Rogue News: What are you looking for in next year’s Student Body Presidents?

Maddy Wallace: “Somebody who goes above and beyond what the standard is for the “average” student. Somebody who is going to follow through on what their promises are. “

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Samantha Hearn: “More communication between events, staff and students. It’s greatly improved but there are still some major holes that are effecting too many in negative fashions.”

RN: What piece of advice would you give to a candidate in order for them to win your vote?

SH: “Make yourself memorable, place realistic goals that can satisfy the wide diversity we have here at AHS.”

“What really makes us unique is that unlike other youth chamber groups, we’re three best friends…we’re competing against all of these young chamber groups that were pre-formed in their Juilliard Pre-col-lege programs and such. When it comes down to it, all that matters is that we have fun in the process and during the perfor-mance. I’m sure no matter what the result, we’ll be proud of ourselves and it’ll be an amazing experience,” Hoe says of what gives her group an edge on the competition. Should the trio win the junior division competition, they will perform on “From the Top,” an hour-long weekly radio show, as well as winning a $2,000 cash prize. For now, they are practicing daily with twice-weekly coached practices from Hoe’s piano teacher and Barnard’s cello teacher – Cyn-thia and Tom Stauffer.

Photograph by Bryon DeVore

(From left to right) Ashley Hoe (Senior), Chas Barnard (Junior) and Eleanora Schaer pose with their instruments

Photographs by Laurel Sager

Rogue News: What piece of advice would you give to a candidate in order for them to win your vote?

Lucas Heilbroner: “I usually vote for the people I feel like I know, so just talk to people and be easy. Do things that will get you known, like Talen’s video, or Coco’s performing.”

Vote for your 2011/2012 Student Body Presidents after the assembly on April 25th!

“We just started playing together for fun because we’re all very good friends.” Since 1973, the Fischoff National Cham-

ber Music Competition has been drawing in elite musicians for a three-day competition. The result is a naming of the top ensemble in each of the three categories – string, wind and junior (18 years of age and younger). This year, two Ashland High School students will compete in the world’s largest chamber music competition. Ashley Hoe, senior, and Chas Barnard, junior, will travel to the University of Notre Dame to compete at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center with Eleanor Schaer as the Schoenard Trio – the name being a compilation of their last names – in the junior division. Hoe will play piano, Barnard the cello and Schaer the violin. The students sent in a DVD of themselves playing to the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association in January and were invited to play to compete in the next three rounds of the competition. On May 11, the trio will begin playing in the remaining rounds.

by Caytie Siegl

by Olivia Fidler

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News Briefs

This year, graduation seating is going to be slightly different. Each graduating senior will re-ceive two reserved seating area tickets for their family members to use. If your family would like to sit together on the grass, on a blanket or in lawn chairs and will not be using these tickets, they can be returned to the main office. If your family would like additional reserved seats, you can put your name on a waitlist by talk-ing to Sheila Holtey in the main office. On June 1, a lottery will be held to give out these tickets. Space can be reserved with blankets and lawn chairs on the grass starting at 10 a.m. on June 3; reserved seating area will open at 5 p.m. for those with tickets. Also new to this year’s graduation, there will be professional photographers and a cinematogra-pher at the event. Photos taken at the event will be posted on their website the following week and families can order DVDs of the ceremony.

Graduation seating change

Cabinet of supplies now available for needy students If you’re a teenager at Ashland High School and are needing hygiene or food supplies, the Health Center has everything you need and more. Judy Blickenstaff has stocked a cupboard to the brim with items such as toothbrushes, deodorant, crackers and fruit snacks to help homeless or needy teens when they need it most. “It’s for those kids who are couch-hopping and don’t have some of the basic necessities we use everyday,” she explained. The supply is open to any student anytime the Health Center is open and runs on donations from community members. “All the stuff in there came from parents,” Blickenstaff said. The cupboard was created by the Kiwanis Club of Ashland.

