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feb. 28, 2013

immigrationnation

The issue of immigration is a hotly debated political topic, and many are questioning how it will directly affect them and their way of life. The Tribal Tribune reports on its close-to-home impact on pages 16-17.

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9 parking troublesA change in the parking pass policy has caused ques-tions by students due to an increase in price from last year. See the answer to the change on page 9.

20 havin’ a ballA Tribal Tribune sta!er tells about his "rst experi-ence playing paintball. Read the play-by-play on page 20.

28 rowing through lifeRowing is not the most typical sport in the South. Yet sophomore Julia Meredith de"es the norms and has dedicated her life to the sport. Learn more about how she got started on page 28.

32 musical moments#is year’s musical was a hit with two sold out nights. Missed the performance or want to relive the night? See pictures from the show on page 32.

14 making a standSenior Bryce Wells takes a stand against bullying af-ter being personally a!ected--even writing his senior thesis paper on the issue. See his inspiring story on page 14.

15 a dog for diabetesCatch up on the story "rst printed in the November issue about Varadi’s quest for a diabetic service dog. Learn more about Varadi’s "rst days with his dog, Mitsy, on page 15.

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stats }}& saint patrick’sCheck out the Tribal

Tribune website.Using your smart phone, scan the QR code below.

www.wandotribaltribune.com

corrections:The Tribal Tribune erroneously reported that Tim Scott was married in the Jan. 31 issue. Sen.Tim Scott is not married.

day statistics100 pounds of green dye added to the Chicago River in 1962

36.9 million U.S. residents claiming Irish ancestry

2.3 billion cab-bage in pounds produced by U.S. (2009)

Source: http://www.statisticbrain.com/st-patricks-day-statistics/

248 consecutive years New York has hosted a Saint Patrick’s Day Parade

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getting to know »

dumbbellI went to a garage sale one day and saw some old dubbells for sale, and I convinced my mom to get them, and ever since then I’ve been lifting weights.

protein powderA coach introduced me to it when I was in ninth grade. It tastes nasty but the results are worth it.

hatMy cousins, Gabrielle and William Mil-ton, both saved up and bought it for me for Christmas. I felt like the fact that they both saved up to get some-thing for me was the best thing I could ask from them, and they’re my favorite team.gumCleanliness is one of my biggest qual-ities. I hate feeling unclean and hav-ing bad breath is a part of that. That’s why I always have gum on me.

bearMy long-time best friend gave that to me when we were younger. She told me to always hold onto it and I always have.

laptopMy laptop is a big part of my life be-cause I use it for homework, but also movies, music and socializing. It’s very rare for me to go a day without going on it for either work for for fun.

trophyI took drama for about two years at my old school in North Carolina, and when I won the award for the best performance, I was shocked. I had worked so hard to do my best in the play and to show that it paid off meant so much to me. I also love drama and I miss it so much; hopefully I will be able to do it again someday or maybe when I get to college.

future plansNext year I plan on going to N.C. State and majoring in biology. I hope to be-

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things I can’t live withoutsenior alex barber

come either a neurologist or a neu-rosurgeon like my inspiration Dr. Ben Carson.

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Student Concern Specialist Yatesha Williams’ great-grandmother lived until she was 123 years old – long enough to tell her descendents about her life as a slave.

“She used to sit there and just tell us stories about how blessed we are to be able to go to school and to expe-rience the life that she didn’t experience,” Williams said. “She had to learn everything on her own.”

Although Black History Month is only celebrated in February, Williams’ heritage in!uences her life all year long.

“I feel it’s not just a month for me,” she said. “It’s just black history period because it shows from where we came from to where we’re at right now. So much has evolved – we have an African American president – you’d never think in a million years that would happen. Not only is he African American – he has so many di"erent cultures in him. It’s not just a big thing for the African American community…He’s a mixture and combination of what we stand for as we are united.”

Her heritage has taught her to appreciate these strides, Williams said.

“I grew up with both a mother and father at home – they’re both still together,” she said. ”#ey were married for over 30 years. #ey raised three females, and growing up they were hard working individuals – my father is a mechanic and he owns his own mechanic shop so [I am] coming from a line of individuals who were entrepreneurs. My grandfather owned several business, my grandmother, she was a janitor in a school and she also used to clean houses.”

Her great-grandmother’s history has also played a role in her appreciation, Williams said.

“She used to just talk about times when she used to work in the house. She would cook and babysit. She would also iron clothes and clean inside and do other little housework stu" within the house,” Williams said. “She had a daughter who was also mixed – she’s 91 years-old now, and she’s still alive. Just the stories that you can just

imagine what they go through and how blessed we are – able to go to college and not deal with such agony as what they dealt with.”

Long a$er her great-grandmother’s enslavement, Williams would graduate from a historically black college – South Carolina State University.

“Going to a historically black college, I loved the ex-perience – being around other African Americans, show-ing their empowerment of our race, how educated we are, how so many di"erent people that are challenged come from all walks of life,” Williams said. “You have some dif-ferent African Americans from the West Indies. You have a lot of them coming in from di"erent islands – di"erent cultures that you look at. #ey look just like they are Af-rican American, but yet they’re [from] Trinidad or they’re Bohemian – its di"erent learning more about your Afri-can American heritage and race, knowing that you come from di"erent parts of the world.”

Williams said her bloodline, too, is very diverse.

In Oakland, Calif., the Black Pan-thers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which made discrimina-tion in the sale, rental and financ-ing of housing illegal.

Harvey Gantt becomes the first African-American to enroll in Clem-son University. Years later, Gantt becomes mayor of Charlotte and runs for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina.

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The Orange-burg Massacre takes place when nine white highway patrol officers shoot into a crowd of students, killing three and wound-ing 28 more.

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african american heritage a reason to celebrate all year long for staff member

co-editor in chiefStudent Concern Specialist Yatesha Williams and Carzenia Brown share a laugh as they stand under the rotunda and scan IDs for late stu-dents. In honor of Black History Month, Williams said her heritage is a part of “who I am and how I was raised.”

years in reviewCongress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which made it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Re-quirements used to restrict black voting, including literacy tests and poll taxes, are made illegal.

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“I have a grandmother – my father’s mother – who’s Indian and my grandfather is African American,” she said. “I have an African American grandfather, but a Cauca-sian great-grandfather, so it’s amazing how your traits are [when] you dig back in your roots. We all are of one blood because there’s a lot of integration within your family tree. My great-grandmother, she’s white and black. You see with my step-aunts that they are lighter than what we are and have green eyes and look more Caucasian than what we look like, because of the gene tree that hits.”

Along with coming from di!erent backgrounds, Wil-liams said African Americans have also come from a long history.

“I can say just looking back through history, we came a long way – having the opportunity to go to school, to be able to integrate, to be able to be of equality, being able to vote – you know it’s very important especially with the election,” she said. “We now have an African American president – it’s like doors are opening up, we’re "nally

getting the credibility that was much needed versus what our ancestors were trying to "ght for and didn’t get – we "nally got it. We’re living proof; we’re able to get into any university now without being discriminated against.”

And Williams said this gives her reason to celebrate her culture every day.

“I’m glad we do highlight February as Black History Month, but I embrace my heritage everyday – who I am and how I was raised to be,” Williams said. “I don’t forget where I came from.”

Yet, Williams said, she believes di!erent backgrounds are what make the world so interesting.

“I don’t ever limit myself to get to know anyone be-cause it’s fascinating to see so many similarities and to dif-ferentiate between di!erent cultures as well,” she said. “To me, I love the experience of meeting people regardless of what race they are – to me, it is a way to get to know each other, because I feel we’re all one blood.”

Overriding President Ronald Reagan’s veto, Congress pass-es the Civil Rights Restoration Act, expanding the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds.1

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the history of black history month

Celebrated every year in Feb-ruary

The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom all celebrate Black History Month Created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History

Originally only the second week in February, it was called “Negro History Week”

Week chosen because it holds both the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln and famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Woodson stated it was to stop being celebrated when black history became fundamen-tal in United States history First celebrated at Kent Uni-versity in 1970

Expanded into Black History Month in 1976 when the fed-eral government acknowl-edged it

First celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1987 and in 1995 for Canada

50 years of black history reviewed throughout the United States and South Carolina.

I.S. Leevy John-son, James Felder and Herbert Fielding are elected to the S.C. House in the General As-sembly, the first African-Ameri-cans since 1902.

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1The most recent blood drive -- on Feb. 20

-- had 77 participants. While the original goal was 100, health science teacher Catherine Law-son theorized that perhaps the reason the num-ber wasn’t as high as expected was because of spring sports affecting students’ schedules.

Statewide, not enough blood was collect-ed to meet the expected amount, according to Lawson. S.C. hospitals depend on imports from other states. Each year, 3000 pints are needed. Blood has a 42-day shelf life. Donors can give every 56-days. The Wando drives are spaced out so that people can safely donate.

(1A) Senior Cameron Abrams and (1C) ju-nior Minh Ton sip juice boxes as they donate blood during the drive. The Red Cross brings two blood donation buses for the drive. Donors can also give blood in the HOSA room. In (1B), another student donates blood.

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more impressive. On Feb. 19, 247 seniors who achieved scores ranging from an 1100 to a 1520 in one sitting were inducted into the SAT Wall of Fame as a tribute to their aca-demic successes.

Senior Caleb Priester (2A), the high-est scoring student with a 1520, delivered a speech to the newly welcomed inductees and audience, offering them a congratulations while also encouraging to open their minds before the wall of placards was officially un-veiled in the foyer of the school. The top-scoring seniors and their parents ended the night with cake, which was inscribed with all 247 inductees’ names.

Priester and senior Jack Meagher were the two members of the 1500 club. Other newly inducted members can be seen on www.wandotribaltribune.com.

(2B) Some of the senior inductees stand and show off the certificates commemorating their achievements.

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notable achievements

Junior Kensey Jones won the Black History Month Literature Contest Visual Arts Poster. “It was re-ally unexpected and very exciting,” she said. “I was very proud.”

Health teacher David Crock-ett won Teacher of the Month for February.“It’s always nice to be recognized by people you work with and it was a great honor. I take it humbly. Obvi-ously you always want to do good things and to be recognized was just nice.”

Sophomore Tay-lor Majewski won the Black History Month Contest Word Scramble Award. “It was a great achievement and I was very proud of myself,” he said.

Administrative assistant Cyndy Peek won Staff member of the Month for Febru-ary. “It was a big surprise and was really wonderful,” she said. Peek works with Assis-tant Principal Jason

Drayton.

Sophomore April Song won the Black History Month Contest Lit-erature Award. “I felt happy because in general it’s good to win things,” she said.

Sophomore Jia Singleton won the Black History Month Contest Literature Award. “When I won I felt really great about myself because I usually don’t par-ticipate in things like this.”

mock trial teams compete at regionals!e “Red Team” Mock Trial team is heading for state

competition a"er capturing the regional competition Feb. 23 at North Charleston Courthouse.

!e “Blue Team” also competed at the regional com-petition.

!e “Red Team” remains hopeful for a victory this year at the state competition March 7-9 – and with good reason: coached by two lawyers, Sally Wallace and Phyl-lis Gildea and assisted by three practicing attorneys, the students meet for at least two hours, four days a week be-tween Nov. 1 and early March.

“Wando will be ready for the state competition this year… I think we are stylistically a strong team and have a good grasp of the case for both the Plainti# and De-fense sides,” said junior Grace Glenn said, who competes alongside her twin, Greer, and acts as Red Team’s Defense Attorney.

With teams consisting of attorneys, plainti#s and a baili#, all mock trial teams receive information on a $c-tional court case on Nov. 1, and build their arguments on either side of the case in preparation for regionals as well as state competitions in March.

!e program has experienced growth at Wando over the last few years. !is is the $rst year in which Wando has had two teams, a factor that has added to the entire program’s preparedness for regional and state competi-tions.

“Mrs. Wallace’s Rhetoric of Law class has helped gen-erate interest,” Grace Glenn said, “and I think it’s a huge statement that we have two teams this year… having two

makes each team stronger when we practice against each other.”

!e mock trial program requires a high level of com-mitment from its teams’ participants.

“When our new members start with mock trial, they don’t know what they get into… Most members do return, so a"er experiencing it, interest is increasing and fostered,” said senior Matthew Karkowski, plainti# attorney and team captain.

Students involved in mock trial testify to its educa-tional merit: “Mock Trial has had a huge impact on not just me, but almost everyone who is on the team… I am con$dent that mock trial has given me an excellent set of communicative, analytic and argumentative skills,” Grace Glenn said.

