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The Trucker Imprint —Norwalk High School—
Volume 13, No. 2 350 Shady Lane Drive, Norwalk, OH Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Fall sports post-season excitement Thanksgiving just days away! Check out page 8 for how Trucker Imprint staff, different cul-tures, and vegetarians are celebrating this year.
Get the facts For Norwalk fall sports results, go to page 10.
Read about social media on pages 4 and 5.
By Erica Leber This season of Trucker football
will go down in history forever. It is the first time ever in Nor-
walk history to have a 10-0, unde-feated season. It is the first time in 40 years that Norwalk has made it to week 12 of the playoffs.
“The coaching staff has done an amazing job getting our boys to be successful,” head coach Chris MacFarland said.
Going into the third week, the Truckers were up 3-0 on the sea-son. Starting the NOL off strong with a win over Tiffin Columbian, the Truckers remained unbeatable.
After the historic season last year with the first playoff game in more than 30 years, it started to become a pattern of history break-ing. The 2014 Norwalk Trucker football team was NOL Champs and had the first perfect regular season record ever.
“It was a great season,” said senior Jared Cook.
The Truckers kept on rolling through the playoffs as they won against Perkins in week 11. The score was 42-34.
Going into week 12, the Truck-ers faced the Clyde Fliers at Per-kins High School. The 2014 season came to an end on Friday, Nov. 14. The first loss of the season went to the Clyde Fliers during the regional semi-final game. The score of the game was 35-24.
“Clyde played a good game,” said senior Isaac Moore, “but the better team lost.”
This group of seniors is the first to ever go through all four years of high school with a winning record, said assistant coach Reid Shoop.
“The hardest thing about the play-offs is knowing that after you lose you’re done with the season,” Coach MacFarland said. “The boys played a great game on Friday.”
By Brie Schneider The school library is open all
day, every school day, thanks to the newly-created position of library assistant.
Filling that job is Lucy Hokes, who earlier this year was work-ing as a special needs assistant at the high school.
Mrs. Hokes started working at the preschool as a special needs aide in 2006.
Then in 2012 she worked at the middle school as a library aide and now she returns to the library setting as the high school library assistant. The library is now open from 7:10 a.m. until the end of the day.
“This is the best situation we can be in,” Principal Brad Cooley explained. “I want to make sure students have access to the many resources we have.”
Earlier this year, the library was closed for much of the day. Former high school librarian
See LIBRARY on page 5
By Madeline Roche
Orchestra teacher Mark Parish will be retiring after 30 years of teaching, with 29 in Norwalk.
“My last event will be direct-ing the music at graduation on May 31st and on June 1st I will be retired,” he said.
Although he is not sure ex-actly what his plans are for after retirement, he said has many great memories to look back on.
Meeting great students every year is something Mr. Parish said he will miss the most. His best experience has been seeing all the kids he has worked with grow up and develop. Also, a life lesson
he has learned from his career is patience.
“Nothing ever really happens as fast as you would like it to,” Mr. Parish said.
The biggest change Mr. Parish has seen over the years is the in-crease in testing, since there were not many required tests when he started teaching.
When he was in high school, Mr. Parish was in band and or-chestra. He played clarinet, tuba, cello and oboe. The clarinet is his favorite, and he has many instru-ments at his house to continue playing after retirement.
Mr. Parish became a teacher because he said he was “really into music in high school and
thought an awful lot of his high school music teacher.
“To be honest, I wasn’t plan-ning to be a teacher until my sen-
ior year in high school. My origi-nal plan was to be an engineer,
See PARISH on page 5
By Brie Schneider Gifted, intelligent and analyti-
cal are three words that social science teacher Chris Cloud used to describe seniors Luke Landis and Noah Little.
Luke and Noah have been named commended students in the 2015 National Merit Scholar-ship Program.
In order to qualify for this honor, students must have placed in the top five percent of the 1.5 million students who took the 2013 PSAT. The PSAT also acts as the National Merit Qualifying Test.
Both boys agree that they spend five to ten extra hours a week working on schoolwork or studying.
This pair thrives academi-cally, but that is not the only thing they enjoy or are good at.
“Luke is very entertaining in his own way. He has an ability to always see the other side of the
critical thinking,” math teacher Christopher Higgins said.
See MERIT on page 7
Photo by Brie Schneider Seniors (from left) Luke Landis and Noah Little are instructed on their board work by math teacher Christopher Higgins. Both were named commended stu-dents in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
Football team makes history
Submitted photo Mr. Parish during his early years of teaching.
Photo by Katlin Roberts Recent photo of Mr. Parish teaching.
Photo by Erica Leber Members of the Norwalk football team storm the field at the Perkins game ear-lier this month.
In each issue of the Trucker Imprint, an editor is hidden within the paper. In this issue, photo editor Jenna Thorpe is h i d - den. If you f ind h e r , c u t t h e p i c -t u r e o u t , p u t your name o n it, and tu rn it in t o t h e b o x in room 6208. A winner will be drawn, and will receive a prize. The winner from last issue was junior Kennedy Conney, who is pictured here receiving her prize from last issue’s hidden editor, Paige Espvik.
Find the editor
Senior pair thrives in and out of classroom
Photo by Courtney Pelham
Library open full time
Students and staff cherish Mr. Parish
Photo by Madeline Roche New library aide Lucy Hokes works at her desk in the library during her first day on the job.
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Editor-in-Chief: Brie Schneider Editors: News: Sabrina Boyd Features: Kasey Duncan and Kirsten Kelley Entertainment: Paige Espvik Sports: Erica Leber Photo: Caitlen Cameron and Jenna Thorpe Layout: Courtney Pelham Reporters: Jessica Aguilera Karlee Conley Carlie Conney Hannah Hales Katlin Roberts Madeline Roche Quinn Schick Jarrod Smith Adviser: Debbie Leffler
OUR VOICES
A way to contact friends, make new friends, update people on what we’re doing, vent about parents, figure out important things like school closings, have a good laugh and find a release from school stress – for teenag-ers, social media can act as all of these.
As human beings, and espe-cially as angsty teens, we want people to know how we feel, value what we think and under-stand what we’re going through. AND then relate to it.
The anonymity and the secu-rity of being behind a screen makes social media an easy outlet to vent and express our feelings; but when does it go too far?
It is obviously easy to com-plain to the computer screen
about multiple things, but what people don’t understand is the power social media has.
We’ve all seen it before. Vid-eos, hashtags and individuals be-c o m i n g f a m o u s within a 24-hour pe-r i o d . T h i n g s such as the ALS ice bucket challenge, Alex from Target and Terio.
This power is so easily abused. Cyber bullying is a very real thing.
Some people think cyber bul-lying is not happening. “Just close your computer,” “delete your accounts,” “block them” or “ignore it” -- but why should peo-
ple have to sacrifice the right to own these accounts just so people will not bully them?
Deleting an account will not make what people said or what
you read go away. Just as what you have seen cannot be unseen --
what you read cannot be unread. I think we are all guilty of
retweeting, favoriting or tweeting something on Twitter with the direct intent of someone seeing it knowing it is about them. Same goes for Facebook with posting statuses and liking other posts.
I strongly encourage Norwalk students to stop this epidemic.
Retweet/post things that will benefit us, our wellbeing and our BRAIN.
We need to start to use this power to bring up our generation and to learn and grow as a gen-eration together.
It is easy to say something behind a computer screen, think-ing it is harmless and maybe even funny.
Words cannot be forgotten and with the way the Internet works, it will literally never go away.
Be smart; uplift your peers. Social media has the power to
directly affect a person and his or her life. Let’s choose to let it af-fect our lives and this school positively.
Social media can hurt people
It seems as though you can’t go anywhere without Twitter or Instagram being advertised pro-moting some kind of business or circulating a particular topic.
To spread news and share your life with others, social net-working is a very beneficial tool when used maturely and respon-sibly.
Small businesses have ex-panded into franchises due to the easy and cheap form of advertise-ment that has been provided through the simplicity of a hash-tag. Family members who live thousands of miles apart are brought a little bit closer because seeing someone you miss and love is as easy as searching their name and seeing their life in pic-tures.
