123-December 2012

CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 47, Issue 3December 14, 2012

EDITOR IN CHIEF: BRENNA PATRICK

INSIDE LOOK!Students express

viewpoints on newly imposed Eagle Time

J.V. Boys Basketball team leads season with 3-1 record

OPINION PG 8

Sophomore places Fourth in national cycling championship

NEWS PAGE 3 SPORTS PG 6

ONLINE EDITOR: JONATHAN REFF

CHSFLIGHT

Eagle Time is the new way to provide students time to get

help and try to improve their grades. Teachers assign students with missing assignments to attend this study hall on Thursday at lunch. Students have six-teen minutes to get food and head off to their as-signed classroom for about thirty minutes. At the same time, there’s a Tutor Club, hosted by CHS students in room 104 everyday except Thursdays, for

students who would like to improve their grades. People who have off-campus classes after lunch can leave Eagle Time earlier. Students with an off-campus class before lunch have about five minutes to get lunch then go to class. Principal Jon Ruz-icka said, “Eagle Time started up because of the comments next to the grades in the D-F range saying late or

missing work. Eagle Time was my idea. I was tired of seeing late and missing work by all the bad grades and hopefully in time there will be fewer zero/missing assignments.” Students who fail to show up to Eagle Time get a warning the first time, but if a student keeps skip-ping, they’ll end up in “Friday school”, an after-school detention.

Brenna Patrick EDITOR IN CHIEF

Victoria HolmSPORTS EDITOR

ASSISTANT EDITOR: DEVIN RAMEY

We are online!!!www.my.hsj.org/chsflight

“This program helps out on grades and is going to con-tinue throughout the years,” said Ruzicka. Junior Jamie Landon said, “ When I was as-signed Eagle Time, I successfully got my work done. I do not en-joy Eagle Time but it helps me with doing and turning my work in.” “When I had to go to Eagle Time I wasn’t able to get lunch because I

got there late from my off-campus class. When I think of Eagle Time I think of detention and then, that it ends up be-ing logical and helpful because I get my work done,” said Landon. Junior Jesse Kohn said, “I only enjoy having Eagle Time with Mr. Oram, but, when I heard I had Eagle Time, I thought I would rather have been home sleeping.” Cafeteria “transformed” for Harvest

Students now forced to give up lunch for bad grades

PHOTO BY ALISON FROOM

PHOTO BY VANESSA GALEANO



PHOTO BY VANESSA FROOM

Almost 200 people attended this year’s TWIRP, “girl ask guy” Harvest Dance on Nov. 30 in the cafeteria. Student Council ad-visor Paul Rush said, “I was very impressed with how well-decorat-ed and ‘transformed’ the cafeteria was! It was great, even with a lot of different aspects than a typical dance!” The set up was com-plete with sack racing, kissing booth, a pie eating contest, bobbing

for apples, free cotton candy, popcorn and wa-ter, and lots of dancing. Corn had been taped up to the columns in the cafeteria and 19 bales of hay were placed throughout the sectioned off part of the cafeteria with lights everywhere. Rush said, “When you walked in, it looked, smelled and felt like a ‘Harvest’ dance.” Stud. Co. President senior Shaun Montgom-ery said the group made a profit of about $800 and said the dance had been “the best in years.” Senior Haley Gard-ner was one of the main coordinators of the dance and said Stud. Co. made over $1,200 which she said was surprising because they normally always loose money on TWIRP. Gardner said the hardest part of creat-ing the dance was, “trying to incorporate the carnival aspect.” Montgomery enjoyed making cotton candy and handing out the goodies to everyone and thought that the match-ing t-shirts, an honored TWIRP tradition, of all the students “were re-ally cool and creative.” Senior Tori Dresser said, “It was pretty fun. I had an awesome group.”

PHOTO BY VANESSA GALEANOSenior Shaun Montgomery pours in berry cotton candy mix with Mrs. Puccinelli at the dances’ “General Store.”

Sophomores Mason Meir, Jacob Berret, Lexi Anderson, and senior Jonah Link get ready to start the next sack racecompetition. Link supervised the sack races. Winners of the races were given a free 2012 Homecoming t-shirt.

Sophomores Kelsey Sprague, David Wright, Jayde Ward and Justin Goodrichshow off their Justice League of America matching t-shirts on the dance floor.

Senior Hunter Manwaring and Jonah Egbert strike a pose while dancing to the DJ’s of Soundwave Music.

Junior Zack White comes up for a breather after attempting to bob for an apple in extremely cold water.

Senior Jaren Kahoiwai paints senior Brooke Church’s face while she sits on a hay bale during the dance.

