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TheBorahSenatorVOLUME 53 | ISSUE II | NOVEMBER 13, 2012 | 6001 CASSIA ST. | BOISE, ID 83709 | BORAHSENATOR.COM
Learn about the construction happening along Curtis Road
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Check out the drama department’s recent production, Bloody Murder
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Read up on the swim team’s successful season
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“We have just as much talent as football players, but no one comes
to see us perform.”See page 11
See more art by Jessica Phelan
on page 2
2 November 13, 2012Artist Bio
Senior illustrates artistic blood through pastel
Photos by Savannah Harrelson | [email protected] Jessica Phelan has a variety of art pieces.
By Ari [email protected]
“Whatever mood I’m in, whatever I see, I think about turning into art,” said senior Jessica Phelan.
Phelan draws inspiration from nature and the sights surrounding her every-day. She explained that earthy scenery gives her the most motivation.
“When I’m walking around or I see a really pretty tree, I just want to turn it into something,” she said.
Phelan is in Advanced Painting, and has taken Arts 1-3, as well as Drawing 2.
Her painting teacher, Jen Compton, described her as “technically sound” and “a good innova-tor.” Compton also said, “She’s great at breaking up the painting process.”
Her preferred style is oil pastel, and she has taken drawing and pottery classes outside of school, along with receiving her CNA (Clinical Nursing Assistant) as a junior.
Her most prized work is a drawing of a human heart for The Human Rights Project last year. She aspires to become a nurse after high school, and is currently employed at AppleWood As-sisted Living, where she works nearly 20 hours weekly.
“Although I want to go into nursing, I want to keep up with art,” she said. “It’s something I enjoy and I definitely want to continue through college, and as a hobby for the rest of my life.”
Placing 1st in a St. Alphonsus Christmas card contest in the 5th grade, Phelan described how she grew up around art. “My whole family is artistic,” said Phelan. “I live with my grandma and she is always doing paintings, so we all do stuff as a family.”
Phelan said she enjoys drawing and uses it as a way to relax and express herself. “You don’t think when you’re drawing because you’re so focused on what you’re
doing,” she said. “You can put whatever you’re feeling into your drawings or paint-ings.”
Her close friend, senior Rhiannon Holladay, described her work as expressive to her personality. “She’s always been really great at it and it’s great to see how she’s changed. She’s gotten progressively better,” said Holladay.
“It’s a good way to branch out--you meet new people and have to work well with others and share.” She recounted that she has made many new acquaintances via art classes, “since hardly any of my friends are into art.”
When Phelan isn’t riveted by na-ture or glued to her sketches, she is most likely spending time among friends or camping. Besides art class-es, her favorite subject is chemistry.
She is currently occupied with a leaf piece in which she incorporated many types of leaves.
“This is my first painting class,” she said. “Although I’m enjoying it, I like drawing because it’s easier to do at random times.”
She said she feels that everyone should take an art class once in their lives to learn how to express them-selves and think freely, insisting that “people can show their personalities through art.” She added, “It’s not just about being smart.”
Continuing, she said, “I always thought that taking an art class was a great escape--it’s always something to look forward to other than books and work.”
The Borah Senator 3Senator StaffADVICE COLUMN Staffer gives guidance for college hopefulsBy Brittni [email protected]
It is that time of year when seniors should be getting anxious about college and juniors getting excited about next year. Registrar Patty Hamon, Career Counselor Josh Ritchie, and University of Idaho representative MiChele Ste-fanic have a few tips when making that next step toward your future.
Starting ApplicationsIf you are a junior, it is better to start
early. It will be easier to apply if you know a few things about yourself: learning styles, motivations, and what’s important to you. Consider applying to schools you can’t afford. The universi-ties all have a sticker price; you will never pay that much with financial aid and scholarships.
After ApplyingAfter you have finished your appli-
cations in November, get to know your admissions counselor at the univer-sity. They will be sending important information. It is critical to read every word of everything. You never know, they could be sending something about scholarships. Create an Excel sheet of
due dates for visits, housing, and finan-cial aid forms.
FAFSA (Free Ap-plication for Federal Student Aid): Be-fore starting on the FAFSA application, it is better to visit fafsa4caster..edgov to get an estimate of how much financial aid you will recieve.
“This isn’t stuff you or your parents should know, so don’t be embarrassed,” said Ritchie.
There are many sources at Borah available to help with the FAFSA form if you need clarity. Ritchie, Trio, AVID, and the university you are applying to will help.
“Even if you don’t think you will qualify, it may help in the long run,” said Hamon.
College VisitsDon’t visit a college on breaks because
there will be no one there and you won’t get the full experience of how it feels to be on campus.
“If possible, visit on a Friday and
travel back on a Saturday. This is helpful because then you will only miss one day of school,” said Ste-fanic.
Make sure you let the admissions office know at least two weeks in
advance and set up a financial aid ap-pointment. When you arrive on campus for your visit, make sure you have a list of questions. This will be a helpful way to have a record of the visit. If visiting more than one university, ask the same questions at each one, and then compare later.
If colleges offer airfare to visit cam-pus, don’t be skeptical; they probably think you are a spectacular student!
Senior TimelineFall:
- Get organized - Are you taking the right classes? - Take the SAT and/or ACT.- Request institutional information.- Apply to top choice colleges.- Attend college fairs.- Visit college campuses.
- Watch for important scholarship and financial aid information.
- Think about your college essay.- Request letters of recommendation.
Winter:- Collect Financial aid information.- Submit scholarship and FAFSA ap
plications.- Talk to friends from college about
their experiences.- Remind parents to prepare their in-
come tax statements. Spring:
- Read all of your mail and email.- Reply to letters of acceptance.- Review financial aid packages with
your family. Clear the kitchen table off and put all acceptance letters down; then write the sticker price of each university on a piece of paper. Place all money of-fers on top of acceptance letters.
- Accept/decline financial aid and scholarships.
- Participate in orientation programs.- Register early for classes.- If you find that you are on the line
for getting more money for just a little higher score on the SAT or ACT, take the test over and send that score in to the universities at which you applied. Don’t be hesitant on taking the two tests over and over again. I will pay off in the end.
Senator Staff Positions Editor-In-Chief Savannah HarrelsonSenior Associate Editor Grace GibneyJunior Associate Editor Jaynee NielsenAdvertising Manager Brittni HanrahanPhoto Manager Jaynee NielsenWeb Editor Grace GibneyText Editor Sara RostronPage EditorsCover Savannah HarrelsonSenator Staff Autumn WhittakerArtist Bio Brittni HanrahanNews Grace GibneyOpinion Gustavo SagreroLife August MckernanSpread Ari Anchustegui Arts and Entertainment Sara RostronTrends Ari Anchustegui, Kate MooreSports Savannah Harrelson, Daxton Williams Photo Essay Jaynee NielsenFun and Games August McKernan, Jaynee Nielsen Staff Writers Brittany Perry, Kate Moore, Kira Barclay and Taylor McNitt Staff Photographers Autumn Whittaker, Jaynee Nielsen, and Taylor McNittAdviser: Michelle Harmon
Health Services f� Teens
reveal4real.org
Photos By Taylor McNitt tmcnitt@borahsenator.
com
Josh Ritchie Patty Hamon
4 November 13, 2012News
By Autumn [email protected]
Each year HOSA (Future Health Professionals) travels to schools and participates in an event called Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU). This program is designed for teenagers to educate younger kids about the dangers of smok-ing.
