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April 1, 2010 Vol. 84 Edition 4
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12CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEFkatie murphy & brittany nguyenCOPY EDITORmaris schwarzDESIGN EDITOR morgan chanPHOTO EDITORSandy abeyta and enrique de-la-cuestaNEWS EDITOR katie murphyFEATURES EDITOR brittany nguyenFASHION EDITOR brenna clevelandSPORTS EDITORStess langseth & jessica lemieuxADVERTISMENT EDITOR dev devvratCOPY EDITORmaris schwarzSTAFF WRITERS ashton babcock, katie burger, raymond corral, teddi faller, emma johnson, shannon malamphy, silvia martinez, joe morauskiADVISERnancy mayer
FEATURES12 how green is THS?
15 recycle your bodyNEWS
spring dance 4Till talks Shakespeare 5
class elections 6 POPLIFE18 music & movie reviews
19 calendar
Photo by Enrique De-La-Cuesta
SPORTSspring sports preview 8
girls basketball 11
TOC | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 3
EDITORIALS17 america’s got talent
Table of Contents
cover photo by andy abeyta
Quick News
By Alex ChangRock out to the 50s and 60s
from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. April 18.
THS guitarists will play songs by The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Elvis
Presley, The Rolling Stones, and many more to come.
“The students have been working extremely hard to pull off this concert; I’m so proud of these hard working students,” said guitar teacher Jerry King.
Students said they were ex-cited to play songs from this era.
“I think the concert will be good since it’s back in the 50s and 60s,” said guitar student Jessica Trosin.
Japan Night brings fun events
From flower arrangements to Kendo fencing, students can expe-rience Japanese culture from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on April 2 in the main gym and commons areas.
“I hope that Japan Night will give background on the Japanese culture,” said Japanese teacher Noriko Roberts.
This event is held to raise money for an intern from Japan to teach at THS, said Roberts who has taught at Tigard for 20 years.
“People from the entire com-munity should attend, not just stu-dents,’’ said freshman Aya Bukres,
adding that the event is being sponsored by the Japanese Honor Society.
Last year’s event raised $957.45 and brought $400.34 to THS. This year the society hopes to raise $500.
Activities include a Japanese tea ceremony and a kimono dem-onstration. While admission is free, there will be Japanese food for sale, and some of the games will also have a small fee.
In addition, there will be a raffle for gift certificates for places such as Starbucks and Teriyaki Express.
By Kenneth Haskett
Last year’s Japan Night included calligraphy demonstrations.
By Chris Turnerand Tomi Patterson
Reseed the earth
and have fun at PDX fair
Dance, dance, dance: April 9“Highlight Your Night” with
black lights, white shirts and neon when THS kicks off its spring dance at 8 p.m. April 9.
“If you don’t go, you won’t have anyone to hang out with because they will all be at ‘Highlight Your Night’,” said junior Tracie Tran about the dance formally known as the Sadie Hawkins Dance.
This event is not formal, but on the other hand, it’s not con-sidered a mixer. Students from all grades are encouraged to wear white to shine under the black lights to help create the neon environment.
“‘Highlight Your Night’ is really going to highlight your night. No pun intended,” said junior Sohayla Horani.
The neon dance costs $5
per student at the entrance. Students are welcome to bring guests from other high schools, as long as they are signed up on the guest list in the main of-fice at least one day before the dance. Leadership is also con-sidering inviting Tualatin High students to attend as well.
“It will be the highlight…of your night,” said senior Hannah Olson.
Rock out at guitar concert
Free night highlights culture
By Anna Warren
PAGE 4 | April 1, 2010 | NEWS
Celebrate Earth day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 24.
More than 100 booths will be set up at Southeast 12th and Stark in Portland.
The event, sponsored by City Repair, will feature musicians and bands from throughout Or-egon, as well as various artists and businesses. Mayor Sam Ad-ams is also expected to speak.
Public relations manager Eden Davis said “we know peo-ple care about the Earth so we’re trying to shed a little more light on the problem.”
Junior Robert “Robbie” Till will battle against 58 other students this April as he represents Oregon in the national ESU Shakespearean competition in New York.
Till will be the only competitor from Oregon and is the third student ever se-lected from Tigard. Only one Oregon stu-dent has ever won, and no Tigard student has yet to make it past finals.
Till’s journey began in December when English teacher Matt Wilson asked Till if
he would like to participate in the school’s Shakespearean Festival. This opportunity sparked immediate interest for Till. He needed to produce one monologue of his choice for the competition at Tigard.
Soon Till had won the school contest and was off to the state competition. For state, he would once again have to pro-duce a monologue but this time he must perform a Shakespearean sonnet. Wil-son helped Till pick out Sonnet 29 to help show off his talents
“Robbie did a lot of mental preparation analyzing the text,” said Wilson.
Till also got help from theater teacher and actor Todd Hermanson. Hermanson practiced with Till, making sure he knew what he was saying and the character he was portraying.
“He was like a sponge, soaking up suggestions,” Hermason said. “I enjoyed working with him.”
Till now anxiously awaits nationals, practicing vigorously and studying his piece. In April, Till will represent Oregon at the nationals in New York.
“That’s the thing, it’s hard because you don’t know exactly what they’re looking for, so you just got to go out there and give the best performance you can,” said Till.
Shakespeare shake offJunior heads to NY to perform SONNET 29
By William Shakespeare
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast stateAnd trouble deaf heaven with my boot-
less criesAnd look upon myself and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;Yet in these thoughts myself almost
despising,Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at
heaven’s gate;For thy sweet love remember’d such
wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state
with kings.
By Micah Lundstrom
Choir goes for state spot
Students from Tigard and the other five Pacific League schools will compete April 15 at the Pacific League Choir Fes-tival to secure a spot in the state choir competition.
THS Concert Choir students will com-pete for a spot in the state competition, said choir instructor Sue Hale.
“The competition is great and Tigard has generally been one of the top choirs at the League Festival,” said sophomore CJ Irving. “I’m excited!”
This year’s event will be held at Forest Grove High School.
By Berit FosterTigard Public Library will be the scene for Teen Survivor Library Edition from 5-7 p.m. on April 22.
Teens will participate in a variety of events such as scavenger hunts, food com-petitions, and, if weather permits, outdoor relay races.
They will also form teams to see who will become the ultimate survivor and there will be prizes for the winners.
