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SIDELINEDExploring concussions in athletics

NO MORE NOISENorth gets a warning for noisemakers

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THE FINAL BUZZERNorth seniors discuss their final game against South.

Review of “What’s Left of Me” 08Review of “Angelfall” 08Great Intentions 09The Highs an Lows of Legalization 10Let’s Get Baked 11

Editors in ChiefMaureen LangleyZoe Need

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Express Yourself 14The Music Lives On 15Winter Rehearses “Jilted” 16

Diving into New Waters 17On the Ice 17The Final Buzzer 18North Defeats South 20Baseball Players Train for Next Season 23

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Helping Hubbard’sA volunteer cleans the windows of the Cupboard. Volunteers listen to directions for the day.

Junior Jake Barrett and senior Tai Mickelecky organize the front desk.

Senior Rachel Rinquist cleans the fridges (left). Junior Tanner Ellis washes gardening materials (middle). Junior Megan Factora cleans up under the sinks (right).

Student volunteers scrub old gardening containers in preparation for the spring.

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Bread for Bloomington spends their “day on” at Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard.

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Where is the Love, a club founded by junior Morgan Newman, holds a fundraiser for a different charity each year. This year they’re rais-ing funds and bras for Free the Girls. Free the Girls is an orga-nization that donates gently used bras and camisoles to survivors of sex trafficking. They send bras to women so that the women can build up an inventory and start their own business. Free the Girls currently sends bras to 21 women. In July of 2012 they shipped 32,000 bras to Mozambique. Since then they have col-lected over 200,000 bras and camisoles. This past summer, Newman started her own bra drive af-ter watching “The Freedom

Project,” a documentary pro-duced by CNN that profiles the lives of citizens who are a part of Free the Girls. “When I finally got the chance to see it, something just kind of stuck with me,” Newman said. Since watching that docu-mentary, Newman has col-lected more than 1,500 bras. She hopes to double the col-lection by the end of March. You can donate your gently used bras and camisoles by putting them the donation box located in North’s main office until March 7. On March 9, Where is the Love is holding a banquet at the Neal Marshall Black Cul-ture Center. You can pre-or-der tickets for the banquet by emailing [email protected]

Supporting the GirlsNorth club seeks bra donations for victims of sex trafficking.by Maureen Langley

WHAT IS SEX TRAFFICKING? source: idsnews.com

Human trafficking occurs when people are recruited to work or provide services through use of force, fraud or coercion.

≠$Between 100,000 and 300,000 American children are victims of sex trafficking every year.

83 percent of human trafficking vic-tims found in the United States are United States citizens

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Fans in the student section stood elbow to elbow on the bleachers of Tom McKinney court as North’s varsity basketball team played South on Jan. 10. They were loud, they were ready for a win and they weren’t going to quit for anything. That is, until they received a warning for having noisemakers. In middle of the screaming, whis-tling and jeering, a low hollow sound was heard. Senior Chase Crafton was blowing into his red vuvuzela, an in-strument that had become a staple of football games last this past fall. Crafton isn’t familiar with the Indiana

High School Athletic Association rules, where it states under section XXIV of the 2013-14 IHSAA winter bulletin, that cowbells and other such noise devices, banners, shakers on sticks, signs, posters, etc., are not permitted. Crafton’s vuvuzela was confiscated by athletic director Mike Mossbrucker and later returned. Seniors Calvin Costello and Phillip Pepper decided the day of the game to bring noisemakers to distribute to the rest of student section. “They gave me a kazoo, so I thought to go get my vuvuzela,” Crafton said. Pepper and Costello brought a gui-

tar, kazoos and harmonicas that night. None of these items were confiscated because you couldn’t hear them over the sound of fans screaming. After the warning was given, the use of noisemakers stopped. “Since it was such a tight game, we didn’t want to play them. We didn’t want to get a technical like South did for throwing stuff on the court. It was such a close game and a big game that we had to keep our cool and tone it down,” Pepper said. Pepper felt that since the game was so hyped up that he had to bring noisemakers like they had done during

football season. Under IHSAA rules, noisemakers are allowed at football games. It states in the IHSAA fall bulletin under section XIII that no battery or electronic noise makers, sirens or whistles are allowed. This doesn’t rule out the rock filled milk jugs that South brings to games, nor does it rule out vuvuzelas. Senior Zach Thames was seen play-ing the guitar throughout the night. He was also unaware of IHSAA rules and said that next time he won’t be using noisemakers. “We’ll just bring our voices,” Thames said.

