencecentral.ltschools.org/.
Alternative Instructional Setting replaces Diploma PlusLawrence Township’s alter-
native education program, Di-ploma Plus, did not return for the 2012-2013 school year due to township-wide budget cuts.
Diploma Plus was an al-ternative school for students who did not benefit from the traditional settings of the dis-trict’s middle and high schools. Through this program, located at McKenzie Center for Innova-tion and Technology, students
were able to take classes in a smaller classroom setting and also make up credits needed for graduation.
“By remov-ing Diploma Plus, the dis-trict should save about $1 million in the next couple of years,” said Ron Davie, as-sistant principal and leader of the program here that is replac-ing Diploma Plus.
Starting this school year, each school will have a pro-gram called Alternative Instruc-tional Setting (AIS) in place of
Diploma Plus. At LC, AIS is located in Room 147 and is run by Debo-rah Messinger. Like Diploma Plus, AIS al-lows students
to complete courses and credits through a computer-based mo-dem.
“Because the majority of work is done through the com-puter, this program is really self-paced. A student can ba-sically do their work on their own time,” Davie said.
There are 49 students cur-rently enrolled in the program this semester. Based on their in-dividual needs, students could be in AIS all day or only in the morning or afternoon.
Other previous Diploma Plus students have also re-turned to LC and are in regular classes.
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By removing Diploma Plus, the district should save about $1 million...
Ron Davieassistant principal
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Sophomore Courtney Swan-son was convinced that LC’s en-rollment had exploded. “I’ve noticed that the hallway and lunchroom are ridiculous,” she said. “Crowdedness has been up 10 notches.”
Fellow Sophomore Taylor Venable-Gam-mon agreed. “You have to literally push people out of the way to get to class on time now,” she said.
But LC’s e n r o l l m e n t numbers are close to last year’s. Enrollment this year: 2,516. Enrollment on Sept. 9 of last year: 2,529.
So what’s going on? It turns out there are more
student bodies in the building, even with similar numbers. The explanation revolves around Diploma Plus.
Last year the DP program was located at McKenzie Center for Innovation and Technology. Even though those DP students attended classes at McKenzie, they were still considered LC students and thus, included in LC’s enrollment count.
But now that DP has been cancelled, the DP students are here. Forty-nine attend classes in Room 147; others merge into regular classes throughout the building.
LC also has 257 trans-fer students this year. Some have moved to Lawrence T o w n s h i p ; others live outside the district but ap-plied to come here – like ju-nior Jordan
Williams, who attended John Marshall Community High School last year.
“My mother thought it would be better for me if I went to a different school,” Williams said.
Marshall was facing a po-
tential state takeover similar to that at Arlington, Manual and Howe high schools. The India-napolis Public Schools district must turn Marshall around this year or it could be taken over by the state and handed to an out-side operator.
During the summer Wil-liams went through the official process of applying to come to LC. That included providing MSDLT with his grades, ECA scores, medical and discipline records. He learned in mid-Au-gust that he’d been accepted to LC.
Meeting the district’s crite-ria, however, does not assure an out-of-district student’s accep-tance. There also has to be room in the school buildings here. School board president Carol Helmus said, “We must also have adequate space available in our schools. We don’t want to be overwhelmed.”
Nevertheless, accepting students from other districts is a plan that Helmus endors-es. “Students should not be stuck, in essence, from getting the education they want (due to boundary lines),” she said. “Quite often students who seek
More students despite same enrollment
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Students should not be stuck, in essence, from getting the education they want.
Carol HelmusSchool Board President
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[email protected] 2,516
Total Enrollment
627 Juniors
Seniors 702
Sophomores 587Freshmen
600
Students by the numbers
as of Sept. 4
(transfer/enrollment) waivers are motivated to succeed and appreciate the opportunity. So they deserve an acceptable type of environment (in which to do so).”
Helmus continued, “Law-rence teachers are very adept to teaching students with a va-riety of needs. I believe they are equipped to handle all the stu-dents who come through our doors.”
Diploma Plus, transfers and new students have been adding to this year’s student body, but LC’s enrollment has stayed consistent
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HANDS RAISED
What students and teachers are saying about cafeteria changes:
“You’re not going to change how people eat. You can try, but I don’t think it’ll work. It is nice, though, that they have
more options.”Eric Black, 11
“To me it’s the same stuff, but they just tried to make it
healthier by more salads.”Rachel Powell, 10
“I would rather take my lunch than buy school lunch. Some of the school foods break out
my skin.”Perri Smith, 12
The cafeteria has seen a dra-matic facelift over the summer. New signs are present in the serving area, as well as health-ier food options.
Earlier this year the United States Department of Agri-culture (USDA) released new standards for school lunches, designed to promote healthier meals sold in schools nation-wide. LC’s cafeteria menu has been altered to fi t these new regulations.
Students may now choose milk, an entrée and four sides to complete a plate lunch costing $1.60. One of these sides must be a fruit or vegetable.
A new dot system has been implemented throughout the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township (MS-DLT) to help students create a healthy and balanced meal. Caf-eteria manager Robin Belcher explained how to use the new system.
“The dots will tell you which (foods) are grain, which are protein, which are a fruit, which are a vegetable, and then you select from those dots to create your plate lunch,” Belcher said.
The MSDLT Food Service staff is bringing new fruit and vegetable side items to lunch lines so students have more op-tions to complete their meals. Already new spinach side sal-ads are available. Other items such as hummus dip and sweet potato fries are being consid-
ered, according to registered dietitian and director of food services Stephanie Tragesser.
“We’re trying to play with (the menu) to see what works and to see what kids like,” Tra-gesser said. “Because our ul-timate goal is to feed kids that are hungry and to feed them healthy, nutritional foods.”
By off ering more nutritious foods, the cafeteria staff and MSDLT Food Service staff hope to lure kids away from vending machines.
Tragesser made the point that cafeteria lunch oft en out-weighs the food off ered in the Commons in price as well as nutritional value. Large Dasani waters have been reduced in price to $1, Vitamin Water is no longer sold and the price of
a large Powerade remains at $1.50.
While the current lunch menu is facing changes, the caf-eteria staff is fl exible and is ac-cepting students’ suggestions.
“If a student sees some-thing they would like added to the menu, talk to me and let me know,” Belcher said. “We’re willing to try to work with all of our students.”
In addition to changes in the menu, the serving area has received an updated look de-signed to att ract students to purchase school lunch. Menu boards have been moved out-side of the serving areas to the beginning of lines so students can choose what they would like before picking a line. Also, the grill and pizza lines have
new equipment allowing more self-serve fruit and vegetable options in these particular lines.
To fi nish off the serving ar-ea’s new look, new signs were installed. The former sign de-sign was more than a decade old, causing the staff to seek a new, modern look. They hope to create a more appealing caf-eteria environment to gain stu-dent interest.
“It’s a goal of mine to try to highlight foods to students so that they see and think, ‘That looks appealing. I want to try it,’’’ Tragesser said. “I eat school lunch 95 percent of the time. In the schools’ cafeterias, I make sure that we’re serving quality product.
“We’re not just Sloppy Joe lunch ladies.”
Cafeteria revamps image
Students serve themselves lunch in the revamped serving area. New signs have been installed to improve the appearance of the serving area and to draw in more student interest. Last year’s signage was more than a decade old. Cub photo/Carley Lanich
Meredith [email protected]
Lawrence facingbudget problems
On Aug. 27 the City of Lawrence board approved a $65.2 million budget proposal. This is a $6 million raise from last year. This new budget fo-cuses on adding frequency to high-demand traffi c routes which will result on expand-ing bus services. It would double bus services and add a light rail line over 10 years.
The city’s 2013 budget continues to be discussed by the Lawrence Town council. As of now the city is collecting $19 million in revenue while spending $21 million, creating a defi cit of $2 million.
Mayor Dean Jessup has proposed cutt ing approxi-mately $600,000 from the Lawrence Fire Department and $30,000 from the Law-rence Police Department. If this were to happen, it would eliminate 24 civilian EMT positions, then replace them with fi refi ghters.
City Controller Kim Diller proposed in an earlier inter-view that if Lawrence were to use its rainy-day fund, it would decrease the $2 mil-lion defi cit to about $1 mil-lion. This would result in the city being a litt le over $1 mil-lion in the red for 2013. Other savings propositions include a reduction in the retirement fund.
City's general budget
Public Transportation
Public Safety
Healthier food options follow new USDA regulations
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Information compiledby Cub Reporter staff
Annual ‘Rookie Show’ on stage Sept. 12 LC’s annual “Rookie Show,” starring students who have never been in a stage production here before, is 7 p.m. Wednesday in the audi-torium. Three shows will be presented: “Freak,” “Drama Geeks” and “Next Actor, Please!” Each show is di-rected by senior Thespian officers. Directors this year are seniors Haylee Link, Ike Wellhausen and JZ Forbes.
Strong honored Senior Samantha Strong is LC’s recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for High School Juniors. She will be honored by Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony Sept. 20.
2 from Cub Reporter win national awards Senior Alex Kryah, sports editor of the Cub Reporter, has won second place na-tionally from the National Federation of Press Women for his sports column, “Touch ‘Em All,” that ran in last year’s editions. And newspaper adviser Elizabeth Granger has cap-tured first place from the same organization for advis-ing scholastic publications. Both will be honored later this month at the organiza-tion’s national convention in Arizona.
