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VOLUME 52 ISSUE 10 1015 Division St. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613

Feeding the Need

NaNoWriMo provides outlet to aspiring student novelists

Ah, November. Pumpkin pie, ill-fated turkeys, Black Friday shopping and — writing?

For thousands of writers, Novem-ber is just as much about composi-tion as it is about food consumption. National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, began promptly at midnight on the first of the month, at which time writers (amateur or other-wise) sharpened their pencils and wit, embarking on 30 days of untapped creativity.

As the title suggests, writers in-volved in NaNoWriMo face the chal-lenge of writing a 50,000-word novel in one month’s time. The endeavor puts an emphasis on quantity of writ-ing rather than quality, pushing clos-eted novelists to fulfill aspirations of penning a complete work of fiction. At the conclusion of the month, writers who have met the minimum number of words may submit their work to a publishing company that prints and delivers one copy of the finished prod-

uct to the author. Those accomplished few with printed copies of their novel also secure bragging rights, having “won” NaNoWriMo.

The open call to any and all writers reached sophomore Mallory Vallen-tine, who is participating in the novel-writing challenge for the first time. “I wanted to try it out because my brother had done it for several years, and it always seemed fun to him. I’ve always liked writing, too, so I thought I’d try it,” Vallentine said.

With a working genre of sci-fi, Vallentine is playing around with the composition process, trying to find a groove that best suits her schedule and inspirations. One of the stumbling blocks pertinent to almost all novel-ists, however, is writer’s block, where words and story lines run dry, despite (or, perhaps, because of) constricting time lines. To combat this obstacle, Vallentine tries a variety of techniques to get the creative juices flowing once more. “I always listen to tons of differ-ent kinds of music. Typically, I’ll also

Rhydian Talbot Staff Writer

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Serving AllWith her award-win-ning portrayal of the mother of the Sul-livan brothers killed in World War II, sophomore Hannah Ackerman, helped all to honor veterans on Friday, Nov. 11 in the gym. Tori Brandhorst Photos

Food drives finally comes to close, high school results anticipated

The 2011 student food drive kicked off on Oct. 3 and ended on Monday, Nov. 14. Cedar Falls High School had about seven weeks to col-lect 30,000 pounds of food, and all of the food and proceeds collected went to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank. Throughout the weeks, each third hour class collected cans and money to contribute to the food drive.

Other than just the classrooms raising cans and money, the leader-ship groups have played an important role in raising funds. There have been many leadership-sponsored events such as the silent auctions, paying off parking tickets, library fines and detention minutes with cans of food. They also had the duct tape a teacher,

dress up on Halloween, minute to win it games, school spirit T-shirts and other fun ways to get involved this year.

The leadership groups were also in charge of going to spend the money that was collected at the various gro-cery stores such as Walmart, HyVee, ALDI and Fareway. After buying the food, the leadership groups also packed all the food into boxes and took it to present to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank.

As of last Friday, the school was down from last year’s total, but that estimate didn’t include everything that the leadership groups had collected. “We could always set the bar higher. We could do it. Cedar Falls is definite-ly a school who was the opportunity to give we just need to realize that we

can do more,” counselor Erin Gardner said.

The top classrooms, as of week five of the food drive that have raised the most are the classes of Kenton Swartly, Emily Wheeler, Doug Wilkenson and Chad VanCleve. Some classes did some creative things to try to raise the most that they could. Stu-dents in English teacher Marguerite DeMoss and Judy Timmins’ classes were competing against each other to see which class could collect the most.

VanCleve’s class alone raised over 2,000 cans. In the end, they had about 204 cans per student. This class did a lot of things to raise donations. They went around to different neighbor-hoods collecting donations and also went HyVee and both the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Fareways to try and col-lect donations for the costumers and make them aware of what was going

on with the food drive. Teachers and administrators have also contributed to the drive.

“For some teachers without third hours and just teachers in general, there were other things we did to support the food drive like buying a school shirt or paying to be able wear jeans on those two days they were offered,” mathematics teacher Linsey Zimmerman said.

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Seniors Katie Todd, Furkan Pecan and junior Emma Hahn load food.

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A one-hour performance is perfect for resource teacher Tammy Frahm’s class and their Peer Friends. Peer Friends is a select group of students who help out and make positive friendships with Frahm’s students.

“I enjoy helping out. I’m considering working with special needs kids for a career, and it’s a good base to have,” junior Emma Hahn said.

Peer Friends is a respon-sible, well-rounded group of students who join Frahm and her students on field trips and class activities. About once a month the Peer Friends and special needs students meet up to go on field trips to such places as Gallagher-Bluedorn.

“It’s nice to have a sense of community in the school,” Hahn said.

Peer Friends has been apart of Cedar Falls High school for four years now. It was in the hands of previous

counselor Ryan Flahrety, then counselor Erin Gardner and now its counselor Dan Weich-ers who gets his Peer Friends from the group Friends. Any-one is welcome to join Peer Friends who has an ambition to work with the special needs students at CF.

“I like Peer Friends because they’re the nicest to have,” ninth grader Tanner Stewart said.

Peer Friends varies from the number of volunteers for each event. Anyone can talk to Frahm or Weichers if interested in joining, but volunteers are asked to keep a consistent appearance.

“The worst thing that can happen is if a Peer Friend disappears,” Frahm said.

In past years Peer Friends and students have worked at Cattle Congress, helping out with Toys for Tots, going on multiple field trips and having many class parties and get togethers.

“We wanted to develop more friendships. Peer Friends

is a more appropriate learning tool for my students when we are out in public places,” Frahm said. “The students talk about what they did all week long, and they tell their parents about it.”

On Oct. 24, the group got to enjoy a field trip to

Gallagher-Bluedorn to see the Chinese Folk Dancers per-form. Also this year already planned is a field trip to see the Nutcracker, help at the food bank during December and holiday parties. All those who participate enjoy spend-ing time together.

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Frahm’s class builds on fun events to make friendly CFHS connections

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Junior Emma Hahn watches the Chinese Folk Dancers perform with seniors Michael Zuck and Travis Zika.