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Ashland High School Theater Department is delving into a vibrant and fantastical production complete with masks and shadow puppetry. This year’s spring show will be “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” a whimsical show of playful language, bright colors and moral questions. “Haroun is so different from any other play I have ever been in, mostly attributed to the fact that it incorporates masks and shadow puppetry,” freshman Aubyn Heglie says of the show. Heglie will be appearing as the lead, Haroun, with junior Drew Starmer playing Rashid. The show is directed by Jamie Peck, a company mem-ber at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and a master of masks and movement. Senior Aurelia Grierson has chosen to be the Assistant Director for her senior project. The show, written by Indian-born British playwright Salman Rushdie, is set in a dream world. The play has similarities

to traditional Indian theater, as it incorporates dual-per-sonalities, colorful costumes and shadow puppetry to il-lustrate fantastical scenes and concepts. The cast is small – only 21 performers – but many of them play more than one role. “I’m definitely very excited!” Heglie enthuses. “Haroun” plays eight performances with a special $5 preview on Wednesday, March 4. “Haroun” will run Thursday through Saturday, May 5-7 and May 12-14 with one Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on May 15. Tickets may be purchased online, in downtown Ashland and at the door. All tickets are available now at www.showtix4u.com. General tickets are $10 and students under 18/se-niors over 65 tickets are $5 Reserved seating is available for $15. General and student/senior tickets will be avail-able after April 18 in downtown Ashland at Paddington Station, Tree House Books and Music Coop.

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and dreamland fantasy.

On Friday, April 29, Ashland High School will ex-perience a rush of upcoming musical talent at the an-nual Battle of the Bands competition. The showdown will take place at 8 p.m. in the Lincoln School gym. AHS students will have the pleasure of attending the event and giving a suggested donation of $3. Any money raised will go to the Red Cross in support of those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Ja-pan.

There are no auditions, and only one band will be crowned the winner. Several bands will participate in the competition, including: Ego Death, Random Sound, Jonah & Friends, Turpentine, Coco-Compa-ny, Rooster Coghorn and Random Tangent. The occasion is put on by AHS senior Coco Ama-rotico and the AHS leadership class. “It’s going to be awesome,” he raved. From the looks of it, Battle of the Bands will certainly live up to its expectations.

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On April 10, the Ashland High School Brain Bowl team took the championship title out from under the feet of reining champion, the North Medford Black Tornadoes. At the beginning of the year, there was no brain bowl team and that didn’t seem likely to change. Eventually a group of intelligent students teamed up with Bill Gabriel and Mathew McKinnon and started practicing every Thursday. Despite the team’s small size, they qualified for the champion-ship. At the championship, the team was forced to face defending champion North Medford, the clear favorite. After starting off with a 13 point deficit, Ashland fought back and cruised to a 43-30 win. “I am really proud of the team for coming to-gether to beat North,” captain Zach Markovich said. The other members of the team were Elias Opgenorth, Carl Gorbett, Misha Boldt, Michael Skidmore, Ian Wurfl and Dylan Schink.

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It is an outrage that prom is limited to upper-classmen, which is why I stand here today, fighting on behalf of those poor little underclassmen (since it seems they are unable to do it themselves) for the right to go to prom. It is with a heavy heart that I discuss the issue of ageism, which is defined by dic-tionary.com as, “discrimi-nation against persons of a certain age group.” Of all of the horrible, cruel “isms,” ageism is perhaps the worst as all fledgling high school students ex-perience it. It is time for a change, and I am prepared to channel my inner Mar-tin Luther King Jr. to lead this revolution. Prom is that wonderful night in May when every girl gets to feel like a prin-cess and every boy gets to spend a lot of money on foreign objects such as corsages and tuxes. Why shouldn’t the freshmen

and sophomores experi-ence this? Yes, I know a small percentage of that group of people gets invit-ed by some desperate ju-nior or senior, but they do not have the right to dis-play their independence and buy their own ticket to get into the dance. I am disappointed in Ashland High School. We take so much pride in our accep-tance of the student body, yet blatantly discriminate against a targeted group of people by robbing them of the potentially greatest experience of their lives. As a personal anecdote, I remember my freshman year. I had to crush the dreams of one of my class-mates, who asked me to prom, by informing him of our restriction from the event. So, to all of you clueless freshmen: no, you are not allowed to buy a ticket to prom and yes, I feel your pain. I hope that the people of Ashland High School will recon-sider this great travesty, and that the next time I walk through the blob of

underclassmen on the quad I receive a thunder-ous applause for drawing attention to this unjust plight you all face. This is a call for action; now it is your chance to stand up and prove that under-classmen are people too.