No More NoiseNorth receives a warning for using noisemakers at the North vs. South basketball game.by Maureen Langley

Senior Zach Cleaver shouts cheers on North from student section on Jan. 10 as North varsity basketball plays South. / Maddie Gooldy


She stands on the playground alone because the other children won’t play with her. They don’t talk to her in class, but it doesn’t matter anyway. She can’t say anything back. Eight year old Grisel Diaz doesn’t speak English. Junior Grisel Diaz’s family is from Mexico. When she was young, Spanish was the only language spoken at home. Diaz wasn’t around English speakers until she moved to Bloomington from California. She started school in Bloomington. It didn’t prove easy for her. “They didn’t want to play with me at recess and they would always call me names,” Diaz said.

Students and teachers treated her with disrespect. She was shunned from social groups because she couldn’t communicate with people. “The teacher would always call on me to make me read, even though she knew I couldn’t. I could understand some of what they were saying but I still couldn’t read.”, Diaz said Diaz took English as a second language for years. “It was very difficult at first but I finally got the hang of it,” Diaz said. Senior Hawa Gassama moved from New York when she was only four to live in Senegal , West Africa. She lost much of her ability to speak English.

“In Senegal the majority of people either speak French of Woluf which is a combination of regional languages” Gassama said. Gassama mostly spoke French. Gassama returned to the United States when she was 16. Hawa found herself discriminated against in school “When I would have to do some public speaking in class, people would laugh during my speeches. I hate my accent, I didn’t at first up I’ve started hating it because people have made fun of me for it so much,” Gassama said, “I’ve realized that I should not care what other people think of me.”

by Kiah Weaver

Breaking the Language BarrierNorth students share the struggles of learning English as a second language

Junior Grisel Diaz / photo by Kiah Weaver


On the FloorTaking a look down to discuss North’s problem with throwing things way.by Zoe Need

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"Do we need to have the talk?" joked the swim team before a late practice on Wednesday afternoon. They were referring to a box that had inconveniently made its way down the downstairs hallway, into the pool office and onto Instagram. This piece of trash is just one example of a problem stu-dents and teachers encounter daily at North. Despite ample custodial staff and trash cans, the floor sometimes still looks like a sea of discarded papers, hair, food and other miscellaneous objects students are too lazy to throw away. Students have to wade through this garbage and avoid putting their backpacks down on the ground. Gum seems to be everywhere except mouths. One in every three chairs at North has gum stuck to the bottom of it.

The bathrooms are the same story. Junior Jake Barrett appreciates the paradox of the unclean bathroom. "Sometimes I feel like I need to take a shower after going to the bathroom," Barrett said. Barrett understands that the dirti-ness in the bathrooms and elsewhere doesn't fall solely on the shoulders of the custodial staff. "I am really surprised at the lack of courtesy from the students that use the bathroom. It's like they have no bath-room manners and the people who have to deal with it are the janitors," Barrett said. Trash is gross. The question that re-mains is how to remedy this problem. Does the solution come from a big-ger custodial staff or more contentious students?The box found of the floor of the pool room office.

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Review of “What’s Left of Me”by Krista Williams

“Angelfall” by Susan Ee, is a post- apocalyptic romance thriller, packed with tension and bloody fight scenes. The two main characters, Raffe and Penryn come together after angels of the apocalypse descend to destroy the modern world. Raffe, a warrior who’s wings were torn off in battle, needs help finding a doctor to reattach them. Penryn, a 17 - year old girl who needs help finding her sister who was taken by the dark angels. The two main characters come together two benefit themselves, but end up tethered to each other in more ways than one.