Yearbooks in bookstore Copies of the 2012 year-books are available for pick-up in the bookstore in the Commons. Students who did not order one may purchase an extra copy for $70. Year-books for the 2012-13 school year will go on sale in No-vember.
CLASSROOM
Although LC lost four math teachers last year, four new teachers have been hired in their places for the 2012-2013 school year. In place of Ruth Meinen, Melanie Gleason, Mike Miller and Tod Degler, new staff have been added to bring the total number of math teach-ers to 15.
Sheri Dowden and Martha Weber have taken Meinen and Gleason’s place as co-chairmen of the math department and said they hope to maintain and continue recent years’ suc-
French, Spanish, German, Japanese: Another world awaits on the second floor.
In the
John Hall’s Lyceum class, a gifted and talented sophomore level English class, created and delivered “commercials” for their classmates Aug. 28. The students invented various prod-ucts and had to use propaganda techniques in order to “sell” these products to their class-mates. Kyndal Murray and Ernie Harshman, above, advertised anti-stingray-sting spray; Becca Green and Anna Angrick, right, invented neckware - silverware on a necklace. The students used props to illustrate the uses of products and humorous dialogue was included in the students’ scripts for the presentations. Cub photos/Coleman LaBarr
cessful ECA (end of course as-sessment) scores. LC has also aligned all of their Algebra I and Algebra II curriculum with LN’s and plan to line up other math courses as well.
New teachers are Julie Stephanoff, Matt Buczkowski, Shelley Rhinesmith and Lynda Sherer. Most of these teachers aren’t new to Lawrence Town-ship, as Stephanoff was an LC graduate, and Rhinesmith and Sherer previously taught at Fall Creek Valley Middle School. Buczkowski moved to LC from Colorado and is also the head baseball coach.
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They’re funny and you’re with an-other person... it’s a fun and easy way to learn how to speak in front of the class. Jessica Zaccardelli
sophomore
Getting to know departments
Math department
Foreign Language department
And, according to depart-ment chairman Jill Hilgemei-er, some changes have been made.
In the Language Lab, an online approach is aimed to engage students in more inter-active ways. Also, greater use of the Promethean boards and audio activities are ramping up this year’s curriculum.
Two teachers, Nancy Scha-bel and Jamise Kafoure, retired in the spring; they’ve been re-
placed by Tilden Brown and Dale Darlage.
Brown isn’t new to LC; he’s been here as part of the ESL (English as a Second Language) program. But now he is part of the foreign languages depart-ment.
Darlage isn’t new to LC, either. He taught here for two years and then was transferred to Fall Creek Valley Middle School for a while before this year’s return.
Cub graphic/Leah Arenz
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Cub Reporter staff policy 2012-13
Home, sweet home
Themission of the staff ofthe Lawrence Central High School student newspaper, the Cub Reporter, includes the fol-lowing: informing readers in an unbiased fashion of the hap-penings and issues in the school community; providing an op-portunity for each student to have a voice; educating read-ers; and encouraging positive change. The Cub Reporter serves as a public forum through which its readers can express concern and gain insight into local, na-tional and international issues as they relate to the Lawrence Central community. It provides coverage of Lawrence Central and its community, including events, situations and school policies. The Cub Reporter is gov-erned by the same basic rights and responsibilities as the pro-fessional press. High school journalists have the right guaranteed in the First Amendment to free expression as interpreted by Supreme Court rulings such as Hazelwood and Tinker. The Cub Reporter staff re-alizes this freedom comes with
responsibility. Published items must not contain libel or obscenity, in-vade the privacy of individu-als, ignore good taste or violate laws pertaining to its publica-tion. With the right to freedom of expression comes an obligation to the highest standards of the journalistic profession. These include responsibility, accuracy, sincerity, integrity, impartiality, fair play, balance, decency and tact. Good taste should be exer-cised in all content. The publication shall be free of profanity, vulgarity and words which have acquired un-desirable meanings, as judged by generally accepted stan-dards of the community; shall contain no statements derisive to any race, religion or national origin; shall show no disrespect for law enforcement or the gen-erally accepted ethics of the community; shall not advocate illegal acts of any kind. To maintain integrity, it shall not become involved in, or take sides with, rivalries or jeal-ousies within the school com-munity. It shall provide equal opportunity for both sides of an
issue to present its case. No person or organization is to be permitted to use thepublication to his own ends, be thataneditor,staffmember,ad-viser, teacher, administrator or someone outside the school. It is understood that the Cub Reporter is designed pri-marily to serve as a training ground for students interested in learning the techniques of sound journalism. It is a class for which students earn credit. Whilestaffmembersareex-pected to strive for professional quality, we recognize that they are engaged in an education-al venture and as such, room for trial and error must be al-lowed. The three venues of the Cub Reporter — print, online and broadcast — are managed by the editor in chief who makes decisions about the content, after taking into considerationother staff members’ sugges-tions. All issues will be dis-cussed with the adviser. The Cub Reporter accepts and encourages public input through letters to the editor.Thelettersaretovoiceopinionsor concerns to the Cub Report-
er’saudience.Lettersincludinglibelous or obscene materials will not be printed. Like all ma-terials printed in the publica-tion, letters reflecting criticismshould criticize issues, not indi-viduals.Noletterwillbeprint-ed without positive identifica-tion. The editor in chief reserves the right to edit the comments for grammatical errors and for length if they exceed the allot-ted 200-word space as long as it does not alter the meaning of the comments.Lettersmustbesigned and will be printed with theauthor’sname. All requests for anonymity will be denied. The Cub Report-er may consider guest columns or articles, but it reserves the right to deny printing any ma-terial. The Cub Reporter receives a portion of its funding through the student activity fee, which each student pays at the begin-ning of each semester.
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Another new year, another new face. Multiple new faces, at that. Of course we have the budding young faces of the latest addition to LC, the Class of 2016, along with a handful of new teachers. But, more impor-tant, one face that has continu-ally changed in the past four years,thatofLC’sprincipal.The latest, Rocky Valadez.
While Valadez is a new face to many of us, he is not a new face to Lawrence Central. In fact, Valadez began his career in education in 2001 as an art teacher within these halls. He continued to Fall Creek Valley Middle School in 2008, where he was assistant principal. He then continued his journey
last year to Lawrence North as the principal of the fresh-man school. And while he is a new face to many of us, he is not a new face to Lawrence Township, and this rich history within our township provides a promising future. Valadez has tied the strings of his art apron yet again; however, this time he is not teaching students how to paint — he is painting a bright and promising future for LawrenceCentral.Afteryearsof travelling across the town-ship through various positions, Valadez has returned to where his journey started.
Valadez has returned home, and it has never tasted so sweet.
CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 9OPINIONS
Speak Your MindNew underage drinking law
1. How do you feel about the new underage drinking law?
2. Do you think this will only encourage underage drinking?
3. Do you think this will help save lives in the future?
1) I do not support this rule because you shouldn’t have crossed your limits.2) No, because everybody already has their limits.3) Everyone should know their limits ahead of time so I think it will stay the same.
Maria Dorsey, 9 Gonzalo Ruiz, 11
1) Yes, I do support and be-lieve in this law.2) No. It’s better to go to the hospital.3) Yes, friends will be more likely to call 911 if they won’t get in trouble.
1) If you’re not going to be in trouble and you’re going to save a life, why not?2) No, people drink anyway.3) Yes, if there is no conse-quence any more, I think people would be more likely to make the right decision.
1) Yeah, I wouldn’t want someone to die at my house, but I wouldn’t want to get in trouble, either.2) I don’t think it’ll encourage it but it may make teens think it’s OK.3.) Yeah, because a lot of teens don’t know when to stop and it’s a good way to protect them.
Michaela Shanahan, 10 Nicole Jones, 12
it AllBear
“Ignorance is perceived by the mind of the intelligent.”
Jonathan Macdonald, 11
“Class of 2013 is the best!”Stephanie Gamble, 12
“If you’re not first, you’re last.”
Jacob Ford, 12
“Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then be a unicorn.”
Natalie McFadden, 9
“Today in Spanish I wore a peguin towel around my neck.”
Jasper Smith, 9
“Oh well, it’s gonna’ rain.”
Nicole Jones, 12
“Hey, guess what? It’s really kind of hot.”
Caroline Kocot, 10
• It’s great that the cafete-ria received a makeover this past summer. With the new menu changes, it is easier for students to enjoy a nutritious lunch during the school day. The updated serving area is more inviting, and the menu boards located outside the lunch lines allow students to see the healthier options avail-able before choosing their food.• It’s good that the new drink-ing law was passed. It will save numerous lives because, if there is no penalty for calling 911 at an underage drinking party and someone were in a critical medical condition, more people will be likely to
30-second editorialsmake the call. This law doesn’t encourage more underage drinkers, but instead encour-ages them to save lives from alcohol poisoning.• The early death of Xavier Somerville is a tragedy. The death of any teenager is incred-ibly sad, but to lose a fellow Bear is especially harsh. Somer-ville was a bright individual who should be remembered for his life and friendship over his untimely death. Condolences go out to all of Somerville’s close friends and family. His life and legacy will live on within the hearts of his Lawrence Cen-tral family.• Milo Ellis is the new choir
director here. Hailing from Illinois, Ellis has been a voice coach for several years and has participated in choir himself since he was young. With his upbeat, positive vibe, Ellis hopes to coach the LC choirs to perfection while incorporat-ing old traditions and new, bold music choices. As far as student feedback goes, he has received good reviews from beginning to advanced choir members alike.• Bear Claw is a great way to get information on sports out to LC and the public. Senior Mitch Prather did a very good job getting this together, and he continues to do a good
See related stories on Pages 6, 17, 4, 13, 4 and 12.
job keeping it updated. Bear Claw could be a great step for LC to make sure all sports are covered equally, and this could be an extremely informative source for sports information for the whole school.• Cub Online is getting a makeover. With new “Calen-dar” and “Submit Stories” fea-tures, the newspaper’s online site is brushing up its layout to encourage more visitors. To add to its appeal, Cub Online will also include a new feature that allows people to read the latest print issue online.