CHS learns if Eagle Time is

Evil Time

PAGE 2

News Friday, December 14, 2012

Editor: Devin Ramey

PAGE EDITORS:FRONT-

Brenna PatrickNEWS-

Devin Ramey and Ryan Naramore

ARTS- Andrew Welker

ENTERTAINMENT- Luis Sarria-Garcia

SPORTS- Emily Lundquist and

Victoria HolmOPINION-

Jonathan ReffAD MANAGER- Ryan Naramore

Editor-In-Chief:Brenna Patrick

[email protected]

Advertising information can be found at:

chsflight.web.officelive.com

ADVISOR: Vicki [email protected]

208-845-4538

CK Technologies, Dave Guess; ; Idaho Statesman, Kristin Ro-dine; Idaho Statesman, Darleen Carnopis, Kevin Richert; Idaho Press Tribune, Victor Kunkel; Northwest College, Gary Bak-ken; MacLife, Eric Smith; Taylor Printing Company, Jeremy Corsi; Northwest Nazarene Univer-sity, Jamie Tucker; Irene Vogel, Ph.D., Idaho Division of Pro-fessional-Technical Education

Policies

Flight reserves the right to accept, reject, edit, or cancel any ad. Advertising shall be free of statements, illustra-tions, or implications that are offensive to good taste or pub-lic decency based on the opin-ion of the staff. The staff will not accept ads that are racist, sexist, illegal for high school students or that violates other journalistic standards or prin-ciples. Advertising that is ac-cepted is not necessarily an endorsement from the staff, the advisor, or the adminis-tration.

Flight Capital High School8055 Goddard Rd.

Boise, ID 8370

Flight’s duty is to inform and entertain students and faculty in an accurate and timely fashion. It reflects the ideas of the student body and also creates new perspectives. The paper is oriented toward events and all information that affects the student body. Flight is published monthly by Capital High school, 8055 Goddard Road Boise, Idaho 83704. Phone: 658-2346. Circulation 1650. Adobe In-Design is used to design the graphics and typeset. Print-ing is done by Idaho Press Tribune, Nampa, ID. The opinions and views in this publication are not necessarily the views of the administration, or the entire Flight staff, or the entire stu-dent body. All signed commentar-ies that appear in Flight are strictly the opinion of that individual and do not nec-essarily reflect the general opinion of the Flight staff. Anyone wishing to submit a letter to the editor is encour-aged to do so. Place letters in Ms. Francis’ mailbox in the office, or room 230. Letters may also be sent to the edi-tor of Flight via e-mail. All letters must be signed and verified in person in order to be printed. The Flight staff reserves the right to edit all submissions.

Flight’s Mission Statement:

ASSISTANT EDITOR:

Devin Ramey

Unless otherwise noted, all mugshots

are by Dorian studio

Advisory Board Members

Member of SkillsUSA

ONLINE EDITOR:Jonathan Reff

Student trains dog that will help others in need

The Eastern National 4-H Horse Round-Up took place on November 3, at the North Ameri-can International Live-stock Expo (NAILE) in Louisville, KY. Each state in America had the opportunity to send contestants to the con-test to compete in six categories: Horse Judg-ing, Hippology, Horse Bowl, Public Speaking, Individual Presentation and Team Presentation. Sophomore sixteen year old Lainey Reay from Horseshoe Bend, ID, competed in the individual presentation competition. While it may sound simple, over 300 participants from all over the country spent a whole day showcas-ing their knowledge of the horse. Lainey placed first in her divi-sion coming back the National Champion

for the state of Idaho. “It was fantastic! I was excited just to have the opportunity to attend,” Lainey stated. “When they announced my name as first place I was overwhelmed, it was an amazing experience!” Lainey also won first place at the State 4-H competition in July with her speech, The 4-H and Bureau of Land Man-agement Wild Horse Project, which qualified her to attend Nationals. Since returning she has been asked to present before the University of Idaho Extension staff and the Boise Bureau of Land Management office. “I knew that even if I didn’t place at the contest that good things would come from me going to Nationals. Public speaking is one of my favorite things about being in 4-H, I am honored coming back having represented 4-H

and the state of Idaho.” It is incredible to note that the fear of public speaking tops the great-est fears that trouble people according to a popular survey. In fact, this fear comes ahead of people’s fear of death, spiders, heights and confined spaces. 4-H is known for pro-ducing amazing public speakers. Horse Proj-ect 4-H youth not only compete at the County level but can continue on to District, State and National events. Lainey would like to thank everyone who supports 4-H. “We are lucky to have such a great program,” Lainey stated. “My club the Lone Star Riders helped with my fundraising to attend Nationals and I also received many different scholarships and donations. Thank you all for your con-tinued support of 4-H!”

APUSH students put AndrewJackson on the stand in mock trialsDevin RameyNEWS EDITOR

Was Andrew Jackson a tyrant or a defend-er of the “common man”? U.S. history teacher Pat Walker had her A.P. classes con-duct mock trials to answer this question. Jackson served as part of the U.S. mili-tary during the War of 1812, with his most famous victory at the battle for New Orleans, and was president throughout the 1830’s. Students were part of the jury, defense, or prosecution. They had the option of acting like John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, the military, the Georgia settlers, Peggy Eaton(women in general), the pet banks, the Cherokee Indians, John Marshall, John C. Calhoun, Nicholas Bid-dle or Andrew Jackson. The defense had to protect Jackson’s hon-or while the prosecu-tion had to prove why he wasn’t a vanguard of the average citi-zen of the time period. The classes had two days to set up their questions and opening/closing statements and used the last two days’ time solely for the trial. Students also received extra credit for dress-ing for their parts. “I think that they [the students] really live the

trial that week. It’s great when I hear students discussing it in the hall-way. I love that it goes outside the classroom; I believe that it even became ‘the stuff’ of Facebook,” Walker said. The verdicts of the trials had Jackson lose in three classes and only won once. Walker said, in response to the final decisions, “Well ‘Old Hickory’ (Jackson’s nickname) has some perception problems and students of history tend to judge him harshly.”

