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By Editor-in-Chief EllenWALLINGFORD

By Staff Writer AbbyYOUNG

A few students from CFHS are hoping to make a trip down to Atlanta, Ga., along with about 15,000 other high school students across the country this May for DECA. DECA is a marketing organization for students who are interested in business, entrepreneurship, leadership and any other thing having to do with business.

DECA is run by business teacher Matt Flaherty. Julie Cuvelier, also a CFHS business teacher, helps Flaherty with all the stuff they do for DECA. “My favorite part is probably when the kids come back af-ter they’ve graduated and talk to me and say how much it helped them. They say they are glad they did it,” Flaherty said.

At a normal DECA com-petition each person takes a 100-point marketing test. Questions on this test nor-

mally have something to do with stuff teachers have talked about with their students in business classes.

The second part of the competition is where each per-son or group is given a busi-ness situation, and they have to solve a problem. The group or individual has 20 minutes to prepare for the answer. Once they have their answer, they go and sit with the judge, tell them their problem and then answer a few questions.

“I do DECA because I see that there is a benefit for every-one. It takes a lot of time to do it, but the reward is worth it,” Flaherty said.

In order to get to Nationals, individuals and teams need to finish the competition in the top three at State. Before State they have Districts, which is like a practice round for State.

Districts was held at the Cedar Falls mall on Thursday, Jan 30.

At Districts, first place fin-ishes went to Sami Schildroth in restaurant marketing, Jordan Caruso and Madison Wood in sports and entertainment team management and Austin Miller and Eli Berregaard in hospital-ity team management.

Second place finishes went to Caine Wildeboer and Jack Sannes in sports and enter-tainment team management. Honorable Mentions went to Ross Pierschbacher and Jared Deines on the sports/enter-tain team, Elle Stackhouse and Ashley Holstun on the travel and tourism team and Megan Bradford and Josie Johnson in principles of business manage-ment.

Computer Code. The words can put fear into hearts of many people, but the re-ality is that it isn’t too hard to learn how to code. Many CFHS students are learning how to do it all by themselves.

A website called “Code.org” has started a new pro-gram called Hour of Code. Participants in Hour of Code will spend an hour whenever they can and learn code in a fun and game-like way us-ing familiar characters such as Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies.

Hour of Code also fea-tures famous technology gurus such as Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. It also features popular celebrities such as basketball player Chris Bosh, singer Shakira and actor Ash-ton Kutcher, who are all there to help one learn to code. Salman Khan of Khan Acade-my also has a program to help to teach people the basics of

computer code. Science and engineering

teacher Ron Hoofnagle is en-thusiastic about Hour of Code.

“Hour of Code is a useful tool for beginners. It is fun, and it makes learning how to code similar to learning a new game,” Hoofnagle said. “The variety of celebrity instructors will help some people be more motivated to learn.”

Sophomore Sam Zhang said he thought that learn-

Next semester, the P.E. de-partment will offer several elec-tives for juniors and seniors, in-stead of the traditional Lifetime Wellness.

Physical education will still be required for graduation, but there will now be more options to choose from. P.E. teacher Paul Elser has been leading this development in the absence of department head Jamie Smith. Students will now be able to choose among Strength and Conditioning, Crossfit Training, Individual Sports, Team Sports and Fitness Class. Lifetime Wellness will no longer be of-fered.

As of right now, Elser said, only juniors and seniors can enroll in these classes, while sophomores will still take Sophomore Wellness. Sopho-mores may be able to in the

second semester, but that is still under discussion.

The P.E. staff has discussed moving towards electives for upper class students for a while. “When we applied for the PEP grant, one of our goals was to head in the direction of electives,” Elser said. The reason for the new P.E. classes, Elser said, was to give students an opportunity to focus on an area of fitness or sport that interests them and motivates them in hopes that they will enjoy it more.

“We also feel that this elec-tive program will better prepare students for making choices about what activities they will want to do to stay physically active and fit for right now and the future,” Elser said.

New PE electives open up

DECA teams polish up at Districs

Code Talkers

ing code would be a good choice.

“I would like to learn how to code because that is where the future is headed, and most people will need to know how to code, so it would be good to learn as early as you can,” Zhang said. “Hour of Code does a great job of making code fun to learn.”

Some exploring national push to learn computer programming

By Staff Writer ZuhayrALAM

Dwight Howard of the Houston Rockets is just one of the national celebrities promoting students to explore fun coding lessons at csedweek.org.