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go on Facebook or Tumblr to give myself a break because my brain needs time to come up with something creative. But sometimes the best thing to do is to shut off everything, go to a quiet place, and just think. It all just depends on my mood.”

Se-nior Richelle Kime is no stranger to this month-long write-a-thon. As a five-time partici-pant and two-time winner of NaNoWrimo, Kime has a practiced grasp on the process. With 30,000 words

under her belt just a little over one week into November, pro-

ducing a completed novel in the remaining 20 days seems completely feasible to the published author.

Years of experience helped shape her current game plan,

which includes a more struc-tured approach. “This year,

for the first time ever, I plotted out all the chapters on Nov. 1, which helped me so much. I knew where I’d be going from the start instead of sitting there with a schedule like, ‘I wonder what I’m gonna barf up today,’” Kime said.

Besides the satisfaction of completing a novel, Kime takes pride in her artistic trans-formation and grasp of lan-guage over the past five years, so displayed in her books. “Back five years ago when I first learned about NaNoW-riMo, every single sentence ended in a exclamation point. I can’t even go back to read it because it was so bad. My plots were so simple when

Nanowrimo from Page 1

Peer Friends:

•Plan your novel.

•Join a local group of writers and attend in person writing events.

•Receive online encouragement from staff and published authors.

•Access a worldwide community of writers in the online forums.

I was in 8th grade because I didn’t have enough life experi-ence to put into my books, which I think is a big factor in how your novel turns out.”

Her current project showcases more grammatical precision, tailored sentence structures and complex vo-cabulary than endeavors past;

Sometimes the best thing to do is to shut off every-

thing, go to a quiet place and just

think.—Mallory Vallentine,

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such writing developments Kime attributes to a variety of English classes and, simply, time.

As the end of the month draws to a close, both authors hope to be dotting the final “I’s” and crossing off the remaining “T’s” and goals on their bucket lists.

Past/planned projects:

•Toys for Tots

•Food Bank volunteer work

•Multiple trips to Gallagher-Bluedorn

•Class holiday parties

Richelle Kime works on her Nanowrimo that she is already 30,000 words into.

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Katherine MayhewStaff Writer

Through “Learn. Recycle. End Conflict in Congo!” CFHS students can donate unwanted electronics to help the situation in Congo. UNI recently held a similar elec-tronics drive but senior Karl Sadkowski is bringing it to the high school.

Collection days will be on Nov. 17 and 18.

Please bring your old, unwanted and broken cell phones and iPods for recy-cling on either of the two col-lection days on Nov. 17 or 18, or leave them in a collections box in the main office.

The purpose of this elec-tronics drive is not only to advocate recycling, but also to raise awareness of the hu-manitarian crises occurring in the Congo today,” Sadkowski said.

Much of these humanitar-ian crises result from the il-legal mining of minerals used

in our electronics. “My great concern is that

too many people do no know what really goes into their electronics. A startling amount of the minerals that makes their electronics work come from the Congo, where the illegal mining of these miner-

als has contributed to decades of conflicts. These conflicts include widespread malnutri-tion, lack of clean drinking water, disease, forced labor, military corruption, violence between armed groups and rape as a tool of war,” Sad-kowski said.

Recycling these minerals from unused electronics could be the first step in resolving the conflicts in the Congo. “As Americans, electron-ics help define the way we live, our culture. Sadly, the electronics we buy and love and buy again also contribute

Class creates cookbook fundraiserSandra Omari-

BoatengFeature Editor

For those looking for a low-priced quality gift for someone this Christmas, the new CFHS cookbook may be right up their allies.

With recipes ranging from breakfast meals all the way to desserts, aspiring cooks can purchase this complete cook-book for $5 from resource teachers Bridget Bakula in room 31 or Katie Walsworth in room 11.

Anyone can also talk to secretary Jane Carter in the principal’s office about pur-chasing one as well.

The profit from the cookbooks will be beneficial to the students in resource classes.

“We’re using the money to be able to go on class field trips, contribute to cooking and to other things that cost money in the classroom,” Bakula said.

With their students strongly in mind, Bakula and Walsworth incorporated their cookbook project into the classrooms.

“It’s a good way to get everyone involved. It helped the students work on their typing and formatting skills since they were the ones in charge of typing and editing the cookbook,” Bakula said.

“It was a lot of fun be-cause we got to hear students opinions on the recipes. It was also a good way to enhance their skills in an interesting way.”

Senior launches electronics drive to help prevent abuse in Congo

to the continuation of some of the worst violations of human rights in the world. Teens should especially become more aware of their buying choices. They are the tech-savvy generation. They are in charge of ending conflict in Congo,” Sadkowski said.

What donations are acceptable?Cell phones and their accessories, digital cameras, iPods, MP3 players, handheld game systems, GPS units, laptops, e-readers and portable hard drives. Money is also accepted.

Where are the donations collected?CFHS lobby or the box in the main office.

When?Thursday, Nov. 17 and Friday, Nov. 18 before and after school.

Why?Decades of humanitarian crimes are committed in the competition to acquire the metals used to make digital devices. Money raised from these donations will go to the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization working in the Democratic Republic of Congo to end the atrocities.

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Other recipes include•Tortilla Blossomsfrom Spanish teacher Chris Gruhn

•Taco Roll Upsfrom FCS teacher Tammy Frahm

•Strawberry/Spinach Salad from resource teacher Bridget Bakula

•Out of This World Broccoli Saladfrom Associate Principal Dana Deines

Chocolate Chip Chilifrom associate Bev Wait

•Chicken Breast Bakefrom resource teacher Katie Walsworth

•Swedish Meatballs from chemistry teacher Brad Baker

•Crock Pot Cheesy Potatoesfrom resource teacher Tammy Frahm

•White Chilifrom media specialist Kristi Anhalt

•German Apple Cakefrom resource teacher Pat Trampel

•Mint Browniefrom math teacher Linsey Zimmerman

Many staff and friends submitted recipes for a cook-book to raise money for class trips and projects in the resource classes. Books sell for $5 and are available in the principal’s office and resource classes. These recipes for banana bread oatmeal and cocoa mix were shared by journalism teacher Brian Winkel.

