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hall talk“Chill. You’re going to rip my button off.” – Sophomore“Only you can make markers perverted.” – Sophomore“We’ve got that chee-tah fever.” –Junior
by the numbers•An average of 110 million roses are sold in a three day period surrounding Valentine’s Day.
• 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged in the U.S. each year.
• 36 million heart shaped boxes of chocolate are sold on Valentine’s Day
• Jan. 16 - 17 – Mar- tin Luther King Day/Student Holi- day• Feb. 2 – Ground- hog Day• Feb. 14 – Valen- tine’s Day • Feb. 20 – Student Holiday
and it said if ‘you like that book then you might like this one’ and I was like ‘Yeah, I think I might.’”
The semester in review
The Black
Hole is back
see page 15
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Virtual enterprise competes with others in realitywaves of praise | Holding the grand opening ribbon, the Virtual Enterprise class presents their simu-lated company, Panther Shore. The class learned not only what being in business incorporates but how to budget their personal finances. Christian Bossert, Dillon Karnes, Felicia Kaye and Yohan Lee participated in the Business Plan Competition Dec. 5 and placed fourth in the state. “This is an im-pressive accomplishment,” business educator and FBLA co-advisor Melissa Gore said. If you think this class would interest you, visit Gore to find out more. [Photo by Kaeli Weeks]
working on a hunch | Searching for the answers to the provided clues, sopho-mores Lexie Copeland and Casey Fleck participate in the Mystery Din-ner Dec. 7 in the Media Center. The event was catered and prizes were awarded to the winning teams. All who attended were asked to bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the less fortunate. [Photo by Martha Herring]
att ention, att ention | Leading the group, Command-ing Officer Zach Norris guides the team through their routine. NJROTC was inspected in the gym
Dec. 13 by a commander in the Navy who evaluated the NJROTC on multiple demonstrations, behavior
and dress. NJROTC is a class that focuses on honor, courage and commitment. They wear their uniforms
every Wednesday for inspection and are able to count the class as their physical education credit. Students in NJROTC create a tight bond with each
other because they spend so much time together in class, practicing extracurricular drills after school,
and having shoe shining parties the night before drill meets. “We’re high school military. In the
military you form brotherhoods and sisterhoods and in high school you make best friends,” Norris said.
[Photo by Emily Schassler]
Time for another inspectionclean up crew | Displaying
the plaque the Naval Junior Reserve Officers
Training Corps (NJROTC) received for tree plant-ing and cleanup at the
Carolina Forest ball- fields on International
Drive Oct. 22 are Supply Officer Lyndsey Osborn,
Commanding Officer Zach Norris and Op-
erations Officer Ashley Papion. NJROTC also
cleaned up both Ocean Bay Elementary School and Ocean Bay Middle School grounds as well
as the Academy for Arts, Sciences and Tech-
nology. NJROTC also frequently picks up litter
along Postal Way. [Photo by Lexi Lutsky]
by lexi lutskylutskynews editor
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For the longest time, she believed he didn’t do anything wrong.
She thought it was all her fault, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right. She may have blamed her-self, but he was the one who chose to rape her.
Melissa* was in eighth grade when she was raped by her 17-year-old teammate. They were both part of a close-knit team.
“One day I was at home by myself and was bored so I texted him to see if he wanted to come over and hang out,” Me-lissa said. “I just thought we were going to chill and watch TV. I never expected him to act like he did.”
After he raped her, he just walked out the front door telling her that she wanted it and that it wasn’t rape.
“Rapists usually say things like he did in order to gain more control over you,” Melissa said. “Rape is all about power. After I was raped, I felt powerless and confused.”
Melissa chose not to tell anyone for more than a year and didn’t tell her par-ents or the police until recently.
“I didn’t know it was even considered rape until I chose to talk to my counselor about it,” Melissa said. “There was no in-tercourse, but he did things I didn’t want him to and was forceful,” Melissa said.
After telling her counselor, Melissa was told she had to tell her parents and make a police report.
“A lot of times survivors fi nd making the police report cathartic. I didn’t,” Me-lissa said. “I was forced to make the re-port. My choices were either make the re-port myself or my counselor would make the report and have to turn over all of my records.”
Melissa and her mother went to the Horry County Police Department about two years after the rape occurred. Melissa made her statement with the report and gave the police the perpetrator’s contact information.
Because of a lack of evidence and a “she-said-he-said” type of case, Melissa’s rapist has never and will never be arrested or spend time in jail.
