Students Paws to Greet the Newest Member of the Cathedral FamilyBY ERIN COLLINS

As of Jan. 26, Finn has become a perma-nent and daily addition to our family.

Mental health coun-selor Mrs. Rebecca Heger said, “He’s a great dog. He’s bred for companionship and is receiving training to be a support dog. I think (having him) is just like having a living teddy bear. Having a dog that loves you and is happy to see you, no matter what your day has been like, feels really good.

She continued, “Everything about Finn just makes you smile. I think he’s a happy little guy, and even just petting him can make your day a little better.”

Current juniors participated in a lead-ership retreat last year with other sophomores from around the city.

Junior Jackie Mooney said, “Each group at the retreat got something to research, and then we tried to come up with a plan to bring information about it back to our school. Once we got back from the retreat, all of us met with (Vice Principal) Dr. (Tom) Greer, and we had to come up with a project that would improve Cathedral.

“We decided to focus on stress relief, because we thought that it was

“Everything about Finn just makes you smile. I think he’s a happy little guy, and even just petting him can make your day a little better,” said Mrs. Rebecca Heger. | Photo by Emma Flohr

very important.”The students who

went on the retreat spent a lot of time de-ciding what would help relieve the most stress.

Mooney said, “We didn’t really know what the best idea would be at first. We had a lot of different ideas, but we wanted to have some-thing big, that we knew would work.

“We knew we had Ajax come in some-times, which was fun. We knew of other schools, like colleges, that bring in dogs or puppies during finals week to kind of have them run around in a certain area and kids could come hang out with them. We did our research and found scientific proof that having a dog does help to relieve stress.”

Playing with or petting a dog helps to increase the levels of the stress-reducing hormone, oxytocin, while decreasing the levels of the stress-in-creasing hormone cortisol.

Overall, this balance of hormones will help students’ mental and physical health.

While the students from the leadership re-treat were researching ways to relieve stress, Heger was simultane-ously working to get a dog on campus, but neither group knew of

each others’ goals for the school.

Heger said, “We found out that both groups were working on this project late last spring and into the early fall. The Student Leadership group had

been doing all of the research to get a sup-port dog on campus. This fall, I gave the student group a name of a parent who breeds Labradoodles. They approached her, and that’s how Finn came

to be, because he was donated.”

To see how students would react to a dog in the school, each group had different dogs come in on certain days.

Mooney said, “We

would have students bring in dogs during the day, we wanted to test it out and see how students would respond. We brought Ajax in a couple of times, and when people went in to see him, they would just automati-cally smile. We thought that even if it made people smile one extra time during the day it would be worth it.”

Heger said, “I had been bringing in Ajax, who is a black Lab. I was only able to bring him in a couple hours a few days a week, because he has fur. With fur comes the pet dander that people are allergic to.

“On the other hand, a dog like Finn has hair rather than fur. He is considered to be hypoallergenic, which means there is a very slim chance of people being allergic to him. That was pretty import-ant to have a dog here that wouldn’t make people go around and sneeze.”

Once they decided a dog would be the best thing to benefit the school, all Heger and the Student Leadership group had to do was find a dog.

Mooney said, “We researched breeds a ton. All dogs that are therapy dogs typically are Labradoodles or Golden Retrievers.

Unfortunately, dogs become really expen-sive when you start to get fancy like that. I was talking to Mrs. Heger one day, and I was telling her how we can’t just adopt a dog, because we don’t know its background and that’s just scary enough.

“We wouldn’t know if the dog likes kids or how it would act. We knew that if we had a certain breed, it would be easier to talk to Mr. Helmich about it, be-cause he could research the breed.

“When I was talking to Mrs. Heger, she knew senior Emmi Malcolmson’s grandma was a Labradoodle breeder, so she gave me Mrs. Malcolmson’s contact information. I contacted her and told her what we were try-ing to do, and she told us right away that they would donate a dog to the school.

