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English teacher debuts in lead role in UNI production today

Michelle RatheEnglish teacher and

“Amanda” in the UNI production of “The Glass Menagerie”

A story about the power memories hold and the struggle with accepting difficult realities, Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is a production that has and continues to mesmerize audiences, and starting Thursday, Feb. 25, English teacher Michelle Rathe, stars in a UNI production of this clas-sic as Amanda, the mother of the family portrayed in the play.

“She has maturity. She has keen in-telligence and a sense of humor and a connection to people,” UNI professor and play director Richard Glockner said of Rathe’s experience after many years of directing school plays. “[She] cer-tainly has an understanding of dramatic structure.”

Months of preparation have gone into the performance, and as two can-vas-covered tables set the stage for re-hearsal on Wednesday, Feb. 17, Rathe started warming up and relaxing into the creative space with her three other cast mates, and Glockner told them to “let go of all the day’s stress.” Rathe sighed heavily as she began her warm up and transitioning from her world of

students to that of Amanda.

“I’m always impressed in terms of how much she cares about all of you, and how much time and effort she devotes to you, y’know?” Glockner said while overlook-ing the actors in the Strayer Wood Theatre. “I think that’s some-thing also in the character of Amanda. She chooses to keep this family going.”

“The Glass Menagerie” unravels the memories of Tom as he remembers living in an apartment with his socially awkward sister, Laura, and his over-bearing mother, Amanda. After being abandoned by her husband, Amanda constantly reflects on her past and puts pressure on both of her children to somehow make a better life for the

family. Tom, who works in a factory to support the family, feels torn between his desire for a more fulfilling life and his obligation to take care of his mother and sister.

Back at school on a day following the play practice, Rathe regarded her role and admitted Amanda wasn’t nec-essarily something she dreamed of. “I have a harsher personality, so it doesn’t surprise me, but this kind of a role, is it something I could have seen myself do-ing? Yes,” she nodded, looking around her classroom. “I may not have seen myself being Amanda, but this type of persona, yes.”

And as she finished those words, a senior student of hers arrived to ask for his letter of recommendation for a the-ater scholarship at University of Iowa. Rathe smiled as she spoke with him about having it done tomorrow, the af-fection in her tone revealing a glimpse into what the next two weekends may reveal in her role as another compas-sionate persona.

Performance Dates:Feb. 25 - 7:30 p.m.Feb. 26 - 7:30 p.m.Feb. 27 - 7:30 p.m.Feb. 28 - 2 p.m.March 4 - 7:30 p.m.March 5 - 7:30 p.m.March 6 - 2 p.m.

Tickets: Youth is $15 (ages 2-18)Adult is $22 (18+)Tickets are available at the box office, which is open Monday-Friday noon.-5 p.m. It’s also open one hour before performances. Tickets are also available by calling the box office at 319-273-4849 during of-fice hours or on the UNITix Website: http://www.vpaf.uni.edu/unitix/

Teachers and counselors frequently remind students that all their work is pointed to skills for the future, but one problem makes this ca-reer path completely obvious every day — the experience-based career education or to put it in simpler terms, the work experience program. The work experience pro-gram is a program to help juniors and seniors explore different career opportunities and jobs in the Cedar Valley while working a little over an hour a day for each quarter.

Skills teacher Jennifer Juhl works with each student to find a job that they will like. “I try to match not only the stu-dents’ skills and interests with the work site, but also their personality. Sometimes it’s really important that the stu-dent has someone that can mentor them and build them up,” Juhl said.

The students change jobs every quarter, so if they take work experience both semes-ters, then they will be able to work at four jobs.

The work experience pro-gram is helpful to the stu-

junior Taryn Ackerman

junior Rachel Carley

senior Don Quistorff

junior Troy Wilson and senior Jacob Brustkern

Program offers on-the-job training AP literature uses Twitter on Digital Learning Day

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AP TWITTERContinued on Page 5

Advanced Placement lit-erature students around the nation celebrated Digital Learning Day on Feb. 17 by participating in an online dis-cussion via Twitter. The discus-sion revolved around a poem by Robert Pack entitled, “Echo Sonnet.”

Each hour, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., new questions were in-troduced to students to which they responded in 140 char-acter tweets with the hashtag #APLitDLD. Questions asked students to examine the ele-ments of the poem, such as diction, juxtaposition and allit-eration, as well as the poem’s meaning.

From California to Georgia to Iowa, this format made it possible for students to con-nect with other students and teachers living in the other parts of the country. Tweets were not exclusively posted to answer preselected questions; they also brewed discussion. Students responded to one another, asking questions and challenging each other’s points of view. By the end of the day, students composed almost 1,400 tweets using the #AP-

LitDLD hashtag, and the event reached over 100,000.

English teacher Diane Fla-herty guided CFHS students through the activity throughout the day. She decided to have her students participate in the online discussion because she believed it was a great way to integrate technology into the classroom and would give students variety in their class work.

“They [students] could con-nect with different students across the nation on the same poem and the same idea, get-ting a much wider view than what they would from the 16 kids in class,” Flaherty said.

Senior Jacob Leisinger was one of the students who participated in the discussion. He agreed that it helped him gain a deeper understanding. “Seeing others’ ideas on Twit-ter helped me develop some unique ideas of my own,” Leis-inger said.

As the day progressed, stu-dents had more questions to answer as they chose from the question of the hour as well as

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Apple’s resistance to FBI makes right call for privacy

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On Dec. 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 people were injured in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif. In investigating the shooting, the FBI has requested that Apple make a backdoor into their products so the FBI can figure out the shooters’ motivations. If they were to get into the shooters’ phones, they would be able to figure out if they were part of ISIS or another terrorist group.

But if Apple were to create this back door, it would potentially close the door to user privacy. Millions of customers in the United States and around the world trust Apple to protect their privacy. Every day we hear of another company that gets hacked such as Sony or Target or hospitals or even key components of the federal government. People have been relying on Apple to make a secure product for consumers for good reason.

Many students agree, including senior Madisen Timmer, who has been an Apple buyer since the beginning with her iPod Touch, said that she would consider switching to another phone provider such as Samsung if Apple were to create the back door. “I don’t feel like I could trust the company anymore with my personal information,” Timmer said.

Timmer argued that the FBI is going over boundaries that they don’t be-long in because it would be violating the privacy of Americans. “It’s definitely a lot to ask of Apple as a company to compromise the security they have worked on to secure for so many years,” Timmer said. Once Apple were to create the backdoor, there would be no promise that another hacker wouldn’t be able to get into anyone’s iPhone. Many top tech companies, including Google and Facebook, are concerned that government intrusion would make it easier to hack into their products as well.

The United States is viewed as a free country, and many view this request as the FBI taking away some of our freedom. This week, the FBI floated anoth-er idea that Apple could create the back door, not turn it over the government and then destroy it immediately afterward, but if that were to happen, the FBI and other investigators around the globe could request successive phones to be broken into again. It would become a repetitive cycle, and the back door to tearing down the privacy of citizens would crack ever wider.

Unveiling the MaskThis Thursday, Feb. 25 at

6:30 p.m. in the high school choir room, Women’s Leader-ship is presenting a thought provoking 2015 documentary titled “The Mask You Live In.” Food, friends and great dis-cussion will all be provided as everyone is welcome.

“The Mask You Live In” fol-lows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.

For years the American society has pressed unreason-able expectations and norms upon men causing them to crumble. Pressured by the the media, their peers and the tradition of male pursuit, men and young boys have been encouraged to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic relationships and resolve conflicts through vio-lence.

Boys and men learn “ap-propriate” gender roles in accordance to the masculine expectations of their given society. This means that from very early on, boys get mes-sages on what it means to be a boy.

Common terms often linked to masculinity such as strong, war, tough, self reliant, sexual, hero, rich, winning and

dominant are examples of the messages being poured into the minds of young boys that work to shape boys into true “men.”

This restrictive model of manhood is often presented as something natural, with the suggestion that men are just born this way, and that a “real man” doesn’t have to work at being a man.

In reality, men learning to “become a man” isn’t the product of their biology. In growing up, men and boys learn to live and be compared to this idealized model, soon finding out if they are not act-ing in a way considered manly enough.

