In this recent presiden-tial election, the major democratic battle has been between Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton. In a quick survey, 60% stated they would vote for Barack Obama, 20% of

the people would vote for Hillary Clinton, and 20% were either undecided or wouldn’t vote for either.

What has each candidate promised for our country? Hillary Clinton has prom-ised to: strengthen the mid-

dle class, provide af-fordable and accessible health care, end the war in Iraq, promote energy inde-pendence, fi ght global warming, fulfi ll our promises to the vet-erans, sup-port parents and care for children, re-store Amer-ica’s stand-ing in the

world, be a champion for women, reform the govern-ment comprehensively, and strengthen our democracy. Barack Obama has prom-ised to: strengthen America overseas, create a plan to end the war in Iraq, create a healthcare system that works, fi ght poverty, im-prove environmental work, focus on technology and innovation for the new gen-eration, fulfi ll our covenants with seniors, improve our school, protect our home-land, work on immigration and the border, protect the right to vote, honor our veterans, clean up Washing-ton’s culture of corruption, strengthen families and communities, and reconcile faith and politics.

Now we will have to wait and see who will be elected as the new president of the United States of America.

Vol. 50, Issue 2 1321 N. Lilac Ave. Rialto, CA 92376

Obama vs.Clinton

Cassandra Vega helps students create picture frames to remember Santa’s Workshop.

Clash of the Political TitansAdrian PimentelNews Writer

Photo from This picture shows the popularity that the Obama vs. Clinton race has attained.

Re-runs Save TV Recently, people have been turning on their TV sets to see nothing but re-runs and Christmas specials, due to the writ-ers’ strike. The writers’ strike started on November 1, 2007, which involved the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and the television industry, which protects the rights of American writers. The WGA is divided into two sub-groups; the writers’ guild of America and writ-ers’ guild of America West. Both of these groups have been on strike since November 1st. The strike started due to a contract that the WGA had with the television industry, which states that all the writers will get paid fairly for their work. Since the contract ended, the WGA tried to alter the contract by having the writers receive money from movies they wrote that were made into DVD’s, but it was turned down. As a result of this, the WGA went on strike.The television industry’s answer to this problem is to show re-runs and more reality TV, which doesn’t depend on writers, rather than cre-ate new shows. Most cartoon shows that are on TV have been made in advance so many cartoon shows are not going to be affected. Anima-tion has been contradictory over the years and is an area of much dis-

pute.This is also not the fi rst time the WGA has gone on strike. An earlier strike started on March 7, 1988. The disagree-ment was over residuals, which are pay-ments made to a show’s creator. This cost the television industry 500 million dollars, which they are still paying for today. The strike lasted for 5 months before ending on August 8, 1988. The TV industry and the WGA have still not reached an agreement. This strike has gone on for 5 weeks, which is going to cause more re-runs and more reality TV. The television industry had made a new contract with the WGA, reportedly worth an additional 130 million dollars in compensation, but the WGA has not accepted this new contract.

By: Gilberto RubioNews Writer

Last year two girls that at-tended Eisenhower got hit by a car on Baseline. They were both severely injured and had to be taken to the hospital. It was a very dis-turbing situation that we as a school had to deal with, but Principal Thompkins took it the worst, because he knew as well as we did that it could have been pre-vented by using the desig-nated crosswalks. Students who rely on the cars to stop for them while not using the crosswalks don’t realize that cars are rarely paying attention. That is why stu-dents should be very aware of the dangers of not using the crosswalks. Principal Thompkins is stepping up

and doing something about the situation. He stated, “I feel the students are care-less at times and depend on the cars to stop.”

Principal Thompkins re-cently sent a proposal letter to the city of Rialto asking for upgrades surround-ing the campus to make it safer. Thompkins proposed to have overhead fl ash-ing beacons put on Lilac Ave., where the crosswalk is located, to make it more visible. On Baseline, he wants to have a decorative pedestrian barrier put in so students can’t cross in the middle of the street. Also, on Lilac Ave., Thompkins wants speed feedback in-dicators to tell drivers how

fast they’re going through a school zone. Mr. Hoak thinks the proposal is great. “I feel there are a lot of dan-gers concerning the cross-walks, so it’s nice to have something new to help with the safety of our students.”

Hopefully, the plan goes through and gets accepted, because IKE needs more safety barriers to protect our students. Senior Esmer-alda Gomez admits that she never uses the crosswalks, but Faviola Rodriguez does, stating “I don’t want to get run over.” It just proves that only some students use the crosswalk. To avoid getting injured, please use the des-ignated crosswalks.

By Malerie MaggioStaff Editor

Crosswalk Dangers

Ike’s Santa’s Workshop consisted of threet ele-mentaries schools: Dunn, Preston, and Morgan. They did arts and crafts and had a nutrion break. Each student had a pic-ture taken with Santa and received a present. “All the kids were hav-ing a good time,” said Julie Gassen.

Santa Visits Ike

Wanda Paluba becomes Santa for a week.

Photo by Eagle’s Eye StaffGilbert Rubio waits patiently for his favor-ite shows to reappear.

Photos by Aquila Yearbook Staff

Carrington MotleyEditor-in-Chief

Water Polo: You’ve got to be tought to

play this sport!

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Football: Making steps

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Ike football Legend Ronnie Lott had determi-nation, will and person-ality, which made him the athlete and man he is today.Bob Cisneros stated,

“He started off average, but he never gave up. If you told him to do some-thing, he would try. A lot of athletes wanted to fol-low his footsteps.”Keith Bailey was his

coach and he stated, “I’ve coached a lot of football athletes and he is, with-out a doubt, one of the top three that I have ever coached.” Cisneros, said, “They al-

ready knew his talent by the time that he had got here. They started scout-ing him ever since he got here. Everybody wanted him.”Bailey commented, “No,

I never thought he’d be famous. He was a soph-omore and he was good, but once he was a senior, I knew he was going to

go someplace.”Cisneros and Bailey

both described him as a “gentlemen.”Cisneros stated, “He’s

a gentleman even to this day. He has taken care of his family. He has also occasionally come to the school for Friday night games. He even brought some other players with him on campus.”