“It worked out really well, because Labra-doodles are really intel-ligent and commonly used as therapy dogs.”

Mrs. Sarah Ero-tas, Assistant to the Principle, said, “I think the student body did so much coming together in the fall, and I think Finn can be an extension of that community.”

Finn looks forward to his visitors, so stop by to pet him for a bit.

Page 2 News

Holy Cross Core Values

ExcellenceBY MADDIE LUCIAEach and every day, students

and staff follow the value of excellence.

This core value means that if someone is to influence the future, to create a time better than his, then he must do what he does well. Excellence is striving to make the future better with the present. Jesus did it, so now men and women must do so as well.

As a student, one must be willing to use his knowledge of God and the education that he was received to make the next generation better.

According to Principal Mr. Dave Worland, excellence differs for every individual. He said that he believes it expresses the drive to do the very best in every given situation and achieve the highest level possible. “There is no stan-dard that someone must achieve to be excellent. He simply must do his very best,” Worland said.

Worland added that he sees this everywhere at the school. He notices the faculty and staff work every day to achieve this value. He said, “Whether it is teaching, raising tuition money or working in admissions, the our staff if con-sistently working on excellency.”

Along with the staff, he said that the students are no different. “When they try their very best at their school work, extracurricu-lars and sports, they achieve excel-lence no matter the outcome,” he said.

Worland challenges each student here. “When we stop com-paring ourselves to the people that sit next to us in class, we will all be happier, less stressed and achieve more,” he said.

Schedule Unchanged for 2015-2016 School YearBY KARA WILLIAMS

Much speculation has oc-curred about whether the sched-ule for the 2015-2016 school year would change.

It won’t. Principal Mr. Dave Worland

and a team of other faculty and staff members have extensive-ly researched the this school’s schedule as well as the schedules of schools in and around the Indianapolis area as well as other Holy Cross schools. Additionally, data that has been compiled by professional advancement teams has been reviewed.

This past week, Worland an-nounced to faculty, students and parents that the schedule for the upcoming year will not change. He said he had three main reasons for wanting to retain the same schedule next year.

“The first reason is because of our uniqueness,” he said. “I didn’t want to rush into a quick decision that wouldn’t be the most beneficial for Cathedral students.” Cathedral is one of the only schools in the area that still has a traditional nine-period day, he said.

Worland also said, “If we do change the schedule in the fu-ture, I want to feel confident that we are changing to one that will last for a number of years.”

Worland’s final reason had to do with timing. “I think we need to do more professional develop-ment before we change to ensure that the teachers are prepared,” he said.

The school is still looking into possibly changing the schedule in the future; however, for now, the schedule is set.

CPR Re-Certification in Progress for Faculty, StaffBY ASHLEY KING

In the fall of 2008, an assistant freshman boys’ basketball coach suffered a heart attack in the weight room.

Athletic trainer Mr. Mike Hunker and physical education teacher Mr. Sean Mcginley were trained in CPR and were able to save the coach’s life.

According to Principal Mr. David Worland, this incident prompted the training of every staff member in CPR.

Worland said, “After talking to Mr. Hunker we both discussed how serious this was and we thought why shouldn’t every adult here be trained.”

This training was put to the

Athletic trainer Mr. Mike Hunker certifies foreign language teacher Mrs. Kathy Darnell. | Photo by Emma Flohr

test on Jan. 28 when Perry Me-ridian assistant girls’ basketball coach Mr. Howard Ely suffered a heart attack during the girls’ varsity game.

All teachers in Indiana are now required to be trained in CPR; however, not all staff mem-bers at the school are.

This is something that Wor-land has felt strongly about and thought to be a necessity among all adults.

Worland said, “We did it because we saw a need. We needed more of us to be aware

“I think for anybody who was

in that gym then, to see that situation

unfold, I think it just sheds a whole new

light on the value of (CPR training).”

Physical education teacher Mrs. Linda Bamrick

and trained.”Physical education teacher Mrs.

