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Volume 32 Issue 5 March 2013 A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships.

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current building. “It would be nice to have a modern-ized school.” Megan Bay-less sophomore said. Abby Wright, junior echoed the anticipation.

“It’s going to make our school a safer place in case of an earthquake; otherwise we are going down,” said Wright.

mick in the Northwest. A!er completing his career

in screenplay production, he moved out to Bellingham to retire.

“Bellingham is the most beautiful place in the world,” Goodwin said. “I love the amenities available and the amazing people.” Goodwin also teaches workshops for screenplay production at Western Washington Uni-versity.

“We live near Seattle, a city full of opportunities for aspir-ing screenwriters and produc-ers like me.”

Local talent hits silver screen, endless praise

Northwest. As senior executive produc-

er of the famous television series !e X-Files, Robert W. “Bob” Goodwin has lived a life of Hollywood fame behind the scenes of produc-tion, and is currently residing in Bellingham, Washington.

In 2009 he shot Alien Tres-pass starring Eric McCor-

The Rising Tide . Sehome High School

2 News March 2013

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Fame in the PNW

District Task Force Committee

proposal for

remodel. What will change and what will Sehome look like in the years to come?

Remodel update On Feb. 26, students of Se-

home High School celebrated a day o" due to an explosion in the boiler room and power outage. One would be hard pressed to #nd a more timely explosion.

Over the past few months, students at Sehome have been bubbling over rumors of a re-build. A task force committee of 30 community members has met to discuss the matter, and have submitted their sug-gestions recently to Dr. Baker for review.

$e recommendations high-light the fact that the school is

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“It’s going to be sad to see the old school destroyed.”-Natalie Anderson, senior

Photo by Joi Baydek

nearing 50 years old; it is in the worst condition out of all the buildings in the district.

$ey emphasize worries about campus safety due to the many entrances and exits and hope to increase safety measures in the new building.

$e task force looks to rebuild the school on the sports #elds so that during the rebuild students wouldn’t have to be relocated to other schools. $ey could just remain in the current build-ing. $e new sports #elds would all be turf, and include a track, baseball #eld, and a

convertible soccer/so!ball #eld.

A new kitchen would also be in order and would cater to more schools across the dis-trict than they do currently.

$e estimated cost hits a whopping $73 million, and the community can expect a rebuild in the next 5 years.

Students at Sehome High School seem to have mixed feelings on the matter.

“It’s going to be sad to see the old school destroyed,” Natalie Anderson, senior said. Others seem to have no strong connection with the

News Bites look back at the month in brief.

Power’s out, school’s outAn overnight electrical #re caused a boiler room explosion that le! Sehome dark and students at home

Tuesday, February 26. Students and sta" feared (or hoped) the school shut-down would last days longer, but a back-up generator meant class resumed Wednesday.

Spring play starts up$is year’s Drama Department spring play, Ken Ludwig’s !e !ree Musketeers, has started rehearsing.

“It’s very exciting,” Vicki Chaney, drama teacher and director, said. “We’re pulling out all the stops - there’s fencing, fancing, masks...All for one and one for all, baby.” Catch this action-packed show in mid-April.

Singing-gram successChoir’s popular annual fundraiser has a great run this year, with crowd favorite songs to send including

Boyfriend by J Biebs and One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful. Students especially enjoyed sending singing-grams to their favorite teachers and sta" members - that’s one way to make block day more fun.

First round of CPs doneSeniors tested out the new Culminating Project requirements and checked an important to-do before

graduation o" their lists. About 95 seniors presented to 50 teachers and community members. $e best news? About 95% passed.

Rising Tide to go online$e Rising Tide looks forward to introducing a new online-access version of the Rising Tide. PDFs of this

newsmagazine and this year’s previous issues will soon be uploaded on a variety of platforms, including the Rising Tide Facebook page.

Kara Junttila Editor-in-chief

The Rising Tide Sehome High School

3Up in da club Clubs are getting ready for spring competitions and

making goals for next year.

When John Mangan, librar-ian, says “New York”, you can tell that’s where he’s from: a trace of Manhattan still lingers in his vowels almost three decades a!er he moved to the Paci#c Northwest.