News BriefsLocal NCTE winners picked

Juniors Agatha Fenech, Chinelo Onuigbo and Lulua Rawwas are the National Council of the Teachers of English representatives for the Cedar Falls High School this year. They were among a number of students who submitted some of their best writing and also completed an impromptu essay before they were picked by all the CFHS English teachers as the top CFHS writers. All three will apply their writing skills in the next level of the contest later this spring.

Music shows coming up

Jazz I, Jazz II and Vocal Jazz will be performing on Saturday, Feb. 8 at the high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for students.

Jazz I and Jazz II recent-ly earned Division I ratings at the State Jazz Festival. There were 14 bands per-forming and the CFHS bands were among the only four to achieve the highest Division I rating.

The Symphony Orches-tra POPS Concert is also

coming soon on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the ??????? Tickets are $? for adults and $? for students.

Course registrationcontinues

Juniors need to return their schedules complete with par-ent signatures to the counsel-ing office by Monday, Feb. 10, and sophomores will begin their course registrations in their social studies classes on Thursday, Feb. 13.

Chromebooks ready for restart

All students should restart their Chromebooks. The set-tings should save now and printers have also been added. Those experiencing troubles should see media specialists Kim Traw or Kristi Anhalt in the library.

Spring Model UNgearing up

There will be a Model United Nations meeting after school in room 147 on Monday for any students interested in the Spring Model UN. All are welcome to participate; no prior experience required.

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English teacher Michelle Rathe is well known for the plays she directs at Cedar Falls High School; however, this is not the only theater she par-ticipates in. Rathe also acts in several plays done by the com-munity theater.

Rathe previously performed in the Oster Regent Theatre’s production of “The Good Doc-tor” this year, and she is cur-rently in the Oster Regent The-atre’s production of “Clue,” in which she plays Miss Scarlet. The show is directed by Gary Baumgartner.

“[Baumgartner] was one of the first directors I worked with at the Oster, and he was one of the primary people who got me acting again. I had not done much since college, and I have been back into acting [for] six or seven years. Last year was kind of crazy; I did six shows without a break,” Rathe said.

In order to secure the role of Miss Scarlet, Rathe had to participate in two kinds of audi-tions. The first audition was one

where the actors had to read a “cold read monologue,” which is when a director hands the audition-ing actors a mono-logue that they have not read b e f o r e and gives them a m i n u t e or two to look over it before per form-ing it. R a t h e then re-ceived a call back for the role of Miss Scar-let the following weekend, and she had to read several pages from “Clue” in several different en-semble groupings. “I never think I will get a part, so it is al-ways a tense wait for the call,”

Rathe said.The cast and crew of “Clue”

consists of over 30 people. This i n c l u d e s two CFHS a l u m n i , J a c o b H u n d -ley and F a l k e n Jaramillo. R a t h e said, “I get to work with several ac-tors and actresses that I have worked or wanted to work with before.”

T h e most dif-ficult part

about acting for Rathe is time management. She works on directing the school play ev-ery day from 3:15-6 p.m. and rehearses for “Clue” almost every night from 7-10:30 or 11

p.m. She also attends rehears-als for “Clue” on Sundays for four hours, in addition to an occasional three or four hours on Saturdays. “Sometimes it’s hard to manage my time be-tween teaching, directing and acting. Sleep sometimes gets sacrificed,” Rathe said.

Although it is hard to bal-ance her sched-ule sometimes, Rathe said she really enjoys be-ing in “Clue.” She “loves the sense of fun in the zany comedy,” and she likes play-ing Miss Scarlet because of the character’s sarcastic hu-mor. “The challenge for me [in playing Miss Scarlet] is doing a Southern accent, which is, ironically, one I have never at-tempted before,” Rathe said.

Although acting and direct-ing are fairly different, Rathe uses her participation in shows to assist her in her teaching. She believes that perform-

Student makes journey to Nepal

Teacher Talent:CFHS teacher stars in local play

By Editor-in-Chief Mallory

VALLENTINE

Not many teenagers have the experience of traveling to a third world country, but that’s exactly what a CFHS student did in January.

Senior Sami Schildroth made the long journey with her boyfriend, Luke Heindl (‘12), his parents, Mike and Diane, and his sister, Honor (‘07), and her boyfriend, Mo-rey Lindquist. The Heindl family spent 10 years in the hills of Nepal as missionar-ies and were returning to visit old friends and see how the church is thriving. They started the trek with a lengthy 12-hour flight from Chicago to Istanbul, Turkey. The plane was outfitted with working televisions and offered decent meals, mak-ing the long flight time more bearable. After a four-hour lay-over and a three-hour delay, a connecting flight took them to Kathmandu, Nepal. “The sec-ond flight was awful. We didn’t have working TVs and we had to circle Kathmandu for two hours because of the smog,”

Schildroth said. “We went to Kathmandu, Pokhara, a trek leaving from Pokhara to a view of Annapurna Mountains, Bait-awa and Butwol,” Schildroth said.