“It always bothered me that he did such a horrible thing to me and didn’t get in trouble until my dad pointed out that ‘God’ll get ‘im someday,” Melissa said.
Shortly after making the report Me-lissa experienced a wide range of emo-
tions, much like the rape had occurred more recently. That is when she was di-agnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Dis-order (PTSD).
“I used to think of PTSD really only affecting soldiers,” Melissa said.
However, throughout her ordeal, Me-lissa said she maintained her sense of hu-mor.
“When working through a trauma, I believe it is important to loosen up a bit and relax when you can. Having an ele-vated stress level is not going to help your cause at all,” she said.
Melissa isn’t focused on just her ordeal. She is fi ghting to assist others as well.
“My goals: well, fi rst and foremost is to get through high school,” she said. “I fi gure while I’m here I can try to stop jokes about rape and educate people on how real rape is. I know jokes like ‘rape is just surprise sex’ and anything of the kind makes me feel uncomfortable.
“I don’t see why it should be acceptable to joke about something that ruins lives every day. I guarantee that you wouldn’t fi nd it funny if you were a rape survivor. Yeah, I know, ‘it would never happen to you.’ But it can. You can be raped.”
* Name changed to protect the privacy of the survivor.
bylexi lutskylutsky
news editor
1 out of 6 males will be sexually assaulted in his lifetime.
93 percent of victims knew their attacker before the incident.
15 of 16 rapists will never spend a day in jail.
60 percent of sexual assaults are not reported to the police.
1 out of 4 females will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.
Her life changed with just one instance
Rape forces survivors on roller coaster of emotions
q &a
What to do if it happens•Don’t shower, change clothes or cleanse in any way.•Contact the local police station to make a report.•Go to the emergency room to receive medical attention and have evidence collected. •Call the Rape Crisis Center for emotional or legal help.
How to help friends or family•Don’t ask the victim questions that place the blame on him or her.•Listen without making judgements.•Don’t force them to make physical contract or avoid it.• Encourage them to embrace power.•Be patient and compassionate. www.victimtosurvivor.org
Q: Who does the RCC help?A: We help anyone who needs sup-port after a trauma has occurred. It can be the survivor or those close to the survivor who need help in under-standing what is going on and how to help their loved one.Q: What services does the RCC of-fer?A: We offer individual and group counseling, hospital accompaniment, legal and personal advocacy and the 24-hour crisis line.Q: What does the RCC charge for their services?A: All services are at no cost to clients. We are 100 percent grant funded.Q: What feelings do most survivors experience after being raped?A: A sense of shame, self-blame, guilt, depression, anxiety, night-mares, fl ashbacks and a fear of tell-ing others and not being supported.Q: Why is it important to report the rape to the police?A: Reporting it can help identify someone as a repeat offender and more likely the perpetrator will be charged and go to court. It can be empowering to a survivor to take the step of “outing” a perpetrator as a rapist.Rape Crisis Center MB (843) 448- 318024 Hour Crisis Line (843) 448-7273Horry County Police Department (843) 915-5350
Jacquie Campman,Rape Crisis Center
Counselor
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prowlerprowlereditorial/opinion55Young votes make a difference
With the presidential election less than a year away, the 598 current students who will be
18 by then should begin to research the candidates, establish an idea of whom they plan to vote for and register to vote as soon as possible.
Numerous issues in the government directly affect the nation’s youth, such as funding for public schools and employ-ment. However, some politicians consider young people irrelevant to the political process. They ignore young people and will continue to do so until more of the youth start to show up on Election Day.
However, more young people have be-
gun to vote. In the 2008 presidential elec-tion, 23 million young people voted and made history. More than 15 million young people voted for Barak Obama, making it the second largest youth voter turnout in American history next to the election of 1972, the fi rst election 18 year olds were allowed to vote in because of the 26th Amendent. An estimated 24 percent of all young people voted in the midterm elec-tions in 2010.
To vote in the presidential election one must be 18 years or older by Nov. 6. How-ever, one must register to vote by Oct. 7.One can register at any library, Cham-ber of Commerce, Department of Motor Vehicle offi ce, health department or at the Voters’ Registration and Election offi ce at 1515 4th Avenue in Conway.
One can also register by mail. To re-ceive a form to register by mail, visit
http://www.horrycounty.org/depts/gen-gov/registration.asp, print out the form, fi ll it out and send it in as soon as pos-sible.
