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Moving ForwardCedar Falls HIgh School had 187 students walk three laps around the track Wednesday

during their RCT time. Students are taking several steps to making sure they develop healthy habits while still in high school as the community kicks off its Blue Zone campaign. School lunches, classrooms,

late starts, parking. These is-sues have one thing in com-mon: they affect students. Stu-dents have a lot to say about these issues and others within the Cedar Falls School System. When a change is made, stu-dents rarely obtain a chance to speak up and voice their opin-ions. With so many different opinions and the best interest of the students in mind, the Cedar Falls school board re-cently came up with a way to get an inside look at the edu-cational experience in Cedar Falls through they the eyes of a typical student.

The school board wants to have a student ambassador at future meetings. This student ambassador could offer valu-able perspectives about what works and what doesn’t work.

CFHS Principal Dr. Rich Powers attends school board meetings. “I think their inten-tion is when issues are relevant to students, they want to hear that student voice,” Powers said. “What we’re looking for is somebody who’s reflective and can speak for a number of students and not just their own perspective.” Powers is looking mainly at teacher rec-ommendations when choosing the right student for the job. “How we select the first stu-dent may not be how we select future students because I think we’ll learn a lot this first time through,” Powers said.

Another issue currently in the school board spotlight is encouraging students to live healthier lifestyles. From Oct. 1 to Nov. 19, elementary stu-dents are challenged to exer-

cise for 50 miles during these 50 days. Each week they will turn in their totals from jog-ging, biking, running, walking or swimming.

Elementary school partici-pants receive a free T-shirt for participating. Older students are also welcome to participate in the challenge and receive a certificate for their efforts. Since Cedar Falls is a Blue Zone, this challenge is another effort to educate kids on exercise and being healthy. “I think we as a school district are very com-mitted to the Blue Zone effort. Essentially, the healthier we all are, the better for our commu-nity,” Powers said.

Besides the 50 miles in 50 days challenge, Cedar Falls High School has also been do-ing things to get kids moving. On Wednesday, CFHS students

and staff had the opportunity to join in a walk around the track at noon during their RCT time or release. Some teach-ers brought their classes out to participate.

“Iowa has an initiative to get everyone in Iowa healthier and it is the second annual year to do the walk. What they do is they pick a day and a time, so everyone is to walk three times around the track. Yesterday we had 187 kids on the track,” CFHS counselor Erin Gardner said.

With over 100 students participating, the effort made an impact. “There were some students who were out there eager to walk and some com-plained, but it was less than a mile and it was a beautiful day out,” Gardner said. Since this is the second year doing the

walk, there are hopes of mak-ing the walk annual. “I think they will probably plan on mak-ing this walk an annual thing. I think this helps teach everyone that it’s easy to walk,” Gardner said.

Student Senate Vice Presi-dent Sophie Perez participated in the walk and agreed that the 4th hour walk is an easy way to help encourage exercise, and she envisions even more par-ticipation in the future. “I think the walk should be annual. It makes student realize how easy it is to take a few minutes out of their day to go on a walk or get some kind of exercise in. I definitely think it was a good idea to host the walk, and my only suggestion would be more advertisement so that we could get the whole school to participate,” Perez said.

The school board is currently discuss-ing One to One programs and will devel-op action plans this spring. The current policy at the high school is Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD. The policy allows students to use computers if they have them. But the school will not buy one for each student.

“We are just starting to implement BYOD, so we do not have any data. I’m concerned that it may cause a greater gap between those that have and do not have, between the rich kids and poorer students, so we are monitoring this,” Su-perintendent Mike Wells said.

Senior Cody Brown is one of the students that takes advantage of the school’s BYOD program. “It’s easier be-cause I can do everything I need on my device. It saves me time compared to if I

had to use school computers. I also don’t have to worry about restrictions like when a computer is available,” Brown said.

NU students like junior Alissa Rychert come from a school that had a One to One program. The school provided half the students with Macbooks and the other half with iPads, providing students with much more technology than CFHS provides its students. “I don’t think it’s that much worse here because we’re not required to do anything on the com-puter. At NU we had to turn in all our assignments through technology, and here we turn in everything on paper, but if we had them here, I think it would be a good thing and beneficial to students,” Rychert said.

“We have some devices but not enough to provide all kids who need

them. We will be studying and discuss-ing one to one computers as well,” Wells said.