“We want to make the participants feel like the library is their playground,” said Lisa Elliot, a librarian in the Young Adult area.
This event helps celebrate Turn Off Your TV week and is also meant to help teens un-derstand just how the library works -- but in an entertaining way.
The night, based on the popular “Survi-vor” TV show, is part of the Minds At Play series at the library and is a free event.
By Arianna Gittins
Teens to ‘survive’ library
Seniors: Who is the best and most?Who has the best smile? Who’s the big-
gest flirt? Seniors, it’s time to vote for the best and most categories for the 2010 year-
book. Find a voting form in Room 424 to vote by April 2. Winners of the categories will have their pictures in the yearbook.
NEWS | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 5
Photo By Enrique De La Cuesta
A new era of electionsGetting into leadership won’t be a popularity contest anymore
By Brittany NguyenCo-Editor-In-Chief
The lights shut off and the video begins to play. On the screen pops up a YouTube-worthy video with student election candidates making students laugh -- and hopefully vote them into leadership.
Before this year, Tigard’s elections were like most other high school elections throughout the country. Any candidate with a GPA of at least 3.00 who turned in an application could run. In the elec-tion process, the more memorable the candidate’s speech, the more likely he or she would make it into leadership.
Kiss that kind of election good-bye. Witty election speeches and clever videos won’t happen this year.
This year candidates will be voted in based on qualifications rather than who has the most supportive friends or the funniest speeches.
“It will no longer be a popularity contest,” said junior Yadira Tru-jillo. “Instead, it will be more about people’s skills. It’ll bring better people into leadership.”
There will be no speeches. Instead, applicants filled out a form due this past week to be reviewed by the administration, who will choose finalists. Next a panel of teachers will screen the applications. The remaining applicants will be put on a ballot. Students will then vote on these candidates in voting booths during lunches later this month.
“With this new process, we will get a broader range of students in leadership,” said Principal Mark Neffendorf. “It will hopefully be a group of kids that want to lead the student body and will be involved in all facets of Tigard High, including policy and curriculum changes, not just the activities aspect of the school.” In addition, students will no longer run for specific jobs, such as publicity and president, but will run for leadership as a whole.
“I can’t stand the new system,” said junior Brad Burke. “It takes away what little power students had. Students need to be able to vote for students who will represent us, from start to finish.”
What’s worse, Burke said, is that leadership in this school had little power in the first place, and now the elections will be rigged by the administration and by teachers. “Now, we’ll have no power.”
Neffendorf said that students will be asked to have more input on a wider range of issues, once leadership is chosen this year, adding that leadership teacher Mindy Yarnell and the leadership students chose this new system.
“The only thing I wanted was to be able to have a say in who will be in the class as a whole,’’ Neffendorf said.
Sophomore Jack Turzillo said the process itself will not repre-sent the student body well: “School is supposed to be a microcosm of Democracy. This policy takes our rights away. This new process silences more than 2,000 students.”
After the elections, freshly elected ASB officers will then decide
who will get what position. Many current leadership students see the value of this change:
“The new system will be tough to implement but it’s the easiest way to do it democratically,” said ASB President Taylor Friesen.
Leadership teacher Mindy Yarnell, under pressure from the ad-ministration to widen the type of students who sought leadership positions, suggested a change in the election process, said ASB Hu-man Relations officer Anna Lennartz.
It’s a new era of elections and perhaps a new era of leadership.
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ASB president Taylor Friesen calls the new system democratic.
Photo By Andy Abeyta
Tigerettes take thirdBy Clare Addington
The Tigerettes took third place in State at the Memorial Coliseum on March 18.
This year’s routine was to the theme of ‘Brand New Day’. The dance consisted of a mix of Annie Lennox songs, beginning with a lyrical piece “Brand New Day”, which trans-formed into a sassy jazz to “Would I Lie To You”, and finishing with a powerful “Little Bird”.
After performing the routine Wednesday and Thursday, the team achieved an overall score of 80.0, only .6 behind the second place team, Forest Grove. The score was based on technique, choreography, showmanship, and formations the team executed on the floor.
Senior Erica Boudreau won a scholarship at the competition, while she and seniors Adam Harris and Anna Lennartz made the All-State team.
Yet state was not the end of the road for
the Tigerettes, who performed and com-peted in Disneyland last week. The nationals team, composed of 16 dancers, took third place among the best teams in the country at USA Nationals.
“We went to compete with no expecta-tions, the last time we went we got 9th. We were ecstatic about our 3rd place finish,” said captain Deanna Patterson.
As the Tigerette season came to a close, the team and its coaches couldn’t be more proud of their performance and sense of family. “We really came together as a team this year,” said captain Rebekah Brems. “I couldn’t be more proud.”
The teams state performance can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7BTW0fhDs
NEWS | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 7
By Erin Matheson Six speech team members will head to nationals after qualifying
at the Northern Oregon NFL tournament in March.“Right before awards started, I bet Manning that we would qual-
ify more people this year than we did last year, where we qualified three people in regular events and two in Congress,” said sophomore Anthony Quach. “Although a lot of us had finaled at this NatQuals, she didn’t want to get her hopes up, so she bet that we wouldn’t. I won the bet.”
In June, these students will head to Kansas City with coach Am-ber Manning to compete against the best speakers in the country: senior Narintohn Luangrath, international extemporaneous; sopho-more Sean Sakaguchi, cross-examination debate; sophomore Antho-ny Quach, cross-examination debate; junior Jamy Lee, oratory; fresh-man Courtney Bither, Lincoln-Douglas Value debate; and sophomore Erin Matheson, dramatic interpretation.
“Our hard work paid off,” Lee said. “But nationals is a whole new level. The work isn’t over yet just because we made it.”
The debaters hope to continue to dominate at districts and state tournaments in April. Their commitment to do so shows in their weekly after-school practices and meetings, which sometimes last for three hours straight.
“I think we’re going to do well this year because last year we had lots of experienced seniors who did well and finaled but this year we have a lot of talented underclassmen who far exceed everyone’s ex-pectations. Plus, we have seniors this year who are just as strong as the ones last year. Overall, we’re going to be very successful,” Man-ning said.
The team’s track record this year backs up Manning’s predic-
tions. The team has won several competitions this year and expects to sweep districts.
“It’s always great to win and come home with a big, shiny trophy,” said sophomore Nikki Yoke. “But the best part of competing is the team -- friendships and inside jokes and midnight Starbucks runs.”