This science fiction romance is packed to the gills with excitement and would entertain anyone on a long car ride. “Angelfall” is not for those who want to challenge their reading skills but keeps you sitting the edge of your seat until the very end. At times you will laugh and at times you will cry. It’s a wild ride with Penryn and Raffe on their adventure to destroy the dark angels.

Like everyone, Addie and Eva were born sharing a body. They grew up sharing the same breath and heartbeat, in the same flesh, inseparably intertwined. One body, twin souls. In Addie and Eva’s world, by the age of 10 a dominate soul is meant to take over, while the recessive simply goes away. Eva is deemed the recessive soul, but she doesn’t want to go away. Even as her strength fades and she becomes nothing more than a background voice in Addie’s life, she holds on. This complicates things. Twin souls (hybrids) are outlawed and if discovered, are taken by government for a worse-than-death fate. Thankfully, when Addie and Eva are 12, Eva is falsely reported as gone. Three years later, their life has become a drone of school, friends, family, without any upset. Addie goes on being Addie, while Eva is stuck in a body she can’t control and whose only pleasure is drawn by living vicariously through Addie. Then enters Hally, a strange girl and social reject, who just happens to know exactly what Addie and Eva are going through.

This is the main premise of “What’s Left of Me”, Kat Zang’s stunning debut. However it is more than just that. It is villains who think they are heroes and heroes, that by government-issued propaganda, are feared by the public. It is about how nothing is as it seems. “What’s Left of Me” is written with impact and told from a unique perspective. Readers feel for both Addie and Eva. Addie as she struggles to release full control over her body for the first time in three years and Eva whose control only comes back in infant-sized steps. As typical with most young adult novels, “What’s Left of Me” has a romantic interest in it, however it is pushed to the side-line in preference for a fast-paced plot. This is refreshing among the mass of female and male leads too dependent on each other. “What’s Left of Me,” is a worthwhile read. It is apart of a trilogy, along with “Once We Were” and “Echoes of Us” (out September 16, 2014).

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Singer songwriter Niykee Hea-ton released an acoustic cover of Chief Keef’s “Love Sosa” on Youtube in November of 2012. The 19 year old from Chicago quickly grabbed the media’s at-tention. She has reached the ears of hip hop stars such as Trey Songz, Mac Miller, Snoop Dogg, Trini-dad James and even Chief Keef himself, since topping over one million views on Youtube. Since Niykee's rising popu-larity she has spent her time putting out more covers, do-ing radio interviews and mak-ing a name for herself. Heaton recently wrote and released her first studio recorded song, “Bad Intentions.” Social media sites have been buzzing for the past few days with lyrics and links to the song. "The fact that people are tweeting lyrics to my song. . .dream come true," Heaton said the day of Bad Intentions' re-lease on her Twitter.

It has been played and down-loaded from Soundcloud over 20,000 times. Youtube viewers have listed to it 35,000 times. The song has had little to no negative reaction from fans and the popularity seems to be ris-ing. The song begins with a few soft strums of a guitar before Niykee takes over with power-ful vocals, telling her audience of her bad intentions. It is the kind of sound you would hear sampled on a rap track that will make you play it back and say, "Who IS that girl?" With the confidence similar to that of G.O.O.D Music's Teyana Taylor and sweet soulfulness mimicking Jhene Aiko, Heaton has still managed to create a very special and unique sound to represent her and appeal to her audience. Whether you are a fan of new age R&B or not, Bad Intentions is a track worth listening to.