Although there are so many positives that these apps conven-iently put within our reach, there are major downfalls and conse-quences that come when not used responsibly.
Many college recruiters for sports and academics use social media as a source of infor-mation to see what kind of s t u d e n t may po-tentially be representing their school.
A former Norwalk student went on to play baseball at the
collegiate level. When going through the process of recruit-ment, they asked him what his social media handles were be-cause they wanted to check them out The former student responded that he didn’t have any because
he wanted to keep his p e r s o n a l life per-sonal and didn’t want everyone on the Internet to be able to access him easily. The
recruiter was very pleased with his lack of use of social network-ing because it avoided many po-tential problems.
Not only when applying to college, but thinking more long term when you want to get a job someday, your potential employ-ers may look at your social media to see if you’re a good fit for the company.
There are people who have difficulty landing jobs because there are ample pictures posted of them consuming alcohol and en-gaging in other activities. Busi-nesses simply wouldn’t want to be represented in that manner.
So think before you post. So-cial media is a great tool but it can also be a weapon used against you if you don’t use it responsibly.
Don’t allow 140 characters ruin your chances of a $140,000 scholarship or salary.
Think before you post online
By Sabrina Boyd Social media has become a
huge part of almost every teen-ager’s everyday life routine. When Facebook was first popu-lar, my face was always glued to my phone. Every 10 minutes I was checking to see what people were posting and what the newest gossip was. Had I known how addictive social media in general
would become, I would have de-leted it a long time ago.
Facebook became less popular when Snapchat, Twitter and In-stagram became the new, hottest sites to be on. I was on Twitter and Instagram more than any other site. Every time I snapped a new picture, I had to put it on Instagram and slowly wait for my followers to “like” or “comment.” I would be doing my homework and would randomly get dis-tracted by my phone. Instead of doing math problems, I was look-ing at the newest tweets on Twit-ter.
Even when people don’t think they are on their phone a lot, they really are. I used to catch myself at dinner with my family, on my phone while everyone else was talking and associating. Well, I was more worried about my Twit-
ter than spending time with my family. I would often get yelled at for having my phone at the dinner table, but I didn’t want to miss out on what everyone was posting or tweeting.
It wasn’t until I started dating my current boyfriend about a year ago that I realized how bad my addiction to social media was. When sitting on the couch watch-ing TV, instead of striking up a conversation, I would pick up my phone and scroll through Insta-gram or Twitter. This bothered him very much, and caused us to argue quite often. We both agreed to deactivate our Face-books as the first step. It felt amazing not to have the urge to get on my phone when I had nothing else to do.
The next step was to delete Twitter. He didn’t have a Twitter
account, but I did. About three days after deleting my Twitter, I was stuck re-activating it, giving in to my addiction.
After it was finally deleted and gone for good, Instagram was next on my list. This was by far the hardest for me to get rid of.
Once they were all gone, I felt myself become more interactive. My boyfriend and I stopped fight-ing so much, I talked to my fam-ily more and became less in-volved with my phone.
It may be hard at first, and people might think it is the dumb-est thing ever, but just imagine what life would be like without social media. There is a whole new world out there that people need to see besides their phones. Social media is an addiction, but just like any other addiction, it can be overcome.
By Erica Leber In today’s world, so many
people hide behind the screens of their phones, not because they are scared of the real world, but just for the fact that everything is happening on social media. The latest trends, gossip and drama are all at the tips of our fingers.
In this day and age, there is no reason for people to be “out of the loop” with all the latest high
school drama. Just about every high school student is involved in some sort of social media.
If a person is “friends” with someone on social media and doesn’t really associate in per-son, it can be a little awkward when they see each other by sur-prise in public. The only thing that those people have in com-mon is what they see on the feeds. Their conversations are limited to what they read.
So how do “social media friends” react when they see each other in public? What do you do? Do you hug? Say “Hi”? High five? I guess it all depends on how social and comfortable those people are in public.
In my situation, I follow peo-ple from schools all over, includ-ing Huron, Bellevue, Perkins and
St. Paul. I guess you could say we’re “social media friends.” Whenever I see one of my “social media friends,” I always feel awkward because I don’t know if I should say hi or if I should just totally avoid eye con-tact. Usually I’ll flash them a nice friendly smile and if they smile back, then maybe we could actually be “in-person” friends.
If you’re friends on social media and not in person, try and start a conversation. Maybe this could lead to a new, in-person friendship.
Real or fake friends?
Based on a survey of 188 NHS students.
Life without social media has benefits
“Just as what you have seen cannot be unseen -- what you read cannot be unread.”
“There are people who have difficulty landing jobs because there are ample pictures posted of them con-suming alcohol and engag-ing in other activities.”
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STUDENTS AT SCHOOL TEACHERS AT WORK
Name: Kelsey McQuillen Grade: 10 Age: 15 If you were dying, what would your last words be? I love you mommy. Weirdest fear and why? Clowns, because I had a bad ex-perience. Favorite Halloween costume? Belle Five things you’d take to the desert and why? Water to drink, food to eat, a fan to keep me cool, a tent to sleep in, and weapons for protection. If you could be any celebrity of the opposite sex who would you be and why? Zac Efron because he’s HOT!! If you could make up a holiday what would it be? Pizza day--everyone gets free pizza. If you could be a fruit or vege-table what would you be? Wa-termelon. If you could be an animal, which would you choose and why? A penguin because they like the cold and they are my fa-vorite animal. Biggest pet peeve? Hearing peo-ple chew. Most embarrassing moment? Getting in trouble for eating in the hallway and then having to make the school shine bright like a diamond.
Name: Mrs. Mason Subject(s) taught: Concert and select choir If you weren’t a teacher, what would you be? Office manager If you were a student here at NHS, what clique would you sit with at lunch? Musicians -- choir students Most embarrassing high school moment: I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and got beat up in the girls’ restroom. Craziest thing that ever hap-pened during class: A student vomited during a performance. What do you like on your pizza, and if you were a pizza topping which one would you be and why? Red onions, because they add flavor to the pizza. What is your biggest regret from high school? I wish I had known my husband and was able to watch him play football. Advice to seniors: Don’t let fear keep you from being successful. Advice to freshmen: Relax and let people get to know you. When not sitting behind a desk, what do you do? Sit behind black and white keys.
By Brie Schneider
If you
are a student at Norwalk, you have p r o b a b l y seen the NERD Na-tion shirts and banners or heard the exciting sto-ries about their Cali-fornia trip to the World Championship last year; but who really is NERD Nation, and why do they do it?
NERD Nation, or Norwalk Engineering Robotics Depart-ment, is considered a club but it is more like a sports team. In fact, at the winter sports banquet, NERD Nation was recognized for their success and their jour-ney to Worlds. But, instead of competing in athletics they build and compete with their robots.
The 31 members of this team dedicate every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:30 until 6:30 p.m. and also most Satur-days from 8 a.m. until 2 or some-times until 4 p.m.
Math and engineering teacher Adam Leutenegger said that they would stay all day if they had to, and in past years there have been Saturdays they have stayed until midnight.
What drives these students to spend their day off from school at school?
“I do NERD Nation because it is fun, I get to spend time with my friends and because robots, man, why not,” sophomore Rilee Horowitz said.
“It’s fun. It lets us experience engineering hands-on,” ex-plained senior NERD captain Zach McGuckin.
Senior captain Caleb Meyers explained the need for Saturday practices.
“We have a six-week build period and the time we have after school isn’t enough,” said Caleb.
Within that six-week build period, the goal is to design for two weeks, build for two weeks and test for two weeks.
By the end of the six weeks, each of the six teams should be ready to compete in their first competition, the TRECA VEX qualifier in Marion.
“Every year the game changes, which is one of the good and bad things about this,” Coach Leutenegger said.
The game this year is VEX Skyrise. The match consists of a 15-second autonomous period where the robot drives itself, fol-lowed by one minute and 45 sec-onds of driver-controlled play.
But how does this group of 31 teens know how to design, pro-gram and construct a functional robot?