Six ‘speechies’ head to nationals
Photo by Amber Manning
The speech team poses proudly as they prepare to head to nationals.
Photo by Andy Abeyta
SPRINGSPORTS PREVIEW
Plans for success
Seniors Katie Aden and Chelsea Biglow; juniors Erin Nyberg and Kelsey Kailen and sophomore Jes-sica Lemieux
Forest Grove, McMin-nville, Westview, Rex Putnam, and Tualatin
Plans for success
Even though it has been a full year since the Tigard softball team has had a practice together, they have started the season with a winning attitude. They lost two senior players last year, one being the pitcher and one rotat-ing in at left field, but they have many return-ing players.
“We have a lot of experience coming back,” said Head Coach Gary Edwards.
The team looks strong with five All League players returning to the field.
Key games
Players to watch
“I’m expecting similar results to last year’s district results for guys and girls,” said Denise Foote, distance coach. Last season the THS track team went unde-feated in dual meets for both boys and girls. They had an undefeated record of 5-0 and earned the title of ‘league champs’.
This season looks promising for the team as well. The 120+ athletes are led by a core group of upperclassmen who plan to work hard and win big.
“People should expect some really im-pressive performances by some individuals this season. I think both teams have a great chance to place well at state... top 5 or better,” said Head Coach Erik Smith.
Seniors: Jordan Latt, Zac Schlachter, Ian McGetrick, Makenzie Bittinger, Kaleigh Morrison, Ian Walch; and juniors Kelsi Schaer, Mark Medgin, Aaron Kirch, Nick Roche’, Diana Merchant, Katie Humphrey, and Beau Hansen
April 8th vs Newberg at THS April 29th vs Canby at THS May 4th vs Tualatin at THS
Key games
Players to watch
PAGE 8 | April 1, 2010 | SPORTS
By Jessica Lemieux and Tess Langseth
By Enrique De La Cuesta
By Kristin Taylor
Seniors Brad Hall, Dar-ian Kramer, Dominic Zandi, and Andrew Stephens
April 13 vs Tualatin May 12 vs Canby
Plans for successPlayers to watch
Key games
Girls: Priya Patel, Anka Wirtz
Boys: Seniors Cal-vin Horne and Kev-in Baese; and fresh-man Eli Potts
Boys- May 5 vs Tu-alatin at THS
Girls- April 20 vs Tu-alatin at THS
Look for some se-rious competition between the Wolves and the Tigers!
Plans for successIt is Matthew Rubrecht’s first year as THS’ girl’s tennis
coach and he’s excited and ready to win. “Being my first year, I am not sure what to expect. I would
like to get more than one win this year. I want the team to play their best and if we don’t win, give the other team a really tough match.”
The girls not only have a strong returning team this year but have many new freshmen who all look to be huge contrib-utors for the season.
“I believe we graduated 10 girls last year, but we still have a pretty strong returning team,” said Rubrecht.
With four returning seniors from last year and a team full of young players, coach Jack Cullen believes the boys tennis team has a fighting chance.
“We have a lot of young players who are inexperienced in matches. However, once they learn that its not how you begin, its how you finish, they’ll be off to a great start.” said Cullen.
This season, the boys will be led by captains Calvin Horne and Kevin Base. Last year the boys placed third overall and with their promising team this year, they hope to do the same, if not better.
Key games
Alex King, Aaron Bur-nick, Mark Jensen
Plans for successThe boys golf team this season is composed of 5 boys:
Alex King, Aaron Burnick, Mark Jensen, Stuart Noslen, and Matt Merkling. All five of them look to have promis-ing seasons and Coach Stu Bailey has high hopes for the boys this year.
“They’re a bunch of goofballs,” said Bailey. “Once we get them all on the same page, we’ll be off to a great start.”
This season the boys golf team is at a loss for their key player Alex Kim due to graduation last year, but they have a fairly young team that should swing towards success.
“We finished pretty high at state last year, and I’m hoping we do the same this year,” said Bailey. “We have a long way to go, but we can absolutely finish strong.”
Players to watch
Key gamesApril 28 at the Oregon High School Invita-tional
May 10- 11 at the Dis-trict tournament
The goal throughout the team this year is to make it to the playoffs. The motivation to achieve this goal is seen through the dedication the team has for the sport; many play year round on the THS turf as they practice hard and play hard in the summer league.
“Success depends on our pitching and our offense,” said coach Tom Campbell.
SPORTS | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 9
boy’s golf
tennisPlayers to watch
baseballBy Enrique De La Cuesta
By Kristin Taylor
Juniors Laree Foster, Natasha Malik, Ashlee Triem; sophomores Taylor Farquhar, Hanna Ha
April 12 at Tualatin Country Club
Plans for success
Last season the girls golf team finished 3rd in all of their league matches. This year, however, the girls hope to turn that three into a one. They’ve already pulled out a win against Tualatin–a huge stepping stone towards the state tournament.
“Our goal is to get the whole team to state,” Said Coach Carlson, “The girls-even when the weather is miserable- keep good spirits and keep each other going.”
They practice rain or shine at the Tualatin Country Club and though the weather does not look promising this spring, the girls’ game does. With state in mind, the team is headed for a very promising season.
Key games
By Sydney HuttonThe PUFFY Spring League launches its opening game for the THS
Ultimate Frisbee team at noon on April 14 at Cook Park.The team’s biggest rivals this year are Waldorf and Sunset High
schools.Players this year are practicing more to accomplish the ultimate
goal of winning first in league, said Brad Burke, co-coach.“Being one of the oldest teams in the league we have still failed to
bring home the first place title,” Burke said. PUFFY, known as the Portland Ultimate Frisbee Federation for
Youth, has been playing for eight years and has 14 participating teams.
“This is probably the youngest team that we’ve had, but we’re running more offensive and defensive packages than ever before,” Burke said about the new additions to the team. He has recruited al-most all new teammates, with the majority of them being freshman and sophomores.
“It’s just like any sport, with hard work and determination you can accomplish what has been sought after,” said co-coach Joe Re-istetter.
Ultimate Frisbee ready to throw
PAGE 10 | April 1, 2010 | SPORTS
Seniors Mackenzie LeBrun and Rachael Glancy; and junior Sohayla Horani
Seniors Omar Horani; junior Colin O’Neal; sopho-more Dange Wolfe.
Plans for success
“My goal is to have players step up and show their skills, and to make sure every player has their best chance to improve,” said girl’s coach Ted Mayhugh.