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Great Intentions Chicago teen Niykee Heaton releases her first song. by Maddie Gooldy


Marijuana should be legalized. The War on Drugs has lasted for more than two decades. According to researcher Jon Gettman, the U.S spends 42 billion taxpayer dollars to eliminate marijuana. However, when this drug is still used by numerous citizens and is less harmful that other legal substances, what is the point? Look at the facts. According to the Becky Foundation’s report, “In terms of relative harms, (marijuana) is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.” Marijuana has something alcohol and tobacco don’t-- actual medical value. “I have a lot of family members who’ve had cancer and marijuana has helped them through it,” junior Collin Lynch said. There is some truth to the above statement. According to drugpolicy.org, marijuana reduces nausea, a side effect to chemotherapy. A world after the legalization of marijuana would look something like this: Marijuana, manufactured by reliable retailers, approved by the FDA, and sold in stores. This way, the risk of it being laced by other, more dangerous drugs is eliminated. Also, this need for street salesmen is removed along with the violence that is attached to them. People will be carded in order to buy it, just the same as with alcohol and tobacco. Even after

national legalization, marijuana will be illegal to people under 21, whose undeveloped brains would be most affected by the drug. Furthermore, after the legalization marijuana, the U.S goes from a place that spends money to jail marijuana users to a place that earns money over marijuana’s tax revenue. The forbidden quality of the drug may feed to the generally independent and rebellious nature of teenagers. “I think that the illegality of the drug makes it more intriguing to teenagers,” sophomore Hannah Hanscom said. Furthermore, both Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational marijuana without terrible repercussions.

A DOPEY IDEAby Alaina Schmidt

WHY NOTby Krista Williams

LEGALIZATIONA look into how Marijuana affects it’s users, and if it should be legalized.

The Highs and Lows of Marijuana

STAFF OPINION: PRO, 12

CON, 2

Pot, weed, bud, and dope are just a few of the many slang terms for the Cannabis plant, more commonly known as marijuana. The Native Americans called it hemp, your grandparents called it grass and your parents called it something else, yet again. Cannabis has been around for many years, but just became illegal within the past century. Now, it is fully legalized two states. However, the question is if it should be legal in all states. According to defense.gov, some common immediate side effects involved with smoking marijuana include problems with memory and learning, distorted perception, the inability to think or problem solve clearly, loss of coordination, increased heart rate, and anxiety. Various health studies show that regular use of marijuana may play a role in some kinds of cancer, and may be to blame for some respiratory and immune system problems. Marijuana is widely believed to be a gateway drug, and can eventually lead to the use of other harder drugs.

According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, “Young, developing brains are likely more susceptible to harm from marijuana than adult brains. Some recent studies suggest that regular use in teenage years leads to a permanent decrease in IQ.” Should pot be legalized? Although twenty states have medicinally legalized it, it’s still illegal under Federal Law. “I think that marijuana should not become legal because more people would be likely to smoke it, and it’s not very good for you,” freshman Ashley Clark said. “It harms your body, brain, and blood cells and can cause mental disorders. It can really hurt you.” Although Senior Michael Moore is pro-legalization, he believes there are some risks involving marijuana, “They say if you smoke for long term, you could get cancer from it, but you’d have to smoke it for like fifty years.” Moore said.There have been no known studies supporting these risks of marijuana usage, but many people are still on the edge of their seat when it comes to legalizing this drug.

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You can get baked in a way that won’t get you in trouble with the law. Baked! of Bloomington is a bakery that plays on the idea of having the “late night munchies.” by Catherine Hardy

Jared Schneider thought that more than pizzas and sandwiches should be delivered. In the Spring of 2005, he opened Baked! of Bloomington. In 2006 Schneider decided to take a differ-ent route and handed the business off to Jeremy Ness. Ness has been in the business since 2001 but be-came the owner of Baked! in 2006. As for the name, “It absolutely plays off of marijuana,” Ness said. The founder had a tub of his mom’s cookies in his hands as he asked he friends “Want to get baked?” It was a joke, but it stuck. Items on the menu also play off of marijuana too. You can order any-thing from the “Wake n’ Bake” to the “Hot Box” special. Baked’s target audience is col-lege students. When they leave for the summer, Baked loses about 80 percent of their business. “The city has really embraced us,” Ness said.

Baked! owner Jeremy Ness puts an order into the system while employee Ryan Dagley washes dishes.

Kaitlin Martin and Megan Morrow wait for their order. Dough for a specialty order is ready to be baked.

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“I love that it’s all custom made. Other places just don’t compare.”