Linda Bamrick said, “I think for anybody who was in that gym then, to see that situation unfold, I think it just sheds a whole new light on the value of (CPR training).”

Guidance counselor Mr. Greg Bamrick said, “What was impres-sive about that night was not only how the coach was being taken care of by several people, but also everyone else doing their part.”

Band director Mrs. Kathy Mc-Cullough directed her band out of the gym.

English teacher and score-keeper Ms. Laurie O’Brien was clearing the lane outside to get the fire truck in.

Mr. Greg Bamrick said, “After-wards, everyone involved kind of debriefed or talked about their part with administration about what we did well, what we could improve on, in case we were ever in that situation again.”

Worland said, “We are sure

that we are going to continue the training, and I think it’s something that more schools, businesses, and such, should adopt.”

Athletic trainer Mr. Mike Hunker said, “It has been a requirement here for all facul-ty and staff for approximately 10 years, but Mr. Worland deserves credit for mandating this for all employees well before other schools were told they had to.”

According to Hunker, 140 school employees have been trained in CPR. In the case that someone collapses, the survival rate is 20 percent higher if there are trained people present.

As of March 2014, it is mandatory for all students and teachers to be instructed in how to perform CPR and use an AED. Unique to Cathedral, however, is full staff training, and the past weeks have prov-en that preparation pays off.

Page 3News

BY KATIE SWANTON

One of the school’s most spec-tacular traditions is Shamrauc-tion, an annual auction that raises money for the school. Parents, alumni and staff are invited to purchase a ticket to participate. This year, Shamrauction will be on February 28, 2015. The doors will open 5:30 p.m. and close roughly around midnight.

This tradition has continued for the past 38 years according to Mrs. Monica Pollom, director of events and corporate relations. “My job for Shamrauction is to oversee and make sure everything runs smoothly,” Pollom said.

Pollom leads the advancement team, which each year decides the theme. This year’s theme is vintage circus meets modern day circus, officially titled “Cirque de Cathe-drale.” The decision was based on how creatively this theme could be marketed and the universality of the appeal.

After selecting the theme, plan-ning the event began. First the team has to find parent volunteers who are willing to commit to an entire year of soliciting donations.

Parent volunteers are in charge of locating sponsors and having companies or individuals donate. Pollom said this is the most challenging aspect of putting on the annual event. The committee of parent volunteers works year round to gather donations from across the globe. Last year Sham-rauction raised a total of $465,000.

Because the number of auction participants is limited to 830, Pol-lom suggested buying tickets early.

The components of this year’s Shamrauction include a silent and a live auction. The silent auction is held in the auxiliary gym and features around 800 items that a person can bid on with their phone. The items are arranged into categories such as athletics, spirit shop, restaurants, travel and entertainment.

Some of the items include jewelry from Reis Nichols and G. Thrapp Jewelers, a baby grand piano, an autographed Colts foot-ball and gift baskets of Cathedral athletic attire, which are fairly new to the auction this year.

The live auction takes place in the Welch Activity Center and consists of more extravagant pack-ages such as a trip to a Mexican villa for a six-night stay, four VIP tickets to see the Hot 97 Summer Jam Concert in New York, a desig-nated parking space on campus and a golden doodle puppy.

Students can sign up to volun-teer in activities such as setting up

the decor, coat check, raffle ticket sellers, concessionaire and clean up.

Senior Meagan Ball is selling last minute raffle tickets at the event this year. These raffle tickets are for anybody who wanted a chance to bid at the auction. “It’s not like you’re at Cathedral anymore, you are instead at a high quality hotel,” described Ball as this being her second time volun-teering at this particular event.

Both the Auxiliary Gym and the Welch Activity Center Gym are completely transformed. They are lavishly decorated, leaving adults in awe.