Likewise, Karkowski said that mock trial “has been the biggest in%uence on [his] rhetorical speaking, enun-ciation, and communication skills.”

While preparing for the state competition, the team intends to capitalize on Wando’s “realistic courtroom” style in hopes of success.

And whether or not Wando wins state and goes on to nationals, the program’s success at regionals will be cel-ebrated for some time among the team members and sup-porters.

“Red Team’s success was amazing… and although competition rules only let one team per school go to State, it was a huge achievement to have Blue Team go to Re-gionals,” Glenn said.

-- andrew taylor

!is year’s job fair gave students the opportunity to $nd and apply for summer or part time jobs. Taking place in the gym Feb. 21 from 11:30 to 2, it gave students the chance to sit down and see what the working world is like.

!is is the 12th year that the job fair has been going on with it growing every year. !ere are over 30 employers

job fair hosts 30 employers»

As senior Chris Dupree and junior MaryKate Trainor (front left) review their past cases representing an attorney and a plaintiff as part of the Mock Trial competi-tion Feb. 23. Witnesses freshman Bianca Garsys and sopho-more Noah DeLeon look over the current case.

that will sit down with the student and allow the student to apply on the spot or get redirected to the businesses website. !e job fair had a great variety of businesses that were o#ering all di#erent types of positions from being a cashier, lifeguard or even working for social media.

--laurel mckay

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favorite presidentsthe run for district one

REPUBLICANSKEITH BLANDFORDPLATFORM: To return D.C. to its constitutional size and duties.OCCUPATION: Busi-nessman

JONATHAN HOFFMANPLATFORM: Less regu-lation of businesses, OCCUPATION: At-torney

CHIP LIMEHOUSEPLATFORM: Cut taxes, less business regulationOCCUPATION: State representative

RAY NASHPLATFORM: Reduc-ing government and support of constitu-tional rightsOCCUPATION: Sheriff

MARK SANDFORDPLATFORM: Cut spending and shrinking governmentOCCUPATION: For-mer govenor

CURTIS BOSTICPLATFORM: Spend-ing cuts, limited gov’t, parents’ rights to direct EducationOCCUPATION: Attorney

JEFF KINGPLATFORM: Reduce government, cut and cap budget OCCUPATION: De-fense contractor

PETER McKOYPLATFORM: Lower taxes, less government regulationsOCCUPATION: State representative

ANDY PATRICKPLATFORM: Abolish Obamacare, Department of Education subsidiesOCCUPATION: State Representative

TEDDY TURNERPLATFORM: Keep S.C. a right-to-work state, in-crease military resourcesOCCUPATION: Teacher

LARRY GROOMSPLAFORM: Reduce gov-ernment, lower taxes, control of school to familiesOCCUPATION: Senator

TIM LARKINPLATFORM: Work with local business, govern-ment reformOCCUPATION: Veteran

ELIZABETH MOFFLYPLATFORM: Personal freedom, economic secu-rity, limited gov’tOCCUPATION: CCSD School Board Trustee

SHAWN PINKSTONPLATFORM: Term lim-its, town hall meetings, strong militaryOCCUPATION: Vet-eran, attorney

JOHN KUHNPLATFORM: Repeal Obamacare, de-regulate businessOCCUPATION: Attor-ney, ex-state senator

in honor of President’s Day, we asked teachers who their favorite president is and why

CAROLINE TAYLORU.S. HISTORY

“Thomas Jefferson is my favorite presi-dent. He’s just a very dynamic man. He seems human… I’ve always just been intrigued in reading things about him.”

MELINDA SUMMERU.S. HISTORY

“My favorite is Franklin Roosevelt… He got the government more involved in trying to save the economy, provided for those in need because the states couldn’t do it, the charities couldn’t do it, there had to be a change.”

JASON BRISINIHUMAN GEOGRAPHY

“FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Be-cause he held the entire country strong during World War Two and he got us through the depression.”

MISTY LECLERC

GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS“I don’t have a favorite president. I don’t like the executive branch.”

JENNIFER GRAHAM U.S. HISTORY

“You know, I actually like [Dwight D.] Eisenhower a lot because he was, I think, very moderate, even though he considered himself at the time very conservative.”

DANIEL GIDICK U.S. HISTORY

“I’ll have to go with FDR for his role in creating the New Deal, his expan-sion of federal power to improve the welfare of citizens… his charisma and his ability to connect with the common man.”

JOE SETTLEMYREU.S. HISTORY

“FDR. Because of the New Deal. [Also] His fireside chats, the way he dealt with the economy, his relationship with the people [and] his ability to be able to play both parties, political parties.”

With the resignation of Sen. Jim Demint and the appointment of Tim Scott to fill his position to the U.S. Senate, the seat for District One in the House of Representatives is open. The primary for the special election to fill Scott’s seat is March 19. Here are the current candidates running -- find out whose views match yours.

--compiled by madison ivey

DEMOCRATSELIZABETH COLBERT-BUSCHPLATFORM: Bring wind energy jobs to the region, help re-acclimate military and create opportunities for youth.OCCUPATION: University executive

BEN FRAISERPLATFORM: Fewer regulations in gov-ernment, lower taxes, support for small businessOCCUPATION: Former longshoreman

--compiled by sarah heywood

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a new route for parking

New parking passes? What’s the point? Many students have been asking those ex-act questions as the parking pass system went through a change with students re-quired to have two parking tags -- one for each semester.

Student reactions have been mixed.

“I think it [the new parking pass sys-tem] was pretty ridic-ulous. We had to get it renewed, [and] I sort of get why we have to do that,” senior Jor-dan Yeager said. “It was just sort of a pain in the butt.”

Junior Meredith Yuhas said she un-derstands why students have to have two passes also, but believes the system was in-convenient.

“I think it’s more complicated than it needs to be,” she said. “I can de!nitely see why they are doing it, for people with early outs, but it’s kind of a lot to do to get 1,000 people to change and renew their parking.”

With times to get the new parking passes assigned from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. or 3 p.m. to 4 p.m, and the day depending on

your current parking place, some students found it di"cult.

“My experience was really hard be-cause I have a really busy schedule, and my spot was the last on the list to get one,” Yu-has said, “and that #ursday.”

Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn said one reason for the change was to make sure the early-out parking spaces were used cor-rectly.

“One of the reasons for the new system is to maximize the parking spaces being

utilized. In the past we’ve had kids that have either gradu-ated really, in Janu-ary, and not turned their parking pass in or that fall through the cracks or they sell them to 10th graders which is un-authorized,” Hearn said. “Also a lot of

kids will buy a pass in August and they de-cide they don’t want to drive to school or they can’t a$ord the gas to drive, or their car breaks down, so they are holding on to a parking tag all year that could be used by somebody else. So this gives us an op-portunity to maximize the number of spots being used.”

#e new system also helps out the sta$ a lot.“It gives us a chance to update our parking pass data base and spread sheet as well because a lot of kids change cars,”

“A part of me is missing,” sophomore Maria Hernandez said a%er hearing of the retirement of Sandra Visscher.

Visscher, who taught Honors Global Studies II and AP European History in years past, retired Feb. 1 because of her husband’s health problems.

“Now every day that I go to my his-tory class I feel like a part of me is miss-ing,” Hernandez said. “It’s like something I forgot to do, but I just can’t put my !nger on it.”

Visscher’s departure also has impact-ed Angele Robertson, who has been Viss-cher’s English partner for 14 years.

“Our personal and professional lives were not separate,” she said. “We know each other’s children, triumphs, and we know each other’s fears in life.”

Visscher’s per-sonality was among one of the many things everyone loved about her. “Mrs.Visscher was very energetic and young at heart; she was very smart and taught really well, she was very lively but also sweet and

caring,” sophomore Lauren Miller said. Hernandez agreed.“Each day in class Mrs.Visscher al-

ways had such a great and cheerful atti-tude; if something was bothering her she never let it interfere with her teaching,” she said. “She reminds me of Mrs.Teapot from the movie Beauty and the Beast be-cause she’s always so chipper.”

Visscher le% behind a letter to help explain to her students the situation of why she le% suddenly.

“I felt really special and honored that she thought of us at a time like that,” Her-nandez said. Robertson said her reaction to Visscher’s departure is threefold.

“Grateful that I had spent the last 14 years teaching beside her, sad that my partner of 14 years was going to leave, and happy for her because I knew that her leaving was what she needed to do for her husband and her heart…but I miss her ev-ery day,” she said.

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Hearn said, “so it gives us a chance to have more accurate checks of the parking lot.”

#is system also gives new drivers an opportunity to get a parking spot due to some people having their tags revoked.

“We have pulled a couple tags in the fall and told them they were revoked un-til further notice, and they were not going to get a parking pass in the spring until I said,” Hearn said.

While some students complained about the parking fees raising from $40 to $50, Hearn said there was a legitimate rea-son for the raise.

“We used to charge $40 for the year and this is $25 per semester, so it’s a little bump for instructional fees with the school funds being tight this year,” he said.

Some students’ opinions are di$erent though.

“It’s a lot of money, especially [for] people who already pay their car insurance and stu$, we are already coming to school and paying for gas,” Yuhas said. “I under-stand that they have to charge something, but I think it’s a bit high.” Hearn said the new parking passes ul-timately provide parking opportunity for students. “So all of those reasons went into why we are doing two semesters. So far I think it’s worked,” he said. “It’s been more work but at the same time we are holding people more accountable for what they are doing in the parking lots too and abiding by the parking pass rules.”

In a change from past years, students were required to get new parking passes for second semester.

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“It’s been more work, but at the same time we are holding people more accountable for what they are doing in the park-ing lots...”

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A one week trial membership to a gym doesn’t always start a relationship. But English teacher Jeannie Fox saw her husband week one.

“When I found out that he worked in the morning, I did wake up early and go to the gym in the morning before I went to work,” she said. “And then I !gured out which car was his and I was bummed

In their sophomore year at Wando High School, Anthony and English teacher Tara Pinckney -- whose maiden name was "omas -- sat next to each other in Span-ish class. “He was so annoying!” she said.

One day he wrote in her agenda to call him. When he asked her why she didn’t call, she said, “because girls don’t call boys, boys call girls.” A#er giving Anthony her number, “the rest is history,” Pinckney said.

Although Anthony went to school in Alabama and Tara in South Carolina, they continuted to date during their college

"ey were introduced by teacher Kay Johnson, Brian Sutler’s ninth grade biology teacher, and anatomy teacher DeAna Her-ring’s good friend. Meeting in August 2010, Sutler was a new Wando student resource o$cer.

“My husband is eight years younger than I am, so he was worried that I would be concerned because he was younger than me. And I was worried that he would be concerned that I was older than he was,” DeAna said. “And so I wasn’t sure how it would turn out really because of that age di%erence…but it just turned out. "e age has never been an issue for us.”

Before their planned March 2012 wed-

when it wasn’t there.” Six months later, the two began talk-

ing and he became her personal trainer for about a year until they !nally started dat-ing.

A#er Christmas together, she was hooked. "e couple has been married for 11 and a half years. “I thought I was just having fun! And I guess I am…still,” Fox said.

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plans for future include marriage,college for couple

staff writerGo to school. Graduate. Fall in love.

Get married."ese are the guidelines that most

live their lives by -- college, career and then marriage are thought by most to be the “traditional” way of doing things. First loves will come and go, while high school sweethearts rarely make it past the fresh-men dorm years. "ese are the things that kids are taught. It’s the way teenagers plan out their lives.

For most teenagers, marriage is the ab-solute last thing on their minds.

Junior Gray Powers is not, in this way, like many teenagers.

While many are deciding on what college to attend or what career to begin, Powers is focusing on an entirely di%erent kind of future -- marriage to his long-term girlfriend, Collette Harper, a freshman at School of the Arts.

“We’ve known each other for a long time,” Powers said. “She moved into my neighborhood, [she] was in !#h grade and I was in seventh. We started hanging out from there; we’d always ride our bikes around the neighborhood. She went to my church, too. “

"e couple grew up together and even-tually started dating. A day before their one-year anniversary, Powers proposed.

“We came back to my house and went for a walk, down to one of the !rst places

we met when we were younger. It’s in our neighborhood, this place with a pond and the bench swing. And we sat there, and I just told her how much I loved her and everything. I told her to get up and I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me,” Powers said.

“And of course, I said yes,” Harper said.

While high school engagements are by no means traditional, the couple has no qualms about being married while still in school.

“We plan to get married out of high school,” Powers said.

“I’ll [graduate] early and she’s going to graduate early, when she’s a junior. And I’m going to save up until then, and then get married when we’re 18 and we can. I’m going to go to Trident for a year and save up and go to College of Charleston for psychology, and she’s going to medical school,” he said.