Having some of the students that need devices buy and bring their own poses a few issues. “If they’re provid-ing their own, I don’t think it will work, at least for our digital art classes because we have to use very expensive software that most people don’t have at home and can’t afford,” art teacher Lisa Klen-ske said.

Although science teacher Kenton Swartley already has access to a class-room set of computers provided by the district, he could still use more technol-ogy if provided. “I think as much as we can use the technology, the better. There are a lot of good resources available. Un-fortunately, not everyone has their own

device at all times to use, so it’s not as efficient as if everyone had their own be-cause I have to share my student com-puter set with other teachers,” Swartley said.

Despite the drawbacks of students having to bring their own devices, if they want to use them and the budget needed for the district to give them to students, One to One has the potential to be a beneficial program to students. “Computers allow for children to create, and if you have enough computers it al-lows each child to do so. One to one expands the learning day and allows students to learn 24/7. It also creates a level playing field for students of pov-erty,” Wells said.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

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NEWS2The Past

Images from CFHS building dedication in 1953

The PresentStudents, staff react to current CFHS building needs

Practice/Game Sites Parking Climate Control“It’s really inconvenient that the soccor team has to

go to Peet to practice, and I think that people would come out more to support us if our games were at the

school and not far away at the complex.”

“Parking at school is tough. If you get here around 7:45 or later, you have to park far away and walk a

long distance back to school, so it would be great if they expanded the parking lot. I also feel that teach-

ers should stop parking in our parking spots.”

“It’s wonderful how I get to spend the day in a place with heating and cooling. I don’t know how some teachers teach in the conditions they do [without heating and cooling]. I don’t think I could do it.”

Javella—Secretary Tracy

Duggan—Junior Briley

Herkelman—Senior Carissa

Junior Jack Sannes per-forms in the marching band at the Dome. The high school currently plays many of its games in off campus sites. Anna Love photo.

The parade for Taylor Morris runs the gauntlet among all the parked cars on Division Street earlier this year. Kayla Gardner photo.

With temperatures vary-ing greatly among all the classrooms, students have to be dressed for all possibilities. Hi-Line File Photo.

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The Future?District explores options for bringing facilities into 21st Century

HARWOOD By Staff Writer Amada

Number six in Iowa. That is the rank Cedar Falls High School received in comparison to more than 100 Iowa high schools according to US News and World Report. With such a high ranking and outstanding reputation, it seems unbelievable that students have to deal with daily problems caused by a poor facility. Some of these problems are even as basic as taking a semester final in a classroom with no air condition-ing. It didn’t take long after arriving in his new role as superintendent for Mike Wells to recognize problems with the current high school building.

“First, our staff/students deserve a quality learning environment that is comfortable to learn in. For example, rooms that are 100 degrees are not a good learning environment. Second, our science/math/technology labs are inadequate for the type of creation we expect and demand from our students. We do not have enough technology in our district and are limited by our re-sources. We have the best educators in Iowa and perhaps in the nation; they deserve much better, and I’m commit-ted to make sure we ask our community for such a facility. We have an oppor-

tunity to partner with higher education and to have community partnerships,” Wells said.

Wells said he feels that the most ef-fective way to solve the current prob-lems of the high school facility and enhance the general learning environ-ment involves constructing a new build-ing. “The cost of renovating the high school is $56 million dollars, which is an increase in our tax rate of $2.17. The cost of a new high school is $73 million which is an increase of $2.70,” Wells said.

He said there are some problems that a renovation cannot solve. “First, the flow of our building is poor. We will not be able to solve this issue by renovating. The high school was built in 1953 for 400 9th-12th grade students. Each time our enrollment increased, we added onto the building. As stu-dents, you know that the hallways are very crowded and getting to and from classes is a challenge,” Wells said.

CFHS principal Dr. Rich Powers also recognizes that a renovation cannot fix problems long-term and a new high school could provide much needed space and benefits. “Basically, a new

building on a much larger site would provide us with the much needed space to offer a comprehensive program on one campus that we currently cannot do. It is not a five-year patch for a so-lution; rather it is a way to finally solve many of the problems we continue to struggle with,” Powers said.

The space in the halls is not the only problem Wells sees. After explor-ing average high school campus sizes from other states, he’d like to increase the space that the high school covers. “We are landlocked on 17.5 acres. It is recommended that a school our size needs a minimum of 35 acres. How can we get that much land on our current site? We would have to enact eminent domain and take houses to the east of the high school. Can you imagine taking people’s homes for expansion? It would not be fair to those homeowners.”

