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Lawrence Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana Volume 63, Issue 6
December 16, 2011
“...since (2004/05), we have had fewer students enrolled in MSDLT... this means fewer dollars...”
Robin Phelpschief financial officer
Cub graphic/Samantha Strong
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Fewer coming more going
Between state legislative and district policy changes, the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township has, for the seventh consecutive year, experi-enced a decline in enrollment.
Count day, Sept. 16, showed a net loss of 384 students between the 2010-2011 school year and the 2011-2012 school year, the greatest net loss in the past ten years.
Count day, a statewide enrollment calculation day, determines more than the number of students enrolled at a giv-en school; state funding is determined on a per student basis according to the number of students enrolled at a school on Sept. 16.
“We currently receive $5,589.65 per student counted on the DOE-ME. So for each student we decline, we lose the $5,589.65,” chief financial officer and treasurer Robin Phelps said.
As a declining enroll-ment township, MSDLT loses greater amounts of money each year; ac-cording to a preliminary count in Sept., the loss of students equated approxi-mately $1.7 million, Phelps said. This preliminary count considered the loss of just over 300 students.
“Each year since the 2004/05 school year, we have had fewer students en-rolled in MSDLT. Because the General Fund is funded mainly by student count, this means fewer dollars for the General Fund,” Phelps said.
In 2011, according to data collect-ed on Count Day, there was a net loss
of 89 students at LC, while LN lost a net 149 students. The middle schools lost 128 students, and the elementary school enrollment decreased by 70 stu-
dents. But beyond the official
count day that provides schools with funding, en-rollments and withdraw-als occur throughout the school year; from June 1 to Sept. 9, 1,527 students withdrew from LT. From Aug. 10 to Sept. 9, 1,377
students enrolled in LT. In part, the loss of students is a re-
sult of recent legislative and district pol-icy changes. The 2011 Indiana General Assembly brought historic education reform, including the new voucher pro-gram and revised charter school laws. Through the voucher program, families may receive public tax dollars to attend p r i v a t e
Meredith [email protected]
Each person represents 10 students who have withdrawn from MSDLT between June 1 and Sept. 9, 2011. Color indicates where they are now.
*Based on the number of with-drawn students June 1 to Sept. 9 and the enrolled students Aug. 10 to Sept. 9, 2011
-Please see Enrollment on page 7
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3Contact us.Lawrence Central High School7300 E. 56th St.Indianapolis, IN 46226(317) 964-7400
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Staff.Editor-in-ChiefSamantha Strong
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Students’ perspectives on problems affecting Lawrence Central’s halls and the world beyond 56th Street.
In-depth coverage of students, global issues, rising trends and the not-so-average Bear.
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Sports EditorAlex Kryah
Social Media EditorLane Creech
ReportersAvarie BowmanCandace BullockSally FinkelEsbeida FloresJacob HelmusTorre Kennedy Glynnis KingMolly LissKristen Swanson
AdviserElizabeth Granger
PrincipalThomas Oestreich
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Corrections:The Cub Reporter corrects its mistakes. In Issue 5, in the story “Boys fi nish sixth at state,” it was printed that the boys cross country team placed sixth in the state meet. The boys cross country team placed fi fth in the state meet, held Oct. 29. We apologize for the error and any inconvenience this may have caused.
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CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 3NEWS
IN THE
In recent weeks the Human Body Systems class at McKenzie Center for Innovation and Technology (MCIT) has been focusing on how the body com-municates within itself.
One major dis-cussion dealt with the eye, so students have been perform-ing tests on their own eyes by look-ing at eye sight charts and optical illusions.
On Dec. 2 stu-dents dissected cow eyes.
Teacher Paul Legge helped guide the students through the dissection. He pointed out the different parts of the eye and their unique functions throughout
the dissection. “Diagrams alone really don’t give
you a sense of how the eye is put togeth-er,” Legge said. “Dissections, modeling and testing our own bodies help my stu-dents understand.”
Sophomore Mikayla Burrel is in the class and participated in the dissection. “I actually got to see and interact with
the body parts that we’ve been learning about,” she said.
The class is part of the biomedical pro-gram at MCIT.
The program is designed to help pre-pare students who are considering going into
some sort of medical field. Throughout their high school career, students learn about subjects ranging from forensic sci-ences to the in-depth details of the hu-man body.
Above: Sophomores Minna Etters and Mikayla Burrell dissect a cow eye in the Human Body Systems class at McKenzie. “I actually got to see and interact with the body parts that we’ve been learning about,” Burrel said. Courtesy photo/Paul Legge
Dissection expands learning beyond classroom
CLASSROOM
Junior Lindsey Redifer expertly deepens hues in a drawing. Redifer is in a painting class and often spends additional time in the art room during her study hall. Cub photo/Katie Billman
Expressing through art
“Paul Legge
human body stystems teacher
Dissections, modeling and testing our own bodies help my stu-dents understand.”
Photography, studio art, visual communications, ceramics, intro-duction to 3D art, advanced 3D art, introduction to 2D art, Drawing 2 and Painting 2. These art classes are all offered here.
“Art offers a canvas in which students can express their feelings and show creativity,” art and photog-raphy teacher Wendy Golden said. “For many, the art room is the one place where they can be themselves, reach their full creative potential, and succeed.”
Senior Sirron Harris is in AP Stu-dio Art but finds himself engaged in some form of drawing during other portions of his day. “Art is a way to relax and express my feelings,” he said. The sentiment is typical of many art students.
With a comb, junior Megan Hunt smooths the lip of a pot before adding another coil in Nancy Barnes’ ceramics class. Cub photo/Colemann LaBarr
“ Brianna Stuttssenior
Reusing and recy-cling are very important to me...”
NEWS CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 4
Stutts named environmental ambassador
Other languages spoken reach 49
an email about participation because the Super Bowl had an environmental push,” Madren said. She felt Stutts would be a good representative. “Brianna is not someone I have to ask to be involved. She’s really passionate about making a difference in the community,” Madren said. Stutts said she’s learned a lot from the program. “Being a Green Corps member has taught me how to be a better leader and team worker,” Stutts said. “It feels good to be a part of something that helps the community.”
our environment is suffering due to all of mankind’s developments,” Stutts said.
Stutts hopes her work with Green Corps will persuade other states hosting the Super Bowl in the future to take the same green initiative.
Stutts was nominated for the program by science teacher Kathryn Madren. “At the time Roots ‘N Shoots was really involved with the community, and I got
in community projects all over the state, like tree-plantings, environmental education, and recycling. Stutts has taken part in workshops at Mary Bryan Elementary and with the Luger Energy Summit held at the Children’s Museum. Green Corps even has videos with easy green tips on their website, www.1standgreen.com/green-corps. “Reusing and recycling are very important to me because
Senior Brianna Stutts will represent Lawrence Central as an environmental ambassador on Green Corps. Green Corps is a group of more than 160 seniors from across Indiana that focuses on helping Indiana be the first “green” state to host the Super Bowl. Only one student is chosen from each school. “I am honored to be the one to represent Lawrence Central.” Stutts said. Representatives join as sophomores and participate
Congress ends tomato debate
On Nov. 15, Congress ruled that two tablespoons of tomato paste constitutes a vegetable.
Three days later, President Obama signed the bill into law. This law was put into effect mainly due to the varieties of pizza served in schools. In or-der to fulfill the requirements for a healthy lunch, the Obama administration has decided to cut unhealthy food from school lunches across the country. Piz-za will not be one of these cut foods.
“I think we should have pizza for lunch; why would anyone want to cut pizza? I love pizza,” principal Thomas Oestreich said.
Many critics claim that Congress has decided that as long as a slice of pizza has two tablespoons of tomato paste on it, it is considered a veg-etable. However, Congress has not named pizza, or any other lunch item, a vegetable. Con-gress has passed a bill keeping the required tomoato paste on a slice of pizza at two table-spoons.
The bill proposed by the Obama administration, that Congress denied, had required a slice of pizza to contain one- half cup of tomato paste.
“I don’t look for change,” said cafeteria man-ager Robin Belcher. “It (the tomato paste) would be so thick that there would literally be sauce oozing from the piz-za within the first bite. There shouldn’t be changes. Our piz-za is extremely healthy.”
While Congress did not pass the bill proposed by the Obama administration, they did pass the agricultural ap-propriations bill, which will allow schools to continue serv-ing pizza with just two table-spoons of tomato paste per slice.
SAY HELLO
49 languages are spoken in Lawrence Township. Below are just a few languages, where they are spoken and their general greetings.
1. Ahmaric: Northern EthiopiaTeanastëllën
2. Fulani: West AfricaA jaaraama
3. Tagalog: PhilippinesKamusta
4. Gujarti: IndiaNamaste
5. Mongolian: MongoliaUgluunii mend
IN A NEW WAYOver the past 10 years, the
number of students in MSDLT’s English Language Learner pro-gram has increased from 460 students in 2001 to 1,591 stu-dents in 2011. Additionally, the number of languages spoken in Lawrence T o w n s h i p , other than English, has increased.
This year, Wolof, a lan-guage spoken in West Af-rica, was add-ed to the list, bringing the total number of languages spoken in ad-dition to Eng-lish to 49. Ap-proximately 2,100 students speak two or more languages, and some speak three or more languages.
“Many people from India and Africa speak different lan-guages in different contexts. For example, speaking one lan-guage at church, one at school, and one at home,” Trish Morita Mullaney, English as a Second Language and World Language
Coordinator, said. An indicator of cultural
diversity within the township, language diversity has implica-tions for greater tolerance and for communicating more effec-tively.
“The compelling implica-tion for us in school is that we must identify multiple ways of
connecting,” Morita Mullaney said. “The deeper part is that we must learn with each other in ways that ... are uncomfort-able sometimes. Very signifi-cant learning does occur as a result of discomfort.”
The source of some of this discomfort is that some believe that one language should be
spoken throughout the country. While the original context of a single language did not extend beyond the matters of govern-ment, it often does now.
“In the United States, how-ever, it has become a very divi-sive issue that one must know English to access any part of the host country, including
c o m m u n i t y and school-ing. If we are grounded by this thought in school, then we large-ly dismiss the 49 languages that our stu-dents rep-resent with their unique h e r i t a g e s and stories,” Morita Mul-laney said.
The Eng-lish as a Second Lan-
guage program, also known as the English Language Learner program, provides services to students who are Limited Eng-lish Proficient (LEP) and moni-tor Fluent English Proficient (FEP) students.
All ESL students are tested annually for language profi-ciency, and are categorized on
levels 1-5. On achieving a Level 5 proficiency, students become FEP students and are fluent in English.
Services provided to ESL students and families include translators.
“Translators and interpret-ers are furnished to families who have less commonly spo-ken or written languages for particular school events and functions,” Morita Mullaney said. “We always encourage ev-eryone to communicate in mul-tiple ways in schools. This means that language barriers should not be the reason not to connect or communicate with someone.”
Nepal
Ahm
aric
French
CantoneseBengali Chichewa
Bosnian
Ban
glab
asha
Chu
ang
Ara
bic Chinese FuzhouIbo
Hindi
Fulani
GujartiHebrew
Italia
nHaitian Creole
German
GreekLao
Korean Polish
Tagalog
Portugese
Taiwanese
LithuanianPunjabi
Man
darin
Serbo-CroatianTirginya Jamaican
Man
dink
a
RomanianTurkishJapanese
Mann
Rus
sian
Khmer
Kannada
Monogolian
Samoan Viet
nam
ese
Shona YorubaKiswahili
Newari
Spanish
Edo
Cub graphic/Samantha Strong
CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 5NEWS
“... it (technology) has changed how I teach and how the students learn.”
Jan weirchemistry teacher
Guidance offers help with scholarships
Technology updates to come in springAll English, math, science
and social studies teachers in Lawrence Township will be receiving Promethean boards with learning response systems in late January and early Febru-ary.
Teachers who currently have Pro-m e t h e a n boards will upgrade to the newest ver-sion. All men-tioned classes will have the same Pro-methean boards with the learn-ers response systems.
“The most powerful part of this technology is the ‘Learners Response System’ which will enable interactive use of the
software between the teacher and the student,” chemistry teacher/technology guide Jan Weir said. She pioneered the use of the technology in this building, having used the Pro-methean board for some years already.
“As a user of this approach to teaching for years now, I can verify that without exception, it
has changed how I teach and how the students learn,” Weir said.
The dis-trict has al-ready provid-
ed all elementary, kindergar-ten and Early Learning Center classrooms with Promethean boards.
The cost and time for pur-chasing the Promethean boards
have not yet been determined as it depends on installation.
There will be time set aside to provide training to teach-ers new to the system. There will be designated days, morning profes-sional learning times and days for teachers to stay after school for extra help in learning how to use the new boards.