Bailey said, “Ron Lott was and still is a fi ne person, a phenomenal athlete, and a very good role model. He’s a re-ally good guy. He gave money to the school for the weights and weight room.”All in all, Ronnie Lott

was a “great athlete” and a “gentlemen.”

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Sports

5-5; Ike’s 2007-2008 Varsity football record is proof that Ike football is back on the track to Eisenhower’s “Glory Days.” Ike’s supremacy is being recognized and they’re showing teams the pride and heart of an Eagle. Ike’s football team un-leashed carnage on the Patriot Warriors, thus reviving the Eagles dy-namic nature. The Victo-ry over the Warriors was a diffi cult task for the Eagles Varsity football team, but they overcame the obstacle that resulted in a 19-13 victory. Breaking away from the shadows of failure (re-sulting from a 1-9 season last year), several players share their newfound, dignifi ed insights.“Our Team unity became a big factor and every coach is benefi cial to our success,” stated Mark “Flash” Pilcher, a return-ing senior player. “Coming in to my soph-omore year playing var-

sity I was nervous. But now after the fi rst game, I’m ready to roll,” stated Desmond Barnes. Del Wilson, a returning senior for Ike, made a heart-stirring play that did not count due to a fl ag on the play. Nonethe-less, the play was breath-taking. “I felt like Reggie Bush. Once I jumped over that guy, it was over. Wait ‘til Friday, (referring to September 14, 2007, the game against Knight High School) I’ll do it again.” Wilson made it to the end zone for about a 70-yard run, but unfortu-nately, his sideline esca-pade was unsuccessful. Wilson fi nished the sea-son 1st In CBL (Citrus Belt League) for receiv-ing yards with 669 yards and 4 touchdowns (HS Game Time.com). Michael McFaddin, a returning junior, had a majestic performance against the Warriors. He didn’t have as much faith in himself, but after his performance, things

changed.“I didn’t feel like I was gonna score. I was tripped up, but remained my balance by putting my arm down and kept going to put up 6 points for the Ike football team. I was excited to score my fi rst varsity touchdown.” McFaddin’s astonish-ing play got the Eagles a touchdown and gave them the fi nal 6-point lead. “I believe in my team-mates, because they have just as much heart and desire as I do,” stated an injured Jason Moton. Moton a senior, suffered from a quadrant injury during their game with the Warriors.“I felt that I did my job. We all worked together and defense all worked hard during the summer. I feel real hyped, real pumped up now,” stated Maurice “Mo” Robinson. Maurice received the most improved award at the season’s close.Quarterback Anthony

Lucero discussed his feelings about being a quarterback and a team leader. “I don’t feel any pressure. I’ve been through this for two years now, so I got expe-rience, but I’m just doing my job.” When asked what makes his job easier Lucero replied, “I got to

give it up to the linemen for their protection.” Lu-cero rivaled the school record for passing yards with 1551 yards. He also fi nished second in CBL in passing yards and made CBL second team.Four time varsity player William Smith discussed his feelings from their

victory on the Warriors. “I was excited that the lineman were able to take me to the end-zone. It feels like we’re going out there to do our job.” Will made All-CBL for his outstanding perfor-mance as a linebacker.

Ike Football Supremacy:Inside Eagle HelmetsCarrington MotleyEditor in Chief

I Am LegendBy Adrian PimentelStaff WriterWho would have ever thought that there was somebody famous who came from Eisenhower High School, but there actually is and his name is Ronnie Lott. Born Ronald Mandel Lott on May 8, 1959 in Albu-querque, New Mexico, he’s a former American football player who is well-known for his hard hits on opposing players. Ronnie was born in Al-buquerque, New Mexico, but then moved to Wash-ington D.C. and later to Rialto, California where Ronnie attended Eisen-hower High School and graduated in 1977. Lott is widely consid-ered as one of the best defensive backs in NFL history.Later, Ronnie attended and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1981 with a degree in public admin-istration.

After college, Lott was drafted by the San Fran-cisco 49ers in the fi rst round of the 1981 NFL Draft. In his fi rst season, he recorded seven inter-ceptions, helped lead the 49ers to win the Super Bowl, and also became the second rookie in NFL history to return three interceptions for touch-downs. He fi nished second for the Rookie of the Year behind the New York Giants line-backer, Lawrence Taylor. In his ten years with the San Francisco 49ers, he helped them win eight division titles and four Super Bowls.After his career with San Francisco, Lott was signed (after being a free agent) in 1991 with the Los Angeles Raiders. In 1991, he led the league in interceptions for a second time. In 1993, he signed with the New York Jets. In 1995, Lott signed a free

agent deal with the Kan-sas City Chiefs, but was injured in the preseason. He returned to the 49ers, but his prior injuries he had suffered affected him and he announced his retirement before the season began.Ronnie Lott was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and was also named to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary Team.

Remembering Lott at IkeBy Adrian PimentelStaff Writer

Photo by Aquila Yearbook StaffIke Football seniors- Back row: Mario Johnson,Josh Lewis, Brian Riverra, Alvin Molina, Juan Herra, Daeon Garner, Maurice Robinson, Jaysun Moton, Robert Washington, Front Row: Del wilson, Josh Cuevas, Jonathon Brown, Mark Pilcher.

Photo by Dymond Black A signed poster from a thankful Ronnie Lott hangs in Bob Cisnero’s room.

Photo from Art.comLott slashes out of Ike and into the NFL Hall fame.