Walker said that she’d love to have more mock trials in her class. “I might try put-ting the New Deal on trial. Or perhaps try a presidential compari-son trial,” Walker said. “It is an all-partici-pation activity; even the jury must ask questions of the wit-nesses,” Walker said. In Walker’s mock tri-al, she had to change the rules of a trial so that all the students could participate and be part of it. She arranged it so the jury was able to

ask the witnesses ques-tions that the defense and prosecution didn’t. When the time came to make their decision, the jury had to meet out in the hall and dis-cuss their decision. Junior Mickie West, who was an attorney for the prosecution, said that she had “a lot of fun,” and the whole process was “really interesting.” “Everyone did really well in participation. I was surprised that everyone did. It felt like a actual trial. It was really nice,” West said.

Brenna PatrickEDITOR IN CHIEF

Junior Cece Harris has taken it upon her-self to give back to the community by adopt-ing a 6 1/2 month old black lab puppy named Cavalier to train him to become a Service Dog for “K9 Compan-ions for Independence.” Harris found out about this volunteer opportunity at a vol-leyball tournament this year and thought it would be a great way to earn hours for NHS. Cavalier and Harris

work about 10 min-utes a day on training and she brings him to school twice a week for 5th and 6th period. Every other Sunday Harris attends meetings at either the Nampa Air-port to learn how to teach the dog or the Humane Society to teach Cava-lier with six other dogs about different com-mands for two hours. At home, Har-ris has her mother to help train Cavalier and it’s great because “he’s really smart.” Harris says Cavalier will eventually be able

to help people with a myriad of disabilities. For example he could help paralyzed people in wheelchairs, little kids with mental dis-abilities, or become a facility dog that would work with a partner in a health, visitation or education setting. Harris said Cavalier will be able to complete 40 different commands by the end of his train-ing which will finish in 18 months then he will be sent to Santa Rosa, California to take the Service Dog test to see if he passes or fails.

PHOTO BY GABRIELA ALVARADO

Junior Cece Harris practices shaking with her training dog Cavalier.

Tina Reay

Sophomore Lainey Reay pos-es next to the demo boards at the North American Interna-tional Livestock Exposition.Lainey placed first in her divi-sion coming back the National Champion for the state of Idaho.

PHOTO BY TINA REAY

North American International Livestock Expo

Sophomore rounds up First place

PAGE 3

NewsFriday, December 14, 2012

Editor: Ryan Naramore

Construction hasthree years left

Students attempt “Undeniable” scholarship

Sophomore Ethan Reynolds wins fourth place in National Cyclocross Championship and more

Ryan NaramoreNEWS EDITOR

For the first time, Capi-tal participated in “Find-ing Undeniable” and is currently ranked 25th. We have been cur-rently been knocked out of the competi-tion, yet the competi-tion is still going on for the top 8 schools. Student Council member Haley Gardner said, “Finding Undeni-able is a competition that Under Armor held so that 750 schools can try to compete for a $140,000 scholar-ship for their school’s athletic programs.” Capital did great in this competition Gard-ner said, “Capital fin-ished in the top 25 out of 750 schools, and all together had the sec-ond most wild cards out of the entire nation. That’s a big deal.”

The most impressive thing this group of stu-dents did was “we start-ed two weeks late and still beat a majority of the schools,” said Gardner.Gardner found out about this competi-tion because, “English teacher Matt Jacobsen told me about it and asked me to take it on.” When asked how Capital will earn this money, Gardner replied, “There are tons of dif-ferent challenges that needed to be completed and some had time lim-its. Each were worth a certain amount of points, which is how each school was indi-vidually ranked based on scores. All together Capital did great and definitely represented our school with the best of their ability.”

Jonathan ReffOPINION EDITOR

Top: Reynolds finishes 3rd in the National Criterium Championship in downtown Augusta, GA in June 2012 He’s won this race twice before in other year/ages categories.

Top Right: Reynolds races in the Cyclocross Championship race during early January in Madison, WI. He finished 4th after starting eight rows back.

Middle: Reynolds finishes the 4th and final stage of The Tour of West Flanders in Belguim in Team USA colors. In August 2012.

Right: Reynolds wins the National Road Race Champi-onship at Ft. Gordon, Georiga after seperating from the peleton halfway through the race with four other riders and finishing over two minutes ahead of the pack.

Though the floors have been redone and new windows installed, there is over three years of construction left to complete in the school by the Beniton Con-struction Company in Meridian, Idaho. The construction that started this summer may seem to be at end with the completion of the auditorium but there is still more to be done. Within the next three years classrooms and hallways will receive new ceilings, new lights, heating and air conditioning will be installed, and the locker rooms will be

completely renovated. Principal Jon Ruzicka said, “I am very satisfied [with the construction].” Responding to the negative criticism from students about the new polished concrete floors who say that it has cracks, looks old, and wrinkled, Ruzicka said, “This polished concrete will be less costly, as less wax will be needed, and less wax will be need-ed to be stripped off.” A Building and Facil-ity Bond was granted to the Boise School Dis-trict to start the process of construction back in 2006. This was a $94 million bond that was created to restore many other schools and Capital received $7 million from it.