The culture shock was im-mediate. “It is so incredibly dif-ferent there,” Schildroth said. Water was a precious resource, so the travelers had to use squatting toilets, brush their teeth with bottled water, filter water of contaminants each night to avoid sickness and shower using cold water and buckets. They had to bring their own toilet paper wherever they traveled. The group also had to bundle up in layers at night because the houses were not heated.

The group was never bored: they went on a four-day trek to Poon Hill to view the Annapur-na mountain range, went shop-ping, explored large Hindu and Buddhist temples, visited a hot bazaar filled with produce, at-tended a two-hour church ser-vice and rode rickshaws.

Food was quite a different experience in Nepal compared to American culture. Nepalese water was not always safe to drink, so eating habits adapt-ed. “In America we are spoiled with clean water; we were only allowed to eat hot food and things with peels (bananas and oranges),” Schildroth said. Dal

baal, a dish made of lentils and rice, was a staple at meals. “We ate a lot of dal, chicken curry, mixed vegetables with sauce, fried pockets filled with potatoes called samosas, por-ridge and drank a lot of chia (chai) tea,” Schildroth said.

Schildroth enjoyed meeting the fellow missionary families,

though it was tough to com-municate at first. Schildroth only knew around 10 Nepali words, and the families didn’t know much English, so Diane Heindl served as the translator. The families stayed together and gathered at meals. “They are doing so many cool things in Nepal for God,” Schildroth said.

Every day had a different experience for the group. An average day: “Get up around 7 at our lodge in a village, have breakfast there, walk for a couple hours, stop for tea in a village, walk for a couple more hours, have lunch in a village, walk for a couple hours, have some oranges and walk for a few more until a village to stay the night. We slept in layers and in sleeping bags on the beds they provided. We would eat dinner at our lodge and go to bed around 8 since we were so tired,” Schildroth said.

The group walking from the village of Ghorepani to view Poon Hill about 45 minutes more uphill. From left to right: two porters, Morey Lindquist, Honor Heindl, Luke Heindl, Sami Schildroth, porter, Diane Heindl and Mike Heindl.

By Editor-in-Chief Martha

HALL

ing in shows helps her better empathize with her students. By participating in community theater, Rathe must learn lines, blocking and characterization, so she struggles with the same things her students do. How-ever, she said she enjoys every

minute of it. “You become part of a family, and it is fun to develop and create a character who al-lows you to take off a mask and play someone you could never be,” Rathe said.

“Clue” will be showing on Feb. 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 23 at 2 p.m., Feb. 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m. and March 2 at 2 p.m. All performances take place at the Oster Regent The-atre in downtown Cedar Falls. Tickets for the show are $20 each.

English teacher Michelle Ratheplays Miss Scarlet in an upcoming Oster Regent Theatre production of Clue.

Submitted photo

For more information on “Clue” or to buy tickets for the show, visit www.osterregent.org and click “Clue” and “read more.”

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Back on Feb. 17, 2007, former CFHS student Travis Vaughn was killed in Afghan-istan when his mission was c a n c e l l e d after the C h i n o o k he was on c r a s h e d with 22 people on board. In the crash, 14 were in-jured and eight died. Vaughn was among the eight.

S i n c e the crash and loss of Vaughn, his friends and family have started up a program that raises s u p p l i e s and money to give to past and present veterans that are in need of basic supplies. This is called the Shower of Gifts, and this year Cedar Falls High School will partici-pate in it’s third year of the program.

From now through the Dance Marathon on Jan. 15, students can donate cer-tain items to the Shower of Gifts by placing the items in boxes located in the library, front office and the counsel-ing office. From there the items will be taken and do-nated to the Marshalltown Veteran’s Home on Feb. 18.

There are roughly 400 residents at the veteran’s home, around 300 males and 100 females. By ac-

c i d e n t we often times for-get that t h e r e are also f e m a l e ve te rans and don’t think of s o m e m o r e femin ine i t e m s that they would ap-preciate, such as nail polish or maybe s o m e s c e n t e d shampoo.

T h i s year some

items that they are ask-ing for donation are ba-sic everyday supplies like shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste and socks. Last year’s “hot items” were warm lap blankets.

