It’s no secret that the prevalence of bullying amongst adolescents has risen sharply in re-cent years. What once was simply a “rite of pas-sage” or “part of growing up” has now become an aggressive, even fa-tal, epidemic for many young victims. With the rise in popularity of so-cial networking sites amongst increasingly younger kids, bully-ing has rapidly become more high-tech, vicious, and, worst of all, often imperceptible to adults until it is too late. For-tunately, at McMinnville High School, many stu-dents and staff members have spoken up and tak-

en a stand against bully-ing.

“I made it a goal this year to work on bully-ing,” said Judi Dickey, MHS Assistant Principal. “The idea is to spread the word that this issue is serious. Whether [ad-ministrators] see it or not, it still affects kids.”

Dickey has worked for several years with students who are vic-tims of bullying and ha-rassment at MHS. She says that much of the harassment reported is targeted at students who are physically different; specifically minority students and those with physical and mental handicaps.

According to the Leftist Pub-lication, 17 years’ the war in the Congo has left 5.4 million people dead, and more than 200,000 women and girls have been the victims of rape and violence. The conflict has proven to be the plan-ets deadliest struggle since WWII.

Out of all the people in the Congo, the women have under-gone the most pain.

Individuals from McMinnville, including many McMinnville High School students have made efforts towards helping the women that are suffering in the Congo. These people have formed the Social Jus-tice Club, a club trying to help the women in need.

“I really enjoy giving to those less fortunate. I have grown up with such blessing and it feels good to be able to help others,” said sophomore Emily Lucas, a member of the Social Justice

group. Lucas’ mother, Sandra, is the

leader of the group and is current-ly in Africa conducting workshops with the women and giving them loans to help them become inde-pendent and support their fami-lies.

In Goma, Congo which is known to be “the rape capital of the world,” the women are raped and then viewed to be worthless and impure to their husbands. “The reason women get raped so often in the Congo is because that is how the men in the military as-sert their power over the commu-nities,” said Lucas.

“When these women are raped they not only get sexually assault-ed, but many cases happen when parts of the body are cut off, wom-en are killed, and family members are killed or threatened,” said sophomore Allison Lake.

Because of this the women in Congo live in constant fear for their families and themselves.

“The original idea was to send our support and hope, every cent we made was just more that we

For many people in Yamhill County, the holidays are a time spent with family and friends, accompanied by lunches or dinners. But this year, the per-centage of families needing food has been on the rise, and it’s up to the Yamhill county food bank to supply these families in need. Yet, many ask, how are they able to help lower the rising needs?

Every Thursday, the Yamhill County Food Bank is greeted by a supply of food from the Oregon food Bank lo-cated in Portland. The food from the Oregon bank is one of the ma-jor sources that supply

the McMinnville Food Bank, but even with the supply of foods, there is still a need for more donations. These dona-tions are obtained from the schools in every district and are a vital s o u r c e to sup-ply the b a n k , a l o n g w i t h c o m -m u n i t y support.

Recently, the Mc-Minnville food bank has moved to a new lo-cation, offering a bigger warehouse to store an increased amount of goods for the 26 agen-

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The seven period day discussion was started because of the overcrowded classes.

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Several MHS faculty members spoke to the benefits of the current schedule. They mentioned that the block schedule has been a use-ful system for many teachers and students. Students are given more time in class to study the subject and teachers are given more prep time. This leads to more structured classes and more one-on-one time

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On the best day of the school week, Firday, stu-dents mingle in and out of Nancy Franssen’s room in 2nd hall to dance during salsa meetings at lunch. The salsa meetings’ easy-going and fun atmosphere makes it open for all to have a good time.

Sophomore Erika Sato said, “I thought it would be embarrassing to dance, but everyone was having so much fun anyway, that it didn’t matter.”

Salsa is a great time to practice dance techniques and converse with differ-ent people.

Sophomore Stephen Gilliat said this about salsa, “The highlights of salsa are learning the new moves and meeting new people.” He adds, “It’s mostly about coming, then getting better and having fun.”

During salsa meet-ings, more advanced stu-dents teach beginners new moves. But while people come to room 23 to strengthen their danc-ing, they also socialize and branch out to other people. The room is so full of en-ergy; there is no room for social embarrassment.

Senior Stacey Jarvis said, “Salsa is something that brings us all together, and you don’t even have to be good at the dancing to have fun.”

Jarvis took place in the salsa meetings last year,

and is the leader of the sal-sa meetings this year. She said, “I was willing to teach and be there. People can talk about stuff, but I actu-ally want to get stuff done.”

Along with the salsa dance, some students have knowledge about dances such as the cumbia, the m e r e n -gue, and b a c h a t a . D i f f e r -ent cul-tures are o p e n e d up dur-ing salsa meetings.

Me e t -ing mem-bers and leaders are excited about the possibility of dance instructor and father of Ju-nior Kellie Gonzalez com-ing to the meetings.

Gonzalez said, “He is trying to come in and teach us moves outside the basics.”

Jarvis also expresses her excitement about the salsa group expanding its dancing knowledge, “I am excited to learn new moves and have actual training from a professional that has a connection to the school.”

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“There are a lot of racial slurs,” said Dickey of the bul-lying. “A lot of students think it’s a joke, but it surprised me that kids were going through this every day at Mac High.”

One of those students dealing with harassment on a daily basis is an MHS up-perclassman who wished to remain anonymous, and who has been the victim of bullies ever since grade school.

“It’s been going on all through high school,” he said of the bullying. “There’s a lot of harassment by other kids, mostly because I’m physically different.”

Most of the perpetrators of the bullying are people that he doesn’t personally know, he said, noting that they are also usually a grade or two younger. He said that he has never responded to the bul-lies directly, instead reporting the incidents to his parents and MHS administration. Still, he would like the chance to confront the bullies about their actions.

“I would ask them ‘How would you feel if I said those things to you?’” he said of the verbal harassment. “Most of them are probably just bullies because they were picked on too when they were younger.”

Though he has reported most of the harassment to MHS administration, he still deals with bullying on a daily basis, and said that he feels isolated because of the activ-ity.

“My parents and teachers tell me to just ignore them and stay positive,” he said.“But people need to stand up for kids with handicaps.”

He said that he’d most like to see an anti-bullying group form at MHS in order to raise awareness about the prob-lem.

Fortunately for students like this, the MHS administra-tion has already undertaken a wider-reaching anti-bullying campaign. Dickey has met during this school year with students from organizations like the Associated Student Body (ASB) and Link Crew, and plans to meet with stu-dents in the National Honor Society in the near future. Dickey also organized a fo-rum which highlighted the is-sue of bullying on Nov. 3, dur-ing which students and staff voiced their opinions on the subject.

“I’d like to find another way to get more kids in-

volved,” said Dickey. “It’s much easier to talk to kids about this in smaller groups; students feel more comfort-able telling their stories.”

Another student with a story to tell is MHS sopho-more Sierra Mitchell, who originally attended school in the Yamhill-Carlton District, but said that the bullying she experienced eventually be-came so bad that she decided to transfer to the McMinnville School District.

“I started wrestling in the fourth grade, on the guys’ team,” said Mitchell. “I was called a guy and harassed a lot for it. I was always teased for being too much like a guy and not acting like a ‘girly-girl.’”

Mitchell said that at the height of the bullying, she was the victim of homophobic slurs and was even punched by a male classmate.

“I just couldn’t put up with it anymore,” said Mitchell of the bullying. “But I was teased at Patton, too. I don’t experi-ence as much of the bullying now in high school, but I have a lot of friends who have been victims of it.”

Mitchell said that a lot of her friends were too afraid to speak up when they were victims of bullying, but that she had no qualms about confronting the perpetrators directly and taking an issue to the administration if it wors-ened.

“Every time I see bully-ing, I stop it,” said Mitchell. “I know what it’s like to be on the other end of it.”

Thanks to lawmakers, ce-lebrities, and anti-bullying campaigns and activists, the issue of bullying has become far more visible, and the re-course for it far more formi-dable. Still, even as the anti-bullying movement sweeps the country, many parents and schools remain unaware of the true extent of the activ-ity by and amongst children and students.

“By and large, the bully-ing reported at our school is verbal,” said Dickey. “But we have seen a huge increase in cyber-bullying.”