This season gives the team a chance to prove themselves to the competition.
“It’s our time to show our competitors that THS is just as strong even without our seniors from last year,” said junior Sohyala Horani.
Last season, the boys went to the playoffs and played against Lakeridge, where they lost in the first round. This year, they hope to do bet-ter.
“Our goal is to make it to state past the first round,” said senior John Sarvay. “We want to place at least in the top three in our league.”
Players to watch
Key games
April 9 at 8:00 Southridge
April 16 at 8:00 THS
April 23 at 8:00 THS
lacrosse
girl’s golfPlayers to watch
SPORTS | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 11
Naylor Nation: a journey to roses
Making it to the Rose Garden was not a simple task for the Tigard High School girls basketball team. At the end of the season, the girls held a 10-game winning streak, but peaked with an unfortunate loss to the Skyhawks of Southridge in the quarterfinals at the Rose Garden on March 6.
“We came out timid,” said junior Kelsey Kaelin, “It’s a huge stage, and I think we all just got nervous going into the Rose Garden.”
The team had relied on strong defense all season, something they lacked going into the state game against Southridge. However, even with the loss against the Skyhawks, Tigard only allowed opponents 35.8 points per game, a new 6A re-cord.
Tigard won their first two play-off games at home against Red-mond and the St. Mary’s Blues. These games sent them on their way to state.
“We played amazing defense against St. Mary’s and Redmond,” said senior captain Chelsea Biglow. “We played smart and made sure we didn’t fall into their traps. We just slowed the ball down and pulled out the victory!”
With those games behind them, the Ti-gard athletes turned towards the Rose Gar-den where they faced the 6A state champs– Southridge Skyhawks. The Skyhawks took off with an 11-0 lead, and the Tigers struggled to catch up. They were down 11-4 before the first quarter ended.
“It just wasn’t working in the first half,” said Biglow, “but we definitely picked it up in the second half.”
At halftime coach Steve Naylor gave the girls some words of encouragement and got them ready for the second half.
“He really pumped us up,” said Kaelin,
“He told us to give it our all and leave every-thing we’ve got on the court.”
The girls came out of the locker room fired up and ready to win. Kaelin, who made first team all league and player of the year in the Pacific Conference this season, was held to two points out of the first half, but came back in the second half with eight points.
Though Southridge stuck all 12 of their free-throw shots in the fourth quarter, Ti-gard forced them into 20 turnovers. Despite the rough start, Tigard held Southridge to only 44 points while scoring 32. Naylor and the girls continued to throw words of en-couragement around until the last buzzer sounded.
Despite the loss at the Rose Garden, Naylor is proud of the season.
“We’ve been first place in the Pacific Conference for the last three years,” said Naylor. “Our goal was to make it to the Rose Garden and w ac-complished that with a lot of hard work.”
The season, though stren-uous, brought the team new friendships and incredible bonds.
“It came down to four things,” said Naylor. “Chem-istry between players, great leadership, playing smart, and hard work.”
Naylor stressed the idea that the chemistry on the team and between players gave them that push to success and desire to win. Another part of this equation was reflected in the classroom with the girl’s basketball team ranking num-ber one in the state in overall GPA (average of 3.78).
“Out of any other team I’ve been on, this one has been the most fun and memorable
by far,” said sophomore Maddie Black who made 1st team all league this season. “We all grew really close and the chemistry that re-sulted was definitely a factor in our success. It was an amazing season!”
Throughout the 2009-2010 basketball season, the girls’ bonds became closer and much deeper. From tournaments at Disney World to team sleepovers in the Tigard High School gym, the girls grew stronger every-day.
“Our chemistry was definitely the num-ber one thing that got us so far,” said Biglow. “We were hard on each other on the court, but off the court we were best friends.”
By Tess Langseth
Girl’s basketball comes together as they go to state
Freshman Megan Risinger shoots and scores for the team. Photo by Andy Abeyta
PAGE 12 | April 1, 2010 | FEATURES
How does THS compare?THS colors: black, white and not-so-green.
By Katie Murphy, Brittany Nguyen and Shannon Malamphy
Tigard High School could save hundreds of dollars a month, if it just took recycling seriously.
In a Hi-Spots survey of 20 classroom trash cans, one-third of all trash was actually recyclable.
Currently, THS spends around $2,500 on trash disposal per month. It pays much less for the Pride Disposal Company to haul away recyclables. Considering that about one third of trash is actually recyclable, that’s a huge monthly savings if THS became more green.
Some classrooms sport small recycling containers, but walk the halls, and you will see there are no recycling centers. In the cafeteria and commons, food waste is not re-cycled as it is at OHSU, University of Oregon and many other municipalities. Recyclables are picked up not by the regular custodial staff but by a special education class, which could not handle the sheer volume of recy-cling material if the school took the problem more seriously.
“Teachers hand out paper we don’t end up needing, and a lot of it just ends up being thrown away,” said junior Kaitlynn Davis.
Ironically, on the district’s website, there is a site that boasts how much electricity is
saved by “green” initiatives. Look closer, and those simply mean that teachers are begin-ning to turn off lights and shut off machines.
Yet not all schools are as brown as THS. Nestled into the corner of Northwest Port-land lies da Vinci Arts Middle School, a pub-lic school focused on the arts. When walking through the doors, every locker is covered in neon paint, with a piano in the hall complete with guitar playing middle schoolers that are fierce about recycling.
“Instead of Styrofoam trays at lunch we use plastic,” said Claire Manning, a member of the green team at da Vinci.
Donated silverware keeps the school from throwing out plastic utensils after ev-ery meal, also. The halls are lined with recy-cling bins where not one piece of trash can be found.
But da Vinci goes beyond recycling to be even more environmentally friendly than a golden retriever. At the back of the rus-tic brick building lies an abandoned tennis court turned into a haven. Complete with a pond, theatre, wetland, gazebo, living ma-chine and solar panels, the garden is the epitome of green.
“Everything you see here was built and
put into place by the hands of kids,” said Dan Evans, retired science teacher and creator of the water garden.
Water flows off the roofs of three porta-bles and the parking lot into the garden. The solar panels help power the garden, such as the living machine, a digester of liquid waste.
“It becomes an area we can really use,” said Evans. He originally got the idea ten years ago when pondering a use for all of the rain.
