CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 48, Issue 2November 12, 2013

EDITOR IN CHIEF: DEVIN RAMEY

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Parents aim to create fund in daughter’s name for schools and studentsDevin RameyEDITOR IN CHIEF

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After the passing of sophomore Taylor Fol-well over the summer, her parents Marty Fol-well and Tim Folwell have planned a fund in her name. The fund’s

full title is the Tay-lor Folwell Memorial Fund. Details of the fund have not been final-ized, such as what the requirements will be nor if it will be for col-lege scholarships; but funds collected will be

used for students from Capital High, Riverglen Junior High, and Shad-ow Hills Elementary schools. Some of the funds have already been do-nated towards Shadow Hills for an Environ-mental Field Trip at the

end of the sixth grade, and towards the Make A Wish fundraiser during Homecoming week. Marty Folwell said, “We would like to make smaller donations to more people. We would also like to donate to some of Taylor’s fa-

vorite teachers/classes so that they can put the money where their classes need it.” “…We would want to make sure that we are helping someone who has the ambition and drive to work towards their goals,” Marty said.

The fund has raised roughly $3,400 so far, and people can make donations towards it at the following address: Taylor Folwell Memo-rial Fund, Connections Credit Union, 10536 Emerald Street, Boise, ID 83704.

Teachers earn major awards at District and State levels

Two faculty members have received recogni-tion for their teaching. Biology and Video production teacher Rob Parsons received the Boise School District Red Apple Award on Oct. 14. Spanish teacher Esther Ciganda received the World Language Teach-er of the Year Award for the state of Idaho. A 29 year teaching vet-eran, Parsons has been developing programs that foster students’ in-terests and talents. Students in his video production classes are provided with opportu-nities to work on public service announcements for not only the District, but also for the Boise Public Schools Educa-tion Foundation and the Boise Police De-partment. His students also assist Capital’s ad-ministration, as well as numerous classes and organizations within the school, with their video production needs. Principle Jon Ruzicka said, “Parsons is also an amazing biology teach-er. He works well with students and encourages a love of learning. He is able to show students

new and interesting sci-entific elements in new and exciting ways to make his class relevant to the lives of his stu-dents.” His certificate said, “Parsons is truly ad-mired and respected by his peers. His dedica-tion, care, and commit-ment to students is evi-dent, and he is commit-ted to make a difference in their lives. He is the perfect ambassador for Capital High School, the Boise School Dis-trict, and public educa-tion.” Receiving the World Language Teacher of the Year Award was a real honor and greatly appreciated on Ciagan-da’s part. “I was excited, shocked, surprised and honored,” Ciganda said. Even her parents, who migrated here from Spain, made the trip from Moses Lake, Washington all the way to Kuna, Idaho in order to attend the ceremony and congratulate their daughter. From birth until the age of five Ciganda spoke Spanish, and then began to learn English. She is also literate in Basque. See page 3 for student responses.

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With new changes and advisor, Stud. Co makes Homecoming a success

Emily LundquistASSISTANT EDITOR

Top: Capital students participate in Messy Wars, a Homecoming event put on by Student Council on Oct.7. It consisted of a chocolate syrup slip-n-slide, water balloons, as well as shaving cream and powder paint fights.Above: Senior Chris Holland swings a sledge hammer at a junk car at the after-school Car Bash event on Oct. 11.

Homecoming Week was a success thanks to Student Council’s hard work to make October 7-12 one the greatest weeks of the year. With a new advisor, Tracy Fuller, Student Council kept some old traditions, as well as started some new ones. Fuller said she was impressed with “the students’ behavior and their participation at the dance. I feel the turnout was good and everyone involved had a good time.” ASB President Peter Huang said, “[Fuller] is amazing and has brought a large amount of ideas and new per-spectives.” Huang said Student Council “focused on the diverse activities

and interests at Capi-tal, more so than it has done in the proceeding years.” After-school Mon-day, Messy Wars took place behind the base-ball fields. Students entered by sliding into chocolate syrup, fol-lowed by getting each other messy with shav-ing cream, paint-filled balloons and powder paint to top it off. On Wednesday, the Powder Puff game took place with seniors winning over the underclassmen, and celebrated with a bonfire afterwards. Thursday’s after-school event included a car bash and a taco feast. The tailgate and foot-ball game against Boise High School were on Friday, with a victory of 50-14. Buff Puff, otherwise known as boys’ volley-ball, was a new lunch event throughout the

week and the final game was in the Homecoming Assembly. Student Council also planned themed dress up days for the week. Monday was Denim Day, Tuesday; Twin Day, Wednesday; West-ern Day, Thursday; Throwback to the 80’s and Friday was Spirit Day. The dance took place at the Revolution Con-cert Hall on Saturday, October 12, from 8-11 pm. The theme for the dance was Forever Young. “Homecoming pro-ceeded smoothly and the turnout at the events were always good,” Huang said. Homecoming King, Queen, Prince and Prin-cess were determined in a new way this year; different clubs nominat-ed a senior representa-tive, and then students voted on the top 10. The

student body then had a final vote; there was a tie for King, Sam Wong from baseball and Mar-cell King from track, Queen; Jordan Ward from softball, Prince; Bracken Reseigh from choir and Princess was Natalie Garcia from cheerleading. “I am glad we were able to recognize all of the clubs and sports this year,” Huang said. As for the assembly, both Student Council and DECA worked to-gether to make a memo-rable get-together for the whole school, as well as the Make-A-Wish child, Isaiah. “I enjoyed coming together with all the amazing people in Stu-dent Council, speaking with the wonderful staff and faculty at Capital and seeing everything fall into place,” Huang said.