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I took my shoes off after I entered a friend’s house and received stares.
“No necesitas sacar tus zapatos,” she said. “You don’t need to take off your shoes.”
After one month in Chile, my most memorable experi-ences are ones like these, experi-ences that display two cultures colliding. It reminds me why I am here—to learn.
I came here because I felt ignorant. We learn about other cultures in history and language classes, but learning through a book and learning through experience are vastly different.
Although I have already learned so much, I still feel igno-rant. Because this is one culture, in one city, in one country. What about the rest of the world? Until I travel to Azerbaijan or Lithuania or Ethiopia, I will focus on Chile, and aspects of the culture that are impossible
to find on paper. The collectiveness of the
Chilean people is incomparable to the United States (I have learned not to say America—South America is an America, too). The first time I went to my “grandma’s” house, she wel-comed me into her home with a kindness that is rare in the States. She took me on a tour of the house, describing every item from glass dolphins to tooth-brushes. Although the houses would be considered small by United States’ standards, my grandma had managed to fill the house with more things than most people have in a house three times the size. But they are not just things—each item has a story.
She showed me many collections (she calls herself a collector, but maybe organized hoarder would be a better de-scription) of hats and angels and mugs and perfumes. The value of the items was not significant, it was the stories behind them.
She then decided to take me on a “small tour” of the city. She continued to talk in rapid Spanish. I understood a few words here and there, and smiled and nodded. We went through the back door of a flower shop to a “peluqueria” (hair salon). My grandma went through the back door without
hesitation and only a “permisio” (excuse me). In the peluqueria, I was introduced to several hair dressers who commented on my blonde hair and offered me a haircut. We then stopped at a gated house where “las monjas”
(nuns) live. At the time, I did not know what monjas were and had no idea whose house we were at.
I enjoy the uncertainty of being here. Nothing is predict-able, and I have learned to find
unpredictability in experiences that once were familiar.
A tiny nun with glasses opened the door with an “ad-elante” (come in), and we were led into a room with a picture of the Pope and rosaries draped everywhere. The vast majority of Chileans are Catholic, and even if they’re not Catholic they still attend Catholic masses. Slightly older and shorter, the head nun shuffled into the room and greeted me with that Chil-ean kindness. For some reason I had expected her to question me about Catholicism, but she didn’t. She spoke with the calm familiarity that strangers do here.
In the two-minute walk back to the house, my grandma made me feel a welcomeness that was priceless to me.
“If you ever need anything,” she said, in Spanish of course. “Come to me. If you want to talk or need money, come to my house. You are always wel-come.”
That experience showed me how things are simpler here. Not less developed, but sim-pler. A simplicity in which I can walk through the back door of a flower shop to meet the owner of a salon. A simplicity in which I can visit with nuns. A simplic-ity in which taking off shoes is unnecessary.
A ‘simpler’ life, a Chilean life
A year-long American ‘escape’
I look into the faces of my mother and father. This is how it is, when you must say good-bye to your family for a year. I am strong enough, confident enough and mature. Neverthe-less, I am fighting with the tears. Not because the separation
will be so hard, after all I will see them again, but because I suddenly realize that these two people, who have given me life, who cared for and loved me unconditionally…
Now I will be making my own world in a new world. A foreign country with a foreign culture, in a foreign house, in a foreign city. With people who are strange to me; I don’t know how, where, or when problems could arise. And yet I know that I can handle whatever situa-tion that may come. Regarding situations like this, I have a lot of self-confidence. I have never
known differently about myself. My parents divorced
relatively early, I was 8 when my mother decided to move out of our house. My parents have always trusted me and my older sister to be completely independent. We weren’t always picked up after school; instead my parents explained that we could ride our bikes or the bus home by ourselves. My par-ents worked during the day, which meant that my sister and I planned after-school time on our own. Today, I appreciate this because, as a result, I am not afraid to do things on my
own and would never panic and lose control.
I have always been a talented, outgoing and curios child. This was especially evi-dent when music was involved. I started piano lessons when I was 4 years old. At 6, I started playing the violin. I always loved to sing, and many people told me that I had a beautiful voice. I played tennis; I swam for years; I played in different orchestras; I did gymnastics; I basically tried everything that appealed to me.
I quit when I was 13. Many problems cropped up. I stopped
making music. I gave up all hobbies, one after another. I didn’t want to accept help, be it school or at home, from my parents. I started to live my own life.
And then I decided to do this. One year in America, living with a host family. And now I am standing here at the security gate at the airport, alone. The way I always wanted it. Some might think, is she not scared of such uncertainty? No, I am not now, and never was. All I feel is endless happiness, to escape and be whoever I want to be, for one year.
One day, a friend walked one of his rodeo horses down to the house and asked if I wanted to ride. I expected him to let me sit on
his Chilean pedigree rodeo horse for a couple of minutes, but instead he told me to go. “Donde?” (where) I asked, and he just motioned toward the road. I had no idea what I was doing. But I started toward the road anyway. I rode about half a mile, a tunnel of trees on either side. Again, I yelled, “Donde?” down the road to the man.
“Keep going down the road and then turn right,” he said. “Then you’ll see an arena that we call the Half Moon, where we hold our ro-deos. You can run the horse there.”
So I did what he said, and “ran” the horse in the arena, with the snow capped Andes beautifully intimidating in the background. And nothing mattered. Not that I might get lost, or the horse might take off, or I didn’t have a helmet, or that I had no idea what I was doing. It was simple.
”
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Junior Caroline Varie is spending first semester of this school year in Los Angeles, Chile through a foreign exchange program. She speaks only Spanish, lives with a host family and goes to Chilean school every weekday. She left for the program July 24 and will return to the States Jan. 4.
Senior Viola Heidorn is an ex-change student from Hamburg, Germany. She lives here with a host family and will remain in America until the end of this school year.
CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 11OPINIONS
Carley [email protected]
Split Decision : Skip-a-finalPerfect attendance
or grades?The policy once was that students
could skip the final of a class if the student held a 92.5 percent or
higher in that class. If a student has this high of a grade, they have obvi-
ously learned the core curriculum. This also allows students to aim for high grades in their classes all year
long and not have to worry about diminishing this high grade by
taking one bad test.
Alex [email protected]
Senior privilegeAll grades at Lawrence
Central offer tough classes. Skip-a-final should not be
based on a student’s grade, but on their effort poured
into a class. Skip-a-final should be based on ability,
not seniority.
Number of finalsStudents should be allowed
to skip as many finals as they apply for. After factor-ing in Advanced Placement and International Baccalau-
reate tests for some stu-dents, end of the year testing
schedules can become quite hectic.
All classes?
Perfect attendance skip-a-finals give students a reason to come to school every day. Improved attendance numbers make the school look good and improve the students’ grades as well. When students don’t have an in-centive to go to school every day, they begin to find reasons to not show up. That will eventually hinder the students’ grades.
Skip-a-final should be a privilege exclusive to seniors. Seniors have worked their tails off for years and deserve to have some kind of perk that no one else in the school gets.
Students should only be able to skip one final. Stu-dents do need to learn how to take finals for college, so having the opportunity to skip all of their finals would be detrimental to them.
Every class, whether AP or regular, should have the option to skip a final. No matter who you are, to have the opportunity to skip a final takes work and all students should have the chance to be rewarded.
Students can take up to three tests for each class at the end of the year. If
an AP student spends an entire year preparing for an intense, college-level
exam, it’s safe to assume these students have learned that class’s
core curriculum.
Teacher discretionIf a teacher asks a
student not to skip the final, they
probably have a good reason. After all, scoring well on
a final can really boost a student’s
grade.
Teachers should not be allowed to veto a student’s opportunity to skip a final. If the student thinks the final could hurt his grade and can skip it, a teacher shouldn’t make him/her suffer.
PAGE 12 SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 • CUB REPORTER FEATURES
New year, new Cub OnlineFrom the home page of Cub Online, you can see the most recent and most important news about LC. The “Featured” and “Re-cently Reported” elements allow you to see what’s going on at LC. Below the main elements, stories are sorted by section for easy browsing. The home page also allows you to see calendar events including sports and performing arts, multi-media reporting and who’s on the staff.
The Calendar feature on Cub Online is brand new!
Now you can see when your favorite sport is playing and
when all the Performing Arts events take place. It
includes days we don’t have school and when the Cub
Reporter will be published. Sortable by month and
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type and your idea. We may not be able to publish
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CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 13FEATURES
In his mind Milo Ellis heard hundreds of people cheering for his work. He stepped to the middle of the stage and took a bow.
His dream is about to come true.
