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Check us out online at www.easthighpublications.com!Babies at East HighUpdates on the East High daycare, and how everything came together

“Wherefore for art thou Romeo?”East students prepare for the upcoming play Romeo & Juliet

senior countdown

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Co-Editors in ChiefAaron Hosman

Stephenie Gabriel

Savanna Bullington

Keesha GainesNatalie Flores

Darian Delaney

Joshua Dunigan

STAFF

Staff MembersBrianna Boner

Micheala Hale AdviserNatalie Niemeyer

PrincipalSteve Johns

Kendrew PanyanouvongMichelle NouchanthavongChase ReynoldsSteven Johnson

Brian Rivera

Ethan Rustan

The Scroll is a public forum for student expression.

LETTER POLICYThe Scroll welcomes letters but reserves the right

to edit for space as needed. Outside contributions are subject to the usual restrictions of libel and obscenity and must conform to general paper policy, which is available upon request. Signed commentaries represent personal opinions, not views of the staff. Also, your letter needs to include your full name and grade. Unsigned letters can not be printed. You can deliver your letter to Natalie Niemeyer in room 3060N.

ADS POLICYAds are available in quarter page, half page and

full page sizes. Ad inquiries should be directed to Natalie Niemeyer at natalie.niemeyer@dmschools.org. The Scroll reserves the right to reject ads deemed not in the best interest of East students. The paper is printed every four weeks by Wilcox Printing in Madrid, IA.

DISTRICT EDUCATIONALEQUALITY STATEMENT

The Des Moines Public Schools prohibits discrimination in educational and employment programs and activities based on age, race, creed, color, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. In addition, the District prohibits acts of intolerance or harassment toward employees or students that are not related to the individual’s employment or education.

NOTE: All contents are the product of the EHS newspaper production staff. Occasional stories are contributed from the Journalism Intern program.

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Pg. 3 -Groundhogs day; get the scoopof this hallmark holidayPg. 5 -College prep; get tips and advice for starting your college journeyPg. 8 -Teacher by day, comedian by night

Pg. 9 -A Scroll staff member’s opinion on how wrestlers are supported at East-Dear KeeshaPg. 10 -East sends two qualifiers for wrestling-Post season stats for Girls BasketballPg. 11 -Superbowl; lights-out in New Orleans-Ray Lewis perfect finish

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Updates and upcoming eventsCOLOR GUARD MEMBERS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSOn Saturday, January 26 the East High Color Guard competed in solo March-ing Auxiliaries Competitions. Two

EAST SENIOR FOOTBALL PLAYERS SIGN TO SCHOOLSOn Wednesday, February 6, six East High Senior football players signed their own letters of intent to continue their educa-tion and playing college football.Xavier James - University of Northern Iowa

Tobias Tyler - Grand View University

Taylor Mitchell - Grand View Univer-sity

Jeremy Bos - Grand View University

Derico Lowery - Ellsworth Commu-nity College

Jamal Lowery - Ellsworth Community College

GIRLS REGIONAL SEMIFINAL BASKETBALLThe East Girls Basketball team will compete Saturday, February 16 vs. Mar-shalltown at East. The game begins at 7 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL SUBSTATE QUARTER FINALThe East Boys Basketball team will compete in the substate quarter final at North High School on Monday, Febru-ary 28. The game begins at 7 p.m.

EAST QUALIFIES IN STATE WRESTLINGTwo East wrestlers qualified for State Wrestling in 2013. Sophomore, Josh Davis (145 pounds) and Junior, Makram Ariba-Lbraheem (160 pounds) both competed yesterday at Wells Fargo Arena and will compete today. Today’s performance will decide if either continue to compete Saturday.

Look for our next issue, issue eight next month. Issue eight is distributed on Wednesday, March 13Follow us on Twitter @EastScroll

roundhogs Day is not the Holiday that comes to mind when

most think of February. So it is only fair that some light be shed on the celebration of this Squirrel relative. Groundhog.org states, “Ac-cording to legend, if Punx-sutawney Phil sees his shad-ow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather. If he does not see his shadow, there will be an early spring.”