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Ladies and gentlemen, our society is founded on traditions. At Ashland High School, the annual Promenade is an essential tradition of tuxedos and dresses, boutonnieres and corsages, romantic dates and crippling rejec-

tion. And so, I am deeply concerned about the idea of allowing underclass-men to attend. Prom is intended to be a mature, sophisticated event for students of class and taste. That can only mean seniors. Many may argue that underclassmen can be as well-mannered as seniors. True, through hard work some can pass as respectable members of society-- despite their natural handicap. But the vast majority of these rowdy, uncultured youths have no place at an event of such stature. In fact, the school’s current policy which al-lows underclassmen as prom dates erodes our fundamental values. They get taken to a nice meal, an informal photo shoot and even a free ride to the dance. This is con-trary to what we stand for. America was founded on the principle of “No Free Rides.” If you wanted to immigrate to America, you had to spend three months on the bottom

of a boat with the rats and the excrement, and then a few years in inden-tured servitude with the rats and the excre-ment. If we keep letting these freshmen and sopho-mores coast on

the hard work of the up-perclass, then the social-ists have finally won. Some people say that I am prejudiced because I was never asked to prom by a pretty senior, or be-cause I’ve never been asked to a dance of any kind, or because everyone I’ve asked has turned me down. Those people are terrorists. I criticize this policy for what it will end up justifying. If we allow freshman and sophomores as prom dates, where does it end? Who’s to say a ju-nior can’t take a middle schooler to prom? Or take three dates? Or date a horse? To be perfectly hon-est, I’m not so sure about having juniors and seniors together at prom either. Now I’m not saying ju-niors can’t have a dance, just not one with seniors. Juniors should get their own event, one that is separate from but equal to the real prom. We must rigorously defend the tradition of prom. Unless we keep the undercastes in their place, our society will fall into chaos, and the senior class will have to live at the bottom of the social ladder-- with the rats and the excrement.

Rogue News is published by the newspaper classes of Ashland High School, 201 South Mountain Ave., Ashland, Oregon 97520. (541) 482-8771 ext. 195. The editorials written by the Rogue News express the opinions of the editorial staff on issues relevant to the staff, the school and the community. Personal columns do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the entire staff and are written as the opinion of the individual author. Letters to the editor, which should be under 250 words, are encouraged. They can be dropped off outside of Room 202, put in Mr. William Gabriel’s box in the main office or emailed to RogueNews@ashland.k12.or.us. No letters will be printed with-out a verified signature. Letters received in the second week of production will not appear until the next issue. The Rogue News staff reserves the right to refuse to print any poten-tially libelous or obscene material, anything that would invade the privacy of others, or anything that could cause a disruption of the school environment.

Rogue NewsEditorial/Designer BoardEditors-in-Chief................................Grace Riley-Adams, Taylor Patterson, .............................................................................................Elias OpgenorthFront Page........................................................Olivia Fidler/ Hannah MillerNews Page.................................................................Ian Wurfl/ Ian SmeenkOpinion Page............................................Molly Cochrane/ Rhianna TerrienIn-Depth page.....................................................Anja Harris/ Megan GanimFeature..........................................................Sofia Harrison/ Elle Swarttouw Sports Page.....................................................Dylan Molnar/ Zack Hartman Backpage......................................................Sarah Kasiah/ Taylor PattersonOnline Editor.............................................................................Dante ToppoManaging Editor......................................................................Sadie SheltonPhotography Editor..................................................................Laurel SagerBusiness Manager…….…..…..................................................Talen HeaterChief Designer.....................................................................Taylor Patterson

Angelic Messagesby Dante Toppo

Dante’s Inferno

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Shall We Dance?

(From left to right) junior Franklin LimeMa, senior Lauren Hoffman, freshman Ruby Thomson, sophomore Jon Volz.

by Angelica Florio

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Editorial Nearing the end of a school year is never considered a simple feat. With homework and tests stacking up from the plethora of classes you’ve chosen to take, it’s no wonder that some of us begin to slip into a bit of a trance. Having already been at Ashland High School for four years, the senior class will soon pack up and move out to begin our rugged paths towards excellence. Ask any of us now and we will tell you that AHS has fully prepared us to take on the world, and that we are itching to do so.