One of his #rst impressions of this area was that people here are more patient than he was used to. “I went to jaywalk on Capitol Hill [in Seattle], and the car stopped [for me]. Messed up my %ow,” he said. “I don’t use the horn as much as I used to; I’m try-ing to #t in.”

When he came to Seattle in the eighties, Mangan was an avid hiker, so the natu-ral beauty and accessible mountains were a major draw for him. “It’s really beauti-ful - there’s not that feeling

of people pressing in from all around you,” he said.

However, more space came with tradeo"s: “[$ere is] not as much ethnic diversity as I was used to… [And] it’s hard to compare the cultural opportunities here to those available in major cities like New York or Washington DC.”

No longer being in a city ended up changing Mangan’s career. He said he probably wouldn’t have gotten his teaching certi#cate if he’d stayed on the East Coast. “$e scale of problems in schools in the cities where I lived were too daunting; it wouldn’t have appealed to me to go into teaching.”

“Not saying that you guys are easy,” he said.

Culture ShockSteven Ayers, substitute

teacher and football/track coach, lives in the house where he grew up, but now with his wife instead of his parents. He lived in Belling-ham through high school (he’s a Sehome alumnus), and then moved to Pullman, Washington to attend Wash-ington State University.

A!er college and graduate school in Eastern Wash-ington, he moved back for the connections he has in Bellingham, particularly at Sehome. “It was better than starting from nothing,” he said.

But more than that, he prefers it here: “there’s a quirkiness to it; [there’s] more character: people are tied to their park, their restaurant,”

Ayers said.“$ere’s a saying in Port-

land, ‘Keep Portland Weird’,” he said. “It’s similar in Bell-ingham. [People will] go out of their way to do something more local.”

He said that in Pasco, Wash-ington, where he lived for a time, people didn’t seem to care where the products they bought were made.&

“Here, that’s how they mar-ket it,” he said. He cited Av-enue Bread, which advertises that its beer comes only from sources within two miles of the restaurant.

$ough Ayers is worried that Bellingham’s aversion to big business could end up sti%ing economic growth, he values the personality and cultural integrity of this city.

An East Coast immigrant and a Bellingham native

Bellingham, WA New York, NY

John Mangan, librarianSteven Ayers, substitute

Robotics

What type of competitions does your team compete in? “$ere are two types of robot competitions: the FRC and FTC competitions. FTC competitions are more complex and more in-depth with the process of making a robot. You have more freedom with FRC competitions because they are for larger robots.”

What are your club’s goals for next year?“We don’t want to be in debt. It takes about $20,000 a year to fund competition fees and building robots. $is year we got sponsors from Boeing and Google and hope to gain more sponsors.”

D.E.C.A

What are your club’s goals for next year? “[We want to] get people interested and establish a good foothold. We want to show that even though we’re a small school and a small team, we can compete with big schools, [like] Seattle Prep. $e goal is de#nitely to get to state [next year]. Nationals would be nice. ”

What is DECA?“$at’s a good question, it stands for Distributive Education Club of America. Our club focuses on business and marketing. We go to competitions in Bellevue and Seattle.”

Thespians

What is unique about your club? “We are a very inviting group of people, on the drive to districts this year we all spontaneously started singing music from Les Mis. $ere aren’t many people that I know that are so accepting of things like that.”

How do you make it into !espians? “$at’s a secret between all $es-pian members. $ere is a ritual all members must go through and I can’t tell you or bad things would happen. But I can tell you that all the members have been in at least two Sehome plays.

Debate

What’s debate like? “$ere are two sides and a topic that changes every month. You re-search your topic, then you debate it in competition. It teaches you to think logically and put together a coherent argument in a concise amount of time.”What excites you about your club? “I particularly enjoy the research, because I get to learn about all these new topics. $is year our topic is transport infrastructure, and I got to learn about high-speed trains and these bioluminescent trees on roadways... [Besides the research], there’s also a lot of strat-egy and skill.”

Science Olympiad

What is the best part about competition? “It’s exciting to test your skills against those that have been study-ing the same topic as you. Also you get to learn a subject more in depth that you may have not learned in school.” How do you prepare for com-petition?“For Anatomy and Physiol-ogy [one of my three events], I’m already in the class, but I met with a tutor from Western for like #ve hours and took a lot of notes. For Forensics, I’m making a note sheet and we [my partner and I] did some practice experiments. And I watched a lot of CSI.”