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Top: Video Production advisor and biology teacher Rob Par-sons receives the Red Apple Award for the Boise School District on Oct. 13, from Board Member Shauneen Grange. Above: Spanish teacher Esther Ciganda accepts the Idaho World Language Teacher of the Year Award while standing with fellow Spanish teacher Mike O’Laughlin.

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Student reactions to world language awardTaylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR

Students and staff help make a wish come true

Seniors Sam Ball, Christopher Holland and Blake Dittman carry Make A Wish child, Isaiah, around the gym during the Homecoming Assembly on Oct2. 11.

DECA held fundrais-ers during Homecom-ing week, October 7-11 to raise money for the seventh annual Make A Wish, in which they sponsor a child to help make his/her wish come true. This year’s Make A Wish child was Isaiah, a five year old boy who was diagnosed with high risk acute lympho-blastic leukemia. His wish is to go to Disney World. During the week mon-ey was raised by selling stars, taking donations, the Football game and Homecoming Assem-bly’s Miracle Minute DECA raised a grand total of $4,254.37. This included: Sophomore Stars; $142, junior stars; $39, senior stars; $224, online donations; $1,000, donations given directly; $110,

sophomore miracle minute; $359.50, junior Miracle Minute; $351.50, senior Mira-cle Minute; $1,185.50, football game Miracle Minute; $538.47 and Powder Puff Shirt dona-tion; $30. During the Home-coming Assembly, Isaiah was introduced

to the entire school. He played games that DECA designed and set up. Students donated in the Miracle Min-ute as football players walked around collect-ing change from the stu-dents. “I absolutely love how our school comes together as a team to

support a child. School culture is amazing.” DECA advisor Sandy Wold said. DECA Senior Micael Edwards said that his favorite part about the Homecoming Assem-bly was that he “enjoys the games and activities they partake in.”

Spanish teacher Esther Ciganda received Ida-ho’s Top World Lan-guage Teacher Award from the Idaho Associa-tion of Teachers of Lan-guage Cultures (IATLC) on October 3. The teacher is nomi-nated by his/her col-leagues and final selec-tion goes to the IATLC board members vote on the teacher of the year. Cigdanda said she was, “Shocked and hon-ored to be recognized and honored by my peers in Idaho.” Here are some com-ments from former stu-dents.

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Martin Ortiz-Avellanda

Una persona con tanto carisma que alegra a sus estudiantes aunque sea por una hora al día, una persona llena de vir-tudes de las cuales todos los días se aprende algo nuevo, una persona empeñada a transmitir una lección de valores y aprendizaje todos los días, una persona dedi-cada a su trabajo y que con mucho esfuerzo y amor le dedica tiempo a sus estudiantes para que puedan aprender una lengua y una cul-tura totalmente hermosa a sus estudiantes.Gracias.

A person with such cha-risma that makes happy her students even for an hour a day, a person full of virtues which every day teach some-thing new, a person committed to transmit a lesson based values

and learning every day, a person dedicated to her work and that with hard work and love she spends time with stu-dents so they can learn a language and a culture totally beautiful to their students.Thanks.

Kendall Jones

Señorita Ciganda es una persona que da cien por ciento para todos. Ella es un buen ejemplo del éxito que trabajando puede ofrecer. Desde ella, he aprendido tener confianza en mi habili-dades no solo con espa-ñol, pero con todo que yo hago. Señorita Cigana is a per-son who gives one hun-dred percent in every-thing. She is a good example of the succes that working hard can offer. From her, I have learned to have confi-dence in my capabilities no only with spanish, but with everything I do.

Erica Bullock

Señorita Ciganda está, sin duda, una maestra excellente. Por la guía cuidadosa y los cuida-dos de Señorita Cigan-da, ella era y es una pieza importante de mi trayectoria escolar de hablar español. Ella me ayudó derrotar mi desa-sosiego a dar presen-taciones en español y la dificultad de escribir en Español. ¡Enhorabuena!

Señorita Ciganda is, without doubt, an excel-lent teacher. Through Señorita Ciganda’s care-ful guidance and care, she has been a large part of my Spanish-speaking career. She has helped

me to over-come my fears of giving presenta-tions in Spanish and the difficulties of writing in Spanish. ¡Enhorabuena!

Hector Cruz

Recuerdo que el año pasado pensé que el AP español sería fácil, ya que he aprendido mucho de hablar de mis padres. Sin embargo, acabé dán-dome cuenta de que era bastante malo en espa-ñol. ¡Lo bueno es que tuve una gran maestra como, señorita Ciganda para ayudarme mejorar mi Español y se lo se lo agradezco mucho!

