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Lawrence Central High School 7300 E. 56th St. Indianapolis, Indiana
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Volume 62, Issue 5 January 21, 2011
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Be sure to watch this issue’s epi-sode of Cub Now News, airing right after LC Current, to check out news on final exams, the dangers of texting and driving and LC celebrating the holidays.
sports Turn to page 26 to find the truth about
performance-enhancing equip-ment, and whether they really work or if they are just a scam.
a&e The Demon Bar-ber of Fleet Street is coming to LC.
Check out page 20 to see more on one of LC’s most controver-sial productions to date.
features See the true ramifica-tions that
can result from text messages while driving on pages 14-15.
Federal and state systems put LC on academic probation ISTEP+ Percent Pass both English/LA and Math
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According to Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and Public Law 221 (PL221), LC is a failing school.
AYP is a federal accountability system that tracks the progress of a school, while PL221 is a state system that does the same. LC has not met AYP since 2004, and after four years of being on academic watch under PL221, LC is now on academic probation.
Last year, LC passed only seven out of 27 sub-groups. Fourteen of the subgroups are based on perfor-mance, seven in math and seven in English/language arts for ISTEP. The other subgroups are based on par-
ticipation and gradua-tion rate. To meet par-ticipation categories, 95 percent of students must take the exam.
The whole point of these two systems is to assess schools and make sure they are improving every year. According to PL221, LC saw a 4.3
percent decrease in 2009-2010. With all this focus on school improvement comes
the topic of school accreditation. Accreditation is on a five-year cycle, and this year marks the year that LC must be re-accredited.
An external group, Advanced Ed, will visit in April to decide if it will accredit LC. This group decides what the school is doing well, and what it needs to work on.
Principal Kevin Brown said he is “excited” about this process and welcomes it as a test to see how far along LC is toward its goal of excellence. “We can go up and higher from (where we were at the beginning of the year),” Brown said.
“Accreditation means that the curriculum set forth is quality, there are highly qualified teachers and a quality education for students,” said associate prin-cipal Kristie Corn, who is in charge of preparing the
school for the Advanced Ed audit. LC is doing many things to prepare for Advanced
Ed and the accreditation process that are different from past years. The most notable change is the addition of the curriculum-guided vocabulary in some classes. The vocabulary was added to “increase academic achieve-ment through improved reading comprehension,” Corn said. Improvement on reading is a large goal for
– See ACCREDITATION on page 6
We can go up and higher from (where we were at the be-ginning of the year).
Kevin Brownprincipal
Cub Reporternews2 January 21, 2011
important datesJan. 27: Financial Aid Night, 7 p.m., auditorium Jan. 28-29: Thespian confer- ence, University of India- napolisFeb. 3-5: “Sweeney Todd,” LC’s Thespian play, 7 p.m., auditorium Feb. 9: Early release, 2 p.m. Feb. 9: Orchestra concert, 7 p.m., auditorium Feb. 12: SAT, 8 a.m., LC’s Stu- dent Life Center
Panel discussion Jan. 31 An “Education and Politics at a Crossroads” panel discus-sion with Indiana legislators, state and local school leaders will be 7:30-8:45 p.m. Jan. 31 in Lawrence North’s Litt le Theater. Featured guests and topics: Sen. Jean Breaux, Rep. John Bartlett , Sen. Jim Merritt , Rep. Brian Bosma, Rep. Gregory Porter, State School Super-intendent Tony Bennett , and Lawrence Township School Board President Carol Hel-mus. The discussion will be moderated by John Strauss. Topics to be discussed: • What recommendations are being made for teacher evalu-ations? • How will funding formula changes impact Lawrence Township? • What does “school choice” mean for families? • How will high school stu-dents be rewarded for early graduation? Childcare will be provided, as will ASL & Spanish transla-tors. The event is sponsored by the Lawrence Township School Council.
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To help students and par-ents with the diffi cult fi nancial aid procedure, there will be a fi nancial aid information night 7-9 p.m. Jan. 27 in the audito-rium.
“Financial aid can make the diff erence as to whether or not you can go to school, or what school you go to,” counselor Suzanne Oakes said. “(Receiv-ing fi nancial aid) means it’s go-ing to be a whole lot easier to go to college.”
While fi nancial aid can make a diff erence, obtaining it is a complex process. The most important step is to fi le the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
“If you do not fi le the FAF-SA form, you cannot receive
any state or federal aid for the next year,” Oakes said.
The deadline for fi ling is March 10.
Sandra Osborne, assistant director for loan and work pro-grams at the University of In-dianapolis, will be speaking at Thursday’s meeting.
“It’s so complex that she will break it down so people know what they need to do,” Oakes said.
The seminar will cover how to fi ll out the FAFSA and the best ways to receive fi nancial aid.
Families can fi le for fi nan-cial aid based on their income; all legal residents of Indiana are eligible to apply for both state and federal aid via the FAFSA. Following the fi ling, the gov-ernment will send the families
a fi nancial aid package. “When a student receives
the form back from the govern-ment, it’s what we call a fi nan-cial aid package. It may consist of low interest loans, grants or work study,” Oakes said.
Students can receive both state and federal aid, but fed-eral aid is usually greater.
“There is more federal aid,
but budget cuts have aff ected the amount available,” Oakes said.
In addition to fi ling the FAFSA, students can receive aid from the specifi c school they wish to att end.
“Most students will need a combination of work study, scholarships, and fi nancial aid. If a student got accepted into Ball State University, for exam-ple, he could see what scholar-ships and aid are off ered. Each school off ers diff erent scholar-ships,” Oakes said.
For help with the FAFSA in addition to the Financial Aid Night here, there will be a Col-lege Goal Sunday at 2 p.m. Feb. 20 at Arlington High School and Ivy Tech Community Col-lege. Individual help with fi llng out the FAFSA will be available.
El nuevo alfabeto sin letras A partir de Nov. 28 del 2010
el alfabeto en español solamente tendrá 27 letras. Antes tenía 29 cuando incluía las letras “ch” y “ll”. La Real Academia de la Lengua Española anunció los cambios en el alfabeto con letras eliminadas, cambios a prefi jos y nombres.
22 países, siendo miembros de la academia, se juntaron en Guadalajara, Mex., para decidir los cambios del alfabeto
Para no tener confusión con las pronunciaciones de las letras “b” y “v”, la letra “b” se llamara “be” y la “v” será llamada “uve”. La “w” ahora será “doble uve”. La “i griega” ya no existirá y pasara a ser “ye” mientras que la “i latina” será “i” .
Palabras como “huí”, “truhán” y “guión”, no llevarán tilde al igual que la letra “o” cuando va entre números por ejemplo “21 ó 22”. Este cambio
es mas fácil a para las nuevas tecnologías. La palabra “solo” es un caso especial ya que no llevará tilde pero podrá usarse para eliminar que la gente se equivoco en el sentido de la palabra.
No solamente va haber diferencias en las letras pero también el los prefi jos. El prefi jo “ex” es el que cambia. “Ex” se usara unido a la palabra, por ejemplo “ex novio” será “exnovio” pero cuando sean palabras compuestas se podrá usar de manera separada, como por ejemplo “ex director general” se quedara así. Algunas palabras también tendrán odifi caciones. La letra “q” pasara a ser “c” o “k” en algunas palabras. “Iraq” será “Irak”, “Qatar” será “Catar” y “quasar” será “cuasar”. Todas estas nuevas reglas comenzaran aplicarse a fi nales de este año,
pero seran opcionales.Desde que nací el alfabeto
ha tenido 27 letras. Creciendo en la escuela aprendí canciones que me ayudaban a acordarme de las letras. Rimas que me ayudaban a acordarme de las vocales y “dichos” para saber la diferencia en las letras “b” y “v”
o como ahora es “be” y “uve.”
Me pongo a pensar, ¿a quien se le ocurrió esta idea? Es absurdo lo que estan haciendo. Porque hasta horita para
cambiarlo si el idioma ha estado en uso por muchísimos años. También porque cambiarlo si lo enseña con esas letras. ¿Que le va a pasar a las palabras que tienen esas letras? ¿Que sigue; quitar nombres, desaparecer palabras por completas? Ya la gente no sabe que hacer. Hay problemas más importantes como la economía de diferentes países. Hay gente que se
estan matando por guerras y problemas de drogas y ¿que hacemos? ¡Cambiamos el alfabeto!
¿Qué va a ser la gente? Va a ver mucha confusión con todos los cambios que van a ver aunque van a ser opcionales.
Se ha gastado mucho tiempo en pensar en estas nuevas reglas y ahora se va a gastar hasta mas tiempo para crear diccionarios nuevos, planes nuevos para los maestros y los estudiantes que ya sabían español o estaban estudiando español, ahora necesitaran que gastar su tiempo en aprender algo nuevo que ya habian aprendido.
Con los nuevos cambios se me va mi “niñez”pues exagero un poco. Pero en serio que voy a ser con esas dos letras que ahora se. Me revelo ante esto y las sigo usando o sigo las reglas nuevas?
Adiós diciendo “be de burro” o “ve de vaca” para saber que letra iba a usar. Adiós alfabeto que aun conocía.
Financial Aid Important Dates
FAFSA form: due March 10
Financial Aid Information Night : 7 p.m. Jan. 27, auditorium
College Goal Sunday: 2 p.m. Feb. 20 Arlington High School and Ivy Tech Community College
FAFSA forms made easy
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011 news3
AP biology students analyze genetics of flies they breed
It was something interest-ing and out-of-the-ordi-nary to do.
Katherine Toppejunior
Junior Brandon Feldmeier examines a petri dish of flies. The AP biology class finished a project involving mating flies and analyzing the offspring’s genetics.
FlyThe AP biology class ended a lesson on phenotypes with a month long experiment involving mating flies and examining the parents’ and offspring DNA. cub photos/Sam Mueller
on the wallA regular day at school usually in-
volves taking a few notes, studying for a quiz and maybe even dozing off for a while in study hall. Mating animals, however, is not usually on the agenda, but that was exactly what one class has been doing with an organism usually reserved for a rolled up newspaper or swatter.
Recently the AP biology class fin-ished a project that involved mating flies. The experiment which began in early December just wrapped up while the class was looking at phenotypes in the flies.
A phenotype is any observable char-
acteristic or trait of an organism. Pheno-types mainly result from the genes of the organism, which is the basic principle of what the project was about.
“The experiment put what we were learning into a real- world situation,” ju-nior Katherine Toppe said.
The assignment was to mate a group of flies that were enclosed in a tube to determine how the parent genet-ics are passed to the offspring. Each group was given two groups of flies to observe for the month-long experiment. By the end of the ex-periment, students had bred two cycles that lasted two weeks, each fly possess-ing specific genes.
“It was something interesting and out-of-the-ordinary to do,” Toppe said. “You usually don’t get to mate things in school so it was fun to watch.”
Other similar projects are held in other classes includ-ing the biome project in AP environmental science and the dis-section of frogs in bi-ology; however, for this particular proj-ect the results need-ed to be particularly accurate given that the class was looking
at the DNA of the flies. “We needed to make sure we kept
track of everything throughout the ex-periment or else everything was going to get messed up,” junior Ben Elser said. “It was just more detailed and that made
it interesting.” While mating the flies, students
were supposed to study the heredity of the flies and see whether specific traits were autonomic or sex linked. Due to these different traits in the flies, each ex-periment’s result came out differently.
“You were basically on your own during the experiment as far as finding the results for the group of flies,” junior Graham Gardner said. “If you did what you needed to, it wasn’t too hard to get what you needed.”
“AP biology has a number of stan-dard labs that they have to do during the course of the year and this was one of those labs,” teacher Kathryn Madren said. “So it should be in the class cur-riculum for next year as well.”
The experiment was able to take the lesson out of the texbook and into the real world.
Three years ago, there was no pro-gram for students to voice their opinions on school policies. Student Council is the closest thing to achieve this, but is more focused on organizing school events than proposing new ideas for upcoming school years.