“When I first told them I wanted to do this they thought I was nuts,” said Evans. But his greatest accomplishment was the Evans Harvard Music Center.
Next to the water garden sits the music room, which uses no net energy. Completely computerized, the room contains a shade that diffuses sunlight and reflects it around the room so no electric lights are ever need-ed during the day. Whirling air vents on the roof keep the room cool, but the thick walls keep it warm.
The money to fund the $800,000 room came from grants, the district and an un-related lawsuit. It is a prototype for future buildings in the district.
We compared THS to da Vinci Arts School and found that through a little more effort, we could be saving the environment - and money.
Da Vinci is not just a special case. In the Portland school district, recycling is not only a requirement, but a social expectation.
“All of our schools have a strong recycling program,” said Nancy Bond, a research con-servation specialist for the district.
Part of the reason for this is savings. PPS pays $36.85 per bin of waste removed and a mere $7.06 for each bin of recycling. Each school is required to have a recycling pro-gram and work with a group of coordinators and janitors to ensure it is implemented.
When presented with the question of ob-stacles of starting a recycling program, Bond never mentioned a lack of money.
“All the efforts I do are without a budget. Everything is done by being creative and re-sourceful,” said Bond.
Instead, Bond cited a lack of attention of students and teachers, and people simply recycling incorrectly as major problems in starting a recycling program. To combat this, PPS starts young.
“It starts with working with really young kids first,” said Bond.
She believes that bringing the message of recycling forward in a new and excit-ing way will get people interested. Once good recycling practices are implemented
at the elementary school level, being green becomes the norm and second nature. PPS uses educational efforts such as assemblies and presentations, and even have a “green magician” visiting schools soon.
This interest and motivation is not shared by THS, however. Though the halls are lined with trashcans, trash never seems to find its way into them, leaving janitors with a bigger job than necessary. In the commons, students are seen attempting to throw their trash into the bins – and missing. With a dismissive wave, they leave the trash on the ground.
“Think of the hundreds of bottles, card-board and paper goods that get thrown away at lunch. It’s just disgusting,” said sophomore Rachel Bedolla.
When the trash does make it into the trashcan, however, it shares the bin with products that could have otherwise been recycled. The newspaper staff took a closer look into just how much trash at THS can be recycled. With the guidance of Oregon Green Schools, we determined an estimated per-centage of recyclable trash.
The newspaper staff took trash out of 12 different rooms throughout the school. With gloves and a strong gag reflex, we were
able to sort through the trash to determine the amount of recyclable products. After weighing the total amount of trash as well as the sorted paper recycling and glass/alu-minum/plastic recycling, it was found that a total of 34 percent of the trash weighed was recyclable. 26.9 percent came from the pa-per recycling while 7.08 percent came from the rest.
Though it seems like a lot, it is actually very close to the average school waste, which is at 32 percent (determined by a 1993 EPA Education Waste characterization Study).
This does not mean that we shouldn’t make more of an effort, however. Many products that were found in the trash could have easily been recycled, especially paper. It could also mean saving money for the school, especially since the waste bill aver-ages around $2,500 a month.
Being a green school doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Every student can make an effort to help maintain a clean learning environ-ment, whether it be as simple as throwing their trash away, or picking up trash in the hallways.
Remember, our school colors are black, white, and green. Not black, white, and brown.
FEATURES | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 13
Tigard High students and staff have a new way to get to and from school: carpooling. Forget the noisy bus, rainy walks, or expen-sive gas-- THS is saving the planet and saving money, now that Carpool Match Northwest has added Tigard High as a drop-in location. Matt Wilson and Murray Carlisle are two THS teachers that began carpooling daily even without the online help. Carlisle said that he carpools “to conserve natural re-sources.”
“It’s silly to have a whole bunch of cars on the road with one person in each car,” said Wilson. For those who don’t have a shared ride already, it’s easy to find someone by go-ing to Carpool Northwest’s site at www.car-poolmatchnw.org where about 150 people register each month to carpool.
How it worksThe program pairs commuters who live
near each other and are going near the same place.
People can choose to drive all the time, part time, or just get a ride. There are also preferences to choose from, such as a car with a smoker or non-smoker.
While THS is a commuter site, the pro-gram is most commonly used in companies and schools. At Intel, for example, 286 em-ployees use the program as means to get to work, said communications manager Bill MacKenzie, calling Carpool Northwest “a very useful tool.”
Why some don’t shareAlthough carpooling has many great
qualities, some drivers are reluctant to start sharing rides. Carpool Northwest’s Mary Ann Aschentrenner’s opinion is that we “preserve cars as an extension of our own living space.” She thinks people need to real-ize that their car is a car, and it’s OK to let someone sit in it and accept a ride.
Principal Mark Neffendorf believes that adding Tigard High to the website’s drop-in locations could be a good way to create a
sense of community for the staff. Neffendorf said he believed that if it’s publicized cor-rectly, it could run smoothly and be useful.
“We don’t have enough parking,” added Neffendorf. This program would not only help economically and environmentally, but it would also make it easier to get in and out of the student parking lot.
While this is a good tool for students to find other students and staff to find other staff, associate Principal Mickey Toft cau-tions against students and teachers carpool-ing together.
“I don’t believe it is good practice for adults to provide students transportation,” Toft said.
Be cautiousIt’s fine for teachers to ride with a group
of students during a field trip when it makes sense to take one vehicle, but “teachers should never give a ride to a single student, especially one of the opposite sex.”
With that caveat, Toft said that carpool-ing would be a great way for Tigard staff and students to reduce their carbon footprint.
“Given the right circumstances and guidelines, carpooling could be a very effi-cient way to travel,” said Toft.
PAGE 14 | April 1, 2010 | FEATURES
Carpoolers unite:Saving the world is hard -- carpooling is easy
By Emma Johnson
Carpool Northwest www.carpoolmatchnw.org
The car-matching service doesn’t specify age differences, so a minor could be matched with an adult. In the case of Tigard High, students could match with peers that they don’t know, teachers or staff mem-bers, or other people who signed up to go to Tigard High who can’t be trusted. THS resident Police Officer Andy Pastroe recommends these safety tips.
-Have your parents meet other stu-dent’s parents.-Have them meet the adult that could be taking you.-Get the address and contact infor-mation.-Ask why they’re going to THS.-If they’re an adult find out what part of the staff they’re on.-Try to go with someone that you know.