Phil is the name of the Groundhog and he has been alive ever since the first Groundhog Day cel-ebration in 1887, that is ac-cording to the inner circle.

Phil drinks his “Ground-hog Punch” every year, which adds 7 more years to the woodchuck’s life an average lifespan is 2 or 3.

The day has grown from a single Journalist at its first trek to a yearly spec-tacle with crowds reaching in the thousands, attract-ing T.V. and news cameras.

Groundhogs are also known as woodchucks, landbeaver, and whistlepig.

“I used to think groundhogs were little pigs.” Senior Victoria Pena-Medina said. Groundhogs are large rodents not small pigs, and they are mam-

mals described as heavy bodied with short legs.

Their fur is commonly grey or cinnamon brown with guard hairs which give off a frosty color.

All this and more just to see and receive a once a year weather report from Punxsutawney Phil. How-ever, Iowa’s groundhog day traditions contrast with northeastern U.S. traditions and is celebrated minimal-ly if at all by most of us.

“I don’t know anybody (who celebrates Ground-hog Day), I just know peo-ple who are familiar with it.” Junior Bob Kern said.

Groundhog Day began with early German settlers in Pennsylvania.

The settlers found that groundhogs were plentiful in the region and were the most intelligent and wise an-imal to carry on the legend.

Nowhere else is the celebration of the Mythi-cal folklore legend of groundhogs forecast-ing weather more popular than it is in Punxsutaw-ney Pennsylvania where the holiday was born over 122 years ago on Feb. 2nd.

The inner circle is a group of local men who car-ry the responsibility of tak-

G ing care of Phil and holding the annual event in Punx-sutawney at Gobblers Knob.

These men ensure that Phil and the traditions live on without sacrificing their own fun on Groundhogs day.

To get to know the “In-ner Circle” a bit more visit the Groundhog website which states Phil’s predic-tion, “… And so ye faithful, there is no shadow to see: An early spring for you and me”.

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cum bags, thugs, igno-rant, illiterate, ghetto, druggies; these are

things you hear about the students that go to East High School. As students, we know that a lot of the rumors are as over-exag-gerated as they can come.

When a student at a neigh-boring high school was asked to describe East they said, “East has a lot of minorities, shootings, and fights, and they’re not good in sports.”

The rumors can get pret-ty ridiculous in an almost humorous way. People are genuinely scared of East but have never taken a step through its doors. East is one of the biggest and most diverse high schools in the state of Iowa. Over the past few years East has improved, more students are going to class, and fights are almost rare to see, this is a different school then it was four years ago.The changes have not gone unnoticed.

“East seems like they have a lot of school spirit and pride and I respect that,”Lincoln Junior Kerry Herrera said.

Are the stereotypes actually what they are talked up to be?

“Well East has the obvious cliché stereotypes, about be-

ing ghetto and trashy it may seem like. But since I met a few East students it’s re-ally nothing like that. Major-ity of you guys have morals and class. So, people should not believe the whole ste-reotype,” Norwa l k s t u d e n t C r i s s y L e w -is said.

T h o s e w a l k -ing the halls at EHS feel positive-ness. Not the stereotypes.

“There is a friendly at-mosphere when you walk down the hall way,” Principal Johns said.

It doesn’t matter where you go; East High, Hoover, North or Lincoln; fights and conflicts will be found anywhere you go. But East High’s diverse school has made us a com-mon target. But why are we the common target?

“We are culturally di-verse and they (East stu-dents) respect each oth-er for that,” Johns said.

In the past East High has had a record of violence but in the past few years East has evolved. In the fall there was a fight on Walker

Street involving 21 students. Every student involved was suspended. There have been no fights with guns and students have been found with weapons ‘like pocket knives and guns’ accord-

ing to school resource of-ficer Rodrigo Santizo, but were never used. Incidents like this, even though no one was hurt

diminish our reputation. “Everything we do

puts out more stereotypes about us. Our job is to put out more positive in-formation,” Johns said.