The township will also pur-chase approximately 300 lap-tops in early spring.
Next school year, around 10,000 additional laptops will be purchased.
“My goal as principal has always been to eliminate all the heavy books that students have to carry,” principal Thomas Oestreich said. “Technology isn’t going away.”
Oestreich plans for students to rent laptops and download their textbooks instead of rent-ing them a book for each class.
The laptops would not only eliminate the heavy books
but would also contin-ue learning out-side of school,
Oestreich said. He hopes that on
snow days the lap-tops will provide a
way for students to continue schoolwork in their homes.
Indiana School Superin-tendent Tony Bennett has pro-posed that Indiana schools re-quire students to take an online course before they graduate.
If Bennett’s proposal is ac-cepted, Indiana will join several other states that have already started moving toward manda-tory online learning.
Last year LC seniors were offered more than $7 million in scholarships.
Counselor Suzanne Oakes said about ten per-cent of students apply for scholarships each year.
LC publishes scholar-ships online as well as in senior English and social
studies classes. There is a list serve parents and students can sign up for to find out about scholarships. The counselors also try to put some scholarship opportunities on LC Current.
“The fist step in receiv-ing scholar-ships is to use what is al-ready here to look,” Oakes said.
There isn’t a limit to how many scholar-ships a student can apply for.
“You should try to get any-thing you could possibly get,” Oakes said.
Room and Board$8,218
Books and Supplies $1,137
Personal Expenses $1,989
Transportation $1,073
$9,028/yearTuition
Source/College Board, Indiana University, Cub graphic/Samantha Strong
College Costs
A lot of scholarships are looking for students with a great deal of community ser-vices. There are many scholar-ships for any student’s inter-ests. Scholarship search engines
are helpful in the search for scholarships.
All the scholarships have their own deadlines and different requirements.
“You have to read the infor-mation that we publish,” Oakes said.
Some colleges offer auto-matic scholarships if you meet a GPA and SAT/ACT require-ments.
“Students can’t expect counselors to do it all for them. Students have to do a lot of re-search themselves,” Oaks said.
It is possible for students to go to college on only scholar-ship money although it is rare.
“The reality is that most people need to work, look for scholarships and borrow mon-ey,” Oakes said.
Dec. 17: National Honor Society toy drive give-awayDec. 19: Final exams - M5, M6Dec. 20: Final exams - G1, G2Dec. 21: Final exams - M8, M7Dec. 22: Final exams - G4, G3Dec. 23-Jan. 8: Winter break; no school Jan. 9: Spring semester classes begin Jan. 13: Report card distribu- tion (ugh!)Jan. 16: Martin Luther King holiday: no school Jan. 19: Scheduling information night for incoming freshmen, 7 p.m. Jan. 28: SAT, 8 a.m.
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CALENDARYOUR
FOR PARENTS
FAFSA how-to Jan. 12 LC’s Financial Aid Night is 7 p.m. Jan. 12 in the audi-torium. Parents/legal guard-ians of graduating seniors are encouraged to attend. A financial aid adviser will present information on how to complete and file the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). All students should complete the FAFSA regardless of their socioeconomic status. Parents and students need to each apply for a PIN number from www.pin.ed.gov, before the FAFSA can be submitted. Once the PIN numbers have been obtained (and it is after Jan. 1, 2012), the FAFSA can be completed online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. No paper applications will be accepted. After the applica-tion is processed, a student aid report (SAR) will be sent which indicates the amount of financial aid for which a student may be eligible. The FAFSA deadline is March 10, 2012.
Road reports available As Hoosiers travel throughout the state during winter break, they may find travel and road conditions online at www.indot.in.gov.
“You should try to get anything you could possibly get.”
Suzanne Oakescounselor
Associ -ate principal Kristie Corn was recog-nized at the Indiana As-sociation of High School Principals Con-ference on Nov. 20 for being named the 7th District Assis-tant Principal of the Year.
To become Assistant Principal of the Year, an ad-ministrator must be nomi-nated by a school’s principal or someone at the school district’s central offi ce. Corn was nominated last year by Kevin Brown, who was Lawrence Central’s principal then.
Corn was then selected to represent the 7th District, which covers all of Marion County.
Corn has been a teacher and coach, a counselor, a guidance director, an assis-tant principal and her cur-rent position, an associate principal.
Corn has also partici-pated in several publica-tions and has been involved in national committ ees. She assisted in writing several of the Indiana Department of Education Career Guide-lines.
For being named the As-sistant Principal of the Year of District 7, Corn received a plaque, a $100 check and a certifi cate.
“For my peers to recog-nize me was very humbling because people in our busi-ness work really hard,” Corn said.
“We put in a lot of hours and I’m more of just a repre-sentative of everyone who’s dedicated their life to educa-tion.”
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“ Kurt Springerscience teacher
What a great way to start the day — with lunch!”
Bus yard security put to the testWarren Township canceled
school Nov. 28 aft er thieves broke into the township’s bus yard and vandalized 28 buses. In total, around 50 bus batt eries were stolen.
The thieves broke in through a chain link fence and vandalized the buses to the point where they could not be driven. Whether the intruders were students or adults remains unknown.
Lawrence Township’s bus-es are stored at a transporta-tion facility on Thunderbird and Transportation Road, near
Pendleton Pike. “If batt eries were taken, it
would be a delay or cancella-tion, depending on the number of vandalized vehicles,” ex-ecutive director of operations Rodger Smith said.
The facility houses ap-proximately 220 buses, which are fenced in and locked daily. The grounds are monitored by security cameras as well as the Lawrence Police Depart-ment.
“People need to know that we take all precautions and safety measures to pro-tect all our facilities from such an act,” Smith said.
2-hour delay means arriving for lunch
Carley [email protected]
Corn state administrator � nalist
“Maybe the kids who haven’t eaten breakfast will be able to have something to eat before class starts.”
Ruth Meinenmath teacher
“It would be fi ne if I don’t eat breakfast.”
Julian Arboledasenior
“It’s a little weird. I don’t want to eat lunch for breakfast. Most people would have already eaten breakfast so it’s going to mess up their stomachs for the rest of the day.”
Dexter Clardyjunior
“I hate it because I’m going to get confused.”
Keanan Wesleysophomore
HANDSRAISEDRAISED
What students and teachers are say-ing about two-hour delays:
Cub photo/Katie Billman
With next week’s weather forecast calling for tempera-tures in the high 30s, a snow day to interfere with fi nals is virtually impossible. And it isn’t likely that rain would be so heavy that school would have to be delayed two hours.
But what about next semester?
Since the state requires stu-dents to be in school for 180 days during the year, snow days would have to be made up — added to the end of the school year.
That doesn’t seem to bother some students. Freshman Jes-sica Zaccardelli said, “That would be awesome. It’s a great idea, and I hope it snows now.”
Junior Dexter Clardy agreed. “I love that idea,” he said. “Since we lost our skip-
a-fi nal privi-leges, I say let it snow now.”
The state, h o w e v e r , counts a de-layed day as a full day of
school. The time does not have to be made up. The day here would be diff erent from last year, though.
With the new 8:50 a.m. start of the school day, a two-hour delay would mean beginning
G3/M7 10:50 - 12:50 lunch block A 10:50 - 11:20 B 11:20 - 11:50 C 11:50 - 12:20 D 12: 20 -12:50 G4/M8 12:57 - 1:47G1/M5 1:54 - 2:44G2/M6 2:51 - 3:40
2-hour delay schedulethe day with the lunch block. Students would report to their G3 or M7 classes at 10:50 a.m., then go on to shortened G4, G1 and G2 — or M8, M5 and M6 — classes.
It means lunch would begin earlier than it does now. More than an hour earlier.
“Coming to school at 10:50?” said senior India Murry. “That would be great.”
Senior Grant Schwomeyer also likes the change in the de-layed day schedule. “I think it’s good because we get to eat right away, and classes are shorter,” he said.
Senior Junial Arboleda agreed, “because we don’t have to make it up, and we still get to sleep in. And it makes classes shorter.”
It’s a sentiment not shared by the cafeteria staff , though. “My ladies will have to come in an hour earlier than they do now, when the roads are at their worse, or we won’t have time to make lunch,” said cafeteria manager Robin Belcher. “And if they cancel school and we’re al-ready here preparing the food, what are we supposed to do?”
“I like it because I would get to eat right when I get to school.”
Jordan Gatesjunior
“Make it a three-hour delay. That would be perfect. ”
Marvin Fostersenior
CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 7NEWS
El numero de estudiantes crece
Number of Latino college students grows
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BRIEFSThree teachers retiring Three faculty members are retiring at the end of this semester. They are: • English teacher Marilyn
Hollander, 38 years of experience (26 in Law-rence Township)
• Science teacher Ollie Thibodeaux, 37 years of experience (21 in Law-rence Township)
• CharlotteSimpson,33years of experience (26 in Lawrence Township)
Mueller national winner Senior Samantha Muel-ler has won second place nationally in a photojournal-ism contest sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association. Her winning photo, which competed in the environmental portrait section of the competition, was of boxer Kenny Thomas, then a freshman. It was fea-tured in the Cub Reporter in November 2010.
Stockton tops Freshman Cody Stockton earned a trophy for “out-standing high school solo-ist for the entire weekend” at the Blooomington Jazz Festival last weekend. Other LC soloists receiving honors were seniors Philip Austrom and Byron Boler, junior Xavier Cantrell, sophomores Isaac Nixon, Adriana Brown, KrisWarfieldandDorianPhelps, and freshman Ian Graves.
Thespians second LC’s Thespian Troupe won second place in last Saturday’s Brown County Regional Thespian Confer-ence. They will move on to the state conference in Janu-ary. Their show, “One Lane Bridge,” received the Best Ensemble award.
¿Cuantos es-tudiantes Latinos crees tu que entran a la universidad? ¿Pocos, no? Ba-sado en mi expe-
riencia en high school, al ver el bajo número de estudiantes Latinos que se gradúan com-parado con el número de cu-alquier otra raza, yo pensaba lo mismo. Creía que si pocos se gradúan de high school aun menos entran a la universidad. Me he dado cuenta de que es-taba equivocada, la situación ya esta cambiado.
Tratando de buscar algo que valiera la pena publicar en el Cub Reporter de este mes, un reporte del Pew Hispanic Center atrajo mi atención. Este reporte era del U.S. Census
Bureau’s School Enrollment Supplement of the October 2010 Current Population Sur-vey (CPS). El reporte era sobre el creciente número de estudi-antes Latinos que entran a la universi-dad.
Hubo un incremento repentino en un solo año. El 24 percent de los estu-diantes que ingresaron a la universi-dad son La-tinos. Esto hizo que el numero de estudiantes atendiendo a una uni-versidad en
los Estados Unidos haya subido a 12.2 millones en Octubre del 2010, este es el numero más alto que se haya visto antes. Según el reporte el numero de estudi-
antes Latinos creció por 349,000 com-parado con el numero de afro-ameri-canos el cual solo creció por 88,000 y el de los asiáticos por 43,000.
C o m o r e s u l t a d o de estos c a m b i o s por prim-era vez los j ó v e n e s Latinos re-basan el
número de afro-americanos en el campo universitario, aunque el número de jóvenes afro-americanos también había esta-do aumentando a un paso con-tinuo en estas últimas décadas.
Se cree que una de las ra-zones es que el número de la Latinos de 18 a 24 años creció por un 7 por ciento. Otra de las razones es que el nivel de educación atenido entre los La-tinos ha aumentado. Para que se den una idea, el número de estudiantes atendiendo a la universidad en 1972 era de solo un 13 por ciento. En el 2009 era de un 27 por ciento subido a 32 por ciento en el 2010. Este es un avance tremendo para losLatinos.Deberíamos seguiresforzándonos para que este numero sigua subiendo y más Latinos lleguemos a tener una educación más allá de high school.
Enrollment
How many Latino students do you think enter in universi-ties? Few, right? Based on my experience in high school, on seeing the low number of Lati-no students who graduate com-pared with the number of stu-dents of whatever other race, I thought the same. I believed that if few Latinos graduate from high school, even fewer enter in universities. I have real-ized that I was wrong; the situa-tion has already changed.
Intryingtofindsomethingthat would be worthwhile to
This is the English translation of the column above.
in the United States to increase to 12.2 million in Oct. 2010, the greatest number ever seen. Ac-cording to the report, the num-ber of Latino students grew by 349,000 students, while the number of African American students enrolling in universi-ties only increased by 88,000 and that of Asians by 43,000.
As a result of these changes, for the first time, Latinos out-number African Americans on campus, although the number of African Americans has also been increasing at a continuous rate in recent years.