Juniors Austin Dean (passanger seat), John Moeller (back seat), and Kareem Rassian (driver’s seat) are saving the world one ride at a time
Photo by Andy Abeyta
FEATURES | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 15
Recycle your bodyTissueCorneas, the middle ear, skin, heart
valves, bone, veins, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments can be stored in tissue banks and used to restore sight, cover burns, repair hearts, replace veins, and mend damaged connective tissue and cartilage in recipients.
Blood and PlateletsBlood and platelets are formed
by the body, go through a life cy-cle, and are continuously re-placed throughout life. This means that you can donate blood and platelets more than once. It is safe to donate blood every 56 days and platelets twice in one week up to 24 times a year.
Blood is stored in a blood bank according to type (A, B, AB, or O) and Rh factor (positive or negative). Blood can be used whole, or separat-ed into packed red cells, plasma, and platelets, all of which have different lifesaving uses.
Platelets are tiny cell frag-ments that circulate throughout the blood and aid in blood clot-ting. Platelets can be donated without donating blood. When a specific patient needs platelets, but does not need blood, a matching donor is found and platelets are separated from the rest of the blood which is returned to the donor. The donor’s body will replace the missing platelets within a few hours.
OrgansThe organs that can be transplanted are
kidneys, heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, and the intestines. Organs cannot be stored and must be used within hours of remov-ing them from the donor’s body. Most do-nated organs are from people who have died, but a living individual can donate a kidney, part of the pancreas, lung, liver and intestine.
MarrowThis soft tissue is found in the in-
terior cavities of bones and is a major site of blood cell production and is
removed to obtain stem cells.
Cord blood stem cellsThe umbilical cord that con-
nects a newborn to the mother during pregnancy contains blood and this blood has been shown to contain high levels of blood stem cells. Cord blood can be collected and stored in large freezers for a long period of time, and therefore offers another source of stem cells available for transplanting into patients.
Peripheral blood stem cellsThe same types of stem cells
found in marrow can be pushed out into a donor’s bloodstream after the donor receives daily injections of a medication called filgrastim. This medication increases the number of stem cells circulating in the blood and provides a source of donor stem cells that can be collected in a way that is similar to blood donation.
What to do with those shareable body parts
Interested? Go to
http://or-gandonor.
gov/where this
information originated.
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The Tiger Cage will celebrate Earth Day this year with a ‘So Fresh So Green’ pro-motional campaign, one of the Tiger Cage’s prominent celebrations this year.
“The Tiger Cage, working together with DECA, wants to promote social responsibil-ity with ‘So Fresh So Green,” said Tiger Cage adviser Kelly McGetrick.
They are promoting ‘So Fresh So Green’ by purchasing recycling bins for plastic bottles and containers. There will also be a concert held at Deb Fennell Auditorium at 7 p.m. May 22, promoting ‘So Fresh So Green’. Christian Burghardt, a 2006 THS graduate, will perform with his band, which includes lead guitarist and 2006 THS graduate Sam Larso. DECA and the Tiger Cage will also join to promote this concert.
“I was appointed as president, but in gen-eral we are all working together to make Ti-gard a greener and better place,” said senior Travis Tipton, president of DECA Club. The Tiger Cage will promote healthy foods and drinks such as 100 percent fruit juice slushies and 100 percent fruit fruit-leathers. They also hope to sell organic, local produce such as apples, bananas and other fruits and vegetables. There will also be Jamba Juice promotions on Wednesdays. They will con-tinue to sell products they’ve been selling the whole year, such as Powerade, SmartWa-ter, Vitamin Water 10 and whole grain, low-fat cookies.
All six Tiger Cage managers worked to-gether to plan product selections.
“I take care of the profit we make, promo-tional ideas and check what we’ve sold and what we have left over. I also make sweet
cookies as well,” said senior Dev Devvrat, a Tiger Cage manager.
Not only will the Tiger Cage be promot-ing nutritious foods, but they will also be promoting products that affect the environ-ment in a positive way. They will have recy-cling bins for plastic bottles in hopes that students will recycle. Paper cups are being used instead of plastic, an eco-responsible decision made by the managers in March. The Tiger Cage is remodeling from paper us-age that is constantly being thrown away to a chalkboard menu.
“DECA Club and the Tiger Cage is helping the school become greener and more eco-friendly,” Tipton said.
‘So Fresh So Green’ was a promotional idea brainstormed by marketing students last spring and will finally be in place in 2010.
By Raymond CorralStaff Writer
POLL
WILL STuDENTS ACTuALLy PArTICIPATE IN rECyCLING DurING EArTH WEEK?
84%
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yES NO T-shirts will be sold on April 22 to
represent ‘So Fresh So Green’
Sophomores Steven Kerr and Adam Holman socialize while buying products from the Tiger Cage.
So fresh, so greenThe Tiger Cage
presents an event to promote health and environmental
awareness
EDITORIALS | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 17
Mmm, Whatcha Say?
Auditions?When I watch America’s Got Talent, I
do it to point out that so-and-so was flat on her final note, or comment on David Hasselhoff’s resemblance to a poised ta-rantula. I never thought I’d be a part of the actual audition process. But sometime in early February, my father mentioned that the producers were coming to Portland for preliminary auditions.
Immediately I imagined myself receiv-ing a bouquet of roses and a huge check for $1 million and getting confetti stuck in my hair, blowing kisses to the audience and hugging the runner-up. Then I imag-ined myself as Bianca Ryan, almost forgot-ten two years later.
I registered online as a singer and printed out the four-page contract, three-page guardianship release form and five-page application. This is an opportunity I will not let go, despite the ridiculously long registra-tion process.
Hey, Soul Sister, Accompany Me?I asked my mom to come with me to the auditions to accompany
me on piano. She agreed, grudgingly. But after a few weeks of practic-ing, she realized how awesome this opportunity was. We decided to perform the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. She played piano, I sang the lead and she sang the harmony.
On the morning of the audition, I woke up at 5 a.m. and meticu-lously got everything together, making sure we remembered every-thing.
The line in front of the Convention Center stretched almost the length of the entire building. The very first person in line showed up at 8 the night before and camped out, we found out later.
Bad Romance, Bad StartMy mother turned to me and asked if I had brought my ID. Quick-
ly, all the color drained from my face and my mouth formed the word “no.”
Five minutes later, we were in the car, racing home, my mother lecturing me on the importance of getting ready the night before.
After retrieving the elusive ID, we returned to the line. There were about 200 new people. We waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. Finally, we received numbers and wristbands.
