CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 47, Issue 5March 20, 2013

EDITOR IN CHIEF: BRENNA PATRICK

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Debaters competed against teams from all over the U.S. in Berke-ley at the California In-vitational on Feb. 15-18. First year debater Sophomore Kayla Co-cozzo her partner soph-omore Kya Dudney broke to quarter finals in the Junior division. Cocozzo said, “De-bate is difficult because of the levels of criti-cal thinking that is re-quired. Being given the opportunity to de-bate was awesome.” The topic was trans-portation infrastructure. Sophomore Eric Rolfsen said, “ The drive to Berkeley was long but fun. We ended up going 3-4.” Of the six teams representing Capital in the Public Forum debate, three broke to elimination rounds, in-cluding juniors Zach Bramwell and Mack-enzie Moss, and se-niors Mattie Cupps and Khadija Khan. Seniors Drew Ma-linowski and Tajae Turner qualified for a bid for the Tournament of

Champions by makning it to the quarterfinals. Turner and Malinows-ki also qualified for Na-tional Forensic League Nationals earlier in Feb. Cocozzo said,“ De-bate is life changing if you’re willing to put in the effort and time. I love it with all my heart. It does take up most of your time, but anyone looking for a challenging but reward-ing high school expe-rience should join.” “You just need be able to think critically, have a huge work ethic and be able to manage time, with the ability to work under pressure. Unfor-tunately, there are no more debates coming up, but I’m prepping for next year’s topic, and going to Gonzaga debate camp for four weeks in the sum-mer,” said Cocozzo. Rolfsen said, “ I think debate is a really good way to learn about a lot of different topics, I would recommend de-bate even if you don’t like public speaking but join if you really care about what’s go-ing on around you.”

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Varsity Boys basketball team goes to State Championship

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Senior Zackary White gives a ‘thumbs up’ as he proceeds to get his blood taken by a Red Cross member Feb. 28 in the auditorium during the Blue Cross Blood Drive.

Senior Zachery Landram holds his arm up to get blood circulating in is arm after have successfully a pint of his blood taken by a phlebotomist Feb 28 in the auditorium for the Red Cross of Idaho. “I felt like I was making a difference and saving lives,” Landram said.

Key Club helped run the Blue Cross Blood Drive held in Capital’s Auditorium Feb. 28 where approximately 50 students donated 50 pints of usable blood. Senior President Key Club member Kaali (Kat) Davis decided to have the blood drive here while senior Em-ily Sanford helped with the entire process in cohesion with the Key Club for weeks. Volunteers worked in shifts for roughly two class periods each, while working at one of the four stations. Students either worked at the Registration desk to check in students, acted as a runner that went to go get alternate blood givers if some-one didn’t show up, or a walker that helped do-nors walk and go to the final station with food. “I’m grateful the Key Club allowed me to do so much during the drive itself such as

signing donors up to al-lowing me to volunteer and even give! It’s so awesome they involved me because I was able to do something amazing for the com-munity and my senior project,” Sanford said. Junior Key Club member Alma Delic said, “I think it went very well because Capi-tal hasn’t had a blood drive in years and ev-

eryone was a bit un-sure at the beginning but all the Red Cross volunteers were very helpful and it all went smoothly in the end.” Delic said it is im-portant for people to donate because, “every one donation can help up to three people. Ac-cidents happen every-day and you would nev-er want to be in a situ-ation where you need

blood but you can’t receive any because the hospital has run out.” Junior Key Club mem-ber Corri Seideman also helped with the s tations and was pleased with the end results of the drive. “This was so much fun to be a part of! Whether donating or volunteering, I want to thank everyone for their help,” Seideman said.

Vandalism recently hit a record high this year forcing the ad-ministration to crack down on bathroom passes during class. During the summer of 2011 Capital’s bath-rooms had an upgrade, with new stalls, hard-

ware, and walls, Prin-cipal Jon Ruzicka said. Since then Capital’s bathrooms have been defaced with water on the floor, clogged toi-lets, and faces being drawn on the stalls. Ruzicka immediate-ly took action against the multiple offenses. “We’re asking teach-ers to not let students use the restroom, un-

less it is an emer-gency,” Ruzicka said. The consequences will be severe next time the bathrooms are violated, or destruction of any other school property. “If this doesn’t im-prove we’ll lock the bathrooms, except one, and you’ll have to re-port to the inhouse in the B-Hall to use the restroom. But it has

improved, and gone away,” Ruzicka said. Junior Ryan Hoch-strasser said, “I think it is appropriate how they are handling it. The perpetrators should have to pay for it, but no suspension though.” “They should’ve gave us a warning and make it mandatory to sign out of class,” se-nior Dennis Riva said.

These events haven’t been taken lightly by the students either. “It’s childish, very childish, and it is ter-rible art in my opin-ion,” Riva said. “Kind of dumb kids did this, [I] don’t understand,” Hochstrasser said. Riva said that stu-dents need to be more observant, “this is the

worst place to do it because everyone has to pay for it,” he said. “Take care of who did it, go back to normal,” Hochstrasser said. Ruzicka said, “If you see, have seen, or have a suspicion, please report this, and you will be rewarded, and it’s also the right thing to do. We will keep it anonymous,”

Seniors Drew Malinowski and Tajae Turner hold theirtrophies up from placing at the Tournament of Champions.