The HOSA students from Borah will be trained by a representative from the American Lung Associa-tion in the areas of tobacco history, marketing, health effects and oth-er key information about tobacco.
The training usually lasts about six hours. The instructor stresses it is not the person that is bad, but the actions they are doing that are bad.
After being trained, the HOSA students travel to elementary schools that feed into Borah. There they teach the children about the dangers of tobacco with fun ex-amples.
Junior Salome Paul said “We poured little beebees into a can and for every clink the kids hear that is a person that has died from the effects of tobacco use.”
Other ways in which children are taught about the dangers of tobacco include showing them pig lungs: one healthy lung and one that looks like a lung damaged by tobacco. Salome said that she tries to make this a fun and educational experience.
Teens Against Tobacco Use
By Kira [email protected]
You have probably noticed that it takes a little longer to get to places now on Curtis Road. That is because there is construction going on to make a new sidewalk, new bike lanes, and im-provements to the pedestrian ramps,
according to Craig Herndon, Ada Coun-ty Highway District project manager.
The construction, which starts on Overland Road and continues to Frank-lin Road, is on schedule for completion Nov. 30, according to Herndon.
“Things are seemingly to be going at a great pace and we alerted contrac-tors to accommodate pedestrians while construction is in place. They do this by directing walkers or providing walk-ways, “ he said.
Some students and teachers, although understanding of the barrier cones to direct traffic, consider it a disruption.
Math teacher Jeremy Dovel said he doesn’t experience much delay, because he has a zero hour. He said he was glad that sidewalks are being added for the same reason: that it’s dark in the morn-ing when he drives in and sidewalks will provide a safer walkway for pedes-trians.
Herndon said the project was pro-posed by the Boise School District and the City of Boise to make it safer for chil-dren who need to get on and off school buses safely.For more information on the construc-tion, visit website www.achidaho.org.
Construction to improve commute between home and Borah campus
By Jaynee Nielsen | [email protected] Junior Brendon French and Senior Ariel Pulicar salute the judges before their performance at DIII on Sat. Oct. 27. The Borah band played a Beatles medley titled “The Fab Four,” and placed 7th in the 5A category.
Marching band finishes season at DIII
HOSA travels to schools to educate young children about risks of smoking
New sidewalks and bike lanes to improve student traffic to and from Borah
The Borah Senator 5News
By Savannah [email protected]
Tomorrow, Whole Foods Mar-ket, an organic grocery store, opens its doors to the Boise community, wrapping in local vendors, organic consumers, and adding competition to the economy.
According to Matt Collins, mar-keting and community relations manager for Whole Foods Market Boise, the store will create 200 new jobs, with the majority hired locally.
The store also will include more than 50 products from local vendors. The market partnered with the Idaho Food Bank as well as many other lo-cal organizations, and will donate to these organizations during its open-ing event.
The store will feature “...a full ser-vice bakery, salad bar, soup bar, hot
bar, taqueria, sandwich station, and specialty cheese department,” said Collins. He also added there will be a “River Room” featuring 16 tap beers and three tap wines as well as a food menu.
“They have amazing prepared foods,” said Jayne Davis, U.S. His-tory and AP European History teacher. Davis visited other Whole Foods Markets in places like Minne-apolis, Portland, and New York City. She added that the store is great for purchasing specialty items such as cheeses.
One concern consumers express about the market is its high prices. Sophomore Vivian Fraser, who re-cently moved to Boise from Las Vegas, said the market is a little too expensive for an everyday grocery store. See more online at www.borahsenator.com
Whole Foods opens its doors tomorrow in Boise
By Gustavo [email protected]
A Tricaster, a tool which KBHS uses for its own production of video an-nouncements, has broken down, and the possibility of getting it fixed is al-most bar none in the near future.
Combining the recording and editing process into one contraption, Brad Ba-umberger, the teacher in charge of video production, describes the device in the best way possible, as a “a news van in a shoebox.”
“There are more pressing things to at-tend to cash wise,” he said.
This device isn’t just a small side proj-ect for a video geek either, rather, sports networks and TV pageantries use a Tri-caster at the professional level for their productions.
Because this essential tool is out of order, students who create the video
announcements now have to learn how to adapt to a new format of production to continue the video announcements. Digitized production is now the new way of KBHS.
Juniors Jacob Boone and Garry Reyn-olds as well as Baumberger agree that in a sense this curse has been a blessing. With the tricaster down and out, stu-dents in the video production classes are moving forward and in some ways, and in other ways a few steps back.
Using iMacs and Final Cut Pro to pro-duce digitized videos as the alternative to using the Tricaster provides a new “perk,” allowing KBHS to upload vid-eos to the :L drive, which is accessible to anyone logged into the school network.
To Reynolds, the process of creat-ing the daily video announcements felt rushed with the Tricaster, but with this new procedure, “everything is on point.”
“With this new method there is a learning curve. “We’re learning new tricks as we go along, learning from each other,” said Reynolds.
Last year’s Senator’s Choice Awards used this device for events’ highlights;
every student in the auditorium was able to see the high production values of the videos. Different camera shots, fade-outs and other tricks of the trade all streamed from the Tricaster, operated by the students in KBHS, live.
KBHS announcements air onscreenDelayed by broken equipment, students discover alternative ways of producing morning telecasts
By Taylor McNitt | [email protected] (From left to right): Sophomore Sadika Malic, junior Nick Ceron (lion mascot), senior Naida Cepalo, and juniors Dakotah Lowber, Jacob Boone, and Garry Reynolds, are crew members of KBHS video announcements.
By Sara [email protected]
For students that find exhilaration and freedom in the language arts, now there is a club for you. Borah has its very own creative writing club. Now it is possible to mesh ideas and exchange processes with other students, both by expanding and opening horizons for better writing.
Chuck McHenry credits the club to two juniors, Jacob Merrill and Kayla Miskiv, both responsible for founding the club.
“There was a [teen writing] club in front of the library, but it was cancelled so I thought how hard would it be?” Merrill explained further. “We decided to make our own.”
He said the club has already been a very successful feat. “Lots of people showed up for the first meeting.
We provide an environment where
we critique each others’ work, give feedback and collaborate on writing projects.”
Miskiv also shared excitement in the immediate success.
“We submitted announcements, emailed English teachers and made a group constitution. We had a really good turnout. I’m most excited to write! It’s fun to have others to talk to… [the] hope is to be better writers.”
Chuck McHenry emphasized that he has little to do with the running of the club.
He also added, “If you really wanna write, there’s a 3 percent chance you’ll make it as a great writer. I tell [students] look around in front of you, behind you, to the side of you. There’s a chance it might be you.
The main objective of the club is to improve each other’s writing, have fun, and not take it too seriously, according to Merrill.
New creative writing club welcomes authors
6 November 13, 2012Opinion
An apple a day keeps students away
August [email protected]
Voters now have more access to the personal lives of presidential candidates than ever before, especially now with digital iPads, iPods, and iPhones.
In an interview with the Los Ange-les Times, Pres. Barack Obama even took time away from discussing is-sues like gay marriage to weigh in on a pop culture debate: the feud between “American Idol” judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. Though to be fair, in that interview, Obama did eventually talk about healthcare and immigration, the real issues.