When the high school was built in its current location in the fifties, not nearly as many students were driving to school, but, of course, this increase has been a problem on the CFHS campus for decades since.

“We have a problem with parking. The bottom line is that we have stu-

dents and staff that deserve a ‘World Class School.’ This is Cedar Falls, and our expectation for students and teach-ers is extremely high; we have the same expectation for our facilities. The expec-tation is to have the best high school in the nation, and our current facility will not allow us to do this,” Wells said.

Whether a renovation or a new school is decided on, the time to act is now. “We have had to put off this work for a number of years already. In about 2003 or 2004, a new building was considered at a cost of about $35 million. We were not able to fund that and many of the other pressing facility needs in the district at that time. That seems like a steal today as we look at nearly double of that. Interest rates may never be lower than they are today. Our students all deserve access to the best environment possible for learning and reasonable access to programs on cam-pus. The longer we wait the greater the need becomes; the cost will continue to increase and fewer students will have access to the full range of resources,” Powers said.

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ENTERTAINMENT4

The Silenced by James DeVita:“I want you to ask your-

selves something and re-ally think about it. If I were to take away everything about you that you think is you, who would you be? Because that’s what I’m going to do. I’m go-ing to kill whatever you think is you. There’s no room for you anymore. There’s only room for us.”

In this quick-paced and deliberately written dysto-pian book, The Silenced, au-thor James DeVita presents a nightmare-giving plot of a totalitarian land governed by the “Protectorate” who seek to eliminate all traces of individu-ality in society. Freedoms are stolen from people on mere whim, and laws are changed randomly to suit the wishes of the cruel government that wants complete control. The school work of students is strictly enforced and controlled by state-appointed instructors and cameras are placed in peo-ple’s homes to watch their ev-ery move. In the midst of it all is 16-year old Marena who fights every day for a way to resist. Along with her best friend Dex, they create The White Rose, a group that will undermine the government’s iron fist that is slowly crushing their lives.

Reading through the cliff-hangers on every page, this book will take you through the struggle to take back your free-dom and save the people from a cruel life.

The White Rose WILL NOT be silent!

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood:Margaret Atwood incor-

porates real world events and puts a fantasy finish to them in the world-moving book of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Using traditional customs and creating this dystopian world where women have no rights to speak or think freely, Atwood describes what life would be like after a war that destroys almost everything — putting awareness to women to remember how important their freedoms are today and how easily stolen they can be-

come. In a place once known as

the United States, Gilead has taken over as the government of a dying population. Des-perate to get rid of the fast shrinking birth rate, the lead-ers of Gilead have created the Handmaids. Held up in high security prison-like communi-ties, women are used only for reproductive purposes. With only one high rank male official and their wives who are unable to bear children, the Hand-maids are forced to be the vessels for their Commander. If they are unable to bear a child, they are shunned and known as non-women.

Through Atwood’s inspiring words, the book puts awareness into the dangers of gender re-lations, ecological damage and the dangers of mixing religion and government. It touches on the struggle for an ordinary person who was stripped of life as she knew it, to survive a life that has forced her to become an object, not a person.

1984 by George Orwell:War is Peace. Freedom is

Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.In the most well known and

referenced to book in it’s gener-ation, 1984 is the greatest dys-topian book of all time. Written by George Orwell who creates a modern classic of a place that incorporates an imaginary world that has convinced its people that the wrong thing is the right thing. Taking control over citizens’ thoughts, actions and what they say, Big Brother is the biggest and baddest since Hitler himself.

From the first page of this masterpiece, Orwell describes the life of Winston Smith who struggles every day to not show resistance to the super-state of Oceania. With cameras always watching him and the things he does, there is little room for Winston to make mis-takes. Once he meets a woman who hates Big Brother as much as him, they take the danger-ous action of escape from their controlled life to be together.

Orwell will take you through a rollercoaster of emotions as he adds the suspense, control-

ling environment and horrid leader to the beautifully written pages of 1984.

The Maze Runner by James DashnerThe Maze Runner is a teen

science fiction novel where the characters come alive on every page. Author James Dashner writes in a way that makes his readers feel the characters’ pain, their yearning to escape and their fear of the unknown.