According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research center, 95% of youth aged 12 to 17-years-old are currently online, and 9 out of 10 of those children have wit-nessed some sort of bullying activity on social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter. The stealthy tactics that many minors use in order to remain anonymous or under the ra-

dar on the internet means that the majority of the bully-ing is undetectable to adults.

Dickey said that the MHS administration doesn’t seek out instances of bullying amongst students online, but that there is a point when stu-dents’ technological activities should fall under the jurisdic-tion of a school.

“When kids here are afraid, that’s when we get involved,” said Dickey. “We deal with [cyber-bullying] al-most every week, especially through text messaging. We feel like we have to get in-volved for kids to feel safe here.”

Recently, Dickey con-ducted smaller forums on the issue of bullying with groups of students, and the said that the results seen there speak for themselves.

“When I asked kids who among them had been vic-tims of bullying, all but a few raised their hands,” said Dickey. “Most bullies have been victims of bul-lying themselves, so that’s why they do what they did.”

With a ratio of approxi-mately 10 administrative MHS staff members to over 2,000 students, Dickey stressed that MHS stu-dents can play a large role in promoting anti-bullying awareness.

The reality is that we don’t see the majority of the bullying activity,” said Dickey. “Such a small per-centage of it comes to our attention. Even if a couple hundred students started reporting it to us by the end of this school year would be great.”

This sentiment was echoed by many of the stu-dents who had reported be-ing victims of bullying.

“I think that more of the responsibility of reporting bullying is on other stu-dents,” said Mitchell. “If people see bullying, they need to stop it.”

Dickey agreed that students should speak up about the issue and take a stand against bullying in whatever way they can.

“I would advise students to say something, if they feel safe,” said Dickey. “If they aren’t comfortable with in-tervening, they should re-port it to administrators. If students just did those two things, most [bullies] would back off, and it would re-mind all of us to be a little kinder and more respectful to each other.”

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“I was called a guy and harassed a lot for it. I was always teased for being too much like a

guy and not acting like a ‘girly-girl.’”Sophomore Sierra Mitchell

The drama program comes out with a new play in the beginning of december and The Bruin filmed a portion of a song they’re perform-ing from the musical “The Princess and the Pea.”

Blood drive has record tUrn oUtkey club helps raise a record 107 units of blood

45% of MHS students sur-veyed last spring said that they had bullied or harassed another student

65% of MHS students surveyed last spring believed that internet or cyber bullying is an issue

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with individual students that they may not receive with seven classes in a day.

Another beneficial fac-tor of keeping the block schedule is that students have more elective opportu-nity. Because of this, credits are more available. Students are faced with far less stress with a four period day. If a student is sick for two days, they do not miss the same class twice. Absences due

to sports/activities are more easily made up because of the same reason. Lastly, teaming is stronger, which is essential for freshmen education.

The block schedule, however, does have its drawbacks. Classes such as foreign language and math-ematics require practice ev-ery day, a practice they are denied of every other day. Ninety minute periods tend to be long not only for stu-dents but also teachers. This leads to procrastination.

The seven period day has benefits of its own. Home-work is more consistent and attention spans tend to be higher. Students are forced to manage their time better, mimicking more of an adult schedule.

English instructor Ker-rie Savage pointed out that a change to a seven period day would make the stu-dents feel as if they were being experimented on like guinea pigs, something she calls the “guinea pig ef-fect.” There would also be less pathway opportunities and programs such as EASA would be more difficult to operate.

Olson is interested to know how the students will react to this idea.

“Budget is the number one thing,” said superin-tendent Russell. “We have no interest in changing the schedule. These are simply ideas on the table in case some sort of budget cuts need to be made.”

According to science in-structor Jared Larson, the block schedule is one of the many things at MHS that make it unique. Whether or not the school will uphold that individuality, time will tell.

could give” Lucas said of the successful fundraising event Soul Sister, which included a silent auction and different productions.

The event on Oct. 22 included useful informa-tion on the subject, featur-ing MHS Twilighters, MHS Dance Team, MHS Ad-vanced Drama Class, New-berg High School’s Dance Team and the VanDeVeere Dancers.

“Soul Sister went great! Even though we had some technical difficulties, we got very good feedback about our event,” said Lake.

The group raised $800 with the silent auction alone, and $2,000 total by the end of the night.

“We also made a video of the attendees of Soul Sister who got in front of the cam-era and danced with signs written in Swahili meaning peace, strength, and hope,” said Lake. “The women will

see this video and know that we are giving them our love.”

According to War Child, violence will flare up and Congo is thrust under the media spotlight for a short while. But the rapes and k i l l i n g s have been going on for so long now that it’s hardly ‘news’ any more. The country is so vast and remote that it’s hard to access many of the worst-affected areas, and the sheer scale of the problem makes it seem so hopeless that it feels like the rest of the world has almost given up on the people of Congo.

“A root problem is that cooperation’s taking it upon themselves to get the rich and take natural resources

that Congo has in its land and use them to make their product,” said Lucas. “Tin, Tungsten and Tantalum are used in almost every elec-tronic except the companies who have moved to using conflict free minerals.”

“I enjoy raising money for those struggling around the world, but we don’t just raise money for those less fortunate, it’s also important to get out in the community and volunteer your time,” said Lake.

The Social Justice Club has a Facebook page and they try to post upcoming events on it.

“These women need our help, and help is just one step forward away,” said Kim.

The Social Justice Club is always accepting dona-tions and will continue to find new ways to reach out to those in need.

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The end of October in-troduces many things. We say farewell to the last of the spirited days of homecom-ing, fall sporting events, and the new school year vibe, as we welcome the chilly month of November with open arms and big warm jackets.

Even though Halloween has passed, you may still see some young werewolves stalking the halls of McMin-nville High School. These are actual not werewolves, of course, but are some of our very own students participating in a national

movement known as “No Shave November”.

The rules of “No Shave November” are simple; for the entire month, do not partake in the normal rou-tine of shaving.

“I’m going for the Moun-tain man look,” said senior Cody Areola.

Last year he attempted the challenge, but his facial hair was tragically cut off of his face by his friends dur-ing a night time prank. This year, he is one of many stu-dents returning to step up to the plate and set down the razor.

A recent poll found that three out of every five male

students in the school will be participating in this joy-ous event. Only two girls out of fifty marked “yes” when answering this poll.

Although there will be many new faces to the scene of facial hair, there is one face that houses the reign-ing greatest beard on cam-pus.

That face belongs to none other than MHS staff member Eklund. He entered the month with a head start on his beard, having grown it for several weeks already.

One of the ways he keeps his beard so lush and beautiful is through careful grooming which involves

shampooing and condition-ing daily, along with a good combing down.

Eklund boasts that he has begun a new trend among hipsters, who he in-sists will begin to rock large furry mustaches. This MHS teacher plans to continue his beard growing celebra-tion well into the new year, even as far as spring break.

The reasons to join the fun are many, just as is the amount of students already preparing for the month. As far as stocks go, now might be an excellent time to sell Gillette.

Students eagerly observe popular annual “No Shave November” holidayMany male (and a few female) students and staff compete, try to out do each other for most interesting hairy look on campus

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cies it supplies. Food donations can

be dropped off at 1317 NE Dustin Court off of Riverside Drive in McMinnville, or at local food drives across the county. Currently the bank is in need of canned meats, boxed meals, and any other shelf-stable food staples for the food bank and the con-stantly growing soup kitch-en.

In 2009, close to 17,000 individuals were supplied with food from the Yamhill

County Food Bank, and in-creased to 21,000 individu-als in need by 2010. The in-crease for 2011 and 2012 is expected to exceed 30%.

“Times are tough, so this year is crucial for food drives,” Said Neal Nyssen, the resource development coordinator for the Yam-hill County Food Bank. “We need to obtain all the food we can get right now because January through March is the slowest months for food donations.”

There is going to be a

definite increase in individ-uals in need of food supplies for 2011 and 2012. But with community support and help from the Oregon Food Bank, Yamhill County will be able to service the increas-ing amount of individuals and families in need.

Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.

To obtain more informa-tion on how to volunteer at the Yamhill Country Food bank or for donation inqui-ries, call 503-472-0457 or 1-800-945-9992.

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Junior Kelsey Bleck sports some facial hair for the month of November. Many male stu-dents at MHS are participating.

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Junior Isaiah Case looks, along with others, at items that wre given for a silent auction. Just the silent auction raised over $800 dollars for women in Congo.