Students who will not be of age on Election Day can still be a part of the voting process. Those 16 or older can volunteer as poll workers. To download the PDF version of an application to be a poll worker, visit horrycounty.org, click on departments, then voting registration and elections, then poll worker applica-tion. Print the application, fi ll it out and send it in.
Although many teenagers do not think that their vote can make a difference, if the 598 students who will be 18 on Election Day vote along with the large amount of young people who voted in the last presi-dential election, it could, in fact, make a difference.
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I learned much from unimportant girls
I was born just like every other guy, and I can make a complete fool out of myself
just like every other guy. And I’ve met some crazy people in my
life. For example:Ivy: I was 7. She was 8. I had the hugest
little kid crush on her but, oh, she was too good for me, but that’s OK because I sure showed her that with a few cousins and a bag of water balloons, you could knock anyone off her self proclaimed mountain no matter how gigantic it may be.
But, man, she sure showed me. I learned that day that her dagger-like nails moved extraordinarily faster than some little water balloon could leave my hand. After she was done, I was pretty much in a million shredded pieces.
But, man, her mother sure showed her, grabbed her by the ear and threw her in the car; it was a pretty good day.
There was also Morgan, pretty little thing, but a bit on the bossy side. She had told her friends that she thought I was cute so I went home and started making wedding plans. When I informed her of the arrangements, she laughed in my face and told me to hit the road.
But, man, karma sure showed her. She turned about with an obnoxious smile on her face just to step in a divot and twist her ankle. Yep, it was a pretty good day.
But, oh, my personal favorite would have to be Vivian. Quite a card she was. We were preteens in love and nothing could have possibly gone wrong.
But, man, she sure showed me how wrong that was.
I realized it when I saw little Ms. Cra-zy V connect lip wise with a person who wasn’t me or anything even close to me.
But, man, I sure showed her.She thought she had broken me and
left me for the janitors to clean up. But to her surprise, I didn’t play her game. I had extinguished her fl ames completely.
In all honesty, I don’t even know the defi nition of love, let alone the responsi-bilities of it. And unimportant people like Ivy, Morgan and Vivian left barely a mark on me, and what I learned from them was just how little they affected me.
Yep, this has been a pretty fantastic life.
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the presentthe presentfuture to escape
bydylan fowlerfowler
staff writer
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Rhodes prepares for the Plunge
Goosebumps, numb limbs and chatter-ing teeth – it’s almost time for the Polar Plunge.
Offi cer Marcus Rhodes, former CFHS SRO, got CFHS involved in the Polar Plunge seven years ago.
He fi rst heard about it at the Law En-forcement Torch Run Conference and thought it would be a great way to get the community involved.
“Each person is on this earth to make a contribution to others,” Rhodes said. “The Polar Plunge is one way to learn to give back. It’s not hard, it is crazy fun, but most importantly it makes a statement about our understanding of what we can do for others.
“Suppose a new plunger raises $50 and endures the cold water for a minute
of so. We take away from that a memory, a few goose bumps, bragging rights and a T-shirt. Something else also happens.
“A Special Olympics athlete has the opportunity to train and compete in a sports event that would not otherwise be possible. These competitions are a time where we celebrate their abilities, not segregate them because of their disability. We have the opportunity to embrace the best they have to offer and enjoy their ac-complishments where we are more alike than different.
“Special Olympics athletes are enthu-siastic and compassionate. They smile bigger and hug better than most of us.”
In addition to all of this, there’s even more reason to participate. Socastee High School has either beaten us or been close in the amount of money raised. Over the years we have developed a healthy com-petition with them and need to win the
trophy back for most money raised.Even though Rhodes is no longer at
CFHS, he still will compete with us to get the trophy back.
“In my chest beats the heart of a Pan-ther,” Rhodes said.
Last year, CFHS raised more than $17,000 with 85 participants. The money raised for the Polar Plunge goes straight to the Special Olympics programs.
“Truly, our support makes the games possible year after year,” Rhodes said. “Participating in the Polar Plunge allows us to create the opportunities to move individuals with intellectual disabilities off of the bleachers and onto the playing fi eld. Not only is it such an opportunity, a rewarding thing to do – it’s the right thing to do.