When there’s a failure to follow these norms, boys and men are punished (often by other boys and men) in a par-ticularly gendered manner.

For example, if boys and men do not meet the expec-tations of being a man, they are often called homophobic or feminizing slurs. These deg-

radations work to police the boundaries of what is accept-able appearance and behav-ior for boys and men, which is one explanation as to why gender roles in our society are still rigidly defined and vigi-lantly enforced.

The film shows men from various backgrounds sharing the impact of their upbringing, relationships with their fathers, their struggles and the delib-erate choices they’ve made in raising their own children.

Experts in the field, in-cluding authors, doctors and educators, provide research as well as observations on the challenges men and boys face in our society’s unrealistic ex-pectations of hyper-masculin-ity.

“The Mask You Live In” ul-timately illustrates how we, as a society, can work to raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.

Check out movie tonight addressing male expectations

By Staff Writer AllieTAIBER

“‘The Mask You Live In’ ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can work to raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.”

Should Apple re-engineer their software to help the FBI (allowing a backdoor into their phones)?

16% Yes 84% NoThis Hi-Line Poll conducted by staff writer Miranda Cole represents 10 percent of all students in proportion to gender and the three grades at the high school.

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KRAABEL By Staff Writer Mercede

According to an article by Joe Fassler in The Atlantic called “How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously,” women are often only treated aggressively until after they prove they are as sick as male patients.

Why do doctors believe a woman’s pain is less than a man’s pain? It goes back to long-held stereotypes of women: that they tend to overexaggerate, that they are more emotional, that they are not in as much pain as we say and that they may be behaving in attention-seeking ways. However, a woman in pain should be attended to with the same amount of urgency as her male counterpart receives.

To underestimate some-one in such a fragile state just because they are a woman is incredibly ridiculous and sexist to the core. The Atlantic article states that “Nationwide, men wait an average of 49 minutes before receiving an analgesic for acute abdominal pain. Women wait an average of 65 minutes for the same thing.”

Women suffering from not being taken seriously is a too-common misfortune of collec-tive stigmas women face every day. When this occurs in hos-pitals, women can literally die. The medical community has even given a name for this phe-nomenon, called the “Yentl Syn-drome,” which refers to the way heart attacks are dealt with in dif-ferent ways based on a patient’s gender.

This is a huge issue because most of the medical research conducted has focused only on heart attacks in men. Many women have died from misdiag-noses because their symptoms were slightly different from the symptoms doctors learn to be attuned to.

When will the medical com-munity start to see women as equals to men, interpret their pain on the same level, and give them the care they deserve? Too many women have died already at their expense.

Sexism can occur even in emergency room

MARTIN By Opinion Editor Olivia

The natural reaction to making money is to spend it right away, most commonly on unnecessary or temporary things. It can feel rewarding to buy yourself lunch every day of the school week or to get a new pair of shoes, but saving your money instead is a long-term reward that you will be even more happy with.

Of course, saving money is easier said than done. There’s going to be times when you want to splurge and treat yourself, and that is perfectly fine. It’s important to learn how to manage how much you spend and how much you put away so that you have room to both have money for the future and for the small treats.

Luckily for me, I grew up with a father who is a banker, so tips and how-to’s have always been easily accessible for me. A lot of young people don’t get this same privilege. It’s even worse that in high school, we don’t have mandatory classes geared towards money management. Instead, people our age are forced to either try and manage their hard-earned money without guidance, take an elective business class or have to turn to the Internet for tips. At our age, there isn’t a ton that we can do, but there are at least a few small things that will help us get ready for our future.

Start by asking yourself how much money per check/allowance you put away in a savings account, or if you put any away at all. My dad says that even by putting a small amount in can add up, but the recom-

mended amount is about half your check. That way, you can spend half of your check without feeling bad, and the other half will stay tucked away in a different account. De-pending on the size of the check, financial need and other factors, half of a check might be too much, so be sure to plan ahead for how much you will need to have accessible to spend.

Many people our age don’t know how to manage their credit or even know what cred-it is, so understanding what it entails is ex-tremely important. This is more applicable to the future, but at least learning about it now will put you ahead of the game. Credit is basically the ability for a person to purchase something with the promise that they will be able to pay it off in the future. For now, my

dad says that a lot of our purchases should be made with debit, at least until you begin looking into credit and how to use it proper-ly. By paying with debit, your money is taken directly from your bank account, meaning you don’t have to worry about paying it back in the future. Asking a parent, your banker or even the Internet can help you further under-stand how to use credit and whether or not that is a step you wish to take.

Most importantly, planning ahead is the major key to financial success. Think of ev-erything you wish to buy as a grocery list. By keeping track of the purchases you for sure are willing to pay money for, it will be easier to stay on track without buying unnecessary things. It’s also good to keep your receipts so that you can see how much money you have

spent, which will help when paying taxes in the future.

When you want to buy something (or multiple somethings), rank it on how impor-tant it is that you purchase it at the moment. If it’s something such as food, supplies, toilet-ries or anything that is seen more as a need rather than a want, it’s safe to say it will rank at a higher level. Items that are a want are less important and should be held off until you save up extra money to purchase them, rath-er than blowing your paycheck right away. Of course, things that are the most impor-tant are things that cannot (or should not) be held off, such as bills, fees, repairs and so on. Thinking ahead and planning what you wish to purchase instead of following the urge to spend right away will help you not only now but in the future when budgeting and saving are even more important than they are now.

By planning ahead and educating yourself about finances now, you are set-ting yourself up for a more successful (and less stressful) future. Working and earning money is one thing, but actually saving your money is another. Learning how to man-age the amount you spend and the amount you save is an incredibly important skill that should be taught at a young age, and now is the prime time to teach yourself and to get the facts you need in order to help yourself in the long run.

STEEN By Graphic Artist Sierra

You can make your money work for you

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dents who don’t have the confi-dence in going to get a job on their own. Going out into the so-called “outside world” is hard on teens who don’t normally have a big social life, so the work expe-rience program helps students build up confidence they need in a work environment.

Students take the skills they learn from their jobs and apply them into their everyday lives. “I can use the skills from Networks Solutions and help me learn more about computers, so I can get better at what I want to do, which is fixing computers,” se-nior Jeff Lavenz said.

Some of the jobs Lavenz worked at include Bancroft Flow-ers, UNI Library and Networks Solutions. His favorite job was working at Networks Solutions. “I liked Networks Solutions the best because I got to be around computers, and working with computers is what I want to do for my future career,” Lavenz said.

Some of the other jobs that are available to the students are Peppers, St. John Preschool, Family Video, Waffle Stop, Vil-lage Inn and Hy-Vee Bakery. At Peppers, Waffle Stop and Village

Inn, students wash dishes and wipe down tables and chairs. At St. John Preschool they will play with the kids and help get activi-ties ready for the kids. At Fam-ily Video they check back in the movies, sort them out and put the movies away, and at Hy-Vee Bakery they help box the treats and make sure that there are fresh baked treats in the display.

The work experience pro-gram teaches things that can’t be taught in the classroom. The students learn things that can only be experienced. They learn what employers are looking for in an employee, and they also learn about teamwork and strong work ethic. The students learn the up’s and down’s of working and how stressful it can be.

Just the other week, junior Taryn Ackerman had to box about 40 boxes of cookies at the Hy-Vee bakery, and some of the other students love the jobs where they have a lot to do to keep them busy, whereas other students love the jobs where they are not as busy.

“Working at Village Inn wasn’t really my favorite job be-cause I was washing dishes, and when they got busy, it was more

stressful because there was a lot more dishes to do,” senior Don Quistorff said.

Not only can the students learn about working in a job, but they can use those skills to help them in school. “I have learned some skills that help me in school, like work ethic, keeping busy, getting my work done on time like my homework,” senior Chase Klose said.

Students get credit for the work experience program, and the employers provide construc-tive feedback. With getting the feedback, the students know what they do and don’t need improvement on for future jobs.

“I tell the students that they need to enjoy and be proud of the career area that they choose. How one feels about his or her work affects every area of his or her life,” Juhl said.

The students of the work ex-perience program are able to ex-perience and try many different types of jobs in order for them to determine their future careers.

“I like it because it’s makes me feel like a grown up, and like I’m actually going to a real job,” junior Rachel Carley said.