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4 Student Life March 2013

Lindsay Hodgson Copy editor

Kara Junttila Editor-in-chief

Northwest Fresh

Lisa Collander, senior“I wear clothes that are comfort-

able and of course warm, like Birkenstocks,” Collander said, who prefers Northwest-y essentials and handmade accessories.

“I think rings are pretty and I

that hard to make.”

Andrew Wang, senior“I like vests,” said Wang.

way to go.”Not all high school boys have fully

discovered their inner fashionistas. But choosing functional pieces

that can be worn everyday, like

start.

Austin Lehn, senior

combines functionality and practicality with fashion,” Lehn said. “Part of NW style is being disheveled, in a way.”

Lehn typically mixes classic pieces with more eclectic ones to create a versatile everyday

“disheveled” feel.

Juliette Kiffney, sophomore

“I like secondhand shopping because it makes me feel ac-complished,” Kiffney said.

Kiffney prefers to base her

“I try to have my own per-sonal style. Northwest style is

whatever you want to wear.”

TREND REPORTTake inspiration from the hippest

Hamsters.

Birkenstocks + socks = always in NW style.

Flannel shirts in every shade of plaid are comfy and alwayson-trend. Girls, go oversized for extra style points.

Mix up your look by pairing sporty outerwar - shells, vests, down whatever - with nicer pieces.

Freshen up a

with knit accessories like hats, scarves, and socks.

Get more use from summery pieces by adding layers.Wear shorts under tights, a big sweater over a light tank, and so on.

Go vintage! Don’t be afraid to hit thrift shops and consignment stores for deals. Dressing uniquely is a Bellinghamster hallmark.


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Junior prom is approaching

Tuxedos are the essential dress code for boys attending prom. Traditionally, black tuxes are the way to go, however some people think otherwise. “I probably wouldn’t wear a colored tux for prom, but if you were going somewhere fancy and you wanted to have fun, I’d go for it. I’d get white or baby blue. Last year I got mine at Men’s Wearhouse in the mall,” Ricky Heilmann, junior, said. Tuxes don’t have to strain your pocket. Last year, Liam Toney, senior, set up a sweet deal with the local bridal shop, Formal House. “I volunteered to be the prom representa-tive and I worked to provide discounts for high schoolers. -e more people I prompted to rent from the store, the less I had to pay for my rental,” Toney said. Toney ended up renting his tux for free. “I was super happy with my tuxedo, too,” Toney said.

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On average, there are only two occasions that girls can rock the ball gown: her wedding and prom. “I got my dress at David’s Bridal. -ere was a pretty good selection even though I was a last minute shopper. Last year my dress was dark purple and it had one shoulder. My dream is navy blue and strap-less,” Sarah Wilson, senior, said. -e Gown and Glove, a store in downtown Bell-ingham, sells consignment prom and special event dresses. If you are looking to save money and /nd a great deal on your dress, make sure to check it out. “I got my dress at Gown and Glove for under $50. It was light blue and /t me perfectly. I loved it like it was new,” Mac Hansen, senior, said. If you are not interested in buying a dress, check out Rent the Runway, a hip, online site that allows you to rent designer dresses for a couple days.

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D!""#$ P%&"'“Last year I went to New York Pizza with a thousand other people. I would sug-gest going some place cheap that can serve a lot of people, like D’Annas,” Olivia Keniepp, senior, said.

Seasoned seniors give advice about places to eat on prom night.

“We ate at a friend’s house. It was really fun. I’d go some-where you can relax and have fun with the people you’re with,” Kendrick Bradley, senior, said.

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!e tournament bracket is always a fun way to get

involved with friends and family who are also watching the games.

“I always do a bracket with the bro-clan, this year

likes to root for the un-derdog. “It’s fun to see the underdogs go far, like Butler. I really dislike Duke.”

On the other hand, Bonna Giller, PE, has been a Duke fan for 40 years. “I like the values of the program, they put education "rst and every player will graduate. !ey all play good basketball, and they’re not a bunch of thugs. Every game is a lesson and the team learns a lot. People may dislike them, but every-body hates the frontrunners and the talented teams. Go Blue Devils!”