As seniors, we feel it is necessary to pass the torch on to the class of 2012 in the hopes that they will be as confident and prepared as we are. However, this task is no longer within our control as the top dogs of the school; it is up to ev-ery single student to willingly cooperate with each teacher they may encounter and to strive to meet the standards that the high school has always held in high regard. It is with these standards that AHS has ensured each student’s individu-al success, and it will be with these standards that you will all succeed.

by Taylor Patterson

Whether you go with flats on the ground, or add an inch to your step with heels, shoes complete your wonderland attire. Matching shoes to the dress or using a complimen-tary color are things to consider. Once at the dance we advise for you to please take off your shoes. Nobody ap-preciates a stilleto to the toe. For a more formal look make sure your shoes match the occasion. If you are to wear open toed shoes, ladies, please, paint your toenails.

Shoe choice:

Alison Claypool,Senior

LONG V. SHORT DRESSThings to have in mind while dress shopping; where are you going to dinner? Are you really going to spend that much on a dress you will only wear once or twice? Remember that depending on your dress length, it could be stepped on or show a little too much skin.

“Prom is a night where I can be-come of high society and get away with dressing like Serena van der

Woodsen.”- Alison Claypool

Photo by Anja Harriss

illustration by Kailey Cockel

The hair, the make-up, the nails:

To do it yourself or to get it done, that is the question. If you like being in control of your look getting together with friends and making an evening of doing every-thing yourself is a good choice. An easier route is dropping some cash at a salon and letting yourself be pampered, if you have something specific in mind, bring a picture so you’re sure it will turn out as planned.

The Corsage:Gentlemen: Corsages are sweet and can be beauti-ful, but remember two things when at the flower shop: Less is more (too big and our hands don’t function). Also, make sure it matches, no clashing with the girl’s dressses.

THE 411 ON PROM: Who: juniors and seniors (underclassman

may accompany as dates)When: May 7, 2011 from 8 p.m-11:30p.m

Where: Ashland Armory Theme: Alice in Wonderland

T.J. Murphy,Senior How to POP the question

Spontaneity is a everything. If she’s really special add a little romance. Be original. Don’t ask a stranger who you’ve only talked to once. That girl you’ve kept tabs on when you walk on the quad is a negatory. Asking your friends to help you will make it more impressive and ensures nothing will go wrong.

Ladies: word on the street is boys aren’t big fans of the pinned flowers. whether this is the case or not, it is common courtesy to get them a boutonniere (es-pecially if they are getting a corsage for you).

The boutonniere

Tuxedos are much more formal, but they come with a heafty price tag. Suits are more fit for casual ocasions but paired with the right vest or dress shirt can keep it classy.

Tux V. Suit

Bowties are more often paired with tuxedos; neckties usually go along with a suit but you are free to mix and match with your date. Ties are perfect for matching or expressing your style.

THE TIE:

• No overtly sexually explicit dancing

• Regular school dress code will be enforced (strap-less dresses will be allowed

• No inappropriate touching

• No hands on the floor/ both feet on the floor.

• Edited playlists so that there are three second breaks between each song, This will provide time for people to “escape” from their partner

R E M E M B E R : N E W DANCE RULES

“We are the last school in the valley to get on board with a new dance policy against grinding. All other schools in the valley have forbid grind-ing. We understand that it’s how your generation dances. We have tried to work with students to come up with a policy so that we may “meet in the middle.”- Mr. Sorenson

Leadership teacher Reed Sorenson speaks on the occasion of new dance rules:

“Be Unique. Dress your best,

swag past the rest.”

-T.J. Murphy

Illustration by Kailey Cockel

Photo by Anja HarrissInformation provided by Anya Lud-wig, Megan Ganim and Anja Har-riss.