Jayne Davis, AP U.S. History teacher said presidential candidates have to “reach their electorate” through the me-dia.
Obama first appeared on “The View” in July 2012. According to an article on abclocal.go.com, that episode “was the show’s most-watched episode ever, to-taling 6.59 million viewers.”
Davis said this method of reaching voters through popular media like talk shows is effective because “you’re reach-ing an audience that you don’t normally reach in the news.”
Then again, you’re reaching an au-dience who tuned in to see what color drapes Michelle Obama is putting up in the White House.
Presidential debates and numerous articles can be tiring to sift through, but they contain vital information about the candidates’ policies and goals. Vot-ers should be well informed before they vote because an uninformed vote may as well be an insult to democracy.
Presidential candidates’ pandering to pop culture for votes has steadily increased in the last few years. If these candidates think the only way to get a voter’s loyalty is to claim their love for this or that artist, then what does that say about us as voters? Are we so un-concerned about foreign policy that candidates have to use subterfuge in the form of gossip to get our vote?
Politicians who pander for votes lower the standards
Autumn Whittaker | [email protected]
Sophmore Halayna Liera tosses her food.
Kate [email protected]
Video games seem to be losing popu-larity with people my age. It’s possible that It’s because teenagers are getting older and games are becoming more redundant. Games are less original and therefore more boring, and because of that, we don’t play as often.
At this point, most games aren’t anything new--they’re just a mimicry of other games that the public seemed to like.
I’m not the only one who has no-ticed this. A reviewer of Darksiders II on IGN.com said that practically every mission is just the same as the last mis-sion, and that even the entire game is not all that different from its prequel.
Then again, the reason we play video games less often could just be that peo-ple want to spend some time outside instead of being stuffed up in a room all day in the dark with a blanket over the back of their heads, with a messy arrangement of snacks in front of them.
We now have to own up to our re-sponsibilities as we grow older and therefore, we can’t just sit down for hours at a time to play video games. College and Career paths have started to creep into our minds, and become a top priority.
We teenagers still play video games, but this form of entertainment is just not as prevalent anymore. When I got my first iTouch, I probably had 50 game apps on it. Now, I have four that I bare-ly ever play.
Video games are still alive, but they are on the verge of dying out and be-coming extinct, unless some curious person comes along and picks up a con-troller, resuscitating the entire digitized species.
We’re growing up, out of those beloved video games
Staff Editorial
A change in the cafeteria this year requires students to take a fruit and a veggie item with their meal. As a result, food is going to waste because students do not eat the healthy food item. Stu-dents should not have to take food that they do not eat. It wastes money and perfectly good food.
The question left unanswered here is simple: why make students take food that they don’t want to eat?
“New federal guidelines by Michelle Obama require students to take one fruit or veggie item per meal,” said kitchen manager Mary Acura.
“If you don’t want a fruit, you shouldn’t have to take it,” said senior Hannah Robison.
“I understand why the school does it, but if they make you take it, then you just throw it away.”
According to Boise School District’s
(BSD) August/September issue of Ways to Wellness, a newsletter informing par-ents and students of news within Food and Nutrition Services, BSD complies with the Farm to School program.
This program offers locally grown goods, such as vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and meat within school cafeterias and directly to students. Al-though it is encouraging to learn that BSD is supporting the local economy, the money being invested in local foods is going to waste.
Additionally, the federal guidelines were proposed to combat obesity. “The reason behind the guidelines is nation-wide childhood obesity,” said Acura. “We’ve made changes here in the caf-eteria, like cutting the pints of chocolate milk down to half-pints.”
The national obesity crisis occurring in children and teens and is definitely a call to action. The parents of teenagers who regularly eat in the cafeteria prob-
ably appreciate the steps taken by the district to provide healthier food selec-tions.
But, realistically, teenagers are not likely to eat veggies and fruits when they can choose to eat a slice of pizza instead.
The cafeteria staff needs to consider that students will choose food that is more delicious to eat over food that is healthier, but not as appetizing.
Taste trumps nutrition.“They should not make people take
what they don’t want,” said senior Adri-an Lenz.
“I feel like if the cafeteria ladies are going to make it, then they should have to eat it themselves.”
The solution to this issue is obvious: do not force students to take food that they won’t eat.
“It’s pointless and stupid,” said senior Evan Hartwell. “The school buys it, and it ends up wasting money and food.”
3-30-1 liney liney
Video games, a passion so close to some, seems to be on the decline
Mandated fruit and vegetable selections squander resources, money, taste buds
The Borah Senator 7Opinion
The Borah High Memes are all very true, but I under-stand that some can be offensive. Anyone at school can go online and look at them. The jokes range from light hearted to taking it a little bit too far. Personally I remember looking at them and I kept thinking to myself “Yep, thats definitely Borah!” but some others I was surprise they were on there. I think that the Borah High Memes Page should be more aware of what they are saying.
-Kate MooreJunior
There were some offensive things on the meme page. although I do think Borah students should show a little more class, a rare quality to find on the sprawling pages of the Internet. I think the faculty were well within their rights to ask the moderators of the page to clean up their act but those moderators had no obligation to do so. They were exercising their right to free speech. But is that re-ally how we want to portray ourselves? -August Mckernan
Junior
A couple things posted about teachers were a bit inap-propriate because people will have that impression of a teacher for a long time. Other than that, it’s humor. I think that some stuff is taken way too seriously in life, and this is one of those things. Teens are making light of a situation that they must deal with in day-to-day life. People need to stop taking memes so seriously; that’s the whole point.
-Sara RostronSenior
Senator Staff Shout Outs What do you think about the recent controversy over Borah High Memes page?
Is zero hour worth it? Weighing the odds of getting more sleep or getting ahead in school
Some just want more classes
PRO:Zero hour makes for less slumber
CON:
Brittany [email protected]
Is showing up to school at 6:50 in the morning worth it? Many students claim it is, and the faculty seems to love their 0 hour students.
Not only does 0 hour get you ready for the whole day ahead of you, it also can get you caught up on or ahead on cred-its. Sometimes 0 hour even creates the possibility of early graduation, or taking more electives for which you might not have had room beforehand. “I feel more awake for the rest of the day,” junior Becca Ader said about her 0 hour class.
0 hour is an everyday class that begins at 6:50 a.m. Although it can be tough to get up that early, in the end it is worth it. The worst part about 0 hour is the wak-ing up. But whether I am waking up for 0 hour or 1st period, I am still tired.
“What all this does is give students
more opportunities to learn, maybe to the point of exhaustion for a commit-ted few,” Seattle Times writer Elizabeth Rhodes said.
“And perhaps give an unexpectedly early wake-up to parents, who may not have realized such classes exist. If their kids don’t have cars or are too young to drive, they’re the ones providing trans-portation in the wee hours because school buses don’t run then,” she added.
Although some 0 hour students may be extremely tired at the start of class, with some hands-on activities or just getting the students up and moving around, student can wake up quickly.
Rhodes also highlights 0 hour also does not cost the school any extra mon-ey.
Junior Ashley Buzzini commented that she takes 0 hour because, “I don’t have enough room in my schedule for all the classes I need to take.”
Tired, fatigued feelings burden 0 hour students the entire school day.