8 Sports March 2013

Conquering the

L#$%& T'%(&)Whether you feel like taking a leisurely stroll or a back-breaking hike, Bellingham has got you covered.

Staff and students root for their favorite teams and place their bets for the winner of the college basketball tournament.

It’s about that time again: March Madness. Chet Bro-berg, junior, said this is his favorite time of the year. !e post-season college basket-ball tournament has Sehome students and faculty talking about their favorite teams and their predictions for the ultimate champion.

“I’m just rooting for the Tar Heels, I was born in North Carolina,” Gabe Sanchez, senior, said. “But I think Michigan has a good chance of winning.”

Mark Kerr, social studies,

I’m banking on Kansas and Michigan,” Broberg said.

“Usually I do a bracket with my fam-

ily and

friends,” Sanchez said.

Whether or not you’re hooked into college basket-

ball, you’ll de"nitely see a game playing somewhere. Kerr usually has a game on in his classroom.

“It’s something I like to keep track of. When we’re working I’ll put a game on,” Kerr said.

!e post-season tournament begins on Tuesday, March 19th, and ends on Monday, April 8th.

!e current top contenders are Gonzaga, Miami, Duke, Michigan, and Indiana.

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Birds singing, tall Douglas Fir trees, and a sprinkling of sunshine: trails are another home for some Bellinghamsters. There are a plethora of local trails in Bellingham that are perfect for hiking, running, or merely enjoying the serenity of the outdoors. Shauna Werner, junior, can often be found running on trails such as Hush Hush and Raptor Ridge. “My favorite part

Of course, hikes don’t have to take multiple days. There are trail heads all along Chuckanut that cover an array of mileage. Pack a picnic and eat beside one of the many little lakes. Wyatt Hall plans to take more hikes this spring and summer. “Hiking

senior, said.

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A rebuilding year or not, the girls golf team is looking to compete. “We have a bunch of new young players. We are building a foun-dation for next year. We’re going to have a good time and recruit new players,” Melanie Henley, senior said.

Girls track & "eld is taking a new plan of attack to be successful this season. “We changed our winter training style a little bit. !e goal for this season is to start strong and have the depth to keep that up all season,” Hanna Tarleton, senior, said. With the tweaks to the plan, the Mariners are likely to only improve and the large amounts of success they’ve had in years past.

Your Mariner fastpitch team is looking to roll through the North-west Conference this season. “Our lineup is stacked and we don’t have any weak spots. We’re going to dominate our league,” Hallie Messenger, senior, said. Look forward to seeing these girls light up the scoreboard this year.

!e girls tennis team is very well prepared for a successful season. !e roster appears to be talented from top to bottom. “We have a very strong team this year. !ere are two very talented freshmen on the team,” Andrea Clawson, sophomore, said. !e returners along with the newcomers appear to be capable of dominating their opponents.

Spring sports preview

!e men of Mariner golf are very optimistic about this season, and for good reason too. “We have lots of experience at the top, along with some young guys. If all of the guys play to their full potential, we will be hard to beat,” Ben Carroll, senior, said. If all goes as hoped, the team will be a contender for State.

Boys track & "eld has been infused with fresh talent to compli-ment its experienced veterans. “!is year is looking good. We will hopefully place top three at State, with all the new football guys that we added,” Reed Henderson, senior, said. With the combina-tion of the two, the Mariner boys are looking to make a run deep into postseason.

Sehome baseball is looking to return to where it belongs this sea-son. A+er missing out on a state berth for the "rst time in 7 years last season, the team has their sights set on Yakima. “!is year we are senior heavy, with lots of experience. We’re going to be fun to watch, it’ll be a bounce back year,” Daniel Goebel, senior, said.

!e boys soccer team enters the season as a dark horse in the NWC race. “A lot of teams will underestimate us,” Sam Diehl, junior, said. !e team lost a lot of seniors, but has a strong core. It looks to be a battle within city limits for power in the conference against Bellingham and Squalicum.

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Spring sport athletes prepare for the upcoming season.

Winter sports wrap upPost season is over, but

athletes’ pride endures. All of our winter season athletes did exceptionally well, and all of our winter teams came out with positive overall records.

Wrestling sent four very talented wrestlers to state. !ey had no placers unfortu-nately, but they wrestled hard. “I’m proud of how much improvement the team and I had throughout this season,” Austin Vosburgh, junior, said. !ey ended their regular season 5-3.