‘Come One, Come All, It’s A Party Under The Big Top and You’re Invited’4:45 p.m.Mass5:30 p.m.Doors open5:40 p.m.Happy hour, silentauction, Cirque du Soleil Lounge7:45 p.m.Prayer and dinner8:30 to10:30 p.m.Live auction10:30 p.m.Winning raffle ticket is drawn10:45 p.m. to12:45 a.m.Music by Toy Factory11 p.m.Late night carnival buffet opens

Planning for ShamrauctionBY JESSICA SNYDER

Mrs. Monica Pollom, director of events and corporate relations, is an ace of spades

when it comes to event plan-ning, especially Shamrauction. All of the events she plans have a purpose. Cathedral raises a total of $2.5 million each year, and Pollom and her department are in charge of raising $480,000 of that.

How do they take on this task? It’s all about planning popular events in order to turn a profit.

There are multiple gather-ings coordinated throughout the year. Many are specifically geared towards alumni, who donate to their Cathedral family, and their family gives right back. Pollom says, “Cathedral families like to help other Cathedral families. It’s families supporting family businesses.”

Many sponsors donate money in order to gain advertisement and promotion within the Cathedral and Indianapolis community. It’s all about the customer service. A happy and well cared for sponsor or customer will keep on coming back, which is exactly what Cathedral needs, according to Pollom.

The money goes back to the students. Of the students attending Cathedral, 44 percent receive financial aid. The rest of the money goes toward academ-ic and athletic programs as well as the upkeep of the campus.

“Every event is about not just selling, but customer service. Our job is to thank them gen-erously for giving back to you guys,” Pollom said.

This year’s Shamrauction will be on February 28. The theme, Cirque de Cathedrale, is based off of Cirque Du Soleil. Students and staff will work together to transform the school.

Page 4 Feature Shadow Experience is Rewarding for Freshmen, Prospective Students

When someone test drives a car, he does so much more than just meander around for a few minutes. He gets a feel for how the car runs and what it’s like to get behind the wheel of a new ride.

The same can be said of the shadow host program here.

“The shadow host visit is kind of like a test drive for the pro-spective student,” said Mr. Duane Emery, vice president of enroll-ment management.

No, prospective students aren’t driving around a new car, but they are testing out a new setting, a new learning environment.

It can be a big change for individuals coming from small Catholic grade schools or perhaps large public schools. They are get-ting a feel of what it is like to be a Cathedral student for a day.

Because of this, the shadow host program may be the most important step in the process of choosing a school, Emery said. It is not so much how the admin-istration sells the school to these prospective students, but how the teachers and current students interact with visitors.

How the program operates doesn’t really change from school to school; what does change are the people who these prospective students meet and greet through-out their visit and how they feel afterward.

Because these people are shad-owing current freshmen, most of their face time with other students comes with other freshmen. As a result, freshmen play a huge role in the process.

However, it isn’t always easy being a shadow host.

“I always make sure to learn a lot about the shadow, I take them on a tour, I introduce them in mostly every class and at the end of the day I take them back to the office,” said Clay Troyer, a

freshman soccer player.Nonetheless, this doesn’t really

bother him. “It is very exciting to know you are the one that is inspiring someone to go to Cathe-dral,” he said.

He has had five shadows thus far, and he can name them all. This suggests how much effort and emphasis people have put into the shadow program.

He’ll even offer to buy the shadow extra food if the meal card won’t cover everything that

he wants.Many people want to help with

this process as usually 200 stu-dents apply to host. That is around two-thirds of the Freshman Class.

With all of these applicants, it makes it easier to pair them with their shadows. The enrollment staff is able to match prospective students that play basketball with current freshman basketball players.

Sometimes, the day for the shadow is split between two separate hosts due to their unique interests.

There is one big reason for having the ability to accommodate the shadows in many ways.

“We have really good kids,” said Emery. This makes the whole process easier. It shows that it has worked, too, as this year’s Freshman Class is the biggest class in the school, and the application rate shows that future classes should continue to grow..