Not all share in the couple’s certainty of their future, however.

“I’ve lost a lot of friends,” Powers said. “Not everyone understands it.”

From family to classmates, negative reactions to their situation are common-place.

“But my parents know,” Harper said. “And they’re !ne with it.”

Despite adversities, both Powers and Harper remain sure of their future.

“We love each other,” Powers said. “And we have plans. We’ll go to school and be married; it happens all the time. I always tried to convince Collette I wasn’t going to leave her and that I wanted to be with her the rest of my life, so I wanted to give her something to promise that.

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Junior Gray Powers and his girlfried, SOA fresh-man Collette Harper, plan to get married out of high school when they both are 18. Their plans include college as well.

ding, Mrs. Sutler’s father had a heart attack. "e couple moved the date to November 2012, just a week before DeAna’s dad’s sur-gery -- making sure that he could walk her down the aisle.

But when Mrs. Sutler’s dad arrived at her house, he su%ered another heart attack and had to be rushed back to the hospital. A#er another heart attack, he was too weak to come o% any medications, much less leave the hospital again altogether.

Mrs. Sutler’s father was moved into the cardiac ICU the next morning, where Brain and DeAna were married. It was the sec-ond marriage ever to take place in MUSC’s Ashley River Towers.

years. An extra year of graduate school for "omas made !ve years away from each other. "at didn’t hinder the couple, how-ever -- Anthony and Tara Pinckney have been married for four years in June.

“I knew he was the one because I al-ways wanted to be around him. I didn’t want to hang with my friends,” Pinckney said. “It’s just like the Usher song where they are the !rst person on your mind when you wake up in the morning, and the last person you want to talk to before you go to bed.”

Teachers share their love stories with The Tribal Tribune. From the first Christmas to their wedding day, each tells about how they ended up with their spouse. --compiled by kacey gouge

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mechatronicsAccording to engineering teacher Mark Novak, the

industrial workforce is in decline. More speci!cally, Novak worries that technician jobs

previously held by the baby boomer generation will be le" to an unassuming and ill-prepared public.

“#ere was a point in history where we just stopped teaching the skills one would need to do these technical jobs,” Novak said. “Now these men are retiring and there will be no one to !ll the position.”

#e solution lies with the present generation, Novak said. #e new wave of students who have both the knowl-edge and experience to run the modern world – the me-chatronics kids.

“I’m trying to bring the average 16 year old up to the standards of where my generation was,” Novak said. “I’m here to teach a trade.”

Mechatronics is a course geared towards the individ-ual student, analyzing the techniques and ideals of busi-ness and industry as well as dissecting the machinery that runs the world. #e class brings together students of all interests and skills, Novak said.

“We’ve got boat guys, and car guys, and army guys… we even have a girl who wants to be a seamstress,” he said. #e procedures learned in mechatronics relate to every machine, he added.

“Once you realize a machine is a lot of really simple stu$ all gathered together in one place and you under-stand what the simple blocks are, you can walk up to any machine anywhere, know what it’s probably supposed to

do, !gure out how to do it, and get paid for having done it,” Novak said.

Alex McArthur, a student in the mechatronics class as well as a member of the mechatronics club, is a strong advocate of the course and its versatility.

“#ere’s always something you can learn about here,” McArthur said.

Part of the Mechatronics Club projects includes building robots for competition. #e club has designed, built and programmed an advanced robot for an interna-tional competition March 2 in Myrtle Beach. According to Novak, 65 teams attend from all over the world. It has been a tenuous and time-consuming process for the club.

“A week and a half before the competition you’ve got to have [the robot] sent in,” Novak said. “#ey only give you six weeks to engineer it and build it.”

Wando mechatronics, a relatively new program, will face tough competition and the disadvantage of being rel-atively unknown. “#is year we’re angling for the rookie award,” Novak said.

Another challenge for the club is money. “It costs around $50,000 to do the competition, but

we’re being sponsored by places like NASA and SPAWAR,” McArthur said.

On top of actually having to program and create the robot, the club must make a sales pitch in order to gain sponsors. Even the $15,000 grant from the school isn’t enough to cover the advanced projects mechatronics takes on.

Although a tight budget is di%cult to work with, stu-dents get an opportunity to learn about the business side of mechatronics.

“It teaches you how a business is run, because there are more sides to the team than just the technical side,”

McArthur said. “It teaches you how to work together with people in di$erent !elds other than yours.”

Novak guides members of the mechatronics club us-ing his extensive experience in the work force to teach them the fundamentals of success.

#e club faces many challenges, but for most mem-bers, it’s worth the time and e$ort.

“It’s a lot of work, but it’s de!nitely worth it,” McArthur said.

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Sophomore Dyers Askins, senior Collin Holm and junior Chris Zei-gler work with mechatronics teacher Mark Novak.

Junior Chris Zeigler welds for the Mechatronics program.The course is new, begun by engineering teacher Mark Novak. The club will compete in Myrtle Beach on March 2 with its advanced robot.

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Students on the Cyber Warfare Team, a part of the Engineering Club, are high-ly-trained hackers capable of in!ltrating complex computer systems.

"e team is coached by Chad Cravens, a Cyber Warfare specialist.

“He’s got a lot of experience work-ing with the government and with private industry, so we’re lucky to have him as a coach,” advisor David Roemer said.

In order to learn how to protect com-puter systems from hacking, students must be able to hack computers themselves.

Competitions are based on o#ensive and defensive components. "e team must attack the computer system of an opposing team while defending its own.

“Defending is much harder. Attack-ers have to !nd one hole. Defenders have to !nd all of them,” junior Alex McArthur said.

Being a member of the team allows students to use what they learn in pro-gramming classes in real situations.

“"is connects what they’re doing in

Build a replica of a medieval weapon powered by gravity alone that can launch a pumpkin 50 feet. "e Trebuchet Team, part of the Engineering Club, was given this challenge last year at a competition in Columbia.

"e team, sponsored by engineering teacher Kathryn Johnston, designs and builds trebuchets. Like catapults, a trebu-chet is built to launch an object. A weight is dropped, the arm slings around and the object is launched. Students must create a trebuchet capable of !ring objects of vary-ing weights – from a pumpkin to a lacrosse ball – speci!c distances.

At meetings, students go through the process of creating their trebuchet. "ey (Above) During the Trebuchet meeting afterschool, the team prepares its trebuchet for a launch.

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(Above) Senior Chau Tran and juniors Aidan Collins, Peyton Jones and Roman Shtompal stand with an award they won from a cyber warfare competi-tion.

class with a real-world application,” Ro-emer said. “Making that connection with the real world is very important to educa-tion.”

Students also gain experience that will prepare them for further studies and pos-sible careers in the Cyber Warfare !eld.

“"ere are incredible career opportu-nities in Cyber Warfare right now because it’s a new !eld,” Roemer said.

To become a part of this team, contact Roemer or stop by his room in E106.

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have to design and draw the trebuchet, then build a desktop model, choose and order supplies and !nally build it. Students do all the work, Johnston said.

Students are provided with a hands-on application of what they learn in class. For those interested in pursuing a career in engineering, the team teaches students about mechanical engineering, structural engineering and physics.

For other careers, being on the team gives experience with planning and prob-lem solving, Johnston said.

Students can visit Johnston in H129 to get involved and become a member.

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(Above) Senior Maddy Dwyer works on the trebuchet. (Right) Junior Wolfie Tuk makes small adjustments to the trebuchet.

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planting seeds of acceptance

Animated waves, gleaming smiles and a candidate on homecoming court-- but it wasn’t always this way. Senior Bryce Wells can be found in the hallways greet-ing his friends and classmates, a beacon of friendliness reaching out to those around him.

But before coming to Wando, the darkness of bullying had dimmed Wells’ shine. Wells was plagued with the ostra-cism and anger of bullying, words thrown with harmful intentions, leaving behind pain and frustration.

Wells found his freedom in high school, and turned his experiences into a

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(Top) Senior

Bryce Wells high fives

senior Trey Floyd in the

school store. Wells said he makes sure to be

friendly because of his experi-ence with bullying.

(Bottom)Wells’ night-stand holds

pictures from his

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lesson to be taught through his senior proj-ect in December 2012.

“!e reason why I wanted to do my presentation on bullying is because I’m very passionate about it, and it happened to me,” Wells said. “I want to tell the world why it happened and how to stop it.”

During his years in elementary and middle school, Wells struggled to "nd ac-ceptance, a hand to guide him, an ear will-ing to listen.

It wasn’t until he returned to Mt. Pleas-ant Presbyterian Church that Wells’ light steadily began to grow brighter.

“I went and had a really great group that brought me in and helped me,” he said. “!ey taught me things and made me who I am today.”

Bashfulness had initially hindered Wells, but he found his voice and con"-dence in a church that o#ered him love.

“At "rst I didn’t want to talk to anyone about what was happening; it was embar-

rassing,” Wells said. But his anxieties dissipated and he was

capable of opening up and being comfort-able with those that supported him.

“What they did for me was be a really good friend. !ey never teased me, they laughed at my jokes and listened to me when I had something to say,” he said.

!e sorrow Wells had experienced crossed into the lives of his amorous fam-ily, and Celia Wells witnessed the struggle her son faced.

“It was really hard for me to not be able to be there,” Mrs. Wells said. “Always listen to your child, reassure them and give them ways to handle life. Not everyone is going to treat you kindly.”

English teacher Linda Fraser assisted Wells through the process of writing his paper and preparing his presentation, supporting the message he was trying to spread.

“It gave him a position, a place to stand

from where he could speak out against something that he had very strong feel-ings for,” she said. “He feels good knowing that he could help someone else. !at’s the most positive thing that I think came out of that.”

Fraser believes Wells has planted seeds of acceptance in the minds of his classmates, sprouting compassion and understanding.

“Bryce has put a face on bullying,” she said. “His senior project was a way of getting his story out. I think they heard what he was saying, and I think that they look at him and others and they say ‘how could someone do this to another human being?’--he didn’t deserve it.”

Students are provided an opportunity of self-re$ection, to contemplate their ac-tions and how it a#ects others.

“It gives them the opportunity to question their own behavior,” Fraser said. “Bryce Wells has done us all a favor.”

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Bryce Wells skateboards in his neighborhood with his brother junior Casey Wells. After being bullied in middle school, Bryce said he wants “to tell the world why it happened and how to stop it.”

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I guess we couldn’t really here her whim-pering cause when we stopped she just started going psycho and crazy and that’s when she started pulling at my shoelaces and jumping,” Varadi said. “She’s usually so well trained with her obedience that when she does anything like out of the ordinary that’s when we really know for me to check myself. ‘ll say to her, ‘Do we need to check, do we need to check? And I’ll get down and just like check myself in front of her. And if it’s like a good high or good low, we’ll reward her and she’ll lick the blood o! my "nger and check it.”

Carol Varadi added that in situations of high distress, they’re encouraged not to tell Mitzy to quiet down.

“We’re not supposed to tell her to be quiet because that’s how she alerts. In-stead you say, ‘He’s "xing it, he’s "xing it.’ Just to let her know that someone’s taking care of the problem and she can relax.”

On multiple occasions Mitzy has tak-en the opportunity to showo! her talent and concern -- both for her master and random strangers also su!ering from dia-betes.

“I could write a book everyday on experiences that we have,” Carol Varadi said. “I took her to a real-estate closing the other day because I sold a house, and everybody was so stressed out in there and then she was whimpering, and I said, ‘Does anybody in here have diabetes?’, and the person that bought the house said, ‘My husband is in denial over the fact that they think he has it’, and I said, ‘Well he’s gonna wanna stay away from her then, she won’t leave him alone’.”

However,Mitzy’s constant display of her abilities isn’t the only novelty that bears getting used to.

“When the trainer was here we took her to di!erent restaurants and stores, and it was interesting to see the response that we would get when we would walk in,” Carol Varadi said. “Right away people would start to say, ‘No dogs-’ and then they would stop themselves and say, ‘Oh it’s a service dog, it’s okay.’

“But the Varadis’ aren’t the only ones who are adjusting to a new lifestyle.

“When she "rst came last sunday, she didn’t know how to go up steps and our house is elevated and so the trainer had

or ‘sit’ or ‘down’ so we started learning that,” Carol Varadi, Lukes mother said. “We did a lot of obedience training, and also we were watching her signals when Luke’s sug-ar would drop or go to high to see how she would respond to him. She would whim-per, and she would start yawning and if you didn’t pay attention to it she would start barking or jumping and she would start pawing him, and just start intensifying. “

#e training is to be a gradual process, new concepts eventually being introduced during each 90 day interval. But Mitzy seems up to the challenge.