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Fad, nuisance, intrigu-ing; whichever best fits the way you see the protest, Oc-cupy Wall Street has turned into much more then just a revolt. What started out as a large group of individu-als in New York’s Wall Street quickly turned into rally’s all around the world, more

commonly as ‘Occupy Port-land’.

It started on Sep. 17, when men and women in New York came together to represent the 99%. This 99% is upset about wall street wrecking the economy three years ago and no one has been blamed for destroy-ing 20% of this country’s net worth, accumulated over

two centuries. This large presentage of people are protesting against the greed of government.

The “1%” are the inves-tors, mortgage brokers, and banks: spending on pro-grams that benefit them-selves.

As you may know, the protests started spreading all around the world; now in

Europe as well as the U.S. Not only is occupy Port-

land a group of unemployed rallyists but they organize events to inform and edu-cate the public on what is going: staying away from main stream media. Any-thing that is broadcasted about Occupy Portland is shared between groups or online,

Occupy Portland sup-port local businesses and local banks; November 5th is ‘move your money day’. People are moving their money out of big banks to deprive big companies of there customers. Today over 81,000 people pledged to give their support to move their money out, and keep

somewhere closer to home; People feel safter keeping there money in local banks knowing it will not get into the hands of greedy inves-tors.

At this point is the pub-lic’s choice to choose what they want their government to look like, and in the end what side will you choose?

by ALESSIA CAPONI

occupy portland more than just unemployed rallyists camping outThe ‘99 percent’ consists of individuals upset with wall street’s decisons, business dealings over past three years, take to streets

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Has anyone noticed that a large percentage of film releases this year are sequels, book adap-tations, or remakes? I certainly have.

It is disheartening that the only new movie choices we have to watch are something we have al-ready seen or read before! People like to experience

new entertainment, and film writers should indulge the public. We pay mon-ey to go see these movies, wouldn’t it be more rewarding if it was something new?

I don’t understand why we need to re-make a classic like Footloose. That was a movie to be enjoyed for the time period it was made in. The money required to re-make the movie could have gone to a new and exciting plot.

The sequels to Hangover, Kung Fu Panda, and Cars also seem unnecessary.

The original movies ended sturdily and were not begging for a conclusion. Why drag them on with the possibility of ru-ining them for what they were? We are also on our 4th Pirates of the Caribbean and 3rd Transformers, both films miss-ing their original leading female roles. It seems desperate when a movie replaces characters.

Some people are thrilled about their favorite movies being redone over and over again, but what about those of us

who didn’t like them from the beginning? Remakes and sequels are great in moder-ation, but now they make up the majority of new releases and we need new stories!

I am asking film writers to please come up with some new, creative movies!

Unorginality is taking over the new movie sceneMovies are proving to be really the “same old story”

With 2012 approaching, the world doesn’t just have to worry about the apoca-lypse, but the American public gets to look for-ward to the ubiq-uitous political ads, candidate debates, and ev-erything negative that comes with the presidential campaign and the president hope-fuls. To start off, this opinion is not about which party is better than the other and I am not going to tell you which candidate is better than the oth-er, either. This opinion is about how effective or non-effective presidential campaigns can re-ally be.

If you watch TV (and I’m guessing that most of you do) you know that this year will bring a whole new range to the presi-dential campaign. We’ve had a

man who has been accused of being part of a cult and a very outspoken man who was once the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. These candidates have to show the American public that they are better than their competitors based on their ideas and intel-lect. These key factors don’t get across when they are throwing attacks from right to left. When campaign season begins, I know that the candidates will get nasty, and when everything is said and done they all become “buddy-buddy” again. But attacking one another over and over again isn’t an effective way to find which candidate really is the best for our nation.

When I watch the debates or the political ads, I don’t re-ally know where the candidate’s stances are on important issues; the only thing I learn is that they can interrupt their oppo-nent and cannot directly answer a question. I don’t learn if this person will be good at turning

our economy around, creating jobs, or handling illegal immi-gration. The only thing that can be learned is that they have a strong opinion about every-thing.

Now I know that I can’t change the way that these people run their campaigns, because attack ads can work, and I suppose the voters get to know who can be bullied down. A way that could be more effec-tive for these people is that they don’t attack whenever they can and actually pay attention to the important matters that are at hand.

At the moment, the American public wants a person they can believe in, that will bring hope to their lives, and by focusing on petty issues they aren’t showing any of that. So if you are a voter, pay more attention to the stanc-es on certain issues, and not how the candidates can talk louder than his or her opponents.

Presidential campaign on the horizonaround this time next year, we will be on the brink of a new president

Fall recognition assembly stirs controversyFriday, ASB hosted the 2011

Fall Recognition assembly, and I must say it didn’t go as well as they planned. While the slide show of fall pictures was a tad awkward without any sound in the back-ground, what really stood out dur-ing the assembly were the ques-

tions that were asked by Blake and Ryan to the Fall Sports News Reg-ister award winners. Not only were most, if not all, of the questions not approved by the leadership administer, Doc Savage, but they also were quite controversial. Most people in the audience weren’t

sure if they should laugh, or cover their ears in terror. What I instantly think about are the parents of the award winners. What was going through their heads as their chil-dren answered these ridiculous questions? They probably weren’t too excited to hear “Who would

you date out of these people,” or “Who brings out your inner animal?” Most of Blake’s questions were dull and con-fusing, while Ryan’s

brought sass and disturbance. As they kept asking more and more questions, I kept wondering how many more and more people they could offend. Probably not the best choice on Blake and Ryan’s part. So I ask you this MHS students, ‘what brings out YOUR inner animal?’

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BRUIN REPORT CARDIn past years, we’ve had three for four week-

days off for Thanksgiving, in some rare cases even five! This year, however, we only have Thanskgiv-ing and the day following off from school. Class is great and all, but that extra day is crucial for travel plans, time with family, and saving Skyrim.

A proposal has been made to shift to a 7 class-day schedule for the 2012-2013 school year. This change would reduce class time and graduation requirements, in addition to taking away a period that could be put to educational use. If imple-mented, it would drastically change class struc-ture and effectiveness.

Despite a balmy summer and clear fall, McMin-nville is once again heading towards a cold, cloudy, and wet winter. Pull out your raincoats and put away your flipflops, because the infamous rain storms of Or-egon are just around the corner.

The boys soccer team played with heart until the end of their season, losing in the semi-finals in a con-troversial match versus Westview. The team, led by 12 seniors, dominated throughout the season finishing with a 14-3-1 record and as first place in the Pacific-8 Confrence.

An unprecedented level of fan support cheered on the boys soccer team during their playoff games. In ad-dition to home games drawing a huge crowd, rooter buses promped large numbers at away games. An in-credible amount of school spirit and pride was present, no doubt providing drive for the soccer team.

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The social networking scene is always and will forev-er be chang-ing. MySpace was a big deal when I was in middle school, but then a website called Face-book turned MySpace in to the internet equivalent of a ghost town. Pretty recently, Twitter has been taking over as what some will call a ‘media giant’. Twitter’s simplicity is maybe what has people loving it so much. Tweets have to be 140 characters or less, filtering

out the pointless details and bringing the purpose to the surface.

Anybody with a Facebook account can attest to read-ing a paragraph and getting nothing from it. Tweets are short and sweet, and hold a lot less pointless informa-tion.Another thing that is unique about Twitter is what is called a hash tag. Hash tags separate words from your tweet and group you with oth-er people who have entered the same hash tag, or subject field. TV shows and compa-nies are promoting hash tags to be used. A perfect example is that of the new talent TV show “The X Factor”. During the entire show, #XFactor is featured on the screen. So if

somebody writes “Loving the show tonight #XFactor”, any-body who also wrote that can see your tweet and reply to you about it.

Choosing who you follow is easy; you search for them, click follow, and instantly anything they post is inserted on to your timeline. Anybody with the new software update can tweet almost anything they do, including pictures and websites you’re visiting. If you have a Twitter, follow me @Connor_Farrell. If you don’t have a Twitter account, join the rest of the world and start tweeting today. Keep in mind though to leave the baggage and drama that comes with Facebook at the door.

Autumn is a time where most kids begin to w o r r y about being stuck inside for winter months, and for possibly the first time since last June begin to worry about their grades. We often for-get why this time of year should be thought of as spe-cial and be enjoyed just as much as any other season.

With this year’s late sum-

mer-into-fall heat, many outdoor activities have been readily available this au-tumn. Football games were played in the mild chill of a fall evening, perfect condi-tions to sit on a couch with friends behind the end zone line and cheer on other stu-dents.