Luis SarriaENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

ALL PHOTOS BY BRAD REYNOLDS

Sophomore Ethan Reynolds is a three time national champion in Cycling and in January he finished fourth place in the USA Cycling National Cycylocross Championship race. “I got into cycling around five years ago watching the Twilight Criterium downtown. My friend’s mom used to ride for the US National team. I got to ride her road bike and I started riding a lot more,” Reynolds said. “I am always training. The bigger the compe-tition, the more I have to be focused and train harder,” Reynolds said. Reynolds trains 5-7 days a week and has competed in several prestigious events such as stage races in Bel-gium and the Sea Otter. Reynolds plans to continue with cycling into his adulthood. “I have already trav-eled to Europe for the US National team this summer, so I

think I am on the right track,” Reynolds said. Cycling is very impor-tant to Reynolds. He said, “I have to do well in school for me to travel as much as I am able to.” “I feel that I perform very well at all these races. I am a three time national cham-pion, so it makes you feel that you are pretty good,” Reynolds said.

PAGE 4

Arts Friday, December 14, 2012

Editor: Andrew Welker

Seniors Jackson Turner and Gillian Chandler work together to string lights on the tree (Top Left). Chandler helps teacher Cathy Younger attach nets to the branch-like oars (Bottom Left). The finished tree sits among competitor trees, decorated with stuffed sea creatures (Above).

Seaside Christmas Tree wins Best of Show


Art classes have participated in the Festival of Trees for over 20 years and have re-ceived Best of Show 11 times in those years. Here’s a list of the past winning themes.

ALL PHOTOS BY KAT DAVIS

Art teacher Cathy Younger and her art classes won Best of Show for the 11th year in a row at the annual Festival of Trees held at the Boise Centre at the Grove on Nov. 21-25. For roughly 20 years Art teacher Younger has organized her art classes around creat-

ing a tree with a differ-ent theme every year. This year the tree’s theme was Seaside Christmas. It was pur-chased by Ron McBride. All funds raised from the festival will support the expansion of the Saint Alphonsus Boise Emergency Department. The students started work on the decora-tions in class in Oct.

and worked hard in order to complete it for the Festival. On the Sunday before the Festival of Trees, about 11 students and Younger worked togeth-er for seven hours to set up the tree and attach all the decorations. The tree was complete with a giant sculpted mermaid, handmade fish, fishing nets and

Best of Show• Native American• Egyptian• Kwanza• Year of the Dragon• Greek Roman

internal structure was made out of oars instead of using an actual tree. “The hardest part was figuring out the struc-ture that was under-neath,” Younger said. The oars took hours to paint and to fit together in order to be light enough to move yet sturdy enough to hold up all the decora-tions, Younger said.

Senior art student Gil-lian Chandler painted the face of the mermaid and helped shape her body. Chandler said it was difficult painting the oars to make them “look old and worn.” Senior Brooke Church sculpted the mer-maid and was glad to see the final product. “You work so hard at something, it’s a

relief when you’re done,” Church said. Chandler said, “The tree was really cool. It was really nice to see the finished product in the end.” Younger enjoys being a part of this tradi-tion and said, “I think it’s good to give back to the community. I like making some-thing out of nothing.”

• Buttoned Up• March of the

Penguins• Christmas in the

Rain Forest

• Recycled• Christmas on

Bourbon Street• Seaside Christmas

PAGE 5

EntertainmentFriday, December 14, 2012

Editor: Luis Sarria-Garcia

Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

How to spread cheer during the holiday season

Emily LundquistSPORTS EDITOR

Movie ReviewRed Dawn


Calling all Cartoonists! Submit your work to [email protected]

Foosball: Strategy or sport, Who knows?

Learn more at www.boisepubliclibrary.org

It’s On-line! Doing some research? Check our website for:• Magazine articles • eBooks • College & career information • Practice tests

No computer? Use ours!

The movie Red Dawn is passable because it has a valid amount of action but falls short on dialogue, plot holes, and similarity. The movie is direct-ed by Dan Bradley and stars a variety of actors that are popular to teen-agers including The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson and Thor’s Chris Hemsworth. Oth-er actors and actress-es include Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki. The story is an adap-tation of the1984 classic Red Dawn. It is about a small town in Colorado that is overrun by North Kore-an forces and the pro-tagonist, an active duty marine, must assemble a group of citizens to back his city and avenge the deaths incurred by the North Koreans. A stereotypical action movie includes explosions, terrible lines, and a group of protagonists fight-ing an absurd amount of enemies. Well this movie has all of that. It has the stereotypical

teen movie aspects such as romance, shots of boys with muscles, and yet again terrible lines. However it may seem like this movie is laugh-ably bad and a stereo-type of two genres, it isn’t. Its characters have some amount of depth thus causing it to be heavily dramatic and leading it to do a good job of playing with the audiences’ emotions. The cinematography of Red Dawn is actu-

ally pretty good. Yet the camera shooting may make the viewer sick with how shaky it is. The lighting is nearly flawless and the scen-ery of an occupied town in Colorado creates an interesting backdrop. Though this movie is nothing short of formu-laic, it delivers on what it promises, action. In short it’s an action mov-ie that tugs at your emo-tions and is filled with teenagers falling in love.