It’s a group effort to help and donate to this cause. These men and women served our coun-try by risking their lives for our own and our fu-ture’s lives, along with our freedom. It wasn’t easy by any means, and it’s our time to thank them.

In memory of CFHS soldier,pitch in on behalf of veterans

This memorial for Spc. Travis Vaughn is in front of the gym door entrance.

Activist visits with Hi-Line writer in recent Cedar Rapids visit

“ W h a t ’ s the point in being free? What good is it to live in a free society, a free country or even a free world if you are such an emo-tional cripple that you are i n c a p a b l e of enjoy-ing it? These aren’t just philosophical questions to ponder, but questions of practical relevance to anyone who cares about freedom, who I assume cares about freedom, because it is essential to hu-man happiness. Many people assume that freedom should lead to happiness, but that does not correctly describe the relationship. The way that most people understand freedom and happiness is backwards, reverted by primitive think-ing,” Adam Kokesh explained to a group of 30 people.

Over the weekend, on Feb. 2, Kokesh spoke in Cedar Rap-ids to address his new book, “‘Freedom’” and to speak about libertarianism, civil dis-obedience, activism and the benefits of complete non-vio-lence in the face of the collec-tive police force that is getting more and more violent.

Kokesh is a political activist, noted for his blatant cynicism of authority and has been ar-rested for a myriad of reasons doing so. In May of 2011, he and a group of fellow activ-ists decided to participate in a completely non-violent act of civil disobedience by danc-ing on the newly “dance-free” Thomas Jefferson memorial. This turned out to be Kokesh’s second biggest arrest ever done to him. While dancing and being filmed, park police decided to crash the event, telling the people to disperse at threat of arrest.

Civil disobedience is as it means: you tell authority “no” in a peaceful manner because what the existing authorities are trying to do is unjust. So the park police swooped in, arrested everyone in a decent manner. Except Kokesh, who was body slammed onto the ground and choked by an en-forcer. For dancing.

Kokesh’s big arrest hap-pened when he went to Free-dom Plaza in D.C. and loaded a shotgun for a YouTube video. Police a month later raided his house with helicopters, S.W.A.T. and heavy artillery. They threw flash-grenades into his home, stunning the people inside as they rushed in. He was later held in solitary confine-ment on charges of owning a weapon while in possession of a controlled substance. Kokesh denies that he ever had those drugs and insists that they were planted by police. Those charges were dropped.

I asked Kokesh to define the ideals of libertarianism, as they seem to get a lot of flack from media and people who don’t understand the move-ment. He said, “Well it makes perfect sense that if you’re a professional thief, that you would like to demonize people who point out the fact that you’re stealing from people, and that that is a bad thing. And libertarianism is that be-lief that you as a free, beauti-ful, independent human being own yourself: that it is there-fore morally wrong to initiate force, fraud or coercion against another human being. It is a philosophy based on universal nonviolence, so anybody who profits from violence, or is di-luted enough to think violence is something that is necessary or benefits them, will have some resistance. These ideas that violence and coercion is a means to an end holds us back from our potential. You can analyze it in a moral sense and say anything else than respect for fundamental and basic rights for human self-ownership is morally wrong. You can say that it will benefit the whole by eliminating insti-

tutionalized coercion, which is what government is.”

Then I asked Kokesh to ex-plain the importance of civil disobedience. This was his view on it: “When you’re a lib-ertarian, all activism is based on trying to lower the amount of violence and coercion in so-ciety. It’s about reducing the ef-fect of government’s control by force and the threat of force in people’s lives. So, civil disobe-dience can have a very impor-tant role in that because you can challenge laws as it’s set up and hope that those laws will be overturned. There’s a certain type of activism, in that vein, that is intended to reduce the amount of vio-lence and coercion in society. If you have a police officer in your local department who is beating up people without accountability, holding them accountable or getting them fired reduces the amount of violence in that neighborhood. If there is a tax law in your city where your government points guns at people and says if you don’t give us this money, we’ll lock you in a cage, then get-ting that law overturned re-duces the amount of coercion in your community. These are all very important goals, but in the bigger picture, a lot of activism is based on changing the way people think. Chang-ing the paradigm. And while committing civil disobedience as I have, especially in D.C. for gun rights, is about asserting self-ownership by challenging said laws, that are victim dis-armament laws, that promote violence and give government an excuse to get peaceful people like me with a SWAT team raid. It’s more important to me to get people thinking about self defence as a civil right; to get people to assert self-ownership. To me, the big-ger picture of my activism is to inspire people to assert their self-ownership.”