Pumpkin patches were the places to be as Hallow-een approached. There were haunted corn mazes and tractor rides to be enjoyed all around.

The leaves are chang-ing and falling, littering the roads with a blanket of reds and yellows that provide a

soft place to sit and soak up the last of the sun for the year. This is the season of watching movies on Friday nights and drinking apple cider and hot chocolate. Pumpkin pies are made to be eaten and soon turkey (or tofurky if you are into that sort of thing) will be cooked and relatives will gather to give thanks for the year.

So, before we begin to worry too much about grades or being stuck inside all winter, I think we should enjoy all of the things fall has to offer, or at least try to have a little bit of fun before the rains really arrive.

As the rains come, look for the positive

even though winter is coming, life will continue on

#TWiTTERBEGinSBOOMinGTweeting its way to infamy, a new trend emerges

The graduation to-do listhow the graduation to-do list really affects us

Many students complain of the multi-ple require-ments we must meet in addition to the stan-dard credit related ones. However, if they looked past the ex-tra work and time it takes they would see that McMin-

nville High School is helping to prepare us for post-grad-uation.

Ever since freshman year, we have been intro-duced to different careers such as in our PAWS classes or career pathway courses. MHS also requires a number of different career oriented assignments, such as job shadowing, career research-ing, and a resume writing. These not only help to ex-pand our opportunities, but also our knowledge of

possibilities for our future. The Career Related Exten-sion Application Require-ments, which are required by the state, are often com-pleted by many high schools through a widely dreaded senior project. We have the benefit of a compilation of different assignments. Our school has considered nu-merous alternatives to meet the state’s expectations, but to also satisfy its students.

InsIde the den: twItter or Facebook

Which do you enjoy more, Facebook or Twitter?

“Twitter has been spreading around Mac recently, personally I like Twitter and its a good source to keep caught up with news besides having to watch tv.”

kyle Brooker, Freshman

“I don’t think that Twitter is as good as Facebook, they’re both stalker sites.”

katrina Waterhouse, Sophomore

“I only do it to follow Tiger Woods and what he plays.”

Grant Geelan, Senior

“I think it’s stupid and it’s never going to be cooler than Facebook is.”

Sierra Farley, Junior

“It’s different then Facebook because ev-eryone can see it and you don’t know the reactions of the people. I like Facebook better than Twitter through because it’s more personalized.

Annika Nyquist, Sophomore

“Some people see it as a step back because it’s only updates, but it’s a sim-pler drama-free social site so follow me on Twitter @yoel_aynalem

yoel Aynalem, Senior

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“oh, I love Facebook. I don’t use Twitter.”

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Drama department’s first play of the season “princess and the pea” kicks off Dec. 2

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Senior Wyatt Bellville eats a barbeque hamburger from the restaurant Rib Slayer. The restaurant has been open for three years.SAM LUNDEEN / The Bruin

rib slayer amazes customers with selection

The Rose Garden

The crystal Ballroom

dec. 6. 7:30 Mumford & sons

nov. 23. 8:00 Blind pilotdec. 5. 8:00 young the giant the kooksdec. 6. 8:00 Foster the peopledec. 8. 8:00 death cab for cutiedec. 9. 8:00 portugal. the Man

The wonder Ballroomdec. 1. 9:00 immortal technique The Roseland Theater

dec. 2. 7:30 the head & the heart dec. 16. 8:00 Three 6 Mafia

death cab For cutie releases “codes and keys”

The enticing smell of bar-bequed deliciousness that per-meates the air of Third Street Tuesday through Saturday is a mystery to some. To others, however, the business of Rib-slayer is very well known and appraised for the delicious and hearty food it stands to serve.

Ribslayer’s BBQ-To-Go, formerly known as Haagenson’s Catering, is a small, local busi-ness located in the gravel lot on the same block as Serendipity, right near Gallery Theatre. The location of this establishment may not be as easy to find as other food spots, but once you manage to uncover it, you will keep coming back.

Some of you may wonder if this hidden-away barbeque place is all that I’m working it up to be; the answer is yes. You can’t go wrong ordering from the menu at Ribslayer, and there is almost always parking available.

They have ribs, chicken, salads, and, likely what they are most well-known for, their hot-sandwiches. I went in order-ing to order one of their more popular menu items, the pulled pork sandwich.

On average it takes close to 15 minutes to receive an order, which may be disappoint-ing to some, but personally knowing that the food is fresh and delicious makes it worth

waiting for. The pulled pork sandwich consists of hot, juicy, and tender pulled pork covered in sweet, tangy, sauce all on a warm bun. The sandwich runs for $7, which is about the average price for a sandwich on the menu, and comes with a side of coleslaw, chips, and a deli-pickle.

For the iron-stomachs out there that enjoy a spicy dilemma, there is a Ribslayer Challenge, which consists of “The Flaming Mo-Fo,” a very hot sandwich which consists of pulled pork, beef brisket, ha-banero, bhut jolokia (the ghost chili A.K.A. one of the hottest peppers known to man), chi-potle, jalapeno, sautéed onions

and tomato. Winners of this challenge receive a stomach full of fire, and their picture on “The Wall of Flame.”

Overall, the interior, food, and smells of Ribslayer BBQ-to-go make it one of my favorite places to eat in town, despite the cost and location. I would give Ribslayer a 9.5/10 based on the overall experience, and I definitely recommend others to check it out. If you plan to go here during lunch though, it would be a wise decision to call your order in ahead of time, which the menu, location, and phone numbers can all be found at their website, www.ribslayer.com

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for listeners ofAlternative & indie rock

Singles from album “You Are a Tourist” “Stay Young, Go Dancing”

by LINDSEy LEwERS

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once haagenson’s catering, Rib slayer leads the barbecue restaurant industry in Mac

Releasing their demo, You Can Play These on Chords, in 1997 and their first full album, Something About Airplanes, in 1999, Death Cab for Cutie began a long running successful career, bringing to-gether beautiful melodies, hypnotic vocals, and luring lyrics.

With the band consisting of Ben Gib-bard, Nick Harmer, Chris Walla and Jason McGerr, Death Cab has released quite a few very successful chart toppers such as “I Will Possess Your Heart,” “Crooked Teeth,” and “I Will Follow You Into The Dark.”

Tracks off their fourth album, Transat-lanticism, and songs such as “Soul Meets Body,” and “Meet Me on The Equinox,” have been used in television shows and movies such as the Twilight Series, The OC,

and Californication.Fourteen years after their first record-

ing, they released their seventh studio album, Codes and Keys, on May 31. Being their first album in three years, I had some high hopes that they have been taking their time recording some magic in the studio, possibly even a concept album. Unfor-tunately, I was very let down. Seeming to venture away from their original bedroom pop-indie sound they created so long ago, this album came off as a very distant, ex-perimental album of the band pretending to be something it’s not.

In the past, Death Cab has focused a lot of their music on vocals and simplistic yet ensnaring guitar and piano. Exploring their talents, Codes and Keys seems to use dif-

ferent vocal effects and synth-like sounds. Using echoes, fast beats, and more power-ful drums, they are giving the impression that they are almost completely abandon-ing their classic sound that hooked all their fans throughout the years. Sadly, most of the album doesn’t even sound like they recorded together as a band. Lastly, the final track, “Stay Young, Go Dancing,” a ballad-love song of sorts, doesn’t even have similarities to the rest of the album. Noth-ing in this album makes sense. Compared to their earlier works, I have to give this album a three out of four.

If you like “I Will Follow You Into the Dark,” listen to the album, Transatlanti-cism. If you like “Meet Me on The Equinox,” listen to the album, Narrow Stairs.

Everyone knows the story of the “Prin-cess and the Pea,” about the young girl who comes to a castle claiming she is a princess. The prince’s mother decides to test their guest by placing a pea under 20 mattresses to see how she sleeps. The next morning the princess tells the mother that she endured a sleepless night caused by something hard in the bed. The mother and prince are exhila-rated, because only a real princess would have the sensitivity to feel the pea through so much bedding.

“Once Upon a Mattress,” based off the Hans Christian Anderson Tale “The Princess

and the Pea,” takes the classic story and gives it a few twists.

“It’s just like “The Princess and the Pea,” but there are underlying stories that make it more interesting,” said senior Stacey Jarvis, one of the lead actresses in the play.