Eyelids droop, as teachers bestow wasted lessons upon the minds of sleep-deprived pupils. An eight-hour school day beginning at 7:50 a.m. and lasting until 2:56 p.m. is already exhausting, but an additional class period in the dark hours of dawn, starting at 6:50 a.m. is a definite no-no for already groggy stu-dents trying to execute a decent grade point average.
According to SleepFoundation.org, losing sleep limits your ability to learn, listen, concentrate and solve problems. The average amount of needed sleep for teens is anywhere between 8.5 and 9.5 hours each night. Hardly anybody is getting enough shut-eye to truly concen-trate throughout the school day.
More of the time spent in class turns into nappy hour instead of a period of learning. In an article titled, “School Start Time and Sleep” by the National Sleep Foundation, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren points out that “over time, sleep deprivation leads to serious con-sequences for academic achievement, social behavior, and the health and safe-ty of our nation’s youth.”
Not having a 0 hour allows more high school students to attain better grades, and stay awake and be energized in regularly scheduled classes. Sleep is necessary for the mind to focus during the school day.
“Some students just tend to be morning people,” said counselor Gail Barker. Although this is true, teenagers fall asleep around 11 p.m. each night. By this measure, most 0 hour students likely receive seven hours of sleep if they wake up at 6 a.m.
Autumn Whittaker | [email protected] Gavin Nickel finds some down time during his school day.
8 | November 13, 2012 Jobs, Money, & Politics The Borah Senator | 9Jobs, Money, & Politics
By August Mckernan [email protected]
Flipping burgers or scooping cones may not sound like a glamorous after school activity, but teens seek these jobs for a variety of reasons. Some want a little money to spend on the side, others are saving up for college, and some put the money toward helping pay for family expenses.
Josh Ritchie, career counselor, guessed that about a third of Borah students have jobs. He described how lots of students come into the Career Center looking for job opportunities. He stressed that the hardest part is getting and finding a job rather than actually keep-ing it.
Ritchie said, “You just need to go into every store front and ask.” Competition for summer and part-time jobs has increased for teens. According to a report published in May 2012 by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, “In 2010 and 2011, slightly less than 26 percent of the nation’s teens held any type of paid job, the lowest employment rate in the history of our country in the post-World War II era.”
Becky Woodland, Borah’s social worker, listed some motivators behind teens’ decisions to get a job: to be “financially independent” from their parents, to save money for college, or “to help out at home” to pay for bills and other necessities.
Ritchie said there’s a large group of students at Bo-rah “helping pay family bills” with their income. He said, “we have homeless families, people living in their cars.” The economic downturn has made finding a job more difficult for these types of students.
The availability of jobs for teens has decreased, leav-ing a large portion of teens who are actively seeking jobs unemployed. The report from the Center for La-bor Market Studies at Northeastern University states, “Summer employment rates for teens have declined dramatically over the past decade, falling from nearly 52% in the summer of 2000 to slightly under 40% in 2007, and they continued to fall to just under 30% in the summers of 2010 and 2011.”
Senior Gus Anderson works at Albertson’s as a courtesy clerk. He said, “I guess I just wanted my own money.” He added that one of the reasons he got a job was so he could stop asking his mom for money all the time.Anderson now works about 16 hours a week, but that wasn’t always the case. He said he “worked more last year” but changed hours once it started to cut into his time for studying and extra curriculars.
Ritchie said that if a teen is thinking about getting a job, they “need to think about the trade offs of work-ing.” He said balance is the key towards having a job and maintaining good grades, a social life, and sleep.
Junior Katie Swafford works at Edwards 21 Cinemas and said, “It’s hard to keep up if I have a lot of home-work on the weekends.” Swafford normally works six-hour shifts on the weekend to save up for college.
Swafford makes $7.25 an hour, minimum wage, which is the average salary for entry level jobs for teens. She said she thought this was a fair amount “since I’m just starting out and I don’t have any previous job experi-ence.”
The economy has seen a slight upturn in the past few months. Mr. Bild, economics teacher said, “The local economy looks a lot better than it did perhaps a year ago.” He said he thinks this is due to the new businesses opening up. Businesses like Chick-Fil-A and Whole Foods are opening up and hiring teens for entry level positions.
Bild said, “Those kinds of jobs are going to be more plentiful.” He said that although teen job opportuni-ties may be expanding, students should always keep in mind that “academics is number one.”
Illustration by Sara Rostron | [email protected]
Many at Borah have jobs, looking for one
Black Friday commences season of spending, profit
By Gustavo [email protected]
New businesses have notably taken root in Boise, giving the im-pression that maybe the recession is finally over.
From the much anticipated open-ing of Chick-Fil-A, shopping malls going up in Meridian, and skeletal construction structures reaching into the sky to giant holes develop-ing downtown, it’s easy to see that although the remnants of the reces-sion still hold Americans captivated, Boise and the surrounding area is attempting to move on.“What I’ve noticed is that when my wife and I go out downtown, the places are getting more crowded,” remarked economics teacher Ralph Bild. “ It’s stuff like that that makes me think the economy is doing better.”
But this is no economic boom. “Looking at it from an economist’s perspective, it’s not a boom but a gradual improvement, at least to this point, “ added Bild.But the question economics teacher Jason Willer high-lighted is “Where are we at--at a peak or a valley?”
Willer emphasized how hous-ing is improving in Boise: both prices and production are going up, he said, which is a part of Boise’s expansion.“The biggest struggle is meaningful jobs,” he said. Although new businesses are opening up, a lot of these jobs are minimum wage, he said, and there’s a lack of valuable jobs that require a college education. HP and Micron as well as Simplot are companies that would benefit from the development of Boise with top dollar jobs, but they’re only a fraction of the entire job pool.
Nonetheless, there is an optimis-tic look for Boise and its economic potential. Boise has no big industry but rather a variety.
Willer noted how this categorizes Boise as part of a stable area, which means the turbulence that may be felt in Silicon Valley will probably not be felt as strongly here. “Boise has a lot to offer to people who want to move here,” said Bild. “I just hope not too many people move here.”
By Grace [email protected]
President Barack Obama won a sec-ond term as President of the United States Nov. 6. As the incumbent in this election, he held an advantage over can-didate Gov. Mitt Romney. Over the next four years, Americans will continue to see Obama’s face on nightly news broad-casts.
Despite his victory, Boise parents and students are asking the question, “What is Barack going to do for me these next four years?”
According barackobama.com, Obama seeks to “grow the economy from the middle class out, not the top down” by creating more jobs in the U.S. auto and U.S. manufacturing industries.
Along with passing his Wall Street reform that helped eliminate big bank bailouts, Obama plans “to bring jobs back to the U.S. by eliminating tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, and creating incentives for businesses to bring jobs back to America”.
For senior Joel Munn, a Romney supporter, he believes that Obama’s economic plan for businesses is not the right approach to the economy. “I don’t like his plans for businesses,” said Munn. “I’m questioning how he’s going
to do it, how he’s going to bring busi-
nesses over here. If we want businesses to get started, we need a Republican ide-ology.”
Under his educational policies, Pres. Obama said he will double funds for Pell Grants, establish a college tax cred-it, fight to prevent federal student loan interest rates from doubling, keep teach-ers employed, and invest in community colleges.
Additionally, Obama seeks to grant states, such as Idaho, the flexibility to re-form education through his Race to the Top initiative, which his website claims has “helped spur 46 states to raise stan-dards by rewarding innovation and positive reforms in local schools.” This policy appears as though it can be linked to the Propositions 1, 2, and 3 proposed by Supt. Tom Luna, which failed pas-sage Nov. 6.