As LC’s new choir director, El-lis will find himself stand-ing in front of the best performing show choirs. He will be able to say that he was responsible for the musi-cal prodigies that will stand behind him.
Since the 6th grade El-
lis has been in choirs almost constantly.
Ellis graduated from Gene-va High School in Geneva, Ill. in 2008. He went on to major in music education at Indiana University where he was in the International Vocal Ensemble
and opera choruses.
Since his sophomore year in high school, Ellis has worked as a vocal coach, a voice instructor, a student conductor,
an audition pianist, a vocal director and a music director. He has performed with four of the Indiana University choirs, as well as the IMEA all-state
honors Chorus, the Illinois all-state musical, the Geneva High School varsity and jazz choirs, and has starred in 31 musical theatre roles.
“I always thought I was going to be a rock star,” Ellis said, “but instead I found a passion in standing in front of a group of musicians working together.”
Ellis was attracted to LC because of it’s “amazing repu-tation for it’s performing arts program,” as he put it.
Ellis plans to combine old and new traditions with “eclectic” music choices involv-ing the mixing of popular, rock and opera music.
Sweet Sensations and Cen-tral Sound will be competing in the Indiana State School Music Association show choir compe-titions, a recent change.
”
I found a passion in standing in front of a group of musicians working together.
Milo EllisChoir Director
“
Choir moves to the beat of a new director
Business teacher Tom Corbett isn’t all business all the time. In his free time, he envisions a relaxing trip to the coast of Cozumel, complete with a tour of the underwater sights the island has to of-fer. This is not a trip he plans to make alone, however, but an adventure that would be available to members of the LC Scuba Club.
Corbett and social stud-ies teacher Michael Burr are co-advisers of the Scuba Club. The pair is looking for new students to join Scuba Club this year so they can make the exotic scuba trip a reality. Cur-rently, the club offers a chance for previously landlocked students to “whet” their excite-ment for the first time by using the equipment at local pools such as the Lawrence North Natatorium. Club members learn how to use the equip-ment, places to use it, and then
are offered the hands-on op-portunity to don the gear.
Both Corbett and Burr expressed a desire for new club members. With more members and support, the trip the two teachers want to share with their students will be closer to a reality.
“The main obstacle to the trip is the expense,” Corbett
noted. However, if a new wave of students join, he said he is optimistic. The Scuba Club is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has a flair for the exciting.
Clubs are available for students with any concentra-tion. For those with an interest in acting, Center Stage offers opportunities to be in the spot-
light; the world languages de-partment has clubs for Spanish, German and French; students wanting to learn more about art can join the Art History club; and the list goes on. If a student wants to create a new club, they will need to find a teacher to act as the sponsor and see assistant principal Ron Davie for a form.
The list of clubs this year is changing slightly. Chris Meguschar plans to close down the Magic and Games Club and Julia Barnes Duke no longer runs the Green Team, but at least two new clubs, the Happi-ness Club and Bear Claw, will be available on Club Sign-up Day on Sept. 19 and 20.
Teachers encourage stu-dents to join clubs to gain new experiences and connections. Because club time is scheduled during school, there is general-ly no after-school time require-ment. This leaves the evenings free for students also involved in other persuits that include performing arts and athletics.
Milo Ellis, the new choir director, replaces Jena Adrianson, who retired. Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
Ellis said, “I expect we will do well... Our competition is definitely going to be harder this year than it has been in the past, but I have confidence in us.”
Junior Katreal Boone said,
“I think he is a pretty cool guy, but he is a little different than what I’m used to… His teach-ing style is a lot different than those of Mrs. Adrianson.”
Many of the choir stu-dents agreed with sophomore Stephanie Wheeler when she said that “Ellis is just as quali-fied to help them win as Mrs. Adrianson.”
Ellis does not plan on making any drastic changes in the way the choir does things. “I want all of my students to understand the basics and fundamentals of singing so that they can use music as a creative outlet. Music is everything; it is creative, academic, physical, emotional…I want all of my students to have the opportu-nity to know that, and learning the fundamentals is the only way for that to happen.”
Clubs making a ‘splash’
This sea turtle is similar to one students in the Scuba Club may en-counter on their diving trips to exotic locations. Courtesy photo/Michael Burr
LC Clubs
Available Clubs:LC GEMSArt History ClubScuba ClubBear ClawBest BuddiesBowling ClubCenter StageTeen VoicesGuitar ClubGirls Track ClubTwilight ClubLC Sounds of PraiseFrench ClubGerman ClubHappiness ClubKey ClubLC LatinosSAC (Student Council)Spanish ClubAfrican Americans Expressing PridePick Two!Young Life
Club Sign-up Dates:Wednesday, Sept. 19 (all lunches)Thursday, Sept. 20 (all lunches)
Club Sign-up Location:Commons
*Editor’s note: Club list as of Sept. 4
PAGE 14 CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012FEATURES PAGE 15
As senior Chandler Ball watched his fellow team-mate Matt Dorsey round the corner on the last lap, he knew they had won. This past summer on June 15, 16 and 17 in Greensboro, N.C., members of the LC track team made history. Seniors Cole Hester, Adam Turner, Dorsey and Ball became National Champions in the men’s 4x1600 mile relay.
Previous to becoming national champs, LC’s track and field team won their third state title, led by Coach Tim Richey. To prepare for success, the boys and the team had put in hard work on the track and in the weight room.
“We just did our normal training leading up to state and after state,” Hester said.
“We got lots of rest and did the little things every runner must do, but the main preparation that we need-ed came with the six years of training prior to the race; that put us in the position to do great,” Ball continued.
LC’s team had originally been seeded last, while the team from California was seeded first and ended up placing second in the overall race. This, however, did not stop the Bears from claiming victory.
“We just treated it like a normal race,” Hester said. And in the end, the Bears were suc-cessful.
“It was probably one of the coolest things I’ve done,” Turner said about being a champion.
“It’s hard to put in words,” he continued. Dorsey, on the other hand, felt otherwise.
“It honestly doesn’t feel any different, because the hard work that goes into it before-hand makes you feel like a champion already,” he said.
As the boys stepped up on the podium to claim their title, reality sank in. They were the 2012 Track National Champions.
“We knew we had won it, but it didn’t sink in until
after we had stood on the podium that we had just be-come the best in the nation,” Ball said.
“It was a surreal feeling,” Hester said in agreement.The experience for the team
as a whole was a great one and has brought them much closer. The boys got the opportunity to travel out of state and represent LC.
“The whole trip altogether was a fun experience; we all stayed in a hotel and it was a good time,” Dorsey said.
“It brought us super close,” Turner added.
“My senior guys on the cross country and track team have been with me for the past four years in high school,” Ball said. “I don’t know what I’d do without them.”
For this year’s upcoming season, they all have one common goal: to win state and nationals again as a team not only in track but in cross country as well.”
My senior guys on the cross country and track team have been with me for the past four years in high school, and I don’t know what I’d do without them.
Chandler Ballsenior
“Chandler Ball, Adam Turner, Cole Hester and Matt Dorsey receive medals on the podium. Courtesy photo/Cole Hester
Cole Hester, Matt Dorsey and Chandler Ball warm up on the track. Cub file photo
Seniors Cole Hester, Adam Turner, Matt Dorsey and Chandler Ball celebrate their victory with prize-winning smiles. Courtesy photo/Matt Dorsey
Matt Dorsey completes the anchor leg of the relay. Courtesy photo/Matt Dorsey
Matt Dorsey takes off as the Bears compete in Regionals. Cub file photo
”
We knew we had won it, but it didn’t sink in until after we had stood on the podium that we had just become the best in the nation. Chandler Ball
senior
“
National champs make LC history
PAGE 14 CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012FEATURES PAGE 15
As senior Chandler Ball watched his fellow team-mate Matt Dorsey round the corner on the last lap, he knew they had won. This past summer on June 15, 16 and 17 in Greensboro, N.C., members of the LC track team made history. Seniors Cole Hester, Adam Turner, Dorsey and Ball became National Champions in the men’s 4x1600 mile relay.
Previous to becoming national champs, LC’s track and field team won their third state title, led by Coach Tim Richey. To prepare for success, the boys and the team had put in hard work on the track and in the weight room.
“We just did our normal training leading up to state and after state,” Hester said.
“We got lots of rest and did the little things every runner must do, but the main preparation that we need-ed came with the six years of training prior to the race; that put us in the position to do great,” Ball continued.
LC’s team had originally been seeded last, while the team from California was seeded first and ended up placing second in the overall race. This, however, did not stop the Bears from claiming victory.
“We just treated it like a normal race,” Hester said. And in the end, the Bears were suc-cessful.
“It was probably one of the coolest things I’ve done,” Turner said about being a champion.
“It’s hard to put in words,” he continued. Dorsey, on the other hand, felt otherwise.
“It honestly doesn’t feel any different, because the hard work that goes into it before-hand makes you feel like a champion already,” he said.
As the boys stepped up on the podium to claim their title, reality sank in. They were the 2012 Track National Champions.
“We knew we had won it, but it didn’t sink in until
after we had stood on the podium that we had just be-come the best in the nation,” Ball said.
“It was a surreal feeling,” Hester said in agreement.The experience for the team
as a whole was a great one and has brought them much closer. The boys got the opportunity to travel out of state and represent LC.
“The whole trip altogether was a fun experience; we all stayed in a hotel and it was a good time,” Dorsey said.