Jarvis plays Queen Aggravain, a stereo-typical high society mother, who is very strict and full of herself. She is trying to help her son find a wife. She goes through 13 princesses and gives them all a test to see if they are good enough to marry him. After giving them all unfair tests, they all fail and it seems as if the prince will never find a

wife. That day, princess Winnifred, played by sophomore Stacy Bakewell, arrives from the marshlands, so eager to meet the prince that she swims through the castle moat. The Queen, eager to get rid of yet another princess, tests her by placing a pea under 20 mattresses.

“It’s a very good and entertaining play,” said Bakewell, “plus it has a lot of jokes in it that teens would get.”

Come and check out this spin off a classic fairytale Dec. 2, 3, and 9 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 10 at 1 p.m. for only $3 with ASB and $5 with-out, at the Anderson Auditorium.

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‘Under the Mistletoe’ warms teenage hearts

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THEWALKING DEAD

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now in Technicolor

The world has finally been hit by the infamous Zombie plague. Millions have turned into the rot-ting, walking corpses that filled our nightmares. The Walking Dead is a drama on AMC, telling the story of Rick Grimes and his quest to simply survive.

Its story fo-cuses on Sheriff Rick Grimes leading his fam-ily and a small group of survivors from all differ-ent walks of life. The series starts with Rick Grimes awaking from a coma after being hospitalized from a shootout while on the job.

He finds the once populated area of Atlanta quiet and desolate. Dazed and confused, he goes to his house to search for his family, with no results. With little knowledge of the danger, he goes to the city of Atlanta. Quickly he is surrounded and staring death in the face. But with much luck, he is saved by other survivors. He goes with them back to their camp, to be greeted warmly by the survivors, and with much surprise, his wife and

son (Lori and Carl). With everyone reunited, they go on a gamble to the CDC (Center for Disease Control). There they find a chilling reality saying that the human race may have met its extinction, concluding the season.

Because of great critiques and awards, including the

coveted Best Televi-sion Series Drama award, the series returned on Oct. 16, 2011 with another season. Quickly, on Oct. 25, 2011, AMC President Charlie

Collier was proud to an-nounce season three. “We are thankful for everyone’s

contribution in front of and behind the camera as we continue to make The Walk-ing Dead a unique television experience,” said Collier.

The show has proven itself to be a top notch series to watch and be followed regularly. It has earned a total of three awards only through its pilot episode, including, Outstanding Sound Edit-ing, Outstanding Special Visual Effects, and Outstand-ing Prosthetic Makeup for a series. It is an all-around outstanding series.

Because of the series wide regards, it deserves a 10/10.

“It's the most beautiful time of the year/ Lights fill the streets/ spreading so much cheer/ I should be playing in the winter snow/ But I am go-ing to be under the mistletoe.”

These are the inspirational lyrics of Justin Bieber’s new song “Mistletoe.” This song combines classic holiday genre with the upbeat styling of Justin Bieber. “Mistletoe” hit iTunes on Oct. 18. You will not able to get the song out of your

head! The music video shows

Justin and a girl sitting at a table having a romantic mo-ment, when she is interrupted by another girl who steals him away.

Justin continues to sing about how he would rather be under the mistletoe with the girl he was having a date with. The music video is very intense and romantic. This song, along with many others, is featured

on the new album, Justin Beiber: Under the Mistle-toe.

The album features many more talented artists, includ-ing Usher, Busta Rhymes, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey and The Band Perry.

Under the Mistletoe has many cover songs like “Drum-mer Boy,” “All I want for Christmas is You,” “Fa La La,” and “Santa Clause is Coming to Town.”

This album has different types of music genres; from country to hip-hop, there is music for everyone.

Everyone will want this album! Fan, or not, I would definitely recommend this for anyone who likes to feel cozy and warm, like Christmas morning!

Under the Mistletoe came out on Nov. 1, the perfect time to start getting into the Christ-mas spirit!

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The iPhone revolutionized the phone, bringing games to play on the most dynamic and diverse game center you could ever imagine. The app Store offers thousands of games, entertainment, and sports apps.

1. Facebook: Allows you to connect, and share statuses, photos and videos with all of your friends instantly, with just the tap of your finger.

2. Twitter: A fun, new, and easy social networking app. You can tweet to your friends, or even celebrities with the simple app.

3. Pandora: The internet radio that allows you to listen to songs for free, with the app on any Apple products. It’s free, and you can listen to any type of music on the go!

4. Score Center: Let’s you check all the scores of the major sports league, including, NFL, MLB, Golf, College Football, MLS, NBA, NCAA Basketball, and it lets you choose your favorite teams and sends you notifications for the score updates for your teams.

5. Instagram: A cool new way to edit and share pictures, with your friends or people around the world.

6. Words with Friends: Scrabble, yes the classic scrabble game, is now available to play on your phone, against your friends or anyone as a matter a fact. The simple game is competitive and easy but super addictive.

7. Angry Birds: The game that allows you to attack green pigs. Yes it’s strangely addictive but it is a game that you can play when you are bored, and it brings countless hours of amusement and frustration to the player.

8. Fruit Ninja: Fruit Ninja is a game that will test your patience and your reflexes; you have to cut as much fruit as you can, while avoid-ing all of the bombs waiting to be cut.

9. Skype: Lets you Skype with your friends, no matter your loca-tion, and no matter if they have an iPhone or a computer. Face Time is all the time.

10. Tiny Wings: Yes, another game with that iconic bird. The objective simple, get as far as you can, flying your way over the hills and ocean trying to progress your way through the island. Collecting bonuses and coins.

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This season is bringing retro back, with wide legged, high-waist trousers, crazy colorful platforms, and peasant tops. Don’t forget your Farrah Fawcett hair!

The essentials of winter fashion

by STEPHANIE CHITwOOD

Bieber keeps the season sizzling with his third studio album, collaborates with many artists including Mariah carey and usher

Going Long

That 70’s Show

Gucci Runway

Channel your innergrown up and “Go Long”. Maxi dresses are all the rage. Findthem in Navahoprints, animal prints, bright bold colors, or minimalistic nudes.

‘Batik Maxi Dress’ $17, Forever21

Cuff It Up

Dolce and Gabana Runway

Are you claustropho-bic in thick fabrics, layers and even more layers? Try cuffing your pant legs to add a little weight and a dashing gentlemanly look.

OBEY Wool Cuff Denim Jean $78, Urban Outfitters

Marc Jacobs Runway

Step one: Wear a blazer. Everywhere.In different pieces, colors and designs, this funky fabric is a sure thing.

Hawkings McGill Kennedy Tweed Vest$69, Urban Outfitters

Spread Your Wings

Crockett and Jones

Stay classy in a chunkier wardrobe with a pair of wing-tip oxfords.

Hawkings McGill Wingtip Boot $88, Urban Outfitters

The Perfect Ridekeep your legs warmin a pair of chic riding boots. They’re the perfect accessoryfor any outfit.

White Mountain Loon Riding Boot $49, DSW

BDG ‘Groupie Flare’ in a variety of colors,

Burberry

Boss Tweeds

1. Speaktoid Assistant: Comparative to the Siri feature on the iPhone, it translates languages, launches apps, connects with social networking sites, gets maps and im-ages, sends emails, converts mea-surements, the list goes on.

2. Tank Hero: What’s better than a 3D tank and annihilating op-ponents with cannons, heat seekers, and howitzers?

3. SoundHound: Don’t know what awesome song you’re listening to? This app searches the name of the song through the internet and also includes lyrics, videos, and etc.

4. Google Goggles: Through your lens, it recognizes objects, famous landmarks, stores, artworks, and popular images found online. Features include: scanning barcodes for product info, translating a text into a foreign language and vice versa, adding contacts from busi-ness cards, solving Sudoku puzzles, and recognizing just about any 2D image.

5. Google Sky Map: No mat-ter where you are, Google Sky Map puts the universe in your hands and allows you to explore the night sky without the use of a telescope.super addictive.

6. What the Doodle!?: A multiplayer real-time app. Similar to the concept of Pictionary, it’s a simple draw and guess game, and easily entertaining.

7. Wordz Up!: A revised version of the old-school Boggle game. It’s simple as a grid of words and mak-ing as many words possible from it. If you like Words With Friends or Scrabble, you’ll love this!

8. doubleTwist Player: Works great for wirelessly syncing and playing all your iTunes playl-ists, podcasts, and videos on your Android phone and vice versa.