“You will have to come and experi-ence a Special Olympics games event for yourself to really understand.”
by haley loydloydfeatures writer
how to getinvolvedinvolved
warm hearts | After coming out of the water, Socastee SRO Eric Karney, for-mer CFHS SRO Marcus Rhodes and anchorman Ed Piotrowski, huddle to keep warm.“Sharing smiles and goose bumps with such a great group of friends who care is the best part,” Rhodes said. [Photo courtesy of Marcus Rhodes]
posin’ at the plunge | At last year’s Polar Plunge the Carolina Forest group assembles in front of the Polar Plunge banner moments before running into the 42 degree water. There were 85 participants last year and they raised $17,000. [Photo courtesy of Strawbridge Studios]
Time to PLunge
CF plungers aim to take trophy back from Socastee High
• Visit www.fi rstgiving.com/ so-sc• Once you have made your First Giving account, ask people to donate to you through the Internet, or go door to door to your neigh- bors, family and friends.• Email family and friends that live out of town with the website so that they can also donate.• Next go to http://www. polarplungesc.com and click form.• Print the info sheet, regis- tration form and the waiv- er and complete. • The Plunge is Saturday Feb. 5 at Springmaid Pier. You must raise at least $50 to be able to plunge.
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PROM 411: Your go-to page for all the need-to-know infoTop 5 things guys should knowTop 5 things girls should know
prom night | Dancing the night away, junior Logan Hensley and seniors Courtney Caughey and Casey Berry party at last years prom. [Photo by Kyleigh Cozene]
• Prom will be April 5; more info to come Jan. 19 or 20. • Seniors who purchased two tickets last year will qualify for a free ticket. • If juniors want a free ticket next year, they will need to be the primary ticket purchaser of two tickets this year. • Ticket sales: Jan. 30 - Feb. 17: $50 Feb. 20 - March 2: $60 March 5 - March 16: $70 March 19 - March 23: $80 March 26- March 30: $90• No prom tickets will be sold the week of prom.
source: senior girls
1. Buy your dress at least two weeks before. That way if any alternations need to be made, they can be made in time. Popular places to get dresses would be Amanda’s Collection in Conway or Foxy Lady in Myrtle Beach. If you’re going to order your dress online, make sure that you check the arrival date to make sure that it will arrive on time.
2. Always have an emergency kit. This should include things such as safety pins, bobby pins, super glue to fi x shoe or dress mistakes, hairspray, tape, a lint roller and other items if you need them.
3. While stilleto heels are tempting, you need to be reasonable. Wear cute shoes, but make sure that they’re comfortable. Prom is four hours long so if you can’t stand the shoes for fi ve minutes in the store, don’t buy them.
4. While piling on the make-up seems like the thing to do, it may not be your best idea. You’re going to get really hot dancing and the make-up will probably end up sweating off. So go for the light and natural look. Most of the time, that gets the most compliments.
5. Pedicures and medicures are pretty popular for prom, but if you’re on a budget, you could do a mani-pedi at home with your friends for way cheaper. If you want elaborate designs, you could get Sally Hansen nail designs.
• Plan early, purchase early. If you buy your tickets early, not only do you get the best deal, but you can arrange a payment plan.• If you can’t afford prom, tell someone.• Dress nice but affordable. Go to a secondhand store or get a dress from the Prom Closet here. For guys, it’s cheaper to just buy a tux from J C Pen- ney for $100 that you can wear for two years.• “I want to make sure everyone that wants to go, can go,” Prom chairman Lisa Thompkins said.
source: senior boys
1. If you have a tux from past years that still fi ts, you don’t need to go out and rent another one. No one will know that it’s been used. If you don’t have one, you could rent one for the night or buy one and use it again. 2. Make dinner arrangements and other arrangements about a month to two months before prom. That way if there are any complications, they can be resolved before prom. For restaurant ideas, check out page 13.
3. If you’re planning on taking a date to prom, it’s probably best that you ask the girl about two months before prom. That way you have time to make proper arrangements and coordinate your outfi ts.
4. While simply asking a girl “Will you go to prom with me?” will do, asking her in a memorable way can be so much better. If you want her to always remember that moment, use your imagina- tion and creativity to come up with a perfect plan. She’s more likely to say yes if she feels special and sees that you put time and effort into asking her.
5. Make a game plan for the night. Talk about what you have planned and where you’re going to go. Figure out details about what you’ll need to bring and times that you will be picking her up and drop- ping her off.
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Romance is in thRomance is in the aire air
Going steady was what they called it a generation ago.
Today teens simply call it dating or Fa-cebook offi cial.
Math teacher Latricia Clardy explained teen relationships in the past.
“When you date, you could date other people, but when you’re going steady, that person was the only one,” Clardy said.