The story begins with a boy named Thomas who wakes up with his world completely turned around. Forgetting the life he knew, he joins boys like him in the Glade, a place en-closed by stone walls and bor-dered on one side by a massive maze. Some of the boys are known as maze runners or ex-plorers of the uncharted lands of the maze. With Thomas’ urge to escape from this living hell, he searches day and night for a way out and becomes a runner. But when a mysterious girl appears sending the mes-sage that everything is about to change, the need to survive becomes a life and death mat-ter.

Join the maze runners in the heart-racing great dysto-pian novel that you don’t want to miss out on.

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyBrave New World opens

in London, nearly six hundred

years in the future . Human life has been almost entirely indus-trialized, and it is controlled by a few people at the top of a World State, the government of this dystopian world.

Author Aldous Huxley has brought together a place where humans are genetically bred to passively serve a ruling order in his masterpiece novel. This dystopian future offers many pleasures, while manipulating the people into mind-numbing dependence. Huxley explores the evils of a seemingly satis-fied and successful society, be-cause that stability is only de-rived from the loss of freedom and personal responsibility. None of the people challenge the caste system, believing they all work together for the common good.

Part of what has made this classic so controversial is the very thing that has made it so successful. We want to believe that technology has the power to save us, but Huxley shows the dangers in it as well.

This book has been enter-taining readers for generations, and it remains remarkably rele-vant to this day as both a warn-ing to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertain-ment for everyone.

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IZER By Staff Writer Karly

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Not many people can say they’ve written and published a book in high school, but junior Kelli Dekutowski can. She had published an E-book, which can be put on a Kindle, called Civilization Dying. De-kutowski’s book is actually six short stories revolving around one main event.

Before actually writng her book, Dekutowski brain-stormed for a while; thinking about the endless possibilities of plots she could use to start creating her stories, she decid-ed that the genre of her book would be science fiction. “The book is about an alternate real-ity in the near future where an apocalypse occurs as a result of nuclear warfare, and the book, after giving a general overlook in the first story, then follows individual lives in the aftermath of the tragedies,” Dekutowski said.

Dekutowski knew that at-tempting to re-write history could go bad, so she decided to travel into the future and create her six short stories from there. “I had first thought about what would happen if the Cuban Missile Crisis had

On July 13 this summer, cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey vanished after riding bikes near Meyers Lake in Evansdale, Iowa. The two girls are still missing, but the town of Evansdale is not giving up hope.

The community of Evans-dale continues to show sup-port for the girls by building a shrine for the girls by Mey-ers Lake. There are candles, stuffed animals and pictures of the girls by the lake. Many people wear pink T shirts with pictures of Elizabeth and Lyric. Pink ribbons are tied up every-where throughout the town in honor of the girls. They remind people that the search is not over and there is still hope.

Sarah Staebell, an Evans-dale local who owns the store Cobblestone Creek is close friends with the Collins family. She sell bracelets that have the girls names on them are sold in her store, and she also put up a giant sign with the girls’ faces and names in front of her business.

Sami Charley, a senior at CFHS and daughter of Stae-bell, babysat for Elizabeth and her siblings Amber, Callie and brother Kelly. “The Collins are practically a second family to me, and my family will do any-thing for them. They know they can always come to us. We have been with them 100 per-

cent,” Charley said.She says she has seen sup-

port in the Cedar Falls commu-nity and has been spreading awareness at the high school in every way she can. “I have seen a lot students and teachers wearing bracelets and T shirts. I encourage people to ask me if they want a bracelet. All of the proceeds go to the family, whatever it takes to bring the girls home,” Charley said.

Drew and Heather Collins, parents of Elizabeth, have been spreading the word in every way they can. “Drew and I have continued to spread awareness about the girls by doing any kind of fair or event we can to get the word out. We also are going to conferences and speaking about missing and exploited children,” Heather Collins said.

Heather and Drew have seen the community of Evans-dale come together and spread awareness about the girls since day one. “I see the community supporting us by buying pink shirts, bracelets and buttons. There are pink ribbons everywhere, and their cars are decorated for the girls. They show support by all the prayers I continuously get on a daily basis. I get messages on Facebook that they’re sup-porting us, and that they are praying for the girls to return home safe and soon,” Heather

Collins said.Heather has been using so-

cial media to get the word out as well. “I think Facebook is a good tool because it also helps get the word out. I constantly post things about the girls. I also post something to whom-ever has taken them in case they might be on Facebook,” Heather Collins said.