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Family-oriented projects garner 4 members District medals, heading to State in BoiseDevin RameyNEWS EDITOR

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, FCCLA, traveled to Middleton High School on Feb. 8 to compete at Dis-tricts, resulting in five members qualifying for State in their categories. Senior Amanda David and sophomore David Snow took gold at the District competition. They worked together on the Chapter Ser-vice, where they helped with the Kids Camp during the Parent-Teacher Conferences. Sophomore Alyssia Weed received silver in Career Investigations, with the focus of looking into Career Pathways in culinary, veterinary, and medical surgeons. Senior Nerea Ser-ria earned bronze for her Life Event project that was based on her planning a wedding. Junior Alexandra Medly prequalified for State and didn’t have to compete at District. Medly is currently tak-ing her Early Childhood Education Classroom experience “to produce the teach and train por-tion at State,” accord-ing to Tera Chase, the FCCLA instructor. Chase said that she’s “very impressed and excited for Capital as we have leaders!” Weed said, “For an

after-school program we have done a lot work during school. Overall FCCLA has been a lot of fun.” “It is a great way to interact with oth-ers and to learn more about how to get involved with the com-munity,” said David. FCCLA is a program built around a fam-ily orientation, which is the only in-school pro-gram with such a basis. The members, along with Chase, will head out to the State compe-tition on April 11-13, and will be held at the Riverside Hotel.

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AVID classes watched professional danc-ers perform at the Trey McIntyre Proj-ect studio during their rehearsals Feb. 4 to learn about how to suc-ceed after high school. AVID teacher Paul Rush thought it was a great cultural experi-ence and felt it was important to show the students who attend-ed “a level a dedi-cation and effort to achieve as a profes-sional in that field.” The dancers per-formed Arrantza which was about the Basque fishing industry and the other ballet show-cased was based off the Shakespeare play

Titus Andronicus. After the two per-formances the danc-ers and their director participated in a panel and talked about their lives and gave the stu-dents the opportunity to ask them questions. Junior Garrett Welsh attended and thought the explanation of the dances was interesting. Welsh said, “It taught us about leadership and you can do anything if you put your mind to it.” Junior Emily Sega-nos has always been a fan of the arts and said she loved it. “I was inspired because I want to be a singer when I grow up but peo-ple say it’s unrealistic but the dancers made it realistic,” Seganos said. The dancers all put in

countess hours of work into perfecting their art. “Even though they spend so much time practicing at the dance studio, they take it upon themselves to practice outside of it as well,” Seganos said. Seganos said the dancing showed “the different stories they had to tell and about their trials trying to become dancers.” Junior Ryan Hoch-strasser has been a part of AVID for five years and learned valu-able life lessons from the experience. He said he truly under-stood all the things the people had to give up to do what they loved. The dancers put their heart and soul into what they did includ-

ing having to wake up extremely early for practice to letting their academics some-times suffer “in order to achieve in dance,” Hochstrasser said. Hochstrasser said the experience inspired him to do what his passion is and pursue a life playing soccer. The company is a nonprofit organization that is mostly Boise based but the dancers do go perform in other cities around the U.S. They not only dance in traditional settings, but also perform in places like hospitals, schools, public plac-es, or for businesses.

Top Left: Senior Nerea Sarria and sophomore Alyssia Weed work together on laptop to add finishing touches to Weed’s slide show. Top Right: Senior Nerea Sarria takes last minute advice from FCCLA instructor Tera Chase before giving her presentation.Bottom: Sophomore David Snow, senior Amanda David, and sophomore Alyssia Weed talk with each after Snow and David finished their presentation.

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Out of 58 students competing from Capi-tal High (the largest chapter in Treasure Valley) at the State DECA competition, 44 of those students received medallions for their events on March. They were also the only ones who received the honor award for chapter

campaigns in Entrepre-neurship, community service, and promotion. Senior Saylor Fish-er is now the State DECA President and Junior Emily Hutchi-son is the Central Dis-trict Vice President. Senior Kiana Tilley has been in DECA for three years and said the DECA competi-tions are events that can require writing an

11-30-page paper on the event. They present that along with a visual to a judge, in a role-play. Students are given a problem or topic and have 15 minutes to come up with ideas for that and present that in front of a judge and there are also tests for certain written and role play events. Junior member Emily Hutchinson said, “This

year DECA was great! I placed first in Finance research operations and won up for Idaho Also.” “When I’m in DECA I feel like a big family and I understand what we talk about when where doing the activi-ties,” Hutchison said. Nationals will be held on April 23-28 in Anaheim California.

FCCLA: Chapter service, career investigations, life events

DECA: 58 compete, 44 win

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Anatomy and Physi-ology and A.P. Biology classes went on a field trip to Bodies Revealed at the Discovery Cen-ter to learn about how the body and its many functions on March 1. All the students missed classes from break until lunch at the exhibit along with A.P. Biol-ogy teacher Jason Gordan and Anatomy teacher John Doherty. “Mr. Doherty and myself felt that this was a great for our stu-dents to see up close all the systems we have been discussing in class,” Gordan said. Gordan also said, “I think the exhibit was a great opportunity for students and people in general to appreciate how our bodies work when so many of us take them for granted.” There were nine exhibits including the skeletal, muscular, ner-vous, respiratory, diges-tive, urinary, reproduc-

tive, endocrine, and circulatory systems. All the body parts had gone through exten-sive procedures and given preservation so they won’t dete-riorate and decompose. At the center stu-dents had to fill out an assignment as they went through the differ-ent sections and were able to hold an actual stomach and brain that had been preserved. Once they students finished the exhibit they had the chance to go have even more fun in the rest of the Discov-ery Center and experi-ence all the activities. Senior A.P. Bio. stu-dent Annie Ebert said there was a lot of fun facts to learn and the whole thing was and enjoyable experience. One of her favorite facts that she learned at the displayed was “on package of ciga-rettes takes three hours and 40 minutes off a person’s life.” “It’s crazy how your brain controls your body and all its func-tions,” Ebert said.

The Business Profes-sionals of America’s team won gold in Video Production in the con-test at the State finals, after winning silver in both Video Produc-tion and Broadcasting in the regional pre-liminaries. The com-petition was held on March 7 and 8, and was held at Boise State University campus.

The gold medal team consisted of seniors Weston Dur-land, Nick Hoover, and Jeremy Hunt. Hoover said, with the competition process, “We were assigned a topic and we designed a five minute video high-lighting the said topic.” Durland said, “I think the idea behind the program is an exceptional one.” Hunt said BPA has, “so many categories of

Taylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR

Aquaponics: A more efficient way to grow

Aaron Butlers APES class’s grow bed holding green onions, beans, and basil over the Nitrogen and fish systems.