Life after Eisenhower

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Sports

Coaches Thrive With Ike Pride Coaches are used for

guidance and as an asset to success. Here at Ike, coach-es do just that by furthering athletes’ athletic abilities and more importantly, bet-tering the athlete as a per-son.

Three coaches who thrive for their athlete’s success were selected by a survey of twenty students. Those students’ top three coaches are Coach Pulido, Coach Costa, and Coach Hen-riquez.

The infamous Coach Pu-lido is, with out a doubt, one of the most popular coaches at Eisenhower and it is not because he can still lay down the curve ball with four fi ngers. Pulido is a veteran in baseball hav-ing gone all-CIF with the Rialto Knights during his high school years. Later in his years he went on to

play college ball for UCR and from there he played a little minor league. So what would drive this all-around athlete to coach? Pulido said, “The opportunity to mold students into some-thing great.” Most of the athletes on campus see Pu-lido as not only a coach, but a guidance counselor. In the words of young sophomore Stephanie Char, “He’s like a long lost brother.”

“Oh, so she was voted best female coach,” said a surprised Coach Pulido. Pulido’s remark referred to Coach Henriquez who has indeed earned her title as one of the best coaches at Eisenhower. She did so by not only by being the fi rst coach at Ike to take a team to the playoffs in her fi rst year of coaching, but by being a coach who knows how to have fun and still get

the job done. “I’ve been coaching since

I was twelve so it is just like some thing I do,” said the humble coach Henriquez. Coach Henriquez is an Ike graduate, she did play sports, but “decided I was better at coaching then playing,” commented coach Henriquez.

One of Ike’s coolest se-curity guards and also one of the top coaches is Coach Costa. “He’s cool and knows how to coach in a cool way and still get the point across,” said Teeno Hill. Costa currently coaches the freshmen boys’ basketball. Costa has been at Eisenhower for about 16 years and continues to thrive with his Ike pride.

By Dymond BlackSports Writer

Photo by Dymond BlackCoach Pulido works diligently on game strategy.

“No, I won’t play water polo, because you have to wear a Speedo,” said the young sophomore PJ Lomax. This was the response given by most people when asked would you ever play water polo. This seems to be the only rea-son why males will not play the sport. Those people should reconsider. Yes, you may have to wear a Speedo, but that’s a small price to pay for the thrilling ex-perience you will have by joining the Eisenhower boys’ water polo team. “When you join the team it is like joining a brotherhood, because we go through every-thing together,” said Astin Sparks. Aside from the brotherhood and the team at-mosphere, just playing the sport will increase

your physical abilites. “It’s the most physical sport at Eisenhower. I challenge any football or basketball player to come out and take on the challenge,” said a very

energetic coach John. Michael Bravo said, “You got to be a manly man.” If you give polo a chance, you’ll fi nd that it’s worth wearing the speedo.

Fan’s favorite: Reggie BushBy Gerald Dixonstaff writer

On December 1, 2007 Reggie Bush was named Fan’s favorite at Eisenhower High School. According to Dechana Squalls, “He’s my favorite and he’s an excellent football player.” Dechana said, “I knew Reggie Bush was going to win, because he is a talented player and so fi ne and sexy.” Ton-shel Young said, “I think Reggie Bush deserved to win, be-cause he is multi-talented.” “Reggie Bush inspires me to do my best in whatever I do,” said Jamie Kennedy.

Reginald Alfred “Reg-gie” Bush II (born March 2, 1985 in San Diego, Califor-nia), nicknamed “The Presi-dent,” alluding to George W. Bush, is an American football player who plays for the New Orleans Saints and formerly for the Univer-sity of Southern California (USC). He played running back, tailback, wide receiv-er, and punt and kickoff return for the team. He is

generally recognized as one of the best running backs in college football history due to his speed, agility, evasive-ness, and outstanding in-stincts on the gridiron.

On December 8, 2005, Reggie Bush was awarded the Walter Camp Award and the Doak Walker Award. On December 10, Reggie Bush won the most prestigious individual award in college football, the Heis-

man Trophy, beating out fi nalists Vince Young and former Heisman winner and teammate Matt Lein-art. He rang up the high-est-ever percentages of fi rst-place votes (84.9 percent) and possible points (91.7 percent) in the balloting by members of the media and former Heisman winners. Additionally, he was named the 2005 AP Sportsman of the Year.

Is it Worth the Speedo?By Dymond BlackSports Writer

Photo by Aquila Yearbook StaffDaniel Bravo shows the diffi culty of treading water while si-multaneously making an effective shot at the goal.

Photo from Espn.comReggie Bush skies over a would-be-tackler.

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Features

The world of HBCU (His-torically Black Colleges and Universities) bands is just that, a world of its own. Once you enter this world you never want to leave. In this world you will ex-perience drum majors and musicians as they march and dance to the latest in R&B and Hip Hop. In this world halftime is game time. These bands perform music that moves crowds, while still being able to accomplish multidimen-sional designs on the fi eld. The dancers and major-ettes perform dance moves that even famous chore-

ographers, such as Wade Robson and Shane Spark, would envy. HBCU march-ing bands are some of the most entertaining groups in the country. Marching in a HBCU band takes hard work and dedication, as well as loyalty. The mem-bers of these bands have exceptional motivation, actually stick with what they’re doing and do not quit. Young people during these current times (mostly kids in California) don’t have the determination, strength, and endurance it takes to last in a HBCU marching band. Not only

are you able to participate in such an amazing experi-ence, but you also are able to become part of a large family. Although involving yourself in this type of activ-ity comes with hard work, being able to perform in a band of such caliber is all that matters.