Foosball is a well known and well loved sport that involves ease of play, strategy, and broken legs, all confined to the small area around a table. The goal of foos-ball is to push and spin metal rods with little men on them to kick the foosball into the opponent’s goal. Junior Preston Thom-as said it’s really easy to play. You just spin the handle or flick your wrist to deliver a clean, powerful kick. Junior Kenneth Wil-liams, another foos-ball enthusiast, called it “a good lazy sport.” However, Thomas and Williams are not lazy foosballers. They like use strategies of varying complexity and skill.

Two popular strate-gies are kicking the ball with the corner of the man’s foot to make a diagonal shot, and pass-ing the ball to another man on the same rod by slamming the foosball with the side of the foot. Many players, when they find a ball sit-ting idly next to a wall on the table, slam the corner of a man’s foot into the ball to rocket it forwards. Williams once accidentally broke one of the man’s legs off by doing that. Williams would like to invite others who are interested to come play at the Seminary build-ing across Milwaukee Street. There is a foos-ball table there that any-one is welcome to play on during lunch or after school, and experienced players are always will-ing to give advice.

Around the holidays, there are all kinds of volunteer opportuni-ties that are available for students who are looking to give back to the community. There are a variety of programs and drives you can choose from that could help you receive volunteer hours, but also make you feel good about help-ing others in your area. 1.Canned Food/Toy Drives: Many people out of work or who receive low incomes can’t afford to provide the necessities for their families. With donations

for canned food drives, you’re supplying a meal for underprivileged citizens and relieving hunger in your com-munity. Here at Capi-tal, Student Council is hosting a canned food drive, and ask students to bring their goods to their second period class, and that will be stored in large bins at the front of the main office until Decem-ber 14. Also, DECA is sponsoring a Toy Drive. Toys, clothes, etc. would be greatly appre-ciated and can be turned into your second period teacher, or see Sandy Wold in room 220.2. Donate Winter Clothes: As the winter

season progresses, cold-er weather comes with it. Coats, gloves, hats and scarves are manda-tory clothing during this season to stay warm and avoid getting sick. Look in your closet, find any new or slightly used warm clothing you no longer wear and put them to good use by giving them away to those who need them, through school orga-nizations, thrift stores or shelters. Capital’s Diversity Club is col-lecting winter clothes, and boxes designated for your slightly used clothing will be in teachers’ classrooms or can be take to Mrs. Zumwalt in room 205.

Ethyn Schilling plays Foosball while in the Seminary building across Milwaukee Road from Capital PHOTO BY ANDREW WELKER

Senior Andee Marlowe and Sophomore Ethyn Schilling decorate the tree at the Festival of trees at the Boise Center on the Grove.

PHOTO BY KAT DAVIS

PHOTO BY KAT DAVIS

Senior gillian Chandler decorates the tree at the Boise Center on the Grove.

Festival of Trees

PAGE 6

Sports Friday, December 14, 2012

Editor: Victoria Holm

Athleteof theMonth

Sport:

Cross Country

Years playing:

6

Loves the sport because:

I reap the full benefits of personal accomplish-ments along with that of a team. I enjoy a

challenge of willpower and guts that the sport brings and I just plain love to run,when I run

I am free.

Favorite opponent:

Thomas Rigby from Boise High.

Benefits of the sport:

Its a great way to stay in shape, and is the most

socially accommodating sport I have ever done.

College plans:

Run and race

Difficulty Level:

10

One word to describe sport:

Empowering

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

About 20

David SteeleSenior

J.V. Boys hold high hopes for season, energized

Emily LundquistSPORTS EDITOR

As of Dec. 1, the J.V. boys’ basketball team is off to a great start with a record of 2-0, beating Emmett High and Kuna High. Head Coach Rod Daron played basket-ball himself through-out high school and college, and has coached for 20 years. “We are very talent-

ed, athletic, and play extremely hard. The guys have great atti-tudes and are fun to be around,” said Daron. Daron said he has high expectations for the team and hopes to win the city Cham-pionship and Dis-trict Tournament. To reach their goal, Daron said the team has to “play fast, but under control; estab-lish roles and play together with disci-pline and a purpose.” Throughout the season Daron said he expects to, “develop our play-ers into honorable men, who learn the value of serving others.”

Junior J.V. multi-posi-tion player Blake Dit-tman has been playing for 12 years and hopes to go far in the District tournament this season. To make it that far though, Dittman said the team has to work on “getting along together.” Sophomore guard Tomas Ideota has been playing basketball for 10 years and said his team is good at “play-ing defense and putting the pound to people.” Ideota said he likes his team this year because of the intensity they bring to the game while his coach is “ener-gized and looking to get better everyday.”