Kokesh runs an Internet podcast, man-on-the-street interviews and media website called Adamvstheman.com, and he is coming out with a book called ‘“Freedom”’ on Independence Day, and it will be free on eReaders and other forms of electronic reading. He said that he has so many trans-lators, it may even “be trans-lated into Klingon for interga-lactic reading and education of the libertarian ideals.”

Staff Writer Kaleb Bengston recently got a chance to meet on of his heroes, liber-tarian activist Adam Kokesh.

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Senior captain Daniel Reinart is helping lead the Tigers to State. He currently participates in the 200 back, 200 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay and the 100 back.

How is the team doing so far?

It’s going really well. We’re showing lots of improvement throughout the guys, including myself.

How did you get into swimming?

I just tried it out when I was young and have loved it ever since.

What are your goals for the rest of the seaon?

To make it to State in the 100 backstroke and hopefully the 200 freestyle.

Do you want to continue with swimming?

Hopefully someday I will be a swim coach for a local swim team.

Daniel Reinart Swimming

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Women’s BasketballFeb. 7 Away

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Wrestling

Feb. 15 Districts TBA

Men’s SwimmingFeb. 8 Districts

Bowling Feb. 7 @ Cherry Lane

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Six Tigers sign letters of intent

People relentlessly try to see the glass half full whenever possible but few succeed like Dominic Cipressi. The CFHS junior has turned this old time adage into his lifestyle.

Most people will know “Dom” from his cheery face around the halls, his active in-volvement with Scouts or from his job as the student manager of the men’s basketball team. What is not as apparent, how-ever, is that Cipressi is a cancer survivor.

In December of 2011, Cipressi’s freshman year, he discovered a lump located in his armpit that was causing him pain. Not thinking much of it, he kept going about his life un-til his mother forced him to pay a visit to the doctor. The doc-tor discovered that Cipressi’s blood cells were three quar-ters the regular size, meaning he was anemic, and sent him down to Iowa City for further evaluation.

Throughout the process of multiple doctor visits, Cipressi was still able to participate in basketball and be a part of a team that he loved.

In January of his sopho-more year, Cipressi was tested at The University of Iowa Hos-pitals and Clinics for internal bleeding, but nothing turned up in the test results to explain it. Instead, doctors discovered Cipressi was also suffering from a kidney malfunction but were unable to locate any kidney-re-lated disease. This left the doc-tors dumbfounded as their pa-tient had a golf ball size lump under his arm that seemed to be outsmarting some of the top pediatric health care physi-cians in the country.

He underwent a biopsy that

turned out inconclusive and caused four months of bleed-ing, which led to a correctional surgery.

Approaching two years of confusion and frustration, Cipressi made the trip up to one of the most well known and prestigious medical prac-tices in the world, Mayo Clinic located in Rochester, Minn. After re-doing every test, it be-came apparent that a second biopsy, without mishap and

bleeding, would be necessary. A tumor was discovered.

He had argio matoid fibrous histiocytoma, a form of cancer so rare that there are less than 100 documented cases known to man. “My parents cried and cried, but I kept calm. Every-one I told was freaking out, but I’ve had worse,” Cipressi said.

The case is so rare that there had never been a case study done on it before. Cipressi agreed to be the first

case study to help further re-search this incredibly rare dis-ease.

A week later, the week of homecoming, Cipressi re-turned to have the tumor re-moved, which they did suc-cessfully. Three months of physical therapy followed as he returned to full strength. “The surgeries really wore me out more than the cancer did,” he said.

Adding to his battle against cancer was a battle he wasn’t able to fight, a battle on the hardwood with his Cedar Falls Tiger teammates. After surgery and rehab there was no way any doctor was going to let him play even if he was somehow able to muster up the strength.

That’s when the idea sprang to become the team’s manag-er. “I enjoy basketball, but it’s not just the game,” Cipressi said. “I love being a part of the team more than anything, and I love being around so many great guys and building great friendships.”

Even with missing nearly two months of school with his surgeries and going under the knife for the final time just one week before the start of bas-ketball, Cipressi stayed upbeat and positive. “It was really a wake up call. The physical therapy helped me get back in shape and helped me realize that I needed to start working out again.”

He even had to cheer up his friends and family at times. “Life can be unexpected, but you can make it through any-thing,” he said.

Dominic Cipressi certainly has.

Basketball manager rebounds from fight against rare cancer

Bouncing Back

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Using his characteristically upbeat and optimistic spirit, junior men’s basketball team manager Dominic Cipressi is recovering from a recently successful fight against a rare form of cancer.