Math teacher and co-coach Christopher Higgins explained that the members of the team either acquire these skills through an engineering course or teach themselves the skills.
“This is preparing them for real life; to take a project from your mind into physical life,” said Coach Leutenegger.
NERD Nation is glad to take on more engineering mentors to help teach the members new skills.
Photo by Brie Schneider NERD Nation members (from left) freshman Bryson Harvey and sophomores Chance Salajcik and Haley Zimba work on their robots at a Saturday practice this month.
NERDs rule
By Katlin Roberts The Firelands Challenge
Team is off to a good start. The expectations for this year
are to win the championship and win the regular season again.
“I think we’ll do just as good as last year,” junior Henry Voss said.
The team’s strengths this year are their five seniors and the AP and honors classes the players have taken.
“We have a lot of returning seniors this year that are all aca-demically smart,” junior Alex Penrose said.
Their biggest competition will be Edison, adviser Amie Swope predicted.
In Firelands Challenge, Nor-walk competes with 17 other schools. The season started on Nov. 4 with a practice round. There are 10 members on this
year’s team. The team members practice on Wednesdays and Thursdays, either before or after school.
Sophomore Quentin Smith said he likes Firelands Challenge
partly because his brothers were in it also.
Junior Brooke Landis said she likes it because team members learn things that they usually wouldn’t learn in class.
“I enjoy it because it’s chal-lenging, fun and I get out of class,” senior Caleb Meyers said.
The Firelands Challenge Team competed in Cleveland on Oct. 26. The competition will be televised at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, on channel 5.
“Ben Hohman was captain and the team did very well,” Mrs. Swope said.
The first round of the regular season was on Nov. 10 at San-dusky against Margaretta and Danbury. Norwalk won with 49 points, Margaretta scored 41 points and Danbury scored 39 points.
The second round was Nov. 21 at Adams but there were no results at press time. There will be a home match at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 2 against St. Paul and Huron.
The next televised match will be taped on Dec. 6 at Toledo.
Photo by Katlin Roberts Firelands Challenge Team members (from left) junior Michaila Bigler, jun-ior Brooke Landis, senior Caleb Meyers, senior Garret Bader and senior Luke Landis answer questions during practice with adviser Chris Cloud.
Firelands Challenge team starts strong
By Kirsten Kelley The goal of the Veterans Day
assembly was to give our veter-ans the respect and honor they deserve for serving our country.
“It was an emotional experi-ence for me, since my father is currently overseas,” junior Emily Hagan said.
The war veteran who came in and spoke at the assembly was Walter Opperman.
He first joined the Navy wanting to see the world. He served two tours in Vietnam, and then he volunteered for the spe-cial operations division.
When talking about war, Mr. Opperman said, “There is no good war, just causes. Right and wrong, we tried to strengthen the weak.”
There were veterans at the assembly from every branch of the military. Each branch was honored and respected. Their music was played for each branch, with them standing at attention, while their flags were brought out individually.
The Teen Leadership Class put the Veterans Day assembly together to honor all veterans. They are hoping to get this started as a tradition and have this assembly every year.
Photo by Erica Leber Walter Oppeman, the guest speaker at the Veterans Day assembly, talks about his experience in Vietnam.
Photo by Erica Leber A proud veteran proudly stands while his flag was brought onto stage at the Veterans Day assembly.
NHS honors veterans at assembly
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Pros • Good way to communicate with
family that doesn’t live around your area.
• Getting to share news with your friends and family at once.
• Helps to remind you of events you’re involved in.
• People post interesting links to newspaper stories and short vid-eos.
• You can control whom views your posts
Cons • Constantly updating and changing
the way it is used. • Drama being caused over a cer-
tain post or message. • Family bothering you about things
you post. • If you allow someone to friend
you, you automatically friend them as well.
• It is difficult to hide all personal info.
Pros • Share pictures for your friends
and family to see. • You do not have to follow back
everyone that follows you. • The filters can make your pic-
tures look professionally edited. • You can set your profile to pri-
vate to where people have to request to follow you and you can decline or accept it.
• It is easy to scroll through or to like pictures because every post is either a picture or a video.
Cons • New direct messaging turned it
into more than just a sharing pictures site.
• Your pictures can show your specific location, so strangers can possibly see where you live.
• The page with pictures from people who are connected with those that you follow or that are popular in your country are sometimes something you do not want to see.
Pros and Cons of Social Media
Pros • Easy ways to snap a picture and
send it to anyone you want. • You can draw and write on the
pictures. • Good way to stay in touch with
friends and family from different places.
Cons • Once you view the picture, you
can never see it again. • People can screen shot your em-
barrassing snap. • When video chatting on the app,
it is difficult to use and hard to see.
• There is no “send to all” button. • There is an app called anti-
snapchat that allows people to screenshot your snapchats without you knowing.
• It shows who you snapchat the most.
Pros • You can “tweet” as much as you
want without using it “too much.” • Helps you stay in touch with
friends that go to other schools that you don’t see every day.
• I use it to see if school is can-celled or not during the winter.
• I use it to find out the theme for sporting events in our school.
• Good way to express your feel-ings without talking about or to someone directly.
Cons • Can be overwhelming with how
much and often people tweet. • DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA, too
much drama is caused because of Twitter.
• People subtweet others, basically causing drama.
• People use it to fight with other people without confronting them.
• Some accounts that promote nu-dity and pornographic pictures.
Facebook Twitter Instagram Snapchat
He said vs. she said
His social media vs. Her social media By Jarrod Smith and Kasey Duncan
Ask.fm
By Carlie Conney LOL- Laugh out loud GTG- Got to go TTYL- Talk to you later Fr’- For Real BAE- Before anyone else TY- Thank You CYA- See ya ILY- I love you. THX- Thanks Hbu?- How about you? Wbu?- What about you? BFF- Best Friend Forever Brb- Be right back BTW- By the way JK- Just kidding TMI- Too much information FYI- For your information
FWB- Friends with benefits IDK- I don’t know IDC- I don’t care IK- I know NMU- Not much, you? PLZ- Please NVM- Nevermind NP- No Problem SMH- Shaking my head WTH- What the heck? OMG- Oh my Gosh K- Okay (in a quick or rude way) ASAP- As soon as possible MIA- Missing in action BF/GF- Boyfriend/ Girlfriend ATM– At the moment RN- Right now TBH – To be honest
Texting translations
By Kasey Duncan Thanks to YouTube,
learning how to do some-thing is as simple as typing it into a search bar.
This past summer, I taught myself how to play guitar with the help of You-Tube, and it was actually a lot easier than I had antici-pated. There were hundreds of videos and YouTube channels to choose from just for learning how to play guitar. There were step-by-step videos that made learning how to play a breeze.
“YouTube is great be-cause you can find videos and tutorials on just about anything. Want to know how to train a dolphin? They’ve got it. Before our family vacation to Mexico last summer, I brushed up on some of the common trick signals. It was such a
blast! I’m pretty much a professional dolphin trainer thanks to YouTube,” senior Megan Casselberry said.
YouTube offers a wide variety of things people can learn, from foreign lan-guages to workout videos.
Math teacher Chris Hig-gins even uses it as a teach-ing tool for his students.
“YouTube is a great source for so much aca-demic information that it’s hard to even quantify. But there does need to be a bal-ance of quality vs. quantity and good vs. bad,” Mr. Higgins said.
Here is a little known fact about YouTube: The m o r e p o p u l a r y o u r “YouTube channel” or pro-file becomes and the more subscribers you get, You-Tube will actually start paying you to keep creating videos and bringing busi-ness to their website.
Quote of the Issue: “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” –Albert Einstein
If you want to do it, YouTube is the way to go
Results based on a survey of 188 NHS students. Survey and graphs by Paige Espvik.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — Trucker Imprint — Page 5
Opinion: What’s cheating?
Q: If the person you’re talking to or dating DM’ed another person, is that cheating? Sliding into her DM’s, like no. Yes, that’s cheating.
Just depends on what is being said.
Yes! Be straight up with me. I want to know everything.
No, it’s not cheat-ing unless it’s an Ex -- then yes it is.
No, not really. No, but why would you do it?