In the past two years, the

positive aspects at EHS have increased. The fresh-men have been brought up to the main building, we made first place regionally in Get Schooled last year, and our attendance has gone from 88 percent last year to 93 percent this year. Seniors have improved their read-ing scores by 20 percent in the ITEDs and juniors im-proved their reading scores by 17.4 percent. In math seniors have improved their scores by 12.4 percent and juniors have improved theirs by 12.2 percent.

“Juniors, sophomores and freshman from last year showed improvement in reading math and science. Not one class went down.

Are stereotypes about East justified?

Every one of our classes went up in one of those categories,” Mr.Byam said.

According to Mr. Byam and Mr. Johns all of East’s students have improved. But East is still stuck with a negative reputation. “They shouldn’t stereo-type East because they haven’t experienced what East is like so they can’t re-ally say what they think,” Oscar Henriquez said.

East hopes to con-tinue on a positive path.

“I hope they (other schools) talk about East be-ing the school of choice. I hope they choose the east side to send their kids to high school,” Johns said.

“East has a lot of minorities,

shootings, and fights, and they’re not good

in sports.”

SSagging pants; a stereotype placed at EHS. This student not sagging their pants is disobeying school

rules by not wearing his ID badge.story/J. Gerke/B. Rivera

Which one of these students do you think is

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“I want to wrap you up, want to kiss your lips, I want to make you feel wanted” –Hunter Hayes

Red roses, candle lit dinner, bouquet of balloons, and a romantic movie. This seems to be every teenage girl’s dream. Being in love is the greatest feeling, and it seems to make life a little brighter. From one of the most popular love stories, The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks said, “I love you; I am who I am because we of you. You are my every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.” Quotes like these give girls everywhere the hope that someday they will find their true love, have that perfect first kiss, and live a fairy tale life. From personal experience, I would have to say that there is nothing better than waking up to a good morning text message, always being reminded that you are cared for, and that someone out there thinks you are perfect. Knowing that you are loved gives you a whole new perspective on life. You skip around singing love songs, and want to tell the whole world that you are the happiest girl alive. But there is always that person who wants to rain on your parade. They don’t want to see you happy and smiling 24/7. They don’t want to see cute pictures, and listen to you talk about your significant other. Just because they haven’t found their special person they think it’s unfair that you have found yours. I understand why some girls look down on relationships after they have just experienced heartbreak. I have been there, and I been through the tears and pain. But I just wish they would let us be happy, and possibly be happy for us. So whether or not I will have all of the support on the Valentine’s Day; I am going to make it the cheesiest, corniest, over the top day filled with love. I hope all of you love birds out there have a wonderful day, and all of you that are flying solo. I hope you find a way to get through the pain of seeing others happy.

Cupid’s love arrows have once again failed to pierce all lonesome hearts for a love filled holiday. Valentine’s Day

is a dreadful reminder to some individuals that love is hard to find and every year it’s the same, countless people spend time and money to prepare their special someone a gift or gesture of their love and care. There are some people who haven’t had great Valentine experiences, but every year

they have to sit there and watch people salivate at the over-all concept of Val-entine’s Day. Rock band, Good Charlotte sang, “Everybody, put up your hands, say I don’t wanna be in love, I don’t wanna be in love.” Not everyone has experienced an un-pleasant Valentine experience, but that doesn’t stop them from disfavoring the love struck holiday. “I don’t like that everyone thinks it’s a day of love, why only one special day to show someone your love? You don’t need Valentine’s Day to buy your signifi cant other a gift because then it’s not a surprise, it’ not fun to give a gift to someone who’s expecting it,” Senior Ryan Skow said. “I don’t think it’s that

important if you’re single. Some girls who aren’t single love this day because it’s time they would spend with their significant other, but to me it’s just an-other day on the calendar,” freshmen Dazunear Riddle said. Hollywood is no help. Endless amounts of girls dream about their prince charm-ing taking their breath away with a Hollywood kiss, but such an ac-tion will most likely never happen. Millions of dollars are made from the production of never ending romantic comedies, or movies with an intense love story to it. Will Justin Bieber dedicate an entire song about his intense desire for your love? Will Taylor Swift sing a hit single about how you broke her heart? Will Bruno Mars really catch a grenade for you? Most likely not. Valentine’s Day is just one day out of the year when the slobbering of love stricken couples is acceptable. As the J. Geils Band would say, love stinks.