“It brought us super close,” Turner added.
“My senior guys on the cross country and track team have been with me for the past four years in high school,” Ball said. “I don’t know what I’d do without them.”
For this year’s upcoming season, they all have one common goal: to win state and nationals again as a team not only in track but in cross country as well.”
My senior guys on the cross country and track team have been with me for the past four years in high school, and I don’t know what I’d do without them.
Chandler Ballsenior
“Chandler Ball, Adam Turner, Cole Hester and Matt Dorsey receive medals on the podium. Courtesy photo/Cole Hester
Cole Hester, Matt Dorsey and Chandler Ball warm up on the track. Cub file photo
Seniors Cole Hester, Adam Turner, Matt Dorsey and Chandler Ball celebrate their victory with prize-winning smiles. Courtesy photo/Matt Dorsey
Matt Dorsey completes the anchor leg of the relay. Courtesy photo/Matt Dorsey
Matt Dorsey takes off as the Bears compete in Regionals. Cub file photo
”
We knew we had won it, but it didn’t sink in until after we had stood on the podium that we had just become the best in the nation. Chandler Ball
senior
“
National champs make LC history
PAGE 16 SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 • CUB REPORTER FEATURES
English, Spanish, French. When you think of a foreign language, these are typically the languages that pop into your mind. What about the language spoken by 15 million people in the United States?
Sign language. For junior Liza Smith and
sophomore Hannah Perkins, this is their second language. Both LC students are bilin-gual. This means that they can switch from English to deaf culture whenever they need to. Both of their parents are deaf, and they use sign language in their homes every day.
“I grew up with sign language as my second lan-guage,” Smith said. In her home, signing is the main form
of communication. Since both of her parents are deaf, Smith was raised with sign language as a secondary language since Day 1.
“I can switch from hearing and speaking English to deaf culture whenever I feel like it; it’s my second language,” said Perkins.
Some may wonder how they do simple tasks such as communicating over the phone. Technology has come a long way. Many alerting de-vices have been made to signal their attention.
Alarm clocks have flashing lights and vibrators, and there’s a shake and awake alarm clock. Instead of calling, the family members use videophones similar to a webcam on TV.
Communication over the phone is usually done by lip reading. They can’t use regular
doorbells or a phone ringtone, so they use flashing lights or ones that vibrate to alert them instead.
The Perkins fam-ily commu-nicates the same way.
“I don’t think that there’s very many chal-lenges for them be-cause of new technology. Technology has allowed deaf people to get along with their everyday life as normal,” Per-kins said.
Even though there is new technology, there is still no medical way to make a deaf person be able to completely hear again.
Deafness is a genetic dis-order that cannot be repaired. Some are born with deafness, and others acquire it over their
lifetime. Most people become deaf from old age; however, ge-netic factors account for at least half of all cases.
The prob-ability that a deaf person will have an
immediate child with the same disorder is very rare. This is why neither Perkins nor Smith has the same genetic disorder. Disorders such as deafness typically skip a generation.
For these families, having deaf parents hasn’t changed their experiences because it is
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I can switch from hearing and speaking English to deaf culture whenever I feel like it.
Hannah Perkinssophomore
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the way that they were raised. It is their only known way of life.
“I think having deaf par-ents doesn’t really change my experiences,” Perkins said. “I’m just used to interpreting for them at restaurants and other events.”
Learning to understand and interpret deaf culture for their families has enhanced both of their lives and has ex-posed them to other cultures.
“Growing up as a KODA (kids of deaf adults) has ben-efited me by giving me the best of both worlds. I am able to be in the hearing world with my friends but at home I’m em-braced in the best that deaf cul-ture has to offer,” said Smith.
Instead of being a bur-den to their family, both girls believe that being a KODA has been a blessing.
Living with silenceLiza Smith (back row, fourth from left) and her family posed for a spring break 2010 photo. Courtesy photo/ Liza Smith The Perkins family poses for a couple fun family photo shots.
Courtesy photo/Hannah Perkins
CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 17FEATURES
On July 1, Indiana state Sen. Jim Merritt sponsored and helped enable the “Lifeline Law,” a law that provides legal immunity to underage drinkers under certain circumstances. After being approved by legislators and signed by Governor Mitch Daniels, the law has gone statewide in hopes of reducing the number of deaths related to alcohol poisoning.
In essence, if a person calls 911 to seek help for someone underage who is ill from drinking too much alcohol, the caller can be exempt from getting in legal trouble. In order to receive the immunity, the caller must provide his full name and any other relevant information requested by law enforcement officers, remain with the person until emergency medical assistance arrives and cooperate with authorities on the scene. The caller can gain immunity, but the person intoxicated can not.
“They (teenagers) can make poor choices, but losing a life over a poor choice is
not acceptable,” Merritt said. He plans to visit schools like Lawrence North and Carmel in order to “raise awareness that drinking alcohol underage is not acceptable, but if a poor choice is made, there’s a way out.”
Merritt authored the Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 274 during the 2012 legislative session. The act received a final vote of 47-0 in the Indiana Senate
and 96-0 in the House of Representatives. It was a total buy-in from prosecutors, law enforcement and colleges. A student at Indiana University originally came to Merritt with the idea, and after the controversial aspects of it were worked out, Merritt was all for it. The law is designed so police officers must use their discretion when deciding if the immunity is granted or not.
“As for me and my officers, we are all happy about anything that would save young lives, and this law will probably accomplish that many times over,” IMPD police officer Mark Dorsey, father of freshman Maria, junior Madison and senior Matt, said. “This new law seems to make a lot of sense, and we will be happy to abide by its restrictions.”
Sophomore Emily Mott said she thinks the law is a smart idea for people put under pressure in situations involving alcohol. “If you didn’t get in trouble for calling 911 for someone drinking too much, you might make the better decision about calling an ambulance,” Mott said.
More information is available at http://www.indianalifeline.org.
Indiana senator creates Lifeline Law
Senator Jim Merritt blah blah blah. Courtesy photo/Jim Merritt
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Accompanied by Sen. Jim Merritt, Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the Indiana Lifeline Law, which was put into effect July 1. Courtesy photo/Jim Merritt
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2012 painting another Congressional winner
Lindsey Redifer’s 2012 state-winning oil painting is titled “Sailboats at Mackinac.” Courtesy photo/Lindsey Redifer
Senior Lindsey Redifer is a National Congressional Art Contest winner for the second year in a row. Her 2012 entry, an oil painting titled “Sailboats at Mackinac,” was judged a state winner in the spring and is now hanging in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Last year her winning piece was a painting titled “Forest.”
“I was re-ally surprised that I won,” Redifer said. “But it feels good.”
Redifer didn’t show an interest in art until her sophomore year, when, she said, art teacher Vicki Shafer “got me started painting.”
“I didn’t know I was into art until high school,” she continued. “I actually hated it compared to all the other subjects.” Now she’s Shafer’s
student assistant and spends her free moments at her easel in the art room.
“Lindsey is one of the best high school painters that I have experienced in my 33 years of teaching,” Shafer said.
It’s no surprise that Redi-fer’s preferred weapon of choice is oil paint, seeing that her contest-winning painting was done with it. However, she also likes using watercolors.
“When painting I sort of just paint live observation, or
I visualize something that I’ve seen before,” she said. “I enjoy it because I get so focused and caught up in my work that I just lose track of time, especially when I really want to fi nish something.”
Redifer plans to study
painting in college. “I’m look-ing for a school that’s a good fi t and off ers what I like,” she said.
Redifer has also won two Silver Keys from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
When she’s not absorbed in her artwork, Redifer also swims for LC.
to U.S. Capitolonce again
Senior Lindsey Redifer spends her free time at her easel in the art room. Cub photo/Glynnis King
Here are some of Redifer’s other class paintings.
Rating: 1-2 - - 4 - 5
The Rhythmic RevolutionArtist: Joss StoneAlbum: The Soul Sessions Vol. 2Genre: Rock
Artist: YellowcardAlbum: Southern AirGenre: Pop-Punk
Artist: Trey SongzAlbum: Chapter V (Deluxe Edition)Genre: R&B/Hip-Hop
Artist: Lil WayneAlbum: Dedication 4Genre: Rap
Similar Artists: Adele, Amy Winehouse, Cristina Perri
Similar Artists: Rick Ross, 2 Chainz,Nicki Minaj
Similar Artists: Mayday Parade, All Time Low, We Are The Incrowd
Anna ZanoniSong Suggestion: “No Lie”Rating: 1-2 - - 4 - 5
Tremaine “Trey” Neverson, better known as Trey Songz, just released his fifth studio album, “Chapter V,” with Atlantic Records.
The 27-year-old, Petersburg, VA native is an international, Grammy-nominated R&B superstar who continues to perfect his craft. Known for being popular with the ladies, he continues to woo them with romantic tracks like “Dive In” and “Without a Woman.” Songz also expresses his feelings of being in troublesome relationships in the popular hit single “Heart Attack.”
Of course it wouldn’t be a Trey Songz album if he didn’t include a few club bangers like “2 Reasons” featuring
rapper T.I. and “Hail Mary” featuring Young Jeezy on the track.
Other featured artists include Rick Ross, Diddy and Meek Mill. My personal favorite, “Simply Amazing,” is an upbeat track that sends a positive message to any couple in a relationship.