Heather and Drew have been drawing attention to the Cousins Law petition. Charley has been working to get the

message out about the peti-tion for this law at the high school. “I encourage everyone to sign and look up the Cous-ins Law petition. The petition calls on the Iowa lawmakers to change the Amber Alert to all missing persons cases, even if they don’t have a suspect in the case. It’s aimed to get the word out faster a few hours after the child goes missing,” Charley said.

Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey have not re-

turned home yet, but the fami-lies and community of Evans-dale will not give up hope. Just walking through Evansdale, one sees support for the girls around every corner. “Every-one is doing anything imagin-able to bring the girls home,” Charley said. “I just want ev-eryone to not give up and just keep praying every day. Every prayer counts. We’re not giv-ing up.”

NICKERSON By Staff Writer Lauren

Senior Sami Charley and her family are reminding the local communities that Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey are still missing.

Lauren Nickerson Photo

Search continues for missing Evansdale girls

Student turns honors English assignment into E-book

gone awry, and then I figured it would be easier to apply it to modern day society and go from into the near future rather than try to rewrite the past; even a past so recent as the 1960s,” she said.

While it may take others quite some time to pull ideas and plot lines, it didn’t take Dekutowski longer than a se-mester setting up her book, mainly because this what she did for her honors English se-mester project last year. “The

actual writing process took me a month. The planning, charac-ter developments and the plot developments took a good se-mester.”

Despite the trials and tribu-lations that comes along with writing, Dekutowski said she enjoys just about everything about it that writing has to of-fer. She knows what people want to read, and Dekutowski knows that she’s got to keep the readers alert throughout the book so they won’t set it KEMP

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down. “I think the most difficult part was trying to make it real, that people would be able to relate to these characters and these situations and be able to understand what was going on.”

Dekutowski plans to con-tinue with her writing, and she also would like to publish another book, but this time a paperback. Continuing to use the science fiction genre, Dekutowski said she enjoys creating futuristic story plots. “I’m working on a novel right now for ALPHA (the talented and gifted program at the high school), which will be a science fiction time traveling story in-volving Jack the Ripper and the end of the universe. I hope to publish that around April and May, hopefully in paperback,” Dekutowski said.

“I’m working on a novel right now for ALPHA, which will be a science fiction time traveling story involving Jack the Ripper and the end of the universe.”

Author KelliDEKUTOWSKI

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Opinion6Our View

Have you seen the red and white “No Wiggins” signs across town? David Wiggins is an Iowa Supreme Court Justice up for retention this year. Judg-es are appointed, not elected, but they face periodic reten-tion votes to keep their spots on the bench. This year there is a campaign to oust Wiggins.

He was one of seven Iowa supreme court justices who ruled in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in 2009 in the Varum v. Brien case. The unanimous decision among the justices proves that they firmly believed banning same-sex marriage was against the Constitution.

In 2010, Iowa voters cast out three of the seven judges when they were up for retention two years ago. Now, Wiggins is the only judge up for retention and he should keep his robe.

Getting rid of a judge based on one court ruling challenges everything about America’s ju-dicial system. Judges deliver rulings directly by interpret-ing the Constitution. Judges should not have to make deci-sions with pressures on them from the public. The Iowa judges could ultimately make altered rulings if they intend to hold on to their position and please the public at the same

time. This is not right or just. Former Republican presi-

dential candidate Rick Santo-rum visited Iowa Monday to show his support of the “No Wiggins” bus tour making its way across the state. The spon-sors of the tour include The Family Leader, CatholicVote.org and the National Organiza-tion for Marriage. The bus was boarded near the state capital while evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats rallied for a re-peat of the 2010 vote.

Another bus tour is stop-ping in the same locations, just trailing the anti-Iowa-judge one. Justice Not Politics is in-forming citizens about voting yes to Iowa judges.

Two years ago conserva-tive groups raised $1 million on political campaigns against Iowa Supreme Court Chief Jus-tice Marsha Ternus and justices Michael Streit and David Baker. These judges, like Wiggins, chose not to campaign. Their goal was to avoid dragging the judiciary into politics.

Vote yes to Iowa judges. Wiggins has been making court rulings at the Supreme Court level for nine years. He should not be punished for upholding the law, even if same-sex mar-riage is not popular with the majority of the population.