Kaitlin Martin, 16

“My favorite is the chocolate mint chip white chip with vanilla frosting.”

Ryan Dagley, 26

“I come here all the time. It’s worth the 25 minute drive from Bedford.”

Megan Morrow, 16

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What is art to you? “Art is simply the passion to create things,” senior Asa Petry said. Petry was born to be in the arts.His father was a musician and his mother a photographer. When he was young expressed himself through drawing and he seemed to always have a crayon in his hand. “I always liked drawing as a kid,” Petry said, “I used it as a way to convey my feelings and express myself.” Petry has been a member of the band, playing the trumpet since seventh grade. He’s been in marching band for four years. Janice Stockhouse, North’s marching band director, convinced

Petry to take up the french horn his senior year. “It is one of the hardest instruments to master,” Petry said. He also taught himself how to play guitar and sing in eighth grade. Now he writes his own songs, and in the summer, plays them at the Farmer’s Market. Petry has 15,000 dollars in scholarships to Earlham College, a renowned liberal arts college in Richmond, Ind. He plans to get a general arts diploma and become an art therapist. “I’ve always used art to express myself and get my feelings out and I want to help other people find the comfort that I got from it,” he said.

Express YourselfSenior Asa Petry tells about his artistic past present and future. by Sydney Pogue

Petry plays the trumpet at a jazz concert. / by Jessie Grubb

Life Without Music Would B-FlatJunior shares her love for choir and how she started singing.by Alaina Schmidt

For a full interview of Lauren Gosser and a video of her singing, check out this code or wp.me/p1PFoJ-FM


The boy sitting next to you in class always has his headphones in. When you go to the mall, music is playing in every store. You lis-ten to it in the car as you drive to school, and at home when you’re studying. Music connects us all. TD’s CDs and LPs, located on Kirkwood in the basement behind Soma and below Cactus Flower, is the place to find every genre imag-inable in most mediums. Specializing primarily in vinyl al-bums, it fills a void left in many stores today. The store is named after the orig-inal owner Thomas Donohue. After

starting out in a shack on Grant Street, it was moved to its current location after Donohue passed away in 2003. TD’s carries CDs, cassette tapes and vinyl records. In addition, TDs makes a point of buying mixtapes from local musicians that are also for sale in the store. “It’s amusing to me, I still re-member when CDs came out and were the best thing on earth. The type of music I listen to doesn’t sound good on vinyl. But, what-ever is going to make people ex-cited to listen and enjoy music is fine by me,” said 10 year employee Michael Anderson.

Employee Michael Anderson makes recommendations to a customer.

Td’s shelves are lined with records of all genres in varying formats.

The Music Lives OnGlance inside one of our local businesses, a music store run by the people for the people.by Kat Sylvester


Winter Guard Rehearses “Jilted”For more photos go to wp.me/p1PFoJ-G5

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New Waters

When he was eight years old, Jackson began swimming with his older brother Max Irwin. A close friend of his was also a swimmer at the time. This is why Jackson started swimming. Jackson has participated in swimming programs. He says this has been a great source of exercise and has also kept him out of trouble. When Jackson is in the water, his big-gest motivation is swim coach Dave Tan-ner. “Dave is a really great guy. He makes me want to work hard,” Jackson said. Before Max graduated last May, he set 10 records for North Swim and Dive. Sometimes this is intimidating for Jackon. “I try not to let it affect me, but it does sometimes,” Jackson said.

Last year was a record setter for North Swim and Dive. And while they lost 12 seniors from that team, they remain determined to ensure nothing stops them from being better than ever.

by Kat Sylvester

Senior Tommy Dedek grew up in a family full of swimmers. He joined the Bloomington Swim Club at age nine. “I didn't like it at first, it was hard,” Dedek said. Dedek began swimming for North as a freshmen. He agrees that last season was an extreme success. However, Dedek thinks that success isn’t measured in wins and losses but by how happy your team is and how much fun is had. “This year I think we’ll be more suc-cessful by my definition because we will be a lot happier as a team. That’s my goal,” Dedek said. Swim practices are goofy but not lazy. They sing a lot of songs and do other fun things. Swim coach Dave Tanner is a big reason why practicesare fun. “He puts in a lot of work and he loves us. Its special to say the least,” Dedek said.