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BOEZINGERBy Staff Writer Ben

FORKERStaff Writer Noah

Have you ever dreamed of blasting rebel scum off the face of Endor, or destroying AT-AT walkers to smithereens on the cold snowy surface of Hoth. Your wish has been granted with, in my opinion, the most anticipated shooter of the 2015 year, and the best game. Besides, of course, Fallout. If you like a fantasy game that strikes back, then this is your game.

The thing I liked most in the game has to definitely be the fact that it looked and felt like the movies. The fact that all the main characters in the movie both look and talk like the ones in the game is kind of mind blowing to me. Run-ning around maps as Luke and hearing the familiar sounds of a saber striking, or having a la-ser bullet ricochet off the green glowing sword.

I also loved the fact that you can play as the games the movie series most critical char-acters. You can waddle around and stress lightning on the enemy as Emperor Palpatine or fly around while shooting flames and rockets out your wrist. You can also take to the skies in both rebel and impe-rial ships. You can jet around

the map while simultaneously blowing up enemies both in air and on the ground.

This can prove as an advan-tage in strategical modes like walker assault. The T-47 air-speeder featured in the origi-nal screenplays can easily win the reb-els the m a t c h with its a b i l i t y to trip up the w a l k e r a f t e r success-fully circling it. As for the Impe-rial side, you can take to easily controllable AT-STs and scour the map taking out rebels with force. You can also control the destructive AT-ATs. Although it’s only for a short time, if you are in the right area and know what you are doing, you can provide some heavy damage for your team, which can pro-vide the most fun moments in the game.

Probably one of the only things that’s wrong with the game is the lack of modes. I have found through playing the general lack of game modes is a small problem. Don’t get

me wrong. There is a plenti-ful amount, but most of them kinda suck. There’s really good ones that are my personal fa-vorite like “heroes v villains” and “walker assault” and also “drop zone.” The high-paced action in “drop zone” makes

for a run and gun as-s a u l t , w h i l e “heroes vs. vil-l a i n s ” a n d “walker

assault” results in a more stra-tegic and a long-range attack base. As for modes like droid run and supremacy, they let you down in terms of excite-ment, but still I think that the modes that are fun make up for the lack thereof.

The mechanics of the game like shooting and movement may take some time to get used to, but after I did I real-ized they might be the best in any shooter. There really is an art to shooting at a distance in this game, though. Depending on the weapon, you have to aim ahead of the target. With guns equipped with a better

range, or burst rifles, you don’t have to aim ahead by a whole lot. But with pistols and assault rifles, the difference between the target has to be larger.

The movement in the game is a lot better than some of the other games that have been released lately. When you reach a certain level, you are able to purchase a jet pack, which provides quick and easy maneuvers around the map. I have also found that it can prove useful when getting out of tricky situations. If you have low health and are getting shot at, you can easily get out by jet packing out. It’s A) harder to hit such a fast moving target, and B) you can get to a safer area and resume fighting without a death on your KD.

Star Wars Battlefront was one of the year's most an-ticipated shooters, and it de-livered. Although the game modes are lacking and some of the controls might take some getting used to, the authen-ticity of the game more than makes up for that, and, in the end, that’s all that really mat-ters in a Star Wars game.

Whenever you finish a vid-eo game, book or movie be-fore a friend or family member, there is always that temptation to spoil the ending, or even an important climax. However, think of yourself in that per-son’s shoes. How would you have liked it if you had the ending spoiled? Most people, however, don’t think about this and instead decide to spoil, but they shouldn’t.

In certain video games, the ending is so shocking, so unexpected, that you have to tell someone. However, if that person is playing the game for him or herself, that might not be the best idea.

Consider if you were in reverse roles. If you were a bit behind and your friend spoiled the ending, would you want to keep playing the game? For me, I person-ally would because I never “give up” on games, but most people would stop playing

until they have forgotten the spoiled details.

Another main way to spoil video games is to be watch-ing a let’s play, which is when someone on youtube plays through a game and explains how to beat it, and you don’t realize you want the game or have the game until it’s too late. In this situation, there is not much you can do. This is mainly caused when you look up the help but forget to stop watching. To avoid this, just ask a friend in real life for help or find your own way to beat it, unless you don’t mind the spoilers.

With books, the endings are almost NEVER expected. Very few books have predict-able endings. So, when you’re near the end or at the very start and someone spoils a very big climax, it basically ru-ins the entire the book.

For me, I try my hardest not to spoil unless I’m asked.

I tell a friend what I know and try to leave out spoilers. When talking to others, if a spoiler is coming, I stop my friend to make him or her realize they’re about to spoil. My style of reading is that I read the last page early on, and as I read, it triggers things that could lead to that point, but I’m usually wrong, so that’s what makes it fun to keep reading. If an end-ing is spoiled, I usually like to keep reading so that I can see what leads to it. When talk-ing about a book to a friend, make sure he or she is either not reading it or doesn’t plan to read it before you spoil.

Movies, however, are very easy to spoil. This is because not many people think of mov-ies as a huge thing, so they tell people about them. In fact, many reviews are labeled with “Spoiler Warning” if need be, so watch the video at your own risk.

This same thing applies to

animes and TV shows in gen-eral. Say, you’re behind by a bit, speaking from personal experience, and your friend decides to tell you one of the biggest, game-changing events. You, of course, get de-pressed.

Of course, to avoid this, you could always calmly tell your friend that you’re behind and to try to avoid spoilers.

No matter what you’re talking about, books, mov-ies, anime, TV shows or video games, never spoil. If you’re ever tempted, think of the roles flipped, and the spoiling is being told to you. Would you like that? Would you want a book or such to be spoiled for you? If you answered no to either of these questions, then you should not spoil. If it slips, it slips, but never purposefully spoil.

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BECKERBy Staff Writer Daphne

As the subtle hum of electricity fills the air, the insect flies towards the sound. As the fly finally reaches its destination, stars are seen behind its destination, providing a happy sight. As the fly reaches its destination, though, a loud zap is heard as the in-sect falls to the ground, fried by the electricity of the bug zapper. The fly’s journey has finally come to an end; its plan fulfilled.

“The Plan” is a game developed by KrillBite Studio, who started to cre-ate this game over the time that their main game, “Among the Sleep,” was being developed. “The Plan” is abso-lutely free and will only occupy about five to 10 minutes of total playtime.

The player takes control of a simple fly that is on a leaf. When the game starts, the fly starts to ascend. As the fly ascends, various obstacles stand to stop the fly, such as spider webs, harsh winds and leaves falling from the plants and trees. While the fly ascends, it becomes smaller and smaller on the player’s screen. Soon enough, the fly ascends past the plant life, and the stars are seen. It’s truly a beautiful sight to anybody playing the game, and the music in the back-ground brings meaning to such a sim-ple and seemingly insignificant action.

This whole game is designed to be

placed around how tiny each person is in relation to the infinity that is the universe. At the end of the game, the player can place a message with a star out of the millions that exist there, and read a few that have already been placed by people that have played the game. It’s a somber experience, but definitely a strong one at that.

My friend had originally told me that he played this game and was sur-prised by how deep it was. In curios-ity, I downloaded it from Steam and began to play. Once it was over, I laid back in my bed and let out a hefty sigh of thoughtfulness. It was the first time I had ever thought about how small I was in relation to the world and the universe in whole. It really puts things into perspective for a player, and it needs to be experienced in order to be understood.

“The Plan” is short, sweet, and meaningful, with good music for be-ing as short as it is. This is a game of meaning, not of challenge, and as such shouldn’t be played by those hardcore gamers who just seek to bet-ter their own scores. It’s a great proj-ect between one of their big games and was definitely worth the down-load and play.

I have found that when it comes to makeup, people have a hard time picking out what brands to try and if the products are worth the hype. Here’s an option that lives up to the hype: The Body Shop.

About the products the brand makes:

-All of the ingredients of the products the Body Shop makes are fair trade and can be tracked down to exactly where they come from.

-The brand is Cruelty free and Endorsed by PeTA.

-It is also 100% veterinarian!-There are some vegan options though not

obviously labeled on the packaging but the blog https://isitveganuk.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/the-body-shop-vegan-product-list/ does provide a complete list of all products that are vegan. Oth-erwise when looking through products there is a Vegan tab on the side on the website to filter the choices.