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Tonight, Tuesday Nov. 15, Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds will hold a Black Hawk County town hall meeting to release their blueprint for education. The blueprint, “One Unshakable Vision: World-Class Schools for Iowa,” dictates long-term policy changes that builds on strategies used by high-peforming education systems. The plan includes propositions to improve teach-ing, revamp teacher pay and develop high-stakes, end-of-course exams for core subjects such as algebra, biology, English and U.S. history/ U.S. government.

This meeting, which will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the CFHS auditorium, will give citizens an opportunity to voice their opinions on the propositions. The event is free and open to the public, and it will be the only local chance for students, teachers and parents have to shape the plan before it is presented to the Iowa legislature. We strongly encour-age all to attend this event and help shape the future of Iowa education.

Tell Branstad what Iowa Ed needs

Lucas HamiltonEntertainment EditorPlanking swept the main-

stream craze when people started to post pictures of themselves acting like a board balancing on random objects. Then came owling/gargoyle-ing in which people would perch on top of whatever was deemed appropriate and stare into the distance.

And who could ever forget leisure diving? People jump into pools with things like suits, pajamas or even a cup of coffee, and once in mid-air, strike a leisurely pose, and camera gold is created.

For more clarification on what these actually look like, don’t be afraid to Google them, but be warned that you may feel incredibly compelled to try them for yourself.

With all these pose strik-ing phenomenas, what’s next? Thanks to Tim Tebow, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, planking is so last week, and Tebowing is where the fun lies. The craze was started after Tebow got down on one knee to pray after the Broncos unheard of comeback win over the Miami Dolphins in less than 5 minutes. After the game-winning field goal in overtime, Tebow got down on

one knee, held his hand to his head and prayed. He did all of this while the rest of the team was celebrating.

Tebowing began when a Broncos fan, Jared Kleinstein, posted a picture to Facebook of him and his friends imitat-ing the religious quarterback. Within weeks, Kleinstein and his friends had set up a com-pany and a website dedicated to Tebowing. People can submit their own photos to the website and view others’ Tebowing pictures.

Some of the top submit-ted photos include a dog, two surgeons on an operating bed and people Tebowing the

actual Tebow, taking after the Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch who sacked Tebow and mocked him by Tebowing right in front of him. Most people laughed at the defensive celebration, but others were incredibly offended.

Commence the firestorm of believers and non-believers hurling insults back and forth. Let’s get a couple things straight. We live in the United States, where freedom of re-ligion is an unalienable right. Unfortunately, people don’t understand that if you choose to express your religion openly and pursue the conver-

sion of others who simply do not care, then the floor be-comes open to all criticisms, mockeries and arguments. Those who are up in arms about Tebow being Tebowed are simply ignorant. It is a football game, so, of course, there will be celebrations.

But as far as Tebowing itself, it’s a creative craze that

people can have fun with. Honestly, what problems can come from people posing and taking a picture of it? Let’s just let things happen and quit bickering about pointless nonsense and worry about things that matter, like chasing that next Youtube or social networking phenomena when it happens.

Planking old news, Tebowing new rage

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• Develop a four-tier teacher compensation system and substantial pay raises for teachers who move up.• Develop d high-stakes End-of-Course assess-ments for core subjects in high school. Have all Iowa 11th graders take a state-funded college-entrance exam.• Provide value-added measures for all districts, schools, grades and educators that take into account student background characteristics and consider student growth.• Set goals for student outcomes, including a 95 percent high school graduation rate and top statewide performance on national standardized assessments.

To see entire plan, visit www.educataiowa.gov

Public paticipatory events continue to evolve.

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Rhydian TalbotStaff Writer

I’ll give you a cookie if you guess the song I’m think-ing of: it follows a verse-cho-rus-verse-chorus pattern, and the lyrics mention something about love or dancing (pos-sibly both).

Stumped? Well, how about this truth nugget: the singer uses such unique nicknames as “baby,” “girl,” or “boy,” and the lyrics contain some sort of innuendo, subtle or otherwise.

Alright, alright, you’ve twisted my arm; I’ll let you in on the chorus:

“Tik tok, party rock/But I love the way you lie/Don’t stop, keep it moving/With 10 million fireflies ... baby.”

Come now, you know the song. It’s that mega hit, “Get-tin’ Repetitive Up In Hurr,” as made famous by that one pop sensation who did that thing with the other thing and then ruminated in his 15 minutes of fame.

Oh, wait.Excuse my lyrical mix-up.

Turning on the radio hindered my ability to think; I’m nurs-ing a few mental cavities from all the current pop-confections rotting away my brain tissue. My mind simply can’t absorb any more saccharine verses filled with sweet nothings, but alas, there’s little variation in today’s audio offerings.

To say radio hits have become one-note within the past decade would be a gross understatement: modern music has morphed into one never-ending verse composed of clichés, hollow lyrics and crude text. Gone are the days of anthems that rally against injustice, of melodic social commentaries written with

purpose; in its place are three-and-a-half-minute sound-bites of auto-tuned white noise in-tended to placate an impatient audience.

Every decade has produced a handful of anthems that uniquely represent the turmoil of the time: “We Shall Over-come,” the theme of the Civil Rights Movement in the ’60s; Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane,” a ’70s hit protesting racism in the imprisonment of black boxer Rubin “Hurricane”

Carter; even the 80’s, bless it’s mulleted heart, jumped in on the action with “99 Red Balloons,” a tongue-in-cheek nod to the hysteria of the Cold War. Even the very beginning of early 00’s produced some notable songs: P.O.D. penned “Youth of the Nation,” a rock requiem for the lives lost in the Columbine High School massacre, and The Black Eyed Peas had “Where Is the Love,” a tune contemplating violence, mass-media distor-tion and loss of morals.

In the past five years, however, music culture has lost that sense of urgency, for-going the power of thought-provoking themes in favor of superficial topics containing lyrics as vapid as the people crooning them. What mean-ing, pray tell, can someone extract from the entirety of Lady Gaga’s mega hit, “Bad Romance”? Her Highness crafted a viral hit based off of a few meaningless sounds (“Rah, rah, ah, ah, ah”) and sashayed straight to the bank

Most of today’s musical inspiration coming from way below the belt

Modern music has morphed into one never-ending verse composed of clichés, hollow lyrics and crude

text.