Annihilating the ACT

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Among the perks of being an upper-classman, standing on the Half Moon, maturing past that awkward stage of puberty, creating and titling elite friend groups and gaining access to prom, 11th and 12th graders get to take the SAT rea-soning test. Scores range from 600 at the lowest and 2400 at the highest. There are three sections scored up to 800 points each. The sections include Reading, Mathematics and Writing. The first section is always a written es-say, which takes 25 minutes and the last section is always a 14-question multiple-choice writing section, which takes 10 minutes. The other parts of the test are composed of six 25-minute sections and two 20-minute sections that can appear

in any order. In addition to the general exam, there are 20 SAT Subject Tests (SAT II) to choose from, ranging from Chinese to U.S. History. Subject tests are sent to col-leges and reflect a student’s strength in a particular area of study. The SAT Reason-ing test costs $47 and the Subject Tests have a base fee of $21. Additional costs are added depending on the subject. The majority of colleges in the United States take SAT scores into heavy con-sideration when making admission deci-sions. Collegeboard.com is a student’s best friend when undergoing the SAT process. The website provides dates, tips and official study books to prepare for the SAT.

Life is full of those compulsory tasks, brushing teeth, sending thank-you cards and

for those of us who are college bound, standardized testing. Think of them like a tooth-ache in the big picture of the high school experience. The ACT and SAT

are like a game into the transition to higher education. Get good grades, high scores on standardized tests, a nice stack of extracurriculars and you’re three-quarters of the way towards being an ideal college applicant. The remaining one-

fourth is the little bit of heart n’ soul you may have left after 12 years of school all day and homework ‘til dawn. No matter how you look at it, standard-ized testing is just one more arbitrary tool to get what you want out of life. Study hard and you will build character and develop life skills.

When it comes time for juniors and se-niors to begin preparing for college most everyone takes the SAT. What you may not know is that there is another stan-dardized test out there: American Col-lege Testing Assessment (ACT). Both of these tests are nationally administered standardized tests that help colleges eval-uate where a student stands academically. Most colleges accept either one or both. However, there are some major differ-ences between the SAT and the ACT; choosing the right test for you can have great benefits. The 2 hour and 55 minute, ACT is more of a curriculum-based test while the SAT is more focused on reasoning and problem solving. Unlike the three sec-

tions of the SAT, the ACT contains up to four sections. English, Math, Reading and Science with an optional writing test. The test is composed of 215 questions: 75 English, 60 math, 40 reading and 40 science. The four multiple choice areas are scored from 1 to 36, while the writ-ing is scored from 2 to 12. The ACT is also slightly less expensive than the SAT. The test costs $33 without the optional writing test and $48 including the writ-ing test. Another benefit of the ACT is that there is no deduction for having the wrong answer. The test follows grade scaffolding that converts the number of correct answers to a test score. Check act-student.org for more information.

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117runs by the Griz-zlies varsity baseball squad this season so far.

78the low round for the AHS boys golf team this year by Matt Hedges at Centennial Golf Club, on March 28.

0matches won by Marsh-field against the AHS boys tennis team on 4/11/11 at Hunter Park.

9.315mph, Tyler Sell’s average boat speed in the 2000m single’s sprint.

1combined number of matches lost by the girls number one singles and doubles tennis team this spring.

64runs scored by the softball team in their five wins this season.

1:58.3the time that has Sam Jackson ranked number one in the state for the boys 800m.

26.22seconds, Laurel Ransom’s time allowed her to finish in 9th place for the equestrian event of Pole Bend-ing in March.

by Dylan MolnarBy the #’s

The Rogue News Sports Department has selected Josh

“Big J” Harris as the player of the month for April. Harris is the un-

questioned “heart and soul” of the Ashland boys tennis team, leading

the Grizz to a 4-1 record to start the 2011 season.

Harris is a member of the number-one doubles partnership, and this year has had the opportunity to play with a new teammate; freshman Grant Kahn. The pair has gone undefeated thus far. In a match against South Medford Harris and Kahn were the only play-ers to win out of the Ashland High

tennis team. Their final scores were 6-1 and 6-3. Harris has slaughtered his opponents this year, winning 84 games while only conceding 13. “I have been looking up to the seniors for the last three years. I’m glad that it’s my time to take the reins of the team and move it in the right direction,” Harris explains. “My ulti-mate goal is to win a state championship. I am greatly honored to be selected as the Player of the Month, and I hope I can keep up the good playing. There is a lot of work to be done.” Good luck to Josh Harris, and the rest of the Ashland boys tennis team, as they contin-ue towards the state championships.

by Jonathan Mills

Player of the Month:Josh Harris

Photo by Dan Harris

Harris serves against Willamette.

Next Match:

The baseball team has creatively developed a new age ‘A’ that appears on their hats and shirts.