Juniors Cece Harris, Erica Bullock, Ashley Ferra, seniors Darianne Willey and Paige Roban, juniors Paul Grigg and Peter Huang, and seniors Katherine Hollard and Zach Velasquez gather around the aquaponic grow bed.

A.P. Environmen-tal Science or “APES” class recently received a grant from Capital Edu-cators Federal Credit of $750 to fund the class’s

new aquaponics project. Aquaponics is a process where plants are grown in gravel rather than soil by recycling nitro-gen-rich water into the plants by using live fish to produce the nitrogen instead of chemicals. “We recreated a symbiotic relation-

ship between plants and fish,” APES teach-er Aaron Butler said. Senior Tyler Stein decided to use this as his senior project because, “it teaches us about faster and more efficient ways of farming,” Stein said. The APES class divided

up into research groups then describing the project and what mate-rials would be needed. The CapEd orga-nization approved a grant that purchased wood beams, fish, seeds, and gravel. Once a week the class had one period to con-

struct the grow bed. The project has had its challenges. The gold fish began to die as the nitrogen levels created an increasingly acidic environment. But the class is tack-ling this problem by integrating fish slowly back into the project.

“I cannot express how proud I am of these stu-dents. They have done something truly amaz-ing, scientists in the real world have to apply for grants to do their work, and this class learned to do that,” Butler said.

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competition, and we are able to compete in a division, video pro-duction, in which there are very few contests.” Hoover said, “I felt confident going in. We certainly have a lot to work on for Nationals.” “I think BPA is a great program for friends to work together and to travel to fun places, like Orlando or Chi-cago,” said Durland. Hoover said BPA, “tends to be very hec-

tic, but the events are run well.” Durland also said the program, “gives you the skill set need-ed to do well in a capitalist country.” The National Com-petition will be held in Orlando, Flor-ida on May 6-10. “I hope that we do well and reclaim the title of first place for our state. I also hope to get some sun in the sun-shine state while visit-ing some major attrac-tions,” Durland said.

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PHOTO BY TAYLOR BINDERBPA’s State gold medal winners. Front Row: seniors Nick Hoover, Weston Durland, Chad Estes and junior Kavan Hess. Back Row: senior Jeremy Hunt.

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Arts Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Editor: Andrew Welker

Artists place in Treasure Valley Competitions

West makes State in Poetry Out Loud

Senior Sammy West placed in the top seven at the Poetry Out Loud District competition on Feb. 16, earning a place at State on March 16. West chose to read two poems from an anthology, or a collec-tion of works, given by the program. The first was “The Kiss” by Robert Graves and “A Noiseless Patient Spi-der” by Walt Whitman. West liked Graves’ poem and chose “A Noiseless Patient Spi-der” since she felt she could “put a lot of emotion in reciting it” because of her intense dislike for spiders. West entered the

Curtis Stigers joins Capital jazz groups for benefit concert

Capital music pro-grams held a benefit concert/dinner featur-ing Capital alumnus and renowned inter-national jazz musician Curtis Stigers for the second year in a row. Senior Singer Bri-ana Ortiz said, “It was unreal. He’s honestly one of the most talent-ed musicians I’ve ever met. I am so grateful to have had the chance to sing with one of my newly-found idols.” About 700 tickets were sold for the Feb. 22 event, making over $10,000 for the Jazz band and Singers choir. Band director Marty Worthington said, “It

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competition to help end her stage fright. “This is my way of con-quering it, and I’m really glad I did it,” West said. Her favorite part of performing was “figur-ing out how the poet would have read it and if I would agree.” For State, West chose to still do “The Kiss” as well as, “Constantly Risking to Absurdity” by Lawrence Ferling-hetti and “The Author to Her Own Book,” by Anne Bradstreet. To prepare West is memorizing the new poems by “writing them down over and over to get it right.” West has high hopes to win State and go to D.C. for Nationals.

was a lot of fun. The kids, audience, Curtis Stigers all enjoyed it.” Senior Singer Jenni Hathaway said, “For the first half we were up there going back and forth with the jazz band and then for the second half we mostly just got to sit and watch Curtis, which was so cool.” Choir director Benji Simmonds promoted the event on the radio station The River 94.9. “I think performing with the jazz band and performing with Curtis Stigers bumped us up to a new level. I think we were more excited and more engaged in the music and so it really went better than expect-ed,” Hathaway said.

Seniors Blake Wilcox, Tarik Alleyne, junior Brady Bilderback, performer Curtis Stigers, and junior Trevor McCleskey.

PHOTO BY BRIANA SCHOEPPACH

DRAWING BY WHITNEY BLACKBURN

DRAWING BY GILLIAN CHANDLER

PAINTING BY VICTORIA SKOMAROKHA

Top Left: Skomarokha’s painting of the Owyhee Desert was accepted into the Higher Ground competition and won a Silver Key in Scholastic. Top Middle: Skomarokha’s painting titled “Boy and his Dog” also won a Silver Key at Scholastic. Below: Rodriguez’s drawing titled “Sippin’ on some Starbucks” won a Silver Key at Scholastic.

Top: Blackburn’s colored pencil drawing of the knob on her front door was accepted into Higher Ground and won a Gold Key in Scholastic. Below: Ips’s drawing of some orange fabric won a Silver Key at Scholastic.