Halftime DreamsDesiree ThompkinsStaff Writer

Deember 1, 2007 marked a milestone towards defeat-ing the epidemic known as AIDS. AIDS awareness day this year was not the same as its predecessors. This year several nations have all come to the real-ization of how imperative it is to overcome AIDS. Counterattacking the con-tainment of aids is the lack of fi nancial support. Ac-companying the fi nancial defi cit is the United Nations loss of 8 billion dollars nec-essary to the Aids resource department. George Bush has ordered an additional 30 billion dollars to help fund the Aids support project. Fortunately for the world, America will help get the funding going. The sad truth about Aids is that

young people are vastly infected. Young adults need to turn the tide and be-come the solution and not the problem. With the evi-dence on the table and the soldiers against aids on the frontlines what will the peo-ple do to help fi ght the epi-demic? The most obvious answer is to use proper pro-tection. Although the most sensible solution to limiting

aids is using protection, the Red program is helping contain the Aids epidemic. RED program is an organi-zation where the money ac-cumulated from the sales of every sponsored red prod-uct goes to help infected victims. If you’re not engag-ing in sexual intercourse or sharing needles, you obvi-ously don’t have the need to protect yourself. When

asking for that new I-pod for Christ-mas, ask for a red one and do the world a favor.

Carrigton MotleyEditor in Chief

Painting the World Red

Life’s Cheat Sheet

Q: What would you tell kids who brag about making big bucks in the future, but slack off when it comes to school?

E.A.: “That actions speak louder then words. You don’t have to have a good edu-cation to make money, but not having a good education doesn’t help and can hurt you.”

C.K.: “What seems like big bucks now won’t be in the future. Most of us need to have our education to succeed in life and make the big bucks.

S.H.: “I would tell them that that’s a nice dream that they have and that’s all it is a dream because in today’s world you need to have some kind of skill to make that kind of money, and in today’s world you defi nitely need an education to get those skills.

C.F.: “Most people that make big bucks have some sort of education.”

Q: Many students disregard education as a

means of becoming fi nancially well off, stat-ing that they can get money by selling drugs what are your responses to that?

E.A.: “I laugh at them because most drug dealers live with their mothers due to not being able to get by on selling drugs.”

C.K.: “I would ask them if selling drugs is really what they want to be remembered for.”

S.H.: “I think they need to sit back and weigh the decision and really ask them-selves if they’re any positives in selling drugs.”

C.F.: “My direct response to that is if that’s what you want to do you are not go-ing to live very long.”

Q: Some students have diffi culty controlling their urges on compulsive spending do you think this will cause fi nancial consequences in the future?

E.A.: “Yes if you can’t control your spend-ing you’re going to be in trouble.”

C.K.: “Yes defi nitely our students now are the I must have it now generation they have not learned to save.”

S.H.: “You have to learn how to control your spending because you don’t want to spend your whole life paying debts.”

C.F.: “A lot of personal habits that you develop you develop as an early adult.

Q: Do you think the teenagers of our genera-tion will have to pay for the debt and fi nancial consequences we have acquired through going to war these past few years?

E.A.: “The teenagers of your generation will have to pay for the price of many gen-erations not just this war, but many other bad mistakes in the past.”

C.K.: “You will sadly, it’s going to be such a huge amount by the time we’re fi nished with the war I won’t have enough years to pay it off, so then it will fall to the next gen-eration of citizens to pay that debt.”

S.H.: “Yeah every generation inherits some sort of debt from the previous gen-eration.”

C.F.: “Probably; The only way that the cycle stops is if somebody could pay for everything.”

Q: Does having a job during your teenage years increase the person’s ability to become more fi nancially successful in their future?

E.A.: “No it does not, I had a job when I was 15 and a half and I’m still not fi nan-cially responsible.”

C.K.: “It does allow young people to become more fi nancially responsible; you learn the value of money.”

S.H.: “I think it can help, but I think it depends on the person and their attitudes towards money. Are they getting a job to have money to spend or are they getting a job to start saving money.”

C.F.: “I think so particularly if they do well at the job they had during their teen-age years.”

Q: Do you have any fi nancial regrets in your

own life? E.A.: “I have quite a few fi nancial regrets.

I would have taken out fewer student loans and I would have said no to all those credit card offers.”

C.K.: “I wish I had saved more. I wish I had planned better for my golden years.”

S.H.: “All the things I thought I needed weren’t really important at all.”

C.F.: “I spent an excess amount of money than what I took in.”

Q: Are there any helpful tips you would like to give to students about staying away from debt as adults and keeping a comfortable fi -nancial income.

E.A.: “Credit cards are money that you have to pay back, so treat them like their money coming straight out of your wallet.”

C.K.: “Don’t over spend and always save at least 10% of your wages.”

S.H.: “Start setting fi nancial goals for yourself.”

C.F.: “Minimize credit card spending and develop some kind of budget.”

Loved all the new found advice you just got? Want more? If so keep reading the upcoming issues of life’s cheat sheet to answer all those burning questions that no-body talks about.

By Negeen MayelNews Editor

Key to Child’s SuccessWhen it comes to giving back to the community, Ike’s Key Club always takes the initiative. Kid print was one of the fi rst major events that key club held. Key Club set up a booth by the rialto police and fi re depart-ment to help lower the rate of missing children. They took the height, weight, and fi ngerprints of every child that came to their booth. All of this was free of charge. It is things like this that make ey Club a strong asset to the community.Key Club also aids the community through food drives, blood drives, writing cards for termi-

nally ill kids, and read-ing to elementary stu-dents. These are some of the things that sparked the interest of Key Club member Melissa Meza who said, “It feels good doing something for someone else.” Melissa participates in all events and said, “From my ex-periences in participating in events I have realized that to be in key club you have to dedicate time and effort.”Key Club contributes to Ike by allowing students to help others by doing voluntary work. Which will also look good on a college resume. Although Key Club is about help-

ing the community, it is also about the Key Club members representing Ike by giving back. Key Club is voluntary and all about what you are will-ing to give.