By Kasey Duncan Thanks to the efforts of MTV,
the term “Catfish” has taken on a new meaning. As told by Urban Dictionary, the meaning of cat-fish is to lure someone into a re-lationship by means of a fictional online persona.
Catfish is a TV show that ex-poses people in relationships that
have sprouted over social net-working but who are hiding be-hind the screen of a computer or phone that are lying about their true identity.
People falsely identifying themselves on social media is a growing problem.
I had a firsthand experience with it this summer. A girl who lived in Florida was using all of
my pictures on Facebook as her own. I had absolutely no idea who this girl was and the only reason why I found out that she was using my pictures is because she started requesting people from Norwalk who then brought it to my attention.
That whole experience truly opened my eyes. It’s so simple for someone act like someone
else by hiding behind a user name and picture.
I feel as though our genera-tion has become too quick to trust people online and not protect our-selves and our private lives.
I quickly learned to make cer-tain social networks private and to be very cautious as to what I post because you never know who might be using your face.
Junior Saramae Blake Sophomore Kaitlyn Stoll Sophomore Tory Bleile Junior Casey Horowitz Junior Raven Emerick Sophomore Chloe Kramer
Social media timeline
Q: If the person you’re dating likes someone else’s picture, is that cheating? Don’t comment -- that’s too far! Emoji’s, we’re done here.
No, but don’t like girls’ selfies that are like “cute.”
Comment and we’re done. Don’t even think about emoji’s.
I don’t mind if they like others’ pictures, but I don’t want it to be an Ex.
No, but emoji’s might bother me just a little.
No, that’s not cheat-ing.
Q: Do you consider it cheating if you’re not the top best friend on Snapchat?
Yes, that’s cheating for sure.
Don’t Snapchat an Ex. But otherwise I don’t care.
If I’m not on top, it’s unacceptable!
No, it’s not. But better not be an Ex.
No, I don’t really ever use my Snap-chat anyway.
Yes. I don’t want you snapchatting other girls.
Have you ever been ‘catfished’?
By Hannah Hales Students in Nick Lee’s and
Jen Gerber’s economics classes have started a new project this year where they get to enter the world of investing in stocks.
Mr. Lee said he enjoys teach-ing the students in his class how to invest and save money.
He found a website where he was able to give his students pre-tend money so that they could buy stocks and monitor their stocks as often as they like.
This is taking place because the new economics curriculum
includes budgeting money and personal financing.
“It helps the students create options for themselves in the fu-ture,” Mr. Lee explained. This project also shows the impor-tance of compounding interest and how quickly stocks can change, he added.
Senior Adam Francis enjoys this project because it teaches a good life lesson. He reported that his stocks are doing pretty well and they are improving. He has invested in stocks such as Apple.
Senior Martin Garcia dislikes the project because he doesn’t like dealing with money at all.
He has invested in GoPro, which is a camera company. He said his stocks are improving slowly.
Photo by Hannah Hales Senior Adam Francis checks his stocks.
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spending three or four periods in the music room and that was what I really wanted to do,” Mr. Parish said.
Mr. Parish hopes he will be able to travel more with his wife after he retires, since she travels for her job.
He will be missed by his stu-dents and fellow teachers.
“He is the reason I want to major in music. It’s going to take a lot to get used to a new conduc-tor,” sophomore Samantha Smith said.
“It’s going to be different; we’ve worked together for 25 years. It will be like family going
away,” band teacher Sandy Ben-nett said, adding that Mr. Parish has always been very dedicated.
“He is the reason we are so determined in music. He’s built our character and is kind of an inspiration. No one will be able to fill his space as well as he does,” freshman Emma Shannon said.
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Roslyn Hashiguchi was given the title “district librarian” and was ordered to split her time among several schools.
“I am pleased for the students that they will have access to the
high school library,” Mrs. Hashi-guchi said.
Mrs. Hokes is looking forward to her new position.
“As for major plans, I can't wait to display new books and show-case books I think the students will love,” Mrs. Hokes said, adding,
“I'm excited that our beautiful li-brary will be up and running full time!” Mrs. Hokes will be in the library from 7:10 a.m. to 1:35 p.m. Business teacher Jennifer Albright and math teacher Becky Molnar will remain in the library for peri-ods six and seven.
“I am glad it is finally open again; it needs to be,” senior Bridgette Schweizer said.
“I’m glad that people are now able to get knowledge through these resources during school hours,” agreed senior Anthony Mummert.
Students ‘invest’ in stocks
LIBRARY
PARISH
Graphic by Caitlen Cameron
— Photos and interviews by Carlie Conney
Timeline by Jenna Thorpe
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Adventuring in Oberlin Photos and story by Jenna Thorpe and Quinn Schick
Aladdin’s Eatery has great
food, atmosphere and service. This Lebanese-American
restaurant can be found in Ober-lin, Westlake and Cleveland. We went to the restaurant in Oberlin. It is located at 5 West College Street. It is about a 40 minute drive from Norwalk.
It was a small, cozy restau-rant. Our food came out quickly and our waitress made sure we had everything we needed.
The food comes in large por-tions, so if you have a small stomach then it is a good idea to split with someone. We ordered the vegetarian combo which had
samples of hummus, tabouli, baba, falafel, and dawali.
Hummus is a middle eastern dip that contains chickpeas, tahini (sesame seed paste) and different spices.
Baba is similar to hummus. The main ingredient is blended eggplant instead of chickpeas.
Falafel is a vegetable and spice mixture.
Diwali almost looks like a green spring roll. It is a stuffed grape leaf and has a very ac-quired taste, which some people like; others think the taste is too potent.
We also ordered Jafar’s Pitza, which was pita bread with
vegetarian chili, scallions, cheese and tahini yogurt dressing. The tahini yogurt dressing also came with our vegetarian combo; we thought it tasted really good.
We would give Aladdin’s 10 out of 10. The food was not too pricey, either. Our total to-gether was about $25, including the tip. The taste and experience were well worth the money we paid.
If you’re the type of person who likes to try interesting food, then Aladdin’s Eatery may be the place for you.
In addition to the delicious food at Aladdin’s, Oberlin is a very interesting and diverse town. After eating our meal, we decided to walk around and ex-plore a little.
We first went into a small candy shop/grocery store called Gibson’s, a few doors down from Aladdin’s. There was a variety of interesting candy and candy bars for sale such as wasabi choco-late, chocolate covered orange peels and blueberry cream chocolate. The wasabi chocolate was very odd-tasting. The store also carried a variety of everyday needs, from toilet paper and vita-
mins to plums and almond milk. Neighboring Gibson’s was
Hanson, a small record store that almost seemed as if it was an upstairs apartment. This store had a very cool environment with a variety of artwork on the walls. There were mostly vinyl records for sale of many different genres as well as cassette tapes and turn-tables. The man working said the two-year anniversary of their opening was approaching and they may be having some shows for a celebration.
See ADVENTURE on page 7
The vegetarian combo at Aladdin’s.
At Aladdin’s Eatery in Oberlin, photo editor Jenna Thorpe enjoys eating pita bread stuffed with hummus and tabouli.
The variety of candy at Gibson’s Bakery and Food Mart
It’s Thanksgiving, just subtract the turkey By Quinn Schick
There are many ways to cele-brate Thanksgiving. The general American Thanksgiving is viewed as spending time with family and eating turkey.
Some people do not value eat-ing turkey specifically, but still enjoy eating food and spending time with friends and family. A vegetarian Thanksgiving is quite normal and just as enjoyable as a Thanksgiving that involves eating meat.
Senior Catherine Blackwood, who has been a vegetarian for four years, said, “My mom makes
vegetarian stuffing.” And she eats green beans and other side dishes.
Catherine is not the only vege-tarian in the school.
“I’ve been a vegetarian for a long time and I don’t really miss eating meat on Thanksgiving,” said junior Brooke Landis. “It’s awkward because I have to ask my family if there is any meat in the food.”
Some families accommodate to vegetarianism on Thanksgiving and some do not. There is usually some sort of alternative at family holiday celebrations.