9. N64oid: Allows you to play those favorite childhood Nintendo 64 games on your mobile device. I don’t think it gets any better.

10. Camera Fun Pro: Lets you take photos through 29 different filters and lens. Photos look great!

Best Television series Drama award winner returns for second season

It’s time to believe

The iPhone craze, with its new features and apps, has somewhat cast a shadow over the android market. However, android has pulled through with some cool, new, and exclusive apps to the android market.

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Ben Wade teaches a full classroom during his fifth period class. Although a new teacher, he has been involved in Mac High events for the past seven years.

Ben Wade begins to flag “out” during the Senior Night Volleyball game against Newberg High School.

Each new school year, a group of un-painted canvas, unmolded sculptures, and unsolved formulas enter the school. Freshman, unaware of the long journey of school and life ahead of them, enter into a new world that is high school. Not too far off are new teachers.

Every student has had that experi-ence of being the inaugural class of the new teacher.

Is this a teacher who will inspire me? Is this a teacher who will annoy me? Can I use my cell phone without it being taken to the Student Center? One teacher that is making a quick mark on McMinnville High School is the new math teacher, Ben Wade.

Who is Ben Wade? He attended Thur-ston High School and graduated in 2005. “I loved high school, it was a time for me where there weren’t a lot of worries, I just played sports and did my home-work,” said Wade.

As good of a student as an athlete, he decided to go to Linfield College and pursue a degree in Secondary Educa-tion while he played college football for Linfield.

“I applied to two colleges, Linfield and Oregon State. I got in to both, but

Linfield was giving me a half scholar-ship and I knew I would be able to play football. It was the perfect school for me because I knew that I had wanted to be a teacher, and it was far enough away from home so that I could be on my own,” said Wade.

In 2007, Ben Wade was an assistant coach for the Duniway Middle School football team, and introduced a lot of kids to a youth group called Young Life, a youth ministry that depends on young adults (mostly college students) to men-tor and befriend teenagers while also introducing Christianity in an approach that isn’t threatening or too strong.

Starting to get into teaching, Ben looked for any opportunity to get the wheels rolling on his teaching career. Unable to get a full time job in the weak economy in our state, Ben took as many substitute teaching opportunity’s as he could.

“Subbing is kind of like being a grandparent, you babysit the kids while trying to keep them in order. You might even spoil them a little. And then you leave and the parents have to come back and pick up the pieces,” said Ben.

The 2010-2011 school year was sup-posed to Ben’s last year in McMinnville, and had planned to leave the place he has called home for seven years. All of that held up until this summer when he received a call from McMinnville High School about a job as a full-time math teacher.

“It was a dream come true for me be-cause I was about to go and try to figure

out what I was going to do and then I got a call from the high school about full time teaching, two days later I was hired and planning my class, it was crazy!”

Wade is more than just a teacher, as many would say that he is still a kid at heart. After graduatiing from high school, Ben took a trip to California and Arizona to see the West Coast and was pulled on stage on the Price is Right tele-vision show.

“It was an amazing experience! I went but didn’t expect to get called. They said my name and I went crazy! I ran up and went to the wrong booth. I even ended up bidding correctly and was so nervous that I smacked the microphone out of Drew Carreys hand.”

Ben also kayaked the bottom of the Grand Canyon on his road trip.

“It was an amazing perspective, one that not many have seen.”

Undoubtedly popular amongst his new students, Wade has shown flashes of the classic teacher and flashes of the Young Life leader already in his short time teaching at McMinnville High School. He is involving himself in the school beyond just teaching. He is one of the two line judges for the volleyball team, alongside Erin Brisbin and he is considering helping coach track.

From Young Life to math class, Ben has been a big part of many high school student’s lives in the past seven years, and will undoubtedly continue to do that for years to come.

by CONNOR fARRELL

New teacher Ben Wade shares his story, how he became a Mhs teacher and Young life leader

(Below):Ben Wade explains a math problem. (Above): Ben Wade shows his many spirited faces.

(Above): Focusing hard on the computer, Ben Wade shows his work ethic and focus.

(Above): Ben Wade smiles for a picture in the MHS Courtyard.

B. WADE Purpose. Leadership. Inspiration.“I like that it’s different

everyday, and there’s always a new challenge.”

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PAC-12 FOOTBALL (Saturday)

Oregon 49 (35) Oregon State 7 (35)

USC 14 (38) Washington 35 (21)

Colorado 14 (6) Utah 21 (30)

UCLA 28 (45) WA State 14 (27)

California 14 (28) Arizona 20 (31)

Stanford 42 (31) Arizona St. 42 (27)

By Erik RodriguezPredictions by MHS Students

QUOTABlE

“i felt that our season as a whole was a huge accom-lishment. as a team we came together at the beginning of the season with numerous players that had not played a year of varsity soccer. They really came in with urgency to give it their all and to succeed in something they love. This year out of my three years of playing varsity soccer has been my most memorable one. ”

3.93MHS boys’ cross country team’s

combined G.P.A. It put them at number

one in state aca-demically for boys cross country. The

team was featured in the

Oregonian along with other top high

school teams.HAYDEN ALLEN/ The Bruin

Three other MHS teams had high GPA’s and were also honored by the dairy Farmers of Oregon.Sport Place GPABoys’ Cross Country 1st 3.93

Girls’ Cross Country 8th 3.86

Volleyball 10th 3.59

Girls’ Soccer 17th 3.57

Mac Attack

by CHAD SPRINGER & GRACE mCmILLAN

BOYS BASKETBALL

Two seniors from the boys’ bas-ketball team are striving for suc-cess during this upcoming season. Turner Grimm and Grant Geelan are leaders on the team this year and have been working hard in order to prepare for this season.

“I’m excited to go out and put on a show for all of my fans,” said Grimm.

“I’m excited to see how the young guys ajust to varsity basket-ball,” said Geelan.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Ariel Oliver, Jessica McMillan, and Grace McMillan all have been working on their skills in the off-season and preparing their young-er teamates for what to expect in the upcoming season.

“I’m excited to go into my se-nior year and win games,” said se-nior Oliver.

“The team will have a lot more chemistry this year because we’ve played together a lot in the offsea-son,” said senior Jessica McMillan.

“I’m excited for our new up-beat tempo we are bringing to the court this year,” said Grace McMil-lan.

WRESTLING

BOYS SWIMMING

Senior Felix devera and Junior Bryce Branson have been working hard in the offseason and prepar-ing themselves and their team-mates for the upcoming wrestling season.

“I’m most excited for the state tournament,” said Branson

“I’m excited for the success the team will have,” said de Vera. “And

Seniors Blake Tillery, Stephen Grinich, and Matt Valentine have worked hard for three years and plan to make a mark during their last season of swimming at MHS.

“I’m looking forward to getting back to where I was, improving my times, and going to competitions,” said Grinich. “We have done really well in the past and we have a re-ally strong guys’ team this year so i think we will do well.”

GIRLS SWIMMING

Seniors Brooklyn Neubig and claire lawson have worked hard for three years and plan to make a mark during their last season of swimming at MHS.

“Im looking forward to the sea-son this year and even though we have a young team we should be pretty successful,” said Neubig.

The Ducks faced 18th ranked USC Saturday Nov. 19. The ranked match-up, was assured to provide more chaos to the already messy BCS formula. Before the match-up between the Ducks and the very underrated Trojans Matt Barkley opened up about this year’s 2011 Oregon Ducks to the Los Angeles Times.

“I think Oregon is very good this year, remarked Barkley. “But

I think they were better when we played them in the past,” very bold words coming from a quarterback who’s lost to Oregon by a com-bined score of 24 points and is (0-2) in his career.

The pregame quote sparked controversy and angst between the Oregon defense and the arm of Matt Barkley. But, maybe Barkley’s statement was true, at least this was the case Nov. 21st as Southern California demolished the Oregon

ducks lose chance of BcS titleAfter beating No. 3 Stanford, UO loses to USC 38-35 and set there sights for another bowl game

OREGON FOOTBALL Looing for a win in Civil War

by ALEX ANDERSEN

Teams now enter the most crucial part of the season, the hunt for BCS bowls. In week 10 there was a big shake up in the top 25 of the BCS standings. The Top-10 was shaken, as Clemson and Kansas State both lost, leaving the door wide open for new comers to get into the Top-10.

Clemson lost a tough game, against a Georgia Tech team that can’t make up its mind if they want to be a contender or a pretender.