Alana CarranzaStaff Writer

Photo from Red.com

Photo By Key ClubMarisol Velasco fi nger-prints future fi refi ghter!

Charlie Featherstone

Sean Hopkins

Colleen Kelly

Eric Atkinson

Photo by Desiree ThompkinsMarching band performs at Jackson State University Homecoming.

She looks conceited, stuck up and unique, but if you don’t know her, don’t judge her. She’s a very pretty girl, who follows different trends. She likes to try new things, make friends, and listen to music. She’s a very chill and laid back chick.

She said, “I don’t like drama or the people who associate with it.” Listening to underground hip-hop is

part of her daily routine, be-cause all of the mainstream hip-hop that’s constantly played on the radio is irrel-evant to real-life situations.

Her close friends describe her as weird, sarcastic, out-going, smart, and unexpect-ed. Alana tends to have her own style; she loves chic and vintage mixed together with a little punk. She is continually complimented on her exotic make-up, like bright pink and purple col-ors- they’re very punk-mod-el status.

She’s very well trusted by all friends. She tries to do all her work and concen-trate on meeting her goal of graduating one day. Her favorite subject is English, because she gets to write about interesting things that she never gets to speak about.

Service and Truth to Eisenhower High School5 Friday, Dec. 21, 2007

Features

Is your Sidekick your best friend? Are you one of those kids that can’t live without it? Maybe T-Mobile knew this would happen and that’s why they named it the Sidekick. They knew this phone would always be by your side. The Sidekick didn’t become as popular until the Sidekick 2 came out. Why is that? Maybe, it’s because the fi rst Sidekick that came out didn’t have as many features as the newer model, such as a speaker-phone, real ring tones, and the 1.3 mega pixel camera. Then came the Sidekick 2; if you didn’t have one you weren’t the biz. Aim (AOL Instant Messenger) is one of the main reasons everyone loved the Sidekick 2. You could talk to your friends on aim all day long for only a

Evolution of the SidekickBy Desiree ThompkinsStaff Writer

From Cassie to Sean Kingston to Soulja Boy, Myspace has turned ev-eryday people into virtual music icons. DeAndre Way (a.k.a. Soulja Boy) was born on June 28, 1990 in the state of Chicago, Illinois. At the age of six, DeAndre moved to Atlanta, Georgia where his love of rap developed. While in 8th grade he moved to Mississippi with his father. From there he had access to a computer where he and his close friend, Arab, posted their music on Soundclick.com. From there he began post-ing his music on Myspace which made him the music icon that he is today. One of the many songs that made him famous is the popular song, “I Got me Some Bathin’ Apes.” He has ranked up to 10 mil-

lion Myspace plays and thousands of Youtube users have been inspired to make videos. His song “Crank Dat” has become No. 4 on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip Hop charts and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Bill-board.com). Everyone from Beyonce to Lil’ Wayne has performed Soulja Boy’s dance in their concerts. Mr. Collipark (Michael Croom) who was looking for new talent, heard “Crank Dat” from many music scouts, and he started asking kids about Soulja Boy and they all knew him. After sign-ing him Collipark quickly recorded and polished his songs that he produced all himself. In its fi rst week, Souljaboytellem.com sold 117,000 copies and debuted at number 4 on the charts. (Wikipedia.com)

Soulja Boy

What’s the Biz?

dollar which includes texting, email, and internet. Over time, other phone companies such as Cingular and Sprint started providing well-made phones with faster internet. T-Mobile had to create a new and improved phone- the Sidekick 3. The camera was better and the in-ternet was faster. Junior Jasmine Matthews stated that life without her Sidekick 3 would be “boring, weak, and sad...need I go on.” Mychael Reed stated that his favorite feature of his Sidekick iD is, “My face on it, just playin, aim.” Yet, the Sidekick 3 still had a few faults. The Sidekick 3 is very fragile; “It breaks and scratches easily,” says Jasmine. “Also, the battery dies quickly.” Mychael said in a mature manner, “Well, I’m always on it and it draws attention away from important things.” Cur-rent teens frequently seem ungrateful for what they have, so T-Mobile willingly created the Sidekick 4. And in the words of many teens, the Sidekick Lx “is so creez!”

Jennifer Xicara

performs the Soulja

Boy dance, caught in a

“Superman” pose.

Photo by Desiree Thompkins

By Desiree ThompkinsStaff Writer

Shout OutEvery issue we give a staff writer a chance to spot-light a student of their choice. Will it be you?Marcelina RamirezStaff Writer Some people have yet

to be enlightened to In-N-Out’s secret menu. That ignorance is not bliss and it can go on no longer! The menu includes a 3x3 and 4x4, which consist of three or four hamburger patties. It also has animal style, which is fried onions, cheese, and Thousand Island dressing. You can get animal style on fries and hamburgers. In-n-Out will also make you a grilled cheese with two slices of melted American cheese, lettuce, tomato, spread, (with or with out onions) on a freshly baked bun.

For you healthy eaters, they have protein style, which is your favorite ham-burger wrapped in lettuce, instead of a bun.

Next time you go to In-N-Out, look like an insider by using some of the lingo off of the Not-So-Secret Menu.

IN-N-OUT’S SECRETSBy Ashley Cann Staff Writer

Photo by Eagle’s Eye StaffAlana Carranza practices her future career in cosmetology.

Service and Truth to Eisenhower High School6 Friday, Dec. 21, 2007

Entertainment

Music RewindBy Raul CabrerraEntertainment Editor

2007, the year that brought 50 Cent vs. Kanye West. That also brought many hit rap singles. From “Rockstar” to “Soulja Boy” clubs were busy playing hit after hit single. Now let’s travel back to a time when music was innocent and soft rock ruled TRL. 2004 was the year and Relient K’s album Mmhmm was released to mediocre demand.