“Obama can impact national ed-ucation issues like f ree -a nd-reduced lunch programs,” said government teacher Ron Freeman. “How-ever, I am more concerned with what Idaho is doing. Obama’s e d u c a t i o n a l policies cannot really affect us at the local level. We are more affected by the Boise School District and state
elections.”Obama’s “Forward” plan regards the
following issues: jobs and the economy, taxes and the budget, energy, education, foreign policy, health care, women’s care, seniors, and immigration.
Senior Dani Duncan, who voted for Obama, said she appreciates Obama’s stance on these issues. “As a woman, women’s issues come first to me. I also like how our troops are coming back home. I like Obama’s social views -- gay marriage.
His affordable health care stands out to me. So many kids are dying because insurance won’t cover it (health insur-ance), and also because Canada has it.”
The colorful highlights from this elec-tion’s debates include “I love Big Bird,” “binders full of women,” and “horses and bayonets.”
Duncan commented on the Town Hall debate Oct. 16, saying that “The
second debate, they went after each other like rappers -- I wish.”
Faculty, students analyze impact of his re-election
By Taylor [email protected]
The amazing deals, limited inven-tory, and temporary rush: Black Friday is the day shoppers savor the excite-ment of deal hunting.
“We are expecting a lot of people this year.... A lot!” said a manager of the American Eagle store at Boise
Towne Square Mall. “We are hiring 100 new associates, on top of our regu-lar 20, just for the holiday season.”
All stores at the mall will open at midnight, Fri., Nov. 23.
Hollister Co. manager Arielle Shil-ling said, “All managers will be on staff and more associates on the floor than we usually have--that way we will have no theft and more coverage
of the store.”The day after Thanksgiving is con-
sidered the best shopping day of the year for vendors as well as customers. However many wonder why the term “Black Friday” is used.
According to BlackFriday.com, the word black in Black Friday refers to the stores moving from the “red” to the “black.” Back when accounting
records were kept by hand, red ink in-dicated a loss, and black a profit.
For this reason, many merchants used the term to describe it as one of the most important shopping days of the year.
Black Friday kicks off the Christ-mas shopping season, and, for some retailers, makes up for losses of other quarters.
NEW BUSINESS
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Borah economist thinks local market improving
OBAMA WINS SECOND TERM
10 November 13, 2012Life
Downtown offers fun eventsBasket drive helps familiesBy Jaynee [email protected]
Borah is continuing the tradition of making holiday baskets for Thanks-giving and Christmas, also known as Adopt a Family, according to social worker Becky Woodland, who heads the project.
Adopt a Family provides baskets that include supplies for Thanksgiv-ing and Christmas dinners.
For the Christmas baskets, stu-dents also provide gifts. Most Borah families have young children, so gifts range from CDs to books to art ma-terials.
Families with pets receive Christ-mas toys for them as well: a fake mouse for cats or chew toy for dogs, for example.
The families to which the baskets are going are kept confidential, said Woodland.
Borah has supported families for more than seven years. In the begin-ning Borah supported two or three families, but now supports more than 30.
Last year, Borah supported 13 fami-lies during Thanksgiving and another 18 for Christmas.
“I like it, because it’s Borah helping Borah,” said Woodland.
The vice president of Key Club, se-nior Shannon Gray said, “Last year, the vice president ended up carrying a turkey around with them--it was re-ally fun.”
According to Kylie Christensen, Key Club advisor, Key Club spon-sored three families for Thanksgiving with a fundraising budget of $500 to $1,000, and four families with about $2,000.
National Honor Society receives donations from the community. Al-bertson’s donated five dinners for Adopt a Family.
Other clubs ask for donations from church organizations, or buy basket items themselves.
Woodland said the best part of her job is delivering the baskets to the families, because she gets to see the direct impact Borah’s generosity has on the families.
By Taylor [email protected]
Have you ever been bored sick not knowing what to do? This article will tell you places and activities you can go out and do!
These activities are for all ages and are educational and very fun. So if you ever need anything to do you can always do one of these.
Story Story Night: Story Story Night is a program that features live storytell-ing performances. People come together to share real experiences live on stage, with no notes. Featured storytellers start off with 10-minute stories that relate to the theme of the night.
After that, storytellers come together for a Story Slam, which is five-minute quick fire stories. You can put your name in a drawing to win a prize. Tickets are $7 and it is located in the Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho Street Downtown. Visit www.storystorynight.org for more in-formation.
Saturday Market: The Capital City Public Market is every Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. lasting from April 21- December 22. The Capital City Public Market is an on-going event where local farmers and producers sell their prod-ucts to residents and visitors.
The motto of the market is “The closer to home the better.” The organizers get vendors and producers from the trea-sure valley and surrounding regions. This is free community event. So go this Saturday and enjoy the six-block area of more than 160 vendors.
The Boise Zoo: Zoo Boise connects visitors to the animals and the conser-vation of wildlife. The zoo is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission prices are Adults (12-61) $7.00, Seniors (62 and over) $4.50, Children (4-11) $4.25, Chil-dren (3 and under) Free. It is located 355 Julia Davis Drive at Julia Davis Park.
The next event at Zoo Boise is the Claus’N’Paws. It will be the only day during the year that the zoo will have free admission. It will be on Dec. 1, 2012. Claus’N’Paws is a Christmas event
where Santa takes pictures with kids.Idaho State Historical Museum: The
Idaho State Historical Museum is a place where you can experience Idaho’s excit-ing history by learning about our state’s people, places, and events. You can fol-low the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Also admire woven basketry, and art of the Native Americans and you can even imagine what it would feel like to sit at bar in a saloon.
The Museum is located at 610 North Julia Davis Drive at Julia Davis Park.
Autumn Whittaker | [email protected] whoosh past and trees sway in the hip and happening downtown scene.
“Baby think it over” makes students go waaBy Sara [email protected]
Imagine yourself, sleeping soundly through the night, quiet and relaxed. All of a sudden the silence is penetrated by a piercing cry. You roll out of bed, stum-bling in the dark to reach for a simulated baby, and have to decide what is wrong with him. You try burping him with no success. Finally you cradle him; the cry turns to a murmur, and you know this has been a success.
This assignment is called “Baby Think-It-Over”. For students taking
Child Development or Teen Living with teacher Shannon Holt, this is one of their options for a grade.
The baby is programmed to cry ran-domly to test students to see how they react. There are four reasons the baby cries: feeding, burping, cradling, and diaper changing. At the end of the as-signment, Holt plugs in a chip from the baby and tallies how many minutes the baby cried. The least amount of minutes, the better the grade.
“This is not an assignment to punish, but a reflection of what it is like to be the sole provider of [a child],” Holt said. “It
gives them a better idea of being a par-ent.”
MacKenzie Carruthers, senior, had a difficult time with the assignment.
“It just never stopped crying,” she said with exasperation.
Kenia Sandoval, junior, also took part in the assignment. “I learned [having a baby] is not as easy as it looks.”
Her lasting insight? “Teens should use protection; they don’t understand–it’s a huge responsibility.”
Holt emphasized the impact the assignment has on students. “It’s a learning experiment,” she concluded.