The snowboard team’s logo is the face of grizzly bear that was created by Jess Gleasman.

Boys basketball uses the same logo as the NBA franchise, the Memphis Grizzlies.

A school’s mascot and logo promote one of the most important aspects of high school sports—school spirit. At Ashland High School, many of the teams have introduced their own unique lo-gos. Although individuality is certainly preached, accepted and promoted at AHS, there should be continuity in the symbols that represent AHS sports teams. In order to establish unity and tradition, all sports teams need to employ the same logos. In-stead of an alternative ‘A,’ baseball hats should use the one that can be seen on an AHS letterman jacket, a symbol that is synonymous with AHS varsity sports. All other programs at the school need to keep it simple; avoid pictures of bears

and stick to the Grizzly paw that can be seen on football helmets and “Go Grizz” signs throughout the town.

To reach Ashland High School’s full potential for school spirit and sports fa-

naticism, Grizz sports teams must col-lectively ditch their individual logos in favor of the iconic images that define AHS sports with the classic

‘A’ and Grizzly paw logos.

by Rogue News Sports Staff

AHS athletics needs continuity in their logos

The traditional, generation-spanning Grizzly paw.

Photos by Jonathan Mills

April 28, Hunter Park

Name: Simba’s PrideMembers: Angelica Florio (Co-Captain), Mimi Chouard (Co-Captain), Melissa Lema, Caitlin Stacy, Sophie Javna, Lisetta de Jong, Aurelia Grierson, Clara Munro, Molly Harney, Annika Hearn, Olivia Granach, Savannah KahnFundraising Goal: $1,000 Biggest Fundraiser: Car Wash

Name: Wonder WomenMembers: Sarah Weingust (Co-Captain), Hannah Loop (Co-Captain), Dana Green-blatt, Djaruna Smith, Hannah Miller, Raina Ahern, Andrea Scherrer, Elise Hansen, So-fia Harrison, Isis TerrallFundraising Goal: $1,200Biggest Fundraiser: Dance

Name: Finding NemoMembers: Lauren Hoffman (Co-Cap-tain), Grace Franckowiak (Co-Captain), Lily Hoffman, Ahanu Yates, Taylor Hum-phrey, Conor Morrison, Garrett John-son, Melanie Damato, Lizzy Scott, Piper Cantrell, Kaylin McAnany, Mackenzie Nichols, Olivia BaconFundraising Goal: $2,000Biggest Fundraiser: Car Wash

Photos by Laurel Sager

by Ryan Mills

Relay for Life will take place at the Ashland Middle School track field starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 21 and will end at 8 a.m. the following day. The theme this year is movies, so feel free to dress up as whichever character you wish. As always, the organizers of the event are working hard to ensure that the event is both beneficial and fun. This year’s Chairpersons are Christene Sismondo and Leslie

Parsons, and over 37 teams have already signed up for the event. Relay For Life has a tradition of excellence. The event started with Dr. Gordon Klatt, a surgeon from Tacoma, Washington. The first Relay for Life was held at the University of Puget Sound and set the bar for future fundraisers. As of right now Relay For Life has raised over 3 billion dollars for cancer re-search.

“We have been getting together a lot and getting in groups and go-ing door to door raising money. I have a great team behind me! If you want to come support us, come to Les Schwab on May 1.” - Lauren Hoffman

“We’ve had a slow start but we’ve become more motivated towards the cause, so look out for a bake sale on the quad next week to assist further proceeds.” -Hannah Loop

Name: The Boat CatzMembers: Dylan Molnar (Co-Captain), Elias Opgenorth (Co-Captain), Cal Thom-as, Jack Thomas, Cal Popp, Adam Lion, Marley Schwartz, Stephen Dickey, Miguel Salgado-Gonzales, Neil Presicci, Zane Pin-dell, Will Small. Fundraising Goal: $1,000 Biggest Fundraiser: Car Wash

Name: Rebel Alliance Members: Jonathan Mills (Captain), Ryan Mills, Leland Owens-Oas, Mark Knudsen, Josh Harris, Ryan Bellinson, Bryan Crispi-no, Tay Smith, Miles Bortman, Zack Hart-man, Tanner Hebert, Mack Tully, Carl GorbettFundraising Goal: $2,000 Biggest Fundraiser: Private donations