While Kansas State got embar-rassed at home by the Oklahoma Sooners, who lost just the week before and are trying to keep pace in the chase for the national title.

As a surprise, the Houston Cougars are prowling their way up in the rankings. Case Keenum has been having himself an electrify-ing year, passing well over 3,000

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson, Kansas State lose

The Top 10 is shaken by wins, lossesOklahoma and Georgia Tech win, keep college fan on their toes

by NICK NILAND

Please see cOllEGE FOOTBAll, Page B2Please see dUckS, Page B2

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WinTER SPORTS PREviEW

kEy WINTER SPORTS cONTRIBUTERS lOOk TO upcoming season, prepare to lead team for league games and hopefully playoffs, districts

SPORTS THE BruIn Monday.noVEMBEr 21. 2011. B2

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““It was the greatest group of players I have ever played with in my entire soccer career.

This Issue’s HighlightsuPCoMInG GaMES

NEXT UP:McMinnville at Liberty,7:15 p.m. Dec. 6

For more pictures and stats on the Boys’ Basketball team, go to, mhsbruin.com

Boys Basketball

NEXT UP:McMinnville at Crescent Valley 6:30 p.m. Nov. 30

To see more sats on the Girls’ baskeball team, go to mhsbruin.com

Girls Basketball

For more pictures and updates of the MHS swim team through-out the season, go to, mhsbruin.com

NEXT UP:McMinnville at Newberg,noon, Dec. 8

Swimming

WrestlingNEXT UP:McMinnville at McNary,4 p.m. Dec. 2

To read more info and pictures on the Wrestling team go to mhsbruin.com

OSU FOOTBALL Struggling

Oregon State led by freshman Mannionsean Mannion has more throwing yards then heisman candidate andrew luck

by TAyLOR mCANALLy

A little confidence for freshmen can go a long way, and that is the case for the Oregon State Bea-vers, who now have two wins under their belts.

Sean Mannion is now leading the team in the quarterback position as a redshirt freshmen. Man-nion has made leaps and strides throughout the year, starting with beat-ing out former starting quarterback Ryan Katz.

Mannion is now pass-ing 182 for 274 (66.4 per-cent). In the Beaver’s 44-21 victory against Washington State, Man-nion threw four touch-downs to four different receivers, and he fired completions to 11 differ-ent receivers.

Mannion has thrown for 1,966 yards, which is more than some of the leading quarterbacks in the PAC-12, like Andrew Luck, who has thrown for

1,888 yards. A true freshman is

also leading the Beavers offence; freshmen Mal-colm Agnew. Agnew ran for 108 yards for the Bea-vers vs. Washington State. Defensively, the Bea-vers followed the lead of freshmen defensive ends Scott Crichton and Dylan Wynn Crichton was in on seven tackles, including a quarterback sack, when he forced a fumble along with another forced fum-ble vs. Washington State.

Oregon State started out rough, with very little experience from all of these freshmen.

With great coaching and hard work ethic these freshmen are the future of a very successful Or-egon State football pro-gram. The Beavers and their freshmen starters are going to need all the confidence they can get when they travel down to Autzen Stadium and play the Ducks on Nov. 26.

After Timbers’ first year: successThe are Timbers one season in and have one of the best crowds in league, along with great start reputation on the field

by mOISES DIAz

2011 was the first year in the MLS for the Portland Timbers. They started the season with new players and a new coach, John Spencer.

Their stadium was reno-vated and the name of it changed from PGE Park to JELD-WEN Field. The Tim-bers also got a new logo for the MLS.

As the team was ap-proaching the MLS, the Tim-bers Army expanded and was one of the best crowds in the 2011 MLS season. The army loved when the tim-bers scored because their mascot, Timber Joey, would cut off a piece of would with his famous chainsaw.

Senior Carson Clow, who was part of the army, said, “It was really fun and excit-ing to be a part of the army.

It was also tiring because we sang songs, screamed, and jumped all game long. “

Portland started their season with a loss to the Col-orado 3-1 as a visiting team which was the game opener for the MLS.

Timbers started the sea-son with three away games and lost 2 and tied 1.

On April 14 they played their first home game in front of a sold out crowd against Chicago. The Tim-bers won 4-2. Junior Nic Au-tencio said, “The first Tim-bers home game was really exciting.”

It was really cool to see

Jorge Perlaza and Diego Chara play their first game for the Timbers at home.” Most of the Timbers games were sold out. Portland had a descent season with ups and downs but failed to qualify for the playoffs. They finished sixth in their con-ference and twelfth overall. Top scorers for Portland were Kenny Cooper and Jack Jewsbury, both with eight goals.

Throughout the whole season Portland scored 40 goals, 30 were at home, and allowed 48. Portland was a home team, winning nine games at home, and only winning two away games.

Next season, the Timbers will be a better team and they will be ready to play and compete to make it to the 2012 MLS Playoffs.

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defense, looking reminiscent of their early decade confer-ence supremacy with a bal-anced attack that kept Aliotti, Oregon’s defensive coordina-tor guessing the entire game.

Junior quarterback Matt Barkley was lethal, going 24-36 for 323 yard and 4 touch-downs, but a costly inter-

ception midway through the 4th quarter fueled 21 unan-swered points for the Ducks who trailed by as much as 24 points at 38-14 with 3:17 left in the third quarter. A 96 yard kickoff return from freshmen phenom De’anthony Thomas cut into the Trojans domi-nance and excited the fans in swarms of yellow and black

in Autzen Stadium.On USC’s next drive the

Ducks were able to force two straight Barkley incomple-tions, and Kenjon Barner scored on Oregon’s next drive with a 9 yard scamper to notch the score to 38-27. The Trojans continued to drive on their next possession with Marc Tyler and Curtis McNeal splitting the carries and splitting Oregon’s front four. As the drive progressed it appeared USC was going to score and run away with the game until Redshirt fresh-men cornerback Terrance Mitchell tipped a pass in-tended for Robert Woods and junior safety Johny Boyett snatched the ball before hit-ting the turf, and the Ducks had a plausible chance in executing an improbable comeback.

A couple of quick screen plays, and an acrobatic one hand grab from senior tight end David Paulson set up the Ducks on the Troajns 1 yard line. Lamichael James did the rest with a one yard stumble into the endzone. Later, a two point conversion to Lavasier Tuinei in the back of the en-dzone brought the Ducks within three points, Autzen Stadium was electric.

However, USC still had the chance to ice the game

with a touchdown, but the Ducks still had 7:05 left when the Trojans took the field. Until USC had reached the red zone the Trojans orches-trated a methodical drive stringing together numerous runs over ten yards and Bar-kley torched the secondary with a couple of out routes to Marqise Lee. One play later miscommunication between Barkley and Tyler created another turnover, this time a fumble recovered by Oregon’s defensive end Brandon Han-na. The Ducks were in busi-ness.

After a tight end screen to David Paulson, Oregon was past midfield, and looking to seal the 24 point comeback. However, after consecutive

runs the clock became a fac-tor and after a string of in-completions the drive had stalled and the Ducks were going to have to settle for a field goal and overtime. At least that’s what Duck fans thought.

From 37 yards Alejandro Maldonado missed wide left and Oregon’s second straight BCS Championship appear-ance was completely ruined. As thousands of Duck fans filed out of Autzen in disbe-lief and dismay, the Trojans celebrated near the clad of red and gold, whether this game signifies that USC has returned as the conference’s dynasty remains to be seen, at least for another year.

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dUckS: Have a record of 10-2

yards with 32 touchdowns, along with breaking records all over the place. Another surprise team that cracked the top 25 of the BCS rankings was the Southern Miss Gold-en Eagles, a team that plays in a weak conference, but not a team to be overlooked by their opponents.

As the season is com-ing into the home stretch, teams will be tested to their maximum, to see if they have enough determination to make a final run to make it to the BCS Bowl Games.

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cOllEGE FOOTBAll: Top 10 is shaken up

News Register Fall Sports Athletes

Football Chris akiensBoys’ Soccer dustin Munger Girls’ SoccerCarly MechalsGirls’ cross countryClaire lawsonBoys’ cross countryTim andersonVolleyballTaylor Mcanally

MHS yamhill Valley

NFL Midseason Report

Despite a 127 day lockout, the NFL is 12 weeks in and the Green Bay packers have the best record in the leauge at 10-1

After a long lockout, the NFl is rolling

by CONNOR fARRELL

Despite a long lockout and a saddening uncer-tainty, the National Football League is in full swing. A collective bargaining agree-ment was reached on July 21st, ending a historic 127 day lockout.