Raising Student Voice through Par-ticipation (RSVP) started as a branch off of Student Coun-cil to fulfi ll this very purpose. Each member of RSVP is a rep-resentative from another club which al-lows for an equal distribution of opinion throughout the school.
Now they are separate from Student Council and have had popular success in the past two school years.
For the 2009-2010 school year, RSVP enabled students to use iPods in study hall. This year, they have enabled stu-
dent with at least a 4.0 GPA to eat off -campus lunches.
On Jan. 19 and Jan. 20, RSVP be-gan their fi rst surveys for the 2011-2012 school year. Representatives go to each study hall room and take a survey for possible changes next year.
Aft er they collect all of the votes, they determine the most popular pro-posal for change and present it to the ad-ministration.
“It hasn’t aff ect-ed me because they haven’t made many changes in general,”
senior Jay Aguirre said. Ultimately, it is up to the administra-
tion to decide whether or not the pro-posal will become part of the school’s policies. They also decide the restriction regarding each proposal.
“I think RSVP has helped a litt le bit, but the problem is that the administra-tion is not helping us out,” senior Kris Ferguson said.
Cub Reporter January 21, 2011news4
Show choir ready to start o� [email protected]
RSVP ‘raises’ voice
I think RSVP has helped a little bit...
Kris Fergusonsenior
The show choir season is ready to kick off next month. Central Sound (CS) and Sweet Sensation (Sweets), LC’s top mixed and women’s choirs respectively, will begin their seasons at Pike High School MusicFest on Feb. 12. Both choirs have been ramping up the number of hours put into practice as the competi-tion nears.
“We’re working really hard,” sopho-more and second year CS member Elle Krauter said. “I think our overall show will be really strong this year. “
CS’s show is ‘Las Vegas’ themed while Sweets aimed for a ‘Downtown’ theme.
The choirs are preparing themselves with not only long hours of practice but also a positive mentality.
Both CS and Sweets had strong sea-sons last year, placing and winning vari-ous caption prizes against some of the state’s top teams. CS raised enough mon-ey to compete in Fame Chicago, where
they placed second. This year, director Jena Adrianson looks forward to putt ing together a fresh show that will be enter-taining and competitive.
“It’s being able to have a concept of what we would like to do and taking it through to the end,” Adrianson said. “We have to be able to take it and in-clude it into everything: the vocals, cho-reography, costumes, and back-up band and make it extraordinary.”
Sweets and CS also have challenges to face this year. According to Adrian-son, about three-fourths of Sweets mem-bers are new to show choir and there were many CS members that graduated last year.
“The new Sweets members are learn-ing how to dance and sing at the same time for the fi rst time, while there are new CS members as well,”Adrianson said.
“There will be some really fi erce competitors, but I think both Sweets and CS have the drive and the show to beat them,” senior, dance captain and co-president Amy Kleiman said.
Sweet Sensations, LC’s top women’s show choir, is preparing for a rigorous competitive season. About three-fourths of the members are new this year. Cub photo/Sam Meuller
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011 news5Sophomore recognized by [email protected]
Key Club looks toward ‘bright’ [email protected]
Sophomore Devin Miller spends his time as most teenagers do: going to school, football practice, and being with his friends. However, a large portion of Miller’s life is set aside for his commu-nity.
“The community gave back to my family, so I wanted to give back what they gave to me,” Miller said.
As a child, Miller was often in trou-ble; he was introduced to a mentor who turned to volunteerism to help Miller stay out of trouble.
Miller now spends 30 hours every week giving back to his community. He is an active member of Teen Court, the In-dianapolis Public Library Summer Read-ing Program, where he reads to local chil-dren, the StarFish Initiative, where he has helped raise money for Dollars For Schol-ars, along with the Visiting Nurses’ Ser-
vices, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indiana University/Clarian Hospital and the Indianapolis Animal Shelter.
Miller dedicates most of his time to being a member of Teen Court, where he is a volunteer juror and attorney.
Teen Court is a program that pro-vides first-time juve-nile offenders with a second chance by providing alternative consequences, such as community service.
The program also offers leadership opportunities for volunteers such as Miller.
“(Teen Court) helps other teens that committed a crime realize what they did wrong and helps out the community,” Miller said, “Kids in trouble come get an
inside look to what happens to adults.” Miller volunteers with Teen Court
four times a week; he began volunteer-ing with the program when he was 10
years old. Others have no-
ticed Miller’s dedi-cation to helping others and his com-munity. Miller and 10 other volunteers were recognized by Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard and received the 2010
Mayor’s Community Service Award. The award was created to ac-knowledge Indianapolis residents who volunteer their time toward bettering their communities.
“These 11 individuals represent the very best that the city of Indianapolis of-fers in the area of volunteerism and com-
munity service,” Ballard said. Each individual received a brick en-
graved with his name that was placed at the Mayor’s Volunteer Plaza at the 11th Street Canal Basin. Miller was the youngest to receive the award last year.
Lawrence Township School superin-tendent Concetta Raimondi also recog-nized Miller at the Nov. 22 school board meeting, where he received the Superin-tendent’s Award.
Miller said it was “very cool to be honored and noticed for helping his community.”
Miller said he hopes to continue vol-unteering throughout his life and mo-tivate his friends to volunteer more as well. Miller said that volunteering has taught him a lot about others and him-self.
“Give back what people have given to you,” he said, “You never know what can happen the next day.”
Last April produced an abundance of flowers, mulch to spread, a play set to build — and sore hands. The result: smiling children with a garden to call their own, compliments of Key Club.
The club’s newest project, “Eat Right, Stay Bright,”is an off-shoot from “Garden of Hope,” last spring’s project.
Senior and club secretary Monica Bianchini and treasurer Sydney Brandl headed the new project by writing a grant through United Way. The grant was written in the hopes of continuing
the work done previously at St. Mary’s Child Center in Lawrence.
St. Mary’s is a not-for-profit school with locations in Lawrence Township and downtown Indianapolis. The cen-ter is for underprivileged children who come from impoverished backgrounds.
“It’s really a great feeling knowing we are helping make a difference in oth-ers’ lives, especially children at such a young age.” Bianchini said.
The children of St. Mary’s face ne-glect, abuse, violence and drugs in their home environments. The amount of stress they are exposed to can cause an inability to learn, socialize and grow. St.
Mary’s makes it possible for families to send their children to school without worrying about the costs of schooling.
This year, Key Club will focus on both the downtown and Lawrence lo-cations. Members will take an in-school field trip to revamp the outside play ar-eas. They will again be working hands-on with the children of St. Mary’s in Lawrence by planting vegetables and flowers and cleaning up around the school.
In addition to the cleanup, the mem-bers will bring healthy eating to both schools to incorporate the new twist on their project.
“We are buying food pyramids that will be kid friendly for the students to use and learn with,” Brandl said.
Brandl and Bianchini will be buy-ing pyramids for both schools from the grant money they received. Members will teach the students how to live a healthier and brighter lifestyle. It’s an in-novation to enforce learning.
Key Club adviser Nancy Barnes said she’s excited to see how the project will turn out.
“The children were so thrilled last year,” she said. “You could tell just by the looks on their faces. I’m hoping this year will turn out even better.”
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Give back what people have given to you. You never know what can happen the next day.
Devin Miller sophomore
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011news6
Windows breaking, buildings crum-bling, fires erupting — all resulting from a catastrophic earthquake.
Even though earthquakes happen on a regular basis, it’s a rare occasion that an earthquake’s epicenter is located anywhere in Indiana.
But on Dec. 30, a 3.8 magnitude earthquake was measured in north cen-tral Indiana, about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis, alarming some who felt the quake.
The quake occurred at 7:55 a.m. and was originally measured as a 4.2 mag-nitude on the seismograph. While no injuries or casualties resulted from this, it was an eye opener to Hoosiers, letting them know that earthquakes do occur in their state. Very minor damage was re-ported ranging from hairline cracks in drywall to a gutter falling off.
The strength of an earthquake is measured on the Richter scale with two and less being very minor and greater than 9 being very major. On average, about 8,000 minor earthquakes occur on a daily basis while a major earthquake of greater than 9.0 occurs once every 20 years. To this day, no catastrophic earth-quake has ever occurred in Indiana.
The southwestern portion of Indiana is relatively close to the New Madrid Fault which is a fairly active. The recent quake was not associated with the New Madrid Fault; it occurred on the Sharps-ville Fault, which is a very small fault measuring 13 miles long and hasn’t had any seismic activity reported in 360 mil-lion years.
The last notable earthquake that could be felt in Indiana was on April 18, 2008. The 5.2 quake was centered in southern Illinois and could be felt all
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Indianapolis 0.479%
Evansville6.993%
South Bend 0.281%
Muncie 0.533%
Richmond0.740%
Vincennes 5.272%
Gary0.813%
Bloomington0.945%
Lafayette0.334%
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Source/www.homefacts.com/earthquakes/indiana
Probability of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in the next 50 years
INDIANA EARTHQUAKE HISTORYJune 18, 2002: Evansville, Magnitude 4.6Sept. 27, 2009: Terre Haute, Magnitude 5.1Dec. 30, 2010: Greentown, Magnitude 3.8
across the Midwest. The Dec. 30 quake could be felt in four different states.
Most earthquakes in the United States hit Alaska and California.
Junior Ben Reifinger lived in San Diego, Calif., before moving to India-napolis and experienced earthquakes regularly.
“It was scary to wake up in the mid-dle of the night with the house shaking,” Reifinger said. “They’d (earthquakes) happen regularly, almost daily, and it would occasionally be strong enough to knock pictures off the wall.”
Over a year ago, a major 7.0 magni-tude earthquake struck the small Carib-bean nation of Haiti, bringing devasta-tion throughout the entire country. The quake was named the third deadliest in history with several hundred thou-sand people losing their lives due to homelessness, malnutrition and a major outbreak of disease.
Haiti is still trying to recover. The capital city of Port-Au-Prince is still re-covering from the aftermath with some buildings in shambles. Several organi-zations are raising money to help piece Haiti back together.
While a major earthquake is not likely to hit Indiana, it is not out of the question. The city of Indianapolis has a 0.075 percent chance of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake within the next 50 years.
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LC this year. Along with the Aca-demic Vocabulary, the school imple-mented a program named Achieve 3000, which helps students with different reading levels learn to improve their reading skills.
This program is only in some ninth and tenth grade English classes, but there are plans to have this in all ninth
and tenth grade classes next year. Another preparation is that Corn has
created seven accreditation teams, each with several teachers on it. These teams are in charge of collecting evidence by the end of January. Then there will be a self-assessment to see where the school is in each standard that Advanced Ed looks at, which will be submitted to Ad-vanced Ed on Feb. 17.
When Advanced Ed comes in mid-April, it will be a five-person team made up of people who have experience with schools.
The team will observe during this time, as well as interview students, par-ents, teachers and administrators con-cerning the seven standards that Ad-vanced Ed covers.
After all these steps have occurred,
the school will be provided with a writ-ten report and served a rating on where the school is with accreditation. LC will then have two years to follow up on weaknesses and fix them.
Accreditation is important for stu-dents, as it shows the quality of the school to colleges and the public. It also plays an important part in securing scholarships.
Accreditationcontinued from page 1
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011 news7Dance off the chillSaraHeiny
I don’t like snow days because we have to make it up later in the year. Darian Bethel
sophomore
Senior Carly Ellefsen enjoys the snow, despite the traveling troubles. The township’s director of transportation, superintendent Concetta Rai-mondi and other superintendents in the area decide if school should be canceled or delayed based on road conditions. Cub photo/Sam Meuller
Midway through the winter season, the school district has already had a two-hour delay as well as a 1:30 p.m. early release and a 2:30 p.m. early release, all due to snow.
Superintendent Concetta Raimondi and the director of transportation, Tim Smith, are the ring leaders in deciding if school is can-celled, delayed or released early. Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n first examines the conditions of the road and safety in order to help determine if school should be cancelled or delayed.