You Would Not Believe Your EyesWe were then ushered to the opposite side of the building to get
some crowd shots. This took about a half an hour and was extremely
boring. They made us say “Northwest is best” about seven times, and “Port-land’s Got Talent” another five times, as well as some “silent cheering” and sweeping shots.
Some of the more interesting people, such as the break-dancers and unicy-clists, were featured yelling various catch phrases into the large, intimidat-ing jib camera.
When we returned to our places in line, we got to know a few of the people surrounding us. There was Sybil, the woman who resembled Aretha Frank-lin and sang just as well; Spencer, the break-dancer on skates; Katie, the overly friendly dancer from Seattle; a talented band of teenage girls who kept playing “Vertigo” by U2; and Sam, the singer from San Francisco who was on
his second audition for the show.
Replay, More LinesFinally we got to go inside. We turned in our paperwork and did
some more waiting.At this point it was about 10:30 a.m. The process was going much
faster than I had anticipated, but there was still more waiting to do.We were arranged in the holding room by type of act. In our sit-
ting area, we had a small jam session when a young boy began to play “I’m Yours” on guitar and the rest of us sang. Another kid began to back us up with drums and there was even a little bit of alto saxo-phone.
Tik Tok, Record DealFinally, they called us in. The moment I walked into the audition
room, I felt my personality slowly seep out, and I became an expres-sionless blob, stammering the name of our act.
There was a panel of judges, not David Hasselhoff or Sharon Os-bourne, but still intimidating, and a cameraman. We performed, and they stared. There were no big mistakes, although my mom sang “and from her lips she drew a hallelujah” instead of “and from her lips she drew the hallelujah.”
When we were done, we were told we would know if we progress to the next round in the next couple of weeks.
Today Was A FairytaleWe left at noon and got lunch at the Laughing Planet, excitedly
going through the details of our day over Thai curry burritos and plantains.
I still haven’t heard whether I’ll be back for David Hasselhoff, but the best part of the day was that I never even needed my ID.
America’s Got Talent: The AuditionsBy an anonymous Editorialist
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3Oh!3 and Cobra Starship are coming to Portland’s Rose-land Theater to perform at 7 p.m. on May 25.
The two bands are touring together on their “Too Fast for Love” tour across America. The show is for all ages and the doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $27 at the door, but buy in advance and you can save some cash.
The concert is going to be a high-energy extravaganza of 3Oh!3 and Cobra Starship’s best music. For an added bonus, Travie McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes and I Fight Dragons will make a guest appearance at the show.
This concert is a must-see event packed with budding art-ists and high-energy music.
Becca: “Alive!”By Teddi Faller
Becca Hollcraft has all the components of a great album, from fun tracks such as “I’m Alive” and “Turn Up the Stereo”, to a soft-er side with “Lose You Now” and “Falling Down”, and even to the scandalous lyrics of “Guilty Pleasure”. Her lyrics and punky atti-tude gives this album the energy needed to make it big. The music sounds like a mix of Top 40 hits with an added edge. Out of five stars, a solid four.
By Katie Burger
Clash of the Titans looks to be the next CGI-filled action movie of the season, full of man-eating monsters, brave warriors, and lots of Greek mythology.
Based on a famous Greek myth, Clash of the Titans follows the adventures of Perseus, the son of a mortal woman and the god Zeus. Perseus must fight the forces of Hades, the god of the Underworld, to keep him from taking control of the Earth and the heavens. Sam Worthington, the lead actor from Avatar, plays Perseus, and Ralph Fiennes plays Hades. Clash of the Titans is a remake of a 1981 mov-ie of the same name, and will be released on April 2 in both 2D and 3D.
By Teddi Faller
Clash of the Titans
Poplife Music and movies to check out this spring
Are you “Too Fast for Love”?
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PAGE 20 | April 1, 2010 | FASHION
How to make it: eco-friendly wallets
Junior Viktoria Hatchadourian creates funky wallets out of old juice cartons and is here to teach you
Junior Viktoria Hatchadourian is re-invent-ing how to recycle, and it doesn’t involve big red bins or a trip to the grocery store: You just need an empty juice carton and a butter knife. It all started with a routine bus ride when Hatchadourian noticed a girl with a unique accessory. It was a folded-up juice carton that she made into a versatile and edgy wallet. “When I saw the girl on the bus, I thought
it was really cool, so I went home and found the pattern on the internet,” said Hatchadou-rian. “I just typed in ‘juice carton wallet.’” Hatchadourian has been making the wal-lets for two months, and even though she has had many requests to make them, she’s only made around five. “I don’t drink that much juice,” Hatchau-dorian explained. “They’re easy to make
though, and pretty durable. I’ve had mine for two months, and it’s still hold-ing up,” she said. Holding up to 10 bank-cards and numerous bills, the wallets are not only cute, they’re practical as well. These wallets are ‘green’, edgy and bright, but the best part is — they’re free and any-one can make them.
By Maris Schwarz
Do it yourself: Gather supplies: empty juice
carton, scissors, pattern from www.familyfun.com,
butter knife for folding.
Place pattern in flat juice carton. To make carton flat,
cut out the sides.
When cutting, make sure the juice carton spout is placed where the
pattern says it should be.
When done cutting, your car-ton should look like this.
Make a large hole on the opposite side of the spout, large enough to go around
the spout.
Fold the sides/flaps inwards Fix any asymmetries between the sides. On the flaps, fold ac-
cordion style.
When done folding, sides should look like this. To
make the folding easier, use a butter knife.
Fold the side with the man made hole over and put the
spout through it. Use the screw-top as a button.
For the pattern and further direc-tions, go to www.familyfun.com
FASHION | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 21
Threads 4 Thought• Each collection is inspired by three major causes: the environ-
ment, Africa and world conflict. Also, Threads 4 Thought supports three charities: International Rescue Committee (IRC), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and ENOUGH.
• All Threads 4 Thought clothing is made primarily in the United States, using certified organic cotton.
• Each clothing item uses low impact dyes. • They offer high fashion without sacrificing comfort. • Many of their t-shirts not only help the environment but make a
statement about it through catchy slogans. • Their clothing is worn by celebrities like Paris Hilton, George
Clooney, Colin Farrell, Jamie Fox, Ludacris, Gavin Rosedale, Gwen Stefani, Lindsay Lohan, the cast of American Idol, and much more.