I remember last year thinking AP Spanish would be easy since I learned a lot of speak-ing from my parents. However, I ended up realizing I was pretty bad at Spanish. But I am very grateful I had such a great teacher like Miss Ciganda to help really improve my Spanish!

Zachary Lien

La clase de Ciganda era retando, decir el mínimo. Es claro que la misión de Ciganda es preparar sus estudi-antes. Aunque su clase era difícil, la clase de Señorita Ciganda era gratificante.Con gratitud y aprecio,Abogado

Ciganda’s class is chal-lenging, to say the least. It is clear that Ciganda’s mission is to prepare her students. Although her class is difficult, Mrs. Ciganda’s class is rewarding.With gratitude and appreciation,Zachary

Nicole Nagel

¡Ella es uno de mis maestros favoritos! Ella es asombrosa, y estoy muy agradecida para haber tenido ella para una maestra y recibir la oportunidad conocerle a ella. Ella siempre tiene una sonrisa en su cara, y se preocupa de todos sus estudiantes. ¡Yo adoro a ella!

She is one of my favor-ite teachers! She is amazing, and I am very grateful to have had her as a teacher and get the opportunity to know her. She always has a smile on her face, and she cares about all of her students. I adore her!

Sam Roberts

Quisiera dar las gracias a Señorita Ciganda para todo que ella ha hecho para ayudarme con el español. Es talentosa y dedicada a su trabajo. Aunque su clase era desafiante, mejoraba el entendimiento mío del lenguaje y por eso le agradezco.

I would like to thank Señorita Ciganda for everything she has done to help me with Span-ish; she is very talented and dedicated to her work. Although her class was challenging, my understanding of the language improved. Because of this, I am very grateful

Oscar Saldaña

Mi español y vida ha cambiado drásticamente desde que estuve en la clase de Señorita Cigan-da el año pasado. Apre-ndiendo un español más europeo que mexicano. Señorita Ciganda mer-ecidamente se ganó este premio. No solo lectura a sus estudiantes sino que les ayuda a ganar confianza para cuando salgan de su clase ten-gan el valor de hablar un espléndido idioma como es el español.

My Spanish and life has changed drastically since I was in the class of Ms. Ciganda last year. I learned a more European Spanish than a Mexican Spanish. Miss Ciganda deserv-edly won this prize. Not only teaching her students Spanish, but helping them gain con-fidence for when they get out of her class they have the courage to speak a splendid lan-guage like Spanish

Delaney Sauer

Tomando la clase de Señora Ciganda era una experiencia mara-villosa, donde expandí mi conocimiento de la lengua español enorme-mente. Creo que ella es una maestra increíble quien merece este pre-mio y estoy orgullosa he tomando su clase.

Taking the class of Sra. Ciganda was a wonder-ful experience, where I greatly expanded my knowledge of the Span-ish language. I believe

that she is an incredible teacher who deserves this award and I am proud to have taken her class.

AlmaDelic

Señorita Ciganda es una profesora con poder. Ella es una que puedes recordar por años porque ella te empuja ser el mejor que puedes. Fui su estudiante me aprendiste que cuando yo pensé que fui a fra-casar, puedo tener éxito.

Mrs. Ciganda is a very powerful teacher. She’s the kind that you remember for years because she pushes you to become the best you can be. Being her stu-dent taught me that even when I thought I was going to fail miserably it was always within my power to succeed.

Kyle Hartman

Después de tener una clase con Señorita Ciganda, puedo decir que ella fue una de mis profesoras favoritas, no solo para español. Ella era una inspiración para seguir estudiando el español y en general es una maestra muy inteli-gente y divertida.

After taking a class with Miss Ciganda, i can say that she was one of my favorite teach-ers, not only of Spanish. She was an inspiration to continue studying spanish and in general is a very smart and fun teacher.

Chase Macaw

El año pasado, no podía haber tenido un maestro más agradable para español AP. La clase fue difícil, pero siempre se aseguró que sabíamos el mate-rial y podría explicar los temas deferentes de una manera que tenga sen-tido para nosotros.

Last year, I couldn’t have had a more pleas-ant teacher for AP Spanish. The class was difficult but she always made sure that we knew the material and she could explain differ-ent topics in a way that made sense to us.

Delanie Miller

Señorita Ciganda es una de los mejores pro-fesores que he tenido en todo de mis años

en la escuela. Es muy simpática y inteligente y tiene mucho pacien-cia con sus estudiantes. Capital tiene mucho suerte para tener Siñori-ta enseñando aquí. ¡Gra-cias por todo que haces para sus estudiantes, Señorita! Me encanta español, gracias a tí.

Ms. Ciganda is one of the best teachers I have had in all my years of school. She is very nice and intelligent and has a lot of patience with her students. Capital is very lucky to have her teach-ing here. Thank you for all you do for your stu-dents, Señorita! Thanks to you, I love spanish!!!

Tyler Call

Señora Ciganda es unos de los profesores que muestra en lugar de dice. Ella muestra a los estudiantes como espa-ñol puede afectar ellos en el futuro y los benefi-cios. Ella es una buena maestra en su sujeto y también lecciones de la vida.