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they don’t need to be in a relation-ship to be happy. And some peo-ple celebrate to show that they like to be single and they want to show that off. But most people celebrate Singles Awareness Day because they feel sorry for themselves.

People usually travel to different places like Brazil to see the Brazil-ian Carnival. Some may go volun-teer somewhere for the day, rather than celebrate S.A.D. as others do. A few even go and buy gifts for themselves. On Valentine’s Day, some people like to wear green be-cause it is the opposite of the “love

color,” which is red. They also will wear black to show to others that they don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day.

In a perfect world, we all would be in love and would look forward to Valentine’s Day. But in reality, a lot of people aren’t in relationships and wouldn’t even want to be. So while most people are getting romantic on Valentine’s Day, some are grieving.

ingles Awareness Day (S.A.D.) is a holiday celebrated humor-ously after Valentine’s Day.

S.A.D. is considered a Hallmark holiday, or commercial holiday, because it isn’t a national holiday.

“I wouldn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day because I don’t like the holi-day. It depresses me because I’ve never had a boyfriend on Valentine’s Day,” junior Alexis Hackett said.

On Singles Awareness Day, some single people gather together to share sorrow because they don’t have a significant other. Others like to show happy couples that

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Valentine’s DayQuestions 1. What is a pet peeve you have about him/her? 2. What is your favorite thing about him/her? 3. What was your first impression about him/her? 4. Where was your first kiss?

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Cindy 1. He’s messy and he eats a lot.

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Cast:Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack DawsonKate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater50 First Dates (2004)Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets Lucy. They hit it off and Henry thinks he’s finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short term memory loss and forgets him the very next day.Cast:Adam Sandler as Henry RothDrew Barrymore as Lucy Whit-more

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icolas Lenk can be found in room 3013C Monday - Friday from 7 a.m. to 3

p.m. But on Thursday nights, East High educator Lenk can be found at Billy Joe’s Lounge‘s Comedy Night from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Not only is Lenk a supportive au-dience member but he is also an amateur stand-up comedian.

“I have performed over 20 times. I perform every two weeks or so,” Lenk said. “My friend Jar-ed is an actor here in Des Moines and he wanted to bring a friend so he brought me once. I wanted to see if I was funny and I did it and

it was a lot of fun.” The crowd must’ve loved Lenk because he has been performing for a year and a half now.

The northern Colorado native has a degree in astronomy and teaching from the University of Colorado at Boulder. During his time in Boulder, he was a member of an improv group. He has been a teacher for two and a half years and has been teaching physics and earth science at East for over one year.

“He’s always making learning fun. He’s always making a joke out of what he’s teaching,” freshman Brittany Stoll said.

“It just comes out naturally. I love to laugh with students. If I have an opportunity to make a joke then I will take it,” Lenk said.

Dana Carvey and Jim Gaffigan are not the only people who in-spire Lenk’s material.

“I talk about and embellish what happens at school a lot. The kids are hilarious and do funny things all the time,” he explained. Whenever inspired, he will text himself a message. The content of the messages remind him of a joke that he can use on stage.Lenk has not been paid for any of his performances. He voluntarily creates laughter for a crowd that

gets into the events for free. “People laugh even if it is not

funny. It is a friendly environ-ment,” he said. “Just like any other hobby I want to get better. I see improvement. I think that it is a good place to build self-con-fidence because you put yourself out there.”