** You can shop at this store online at http://threadsforthought.com/
Source: http://www.agentredintl.com/threads4thought/
American Apparel• The store now has a focus on preserving the environment and
promoting positive ecological practices. American Apparel doesn’t sell any clothing manufactured in sweat shops.
• The store is cutting down the use of conventional cotton. Twen-ty-five percent of the world’s pesticide use occurs during the cotton cultivation process. It harms not only the environment but it is also the cause of many deaths.
• Latest innovation: the sustainable cotton line, made with tran-sitional organic combed cotton. This will be their first, and most crucial, step towards being environmentally friendly. It will now offer three of American Apparel’s most popular t-shirt styles: Girly Basic T-shirt, Girly Fine Jersey T-shirt, and Standard American Fine Jersey T-shirt. They will be available in the natural color of this envi-ronmentally friendly fabric.
• Offers the same high fashion, just a difference in material.• Has a variety of different types of comfy and bold apparel.
**You can purchase clothing online at: http://www.americanap-parel.com/ or at any nearby store location.
Source: http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/1668
TOMS Shoes• TOMS Shoes was founded on the simple promise that with ev-
ery pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need. One for One.
• It was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie. • They have delivered over 400,000 shoes to children in need. • It is a vegan company.• Their shoes are made with a mix of organic canvas material and
post-consumer recycled plastics that makes for long lasting shoes.• Cute, comfy, everyday-wear type of shoes. There are many dif-
ferent styles and patterns to choose from. **You can purchase them at http://www.tomsshoes.com/prod-
uctslist.aspx?CategoryID=8Source: http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=227
Green FashionBy Brenna Cleveland
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by Dev DevvratAd Editor
Top THS Facebook statusesOmar Horani F to the r to e, e to the c to the r to d i t. Freecred-itreport.com
Julie Lewellyn I karate chopped a banana in line at the bank because I’m AWESOME!
Austin Dean So at Templeton today, this kid comes into the office, tears streaming down his face and he screams “I GOT THE SICK-NESS!!!”, drops to his knees and continues to cough loudly. Then goes into the nurses office, falls down and screams the same thing then hangs his head over the trash. The other little girl in the office scoots away with a frightened look on her face. I know this shouldn’t be funny but it made my day.
Katie Aden is experiencing life at a rate of several WTH’s a minute…
Chelsea Rodgers two things: 1. I have a secret card, its a powerful card....possibly a trump card 2. I want juice.
Jack Ohman joined the group Maybe It Would Be Highly Amusing To Have Sarah Palin as President So That We Knew The Apocalypse Was Here and We Could Get a Headstart on The Whole Thing.
Victor Gavojdea Dude, if I were a cat, and all my life humans had been talking this weird language and then all of a sudden one of them MEOWS at me, I would be like ... That stuff would throw me off guard.
Makenzie Bittinger mmmm its like an angel gave birth in my mouth!
Derek Harris wow you know you’re bored when you google boredom ...
Amy Phou has two options in order to make it to finals for 100 fly, 1) find girl ranked #16, kidnap her & break her legs, or 2) swim my mighty hardest and have swimmers eat my bubbles! ...I’m feelin’ option #1...
Lauren Saddler History IA, if you were a person, I would shun you. Shun I say!
By Morgan ChanPrincipal Mark Neffendorf abrupt-
ly quit April 1, saying he wanted to join a senior-league basketball team in Miami, Florida, leaving students with their fifth principal in four years.
“I’m destined to be the best old athlete in the world,’’ Neffendorf said. “I’m sorry I’m leaving, but, hey, you’ve got a great replacement.”
Superintendent Rob Saxton an-nounced he would replace Neffendorf immediately with Taz, whose metal-lic personality will whip the staff into shape. When asked if the staff would have input on this decision, Saxton replied, “Give Taz a chance. You’ll ad-mire his firm grip.”
Robotics adviser Steve Fulton gushed when he heard the news.
“Our robotics team, while new to the state, has been able to create the first robotic principal. We have programmed U.S. Navy commands into him, so he should lead with con-fidence as I did when I served this great country for 25 years as a Navy commander.”
When Taz was asked to elaborate on his goals, he turned silently and kicked a soccer ball down the hall toward Four Corners.
“He’s cool,” said yearbook editor Silvia Martinez. “And I bet he won’t worry about enforcing the dress code.”
APRIL FOOLS! Neffendorf loves THS and plans to stay. Sorry Taz.
APRIL FOOLS | April 1, 2010 | PAGE 23
Taz becomes principalNeffendorf quits for a ‘senior moment’ in sports
Senior Alan Sherman works with the new principal, Taz.
Here are a few historical April Fools hoaxesNo 1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest --
1957The respected BBC news show Panorama
announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spa-ghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It showed footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Many viewers called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomati-
cally replied, “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
(Look on YouTube: The Swiss Spaghetti Har-vest)
No. 3: Instant Color TV -- 1962In 1962 there was only one TV channel in
Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station’s technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception.
All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen. Stensson demonstrated the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
No. 10 The Taco Liberty Bell -- 1996The Taco Bell Corporation announced it
had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged . . . . (Go to http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/) to finish. April Fools!
APRIL FOOLS! There’s no hidden paw in this issue.
SpotsLo
By Brittany NguyenTeachers have taken the administrative
directive to “be more friendly” too seriously, said many surprised students.
“I walked down freshmen hall yesterday and saw this clog of students hugging each other in a circle,’’ said freshman Sofia Alva-rez-Castro. “I tried to push my way through, but it was impossible. Mr. Bailey was sing-ing “Kumbaya” with the kids, and they were swaying in a huge huddle. What’s up with
that? ’’What’s up is a push by the administra-
tion to get teachers to relate to their stu-dents better. Instructors have been asked to smile when they walk the halls and to cre-ate a more supportive ‘community’ school atmosphere.
Graphics teacher Chuck Laiti took the di-rective to the floor.
“My aching back!” Laiti said as he got off the floor, fresh from a break-dancing bout
between classes. When asked if he needed a doctor, he smiled.
“It’s all good,’’ Laiti said. “I’m down with the dawgs. It’s DOPE.’’
Other teachers said they were not happy with this new directive.
“I wasn’t paid to be friendly or nice,’’ said a veteran teacher who asked to remain no-torious. “I don’t like kids, and they don’t like me. Why is the administration trying to rock a perfectly balanced boat?”
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