“#e other night she laid his head on his diabetes bag, with his kit, until his num-bers came down. I mean that was really cute to see that, and amazing that she knew

where his meter was,” Carol Varadi said. “And

eventually when the trainer comes back the next time, one thing they’re gonna work on is hav-

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“We took her out on the boat and

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“A$er the incident, when we got back into the car, she went right to sleep and was to-tally relaxed.”

On February 10th, the Varadi family received the gi$ they had long been hoping and working towards.

Upon its arrival came many shades of relief and joy -- along with an entire new point of interest -- "lled with surprises and new twists and turns in their day to day lives.

“We’ve done so much just to fundraise and now it’s "nally here. We’re "nally able to have her,” Junior Luke Varadi said.

But the work isn’t all over just yet. Diabetic alert dogs begin their train-

ing with obedience at about 7 weeks old, followed by a training session every ninety days for two years. #e training sessions

typically last about four straight days and is very intense -- in-

volving both the dog and the dogs new family.

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Whimpers and howls radiate through the waiting room walls -- a cacophony of distress and agitation.#e noise persisting, Carol Varadi watches as the scene on the other end of the leash intensi"es.

But this isn’t a common case of canine disobedience. It’s precisely the opposite.

Born on October 14, four month old Mitzy is a trained diabetic alert dog. Her small overly sensitive nose had been mere-ly picking up a scent below the radar of human detection. A scent that it has been trained to recognize as a great cause for concern.

And while her talents and training are generally intended to alert to hu-mans, her capabilities seem to know no bounds.

Somewhere in that same Veterinary o%ce there could be found a cat with a blood sugar level of 700, and Mitzy was alerting to it.

“#e normal is 80-180, which is the range she typi-cally alerts to, and anything out of that range she goes crazy,” Carol Varadi said.

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(Left)Juniors Luke Varadi and Tucker Dodson fish with Mitzy on Feb. 18 off the Isle of Palms. (Above) Mitzy and Varadi have been inseparable since he got her.

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immigration by the numbers:obtaining le-gal residency 1,062,040

apprehend-ed aliens 641,633

illegal immigrants in U.S. 11.6 million

--as of March 2012 by the Depart-ment of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics

55,000 illegal immigrants in S.C.

--as of December 2011 by Pew Hispanic Center

--2011 Yearbook, Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics

--2011 Yearbook, Department of Homeland Security Office of Im-migration Statistics

$12 billion feder-ally/ year for immi-gration control

Junior Hope Snell was in sixth grade. Just old enough to have learned Spanish from her step-father. Just old enough to have her step-father help her in their fa-vorite sport, soccer, one that she continues today.

She didn’t know just how short the relationship would be.

“He had come here illegally,” Snell said of Ramon Bernal, who had married her mother, Melanie, when Hope was 4. “I obviously knew he was from Mexico, but you don’t automatically think, ‘oh, he’s il-legal’.”

A!er Hope’s parents divorced when she was too young to remember, Bernal came into her life as a secondary father "gure. He and her mother fell in love, got married and had three children. #ey were a thriving family – before it all changed.

“Ramon got deported. And Ramon said, ‘What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to send you a thank you note, a thank you letter and say nice to meet you? Does that mean I just call you and say come and see me when you can? He said, ‘No, I’m coming back, I love you and I love my family,” Hope’s mother, Melanie Bernal said.

His absence caused the family’s lives to turn completely around: “I want to bring you into our world and let you see all the hardships it has caused,” Bernal said.

Before the legal troubles, Hope’s

mother and step-father formed their own painting company, called Changing Col-ors.

“It did really well,” Snell said, so she was not concerned when her mom told her that Ramon would be going to Texas for a work project. “It totally made sense at the time.” #e children did not know that he has been deported.

A!er a year, Bernal said she could not survive the separation any more. “My mom was like, ‘I need my husband, that’s my family, we need to stay together’ so that’s when she had told me that Ramon was actually deported and he was in Mexi-co and can’t come back,” Snell said. “It’s al-ready been such a long time, but I remem-ber every event clearly from mom telling me, ‘this is why he’s over here and this is why [he is gone]’.”

#e broken family tried to hold on to their life in South Carolina and their busi-ness, but it was too di$cult. “It just fell [the painting company],” Snell said. “#ey had to "le for bankruptcy then they moved down there [to Mexico].”

Her mother and her two children with Ramon moved to Mexico to try to regain their life. Hope and her two sisters stayed.

But the education system -- and the life in Mexico -- was not a place that the two children could be raised. Hope’s mother, pregnant with the third Bernal child, moved to Florida.

“My mom came back over to have him [Hope’s younger brother] here, so he would be [an American citizen],” she said. ”My mom pretty much lives a single moth-er with three kids, just trying to make it.”

It’s not been an easy for anyone. “I go to my mom’s probably only once or twice a year,” Snell said. She Skypes with her fam-ily in Florida, but it’s not the same as see-ing them in person. “Everyone wants their mom… My life would be completely dif-ferent; it would be great to have them all here because obviously I miss [them]. #e whole half of my family is gone.”

#e deportation of her step-father was not a secret, and Hope and her family suf-fered cruel comments, including taunting ones such as “your family deserves it be-cause the law is like this for a reason; you were obviously not doing what you were supposed to be doing,” or “he shouldn’t have been here to begin with.” #e com-ments – some by people Snell had consid-ered friends – all began when she was in the sixth grade.

#e parents of Hope’s former friends would say the statements, and their chil-dren would copy them.

“If it was about the law, we [the chil-dren] obviously didn’t know, we were young; if it was racial, it was just pure mean kids saying racist things,” Snell said.

She and her mother did not report the comments, trying to ignore them.

“It hurt my feelings. No one wants to hear bad things about your mom and your family, but if they did I would just be like ‘Ok, whatever,’” Snell said.

“He never did anything bad,” Snell added of her step-father. “He came over here for a better life for himself, to "nd work and [take care of] his family.”

#e family’s demise started with a speeding ticket that Bernal received, go-

ing 45 in a 35 mph zone. When authorities checked records, he was illegal.

While in Mexico, Ramon was waiting for permission to enter the U.S. legally. He was denied entry because he crossed into the US 24 years ago

Snell is not sure if Bernal will ever be able to return.

“From legal stand [point], it looks like not, and that’s probably the only way it’s going to go, that we are going to follow the law from based on our horrible experi-ence,” Snell said.

But she never knows what could hap-pen: “maybe something will happen, may-be a law will change, maybe my mom will call immigration again and say ‘we want him back over here with our family.’”

As for the national reforms that are a possibility, Snell tries not to hope.

“For the most part I do just try to keep it out because it is kind of a hurtful thing because it just reminds me of my family and how I wish I could be with them — they [my mom, brother and sisters] are here in the United States — they are so close …but I can’t be with them. If I hear things about it, I will change the channel or %ip the page in the newspaper.”

Ramon and Melanie’s marriage has not survived the hardship well. “#ey are o$cially [separated],” Snell said. “It was just honestly too hard… but we still are a family even if we can’t be together.”

#e deportation caused strain on their marriage. “#e bottom line is the immigration has changed him [Ramon],” Bernal said, who now lives in Florida with her three youngest chil- dren. “And so

For sophomore Sasha Parmesti, moving from Singapore to the United States seemed like an exciting opportu-nity.

Originally named Hadasya, Parm-esti had moved once before in her life before her move to South Carolina. “I was born in Indonesia,” Parmesti said.

“I lived in Indonesia for two years, and then I moved to Singapore, lived there for nine years, and I moved here to the United States almost exactly three years ago.” Moving with her parents and her two siblings, Parmesti was encour-aged by the idea of having her life set in the United States.

Parmesti’s elder brother, junior Tony Sembiring, had a di&erent view on the matter.

“I was the only one of the family who really %ipped out over it. You’re not just moving to a di&erent place, you are moving to a di&erent continent like 10,000 miles away,” Sembiring said.

#e process that the family has to follow has taken time. “I know that my dad had to work on the visas, like the permission forms for immigrants to stay, and right now we are working. He has his working visa and we are his dependents, so right now, we are work-ing on our permanent residency,” Par-mesti said. “#at’s just allowing us to stay here.”

Now living in the U.S., Parmesti also looks forward to what her future here has to o&er, starting with when her family will be given green cards from the government. “#e earliest date we are going to get the green card is some-time in May,” Parmesti said.

A!er receiving the noti"cation, she also looks forward to new opportuni-ties. “#en I can start working, because right now I can’t,” Parmesti said.

Her brother also looks forward to his future here.

“I would like to stay here. I would like to move somewhere like Cali-fornia, a nice beautiful place where I can just restart my whole life without screwing up due to culture shock,” Sembiring said.

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therefore we are not to-gether.”

B e r n a l said her life did not turn out all at what she had ex-pected.

“ Y o u know how you make a plan for your life? You graduate high school, go to college, get married, you have [children], live happily ever a!er? #ings did not go in that order for us. It’s just a reminder that your life is already planned for you. It is how well you cope with the changes that come our way,” she said.

Since Ramon is the father of three of her mother’s children, Snell hopes some-day they will be able to be together again.

“It would be a great romantic story…I wish I could tell the future and I could see if they would get back together…but I don’t know,” Snell said.

“When you have a family, and you are

working and you are trying to just have a better life for yourself and it’s just crazy how screwed up your life can get because it completely changed my whole entire life,” she said with frustration.

Snell o!en thinks of how it would be if her step-father had not sped that day, if the policies were di&erent, if the whole deportation had never happened and how her life was so di&erent "ve years ago: “I still had my mom, still had my step dad, still had my dad, and still had my fam-ily here,” she said, “and that just tore the whole family apart.”

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IMMIGRATIONFrom left, junior Hope Snell and her family -- sister London, former step-father Ramon, brother Noah, mother Melanie and sister Joy Bernal pose for a family portrait.

--Department of Homeland Security

President Barak Obama’s proposed reforms for illegal immigrants:

-ders; illegal border crossings have already dropped 80 per-cent since their peak in 2000

to clear the excess of people applying for legal status

-ployers who hire illegal immi-grants

that same-sex couples can use their relationship status to gain a visa

-dren of illegal immigrants, but requires the child to gain a college degree or two years of military service before the six-year long path to citizenship

least eight years to apply for a green card (the averge wait today is 16 years), then can be-come citizens after five years

The Republicans proposed reforms for illegal immigration:Encouraging foreigners to

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what do you think should happen to illegal immigrants?deportation 29%legal residency 25% legal citizenship 08%other 38%

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are you in favor of im-migration reform?yes 74%no 04%i don’t know 22%

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complete exclusion 15%work plan 14%partial legalization 55%amnesty plan 10%

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health appslose it! Lose It! s an app that is available free on the iTunes App store. With Lose It!, the user is able to plug in their daily food intake, as well as the amount of exer-cise they are participating in. !e app will then show the user how much each

food is a"ecting their total calories, how e"ective their ex-ercise is and how to be more pro#cient in losing weight. !is App is available for use on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

yoga studio Available for $1.99 on the iTunes App store, Yoga Studio is a program that can be uploaded to iPhones, iPads and iPad minis. Yoga Studio comes with 30 pre-made yoga work out videos for the user to follow along with. !e customer can

also customize their workouts by making their own yoga class videos, keep track of their work on a schedule that is in-cluded and explore the over 290 poses that are pre-uploaded.

juice!is is an app that is speci#cally made to keep track of your energy. Found free on the iTunes App store, Juice helps you locate what takes away your energy the most throughout the day. !e user simply plugs in their daily intake of foods and activities, and Juice tells

them what they are doing that is zapping their energy, and how to eliminate these e"ects. Juice also gives them quick energy tips to use throughout the day. Juice can be used on iPod touch, iPhone or iPad.

boot camp challenge!is App is unique in that it was espe-cially made by veteran U.S. Army Trainer and Personal Workout Trainer Lori Pat-terson. An intensive 18-day program, Boot Camp Challenge is designed to get results quickly, safely and e"ectively. !e workouts

combine cardio and muscular endurance training and includes over 200 workouts. !is app is available for $3.99 on the iTunes App store and can be used on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.

gorilla workoutFitness Aerobic and Strength Trainer Work-out on a Budget: Gorilla Workout includes over 40 exercises, all of which combine car-dio and strength training workouts. Each exercise targets speci#c muscle groups which include abs, core, arms, back, chest

and legs to help get rid of fat. With no special equipment need-ed, the user only needs to upload this App and get to work. Go-rilla Workout is currently available for 99 cents on the iTunes App store and can be used on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.

