Hagen Hi-Lites

Table of Contents

Retirements 1

Librarians 2

Crazy Jobs 3

TSA 4

Reviews 5

Blurt 6

Midget Matters 7

Candids 8

Bees 9

BBB 10

Sports 11

Candids 12

1

How many years have you been working at Hagen? I believe it has been 9 wonderful years for me at Hagen.

What is your history of teaching jobs before coming here? I have been in the District as a counselor for 20 years. Prior

to coming to Dickinson, I taught K-12 music in Halliday, ND; Columbus, ND; and Silver Lake, MN.

What learning experience manufactured at Hagen gives you the most satisfaction? I love it when kids, who while they

were here at Hagen, thought I was expecting too much of them, then came back later to tell me they are going to col-lege or they’ve got a good job and are successful. It gives me great joy to see students become more than they

thought they could be because someone else believed they could.

What changes have you witnessed in education from the time you started your career in education until now? Obviously,

technology is huge. The curriculum expectations are greater every year. Students are expected to know more by 8th grade than, I think, I was expected to know when I graduated from high school.

What will you miss the most? The kids! Of all the things in education that have changed, the one constant is the kids.

Having worked at all grade levels, I can honestly say my favorite age group is junior high. I have high expectations for

our students, and I know that sometimes that doesn’t translate to “I like them,” but I truly do. I carry them home in my heart every night.

What will you be doing after life at Hagen? My husband and I have purchased a home in Texas for our retirement. We

will be spending the winters in Texas and the summers back here in North Dakota.

I started working at Hagen Jr. High 15 years ago. The first job was as the assistant principal for 3 years, I then moved to Dickinson

High School as the activities director for 4 years, then back to Hagen as the principal for 8 years.

Before moving to Dickinson, I taught physical education for 8 years in Montana, 4 years in Miles City at Pine Hills School for

Boys, which is the state youth correctional school, and 4 years in Savage. I then moved to Belfield, ND and was the high school

principal for 4 years.

The experience that has given me the most satisfaction is the opportunity I had to work with great teaching staffs and students as

we developed learning opportunities for students by developing curriculum and programs that help all students to achieve educa-

tionally.

I have witnessed many changes over my 27 years in education; the biggest changes were in technology and the internet, and the

second biggest change was in state testing and federal programs.

The thing I will miss the most is the daily interaction with the students and staff at Hagen Jr. High.

The next opportunity I will encounter will be working in an office that provides oil field services to North Dakota and other

nearby states. Mrs. Hansen:

Mr. Braunagel:

I went and asked 100 students how long and when we should have

school. A lot of you are actually quite happy with our average school

day, which actually surprised me. So, how long should we have school?

Here are the results.

How Much School Should We Have?

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Student Librarians

Student Librarians are an important part of the every day life at Hagen. They are needed in the library to

sort, collect, organize, and many other duties called upon them to help Mrs. Fisher. They are:

Back row: (l to r) Preston Borsheim, Zachary Wolfe, Dylan Gonser, Payton Berg, Zach Keller, Shane

Baltzell, Mareno Mahto, Vickie Craig

Middle row: (l to r) Ethan Guzman, Austin Karsky, Christopher Dean, Caleigh Devenport, Kelton Over-

ton, Zach Overton

Front row: (l to r) Jennifer Johnson, Teryn Beyers,

Remmi Love, Hannah Nantt, Paige Yon, Bryce

Smith, Skylar Dockter

Not pictures: Brandon Leger, Chelsea Ferguson,

Ryan Clark, Cassidy Kelly

“That’s what I call a job.”

Don’t feel like you have to restrict yourself to being a doctor, lawyer, or an astronaut.

Check out these crazy occupations.

Knife Thrower’s Assistant

Okay, this definitely wins the award for the scariest. But it’s real. Professional knife

throwers need a human target in their act. If you got the guts, that someone could be

you.

Smell Checkers

Like having your head in armpits all day? Than this could be the job

for you. It’s the responsibility of lab researchers to do smell checks to

make sure deodorants are doing their jobs.

Elephant Tender

Like elephants? Like the circus? Like huge piles of poop? If so, we’ve

found your dream job. Elephant tenders take care of animals behind

the scenes - that involves shoveling a lot of elephant poo. Not only is it

gross, but get an elephant foot to the head and you’re a pancake.

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Mega Words

Want to impress your friends with really,

really, really, really, really, really, really, long

words and know what they mean, too?

Misodoctakleidist

(Someone who hates playing piano)

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

(Fear of long words)

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

(Monster in a lake in Massachusetts)

Humuhumunukunukuuapua’a

(A Hawaiian fish)( The fish is shorter than the

name.)