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” ’70s

1963Drawing upon the inspiration of folkies like Odetta and Woody Gutherie, Bob Dylan set the mood for the decade with early anthems such at “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A’Changin’.”

1967In the Summer of Love, The Beatles “All You Need is Love” showed the world a simple answer to many of the sad questions of the day.

1968With the assassinations of MLK and Robert Kennedy, the nation was listening and wondering along with Si-mon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” about just where did Joe Dimaggio go.

1969Jimi Hendrix lit up the stage at Woodstock with his war-torn version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

with it on 10-inch heels — the opening lines are nothing but monosyllabic grunts for Gaga’s sake! And consider a more recent hit, “Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon Five: what in heaven’s name is the titular lyric referencing anyhow? I certainly hope they’re not al-luding to Mick Jagger of Roll-ing Stones fame. If that was the case, and if you chose to comprehend the text literally, then the song is about a geriat-ric has-been grooving to one poorly-disguised innuendo.

Awk-ward.

As if hollow lyrics aren’t shameful enough, most songs now involve hollow

lyrics about crass, lewd behavior. Sex, drinking and partying – the magic trifecta of pop success — serve as the sole focus of half of the Top 40 hits. What’s more, the artists of said hits embrace apathy and exert no effort in concealing the mean-ing of their explicit riffs. No songstress takes her creative liberties quite as seriously as the Queen of the Obscene, Ke$ha, who pukes up distaste-ful lyrics inspired by last night’s rager in some back alley cesspool. Her lyrical ge-nius penned the likes of “Take It Off,” which features such choice prose as, “Got a water bottle full of whiskey in my handbag/Got my drunk text on/I’ll regret it in the morn’.” Wait, wait — smell that? It’s the ripe stench of vomit and immorality, which all but wafts off of radio waves thanks to her vivid depiction of drunken debauchery. The glorification of partying has become more and more preva-lent in modern music, painting this generation as a bunch of foolhardy junior-alcoholics.

1970Within weeks of the killings at Kent State, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young offer up “Ohio.”

1971Preceding the Clean Water Act (1972) and the Endan-gered Species Act (1973) of the Nixon administration, Marvin Gaye croons for the planet with “Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology).”

1971John Lennon releases his anthem of a new world order: “Imagine.”

1973Decades ahead of rappers raging against police corrup-tion, “I Shot the Sheriff” was just one of Bob Marley’s many politically-tinged tunes.

1977Not only did punk change rock, the rage was frequently directed at changing the old guard with songs like “God Save the Queen” by The Sex Pistols and “London Call-ing” from The Clash.

’80s

’60sGet Up, Stand Up: Revolution Rock

1980Pink Floyd called for a whole new way of leaving no child left behind with “Another Brick in the Wall.”

1983Inspiring a whole revival of ’60s social consciousness, four new lads from across the pond named U2 kicked off their years of ruling arena anthems with “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.”

1985Even the champions of rock and roll excess (The Roll-ing Stones, David Bowie, Queen and dozens of others) followed Bob Geldof’s lead at Live Aid and turned out in arenas in multiple countries on the same day to raise money for African famine relief.

1987 and 1988Turning the radio back to the folkies of old, Suzanne Vega (“Luka”) and Tracy Chapman (“Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution”) top the radio charts with simple tunes tackling big issues.

EntertainmentNov. 15, 2011 hiline.co.nr

“Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing” was Mosley’s first play. He played the lead, Peter, at the Black Hawk Children’s Theatre (BHCT).

“The Pinballs” was his next play at the BHCT. He played Harvey.

He was in “Alvin Fernold, Mayor for a Day” as a delivery man, “Charlotte’s Web” as Lurvy and “Aladdin” as genie of the lamp at the BHCT, also “Tom Sawyer” as Tom at Peet Junior High.

In “The Outsid-ers” he played Sodapop, at the BHCT. He was Te-vye in “Fiddler on the Roof” at Peet Junior High, and Jughead in “Ar-chie Andrews” at Cedar Falls High School (CFHS).

He played Mr. Massoula in “Father of the Bride” at CFHS, and Jay in “Lost in Yonkers” at the Waterloo Commu-nity Playhouse.

In “Harvey” he played Dr. Sanderson, and in “Dirty Works at the Crossroads” he played Nooki McGuggins, both at CFHS.

After a semester at the UNI, Mosley decided to move to Boston in Febru-ary. By August, he moved to New York City and auditioned for the American Academy of Dra-matic Arts (AADA).

He attended the AADA for four years, and during his last year got an agent. He played mostly small parts and starred in his first TV show, “The Education of Max Bickford.”

Mosley was in the movies “Building Girl” and “Swim-mers.” He appeared in “Independent Lens,” the TV series documentary. He switched agents to the the Gersh Talent Agency and started getting bigger roles.

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Act I Scene 1. (lights up on the 1995 CFHS production of “Father of the Bride”)

Junior Michael Mosley takes the stage as a bombastic wedding planner named Mr. Massoula. He is an “out there” man with a crazy personality. Lights are on him as he walks about in a purple suit jacket and a clipboard in front of an intently watching audience.

“I loved the character of it. I think that is when I decided I liked playing characters,” the 33-year old actor said about his role in this CFHS play.

Mosley, Iowa-born and raised, now lives in Los Angeles as a working actor. He has played roles in com-mercials, TV series, movie shorts,

movies and off-Broadway productions. Although the parts started out small, he now plays a lead character in the new TV series “Pan Am” on ABC.

He looks back on his days from Cedar Falls fondly. One of the reasons he likes acting so much is the dif-ferent points of view he can portray. Mosley recalls how Cedar Falls High School allowed him to experience this comprehensively for the first time, particularly the influence of English teacher Marguerite DeMoss.