One similarity between a com-edy club and a classroom is that they are both rooms full of peo-ple. But Lenk has another per-spective between the two. “They are both similar because you want to be effective. If you bomb a les-son then the students are bored and are like that was stupid. If you bomb a show then it’s like well that was that,” Lenk said.

An article written by educa-tionillustrated.com shows that humor used in a class room is beneficial because students show an increased level of interaction and participation. Lenk tries to incorporate his humor within his lessons as much impossible and gives students breaks during lec-tures.

“We get ‘breaklingtons’. A ‘breaklington’ is when we have breaks from what we’re doing and learning and we all just get to

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visit with each other and pull out our electronics,” freshman Angela Frederickson said. “I believe it’s good we can have a break from learning for a bit. But we get right back to work and we review what we learned.”

“Essentially there are high points, and low points, in an 80 minute class period that students are much more capable of retain-ing information. What I try to do is place our ‘breaklingtons’, es-sentially a 2-3 minute break where they get to completely disengage from class, in these low points in my class. When coming out of a ‘breaklington’, I’ve found learn-ing to be much higher than if I continue to plow along without stopping,” Lenk said. “While many students do this for part of their break time, I do not give the breaklingtons to address the cell phone problems. I give them be-cause it enhances learning in my class.”

As much as Lenk enjoys stand up, he is infatuated with teaching.

“I love the satisfaction of help-ing someone learn and getting prepared for life,” Lenk said. “I definitely care about teaching more than comedy.”

photo contribution/Nicolas LenkLenk performs in front of a crowd at Billy Joe’s Lounge.

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Opinion The East High ScrollLetters to the Editors, Dear Keesha or your opinions can be sent to: hosmanaaron@yahoo.com, Ste14ph@aol.com, Natalie.Niemeyer@dmschools.org or dropped off in room 3060N

s a student here at East High School, I love going to the ath-

letic events. It’s really nice to go watch the football team play on one of the nicest fields in the state. Seeing the girls play in a pretty nice sized gym is always a fun time. And let’s not forget going to watch a swim meet in the school swimming pool, which compared to a lot of pools is really nice.

Being a wrestler, it’s pret-ty frustrating to go to these events and see the facilities that they’ve been given, and then go to wrestling practice in a small, cramped, over packed wrestling room. Af-ter practice, I go to what

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I’ve been single for a while now, maybe no guy wants me. But I’m curious about taking a new route with my life by being with the same gender as me. But I don’t know what to do, what should I do?I’m positive some guy out there would love to have you. There are a lot more guys out there than you think. You live in Iowa and you’re only in high school, just be patient and he will come. Remember you still have college and years after college. If you would like to start dating, it’s up to you. Don’t let anyone else control your life and tell you otherwise. As long as that guy or girl, truly makes you happy. Your life is up to you if you want to venture deep inside yourself then I’d advise you to do it! My best friends’ girlfriend hates me. I haven’t done anything to her. She accuses me of trying to break them up and she says that I’m a “witch”. It got so bad that her girlfriend told her that she is no longer allowed to be my friend. I don’t know what to do and it is tearing me apart to know that my best friend and I are not allowed to hang out. What should I do?You should pull your best friend aside and talk to her. Ask her if she feels that you’re trying to break them up, too. Tell her how you feel about her being able to allow her girlfriend to control who she should be friends with. I’m sure you guys are old enough that you should all know how to get along. Also, see if you can talk to her girlfriend and have her explain to you why she doesn’t like you, and why she thinks the way she does.

R.I.P Dear AbbyPauline Phillips is the original advice columnist for Dear Abby. She was born July 4, 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa. She died with Alzheim-er’s disease on January 16 in Minnesota at age 94. Pauline founded the ‘Dear Abby’ advice column in 1956. Since then, Dear Abby has appeared in 1,400 newspapers. She started journalism in 1955 at age 37. She told the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle she could ‘write a better advice column than what they already had.’ She wrote ‘Dear Abby’ until 2000 when she started sharing her byline with her daughter Jeanne Phillips. In 2002 Jeanne took over the column full time when the family revealed that Pauline had Alzheimer’s. Dear Abby serves as inspiration for “Dear Keesha.” Sincerely,

might easily be one of the worst locker rooms in the school. Out of all the schools I’ve wrestled at, the East wrestling team has the worst locker room.