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

(Having honor)

Dog Food Tester

Simon Allison is a senior food technologist.

She eats pet food for a living. Just like any

other food, pet foods need to be tested. She

even claims to enjoy the taste.

Fruit Colorer

Fruit is often picked before it’s ripe, so by

the time it gets to your local supermarket,

it’s just reaching its peak. To make the fruit

look good, a colorer sprays it with chemicals

to make it look appetizing.

TSA (Technology Student Association)

The name applies something fancy and complicated. In truth, it’s

more of a technology club. You ready yourself for different events, which

in a whole, come together in a state conference. If you’re lucky, you get to

move to the national conferences.

As a student in TSA, we all meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays for

work days where we all work on our different events or sections of the

competition in Mr. Van’s room. On Wednesdays, Mr. Van has demos on different

events.

Some examples of events are Multimedia Production, Website Design, Prepared Speech, and

Digital Photography (among other events). They’re all fun but also hard work. We don’t slack off at

TSA work days. We hope to represent Hagen well!

The conference for state is on March 26 & 27 in Mandan. Keep your fingers crossed for the

Hagen team! Maybe we will make it to the national conferences.

-Brooke Anton

Hagen Dance The fourth Hagen dance of 2012 was

held on the February 10th, 2012. Ms. Fields and

Mr. Peters both DJ’d the dance. They played all

kinds of music, ranging from the new 2000’s

music that most of us are familiar with, to

1980’s/1990’s music from our parents’ genera-

tion. They played slow songs and not so slow

songs. Most people came and enjoyed the

dance, paying only $4 per person.

So, most of us enjoy the dances, right?

We get to hang out with friends in a setting

we’re not use to. (Well, for the seventh graders,

this is their first year of dances.) We mostly ap-

preciate the chance to come to dances, right?

Well, do you ever think what goes into making a

dance happen? Most of us don’t. It takes work

from Mrs. Pritchard, our chaperones, Ms. Fields

and Mr. Peters, and that’s just naming a few of

the people who make the dance happen. Why

don’t you take some time to stop and thank the

teachers who make this happen? They’ll be

happy you did, I promise.

-Brooke Anton

Student Kitchen Helpers

The above students were a big help to the kitchen

staff when it comes to the distribution of food.

Front row: Brandon Allred

Middle row: (l to r) Lane Soiseth, Michael Allred,

Stetson Pederson, Matthew Whitworth, Taylor Beck

Back row: (l to r) Zachary Stockert, Michael Jaynes,

Michael Berg, Teryn Beyers, Elizabeth Lampl

Reviews

BUSINESS NAME

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Eclipse Novella)

The Short Second Life of Bree Tan-

ner is a book written from the

Eclipse novel, The Twilight Saga. It’s

about a vampire from a newborn

army and her life, from the day she

was created, to her death. It is a

short and sweet novel that gives you

a new inside look into the Twilight

sage that you normally don’t get. It’s

really refreshing and new. It gives

you a new opinion on Eclipse.

Just go read it, but only if you have

Seen the Twilight movies and kind of

enjoyed them. If not, don’t read

them. You’ve been warned.

-Brooke Anton

TV Competitions

I’m doing this article on two TV competitions I watch: Face Off and Ink Master.

Face Off is a show about the process

of applying theatrical makeup. This show is

on its second season. It shows different me-

diums of theatrical makeup. The contestants

are judged on how well the makeup is ap-

plied and how well their makeup reflects the

weekly challenge. Its sixth episode aired on

February 15th. The judges of Face Off are

Ve Neil, Glen Hetrick, and Patrick Tatopou-

los. It airs every Wednesday at 8:00 on SC/

FY.

The second is Ink Masters. This

show’s about tattooing. This show is on its

first season. They’re judged on line work

and coloring and how close their tattoos are

to the weekly challenge, etc. The judges of

this show are Dave Navarro, Chris Nunez,

and Oliver Peck. This show’s fifth episode

aired on Tuesday, February 14th. It airs

weekly on Spike Tuesday at 8:00.

The Hunger Games– the movie

Comparing the book to the movie:

The movie left out the gore of the book, but

the movie had as much thrill and action as

the book had. The characters were spot on.

You could feel the relationships between

each other. Josh Hutchinson portrayed

Peta really well. It was well defined as how

the Hunger Games came to be. It was an

overall great movie and is recommended to

go see. Rated out of 5; it gets a 4.5

By Braden Current

Other opinions: some of the JH kids who

went to the movie said the book was much

more detailed. The kids who didn’t read the

book said it was a great movie and couldn’t

wait to read the book. Pita was character-

ized a bit differently than the expectations

in the book. The character was a bit shorter

than they had visualized from reading the

book. All that were questioned said they

couldn’t wait for the sequel.