Vote Yes to Iowa Judges

You stop listening to indie be-cause Taylor Swift and Lil Wayne are where it’s at. You switch over from the movie you’ve never heard of because Pretty Little Liars is on, and you can’t be out of the loop. By doing this you are changing what goes into your mind. Trading some-thing unique for something m a i n s t r e a m makes your mind become mainstream. It’s difficult to have origi-nal thoughts when you’re putting the same thing into your head as everyone else. Everyone think-ing alike means no diversity and no new ideas. No new ideas means no questioning the wrongs in the high school society, which means no change.

When people are trying to fit that per-fect mold of what’s already been established, they are throwing away their own selves, person-alities, quirks, all of the beauty that composes their originality. People strive to fit the perfect mold, and if they don’t, they’re outsiders.

Think, you’re never going to see a goth in the front row of the student section. Even though they may want to be there, they are scared of the judgement. People would be talking. Why are they here? They’re taking one of “our” spots. Someone make them leave, etc. It sounds harsh, but it’s completely true. The outsid-ers have it in their minds that they aren’t good enough to be there, and they don’t belong there. The in-group agrees with them; in their mindset the out-siders are inferior.

It all comes down to the so-cial ladder of high school and the fight to be on top. The way that people reach the top isn’t by bettering themselves or work-ing their way up, but by tearing people down. So, in the end, all you are left with is a shorter,

demoralized ladder. People push out the weird, the quirky, the original and create social outcasts. Being a social out-cast can lead to social (mental) problems: having trouble com-municating with others because of the fear of being judged in everything you say or do. Do-ing anything different leads to

judgement. Talking, dressing, walking — anything that can be noticed is judged. Kids can feel so unloved, unaccepted, unappreciated that they feel the need to harm themselves, starve themselves or even take their own lives. And the other kids who cause these feelings don’t think twice, let alone once, about the consequences of how they are acting.

Why do people higher on the social ladder attack those lower than them? Why do people lower on the social lad-der attack those higher than them? We can always take the typical response of “they are just so bored with their own average lives that they have to get into everyone else’s.” Or is it something more? They may be feeling insecure about how they are living their own lives and decisions they aren’t proud of. They find faults in others to make their own bad deci-sions seem better in their own minds. If someone wants what someone else has, jealousy can convince them to tear that person down. It doesn’t matter

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if they’re skinnier, have more friends or are dating the girl/boy you’ve been crushing on since seventh grade because that person’s nose is too big, or that person’s hair is too frizzy. It sounds so conceited and idiotic, but everyone has done it or has heard someone else do it. Like the fact that

they have a physical flaw will make that girl/boy dump them and come crawling to you.

The unoriginal-ity of people causes them to bully and tar-get people who don’t fit into whatever mold they perceive is right. From clothing choice to the latest rumor, what you do on the weekends, who you

spend time with, people will judge every aspect and spread around whatever faults they see. The one

thing people need to realize is that proving you are a good person means not showing evil heartedness while talk-ing about others, but show-ing compassion towards their feelings and situations in life. You never know whose grandma just died, whose entire paycheck goes towards their parent’s house payment or who is struggling with an eating disorder. You can’t tell who is strong enough to fight through the harsh words and who doesn’t have the strength anymore — who has just had enough.

As one, we must fight this. Stand up for the outsider. We need to engrave it into our minds that it doesn’t matter who is attractive, who is ath-letic, who is unattractive and who is awkward. No one is better than anyone else. Why not embrace the fact that we are all beautifully different.

Narrow acceptance, blind to originality

When people are trying to fit that perfect mold of

what’s already been estab-lished they are throwing away their own self, per-sonality, quirks, all of the beauty that composes one’s originality.

—Senior Anna Love

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Letter to the Editor:

LOVE By Senior Anna

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Kemp By Staff Writer Maddie

DeinesState golfer Jared

“I was out there trying to put a low number on the board and hoping for the best.”

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The Tiger football team has picked up 1,538 yards on the ground this season. Se-nior offensive guard Hayden Shea has played a pivotal role in the ground game.

Who do you give cred-it to for the success this year?

The coaching does a great job week-in and week-out putting together a game plan that works. [Offensive line coach] Ken Kolthoff knows when to call the right plays.

How has it been adjust-ing to a new center?