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MiO: OriginalAround $4Kra$ Foods24 servings per bottle60 milligrams of ca"eine per servingLess than two percent of natural %avorsZero caloriesSweetened with con-centrated syrups11 Flavors

Some people aren’t water people. But with the help of these water enhancing aids, water can be an enjoyable treat that can take the place of so$ drinks. With eight recommended glasses of water a day, enhancers can make that number seem a lot less. Some are better than others in respect to nutritional informa-tion. Here are seven of the most popular choices on the market.

Crystal Light On-the-Go: ClassicKra$ Foods12 Fruit FlavorsEight Tea Flavors10 Calories per servingOne serving per packetContains aspartame

Kool-Aid On-the-GoKra$ FoodsComes in 16 packet containersFour ounces each30 caloriesSeven grams of sugar

True LemonAvailable in nine %avorsZero caloriesOne packet is one serv-ingNo preser-vativesGluten freeFour all-nat-ural ingredi-ents

-- compiled by grace berry

“Vitamin Squeeze” Powder Water EnhancerZero calories, sugars and carbsEight fruity %avors and three varieties12 servings per bottleServing size of two grams

Wyler’s LightSugar freeFive calories per servingComes in 8, 14, 50 count singles-to-go packagesContains arti#cial sugars like aspartameHalf a packet per serving

Dasani DropsZero caloriesFour %avors32 servings per containerArti#cial %avors, such as sucralose

-- compiled by madison ivey

feb. 28, 2013 » 20 tribal entertainment

painT wars upcoming eventsmovies

albums

games

March 1 // The Last Exorcism: Part II

March 1 // Jack The Giant SlayerMarch 1 // 21 and OverMarch 1 // Phantom

Feb. 26 // The Mavericks: In TimeFeb. 26 // The Civil Wars: A Place At The TableMarch 5 // Kate Nash: Girl TalkMarch 19 // Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience

TBA 2013 // The Elder Scrolls Online

Bruises last a short while, but memo-ries last a lifetime.

When given the opportunity to play paintball on a Saturday at the grand opening of a new place in Mt. Pleasant, you should take it. Having never played before Feb. 9, my mind was racing with possibilities. My !rst and very important decision was what to wear. If I didn’t wear enough clothing, I would come o" like I was trying to prove I was tough; too much and I would look like a wus. I decided on jeans, a t-shirt and a baggy jacket.

#at was mistake number one. When I arrived at my destina-

tion, I was surprised to see very few people. #ere were a couple of people shooting paintball guns in a practice range and a man sell-ing paintball guns in a trailer. I had to sign a release form when I got my gear -- something I probably should have read. When I asked the man in the equipment shack where all the people were, he told me they

were all out in a match and would be back shortly. I could join in the next one. As he assembled the gun, I looked at it curi-ously, imagining how this gun could make the welts and battle scars I had seen on my friends.

Once I loaded my gun with paintballs the size of bouncy balls and just as sti", I moved to the practice range. I removed the barrel cover, and aimed my gun at an old capsized boat used as a target. I tensed my body in anticipation, and click, click, click. Nothing. #e trigger wouldn’t depress.

I angrily !dgeted with the gun, trying to !nd the knob or lever that would allow me to !nally shoot the blasted contrap-tion. A$er what felt like minutes, I found t h e safety, turned it o" and vainly

imagined that no one saw me angrily tinker-

ing with my gun. I shot through a couple dozen

rounds in mere seconds. Feeling

good, I walked over and waited for the

people playing to return.

#en I was con-fronted with a very dis-

turbing sight -- all manner of human-

ity from young children to middle-aged men, nursing limbs and dotted in bruises,

every other man plastered in paint. As they regrouped to go back out, my con!dence

quickly dropped. #ey all had entire out!ts to go

with their guns. Not that I was !xated on the

fashion aspect mind you, but their over-all appearance gave a clear warning I was dealing with an ex-perienced opponent.

#ey pulled themselves together

and were ready to go back out almost immediately. I

followed, attempting to walk con!dently while in-

wardly hoping we had

enough Advil and ice packs at home. I was put on a team and we began

the trek to the !rst course. It was called the jungle. When we got there, the teams went to opposite sides and we prepared for the imminent paint shed. #e ref began to count down to signal the start of the match. I was stunned -- two of my teammates got shot up in a matter of seconds. I ducked for cover.

I waited for about a minute, looking around the tree I had cowered behind, gathered all the courage I could muster, peered around again, took aim and !red. Although I was not wholly composed in my mind, I still managed to strike one of my opponents in the leg. I was infused with a con!dence and audacity I had not known before. I madly drained my gun’s clip on anything that moved on the other side of the !eld. Paintballs collided with trees and vines and branches. All I saw before me was covered in an orange mist of paint.

#rowing caution to the wind, I ad-vanced from tree to tree, all the while pull-ing the trigger as fast as my !ngers permit-ted. #at was big mistake number two.

Suddenly, I heard the most wretched noise that has ever been heard by soldier on the battle !eld: click, click, click. I had run out of ammo. I was trapped in the middle of a !re-!ght with nothing to !re.

Barely shielded behind the tree, I thought of how the enemy would

mercilessly enclose around my position for the kill. Suddenly

I heard the voice of an angel: “thirty seconds le$.”

Could this be? Was there a time limit? Could I be so lucky? All the questions were %ying through my head. As I counted my lucky stars, I was horribly unaware

of being %anked. #at was the !nal and fatal mistake.

I saw my en-emy, and he saw me.

It was over. #en, with that faint, %eet-

ing smile play-ing about my

lips, I faced my !ring squad: erect

a n d motionless, proud and disdainful. #ere I stood, like that pathetic short story character all high school stu-dents must eventually analyze, undefeated, inscrutable. to the last.

COLUMN BYwesley maszk, staff writer

first paintball experience is truly colorful

June 14 // The Last of Us

March 12 // Starcraft II: Heart of the SwarmMarch 19 // Gears of War: JudgmentTwo paintballers play on a “speedball” course

-- one that’s smaller than the normal paintball arena. Writer Wesley Maszk and photographer Ian Hurlock visited Mount Pleasant Paintball Feb. 9.

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Breaking Dawn. !e Expendables. Survivor. Junior Kate Frain’s uncle, Michael Applebaum, helped to !lm these and many better known movies and shows.

And while actors are important in order to deliver an impressionable and believable performance, the peo-ple behind the camera are just as important.

“I physically operate the camera and !lm the movie,” Applebaum said of being a cinematographer and camera operator. He works long hours, an average of 13 per day but loves what he does.

Applebaum, 44, said he has always interested in cine-matography, and even bought a 16mm camera to practice !lming. He would ask his friends to help.

“I would shoot anything they wanted for free.”As for lessons, he did not have any, instead teaching

himself to shoot motion picture !lm.“I slowly moved up,” he said, !rst being hired by a

TV station to shoot commercials in New Orleans, the city where he grew up and continues to live.

A"erwards he ended up becoming a commercial director for a neighboring company. “I took little steps throughout my career to get to the next level and never gave up,” Applebaum said.

In 1998 he was invited to the Cinematographers Guild in Hollywood. “[#is opportunity] let me do big-ger projects,” Applebaum said, including the household name !lms he helped shoot.

His favorite project so far is a movie yet to be re-leased. “It’s called !e End of the World with Je$ Logan, Jonah Hill, James Franco--Rihianna is in it; when she shot for a few days we got a lot of paparazzi, and I ended up in lot of tabloids, holding the camera,” Applebaum said. “I’ll be going to the premiere of that in Hollywood with my wife next summer.”

Applebaum’s worldwide job has its drawbacks. “When I go do Survivor, I’m gone for at least a month,;it’s hard for my kids,” he said of !lming 20 seasons of Sur-vivor. “I’ve never been able to commit to being a coach for any of my kids teams; I miss a lot of plays and chorus concerts.”

Despite the di%culties, Applebaum loves his job and is rewarded. He received an Emmy in 2009 for a docu-mentary, Out of the Wild: #e Alaska Experiment, for Discovery Channel, in which he !lmed with a team of a few men. He and the team working on survivor were also nominated for two Emmys, in 2004 and 2005.

#rough the ups and downs, Applebaum’s passion for his job is not subdued. “It’s something that I’ve always been interested in and want to do. Like any job, you try to do the best you can,” he said.

the perfect shot

Most people don’t know what they want to do in the future. And when the time comes to decide, they may or may not know even then. But senior Sarah Hudson has always known !lm making is her true passion.

“I liked !lm ever since I was a little girl,” Hudson said. She started watching movies as a little girl and ven-

tured into the world of !lm making. She hasn’t le" that world since.

Hudson now makes her own !lms, from writing the script to shooting to editing. It has become her whole life.

“I’m always working on something. If I’m not out there !lming then I’m writing a script or I’m planning a script,” she said. “I sit with my dad or sit with my friends and we’ll talk back and forth like dialogue in a movie just to inspire ourselves.”

Hudson has particular genre of !lm that she likes to make.

“I really, really enjoy making dramas. I love doing drama !lms and when I say drama, I don’t mean like soap operas or anything. I’m talking about like mystery types without being too cheesy,” she said. “But I also like !lms that have a supernatural take to them or !lms that have to do with the idea of God. I think that’s the greatest mystery of life, !guring out what’s behind everything.”

#ere is a lot of work behind !lm making. It involves the lighting, the camera angles, location and planning and writing a script.

“I really like the writing process because it’s kind of like you’re building your own story, you’re creating your own world,” she said. “It’s really interesting to hand some-one your script and see them act out your script and you’re like, wow like those are words I’ve written, and it’s like coming to life right in front of you, it’s like one of the most amazing things you can ever see.”

Hudson’s biggest inspiration is a !lmmaker Terrence Malick because of his dedication to his !lms to make them perfect. He makes them the way he wants them to be.

“I don’t care if I’m in the business for 60 years and only make two !lms as long as they’re what I want them to turn out to be,” Hudson said.

#e process of !lm-making is Hudson’s true passion ,and she has always known that. But like any job in the !lm industry, it’s hard to become successful.

“It’s just really scary because it’s so hard to make it in, but it’s like I really love it,” Hudson said.

She hopes to pursue her dream of !lm making in the future. “#e future is always really i$y for !lm-making because there are so many kids who want to do it, and if you’re not famous you’re not going to make money, and if you don’t have money your !lms are not going to be as good as you want them to be because you need all the equipment, but I want to go to college for it.”

But no matter how di%cult the !lm making business may be for her, she will never give up it up. It will always be part of her life.

“I’ll do it for the rest of my life even if I have to do it as like a side thing,” Hudson said.

“#ey always say !lm and acting is the most cool passion because people want it so badly, but it’s so hard to have.”

lucie wall

emmy winning cameraman reflects on the joys and hardships of a career in film

staff writer

reel deal

Senior Sarah Hudson films a piece for Tribe Talk. Hudson has known she wanted to pursue a career in film from a very young age and is now writing, shooting and editing her own original films.

ellie mcdermott

senior finds passion, plans to pursue dream after high school

staff writer

feb. 28, 2013 »22 tribal entertainment

!is brand new seafood res-taurant located on 544 King Street, !e Ordinary, is actually quite ordinary from outside -- easy to walk by with white walls and a simple sign hanging above

the door. But inside, a variety of spices will hit you as you look around the mod-ern atmosphere, and it no longer seems so ordinary. !e menu categorizes the main dishes, ranging from the cold yellow "n tuna crudo ($14) to the hot oyster sliders ($5 each). !e blue crab Louis ($15) turned out to be quite remarkable with a tangy and unique dressing. !is meal was worth com-ing back for.

One #aw would be the portions com-pared to the price, making it necessary to get other dishes. Overall, !e Ordinary proved to be a pleasing surprise and quite the opposite of its name.

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Every issue a Tribal Tribune staffer will share her taste in music, selecting the top four songs she thinks every one should have on their playlist.

picks&peeves sam walkerstaff writer

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Experience has taught me that no backpack can endure being run over by a Honda Civic. !at said, the majority on the market su$ce. !is was not the case with Old Blue, the replace-ment bag I carried around for a few days in seventh grade. I call it a “bag” because it doesn’t qualify as a bookbag. Blue was so ripped up that I had to literally cradle it in my arms to keep my books from falling. So yes, I have seen the horrors of the unre-liable backpack. I don’t visit those parts of my memory o%en.

PICK: sturdy bookbags

I love people who love me back. !e physical manifesta-tion of this love is a hug. I’m a hugger.