Principal Kevin Brown said that after the roads have been carefully ex-amined in the morning, the director of transportation will contact the superin-tendent.
Raimondi and Smith then work to-gether with Lawrence Township bus drivers as well as surrounding schools in Marion County, as early as 5 a.m., in order to evaluate weather conditions. A conference call is made with all the su-perintendents in the surrounding area when they then decide what the best op-tion would be for their districts which de-pends on the amounts of snow present in their respective areas. Some townships’
decisions will dif-fer from others be-cause their snow amounts differ.
If weather conditions are un-safe for bus travel,
schools have the options to close for the entire day, delay school for two hours or dismiss early from school.
Director of continuous improve-ment Sharon Smith said Central Office bases its decision to delay or close school mainly on the ability “to transport our
kids to their neighborhoods safely.” By 6 a.m. information about clos-
ings or delays are posted on the district’s website. It is also shared with the major TV stations as well as various local radio stations.
Students have mixed feelings about the entire process in missing school due to snow.
“I don’t like snow days because we have to make it up later in the year,”sophomore Darian Bethel said.
Students often prefer a two-hour delay because when a day of school is missed, it’s easy to get behind in class. In addition, the snow day has to be made up later in the school year.
The school calendar has two built-in snow days: March 14 and April 18. If school is cancelled for one day before March 14, the day will be made up on March 14. If a second school day is can-celled, it will be made up on April 18.
If no snow days are taken, there will be no school on March 14 or April 18.
On Friday, Feb. 11, the Sterrett Cen-ter at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park will be decked out in wintery silver and blue as Student Council hosts the Dancin’ and Defrostin’ semi-formal win-ter dance.
Teacher Mitchell Martin and senior Andre Davis said they are surprised at the feedback the dance is getting and are hopeful for future dances.
“Student Council has attempted to organize something like this three times before in the years that I’ve been teach-ing here,” Martin said. “From the ru-mors I’ve heard, this year we’re expect-ing a good turnout.”
Davis said, “I’m actually shocked. I don’t know if it’s the formal dress or the off-campus location, but I’m ecstatic that we’re throwing a dance people are actu-ally excited to go to.”
Due to a limit of 250 people, students will need to purchase their tickets in ad-vance. They will be available outside the cafeteria through Jan. 28 to students who have a valid 2010-2011 ID. The tick-ets are first come, first served.
Davis said his hope is for the location to switch to the Garrison, also in Fort Ben, if the tickets sell out quickly. The Garrison is a finer location that would allow an extra 100 people to attend.
Either way, the doors will open at 7:45 p.m.. Administrators will monitor the doors to make sure the only people who get in are those who have bought a ticket.
Upon entrance, students will also encounter new security precautions. They must present their ticket and a valid ID, and they will be subjected to a breathalyzer test before admittance.
Personal photographs will be avail-able in front of one of the grand fireplac-es. Semi-formal apparel is expected; this means no leggings, jeggings or jeans. However, wearing leggings underneath a knee-length dress is acceptable.
Volunteer applications are also avail-able for IB or National Honor Society credit hours. Forms are available from Davis, Martin in Room 123 or teacher Ef-fie Keys in Room 104.
Weather woes are many
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011news8
1. Macey Roach 2. Adrian Helms 3. Deandra Servener 4. Karl Simmons 5. Jeron Brownsophomore freshman junior juniorfreshman
Just aminute with...
Got a minute? Then we’ve got some ques-tions. 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 answers. Watch out, you could be next.
What time do you wake up for school in the morning?1. 5 a.m.2. 5:40 a.m.3. 6 a.m.4. 6:30 a.m.5. 6:30 a.m.
What was the best movie in 2010?1. Grown Ups2. Due Date3. Saw V4. Catfish5. The Book of Eli
For this new year, do you say twenty-eleven, or two-thousand eleven?1. Twenty-eleven2. Two-thousand eleven3. Two-thousand eleven4. Twenty-eleven5. Twenty-eleven
Did you feel the earthquake during Winter Break? 1. No 2. I did not3. Yes4. There was an earthquake over break?5. No
Did you make any New Year’s revolutions?1. Yes, to do my homework the day it’s assigned2. Yes, to bring my grades up3. Yes, to get good grades4. Honestly, no5. Yes, to stop procrastinating
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Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011 opinions9Cub Reporter Staff
2010-2011
Sports excitement here at home
So what do we do...for sports excitement? The solution is right here.
Well, here we are again. Peyton Manning and company have disappointed us in the playoffs. We even got tossed out of our own house, not at an opposing venue (Gillette Stadium). We lost to Rex Ryan’s mouthy New York Jets, and not the New England Patriots. Yeah, that still leaves a sour taste in our mouths. Let’s not kid ourselves with the Pacers. Though they showed promise with wins over Dwayne Wade’s (not LeBron James’) Miami Heat and the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers, they have lost to the league’s worst team, the Washington Wizards. Most fans are not expecting them to
do well this year. IU basketball is looking putrid, too. Unless you’re a Purdue, Notre Dame or Ohio State fan, you’re pretty bored right now. So what do we do to please our need for sports excitement? The solution is right here. Our winter sports teams are looking great right now. Despite slow starts from the boys basketball and swimming teams, both programs are improving at an exponential rate. The basketball team has
been on fire as of late and has been involved in some really close games, like the Jan. 12 triple overtime game against Ben Davis, which we won 81-
80. The boys swimming team is looking really good as well. The team has a lot of
first time swimmers who are exceeding expectations. Then there are the wrestlers, abundant with talent and succeeding with first year coach Tom Corbett. And let’s not forget about
the ladies. The girls basketball team has already won more games this year than they did all of last season. They have talent from every class and are expecting to be a contender in the county and sectional tournaments this year. The girls swimmers have an experienced squad that can’t seem to be stopped this year. They’re led by senior Mackenzie Powell, who is expected to go far in the state tounament. Recap: Yes, Indianapolis lacks professional talent in the winter, and the Colts continued to disappoint in the playoffs, but there’s still plenty of sports excitement — right here at LC.
Courtesy art/Aaron Vaughn
Cub Reporter
January 21, 2011opinions10THE
Does social networking bring people closer together
Brandon Feldneier, 11 Amber Duvall, 10 Shaniqua Dale, 12
or isolate them even more?
Erika Lopez, 9
THE BURNING QUESTION: Does social networking help or hurt?“If you haven’t seen people for a long time, you can reconnect, but then again people can be cruel online.
“I think social networking brings people together but then sometimes it can separate us.”
“It can bring people closer if they never see each other, but it’s much easier if you talk with them in person.”
“Social networking brings people together through connections, but these connections are usually non-verbal.”
The present generation has en-countered a crippling fl aw as far as social interaction is concerned. Teenag-ers and young adults alike are being sucked into the latest trends brought to them by available technology. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are the source of the problem at hand. The fact of the matt er stands, that in this day and age, the public prefer to communicate by staring in-defi nitely at a computer screen while waiting for an update. The greatest factor that separates a prisoner from a free man is that a free man has the ability to go wherever he desires. The prisoner, on the other hand, is subjected to sitt ing in a dark room, isolated from the rest of society. In this way, the lifestyle of the prisoner parallels the mundane existence of the person who spends all of his time in front of a computer. The only diff erence is that the “so-cial” adolescent thinks he is having fun. In the time that he spends locked up in his dark room, he might instead be at the mall with his friends; his liv-ing, breathing, non-machine friends
with whom he can actually interact with by talking and laughing. If such a person weren’t imprisoned, then why should he spend his life as he is? If given the option, why would anyone not play the role of the free man? There’s an infi nite number of ways that one can spend time with friends, and social networking is the only one that requires him to be all alone. What would possess any-one to do this in place of see-ing a movie or going to the mall?
Since the beginning of time, the gre-garious nature of humans has inclined society to infl uence them to stay in touch with others as well as to recon-
nect and rekindle friendships.Instead of tracking
down addresses and taking pen to paper, groundbreaking ad-vancements in technol-ogy have now made it possible for people to reconnect with long-
lost relatives, high school friends
and those that may have
moved 5,000 miles
away. This
is why I stand on the
pro side of so-cial networking sites. They are ultimately more helpful in bring-
ing people together than creating con-fl ict and hazardous encounters.
It’s been reported in various pub-lications, the heart-wrenching tales of adopted siblings fi nding each other on sites such as Facebook and reunit-ing once more thanks to a social net-work site. With sites such as Facebook, Twitt er and Myspace, people feel like they’re a part of a bigger world, one of opportunities.
Social networking makes it easy for people to revive past poignant friend-ships, or feel close to one’s family in all parts of the world. Social networking makes it possible for people in com-pletely diff erent corners of the earth to come together in the common purpose of sharing and reconnecting.
Although social networking has been used as a cruel tool att ributed to cyber bullying and crimes, it’s generally harmless when used in relevant ways and when vital information is kept un-disclosed.
In addition, one moment you could fi nd yourself alone and without connec-tion to any family members, the next, on the phone with a beloved aunt, uncle or cousin. Social networking sites help us belong, an essential human need we all feel is fulfi llment.
SCub Reporter
January 21, 2011 opinions11peak Your Mind:
Have you ever texted and driven? Why?
Do you know anyone who has been in an accident because of texting and driving?
Should people who are under 18 continue to not be able to use a phone while driving?
Do you think texting and driving is as dangerous as drinking and driving?
I don’t drive.
Yeah, because it was an important text about my brother.
No, because it’s really dan-gerous and I don’t want to put my life and others’ lives at risk.
I don’t text and drive be-cause I don’t want to die.
Jessica Paynesenior
Tory Herrmannjunior
Grant Sterchisophomore
Alexis Abnerfreshman
Texting & Driving
Yes, I know a couple of people who have gotten into accidents.
No, I don’t know anyone who has been in an accident because of texting while driving.
No, I don’t. No, I don’t know anyone who has.
I think it should stay the same, and people under 18 shouldn’t be able to use phones.
Yes, it should stay the same. It helps save countless teens’ lives.
I think it should stay the way it is, but extend to people of all ages.
Yes. You are still immature so the law should stay the same.
I think it’s the same be-cause when you are texting you’re not paying attention and that can be just as dis-tracting as drinking.
No, because when you are drinking you are impaired. When you are texting you just aren’t paying attention.
Yes, because you are not focusing on driving. It still impairs your driving in both situations.
In both situations you can die so they are both equally dangerous.
Bearit all
“You do you, i’ll do me.”-Samantha Copenhaver, 12
“Congratulations, LC basketball, for beating LN.”
-Arielle Lupinacci, 11
“We want Cecil.”-Aaron Vaughn, 12
“Dear spring break, please hurry! Love,”
-Dorian Bethel, 10
“We’ll live it up ‘til the end of days, you and me , wait and see, honestly.”
-Brie Reyes, 12
“OK, God, no more snow! Please?”
-Alysha Owens, 10
“TGOD”-Brittany Zweck, 12
“I’m gonna SMH at you!”-April Eales, 9
“The best card in life is the one you can special summon.”
Troy Pereira, 12
“I love you, Mommy. We’ll get through this together.”
Jessica Johnson, 12
“I’m a monster!”-Madison Lewis, 10
“I’ll be your Dr. Dre.” -Andrea Richardson, 11
“Get me outta here!”-Carly Ellefson, 12
“I beat Reed Dillon in diving!”-Frank Norris, 11
“Seniors Class of 2011, yeahhh, baby!”
-Kennya Davis, 12
“If time is money and knowledge is power, then imagine the value of what you’re able to learn in an hour.”
-Julian Arboleda, 11
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011opinions12
How do we define the 2000s?Ontherun
Itis
The music industry has headed toward rehab, and it may not get checked out.
takes This is not your diary/blog. Please spare us the sob story.