My point in all of this is that I feel like wrestling gets brushed to the side while the bigger sports get new equipment and their facilities are im-proved. Until this year, only three out of five of our showers worked in the wrestling locker room. For a chunk of the be-ginning of the year, the toilet didn’t even work.

“We’ve gotten a new water fountain, fixed the shower heads, and ce-mented in an old drain that

didn’t even work, but in the 8 years I’ve been here that was the first time it had been touched,” head wrestling coach James Giboo said.

One of the biggest prob-lems that most people have with wrestling at East is the size of the wrestling room and the condition of the mats. The wrestling room is about the size of a class-room. When we wrestle we are either running into other people or you’re running into a wall. There are just too many wrestlers in one small room. The coaches and wrestlers definitely feel the need for vast improve-ments to the wrestling equipment and facilities.

The wrestling mats are ri-

diculous. I’m pretty sure we might have the oldest wrestling mats in the state.

“We got the red mats in the room when I was in about first grade, which is around the mid 1980’s,” assistant wrestling coach Scott Rourke said. Coach Rourke has been a part of the wrestling pro-gram at East since the mid 80’s and says noth-ing has really changed.

“There have been small changes to the room since I’ve been here, but not many,” Rourke said, “The locker room hasn’t changed at all.”

We put in so much hard work during the wrestling season to rep-

resent our school on the mat, but the recognition isn’t there. We deserve a better room, better mats, and a better locker room. We’ve earned that much.

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This mural is found in the wrestling room, which is in need of updates to accom-modate the large wrestling team.

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“Making it to state is no easy task. There are guys who lose maybe one or two matches all year and win 30 and they don’t make it to state.” -James Giboo

oichelle “Shelly” Marble has had a sensational season for the Lady Scarlets. Marble is

a feisty guard for the Lady Scarlets, and has led the team in steals and assist throughout the regular season (3.5 steals PG/4.1 assist PG).“Teams can’t handle our quickness, so we have that advantage.” She said. Mar-ble has taken on a leader role for the Lady Scarlets, and hopes to lead her team throughout the playoffs.

S hareece “Re-Re” Burrell’s vio-lent fast paced play has made a name for itself. The Scarlet

forward has dominated the paint throughout the regular season (6.0 rebounds PG/14.0 points PG). When asked about her play this season Burrell responded, “I give a lot of energy to our team.” Burrell hopes to continue the dynamic play in the playoffs, and help the Lady Scarlets advance in the tournament.

s the wrestling sea-son comes to a close, the allure of the IH-

SAA state wrestling tour-nament is on the minds of many high school wrestlers across the state of Iowa. Here at East, the wrestling team has managed to qualify two wrestlers for this pres-tigious tournament; sopho-more Josh Davis and junior Makram Ibraheem. Davis, a two-time state qualifier placed second at the district tournament and Ibraheem who qualified for the first time also placed second.

The way the state tour-nament works is there are eight districts with eight teams. The top two wres-

tlers from every district at each weight class advance to state where they will wrestle in a 16-man bracket. Instead of seeding the brackets like a normal tournament, the brackets are randomized. This way there isn’t a bias on who gets the better seeds.

It’s not a little feat to make it to the state tournament. Many

people find a huge achieve-ment just to be a state quali-fier. “Making it to state is no easy task. There are guys who lose maybe one or two match-es all year and win 30 and they don’t make it to state,” Coach James Giboo said.

Giboo said he is proud of both wrestlers for making it. “We still have those long term goals that we want to accom-plish. Josh qualified last year and didn’t place, so this year placing is the goal we want to achieve. Makram went from winning no matches his freshman year to a state quali-fier two years later. How can you not be proud of that?”