The Varsity basketball team as of Dec. 10 had a record of 3-1, with a loss to Kuna High and victo-ries over Emmett High, Vallivue High, and Boise High School. The Eagles, had a margin

of victory of 45 points. Earlier in the season, head coach Paul Rush said, “Right now we are currently 1-1, but the season is obviously very new and our record doesn’t show us much about how the rest of the year will go. We play six games in the next week and a half and will

have a much clearer pic-ture of how things will look for us this year at that point,” Rush said. “I am very excited about this group of kids. They all posses a great basketball skill set and love playing the game. The whole team has a very high basketball IQ and I believe as we learn

New season brings victories over Boise High with 45 point margin overall

Returning athletes antcipate a winning seasonVictoria HolmSPORTS EDITOR

Bowling Club! What “Moore” could you

ask for?Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

Capital’s wrestling team started the season hosting the Buck’s Bags Duels wrestling tourna-ment on Dec. 7-8th. With Jody Webb coaching for his ninth season, Capital’s last year overall record was 15-17 and they placed eighth in dis-tricts, fifteenth in state. The team’s return-ing state players from last year are seniors Hunter Manwar-ing and Alex Ekins. Ekins said, “When I went to state last year I got fifth, but I need to work on my technique on bottom and top. I’m

preparing thoroughly by going to practice every-day and lift weights.” “Unlike other wres-tlers, I don’t have to change my eat-ing habits because I’m 15 pounds under weight,” said Ekins.

Sophomore Mycah Moore hit off the bowl-ing season with a strik-ing score of 248 at Bowling Club Nov. 29. If you want to start training to get as good as Moore, join Bowl-ing Club. They meet every Thursday at Westy’s Garden Lanes after school and bowl three games each. To make it easier

for teams of different skill levels to compete, bowlers receive scratch and handicap scores. The scratch score is what the bowler earned that game and the hand-icap score is the scratch score plus 200 minus his or her average score. The handicap score evens the playing field between new and old bowlers by making it a competition to see who can get higher than his or her average score, instead of seeing who can get a higher scratch.

Varsity Wrestling’s starting line up was decided Saturday Dec. 1 and the students mak-ing lightweight were senior’s Alexis Esquiv-el, Manwaring, Wesley Raiche, junior Blake Collins, sophomore

Trevor Theil, Austin Redfern, and freshman from Fairmont Arthur Ferguson. Making heavy weight was senior Ekins, junior Jeff Neil, Jovie Kahoiwai, Jacob Fields, and sophomore Kyle McCullough.

PHOTO BY ROB PARSONSJunior Blake Collins a lightweight wrestler, over powers Rocky Mountain at the Buck’s Bag Tour-nanment on Friday, Decmeber 7.

Athletes held to high

expectaions to become “hon-orable players”

to put the team first we are going to get better and better,” Rush said. The team’s biggest vic-tory this year is Vallivue who they beat 64 to 39. “So far our strength as a team is our ability to knock down open shots and create for each other. The guys are all learning what their roles

are going to be and as we learn those and are able to maximize them we will only get better and better,” Rush said. Senior Jon Holland plays guard on the Var-sity basketball team. Holland believes that his team could, “actu-ally have a winning record,” this season.

PHOTO BY SADIYA AMANI


PHOTO BY EMILY LUNDQUIST

Above: Junior Garret Pearson jumps up to make a basket, while surrounded by Kuna High Bas-ketball players. Top Right: Junior Nick Dowe goes to make a lay up against Kuna High on Dec. 1st. Right: Sophomore point guard Derrick dribbles the ball down the court while Junior guard Hayden Duncan White waits for the play and Junior Hunter Young sets a screen to the opposing Maverick.


Junior Blake Dittman jumps up to shoot the ball against the opposing team, Kuna High.

PAGE 7

SportsFriday, December 14, 2012

Editor: Emily Lundquist

Athlete of theMonth

Sport:

Football

Years playing:

9

Loves the sport because:

It’s a team sport. Capital football is a big

family.

Favorite opponent:

Borah High

Benefits of the sport:

Keeps you in good shape, keeps you out of trouble and gives col-

lege opportunities.

College plans:

None yet

Difficulty level:

10

One word to describe sport:

Challenging

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

12-15

Nick Dunstan

Jonathan ReffOPINION EDITOR

PHOTO BY DANIELA FLORES

Freshman Brooklyn Dittman tries to push through opposing Boise High School players for a lay-up on Nov. 16, winning 39-37.

Varsity Girls begin with a three game winning streak

J.V. Girls’ Basketball:

Luis SarriaENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

PHOTO BY GABRIELA ALVARADO NUNEZ

Top: Junior Delaney Sauer goes up to shoot a lay-up, followed closely by opposing Timberline High players on Nov. 20.Above: Senior Liz Landreth shoots and makes a basket during a free throw, getting a point for Capital.