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DRAWING BY EMILY IP

PAINTING BY JACKSON TURNER

DRAWING BY MELISSA RODRIGUEZ

DRAWING BY WHITNEY BLACKBURN

PAINTING BY JACKSON TURNER

Capital had stu-dents compete in the Scholastic and High-er Ground art com-petitions with mul-tiple students placing. The Scholastic art competition students were awarded March 8 at the Student Union building at BSU and instead of traditional gold, silver and bronze metals the art show awarded the students Gold Key, Silver Key

and honorable mentions. Participants who placed were given college scholarships. Senior Jackson Turner won three Gold Keys for his artwork. Art teacher Cathy Younger said Turn-er, “Kicked butt!” “I was the only per-son in the state to get three Gold Key awards which is like winning first place three times so needless to say I’m pret-ty stoked,” Turner said. Senior Gillian Chan-dler and Junior Whit-

ney Blackburn are the other two win-ners of Gold Keys. The Silver Key win-ners include juniors Emily Ip and Whitney Blackburn and seniors Melissa Rodriguez and Victoria Skomarokha. Silver Key Ceramics Scholastic Art Award winners include seniors Spencer Goffin, Rachel Howard, Susan Beas-ley, Haily Shirley and junior Cece Harris. Honorable Men-tion awards went to seniors Goffin, Har-

ris, Emily Meyers and Jordan McDermott. The Higher Ground Art competition was held March 16-21 and top winners received an award of $200. The competition had about 600 art pieces submitted from all the Treasure Valley schools. Younger said 60 stu-dents were selected to exhibit their work and Capital had five accept-ed. They were Chandler, Skomarokha, Goffin, Meyers, and Blackburn.

Senior/Prom Photos

Left: Chandler’s charcoal drawing of Ip working in the art room behind a pear was accepted into Higher Ground and won a Gold Key in Scholastic. Below: Blackburn’s drawing titled “My Grandmother’s Tricycle” won a Silver Key at Scholastic.

PAINTING BY VICTORIA SKOMAROKHA

Below: Turner’s painting of a butterfly in front of his face was one of his three Gold Key winners at Scholastic. Below that was another Gold Key winner. All three of Turner’s winning art-work were self portraits. The third (unpictured) was a mosaic.

ALL WINNERS AND AWARDSScholasticGold Key:Jackson TurnerGillian ChandlerWhitney BlackburnSilver Key:Melissa RodriguezVictoria Skomarokha

Whitney BlackburnEmily IpHigher GroundGillian ChandlerWhitney BlackburnVictoria SkomarokhaSpencer GoffinEmily MeyersHonorable mention not listed

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EntertainmentWednesday, March 20, 2013

Editor: Luis Sarria-Garcia

Emily LundquistSPORTS EDITOR

Who’s Better? Michael Jordan

Dane PenceTeacher

JaQuille RobinsonJunior

Lebron James

Ryan NaramoreJunior

Payton LukecartJunior

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Jeremy HuntSTAFF WRITER

How to deal withhigh school

drama

Michael Jordan is undisputabley the best player of all time, right now. But if you con-sider the competition that surrounded Jordan opposed to the the com-petition surrounding James, James is more impresive. James has all around more skills than Jordan, hence James has more potential. I’m not saying it’s a definite that James will be the best. Yet James has a very nice chance to become the greatest player.

Honestly. I think James is better mostly because he can play every position on the floor. He is 6’8 250 lbs and when he is running down court full speed it’s like a train coming at you so you have no choice to just get away from him. Michael may have 6 ring’s and MVP’s but he had the team to back him up. Lebron has 3 MVP’s in the past 4 years. Ever since he moved teams he has been to the Finals two and out of two times he has one championship.

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Prom and all the drama that goes with it, perform-ing March 21-23 in the Auditorium. Show starts

at 7 PM Thursday and Friday, and at noon on Sat-urday. Admission will cover the ticket price and a meal. $3 for kids and seniors, $6 for students, and

$8 for adults.SINGERS SHOW: Capital Singers, the advanced co-ed choir, will perform their best work on April 19 at 7 PM in the Auditorium. Admission: $6 for

students and $8 for adults.

Well you see I can’t answer that correctly until Lebron retires and his career stats are fin-ished, but I must say Jordan is better from what I know for now and what he’s accom-plished. Yet this opin-ion could change later on in Lebron’s career. Today Lebron is bet-ter only based on one fact, Jordan is older.

In high school the stress levels of teenag-ers are very high due to the fear of being accept-ed by peers, the way they look and keeping up with school/grades and especially drama. Oftentimes, drama can cause students to lose friends, focus on school, lower self-worth and fail to com-municate efficiently. But how do you avoid lies and fight-ing with peers? Here are a few pointers to solve the problem of high school drama. 1. Be nice to every-one: The popular term “treat others the way you want to be treated”

has a lot of truth to it. If you replace negative comments and thoughts you have about some-one, with a compliment or a friendly “hello,” this will reduce the possibility that they will say anything bad about you in return. 2. Don’t listen or start rumors: In most cases, drama starts due to what someone said as it passed through friends and the story got twist-ed somewhere in the “grapevine” of friends. If you hear about some-one talking negatively about you, confront the problem yourself by talking to them or just simply ignore it. 3. Communicate: When people hear rumors about them-

selves that someone else said, they often fight back with an even worse rumor or snide com-ment. Rather than let-ting this anger bottle up inside you until explod-ing, confront the prob-lem and express your feelings to your friends. If drama or fight-ing continues, consult a trusted adult, like a teacher or counselor, and schedule a meeting to get it all settled so your school experience can be a positive one.

For me, MJ was every-thing... I had his shoes, his jersey, and I did my best to play like him on the court. I even wore 23 in basketball to imitate him. Jordan was a winner, he has an inner drive that only few people get in life. I believe he is the great-est player to be apart of the NBA. He is a legend. Lebron is something completely dif-ferent from MJ. He is big and strong and very athletic. leb-ron would be succesful in any sport. I believe Lebron would be a better teammate because he is a better passer and team player then Jordan ever was but Jordan knew how to win. Jordan is a legend and Leb-ron is the future. The times and game are different, each of them are the best of their era and there is no to that.