“My uncle was a vegan and he said I should start making vege-tarian food for other people and slowly introduce vegetarianism,”
said junior Maddy McFadden. “My parents thought it was stupid but the rest of my family re-spected it.”
There are many alternatives to meat during the holidays that are just as filling and delicious!
I recently tested out a vegetar-ian recipe at home to take to my family Thanksgiving celebration. I made a vegan shepherd’s pie. This was the alternative to the traditional shepherd’s pie that contains ground beef. Instead, the recipe calls for brown lentils.
This meal was easy and fun to make; it tasted delicious and my entire family liked it.
Vegan Shepherd’s Pie with curried pumpkin seeds
A Students’ Life
Family matters
By Kasey Duncan With Thanksgiving right
around the corner and Christ-mas following soon after, it’s safe to say that everyone is coming down with a case of Holiday Fever.
This is the time of year when people come home to celebrate with their family by consuming large amounts of food and reminiscing on old times.
Now, I don’t know how it is with everyone else, but I’ll be the first person to admit that growing up I had a ten-dency to get very easily an-noyed with my family, espe-cially around the holidays. I come from a family full of strong, conflicting personali-ties (surprising, I know) so when we were younger it was easy for petty fights to arise.
The older I’ve gotten, though, the more I’ve real-ized how much family mat-ters, especially around this time of year.
When you’re younger you think that your grandparents are invincible, and it never really dawns on you that your holidays with them are num-bered. I never thought that
I’d sit down for Thanksgiv-ing dinner and not see my grandpa’s plate set at the head of the table.
I wish more than anything I could go back to all the times my grandpa sat around with our family telling us stories from his childhood. I took them for granted because I never thought there’d come a time when his stories would be replaced by my family sitting around telling stories about him to make it feel like he is still here.
So I encourage everyone to appreciate the time that you have with your family. Make it a point to let your loved ones know that you love them.
If you are fortunate enough to have healthy grandparents, spend as much time with them as you can this holiday season.
And for those of you who are like me and have an empty chair at the dinner ta-ble as a painful reminder of someone’s absence, I encour-age you to talk about them with your family.
I’ve learned that even though someone has passed, that doesn’t mean they’re gone.
Their memory will forever live through the people’s lives they’ve touched and the photographs taken capturing moments and memories.
I hope everyone has a very blessed and safe Thanksgiv-ing and Christmas this year.
First Thanksgiving
Vasita Sathienwongnukul
Lidia Beretta Mio Kobyashi
Do you have Thanksgiving in your home country?
No.
No, but New Year’s Day in Japan is where we have a family gathering like Thanksgiving.
No, but we celebrate Carnevale in Venice, where we eat a bunch of food like Thanksgiving.
Do you know the background about Thanksgiving?
Not really. Yes, but only because I go to a language school and we study other coun-tries’ holidays.
Since my school in Japan is internation-ally influenced, I know the basic his-tory.
Are there any foods you are excited to try?
The turkey. Since I have had turkey before, I am really ex-cited to try the stuffing.
I’m excited to try the turkey.
Have you heard about anything besides the eating?
No. No, but I definitely am looking forward to all the eating!
Not really, except the family getting together and having a good time.
Happy Thanksgiving from the Trucker Imprint staff!
Photos and interviews by Caitlen Cameron
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Continued from page 6 Next stop was the Allen Me-
morial Art museum. It’s free! When first walking into the mu-seum, there is a beautiful hall with a decorative ceiling of art-work, which was being renovated when we visited. There was a celebration and display in one of the galleries for “Día de Muer-tos.” There was also a new Latin American exhibit where the mod-ern art gallery used to be. This display was a great view into the interesting expression in Latino cultures. Among our favorite art works in this exhibit was a wall display made from pins and thread (pictured).
Before heading home, we de-cided to go into a coffee shop called The Local that was located under a bicycle shop at 23 South Main Street. It was a fun way to top off our trip to Oberlin. This was like the real deal kind of cof-fee shop. We were uneducated as to what the names of the products on their menu indicated. I (Jenna) ordered an albino squirrel (espresso, steamed milk, hazel-
nut, white chocolate and whipped cream) and I (Quinn) ordered a red eye (a small coffee with two shots of espresso). One thing that was interesting about this place was that it had a shelf for locals (mostly college students) to leave their coffee mug and use that mug each time they came in. The air smelled like coffee and al-most had the sound of a library.
This is a great place to go for someone who just wants to get out of the house. We had a good experience in this small town surrounding a college campus. This is also a fun place for those who don’t want to spend a lot of money. The college campus of Oberlin is very interesting and free to walk around and explore. The art museum also has free admission. Overall, Oberlin is a very nice place for anyone who has some free time to just hang out and see something new.
The drive is quite uncompli-cated. Just take U.S. 20 east for about 20 miles and turn left onto Route 58 for about a mile or so, and you’re there! It’s about a 30 to 40 minute drive!
ADVENTURE
Photo by Erica Leber Motivational speaker Reggie Dabbs plays his soprano saxophone as a part of his presentation during an assembly on Oct. 8.
Photo by Jarrod Smith Senior Bayleigh Collins runs the ball be-hind blocker Kasey Duncan, as they destroy the junior defense during the Powder Puff game on Oct. 7. The final score was seniors: 28; juniors: 8.
Photo by Caitlen Cameron Right: Sophomore Sam Freeman starts carving his pumpkin for the Art Club pumpkin contest on Oct. 30. The winners were junior Kelsey Mullins for best painted, junior Caitlen Cam-eron for best carving and freshman Danielle Ashakhi for best multi-medium.
Photo by Brie Schneider Senior Seth Staley throws T-shirts into the crowd of Teen Leadership Corps students from all over Ohio at the TLC Convention held at the Ernsthausen Performing Arts Center last month.
Photo by Karlee Conley Right: Kassidy Smith was dressed as a superhero, Sydney Steffanni was dressed as a dalmatian and Olivia Babka was dressed as a cat for Halloween. All three are freshmen.
Photo by Karlee Conley Left: Alexandra Resor was dressed as a deer and Emily Hagan was dressed as Snow White for Halloween. Both are juniors.
Continued from page 1 Luke enjoys running, com-
pleting Rubik’s cubes and sliding into girls’ DMs on Twitter. Luke runs cross country and track; he said his biggest accomplishment is being all-Ohio in the 4x8 last track season.
Luke’s favorite subject is math and his favorite teacher is Mr. Higgins because he also shares a passion for math.
High school is most enjoyable for Luke because of the sports and because he gets to see his friends every day.
Luke’s post-high school plans are to go to college to be an actu-ary and then get a job in a big city.
Success is Luke’s biggest mo-tivation and inspiration.
For Noah, his biggest motiva-tor is his mom.
“I can always go to her if I’m having trouble and she always understands,” Noah said.
Noah is going to college to study astrophysics. His bucket list includes going to space and to own a lot of buckets.
But, before Noah can begin his journey to space, he has to complete high school.
“Noah is a student I can trust to do everything in a timely man-ner and he is very organized,” Mr. Higgins said.
Noah said what he enjoys most about high school is getting to see his friends every day. He also likes English class and he swims for the NHS swim team. Noah also participates in musical in the winter.
Although Noah enjoys musi-cal, he also thinks that his most embarrassing moments in high school are when he has to per-form in front of the school for musical. He played the part of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Choir teacher Carol Mason is Noah’s favorite teacher because he said she is the nicest person and she loves her job.
Noah considers his biggest accomplishment having the flex arm hang record in middle school.
He also likes to play octoball with his friends.
MERIT
Photo by Karlee Conley Left: Ellie Schneider was dressed as a cowgirl and Komal Mohan was dressed as an Indian for Halloween. Both are sophomores.
Photo by Karlee Conley Right: Pictured from left, Madison McFadden was dressed as a candy skull, Ashytn Ley was dressed as Cinderella, Alexis Christman was dressed as a robber, Alyssa Tuttle was dressed as Pocahontas and JoBeth Wyatt was dressed as Sleeping Beauty. All are juniors.
Photo by Jarrod Smith Juniors Emily Hagan and Alex Osborn celebrate a touchdown scored by Carlie Conney during the Powder Puff game.