Ms. Ciganda is one of those teachers that shows rather than tells. She shows her students how Spanish can affect them in the future and the benefits that will come. She is a great teacher in her subject and also lessons that can be applied to life.

Chase Pearl

Señora Ciganda es una maestra que les da su atención completa a todo de sus estudiantes. Cuando ella enseña español se divierte y tiene un efecto positivo en como los estudiantes aprenden la cultura de la lengua de espa-ñol. Nadie merece este premio más de usted porque Ciganda es una maestra fantástica que disfruta de ir a trabajar cada día.

Miss Ciganda is a teacher that gives her full attention to all of her students. When she teaches Spanish, she has fun and it has a positive effect on how the stu-dents learn the culture of the Spanish language. Nobody deserves this award as much as her because Ciganda is a fantastic teacher that enjoys coming to work each day.

Taylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR

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School welcomes new teachers

How many years did you teach prior to coming to Capital?This is my first year teaching.How do you like the school so far?I have really enjoyed being at Capital; I wouldn’t want to be teaching anywhere else.How do you like working with your colleagues?The staff at Capital has been so welcoming and helpful. They are all easy to get along with and fun to work with.What do you think of the students?The students have been great. I have enjoyed getting to know all my students.What do you expect from your time at Capital?I anticipate that my time at Capital will be spent at many sporting events (I love get-ting involved in all the sports activities at the school). I also hope to make great friend-ships with my fellow staff members, and create lasting relationships with my stu-dents.

How many years did you teach prior to coming to Capital?I taught 3 years in Mon-rovia, California and 10 years in Stuttgart, Ger-many on Patch Barracks Army base. How do you like the school so far?I like Capital.How do you like working with your colleagues?I find all my colleagues to be very kind and helpful. I enjoy working with them very much.What do you think of the students?I find Capital students to be helpful and polite. I enjoy working with them. What do you expect from your time at Capital?I enjoy working here.

How many years did you teach pri-or to coming to Capital?I have seven years of teaching expe-rience. I previously taught history at Meridian Academy High School.How do you like the school so far?I am so impressed with Capital High School, things run so smoothly here and everyone-staff and students-has incredibly positive attitude.How do you like working with your colleagues?This staff is great. I have received a lot of support from my co-workers which has made the transition to a new school a really positive experi-ence.What do you think of the students?The students are the best part of Capital High. I am impressed at how hard the students work in my class in addition to all the clubs, sports, work, music and other activities that they are involved inWhat do you expect from your time at Capital?I still have a lot to learn about Capital High and all of the fantastic things that are going on here. I think that this is an environment where I will really be able to grow as a teacher, and I look forward to that.

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Will Killian is an out-sider with a small num-ber of friends whom no one really takes the time to care about. This “gothic” boy has the odd ability to speak to the dead and unluck-ily, in his opinion, gets saddled with a cheer-leading ghost who needs his help finding the light that will allow her to pass through and move on to a better place. Throughout the first couple of chapters it would be easy for any-one to simply decide to hate Alona, she starts of as rude and shal-low. However, she is a dynamic character and definitely man-ages to redeem herself and becoming a loving

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“Dracula” impresses

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Drama club present-ed its first play of the year titled “Dracula” on October 17-19. It was written by Stephan Hotchner and directed by senior Rachel Taylor, Ken-nedy Kirk, Natalie MacLachlan and drama advisor Tracy Fuller. The play entails a story of Count Dracula, played by senior Tristen Zachary, who meets Jon-athan Harker, a young businessman, played by junior Kimbal Murray. After an unfortunate turn of events, Drac-ula, wanting revenge, goes after Harker’s wife Mina, played by senior Cali Houdek. He also hunts down her

best friend Lucy, played by junior Molli Hayes. While watching this production I was very impressed with the students ability to por-tray these characters in such a lovely fashion. This play took the dra-ma club six weeks to edit, rehearse and perfect. Junior Mikahala Waters said, “ I really did enjoy the suspense in the play, which is hard to act out; although, ‘Promedy’ is still my favorite”. Zachary said, “I feel I did well with my performance, and as did the rest of the crew, they really left it all out there. I’m extremely grateful for everyone’s hard work.” Even though the play went very well with great transitions from scene to scene the

number of people who showed up was minimal. Murray said, “If we were allowed more time and more pub-licity, I would have expected a bigger turn-out of people to come, but I’m extremely sat-isfied with the way we all performed.” Nearing the conclusion of this wonderfully act-ed out and directed play Count Dracula, in a fatal turn of events, is met with a sudden death that brings the whole story together with betray-al, love and triumph. It was an amaz-ing experience, fam-ily appropriate and quite entertaining. We should be expect-ing many more shows in this upcoming winter from our tal-ented drama team.

Senior Tracy Silano plays the bass drum at the Homecoming football game on Oct. 11 during halftime.

Sophomore Carlee Hanson plays the flute at the Homecoming football game Oct. 11 during halftime.

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Mina Harker (senior Cali Houdek), the wife of Jonathan Harker (junior Kimbal Murray) speaks with her best friend Lucy (senior Moli Hayes), during the production of Dracula by the drama department in the auditorium on Oct. 18.