And I have standards — if you’re going to hug me, you’re going to do it right. Did I approach you in hopes that your arms would delicately wrap around my midri&, only reaching about halfway, all the while respecting my boundaries? Get with the program. I want a real hug, one I’d expect from Forrest Gump, not Caspar the Friendly Ghost. Next.

PEEVE: limp hugs PEEVE: anonymous packages

Nothing says you care like wearing one of your grand-mother’s knitted hats. Come Christmas, this is the best gi% a relative can give; at least have the decency to try it on. Un-like many people, I can wear one of these and stand the itchi-ness. !ey keep my head warm and compliment many styles of clothing. I just don’t see the problem. Plus, if she sees me in one of her creations, maybe my grandmother will realize that she actually does love me a%er all.

PICK: fuzzy hats

Just o& of King Street on 51 George Street, you’ll "nd a small New York-style deli called Caviar and Banan-as.

My "rst in-stinct was to look at the variety of

drinks, foods and desserts, chosing straw-berry lemonade. Between the choices of a deli counter with sandwiches, an assort-ment of sushi and a glass container full of options like pasta salad, my friend and I chose to share a tray of sushi. It was deli-cious – with spicy sashimi tuna, avocado, carrots and wasabi caviar to top it all o&. !e best part was watching the sushi chef making it right in front of us.

For dessert we decided on a ginger cookie that tasted as good as it looked. !e total for our two drinks, sushi and cookie was about $16. Not bad at all for one of the yummiest lunches I have eaten in a while.

An old timey diner feel with an odd modern twist found in the heart of Downtown Charles-ton at 474 Upper King, the Rarebit is sure to please every-one.

With a wide-spread menu that includes a variety of wholesome foods, from classic salads that are topped with a rich dressing and sig-nature sandwiches with a number of sides to a breakfast menu that is served all day, !e Rarebit will please your hunger a%er a long day of shopping or if you just want the “downtown experience.” Prices range from $4 to around $20.

!e Rarebit provides its customers with quality food that will surely "t your price range as well as meet your expecta-tions for downtown Charleston.

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You know how it goes. You "nd one of these sitting next to your mailbox, with brown paper wrapping and a string bow. Nothing out of the ordinary, right?

But then come the questions: Is it a new coupon book? I already have one for this year. Have I "nally been accepted to Hogwarts? A bit late, Dumbledore. Maybe it’s just Anthrax. Whatever it is, I hate uncertainty, which is why I always put these suckers in my neighbor’s mailbox.

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“Scythian Empires”Andrew Bird

Armchair Apocrypha!e verbose lyrics describing the his-tory of the Obscure extinct Scythian cul-ture are sung in a soaring fashion, giv-ing the song an en-joyable feeling, even if I have no idea what he’s talking about. !ere’s also a catchy whistling solo, and Bird’s musical genius is showcased.

Normally a song about going a%er someone like a can-nibal is creepy, but the Miniature Tigers make it a very sunny occasion. !ey mas-ter the quasi-pop

rock sound through use of quirky guitar solos and o&-beat lyrics.

“Cannibal Queen”Miniature Tigers

Tell It To the Volcano

Frank Ocean’s melo-dious voice -- what I describe as the vocal equivalent of purple velvet--teams up with retro R&B instrumen-tals to make this one stellar song. Lyrics

like “grapevine, mango, peaches and lime” showcase Ocean’s poetic skill. If you ever "nd yourself driving in Downtown De-troit in 1979, this is the song to play.

“Sweet Life”Frank Ocean

Channel Orange

!e band’s angsty rock style shines from the start of the song. !e repetition of surpris-ingly not annoying “la la la’s” gives way to lyr-ics that describe frustra-tion -- including being “faced with the dodo’s conundrum” of wanting to #y when you can’t -- that con-trast the overly cheerful mood of the song in a pleasing way.

“Australia”The Shins

Wincing the Night Away

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-- compiled by angelica collins

top twosEver wonder what the top songs, movies and TV shows are for the month of February?

app of the

MONTHwhat’s the word

Everyone loves this free app. From parents to students, this game is a compelling and eye-catching app that forces you to want to solve the mysterious four picture puzzle by !guring out a common word that ap-plies to all the pictures.

-- compiled by angelica collins

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” "is quote by Arthur C. Clarke leaves little to wonder what the !lm Dark Skies centers on. Nowadays, !lms that are labeled as “horror” or “thriller” have been dumbed down to a relatively overused plot structure and characters who represent the most basic archetypes in !lm. Dark Skies is the “poster-child” for those types of movies.

Dark Skies focuses on an average suburban family that has become the target of an alien species. Lacy and Daniel Barrett, played by Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton, are the parents of two normal boys, Jesse and Sam. "e beginning of the movie reveals that Lacy has tendencies to wake up in the middle of the night, although it isn’t made clear as to whether or not she is an insomniac. One night, she discovers that household items have been stacked in her kitchen to represent some astrological symbols.

Hoodie Allen has built some buzz over the past couple of years for being a creative and innovative rapper, frequently making use of play-on-words or references to anything pop culture related. Over his career, Hoodie has put out a total of four albums. And there are three albums he’s made that I would love to talk about. Unfortunately, I am not writing a review on one of those. I’m here to talk about his most recent album, Crew Cuts, released on Feb. 19.

In the !rst song, “Let Me Be Me,” he writes a couple of poorly written lines about the A#ac Duck and Gar!eld – the fat cat, not the president. In the next song, “Fame Is For

Wading through dol-drums, keeping one awake and alive -- just enough to sway to the guitar rhythm and melancholic, lo-! vo-cals -- while simultaneously making eyelids feel heavy, lulling the listener into the music.

"is is the basic, all-encompassing essence of Beach Fossils and the group’s second LP, titled Clash the Truth, which was released on Feb. 19.

Beach Fossils has kept a good handling on their systematic, dreamy qual-ity that they achieved with their !rst album, What A Pleasure, but seem to have failed to reach the point of a musical epiphany within their work -- possibly not reaching the depths of their

crew cuts

A**holes,” he writes about how famous people are dumb, only to, in the next song, talk about how he’s going to his high school re-union to brag about how fa-mous is. I could only imag-ine that he wanted to follow that with a song called, “Hypocrites Are Dumb.”

In his song “Two Lips,” he does the one thing I hate when rappers do. He talks about girls in love with him and how he’s not looking for more than a one night thing. Every rapper even-tually makes this song, and that’s when you know their ego has passed the normal limit. Now they’re no longer rappers. Instead, they’re fol-lowers of what I like to call “Kanye Westism,” the belief that everyone wants to hear you talk about yourself.

I would recommend some of his earlier works and won’t lose faith that there’s still a good rapper under all of that pride and male bravado.

--wesley maszk

potential and only attempt-ing a small step forward. While most of the songs sound a bit similar on Clash the Truth, the main, stand-out track is the title song. Some other notable tracks include “Birthday,” “Shal-low” and “In Vertigo.” "e album also has a few instru-mental tracks, including “Brighter” -- a small free #owing, melodic symphony lasting about 30 seconds.

"e songs of Clash the Truth are a joy when lis-tened to separately -- serv-ing as a welcome break into a #owing, melodic dri$ of smooth vocals and fuzzy instrumentals. However, together, as an album, the continuous preservation of this quality may become tiresome to the listener.

Nonetheless, Beach Fossil’s sophomore album didn’t disappoint. It didn’t amaze, either -- it didn’t in-spire or bring about an exis-tential novelty of music. But it comforted the existing.

--megan parks

dark skies, light downfalls When Lacy asks her youngest son what happened in

the kitchen, he tells her the “Sandman” did it. "roughout the !lm, I started to notice a repeating trend. "e Barrett house is broken into, and the parents ignore the problem. Later, three di%erent migrations of birds #y directly into the house, members of the family have black-out episodes, and the parents still ignore the problem. It seemed like the actors didn’t want to be apart of this movie. I’m not saying that this !lm is an appeal to horror movies, but it is de!nitely a prime example of a !lm that has been diluted down to nothing more than tacky “pop-outs.”

"e writers of the horror genre now rely on a few components to create what they think will be a blockbuster horror !lm: dramatic, unexpected “pop-outs,” gore of the highest caliber and/or a few suggested scenes. "e horror movies that have scared me in the past had to have something that would frighten me on a psychological scale. It had to go beyond the mere door-closing for no reason to a babysitter getting called by a stranger from inside the house she was looking a$er.

At best, Dark Skies is a decent sci-! thriller. I won’t get too bogged down in plot twists and cli%-hangers, but a$er seeing this movie, I can safely assure you to save your money for other means of entertainment.

clash the truth

jack drennanstaff writer

horror movie’s stereotypes in new film disappointing

SELLING SONGS

SELLING BOOKS

GROSSING MOVIE

TV RATINGS

thirft shop (feat. wanz) // macklemore

locked out of heaven // bruno mars

wise men: a novel // stuart nadler

schroder: a novel // amify gaige

a good day to die hard // skip woods

identity theft // seth gordon

the bachelor // abc

how i met your mother // cbs

the heist // macklemore & ryan lewis

dead space 3 // electronic arts

crysis 3 // electronic arts

4 // beyonce

SELLING ALBUMS

SELLING VIDEO GAMES

feb. 28, 2013 »24 tribal sports

sportsQ&A

jamel smith

Q:A:

What’s your job here?

I’m one of the career coun-selors here and I specifically work with all of our student

athletes, educating them on NCAA eligibility and getting them to understand core course GPA.

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How do the students schedule an appointment with you?

Well, actually, I call them. All of the student athletes come

and talk to me.

Q:What do you teach the athletes when they come in?

career counselor helps athletes find scholarships and careers after high school

-- compiled by caroline rothkopf

Signed to play soccer at the University of South Carolina

senior hamilton carlin

Signed to play soc-cer at the College of Charleston

senior brock kingSigned to play soccer at the University of South Carolina

senior andrew davisSigned to play soccer at the College of Charleston

senior erik clark

Signed to play soccer at the University of Memphis

senior hunter danna

Signed to play soccer at Limestone College

senior grace gore

Signed to play lacrosse at Columbia College

senior kendra blackstock

faces on

tommy sanders

the road to signing day is a long and complicated process

staff writerWhen 15 Wando athletes signed their

letters of intent to participate in college athletics Feb. 6, it was the beginning for their future careers.

!e term “signing” makes the whole process sound so simple, but in reality it’s a much more complicated process than just putting down a signature, said junior Me-gan O’Connor.

“It was terrifying,” said O’Connor, who recently verbally committed to play soccer at Clemson. “You just need to show the coaches who you are as a player,” O’Connor said.

“!ey approached me a"er the camp and talked to me about going there,” she said. “It was crazy, I wasn’t expecting it at all.”

Wando Career Counselor and Foot-ball Coach Jamel Smith is around to make sure student athletes do not face recruit-ment alone, since he has walked the same road before. Smith played inside line-backer at Virgina Tech from 1995 to 1999. A"er college ball, Smith got his chance at the big leagues. !e NFL team, the Saint Louis Rams, took Smith on to their roster. He eventually played for a European NFL team.

“It was great,” he said. “It was a great league. It was very competitive.”

!e #rst step in the complicated pro-cess for every athlete is getting noticed, Smith said. “!ey have a lot of recruit-ing services out there, they have one-day camps,” he said.

At these one-day camps sponsored by di$erent colleges, student athletes from around the nation come to showcase their talents. Since these showcase camps may be di%cult to reach for so many students, many student athletes will e-mail college coaches their highlight videos or post them on YouTube Coach Smith said.

“We have here at the high school, Huddle, which we make all of our student athletes’ highlight #lms,” Smith said, “and we send them out to colleges and universi-ties.”

Huddle is a video editing system that is used by the football team mostly to #lm and record practices. It is used by many football players to help create a highlight video that the coaches will then send o$ to college teams. But the rules change when athletes come closer to making a #nal de-cision. NCAA rules for the 2013 seasons change a"er Aug. 1, making it easier for coaches to contact players.

“A"er Aug. 1, it will unlimited num-ber of contacts so a coach could call you at any time, text message you as many times as they want, and coaches can email you as many times as they want,” Smith said, “It’s going to get a little crazy in recruiting this upcoming fall.”

!is rule will be changed because many coaches were not able to contact stu-dent athletes as much as they would have

liked, Smith said.Once a school has o$ered a scholar-

ship, the student can then make a verbal commitment to the college. But a verbal commitment is not permanent. A student athlete can change his verbal commitment at any time. Once a student has signed a letter of intent, however, the rules change. Students cannot sign until designated time periods when they are seniors.

Volleyball Coach Alexis Glover has been through the recruiting process both as an athlete and as mother of an athlete. Her daughter Christina plays volleyball for the University of South Carolina, and her oldest son Alex plays for !e Citadel.