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rrica “Pooh” Daye is the heart, soul, and engine that has kept the Scarlet freight train rolling. Daye

is a guard for the Lady Scar-lets, and has put tenacious pick pocketing defense on opposing foes. (2.9 steals PG). Daye has put her teammates in the right position with unselfish dimes throughout the season (2.9 as-sist PG). “I cash out,” Daye said, commenting on her shooting.

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enise “Ree” Collier has made a quick hasty entrance into the Lady

Scarlet’s lineup. Collier is a transfer from Urbandale with a lot of potential, and her tal-ent is much appreciated by Sam Powell. Thought of as a sixth man off the bench, Renise Collier has provided a huge spark to the Scarlet’s fire throughout the season.

Rrtichala “Tisha” Wise is the lone senior of a young, rowdy Scar-

let group. Having a beast in the paint can come with many perks for the Lady Scarlets. Her ferocious presence down low intimidates opponents and it alters many shots (1.15 blocks PG). Wise’s strong play and leadership will be need-ed throughout the playoffs.

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SportsLights-out finish in New Orleans

amily feud struck New Or-leans, Louisiana on Feb. 3, as tempers flared, emotions

reigned supreme, and a little more was on the line then bragging rights. Brothers Jim (San Francis-co 49ers) and John Harbaugh (Bal-timore Ravens) were squaring off for the Vince Lombardi trophy.

When the opening kickoff was set from the Superdome, Baltimore wasted no time with the football. Baltimore’s Joe Flacco connected to Anquan Blodin for a 13 yard touchdown pass to take an early 7-0 lead.

San Francisco would respond with a field goal by David Ak-ers from 36 yards out but from that moment on, the first half was all Baltimore. Flacco would connect two more times in the second quarter for touch-down passes, including a 56 yard bomb to receiver Jacoby Jones. San Francisco’s only response was another field goal, putting the Ravens up 21-6 at the half.

On the opening kickoff of

the second half, Jones returned the kick 108 yards for a touch-down to extend the Ravens’ lead to 28-6. At this point it ap-peared San Francisco would need a miracle to happen, the 49ers just happened to get one.

On the next possession, half of the lights in the Superdome went out, leaving half the sta-dium in darkness. After a 34

minute delay the game was back on and San Francisco came out playing like a whole new team.

Colin Kaepernick would con-nect to Michael Crabtree on a 31 yard touchdown pass which would start the third quarter dominance for San Francisco. After a touchdown run by Frank

Gore and another field goal, the 49ers only trailed 28-23 head-ing into the fourth quarter

Baltimore would tack on a field goal only to be fol-lowed up by a touchdown run by Kaepernick. After a failed two point conversion the score was now 31-29, Ravens lead.

Baltimore would boot another field goal to increase their lead to 34-29. With just four min-utes to play, Kaepernick drove the 49ers down field inside the red zone with a chance to pull off one of the greatest come-backs in Super Bowl history.

After four chances inside the ten yard line, San Francisco came up just short of the prize.

When the clock struck zero John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens were on top of the football world with the final score of 34-31.

Flacco was named MVP af-ter throwing for 287 yards and three touchdowns. Balti-more would capture their sec-ond title in franchise history.

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Ray Lewis’ perfect finishhen the clock struck zero in Super Bowl XLVII not only were the Baltimore Ravens champions of

the NFL, but one of the biggest legacies in the sport came to an end. After a 17 year career, Bal-timore’s Ray Lewis decided it was time to hang up his pads and re-tire after a long ride.

Baltimore selected Lewis with the 26th overall pick of the 1996 NFL draft and that was the begin-ning of the legacy. Lewis built his reputation as a hard-hitting Mddle Linebacker and as the leader and

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face of the Ravens for years to come.

In his 17 year career, Lewis re-corded a total of 2,061 tackles. The totals he compiled over his 17 seasons put him at the top of the all-time tackles list in NFL his-tory.