Track after track, Relient K de-livers pop-punk goodness with catchy, sing-along lyrics that bring inspiration and hope. With ap-proximate sales of about 800,000 albums, Mmhmm was a sleeper hit record that caught the ears of many. Reaching No. 1 on the U.S. internet charts, but only No. 15 on

Billboard 200 gave this album a staple on the music world.

Singles like “Be My Escape” and “Who I am Hates Who I’ve Been” allowed more and more music lovers to hear Relient K’s blend of older Blink-182 with a more mature nature. Even with “High of 75” that was never realesed in the mainstream market but spent 15 consecutive weeks in the Con-temporary Christian Music top ten tracks.

Relient K delivers what was never demanded. It certainly didn’t create something new in the pop-punk scene, but it solidifi ed the movement that was started, a great record that fuses melodies and poetry.

For Fans of Red Jumpsuit Appa-ratus, Blink 182, and Hawthorne Heights, this is a must.

Idol Winners Become Music FlopsBy Raul cabrerraEntertainmnet Editor

American Idol has become Amer-ica’s mostly viewed show. Season after season, millions of television sets are turned on to see who will become the next “American Idol.” Even though the show’s ratings are always through the roof, what’s happening to the music? Amongst the hype and surprise from the fi rst American Idol, winner Kelly

Clarkson is the top selling Idol winner with 9,334,000 overall al-bum sales. From there, every idol winner’s chart sells went snow-balling. So far, Carrie Underwood, sea-

son four winner has sold about 6,078,000 from her debut album, making her the second most suc-cessful idol winner. We’re already

going to be seven seasons into Amer-ican Idol in Janu-ary, and where are the record sales? Sure television is free to watch. Mil-lions of callers still vote for their favorite idol. But are price tags on compact discs too much for America to handle?Let’s not forget

the 34.24 million viewers in the season two fi nale that brought us our second idol, Ruben Studdard. Studdard’s album faired moder-ate amongst other idol contestants with an estimated 1,779,00 debut albums sold. The top viewed fi -nale in American Idol’s time span was season 5 fi nale with 36.38 mil-lion viewers. Season 5 brought us winner, Taylor Hicks. His post-idol album sold an estimated 698,000. Season after season views seem to sky rocket, but album sales from winners keeps plummeting. Season six winner, Jordin Sparks

had the lowest fi rst week sales with only 119,000 copies sold from her debut. As long as American Idol keeps us glued to our TV, time will only tell who will outsell Kelly Clarkson. It might seem as if American Idol mania is very slow-ly coming to a close.

“They have four eyes, they have two mouths, they have eight limbs that wrap around them-selves in narcissistic self -adoration, it’s disgust-ing. And I can’t help but envy them.” Four Eyed Monsters is an indepen-dent fi lm about relation-ships and two individu-als who are tired of the average dating scene.The directors of the fi lm, the protagonist them-selves, are telling their

real life story. It is their fi rst time directing a fi lm and have come quite far. This fi lm has received much talk for its interest-ing and witty storyline. The fact that it is a real life story of them just adds to its strange appeal.The cinematography of the fi lm makes the movie a true experience. They won a Spirit award for best cinematography. It uses all techniques per-fecting every shot. To

call it mediocre would be an understatement. The camera itself tells the story so well you feel the emotions the character is going through.The fi lm has had a lot of success and received much praise from the audience. Although it has received many raves and rants about the story line, it is a must see fi lm, either to love it or de-spise it.The fi lm is about Arin

Crumley and Susan Buice, the protagonist of this fi lm, who fi nd them-selves stuck, unable to know where to go in life. Arin, a videographer, is a guy who is too shy to meet girls on his own. Susan, an artist in theory, is a waitress in practice. They both live in the hectic city of New York where they are trying to fi nd themselves and a lit-tle bit of love on the way. Tired of the ordinary

dating routine, Arin and Susan are introduced on-line and agree to meet in real life. However, they have one condi-tion, in order to avoid aimless small talk they agree not to speak and only communicate by artistic means. They form a re-lationship and problems begin to unravel one

by one. This peculiar yet absorbing fi lm has left viewers bewildered in amazement.

Four Eyed MonstersBy Monica SalazarStaff writer

Living Room RockstarGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was one of the best games of 2007. Many people have played it, but many haven’t so Juan Velasquez, a sopho-more and big fan of Gui-tar Hero at Ike gives us a briefi ng about the game.To Juan, Guitar Hero III is “A game with a fake guitar with colored but-tons and it makes you feel like you’re playing a real guitar. It’s the best game ever created.”Many people also think that Guitar Hero should be easier for guitar play-ers, but is it really? Slash, a worldwide known gui-tarist said, “Guitar Hero is harder for a guitar player than it is in the game knowing that you just had to touch differ-ent colored buttons on the neck.”Juan said, “Why would someone want to play Guitar Hero? Because it’s mesmerizing and fun and keeps your mind off of things.” Tom Morello, a world famous guitarist said, “It keeps me humble. It’s humbling that eleven year old kids can beat me on my own songs.”Juan enjoyed the new songs, features and characters. Juan stated, “I enjoyed

Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce, One by Metallica, and my favorite was “My Curse” by Killswitch En-gage.” Juan also enjoyed the new features such as the Boss Battles. He said, “It puts more fun on the game. Instead of just go-ing into the encore, you have to battle someone. It makes it more interest-ing. It was and interest-ing edition to the game because it made it more fun knowing that you could attack your op-ponents with different things.”Overall, Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock was “an interesting game.” Juan stated, “If they made a fourth, heck yes I’ll buy it because I’m curious about the new songs and features.” Juan Velas-quez “would recom-mend” Guitar Hero for

By Adrian PimentelStaff Writer

Photo from Fox.comBeing the winner of American Idol proves to be inadequte for determining album sales.