The Borah Senator 11Arts & Entertainment
Past talent show winners teach dance, choreography
By Ari [email protected]
“Everybody’s pretty busy right now with homework and school,” said KikZity member and senior An-thony Rangel.
Rangel is one of five members in the two-time talent show winning crew still at Borah. Seniors Rangel, Luan Vo, and Cris Castanos remain, while Vu Tran and Marco Albizo graduated in 2012.
KikZity is now sponsored by Angelita Aganza, a Quinceneria choreographer who helps them book shows and events. The crew teach-es two-hour dance classes at Bekz studio once a month, and choreog-raphy classes: Children, Medium, and break dancing. On average, two members lead and assist a class.
“We didn’t get to do much this summer; we got to dance though, and so either way it was okay for us,” said Perez. “We didn’t even have
a social life. If we weren’t home, we were at the studio.”
When the crew is not preoccupied with school, they practice at least two times each week at the mem-bers’ State Street studio.
Rangel said KikZity is not able to dance as much as the members wish they could.
“We’re all disappointed,” said Rangel, “but you’ve gotta’ do what you’ve gotta’ do.”
As far as Borah’s Spring talent show goes, the crew would “like to keep it a surprise” explained Vo. It will be a new experience for KikZity to perform without all the original members. However, the boys are now seniors and said they would like to end their high school careers with a three-year first place title.
Vo promises Kikzity will surely be back in business once each member is more organized with school. “We might be gone now, but once we’re back we will be better than ever.”
‘Bloody Murder’ kicks off as the first drama this yearBy Sara [email protected]
The best way to describe rehears-als is entertaining. It is hard to ignore the European accents, humorous lines, mysterious characters, and a thought provoking plot. If a sexy, comical, and twisted mystery tickles your fancy, look no further.
“Bloody Murder” is Theater’s first play of the year. As drama teacher Heather Pirus explained, the show is a “comedic murder mystery. It begins with what seems like a ‘formulaic’ plot line, but then things get a little whacky.”
Pirus’s goal is to “tell a story in a new way, but in particular, see the actors ex-plore these very traditional characters, or stereotypes, and see what new life they could give them.”
“So far, I am very pleased with what they’ve done and they seem to come up with new things everyday.”
Senior Alexia Neal has been acting for five years. She played Emma Reese, a character she described as very prop-er, ladylike and innocent, but a woman with a dark twist.
Junior Lauren Hubbard, who has also acted for five years, played the Countess; a mysterious, insightful, “Cruella-Dev-ille” type who secretly knows more than any other character in the show.
Character development proved to be a challenge. Neal said a lot of mystery and foreshadowing is sprinkled into the play.
To pull it off really well requiredchar-acter development, which she described as reading the script over and over so that the motivations behind the charac-ter were clear.
“It’s like a coloring book; they have the lines but you have to color it in--it’s your job to make it your own.”
Neal found performing the most ex-citing part of it all, while Hubbard said she looked forward to the feedback they would receive.
“We practice the lines over and over everyday to the point where it’s not funny. The first laugh is going to be the light; actors feed off of reactions.”
The aspect of performance that struck both of the actresses was the possibility of forgetting lines.
“Sometimes it’s hard to keep on task,” said Neal. “It never seems like it will work out but it always comes together for performance.”
Neal also hoped that attendance would be satisfactory.
She remarked with sadness, “We have just as much talent as football play-ers, but no one comes to see us perform.”
Pirus also mentioned poor atten-dance. “The actors are very dedicated and are doing all that they can to be pre-pared by performance time.”
This year they added incentive at-tempting to bring in a larger audience.
For example, “We’ve decided to feed them pizza this time around, so we are hoping that this may draw a few more customers. We have some talented ac-tors here at Borah and I just hope the school comes out to support them and our program.”
Despite the small percentage of the student population who attends plays, Neal and Hubbard will keep perform-ing.
Neal’s motivation is her love for the-atre, while Hubbard’s is her passion of acting.
What exactly can a crowd do to show their appreciation for the long hours of rehearsals and memorization? Hubbard and Neal both agreed that enthusiasm, like belly laughing and gasping, is al-ways appreciated.
Photo by Jaynee Nielsen | [email protected]’s play, “Bloody Murder” has elaborate settings, influenced by lighting tech-niques as well as the unique furniture strategically placed on the stage.
Lauren Hubbard Alexia Neal
“We might be gone now, but once we’re back we will be better than ever.”
Transtrum, Phillips
12 November 13, 2012Sports
By Daxton [email protected]
The football team lost its game against The Highland Rams Nov. 2 by a score of 34-41, ending the historic season.
The game went to the final minute when Borah failed to put it in the end zone with one minute left in the game
Not only did Borah lose, however, every team in the Southern Idaho Con-ference (SIC) lost their games, with Borah’s loss being the closest, by 7 points.
The next in line was Eagle vs. Lake City, and Capital vs. Madison, with both teams losing by 14 points.
Darren Corpus, in his second year as Borah’s coach, has improved the varsity program with back-to-back winning seasons, and an SIC title.
Senior Justin Coburn, tight end, had big numbers this season with 51 recep-tions for 831 yards and 8 touchdowns, two in the loss to Highland.
“We had a good turn around from the Boise game,” said Coburn. “We had enough talent to win state.”
Coburn, who played under Corpus in junior high, went from not starting
freshman year to 831 yards his senior year.
Senior running back, Hunter Kenyon was the workhorse for the Lions as he had 227 carries for 1,162 yards, averag-ing 129.1 yards per game.
“I did alright,” said Kenyon.Kenyon, who was hurt in the game
against Rocky Mountain, so was very limited in the game against Highland. The job was left to junior running back, Karsten Niederer, who broke his jaw in the game.
With few options for running backs, the team turned to the quarterback and several receivers.
Junior wide receiver Montana Bilger was a key player in games against Capi-tal and Highland, averaging 11.5 yards per catch.
“We have a good group of players, and we’re a very good team,” said Bilger.
With a seasoned coach and group of dedicated football players, Borah is once again a powerhouse for football in the SIC.
“Borah is a great school,” said Corpus.
vs. Boise L 24-38vs. Centennial W 28-21vs. Meridian W 33-28vs. Mountain View W 35-21vs. Timberline W 31-21vs. Eagle W 34-21vs. Vallivue W 38-21vs. Capital L 34-35vs. Rocky Mountain W 27-17vs. Highland L 41-34
Football team claims SIC title, playoff berthFor the first time since the 1990s the team lands a spot in the playoffs, squaring off against Highland
Photo by Daxton Williams | [email protected] varsity football team rallies before their game against Rocky Mountain. This game determined the seeding for the playoffs as well as gave the team their SIC championship title.
Season wrap-up
By Daxton [email protected]
Boys SoccerAfter going undefeated this season
and taking second place in districts, the boys made a run for the playoffs. The team looked to become the second state champs for Borah in just two years after winning the state championship three years ago in the 2010-2011 season.
Senior forward Tyler Gilworth had his playoff run cut short due to a knee injury he’s been battling all season. “I tried playing with a torn MCL,” said Gilworth.
The playoffs were not easy for the Lions as they had three triple overtime games against Post Falls, Rocky Moun-tain, and Centennial, dropping the games against Post Falls and Centennial, and winning against Rocky Mountain.
“We gave them [Post Falls] the best game of their tournament, and shut
down the best striker in Idaho,” said Gilworth.