The undisputable best player in the game today is Lebron James, yet he is still being over shadowed by the, hands down, great-est player who has ever touched a basket-ball, Michael Jordan. There are many rea-sons why Michael Jordan is better than Lebron James. Jordan went to col-lege and won the NCAA championship, unlike James who went straight into the NBA out of high school. So if James would’ve gone to college he may have had more expe-rience and possibly a few NCAA champion-ships. Instead of where he is now. He lacks the potential of a champion, and unfortunelty took too long to win his first championship last year. Jordan and James both won their first titles

roughly around the same age. However Jordan won his first title in his 7th season unlike James who won his 1st title in his 9th season. In my opinion it took James way too long for his first title win, compared to Jordan who did it in a matter of years, and in my opinion did it better. It was easier for James to win his champion-ship compared to Jor-dan who played tougher opponents such as, Lar-ry Bird, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller, Hakeem Olajuwon and Karl Malone. James played competitors such as, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Tracy Mcgrady, Vince Carter, Allen Iverson, Jason Kidd and Kobey Bryant. I’m not say-ing Lebron didn’t play anyone, I’m just say-ing Michael played Champions, Lebron played one good cham-pion (Kobey Bryant).

The action thriller, Snitch features Dwayne Johnson as John Mat-thews, a regular guy who is forced to take action to save his son from a hefty prison sentence. The sentence was brought on when Matthew’s son, played by Rafi Gavron, was caught with several thousand illegal drugs in his possession, and was sentenced to the manda-tory minimum sentence of 10 years in a federal prison. The only way to minimize the sentence was if Johnson’s char-acter helps the DEA take down someone higher in the drug cartel. Overall I thought this movie was poorly made, and poorly directed, most likely due to the fact that the director, Ric Roman Waugh, is a stuntman turned direc-tor. The main screen-play writer, Justin Haythe, has very few

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movies under his belt, most of which did rather poorly in the box office. This film was sup-posed to be the best per-formance of Johnson’s career, which I believe, is accurate, but he is a mediocre actor so even his “best performance” isn’t very impressive. The film was intended to be an action movie, but the action didn’t start until almost an hour into the movie. Most of the movie focused on the devel-opment of characters, which, given John-son’s poor acting skills, was mind numbing. If I were to rank this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a solid 5, it did have moments where it got the viewer interested, but over-all it was very slow. If you are a fan of cheesy, overly dramat-ic action movies, then this movie is right up your alley, but if not, I wouldn’t recommend you watch anything other than the trailer.

Action thriller withDwayne Johnson

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Sports Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Editor: Victoria Holm

Athleteof theMonth

Sport: Basketball

Years playing: 10 years

Loves the sport because:

Of the competition and the friends I make playing it.

Favorite opponent:Timberline

Benefits of the sport:

Life-long friends

College plans:Go to college to

play basketball and major in sports

med.

Difficulty Level:8

One word to describe the sport:

Dedication

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

10 hours

Nicholas DowJunior

Nicolette GrantSTAFF WRITER

Varsity boys’ basketball team takes fifth at State

Emily LundquistSPORTS EDITOR

Every year when State comes around, the wrestlers dye their hair a platinum blonde to represent the bald eagle, the mascot for Capital. Six wrestlers placed at the State competition in the Holt Arena at Idaho State University, these included senior Alex Ekins, junior Jacob Fields, senior Jaren Kahoiwai, junior Blake

Collins, senior Hunter Manwaring and senior Wesley Raich all place. Ekins placed first over-all and won the title of 5A State Champion in, 285 lbs. weight division. “I feel awesome! State Champion is a pretty good feeling an it’s a lot of fun,” said Ekins. Third place winners included Manwaring in 120 lbs. weight divi-sion and Fields in 220 lbs. weight division. “I felt pretty good about where I placed;

going in my goal was to win but after I lost in the semi finals I knew I had to comeback, which I did!” said Manwaring. Last year the team finished second to last in State but really raised the bar this year. “We finished 4th in Districts and 7th overall in State, even with three of our good kids out with season ending injuries, so I though our boys finished with a bang!” said Coach Jody Webb.

Rugby aspires to“Continue traditions”

Jonathan ReffOPINION EDITOR

Softball players gain experience

Senior wrestler Wes Raishe prepares to perform a double leg take-down against a Meridian High Warrior Jan 3.

PHOTO BY DANIELA FLORES

Both Varsity and Junior Varsity’s first game was held against Borah on March 8. Varsity won their game with the score of 5-4. Junior Varsity lost with the score of 5-15. The team placed second in District and made it to State last season. Junior Heather Tracy said, “I hope we do as good as we did last season. We play in the hot and cold and even when it’s raining. Nothing stops us from practicing.”

Selma KovacSTAFF WRITER

Senior Kimberly Carr said she hopes to increase her running speed. “Most players have dedicated themselves towards self-improvement and being a better team player but both teams consist of experienced players,” Carr said. Head coach Shane Alder said, “I am looking forward to seeing how the returning players mesh with the new ones… I think this team has the potential to do just as good as last year”. Carr also said, “I think we will do pret-ty well. We will sur-prise some teams.”

Athletes’ fates decided The boys’ and girls’ rugby teams were head-ed to their first match of the season on Mar. 16 against Boise High School at Fairmont Park. The girls’ team went to the pre-season Presi-dent’s Tournament in Portland in which they defeated Kent High School, the fifth ranked high school rugby team in the nation, but lost in the championship. Girls’ rugby head coach Laura Fredriksen is part of the Boise Nem-esis, a women’s rugby team who plays mostly teams from Oregon, Montana, and Washing-ton. Fredriksen has been playing for eight years

and this is her second year coaching the Capi-tal girls rugby team. Last season the girls went to Portland for a tournament in which they beat their entire division and then won the Idaho’s girls’ rugby champi-onship game 50-5. Senior Darian Blair, whose been playing for two years, occupies the scrum half position on the girls’ team, which is “like the quarterback.” It requires “leadership and communication,” Blair said. She looks for-ward to “being able to work with the new girls and continue the rugby traditions at Capital.” Blair got interested in the sport when boys’ rugby head coach Matt Jacobsen “basically

threw me in it and said my leadership skills will do great at that position.” Senior Nick Dunstan, who’s also been play-ing for two years on the boys’ team, occu-pies the wing, fly-half, and scrum half posi-tions. His team also won the state tourna-ment last year. The team also went to the pre-season tournament in Portland in which their record was 2-2. This season, Dun-stan’s expectations are “to beat all the Idaho teams and win state.” This year the boys’ team is going to San Francisco for a major tournament involv-ing top-ranked high school teams from all over the United States.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY MATTHEW JACOBSON

Players go to Holt Arena and “raise the bar”

PHOTO BY KAT DAVISJunior Nicholas Dow jumps up to make a basket against Highland Rams on Feb. 19.