-The brand includes full range of cosmetic products to choose from.

Something special:On the website there is an Offers tab that puts

all the special deals in one place so you can find what items are for what offer easily.

What the brand is known for:The brand is known for their creamy body but-

ters. Perfect for the dry Iowa skin. There are 36 different scents to choose from, six being vegan products. Whatever your skin type or fragrance pref-erence is, there is a body butter for you. By using the filters on the side, you can choose what kind of scent you prefer and what your skin is like to get the ideal body butter. http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/bath-body-care/body-moisturizers/body-butter.aspx#/body-butter.aspx

My personal favorite:I love the Wild Argan Oil Body butter. I use it

every time I get out of the shower regardless of what time of the day it is. It makes my skin feel silky smooth. In the winter skin tends to dry up, tighten and crack from the dry air, but with this, it replenish-es my skin’s moisture while providing a light scent that I constantly get compliments for. It makes my skin go from the sharrharra desert to normal in a quick application that feels wonderful on the skin. http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/body-moisturiz-ers/body-butter/regular-body-butter/body-butter-shea.aspx

How you can buy:The Body Shop can be found in multiple places.

Ordering online is super simple with free shipping for all purchases and free two-day shipping for pur-chases over $75. The only store in Iowa that The Body Shop has is in Des Moines, but it also is sold in Ulta for select products and http://www.ulta.com/ as well.

The Body Shop offers wide range of cosmetics to satisfy customers

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KillBrite Studio’s ‘Plan’ creates touching trip the previously released

questions. The intensity of the discussion also developed through-out the day as more in depth investigation was required to answer the later questions. “During fifth hour it was all about juxtaposition, and it re-ally took a lot deeper thinking than what first hour had to do,” Fla-herty said.

Hosting this discus-sion on Twitter had its shortcomings as well as its benefits. A 140-char-acter limit proved very challenging for answer-ing questions about in-terpretation. However, AP comp and rhetoric students who take the AP test in the spring will be required to be very concise in their responses, making the character limit useful for practice.

Using social media will always harbor the temptation of distrac-tion for students. “I think social media is a good way of learning if used responsibly. Un-fortunately, I’m not sure

high school kids would be capable of this,” Leisinger said.

On the other hand, the fast pace of the ac-tivity and the quantity of responses helped to maintain an engaging dis-cussion to some degree.

After seeing the suc-cess in the first discussion, Flaherty said she hopes to participate again. This

could include participa-tion in more national dis-cussions or maybe even designing original discus-sions for the students in the Cedar Valley.

Check out #APLitDLD to view tweets posted by students from Cedar Falls and beyond about the “Echo Sonnet.”

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English teacher Diane Flaherty’s AP litera-ture class shared with over 100,000 stu-dents on Feb. 17, Digital Learning Day.

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highest grossing movie of 2015 was the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, and it is easy to see why it raked in some much mon-ey. After the disappointing pre-quel trilogy to many Star Wars fans, Disney started the sequel trilogy with great success. In case you’re a part of the small per-centage of people who have not seen it, the story is set 30 years after Return of the Jedi and fol-lows two characters: Rey, a poor scavenger, and Finn, a former First Order stormtrooper, as they are caught in the battle between the evil sequel to the Empire, the First Order, and the Resistance, the sequel to the Rebel Alliance.

It is an action-packed and exciting movie that will leave any Star Wars, or action/sci-fi movie fan satisfied.

The year of 2015 was filled with reboots, sequels and countless other popular films, but a few of them stole the show. Here are our top five flick picks from 2015.

Jurassic World:Set after the events of the

Jurassic Park movies, a new park is built where the original stood. Everything is fine and dandy in Jurassic World, as kids get to see their favorite dinosaurs and sci-entists get to research them, but, of course, somebody thought it was a good idea to create a ge-netically modified stealthy killer dinosaur, and, of course, some-body left the gate unlocked.

Luckily for Jurassic World, Owen (Chris Pratt), a velocirap-tor trainer and researcher, is here to save the day. The movie is a visual masterpiece and has enough action to keep anyone interested.

Inside Out:Everyone loves a hilarious

animated movie, and this was no exception. In this movie, we follow a young girl named Riley and her emotions in the form of funny characters: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Bing Bong (Richard Kind), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling), as Riley is pulled from her Midwest life and placed in San Francisco.

If you are looking for a funny and light movie, look no further.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2:

This is an action-packed sec-ond part to the third installment of the popular book and movie series The Hunger Games. After sparking a rebellion and large war between the Capitol and the districts, Katniss Everdeen (Jen-nifer Lawrence) leads her army against the evil President Snow.

This movie is guaranteed to keep you enticed throughout.

The Martian:In a manned mission to Mars,

an astronaut named Mark Wat-ney (Matt Damon) is left behind as he was presumed dead after a large storm on the planet. He must survive alone more than 100 million miles away from earth. He must use wit and skill to survive on the barren planet until he can signal to earth that he is in fact still alive.

This movie will make you sit on the edge of your seat the en-tire time and leave you with the child-like fantasy of becoming an astronaut.

This Hi-Line Poll conducted by staff writer Kay-lee Olson represents 10 percent of all students in proportion to gender and the three grades at the high school.

Best Picture Best SupportingActress

Best SupportingActor

Best ActressBest Actor

Conrad Nichols (‘16)

DylanPeterson (‘16)

JacksonReynolds (‘16)

The winner WILL be:The Revenant

Directed by: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The winner SHOULD be:The Martian

Directed by: Ridley Scott

The winner WILL be:Spotlight

Directed by: Tom McCarthy

The winner SHOULD be:The Revenant

Directed by: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The winner WILL be:The Martian

Directed by: Ridley Scott

The winner SHOULD be:The Big Short

Directed by: Michael Lewis

The winner WILL be:Leonardo DiCaprio

Starred in: The Revenant

The winner SHOULD be:Leonardo DiCaprio

Starred in: The Revenant

The winner WILL be:Leonardo DiCaprio

Starred in: The Revenant

The winner SHOULD be:Matt Damon

Starred in: The Martian

The winner WILL be:Leonardo DiCaprio

Starred in: The Revenant

The winner SHOULD be:Michael FassbenderStarred in: Steve Jobs

The winner WILL be:Brie Larson

Starred in: Room

The winner SHOULD be:Brie Larson

Starred in: Room

The winner WILL be:Jennifer Lawrence

Starred in: Joy

The winner SHOULD be:Jennifer Lawrence

Starred in: Joy

The winner WILL be:Brie Larson

Starred in: Room

The winner SHOULD be:Brie Larson

Starred in: Room

The winner WILL be:Tom Hardy

Starred in: The Revenant

The winner SHOULD be:Sylvester StalloneStarred in: Creed

The winner WILL be:Christian Bale

Starred in: The Big Short

The winner SHOULD be:Christian Bale

Starred in: The Big Short

The winner WILL be:Tom Hardy

Starred in: The Revenant

The winner SHOULD be:Christian Bale

Starred in: The Big Short

The winner WILL be:Kate Winslet

Starred in: Steve Jobs

The winner SHOULD be:Jennifer Jason LeighStarred in: The Hateful

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The winner WILL be:Kate Winslet

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LOUVIERE By Staff Writer Ben

“World History: Turning of the Millennia Vol.2” — maybe, 1000 years from now, this will be the title of a history textbook studied in class at the prestigious Cedar Falls High School Of The Distant Future. This is, of course, assuming we make it that far (because over the past 100 years, we humans haven’t really been set on a course for long term sustenance. Yet, I digress). Let’s say that students are reviewing their textbook for a unit covering the years 2000 to 2030. This important unit, inevitably, describes the revolutionary birth and first baby steps of humanity’s information age. It has become obvious: Kanye West wants a paragraph.

Over the past decade, hip-hop music has domi-nated the mainstream, and it is showing no signs of slowing down. This will in fact tie in nicely with the rest of the unit in the textbook. For, you see, arts are, in-herently, expressions of the times. This is why we care about the works of those like Dante Alighieri, Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. These people were all, quite simply, unlike everyone else — great artists of their so-cieties, who rose above all others through their works. Their circumstances, their ideas, and their feeling of purpose compelled them to create a legacy which would impact human history.