Photo by Paige Espvik Top Left: Sophomore Miranda Ewell paints a snowplow for the Art Club project.
Photo by Kiersten Kelly Top Middle: The group of Dalmatians from the freshman class fundraiser gather for a picture
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By Madeline Roche Jasmeen and Gurleen Kaur are from Amrit-
sar (Punjab), in northern India. They moved here in March of 2011, while Jasmeen was in sixth grade and Gurleen was in eighth grade.
Moving all the way from India, which is a flight lasting a day and a half, comes with a lot of change.
“The things I miss most about India are my family, friends, food and culture,” Jasmeen said, adding, “Something I like about America is all the rules and regulations. In India, the driving is not controlled with rules and here it is more organized.”
Jasmeen and Gurleen speak Punjabi, Eng-lish and Hindi fluently. In addition, Jasmeen is in French three and Gurleen took three years of Spanish.
“At first, it was hard to understand what the teachers were saying, but now it is easier. There is less stress in school here than in In-dia,” Gurleen said.
“You get used to hearing and understand-ing English,” Jasmeen added.
Their family speaks Punjabi regularly at home.
“Sometimes, we speak English to each other or with our brother, but our mom wants
us to speak Punjabi to make sure we do not forget it,” Jasmeen said.
At their school in India, they wore uni-forms and girls were required to wear their hair in a braid every day. Another differ-ence in India is that the students stay in the same place and the teachers change class-rooms instead. Teach-ers there go by their first name, followed by sir or ma’am.
Although Jasmeen mentioned she misses the food from India, her mom still cooks it regularly. One famous In-dian food from Punjab is Sarson da saag, which is spinach and spices.
As far as traditions go, their family cele-brates a variety of Indian and American tradi-tions.
Their family celebrates Halloween, Christ-mas and Thanksgiving. Their family also cele-brates the Indian traditions of Diwali and Rak-sha Bandan.
Diwali is a light festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, or light over dark-ness.
Rashka Bandan is a custom in which broth-ers promise their sisters to protect them from evil and sisters pray for God to protect their brothers. Sisters put ribbon around their broth-ers’ wrists and brothers sometimes give the sisters money in return. This is meant to em-phasize the family bond and bring brothers and sisters closer to each other, and continues through adulthood.
Also, all of the girls in this religion are given the middle name of Kaur and all of the boys are given the middle name of Singh, which is followed by their family name. In America they are using their middle names for their last name.
“It’s a lot different in America, but we have gotten used to it,” Jasmeen said.
Life from India to America
Photo by Madeline Roche Sisters Gurleen Kaur, a senior (left), and Jasmeen Kaur, a sophomore, laugh during lunch.
India fun facts • The capital of India is New Delhi. • The national animal of India is the tiger. • The national flower is a lotus. • The national sport is cricket. • The national bird is a peacock. • The Indian flag is saffron,white and green, with a blue circle in the middle.
Source: Jasmeen and Gurleen Kaur
New class adviser takes action By Jessica Aguilera
This year’s freshman class has
a new adviser, English teacher Jenn Lark.
Mrs. Lark said she decided to be the adviser because she was already teaching many freshmen, and thought it would be good to help them raise money for their prom.
Mrs. Lark has planned to raise at least $1,000 this year. She has a couple of fundraisers in mind to help reach that goal.
“The fundraisers should be things kids could use,” she said.
One fundraiser Mrs. Lark already did this year was the 101 Dalmatians.
“This fundraiser was fun for kids and it was an easy costume for anyone that wanted to partici-pate,” she said.
The freshman class began selling vinyl stickers earlier this month. They can be placed on cell phones or laptops.
They can be bought from Mrs. Lark or members of the freshman class. Cost is $3 apiece or two for
$5. Buyers have a choice of logos – the truck, or specific sports, music and extracurricular pro-grams.
Overall, Mrs. Lark said the vinyl stickers will promote school spirit.
Photo by Jessica Aguilera English teacher Jenn Lark (right) poses in her Cruella Deville costume for the Dalmatian 101 fundraiser. Mrs. Lark is the new freshman class adviser.
White Gift Assembly set By Paige Espvik The annual White Gift
Assembly will take place this year.
It will start at around 11:30 a.m., and it will be the last thing students experience be-fore winter break begins at 12:30 p.m. on December 19,
The Teen Leadership Class organizes this assembly every year. They come up with a guest speaker, put together a skit, and create a video for the students to enjoy.
Student Council sets up a canned food drive every year
and they incorporate it into the White Gift Assembly. Stu-dents can bring their cans to their second period class.
The top three second pe-riod classes will receive donuts, Student Council ad-viser Becky Molnar said.
Before the White Gift as-sembly, however, first semes-ter exams will take place. This year’s exam schedule is differ-ent, since exams will be before the winter break instead of in January.
This year’s semester exam schedule is in the box next to this article.
Changes for dances possible By Karlee Conley
A new trend for the 2015
homecoming dance is on its way. Inappropriate dancing will be
addressed through class meetings and the choice of dance music as well. There will also be more chaperons watching.
“If you won’t dance in front of your parents like that you shouldn’t dance in front of teach-ers like that,” student council adviser Becky Molnar said.
Junior Ashytn Ley thinks they should change the music which will (at least a little bit) change
people’s mentality on how they should dance.
Junior Noah Laughlin thinks they should bring a band to play because the band puts more effort in front of a crowd than just a DJ.
Pennies for pasta short of goal By Sabrina Boyd
Pennies for Pasta is a yearly
tradition. Key Club is in charge of this
fundraiser, and family consumer science teacher Kim Majoy is the adviser.
Pennies for Pasta is a fund-raiser for the leukemia and lym-phoma society. All of the money the school raises is given to this organization.
The goal for the 2014 school year was $1,500. The school did-n’t quite reach the goal, but
$516.53 was raised by the efforts of the students and staff.
The winning class was, in fact, Mrs. Majoy’s second period class, Family Dynamics. They will be treated to pasta.
By Madeline Roche Sophomore Paige Derr
would like to start a debate club this year.
“Kids nowadays don’t pay attention or know issues going on with current events,” Paige said.
Once the club has started, anyone can join. The adviser has not been decided yet, but will probably be one of two science teachers: Nate Whaley or Matt Lark, Paige said.
With a busy schedule, Paige will not be able to look into all of the details until after foot-ball season, because she is in the marching band. But, she said she has been really inter-ested in debating and wants to make this club a regular winter and spring activity.
Debate club may be coming
Photo by Madeline Roche Sophomore Paige Derr
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ― Bernard M. Baruch
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — Trucker Imprint — Page 9
ENTERTAINMENT
By Paige Espvik House of Cards is a Netflix
original show, and currently only has two seasons. The third season is set to come out in February of 2015.
The show is set in present-day Washington, D.C., and is based around Congressman Francis Un-
derwood, played by Kevin Spacey, and his wife Claire, played by Robin Wright.
Underwood is a Democratic Congressman who, after being passed over for the job of Secre-tary of State, wants to get to the top. The show demonstrates power and manipulation.
The series itself is intense and interesting. The show will always keep you on your toes and you will not want to stop watching it. House of Cards received five stars on Netflix and everyone that I have talked to about the show loves it. I recommend it to people who are into politics, also anyone who wants to watch a great show.
By Jenna Thorpe Would you rather spend $50
for one pair of “designer” jeans or two pairs of jeans for the same
price and quality but it’s not the name brand?
I’d rather buy two pairs in-stead of just one for $50. Sales are a shopper’s best friend. You can go to a sale and get double the amount of clothing that you would get at the normal retail price. There are so many places that you can shop for the perfect outfit and have the perfect price.
I’m not saying that it’s bad to wear designer clothing. People are entitled to have their own per-sonal style and taste. I’m saying that instead of buying those boots for $100, you can go to Nord-
strom Rack (in Crocker Park) and get similar boots for almost half that price.
There are many places where you can buy cute clothes at an affordable price. T.J. Maxx, For-ever 21 and Goodwill are just a few stores where you can find unique and cute clothing for a reduced price.