Science teacher Pam Williams ex-plained further.
“When you were steady you went to dances, parties and movies, sometimes to the beach,” Williams said.
English teacher Jay Philon preferred the going steady route.
“I tend to be a date-one-girl-a-lot type of guy. I wasn’t too much of a playa,” he said.
Imagine having none of today’s tech-nology – no text messaging or social me-dia. The home telephone, not a cell phone, was the only way teens could communi-cate with each other outside of school. Boys were usually the ones who made the bulk of the calls.
“Girls didn’t call guys, but I was dif-ferent. My mom’s rule was when the bill came in, she would count up who used more long distance minutes between my brother and me,” Clardy said. “Whoever used the most minutes had to pay the bill for that month.”
Clardy’s boyfriend and her brother’s girlfriend both lived in Myrtle Beach which was a long distance call from their home in Conway.
Philon’s family was on a party line. That’s when two or more families, usu-ally neighbors, shared the same telephone line. If the neighbor was on the phone and
members of the other family picked up the phone, they would hear the conversation of the other participant.
“I rarely used the phone in high school. I was on a party line, so if it was your ring, you would answer the phone,” Philon said.
Biology teacher Billy Wilder’s parents had a different rule.
“I could talk every night, but I couldn’t stay on it but maybe 30 minutes a night,” Wilder said.
Williams’s parents had a few other rules.
“Nobody could call the house past eight on week nights, and they didn’t like people to call after they went to bed,” Wil-liams said.
There were other rules too. For exam-ple, there was no meeting each other at the mall or the movies.
“They had to pick you up. Daddy had to see him or I couldn’t go,” Williams said.
Girls seldom picked up boys for the date.
“I would always pick them up,” Wilder agreed.
Clardy’s date not only had to pick her up, but also had to come to the door. One time, Clardy used a little trickery to get a date.
“I tricked him, so he was stuck with me. I told him he was coming to meet my best friend and when I got in the car, I told him she couldn’t have company,” Clardy said.
Some girls, like Williams, put a lot of thought into what they would wear on the date.
We dressed up and sometimes it took us a week to pick out what we would wear,” Williams said.
However, Clardy was a little less for-mal.
“I always wore real short shorts or blue jeans and here’s the real red neck thing about it, I usually went barefoot,” Clardy said.
Going to the movies was a pretty stan-dard date for most. However, planning still went into it.
“I grew up out in the country,” Wilder said. “We would have to drive 40 minutes to go to a movie. You would really have to plan your dates.”
Philon also had to drive a distance.“The closest town from my house was
15 miles away; the typical date was din-ner and a movie, and when I say dinner, I mean like McDonald’s,” Philon said.
But the movies weren’t the only place teens went on dates.
“Most people went to the movies. We also would drive around a mall in Con-way, just drive around. It was a hangout,” Clardy said.
But even though times may be differ-
ent, some things, for example topics of communications, remain the same.
“Interests we had, school courses, if we played sports, that was a good topic, how out of touch our parents are, we usu-ally always had that in common, and mu-sic was always good to talk about,” Wilder said.
But Clardy thought more about the fu-ture.
“We talked about getting married,” she said.
Prom was a big deal back then as well. Boys at Wilder’s school had a different way of inviting girls.
“A lot of people would send a card or send fl owers. That would be a good way to get them to say yes,” Wilder said
While students today think the older generation’s dating practices were humor-ous, their time will come when their chil-dren laugh about theirs.
by zoe mcdonaldmcdonaldcenterspread writer
Teachers talk about dating ‘back in the day’Teachers talk about dating ‘back in the day’
a trip down memory lane| Taking time out of their busy day, science teachers Pam Williams and Billy Wilder listen to math teacher Latrica Clardy share dating stories. The three of them spoke about rules they had, relationships they’ve been in and dating experiences. [Photo by Zoe McDonald]
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With Valentine’s Day quickly approach-ing, there is romance in the air, which brings up the topic of relationships.
While most girls dream of the perfect relationships, that’s usually not reality. Take sophomore Shelby McKniff, for ex-ample.
“The guy decided he was not ready for a relationship, but was dating a new girl the next week,” McKniff said.
Technology plays a big role in teens’ dating lives, and sometimes it actually contributes to the break up.
“One time a guy dumped me on my Fa-cebook wall,” sophomore Marlowe Cro-sland said.
Others use technology to avoid the face-to-face breakup.