The Lions had tough games in the playoffs, and were all tired. “We all just shut down,” said Gilworth.
“[The season] went as good as it could’ve, due to injuries and circum-stances,” said Gilworth.
Cross CountryThe cross country team went through
a rebuilding year of running, according to senior Reuben Mulhern , as they had a young squad with little senior leader-ship. The young runners had it all up to them since the senior leadership gradu-ated last year. Next year has a glimpse of hope in it for the younger runners.
“We probably got a chance at making state next year,” said Mulhern. Mulhern said he hopes to help the team improve. “The main goal is to make state,” said Mulhern.
With this year in the books, runners
such as Mulhern are taking some time off, and planning on running next year during the summer at individual races.
“I’ll probably run during the summer, and check up on Borah’s team,” said Mulhern.
VolleyballUnder the direction of new coach,
Kaitlin Emanuel, the volleyball team finished its season ranked 5th in the district. Coach Emanuel thinks it was a successful one.
“This year, the Borah volleyball pro-gram was one program, and was super successful,” said Emanuel.
The girls fought hard in every match, according to Emanuel. The first year coach is starting volleyball open gyms, school camps, summer camps, and con-ditioning camps for the girls during the off season.
“As new coaches, we asked for hard work and dedication. The 37 girls in the
program did that day in and day out,” said Emanuel.
The first year health teacher and vol-leyball coach is trying to make her mark on Borah athletics. With the addition of the camps, she is getting ready for next year to improve Borah volleyball once again.
Swim TeamSwim team has reached the end of
another season, with some swimmers qualifying for the state tournament . Se-nior Joe Bu, Sara Rostron, Sophia Rupp, and junior David Basset qualified for the state tournament.
“The season went pretty well. We have a lot of sophomores and fresh-men,” said Bu, captain of the team. The team will have new captains next year as the current senior leadership will be gone, and that hole will need to be filled. Two-year swimmer Basset could be po-sitioned to take it over.
Fall sports wrap up seasons, compete in district and state tournaments
The Borah Senator 13Sports
By Savannah [email protected]
As winter approaches, the boys bas-ketball team prepares for a new season right off the heels of a 5A state champi-onship. Last year, the boys went nearly undefeated, and with three returning players to the varsity squad, the group looks to take another title.
“I think all of us are pretty excited to get started and play,” said junior Isaiah Wright, who will be in his third year on varsity. Tryouts were held Nov. 9, and the first game is against Kuna Nov. 27.
One concern of the team is the small gap between the end of the football season and the beginning of basketball season. The football season lasted quite longer than normal, as the team quali-fied for playoffs. This post-season left little time for students who participate in both sports to prepare for the basket-ball season.
Zak Studebaker, football and basket-ball player, said, “It may be awkward
at first, but, once we get into the feel of things, we’ll get our chemistry back.”
Last season the team featured mul-tiple starters over six feet tall. This year, those players are gone and the team will have to make up for the height dif-ference in other ways.
“You don’t necessarily have to be tall to play tall,” said counselor Cary Cada, coach of the basket-ball team.
The team expects to have a powerful defense. “I think our defense will be as good if not stronger,” said junior Nick Reed, a second year varsity member.
Reed also explained that the team will feature more “creators,” players that can create big plays. “I think we’ll have a lot of shooters and versatile players.”
The ultimate goal for the team is to make it into the state tournament and win the championship. “I think we have the talent and ability to go back-to-back state champions,” said Studebaker.
By Autumn [email protected]
Junior Kion Williams, wide receiver on the varsity football team, displayed his talents this year, racking up impres-sive statistics and catching the eyes of the crowd. At every football game, one could hear the Borah Rowdies chant “Ki-on, Ki-on, Ki-on” after a touchdown pass or long run. Williams will also run track and play basketball after the foot-ball season ends.
Q: How did you get started in football?A: My dad played in college and then he wanted me to play flag and Optimist. He was going to coach. He just told me to play it.
Q: How do you train?A: Just go to summer workouts. And just do stuff with the team--’cause I don’t have time with all my other sports.
Q: What other sports do you play?A: Basketball and I run track.
Q: How do you manage the
transition between sports?A: It’s all right. Just cardio is really the only problem because each sport has a different shape you have to be in. Coach-es help with the cardio, though just a lot of running.
Q: Do you like running?A: I hate running. I’ll be honest: it’s hor-rible.
Q: What gets you motivated to be a better player?A: My team and trying to help them get a win and get to the next level and play for college.
Q: What are some of your future goals?A: Hopefully get a scholarship and play in college and if I can make it to the big leagues.
Q: Who do you want to play for in college?A: I would like to play for Oregon or USC.
Q: Do you have any pregame rituals?A: Not really. I’ll wear my sweat shorts
and Oregon shirt and listen to the same songs, but that’s about it.
Q: So you don’t have anything weird that you do?A: No, but I should probably start though.
Q: What goes through your mind when you are on the field?A: As I am playing, really nothing. My body pretty much just does it. It is just before I start playing for some reason I get really nervous and really scared liked I have never done it before, which is kind of nerve racking.
Receptions: 48
Yards: 1,082
Average yards/game: 120.2
Long: 80
Touchdowns: 12
Q&A Junior Kion Williams stars on football field, basketball court
Photo by Jaynee Nielsen | [email protected]
Junior Kion Williams, wide receiver and defensive back on the varsity football team, racked up over a thousand receiv-ing yards this season, catching the eyes of spectators.
Regular season stats
Basketball teams gear up for fresh season, set high goalsBy Daxton [email protected]
As the Lions say goodbye to a coach, they welcome in a new one. Alyson Pin-cock, the former girls basketball head coach, stepped down from the position
as head coach last year. Econom-ics teacher Jason Willer is
the new girls head basket-ball coach. “We’re going to turn girls basketball around,” said Willer.
The Lions have had five straight years of losing re-
cords.“We are rebuilding this year.
Restarting the program. The girls are going to have to work a lot harder,” said Willer.
Junior Ashlyn Englehorn, selected for the varsity team, has some expecta-tions for the season.
“It’s gonna be a fun season, with a lot of hard work. We’re gonna go far,” said Englehorn.
According to the coach, the team is young this year, which in his eyes is a strength and weakness.
“We’re a young team, so we can learn a lot,” Willer said, “Our weakness is also that we’re young.”
The last time the girls won a state championship was in the 2000-2001 season under the coaching of already two-time state champion coach Jim Pankratz. Willer, with an optimistic attitude, wants to get back to those win-ning ways.
“Our goals for the year are to find our way into districts, and possibly into state,” said Willer.
The girls have yet to make a run at state in five years, a drought that Willer is looking to end. His goal for this year is to change the team.
“We have new expectations. Every-thing is going to be different,” said Willer.
Willer said he is excited to get the season going. “It’s gonna be a fun year. We’re restarting,” said Willer.
14 November 13, 2012Trends
By August [email protected]
Students at Borah choose to express themselves through fashion in sometimes odd manners. One stu-dent chooses to adorn her head with colorful 18 inch horns that scrape the ceiling while another attaches a cat tail to her pants. But some use dress to represent culture and religion.
Senior Bashayr Alotaibi dons an abaya and hijab to school every day. An abaya is a black robe-like dress and a hijab is a head covering worn in public by most Muslim women.