“Yeah, she is awesome. She intro-duced me to great readings. Reading those books helped me break out of my own brain and, in a sense, see the world through a different point of

view,” Mosley said. His advice for students currently in her classes is to “read everything she gives you.”

DeMoss remembers Mosley quite vividly as well, “He is one of those that is a lasting memory,” said the Great Books I and II teacher who had him in class. “We do some drama activities in Great Books II, and it was just so clear how talented he was. He never met an audience he didn’t like. And he was awesome at [all-school] assemblies,” DeMoss said. “You could tell he just loved doing it too.”

She recalled a specific memory in which the class was going to do some improvisation before discussing a Hemingway short story called “The End of Something.” She selected two students for a scene and told each their part separately. “I took Mike into a room and discussed [the situation]. His objective was to break up with the girl.” The girl’s objective was to ask him to marry her, although he was not aware. “He was hysterical in trying to break up with her. The look on his face was priceless. In the scene it was like it was really happening to him,” DeMoss said. “I give him all the credit in the world on following his dream. It took a lot of courage.”

Mosley experienced having to juggle many extra-curricular activities and manage time well, which help him in his profession as an actor. “I had band, plays, newspaper and yearbook. I tried to keep busy and still balance things,” said Mosley, who was also elected student body president and

homecoming king. Mosley co-founded the student

group, Harmony, which is still in existence and teaches about accepting and celebrating differences. “When we first started, we wanted different groups to break down their walls,” said Susan Langan, whose first year as a guidance counselor at the high school was Mosley’s first year as a student there. “When we had the first Harmony dialogue, two student facili-tators would go into a classroom and cover diversity issues. Mosley came back from a really good discussion all fired up,” Langan said. The kids in the classroom he entered had an open and good discussion, and he couldn’t be-lieve that he was able to break through to them, according to Langan. “He never met somebody he couldn’t talk to or be friendly with.” Langan said, “It’s so funny seeing him on TV after knowing him at 16 years old. He still has that smile, that sparkle to him.”

Harmony started after Langan and another teacher took four sophomores, including Mosley, to a conference in St. Louis called the Socialization of a Culturally Diverse Child. “He took advantage of every opportunity, and he wasn’t afraid to take risks; he was always willing to try and look at things from a different perspective. He walked the talk and was a hard worker,” Langan said.

Now whether he is working for his show, looking for his next one or getting to the gym, Mosley is able to manage it all. “That comes from those

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Mosley was in the TV movie “Alpha Mom,” the TV series “Conviction” and the movie “The Big Bad Swim.”

He was in the movies: “Room 314,” “The Insurgents,” “Bella” and “Goodbye Baby.” He starred in the TV series, “Kidnapped.”

He was in the TV movie “Danny Fricke” and in the movies “27 Dresses” and “The Accidental Husband.” He was Raymond Wiley in the TV series “The Wire.”

Mosley was in the TV series: “The Men-talist,” “Three Rivers” and “Kings.” He was Chuck in “The Proposal.” He married actress Anna Camp.

He was in the TV series: “Scrubs,” “Castle,” “Law & Order: LA” and “The Closer.” He also starred in an off-broadway produc-tion of “The Glass Menagerie.”

Mosley was in mov-ies, “Your Nobody Until Somebody Kills you,” “Restive” and movie short, “Behold-er.” He was in the TV series: “Justified” and “Happy Endings.” He is now starring in the TV series “Pan Am.”

days of being so busy [at Cedar Falls High School] and loving it,” Mosley said. In the acting business, there may be five or six auditions a day ac-cording to Mosley. “All these lines are in your head. One’s a cop, one’s a junkie … and you’re running all over the place trying to keep them all straight,” Mosley said.

But his acting experi-ences did not start at Cedar Falls High School. “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” was the first play Mosley ever acted in at age 12. “He had a cousin who got him in-volved,” said his mother, Rita Mosley. Mosley received the part of the lead’s friend, but when the actor cast as the lead said he didn’t want it, Mosley was called again and offered the part. “It scared Michael. He said, ‘I don’t know if I can do a lead,’ but from then on he loved it,” Mrs. Mosley said. Mosley said it was during that first play that something clicked in his head and he thought, “This is it. This is what you’re here for.” The light bulb lit up. “I don’t know if I was any good in the play, but I had fun,” Mosley said.

He started studying and watching old movies. He was in several plays throughout

his teenage years at the Black Hawk Children’s Theatre and also one at the Waterloo Com-munity Playhouse. At Peet Junior High he was in “Tom Sawyer” as Tom and “Fiddler on the Roof” as Tevye. He had two drama teachers there who were very influential to him. “I remember one of them tell-ing me ‘You might be able to make a living out of this some day.’ It was always something I could do. They did so much to push me in the direction to do this for a living. Secretly I [would] kind of fantasize about how to achieve that goal and what steps I would take to reach that goal,” Mosley said.

Out of high school, Mos-ley attended the University of Northern Iowa for one semes-ter. “I knew I had to go some-place, to one of the coasts. It [UNI] wasn’t the right fit for me. I was reckless. I had too much I wanted to do,” Mosley said. He didn’t want to spend time building the sets or learn-ing to work the sound and light board. “I wanted to act, but I didn’t have the patience for it,” Mosley said.

At age 19, Mosley and his buddy Nick Narrigon bundled up a car and drove to Boston. They were poor and Mosley got a job working in a

cafe. He soon learned Boston was a waste of time for him. Mosley and his parents heard of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts located in New York. He sent in his resume and set up an audition in New York, and in the summer of 1988 he was accepted. He was invited to a showcase his last year at the academy where he got his first agent.

Mosley was cast in parts on TV. “They start out small. ‘Low life number one’ [may be] the role, but at least they have a name,” Mrs. Mosley said. Mosley has had to work other jobs to pay rent when he was first starting out. “You’re still bar-tending and waiting tables by day and running around memorizing lines by night,” Mosley said. “He had to work hard, go to auditions and stick to it. There were times I said ‘do you really wanna do this,’ but he stuck with it,” Mrs. Mosley said.