Photo by Adrian PimentelGuitar Hero has found a place in the video game industry.

Photo from Relientk.com

Service and Truth to Eisenhower High School7 Friday, Dec. 21, 2007

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Continued from Pg. 8Allen got his license sus-

pended until he’s twenty-one and got taken to jail for a DUI. The legal limit while driving is 0.008, and Allen blew a 0.187. I will possibly receive a ticket for curfew and Albert will likely receive one for being intoxicated in public. If I would have been eighteen, we all three would have

went to jail, putting my ca-reer choice in jeopardy. All three of us are to show up to court on October 31 for the amount we have to pay for our tickets and for fur-ther sentencing.

It was a bad choice we all made and now we’re paying for it. We were just a few of the many who have gotten caught, but thankfully we were not injured, or worse,

dead in a car accident. So please always have a sober driver. As you’re reading this you’re thinking, “I’m not stupid, and I won’t get caught.” Well, you will even-tually. Take it from me, it’s not worth it. You might be having the time of your life, but that will soon come to an end, or even your end.

Continued from Pg. 8Slowly you could see the anger and the

frustration in everyone’s eyes. The tone of the house was completely different then it was this morning. Everything had turned upside down. My two brothers were furi-ous, my mother teary eyed, my father anxious. As I sat there trying to put all the pieces together. I could hear the debating in my living room. We were trying to fi gure out how this will affect us as Afghan Ameri-cans. All we knew was that it would be-come a major difference in our lives. I was scared the circumstances that were upon me were that of a Muslim American living in a country that has just been terrorized by terrorists who claim to be Muslim and support a Jihad.

I knew people would now look at me dif-ferently. I would be judged as a terrorist due to people’s ignorance, because of the horrendous crimes these attackers commit-ted on September 11th. The morning after 9/11 on my way to school my mother had told me to ignore any rude insults or com-ments any one would say to me. I was anx-ious I didn’t want to be insulted. I was still trying to comprehend as much as I could about what was going on, but I was a nine year old trying to understand things that were beyond my realm of thought.

It was recess when a girl in my class brought her friends over to me and called me a terrorist. I remember feeling hurt, of-fended, and the feeling of a misfi t because I was the only Afghan, Arab, or Middle Eastern at the school and no one was there to empathize with my situation.

Years have no passed going through mid-dle school and now high school. Hoping that the racism and prejudices would end

wishing that as my peers grew older their ignorance grew smaller. However, the im-maturity and unconsciousness of my peers stayed the same. I still encounter everyday situations in which I get to witness and ex-perience the great ignorance of the youth of future America.

Hate crimes have been directed towards myself and my culture more often then I can count. My ID card has been stolen, the face of a terrorist was drawn over it. On the past September 11th anniversary there were kids talking about throwing paper air-planes at me and saying “How do you like it?” I have been asked if Osama Bin Laden was my uncle. Being told happy anniver-sary on the anniversary of September 11th etc. This infuriates me. I can not begin to express the anger that rushes to me in ev-ery racial slur that is thrown my way, but I try to blow it off and excuse them for their stupidity.

It makes me wonder these are the same people that complain about being discrimi-nated against, but yet they continuously choose to discriminate against other ethnic groups. Only one word comes to mind Hypocrite. My belief is that if you demand respect regarding your race, you should give the same respect to other races. So please don’t be a hypocrite and practice what you preach!

Have we not learned from our mistakes? Are we going to let history repeat itself? Is another genocide in our future because some of us are socially uneducated? Anoth-er holocaust? Another Rwanda? Hopefully members of our society especially parents will start to educate their children, so we can avoid such an outcome in which we will all pay the price.

Drinking and Driving: Is It Really Worth It?By Malerie MaggioFeatures Editor Being Muslim in America

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Service and Truth to Eisenhower High School8 Friday, Dec. 21, 2007

Opinion

Racism is the hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. Until 9/11 people usually thought of racism only to be directed towards African Americans, Latin Americans, Caucasians, and Asians. On September 11th 2001 the intolerance took on a different direction. The be-ginning of discrimination towards Arabs, Middle Easterns, South Asians, and Muslims were to be put forth.

September 11th 2001 American Airlines fl ight 97 hits the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. eastern time. United Airline fl ight 175 hit the south tower at 9:02 a.m. On the other side of the country American Airlines fl ight 77 hits the Pentagon. While fl ight 93 was headed towards the nations capital. Up until the brave citi-zens on that fl ight fought back against the attackers and took the plane down in a fi eld just outside Shanks Ville Pennsylvania.

Do you remember what you were doing when this catas-trophe took place? That morning everything was as usual in the Mayel house hold. My mother was getting my broth-

er and me ready for school. While my oldest brother was going off to college, and my father heading off to work. The tone of the house was pleasant and put together.

All was well as I started to take out my pencil and work on my long division in my forth grade classroom. A few hours later I noticed a difference in my teacher’s emotions he seemed more disorganized and panic stricken. It was time for recess. Again everything seemed just fi ne. The teachers did a good job of withholding the truth and try-ing to hide it from us because we were young. Coming back from recess was when we were told. Of course it was sugar coated and put in understandable terms for a fourth grader, but how could you possibly explain something like that to a nine year old. I was bewildered. Before that day I had never heard of the word terrorism before.

The television in our classroom didn’t take any channels. However, I remember my teacher sitting there his ears glued to the radio. We were all scared some kids started crying. My teacher had told us to take out our notebooks

which are what we usually write in to do our daily class work. This time he told us to write in the notebook exactly how we were feeling; all of our emotions; all of our thoughts; and all of our nerves. I was confused; I didn’t know what to write I remember thinking about my family, where they were at, and if they were okay. At the time my best friend Adriana wrote World War III in her notebook. If only she knew how close to the truth she really was. That afternoon I got picked up from school and went home. I entered the living room to see my whole family sitting around with their eyes and ears centered around the television screen. I was worried and stressed. I was oblivious to the fact that an act of terrorism has just fell upon the United States and all of our lives would change forever. I sat there with them careful not to make the slightest noise so as to not disrupt the quite attentiveness in my living room.