Track competed in their annual Black and Gold meet March 8 to deter-mine where the athletes are in their training. Head coach Bry-an Stith believes it went “really well.” Stith said the meet was meant to let the students practice com-peting before the first meet on March 15. The meet showed the athletes different events they might have

Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

talent for, like sprint-ing, distance running, jumping, pole vault-ing, or throwing, and their level of fitness. Results also showed the coaches who would be good for the relays, very selective races involv-ing four runners each running a set distance. Students were split into Black and Gold teams which were made up with ath-letes for each event. The runners compet-ed at shorter distances than normal because coaches didn’t need

a whole race to see the athletes’ abilities. Senior and distance runner Julia Taylor won the 600 and 1200 meter races at the meet. Taylor said it’s good that they had the meet “to remember how fast you’re supposed to go.” Senior Phoebe Niel-son said, “What you do at the beginning of the season will set the precedent for what’s gonna happen at the end of the season.”

Track competes in annual Black and Gold meet

Six wrestlers place at State at ISU

Varsity boys’ basketball team takes fifth at State Boys’ varsity bas-ketball team won the fifth place Consola-tion State Champi-onship on March 2 against Madison High. On Thursday, Feb. 28, the team lost the first State pool game by one point, 57-56, to Highland High. Then on Saturday, March 1, the team won over Lake City High, 54-46. Head coach Paul Rush said the team prac-ticed the week before the tournament spe-cifically preparing the players for what they would be likely to see come tournament play. “We tried to simu-late the intensity and

environment the best we could in prac-tice,” Rush said. Over the season, Rush said he was very proud of his team’s improvement and the effort they put into games and practices as playing as a team. “They proved that if they put aside their individual aspira-tions and stay focused, intense and playing very hard, they could be great,” Rush said. Junior Hunter Young was proud of his team because of “our team’s passion and com-petitive spirit during practice and games.” As for the tournament games, Young said the team prepared by com-ing to practice everyday with “the right mindset to get better and pre-pare for our games.”

Junior Nick Dow said the team became a lot closer over the season, because we “overcame a lot of adversity. We didn’t let issues off the court affect us on the court as a team.” As for his own improvements, he was proud that he became a “better defender as the season went on.” To prepare for the tournament, the team watched film of oth-er teams as well as “sticking to their game plan that we started with since day one of practice,” Dow said. After the season, Dow said he would miss “being with my teammates everyday.” Overall, Young said he would miss “all of the competitive spir-its and good friends.”

Rugby teams posing on the capital field for a group photo after a game in Portland Oregon Feb 23.

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SportsWednesday, March 20, 2013

Editor: Emily Lundquist

Athlete of theMonth

Sport: Track

Years playing: 2

Loves the sport because:

It’s challenging and independent. You can’t blame

anyone if you mess up.

Favorite opponent:None

Benefits of the sport:

Learn to rely on yourself, make friends and get close with the

coaches.

College plans:

None yet.

Difficulty level:8

One word to describe sport:

Challenging

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

7-10

Nicole White

Selma KovacSTAFF WRITER

Photo by SADIyA AMANI

Sophomore Connor Poulsen slides into second base while Borah High player tries to catch the ball during their game on March 8.

Victoria holmSPORTS EDITOR

Focusing on teamwork and effort to prepare

for ‘good season’

Sophomore

Capital racers earn sixth place at Dotty Clark Invitational

Jeremy huntSTAFF WRITER

Baseball hopes ‘strong leadership’ improves team

brenna PatrickEDITOR IN CHIEF

Ski/Snowboard team ends season

Lacrosse plans to dominate the field

Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

Photo ProVIDeD by rAy WIlMot

Junior Chase Macaw snowboards down the hill at the Dotty Clark Invitational. He placed 7th in Men’s Expert Snowboard.

The Varsity base-ball teams started off their season with their first game on March 7 with a 9-6 win against Borah High. Head Coach Jerry Hollow said, “We have nine returning letter-man and five returning starters. With strong senior leadership, we are looking forward to the new season. They just completed a ten week preseason workout program. “We play in the best baseball confer-ence in the state so we have a great opportu-nity to compete and continue to improve.

Both the varsity and junior varsity players have work extremely hard to prepare for the 2013 baseball sea-son,” Hollow said. Senior pitcher Russell Reber said, “It all starts on the mound and it’s fun to be out there mak-ing hitters look foolish. To play that position you need to have a good arm and the command of all your pitches.” Reber said, “I’m look-ing forward to seeing how we do this season because of all the hard work we put into the winter, I think we have a good coach who isn’t afraid to push us to our absolute full potential.” Senior Corbin Smith said, “I’ve played pitch-

er, third base, second base, and short stop because I like the quick pace of the game. You need a good arm and a lot of knowledge about how the game is played. My coach knows a lot about the game and is really experienced.” Last year finishing their season was 12-12. “We were successful in the beginning and middle of the season but we couldn’t pull it together in the end. The expectations I have as a team are to have a win-ning season and place in state,” Smith said. Senior Makena Simis plays catcher, pitcher, third base and left field. “I’ve always been a catcher, but last

year I got switched around quite a bit. To play these positions it takes a wide variety of skills,” Simis said. About last season,

Simis said “We were pretty successful at the beginning of the year, but we didn’t finish the season too well.” “Coach Hollow loves

the game and puts a huge amount of time into it. He is a great guy and very respectable coach,” Simis said.