Mosley auditioned for commercials early on, al-though he didn’t like it very much. “That’s a tough one. You hold up a number, and you are number 182, and the guy on the right of you is 181, and the guy on the left

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In “Pan Am” Mosley plays a pilot from the 1960s. The character he plays is co-pilot, Ted. He has taken flight classes at La Guardia for the role, and he works inside a real 1960s cockpit.

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It’s nearly impossible for teenagers to enjoy peace and quiet because they are constantly listening to music. Whether studying, work-ing out or relaxing, today’s youths are always plugged in.

Because prices have gone up, iTunes is not as popular as it once was, and YouTube is a great way to listen to your favorite songs, but it doesn’t offer many features.

So how does one go

about playing music with no strings attached? Spotify is the answer. Founded in 2006 by a group in Sweden, Spotify is a free music streaming site. They launched in the United States on July 14 after years of negotiations with four major record companies.

The biggest feature of Spotify is the music catalog. With over 15 million songs to choose from, narrowing down your selection is the hard part. Some artists have opted out of Spotify and others are missing due to licensing restrictions

made by label companies. The Beatles songs are an example.

Another feature is playlists. Users can make their own and post their links on websites, which allows other Spotify users to share and rate them. Users can also edit them col-laboratively.

Spotify Radio is also available. It creates a random playlist of songs depending on artist, genre or decade. You may ask, isn’t this just like Pandora? The answer is no. Unlike the competitor site, Spotify does not place a limit

on the number of songs you can skip.

Maybe the most unique feature is that Spotify is social media integrated. Meaning that while you are playing a song, a notification will appear on your Facebook or Twitter page. This allows you to share playlists and songs with your friends. If you don’t like the idea, you can always hide it from your page.

One downfall is that if you do not upgrade to Spotify Un-limited or Premium ($5 to $10 a month) you are stuck with

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Spotify: New website uses Facebook to offer free music streaming

of you is number 183. That’s just a number. It’s all looks,” he said. He would just do something crazy when it came to his turn and then walk out and never think about it again unless contacted. He does voice-overs now and is still getting paid for his Bacardi Rum commercials.

After Mosley was in an in-dependent film called “Swim-mers,” he got a new agent from the Gersh Talent Agency, which led to bigger rooms and bigger roles. It wasn’t until his series “Kidnapped” in 2006 that he could finally lay down the apron. “From that point on, I’ve been able to make money acting.”

The audition process is tough, and Mosley can testify to that. “You audition for these things five or six times. You [audition separately] in front of the director, creative team, studio and network. Each time you get closer, the room gets bigger and scarier, and they are all clicking their pens in their suits. It’s really scary; it can be a little heartbreaking. It’s a hustle,” Mosley said. “You are going to strike out seven out of 10 times. Keep your head down and don’t worry about the results; let the results come.”

Mrs. Mosley said coming out of the Academy, they told Mosley that this career has a 98 percent rejection rate.

“You’ve got to be really thick-skinned. I couldn’t take it,” Mrs. Mosley said.

No one ever told Mosley he couldn’t be an actor, “ex-cept maybe me telling myself after three months of horrible auditions,” Mosley said. He has learned to shake it off quickly now. Mosley said, “You have to have crocodile skin, and you can’t read stuff online. It’s tough sometimes, so you’ve got to be tough with it.” Mosley has triumphed his nerves in auditions. “The more you work in the business and do different things, those go away.”

Mrs. Mosley recalls when she used to help Mosley learn his lines as a child for the children’s theater. She was even in some of those plays with him. Mosley’s routine of memorizing lines has since changed. Now Mosley reads his part over and over and makes sure it makes sense. “You aren’t trying to memo-rize a line. It’s a thought. They should connect and respond,” Mosley said. He also points out he feels what the thoughts are. If the thought is, “I’m go-ing to have a slice of pizza,” he actually needs to feel hungry.

Being an actor may prove to be challenging. “It’s got its roses and thorns,” Mosley said. His wife, Anna Camp, is currently filming “Pitch Perfect,” so the two of them

have to travel by plane frequently and make time for each other Sometimes Mosley works a 14-hour day, and that gets long. “It’s OK, though, because it’s what I’ve always wanted to do. I get to be a kid. I always get to pretend; it’s an internal sandbox with new people to play with all the time,” he said.

Mosley believes the big-gest obstacle is the business itself. “Getting your foot in the door and then keeping it there. The whole thing is an obstacle at times. Once you get in, you feel like you crashed the party and you don’t belong, so you pretend,” Mosley said.

Mrs. Mosley said she thinks it’s so neat seeing her son on television. “The year he started ‘Scrubs’ we had a ‘Scrubs’ party,” said Mrs. Mosley, who made balloons out of doctor’s gloves for the event.

She said they talk weekly on the phone. “We’re a very close family,” she said. Mosley always used to ask her and his father for advice. “He’s a good person. That’s what we’re most proud of. I definitely think the Midwest is a great place to grow up,” Mrs. Mosley said. She has heard people in the business, once they learn Mosley is from the Midwest, say, “Oh, I knew he had that wholesome quality to him.”

While Mosley was on the set for the movie “The Pro-posal,” he called home to talk to his mother and said, “Do you know who Betty White is?” Mrs. Mosley exclaimed, “Yes.” Mosley said, “Well, she is really funny. I’ve been hanging out all day with her and her dog.” His mother said she laughed at that particular memory because he was sit-ting right next to the famous Betty White. “Which goes to show he can go chat with any-body,” Mrs. Mosley said. Mrs. Mosley has met famous actors at her son’s and his wife’s shows. “I have a picture with Morgan Freeman, and I got Daniel Radcliffe’s autograph and met his dad, too.” She also met Bill Lawrence, the creator of “Scrubs.”

“You think once you get that big gig your life is going to change,” Mosley said, but he thinks people put actors on such a high pedestal. “We still have to come home and pay our cell phone bills and cook dinner. I’m so blessed to [act], but there are people fighting fires and delivering babies out there. We are merely playing dress-up.”

Mosley has some advice to young actors and actresses at Cedar Falls High School: “If you really like it, you’ve got to do it. Don’t worry about rejection. You’ve got to keep going and keep getting better.”