History in America, however, is dominated by the culture of white people and their European ancestors. In America there is “history” and there is “black his-tory.” Black history has been relegated to this niche because it is entirely different than mainstream Euro-pean American history. However, the mainstream has changed.

African-Americans, whose humanity was burglar-ized as they were stolen from a continent to be used as slaves in the most disgustingly inhumane business practice in the history of human greed — this is where black history in America begins. To condense the story from then until now: black people in America have fought and died for generations in a struggle for hu-manity that a white-controlled society reserves primar-ily for itself. This fight is, quite obviously, still being valiantly fought today. Black music has evolved, paral-lel to this context.

What started with field songs and gospel music led to the rise of blues, soul and jazz, then evolved into funk, R&B and currently, primarily, hip-hop.

This is not just the history of music. This is the his-tory of expression, inspired by the events and big ideas of the times. In our textbook, the chapter will focus on racial tensions of today as a result of the on-

going black civil rights efforts. It will mention the point at which black culture — black history — crossed over to the mainstream in the 2000s, championed by none other than Kanye West. (Michael Jackson broke barri-ers and achieved incredible mainstream success prior, but not in an art form that was exclusively manifested from black culture.)

Kanye is an artistic figure who is no longer relegat-ed to black history. He is the man who brought hip-hop to the mainstream. As he dominates pop-culture, he has broken into mainstream American history.

West is a paradox. “I love love love white people, but you don’t understand what it means to be the great grandson of ex slaves and make it this far,” West recently tweeted. “The system is designed for colored people to fail, and one of our only voices is music. One of our only ways out is music,” said his following tweet.

The “system” is one that influences us to desire wealth, fame and success. The “system” is white — one that allows this success for whites and has kept blacks underneath, where they always have been. To-day, whether you like his music or not, Kanye West is a hip-hop artist who has won 21 Grammys, has some of the highest record sales of all time, and has had some of the biggest impacts on pop-culture and mainstream music, ever. West is one of the most consistently and successfully innovate musicians of all time. He has wealth, fame and success.

This is not where he stops, though. This is what makes Kanye, Kanye. He is not satisfied with mere commercial success. This is why he continues to pro-claim his importance and draw attention to himself. He is not slowing down. He is fighting for something big-ger than Kanye.

Kanye is well aware of the system that he is bat-tling. It prevents black mentality from aspiring to the level of white power which controls the very system. In a memorable acceptance speech after receiving the 2015 BET Visionary award, he said to the primar-ily black crowd, “Harriet Tubman could’ve freed more if they only knew they weren’t free. Don’t think that because we can afford this custom Balmain suit that we’re free. And don’t think that because we can buy a $300,000 car that we’re free.”

Yes, West is going to run for president in 2020. This has nothing to do with foreign policy or economics. This has to do with power, art and black history. He was just a black kid making beats in his bedroom in South Chicago. He created art and expressed himself as he was subjected to the black history of those who came before him.

Yet, West is also a human being with problems. He grabbed the mic from Taylor in 2009, and it was wrong. He has meltdowns. He is offensive. His ego may be considered ridiculous. However, behind this, West recognizes who he his, and there is a passionate extent to which he feels compelled to go in order to proclaim his significance as a black man.

“When someone comes up and says something like, ‘I am a god,’ everybody says, ‘who does he think he is?’ I just told you who I thought I was: a god,” West said in an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC. “Would it have been better if I had a song that said ‘I am a n****? Or if I had a song that said ‘I am a gangster,’ or if I had a song that said ‘I am a pimp?’ All those colors and patinas fit better on a person like me, right? But to say you are a god, especially when you got shipped over to the country that you’re in, and your last name is a slave owner’s. How could you say that? How could you have that mentality?”

Love him or hate him, West is a full-blown creative powerhouse within the black civil-rights battle, and his recent efforts have shown no sign of him slowing down. He is pushing boundaries like the great artists before him have done. He has dedicated his life to artistry, and he’s in it for the long run. “I know I confuse you guys sometimes but please bear with me,” Kanye tweeted. However, with each tweet, controversy, song, performance, and passionate expression of art, this man’s place in the history textbook becomes increas-ingly clearer and more important to read.

This is not just the history of music. This is the history of expression, inspired by the events and big ideas of the times.

Kanye is well aware of the system that he is battling.

Legacy of Kanye West fueled by his pursuit of impacting human history as an artist

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The dance marathon on Friday, Feb. 19 raised money for the Iowa City Children’s Hospital on behalf of prema-ture birth survivor Josephine Lee (bottom middle with bal-loon), neuroblastoma patient Addie (top with sophomore Molly Rygh, junior Summer Pieters, junior Allison Eagan and junior Kari Starbeck) and brain cancer survivor Ellie Smiley (bottom left).

Many activities filled the night with fun, including dodgeball. Cross country team members, including se-nior Hunter Lavalee (middle left tossing gently tossing a ball and looking over the prospects) and senior Jake Hartman (bottom right), but the title belonged to the members of the baseball team, including senior Jace Long (bottom left on oppo-site page) and senior Steven Skidmore and junior Austin Marchesani (bottom right on opposite page). All mem-bers celebrated the victory for a good cause (opposite page on the right side in the middle).

There was also a game room and nine square, and five stu-dents danced in place with glow sticks as they played hide and seek (top left on opposite page).

Of course, a DJ also led everyone, including senior Andrew Nurse (top right op-posite page) in dancing.

Big turnout for For The Kids at annual Dance Marathon

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New Direction Junior inspired by favorite features to create her own original movies

Standing in the back al-leyway of the school building, junior Sunny Bock carries her Nikon d5100 camera in one hand and her film’s script in an-other, marking down the next scene with a hi-lighter. After she adjusts her filming equip-ment, Bock calls over her ac-tors and explains what they’ll need to do next for the newest scene. She presses the record button and points the camera to the main actress and her fin-ger to another actor, signaling their cue to go on screen.

Later in that same night, Bock further perfects her craft by sitting at her computer with Adobe Elements and Premiere laid on her screen, spending hours on end editing the exact same scene.

What started out as a se-mester project for her ALPHA class later on transformed into her own individual piece that spanned over the seven months, and which she hopes to enter into a film competition later in the year.

The untitled film centers around two unnamed girls who both struggle with issues regarding their home life and self-acceptance, but they learn to overcome these obstacles through meeting each other and developing a close friend-ship.

The two leads are played by senior Celeste Ki and senior Meredith Brich, with sopho-more Andrew McVicker, junior Gabe Gotera and junior Mag-

gie Hines playing various en-semble roles.

For filming locations, Bock and her actors scattered all around town to capture differ-ent scenes, most notably the school building, cast members’ houses, the skate park and Cup of Joe.

During the start of her proj-ect, Bock knew that she want-ed to create her own film, but she initially struggled with what type of movie she should cre-ate. ¨I had this timeline where I needed to get the idea done and start writing this day. When I got to the day, I still didn’t have the idea, so I just started with two teenage girls and went from there,¨ Bock said. ¨I

kind of took elements of peo-ple that I know and people that I admire, along with myself, and I created these two girls who I thought were really cool.¨

Bock decided to create a coming-of-age movie in par-ticular due to the genre’s ten-dency to focus strongly on character. ¨I watch a lot of in-dependent films because they just focus on regular people,¨ Bock said. ¨I don’t watch a lot of action or fantasy films, I re-ally prefer just knowing about these characters.¨

Since her childhood, Bock has always carried a love for writing and creating her own stories, but for some unex-plainable reason, she said she

had a difficult time sitting down for an hour to watch a movie.

It wasn’t until a few years ago when Bock´s passion for motion pictures flourished af-ter watching movies that fit-ted her taste. Some of these films that Bock grew increas-ingly fond of included ¨Girl, Interrupted,¨¨Heathers,¨ ¨Elec-trick Children¨ and ¨Frances Ha.¨

However, one film that struck a major chord with her was ¨Sympathy for Mr. Ven-geance.¨

¨I really liked the idea of creating my own movie and writing my own story for my ideas,¨ Bock said. ¨The cinema-tography in [“Sympathy for Mr.

Vengeance”] was just beautiful, and I was like, ¨That is great. I wanna know how to do that.¨

Bock personally takes in-fluence from directors such as Park Chan-wook, Miranda July and Luc Besson.