Senior

PHOTO BY GABRIELA ALVARADO NUNEZ

With winter bringing colder temperatures and snow, the ski and snow-board club is warm-ing up their season. Coach Ray Wilmot has high hopes for the team this season. “With a strong return-ing team and incom-ing sophomores, I am hoping to contend with Bishop Kelly and Centennial High School for the title this year,” Wilmot said. Senior expert level snowboarder Hayden

Woods said he hopes “for us to be rated highly in the standings and for Bogus Basin to have good season.” Woods said that the team races every Sat-urday and occasion-ally on a Wednes-day at Bogus Basin. The team’s big trip this year is to Grand Targhee in Wyoming to celebrate at the end of the season. The final race of the season is the Dotty Clark Championship; the date will depend on when Bogus Basin will open. “Dotty Clark is where it gets seri-ous,” said Woods.

Ski/Snowboard starts as snow falls

Devin RameyNEWS EDITOR


Seven year football player senior defensive lineman Jaren Kahoi-wai was named num-ber one sack leader in 5A football division and senior offensive lineman Steven Mat-lock was second place. Kahoiwai completed 9.5 sacks and 21 tack-les for loss and Mat-lock had five sacks during this past season with 11 tackles for loss according to head foot-

ball coach Todd Simis. Kahoiwai said, “My goal was to be lead in sacks in the 5A division

and I accomplished it.” The hardest part of playing his position is, “taking on two blockers

The Varsity girls’ bas-ketball season is under-way and as of Dec. 4 they have a record of 6-2. The girls first played against Caldwell High School on Nov. 9 and won with a score of 55-30. Senior players Josie Blair and junior Kylie Centers scored the most with nine points each at the Caldwell game. The first home game of the season ended with a win over the Kuna High Kavemen on Nov. 13 with a score of 62-32. Juniors Khadija Neumeyer and Delaney Sauer scored the most

points with twelve each. The third game against Boise was Nov. 16 and came out to be a third win with a score of 50-41. High scorers junior Del-aney Sauer and sopho-more Emilie Eckhart had a total of 12 each. The girls played the Centennial Patriots Nov. 17 and ended the three game winning streak with a score of 31-49. The fifth game was against Timber-line Wolves on Nov. 20, and resulted in a score of 59-51. Senior Liz Landreth, named the 2012-13 Preseason WAC #1 player and is now a Utah State Aggie, was

the lead scorer in this game with 21 points. Landreth said, “When other schools think we aren’t as good as everyone says we are, I just think of some-thing that gets me mad and I take it out on the team I’m playing.” The sixth game against Eagle High came out to be a win with a score of 53-46. When the team played Rocky Mountain High for the seventh game it resulted in a loss ending the two win-ning streak with a los-ing score of 37-47. The eighth game against Borah High resulted in a win-ning score of 64-34.

This year the Junior Varsity girls sit sec-ond in their confer-ence with a record of 5-3 and are continuing to play out the season. So far Capital has defeated Caldwell, Kuna, Boise, Centen-nial, and Eagle High School by around 20 points each. The team has been defeated by Timber-line, Rocky Mountain and Borah High School. Junior Shooting Guard

Danielle Willey said, “the team has had a fair share of wins and losses but we have a lot of tal-ent and we have a very promising potential.” When asked if the team may venture to district or state tournaments Willey said, “I wouldn’t describe any of the players as selfish, but all we need is to focus on working as a team and we will definitely be a threat come playoffs.” Willey said, “I know that I really do care for each girl on the team, and they all feel

the same way. We are very friendly and enjoy each other. Our coach and assistant coach are really helpful and strengthen us too. I have never heard any negative criticism.” Sophomore Grace Jacobsen has been playing basketball since first grade and considers herself a well-rounded player. “I have played well in most of the games, especially the second half of the game against Boise,” said Jacobsen.

“Will definitely be a threat” come play-off tournament

at a time. They would always be double team-ing you or dive at your legs and make you fall.” Trap blocks were also very difficult for him get past on the field. Matlock has been playing football for eight years and when he found out he had one of the top sacks he said, “I was over-whelmed with joy.” Neither of the play-ers know where they are going to attend college, but are plan-ning on playing foot-ball after high school.

Steven MatlockSenior

Jaren KahoiwaiSenior

5A Division Seniors exemplify meaning of the word “crush”

Opinion Friday, December 14, 2012

PAGE 8 Editor: Jonathan Reff

In order to create last-ing, positive impacts, people need to maintain a farsighted perspec-tive. It is easy to request for secession because it takes less time to give a signature than to reach government authorities and address some issues seriously. Secession is also seen as a last re-sort when the govern-ment seems to eschew listening and consid-eration, but people can always attempt to ex-press their ideas again. People should continu-ously strive to converse with policy makers and disclose their concerns, backing up their per-spectives with logical facts and sincere ex-planations. Communi-cation takes the largest amount of effort, but as effort is in a direct rela-tionship with the quality of interactions, commu-nication will also pro-duce the greatest effect.

an intense campaign and saw close to half of the popular votes go to Governor Romney. Along with this na-tional secession issue, there have also been secession issues on the state scale these past few years. In Utah, four years ago, Demo-cratic Representative Neal Hendrickson at-tempted to create a sep-arate state for southern and rural Utah, so resi-dents in that area could have their concerns addressed effectively in state government. Southern Utah citi-zens thought they didn’t enjoy in politics the same amount of influ-ence those in the North had. Of course, this pro-posal was shot down. Attempts for seces-sion, whether real or symbolic, are sim-ply not reasonable re-sponses to an unsat-isfying government.