Spotify Free. It is free, but ads will appear and after the first six months, and you only get 10 hours of playing time per month. If you upgrade, it will all be unlimited.

If you have a smartphone, you can download an app for Spotify. Blackberry’s and An-droids recently came out with applications that allow you to always have Spotify on hand. This means constantly being able to listen to music of your choice.

Spotify makes the power of choice even more compel-ling. No more need to torture yourself through the radio. Now, you always get to choose the tunes you jam to.

This week’s feature podcast as well as many others are updated every other week can be found on The Tiger

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Fall into Fun:It’s that time of year when everyone seems to have an excess of food and a shortage of cash. We have entered the holiday season, known to be the Bermuda Triangle of healthy eating. Halloween, when you consume your body weight in chocolate, or at least give it a shot. Thanksgiving, when you have turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes in quantities that FDA would never approve of. And Christ-mas, where we eat cookies, ham and heaven knows what else at rates that our stomachs can hardly keep up with.However, before we commit to eating everything in sight, here are some ideas to do this fall before it is too cold to do anything worth-while. (Clearly, besides sledding.) Here are my top five things to do (besides eating) that won’t break the bank and could create some of the best fall memories.

Top 5 healthy and inexpensive fall activities

Go apple picking. Usually there are huge crowds and lots of little kids, but if you go there with the right mind set, it could be worth the travel time. The closest apple orchard is Gary Tedore Orchard in La Porte City. They do not allow you to pick your own apples, which seems like the fun part to me, but they do have about 100 varieties of apples to choose from. Another close pick-your-own apple orchard is Berry Patch Farm in Nevada, which is just north of Ankeny. Berry Patch Farm has been in business for 34 years and also grows a variety of berries.

Go for a walk down on the bike trail. There you can have a photo shoot with friends, because clearly that is a senior picture moment. The leaves have been chang-ing, it’s right next to the river and everything just looks beautiful. Pack a picnic lunch of PB&Js to eat at one of the multiple parks along the bike trail and make an afternoon of it. Take a Frisbee and play some Frisbee golf or just a game of catch. Being active improves your health by allowing all your blood to flow to all of the right places in your body. Who doesn’t want to be fit?

Have photo evidence of an adventure that never really happened. Walk around the parkade and take pictures in front of different shops, pose with people you don’t know and buy a cup of coffee from Cup of Joe. The possibilities are endless with this one. Chase down the Scratch Cupcake Truck. (Clearly on foot because literally running after it would be hilarious, and burn a few extra calories.)There so many overlooked little shops downtown that are actually quite cool. Vintage Iron, right next door to Cup of Joe, is overflowing with fun things.

Drive to the “Welcome to _____” sign. There are so many towns in Iowa that we haven’t even heard of. Drive there and do everything the town has to offer. Sumner has $1 movies and a whole streets of smaller shops, just like Cedar Falls. Deciding where you want to go could be as easy as getting an Iowa map, closing your eyes and pointing. (The only downside to this plan would be the money you spend on gas, but that could be dictated by how far from Cedar Falls you venture out.)

Host a bum day. That’s right. Invite all of your friends and wear sweat-pants. You could do a ridiculous number of things. Be little kids and color. Have a Harry Potter marathon. Make a giant pile of leaves. (You know the ones that people pile up on the curb.) Skype one of your friends that is in college or now lives out of town. DO NOTHING, or do something worthwhile. There are lots of little puppies at the Humane Society that are begging for attention, why not go play with some puppies?

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It’s as if football and NASCAR had a child,

and we pushed it into fishnets.

—Mrs. Lake, Social studies teacher

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No Shave November

Lindsey DavisStaff Writer

Five o’ clock shadow is nothing compared to the lengths many go to during November. Nowadays, this month is not only known for the delicious celebration of Thanksgiving, but for a new 30-day-long holiday: No Shave November.

The event started in Australia in 1999 by a group of men. Their goal was to raise awareness for men’s health issues such as prostate cancer. They began it in re-sponse to the Breast Cancer Awareness month. The men called it “Movember” as

in mustache November or “Novembeard.”

Those who want to be involved with Movember must follow specific rules. On Shadowe’en (Oct. 31), one’s entire mustache region must be shaved. Throughout November, no hair below the lower lip can be grown. Participants cannot join the mustache and sideburns, and for those who have a beard, they may shave it only leav-ing a mustache.

In any case, the point is to shave on Oct. 31 and then go all November without as much as touching a razor. Come Dec. 1, participants

are free to shave it all off. Of course anyone can make up his or her own version of the “holiday.” Often, this event is organized to raise money for charities, so for those not all about letting your hair grow to great lengths, it’s at least for a good cause.

Many Cedar Falls students participate in No Shave November. Hayden Shea is one of those people. He said that he does it be-cause it’s fun and others like his beard.

“I like doing No Shave November because I don’t have time to shave, and I look older,” Shea said.

Males seem to always en-joy growing a little stubble, and this is the perfect excuse to keep it. On the other end of the spectrum, girls love No Shave because it makes life that much easier. In 2010 Laura Schwickerath became slightly notorious for being bold and not shaving, though many encouraged her to.

“Shaving legs is such a hassle. I get an extra 15 minutes of sleep just by not shaving,” Schwickerath said.

She said she gets a lot of negative feedback for her long hair, but her motto is haters gonna hate. Keep-ing her legs hidden is one

drawback, but Schwickerath notes that it’s blue jean weather anyway. Not only did she partake in Novem-ber’s no shaving celebration, Schwickerath makes up an excuse for the follow-ing months to keep the hair growing. Examples: Don’t Shave December, Just One More January. Finally in February, she shaved one leg.

Whether one participates in No Shave November or not, it is a good conversation piece. If one needs an incen-tive to do No Shave, look up a charity to get involved with.

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Social Studies teacher Traci Lake plays rough. She cuts through the McElroy roller rink, swerving through her pack of teammates as she strategizes how to best thrust through the pack. Decked out in tight-fitted Push-Up Brawler attire, Lake stays focused: it’s “bout” time.

Lake is a member of the Cedar Falls roller derby team, a contact sport that involves speed skating and strategy.