Boys swimming set "re to the pools this winter with an undefeated season. !ey went to state and as a team placed second with a hard loss to Archbishop Murphy. To senior Je, Biery, swimming wasn’t just about swimming.

“When I swim I look forward to keeping in shape.” !eir hard work paid o,.

Boys basketball scu,ed the courts with a regular season record of 17-5, but did not make it to the state with a two and done in play-o,s. Senior and varsity captain Gabe Sanchez said, “I had fun this season with my boys, but my favorite part of the season was our big win against Lyn-den Christian.”

Girls basketball did very well this season with a record of 12-11. !ey went through to post-season and made it one game shy of state. “Team pride means being on the same page as all your team mates and working hard together as a team,” Megan Bayless, sophomore, said.

To sophomore Zoe Bunell it wasn’t just about what

happened on the playing grounds, it was also how the team participated with each other outside the gymnastics room. Bunell said, “I loved having team dinners; I think everyone else to get to know each other better, so it was easier for me to compete with them.”

Our winter athletes this season stepped up the game from previous years. “My fa-vorite part of this season was just having fun and working hard together,” Vosburgh said. Sports are about using the teammates given to you in a way the works best for not only your bene"t for the team’s bene"t. Our athletes "gured this out and played their hearts out this sea-son. Sehome athletes made their teams, and their entire school, proud this season.

season to remember.

Izzy Taft Reporter

Photos courtesy of Windjammer yearbook


10 Opinion March 2013

Max McCreery Reporter

Max goes to Costco Washington problems - an unneccessarily in-depth look at Costco and the Canadians who shop there.

If you’ve been to the Costco on Meridian street any time as of late, you may or may not have noticed the rapidly rising Canadian/American ratio. !is is happening because of more and more Canadians coming to Bell-ingham’s Costco, however some locals have made the choice to drive down to

Burlington for a less crowded and calmer shopping experi-ence. I say “calmer” because if you’ve ever been to both establishments, you’d surely have some comparisons of your own to make.

In Burlington, things are much less crowded, there are plenty of sta" just wander-ing around, asking shoppers if there’s anything they can do to help, and there’s even a ni#y self-checkout lane (I haven’t been to the Belling-ham Costco in a while, so I’m not sure if they added one or not)!

At the Bellingham Costco, in my last few voyages, I’ve noticed that rather than the warm, friendly environment of the Burlington franchise,

there’s this kind of hollow, mechanical feel, reminis-cent of an assembly line, or something. !ere are so many people (about a 65/35 Canadian/American mix of license plates in the parking lots), that everything seems to be more oriented around a “get in, get what you need, get out” mentality.

!e widely speculated rea-son that Canadians make this weekly voyage over the border is because of cheap dairy and cheap gas. In Canada, dairy farmers don’t receive any subsidies from the government, making milk more expensive to produce, and in e"ect, more expensive on the shelves. Because of this, Canadians

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sImagine yourself entering high school as

a freshman, excited to learn and challenge yourself. You are faced with the option of regular Biology, or AP Environmental Sci-ence and decide to go with the latter. You discover yourself a#er a few months in over your head, and unable to keep up with the fast paced nature of the class. Struggling to stay academically eligible, you go through the whole year miserable and unsure of your abilities as a student.

Without an honors option, this situation is where some students may $nd themselves.

During my time at Sehome, the Belling-ham School District has seemed to change dramatically in response to Dr. Baker’s set of new ideas, including the “One Schoolhouse” policy.

!e basic idea of One Schoolhouse is that it doesn’t matter which school you are at in the district or what your demographic or economic standing is, you will receive the same level of education and have the same kind of opportunities o"ered to you.

While this plan at $rst seems to create an ideal learning environment, some e"ects of this policy harm students more than they help.

!ere have certainly been positive changes; for instance all teachers are now held to the same level of accountability and can meet together across the district to make sure all meet expectations and receive support.

However, One Schoolhouse brings with it serious negative impacts that an take a toll on high school students.

One of the worst decisions that our district has made is cutting honors courses. Honors Biology was cut recently, and now there is talk of Honors Chemistry being on the chopping block too.

Sehome has also gotten rid of the Honors sophomore English class, though alternate ways to earn Honors credit in a English 10 class have been o"ered.