Lewis captained the Ravens to two Super Bowls during his time in Baltimore. His first being Su-per Bowl XXXV where he was named MVP. The next one came in 2013, as Lewis led his team one last time over San Francisco to place his final mark on the NFL

In 2000 and 2003, Lewis was named Defensive player of the year. The 13 time pro bowler was named to the Associated Press’ All-Pro team ten times which ties him among Lawrence Taylor for most all time for Linebackers.

Lewis will always be remem-bered for his leadership and dedication to Baltimore where he finshed his career on top of the NFL, but most importantly with the city of Baltimore on his back.

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STEPPINGDOWNAthletic Director, Ric Powell says, “Thanks for the memories.”

Kim & RicThe ‘dynamic duo’

For six years Kim Smith (pictured above), has worked alongside Ric Powell as secretary for the Athletic department. The two met while Kim was volunteering for the boys basketball team. After receiving her posi-tion on staff their close-knit relationship formed. “The job at East was completely new to me so Ric had to do a lot of training..,” Smith said.

Powell and Smith are familiar faces around East sporting events and work closely together. “For myself, it will be tough to see Ric go. Ric and I work in the same office eight hours a day, add ten to 25 extra hours a week working sporting events together and up-date each other through texting seven days a week,” Smith said.

“We have both become great friends and seeing your friends move on is always difficult.”

“I’m grateful because he allowed me to do both things I love, dance and cheer. I’ll miss him.”

-Senior, Stepper/Cheerleader, Kara Cipperley

hrough the hustle and bustle, emails and phone calls the small of-fice set back in the far South side of East acts as the heart of East

High athletics and events. For a seven year stretch, Ric

Powell has served as Athletic Direc-tor planning sporting events, awards ceremonies, and assemblies, working out schedules and handling the Ath-letic Departments finances. How-ever, despite his many accomplish-ments Powell has decided to step down at the end of the semester.

“There is never a good time (to step down) because you always have special kids. I’ve seen people come and go in my 33 years in education. You hear people say, ‘Well I’m going to wait for this class to graduates or that group.’ I’ve seen that so many times when I was an AD in Ankeny and an AD at all these other places and I’ve learned there is never an easy time to step away,” Powell said.

Along with personal reasons, like the expectance of his first grandchild and concerns for his own health, Powell cited his many accomplish-ments as one reason to walk away.

“Whenever you leave you’re are going to leave a lot of special people, you’re going to leave a lot of spe-cial students and community mem-bers, so there is never a right time but for me to be a good time, num-ber one I think I’ve done as much as I possibly can here,” Powell said.

Alongside Kim Smith and many others, Powell has dedicated many hours to supporting East. Powell

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East’s Athletic Director, Ric Powell being interviewed by Iowa Catholic Radio during halftime at the Dowling vs. East basketball on February fifth. photo/Natalie Flores

helped iron out the working relation-ship between East and Grand View University and oversaw the football stadium’s entrance renovation. Pow-ell also implemented the Hall of Fame in 2007 and last year formed the DMPS Activities Awards Ban-quet. However, most of all, Powell’s proudest moment was seeing the support from the school district and community after the fire at Williams Stadium during this past summer.

“Your setbacks end up making you feel the best – through the help of the whole community and seeing over $40,000 come in as gifts, that makes it pretty special. We had a goal of making sure we had a locker room the first home game and we did. There were so many things that came together – I pretty much cried during that first kickoff it was just seeing it all happen,” Powell said.

Powell taught as East and was the AD from 1984 – 1999 before fulfilling opportunities at Saydel and other school districts and then re-turned to East in 2007. Through his many years at East Powell has formed many friendships. “Ric Powell was a great AD. I have worked with many through the years and he was great to work for as a coach. I think the most important thing about Ric was his genuine love of athletics and he always put the best interests of students first. He would do everything possible to support our players, and our teams - he provided all the resources we needed to be suc-cessful at the highest levels. He was encouraging and positive to everyone that worked with him,” former East girls’ softball coach, Bob Ligouri said.

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