It is believed that one rea-
son for the increase is that the number of Latinos ages 18 to 24 in increased by 7 percent. An-other reason is that the level of educationattainedbetweenLa-tinos has increased.
To give you an idea, the number of students attend-ing college in 1972 was only 13 percent. In 2009, it was 27 per-cent, followed by 32 percent in 2010. This is a huge advance for Latinos. We should continue oureffortsso that thisnumbercontinues increasing and more Latinos begin to have an educa-tion beyond high school.
publish in the Cub Reporter this month, a report done by PewHispanic Center attractedmyattention.
This report was from the U.S. Census Bureau’s School Enrollment Supplement of the October 2010 Current Popula-tion Survey (CPS). The report is about the growing number of Latinos that enroll in universi-ties.
There was a sudden in-crease in only one year. Twen-ty-four percent of students who enroll in universities are Latino. This resulted in the number of students attending universities
continued from page 1 and parochial schools. Among other provi-sions, the charter school regulation changes allowed for the expansion of charter school development.Inanattempttooffsetthere-sulting loss of students to charter, private, andparochialschools,theMSDLTopeneditsbordersin2011,admittingnon-residentstudents into the district.
Students were both lost and gained from charter schools, private schools, and other neighboring school districts. There was a net gain of 107 students from In-dianapolis Public Schools, a net loss of 15 students to charter schools, a net gain of 42 students from private schools, a net loss of 43 students to Warren Township, a net
gain of 23 students from Perry Township. Seventy former students use vouchers, 40 of which were awarded this school year as a result of the new voucher program. The other 30 students were previously awarded grants from outside organizations, such as the Charitable Trust Fund.
The greatest total loss of students to another district or school was 215 students to IPS. Private schools received 111 LT stu-dents, and neighboring districts earned 424 former LT students. The greatest loss of students, beyond IPs was to Warren Town-ship (162), and Fishers-HSE (98). Other in state schools picked up 178 students, and 197 students went out of state. Eighteen students are now homeschooled, and 19
are now in the work force. A total of 123 students went to state-sponsored charter schools.
Stongate Early College High School, chartered by Mayor Greg Ballard, is closing permanently for lack of enrollment, and therefore, lack of funds. Formerly located at McKenzie Center for Innovation and Technology, Stonegate could not maintain the necessary enrollment to continue func-tioning.
Last year, eight LT students moved to Stonegate, and 108 students came to MS-DLT fromvariouscharter schools, includ-ing Stonegate. For this reason, it is possible that both LC and LN receive former Stone-gate students.
From 2009-2010, the number of Hispanic stu-dents enrolling in college increased tremen-dously. Growth in college enrollment also occurred in African American and Asian popu-lations. The only decline in college enrollment was in the Caucasian population.
Source/Pew Research Center
Do you love winter, or can’t wait for it to be over?1) I can’t wait...2) I love winter3) I love winter4) I love winter!5) I love winter6) I don’t like winter…7) I like the holidays, but I hate the cold8) I can’t wait!
Do you drive to school?1) No2) No3) Yes4) Yes5) No6) No7) No8) Yes
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Just a minute with...
Got a minute? Then we’ve got some questions. With 2,600 students, it’s tough to know everyone. We’re taking a minute to get to know our student body. Match each student’s number with the numbers on the an-swers. Watch out, you could be next.
What is your favorite thing to do in the snow?1) Clothes2) Snowball fights3) Snow angels4) Snowboarding5) Snow angels6) Snowball fights7) I don’t like the snow. I like sand.8) Skiing
What is your favorite class here?1) Geography/World History2) English 10 Honors3) Spanish IV4) AP Chem5) P.E.6) English7) Musical Theater8) IB Psychology
5) Denise Rosasfreshman
6) Madeline Barillo sophomore
1) Amber Davisfreshman
8) Ben Elsersenior
What gift do you want most this holiday season?1) New iPod2) World peace3) iPod4) Wisdom5) New iPod player6) Car7) New shoes8) Clothes 2) Brandon Jones
sophomore3) Rebecca Duke
junior
4) Josh Deamicissenior
7) Abi Martens junior
The Cub Reporter will be selling Papa Murphy’s Peel-a-Deal coupon cards through Jan. 20. Get $40 worth of coupons for just $5. Please see a Cub staff member or go to Room 132 to purchase your card. Help keep the Cub Reporter printing!
It’s dinner made easy!
Oozing, melted cheese. Greasy, hot pepperoni. Thick, red tomato sauce. Chewy, fl aky crust. Yes, pizza, the gourmet meal that comes in a grease splatt ered cardboard box. Available to all students nearly every day of the week, whether it’s the circular personal pan pizza or Marco’s pizza on Fridays, this cheesy delight is a staple in the lunchroom.
Many view pizza as appetiz-ing; few view pizza as healthy. Until now, some argue.
In early November, Con-gress blocked two proposals made by the Obama admin-istration, one of which was to defi ne a serving of tomato paste on a slice of pizza as a half-cup, the other to limit the number of times potatoes were served for school lunch to two times a week. Congress’ response to these proposals prompted outrage, with claims that Congress has named pizza a vegetable. While cheese-laced
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Hugs to cookie day, but growls to getting full.
Hugs to the snow, but growls to driving in it.
Hugs to allowing seniors to skip a fi nal, but growls to making the underclassmen take them.
Hugs to being on Santa’s nice list, but growls to being on his naughty one.
Hugs to the long winter break, but growls to taking fi nals before it.
Hugs to Christmas dinners and celebrations, but growls to getting caught in snowy situa-tions.
Hugs to study groups, but growls to studying altogether.
Hugs to smiles, but growls to frowns.
Hugs to tomatoes being a vegetable, but growls to pizza being a vegetable.
Hugs to the snow, but growls to it being cold.
Hugs to New Years, but growls to never keeping your resolution.
Hugs to sleeping in, but growls to waking up.
Hugs to spending time with family, but growls to long travels.
Hugs to two weeks off of school, but growls to coming back to school.
• New Year’s is a time to celebrate the year that’s passed as well as cele-brate the year to come. Re-evaluating yourself and making a resolution is useful in improving the person you want to be. Too oft en, New Year’s resolutions aren’t carried throughout the year so it’s important that you constantly remind yourself of what you want to accomplish.• Pizza is considered a vegetable now because it contains tomato paste. What happened to just eating good ol’ tomatoes? Aren’t tomatoes a fruit anyway? In elementary school we learned that pizza fell into the ex-tras food group, so why the change? We are in serious need of healthier options for lunch and real vegetables. Aft er all, nothing beats a ripe, red tomato.
30-second editorials• We should make greater eff orts to be more aware of and appreciate the diversity surrounding us. An astonishing 49 languages are spoken in our township. And to think that many believe we should speak only English! That is simply ignorant, insensitive and bigoted. In exclud-ing non-English speakers, we regress to discriminatory behavior, barely diff erent from racial segregation. The diversity in our school and district is an amazing quality that ought to be embraced.• We all know about the success our boys basketball team is having. But we also have some other great winter sports teams. The girls team has improved greatly in recent years and the swimming teams are smashing their competition. The wrestlers have
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Growls
Hugs
ANDNo, pizza is not a vegetable
always been a winning program at LC. But we rarely give them crowd support at these games. We should reward them with our appreciation by going to their events.• The statistics for homelessness in Indiana are startling. More than 3,000 children, half under the age of 12, are homeless in Marion County alone. Recognizing what we have and what we don’t have helps to put our lives in perspective. Sometimes the world may seem like it’s crashing all around you, but it’s always crashing around someone else even harder.• The majority of Christmas gift s today are bought and hardly any to-day are homemade. What happened to creative, heartfelt and meaningful gift s that aren’t purchased for $2 at the Dollar Store?
triangles of dough dripping with grease are not vegetables, the accusations that Congress has decided it is are just as ridiculous.
Congress passed the ag-riculture appropriations bill, leaving a serving of tomato paste as two tablespoons, and unlimited servings of pota-
toes available throughout the week to students. Congress was evidently in-fl uenced by the food industry to pass this bill and block the propos-als made by the Obama adminis-
tration. However, there is more
logic in this bill than meets the fork. Two tablespoons of tomato paste, the amount now required for one serving, are comprised of a half-cup of tomatoes – enough to count as one serving. If the proposed half-cup of tomato paste were required for one slice of pizza, comprised of two cups of tomatoes, this heavy slice of pizza would make the meal a litt le healthier but also revolt-
ing. Congress did not declare
pizza a vegetable; in fact, the bill passed, the agriculture appropriations bill, does not mention the word “pizza” or “veg-etable” once. The argument at hand is not who has declared what a veg-etable is; it is a matt er of the health of the youth of America.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cre-ated guidelines for what school meals should look like; how-ever, few schools follow these rules. According to the 2007 USDA audit, only 20 percent of schools followed the guide-lines. With the growing obesity epidemic plaguing America, everyone needs to do his part. This includes schools, parents and students. Students need to be educated on what is a healthy lifestyle. When parents do not provide children with an in-home example of such a lifestyle, it is up to the school to
“It is a matter of creating a founda-tion for America’s youth to stand upon...” provide this necessary lesson.
If the school does not provide this education, students will be left to their own wits to navigate today’s weighed down society for healthy alternatives.
It is not a matt er of thin or thick. It is not a matt er of fried or roasted. It is not a matt er of two tablespoons or a half-cup. It is a matt er of creating a foundation for America’s youth to stand upon, healthy and strong. So, please, pass the tomatoes. Not the paste, but the fresh fruit.
cub graphic/MCT Campus
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peak Your Mind:Final Exams
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TinyTempa’
AllBear it
“Oh my golly!”Rachel Hedlund, 10
“Tennis shoes. I lace that.” Star Jones, 9
“I like macaroni and cheese and apples.”
Amanda Boyce, 10
“You’re about as useless as a white crayon.”
Lauren Hibbler, 10
“Twilight Breaking Dawn stunk, but Taylor Lautner is still cute.”
Brea Perry, 12
“Come on baby!”Mark Jefferson, 11
“Never give up because they didn’t.”
Jackie Hernandez, 11
“I like to dream about pink ponies.”
Antonio Edwards, 11
“Punny #lolz” Elle Krauter, 11
“Alex Kryah is Hawt!”Michael Burleton, 12
“Try to frown on a wave runner.”
Cameron Jones, 12
“Allons y.”Eric Reynolds, 12
“Uhhhh...”Kevin Willis, 10
“Down by the river.”Nick Petr, 12
“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.”
Michaela Shanahan, 9
“Nat King Cole is the ulti-mate spreader of Christmas cheer.”
Derek Muhl, 10
1) Do you prepare for finals or cram the night before?
2) How long do you study for finals?
3) What do you think of the finals schedule?
4) Which class final do you think will be the hardest?
1.) Prepare like a week ahead.2.) About half an hour every night.3.) I’m a fresh-man so I don’t know.4.) Algebra 2.
1.) I cram the night before.2.) 3 to 4 hours.3.) I think it’s good that we get to review before the final. 4.) Geometry.
1.) Cram the morning before.2.) 5 minutes be-
fore each final.3.) I think it’s a
fabulous idea. I get some study
time.4.)Algebra 2.
freshmanBria Rudolphsophomore
1.) Prepare a little.
2.) Not that long.3.) I think the
time they give us to study is good,
but I feel like it will get boring.
4.) Algebra.
Mady Morganjunior
Jameson Berryjunior
1.) Now I pre-pare.
2.) From the day I get the final
review.3.) I like it be-
cause you get to review.
4.) Chemistry.
Sharhea Perkinssenior
1.) Be prepared.2.) An hour.3.) I don’t like it.4.) Geometry.
Isaiah Martinsophomore
It’s just “A new year, a new me” is some-thing the majority of us teens say on New Year’s Eve. Person-ally, I feel that if you have to change something about your-self every year, then there is a bit
of a problem. A new year to me is just a new way of saying things that you don’t mean.
Bringing in the New Year with a new idea isn’t bad, but if you’re going to change something about yourself or something you have done, then you should stick to it. There is nothing wrong with chang-ing things when the year changes, but honestly, how many of us can
actually say that what we have changed actually worked?
A new year is always a new beginning, but for most people it’s all about attending the parties. I am not really the “party-all-night” type of person. I would rather stay home and leave the party where it is. Parties don’t bring anything but more drama and I am pretty sure no one wants to bring in the new year the wrong way.
So, honestly, I am better off just hanging out with my niece and nephew. Being with them, playing and laughing while watching the ball drop, couldn’t get any bet-ter. New Year’s is supposed to be brought in right and with the right kind of people.
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1.) Prepare.2.) An hour each night.3.) It’s okay.4.) Science.
Joseph Bellishfreshman
seniorRaven Powell
1.) I cram the night before.2.) An hour.