Overall, I enjoyed Songz’ album. If you aren’t already a fan of this creative singer’s mesmerizing tunes, this album
will definitely make you think twice about his potential as an artist.
the fact that the majority of their songs feature a violin, which is uncommon in other pop-punk bands. Although
Yellowcard has matured since releasing their first album, a few of their songs are repetitive.
Overall, “Southern Air”
includes a variety of very good songs. Some tracks are upbeat and fun, while others slow down and consist of deeper lyrics, such as the acoustic track “Ten.”
Lil Wayne was no longer interested in rapping.
But with the drop of “Dedication 4,” Wayne has come back with vengeance. The new album features favorites from J. Cole to Lil Wayne’s musical mentor, Birdman. In some songs, Weezy mim-ics the lyric style of other known artists, who rapped on the same beat. “Mercy” featuring Nicki Minaj, is a great exam-
ple of that. This is not the
strongest mix tape Lil Wayne could have put out, but it might be enough to get the public buzz-
ing about his music again.
“The Soul Sessions Vol. 2” is the sixth album by English artist Joss Stone. Known for her soulful voice and jazzy sound, Stone first broke the UK album charts in 2003 with her second album, “Mind Body & Soul.”
On her most recent album, “The Soul Sessions Vol. 2,” Joss turns up the volume and adds layers of vocal harmony to create a vintage, yet still fascinating sound.
The album has everything from a
Yellowcard, best known for their songs “Ocean Avenue” and “Way Away,” released their latest album titled “Southern Air” on Aug. 14.
After one week on the charts, “Southern Air” reached No. 10 on Billboard 200 and No. 2 on Billboard Alternative Albums.
“Southern Air” is the band’s eighth studio album since forming in 1997. Since then, the band has gone through a number of member changes, although lead singer and writer Ryan Key has stayed with the band since joining in 2000.
Yellowcard’s music is unique due to
powerful, loud protest song (“For God Sakes’”) to a melancholy ballad about
lost love (“The Love We Had”), yet the transitions between those songs are smooth and don’t seem
forced. Songs to definitely check out
include “While You’re Out Looking For Sugar” and “Teardrops.” There are a few songs on the album that seem to recycle the same sort of beat, but generally the rhythms are new, vibrant and engaging.
Overall, the album is a terrific buy for anyone looking for a rock album with vintage undertones, but also a modern soulful feel.
CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 19A+E
Similar Artists: Chris Brown, Drake, Lil Wayne
Ali DuffSong Suggestion: “For God Sakes”Rating: 1-2 -3 - 4 -
Glynnis KingSong Suggestion: “Simply Amazing”Rating: 1- 2- 3 - 4 -
Darian BensonSong Suggestion: “Surface Of The Sun”
With running the record label YMC-MB and watching over some of the top rappers in the game, who knows when rapper Lil Wayne had the time to compile his new mix tape, “Dedication 4.”
But he has, finally. Wayne fans and critics alike have been waiting with anticipation Wayne’s new mix tape. The interest is partly because rumors have been whirling in the music world that
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“We are infinite.” Those three words have
inspired posters, bumper stickers, and even tattoos. The quote is from Steven Chbosky’s debut novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Through letters addressed to an anonymous source, main character Charlie, a freshman in high school, tells of his life as a wall-flower.
At a football game, the shy Charlie befriends the hilarious Patrick, and Patrick introduces Charlie to his stepsister Sam, whom Charlie instantly develops a crush on.
Patrick and Sam drag Char-lie into their world, the world of the unpopular wallflowers,
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... a defining, honest novel about finding your place in the world...“
where Charlie finds the only people who truly accept him.
From the main to the sup-porting characters, everyone is engaging, bold and relatable.
In terms of brilliant charac-ters, Sam stands out as some-one special. Her grip on life is tight, but not a chokehold. Sam values and understands the freedom of being a teenager, and she knows that not only is
life not fair, it’s not easy, either. She has come to terms with the fact that there will be people who will not
truly love her, and there will be those who love her endlessly and ask nothing in return.
Another fascinating char-acter is Charlie’s advanced English teacher, a character referred to as “Bill.”
Bill, seeing Charlie’s in-trospective nature, gives him
books to read and movies to watch. Books like To Kill A Mockingbird and movies like Dead Poets’ Society.
Through a love of such novels and films, Bill becomes one of Charlie’s closest friends and confidants.
In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky perfectly captures the essence of teen-age angst, drama and confu-sion in a short, easily readable novel through a maze of family
Cub Photo/Meredith Nordmann
drama, drugs, sex and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The Perks of Being a Wall-flower emerges as a defining, honest novel about finding your place in the world, and the moments along the way that make you feel truly infi-nite.
The movie adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, is in theaters Sept. 21.
Over the summer I was able to attend Warped Tour and interview a variety of bands. There was one band I had been looking forward to interviewing all summer: Streetlight Manifesto.
As I entered the trailer where the interviews took place, I noticed they weren’t on the list, and was told they never do interviews.
However, I signed up for a band called Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds (TBS), a band I had never heard of.
Moises Juarez, the lead singer, was one of the most down-to-earth musicians I met that day.
“Warped Tour is super cool. You get to meet all kinds of bands you wouldn’t nor-mally meet, make links with people you wouldn’t normally link with and get turned on to good types of music,” Juarez said. “It’s like a gypsy camp, one day we’re here, make to look like rock stars, and the next day we’re gone, in another city.”
The band has a sort of Dirty Heads, Sublime feel to it, yet they’re unique. Dubstep is just not my thing; however, TBS mixes it into their music and it works like a charm.
TBS consists of Moises Juarez, Andre Davis (bass), Sean Chapman (vocals/guitar), Matthew McEwan (vocals/guitar) and Patrick Salmon (drums). TBS has just started their “Great Escape” tour for the release of their new album.
“This is what I live for... I love coming out and seeing my fans, or people who have never heard of us. There’s really just nothing better,” Juarez said.
Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds are rocking today
The first three Bourne mov-ies were some of the most ex-citing films ever. Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon, was a man who forgot everything about his past life and would stop at nothing to try to find out who he was. He would do insane stunts and beat down en-emies by the dozens, shat-tering skulls and punctur-ing many lungs through three awesome movies. Even the dialogue and the story behind the first three films were spectacular.
The new Bourne movie, The Bourne Legacy, does not accom-plish one of the things listed above. The main character, Aaron Cross, was like Bourne in the sense that he was geneti-
cally altered for government use. Projects like Cross were about to be terminated because the CIA felt these beings were becoming a threat. Their at-tempts to kill Cross fail, as he is on a quest to find medication to keep him alive. A woman, Dr. Marta Shearing, who wit-nessed a mass murdering at her pharmaceutical company,
begins to help Cross. The two travel to Manila to find the medica-tion, while escaping the CIA who is
trying to kill both Cross and Shearing.
The film is slow mov-ing. The action isn’t even that original or cool. There are no witty one-liners we’ve come to love from the original trilogy. The dialogue drags on and on and, for the most part, means absolutely nothing at all unless
you had seen the first three movies directly before watch-ing Legacy. There is also way too much science lingo. If a moviegoer also happens to be a biochemist, the movie may make a little more sense. But for an average high school kid, it’s difficult.
I heard a radio show host say, “You can’t have a Bourne movie without Bourne.” This is a totally true statement. Aaron Cross is not the ruth-
less and sly schemer that Jason Bourne was. Cross doesn’t have the same “I-hate-the-world” attitude that Bourne had, but that’s what made these movies so interesting and exhilarating. You always knew Bourne was going to get his way. Bourne was awesome, and Cross was just kind of awesome.
If you want to see a tra-ditional Bourne film, don’t see this. Watch a real Bourne movie.
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Come experience the luck of the Irish on Sept. 13-16 at the 17th An-nual Indy Irish Fest at Military Park in downtown Indianapolis. You can enjoy a variety of fun, family-oriented, Irish activities like music, dancing, food and culture. Tickets are on sale in advance for $10 for all adults and students with a student ID. Tickets are $15 at the gate. For more info visit htt p://www.indy-irishfest.com
17th Annual Indy Irish Fest at Military Park
What’s H t in IndyH t
If you’ve got a big appetite and passion for trying new foods, then you’ll love the First Friday Food Truck Festival held at Old National Centre today. More than 30 of In-dy’s best food trucks gather for this special event in the parking lot. The festival is from 5-9 p.m. Admission is $5 to get in the parking lot, plus pay-as-you-go to the food trucks. For additional info visit htt p://www.oldnationalcentre.com
Check out the local production of the Tony and Grammy award-winning musical ‘Chicago.’ Hosted at Beef and Boards Dinner Theater, the musical performance will be from Aug. 30-Oct. 7. Show times will vary by performance date. For more info go to htt p://www.beefandboards.com
On Sept. 16, watch new QB Andrew Luck and the Indianapo-lis Colts take on the Minnesota Vikings in Week 2 of the 2012 NFL Season. The event will be at Lucas Oil Stadium at 1 p.m. For more in-formation about tickets visit htt p://www.colts.com
Colts take on Vikings at Lucas Oil Stadium
First Friday Food Truck Festival at Old National Centre
‘Chicago the Musical’ at Beef and Boards Dinner Theater
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Come watch the Butler Bulldogs take on Campbell University at noon Saturday, Sept. 22. The game will be held at Butler Bowl, adjacent to Hinkle Fieldhouse. For more info visit htt p://www.butlersports.com
Disney Pix-ar’s Find-ing Nemo is back...in 3D
Disney Pixar’s hit fi lm is back and bigger then ever. That’s right, Finding Nemo is coming to theaters again starting Sept. 14 in 3D.