The
By Greg Priceright
Price
Pick up the slack, LC
Over the last few years there’s been a drop in the amount of student participation here. There’s been a drop in something as fun as student activi-ties — just look at last year’s student council-sponsored volleyball tour-nament and this year’s Battle of the Classes. There’s been a drop in spirit weeks, which many kids dress up for only because of the extra credit incen-tive some teachers allot. There’s even been a drop in more serious and simple things like attendance to class.
I know this topic sounds like beat-ing a dead horse, but this is something that the school, and we students, truly need. LC is a failing school. We haven’t met Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) since 2004, and last school year we were put on academic probation. We’re com-ing off of four years of Academic Watch with Public Law 221.
This is not something we should be taking lightly. Students complain that Carmel is better than we are because of funding or because they are bigger than we are. People wonder why high grades or class rank at LC does not seem to match up well against equivalent num-bers from people at other schools.
The diploma from LC should be no different than that of Carmel, or any other school, for that matter. When colleges look at applications, a student from another school should not be ac-cepted over an LC student because LC is a failing school.
We students are part of the prob-lem. We students need to be part of the solution.
The reason the administration is cracking down on attendance is be-cause we do need to go to class. The test scores say it all. The accreditation is not just a check-up on our staff or the building, but one for the student body as well.
We need to rise up and grab this bull by the horns.
two
Twitter is the new black. For those of us who are active tweeters, we know how addicting it is to constantly check the tweet timeline — thank god for mo-bile Twitter. But as entertaining as this social network is, we have to be sure we don’t abuse it. So here’s our list of Twitter etiquette no-no’s, a.k.a how to get yourself ‘un-followed.’ 1) Tag Signs - The pound sign is to be utilized only for trending topics…sure, we all make up our own trends once in a while, but TT’s should be at
the most a three-word phrase. Turning a whole sentence into a trending topic is equally as obnoxious as it is confusing. No one can decipher 11 words pushed together. 2) This is not your diary/blog. Please spare us the sob story. Save the crocodile tears for when you’re crying to your BFF on the phone. The phrases “no one knows what I’m going through” and “I’m so done with this all” as well as “seri-ously hate my life so much” do not gain you sympathy. No one likes a pessimist. 3) It’s 140 characters for a reason. A tweet should be a short, clever quip, not a paragraph complaining about your woeful life or a detailed account of your plans for the night that splits into three separate tweets. It’s not only confusing, it’s annoying. 4) Please, refrain from tweeting your commentary on every play of the Colts game or every scene of the new Jersey Shore episode. We’re all watch-ing, we all know what’s happening.
5) Excessive tweeting is a disease running rampant among Twitter. We all know someone who is affected by it. The best thing we can do is pray for our dear friends that they will log off twitter and quit hogging our timelines. Bot-tom line? Exceeding three tweets in one
hour is simply unacceptable. We don’t need to know your every move. 6) Boring tweets are a huge
no-no. “Going to work” and “so tired” are not interesting, nor are they tweet-worthy. If your life is that boring, you probably don’t want to advertise it on Twitter. Same goes for illegal activity…just because your profile is “private” doesn’t mean certain tweets won’t come back to haunt you. 7) Just because it’s “not school” doesn’t mean you can completely void all knowledge of spelling and gram-mar in your tweets. Many could benefit from learning the difference between “you’re” and “your.” Tweet on, LC.
7 Commandments of Twitter
[email protected] The stockings are packed in the attic with care. Stores’ aisles are bustling with markdowns – that $20 glowing penguin is now a fine $6.99. The return line at Wal-Mart stretches as far as the eye can see, and the “winter wonder-land,” well, let’s just say it’s not that wonderful anymore. We’ve dusted off the noisemakers and opened up the sparkling grape juice; we’ve enjoyed our 30 seconds with the young and agile Dick Clark, and after the final countdown, it’s here. Welcome, 2011. Every New Year brings its fair share of challenges, those pesky resolutions
and meeting reality at the intersection of Caito and 56th Street. But, before we dive into this year, let’s glance into the past and see where we’ve been. With a decade under our belts, I’m thinking it’s time to give her a name. Sure, it may not be as catchy as the Flying Forties or the Roaring Twenties, but this was our decade, and we ought to do a bit better than “insert catchy word here 2000s.” iDecade: Tech-nology has flour-ished in the last 10 years, sprouting more fruit than any tree can hold. This decade has framed future gen-erations for some evolution. We’ve evolved our phalanges into super muscles; our thumbs are worth much more than the primitive practice of grasping things. Our fingers feel the burn as standardized test scores plum-met and big words like “you” become too much strain on our impatient minds. Tipsy 2000s: Our fingers aren’t the only things to have evolved in the
last 10 years. The music industry has headed toward rehab, and it may not get checked out. Entertainment and talent originally went hand-in-hand; however, over the years we have found more amusement in Britney Spears’ mishaps and Amy Winehouse’s denial than actual talent. Entertainment has also settled itself within the danger-ous age of adolescence. We began the
decade with Aaron Carter and rounded it up with the spar-kling Justin Bieber. Jersylicious Decade: Speaking of entertainment, there
is something magical about New Jersey. Maybe it’s the big hair, being called a guidette? Perhaps it’s just so fun to hear “Joisey.” Whatever the reason, this decade has settled itself in the Garden State. Reality television has taken center stage. We’ve replaced Bikini Bottom with the Jersey Shore; Angelica Pickles has become Snooki. And no one could have survived this decade without hav-ing mastered the fist pump. Now it’s time for some GTL.
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011 features13
ThroughAlumni, teachers remember milestones from school’s history Senior class sizes
by the numbers1941-42 54
1963-64 200
1978-79 400
2010-11 650
It was 70 years ago, in the fall of 1941, when Lawrence Central became a high school. Prior to the 1941-42 school year, there had been three ma-jor high schools in this area: Oaklandon, Castleton and Lawrence. Lawrence was the biggest of the three, and thus became the location where the three schools would combine togeth-er into one. The location of this school was on 56th Street, but on the other side. The reason that the name of the high school changed from Lawrence to Lawrence Central is because Lawrence was in the central area of the three schools. LorettaHupewasoneofthestudentsfromthefirstgraduating class in the 1941-42 school year, which makes her 87 years old. She said that the teachers at Lawrence had a higher quality as a whole than the other two schools. HupewentontosaythatLC took the best teachers from all three schools, leaving it with an even higher quality of teachers in the end. Besides the quality of teachers,Hupealsoremembershaving a quality basketball team. “We had the tallest boy in the county. We did real well inbasketballthatfirstyear.”
As the years went by, and thetownshipgrew,Belzerwasnot large enough to hold the entire student body, so the sophomores,juniorsandse-niors moved across the street to its current building.
Themovethattookplacein1963iswhenBelzerbecame
the junior high school and was home to the seventh, eighth and ninth graders.
LorettaHupe’s65-year-oldson, David Hupe,spenthisfirstthreeyears of high school at the Belzerbuild-ing, then for his senior year, he moved with the students to its current ad-dress for the 1963-64 school year.
DavidHupesaidthatalthough the new LC was a betterbuildingthantheBelzerone,hepreferredtheoldhighschool building.
“Ididn’tfeellikethenewschoolwasmyschool.Belzerwasmyhighschool,”hesaid.
DavidHupewentontosaythat his reason-ing behind this preferencewasbecauseBelzerhadmoreper-sonality and meaning to it than the new building.
Hedidmentionthatseeingthe beams for the round gym (which was torn down two years ago) being brought in on the trains was very interest-ing.Headdedthathehasfondmemoriesofboththesportsaswellasthepeople.
The next big milestone in the life of this high school was in 1976, when LN branched offfromLC,givingbirthtoLC’sgreatestrival.Thisrivalrybecame something that had a largeimpactonthestudents.A1979 graduate, Dan Price, said that the rivalry was “very excit-ing...LChadmoreofasportstraditionthanLN.”
Evenwiththesplit,Priceremembered that athletics were a big deal, adding that the foot-ballandbasketballprogramshad successful years. “I have great memories of going to the games,”Pricesaid.
Healsosawpasttheplay-ingfieldstotheclassroomsforhis favorite memories. “The
best memories, besides friends, wereartclasses,”Pricesaid.Headdedthatherememberedhelpingoutbydrawingpic-tures for the yearbook.
Many years later, begin-ninginthespringof1990,LCwent under a major renovation. FrenchteacherJillHilgemeiertaught at LC during this time and said, “(The building) need-ed to be renovated. It had to be done,there’snodoubtaboutit.Therewerealotofpositivechanges.”
Hilgemeiersaidthatsomeofthosepositivechangesin-cluded a new cafeteria, the Student Life Center (which was for the kindergarten, business and world language classes). And the courtyard became the Commons that is there today.
Shepointedoutthatflex-ibility was a trait that was needed during this time. “I remember coming to work and not remembering how to get to theofficebecausethereweretemporaryhallways,”Hilge-meier said.
Even though the address changed from 7555 E. 56th St. to 7300 E. 56th St., the school splitandtherewasabigreno-vation, LC has stayed true to some mainstays since it was founded in 1941. The athletics arestillimportantforthestu-dentbody,andthepeopleareimportanttotheschool.
There were a lot of positive changes.
Jill Hilgemeierfrench teacher
yearsthe
Cub photo/ Greg Price
January 21, 2011Cub Reporterfeatures14 15
Insurance agency informs young drivers of texting [email protected]
No age group should be able to drive and text.
Scott Ahearnjunior
Cub graphic/ Katie McDowell
Driving. G2G.Unlimited mobile-to-mobile
texting plans can cost as low as $20 for Verizon Wireless customers. But for the 5,474 people in the U.S. killed in distracted driving incidents last year, just one text may have cost them their life.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, to date, 30 U.S. states have banned every driver from texting, no matt er what age. Indiana is among the 20 states that allow those over the age of 18 to have one hand on the wheel and two eyes on the phone.
Junior Scott Ahearn disagrees with Indiana’s current laws regarding texting and driving. “If (studies) have determined that texting while driving is
unsafe altogether, then no age group should be able to drive and text,” he said.
Recently, the University of Utah put out a study that determined hand-held devices are an impairment to every driver, every age. When a cell phone is in use, the distractions are equally as dangerous as having a .08 blood alcohol concentration. Allstate Insurance
is taking a stand and working to inform customers and teens about these dangers.
“We do a lot to
encourage teens to take a pledge against texting and driving,” Allstate spokesperson for Indiana Shelley Frost said. “We have a Facebook page called X to the Txt where people can go to get more information on the dangers.”
Allstate is especially aiming toward its own customers. “Most Allstate agents will invite a family to the offi ce to talk about the responsibilities,”
Frost said. “Everyone needs to understand the fi nancial consequences that can come from texting and driving.”
Some teens still haven’t gott en the memo, though. Junior Valerie Tubbs realizes the dangers of distracted driving but still admits to texting at the wheel. “One text isn’t important enough (to put my life at risk),” she said. “But I’m just a teenager and I tend not to think about the consequences of actions.” And the consequences of distracted driving are proving to be fatal. Twenty percent of accidents that cause an injury are a result of distracted driving.
Eating, changing the radio and personal grooming are all causes of distractions. But it’s cell phone use that’s the real killer. Using a cell phone can be the worst distraction due to the fact that it distracts in three ways. A cell phone visually distracts a driver by taking their
eyes off the road. It manually distracts a driver by taking their hands off the wheel. And above all it cognitively distracts a driver by taking their mind off the road.
Allstate believes there are ways to prevent these distractions. “We have a Designated Texter campaign,” Frost said. “If it is absolutely
necessary to send a text, hand the phone to your friend and they can text for you.” Although a passenger texting for
the driver is one solution, Frost believes informing teenagers is just as important. “When you’re a driver you’re responsible for everyone,” she said. “Teens need to understand the responsibility and ask themselves, ‘What is the smart thing to do?’”
Additional information on distracted driving and ways to get involved in the fi ght for safe driving is available at KeeptheDrive.com.
Hand the phone to your friend and they can text for you.