With good kids, it helps

BY SAM RUST

What Does it Take to be a Student Here?BY CAROLINE LAKE

Mr. Duane Emery, vice presi-dent for enrollment management has the answer. “We want students of all different types,” said Emery.

Aspects that are looked for by the admissions committee in incoming freshmen are that they have academic ability to survive, a strong work ethic, motivation, good values they live by, gender balance within the class, Catholi-cism, an assortment of academic levels and racial diversity. “If you’re a hard working student that wants to be successful, you will be a good fit here,” said Emery.

Students who get involved, have a strong work ethic and are open to trying new things grow and are successful here, according to Em-ery. Prospective students and their families look at current students here to root their decision on. “Part of the reason people want to send their kids here is based on what our students are doing,” Emery said. Emery is part of a member admissions committee that meets in early February for the initial review of all prospec-tive students’ applications. The part Emery plays in the process is greatly needed to be accepted here.

During the process of getting accepted the committee looks at two details before the academic part. The two aspects the commit-tee members consider beforehand are merit scholarships and sibling/family legacy.

Over the 16 years Emery has worked here the system has changed only slightly. “We have streamlined the committee process, it is more efficient now and takes less time,” said Emery. All in all, the main idea is to have students here who will excel and be successful here and in life.

Mrs. Gretchen Watko, assistant director for enrollment management, helps freshman Mattie Norris wel-come her shadow. Shadows spend a day here with a current student to allow them to see what Cathedral is like. | Photo by Emma Flohr

incoming students discern which school they would like to choose.

The school does many things to get the school out there and advertise this op-portunity, though. Some of the ways it does this include ads in publications, e-newsletters, information nights and items in parish bulletins.

Most of the students who wind up coming here for school are Catholic. Sixty-five to 70 percent come from Catholic schools opposed to around 35 percent coming from public schools.

About having a few more students come to class, walk the halls and eat lunch in the cafeteria, Emery said, “Even though it’s a little distracting, it’s also a little rewarding.”

And after they test drive Cathedral, most of them buy it and use it on their journey that is high school.

“It is very exciting to know you are the one that is inspiring

someone to go to Cathedral.”Freshman

Clay Troyer

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Page 6 Feature

The most familiar face at Cathe-dral may be none other than that of Dr. Tom Greer, vice principal for student affairs. He is able to be seen from every corner on cam-pus. Although he is popular with students and staff, many might be unaware of his specific duties and how much time and talent he has devoted to the school for the 26 years he has been here.

Greer explained that there are several important roles he performs as vice principal for student affairs. Greer has assisted in just about everything that takes place, including transportation, parking, clubs and organizations. “I communicate with parents and students to make the school better,” Greer said.

He is responsible for monitor-ing the parking lot and making sure traffic runs smoothly. By contributing his time, he is able to make sure students and faculty are safe while keeping traffic flow running efficiently.

He also supervises the cafeteria and resource periods, continuous-

“He’s extremely dedicated to Cathedral. You can tell that by how much time he spends here and the relationships he’s formed with the

students. He is involved in somany aspects of the students’ lives.I mean, you hardly go to any event

that he’s not there. He’s kind ofmade Cathedral his home

away from home.”English teacher Mrs. Melinda Bundy

Who is Dr. Greer?

BY KATIE SWANTON

ly checking up on students and forming a personal relationship with many.

He leads a 10-member team that prepares staff for scenarios such as a tornadoes, bomb threats, car wrecks and other emergencies. They seek out plans on how to handle each individual case if it were to happen, deciding which plan of action they would imple-ment to protect and care for the student body.

The student ID card, work permits and parking permits that students have received were made and distributed by Greer. “I have lots of little daily activities to do to keep things moving smoothly,” Greer explained.

He meets with the counselors to discuss what changes need to be done to help each student and to oversee the school. By work-ing with the counselors, Greer emphasized how he is contribut-ing his ideas and making sure the counselors continue to address students’ needs.

Working with the maintenance

staff as a school liaison, Greer oversees what needs to be done around the school in preparation for events and activities that take place throughout the campus.