College Football at Butler University
Asaka is a family-owned Japa-nese cuisine restaurant and sushi bar. Soon aft er the Takamure family opened the restaurant in 2009, they received a “best sushi” award from the Indy A-List in 2010 and were a fi nalist for one in 2011.
Asaka has a regular dining area and party room in addition to their full service sushi bar. We sat at a table with a view of the sushi bar and were soon greeted by a bilingual server who spoke both Japanese and English. Everything in the restaurant added to the authenticity of it, from the servers to the variety of the food to the decor.
Although I stepped out of my comfort zone by ordering the eel and cream cheese sushi roll, I decided to play it safe for my entrée by order-ing the chicken teriyaki combina-tion. For $12.95, it came with eight slices of a California roll, a salad with ginger dressing and miso soup. The California roll, which had sticky rice, avocado, crab and cucumbers, had a strong contrast to the eel and cream cheese rolls we split as a table. I surprisingly liked the change of taste. The eel sauce topped the sushi roll, which tasted like a thicker and sweeter form of soy sauce.
Asaka off ers more than 70 diff er-ent sushi options ranging from their “tekka maki” roll to their spicy red-snapper roll. They have sushi happy hour Tuesday through Sunday from 5-7 p.m., where they sell sushi from $1.25 and up per piece.
Even if you’re not a huge sushi fan, I’d recommend taking a trip to Asaka to check it out and see what you’re missing. I’m not one, either, but I can now said I’ve tried eel… and liked it.
Asaka6414 E. 82nd St.
Indianapolis, IN 46250317.576.0556
www.asakajapaneserestaurant.com/
The Penrod Art Fair will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday. The non-profi t organization is a dime in Indianapolis’ art community. The over 40-year-old excursion spot-lights local artists and encourages the community to get involved in Indy’s diverse art scene. More than 20,000 people att end the fair at the Indiana Art Museum grounds to experience the one-day magic of the Penrod Art Fair.
Penrod Art Fair comes to Indy
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CUB REPORTER • SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 PAGE 23SPORTS
Boys XC leading the pack Tough start for girls soccer
For the boys, this season could not have started much better.
With two meets under their belt, the Bears have earned two first-place finishes at Blooming-ton North and the Noblesville Hokum Karem.
The Hokum Karem format is different than most other rac-es. Within your team, you are assigned part-ners to run six miles between the two, alter-nating at ev-ery mile. It is obviously dif-ferent, but the runners enjoy it.
“Winning is always ex-citing,” senior Adam Turner, who finished third overall with senior partner Chandler Ball, said. “The Hokum Karem makes running a much more enjoyable experience, especially when the team wins.”
The winning pair, from LC, was seniors Matt Dorsey and Cole Hester with times of 4:43, 5:02 and 4:50 by Dorsey and 4:50, 4:53 and 4:48 for Hester .
Dorsey and Hester also per-formed at a high level the week before. At Bloomington North,
Hester finished in third place, with Dorsey right on his tail finishing in fourth place.
Turner said he believes the boys’ current success is due to many things, such as focused training and hard work along with senior leaders who know how to win. The boys’ expec-tations are to win State, where they finished fifth last year.
The girls, though perhaps overshadowed by the boys, have also had a solid year
thus far. The girls finished fourth at Bloomington North, while finishing sev-enth at the Hokum Ka-rem.
“ W h i l e it wasn’t our best meet
overall, we had some runners step up big time for us,” senior Erin Ellefsen said. “After this race, we know what kind of tal-ent we have now.”
Ellefsen said she believes the goal for the team is to get to semi-state, a place the ladies haven’t run in for three years.
The boys’ goal, however, is a state championship after their fifth place finish in the state meet last year.
Both boys and girls will run at Brown County Saturday.
Golfers start out hot
The Lady Bears soccer team has not started the way they had hoped with no wins and fivelosses.
The first game of the sea-son was a 0-6 loss against the Bishop Chatard Trojans and the next match was not any better as they lost to cross-town ri-val Lawrence North by a score of 0-11.The game was never in question as the Wildcats scored early and often as redemption for the shellacking the Bears’ football team put on LN’s team the night before.
“We knew the team was going to take some time to gel. There are a lot of young play-ers learning what it means and what it takes to compete at the varsity level,” head coach Chris Harmon said.
The Lady Bears could not gel in time, however, as they lost their next two matches to Cathedral 0-3 and 1-5 against Castle.
“We are hoping that they can learn how to play and learn the lessons with urgency,” Har-mon said.
The Lady Bears had the weekend and some practices to regroup and work hard to get their first win of the young sea-son but they once again came up short in a 0-10 loss to the Pike Red Devils.
The Lady Bears will next face off against conference match-up Bloomington South on Sept. 10. The next home game is against Southport, also a conference Indiana opponent, on Sept. 12.
The Lady Bears are off to a solid start as they have taken home five victories on the year. Led by senior Breanna Petruc-ciani, the golfers are on pace to have one of their better seasons in years.
“We have a chance to go to Regionals this year, which is something we haven’t done for three years,” Petrucciani said.
“It’s not something we neces-sarily want to broadcast, but we want to try our best. The top three teams in our Sectional aren’t as dominant as they used to be. As long as we’re in the top three in Sectionals, we go to Re-gionals.”
One of those formerly dom-inant teams is Park Tudor, a team that the Lady Bears took down this year, shooting a 195. Petrucciani, who shot a 41 in
that match, felt like that was one of the more satisfying vic-tories of the year.
There is still room for im-provement for the girls, how-ever. The biggest issue the girls need to tighten up on is the short game.
“Chipping and putting is all about the feel,” head coach Andrew Renie said. “The more you play, the better your put-ting and short game will be, so
we have several girls that didn’t play that much this summer and they’re starting to get their feel back, and hopefully they will before Sectionals.”
Improvement in the short game will be important for the girls as the Conference Indiana tournament approaches. The girls firmly believe that they will fare well in this tourna-ment, which will be played on Sept. 10.
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After this race, we know what kind of talent we have now.
Erin Ellefsensenior
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Senior Matt Dorsey runs the final leg of the Hokum Karem on Aug. 25. Dorsey and senior Cole Hester won the event. Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
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The boys’ tennis team is off to a rocky start with a re-cord of 3-7 matches. The Bears pulled out their only two sea-son wins so far at the varsity invitational on Aug. 18. LC beat North Montgomery, 5-0, and Decatur Central, 4-1. Despite a strong performance in the var-sity invitational, losing only to Fishers, the boys’ team has yet to win a match since. They lost 5-0 to Brebeuf, Perry Meridian and township rival, Lawrence North.
Part of the Bears’ early sea-son struggles have come from the growing pains of a new team. After losing four seniors last year, the team has recruited four new players to the team, completing the varsity roster and filling a few junior varsity positions.
Returning sophomore and singles player Jacob Pluta has noticed the difference.
“I thought we’d have enough players this year, but we have just enough for varsi-ty,” Pluta said. “There are a lot
of upperclassmen that showed up, so we have a pretty small J.V.”
Although facing various obstacles, the boys have contin-ued to focus on improving their game. Overall match scores of 5-0 and 4-1 do not properly ex-press the closeness of matches, which could easily have turned the other way. Many matches, such as the one against Perry Meridian, came down to late second and third set scores. This shows that the boys losses do not come without effort.
Head coach Tim Taylor has noted that the team’s strategy is the same in years past, for each individual to perform at their maximum level, regardless of what their technical skill may be.
“If somehow you can re-duce errors that are being made and instill some confidence and teach mental toughness, (the team) will probably do better than they expect,” Taylor said.
The Bears will face off against conference rivals Frank-lin Central at home on Sept. 11 and away against Bloomington North on Sept. 13.
Loose strings for tennis
The boys’ soccer team has gotten off to a slower start than they wanted, accumulating a win, three losses and two ties.
In the first game of the sea-son LC took on the Royals from Hamilton Southeastern. The Bears suffered a tough defeat at a score of 0-1. Although the Bears controlled most of the game, the Bears were dealt a multitude of unlucky breaks, including a scorching shot from senior midfielder Matt Cobb that caromed off both the left and right posts only to trickle away into the hands of the Roy-
als goalkeeper. In the much anticipated
battle between rival Lawrence North, the Bears were looking to avenge their heartbreaking loss to HSE by coming out and pummel-ing the Wild-cats. To their d i s a p p o i n t -ment, how-ever, the Bears were only able to tie them, 0-0.
Much like the HSE game, the Bears had their chances but they just couldn’t put it in the net.
“We played with a lot of energy but lost our formation at the end and it was a disap-pointment to tie,” senior goalie Jonathan Specker said.
The next match came against the C a t h e d r a l Irish and the outcome was not in favor of the Bears. LC was in trouble from the very b e g i n n i n g ,
when the Irish scored their first goal only a minute and 15 sec-onds into the match. It was all downhill from there as the Irish
took the victory, 1-7. The Bears did find consolation in scoring their first goal of the season from senior Gustavo Sanchez.