Shelley FrostAllstate
“One text isn’t important enough (to put my life at risk).”
-Valerie Tubbs, junior
Distracted Driving Facts
Three Types of DistractionVisual - taking your eyes off the road
Manual - taking your hands off the wheelCognitive - taking your mind off of what
you’re doing
Hand-held device use is more common by women
than men.
20 percent of injury-causing crashes in 2009 involved
distracted driving.
Driving while texting is equivalent to consuming four
beers, then driving.
Grooming, reading maps, watching videos, eating and talking are all forms of dis-tracted driving. Cell phone use is the most dangerous.
Sources/ distraction.govAllstate Spokesperson
January 21, 2011Cub Reporterfeatures14 15
Insurance agency informs young drivers of texting [email protected]
No age group should be able to drive and text.
Scott Ahearnjunior
Cub graphic/ Katie McDowell
Driving. G2G.Unlimited mobile-to-mobile
texting plans can cost as low as $20 for Verizon Wireless customers. But for the 5,474 people in the U.S. killed in distracted driving incidents last year, just one text may have cost them their life.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, to date, 30 U.S. states have banned every driver from texting, no matt er what age. Indiana is among the 20 states that allow those over the age of 18 to have one hand on the wheel and two eyes on the phone.
Junior Scott Ahearn disagrees with Indiana’s current laws regarding texting and driving. “If (studies) have determined that texting while driving is
unsafe altogether, then no age group should be able to drive and text,” he said.
Recently, the University of Utah put out a study that determined hand-held devices are an impairment to every driver, every age. When a cell phone is in use, the distractions are equally as dangerous as having a .08 blood alcohol concentration. Allstate Insurance
is taking a stand and working to inform customers and teens about these dangers.
“We do a lot to
encourage teens to take a pledge against texting and driving,” Allstate spokesperson for Indiana Shelley Frost said. “We have a Facebook page called X to the Txt where people can go to get more information on the dangers.”
Allstate is especially aiming toward its own customers. “Most Allstate agents will invite a family to the offi ce to talk about the responsibilities,”
Frost said. “Everyone needs to understand the fi nancial consequences that can come from texting and driving.”
Some teens still haven’t gott en the memo, though. Junior Valerie Tubbs realizes the dangers of distracted driving but still admits to texting at the wheel. “One text isn’t important enough (to put my life at risk),” she said. “But I’m just a teenager and I tend not to think about the consequences of actions.” And the consequences of distracted driving are proving to be fatal. Twenty percent of accidents that cause an injury are a result of distracted driving.
Eating, changing the radio and personal grooming are all causes of distractions. But it’s cell phone use that’s the real killer. Using a cell phone can be the worst distraction due to the fact that it distracts in three ways. A cell phone visually distracts a driver by taking their
eyes off the road. It manually distracts a driver by taking their hands off the wheel. And above all it cognitively distracts a driver by taking their mind off the road.
Allstate believes there are ways to prevent these distractions. “We have a Designated Texter campaign,” Frost said. “If it is absolutely
necessary to send a text, hand the phone to your friend and they can text for you.” Although a passenger texting for
the driver is one solution, Frost believes informing teenagers is just as important. “When you’re a driver you’re responsible for everyone,” she said. “Teens need to understand the responsibility and ask themselves, ‘What is the smart thing to do?’”
Additional information on distracted driving and ways to get involved in the fi ght for safe driving is available at KeeptheDrive.com.
Hand the phone to your friend and they can text for you.
Shelley FrostAllstate
“One text isn’t important enough (to put my life at risk).”
-Valerie Tubbs, junior
Distracted Driving Facts
Three Types of DistractionVisual - taking your eyes off the road
Manual - taking your hands off the wheelCognitive - taking your mind off of what
you’re doing
Hand-held device use is more common by women
than men.
20 percent of injury-causing crashes in 2009 involved
distracted driving.
Driving while texting is equivalent to consuming four
beers, then driving.
Grooming, reading maps, watching videos, eating and talking are all forms of dis-tracted driving. Cell phone use is the most dangerous.
Sources/ distraction.govAllstate Spokesperson
Cub ReporterJanuary 21, 2011features16
Caught in themiddle Students of divorced
parents continue to feel emotional effects
Aft er a couple is married, they have almost a one in two chance of becoming divorced. Around 40 percent of these couples going through a divorce have children together and these kids feel the emotional eff ects of it.
“I was really young when my parents became divorced and I really didn’t understand everything,” senior Natalie Sidebott om. Psychology teacher Terri Foley believes that being young during a divorce actually makes it easier for kids. “(How a kid deals with divorce) really depends on age,” she said.
Children age three to fi ve having feelings of separation. Ages 6-8 can openly grieve about it, but it’s hard for them
to accept the divorce. Ages 9-11 are oft en angry and feel a sense of powerlessness. But middle school and high school kids have the worst eff ects. “They can go through depression, violent outbursts and are even fearful in their own relationships,” Foley said.
Even though, Sidebott om was just fi ve when her parents gave her the news of their divorce, she still is indiff erent towards marriage.
“Marriage scares me. I wouldn’t want to do to my kids what happened to me,” she said. “I haven’t found a really
good model of a marriage that was worked and I believe it just comes with a lot of emotional stress.”
Senior Monica Bianchini was two years old when her parents ended their marriage. Unlike Sidebott om, Bianchini is more hopeful in the concept of marriage. “I haven’t been discouraged from gett ing married but I feel like I will
Marriage scares me.... I haven’t found a really good model for marriage.
seniorNatalie Sidebottom
— See DIVORCE on page 19
Divorce By The NumbersPercent of fi rst marriages that end in
divorce. By the third marriage the rate is 70 percent.
45Percent of couples who got a divorce
that had children together.40Percent of the U.S. population that has
been divorced.10Cub graphic/ Katie McDowell
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With advanced technology such as texting and webcams at people’s fingertips, long distance rela-tionships may be more and more common. Among first year college students, estimates suggest that as many as 50 percent of students report being in a long distance relationship. According to relationshipsromance.com, 95 per-cent of couples in a long distance are between 30 to 950 miles apart. The average distance between people said to be in a long distance relationship is 125 miles. According to the same source, the break-up rate among long distance couples is almost the same as close range relationships. And while the long dis-tance factor is often blamed for infidelity, studies have proven that close range and long distance couples have the same likelihood of having affairs.
However, a downside of long distance relation-ships is with so much time spent apart, partners must not expect their better halves to stay exactly the same as they left them. Circumstances and surroundings do tend to affect a person's character. Senior Nick Ruscetti had dated college fresh-man Hayley Lawson for three years before the challenges of a long distance relationship tore them apart. Lawson was a sophomore at LC and Ru-scetti was a freshman at LC when they began dating. “We broke up for a day at a time here and there over stupid things, but overall we had a really good relationship,” Ruscetti said. After their three years together, Lawson left for Purdue University in the fall of 2010. After much thought and discussion, the couple decided they would give long distance a shot and continue dating. “Before she left, I had hoped it would work, but
I had a lot of doubts. I definitely expected the worst, but hoped for the best,” Ruscetti said. The pair lasted for a month while Lawson was at Purdue before breaking it off. Although they texted,
skyped and talked on the phone every day to stay in touch, it wasn’t enough. “It was a really hard decision to make after being together for such a long time, but she deserved to have fun and enjoy college on her own,” Ruscetti said. The couple still
talks as often as possible and remains friends. Ruscetti said they want handle the situation maturally and try to stay as close as they can. But the poor experience Ruscetti had with long distance relationships made him pessimistic toward the idea in general. “I don’t believe long distance relationships work. A phone call just isn’t the same as face to face interac-tion,” Ruscetti said.
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A phone call just isn’t the same as face to face interaction.
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Sophomore finds lunch surprisein packaged strawberries
of strawberries. Robin Belcher, head of the cafeteria staff, explained that basically everything from the cafeteria is cooked fresh; they keep a close watch on possible contaminations.
“I have no idea how it got in there, but it must have gotten in during manufacturing or harvesting at the company’s plant,” Belcher said.
Apparently the situation is not all that uncom-mon.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administra-tion, the legal amount of food defects for strawberries, frozen or canned, is a mold count of 45 percent. No maggots. However, during the harvesting and manu-
facturing processes, it is impossible to avoid some types of contamination. So the FDA has devised an entire handbook for legal standards.
This handbook is called the “Defect Levels Handbook” and details the legal contamination
standards for over 100 different foods.“If maggots were legal in strawberries, I don’t
think I would ever eat them again,” Liss said.The cafeteria staff took the appropriate precau-
tions when Liss found the maggot. “I immediately called my supervisor, who
called the company that manufactures the strawberries and explained the situation. It is a very rare incident, but if it should happen again, steps will be taken to investigate,” Belcher said.
Laura Coleman and Rebecca Duke, sophomores, watched as Liss extracted the maggot from her strawberries.
“This just adds to the reasons why I bring my lunch to school,” Duke said.
But Coleman said, “Despite the risks of eating a maggot, I would rather buy my lunch.”
Duke and Coleman both agree that the situation was spontaneous and could not have
been prevented by the lunch staff. Neither of them had ever seen an incident like this before, and
both believe it will never happen again.
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Despite the risks of eating a maggot, I would rather buy my lunch.
Rebecca Dukesophomore
Sophomore Molly Liss encountered a strange surprise in her lunch on Dec. 8, 2010.
“My first reaction was, ‘tell me that’s part of a strawberry,’ then it was, ‘that’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen!’” she said.
Inside Liss’ pre-pack-aged strawberry cup was a maggot.
This normally white, segmented insect with a pinpoint black head and no legs became even more disgusting because of its unnatural strawberry-pink, stained body.
“The thought that with one more bite I would have eaten it kind of scarred me for life,” she said.
Despite the grotesqueness of this situation, it did not occur at the fault of the school. The maggot was found in a pre-packaged and un-opened container
Peanut Butter
30 or more insect fragments
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date someone for a very long time before I’ll consider marrying them. I do not want to go through a divorce.”
Studies show that dating someone and maturing before marrying is important to avoid separating. Thirty-six percent of divorces occur when a woman is married between the ages of 20 to 24.
Bianchini also believes that before a divorce is completely necessary, a couple should try to make peace
especially if kids are involved. “I think it’s important for a couple to definitely try to work their problems out,” she said. “But it would be worse for the kids if they continue fighting and are only staying together for their kids.”
Fighting between couples, divorced or not, also puts kids in an awkward position. “The big thing is kids can feel stuck in the middle,” Foley said. Bianchini deals with this still when issues of money and paying for things
come up between her parents. “Whenever my parents argue over
petty stuff I am put in between them and have to listen to them talk about each other,” she said
Children are also put in the middle when it comes to living with their parents. “It was difficult for me at first because I was constantly going back and forth from my mom’s house and dad’s house every single weekend,” Sidebottom said.
Bianchini’s parents do not live in the same town. “I don’t see (my dad) much, but I talk to him everyday on the phone so I don’t feel disconnected,” she said.
Kids of divorced parents can be forced to see friends’ parents and compare themselves.
“It can be weird because most people I know have a mother and a father in the home and I live with just my mom and go to my dad’s sometimes,” Bianchini said.
Divorce —Continued from page 16
Since the time of their invention, video games have been accused of making you fat and lazy, killing brain cells and being a waste of time.
As of late, these ideas have ceased to a halt as the top video gaming companies started producing consoles and games that actually require the player to exercise. With the release of the Wii in 2006, Nintendo got a head start in this franchise, selling 45 million units worldwide as of 2008. Following in its footsteps, Sony and Microsoft have released their own contributions to this benevolent effort though Sony’s new console bears an uncanny resemblance to the Wii with a little colored ball on top. On the contrary, Microsoft’s new development is as original as it is innovative. Known as the Xbox Kinect, it uses a camera to put the player’s image onto the screen so that any personal movement can be used to complete the task at hand.