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Sophomore Sophie Yates first stepped onto the ice at seven years old in the shadow of her older sister. She want-ed to do anything her older sister, Abi Yates did. Yates never stopped loving ice skat-ing. Ice skating is not an IHSAA varsity sport. It is a club sport and is often times taken less seriously than varsity sports. However, ice skating is as important and as physically demanding as other sports are. “We practice five days a week any-where between one and a half and two hours it all depends,” Yates said. Figure skating is different than oth-er sports because they have to teach themselves new things by watching others. They develop new ideas by watching other performances. “A lot of other people don’t even re-alize it is a sport so they’re surprised when i tell them,” Yates Yates sets goals for herself each sea-son. This sea son she is working on bettering her performances on the ice. She is learning how to do an axle, which is where you spin 360 degrees in the air. “Dream big. If you believe in yourself you will go far and you will feel good,” Yates said. Yates relies on the support of her teammates. “We do team routines. Which requires us to work with one an-other,” Yates said. Ice skating is not an entirely team based sport however, Yates under-stands and values the relationship she has with her teammates. “Learning to skate is an art,” Yates said. “Once you can do it you feel good and superior.”

Sophomore Sophie Yates tells why she stepped onto the rink and what she’s done to stay there.

by Maddie Gooldy

Senior Tommy Dedekphoto by Kat Sylvester

Sophomore Sophie Yatesphoto by Maddie Gooldy


The Final BuzzerBasketball seniors talk defeating South in their last city rivalry game.

“It was our senior year so we knew we had to do whatever it took to win. It was a really

big win for us.”

“I’ve never been in a game where we had that many fans and to feed off of the enthusiasm from the fans was really nice.”

Senior Saikou Jallow

Senior Saikou Jallow

Senior Grant Sims

Senior Adam Sowder

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“I feel like it made a lot of people happy not just in our school, but in the community. I feel like we just came out the gates ready to play.”

“The feeling of winning was a big relief, we finally took

care of what we needed too a long time ago.”Senior Tyler Truesdel


Senior Grant Sims

Senior Adam Sowder


Senior Saikou Jallow celebrates the win against South being lifted up by fans.

Boys basketball played South Jan. 10. As the first quarter ended North took the lead, 16-4. At halftime North led 32-17, with North’s Tyler Trues-del scoring 15 of those points. North ended the third quarter in the lead with 51-36. While South picked up in the fourth quarter, North came out on top winning 72-66.

North Defeats South

photos by Maddie Gooldy

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North alumni Damon Brown congratulates senior Grant Sims on the win.

Senior Zach Thames and others get held back by administration.

Junior Kaleb Ferrell stands at the line for a three throw during the junior varsity game.

Special Olympics players shoot lay ups during halftime.


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After a successful season last school year, North’s baseball team is ready to do it again.

Baseball Players Train for Upcoming Seasonby CJ Campbell North’s baseball team is coming off a ended last season with a 26-5 record. They compiled a 21-game winning streak, a Sectional title, as well as their first Conference Indiana title in school history. It was a season to remember but now they’re turning their focus to 2014. A new year presents itself with new opportunities. The baseball team has a bad taste left in their mouths after a defeat to Jeffersonville in the Regional Championship last June at Evansville’s

Bosse Field. Baseball players have been working on sharpening their skills since August but recent indoor winter workouts have developed a sense of urgency for the team and a realization that baseball season is right around the corner. North baseball has the potential to make 2014 their year. With nine returning starters, that do not lack experience. Leadership is present, which gives this team the edge to achieve what no other North baseball team ever has.

Junior Tyson Bennett runs laps around the indoor track during conditioning. / photo by Maureen Langley

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A VISION AND VOICESophomore Andrew Torbenson is president of North’s video club. He recently won the American Visions and Voices award for his videography. Watch “Jumping” in full at wp.me/p1PFoJ-GB.

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