We are almost to 12 weeks of action-packed football, as tonight’s game on ESPN between the New England Patriots and Kan-sas City Chiefs will finish the eleventh week.

So far the Green Bay Packers have the best record in the league at 9-0.

A shocking statistic that most people would not have

believed before the season started, is the complete and total destruction of the In-dianapolis Colts.

The loss of Peyton Man-ning has sent the Colts look-ing for answers, and maybe

a couple of wins as they sit at MAYBE 0-10.

The underdog story of the year is that of the Detroit Lions. A few short years ago Detroit had the worst season in football history when they went 0-16.

Now they stand near the

top of the NFC North, stand-ing just a few wins from their first playoff berth since 1999.

9-0The Green Bay

Packers’ record, the best in the leauge

AARON RODGERS / Green Bay Quarterback

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HAYDEN ALLEN / The BruinSenior Dylan Leathers cel-ebrates his goal in a game versus Newberg by doing a backflip.

Play of the Issue

40Goals scored by the

Timbers this year (30 at home)

“I think Oregon is very good this year but I think

they were better when we played

them in the past.”

Matt BarkleyuSC starter

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Wrestling

OH. SO. CLOSE.After making it all the way to the semi finals, the boys’ soccer team drops their game versus Westview 1-0

JESSICA MCMILLAN / The Bruin

by CONNOR fARRELL

Another hopeful sea-son, another division title, and another unfortunate ending capped off the MHS boys soccer season. Show-ing heart and determina-tion, the Grizzlies battled through an injury plagued season, including injuries Dylan Leathers, Jose Pelayo, and Dustin Munger, to win a third consecutive league championship. The battle could only last so long un-fortunately, as the Grizzlies lost to Westview High School in the semi-final round of the playoffs.

Finishing 14-3-1, Mc-Minnville showed that a potent offense crossed with a strong defense can bring you pretty far. After crush-ing Gresham at home 5-0, a tough matchup at South

Medford high school was set. Two school buses full of fans followed the team to South Medford, 260 miles south, to watch McMin-nville turn a half time deficit to a 6-2 final, the Grizzlies the victors.

Next on the schedule was the Sunset Apollos, who finished the season ranked the best team in the state. Playoff rules stating that the team with least home games entering the quarterfinal round would get a home game allowed McMinnville to have a final game under the lights at Wortman Sta-dium.

An exciting 80 minutes of regulation, followed by 20 minutes of breath taking over time play left McMin-nville and Sunset stalemat-ed at zero. The season hung in the balance just as it had

the season before, but the team would not allow it to come to an abrupt ending like it had just 12 months before. Dustin Munger and Adrian Rubio netted the first two shots for McMinnville while Ryan Aker allowed not one ball to score as McMin-nville won 1-0, outscoring Sunset 2-0 in penalty kicks.

Hoping to advance to the state championship at Hillsboro Stadium, McMin-nville had to win one more road game, at Westview High School. Allowing an early goal in a fog covered field, McMinnville tried to even the score for rest of the game, but a stingy Westview defense proved too difficult to overcome. The final score of 1-0 marks the end of the high school career of 13 se-niors.

HAYDEN ALLEN / The BruinMembers of the MHS dance team along with McMinnville students cheer for the Boys’ soccer team at home during their 1-0 win versus Sunset High School (2-0 PK).

RYAN CORNELISON / The BruinSenior Dustin Munger prepares to kick the first of five penalty kicks in the close game versus the Apollos. Munger made the goal along with Junior Adrian Rubio’s goal to win the game 1-0 (2-0PK). Senior Goalie Ryan Aker saved all four goals that Sunset kicked in penalty kicks.

CONNOR fARRELL / The Bruin JESSICA MCMILLAN / The BruinThe MHS boys’ soccer team celebrates a 6-2 win over South Medford High School. Martin Cortez kicks past a Newberg High School defender in the Grizzlies 3-1 win

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COUNT 2011 Seniors:117

Everyone else: 122

HoroscopesFor the week of

Nov 20 - Nov 26

AriesYou may be feeling sad because of the recent rain. Just re-

member, it’s only for the next six months.

TaurusThis is your lucky day, instead of being pulled over for going 26mph in a 25mph zone you

will only get a parking ticket. Gemini

Over the course of the day you will find around $20 on the

ground, but you will have to use it all on

club fees. CancerChicken Noodle Soup is in your future. Wash

your hands every chance you get to avoid you cold

turning into a chronic respiratory infection.

Leo

Despite what your mother says, that

won’t be chocolate on her hands when she

came out of your baby brother’s room.

Virgo

Don’t build your fort on an Indian burial

ground. LibraEven though you saw

how embarrassing breaking a chair is when you watched the Coste video, you will break 3

different chairs this month.

ScorpioDespite your apology

cakes and letters, Bear Hugs will decide that

they should never trust you again. Try Bank

of the Bear.

Sagittarius Those are neither pencil shavings nor raisins, you might want to get your

stomach pumped.

CapricornThat new day care you

will apply for won’t trust you because of your past record. Don’t be

discouraged.

AquariusOnce again, your nerves will get the best of you and cause you to leave

out the “ni” when saying “organism” in AP Bio.

Pisces

Your good intentions of wearing a clown mask to Bear Hugs won’t go well, con-

sider yourselfwarned.

Where’s Blake?See if you can find Blake

Egli in this Photo.

SAM LUNDEEN / The Bruin

Thanksgiving RecipeFor all of you who have leftovers from Turkey Day and

get tired of turkey sandwiches, this is for you.

3 cups cubed cooked turkey breast1 cup chopped celery1 cup golden raisins4 ounces Monterey Jack cheese, cut into 1/2-inch cubes3 tablespoons chopped green onions1/3 cup mayonnaise1/4 cup mango chutney (or cranberry sauce)1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon pepper

In a large bowl, combine the turkey, celery, raisins, cheese and onions. In a small bowl, combine the mayon-naise, chutney, ginger and pepper until blended. Pour over turkey mixture and toss to coat. Cover and refriger-ate for 1 hour.

From Allrecipes.com

10. drink a Thirst Buster before class: you’ll need to go to the bathroom at least four times.

9. always be the last one to class: you’ll probably end up sitting in the door-way where there’s a nice breeze.

8. let a ferret loose in your classroom: Chaos will start and you can make your escape.

7. Throw up: Start by eating all of the gum from the bot-tom of the desks, then use your imagination.

6. Make a Cardboard Cut-out of yourself: Put a sweatshirt on it and you’re golden!

5. Throw a fit: Temper tan-trums work for three year olds, why not you?

4. Switch into Bruin: It’s where dreams come true.

3. Make your own personal bathroom pass: you’ll be able to roam the halls for hours.

2. leave: the likelihood that your teacher will no-tice one person missing is miniscule.

1. Build a Clubhouse out of the Extra Chairs: make sure that your password remains a secret.

Top TenWays to Cope with Your Overcrowded

ClassThumbs Up

November and December have lots of days off from school.

Winter sports have started.

The next few months there is a possibility for snow.

Modern Warfare Three has been released!

Right now I only have seven periods.

There is one more thumbs down!

I’ve forgotten everything I learned in September and October.

No one can hang out after school.

We will be trapped in McMinnville with no way to leave or have food come in.

These British fifth graders are brutal.

Next there might only be seven periods, and they would all be in one day.

It was not very good.

No Shave NovemberEvery year, starting

on Nov. 1, millions if not billions of men put away their razors and let their luscious beards grow for the next month.

Only the strongest of the strong go the entire month without shaving; they must endure whisker pokes and complaints from both men and women alike about the scruffiness of their faces. After the awkward family dinner at Thanksgiving where Grandmothers often stare at the overflow-ing mustaches of their 14-year-old grandsons, the growth continues for another week.

We here at The Bruin would like to applaud these men and would like to document their epic quest this cold November.

by Aaron Haddeland

SAM LUNDEEN / The Bruin

SAM LUNDEEN / The Bruin

SAM LUNDEEN / The Bruin

StEPHEN GRINICH / The Bruin

upper left: Jerome Verduyn

Bottom left: Pedro Moreno

upper Middle: Jus-tin Smith

Bottom Middle: da-vid Brosius(He tried)

right: Blake Tillery

Photos taken on nov. 14

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