3.) I don’t like the 3 hour classes, it
stinks.4.)World Litera-
ture.
Brianna Cope
whole student body, but just introducing yourself to one
other student will make the biggest impact. If we can learn to accept what makes us unique
and excellent in our fellow students, then Lawrence Central will reflect on it. Lawrence Central could then finally become unique and excellent.
We are 2,500 students. We each have at least one thing in common — we go to Lawrence Central. This should be enough to want to support each other through these four years. The motto even hangs above LC’s doors. “We are a family, one destination, ‘excellence.’” High school is a mountain, but it’s up to us on whether or not we can climb over it. And the only way to do that…is to climb up together.
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From theInside
We’re a family with one destination
The Low-down
This just in: pizza identity crisis
“You can’t squeeze a liter of grease out of a piece of cauli-flower.”
High school. This is a place that is interpreted in many different ways. In some people’s eyes, high school is when you are dedicated to a certain clique and it’s almost like a jungle. To others, it’s the competition to stay “popular” and avoid getting slushied.
High school is often publicized as being the worst four years of your life. This couldn’t be more incorrect. It’s sad, because what this shows and stories forget to tell us is that as students, we make the choice as to how this
experience will affect our lives. If we pull
together as a community, our
high school years will be the best of our lives. If we fail to do this, however, LC
will end up as a jungle, and
goodness forbid slushy attacks.
High school isn’t easy. All 2,500 of us know that. We have the pressures of satisfying our parents with grades, getting scholarships,
studying for tests, and of course, our
future. This doesn’t even cover half of high school worries. We also go through the inevitable drama, breakups, and self
acceptance. None of these obstacles are simple, but we must motivate ourselves to become truly excellent. Do we want to remember high school 20 years from now as being drama-filled and a waste of time? I sure don’t; none of us do.
If we want to make high school, Lawrence Central especially, as excellent as it can be, we have to work on the things that keep LC from being just that. I know that I am constantly writing about the full potential of our school, but trust me, I wouldn’t be writing about it if I didn’t think that it’s 100 percent possible. Remember, I said that I didn’t want to waste my time.
The negative
things we all see every day occur in these halls, or even within our friends, are holding us back. We want to say that, “Yeah, I’m a student at LC,” with integrity. And the only way to do this is by working together to clean up our attitudes about Lawrence Central, and about each other. A lesson that needs
to be understood is that every one of us counts.
For our excellence to shine through, we
need to put our differences aside and learn how to accept each other for those differences. It would be unreasonable for me to ask that we become friends with the
“We want to say that ‘Yeah, I’m a student at LC,’ with integ-rity.”
Cub graphic/MCT Campus
Scoot over, green beans, broccoli and carrots. There’s a new veggie neighbor moving into the food pyramid, or plate, or whatever it is they call it these days. I’ll give you a hint; it’s cheesy, saucy, bready and super greasy.
A few weeks ago, Congress declared that if there is enough tomato sauce on a slice of pizza, it can count as a serving of vegetables in school lunches. While pizza itself was not
specifically mentioned, what else do you think of that has tomato sauce? Spaghetti? Maybe. Pizza? Definitely. I was shocked, too. I mean, doesn’t Congress know that tomatoes are a fruit?
After I managed to look past that obstacle, I started to think about other problems with this decision. There is absolutely nothing about pizza that would make me think of it as remotely close to a vegetable. As far as I knew, you can’t squeeze a liter of grease out of a piece of cauliflower. Then again, I’ve never tried.
Don’t get me wrong, I love pizza, but does it really belong in the vegetable category? I don’t think so. It’s hard to change eating habits once
you’re an adult, but as a kid, healthier habits are easier to instill.
If kids grow up thinking of
pizza when anyone mentions vegetables, we’re going to have a lot to worry about later. Kids won’t even have peas to feed their dogs under the table. Now pets are losing valuable food groups, too.
Let’s see what the future has in store for us if Congress
keeps making decisions like these…
The year is 2080. Ketchup now grows on vines. LA Fitness and the YMCA have long been out of business. Hot Cheetos have their own food group, and people do their grocery shopping at the gas station convenience store. Hungry? Here’s a pack of Starburst, your fruit serving for the day. Take a Snickers, too, for some protein. That’s important, too, you know.
OK, so maybe I’m exaggerating a tiny bit, but seriously, pizza as a vegetable? That’s just out of control.
I understand the idea of not spending hundreds of dollars on gift s for Christmas, but homemade gift s aren’t free, either. They are still made from some sort of material that was at one time bought. So you are spending money either way.
On the other hand, if you can’t spare the cash, then consider rewrapping
old presents and giving them away as new ones (while being careful not to give it back to the original gift giver). This will not only get rid of unwanted items sitt ing around the house but it costs no money and virtually
no time. This idea is thought to soon replace the trend of
homemade gift giving altogether. Clearly nobody likes gett ing
new knickknacks over and over every year; they would rather have something they actually would want. Therefore, skipping the act of “adoring”homemade gift s from the holiday tradition will make the family get-together a litt le more bearable.
FACE OFF
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“Homemade gifts because they mean more.”
“Store bought be-cause I don’t want a raggedy home-made gift .”
Jozelyn Vaughn, 12
Facing the subject: Do you prefer store bought or homemade gifts?
Cub photos/Glynnis King
“Store bought because I like things store bought.”
“Store bought gift s because they’re bett er and they last longer.”
Chalyn Hosea, 11Zach Barnett, 10Austin Stark, 9
Topic: Store Bought or Homemade Gifts?
The spirit of Christmas is about giving and, more importantly, about giving something that is truly meaningful. Sure, you can buy a completely heartfelt gift at some giant retail store, but it never really compares to being able to give something personal, something that is hand-craft ed.
For the past few years, my cousins and I have lived on a tradition of giving hand-craft ed gift s at Christmas. We do everything from tie-dyed shirts to home-baked cookies to knitt ed scarves or blankets. For my family, being able to give something made by your own two hands is the greatest gift .
As high school students, we all know how valuable time is. Time is one of our most precious commodities. Wake up early, go to school, barely make it out alive from practice, etc. There’s a lot out there for us to be doing
and not enough hours in the day to do them. With so much going on, it’s easy to forget the people who help you get through it all. That is why, when Christmas comes around, you really have to show your family and friends that through all of the drama in your life, you’re still thinking of them.
Over the past couple of years I have made several home-made gift s. Some
don’t turn out as great as others, like the year I tried my hand at making journals… they weren’t so prett y. Others, like Scrabble charms, have been a big hit. My dog wouldn’t stop messing around in my work zone until I fi nally put one on his collar; he hasn’t bugged me while I’m making them since!
Some of my most cherished Christmas gift s are ones like a small God’s Eye that my litt le cousin Lizbeth made out of popsickle sticks and yarn, or a tiny box made out of a Christmas card by my other litt le cousin Erica. When Christmas rolls around, these are the types of gift s that are most cherished — gift s from the heart, given from the heart.
While preparing for Christmas this year, please consider the following exercise: tilt your head, smile, raise your eyebrows and say, “Wow! How sweet – it’s homemade!” Practice this twice every day until Christmas and you just might be able to have the luck to pull of yet another holiday with the relatives. However, if you are tired of the same old hand- knit sweater or creation that probably could have been your youngest cousin’s art project, then stand up and say, “No homemade Christmas presents!”
In addition to their being extremely time consuming, people also get no use out of them. Not one person I know has space to spare for something that is going to be sitt ing in the back of their closet, out of sight, only to be shown on the time of the gift giver visiting. They simply take up space.
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What if, on the morning of Black Friday, people stayed at home instead of lining up for miles in front of stores and nearly trampling each other for TVs, clothes and other items? This scenario isn’t too far-fetched for senior Anna Hooker, who doesn’t deal with the crowd and instead makes her buys on the online shoppers’ Black Friday equivalent, Cyber Monday.
According to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 80 percent of households have access to the internet. And in that, ComScore saw a 15 percent increase this year of online shoppers emerging because of how easily one has access to the sale.
According to Hooker, shopping online is hassle-free, especially during the Christmas season when stores have big crowds and little stock of popular
items.“If you’re looking for a black T-shirt,
then you can type in ‘black T-shirt’ and find it instantly,” Hooker said.
It isn’t solely the practicality that draws her in; it is the ability to find things you cannot find in stores.
“I definitely would buy gifts for people online because you get stuff for a lot cheaper so you can get more stuff for more people, and you can find cool obscure gifts,” Hooker said. Websites like Etsy.com allow shoppers to buy handmade or secondhand items.
With an increase of internet use, the Task Force administration on identity theft reported a 26 percent increase in 2007, and it is reported that the percentages are steadily rising. Online shopping in places that aren’t secure
“...you can get more stuff for more people, and you can find cool obscure gifts.”
Anna Hooker senior
can increase the risk of credit card numbers and personal information being stolen and used.
“The threat of identity theft does deter a lot of people from shopping online,” Hooker said.
However, an increasing number of shopping sites are improving their security to protect shoppers’ information.
A good number of students don’t have
their own credit cards so websites like billmyparents.com present an environment for kids to put in their parents’ credit information and just go on a shopping spree, at the parents’ discretion.
However, there will be many decades before stores becoming obsolete because of identity theft.
Senior Anna Hooker browses urbanoutfit-ters.com in search for sales before Christ-mas. She plans to buy gifts for the Secret Santa gift exchange she is doing with her friends. Cub photo/Candace Bullock
Top 10 Online Stores1. Forever 212. American Eagle Outfitters3. Hollister4. Aeropostale5. PacSun6. H&M7. Urban Outfitters8. Hot Topic9. J.C. Penney10. Macy’s
source/best.lovetoknow.com
Bill to the inbox
www.urbanoutfitters.com
www.hollisterco.com
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still standingWalking on tiled floors and gray
carpeting, students find the daily hubbub of school life dragging on. Heads droop, eyes glaze over and phones pop out beneath desks. The tiny tinkering of miniature keyboards and the silent buzz of vibrating phones harmonize into a 21st century version of note passing.
The bell finally signals the end of the day. Drowsy heads snap up, eyes deglaze, and phones get pulled up into free air. The class is ready to go home.
Can you tell which student doesn’t have a place to call home?
In Indianapolis alone, hundreds of teenagers are homeless. Some attend public schools in Lawrence Township, thanks to the McKinney Vento Act. The only thing that separates these students from any other economically stable student is circumstance.
Like most people, Reneè didn’t choose the life she lives. She is living in a three-bedroom house with 13 other people, including her grandmother. Her older sister, brother and mother live elsewhere, but in no better conditions. Neither of their homes is permanent, and
they don’t know for sure how long their residencies will last.
“It hurts feeling as if every time you open the refrigerator, you’re taking out of someone else’s mouth,” Reneè said.
To help provide for her family, Reneè works downtown at a clothing center. The income is small, but every bit counts.
“Because of our new school hours, I can’t get to work like I need to so my hours are cut down even further. We get out at 3:40 p.m., I get off the actual school bus by 4:20 p.m. on the east side, and then I have to get ready for work and be in by 5 p.m. It’s a lot, especially to get downtown when 4-5 p.m. is rush-hour traffic.”
But amidst the struggles of her daily life, Reneè has been able to find a place of escape: school.
“I see freshmen in the hallway, kids I know that are talented. They just don’t have the means, or they goof off or they get sent out of class because of what’s going on at home. I just wish that they had someone who could just stop and say, ‘I understand.’
“If you are going through what I am going through and you’re a freshman, this is your escape; this is your way out. School is your passport to get wherever you want to be. I wish I had known my freshman year to stop goofing around and take school seriously. So like all my other friends, I would
be going to Ball State on a full-ride and my senior year would just be me being comfortable. Yes, things would be hectic at home, but when I get to school,
everything would be OK and I would be ready to graduate. I would just be waiting to graduate and go off.”
School is one of the most con-sistent things in Reneè’s life. It is an escape for her, a place where she can feel secure and stable. But it is not just school that she loves; it’s LC.
“Last year I was in an IPS school and I made it an objective for me to get back here for my senior year. I needed to be in the company of people in good spirits. I walked into the IPS school and the colors were drab and nobody was smiling. I love this place even if everybody else
hates it.” School for Reneè is a lifeline.
The environment, the students, the teachers, the counselors — everyone plays an important role in her life. Thinking “there’s someone out there worse off than me” is not always enough to get her through the day without crying, but performing arts teacher Kathleen Horrigan showed Reneè something that helps her come to school with a smile every day.
“Ms. Horrigan made me fall in love with so many characters inside myself that I never knew I had. That’s where I learned how to just come to school and smile. When I need to be somebody else, I can be. When I need to have that shell of just being a regular high school student, I can. But when I get home I just peel off all the layers. Sometimes I cry. It’s like a relief not to be pretending. Ms. Horrigan planted the roots.”