The Capital High School Marching Band took on “The Phan-tom of The Opera” for their show this year, and their performance at District III won third place in their division. They also won for Best Percussion overall. Capital also placed

seventh out of 12 bands during a com-petition in Kenne-wick, Washington. Senior Matt Patter-son, the head Drum Major, said “I was real-ly impressed with the band this year…DIII was very exciting and emotional. I thought marching on the field was the most amazing thing in the world until I became a drum major.”

Senior Jordan Bear, a section leader, said “I’ve never felt more emotionally connect-ed to a collection of music before, or the show as whole…this is by far the best show of my three years.” Band and color guard students start work-ing on the show during summer band camp, and have two and half hour practices on Tues-

days and Thursdays. The color guard has 3 and a half hour prac-tices twice a week. The three drum majors are seniors Matt Patterson, Kay-la Fuhriman; and junior Kayla Cocozzo. The head color guard is senior Lexi Westle-man, who played Christine, the main character in “The Phan-tom of The Opera”

Frau Gilderhus is in charge of the col-or guard this year. Although he has assisted with the pro-gram before, it is band director Casey Lindorfer’s first year as a teacher here at Capital High School. Lindorfer said, “The show turned out really well…this was one of the best DIII perfor-mances I have seen dur-

ing a season. On aver-age a band will make 40-60 shapes on the football field during the show, and have around 9 minutes of music memorized. This year we have 80 pictures and 12 minutes of music.” Bear said, “The band is my second fam-ily, and senior year has been, by far, the best.”

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Pumpkin Spice Orange

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Deep Violet Squash Yellow

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Students “fall” for Autumn Fashions!Nicolette GrantFASHION EDITOR

PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTSenior Karen Padilla wears a vintage cross T-shirt with pat-terned leggings and a cross scarf.

PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTSenior Kelsey Dempsey wears a plaid scarf, with a blue button up jacket.

best part is that my mom makes them for me all the time.”Junior Jayde Ward-Dutton said, “They are adorable, the win-ter knit headbands I mean.” An older trend but new in popularity is the craze for the newest and cutest fall season boots. Whether they are ankle, three quarter or to the knee; girls are falling head over heels for these styles. “Personally I favor boots that go up to my knee. I have a pair of tan leather ones and I can wear them with everything,” Aatifi said. Dutton says, “I would say that it really just depends on the outfit. Short boots can look good with one outfit, while knee high might look great with anoth-er.”

The colors of the leaves have transi-tioned, and along with the change in season and weather, comes the transformation in fash-ion and style. Throughout the halls of Capital and on the streets it is apparent that the teenagers of Boise are keeping up with the passing trends! Although these cute accessories have been around for years they are just now starting to really make an impact and have been worn all around town. Scarves, cardigans, several styles of boots and newest on the scene are the winter knit headbands. Junior Roma Aatifi said, “Yes, I absolutely love the new head-bands! I think that they are super cute and the

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PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTJunior Roma Aatifi wears tan UGG boots.

PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTSophomore Molly Freeney wears studded-toe black combat boots.

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nails done since she was about 14 years old. She said she gets them done at Luxe Nails on

State Street. Page said her favorite design to get is a French tip with a different color or sparkle accent nail.

“It makes me feel sophisticated,” Page

said. Senior Karen Padilla has been getting hers done since about sev-enth grade, and gets them done at SoHo Nails on Emerald by

the mall. Padilla said her favor-ite design is sparkles because it “adds an elegant touch and gives

me self confidence.”

PHOTO BY EMILY LUNDQUISTSenior Ashleigh Page flaunts her french tip sparkly sequined nails.

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Sports Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Editor: Selma Kovac and Tyler York

Athlete of theMonth

Sport:

Soccer

Years playing:

12

Loves the sport because:

It’s a lot of fun

Favorite opponent:

Mountain View

Difficulty level:

8

One word to describe sport:

Hard

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

12

Junior

Cross Country boys take State Title!

Emilie Eckhart

Fatuma Mnongerwa STAFF WRITER

Molly Freeney STAFF WRITER

Anders LundquistSTAFF WRITER

PHOTO BY RYAN PHIPPS

Freshman Christine Weissenger from Riverglen Junior High does the butterfly stroke at a swim meet.

PHOTO BY AUTUMN BROWN

Freshman Casey Compton dribbles the ball during the game against Boise High on Sep. 24.

PHOTO BY KEDAR HOLTAN

PHOTO BY KATIE ACKERMAN

Senior Tanner Eastep, junior Corbin Williams, sophomore Joe Mullener, junior Zack Wilberg, junior Drew Shultz, sophomore Jacob Davis, senior Preston Thomas, and senior Grayson Lowe hold the State Champion banner after the state championship race on Nov. 2 in Idaho Falls.

Varsity girls salute to the flag during the game against Rocky Mountain High School on Sep. 10.