Although all 3 of these video game producers have managed to produce consoles that improve physical well-being, Nintendo has unquestionably been the leading force behind this movement. When its primary console, the Wii, was released, one of the
first games to accompany it was Wii Sports. As the name implies, Wii Sports presents a number of synthesized athletic activities that one can play from the comfort of his own living room. With the introduction of the Wii Fit a short time later, the concept of exercising while gaming was brought to a whole new level.
“The Wii Fit is pretty fun because you’ve got all these mini-games that you have to move around a lot for,” junior Takelion Thompson said.
The white balance board essentially has the ability to sense any and all pressure that’s placed on it as well as the pressure source’s location on the board. This allows the game to determine which side the player is leaning toward so that it will impact the game accordingly.
Currently, there is a wide assortment of games for the Wii that can greatly improve personal health, the most notable of which actually contain the word, Wii, in the title. However, there are many others that still require a fair amount of exercise but are a bit more subtle in how they draw it out. Games like these may have actual storylines so that it feels more like a video game than an exercise routine. In these cases, the physical activity could just be swinging the remote around frantically as a sword.
Physical engagement is only one of the healthier facets that Nintendo
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has added to its developments. For its handheld system, the DSi, there are a variety of games that require the player to use his mind for more than just reading the dialogue. Releases for the system consist of a large portion
of puzzle/critical thinking games like Tetris DS.
Miranda Anderson, junior, said, “I really like Brain Age because it gives different challenges and puzzles that you have to complete.”
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The infamous Sweeney Todd, known for slitting the throats of his clients, and his companion, Ms. Lovett, a wom-an who has taken to baking the bodies of the clients into pies, have arrived. These rather colorful characters will take the stage for the annual Thespian Play on Feb. 3, 4 and 5 start-ing at 7 p.m. each night. But be warned; this is not the musical, but the stage version written by C.G. Bond in 1974.
This play is definitely one of the most controversial ever performed here. Because of the blood, gore and grotesqueness of the show, theater direc-tor Kathleen Horrigan had to receive special permission from
administration to even begin preparations.
“Sweeney Todd” has al-lowed the actors to tap into their darker sides. Normally, actors are able to draw from their life experiences to make their characters believable, but very few actors have slit throats or baked people into pies. Junior Kevin Kryah is playing the role of Sweeney Todd and has had the opportunity to explore a much darker side of himself.
“It’s been a new experience to take on the role of such a grim and deranged character,” said Kryah.
Senior Charles Johns is playing the role of Judge Turpin and has taken the time to delve into his character in a way that he’s never done before. “You can tell that his disgusting behavior probably
came from a terrible upbringing… He’s not a completely hollow person; he’s just a ter-ribly twisted
human being who lives in extreme guilt for what he’s done,” said Johns.
The set, a four-sided cube, is designed to rotate, allowing the actors to seamlessly transi-tion between scenes and loca-tions. Todd’s famous chair is
connected to a legitimate trap door and a chute that will lead to Mrs. Lovett’s oven.
Also, keep an eye out in the Commons for the “Sweeney Todd” Showcase, designed by senior Amy Kleiman. “It’s cov-ered in blood and there’s a pie with human body parts in it. I thought this gruesome display would draw everyone’s eye and promote the show more so than we’ve been able to do in the past years. ‘Sweeney Todd’ is all about the guts, blood, and gore,” said Kleiman, who plays an old beggar woman with a shocking past.
Filled with insanity, dark humor and oddly delicious pies, “Sweeney Todd: The De-mon Barber of Fleet Street” is not something to miss. Tickets go on sale next week.
The demon barber of [email protected]
Showtimes:
Feb. 3: 7 p.m.Feb. 4: 7 p.m.Feb. 5: 7 p.m.
Tickets are $8 at the door and $6 during
school. Tickets will go on sale Jan. 24.
This play is definitely one of the most controversial ever performed here.
Tobias Ragg, played by senior Will Jones, is a slow but well-meaning young man. Here he is selling Perelli’s Mir-acle Elixir, which in reality is nothing more than “chicken piss,” that is supposed to cure baldness.
Left: Sweeney Todd (junior Kevin Kryah) stands in front of Mrs. Lovett’s infamous oven while the smoke and ash-es of his victims billow around him. Cub photos/Joe Mount
The Old Beggar Woman, played by senior Amy Klei-man, huddles under the stairs of Sweeney’s shop as she begs, “Alms! Alms for a miserable woman.”
After nearly a decade of absence, Courtney Love has returned for another round, releasing her fourth in-studio album in April of last year.
With her fourth album, superficial rants are left behind and the lyrics take a haunting and nostalgic vibe. With Love’s powerful raw vocals and the dark opening guitar riffs, “Skinny little B----” is a true power track entwined with suggestions to her deceased hus-band, the late Kurt Cobain.
Lyrics in Nobody’s Daughter clearly represent her struggles with fame and infamy, as well as the pain she feels and the stormy relationship she has with Cobain’s only daughter, Frances-Bean. With guitar-amped tracks like “Loser Dust,” “Samantha” and “How Dirty Girls get Clean,” Love shows that her rock ‘n’ roll prominence hasn’t diminished through the decades. Her signature raspy punk rock voice lends itself to unique qualities that few female fronted bands have achieved and re-mained as relevant.
The album is a representation of everything negative in Love’s life, catapulted to the public in a beauti-ful poignant memoir of a tumultuous life fueled by drugs and scandals. Her talent is unmistakable, lending a softer melody to tracks like “Honey,” “Petals.”
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Pump up the VolumeArtist: Cee Lo GreenAlbum: The Lady KillerGenre: Soul/Pop
Artist: Keri HilsonAlbum: No Boys AllowedGenre: R&B and Pop
Artist: HoleAlbum: Nobody’s DaughterGenre: Alternative
Artist: Linkin ParkAlbum: A Thousand SunsGenre: Alternative Rock
Song suggestion: Nobody’s DaughterSong Suggestion: When They Come for MeSong Suggestion: Pretty Girl Rock Song Suggestion: Raining Men
Nata Amores Brooke Fernandez Sara Young Kayla Taylor
Similar Artists: Common, Gnarls Barkley, Amy Wine-houseSimilar Artists: Papa
Roach, Three Days Grace, Dead by Sunrise
Similar Artists: Bikini Kill, The Distillers, Stone Tem-ple Pilots
Similar Artists: Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Kutless
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Keri Hilson’s new album No Boys Allowed came out Dec, 21. Of the 12 tracks on the album, only one is enjoy-able. The album and her songs just do not match the message she is sending. Some songs are all about “I am bad and rad” but some songs are “sweet” and some are “miss independent.” No Boys Allowed is boring because in some of the songs the listener gets what she
is trying to say, but then they get lost. The only song that makes any sense is “Pretty Girl Rock.” Hilson did a better job here because she is sending the mes-sage that young ladies should feel good about themselves and keep their heads up, no matter what.
All the other songs are lost. There is too much noise in the background, taking away from whatever message Hilson might be trying to send.
“Pretty Girl Rock” is the only hit song in No Boys Allowed. Hilson needs to write something to make people want to sing in the shower. She could have asked someone with more experi-ence for help. It leaves the listener won-dering what’s next for Hilson because her only hit song is makes too many turn the radio off when it comes on.
All in all, No Boys Allowed is a major disappointment. But maybe she’ll come back with a bang.
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Cee-Lo Green’s third solo album The Lady Killer incorporates a fresh blend of pop and R&B with classic funk influences. Green represents half of the neo-soul producer/performer phenom-enon Gnarls Barkley.
The album’s first single “Forget You” is a fun take on the classic break- up song with catchy lyrics like, “Yeah I’m sorry, I can’t afford a Ferrari/But
that don’t mean I can’t get you there.” The song is a cleverly composed pop track that manages to be as catchy as it is sardonic.
Green also takes a few risks, and they especially come in the form of tracks like “No One’s Gonna Love You,” his own eclectic spin of alterna-tive staple Band of Horses’ song. The cover pays off for Green in the end, and he makes the song his own.
This album also shows off what may be Green’s most noticeable tal-ent—his vocals. His smooth pipes are particularly fitting on tracks like “Fool For You” and “Wildflower,” where he croons love ballads as soulfully as ever.
The album perfectly combines mod-ern appeal with inspiration from the earliest foundations of pop, soul and R&B music. Green showcases his many, and varied, skills to the world on The Lady Killer.
In Linkin Park’s newest album A Thousand Suns, the band tries out new sounds and combinations of different styles. Different genres of songs include techno, rap, and slow love-like songs, but most songs combine different genres.
A few songs start with a familiar throwback of System of a Down, but once the beginning is over, that simi-larity quickly disappears to make it distinctly Linkin Park.
Some songs fans wouldn’t recog-nize as Linkin Park’s unless told. A prime example is “Iridescent,” which sounds similar to a Nick Lachey love song because of the soft piano solos. Even the lead singer Chester Benning-ton’s voice sounds similar to that of Lachey’s until the chorus begins.
This album will likely add new fans of the different sound, but old Linkin Park fans might abandon the band. Die-hard fans will stick with the band, though.
There’s a good composition of dif-ferent genres in a few songs, but overall this album’s a flop. This definitely isn’t one of their better albums and wouldn’t be recommended for fans of Linkin Park’s old sound. For those fans who like ever-changing genres in one album, feel free to take a look at this album.
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Tron: Legacy doesn’t live up to expectations
Genre: Sci-Fi Rating: PG-13 Director: Joseph Kosinski Length: 127 minutesFun Fact: Daft Punk makes a cameo as the DJ’s pf the End of the Line club.
GIRL VS. FOOD
Why they made a belated sequel to a really-not-that-good 1982 flop is be-yond this reviewer, but the fact remains that they made it. Disney has pulled out all the stops to make this a full-blown, wide-appealing box office event: state-of-the-art 3-D cameras, a Daft Punk soundtrack, a strong viral-marketing campaign, and a good cast were the factors that the powers used to build up Tron: Legacy to be this year’s Avatar. Tough box-office shoes to fill, but if the movie is good, word-of-mouth would seemingly take care of the rest. So, is Legacy as good as the hype has made it look?
No. No, it is not.Granted, the visuals, music and
atmosphere of the movie are all very good, and from a stylistic standpoint, this could be one of the more appealing
films of the winter season. These things make the movie worth seeing, and the technical crew should be applauded.
It’s the dramatics that disappoint. Garrett Hedlund, the protagonist, is fine, but he’s leagues ahead of eye-candy Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen, who overacts to the point of headache. Jeff Bridges, who plays two parts, is fine, but his Kevin Flynn character seems to be reminiscent of his role in The Big Lebowski, while his perfor-mance-captured Clu suffers from the occasional lag between performance and performance capture.
The most disappointing thing about this movie is how good it could have been. Given the revolutions in technology that took place between the Tron movies, Legacy could have been a smartly-plotted social comment about society’s relationship with technology, but instead this is a mediocre action movie with a run-of-the-mill plot.
Red Habanero4825 E. 96th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46240(317) 571-9642
Looking for a new way to warm up from this January weather? Red Habanero serves up food as hot as its name. Located on 96th Street, this fresh Mexican grill cooks authentic food packed with heat and flavor.
Recently, my boyfriend Josh and I had a craving for Mexican food and found ourselves wondering if any place could compete with the ever-so-popular Qdoba chain. Similar to Qdoba, Red Habanero is a simple, order-over-the-counter joint. But unlike the chain, Red Habanero has many more choices on its menu to offer.
I had a hard time deciding on what I wanted with all the possibilities, but I final-ly settled with the Jalepeño-lime Burrito – a tortilla packed and rolled tight with chicken, rice, a jalepeño lime sauce and my choice of cheese, tomatoes, onions, and even more fresh jalepeños. (Some like it hot.)
Josh picked the steak fajitas. Our server took the steak right off the grill and right
onto his plate which had guacamole, tor-tillas, peppers, rice and beans to wrap into his fajita.