“The Goodwill in Great Northern sells everything for dirt cheap and they only sell name brand,” said senior Marianne Dewitt.
Junior Madison McFadden also likes going to Goodwill, be-
cause no one else has their unique clothing.
Just by buying something that’s 20 percent off, more money goes back into your wallet.
Ways you can be a smart shopper:
•Wait for major sales like Black Friday.
•Shop at the end of each sea-son. (Almost everything in stores is on sale.)
•Go to outlet malls. •Use the coupons that stores
send you in the mail for their products.
Sales are a shopper’s best friend
Netflix gives House of Cards five stars
Signed ‘your future stylist’
New on Netflix
Band = good mood By Quinn Schick
Real Estate is a mellow indie
band from Ridgewood, New Jer-sey. Their debut album, Real Estate, was released in 2009. This album introduced the beach rock, sunny day sound of the band.
Real Estate’s second album, Days, was released in 2011. Songs on this album such as “Easy” and “It’s Real” are more upbeat than songs like “Beach Comber” off the first studio al-bum, but still have the same re-laxing tone.
Atlas is their newest release; this album represents how the band has changed in ways and has remained the same over the years. This album has a fuller sound due to the addition of Matt Kallman and Jackson Pollis on the record.
Real Estate is influenced by bands like Weezer and The Beach Boys.
The two guitarists and drum-mer all grew up in the same town. They also have played mu-sic together and in other bands since they were in high school.
The relationship and attitude of the band members is apparent in their music.
Any person who is a fan of laid back music with surf rock and beachy sounds should listen to Real Estate.
They are not seeking a defini-tion or out to be critiqued, yet their sound is still effortlessly beautiful.
They just create an artistic, non-mysterious atmosphere for anyone listening to them.
I like listening to this band because they are very content and relaxing. Listening to them always puts me in a good mood.
Photo from Real Estate website Real Estate performs “Green Aisles” on the Chris Gethard show.
By Jenna Thorpe Waiting For Forever is a ro-
mantic movie about a man named Will Donner (played by Tom Sturridge) who has been in love with an actress named Emma Twist (played by Rachel Bilson) for what seems like for-ever. Will and Emma were child-hood friends until Will’s parents died and he and his brother were forced to move in with their un-cle in a different state. Then they slowly lost contact with each other.
The movie starts out with Will hitchhiking down a high-way trying to find his way back to his home town in Pennsyl-vania. Will had heard that Emma’s father was sick and that she was going back to see him. Will had decided that he was finally going to tell Emma that he was in love with her and that he had been for a while.
There’s a catch to this movie, though. He had been actually following Emma for many years. It starts to sound a little creepy but to Will, he just wants to be near her because he loves her.
Emma has some baggage as well. She’s kind of escaping her life in L.A. because she cheated on her boyfriend Aaron with one of his friends. What she doesn’t know is that Aaron killed his friend and he is trying to win Emma back without her knowing what had happened, so he’s on his way to Pennsylvania as well.
Will runs into Emma on the street and they start talking and having a really good time walk-ing down memory lane. Then Will mentions that he saw her in L.A. and that he’s basically fol-lowed her all those years.
This movie (which is on Net-flix) contains romance and drama. Someone who likes ro-mantic and dramatic movies would enjoy this movie. Will makes the audience love him, even after you find out he seems to be stalking Emma. The movie makes the audience feel like they’re in the movie and that they want Emma and Will to work out, even after everything they’ve been through. The best way to find out the ending and what happens to Will and Emma is by watching the movie.
Waiting For Forever Music Review Movie Review
Photo by Hannah Hales Sophomore Alaina Kelley shows her gear project.
Carpe Diem [kär-pe-dē-em] The enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. Literally, “seize the day.” Example: A group of people go sky diving and exclaim “Carpe Diem!” before plunging out of an airplane thousands of feet from the ground.
Artist of the issue Word of the issue
There are 802 high
schools in Ohio.
Fact of the issue
Illustration by Quinn Schick
SPORTS
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By Jessica Aguilera Senior Luke Landis made it to
state for cross country. What was it like there? “It was weird running fast and
still being in the crowd but it was pretty exciting,” he said.
Luke has been running since the seventh grade. He said he practices an hour a day. He started running because a lot of his family members run.
Luke had some advice for begin-ning runners.
“Run a lot. The more you run, the easier it will come to you,” he said.
Before he starts to run, he listens to music to calm himself down and he goes through his normal routine.
Luke said he likes running be-cause it’s an exciting sport to partici-pate in and also it is rewarding to meet the goal you set for yourself.
Luke’s goal for state was to place in the top 16 based on his training, but he said he fell short of his expec-tation. At state he finished with a time of 17:08. His personal record is 15:47.
Luke plans to keep running in col-lege. He said he is going to continue running until he gets sick of it, but he doesn’t see himself stopping anytime soon.
Photo by Jessica Aguilera Senior Luke Landis walks down the hallway surrounded by his cross country teammates while students wish him good luck during his sendoff to state.
Luke plans to keep running
By Courtney Pelham Superstitions and rituals have
been around for many years. In sports, however, pre-game rituals have started to be an athlete’s symbol, such as Timothy Tebow, who played for the New York Jets.
He would do his famous pre-game prayer before the game; little did he know his ritual would mark him.
Student athletes today have their own pre-game rituals. Freshman Alaina Kelley puts her
right shoe on, then her left one, before her volleyball games.
“I’ve done it since middle school, because it brings good luck,” she said.
Junior Braden Neuberger, who plays football, wears the same cut-off shirt under his clothes every Tuesday practice and under his jersey for game day.
“I wore it the first game and we won, so why stop?” Braden said.
F o o t b a l l c o a c h C h r i s MacFarland has the same sched-
ule every week for practices and has the players wear their jerseys every Friday to school.
“It’s more about finding a rou-tine that works and sticking with it,” Coach MacFarland said.
Some pre-game rituals, such as the one used by senior football player Elliot Rhodes, don’t help with luck, but help him mentally prepare for a game.
Starting his sophomore year, he has paced in the locker room before games to cool down.
“Without pacing, I have a slow start and do bad,” Elliot said.
Senior Kayla Walsh eats a bagel for breakfast on days she has a basketball or softball game.
“It gives me energy and with-out it, I play badly,” she said.
Starting last year, senior Bran-don Bleile eats a bag of Skittles before every basketball game.
“We wanted food to eat that would give sugar and energy. Skittles provides that,” he said.
Superstitions: From shoes to Skittles
By Hannah Hales The Norwalk Lady Truckers
volleyball team had an amazing season this year.
The team was NOL champi-ons for the fifth straight s ea son . T h e L a d y Truckers b e a t e v e r y team in the NOL 3-0, not letting a t e a m take a set from them.
On the tournament run, the Lady Truckers defeated the Per-kins Pirates for the sectional crown at their home court. The ladies then went on the road to Seneca East to face and beat the Tigers from Galion to advance to district finals. The Truckers then faced the Lady Lex from Lexing-ton high school and were crowned district champions.
On Oct. 29, it was the re-gional semi-finals at Ontario High School and things took a sudden turn for the worse. Senior all-around player Alicia Lortcher went up for a back row attack and collapsed to the floor. She was carried off into the locker room and returned to the bench on crutches with her knee wrapped in ice. The Lady Truckers pulled through and won against Bowling
Green in four sets to advance to the Re-gional Finals.
“It was heart-breaking to be done as a senior and it was good to see the team pull through even though I couldn’t play,” said Lortcher.
The ladies ended their season on Nov. 1 with a hard-fought loss to Parma Padua Franciscan (21-5). The Ladies ended their season 22-5.
“My teammates gave me a season I’ll always remem-ber,” said senior Erica Leber.
Photo by Hannah Hales The Norwalk Lady Truckers volleyball team cele-brates after getting a point during the regional semi-finals. game against Bowling Green.
Volleyball: just shy of state
Photo by Erica Leber Ground has been broken for the new All-Sports Complex behind the high school. The steel frame has been put up and construction is still taking place.