A large swath of black fabric covers the body and a headdress reveals only the eyes; most Muslim women dress this way in public.
Alotaibi and her family moved to America from Saudi Arabia looking for better education about three months ago.
Once she and her family were settled here, she said she had a hard time making friends. She said people looked at her strangely in the hallways because of the way she dresses.
Bridge counselor Matt Rutte said he thinks the way Muslim students at Borah dress affects them “no more than it affects any other student.”
Alotaibi has remained steadfast in her decision to dress traditionally.
She said she dresses this way to adhere to her reli-
gion, Islam. She said Muslims, followers of the Islam religion, believe that women have to cover their bodies in public, so they don’t attract anyone but their hus-bands.
Becky Woodland, Borah’s social worker said, “I think it’s great they’re willing to back up their reli-gious beliefs through their dress.”
She said she believes their dressing traditionally “helps connect them to their culture.”
Woodland also said she thinks that dressing the same way helps connect students like Alotaibi with their group of friends because they most likely share the same religion and culture. She said it “helps them identify with each other.”
Some students at Borah mix traditional clothing with Western dress.
They may wear Western clothing, like jeans and a sweater, except for a headdress or the other way around. Alotaibi said she believes that as long as peo-ple are comfortable with what they are wearing, then it’s fine.
Alotaibi came to America with most of her current clothes in her suitcase. She said if she wanted to buy new clothes, she would have to go all the way back to Saudi Arabia.
Although there are some shops in town that sell Muslim clothing, those shops only sell traditional, black abayas. Alotaibi said she prefers blue for her abayas.
Saudia Arabian expresses religion through fashion
By Brittany [email protected]
If you are looking for a cheap, easy, solution for a mocha or a pumpkin spice latte, then here’s an easy way to do so.
Pumpkin Spice LatteIngredients:
1. Milk (2 Cups)2. Canned Pumpkin (2 tablespoons)3. Sugar (2 tablespoons)4. Vanilla Extract (2 tablespoons)5. Pumpkin Pie Spice (_ teaspoons)6. 1-2 shots espresso (about _ cups of
espresso or _ cups of strong, brewed coffee)
Directions:1. Combine milk, pumpkin, and sugar in a saucepan2. Cook three items on medium heat3. Stir, until steaming4. Remove from heat5. Add vanilla and spice6. Move all mixed ingredients to blender7..Blend for 15 seconds, until foamy (If you don’t
have a blender, whisk ingredi-ents)
8. Pour mixture into cup/mug9. Add espresso on top and en-
joy!
MochaIngredients:
1. Fresh ground coffee beans, or instant coffee
2. Chocolate syrup, or chocolate drinking powder
3. Sugar (add to taste) 4. Ice (optional)5. Whipped Cream (optional)
Directions:1. Make however much coffee
you want2. After the coffee is finished,
pour into coffee cup/mug3. Stir coffee4. Heat milk on stove top/microwave5. Pour milk into coffee 6. Pour desired amount of chocolate syrup into cup7. Pour desired amount of sugar into cup8. Stir everything and sip up!
HOW TO Make a yummy homemade latte or mocha
Graphic by Savannah H
arrelson
Graphic by Savannah Harrelson | [email protected]
Hijab: A traditional scarf covering the head and sometimes the face.
Abaya: A loose robe covering the body head to toe
By Kate [email protected]
One Direction (1D) is quickly becoming the hottest boy band around, surpassing many oth-er boy bands and popular artists such as Justin Beiber, but also befriending them along the way.
The members recently released a new album “Take Me Home.” On popular sites like Tumblr and Facebook, people are commenting on how this new album is much better than the previous one, “Up All Night”.
On 1D’s new album they have a song called “Little Things” which Ed Sheeran actually wrote originally, when he was 17.
The band recently had an act at the Olympics, performing “What Makes You Beautiful” and surprising many fans.
The band is made up of five members—Lou-is Tomlinson, Zayne Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, and Harry Styles.
For more information see borahsenator.com
One Direction ‘One Thing’ the boys are doing seems to be putting them in the pop music spotlight
The Borah Senator 15Photo Essay
Swimmers make it to state tournament
Photos and text by Jaynee [email protected]
Many high schools competed in the State swim meet Nov. 2 at the Aquatic Center near Chinden Boulevard. Eleven Borah swim team members competed.
The team contended in seven events,
including five relays and two individual events.
Seniors Sara Rostron and Sophia Rupp swam in the 100 yard breaststroke. Ros-tron placed 27th and Rupp 39th in the preliminary rounds.
The boys 200 yard freestyle relay team, seniors Joe Bu and Ryan Tathwell,
who goes to the Vineyard Boise Co-Op, junior David Bassett, freshman Owen Greeley, made it to the finals.
The girls 200 yard medley relay team also made it to the finals. The team consists of sophomore Maggie Gilson, junior Erin Sandmeyer, as well as Ros-tron and Rupp.
(Top) Senior Sophia Rupp swims the but-terfly in the 200 yard medley relay with teammates; sophomore Gina Knight, junior Erin Sandmeyer, and senior Sara Rostron. (Above) The team hangs out before they compete in their events, listening to music, doing homework, or even sleeping. (Left) Swimmers from around the state warm up at the West Y before the events begin.
16 November 13, 2012Fun & Games
By August [email protected]
Does your significant other watch you sleep? Thirst for your blood? Can he leap and bound up trees like a spider mon-key? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you’re probably Bella Swan.
Bella, if you’re reading this, then shake the crust from your ears and listen up. Why Edward Cullen? Do you have a soft
spot for severely creepy guys?When someone tells you they’ve been
watching you sleep for the past few months, the normal reaction is to feel frightened, not flattered. You should have called the cops immediately, called your dad.
You also have to keep in mind that Edward is dead. Remember that next time you’re kissing that dead hunk of rotting flesh. Also keep in mind that it’s technically necrophilia.
Though I do understand your at-traction to him, when presented with a sparkly object, some girls just can’t help but fawn all over it. But remember this, Bella, while you’re canoodling with your vampire lover: he is a bloodsucking vampire and not a very big diamond.
What I don’t understand is your fasci-nation with Jacob Black. He is a werewolf and you’re a human. I understand you may be a dog lover but that term is not meant to be literal.
Beastiality is generally frowned upon in Forks, Wash. So get your act together and steer clear of that mutt before the town villagers come at you with torches and pitchforks.
So, please, consider someone nor-mal like Mike, that two dimensional character you described as a golden re-triever. He is the perfect combination for you: he has the dog-like characteris-tics you love and vacant, brown eyes to match his personality.
Bella, whatchyu thinkin’ guuuuurrl?
Bored in class? Try your hand at this Borah-themed mad libThere was a lion named (name) and he was the (adjective ending in-est) lion in the whole Borah pride. He was the captain of the (sport) team, and the (club) club. Every girl thought he was (adjective) and (adjective). He was the most (adjective ending in -est) guy in all the high schools . In the end, a Borah Lion can’t be beat.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.
Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much but the reception was brilliant!
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
Laugh it up
Riddle me this What travels on four limbs in the beginning of its life, two near the middle, and three at the end?
Directions: Each row, column and block must have numbers from 1 to 9 in them. No number can appear more than once in any row, column, or block. Level: Difficult
Happy ending or happy that it’s ending? “Breaking Dawn Part Two” is coming to theaters near you Nov. 16