“!ere’s a lot to take into consider-ation,” she said. “It’s almost like the school will pick you, but you can’t just sit back and expect the schools to come #nd you.”

Sophomore Kep Brown recently ver-bally committed to play baseball at the University of South Carolina, but he knows the road to signing day is long from over.“I got to focus on the classroom, I got to work hard on and o$ the #eld, I just got to keep being a team player,” Brown said.

!e only thing that is permanent is where the recruitment road ends: signing day. “Once you sign that letter of intent, those scholarships, you’re locked in to that school,” Smith said.

O’Connor’s teammate, senior Grace Gore signed with Limestone College on Feb. 6.

“It’s really stressful being watched,” she said, “Once I was all done with it, it was like a weight o$ my shoulders.”

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A:I educate them on the 16 core courses required by the

NCAA and understanding what their core courses are.

Q:What tools do you use in order to teach the students NCAA standards and

rules?

A:We have a core course GPA website that goes through

the rules of engagement for each grade including eligibility, help with recruiting and official and unofficial [college] visits.

Q:What are your goals for the athletes in high school?

A:We want to educate the kids. We want to make sure

they’re on the right track, make sure they take the SAT or the ACT their junior year and get them to understand how important their core courses and their GPA are.

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the fieldSigned to play foot-ball at Limestone College

senior christopher leslie

Signed to play foot-ball at Tusculum College

senior austin fister

Signed to play baseball at Winthrop University

senior dirk thomas

Signed to play foot-ball at Tusculum College

senior nate wrightSigned to play soc-cer at the College of Charleston

senior christian jablonski

Signed to play foot-ball at The Citadel

senior rudder brown

Signed to play football at Wofford College

senior chuck rouse

Signed to play foot-ball at North Greenville University

senior rashaun brownSigned to play foot-ball at Presbyterian College

senior stephen wilson

College is something almost everyone worries about, whether it’s !nancially or academically. Some worry about choos-ing the best !t, roommates, Greek life and majors. Some worry about applications, scholarships and GPA. But senior Chuck Rouse has no worries for college…any-more.

Rouse is an o"ensive guard and a good one at that. A#er a stellar summer camp at Wo"ord, the Terriers o"ered Rouse an athletic scholarship to play football that opens many doors for Rouse’s future plans. Without the scholarship, Rouse said, he wouldn’t be able to get the best education. He wouldn’t be able to attend a four-year college.

$is scholarship -- which pays for tu-ition, room and books -- is like a dream come true for most people. But it means much more to Rouse. “It means I get to play at the next the level, it means that I get to play with a great group of guys,” he said, “hopefully get a national champion-ship out of it.”

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ties in his life, Rouse said. “$ey had con-nections to the Carolina Panthers so I was like I have to really go here, they have con-nections to my dream job,” he said, adding that he would love the chance to play pro-fessional football. “$ere’s some part of me that I really want to go to the NFL.”

But for now he’s ready for his foot-ball career in college. “I’m just ready to get started on the football trail, really,” Rouse said.

He is happy to have the chance to fol-low his dreams, but it’s bittersweet for one very special woman in his life. She’s his biggest supporter, he said. “My mom, she really pushed me to stay in school and stay on the right path,” Rouse said.

Rouse’s mother has mixed feelings for her son. “He’s my oldest so we have a tight bond so I’ve got mixed emotions, and I’m

excited for him but sad he’s going to leave me also,” Ha-zel Rouse said.

M r s . Rouse has high hopes for her son. “I hope Chuck is always bound to succeed at what-ever he pursues, he’s going to continue on a football path but he’s also going in to en-gineering,” she said. “He was always told to have a backup plan.”

But engineering and football is not all that she wants for Chuck. “As long as he’s successful in life and stays on the right

path, I’m happy,” Mrs. Rouse said. Rouse’s hopes for college are like most

people’s when given an opportunity like this. “I hope that I can make the most out of it,” he said.

But he added a di"erent motivation for working hard as well.

“I never realized it but my dad, he al-ways struggles to put me in the right places, he always tries to put me in the camps to go to college or whatever, even if it wasn’t a real big camp that everybody goes to,” he said. “But the motivation behind that is I want to get to the NFL and try to help him when he gets older try to pay the money back that he tried to help me with.”

“As long as he’s successfull in life and stays on the right path, I’m happy.”

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Senior Chuck Rouse looks around the weight room after finishing his bench presses. (Below) Rouse bench presses in the weight-lifting room. On Feb. 6, Rouse signed with Wofford College along with other senior athletes on National Signing Day.

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!e doctor con"rmed the worst: a Subclavian !rombosis. A cartilage build-up between two ribs was the reason for the pain in his arm. Anderson knew what this meant for her son.

“Your heart kind of drops, but you kind of go into a sort of auto-pilot. Like, every-thing’s going to be okay, everything’s going to be "ne. But the next day when we saw the vascular surgeon and they con"rmed the diagnosis, you just feel like you’re going to faint,” Anderson said.

A Subclavian !rombosis, also known as an E#ort !rombosis, is caused by any number of anomalies in the muscle or bone along the lining of the ribcage. It’s a disorder typically seen in athletes; when too much muscle is built in a particular spot, the underlying Subclavian vein can be smothered, which allows blood to $ow to the extremities – in Anderson-Rolfe’s case, his entire arm – but prevents blood from $owing back, hence the swelling, discolor-ation and tightness the senior experienced.

Treatment is extensive and comes in three parts: First, Anderson-Rolfes is put on a regimen of anticoagulants (clot-dis-solving medicine), second, surgeons dis-solve the clot through surgery; the wrestler also had to have a rib removed in a second surgical procedure. Lastly, as a follow-up, he will have to take aspirin, a blood-thin-ner, for the rest of his life.

In spite of this, Anderson-Rolfes kept cool, so cool in fact that doctors assumed it was a much more minor clot until they took a closer look – the size of the clot cut-ting o# his vein was far bigger and more severe than they anticipated, according to Anderson.

Anytime you have a clot, there are three things you have to be concerned about, other than nerve damage, she said. One, the clot could break o# and travel to his heart, resulting in a heart attack. Two, a stroke. !ree, a Pulmonary Embolism.

Still, Anderson-Rolfes himself re-mained relatively unfazed.

“My mom was freaking out. I was "ne because I realized we found the clot so we could go ahead and do something now,”

A champion wrestler -- his season came to a sudden halt before Regions. Pain, di%culty moving his arm. His doc-tors scratched their heads, perplexed. His mother’s voice would soon begin to quaver at any reminder of what he went through.

!e medical problem that ended Aar-on Anderson-Rolfe’s wrestling season had to be huge. On the contrary, the senior’s problem lived in very small dimensions.

Anderson-Rolfes was on a winning streak. He was known as one of the school’s best wrestlers, boasting a 34-5 record this season. !at streak, however, ended a&er the New Year. Something was wrong with his arm. He got as far as he could in his matches before the pain became debilitat-ing.

“I "rst started noticing that my arm was swelling up a&er matches about a month ago,” Anderson-Rolfes said. “It was really bad at Regions [Jan. 28]. I couldn’t move my arm; it was very tight, like com-partment syndrome [a condition where $uids swell and pressure increases in a particular muscle compartment].”

His mother, Rena Anderson, saw the same thing from the sidelines. A nurse herself, she had a feeling this was not the normal wear-and-tear a wrestler receives throughout the season.

“He had some pain on the inside where [the elbow bends] and some swell-ing. And so he’d been icing it and taking Advil, those sorts of things, but that partic-ular night during his matches when I was there, he had actually lost grip strength and his arm turned a dusty purple,” she said.

Her son’s pleas to let him ignore the pain and "nish the season were drowned out by her motherly instincts. !e next day, the two went to see a hand and fore-arm specialist.

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he said. “My father was there; he had the same attitude as me, which was ‘It’s good that we found it, let’s just get it taken care of.’”

In reality, the wrestling team felt the biggest glitch.

“I had won Regions so I was going to Lowerstate and I had a good chance of winning there. [What happened] was a big disappointment,” Anderson-Rolfes said. “We also lost our Team Region match be-cause not only I wasn’t there, but we also had to other people out as well.”

His coach was the least thrilled about his inevitable leave.

“He [Anderson-Rolfes] de"nitely made great strides this year as a senior,” wrestling coach Adam Schneider said. “He had a heck of a year; he would’ve been a third seed at Lowerstate Tournament, with

a very good chance he would’ve made it to state championships this year as an in-dividual. I know it was tough for him not to be there. It was just as tough for our team not to have him there.”

Anderson-Rolfes is just thankful for the timing.

“It really hasn’t impacted me that much. It happened at the end of the sea-son, so it wasn’t too big of a loss, but if it happened at the beginning of the season, it would really [upset] me. Because wres-tling is the happiest part of my life in high school,” he said.

“!ey say it’s just season-ending. I’ll be on light activity for, like, four weeks, and then I’ll have two months of physi-cal therapy. And I’ll be out of school for a week and a half. But, no, I can wrestle next year in college if I wanted to.”

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rare syndrome cuts wrestler’s senior season short

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Senior Aaron Anderson suffered from a blood clot in the subclavian vein because of a deformed rib. On Feb. 12, he had surgery where the doctors removed the deformed rib and subcla-veous muscle. Anderson’s condition is known as Paget Schroetter syndrome. If left untreated, the condition could have killed him by restricting the blood flow to his heart. (Be-low) Anderson wrestles in a meet earlier this season.

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rule revision brings changes into soccer program

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making the last kick

A!er back-to-back state "nals ap-pearances, this year’s boys soccer team will have a new obstacle in its way. #e U.S. Soccer Federation forced the players to choose between playing for the Acad-emy program or for the high school.

“I think it’s an awful decision to put kids in this position,” Head Coach Shilo Tisdale said in a phone interview. “To force a kid to not play his high school sea-son -- I don’t think that’s right, especially a program like ours.”

Speculation has swirled for a year that the Academy program would be moving to a 10-month season, thus prohibiting playing for both high school and Acad-emy. #e "nal decision was e$ective this season, accelerated when the U.S. mens team failed to qualify for the Olympics.

“When the U.S. didn’t qualify for the Olympics, [the U.S. Soccer Federation] went down to youth and to high school because they thought it was limiting the development of the players,” senior An-drew Eskinazi said.

Eskinazi was one of the players af-fected by the U.S. Soccer Federation’s decision. A member of the Wando team his freshman through junior years, he de-cided to play this year for the Academy

program because of the level of play and competition.

“#e main thing was the level of play,” he said. “Wando’s team has really good players, but it drops pretty quickly as you move to other high schools.”

A select number of other South Caro-lina high schools were a$ected by this deci-sion. Wando lost more players to the Acad-emy program than any other high school, senior Erik Clark said.

“#is is because the Academy program is based out of Columbia and Charleston,” said Clark, who decided to stay on the high school team his senior season.

He said his decision was made in part because of the atmosphere of the games, but it was not easy.

“People come out to the games, espe-cially during the playo$s; you don’t really see that in academy. Also, it’s fun to hang out with your friends and play for the school,” he said. “I had the academy coach come to me numerous times and try to make me stay. It was the toughest decision I’ve made in a long time.”

Clark has high hopes for this year’s team and thinks they can overcome this obstacle put in their way.

“I think this team can make it all the way to the state "nal with ease,” he said. “#is team has the depth and a lot of good players who have good team chemistry and are willing to work hard and move the ball around.”

#e loss of players to Academy opened roster space to players like junior Austin Barrington, who played for the JV team as

freshmanavery harvey

sophomoregabriel floraison

history teacherlance renes

juniorolivia kosca

seniorahsha dingle

“Mixed martial arts because it is really

intense.”

“Skydiving because it seems really awesome.”

“Skydiving because it would be quite the thrill and you get to

see the earth.”

“Running with bulls because it would be fun

but also scary.”

“Rugby because it looks like a more fast-paced, intense version of American football.”

speaking of sports: what is the most extreme sport you would try? why?

a freshman and did not make the varsity team as a sophomore last season.

“#is makes us tighter together be-cause now people are looking at our team and seeing that we lost all of these good players,” he said, “and they think we aren’t going to be as good, so we want to try hard-er to prove them wrong.”

Although the team lost skilled players to the Academy, Tisdale still likes the team’s chances at capturing a state title.

“I think it is a very tight knit group from the freshmen that we have up to the seniors. #is year really reminds me of what we had two years ago when we won the state championship,” Tisdale said. “Los-ing last year in the state championship, they

have a hunger and understanding that the game is not won until you actually play it, so they realize that they have to "ght in practice and every game up to the game and through the game if you are going to win the state championship.”