The boys finally broke through at Perry Meridian. Neither of the two teams could break the scoring drought in the designated two periods of playing time so they went into two, seven minute periods of overtime to try and break the 0-0 tie. Neither team could put the ball in the net, sending the match into penalty kicks The PK’s did not start off well with the Bears going down 2-4 with the win going to the team to get to five first, but senior goalie Joe Van Amburg made some
clutch saves to push the score to 4-4 with LC up and a chance to win. Senior Gustavo San-chez stepped up to the ball and kicked a shot to the back of the net to give the Bears an exhila-rating 1-0 win.
“As a team, we have gotten better as the season has gone along, but we have to be more consistent in playing well and finishing out games,” junior midfielder Ben Hilgendorf said.
A tough 1-2 loss to a talent-ed Pike squad in double over-time set them back a bit, but the boys will put it behind them as they play Bloomington South in their next home conference match.
Soccer searching for offense
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...we have gotten bet-ter as the season has gone along...
Ben Hilgendorfjunior
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Going in for a volley, senior Alex Larsh battles it out in a two singles match against Lawrence North on Aug. 27. The boys would lose 0-5 to the Wildcats in a hard fought match on all courts. Cub photo/Carley Lanich
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The Bears wanted to make a statement on the first night of the season against Law-rence North. The boys wanted to show the Wildcats why they are ranked fifth in the state of Indiana. And, of course, the boys wanted to show who the superior team was in the town-ship rivalry.
They certainly accom-plished all of those things in a 70-0 romping of Lawrence North on Aug. 17. The boys would run wild on the Wild-cats, literally and figuratively, as they ended up with 515 rush-ing yards on the evening, led by senior back Alex Rodriguez, who ran for 36 yards on three carries with two touchdowns. His second touch of the night was a 31-yard spurt through the
heart of LN’s defense, breaking tacklers with ease. Once the Bears went up by 16 in the first three minutes on another TD run by Rodriguez and a safety, they never looked back.
“Our line has been key to our running success,” head coach Jayson West said. “They’re all so bought in to what we do, and they’re such good kids and they work hard. They have such physi-cal gifts. We also have a good quarterback who is making good play calls and backs who are executing. It’s exciting to see our offense when we run the ball well.”
Along with Rodriguez,
senior offensive lineman Tim Gardner, an Ohio State com-mit, senior quarterback Drake Christen and senior running back Isaiah Townsend have been stellar. Another one of the reasons the offense has been so efficient, Christen believes, is the fact that they have a strong
group of se-niors.
“We have returning se-niors who all know how to play and how to win. When you have one of the best full-backs in the
state, a quarterback who can run and great wings, it makes our triple option that much harder to stop.”
It certainly was hard to stop for North Central in the Bears’
second game of the 2012 cam-paign. The boys once again ran at will for an impressive 350 yards on the ground, while also scoring on the opening kick of the game. Senior Trey White split the Panther kick coverage squad and dashed down the field for an 88-yard return for a touchdown.
The Bears defense, while giving up its first 3 points of the year, was also phenomenal. The North Central ground game was almost non-existent, as the boys allowed only 10 rushing yards. A Bears goal line stand near the beginning of the fourth quarter sealed the deal in what was another overpowering Lawrence Central victory, 38-3.
“Our defense is flying around and playing team foot-ball right now,” West said about his suffocating defense. “We’re playing fast and playing low,
and by the end of the year they can hopefully go down as a re-ally special group.”
With such an impressive start, it seems, from the out-side looking in that no aspect of the boys’ game needs to be improved upon. But, West said, there’s always room for im-provement.
“We need to improve our discipline with penalties; I think we had 10 for 115 yards (against North Central). That’s not going to be the best team in the state come playoff time.” For the ground game and high-flying defense, West also believes the Bears need to get in better shape so they can go “100 percent ev-ery play.”
Another victory over Perry Meridian last Friday gives the Bears momentum going into probably their biggest test of the season against Pike tonight.
Bears runnin’ wild
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...they can hopefully go down as a really spe-cial group.
Jayson Westhead coach
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In an impressive victory against North Central, senior quarterback Drake Christen eludes a Panther defender en route to a touchdown. The Bears would end up winning by a mar-
gain of 38-3, while also putting up 350 yards of rushing. The ground game for the Bears thus far into the season has been key to their early success. Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
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As my “vast” readership knows, I am a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan. I, unlike many of the Boston faithful, didn’t have to suffer through most of the 86-year World Series drought that the Sox had. I remember watching my team win the 2004 World Series and instantly ex-pected greatness from them. It was at this time when Pey-ton was still leading the Colts to great seasons, and Reggie Miller was draining 3’s in the former Conseco Fieldhouse. It was a great time to be a fan in the world of Alex Kryah
Eight years later, my eu-
phoric sports world has taken a turn to the dark side. Though the Pacers are looking to be Eastern Conference contenders again, the Colts and Red Sox are going through Green Monster sized rebuilding processes.
The Colts obviously drafted Andrew Luck and have a total-ly new look on both sides of the ball, and the Red Sox complete-ly cleaned house two weeks ago by getting rid of Adrian Gonza-lez, Carl Crawford and, thank-fully, Josh Beckett.
I feel like the M.C. Ham-mer of sports fans; one moment I’m on top of the world, and
the next I’m bankrupt. But the whole point of being a die-hard fan is truly living and dying with your team.
As Bluto Blutarski once said, “When the going gets tough, the tough get go-ing!” There is nothing greater in fan world than staying true to your team, and not leaving them for the team with success.
If you call yourself a true sports fan, being called a “fair-weather” fan has to be as big of
an insult to you as being called a “mud-blood” in the world of Harry Potter. When you are a “fair-weather” fan, you essen-
tially root for any team that is winning. For example, a fair weather fan would be someone who
begins to root for the Miami Heat simply because they won the Finals. It’s absolutely de-spicable. It’s like being that kid who takes his ball home just be-cause he’s losing. Nobody likes that kid. Unless you are that
kid. Then I’m sorry.A true fan bleeds the colors
of their team. Their loyalty is in-grained in their DNA. It is their destiny, formulated by the gods of fans, to stay and follow their team through thick and thin. For those of you out there that fit this description, I salute you.
Right now I have to live through tough circumstances. Being a fan is tough sometimes.
Losing always stinks, but there is no better reward for be-ing a die-hard fan than seeing them rise from the ashes and win a title. Unless you’re a Cubs fan; then you’re screwed.
The LC volleyball team has kicked off the season with an 8-5 record.
The Bears started off the season in good fashion with a solid 3-1 win over a tough Fish-ers Tigers team.
This was a monumen-tal win for the team as it was the first time in three years they defeated Fishers.
The next game was the always anticipated rivalry game against the Lawrence North Wildcats.
It was an electric atmo-sphere as the first two games were taken by the Wildcats but were very close throughout the entire way.
The third game the Bears were bending but refused to break and took the game to push the score to 2-1 in favor of Lawrence North. In the fourth
game the Bears came out and dominated the early going, looking like they would be able to push it to the tie-breaking fifth set, but the Wildcats made a strong surge and seized the game, ending the Bears hopes of an upset over their cross-town rival.
“It was a really upsetting loss but I wasn’t com-pletely disap-pointed be-cause of how well our team came together and played. All the games were very
close and competitive,” junior Leah Frischmann said.
There were some questions on how the Bears would re-spond in the Park Tudor Invita-tional coming off an upsetting loss to Lawrence North, but they brought their “A” game and ended up winning the in-vitational on a tiebreaker over Warren Central.
The Bears hoped to carry over their strong performance
into a game against conference Indiana foe Perry Meridian, but they couldn’t pull out the win losing in three straight games.
The Bears did not play their best volleyball and had some internal issues that led them to the loss.
Their next match was against the Warren Central Warriors and they played well, just not enough to overcome the strength and talent of the Warriors, losing again in three straight games.
Coming off a disappointing loss to the Falcons and War-riors, the Bears had a chance to rebound in the LC invitational and that is what they did, going 3-0 and claiming first place with wins over Heritage Christian, Pendleton Heights and Culver Military Academy.
Following the LC invite championship, the Bears trav-eled to Pike where they lost 0-3. While the Bears were swept at this match, every game was in-tense and close.
The next match for the Bears is at home against South-port on Sept. 11.
Volleyball on verge of breakthrough
All the games were very close and competitive.
Leah FrischmannJunior
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I feel like the MC Hammer of sports fans...“
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Senior Allie Powell sets the ball up for fellow senior Krista Taylor for the kill as the Bears take on the Bulldogs from Columbus North. Powell leads the team with 109 assists as the setter. Cub photo/Meredith Nordmann
Life of a loyal fanColumn designs/Sara Heiny
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Grade:Senior
Sport:VarsityGolf
Years onTeam:Four
Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
Cub Athlete of the Issue:
BreannaPetrucciani
Breanna Pe-trucciani has been a member of the Lady Bears golf team since her freshman year. Petrucciani is the No. 1 golfer on the squad, leading the team this year with the lowest 9-hole and 18-hole rounds of 40 and 89, respectively. She also has a fer-vent passion for the sport.
“It’s just my thing,” she said. “No matt er what mood I’m in, I can go out there and it’ll put me in a good mood. I like to call it my ‘sick obsession.’”
Petrucciani says her favorite LC golf memory was from just last year when the Lady Bears tied for third in Sec-tionals and had an opportunity to play in a playoff to go to Region-als.
Petrucciani intends to play golf in college at Grand Valley State Uni-versity.