Dreaming of her ideal senior year, Reneè added, “If I had things my way, my senior year would consist of me being a Thespian. I would be in the fall play, the musical. I would be so active, there would be no way you wouldn’t hear my name around school. I would be in AP classes…a challenge is fun.”
Despite all the obstacles in her life, Reneè is determined to overcome one last road bump in high school, that of graduation.
“I don’t want people to judge me by what I have; I want them to judge me by who I am. … I want my story to be one of conquer. I want to show that I overcame what I’ve been through, not that I fell victim to it.” Reneè, senior
The person in this story would like to remain anonymous. She does not want anyone’s pity, nor does she want judgment to be staring at her through the hallways. She does not want to be alienated by her personal situation.
This is a story of courage, strength and the ability to overcome.
“ Reneèsenior
School is your passport to get wherever you want to be.”
“The way things are going, I don’t think I will be able to go to college. Just because of money. I don’t even have money for a cap and gown. When everyone was receiving their fittings, I just watched. It made me think, ‘What if, May 26, I’ll be doing exactly what I’m doing now — sitting, watching everyone else cross that stage?’ It may not be a big deal to some, but being that I’m the
only one of my siblings to make it this far into high school, I want to at least walk across that stage for my mother. I feel as if everything I do is for someone else, but still. This is
one of those things I feel like I am obligated to give my mother. Even if it’s not ideal, like I’m not going off to college as soon as I hope, because I am still going! I at least want to walk across that stage.”
But even closer than graduation is Christmas. A time when most people are cuddling, wrapped in blankets by a roaring fire, Reneè and her family members are struggling to bring in enough money for heating bills. For her, Christmas is less of a celebration and more of a time for hope and generosity.
“I don’t hope for presents any more, I just want peace. Every year I ask for the same thing and that’s stability. I’m not asking for things to be great, I’m not asking to be rich; I just want to feel like I know
my family for a day. I don’t want to argue, I don’t want my family members to argue, I just want everything to be serene, peaceful,” Reneè said. “Even if I don’t get anything, I still try to make sure I get my mom something. I know nobody else will probably get her anything, as far as my siblings go, so I try to save up. It may not be much, but I try. And my niece, I always try and get something for my niece.”
Through giving, Reneè is able to garner a little happiness for herself, but there are limits to the things she is able to do.
“It hurts, because my counselor tells me all the time that I have to step back and sometimes you have to worry about yourself. She says, ‘You basically have nothing, and you’re still trying to give to others.’ Sometimes it comes to the point, that I give so much of myself that I forget I’m not in the best position to help everybody. It definitely feels better to give, though.
“Not many people I know would be able to go through what I go through and smile like I do and make others laugh like I do. Sometimes, when we’re in the midst of pain, we feel like we will never get through it. Through heartbreak, or mourning the loss of a friend, but once you’re over it, you can look back and you can smile, and it’s just a good feeling. When it comes back to everything being OK, you’re like, ‘Wow. I’ve been through all of this and I am still standing.’ And that is one of the best gifts you can have; to say that you are still standing.”
“I’m not asking for things to be great, I’m not ask-ing to be rich; I just want to feel like I know my family for a day.
Reneèsenior
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still standingWalking on tiled floors and gray
carpeting, students find the daily hubbub of school life dragging on. Heads droop, eyes glaze over and phones pop out beneath desks. The tiny tinkering of miniature keyboards and the silent buzz of vibrating phones harmonize into a 21st century version of note passing.
The bell finally signals the end of the day. Drowsy heads snap up, eyes deglaze, and phones get pulled up into free air. The class is ready to go home.
Can you tell which student doesn’t have a place to call home?
In Indianapolis alone, hundreds of teenagers are homeless. Some attend public schools in Lawrence Township, thanks to the McKinney Vento Act. The only thing that separates these students from any other economically stable student is circumstance.
Like most people, Reneè didn’t choose the life she lives. She is living in a three-bedroom house with 13 other people, including her grandmother. Her older sister, brother and mother live elsewhere, but in no better conditions. Neither of their homes is permanent, and
they don’t know for sure how long their residencies will last.
“It hurts feeling as if every time you open the refrigerator, you’re taking out of someone else’s mouth,” Reneè said.
To help provide for her family, Reneè works downtown at a clothing center. The income is small, but every bit counts.
“Because of our new school hours, I can’t get to work like I need to so my hours are cut down even further. We get out at 3:40 p.m., I get off the actual school bus by 4:20 p.m. on the east side, and then I have to get ready for work and be in by 5 p.m. It’s a lot, especially to get downtown when 4-5 p.m. is rush-hour traffic.”
But amidst the struggles of her daily life, Reneè has been able to find a place of escape: school.
“I see freshmen in the hallway, kids I know that are talented. They just don’t have the means, or they goof off or they get sent out of class because of what’s going on at home. I just wish that they had someone who could just stop and say, ‘I understand.’
“If you are going through what I am going through and you’re a freshman, this is your escape; this is your way out. School is your passport to get wherever you want to be. I wish I had known my freshman year to stop goofing around and take school seriously. So like all my other friends, I would
be going to Ball State on a full-ride and my senior year would just be me being comfortable. Yes, things would be hectic at home, but when I get to school,
everything would be OK and I would be ready to graduate. I would just be waiting to graduate and go off.”
School is one of the most con-sistent things in Reneè’s life. It is an escape for her, a place where she can feel secure and stable. But it is not just school that she loves; it’s LC.
“Last year I was in an IPS school and I made it an objective for me to get back here for my senior year. I needed to be in the company of people in good spirits. I walked into the IPS school and the colors were drab and nobody was smiling. I love this place even if everybody else
hates it.” School for Reneè is a lifeline.
The environment, the students, the teachers, the counselors — everyone plays an important role in her life. Thinking “there’s someone out there worse off than me” is not always enough to get her through the day without crying, but performing arts teacher Kathleen Horrigan showed Reneè something that helps her come to school with a smile every day.
“Ms. Horrigan made me fall in love with so many characters inside myself that I never knew I had. That’s where I learned how to just come to school and smile. When I need to be somebody else, I can be. When I need to have that shell of just being a regular high school student, I can. But when I get home I just peel off all the layers. Sometimes I cry. It’s like a relief not to be pretending. Ms. Horrigan planted the roots.”
Dreaming of her ideal senior year, Reneè added, “If I had things my way, my senior year would consist of me being a Thespian. I would be in the fall play, the musical. I would be so active, there would be no way you wouldn’t hear my name around school. I would be in AP classes…a challenge is fun.”
Despite all the obstacles in her life, Reneè is determined to overcome one last road bump in high school, that of graduation.
“I don’t want people to judge me by what I have; I want them to judge me by who I am. … I want my story to be one of conquer. I want to show that I overcame what I’ve been through, not that I fell victim to it.” Reneè, senior
The person in this story would like to remain anonymous. She does not want anyone’s pity, nor does she want judgment to be staring at her through the hallways. She does not want to be alienated by her personal situation.
This is a story of courage, strength and the ability to overcome.
“ Reneèsenior
School is your passport to get wherever you want to be.”
“The way things are going, I don’t think I will be able to go to college. Just because of money. I don’t even have money for a cap and gown. When everyone was receiving their fittings, I just watched. It made me think, ‘What if, May 26, I’ll be doing exactly what I’m doing now — sitting, watching everyone else cross that stage?’ It may not be a big deal to some, but being that I’m the
only one of my siblings to make it this far into high school, I want to at least walk across that stage for my mother. I feel as if everything I do is for someone else, but still. This is
one of those things I feel like I am obligated to give my mother. Even if it’s not ideal, like I’m not going off to college as soon as I hope, because I am still going! I at least want to walk across that stage.”
But even closer than graduation is Christmas. A time when most people are cuddling, wrapped in blankets by a roaring fire, Reneè and her family members are struggling to bring in enough money for heating bills. For her, Christmas is less of a celebration and more of a time for hope and generosity.
“I don’t hope for presents any more, I just want peace. Every year I ask for the same thing and that’s stability. I’m not asking for things to be great, I’m not asking to be rich; I just want to feel like I know
my family for a day. I don’t want to argue, I don’t want my family members to argue, I just want everything to be serene, peaceful,” Reneè said. “Even if I don’t get anything, I still try to make sure I get my mom something. I know nobody else will probably get her anything, as far as my siblings go, so I try to save up. It may not be much, but I try. And my niece, I always try and get something for my niece.”
Through giving, Reneè is able to garner a little happiness for herself, but there are limits to the things she is able to do.
“It hurts, because my counselor tells me all the time that I have to step back and sometimes you have to worry about yourself. She says, ‘You basically have nothing, and you’re still trying to give to others.’ Sometimes it comes to the point, that I give so much of myself that I forget I’m not in the best position to help everybody. It definitely feels better to give, though.
“Not many people I know would be able to go through what I go through and smile like I do and make others laugh like I do. Sometimes, when we’re in the midst of pain, we feel like we will never get through it. Through heartbreak, or mourning the loss of a friend, but once you’re over it, you can look back and you can smile, and it’s just a good feeling. When it comes back to everything being OK, you’re like, ‘Wow. I’ve been through all of this and I am still standing.’ And that is one of the best gifts you can have; to say that you are still standing.”
“I’m not asking for things to be great, I’m not ask-ing to be rich; I just want to feel like I know my family for a day.
Reneèsenior
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There’s no place like [email protected]
A student who lacks a fi xed, regular and adequate nightt ime residence is by defi nition, homeless. The im-portance of a roof and food is something that many take for granted. Many teens in Ameri-ca, some in Indiana, struggle to survive on a daily basis. They are suff ering from homeless-ness.
The primary causes of teen
NUMBERS: HomelessnessTHEBY
3,000 children in Marion Countyexperience homelessness
7 is the average age of a homeless child in Indianapolis
3 is the average number of times a homeless child will change schools
1/3 of homeless children are profi cient in reading and math
In order to walk across the stage, a student has to pay a minimum of $35. The ability to afford a simple cap and gown for graduation has become harder and harder. Therefore, we ask that any willing person make a donation to the LT Cap and Gown Fund which will help pay for graduating seniors in need.
Donations can be left with school treasurer Michele Vargo at the main offi ce.make checks payable to LT Cap and Gown Fund.
homelessness, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless, are family confl ict and/or economic hardship. Some other leading causes for teen homelessness include fos-ter care, prison/juvenile correc-tions system, abuse, substance abuse, pregnancy, sexual orien-tation, unaff ordable housing, neglect and mental illness.
Several shelters and pro-grams like the Outreach Inc. Program, located on the east side of Indianapolis, are raising
awareness to put a stop to teen homelessness.
Around this time of year, most of the shelter are full. However, the Salvation Army makes an eff ort not to turn down any man, women or child who comes to their doors. Lawrence Central tries to up-hold a similar policy.
“Every guidance counselor has at least one, probably two or three homeless students,” said guidance counselor Suzanne Oakes.
LT Cap and Gown Fund
4-6 months are needed after each move for a homeless student to recover academically
30 percent of Indianapolis families are homeless
Source/www.indyschoolonwheels.org Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
pay a minimum of $35. The ability to afford a simple
Get ready. Finals start next week.
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Midnight picks
for old St. Nick
Spice CakeBuckeyesINGREDIENTS:1 1/2 cups peanut butter1 cup butter, softened1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract6 cups confectioners’ sugar4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS: 1. In a large bowl, mix together the peanut butter, butter, vanilla and confectioners’ sugar. The dough will look dry. Roll into 1 inch balls and place on a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. 2. Press a toothpick into the top of each ball (to be used later as the handle for dipping) and chill in freezer until fi rm, about 30 minutes. 3. Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler or in a bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water. Stir frequently until smooth. 4. Dip frozen peanut butter balls in chocolate holding onto the toothpick. Leave a small portion of peanut butter showing at the top to make them look like Buckeyes. Put back on the cookie sheet and refrigerate until serving.
Source/allrecipes.com
Fruity Sugar CookiePeanut Butter Marshmallow CrispiesINGREDIENTS:2 lbs. almond bark (white)1 cup peanut butter2 cups dry roasted peanuts3 cups miniature marshmallows4 cups rice krispie cereal
DIRECTIONS: 1. Combine peanuts, marshmallows and rice krispie in a bowl.2. Melt almond bark in 300°F oven.3. Mix in peanut butter.4. Poor liquid mixture over the mixed dry ingredients and stir well.
Chocolate Drop Cookies
The Cub staff had a dessert bake-off to decide which des-serts are the best of the season. On the day of the taste testing, we made the mistake of trying whole cookies, which presented a problem once we got to des-sert four or fi ve. Even so, we proved to be tough cookies and made it through trying all 13 kinds. We decided on the des-serts listed below as the best “Midnight picks for St. Nick.”