P AGE 6

Social Things People Notice

I asked my home base if there was

anything they saw that was popular

around the school.

Here’s what the majority said:

Ugg slippers

breast cancer bracelets saying “I love

boobies”

8th grader Dustin Lunstad’s

hemp bracelets and necklaces.

holey jeans

boots that button

fancy duct tape on the planners and

binders

By Taylor McConnell

Did you know?

At this point in time, Hagen has students

from 19 different states and 1 foreign

country.

Hagen has 4 sets of twins.

Thank you, Miss

Fields, for letting us

use some of your year-

book candids through-

out the year.

Congratulations to Brittany Heim for

being awarded the title of Teen Miss

Dickinson.

Interests:

Gel flip flops: girls

Crackle nail polish: girls

Designer jeans, shirts etc.: girls/boys

The Mohawk: usually guys

Hair extensions: girls

Come at Me Bro T-shirt: girls/boys

Moccasins: girls/boys (mostly girls)

Different colored socks: some guys, most girls

Comments: Thank you all for commenting in your

home base jars about whether or not you liked

some things or you wanted more. There was one

suggestion in a container we found: I would like to

see more activities when we can’t go outside and

are in the gym.

Don’t forget to check out the Hagen Hi-Lites in

color on the Hagen JH School website. You can

also look at the archived issues.

Dates to look forward to: (no school)

April 6th

April 9th

April 20th

May 24th

P AGE 7

(This article does not intend to point fingers or

ridicule a group. The point of view does not

represent this paper or necessarily the author.

This article is merely a conversational piece.)

Teen Abuse

Did you know studies show more teens are

killed in a year by alcohol then by all illegal drugs

combined?

Alcohol is very dangerous to those under

21. Until about the age of 21, one’s body and brain

are still developing. Drinking alcohol prohibits the

growth of brain cells causing memory loss. Other

effects are: becoming inattentive, greater risk of

cancer, high blood pressure, and lower resistance

to disease. The younger one starts drinking, the

more likely it is that they will have a drinking

problem in the future. Drinking while under the

age or at 21 affects the understanding of right and

wrong. Without the ability to move or think

clearly, one can do stupid and unsafe, even lethal

things. Over 5,000 underage people die each year

because of drinking related instances. This in-

cludes homicides, car crashes, suicides, and

drowning. If you or someone you know needs

help, please talk to an adult or someone you love

and respect. You don’t have to be a statistic.

Midget Matters

Our guest writer is Elizabeth Yoder.

Elizabeth wrote an extra credit paper for Mr.

Smutzler’s science class entitled, “The Book

About Something About Absolutely Nothing.”

This article is just part of something bigger.

Thank you for contributing to the newspaper.

“I have a great blonde joke. (no offense) There

was a blonde who went to a lumber yard. She

asked the man, “You wouldn’t happen to have

any wood, would ya?” Haha! Now there are

people shoving wood into her car. “Is this a 2

by 4?” The guy says, “Si.” She asks, “See

what?” Another man comes by to explain to

her how si means yes. She then drives away.

She gets to her house and measures the wood

she recently purchased. She returns to the

store demanding new wood. After repeating

this once again. She demands the wood be

measured and cut in front of her. They do so

only to find her misunderstanding. They try to

explain to the blonde how a 2 by 4 really is not

2 inches by 4 inches. She did not realize that

a 2 by 4 is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

This poem by Jen Johnson was submitted

last year during her poem unit in language arts

class.

Emotions of a Steep Highway

You may feel regret of yourself

Lifeless, meaningless

But stay abroad

Feelings can arise

Writer’s Corner

A Bee C

Skylar Dockter wanted to do something

extra, but she’s not into math, and she’s not into

science. So what was there to do? Thankfully, she

discovered the spelling bee. She and 8ish* other

people from Hagen practiced and practiced and

practiced! But how do you practice to spell? Do

you read and re-read the dictionary? Do you

Google big words and memorize those? “I get lists

of words that might be on the test and study

those. The lists change sometimes, but you just

have to focus,” says Skylar. Well, that focus paid

off because Skylar is going to Nationals in Wash-

ington, D.C. For those of you who don’t watch

the Scripts National Spelling Bee every year with

your family, you probably don’t know how excit-

ing and important this is. Before Skylar can actu-

ally compete, she must finish a written word

round. She actually had to do written and oral

tests at every Bee that she went to. At the State

Spelling Bee in Bismarck, she finished 1st in the

written round and second in the oral. What does

Skylar think of going to Washington? “It’ll be

harder because every state is there, but it’s been

really fun and a great learning experience for me.”