¨It’s more of the colors and scenery that I really enjoy,¨ Bock said. ¨I try to incorporate the same type of stuff into my movie, like putting an empha-sis on scenery that is pleasant to look at.¨

As for favorite films, Bock particularly enjoyed the drama, ¨We Are The Best!¨

¨It’s about these two thir-teen year old girls and they want to start a rock band, and they cut their own hair, and it’s all just great. I love these young girls who are kind of these little punks. They just do whatever they want, and I re-ally love that,¨ Bock said. ¨It’s really cool to see young girls doing whatever they want to do instead of the whole thing being centered on romance.¨

Despite her apparent pas-sion while making this project, Bock remains unsure if she wishes to enter the film indus-try after high school.

Even if she might not see filmmaking in her future, Bock still continues to follow her bliss by currently brainstorming ideas of her next screenplay, which she’ll hopefully begin production next summer.

Senior Celeste Ki is one of the lead actresses in junior Sunny Bock’s new movie that grew from an earlier ALPHA project.

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What’s your favorite Girl Scout cookie?

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“Caramel deLites or Thin Mints. I re-ally like chocolate and coconut, and the mints are also

chocolate.”—Hanna Flack

senior

“Peanut Butter Sandwich. I love peanut butter in

the middle. It’s awesome, easily

my favorite.”—Troy Becker

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“Carmel deLites. I love the coconut

and chocolate. They are really

good together, but mostly the coco-

nut.”—Linzee Harriman

Junior

“Peanut Butter Pattie because I’ve been in Girl Scouts since I was six, and it’s always been my

all time favorite.”—Sam Hansen

sophomore

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VILLAVICENCIO By Staff Writer Cala

Worlds Apart

I woke up to a bright light shining through the oval shaped window. I looked

around and yawned, noticing I was sitting on my mom’s lap, and we were experienc-ing turbulence while her food slid around.

To this day, this is my first memory I can recall vividly.

Student’s dual heritage leads to bittersweet connections

For all of my life, I’ve heard two languages in my household, switching between Spanish and English. In fact, I couldn’t speak in full sentences until I was around 2 ½ years because I was so confused between the two. Before then, my mom always told me I was like a walking Spanish dictionary, point-ing at an object and reciting both the English and the Spanish. Being from another country and mov-ing at such a young age hasn’t necessarily given me any kind of major change in my life, but going through the immigration process has definitely been quite a ride.

I could always tell there was something different about my fam-ily, but I don’t think I fully realized this until preschool where nobody could pronounce my last name. Granted, it’s a mouthful, and I was also confused because they would pronounce my first name “Care-oh-line-ah” instead of “Car-oh-lean-ah,” which is what was used at home. I was always called “Cala” at home because I made up the nickname being two years old, so I decided to tell everybody to call me “Cala” instead of what-ever pronunciation they used.

While this goes on to this day, I would also be confused because other families spoke only English at home while I spoke two. My mom explained that we were Chilean, and that they moved here when I was barely an entire year old, so I couldn’t really remember most of it and that they spoke Spanish.

As a young kid, I thought this was the coolest fact ever, so I told everybody and their mothers that I could speak Spanish. When anoth-er kid in the class had mentioned he also spoke Spanish at home, I would get excited because I felt a weird connection with them, knowing they have to switch lan-guages too.

But being an immigrant also had its downsides. People used to call me Dora because I spoke Spanish and had short hair, and they would often refer to me as a Mexican. These are small down-

sides, but it still happens today. Newsflash, not all Spanish speak-ers are Mexican! … moving on.

Being from another country, a majority of my family resides in Chile, so every couple of years one of my grandparents would visit us and bring gifts, or while they were here, they would buy gifts for us. I never really saw the true importance of their visits until I was around 10 years old when my grandpa had bought me ice skates, which led to about two or three years of lessons, shows and techniques that I always got the hang of. He also always had me teach him English words and help him form sentences when he was stumped.

When they left, I remember being devastated. I had promised myself to be more appreciative when relatives were here because they were traveling 8,000 miles and an overnight flight just to be with us. This happened all the time until summer 2015 when my par-ents bought us tickets to visit the homeland once and for all for the first time since 2000.

I never realized how horrible layovers and red-eye flights could be. I remember sweating in the Atlanta heat while we waited an entire nine hours before getting on our 10-hour flight. Once we finally arrived, we had to board yet an-other plane that took about three hours to get to my hometown, Arica.

At the airport both my grand-mas were there, and then I was hit with all of these nostalgic feelings, being stuck in a wave of emotions as I looked at everybody. This was the moment I was finally looking forward to for 15 years. I couldn’t have been happier. Two weeks into being there, we all had a fam-ily reunion for my parents’ vow re-newals. Meeting all of the cousins I was hearing about for years was also so emotional because we got along so well, and they always re-membered me, but I could never remember them.

Unfortunately, after living in

the United States for so long, my Spanish isn’t the best. I can under-stand what everybody is saying, and I know all of the words, but forming a sentence myself is such a struggle. I can speak in simple sentences and some complex sen-tences in Spanish class, but I feel I’m more comfortable in a class where everyone else is struggling with some words or how to speak grammatically correct rather than with 20 family members expecting me to speak as they all stared at me while I was struggling to speak a comprehensible sentence.

So, for a majority of the stay, I stayed quiet. Some of my cous-ins and aunts could speak Eng-lish as well as my grandfather, so we could communicate when I couldn’t respond to their Span-ish. This helped a lot, being un-comfortable and getting nervous whenever I spoke to anybody, but

it made me feel a little bad that waiting for this trip for 15 years, I could’ve spoken more Spanish.

My parents always reassured me it was OK and that I am trying my best (though I could’ve tried harder honestly) and that I should just enjoy my stay while I can, and I did! It was so emotional leaving such a beautiful country.

Living life without all of your family in the same country can honestly be so hard; keeping up with Skype calls on holidays, talk-ing on the phone for a good two hours while all of your relatives call and ask to speak to everybody in your family, and when one unfortu-nately passes away. Having every Christmas or New Years seeing my parents huddled around my fa-ther’s desktop computer around 9 p.m. and hearing all of my cousins that I never met and my aunts and uncles cheering and celebrating

had honestly hurt. I never got to meet my dad’s

brother or my cousin who I always Skype with or even my parent’s friend who I always called “Uncle.” This is a very bittersweet thing I had always gone through. It’s like being happy for them while they enjoyed the summer when we were suffering in the Iowa winter.

Being bilingual is always such an interesting thing to live with, switching from English to Span-ish depending on who you spoke to and communicating with fam-ily members easily. I honestly wouldn’t change who I am today, maybe speaking better Spanish is the only thing I would change, but I’m proud of my Chilean back-ground and excited to visit again Summer 2016.

Senior Cala Villavicencio was born in Chile, but left when she was very little. She recently flew back over the Andes to visit and see many of her relatives she had never seen in person or had little memory of seeing.

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Conventions: the sacred gathering of otaku. Thir-ty-year-old men living in their mother's’ basements squeal with delight as they buy their VIP tickets online, and they prepare for the Magic the Gathering tour-nament with maniacal laughter. Teenagers wake up at the buttcrack of dawn to finish prepping painstakingly crafted costumes of their favorite characters. They’ve practiced their skits and dances until their legs almost fell off and worked on their character voices until their throats became sore, all for this day, the day of the convention. They taste the excitement in the air. They shine their camera lenses; they will get pictures of all the best cosplay. They don their ninja headbands and power up with Pocky and ramen.

Running and screaming with sheer joy, they cry when the doors open at 9 a.m. It’s a playground for nerds.

This year’s Comic Con at Cedar Rapids was no dif-ferent. As 10,000 people burst through the doors, I feel as though the gates of Heaven are opening. I’m dressed as Amethyst from Steven Universe; I have my camera and my tediously crafted prop, a whip (seen below). My friends are dressed as Sasha(Attack on Ti-tan), Vriska Serket (Homestuck), and Kousaka Honoka (Love Live!). As soon as we walk in, a girl dressed as Sadness (Inside Out) squeals at the sight of me, run-ning towards me with open arms, like I was her long lost child. This is the sight of someone who likes my cosplay. She embraces me giddily (hugs are sort of mandatory at conventions), and we talk for a few min-utes, take a selfie and I’m called back to the line by my friends. There, we meet a lovely girl dressed as Erza of Fairy Tail.