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War is a very diffi cult mat-ter but as Commander In Chief and President there should be some order and balance to foreign and na-tionwide matters. President Bush and the National Gov-ernment need to pay atten-tion, because history is try-ing to repeat itself.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson placed his at-tention on the war in Viet-nam and America was left with internal turmoil due to racism and prejudice. His biasly placed attention on Vietnam wasn’t evenly distributed and the unbal-anced concentration caused the Vietnam War to be the only offi cial war we didn’t win. Racism may be one of the few problems America has yet to solve.

Cases of racism have been displayed for quite

some time now and we’ve seen no justice and little enforcement of regulation concerning these spiteful crimes. Bush or somebody in his administration needs to help contain the racism occurring in our country. Do they not see that this could be a reoccurrence of the Civil Rights Movement? The Jena Six, six teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, are proof that racism still exists and is showing its ugly face once more. The infamous Jena 6 fought a white student who allegedly hung a noose over a “White only Tree.” Those six teenagers are being tried as adults for attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit sec-ond-degree murder (Wiki-pedia.com). The events in Jena, Louisiana sparked nationwide protests.

Countering the blow of protests, vicious displays of racism have been stirred up in various different loca-tions. A controversial event that occurred in New York is a prime example of rac-ism that is running amiss in our country. On October 10, 2007 a noose was found approximately at 9:15 a.m. (CNN.com) on Professor Madonna Constantine’s door in Columbia, New York. “I want us to stay strong in the face of such a blatant act of racism,” stated a teary-eyed and courageous Professor Con-stantine. This unexpected explosion of nationwide racism has sparked Ameri-ca’s awareness as a nation to grow in abundance, but is it enough in comparison to the lack of governmental support?

The KKK and other un-offi cial organizations have brought it upon them-selves to be “law enforc-ers.” Political activist Rev. AL Sharpton is pushing for congress to dish out more severe punishments for hate crimes while the KKK and the Neo-Nazis are stirring up more trouble. Two teenage KKK members had two nooses in the back of their pickup trucks and threaten to hang members or supporters of the Jena Six. They also have posted their information on several different sources of media. The Neo-Nazis have posted their information as well and are telling people to go to their homes and “give them justice.” That brings us to this question, where is the “true justice”? Justice is a foundation of this Coun-

try, but its meaning is be-ing misinterpreted, because killing or even threatening is not justice. Justice needs to be served, but not by the racist groups, but by our

government and our nation as a whole.Disagree with this opinion?

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Remembering 9/11: Through the Eyes of an AfghanBy Negeen MayelNews Editor

Some Things Never Seem to ChangeBy Carrington MotleyEditor in Chief

Photo by Eagle’s Eye Staff Angela Smith wears all black to support the Jenna 6.

By Malerie MaggioFeatures Editor

What’s the same thing your parents always tell you every weekend right before you go out? No drinking and driving! In your head you respond, All right, I’m still going to do it, but nothing will happen. But you’re wrong. It will hap-pen eventually, and when it does, you pay for it badly. I know because I had to go through it, and I told my-self over and over, I wasn’t going to get caught or hurt, but I was wrong.

Every weekend before I walk out the door, my par-ents always tell me, “No drinking and driving, and if you do, call me!” Labor

Day weekend, I wish I would have called. The ex-act thought going through my head when my parents were telling me was, “Ya...ya...ya... I’m not going to get caught or hurt; I’ll be fi ne.” Well, I did and it is by far the worst experi-ence I’ve gone through yet. Here’s my story.

September 2, I went to Hollywood with my two best friends: Albert and Al-len. Right before we left, my mom told gave me the same departure speech that she always does. Allen and I looked at each other and smiled, because we knew we were going to drink

that night. On the way, we picked up my older friend who is twenty-one and got him to buy us drinks. As soon as we parked across the street to where we were going that night, we popped open the trunk and started drinking. Allen, who was driving, was only supposed to drink enough to be sober for the drive home. But one thing led to another and we got carried away without re-alizing how drunk we were. So we fi nally went to the show and enjoyed it. When it was over we walked all along Hollywood Blv. look-ing for a place to eat to so-ber Allen up completely.

Somehow, we found our-selves back at the car. By that time, we were tired, so we fell asleep. When I woke up, we were driving, but I assumed Allen had sobered up, so I went back to sleep. The next thing I knew, Albert was waking me up, because we were getting pulled over. I got up and put my safety buckle on. The two cops came up to the car and took a look inside with a fl ashlight.

Allen got a ticket for crossing the double yellow line into the carpool lane; at that time we were relieved assuming that we got off the hook. Not even fi ve minutes

later, the same cops put on their lights again, but this time they made us take an exit and pull over at a gas station. As soon as we stopped, the cops automati-cally arrested Allen. Albert and I were really scared just sitting there watching our friend get arrested. Then the worst came, each of them came to the car and cuffed us and sat us on the curb. They told us that af-ter we took off, we started swerving, and of course we couldn’t tell, because we were still intoxicated. They put Allen in the backseat and ran sobriety tests on both me and Albert. Albert

failed his test and I passed it. However, they didn’t take Albert or me to jail, because I was a minor, and they didn’t want to leave me alone at a gas station. That’s when they told me to call my parents to come get me all the way in El Monte. Allen was taken to jail on the spot and the car was impounded. Albert and I were left by ourselves in a city we both didn’t even know, waiting for my parents to come get us. By the time we were picked up, it was around fi ve in the morning.

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Confessions of Drinking and Driving