We both had chips and queso on the side.
Our dishes were both full of flavor and filled us up. The lime sauce on my burrito added a zesty, fresh taste that paired per-fectly with the salsas from Red Habanero’s fresh salsa bar.
The restaurant also had many other interesting looking dishes besides what we chose like The Wet Burrito, a build-your-own burrito covered with queso, green and red sauce. And if burritos aren’t your thing but you’re a meat lover, the Choripollo Su-preme has chorizo sausage, grilled chicken and melted cheese.
Overall, Red Habanero is a good op-tion for someone in search of fresh Mexi-can and I believe it has many better quali-ties than Qdoba like the fresh homemade salsa bar, lower prices and a wider menu selection. Red Habanero is here to bring the spice and warm you up, but if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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To be a successful adaptation, a director must show some true grit of his own.
Aft er watching the Coen brothers’ new fi lm “True Grit,” my friend and I engaged in an argument over whether or not it was a “remake” of the 1969 John Wayne fi lm of the same name. While he argued that it was indeed a remake, I coun-tered that, as both versions were separately adapted from Charles Portis’ novel “True Grit,” the Coen version was not a remake but an indepen-dent adaptation of a seminal novel.
This situation got me thinking about adaptations in
general. It’s common knowl-edge that many fi lms come from source material (its origi-nal ideas that are much more rare), but the medium from which an idea is lift ed deter-mines certain built-in att itudes toward it. For instance, a movie based on another movie (a re-make) oft en elicits cries of “Oh, why are they making it again?” or “It won’t be as good!” On the other hand, adaptations of novels usually have none of that stigma, bar a few exceptions. Thus, the label-ing of what “True Grit” is, a remake or a literary adaptation, hugely aff ects an audience’s perception.
And audience perception is key, especially if a movie is based on precarious source material. An example of such dangerous material is TV ad-aptations, or when a TV show is turned into a movie. While these can be profi table, qual-
ity is never guaranteed. This is due to two big reasons: tone and demo-graphics. In the past, directors have gener-
ally adopted two main styles regarding the source material’s transfer to the big screen: par-ody and serious. The former style is especially dangerous, because it implies a lack of respect for the source material, instead deciding to make fun
of it. Demographics are also a key factor, for if a TV show is too dated, there may not be anyone left who would want a fi lm adaptation of it (this is why the SNL-spoof MacGruber tanked).
Similarly, comic book adaptations face similar chal-lenges. In addition to tone, many people still don’t take the genre seriously, narrowing their appeal.
In the end, adaptations in and of themselves are a gamble; if the director doesn’t handle the material well or is overbearing in his adapting, the fi lm will suff er and the material will be disrespected. To be a successful adaptation, a director must show some true grit of his own and take the material in his own direction, craft ing something new while also capturing the feel.
Are uniforms all they’re suited up to be?
Source material determines perception
• Jan. 21 - Allen County War Memorial Coliseum - Brad Paisley
• Jan. 28 - 8 Seconds Saloon - Jason Michael Carroll
• Jan. 29 - The Murat Theatre - Miranda Cos-grove
• Feb. 17 - Conseco Field-house - George Strait, Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack
• Jan. 25 - Famous by Toad Strasser; Throat by R.A. Nelson
• Feb. 1 - Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman; Trapped by Michael Northrop
• Feb. 3 - Close to Famous by Joan Bauer The Locket by Stacey Joy
• Jan. 21 - No Strings At-tached; Don’t be Afraid of the Dark
• Jan. 28 - From Prada to Nada
• Feb. 4 - Waiting for Forever
• Feb. 11 - Gnomero & Ju-liet; Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
• Jan. 28 - Nicole Atkins - Mondo Amore
• Jan. 31 - The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
• Feb. 15 - Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
• Feb. 22 - Adele - 21
We all know the saying “there are two sides to every coin.” When we make deci-sions we choose to give up something to gain something else. For example, while some students here choose to wear pajamas to school for comfort, they have simultaneously cho-sen to look ridiculous and thus have given up the opportunity to look somewhat presentable. Being in a public school, we are given this coin and the lib-erty to choose whichever side we please. However, in other schools that coin is taken away and replaced with a solid dress code we call a uniform.
In response to the ques-
tion, “would you prefer wear-ing a uniform to school every day,” most students at LC would probably answer “no.” I would answer “no” as well, but believe it or not there are some pros to wearing the same thing every day.
Senior Emily Soltan said, “I loved uniforms because I knew what to wear every day and I thought the ones at St. Simon were cute!” Soltan went on to explain they had the option of wearing their choice of shoes or ribbons in their hair, which I found to be really relieving! I’m glad that despite the bad rap uniforms get, there are some liberties given to those forced to wear them.
I also asked my friend Aus-tin Bazilio, senior at Cathedral High School, his thoughts on
wearing a uniform every day, “They hold back individual-ity with style, but they make it easier for gett ing ready in the mornings.” So even though it puts somewhat of a stopper on personal style, so far uniforms don’t seem all that bad, right? I’d say so. Another perk Bazilio mentions is being able to wear all of your street clothing on
the weekends. “It’s like seeing a completely diff erent look on people.”
From the looks of it, hav-ing to wear a uniform doesn’t
appear too horrible. Aft er all, it would mean the end of paja-mas, sweatpants and worst of all, sagging! On the contrary, I still enjoy being able to wear the clothes I like wearing on a daily basis and don’t think I’d be too quick to give it up.
Despite all of the positive
factors, there are a few cons to the uniform. My older sister, Megan Giles, went to both a private and public school dur-ing her high school career and told me about the diff erences.
“It was a lot easier in the mornings when I went to Bish-op Chatard and it was cool not having to spend a lot of money on diff erent clothing for each day. However, the uniforms were prett y uncomfortable, not very stylish and we had several specifi c rules on how to wear them, too. Also wearing the same colors every day did get a bit old.”
All in all, I would still choose to wear what I wanted to school. I mean, imagine wearing maroon and gray every single day of all four years of high school and see what you decide. Even though there are several pros and cons to both uniforms and personal style, I’m happily content with my freedom of fashion.
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discussed these 55 Flour maker 56 Pop (plr.) 58 Mechanisms 60 Vegetable dunk 62 Array 64 Holy places 65 Sharpshooter 68 Giver 69 Struck 72 Paddle 74 Reverence 75 Negative 76 North American Indian 77 Electroencephalograph (abbr.) 78 Government agency 79 Aurora 80 __ Jones Industrial average
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1 Sign language4 Short-term memory7 Coff ee brand10 Parch13 Undergarment14 Egg-shaped fruit15 Withered17 Roman three18 Disgusted20 Child’s son22 Kingly23 Brace oneself24 Constrictor25 Piano key substances29 Cc31 Desires33 Type of wood34 Large fi sh36 Makes a salad38 __ A Small World...39 Register40 Imbue41 Footgear43 Cinemaniac movie reviewed45 Chinese sauce46 Tailor47 Music48 Farm credit adminis tration (abbr.)51 Evils53 What a mosquito bite does54 Arbiter
57 What one student found in her lunch59 Discs61 Inguinal ___63 Cee lo _____; Kayla’s CD review artist64 Boat locomotion needs66 Hand grips67 Genetic code68 Wets70 Football assoc.71 Sing soft ly73 Adult insect75 Annoyance78 Vested81 Snacked82 Memorization83 Peter, for short84 Cow sound85 Aye86 Newspaper87 Is88 Compass point
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1 Angela Britain-Smith2 __ Lanka3 New club sport at LC4 Moses’ mountain5 Number of tickets a senior will get for graduation6 Middle7 Chinese seasoning8 Milk cow9 Rascals10 Hates11 Rio de Janeiro12 Yang’s partner14 Container16 Compass point19 Poet21 Resign24 Keep afl oat26 Off -Broadway award
27 Deteriorate28 Institution (abbr.)30 Comedian Jay31 Type of partnership32 Meeting34 Ocelot35 Eye infection37 LC’s basketball coach39 Loggia42 Night bird44 Gnawer48 Madagascar franc (abbr.)49 Greeting memo50 Bureaus52 Sham53 Island54 Troy’s fashion column dis cussed these55 Flour maker
56 Pop (plr.)58 Mechanisms60 Vegetable dunk62 Array64 Holy places65 Sharpshooter68 Giver69 Struck72 Paddle74 Reverence75 Negative76 North American Indian77 Electroencephalo- graph (abbr.)78 Government agency79 Aurora80 __ Jones Industrial average
…have a uni-brow or no eyebrows at all?
…have eyes that are extremely sensitive to light or be blind?
…be lost on a raft in the ocean or be lost in space?
…live near an active volcano or live in a war zone?
…sky dive over the ocean without a parachute or ride on a roller coaster without any restraints?
100Number of vocal cords a cat has.
55Miles per hour the fast-est bicyclist has gone.
6 Number of inches the height of the Eiff el Tower can change given the temperature.
50The number of times the eye makes move-ment every second.
30,000Number of quills on a porcupine.
Number of frowns it takes200,000
related accidents in the U.S.
to result in a brow wrinkle.
Momma’s SongCarrie UnderwoodCarly Barton, 11
The 5th SympnonyBeethoven
Chris Felli, 10
Super Mario Bros.Brett Leedy, 10
I Just had $#%The Lonely Island Boys
Chandler Ball, 10
Returner Yami Mo Shouen
GacktTalor Pulley, 12
Speakers Going HammerSoulja Boy
Jasmine Allen, 10Just the Way You Are
Bruno MarsMacey Roach, 10
So BlessedMariah Carey
Carly Barton, 11
The SimpsonsAmy Kleiman, 12
South ParkJacob Strain, 11
SeinfeldRiley Gilstrap, 12
Pawn StarsAdam Oppenheim, 9
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Boys starting the new year rightwasn’t terrible, there was one stat that was a big factor in the loss: opponent free throw shooting. Pike was able to go to the line 33 times against the Bears, and they hit 22 of them. Bloomington South went to the line quite a bit as well, going to the charity stripe 41 times. They hit 33 of them. “We just play an aggressive style of ball,” Shelt said. “We know that we are going to foul. We just have to play smarter.” While the Bears’ free throw shooting percentage has im-proved, they haven’t been to the line as much as they would like. When Pike went to the line 33 times, the Bear’s went to the line only 10. The boy’s also made 12 trips to the line against Bloomington South. The Boys will travel to Bloomington North on Satur-day, looking for their eighth win of the year.
Swimmers on the right track
The boys have become hot as of late winning six of their last eight games. They’re com-ing off a Marion County tour-nament loss on Jan. 15 to Pike. But their three previous games, all in the tournament, were victorious — against Ben Davis, Lawrence North and Park Tudor. The Bears played four games in four days. In the final of the four games, the Bears took on Pike and superstar Marcus Teague. He led the Red Devils with 30 points en route to a 61-71 victo-ry over LC for the second time this year. “I think a big part of our success is that we’re finally get-ting to know each other better. We have some new people and our chemistry is really getting better,” senior Tre Granger said.