If you are interested in the spelling bee or learning

more about spelling bees talk to Mrs. Thom or

Mrs. Tooz. Skylar placed 10th out of 104

contestants. Congratulations to the Queen Bee.

State Competition

The Geography Bee list

Talon Staudinger

Wyatt Kainz

Jackson Smith

Elizabeth Yoder

Milla George

Katie Reily

Christopher Dean

Ethan Guzman

Dylan Ollila

Elizabeth Pavlicek

Bryce Smith

Dylan Gonser

Tionna Harrington

Every Tuesday and Wednesday after

school, the geography bee participants

would meet in Mr. O’s room to get ready for

the bee. It was like the Around the World,

but with geography questions. You had five

seconds to answer after the question was

asked. You could only ask for three repeats

the entire game, so they had to use them

wisely. At the end of the first round, Mr. O

and Miss Fields took the kids with the most

points. The kids that were chosen moved on

to the final round. In the final round, you

can only get three questions wrong. At the

end of the final round the last person sitting

is the winner.

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We consisted of 5 teams.

Here is our A1 team members and record.

Tanner Ouellette

Aanen Moody

Shawn Steffan

Cameron Jorda

Braden Current

Chase Ballard

Jordan Meidinger

Our A1 team had 11 wins and 3 losses

A2’s

Mike Herauf

Isaac Egli

Eli Jung

Braxton Selle

Dillon Brown

Cory Zastoupil

Dane Haugen

Our A2 team had 8 wins and 5 losses

B1’s

Isaiah Fisher

Phoenix Johson

Erik Odegaard

Hunter Schatz

Logan Aman

Kaiden Steckler

Our B1’s had a record of 6 wins and 7 losses

B2’s

Eldon Davis

Felipe Aguirre

Tre Nichols

Casey Binstock

Preston Borsheim

5 wins/ 3 losses

C’s

Kacey Kjos

Jamal Small

Cole Steffan

Bryce Smith

Braden Praus

Jacobie Maas

Ryan Schaefer

Jimmy Mckay

Parker Anderson

Cole Fichter

Our C team record was 1 win and 8 losses

8th Grade Boys Basketball

Seth Anderson

Shane Baltzell

Tanner Binstock

Brett Brown

Cody Cooper

Tanner Davidson

Drew Heiser

Kenneth Huffstutler III

Wyatt Kainz

Alix Kelly

Jacob Kostelecky

Christopher Kubas

Stetson Pedersen

Colin Roller

Matthew Schaefer

Jeffrey Schmitt

Lane Soiseth

Talon Staudinger

Bryce Timmerman

Andruw Wuerflein

Coaches- John Tuchscherer, Jason Kraft

Managers- Megan Hushka, Andrea Mehrer, Sarah Nelson

A1 record: 9-6

A2 record: 5-11

B1 record: 0-10

7th Grade

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Top Left: Tate Martel, Michael McChesney, Josh Stengel, Alex

Anderson, Trevan Hopfauf

Middle: Jaden Bachmeier, Tyler Kostelecky, Cameron Jorda,

Kaymen Kitchen

Kneeling: Michael Herauf, Jerzy Martin

Top Left: Kelsey Calhoun, Amaya Johnson, Caleigh Devenport,

Codie Myers, Breanna Chamberlain, LeAnne Brydl

Middle: Lexi Reager, Hallie Hoffer, Abby Wandler, MaKayla

Ryland, Remmi Love, Paige Schweitzer

HERE ’S WHAT ’S UP UNDER THE SEA !

BY SUZANNA MOBERG The Williston-Dickinson Girls High School

Swimming has drawn to a close. After almost

three months of swimming, swimming, and

more swimming, our team finished 5th at the

State swim meet. There were a total of 8 girls

on our Dickinson team: Abigail Moberg, Suz-

anna Moberg, Leah Grove, Ketti Ringwall,

Sarah Strube, Lauren Sneddon, and Alexa

Martel. (Alexa and Lauren were our seniors

this year, and will be missed next season!)

The Dickinson Dolphin’s Club season is

also coming to an end. We’ve been practicing

since November, so it has been four long

months! The state swim meet was in Grand

Forks from March 16-18. We had a great ex-

perience and hope next year will be even bet-

ter.

Back row: Zachary Keller, Evan Wilkie, Talon

Staudinger, Taylor McConnell, Elizabeth Pavlicek

Front row: advisor-Mrs. Thom, Suzanna Moberg,

Robert Bradley, Brooke Anton

Hagen Hi-Lite’s Staff