Girls from both teams had a lot to say about their seasons and their teammates. JV team captain Mal-lory Bayse said, “Even though we lost all of our games, we became better and better as we played. I enjoyed work-ing with my teammates. They’re all hard work-ing, eager to improve, and a blast to be around. My hope for next year is that we might win at least one game.” Sophomore Emily Weber said, “Although our season is coming to an end, I feel like we’ve definitely improved, my teammates were amaz-ing and we all work

The girls’ soccer sea-son came to an end with the JV team hav-ing a record of 0-11 and the varsity team with a record of 1-13-1. Even though the JV team didn’t have one win, they gained experi-ence and worked hard at each of their practices. The Varsity team had one win accomplished by working hard at their practices and play-ing even harder at their games. Though the team didn’t make it to the top of the charts, it proved to be active team.

together perfectly fine. I hope that when our next season starts we will all be together again and we can keep on improv-ing as we gain further experience and have fun doing it.” Senior Varsity player Makenna Berry said, “I think our season went better than last year’s. I think my teammates were amazing, and we all work well together. Even though it is my last year, I’m really glad that I was able to play on the soccer team here at Capital with such great teammates.”

Girls soccer matches comes to a close

Capital dives into Districts to swim to State into the top ten

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Lady Eagles are proud of their work as competition ends

Senior Kylie Centers of the varsity team said that her favorite part about the season was “our trip to Idaho Falls for a tournament!” Cen-ters has been playing volleyball for 7 years. Centers also said, “I will miss our team and all the fun times we had throughout the season.” Varsity team mem-ber Margaret Boggan, another senior, said her favorite part about the season was “having fun with all the girls on the team”. She also said that she will miss “the girls on the team and the fun times we had.” Bog-

gan has been playing for 4 years. Maddie Johnson, a sophomore on the JV team, said her favorite part of the season was “going undefeated [at the beginning] for six games…[and] the team was fun to play with”. She also said that the season was “good for the most part…but we had to overcome a lot of adversity…we had a lot of unexpected chang-es.” The varsity team ended up winning four of their games this season but lost eleven. In terms of their conference games, they won three and lost seven. Junior Varsity ended

their season with 10 wins and 4 losses, plus their loss at the tourna-ment game.

On Nov. 1, Capital’s swim team went to State. This year boys took home seventh overall for State, sixth in the 5 A Division. The boys also got fifth in district and the girls took home tenth. This year the swim team had a smaller team than the majority of the other teams, but they still did very well. Junior Austin Betts said “I feel pretty good because we have a sig-nificantly smaller team.” Junior Nick Harmon

said, “We did really well. We did better than last year.” “I feel [we] did extremely well with the number of girls we have. And the boys did their best and are con-stantly improving,” junior Emily Alberda said. Harmon said that next year he plans to keep working hard and hopes the team keeps working on the little things such as the turns and the pac-ing. Alberda said, “Next year our goal will be a full team, 20 guys and 20 girls.”

Johnson added, “When we played Boi-se, we played really, really well, and worked

together and BEAT them!”

The Cross Country boys won the State Champi-onship in Idaho Falls on Nov. 2 The boys placed first and junior Drew Shultz placed third. The girls that went to State were sophomore Olivia Knoecni, who placed 18th and freshman Kari Taylor placed 66th. The last State Champi-onship was won in 2004 under head coach Rob Parsons. XC also went to Eagle Island State Park to race for Districts on

Oct. 25th. The team did very well, with senior Preston Thomas placing in the top 10 and senior Bracken Reseigh placing 16th. In the boys Varsity race Junior Zack Wiberg placed 4th place. Wiberg said, “ I didn’t do as great as I thought I would”. In the Girls JV race freshmen Harley Goul placed 13th and senior Jordan Ward placed 14th. In the girls Varsity race sophomore Olivia Knoecni placed 13th. The team had their city race at Ann Morrison on Oct. 17 and they did a spectacular job. The boys placed 1st

and girls placed 2. The Boise City Meet wasn’t like all the races. Normally, there are four races, but at the city race it was only two races one boys team and one girls team. Junior Zack Wiberg placed second and Junior Drew Schultz placed 3rd in the boys’ race. Junior Drew Shultz said “The city race was real-ly exciting, I felt that I did really good job since I placed 5th.”

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SportsTuesday, November 12, 2013

Editor: Emily Lundquist

PHOTO BY KEDAR HOLTAN

Sophomore Jess Totorica runs the ball down the field while senior Irven Perez looks for a pass during their game against Rocky Mountain High on Sept. 4.

PHOTO BY KEDAR HOLTAN

Junior quarterback Conner Poulsen runs the ball during a play against Borah High School on Oct. 17, which Capital won 77-27.

Season ends on a high note

Boys’ soccer concludes with high hopes for next year

Varsity Football reigns over 5A SICEmily LundquistASSISTANT EDITOR

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Athlete of theMonth

Sport:

Football

Loves the sport because:

The competitive nature of it and the family atmosphere

that it creates with the team and

school.