Though they didn’t come out with the county trophy, the boys played like a team look-ing to do some damage down the road. They beat Ben Da-vis on Jan. 12 in a thrilling three-overtime game, 81-80, and beat cross-town rival LN the next day on a last-second shot by junior Tyler Corley. The Friday night game against Park Tudor was some-what melodramatic, as the boys would eventually go on to win that game 59-48. Earlier, against Columbus North, the Bears got off to a quick start. They held their lead from the first quarter through-out the rest of the game. Co-lumbus North did get within
3 with two minutes remaining in the game, but the Bears were able to fend them off. The boys played their pre-vious game at home against
Arlington on Jan. 4. This bout was much more lopsided, as LC took the game 74-44. The Bears last game of 2010 was on Dec. 29 at Hamilton Southeastern. It was a hard
fought game that went into overtime, but the Bears came out on the short end of the stick with a 72-76 loss. Junior Jeremy Hollowell had 24 points while hitting three 3-pointers. The Bears were right with one of the better teams in the state all the way through the end. LC took on Aiken High
School out of Cincinnati, Ohio, on Dec. 22. The boys were able to come away with a win 64-55. Hollowell led the way again with 22 points while Corley was right behind him with 21. This was the boys’ second win of the year and was the begin-ning of their hot streak. A big part of their recent success has been the ability of Hollowell to create scoring chances. “I’ve just been able to play with the team more,” Hollow-ell said. “I’m getting good shots and they’re falling for me.” Coach J.R. Shelt said he felt the same way. “Jeremy has be-come very patient. He’s always been fundamentally sound, and at 6’8”, there aren’t too many things that he can’t do.” The boys lost to Pike 55-73 and Bloomington South 51-65 on Dec. 10 and Dec. 17 respec-tively. While the Bear’s defense
The swimming teams will finish their season in the next two weeks and head to section-als on Feb 3. It has been a season to remember for the girls. Their latest loss came to LN, who is ranked in the top 15 in the state and was one of very few loses this season. The boys have had a good season, considering the the inexperience on the team this year. “The boys have improved a ton. Swimming is a very hard sport to just pick up,” said head coach Andy Renie. “We have a number of first- and second-year swimmers. They are get-ting better every day.” The girls have had a very successful season. They won their match at Perry meridian with a score 96 to 89 in a close match.
They placed fourth out 16 on the day before holiday break at IUPUI in the Marion County tournament. The girls also placed fifth in Conference Indiana, out of eight teams. “We are a very experienced team this year,” junior swim-mer Maggie Shanahan said. Although school was out for two weeks over holiday break, Renie said the swimming team practiced for three hours every day, including Christ-mas and New Year’s Day. Renie feels that this hepls minimize, or even eliminate, the holiday hangover many winter sports seem to have. Sophomore Reed Dillon fin-ished first out of 16 in diving at the Marion County tourna-ment. The key to the girls’ success this year, experience, is what is holding the boys back. Re-nie isn’t too worried about the
boys’ record as much as he is their learning of the sport. “We are concerned about making everyone a better swim-mer and a better person,” Renie said. The boys lost to Perry Me-ridian 121-67. They also fell to a good LN team 57 -133. The swimming team has no real plans for changing any practice habits in preparation for sectionals. “We have been preparing for sectionals the entire year. We are starting to fine tune our strokes and techniques,” Renie said. As for any speculation into how well the teams and indi-viduals will do in sectionals, Shanahan believes that senior Mackenzie Powell will make it far in the state competition. Shanahan also hopes that she and the rest of the girls can get a relay team to state as well.
...we’re finally getting to know each other. We have some new people and our chemistry is re-ally getting better.
Tre Grangersenior
Junior Sean Gassen swims a lap at practice, looking to end the sea-son strong. The boys have been imrpoving all year while the girls have been strong from the start. Cub photo/ Sam Mueller
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The power withinIt’s all psychological. If you believe it works, it will work for you. If not, then it will just look cool on you and that’s about it.
Ross Pereirajunior
The truth behind sports performance enhancing tools
Freshman George Bowman is on a roll. It’s the seventh in-ning, but he feels like it’s still the first. Bowman is painting the corners of the strike zone, set-ting down batters easily. What is the key to his success? It is, he believes, his Phiten necklace “I can feel a difference when I put it on. It does exactly what it says it’s supposed to do,” Bowman said. “When I’m in a game, it helps me get deeper into the
Phiten NecklacePrice: $22.99 - $44.99 (tornado model)Where to get it: Available at Dick’s Sporting Goods or most online sports retailers such as Eastbay. Or from the website phitenusa.com.
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game. It decreases my fatigue and gives me an edge.” The Phiten necklace is a de-vice used to increase balance and stabil-ity. Phiten p r o d u c t s supposedly work with the body’s energy sys-tem, helping to regulate and balance the flow of energy throughout the body. The secret to this inner bal-ance is something Phiten calls the “Phild process.” This secret process works with the neck-lace’s embedded titanium to in-
crease the flow of energy in the body. “I honestly feel that it works. The necklace gives me some
more flex-ibility and balance than I would have with-out it. It re-ally helps,” B o w m a n said. H o w -ever, there are skeptics of the Phiten n e c k l a c e .
Sophomore Geoff Bowles said, “It doesn’t do anything. I don’t feel any different when I wear it as opposed to when I don’t.” There is one thing that Bow-
man and Bowles do agree on: It’s a fashion statement. “It looks really cool. That is the only reason that I wear one,” Bowles said. But there are professional athletes who stand by it and believe that it brings them suc-cess. Among these athletes are Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony, Seattle Sea-hawks quarterback Matt Has-selbeck and the 2010 Cy Young award winner Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners. But the Phiten necklace now has competition. During last NBA season, the Power Balance came out, claiming to be able to accomplish the same things as the Phiten necklace, but in wristband form. The Power Balance works with a Mylar ho-logram in the center of it which is treated with waves at specific frequencies. The Power Balance is also endorsed by big time athletes such as Boston Celtics center Shaquille O’Neal, Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom and Detroit Lions quarterback Mathew Stafford. While they say it works for them, others, like junior Ross Pereira, disagree. “It doesn’t do anything for me. Its only benefit is that it looks cool,” Pereira said. Pereira is not the only who believes that. On an ESPN special report, they did a test to determine the validity of the bracelets. When they per-formed the tests the Power Bal-ance does on their website, they had the test subjects perform them with the bracelet first as opposed to Power Balance. The results showed that the second time around, without the bracelet, the subjects per-formed better. “That does not surprise me Cub graphic/Alex Kryah
one bit,” Pereira said. “What I think is that it is all psychologi-cal. If you believe it works, it will work for you. If not, it will just look cool on you and that’s about it.” It gets worse for Power Bal-ance. Just weeks ago, the cre-ators of Power Balance said it does absolutely nothing. That proves the psychology theory of it. But Bowman finishes the game with ease, feeling like a champion when he is finished. He felt the power of the Phiten necklace. There are still questions that remain, but the bottom line is this: feel the difference or feel nothing at all. It can’t hurt
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Senior Erin Fislar pushes through the Lawrence North defender in an attempt to score for the Bears. Cub photo/Brad Oppenheim
Girls showing improvement
Wrestlers hold strong against [email protected] The Bears wrestling team placed third on Jan. 15 during the Conference Indiana tourna-ment at LC. Sophomore Max Brutus won the whole tournament in his respective weight class. Just two days before this meet the Bears defeated Deca-tur Central in a dual meet; 72-6. The boys also had a dual meet against Cathedral on Jan. 6. At that meet the Bears suf-fered a disappointing loss, 47-16.
After the Cathedral meethead coach Tom Corbett said,“This was a very disappointing meet for us. We always hate to lose to Cathedral, but we proba-bly wrestled the worst we have all year.” Before these two dual meets, the Bears had traveled to Mishawaka to compete in the tough two-day Mishawaka In-vitational on Dec. 28 and 29. LChadastrongfinish,plac-ing 11 out of 32 teams. “This tournament is prob-ably the best tournament in the state besides the actual state
tournament,”Corbettsaid.“Weonly brought 11 guys out of 14 to wrestle, so to be able to score as high as we did is an amazing accomplishment.” Six individuals finished inthe top eight at the Mishawaka tournament. These individuals include senior Michael Taylor, finishinginthirdplace;sopho-mores Riley Newkirk and Max Brutus, finishing in fourth; ju-nior Clay LaBarr, finishing inseventh; and sophomore ScottSwingle, coming in eighth. Despite the good finish atMishawaka, Corbett believes
theteamcanbeevenbetter. “Our team is experienc-ingsomebadinjuries,butoncewe get healthy and get our full team back, we could make some noise come tournament time,”Corbettsaid. Not only did the wrestling team compete in the Misha-waka Invitational, but they also hosted the Marion County championship on Dec. 18. The tournament took all dayandafterallwas saidanddone, the wrestling team fin-ished fourth out of 16 teams. “I was really happy and
proud of the way the team wrestled,” Corbett said. “Totake fourth place in this tough of a tournament is an accom-plishment and the guys are starting to see the benefits oftheir hard work.” Not only did the Bears do well as a team, but they also had sometopindividualfinishes. Thesetopfinisheswerede-livered by seniors Eric Thigpen and Michael Taylor. Both fin-ished in second place. The next meet is the IHSAA sectional tournament on Jan. 29 at LC.
Under the leadership of head coach John Albers, the Lady Bears basketball team has had more wins this season than they have had since 2002. Last year, the team finished theirseason 3-16. The girls are only halfway through their season and already have a record of 5-7. “We’ve won more games this season than the past two combined,” senior Erin Fislar said. “It’s a huge improvement and such a good feeling know-ing we still have a lot more to come.” The team defeated Law-renceNorthonJan.13withafi-nal score of 50-47. Junior Taylor Sanders and senior Shay Redd led throughout the night, scor-ing 13 and 10 points, respective-ly, for the Lady Bears. “We played really good team defense and kept up with LN the entire game. We knew what it was going to take to win,sowewentafterit,”Fislar
said. The girls took home a win against Arlington on Jan. 5. The game was a blowout with afinalscoreof44-17.TheBearswereup33-7athalftime.Alberssays defense and confidencewere key to the team’s success. Not only are defense and confidenceimportantaspectsofthegame,but for juniorshoot-ing guard Kacey John-son, trust is another key c o m p o n e n t . When com-pared to years before, John-son said, “We lacked trust, but this year we are play-ing more as one than be-fore because we found trust in each other as teammates. We have trust that we can beat bigger teams.” Communication skills, chemistry, and returning play-ers are what Johnson believes to have made the team stand out
from years past. “If we keep playing how we have been I think we could be one of the main sectional con-tenders,” Johnson said. The team’s third victory of the season was against Pike with a close score of 63-61. “This game against Pike was one of the biggest wins of the decade for the LC Lady
Bears bas-ketball pro-gram,” Albers said. Sopho-more Breanna Jones, Redd and Sanders helped con-tribute toward their win against Pike. “ E v -erything has seemed to finally come
together for us. No more indi-vidualbasketball;justteambas-ketball,” Sanders said. The girls will travel to Franklin Central tonight where they will take on the Flashes at 7:30.
Taylor Sandersjunior
Everything has seemed to finally come together for us. No more individual basketball; just team basketball.
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SCOREBOARDBoys Basketball
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Boys SwimmingGirls Basketball
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12/17-LC: 51, Bloomington South: 6512/22-LC: 64, Aiken: 5512/29-LC: 72, HSE: 761/4-LC: 74, Arlington: 441/7-LC: 57, Columbus North: 501/12-LC: 81, Ben Davis: 801/13-LC: 66, Lawrence North: 641/14-LC: 59, Park Tudor: 481/15-LC: 61, Pike: 71
12/18- 4th out of 16 at County1/6-LC: 96, Perry Meridian: 891/15-5th out of 8 at Conference Indiana1/18-LC vs Greenfield Central1/22-LC vs Center Grove
12/28-LC: 40, Westfield: 6112/29-LC: 46, Shelbyville: 271/5-LC: 44, Arlington: 171/8-LC: 45, Bloomington North: 541/13-LC: 50, Lawrence North: 471/15-LC: 31, Perry Meridian: 36 1/18-LC vs Broad Ripple1/21-LC vs Franklin Central
1/8-LC: 67, Perry Meridian: 1211/13-LC: 57, Lawrence North: 1331/18-LC vs Greenfield Central1/22-LC vs Center Grove
12/18-4th out of 16 at County12/28-11th out of 32 at Mishawaka Invitational1/6-LC: 16, Cathedral: 471/13-LC: 72, Decatur Central: 6
PowellMackenzie
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Years on Varsity:
Favorite Stroke:
Best Part about LC swimming:
Favorite moment with LC
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Four
Breaststroke
“Team get-togethers.”
“The Swim-a-thon my freshman year.”
Cub photo/Sam Mueller