!is is a disservice to students, because data shows that rigorous courses are the best gateway for students between high school and college.

Admissions o%ces look for students that

challenge themselves academically and do in fact take honors courses into account. UW Associate Director of Admissions Op-erations, Paul Seegert said “If there were two students equal in every way except for one took honors courses, and one did not, the honors student would be a better candidate than the [non-honors candidate.]” While there are of course many other factors in admissions decisions, the school district should try to help students become appeal-ing candidates in as many ways as possible.

Not only that, but honors courses provide a seamless bridge between regular and AP courses; they alter the trajectory of students’ lives by providing a way to gradually take more rigorous courses and perhaps become more comfortable joining the AP track.

Across other school districts in the nation, schools that o"er Honors courses are fre-quently higher achieving. For example, the

Federal Way School District has seen posi-tive results, speci$cally higher numbers of students in more di%cult classes, from their recently-implemented Academic Accelera-tion program.

!e number of students taking advanced classes doubled when the program was instated and by the fall term of 2012 nearly 70% of the district’s high school students were enrolled in at least one advanced course.

And on February 15, a#er observing the success of Federal Way School District, the Washington House of Education committee held a session on the WA House Bill 1642 which aims to give students access to rigor-ous coursework such as AP, IB, and Honors courses.

BSD administrators and o%cials should heed these positive results. It’s like condens-ing a multiple lane highway into a congested one lane road. School district o%cials are unintentionally su"ocating students by not allowing them the opportunity to challenge themselves with Honors courses and gradu-ally work towards excellence.

Students and sta" must come together to stand up for our educational rights. Sta" across the district should meet to create a common Honors curriculum, rather than eliminating the Honors option altogether.

Students should make their voices heard and talk to sta" and counselors about course o"erings they want to have available. It is time we stop striving for adequacy and recognize the long term consequences and e"ects that these decisions will have on youth in our community. It is our education we are talking about. If we don’t stand up now, then when?

&ock down to America in droves, and have caused our Costco to sell more milk than any other branch in the world, at two semi-trucks full per day.

While it is certainly frus-trating our Costco is almost permanently crowded, to the point of there being police o%cers in the parking lots to break up $ghts over parking spots and to help with crowd control, I can see why the Canadians are doing what they do. Hey, if gas was a dollar or two cheaper per gallon, wouldn’t you be making the trek north every weekend? It’s all a matter of perspective. While you don’t have to be thrilled by it, you also don’t need to complain about it every time you see it.

Honors classes matter - so why are they being cut?Meagan McIntyre Reporter

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Your Spirit AnimalOrca Whale

You are the Spirit of Com-munication. You have

your way with words and can be $erce when you

need to be. A hard worker, you inspire people. One

of the most important things to you is family and you are close with them. You are a strong person and develop good bonds

with people.

Your spirit animal teacher match is:

Mr. Terreri

Your Spirit AnimalSea Other

You are a Social Spirit. You like to surround yourself with others. You are the

glue that holds all of your friends together. An inves-tigator, you tent to create arguements among your friends, but your playful

attitude $xes damage right up. Above all you are a loyal friend that everyone likes to

be around.


Mr. Wissing

Your Spirit Animal

You are the Spirit of Love and kindness. A great

listener, many people look to you for advice. You are

a giver and sacri$ce things for other peoplpe to con-

tribute to the higher good. You have a connection

to all people and have an overt ability to empathize

with others.


Mrs. Kirk

Your Spirit AnimalGreat Blue Heron

You are the Spirit of Inde-pendence...Your individual spirit coupled with your de-termination and work ethis makes you a successful per-son. While you don’t mnd being around people, you don’t require it. A foreger, you have no fear of trying

new things and sticking up for what you believe in.


Mme. Morrison

Medicate. I am pretty much a

Class A therapist.

Let it happen- I have my own life to

worry about.

An iPhone- I always am in the know and connected to people.

Emotional advice- I know how to

handle the mushy gushy stu".

Getting eaten by a cougar. I hate it

when that happens.

Clingy people who never seem

to be able to make a decision for themselves.

Your biggest pet peeve is...

When people turn to you for advice do they ask you for...?

If you were an electronic device you

would be...

A couple of your friends get into

you...?