“I’ve broke up with girls using notes, text message, MySpace, Facebook,” se-nior Cody Osiecki said.
Like Osiecki, senior Kenny Lawson has done both.
“I’ve broken up with a girl through text messages, by notes from their friend, but also face up,” Lawson said.
Unlike Osiecki and Lawson, junior An-thony Vincent never breaks up via tech-nology.
“I like to do it in person because it’s
more respectful, but when I was younger, I did it every way imaginable because I was naïve,” Vincent said.
Can you be friends after a break up?“It depends on the break up,” McKniff
said. “There is a guy who I dated last year who is one of my best friends and another who I never want to talk to again.”
Sophomore Alex Kranz agreed.“It depends how she broke up with
me,” Kranz said. “If she did it respectfully and didn’t be a jerk about it, then I would be cool with it.”
Some learn from their friends experi-ences.
“The worst break up my best friend experienced was when she was cheated on for nine months,” sophomore Kaleana Benish said. “I know I would never go back to him after knowing.”
Like Benish, sophomore Jessica Simms has also learned from her friend’s mis-takes.
“My best friend’s ex-boyfriend was dating three girls at the same time. I found out and I told her about it,” Simms said. “She broke up with him fi ve minutes later, and then he got mad at me.”
Regardless of break ups and hard feel-ings, most are ready to start a new rela-tionship eventually. That means getting to know someone better.
“Putt-putt is good because you can ac-
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centerspread writertually talk and get to know each other and there are other people around to take some of the pressure off,” sophomore Rebel Hyre said.
Sophomore Troy Swartling agreed that you should go on dates that you can talk on.
“Going to the beach is smart because you don’t have any distractions and you can focus on each other so you have a bet-ter relationship,” Swartling said.
Some have gone to less conventional places.
“I went to the circus one time,” Kranz said. “It was kind of weird I guess.”
Hyre agrees that some places may not be a good idea for a date, especially a fi rst date.
“Going to a family function isn’t the best idea because you are getting to know him and don’t want to be on display and feel uncomfortable,” Hyre said.
Most girls say they appreciate roman-tic gestures.
“One time a guy drew my portrait. That was cool,” sophomore Marlowe Crosland said.
Like Crosland, Simms remembers a particular instance.
“My boyfriend cooked dinner for me,” Simms said. “It was a complete surprise. I didn’t even know that he cooked; it tasted really good.”
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She is a typical teen, who likes shop-ping and hanging out with friends on the weekend, but the one thing that sets se-nior Crysl Bolie apart from the rest is her tattoos on her pointer fi nger, thumb and wrist.
The one on her fi nger and thumb say “Genuine Passion” and the one on her wrist is a cross that says “Trust Faith.”
“I got my tattoo because I thought it expressed who I am as a person,” she said.
Bolie was got tattoos over the summer and believe it or not, the one on her hand isn’t fi nished yet.
“It won’t be fi nished until I get mar-ried,” she said. “I’m going to get a heart in between my thumb and pointer fi nger with my husband’s initials in the middle of it.”
Although she already has two tattoos, Bolie wants more.
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think about the ink| Examining senior Crystl Bolie’s tattoo, junior Guilherme Lopez asks her what her advice is for someone who wants a tattoo. “Don’t get anything stupid,” Bolie
ite quotes,” Bolie said.Some think that getting a tattoo is too
painful, but that did not stop Bolie.“The fi rst thing I thought was ‘I’m
ready for the pain.’ It didn’t really hurt, though,” she said.
Bolie is not that only student who has a tattoo. Junior Nakoa Dial has four tat-toos.
Dial has a tattoo on each shoulder blade. On the left shoulder blade is half of a moon and half of a sun. On the right is a dream catcher. He has a tattoo of a feather with his name above it on his right arm and a stingray on his foot.
Dial got his tattoos in North Carolina when he was 15; all together the cost was $190.