Although the Academy has better competition and more exposure to college coaches, it is not a guaranteed way to play in college, according to Tisdale.

“I think its something new and a lot of the kids believe that if they did not con-tinue playing academy then it would a$ect them a!er high school when they were looking to play for a college program,” he said. “If you’re a good player you will get noticed no matter where you are playing.”

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part of the crew

It looks easy enough. Pull the oars up, set them into the water, push, repeat. But sophomore Julia Meredith knows that rowing is so much more.

She took up the sport nearly three years ago, in her former home of Auck-land, New Zealand.

“My uncle and my grandpa started rowing, and they were rowing and setting records. So my family was like, ‘You got-ta set some records now’ and I was like, ‘okay!’,” Meredith said.

She practices with Academic Mag-net’s team and the Charleston Rowing Club at Brittlebank Park on the Ashley River, and when she rows by herself in her single boat she prefers the Wando River. It’s a full workout -- requiring every mus-cle to stay balanced and propel the long, pencil-thin boats.

“You have to use every single muscle in your body. Even your tongue. Every-body’s like, ‘You don’t use your tongue!’ but you breathe with your tongue,” Mere-dith said. “It’s just physically and mentally tough, and that’s what many people don’t see about the sport.”

Team practices are only the tip of the iceberg for what Meredith goes through to prepare for each competition.

“I’m doing Cross!t in the mornings, and then I’m doing Cross!t in the a"er-noons. And then on the weekends I’m row-ing in my single, and then I’m going to start rowing in my single during the weekdays a"er school,” Meredith said.

Meredith is !nding herself doing well against tough competitors in numerous re-gattas across the area, including the Head of the Hooch held in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Nov 3-4. One of her coaches, Jacob Ster-ling, said he was enthusiastic about her job in the Mixed Double, or one girl and one boy, race.

“Since rowing is a team sport it is dif-!cult to gauge how any individual rower performs at a regatta,” he said. “However, Julia had a commanding performance in the Mixed Double event, placing in the top ten in an extremely competitive event typi-cally dominated by much older competi-tors.”

More recently, Meredith competed in the Charlotte Erg Sprints in Charlotte, held on Feb. 2 and the C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championship in Boston, held on Feb. 17 – winning second place and 81 out of 248, respectively.

Meredith also found herself confront-ed with the opportunity to attend Phillips Exeter Academy in N.H., invited there to

become a member of one of the best Crew teams in the world.

She has yet to make a decision, but de-spite what she decides, she is closer to her goals than ever before.

“Right now I have my mind set on Ju-nior Nationals. I’m trying to get there, and a"er that, my coach is trying to get me to go to World’s, and a"er that he wants me to go to the Olympics,” Meredith said.

A special summer camp is also on her agenda, which would get her attention and coaching from America’s national team, a very exciting prospect. Sterling, though also hopeful, sees a similar but more grounded path for Meredith.

“During her collegiate career she can start competing for a spot on the U23 team, 18 through 23-years-old. A"er she is 23 she can begin to compete for a spot on the national team and in an Olympic year, the Olympic team,” Sterling said. “Plan on

Weekend mornings, sophomore Julia Meredith meets her coach Rando Blyth at Pal-metto Islands to practice. She starts off by cleaning her boat on stands out of the water and then goes through a mental check-list of safety precuations be-fore setting into the water and going through warmups.

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2020, not 2016.”In any case, the chance of Meredith

making it to the Olympics is realistic. And she !nds it unfortunate that these opportunities, which many Wando stu-dents aren’t even aware of, aren’t available through the school.

“I actually tried starting a club last year,” Meredith said. “I thought about it, and then I realized the boats were way too expensive, and I didn’t know where we would get the funding from, so I was just like, ‘no.’”

But for anyone who truly wants to see what being in such an active sport is like, Meredith gives her best advice.

“Come in with the right attitude, I would say. And be willing to wanna learn because it is a long, hard sport. And if you’re not determined to do good or be good then, well, you’ve gotta be patient. It’ll come.”

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Sophomore Julia Meredith gets ready to go for a row at Palmetto Islands. She just placed second place at World Indoor Rowing Championship in Boston Feb. 17.

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“Guys, we’re stuck.” !e simple sentence is thrown out into the hotel

room and causes everyone to pause. All eyes auto-matically turn to stare at the door. My dad stands up and impatiently approaches the worn door and yanks on the knob. It jiggles, but does not give.

My only thought: “!is is really happening.” We are stuck. Not only are we stuck inside our

hotel room in the middle of Orlando, we are stuck be-cause of a little purple dinosaur keychain.

!e game was called Huckle Buckle Beanstalk. A game of hide and seek. All you had to do was hide a small object while leaving a little piece showing and "nd it. Simple enough. Well, simple enough until you add a competitive adult like my dad. All of a sudden, hiding places turned from being behind pillow cush-ions to being placed inside a door hinge, e#ectively locking my family into a hotel room.

In retrospect, we could have called the front of-"ce. It would have been easy and tinged with only slight embarrassment, but the thought never crossed our minds. Easy is not really my family’s style. Instead we employed the help of a steak knife and a hammer. We crawled in and out of our one story window and worked the plush dragon from both sides.

An hour passed and "nally we were free with a ball of $u# and purple fabric as a souvenir.

My family’s history is full of similar gu#aws. We’ve ridden on the back of a tow truck. We’ve gotten lost and hitched a ride in a golden mini-van. We’ve broken down in Virginia and ridden with our repair man’s friend, “Coaster,” to get a rental car.

Speaking our opinions and relying on sarcasm is commonplace. Laughing is the music of our house and considering we are always the "rst ones on the dance $oor, it’s probably hereditary.

Nothing is forced and imperfections are em-braced. Our home is a place of growth and under-standing.

My family has given me so much. I was given an open mind. And a family that has formed a bond that can be stretched, but never broken. !e ability to laugh at myself and accept others’ faults. A respect for education and the power it can give a person.

My family is strong and I truly believe that has made me strong.

If I could give one piece of advice about how to strengthen your family bonds, I would suggest getting yourself into a stupid situation and laugh it o#. Just buy a purple dragon and play a game of Huckle Buckle Beanstalk--it’s a good start.

We’ve all been there; it’s a normal, run-of-the-mill class exchange, and you’re rushing to your next block, probably with a million things on your mind, like how in the world did you manage a 64 on that Physics quiz? You navigate through the hall, swiveling to avoid the slow walkers and lurking ad-ministrators. And just when you almost reach your next class, you are blocked yet again; only this time, it’s even worse.

So, so much worse.It’s like a bad car crash on 17, one

that you cannot for the life of you turn away from. Especially when that car crash is blocking you from 4th block English.

!e PDA couple. We’ve all seen them, we all know who they are. In the

stairways, corners of the hallway, middle of the hallway—they are there, and they do not care if they make every sin-gle person around them feel uncomfortable in the slightest.

In fact, sometimes it’s so blatant you wonder if they do it just because they enjoy the attention that they inevitably draw to themselves.

Now, I understand, I do – those 90 minutes apart from each other must have been a nightmare. What I do not understand, and never will, is why an eight minute class exchange must be "lled with a full on make out in the middle of an extremely crowded stairwell.

To these couples – and like I mentioned previously, you know who you are – I have a very simple request, one that I promise you every student who is forced to witness your… a#ections… would agree with.

PLEASE, please, please, control your hormones. I know that you love

your boyfriend/girlfriend, and I am sure you want everyone around you to know this as well. And be-lieve me, we all see it. And there is nothing wrong at all with holding hands or being all couple-y. !e only thing is when it crosses the line into being inappropri-

ate and downright uncomfortable to everyone who is not you and your signi"cant other.

So I am begging, pleading with you; reign your-selves in, at least until you are safely away from the stu-dent body. Because while most couples understand the PDA line and refuse to cross it (and we are grateful to these amazing people), some do not.

Hug it out, hold hands to your heart’s content, but please, just please, keep the PDA on a PG-scale in the halls.

PDA (Public Display of Affection) is a common sight in the hallway throughout the school year. While relativley quick and minor displays don’t pose a problem, too much can lead to feelings of discomfort for bystanders.

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!ere’s a stereotype of undocumented workers as undeserving. Petty, perhaps – lawless, even. !e gimlet-eyed construc-tion workers leering at schoolgirls, the tired maids negotiating salaries in broken English while their illegal children watch. But whether we acknowledge the lives they are living as deserving or now – whether we think the 11.1 million “illegals” deserve to be here – the fact is that these souls are carving out new lives.

It is estimated that a quarter of the farm workers in this country are illegal im-migrants, and illegal immigrants comprise large portions of many other occupations as well, o"en working in low-paying, manual labor-dependent jobs, such as those in construction or the transportation industry. Around 20 percent of construc-tion workers are illegal immigrants, and 13 percent of immigrants hold manufacturing jobs – as compared to 11 percent of their native-born peers.

One of the largest cries against illegal immigration over the years has been that the in#ux of underpaid, easily abused or disposed-of workers has created a conve-nient replacement for Americans taking American jobs. A"er all, when illegal immigrants could be paid pittances under the table, who would pay for American workers, who all come complete with

hidden costs like worker’s compensation? But economic studies have shown that immigrants actually help the economy holistically, by forcing citizens into higher-paying, more-skilled jobs and creating cheaper products that allow for booming tangent industries.

If illegal immigrants cannot be re-moved without signi$cant cost to tax-payers – and consider the direct cost of rounding up and deporting 11.1 million people, along with the indirect net dip in

the economy – then another strategy will have to be de-vised for dealing with them. !e Tribal Tribune favors the

approach of the recent bipartisan plan proposed by senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Je% Flake (R-AZ), John McCain (R-AZ), Marc Rubio (R-FL), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and – perhaps most importantly to South Carolina – Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

!e plan proposes four “pillars” of goals to be met. Border enforcement, a key Republican issue, is aimed at slowing and even preventing the stream of illegal im-migrants coming into the country.

Employer enforcement is aimed at preventing employers from hiring illegal immigrants; in the past, such e%orts have been implemented, but rarely enforced.

Legal immigration would be stream-

lined; in current form, the process can eas-ily take a decade to complete. !e process for illegal immigrants to apply for citizen-ship would only begin a"er all who had legally applied for citizenship had been green-lighted or dismissed. !en undocu-mented workers would traverse an easier path to citizenship than the non-option o%ered to their predecessors, who would be detained and deported upon applying.

People who sneak into the United States of America have committed a crime, according to the laws of the day. Until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the concept of illegal immigration did not exist – probably because if it had, the set-tling of America would have been illegal; the earliest Anglo-European American settlers were stealing land that belonged to the Native American. But since 1882, that right of settling has not been extended to all who enter the nation – certain peoples have been deemed illegal and barred from entering the melting pot of the world.

But we can’t stop what has already mixed in; we can no longer extract 11.1 million from the workforce. We can tighten control of the borders, and we can help those who are already here fully integrate into American society. !e Tribal Tribune endorses Senator Graham’s plan of immigration reform. Let those who are here stay, and let more come legally a"er them.

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-- albert lee

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addle shoes, poodle skirts and hair grease -- oh my! The Wando Theatre Department presented its rendition of the classic musical Grease on Feb. 14-17.

The cast performed for a sold-out house on both the Friday night and Sunday matinee showings. Familiar hits like “Summer Lovin’” and “You’re the One that I Want” were belted out by junior Nathan Glyder, Danny and senior Grace Goldston, Sandy, alongside fellow Greasers, Pink Ladies and dance ensemble. The cast showed off its nifty song and dance moves to live instrumentals courtesy of musicians from the Wando Jazz Band.

Director Lori Carroll couldn’t be more pleased with the theater depart-ment’s performance. “We had wonderful reviews, we performed to packed houses and it was just good PR for Wando…It can’t get any better than that.” -- georgia barfield

From left, senior Grace Goldston, junior Nathan Glyder and senior Mary Lewis talk at cheerleading tryouts. Danny [Glyder] is shocked when he is challenged to go to track tryouts the next day.

Senior Grace Goldston performs her solo “Hopelessly Devoted to You.”

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From left, senior Cori Nuttall plays Marty, senior Isabell Philips plays Jan andsenior Kelsey Vickers plays Frenchy, part of the Pink Ladies. Marty and Frenchy attempt to comfort Jan after she is sad about Rump (played by junior Sean Barnett) does not outwardly show her affection.

From left, junior Nathan Glyder , senior Robert Spearman, junior Sean Barnett, junior Isabell Philips and senior Anne Singer listen as Spearman strums his gui-tar right before he bursts into song.

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