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1. In a large bowl, mix together the peanut butter, butter, vanilla and confectioners’ sugar. The dough will look dry. Roll into 1
INGREDIENTS:1/2 cup butter, softened1 cup sugar1/4 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar1 large egg
Snickerdoodles
DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat oven to 375° F.2. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter on medium speed for 30 seconds.3. Add the 1 cup sugar, baking soda, and cream of tartar.4. Beat until combined, then beat in the egg and vanilla until well blended.6. Beat in as much fl our as you can with the mixer, and stir in remaining fl our. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour.7. Combine the 4 tablespoons sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons cin-namon. Shape the dough into 1 inch balls and roll in cinnamon sugar mixture to coat.8. Place balls of dough 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.9. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes or until edges are golden.10. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla1 1/2 all purpose fl our4 tablespoons granulated sugar1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
INGREDIENTS:1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter; room temperature1 cup granulated sugar½ cup light brown sugar2 egg yolksBig pinch ground nutmeg1 tsp very fi nely grated lemon rind2 ½ cups all purpose fl our
INGREDIENTS:1 cup sugar½ cup margarine or butter, softened1 egg2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled1/3 cup buttermilk, milk or water1 tsp vanilla13/4 cups all-purpose or whole wheat fl our½ tsp baking soda½ tsp salt
DIRECTIONS:1. Heat oven to 400° F. Mix sugar, margarine, egg, chocolate, buttermilk and vanilla. 3. Stir in fl our, baking soda, salt and nuts. 4. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake eight to ten minutes; cool. 5. Frost with chocolate frosting. Makes about 4 1/2 dozen cookies; 95 calories per cookie
cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
INGREDIENTS:2½ cups of all purpose fl our¼ cup of cornstarch4 teaspoons of baking powder½ teaspoon of salt2 teaspoons of ground ginger1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon½ teaspoon of ground all spice½ teaspoon of ground cloves1 1/3 cup of water½ teaspoon of ground nutmeg
DIRECTIONS:1. Preheat oven to 375° F.2. Mix the following ingredients into a large mixing bowl .3. Stir batter until smooth. 4. Grease bottom of cake pan with butter & pour batter into pan.5. Bake in oven for 35 to 40 minutes.6. Take out and let cool for 10 minutes.7. Ice cake with Hershey’s chocolate icing & enjoy!
2 cups of dark brown sugar½ cup of butter3 eggs1/3 cup of vegetable oil
DIRECTIONS:1. Preheat oven to 375° F.2. Mix eggs and dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.3. In a separate bowl, mix the remaining ingredients together.4. Combine all ingredients until dough forms.5. Form dough into balls and place 2 inches apart on an un-greased cookie sheet.6. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes until golden brown; let cool.7. Mix and spread the sugar and cream cheese coating.8. Top with your favorite fruit. Makes around 25 cookies.
5. Drop by spoon full onto waxed paper. 6. Let them sit for 30 min. Store in plastic container.
2 tsp baking powder ¾ tsp saltAbout 2 tsp water Course granulated sugar for coating, if neededCream cheese and favorite fruit for topping
Vincent Hill, 10For sophomore
Vincent Hill, procrastination has been a struggle throughout 2011. Waiting until the last minute was a part of his weekly schedule, but he hopes to be diff erent next year.
“For me, planning ahead is the best thing,” Hill said. He aims to coordinate a schedule, get work done in study hall and take advantage of free work time in class. While he wasn’t ahead of the game this year, he hopes to start strong and stay strong in his att empt to cut down on procrastination.
Casey Kupiainen, 9“My New Years’ resolution
is to study more. You can always do more than what you are doing to help get ready for a test or quiz,” freshman Casey Kupiainen said.
Kupiainen wants to spend less time in front of the TV and on the computer so she can dedicate more time to studying. She also plans to stay up later and ask the teacher for help so she can reach her 2012 goal.
Delon Pett iford, 11 “You should treat
the people that you want to stay in your life well,” junior Delon Pett iford said. His reasoning comes through in his resolution to be a bett er boyfriend next year. He wants to have closer relationships with the people he cares about throughout the new year.
Jennifer Himes, 12Senior Jennifer
Himes plans to exercise more during 2012. She has committ ed to hit up the gym more regularly due to the approaching tennis season and wanting to be more in shape.
“Joining a gym with your friends and exercising with them is more enjoyable as opposed to making the commitment by yourself,” Himes said.
is the best thing,” Hill said. He aims to coordinate a schedule,
and stay strong in his att empt to cut down on procrastination.
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Jacob Ford, 11While his family is always
there for him, junior Jacob Ford doesn’t see them as much as he’d like. He said he doesn’t see the people outside of his immediate family enough, so he plans to spend more time with his extended family in 2012. Participating in more family activities and seeing his relatives is how he hopes to keep his resolution.
“Family is the most important thing to me; it’s one of my highest priorities,” Ford said.
Cub art/Zach Barnett
Midnight:Students’ resolutions for changes in 2012
f r change
Source/Ledchristmaslighting.com
a t me
Be a better boyfriend
Exercise more
Spend time with family
Study more
Procrastinate less
Minna Ett ers, 10“Life would
be much easier if everyone put a bit more eff ort into being nice,” sophomore Minna Ett ers said.
In 2012, Ett ers wants to be a bett er person. She plans to help people when they are in need and smile oft en. She said she wants to do small things here and there to make a diff erence.
Be a better person
Students and staff alike look forward to varied activities that season provides
CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 19A+E
The holiday season is here and winter break seems to be on everyone’s minds.
Junior Dean Gardner takes a weeklong ski trip with his family every year to Harbor Springs, Mich. Gardner has been to Harbor Springs every year since he was 3 years old and admits that skiing is something he looks forward to all year long. Gardner’s favorite part is the thrill.
“It’s just fun skiing,” he said. “I like just going down as fast as I can.”
The winter holidays are not only a time to practice old traditions, but to start new ones.
Sophomore Ena Tully started a new tradition last year that she shares with her best friend, sophomore Hannah Coble. Tully and Coble created their own gingerbread house last year on Christmas Eve. They made their very own icing and gingerbread to build the house with. Tully’s favorite part was adding store-bought candy and cookie decorations.
“I really like decorating because you can do whatever you want.” Tully said. “You can make a bunch of diff erent gingerbread designs and colors.”
Aft er their masterpiece was completed, Tully set her candy house out for all to see, occasionally sneaking a snack. Tully and Coble set out to create
an authentic and original gingerbread house and ended up having so much fun they decided to make it their annual Christmas Eve tradition.
Art teacher Julia Barnes’ favorite wintertime activity is ice skating. In fact, Barnes teaches ice skating lessons to all ages year-round.
“I love coaching because I’ve skated my whole life,” she said.
Barnes started skating when she was 9 years old. She felt she was part of a special club because in her hometown of Bloomington there were few skaters. She started competing with her best friend to see who could perform the biggest and best tricks.
Barnes said there is something special about wintertime. She has noticed during the holiday season, more people take interest in ice skating. Barnes teaches with Elite Skating at the Forum in Fishers, the Pepsi Coliseum and the Perry Park Ice Skating Rink.
“It’s just fun skiing...I like just going down as fast as I can.”
Dean Gardner
alkin’ in a winter break NDERLAND NDERLAND
Art teacher Julia Barnes dem-onstrates ice-skating to her young pupils. Left: a gingerbread house created by sophomores Ena Tully and Hannah Coble. Bottom: Barnes’ students in action.
Art teacher Julia Barnes onstrates ice-skating to her young pupils. Left: a gingerbread house created by sophomores Ena Tully and Hannah Coble. Bottom: Barnes’ students in action.
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The Rhythmic RevolutionArtist: Nickelback Album: Here and Now Genre: Alternative Rock
Artist: DrakeAlbum: Take Care Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop
Artist: Kelly Clarkson Album: StrongerGenre: Pop Rock
Artist: The MaineAlbum: PioneerGenre: Indie Rock
Similar Artists: Daugh-try, Three Days Grace, Theory of a Deadman
Similar Artists: Plain White T’s, Mayday Pa-rade, All Time Low
Similar Artists: Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Wale, Jay-Z
Similar Artists:Leona Lewis, Michelle Branch, JoJo
Kevin KryahSong Suggestion: When We Stand Together
Rating: -2-3-4-5Rating: -2-3-4-5
Meredith NordmannSong Suggestion: Mr. Know It AllRating: 1-2-3-4-
Jacob HelmusSong Suggestion: HYFRRating: 1-2-3-4-
Sally Finkel Song Suggestion: Thinking of YouRating: 1-2-3- 4-
If you enjoy listening to the equivalent of a bunch of chimpanzees gett ing together and starting a grunge band, then this is the album for you. If not, let me get this out of the way: this album is awful. Every second I spent listening to this album is a second that I wish I’d spent drinking bleach. The “music” on this album is pure, unadulterated fi lth – so, basically, prett y much like any other Nickelback album. For starters, the whole post-grunge sound of the album isn’t representative of the frustrations of a generation (what grunge is generally about), but instead a fury of uninspired riff s and weak lyrics (“Everything I Wanna Do” is particularly bad). This
applies to every song, for, in addition, there is such litt le variation amongst the songs; Nickelback seems determined to play the same garbage over and over again. The only song that is moderately decent is “When We Stand Together,” but that song highlights another major fl aw of the album: it’s hopelessly derivative. The aforementioned “When We Stand Together,” for instance, sounds like U2’s table scraps. If I
haven’t made my point abundantly clear, then let me re-iterate it: this album a tasteless, an abomination.
and the songs you could just listen to while going to sleep or while sipping
on a nice glass of hot chocolate. For this only being his second album ever released, there was a lot of pressure on him from his fans to come out with
something magnifi cent. From all the hype its gott en over the past month, I would say Drake did a great job at delivering “Take Care” and at least made this fan a very happy camper.
song defi nitely defi nes the feel that the album portrays. The rest of Pioneer does a fantastic job of showing off their unique sound, which no one has been able to duplicate. “Like We Did (Windows Down)” as well as “Misery” has easy going beats that are easy to listen to. The album never stops being just as good as it was during the fi rst track, in fact they get bett er with each
new tune. The Maine keeps to own true style, which is undeniably amazing; but I’ll let you fi nd out for yourself.
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Drake or sometimes bett er known as Drizzy came out with his new album called “Take Care” on Nov. 15. This is the second studio album that the Canadian artist has released.
This album includes some headbangers like “The Mott o” featuring Lil Wayne but also some songs that are more relaxing and chill like “Take Care” featuring Rihanna. “Take Care” the album also includes some songs that had already been leaked but are still very good like “Headlines”.
I really like the contrast that Drizzy put in to the album with the clash of upbeat songs
This recent hit album, “Pioneer” by the Maine, is fi lled with unsurprisingly superb songs. The Maine certainly keeps their many fans captivated for this intriguing thirteen song album. This is the Maine’s fi rst offi cial album since their 2010 In Darkness & In Light hit album. The Maine continues their career with a solid and entertaining piece of work. The album begins with “Identify”. This
Kelly Clarkson’s new album “Stronger” has taken over the recent pop charts. It’s her fi ft h studio album and has debuted at number fi ve on the top charts. The lead single ‘Mr. Know it all’ peaked in the top ten of the Billboard top 100 in its debut week.
In 2003 she came out with her debut album“Thankful” featuring her hit song “Miss Independent.” And now in the album Clarkson’s main objective was to record the song as how they sound on the live set. They achieved this by
using minimal auto-tune processing as possible.
This album will be a stretch for some fans showing the fun and angry side of her and not her classical and balladic songs from her early albums. By showing her
diff erent personality as a performer it shows her also as being very versatile.
In this album Clarkson also mixed urban, R&B, country, dance-pop and soul with her known pop rock character to develop a more diverse pop music material.
Her lyrics includes themes about heartbreak, vengeance, forgiveness and empowerment using metaphors from Clarkson’s relationships around people.
Source/circlecityclassic.com
Cub Grub
What’s H t in Indy
Compiled by Jacob Helmus
Celebrate Christmas at Celebration Crossing
Boogie Burger1904 Broad Ripple AveIndianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 255-2450www.boogieburger.com
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Celebration Crossing is at the Indiana State Museum until Dec. 31. The museum’s annual holiday exhibit features the L.S. Ayres holiday train, “Santa Claus Express,” and an appearance from Santa and Mrs. Claus. This exhibit is also open during the museum’s regular hours. The museum is located at 650 W. Washington St. in White River State Park. The exhibit is free with the purchase of a museum ticket.