Favorite opponent:

Borah High

Difficulty level:

10

One word to describe sport:

Exhilarating

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

20 hours

SeniorAlex Kingmixay

Boys’ Varsity and JV soccer is over, but both teams worked hard to improve their seasons. Varsity’s over-all record was 5-9-2. On September 25, Varsity fought Borah High School. Head Coach Zo Omercevic told his team that if they made a comeback then he would let them shave his head. They won against Borah High that day. “My favorite part was shaving my coach’s head,” senior James O’Keeffe said. They won against

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After beating rival teams Borah High and Rocky Mountain High schools earlier in the season, the team looked forward to facing anoth-er tough opponent, Eagle High. The score was close throughout the Oct. 31 game, with both teams scoring three touch-downs in the second half. In the last seconds of the game, offensive players rushed down the field in hopes to get a final touchdown, but quarterback Con-ner Poulsen was sacked, leaving the final score a close 28-31.

Despite the loss, Capi-tal is still number one in the 5A SIC Conference, and is top seed in the playoffs. The first game was against Idaho Falls High on Nov. 8 at Dona Larson Park. Head Coach Todd Simis said, “The team has earned everything they are getting.” “Our team is really a family and puts self-glory aside for team goals. They bust their tails off to be success-ful,” Simis said. Junior quarterback Conner Poulsen is proud of his team for remaining number one in the conference and said, “It feels amazing.” Poulsen said the team

has really matured and learned how to play together well. His favorite memory of the season was the game against Rocky Mountain, who at the time was also undefeat-ed, so it was a big game to win for Capital. “It was one of the most fun games I’ve ever played in,” Poulsen said. As for the remainder of the season, his hope for the team is to “get a State Championship.”

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Volleyball Football

Cross Country State Champs!

Boys’ Soccer Girls’ Soccer

Rocky Mountain (L): 0-3Mountain View (L): 1-3Borah (W): 3-1

Boise (W): 50-14Borah (W): 77-27Centennial (W): 38-35Eagle (L): 28-31

Fall Sports Records

Eagle (L): 3-4Rocky Mountain (L): 1-2

Rocky Mountain (L): 0-6Meridian (L): 1-2

(State Varsity Results)Drew Shultz 16:31:77Zach Wiberg 16:48:31Jacob Davis 17:00:08

Olivia Konecni 20:19:21Kari Taylor 22:16:06

All stats/records as of November 5, 2013

As of October 31, the JV football team has a record of 6-2 heading into the last two weeks of the season. Head coach Nicholas Calaycay said juniors Alex Speigel, Hunter Weindel and sopho-mores Christian Blaser and Jose Sandoval are, “players that have been instrumental in our suc-cess as a team and have demonstrated leader-ship throughout the year.” The team had a rough start but started to catch up after their third game. “We started the season 0-2 and have not lost since,” Calaycay said. Running back Alex Speigel said, “ I think we have had a great season. After our first two losses I feel like we have really come together as a team.” Line backer Hunter Weindel said, “We started off not as well as

JV Football

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Left: Varsity bursts through the CHS banner before their game against Borah High on Oct. 17. Right: Senior Alex Kingmixay runs the ball with a Borah player trail-ing behind during their game on Oct. 17.

Rocky Mountain High, Borah High , Merid-ian High, and Mountain View High schools. They lost against Rocky Mountain High, Eagle High, Mountain View High, Timberline High, Centennial High, Boise High, and Tim-berline High schools. They tied against Boi-se High, Vallivue High, and Rocky Mountain High schools. Junior Captain Brett Becia of the Varsity team is confident about next year and said, “We’re going to win state next year!” JV’s over-all record was 2-10. JV won against Valli-vue High and Mountain

View High schools. They lost against Borah High, Timber-line High, Boise High, Rocky Mountain High, Meridian High, Eagle High, Boise High, and in District Tournament against Boise High schools. “Getting into Districts was a shock, it was sur-prising,” junior Tameen Jaffari said when he was asked about his team getting into the JV Dis-trict Tournament. Jaffari said the JV team, “Had great team-work. At the beginning of the year no one knew each other but by the end we were a family.”

expected the slowly we progressed as the sea-son went on.” One of the most important games that took place for JV was the Capital vs. Borah game. “This week we play our rival Borah, who is undefeated and seeded number one for JV con-ference,” Calaycay said. Luckily the JV team did win that game. However, they fin-ished the season tied for second with Eagle High, and Borah High finishing as the number one team. Speigel said, “My teammates and coaches have been awesome this year! It was really rough at the beginning but nobody gave up and our coaches did a great job of making us better.” “I would like to say thank you to both the coaches and my team-mates for the great sea-son and learning experi-ence,” Weindel said.

Opinion Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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Taylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR

Is it right that violent video games

are blamed for shootings?

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Anders LundquistSTAFF WRITER

Roundtable: Will there be another government shutdown? Why?

What’s a viable solution?