All-Sports Complex under construction
Photo by Hannah Hales Senior Sydney Obringer serves the ball during the regional final
SPORTS
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — Trucker Imprint — Page 11
By Jarrod Smith At Norwalk, there are many
sports that we excel in. Sports like tennis, wrestling, golf, soccer
and cross country have taken ei-ther first or second place in the NOL in the past two years, and yet athletes in all of these sports get very little recognition for the hard work they do.
Basketball, football and vol-leyball players work very hard as well, and their hard work has shown with many accomplish-ments these past few years.
We are very successful when it comes to athletics here at Nor-walk, but many sports teams get very little recognition for their accomplishments.
I bet you didn’t know that the wrestling team had four NOL champions this past season, and that the tennis team is back-to-back NOL champs, and that the boys’ soccer team won the NOL. But everyone knows that the foot-ball team made it to the playoffs and that they’re the NOL champs this year, and that the volleyball team is rolling through the com-petition.
In some of these unrecognized sports, the only fans who show up are a few parents who come to watch their kids compete, but everyone in the city drops what
they are doing to go watch the basketball team week in and week out. The wrestling team wants support, the swim team wants support, the bowling team wants support, but everybody is too worried about how the bas-ketball team will manage to win after losing key seniors, or how many touchdowns the football team had.
Players in all sports work very hard to achieve their goals and they all deserve equal recog-nition. So come out and support ALL your sports teams. It will mean a lot to our athletes.
By Courtney Pelham The use of drugs by teenagers
in Huron County has increased over the past few years.
A survey was taken by the Huron County Health Department for this year (2014) for grades 9 to 12 in Huron County. The re-sults showed 17 percent of the students in Huron County sur-veyed had used marijuana in the month the survey was taken; three years ago, the same survey was done showing only 10 per-cent. The survey also showed 33 percent of students consumed one drink of alcohol in the month the survey was taken, compared to the survey done three years ago, showing 25 percent.
Since the use of drugs for teens has gone up, more area schools have turned to drug test-ing. Margaretta, Clyde, Western Reserve, Vermilion, Ontario, Fre-mont and Bellevue are just some of the high schools already drug testing, according to their official websites. The big question is: When is Norwalk going to start?
“If our school can afford it, I’m for it. Not just for athletes, but for all students. Anything to control the use,” said Athletic Director Gary Swartz.
Senior Laurel Campbell, a soccer player, is for drug testing. “It would improve our student body,” she said.
“It wouldn’t bother me if we had it,” said junior Emily Hagan.
Football coach Dustin Baker wouldn’t mind drug testing ei-ther. “No kids need to be doing drugs,” he said.
There would be a computer system to pick out about 20 stu-dents randomly during the school day. The drug test would be for all students, not just athletes, Mr. Swartz said.
“Having the testing would give a reason for students to say no to drugs,” he added.
“With the increase of kids dy-ing from performance-enhancing drugs, drug testing is a good idea,” softball coach Callie Stanley said.
“As long as it follows guide-lines as being constitutional, I’m
OK with it,” said social studies teacher Nick Lee.
The urine test could pick up the use of alcohol, illegal sub-stances and prescription drugs.
“That’s why it’s important if a student is prescribed medicine, to inform the office,” Mr. Swartz said.
If a student were to test posi-tive, he or she would have park-ing privileges taken away and that student would be subjected to
disciplinary action, such as sus-pension. Athletes would have the same discipline, but also they would be suspended from the sport they participate in. In addi-tion, students would more than likely have to go to a drug and alcohol class.
Once a student tested posi-tive, he or she would have to be tested every time a test was done at the school, said Mr. Swartz.
Graph by Paige Espvik Based on a survey of Huron County students conducted by the Huron County Health Department.
Drug free is the way to be
There’s more than just football and basketball Opinion
By Erica Leber Who would have known that
high school sports can mean so much to some athletes to where they will risk their own lives to stay in the game?
Every high school and college athlete, before each season, has to take what is called a baseline test.
It is a test to measure memory skills and balance. This test is to measure basically how well the brain works when an athlete is stable.
The baseline test is scored out of 30 points. Here are some of the things on the baseline test: The athlete is given a list of five words, and then is asked to repeat the same words back. The athlete is asked to stand on each foot to test balance. Athletes are also asked to say the months and per-form a series of other small mem-ory tests.
When an athlete is in the game and gets symptoms of a concus-sion, the baseline test is brought out and is compared to the test that the trainer gives to the athlete
during the game. Symptoms of a concussion include headache, nausea, neck pain, drowsiness, balance issues, fatigue, confu-sion, “fog,” feeling slow and irri-tability. Each one of the symp-toms is measured. The numbers are zero, being there are no signs of it, through six, being the symp-toms are severe.
“Kids try to do poorly on the baseline test so when they’re in the game with a concussion they don’t have to do well,” athletic trainer Jarrod James said.
To some kids, the game is everything. They strive so hard to be the best or beat the best. They try so hard to stay in the game, to the point where they risk their own, fragile brain to do so.
Fake failed concussion tests are mostly found in the contact sports, such as football, soccer and lacrosse, Mr. James said.
Each athlete is only allowed to have three concussions in each calendar year before being with-drawn from the sport. Some play-ers can have a concussion and not even realize it because their adrenaline from the game is so high, Mr. James added.
Athletes can experience brain damage due to impact. That’s why trainers, athletes and coaches should always take concussions tests seriously. If people are actu-ally worried about not being able to play, so worried that they will risk their own brain to stay in the game, it is sad.
Listen to Leb
Do some sports not get enough attention?
Junior Braden Neuberger Sports: football and wrestling Heck yeah, some teams should get more attention. I see why they don’t, because who is going to pay attention to swimming? But all sports are im-portant, no matter what.
Sophomore Ethan Bores Sport: cross country Some sports that don’t get any attention are really hard, like cross country and wrestling re-quire lots of hard work and dedi-cation.
Are high school sports becoming hazardous to athletes’ health?
Junior Alyssa Tuttle Sport: tennis People don’t come watch sports that they don’t think are hard. The tennis team practices just as hard as the football team.
Freshman Olivia Babka Sport: soccer Soccer doesn’t get a lot of attention when football and basketball get all the attention. All sports should get equal attention.
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Secret parking lot rules
By Kasey Duncan and Caitlen Cameron
“If you blare your music and
do burnouts after school, you’re a tool.”
-Senior Isaac Moore “Don’t park too close to me or
I will kill you in your sleep.”
-Senior Jamee Kerr
“If you’re not a senior stay in your lane, AKA the back five rows.”
- Senior Kirsten Condottore
“If I park in the same spot all
year then don’t be the person to park there for one day.”
- Sophomore Lyndsey Sheldon
“I hate when people think it’s cool to rev their engines and honk, when really it makes you look ignorant.”
-Junior Jaycee Jordan
“I hate it when people blare
their country music.”
- Junior Nick Byington
“If you take my parking spot I will personally slash your tires.”
- Junior Morgan Krupp
“I really dislike it when peo-
ple are indecisive about their parking spot. Please just park
and go.”
- Junior Alyssa Tuttle
When looking in junior Courtney Bleile’s car, many things were found.
· Wendy’s bag · Juice box · Clothing · Water bottle · Umbrella
Freshman Lexi Brooks
1. I am very outgoing and adventurous. 2. I collect makeup. 3. I hate winter and spring. 4. I have never broken a
bone. 5. My favorite color is bur-
gundy. 6. My favorite television
show is Prison Break. 7. I want to be a detective. 8. Halloween is my favorite
holiday. 9. It’s really bad but I’m ob-
sessed with YouTube. 10. I think Ben Rector is the
best singer and musician of all time.
10 things you didn’t know
about me
Photo by Katlin Roberts Junior Courtney Bleile and her car.
What’s in your car?
Sophomore Eboni Barbee
Junior Morgan Krupp
Sophomore Juanita Mancilla
Senior Connor Mackay
Freshman Aimee Smith
Junior Danni Sommers
Sophomore Oscar Perez
Around the halls What’s your most commonly used hashtag?
Photos and interviews by Karlee Conley and Carlie Conney
Photo by Karlee Conley