‘A Beef and Boards Christmas’ will be performed at Beef and Boards on various dates until Dec. 23. This glitt ering production has been a Christmas tradition during the holiday season. Also in att endance at this production will be the one and only Santa Claus. This show is the perfect way to get into the yuletide spirit so go tell your family and head on out to Beef and Boards. Located at 9301 N. Michigan Road.
Turns out you can catch the gingerbread man
The Gingerbread Village at Conner Prairie continues through this month. It is closed on Mondays but open on all the other days of the week and also free with general admission to Conner Prairie. It is truly an amazing sight to look at these crazy creations made from gingerbread that were sent in by adults, families and even youth groups who entered the Gingerbread House competition for the opportunity to display their creations at Conner Prairie during the holiday season.
Boogie Burger is a gourmet burger joint located in the trendy Broad Ripple Village area.
Their key menu item is, well, burgers. Boogie Burger serves up a variety of burgers. All of them are made with char-grilled one-third pound Black Angus beef patt ies.
They also serve a few vegetarian options such as the Chipotle Black Bean Burger and the garden burger.
Boogie Burger also has a few non-burger sandwiches such as the Citrus-Grilled Ahi Tuna Sandwich and the Funky Chicken Sandwich.
My favorite sandwich is the Wild Wild West Burger. The Wild Wild West is advertised as Boogie’s most popular burger. It’s topped with cheddar cheese, hickory smoked bacon, onion rings, and barbeque sauce.
Although their burgers are defi nitely above par, what really brings me back are the garlic fries. They are absolutely incredible, especially when dipped in ranch dressing.
Boogie Burger is set up fast-food style. You go up to the counter and order your food, then wait until your name is called.
Aft er receiving your food you might notice how incredibly greasy it is. Boogie Burger is defi nitely not the place to go if you are watching your caloric intake.
Boogie Burger is more expensive than fast-food restaurants at about $8 a meal, but the quality is worth the price.
Enjoy Christ-mas with a meal at Beef and Boards
The Jingle Rails: Great Western Adventure exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum is open until Jan 8. However, will be closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. This is a special exhibit that only comes out during the winter season so don’t miss this spectacular opportunity.
The exhibit features a network of trestles, bridges, tunnels and chugging trains. Travel westward on this adventure and experience replicas of national treasures while making unforgett able holiday memories.
Admission is free to the exhibit with the purchase of a ticket to the whole museum.
Trains and
Bridges and
Trestles, oh
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Go to Boogie Burger for a rockin’ good meal
The Indiana Pacers are back in action when they take on the Detroit Pistons on Dec 26. Due to the lockout that lasted 148 days, the Pacers will play a shortened 66 game schedule, which means they don’t have many home games , so be sure to go down to Conseco and support the Pacers.
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CINEMANIACFeel the holiday-movie cheer
Genre: Adventure Director: Martin ScorseseRating: PG Length: 126 minutes
Feel the magic with Hugo
“To warm the heart, that is the goal of these fi lms, and they succeed.”
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For me, the most wonderful time of the year is just around the corner. What I’m referring to, of course, is Oscar season, when all the awards-bait and critically-touted fi lms are hitt ing theaters to make an impact on Academy voters. However, many of these fi lms tend to be bleak, harrowing portraits of human suff ering, for, traditionally, that subject matt er tends to snag the most gold. As such, with the season of giving also approaching, I’ve decided to focus on the other major camp of winter movies: holiday fi lms.
By this, I don’t mean fi lms that necessarily take place around
holiday dates (sorry, Die Hard, but you don’t count), but that
evoke the holiday spirit (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, for instance, has nothing to do with holidays, but is played all December regardless). Strong
examples in this category include It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and Elf (Will Ferell outweighs that movie’s other fl aws). What takes the cake, though, is a personal favorite of mine: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Yes, the claymation one.
And yes, it’s very simple, very dated, and very corny, but it’s these qualities that make it so endearing year aft er year. Besides, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has a soft spot for an especially cheesy holiday special.
In my humble opinion, it takes a hard heart to outright reject
holiday movies, but I’d wager that there are some curmudgeons
out there who call out these fi lms for their sentimentality or their schmaltz. Arguably, they’re right, but these factors
are hardly a bad thing when you just want your heart to be warmed. To warm the heart, that is the goal of these fi lms, and in that respect, they succeed wonderfully. So go home and pop in your old VHS of Frosty the Snowman with the family.
It’s a Wonderful Life is widely considered to be one of the best holiday movies.
Time has not been kind to many of the Movie Brats (a group of directors who fl ourished in the ‘70s); George Lucas destroyed the integrity of Star Wars with the prequel trilogy, Francis Ford Coppola became a commercial slave before descending into his current pretentious phase, Roman Polanski is a wanted fugitive, and others (Michael Cimino and William Friedkin, for example) have faded into ob-scurity. Spielberg remains successful, but, like Lucas, has hurt his legacy via special editions of E.T. and the mess that was Indiana Jones and the Horrible Alien Climax (not the real name, but it should’ve been). Only Martin Scorsese, perhaps America’s greatest living director, hasn’t embarrassed himself com-pletely. Imagine my shock, then, when I heard that Scorsese, the man who had Jodie Foster play a child prostitute and Leo DiCaprio urinate into a line of milk bott les, was directing a children’s movie. I was scared that he was one Shia LaBeouf or Jar-Jar Binks away from besmirching his legacy.
How wrong I was. Hugo, adapted from Brian Selznick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, is not only one of the best children’s fi lms I’ve ever seen, but one of the best fi lms of the year. I may be over-stepping my bounds in saying this, but it may even be Scorsese’s most personal fi lm since Mean Streets. Indeed, some of the fi lm’s central themes are won-der, imagination, and dreaming – all expressed through the characters’ love and adoration of cin-ema. Novel adaptation or not, that aspect of the fi lm is pure Scorsese magic.
In addition to the lighthearted and charming themes, Hugo’s strengths are numerous. The acting, particularly from Hugo himself (Asa Butt erfi eld) and cinematic pioneer George Melies (Ben Kings-ley), is excellent, the sets are lavish and opulent, and the editing and camerawork are top-notch. Most no-table, however, is the 3-D; for the fi rst time, it is my opinion that the 3-D actually doesn’t ruin the movie. This is a backhanded compliment, for sure, but the 3-D eff ects in this movie are leagues above anything else I’ve seen.
If you are a lover of cinema, go see this movie. In fact, even if you aren’t, go see it. Hugo is a fantastic experience for the whole family, and a clear sign that Scorsese is still playing at the top of his game.
The band raised the bar for ska when they released Everything Went Numb.
Somewhere along the line someone had a stroke of ge-nius and created ska. Ska is a musical genre that is a mixture of jazz elements, punk rock, rock and roll, and a hint of reggae. Streetlight Manifesto falls smack dab in the middle of this genre. The band consists of seven members, Tomas Kalnoky on guitar and vocals, Pete McCollough on bass, Matt Stewart on trumpet, Mike Brown on alto and baritone saxophone, Jim Conti on alto and tenor saxophone, Chris Thatcher on drums, and Nadav Nirenberg on trombone. Originally the band was completely diff erent in regards to the members. The band formed
in 2002. The band tried to stay out of the mainstream and focus on the individuality of
the band. With every song as catchy and unique as the
last, Streetlight gained a huge fan base and sold out their fi rst show at Rutgers University. The band has set out to be “a world infl uence” as Kalnoky described in an interview with The Wez-zul. They released their
fi rst album in 2003 titled Every-thing Goes
Numb The album was an instant hit and left fans wanting more.
The band’s currently touring in the United States with ska, reg-gae band, Reel Big Fish. Honestly this is a dream show for people
like me. The addition of trumpets, trombones and saxophones make their live music a great deal bett er.
They were at Vans Warped Tour a couple years ago and they had everyone danc-ing and start-ing mosh pits,
crowd surfi ng, and the eccentric musicians were loving it. The band currently has four albums and are working on a fi ft h. Unfortunately, they aren’t coming anywhere close to the Midwest anytime soon.
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“Somewhere along the line, someone had a stroke of genius and cre-ated ska.”
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What’s LC’s...
By the Numbers CUB COMIC
TV SHOW: SONG/RINGTONE:
Danceby: Big Sean feat. Nicki Minaj
Dirt Road Anthemby: Jason Aldean
American Horror StoryMake Me Proudby: DrakeThe Next Iron Chef
Madyson Morgan, 11
Juanyel Holmes, 10
Maddie Kupianen, 9
Arin Justice, 12
Whitney Bunch, 11
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Pounds of lipstick the aver-age woman consumes in her lifetime
Number of teeth a mosquito has
Number of times a fl ee can jump without
stopping
Number of cookies the average American
will eat in his/her lifetime
Number of hours an elephant sleeps per day
Number of hours a vulture can fl y without
fl apping its wings
@CubOnline: What do you want for Christmas?
@mikeyevernham Mikey Evernham, 11 I want OFWGKTA to come to LC and throw down. haha!
@TomOestreich Thomas Oestreich, Principal
@craiglooper Craig Looper, 10
@maximumsaximum Maxie Saxton, 12
@IGoSkyhigh Kimyanna Rudolph, 12@aftoncita Afton Goins, 12
@iSTAY _DEDICATED George Bowman, 10 @michaelgasto Michael Gaston, 12I would like Green Bay Packers stock and a pair of Beats.
I want Dr Dre Beats for Christmas. knitting needles and money for more knitting needles ;D
A PENGUIN! i want a pair of sketcher light-ups like braxton
World Peace!
For Christmas, I want a bar piercing through my ear, money, and iPod :)
TOP 10 HEAVIEST LC TEXTBOOKS 1. American Anthem
2. American Pageant (APUSH)
3. Biology I
4. AP Biology
5. 9th Grade Lit.
6. 10th Grade Lit.
7. 11th Grade Lit. 8. 12th Grade Lit.
9. World Lit. & Comp.
10. American Gov’t.
Top 10 list researched and compiled by Samantha Strong
Cub comic/Audrey Meyer
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Fresh Prince of Bel-AirDerrick Dunlap, 11
That 70’s ShowMadison Walker, 11
Boys off to hot [email protected]
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“ J.R. Shelthead coach
The seniors on our team have really been stepping up.”
Despite a tough loss to Pike, the boys are off to a solid 3-1 start with wins over Lawrence North, Arlington and Arsenal Tech. The Bears’ biggest player this year, senior Jeremy Hollowell, has averaged 24 points per game so far, but he hasn’t been winning games all by himself. “The seniors on our team have really been stepping up,” head coach J.R. Shelt said. “Our starting guards, Davonte Har-ris and Tyler Corley, have been playing phe-nomenally. Tyler Fischl has been a great leader for us, along with Steven Rhodes and Stephen McCann. A program usu-ally starts with the seniors on your team, and they’ve been huge for us.”
With the help of these players, the boys were able to pull off a 57-52 over-time victory over Lawrence North. The game was filled with big talent and high emotion, with dunks by Freeman and Hollowell changing momentum at key points in the game. Hollowell put up a team high 23 points and also contribut-ed eight boards.
In addition, Hol-lowell put on a show on one of the biggest stages in Indiana bas-ketball, Conseco Field-house. “Just remember-ing how the loss last year to LN (at Hinkle
Fieldhouse) was so depressing, and us-ing that as motivation to win,” Hollow-ell said. “But playing at Conseco was a great experience.” Fischl, who had to leave the game momentarily because of a gash on his forehead, contributed 9 points and six boards. Freeman, who has been a high energy player this year for the Bears, contributed two key blocks in the game. Though the game was a little sloppy at both ends of the court, the win was vital for the Bears. “Conseco Fieldhouse was a great at-mosphere. Not everyone gets the oppor-tunity to play there. Getting the win was just icing on the cake,” Shelt said. Hollowell, who committed to Indi-ana University earlier in December, will be the focal point of opposing teams’ game plans to stop the Bears. The 6-foot-8 forward is a versatile player who can drive, post up and shoot from range as well as rebound the ball well. Beat-ing the Bears will involve exposing any weaknesses in Hollowell’s game, which, at times, can be very difficult to find. “I’m coming out and playing hard every game,” Hollowell said. “There are always things I need to work on, like my ball-handling and my jump shot. But overall, we just don’t want to be beaten. That’s motivating me.” Hollowell certainly played hard against Arsenal Tech on Dec. 3 at home in a thrilling 69-64 victory. Hollowell put up 26 points and nine boards, along with a mammoth alley-oop with the help of Corley on a third quarter fast-break.