Immediately after this year’s presidential election, some unhappy American citizens found it imperative to express their frustration with the government through se-cession petitions on the White House’s website. Currently, citizens from all fifty states have requested to peace-fully withdraw their states from the union. There are two possi-ble reasons for people to sign the petitions:

one is that they sin-cerely do want to se-cede and the other is that they see a petition as a symbolic gesture. For those who would honestly wish to pull out of the United States, they must be forget-ting the Civil War, af-ter which the federal government displayed that states do not have the capability to secede on a whim. Those peo-ple also need to know that society’s problems can always be viably solved through new policies, removing any need for drastic actions. As for people who signed symbolically, their actions are sim-ply superfluous, and there is no need to log online and sign a se-cession petition just to show disapproval. The Obama administration already realizes the ex-tent of popular dissatis-faction; it went through

Peter HuangGUEST COLUMNIST

Letter to the Editor: Secession, real or symbolic,

will not solve anything

Ignorance is never bliss in any form

Devin RameyNEWS EDITOR

Soon after the pres-idential election many Americans cried over the reelection of Pres-ident Barack Obama, and have started pe-titions for states to secede, or separate, from the United States. This idea of seces-sion is insane. I think the people who signed these petitions are just ignorant citizens. Obama won both the poplar vote and won an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College. I could see reason to be loathsome if he didn’t win both, but clearly that’s not the case. The petitions for seces-sion need at least 25,000 signatures for the White House to review and decide whether a state can secede peacefully, but no state will be able to secede with Obama’s signature al-lowing it, which should be common knowl-

edge at this point. Texas has four times the necessary signa-tures needed, with Lou-isiana, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Tennes-see getting roughly over 30,000 each. \ So if you could, sit down, calm yourself, before going and rant and rave about secession, and maybe do your home-work on politics also. President George W. Bush passed the Patriot Act that expanded law enforcement surveil-lance in 2001, which encroached on the av-erage citizen’s privacy, while Obama’s main act that he passed was the Affordable Health-care Act. Comparably, Bush put more power into the executive branch than Obama has. Now, please stop saying that he’s taking rights away, with that in mind. The U.S. of A has the greatest form of gov-ernment on the planet. It may not be perfect, but it’s the best we have at this time, bipartisan-ship needs to be our goal, not cutting the US into smaller coun-tries due to secession. We all need to work together in this time of global change and a un-sure economic future.

CARTOON BY ARIELLE SARGENT

School shows enormous hypocrisy with new rule


their assigned room on two or more occasions they are held in deten-tion on Friday from after school to 5:30 for Friday Night School. In my opinion this rule is hypocritical of the entire point of high school. In Junior High we were told that in high school they’re not going to hold our hands, well Eagle Time is doing exactly that. It was a colos-sal waste of resources and made the stu-dents very displeased. But the fact of the matter remains that we are high school students and we do not require this foolish rule to help us. We are grown up enough to make deci-sions for ourselves and if that decision is that we want to slack off and not do our work then it should be our decision and we should not be punished for it. We understood how academics work and we are willing to take the consequences if we do not do our work.

As of November 15, there has been a con-troversial rule imple-mented on the students by the school’s adminis-tration. The rule is Eagle Time and it is formatted after “Grizz Den” at Riverglen and “Lunch Club” at Fairmont Junior High School. Eagle Time is a rule that states that, every Thurs-day at lunch, students who are missing two or more assignments, or students that are miss-ing one assignment, but have a D or lower in their class are as-signed a room to go into to make up their work. If they do not attend

Roundtable What’s your overall view on

Eagle Time for CHS students?Pro ProProCon

Matt FuhrimanTEACHER

Grace JacobsenSOPHOMORE

Jackson WolfeJUNIOR

Seth ComfortSENIOR

“I like it. I think it’s a great opportunity to be able to show kids the importance of being responsible and being proactive. It’s nice because when I assign Eagle Time early on the students will get their work turned in earlier.”

“I think that it’s good so that there’s not a lot of zeros [on assignments]. I think it will be a good thing because we’re turning stuff in, but I think there should be some things changed like giving the stu-dent advance notice so they don’t have to miss lunch.

“I think it’s got its good sides and its bad sides. I think the good side is that some stu-dents don’t have the initiative and Eagle Time helps them keep their grades up. The bad part is if a student is on vacation and afterwards they get into Eagle Time because of a mix-up.”

“I don’t think it’s going to help too much. If a child is set to do their work and they don’t do it, forcing them to do it at different time isn’t going to make them do any better work. It’ll kind of just make them do their work but not up to the part that the teacher might want.”

Letter to the Editor Submission:

All Letters to the Editor must be turned into room 230 within one week following the release of the

previous issue. No more than 450 words in length, please. If you have any questions or submissions, e-mail Jonathan Reff at [email protected]. Anonymous publication will be at the discretion of the editors, advisor, administration, with parental

approval.

PHOTO BY KAT DAVIS

Documents

123-December 2012