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Government shut-down ended, but questions linger

Violent, mature video games can be harmful for younger audiences

Society should point at itself for shootings, not blame violent video games

After multitudes of random acts of violence that end many people’s lives, there is always a line drawn between real world violence and vi-olence in video games, with that line never truly being definitive. To me, blaming real world violence on video games is ridiculous, this is simply guilty by asso-ciation. This is the case when it comes to the Aurora Movie Theater shooting or the 2011 Norway killing spree. Instead of pinning the blame on video games, we should turn our at-tention to the lack of mental health care given to these shooters and to the fact that society as a whole does nothing to combat the growing epidemic of shooting sprees, with the media thrusting the shooters into the limelight. Time after time, shoot-ers’ faces are plastered on every news station, turning them into celeb-rities. How can society live with itself when it’s turning cold-blooded murders into celebri-ties? It should be a greater priority to aid those who have mental health

issues, than to have a witch-hunt on violent video games. With all of these blame games going on, isn’t it strange to not see any actual stats or general facts on whether there is a true correlation of whether fictional video game violence trans-lates to real world vio-lence? Here’s the reality; there is no proven con-nection between video game violence and real work violence. Being a man of science and fact, it is startling to not see any connection and there to be a social acceptance that there is one. Video games should not in any circumstance have the sole blame for shootings, but society should assume respon-sibility for failing its own people so horribly where its people willing kill each other. As a teenager, I have played my fair share of video games that some might consider violent, titles including; “Halo”, “Call of Duty”, and “Grand Theft Auto.” After playing these ti-tles among, many oth-ers, I have no urge to go out steal a car or go shoot people, but according to many in-fluential people and a major part of culture at large, I should have these urges. I believe society as a whole must turn away from petty blaming of violent video games on senseless crime and fo-cus on fixing the prob-lems, such as mental health issues, at hand that cause people to per-form horrific acts, and try to make itself better.

“Call of Duty”, “Halo” and “Grand Theft Auto” are some of the most recognizable names in the gaming world. What do they all have in common? A rating M meant for mature au-

diences, for violence. This violence in games has a greater effect on younger children that play these games. We as teenagers, our morals are almost fully developed and right and wrong is established, vi-olent video games have a lesser affect on us, but not for children. Chil-dren are more suscep-tible to change. Which means that these violent images portrayed have a deeper, more lasting impact on them than on teenagers. These violent images desensitize them and, when they get older and get a hold of a handgun, things can take a drastic turn for the worse. An M states that no one under the age of 17 is allowed to buy this

game without parental consent. The violence in these games is not suitable for those who are under age as it can have affects on them. The games have the ratings for a reason: to protect children from these images and pos-sible mental changes caused by these images and flashing screens. During childhood our morals are beginning to

take shape, and distin-guishing between right and wrong is starting to develop. Exposure to such violent video games can seriously in-hibit their morals, and right and wrong that is developing. When children constantly see video game players shoot other people they begin to thinking that “Hey, the people in the games aren’t getting

punished, so it’s okay, right?” If a child has a trau-matic experience with bees at a young age, that is likely to carry along with them for most of their life. Same thing with these games, ex-posing them to graphic scenes that will be lodged in their memories and they will use what they saw to respond to real world problems.

Ultimately games that are restricted for younger people are re-stricted for a reason. These games contain material that kids can-not and should not be exposed to, because it can affect how they deal with situations in the fu-ture and their behaviors. Parents need to start taking responsibility for what their children are exposed to.

“To prevent the ‘govern-ment shutdown’, all the Congressman and Sen-ators as well all other political figures should be flushed from the gov-ernment and replaced with people who actu-ally get the job done. Or possibly have citizens from around the nation submit a better plan for budgeting instead of leaving it to a bunch of corrupted morons. Or just have a bloody rev-olution, but let’s be hon-est, no one wants that (or do they)?”

“In my personal opin-ion, I believe that if the government lacks to meet some kind of agreement this January there will be another government shutdown. Solutions with politics are not easily achieved, and I really don’t have enough knowledge on the issue to create a solution. All that I know is that someone will have to put their beliefs aside and accept what the other party wants.”

“I don’t think there will be another shut-down. Republicans took a bad beating over their causing of the first shut-down, and won’t risk a risk a second drop in public opinion. This could be easily avoided if we didn’t have our ri-diculous two party sys-tem. If there were more parties, no one group could cause the level of mayhem we’re seeing.”

“The solution was just a band-aide to a bigger problem so I anticipate another shutdown in January. To me the vi-able solution is exactly what we should expect of our citizens – pay your debts and live within your means. Un-fortunately, the country has a long way to go before people can even do that. The solution is getting rid of party politics. They just stop progress.”

On October 1, the U.S. Government faced a

shutdown, which finally ended on October 16, making it the third lon-gest government shut-down in U.S. History. The Constitution of the United States says that government spend-ing requires bills passed by Congress. Certain functions of the gov-ernment like the Fed-eral Reserve System are completely self-funded whereas Social Security and Medicare are partly self-funded. This means that they are subject to shutting down if the

government does too. I think that such im-portant benefit agencies like our Social Security funds and Medicaid should be completely self-funded so more people won’t have to suffer because of our issues. This would save the government a lot of spending and give peo-ple hope. I also believe that just because a few politicians can’t make the right decisions for our country so many have to go through their own financial depres-

sions while politicians live in their garnished houses. I think that the power of this country should be given to the people, after all that is what democracy is, isn’t it? Our everyday citizens should replace all of our politicians. The citizens are people who under-stand tough times and come from humble be-ginnings, and not born with silver spoons in their mouths like our country’s politicians.

America’s finances need to change