It’s not that different then last year. This year I’m mak-ing the pass protection calls which is new for me. I had to learn them because I was a candidate for the center spot.

What is your quest?For the Holy Grail.

Hayden SheaFootball

Junior Jared Deines quali-fied for the Class 4A state golf tournament in Polk City by scor-ing a 75 at Districts on Oct. 1 at Elmcrest Country Club; howev-er, he did not place at the State tournament last weekend.

In the chilly weather at the state tournament in Polk City, he shot an 84 in his first round and a 90 in his second round for a total of 174. The medalist at State was sophomore Mat-thew Walker from Ottumwa who shot a 141.

To stay in the individual playoff hunt after Districts, he kept his practice the same, just focussing more on a few key things preparing for State. “I went out to the golf course ev-ery day after school and worked on both the putting and driving range. This wasn’t anything dif-ferent. The only thing was that I didn’t have the team with me to practice with.”

With scores changing con-

stantly and not knowing exactly what a good qualifying score would be, Deines stayed p o s i -t i v e a n d played h i s b e s t , h o p -i n g that he c o u l d g e t a low s c o r e during the qualifying round. “In Districts you don’t know what score is going to qualify you for State, so I was out there trying to put a low number on the board and hoping for the best.”

Deines said he knew what he wanted to achieve going into State. “My goals going into

State were to put two scores in the 70s on the board; however,

I didn’t know what to ex-pect from the course a n d have not played in that kind of weath-er for a while.”

A l -t h o u g h the condi-tions were

tough and the stakes were high, Deines had the mentality to get back up and keep moving forward. “When I got into a bind out on the course, I just tried to stay positive. I tried to keep a smile on my face at all times.”

Participating in State is a great opportunity for Deines because he is able to see some

of the best golfers in Class 4A and see how they play, but also Deines said he was able to compare himself to them and possibly change or add things that might work for him.

Although not pleased with his performance, Deines knows that there will be next year to qualify. Dedicating his practice time to keep improving for an-other shot next year to be able to qualify for State.

Deines said senior captain Alec Braun has also made a sig-nificant impact on him and the team’s performance through-out the season. “I was very dis-appointed in my performance this year. It was very hard to stay positive and all through-out it was a struggle. However there’s always next year.”

Jared Deines shoots 174 at State Golf Tournament

Football (7-0)Beat Dbq. Wahlert 35-0

Next up: Cedar Rapids Xavier on Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

homeVolleyball (22-8)

Beat Dbq. Wahlert 3-1Next up: CR Washington

on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. away Women’s CCNext up: Divisional

on Oct. 11 at 3:30 p.m. at Dbq. Soccer Complex

Men’s CCNext up: Divisional

on Oct. 11 at 3:30 p.m. at Dbq. Soccer ComplexWomen’s Swimming

Next up: MVC Diving Cham-pionships

on Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. at Cedar Rapids Washington

T i g e r sActionin

Quarterback Brayden Longnecker scans the field before finding Ike Boettger for a touchdown (top right). With the help of his offensive line, Longneck-er finds his way into the endzone for another touch-down (bottom right). Boettger fights off a band of tacklers (top).

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Anna Love photos

Tigers defeat Dubuque Wahlert 35-0 en route to Homecoming victory

Wednesday Oct. 9, 2012 HI-LINETiger

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CAPTURED8HomecomingHi-Lights

Down the middle, Ann Fineup and Raud Kashef (with Ike Boettger, Evan Fairbanks and Lindsey Davis in the backgronds) react to assuming their roles as queen and king at the

homecoming coronation ceremony on Thursday night at the auditorium. Christina Bram-mer photos.

In the right column, seniors Miranda Powell and Sam Speltz and sophomores Jarrett McFarlane, Daniel Wilkens, Alex Weidenbacher and Ali al-Mabuk all showed their spirit

on the What Not to Wear dress up day on Wednesday of last week during homecoming.

Starting at top, sophomore Nick Von-derhaar, business teacher Julie Cuvelier and junior Joel Brich dress warm as they

enjoy the free grill out provide once again by the CFHS neighbors at First Christian

Church. At the bottom, junior Maddie Neibert and sophomore Agatha Fenench

work on the final details of the makeup before peforming with the dance team at

the homecoming game on Friday.

Anna Love Photo

Avery Sheehan PhotoKayla Gardner Photo

Christina Brammer Photo

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