“It’s as if football and NASCAR had a child, and we pushed it into fishnets,” Lake said, recall-ing a comment of one of her teammates.

Players travel in packs of five and try get one of their teammates, deemed the “Jammer,” through the pack of the opposing team to score. Players are not allowed to use certain body parts like elbows or

tackle but, as Lake admits, “Sometimes it doesn’t feel like this.”

The girls are rough, but that’s part of the appeal.

“It’s a nice way to unwind after a long day and take out any aggression I have,” Lake said.

Lake got into Derby this year because her sister, who plays for a team in Dubuque,

encouraged her to give it a try.

“It’s a great way to stay active,” Lake said. As a former softball player and golfer, Lake added that she enjoys being part of a team again. “It’s nice to have a group that you’re close with and all be working towards a common goal.”

Lake said that, although

they may just look like roller skaters, they’re athletes. “There’s a lot of strategy involved,” Lake said. “The first time I ‘bouted,’ I was taken off guard by how hard people hit, but you just start watching the other team, noticing what they do and strategizing how to best adjust.”

The team practices six hours a week and spends time watching film, con-ditioning and developing plays. The sport is aggres-sive, and as such takes a lot of preparation. However, despite the roughness of the sport, teams are very friendly to one another.

“You would think from the way the sport goes peo-ple would be nasty to each other,” Lake said. “It’s quite the opposite. Everything gets left on the track. Going in to bout, you’re competitive, but once it’s over, we all hang out and get to know the other players.”

The players battle other misconceptions, such as that the sport is staged or inap-propriate.

“A lot of people think of roller derby as dirty, but it’s very family friendly,” Lake said.

A look around the crowd reveals a wide range of ages; girl scout groups, families and retired citizens pack in around the rink, and the event features live music and food. Many of the players are mothers, and the team holds additional events, such as kickball games for their families.

Senior Brii Keigan’s mother joined the Brawlers this year.

“It’s really neat oppor-tunity for women,” Keigan said, adding that since the closing of the Roller Dome, there aren’t many outlets for skating any more.

Though the Brawlers had their last match of the season this Saturday, Nov. 12, they will reconvene in eight weeks to begin their April season.

Push-Up Brawlers:

Social studies teacher Traci Lake speed skates through her opponents in a “bout” of roller derby.

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Social studies teacher pursues interest in roller derby skating

1. How do you feel the season went?It went really well, and we deserved to go to State. The game vs. Dowling, we worked good together, and we definitely deserved to go to State.2.What inspired you this season?Knowing that we had a very strong offense and defense.3. Have things changed since your freshman year?Yeah, I’ve had to get used to a new setter, which has been a success.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL- Dec. 2 @ Decorah 6 p.m. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL- Nov. 21 @ ColumbusMEN’S SWIMMING- Nov. 22 @ Dubuque Senior 6 p.m. MEN’S & WOMEN’S BOWLING- Nov. 22 vs. Dubuque Hempstead 3:45

Tigers in Action

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Miranda DusenberryVolleyball

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When it rains, it pours. Friday night was no different for the Tigers who lost their semifinal game to Bettendorf 35-7. “Things didn’t quite go our way, but we didn’t have any regrets,” senior linebacker Parker Smith said.

Things turned ugly early for the Tigers when junior offensive lineman Austin Mennen dislocated his elbow on the opening kickoff. On the following series, senior tight end Bryce Wolf broke his ankle after a catch. Early in the first quarter Cedar Falls drove the length of the field and set up Jacob Fagersten for a field goal, but Fagersten missed wide left. With less than a minute left, Bettendorf

punched the ball in to take a 14-0 lead. The ensuing kickoff landed in the hands of track star James Harrington, who has committed to Alabama to run track next spring. Har-rington brought the ball to the Tiger 20-yard line before fumbling the ball away to Bet-tendorf. With seven seconds left on the clock, Bettendorf recorded a third touchdown of the night sending a deflated Tiger team to the locker room facing its biggest deficit of the season.

On the Tigers’ second half opening drive, All-State running back Barkley Hill left the game with an ACL injury. Cedar Falls ate up most of the third quarter driving the field. Junior Ike Boettger connected with Harrington near the end

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Getting behind early can kill a team, no pun intended, and that proved true for the volleyball team who were defeated in four sets (25-18, 16-25, 25-10, 25-11) on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in the afternoon in the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena by second-seeded Iowa City High.

This is the first time the Tigers have made it to State Volleyball since 2007, and there aren’t many things that the players would do to change their season’s efforts.

“I would change our emotional roller coaster. We always had our ups and downs in the season, which were frustrating because we know that we can beat any team if we stay positive and keep encouraging each other,” Miranda Dusenberry said.

The Little Hawks entered the game with a 39-3 record

and coming off a three-set-sweep of Muscatine. Cedar Falls had just completed a sweep of their own, upsetting fourth-ranked Des Moines Dowling in three sets.

“I wish we could play the whole game over again,” Kaz Brown said.

The Tigers found them-selves in trouble early, drop-ping the first set quickly, but, in the second set, Cedar Falls impressively bounced back and took one away from the Little Hawks 25-16.

Next year, the Tigers will return four starters, three of which started as under-classmen, including junior Dusenberry, who will be a fourth-year-starter and sopho-more Brown who will be a third-year-starter. Sophomore Andrea Leisinger is the last of the bunch.

Leisinger weighed in on the volleyball team, “We’ll be doing big things next year.”

Volleyball team falls short at State, excited for next season

Senior James Harrington returns a punt while Jake Gallu blocks in the state football game in the Dome on Friday, Nov. 11.

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of the third quarter to put the Tigers on the board.

“I would change absolute-ly nothing about this season, except the outcome of this game,” Mennen said.

The Tigers are returning a

significant number of starters next year, including sopho-more Ross Pierschbacher who will be a third-year starter.

“We’re not going to take a day this off-season, next season starts tomorrow,” Men-nen said.

Juniors Miranda Dusenberrry and Megan Evens celebrate a kill against Iowa City High at State on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Cedar Rapids.

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Football team makes play-off run, loses to Bettendorf

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