Almost most tattoos have a meaning.“My tattoos are symbolic of my heri-
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everyone has a favorite.“My favorite is the half sun half moon,”
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get a tattoo is “to get what you want and let it just be you.”
the favorite | This is ju-nior Nakoa Dial’s fa-vorite tattoo. When the needle touched his skin for the first time, he thought “Wow, this isn’t that bad.” He said that he will never regret get-ting his tattoos because they represent who he is as a person and that it was worth the time and money he spent getting
feel the sting | This tattoo on junior Na-koa Dial’s right foot is a stingray. [Photo by Lauren Register]
trust faith| Senior Crystl Bolie said that getting the tattoo did not hurt until the cross was fi lled in. [Photo by Emily Wendland]
take pride in heritage| Sitting on a prop in theater workshop class, junior Nakoa Dial shows off his tattoo and his pride in his heritage to his class-mates. [Photo by Lauren Register]
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Pros: While it can be pricey, the Blooming Onion is one of the less expensive items which costs $6.25 and tastes great.Cons: Your date might be shy and not want to eat a lot in front of you, and it’ll be a waste.Other Options: Coastal Ale House, T.G.I. Friday’s, Fatz Cafe, Max & Erma’s, Sticky Fingers, Olive Garden and Maggie D’s – Look on page 4 for a free dessert coupon.
Pros: You get to watch the chef make your food so if you aren’t great at conversation, watching the chef in action is a plus.Cons: Unless you go on a date with other people, your date could take a turn for the worse just because of whom you are seated next to, like someone’s grandma or that little kid that puts the chop-sticks in his mouth and acts like a walrus.
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Favorite thing about basketball: • When someone throws an ally- oop.
Favorite thing about football: • Scoring a touchdown.
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What is your favorite animal? • Clemson Tiger.
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Although he is a linebacker on the var-sity football team, football is not his fi rst love.
Wrestling is. Furthermore, senior Mi-chael Coles is ranked #2 in the state, but he isn’t satisfi ed.
“It feels good to be ranked number two, but I know I can do better to improve this year,” Coles said.
It’s good to have someone on the team who is ranked, Coach William Bratcher said.
“It helps the others work harder to catch up to him,” Bratcher said.
Coles started wrestling seven years ago because he thought it would be fun.
And wrestling is vastly different from football, he said.
“It’s much more physically demand-ing than football is and it’s very techni-cal,” Coles said. “You can’t rely on your teammates when you make a mistake in wrestling like you can in football.”
Bratcher agreed.“Wrestling is more diffi cult. For foot-
ball the off season is to get faster and stronger. With wrestling you have to cut weight,” he said. “There are no rests. There are two, three minute rounds. Any-body can play football, not everybody can wrestle.”
And as the head wrestling coach,
Bratcher has his work cut out for him.“I preach on a regular basis. It’s about
the team, not the individual. They all work with each other and push each other,” he said. “Putting them together all the time helps form a bond, to have each others backs. They all put in the same amount of effort and they have all gone through the same act.”
As a captain, Coles tries to help his teammates, he said.
“I try to teach them moves and give them advice on how to be better,” Coles said. “I lead them and show how you’re suppose to work. I show them moves that I have learned,”
Coles has set goals for himself as well as the team.
“My goal is to get a state champion ring. As a team, our goal is to win the re-gions,” he said. “I plan on improving my skills in every aspect because there is al-ways room for improvement and there is always someone better out there. I want to make a name for myself.”
As a senior, Coles feels the pressure.“I work hard and put a lot of dedica-
tion towards everything I do. I learned from others when I fi rst started and now I just keep practicing the moves over and over,” Coles said. “I do whatever it takes to get better. This is my last year at the high school level. This is the last time I will wrestle with this team.”
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• “We are a young team, but we get better every day. I am very proud of them. They are a great bunch of kids.”
• “I let them know that I am here to help. I will always be up front and honest. I let them know I will be my best all the time. I let them know that it’s not about winning or losing. There is more to it than winning. I try to not develop the person as an athlete, but as an individual.”
• “I am thankful for the opportunity. I am thankful that Ms. Driggers and Mr. Rainbow let me have this [head coach position]. It has always been a dream of mine to be a head coach. I always thought it would be football, but wrestling came fi rst.”
• “Wrestling for me is more chal- lenging. I grew up around football so I have more experience. I have 21 years of experience. Head coach is more diffi cult, organiz- ing, to practice planning.”
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on the mat |Taking down his oppo-nent, Michael Coles is at prac-
tice on Dec. 17, the night before the big match at St. James.”We
try to improve and expand our moves on the mat,” Coles said.
The team beat Myrtle Beach 39-34, Georgetown 57-9. They
unfortunately lost against St. James with a score of 72-6 and Socastee 44-36. They fi nished
fourth out of the 9 teams competing.”After our loses we have to learn more advanced
moves to move on,” Coles said.