If you were a force of nature you would

be...

What time of day does your inner freak come

out?

What would you describe your dancing style as?

Hip hoppy- I like to stick to crowds. Modern- I like to express my inner feelings.

A volcano- I always manage to be the center of attention. A calculator-

numbers never lie.

I’m a night owl, what can I say? Early Bird always gets the worm, right?

Advice on logical and practical

matters.

WHAT IS YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL?

A blizzard- I consider myself to be pretty chill.

Meagan McIntyre Reporter

So this month we decided to pay a homage to the popu-lar youtube series EpicMeal-Time, which you may or may not have heard of (you have).

Well, keeping in the spirit of the whole “we love the paci$c northwest” deal, we decided to give our take on an epic meal, but incorporat-ing foods from two Belling-ham favorites: Pel’Meni, and Pizza Pipeline.

Now we’re done with the chit-chat though. its time to get down and dirty, and come back up with nothing other than what we like to call the Greasy Hipster.

Pizza

ranch

with sauce

Filling: beef, bacon,To make your very own

greasy hipster, you’re going to need an ingredi-ents list. here it is:

One Extra Large “Every-thing” Pizza

1 Order Pizza Pipeline Garlic Breadsticks

3 Orders Beef Pel’Meni2 Lbs Ground Beef3 Lbs Bacon1/2 Obscenely Large Onion

Barbeque sauceCheeseRanch DressingMarinara Sauce

Directions:Layer the ingredients as

shown in photoEatFeel your chest hair growVomitRepeat

WISSING

TERRERI

KIRK

MORRISON

Photos by Joi Baydek


Monique Merrill Photo editor

Sas·quatch sas-kwachDerived from the Salish term “sésquac” which means “wild man”. Sasquatch typically refers to the myth of a large, hariy, ape-like being reported being seen in the Paci!c Northwest.

Have YOU seen sasquatch? Tweet us @SHSRisingTide and tell us your story.

If you answered yes to three or more of these questions, you have prob-ably encountered Bigfoot. We suggest you take out your camera phone immediately and capture this moment. Do not be afraid of the gentle giant. If you answered no to three or more of these questions, you may be looking at a bear or a squirrel or something. Proceed with caution.

Is the creature large and in charge?Does the animal resemble a human covered in hair?Is there a revolting stench coming from the direction of the being?Are there large clumps of hair stuck to tall branches on the trees around you?Does the creature strut with pizazz?

How to spot Sasquatch

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You’re walking through the woods when all of a sudden you see a large, hairy creature looming behind a tree about 50 feet away. Is it a bear? An extremely large raccoon? Or is it the infamous bigfoot? Here are some handy hints to help you !gure it out.

It could be a

hoax, but you have to believe in some-

thing. He’s so hairy you don’t know what he feels

under all that hair. -Warren Zinns, freshman

In 1964 Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin captured and released footage of a Sasquatch walking along the shore of the Klamath River in Orleans, California. South America has the Chupacabra, Nepal has the Yeti, Scotland has the Loch Ness monster, and we in the Paci!c Northwest have Sasquatch. Also known as Bigfoot, some people refuse to accept the stories, claiming it’s all a hoax. True believers know Bigfoot is reluctant to show his face because of his extremely shy disposition. Bigfoot is believed to be evolved from Gigantopithecus, a large ape-like creature, existing over nine million years ago. "e physical evidence leaves much to be desired, but it’s enough for many to suspect his existence is real. Once the 1964 video reached the public, many joined the hunt. A#er only the brief glimpse that the video shows, people were desperate for more. While the real creature eluded capture, his essence was captured and used on the big screen. Bigfoot starred opposite John Lithgow in

1987’s family !lm Harry and the Hendersons, he also appeared in Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Strange Wilderness his made his name grow.

Despite his appearances elsewhere the Rising Tide was unable to contact Sasquatch for a quote. Big-foot Field Researchers Organization provided us with the bulk of the facts in this article.

I just want the legend

of Bigfoot to be true, like Santa Claus or the Easter

Bunny.-Randelle Crawford, art

I believe in

Bigfoot, I saw him when I was

3. I bet his shoe size is pushing 16. -Reed Henderson,

senior

Olivia Raymond Reporter

Photo illustrations by Monique Merrill

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