One of the greatest things about conventions is that if cosplayers recognize and love the character that you’re cosplaying, we act like we’ve known each other for ages for the whole day. Sometimes, if we’re cosplaying characters from the same franchise, I even get invited to hang out with them for the rest of the day. We take pictures together, and we laugh and gaze in awe at all the merchandise in the “Great Hall” and games in the Dealer’s Room, and then I almost cry when I realize I left my money at home. I only have $10

for food in my wallet, which I shouldn’t be spending in the first place, so it’s window shopping for this poor-as-dirt Crystal Gem.

There are so many great items, like my most cov-eted target, an Izumi Konata (Lucky Star) figurine, aside from the Kyuubey (Madoka Magica) blanket, the cutest, softest blanket I’ve ever touched, but both are $15 more than what I have. I can’t buy either of them. I begrudgingly, tearfully move along, longingly reach-ing for that plushie angel blanket, like I was losing the love of my life, as neither of the dealers agree to hag-gle with me, as these are already sale items.

My new friend, Sabrina Sires (pictured below, im-peccably dressed as Sasha of Shingeki no Kyojin), is with me, but we lost our group, so we spend about two hours looking for them until we give up and just enjoy the convention.

I meet an excitable girl dressed as Yang, from RWBY, and strangely, we look freakishly similar (pic-tured below). We get along famously, so we take pic-tures together and exchange emails. She is fantastic.

We move along, and I meet two fantastic cosplay-ers dressed as their original characters (pictured on the top left of page 13) from their Harry Potter LARP (Live Action Role Play), and they even made their own ro-botic, biting Monster Book of Monsters books, wands and marauder’s map. They are very pleasant, and I en-joy seeing and talking with them throughout the day.

It’s time for the cosplay competition, so we head over to the panel rooms. This convention is rather small, so they don’t really have any panels, but the competition is the least they could do. We finally see our group up front, so I head up to the line. I don’t win anything, but one of our group, Lexi Butz, makes it to the semi-finals, and a Ghostbusters cosplayer does a funny skit.

“And what do you say when someone asks if you’re a god?” he asks.

The crowd, and I reply with a hearty, “YES!”Lexi doesn’t win, but she’s got a good attitude.“I wouldn’t feel right, winning. He made his cos-

tume, and I bought mine. It just wouldn’t be fair, after all his hard work,” Lexi says.

We talk about the ethics of competition, and we all decide that would be better if there were rules that stated that something had to be made if one were to enter the competition, or at least separate the catego-ries between bought and created. Wigs don’t count, though. Those would be hard to make, but kudos, if you can.

We head upstairs to take pictures in some natural light because there’s a nice window, and I get some shots of a Sailor Moon, a Kiki and a “girl” Ciel Phan-tomhive cosplayer. We play an otaku-version of Cards against humanity, and there aren’t many cards, so it gets old after a while.

We’re hungry now, but the convention does not have much food to offer, at least, not food that looks like it tastes good, and the trouble with food from oth-er places is that it is so expensive. So we go hungry. We make our way over to the gaming room to check out some new games, but we lose some of our group again, and Sabrina and I don’t find them until the end of the day. But, we do find some of the lovely people we met earlier, and Yang from earlier is there. They’re playing the same game from earlier, so, since I had al-ready played it, I walk over to the other gaming tables, most of which are too deep in a Magic the Gathering tournament for me to join, but I’m beckoned to this one table, because I recognized a man I’d seen at an-other convention.

I don’t know him, but I know from his laugh that I’ve seen him before. He was heavyset, with glasses and a goatee. A woman with short, grey hair; a girl with pink hair; and another brown-haired man with a cheshire grin were all laughing with tears jetting from their eyes. The game they are playing is called, “The World Needs a Jet Pack Unicorn,” and it’s the best game I ever played. It’s basically a game of debat-ing and, depending on the cards you get, you have to come up with the most ridiculous, funniest story of why you think that your situation is worse, cooler or weirder. I don’t do very well the first round, but the second round, I win and, in the third round, I get cards such as grumpy, old massage therapist, surprise trap-door, heart attack and underpants.

Student finds community at fantasy conventionCedar Rapids Comic Con

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My situation is that I need to convince the judge that “It’s obviously worse to have 4 feet of Jell-o on your bedroom floor because what if you invite over a grumpy, old massage therapist and you’re about to get it on, but he trips over his underpants, slips on the Jello, slides out of a surprise trap door and dies from a heart attack!?” I used all my cards in one go, which gives me a lot of points. Everyone laughs. “You escalated that rather quickly. You win that one.”

I play this game with these wonderful people for the rest of the day.

I wish I could remember the rest of the game because everyone had so many hilarious respons-es. I wish I could have gotten their names, but ev-eryone is so busy at conventions, but if anything terrible were to happen at that convention, it still wouldn’t have been spoiled because I had the most fun playing that game. Whoever you are, I hope we meet again, because the world truly needs a jetpack unicorn. I thank you for teaching me that.

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HERMANSEN By Staff Writer Noah

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TURNER HALL By Staff Writer Isaac

Cedar Falls has unquestion-ably the most spirited basket-ball bench in Iowa, feeding the players energy through their unique celebrations, and the enthusiasm extends right down to the sidelines of the men’s team’s Bench Mob.

When the Tigers beat Ce-dar Rapids Prairie 69- 50 on Thursday, Feb. 18 to improve to 17-4, the Tigers Bench Mob delivered its usual assortment of energy, entertainment and theatrics.

Every game they up the energy by adding a new style to encourage the players on the court. “Bench Mob always gives us a spark on the court. We find a lot of energy from them all the time. I’m glad they are on the team,” senior starter Tra’von Fagan said.

The Bench Mob members do a lot of different actions after free throws, three-point-ers, dunks and really anything that is hype. For free throws they usually clap twice after a made shot and perform. These include clap clap dab, gentle-men’s clap, check the watch and dab, clap clap Cam New-ton, stomp stomp cross legs, and clap clap whip.

For three-point shots, they do bow and arrows for 3’s, baseball home-run, field goal unit, 3’s goggles, “lost my” 3’s goggles and act as if they are playing golf while hitting the 3 they placed on the tee.

When a dunk is put down, the team executes mainly the Thor hammer, pretending to hit the ground, and the earth-quake where they act as if the dunk was so massive an earth-

quake had occurred. “My injury has given me a

chance to experience what the bench mob is all about. Not only is it really fun, but they take it really seriously. They ac-tually make up celebrations on the fly, which is impressive. The best feeling is getting a bench warning from the refs. That’s when you know you’re doing your job right,” senior Michael Abbas said.

Senior Logan Mozena and his right hand man senior No-lan Nickerson play intricate roles in making up which cel-ebration they will do, along with others. They decide on the move, and then junior Dan-iel Martinson spreads the news to the rest of the bench. Some of these theatrics are the whole team, some are individual and some are a small group.

Having the bench mob not only gives the players en-couragement and energy, but it helps the players on away games when they don’t have a dominant student section to cheer. “The guys tell us that it feeds them energy, and it’s helpful on away games when we don’t have our student sec-tion, but we still get hype for them,” Mozena said. “We’re the best bench in the state, no doubt.”

Senior Kam Watts agreed. “It’s a fun way to get the team excited and feed off our en-ergy. We don’t play very much clearly, so it’s our way of hav-ing fun with it, instead of being like miserable. We don’t play,” Watts said.

It’s no joke the men’s bas-ketball bench gets into their

games and feeds energy to the players every game. “It’s cool seeing how the guys on the bench are getting involved

Pitchers and catchers re-ported early to spring training last Thursday.

Some might ask why pitch-ers and catchers report early. Well, the real reason is because it takes longer for pitchers to get their arms ready than other players for the season, but it also gives us something to get excited about before spring training really begins.

People get to go watch the best and most popular play-ers in baseball get ready for the season, including Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers and Madison Bumgarner for the Gi-

ants. Some teams have double the star power like the Cubs who have Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester. Or the New York Mets, who’s pitching rotation features four aces, and their lineup is one for the ages.