Photo by trACI hoFF

Front row: Eli Smith, Kedar Holtan Second row: Anthony Verrinder, Fox Skidmore, Gunner Kuehl, Sam Gibson, Ryder Koenig, Ben Vering, Garrett Booth, Michel Gibson, Sean Conner, Mack Koenig Third row: Jackson Binder, Ben Hoff, Brodie Raistrick, Jacob Beery, Ben Wright, David Wright, Calvin Burton, Braden Swain, Micheal Serna, Jacob Laraway Back row: Zach Pattee, Sam Hoff, Logan Scribior- Grothe, David Beery, Chad Estes, Forrest Semancik, Hayden Woods, Alex Crowson, Mac Beers

Boys Lacrosse started the season off strong at their first game against Pocatello High School on March 9, winning score of 9-8. Senior goalie Zach-ery Pattee has played the sport for three years and expects the teamto “play a lot more as a whole” this year. On the field Pat-tee said determination, muscle memory and being able to deter-mine which plays the two teams are carrying out are all needed for him to his job correctly. Pattee said last year the team didn’t come

out on top due to the lack of numbers for the team but this year holds more promise with more members joining. “The team is like a family” senior Hayden Woods said. Woods plays the attack position because he enjoys the offen-sive side of the sport. “Knowledge about the sport, a fast shot, and determination,” are what it takes to play an attacker Woods said. Woods also said his coach, “knows a lot about how to pull a team together.” For this season Woods hopes to win all the games, dominating the lacrosse field and having a great rest of the year.

Because the dan-ger of injuries returns when spring sports start, Sports Medicine teacher A.J. Epperson offers advice to ath-letes about staying safe and performing well. Epperson stressed that if an athlete experiences pain for more than two or three days they should come talk to him in the

Advice to keep

a th l e t e s running

training room between the main gym and the student parking lot. Too many students have come to him after ignoring their pain for too long to discover it’s a season-ending injury that could have been treated ear-lier, Epperson said. Another dan-ger to athletes of any sport is fatigue. Epperson said fatigue happens when some-

The tennis team will be focusing on more teamwork, more team effort, and on hav-ing a good season. Sophomore Savan-nah Lipkin said, “Since I’m a sophomore and new to the varsity team, I’m just starting to meet new friends. They’ve also been helping me out a lot.” The team plays many schools ranging from the Boise School Dis-trict to the Merid-ian School District. Their first oppo-nent will be Lewiston High on March 14.

The team consists of experienced play-ers, as there are 15 on varsity and 24 on JV. Lipkin said, “I love getting to know my team mates and can’t wait to go to the Var-sity tournaments.” She also said, “I love to play singles because I love to chal-lenge myself, it takes a lot of endurance because you tend to get tired during a match.” Sophomore Tristan Davis said, “I plan on improv-ing my backhand.” Davis said, “I’m grateful that I have such a good and welcoming team.”

one uses more ATP, or the energy muscles use to move, than the body can provide. The problem can be fixed by having a good diet and avoiding foods with empty calo-ries and that are high in carbs, saturated fat, or sugar. Specifically avoid fast food, ice cream, doughnuts, soda, and other junk foods. Dehydration can also cause a person to become worn out. Epperson encourages students to regularly drink water and avoid caffiene, which makes the body lose water faster than normal.

Tennis:

Sports Med. advisor AJ Epperson wraps senior Dylan Hale’s ankle at a football game.

The Ski and Snow-board team had a suc-cessful season this year, placing 6th at the Dotty Clark Champion-ships out of 15 teams. Top places for the women were from senior Kieron Teets, who placed 7th in Wom-en’s Expert Ski, junior Samantha Roberts who placed 6th in Women’s Novice Ski, and sopho-more Kelsey Sprague placing 6th in Women’s Snowboard Novice. For the men, senior

Alex Betts placed 4th in Men’s Expert Ski, soph-omore Braden Swain placed 4th in Men’s Intermediate Ski, and junior Chase Macaw placed 7th in Men’s Expert Snowboard. “I was really happy and excited to have done that well, it was a huge improvement from last year,” Roberts said. Betts said, “Dotty Clark was fun this year. I placed 4th again and only missed the next spot by .25 of a second and that upset me, but that’s racing.” Coach Ray Wilm-

ot said, “The team did great this year, I couldn’t be prouder of their performance and am already looking for-ward to the next year.” The season culmi-nated in an end-of-the-season trip to Grand Targhee over Presi-dent’s Day weekend. “The Targhee trip was awesome, a really good trip to end my senior year with.” Betts said. Roberts said, “The trip was fantastic, I loved it and had a great time, I don’t get many chances to ski outside of Bogus, so it was really nice.”

Photo by brooKlyN CollINS

Opinion Wednesday, March 20, 2013

PAGE 8 Editor: Jonathan Reff

Ashley CritzGUEST COLUMNIST

This is a fictional satirical piece origi-nally written for an AP Language assign-ment. It was submit-ted to the Newspa-per staff by Ashley Critz’s English teacher with her permission. FARMINGTON, MO- In what she says is “the most efficient and ef-fective way” to train her 3 month old for beauty pageants, Missouri na-tive and pageant mom, Betty Adkins bragged about her brilliant idea to send her daughter to puppy training school 6 hours a day instead of teaching her how to walk or speak herself. “Oh she loves it! They teach her how to perform on stage, she even sits on command now,” exclaimed Ad-kins who marveled at the sight of three month old daughter, Violet who was attempting to chew a hole through the leash around her neck. Adkins, who de-cided Violet was des-tined to be a superstar since birth, first came up with the idea when she was watching The Dog Whisperer. She was amazed with how similar the behavior of a puppy and her then 2 week old daugh-ter’s behavior were. “It just clicked,

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School Uniforms: How they work, why they don’t

Nicolette GrantSTAFF WRITER

Roundtable What do you think of Kim Jong Un’s political move with Dennis Rodman?