The seniors once again played a large role in the win, including Stephen McCann, who played “great defense,” according to Shelt, in the waning min-utes of the fourth quarter after Hollowell fouled out. One of the best match-ups in the state will be played next Wednesday against Hamilton Southeastern. Hollow-ell will be playing against another one of the most talented players in the state,
Gary Harris. How will the boys prepare? “Good players find ways to score,” Shelt said. “We just have to frustrate him and force him to shoot bad shots. We have a bunch of athletes on our team, so we can put multiple players on him and make sure he doesn’t get in a rhythm.” The boys hope to rebound from a frustrating loss to Pike, which included a 4-point second quarter, as they travel to Bloomington South tonight.
Flying for a rebound over Arsenal Tech’s Trey Lyles, senior Tyler Fischl tries to keep the possession alive for the Bears. Fischl had six boards in the game. Courtesy photo/Eric Rees
Senior Jeremy Hollowell shoots a 3-point-er against Tech. Courtesy photo/Eric Rees
Injuries weren’t the prob-lem for the Bears these past couple of weeks, but infection was. Several of the varsity wres-tlers have been suffering from a nasty infec-tion called im-petigo, a sort of flesh-eating infection that feeds off bac-teria. And the perfect place for impetigo to spread is the wrestling mat. But the Bears didn’t let that affect the outcome of the tour-nament this previous weekend. They took first place at the Fort Wayne Bishop Luers Invitation-al. Three wrestlers went un-defeated on the day. They were juniors Riley Newkirk and Max Brutus and senior Dominique Robinson. “We’ve put in the time and
CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 25SPORTS
Lockout over? Won’t even care
“I would rather watch an eighth grade CYO team than a Grizzlies-Timberwolves game.
Touch
All‘Em
“...It’s our time to do something big.”
Riley Newkirkjunior
Wrestlers prepare for county
Putting his opponent in a headlock, junior Sam Torres pins his opponent. Torres was a contributor to the win in the match against Pike. Cub photo/Coleman LaBarr
2011 has been the year of the lockout. The first was the NFL lockout, which thankfully ended in time to have a full reg-ular season. The NBA, the other league with a lockout, was not so lucky.
The owners and NBAPA (NBA Players Associa-tion) finally resolved
their 146-day dispute and agreed upon a new 10-year collective bargaining agree-ment (CBA). Both sides can opt out of the deal in six years, though. It is widely accepted that the owners were the win-ners of this new CBA, and if
you read through the specifics of the deal, it’s pretty obvious that they did. But that’s not what I’m here to write about. I’m here to complain about how awful the NBA is. Don’t get me wrong. I love the game of basketball. I love watching the great boys and girls teams we have at LC. Our teams are exciting and are full of energy. The NBA, on the oth-er hand, is filled with egotistical athletes that care only about scoring. Seeing an NBA player actually play defense is about as common as hearing the Pope swear. It just doesn’t happen. Their mechanics are subpar at best and there is little hus-tle shown at either end of the court. I would rather watch an
eighth grade CYO team than a Grizzlies-Timberwolves game. At least I would see a team, not just a bunch of wanna-be Mi-chael Jordans. S i m p l y put, the NBA is a mockery of professional sports. When more than half of your teams in the league make the play-offs, you might as well let everyone in, like a recreational league. The Pacers, who were eight games below .500 (win-ning percentage), made the playoffs. As much as I love them, they didn’t deserve to be there. Two of the playoff teams
in the Eastern Conference had a negative average point differ-ential. When the most exciting part of the league’s season is
hoping for the Heat to lose, you know your league is boring. A n d what’s worse than aw-ful teams? An awful
commissioner. David Stern is a bumbling idiot. As many people know, he just canceled one of the biggest block-buster trades in the NBA in the last few years because “it wasn’t in the best interest of the league.” I rest my case there.
the hard work, and now it’s our time to do something big,” Newkirk said. The Bears are taking many precautions to make sure that the wrestlers don’t get any inju-ries or further infections.
Grades are another is-sue. “We’ve been check-ing the wres-tlers’ grades to make sure they’re stay-ing on top of their classes, and if they
aren’t, then finding help so they can get the grades up,” coach Tom Corbett said. Most of the wrestlers suf-fering from impetigo have been cleared for this upcoming weekend which is the Marion County tournament. This gives the wrestlers a chance to see some of the opponents they will have to face in Sectionals. The team’s next meet is the county tournament on Satur-day at Lawrence North.
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There are a few things run-ning around inside the head of a wrestler on a Friday night. One, most importantly, is food and a beverage. Two, is the thought of what the results of the tournament will be the next day. It’s a weighty issue. For each wrestler there is a specific weight requirement that must be met. For instance, 126 lbs. is one of the 14 weight classes. So if the wrestler weighs in at 126.2, then he is not allowed to wrestle that weight class. Clearly, missing weight is the last thing a wrestler wants to do. So, to ensure the wres-tler doesn’t miss weight, he cuts down to a little under the weight and then the night be-fore, he doesn’t eat anything. Then, after he weighs in, he eats a meal and gets ready for the match ahead of him. Wrestling isn’t a sport of pure athleticism; the wrestler must have technique, quick re-flexes, endurance, and instinct of what the opponent will do next. Wrestling is more than just the sport part of it. “This sport taught me many things, not just the moves, but it taught me morals and disci-pline. The coaches and I just want to give back to the sport what it gave to us,” head coach Tom Corbett said. Cutting weight is a big issue and there are precautions both coaches and wrestlers must do to avoid breaking the rules. “We only let the kids we know can cut down do it,” Cor-bett said.
The coaches check the kids’ diet and document what they eat every day. At the beginning of the year the wrestlers take a body fat test which shows the percentage of body fat they have and how low a weight they are allowed to go down to. “This is an individual sport, but it’s more than that. There’s a team cause. If you don’t work with your team, you won’t be-come a family, and if you don’t become a family, there will be
no communication and every-thing will go wrong,” senior Clay LaBarr said. “My biggest fear is that these wrestlers will get some kind of outside influence to make wrong decisions,” Cor-bett said. “We check up on their grades to make sure they’re staying in line and bring them together to bond as a team.” Wrestling is more than an average sport that just takes time out of your day; it’s a life-style.
A weightystruggle
Wrestlers, inculding junior Scott Swingle, are always trying to find ways to cut weight. Cub photos/Coleman LaBarr
CUB REPORTER • DECEMBER 16, 2011 PAGE 27SPORTS
“Every year we look for the seniors to step up. ”
Andy Reniehead coach
Best start in years for girls
Stronger swimmers on a rollJacobHelmus
The boys swim team is off to an 8-0 start. They came through and beat Pike 100-85 in their fi rst meet, Roncalli 93-92 in their sec-ond and con-tinued their w i n n i n g ways as they swam past C a t h e d r a l and Ben Da-vis in a three-way meet. LC led with 63 points, Ben Da-vis placed second with 40 and Cathedral came in third with 38 points. The Bears also took home fi rst place in a three-way meet when they breezed by Bishop Chatard and Brebeuf Jesuit. The Lady Bears team is also off to a good start as they are 8-2. Their fi rst meet was a three-way meet against Franklin Cen-tral and Covenant Christian. The girls picked up two wins as they just edged out Frank-lin Central by a score of 87-86. Covenant Christian came in last with a score of 8 points.
The girls continued their winning streak and increased their record to 3-0 aft er they defeated Pike 100-86. The girls fi rst slip-up of the season came against Roncalli as they lost 92-96. The girls also took fi rst place in a three-way meet with Cathe-
dral and Ben Davis. LC led the scor-ing with 69 points. Their second loss of the year came when they lost to Brebeuf in a
three-way meet that included Chatard, who they beat. To top it all off coach Andy Renie picked up wins No. 400, 401, 402 and 403 in his career as the boys and girls won in a three-way meet against Broad Ripple and Decatur Central The success that the swimmers are having this season could largely be contributed to more intense and focused practices. “We have started doing more quality swimming during practice. We are also doing the Insanity workout program for our dry land practices,” Renie said. The Insanity program is
varsity swim teams. “Every year we look for the seniors to step up. This year is no diff erent. Our seniors will be asked to swim whatever we
The girls basketball team is off to a 4-2 season start af-ter wins against Indianapo-lis Northwest, Mount Ver-non, Pike and Howe. It’s their best start in years. The girls suff ered their fi rst loss of the year to Bloom-ington South, and they were defeated by North Central when they played in the Marion County Tournament. In the team’s opening game against Northwest, sophomore
Kyra Tucker led the Bears in scoring with 14 points, fol-lowed by junior Breanna Jones and senior Taylor Sanders with 12 points each. Senior Kacey Johnson also contributed 11 rebounds, the game high, and added another 11 points to the 66-52 victory for the Bears. Three players went into double fi gures in the Lady Bears fi rst home game, against Mount Vernon. Sanders led in scoring with 16 points while Johnson and Jones scored 14 and 11 points, respectively.
Jones also led the team in re-bounds with seven. LC went on to win 58-49. The team’s fi rst loss was also their fi rst conference game, against Bloomington South. The Bears were kept to only 36 points by their op-ponents. Seniors led the way in scoring with 13 points for Sanders and 10 for Johnson. Upcoming games are against Bloomington North and Lawrence North, who both have winning records. Coach John Albers said he wants the
girls to keep giving their all and playing well. “Our focus is to play our best every time we step on the fl oor,” he said. He believes the main keys to success are being a team and respecting others. “We have to play as if every game is a champion-ship game,” Albers said. The team is doing well, but Albers wants the team to work on communication on the fl oor and execution. The girls next game is against Columbus North at home.
Junior Jordan Elder swims down his lane as he competes in the 200 Individual Medley in a meet against Decatur Central and Broad Ripple. Elder fi nished third in the event. Cub photo/Meredith Nordmann
an intense workout meant to in-crease full body strength. Along with practices that are more focused, both teams rely on their seniors, as do most
need in order for us too win meets,” Renie said. The Bears’ next meet will be the Marion County tournament today and Saturday at IUPUI.
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INTHE Spotlight
“In the end, it isn’t a matter of what I do for Grant. It’s a matter of what Grant does for me.”
Senior Ross Pereira single-handedly planned and held Hoops for ACC, a basketball tournament rais-ing funds for the NODCC, an organization that helps kids with disabilities caused by this disease, includ-ing his younger brother, Grant Pereira.
Cub Reporter (CR): What motivated you to make this basketball tournament fund-raiser a reality? Had you been thinking about it for a long time or was it a spur of the moment idea?
Ross Pereira (RP): Well, I de-cided to organize the fund-raiser, because I’ve seen the opportunites that the Na-tional Organization for Dis-orders of the Corpus Callo-sum (NODCC) has given my brother and other kids with similar disabilities.
I remember as a kid travel-ing to Dallas, Texas with the family to att end the NODCC Annual Workshop and Speaker Symposium. I just wanted to give back and had been thinking of a way to do so for a long time.
CR: When did you start plan-ning the tournament?
RP: I started planning the tournament the week aft er the Cross Country season fi n-ished or around Nov. 1.
CR: Describe your relation-ship with your brother.
RP: Grant and I are a lot clos-er than the typical brothers. For as long as I can remember I’ve looked aft er and taken care of Grant, and it just sort of became habit.
While we talk about al-most everything, there’s a certain point where he just doesn’t comprehend the emo-tions I may convey, but we’re still close on that level.
I’m the one who shaves and showers Grant, defi -nitely not the norm for typi-cal brothers. Usually, one of my weeknights is spent with Grant, whether it’s the mov-ies, a school athletic event or just hanging out. All in all,
we spend a lot of time togeth-er.
While some would say that having a brother like Grant is a burden, I think its been one of the greatest blessings in my life. He’s so innocent, oblivious to the tu-mult in the world, and I’ve never met someone more full of love than Grant. He teach-es me every day. The things I do, they aren’t a testament of my “self-righteousness.”
I have no doubt that any-one in my position would do the same. In the end, it isn’t a matt er of what I do for Grant. It’s a matt er of what Grant does for me.
CR: Were you questioning the success of the tourna-ment, or were you confi dent in its turnout?
RP: I was prett y confi dent in the tournout of the tourna-ment. We had great participa-tion from teams in the area and teams as far away as Sey-mour High School. Without the participation, the tourna-ment wouldn’t have been a success.
CR: Why only cross country teams? Why not allow any-one to create a team?
RP: We decided to do only Cross Country teams be-cause, for three years run-ning, there has been a Cross Country Basketball tournament host-ed by someone and some team in the Indy area (War-ren Central/ Sean Obrein 2010, Lawrence Central Team 2009). Granted, this tourna-ment was much more of a fundraiser and had much more organization than pre-vious years.
CR: What does the founda-tion do that you fundraised for? Does it look for cures or treatments?
RP: The NODCC hosts an annual Workshop and Speaker Sypmosium for families with members with disorders of the corpus cal-losum. They don’t look for cures or treatments per say, more help and guide fami-lies in how to deal and care for their family member.
Cub photo/Geoff Bowles
Hoops