This year, the Chicago Cubs are going to try to break over a 100-year slump as favorites to win the World Series. They have made several moves this offseason to win it all, including signing Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist and John Lackey in the offseason.

The Cubs will have a lot of work to do, though. They

will still have to face the pow-erhouse St. Louis Cardinals, who even though they lost two players to the Cubs in the offseason, they still have great management and are always one of the favorites to win it all.

The AL has a lot going on as well. Last year they had a two-man race for MVP be-tween Mike Trout and Josh Donaldson, and the Red Sox are sending David Ortiz on a farewell tour similar to that of Derek Jeter last year and Kobe Bryant this year in the NBA. Ortiz is a hall of famer on the first ballot without a question,

but if he will end his career with one last title, it is up to the rest of the team. The Red Sox have one of the best teams in the league and are favorites to win the AL East, but there are other teams challenging for the AL pennant as well, like the defending World Series champions Kansas City Royals, who have a host of all-stars on their roster and have acquired much young talent this offsea-son, so the Royals are prepared to make a World Series run as well.

MLB is on the rise again, and this is a big year for it

as the league is loaded with young talent at all positions on the field, and because many teams that haven’t been as successful in past years appear to be on the rise, such as the Chicago Cubs who are 4 to 1 betting favorites to win the World Series and teams like the Mets, Astros and Rangers who are also all better than 15 to 1 odds to win the World Se-ries teams, this year in baseball promises to deliver excitement all the way to October.

Sports Opinion MLB preseason shows many new prospects

with raising the energy of the whole game. All through-out basketball, this has really caught on, so it’s fun trying to

see who can be the most cre-ative,” senior Aaron Iehl said.

Bench SupportMen’s basketball team sideline playing active role in winning season

After Monmouth University’s bench made a name for itself with over-the-top creativity in support of the players with the ball, the Tiger men’s basketball team has joined in the action to inspire every move on the court.

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Senior Brandon Jerome and the rest of the men’s bowling team com-peted at State on Wednesday, Feb. 24, which was after the Hi-Line dead-line. The team qualified with the high-est average in the state with a score of 3,288, and Jerome’s total was among the top three in the state as well. He was looking to take his season game average of 222 into a strong state finish.

How do you feel to know the team will be competing at State?

It feels great. To be able to com-pete at State is a really amazing op-portunity for our team this year, and I’m really looking forward to it.

What are you most nervous about for the competition?

Just having to bowl in front of ev-erybody can be a little nerve racking with everyone having their eyes on you.

How do you handle the pres-sure that State bowling brings?

I just try to keep calm and stay relaxed. I try to keep my emotions in check and focus on one shot at a time.

How is the team preparing to make a showing at State?

We are just trying to stay relaxed. We’ve been practicing like normal. We’re trying not to be overconfident. We’re staying focused.

What would it have been like if both the men’s and women’s teams qualified?

It would have been really cool for both teams to make it. The girls came so close this year, so it was disappoint-ing that they couldn’t make it. Next year though, both teams should have a really good shot at making State.

Brandon Jerome Men’s Bowling

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Men’s Basketball (17-4)Beat Cedar Rapids Prairie 69-50

Next up Sub-Statevs. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (11-11)

Friday, Feb.26 @ 7 p.m.@ Home

Women’s Basketball (21-2)Beat Pleasant Valley 46-31

Next up State Quarterfinalsvs. Waukee (17-5)

Wednesday, March 2 @ 6:45 p.m.@ Wells Fargo Arena

in Des MoinesMen’s BowlingTeam @ State

Feb. 24Women’s Bowling

Jayden Robe @ State

Pain. It’s something every-one will encounter at some point in their lives. It’s some-thing that is inevitable and al-ways an unfortunate surprise. Pain can be inflicted intention-ally, accidentally or without any heads up.

For the most part pain isn’t a choice; however, what is is a choice is the way one will re-act to the pain. Some will suc-cumb to it, some will use it as a source of emotion and some will push past the warning sen-sation sent to one’s brain that some type of stimulus is caus-ing or may cause damage.

For senior Isaiah Barney, he has chosen the option to battle through the neurotransmitters’ signals and learn to push past something that most human beings would quickly surren-der to.

Barney is part of a small group of people who not only takes part in but is also highly successful in an art that’s been around since 1945: taekwon-do.

This sport has been in the Barney household for many years and was passed down from father to son. Barney’s fa-ther started taking part in this extraordinary lifestyle when he was only in fifth grade. He is now a fourth degree black belt and is a highly decorated fight-er. His dad was teaching class-es at Peak Performance, so when Barney was just in third grade, he started competing. He would always sit in on class-es and had been watching and looking up to his dad since the time he could walk.

To be able to move up in rank, participants must test out of their previous ranks. The testing periods are different for each belt; however, one year of training must be completed before anyone can test again.

For any rank past a black belt there must also be an additional year. There are eight different stages to get to a black belt, and after par-ticipants have completed all eight, they are still not techni-cally a black belt, only a recom-mended black belt.

Barney said once one earns

a third degree black belt, one is considered a master. “There are three different phases when it comes to testing,” Bar-ney said. The first is a set rou-tine of attacks and blocks. The second is sparring where they pair the person up with the same skill level or they will spar with the master in the gym. The last phase or test is board breaking.

There is a wide variety when it comes to this skill. Basically candidates have to break a certain amount of boards, and as long as they get broken, it is sufficient enough. “I broke three stacks with my elbow, one with a one inch punch and three with a side kick,” Bar-ney said. “This got me to the recommended black belt. The next step is to get back in the gym for another two or three months and get working on my new form.”

The gym where practices are held was moved to the Rock Gym and practice is held every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. “Practice is intense but I continually look forward to it,” Barney said.

Every practice starts with stretching. They stretch what would seem like a long time for any other athlete, and then they stretch some more. “The last thing you want is to pull something while doing a high kick or something that takes high flexibility and athleti-cism,” Barney said.

The athletes then line up from front to back of the gym by rank, and the master goes to the front. After bowing to

the flags and senior students, the athletes begin to warm up with limbering kicks and swing-ing of their legs as high as pos-sible.

They then get back into their lines and begin to work on their kicks by kicking pad-dles. The kicks can vary from roundhouse kicks to side kicks to combinations. They will then break off and work on form or learn new forms.

Depending on the day, they may condition, which could be anything from sprints up and down the gym, standing in place conditioning or sparring. When sparring, they use chest protectors, arm guards, chin guards and foam helmets.

During competition the competitors will break off by weight class and rank. They will then weigh each competi-tor to make sure of the cor-rect weight, and if someone is too heavy he or she will likely have to run a few laps to make weight.

The judges will then check toenails and fingernails to make sure they aren’t too long, and when cleared, the athlete will be directed to where the fight will take place. “I like to watch my competition and try to find out what their strengths and weaknesses are,” Barney said. “You can always learn a lot by watching your competi-tor.”

Even before the fight, Barney said he continues to stretch and constantly stresses the importance of that. When the fight begins, the competi-tors bow and shake hands.

“[Taekwondo] forces you to get to that point in your mind where you just push past the pain. Protectors most definitely don’t take away all the pain. It still hurts immensely. You just gotta keep fighting.”

—senior Isaiah Barneyblack belt in taekwondo

King of PainSenior draws on years of training to rise through ranks in taekwondo

There are three rounds, and each round lasts 60 seconds; however, there is a mercy rule where if an opponent goes up so many points, then he or she will automatically win.

For younger groups, there is a rule put in place that con-tact to the head can’t be too strong. During the fight, head shots are worth two point, but there are special moves like a spin hook kick, which is worth three points. A shot to the chest is worth one point; how-ever, the same rule applies, and special moves can be as much as two points.

The chest protectors have certain sensors in them to in-dicate whether they have been hit or not, which automatically scores the points.

At the end of the fight, the two shake hands and wait for the next fight. There are usu-ally about 10 people in each weight class and around three to four fights in two hours, but that all depends on a lot of things.

“It’s a kind of competition you can’t find anywhere else,” Barney said. “It also attributes greatly to my athletic abil-ity, but more than anything, it builds up mental toughness. It forces you to get to that point in your mind where you just push past the pain. Protec-tors most definitely don’t take away all the pain. It still hurts immensely. You just gotta keep fighting.”