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Attention C-C-C-CF: Calling all students
BLACK HOLE IS BACK
by emily schasslerschasslereditor in chief
“BLACK OUT, LIGHTS OUT,” the crowd cheered.“The Black Hole is our sixth man. They can be a game
changer, not only for the visiting team, but also to keep our team pumped up and playing with passion,” head
boys varsity basketball coach Brian Brunson said.The Black Hole was established in 2006 by former
athletic director Bubba Lewis. It was created so students could get involved with athletic events at the school and show school spirit. At games, they sit together, wear all black, sometimes even paint their faces or bodies, cheer, get loud and crazy, read the newspaper when the other team’s starting lineup is being announced and most im-portantly, the Black Hole intimidates other teams and gets the athletes pumped before, during and even after the games.
In order for the Black Hole to be that game changer, it needs some leadership, Brunson said.
“I think we have to rely on some of our key student leaders to step up and lead their classmates to be a part of something bigger than themselves,” he said.
When the Black Hole was fi rst established it didn’t always have support unless the teams were having a winning season, but both coaches and athletes agree the Black Hole is a motivator for them during games – a game changer and they need them at all athletic events.
“I think it’s important to a school in an area of athlet-ics that the student body takes ownership in being an in-tegral part of the team,” Brunson said. “The Black Hole is a great way to do that.”
This year Coach Brunson has some new ideas for the student body section.
“We want to look for a minimum of 500 members. I want it to be sitting right across from our bench,” he
said. “I hope they will be creative this year in chants and cheers that they use and do at games.
“Be an enthusiastic factor in the game, but also show sportsmanship and Panther class.”
And according to the athletes, that’s just what the Black Hole is.
“The Black Hole gets us pumped up and just makes everything more exciting during the game,” senior Rob-ert Gray said. “Also, the chants and the cheering some-times get in the heads of opposing players which helps us.”
And senior Allison Holland believes that it is impor-tant for the Black Hole to be at all athletic events, not just football or basketball games.
“Since I play softball, I think it’s really important that we have fan support at all athletics events because the players on the court or fi eld count on us to cheer them on,” she said. “Having participation at all athletic events around the school will help with school spirit, and as an athlete, I know an excited crowd pumps me up.”
As always though, Brunson wants to make sure that students represent Carolina Forest with class.
“We need to still show sportsmanship, continue sup-port of fellow classmates who are giving their all and creativity to make it exciting, make people want to be a part of it,” he said.
And it’s quite simple to be a part of the Black Hole: attend games, wear black, be loud, be creative and be crazy.
total domination | During the boys game after a missed Myrtle Beach free throw seniors Michael Coles and Anthony Caroso get pumped in the Black Hole. The Panthers lost a fourth quarter thriller to Myrtle Beach 64-60 on Dec. 16 at Myrtle Beach High. [Photo by Emily Schassler]
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lets go | After the Myrtle Beach free throw in the fourth quarter at the game Dec. 16, Coach Brunson instructs senior Aaron Williams on what to do. [Photo by Emily Schassler]
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breaking through | The Panthers position their defense against the St.
James Sharks at the fi rst home game of the year. The Panthers came up
with a 49-22 win against the Sharks. The Panthers ended the season 7-4. “I feel like our season went
well although we could have done better,” sophomore
Josh Caranza said. “We are going to improve next year
by living in the weight room and practicing every day to keep improving.” [Photo by
Haley Loyd]
taming the tigers| Show-ing their team spirit, math
teachers Jan Hucks and Megan Beattie participate in
the USC-Clemson Day. The student council sponsored the dress up day and gave prizes to the most spirited. Clemson winners got post-
ers and key chains while Gamecock winners got
hoodies. [Photo by Lauren Register]
on his death bed | In “Cyrano de Bergerac,” the latest production by the Drama Department, junior Michael Spencer and seniors Mitch Babb, Faye Goodwin, and Ryan Spraker gather around senior Casey Berry who has been wounded in battle. The show was taken to the all county competition where the technical crew won an honorable mention and Faye Goodwin won best actress. They also went to the all state competition where Goodwin was awarded all star cast member. The play ran Nov. 17-19. [Photo courtesy of Abbie Whitney]
school spirit| Tak-ing a break, juniors Jessica Carr and Michael Brooks sur-vey what’s left to be done on the junior’s hall during Homecom-ing. The ju-niors placed second, only bested by the seniors. [Photo by Kaeli Weeks]
lights, camera, ac-tion| On the
set of “Live from the
Forest,” se-nior Johann
Forrest discusses
“1776” with anchor Jack
Murphy. [Photo by
Lexi Lutsky]
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