In February, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for

a week of “basketball diplomacy.” After the event Rodman said he respected the authoritarian

ruler, which caused controversy due to the dictator’s human rights violations.

Pat WalkerTEACHER

Mycah MooreSOPHOMORE

Brandon BurrJUNIOR

Noel SmithSENIOR

“It seems Rodman and [Kim Jong] Un are kind of conduct-ing their own little hoops di-plomacy and it seems kind of insane when one’s suggest-ing that basketball could help things, while the other one, at the same time, has his finger poised on a nuclear button. It seems like a crazy way to do things. It’s March madness.”

“At first, I didn’t really know why such a high political power would want to inter-view somebody like that [Dennis Rodman]. Then I fig-ured that Kim Jong Un had the point that he had in invit-ing somebody over like that was that he [Kim] would know that when he [Rodman] goes back to the United States he [Rodman] would have that good opinion of him [Kim].”

“It definitely shows that Kim Jong Un knows what he is doing. Obviously there’s a component where Kim Jong Un has to have this idea that he’s propagandizing Den-nis Rodman. It’s definitely an interesting political move that I think shows that Kim Jong Un is politically savvy. ”

“I don’t really think Dennis Rodman should’ve been over there in the first place but since he’s been over there, maybe it can help the rela-tionship between North Korea and U.S. forces… I don’t think he [Kim Jong Un] should be messing with our players.”

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

chsjonathanr@gmail.com. Anonymous publication will be at the discretion of the editors, advisor, administration, with parental approval.

she cried and I swat-ted her nose with a newspaper, said ‘tsst’ and she stopped.” Violet’s daily rou-tine involves waking up around five in the morning and being taken to obedience class where she and her “classmates” are taught to sit, fetch, roll over, and go through an ob-stacle course includ-ing jumping through hoops and swim-ming through a pond. “It really helps her stage presence,” con-tinued Betty. “Instead of some boring, worth-less talent, Violet now has the ability to bark the national anthem, and jump through rings of fire! It’s a real hit with the judges.” Nothing is cheap about these pageants ei-ther, and being the over achieving, caring par-ent she is, Mrs. Adkins found it completely necessary to “mort-gage their house and sell both of her cars” in order to fund these pageants. She claims she has spent over $1900 on dresses and obedience camp alone. “Dog training can’t fix everything for my little princess though. Her cheeks are in-credibly chubby and for some reason her hair is extremely short still.” Sounds like a typical 3 month old to most people, but who really knows. Although most parents would say this type of activity is cruel or in-humane, all Adkins had to say for herself was, “She’s just too sassy for me, but at least I’m not giving her Botox or plas-tic surgery, though she may need a little bit…”

a drama program that would allow such cre-ativity to flourish so ku-dos also to Mrs. Stewart and the actors, actresses and crew that brought the play to Capital.

Sincerely,Writer’s GuildPaula Uriarte, AdvisorAlek RowlandLorraine Garlock-Law-renceHughie GaleEmilie KelleySammy WestCarolina ZhenAriah SargentTori Dresser

Dear Flight Editor: Imagine taking a full load of difficult classes, participating in many school and com-munity activities and still finding the time to pen a play. Imagine the amount of work it would take to actually put that play into pro-duction. One of our students, Hailee Len-hart-Wees did just that and her Writer’s Guild supporters commend her for her creativity and diligence in the production of Spare Keys. We also think it is a wonderful thing to be in a school that has

The latest issue of CHS Flight was as usual ex-cept for an article writ-ten about the original screen play Spare Keys. I understand that jour-nalism is a way for stu-dents to express them-selves through writing based on real events, however this article had made me feel uncom-fortable. The way it was worded, it sounded a bit too harsh. It is to the point where it probably will discourage other students from attempt-ing to write a play, di-rect, and perform it at our school for the up-coming years for Capi-

tal High’s Drama. Not only that, but it is quite rude to overly-criticize something an entire group of passionate, inspired students have worked on, sacrificing their time and energy.I support students to express themselves through any type of media, until it comes to a point where it dis-courages others from expressing themselves. I find this article to be quite discouraging.

Diversity Club PresidentAriah Sargent

Letters to the Editor

School uniforms in ju-nior highs have become popular among staff and teachers; but are they working for students? I personally think that uniforms are com-pletely unnecessary. When you are an ad-olescent, you are just beginning to figure out who you are and if you are forced to dress like a clone, how on earth will you ever accom-plish that simple task? High school is a place wear individuality makes you or breaks you. I feel that if uni-forms were introduced

to Capital High School more then a few people would be quite upset. Since kindergarten we are taught to be our-selves. So if teachers, principals and board members decide that being ourselves is a distraction then they must want all of us to be automatons, right? Style is not just clothes; it’s you saying who you are, how you are, and what you care about. How people dress can say a lot about their character and if you take that away you’re taking way individuality and personality! There is no specific evidence connecting school uni-forms to higher aca-demic results, so what is the reasoning for school uniforms? I would say it is to re-duce how many stu-dents are called down to the office for dress code violations and they believe that it will help students to more easily focus on school.

Peter HuangGUEST COLUMNIST

North Korea’s Threats of Nuclear Testing North Korea has just recently disclosed that it successfully conducted its third nuclear test, and understandably, countries around the world are discussing heatedly the implica-tions for international security. This milita-rism can be seen as a re-actionary force against what many North Ko-reans see as aggressive

North Korea com-mits horrid infractions against human rights such as placing dissi-dents into labor camps all in order to become a nuclear power and secure an interna-tional position that will provide for them an image of indepen-dency and prowess.

western imperialism in East Asia throughout history, for example when the northern part of the Korean Peninsula was forced to open its port to western trade. North Korean hatred zoomed in on the United States when America entered the Korean War against the communist state in the spirit of the policy of containment.

Satirical Sermon