He ensures facilities are work-ing properly and ready to be used. He also assures that activities will

not overlap. Along with supervising the school, students and staff, Greer has also helped start traditions that are stilled honored today. For exa- mple, the traditional Irish Blessing said for each guest who comes to the school was Greer’s idea that started about 15 years ago. In addition, he started the Lady Irish girl’s lac-rosse team, giving girls a chance

to play the sport. Greer has served at the school

for many years now and has cherished memories that have made his experience worthwhile, like his famous “Greer Dogs” of which everyone can’t seem to get enough.

He loves to chaperone the school mission trips to Joplin, Missouri and Charleston, South Carolina. He also enjoys dressing up as St. Nick and passing out candy canes to everyone on St. Nicholas day.

When asked what some of his favorite school memories are, Greer first reminisced about when the Sophomore Class of 1999 con-tributed enough money to buy his wife a new engagement ring.

“For my 50th birthday I was brought to school in a chicken limo,” Greer said. He explained how special it made him feel as the whole student body celebrat-ed by having a cookout that his family attended.

Greer has contributed an end-less amount of time to the school, building lasting traditions along the way.

He has influenced many an infinite amount of ways. “Com-ing to school every day is a good memory for me. I just love all of the kids like they are my own,” Greer said.

Dr. Tom Greer, vice principal of student affairs, oversees a variety of school activities such as clubs, transportation and more. “I have lots of little daily activities to do to keep things moving smoothly,” explained Greer. Photo by Annie Browning

Childhood dream: To be a baseball playerAge he decided to grow out his mustache: 19

The secret to Greer Dogs: Buy the mostafforable and cook over an old grill

Favorite school lunch: Deli sandwichHorse sized duck or duck sized

horses: One horse sized duckFavorite show: “West Wing” series

Pepsi or coke:Pepsi

Page 7Feature

BY AMANDA KEILMAN

‘Guys and Dolls’ Cast List Released; Rehearsals Begin

Q: How much homework do you have per night? A: “About an hour.”Q: How many hours do you spend studying? A: “Maybe two and one-half to three hours every week.”Q: What would you say the IB program is most centered on? What characteristics does it cater to? A: “Writing and opinion or inter-pretation based questions. It caters to those who like to formulate opinions and explain why theybelieve what they believe.”Q: Do you feel like you have very much free time? A: “I always feel stressed for time,but my schedule this semester has allowed me to enjoy quite a bit of free time.”Q: Are you happy with your choice to be in the IB program? A: “Yes, extremely happy. It is exactly how I like to learn and the global focus keeps it interesting.”

Junior Stone Hocker

Junior Ally MattinglyQ: How much homework do you have per night? A: “Two to three hours per night.” Q: How many hours do you spend studying? A: “It depends on the class, but usually one to two hours.”Q: What would you say the AP and honors program is most centered on? What characteris-tics does it cater to? A: “The program is most centered on independent learning and ca-ters to independence, dedication and focus.”Q: Do you feel like you have very much free time? A: “No, I don’t feel like I have verymuch free time, especially during the week.”Q: Are you happy with your choice to be in the AP/honors program? A: “Yes.”

Each year, the Catheatre puts on a spring musical. After doing the modern musical, “Shrek,” last year, the program has chosen a more classic show, “Guys and Dolls.”

According to theatre depart-ment chair Ms. Jennifer Alex-ander, “It is a musical set in the late 1940s and is called a fable of the Broadway musical. It is about gamblers in New York City, and one of the main characters is on a Salvation Army-type mission. She is trying to save their souls.”

Auditions for the show took place on Feb. 2, 3 and 4. They are run by Alexander and assistant director senior Kate Brennan.

The way auditions work is one

day was dedicated to signing where students performed 16 bars of a song they chose. The second day students learned a choreo-graphed dance. The third day involved reading lines from the script with Alexander.

Two musical directors, Mr. Tyler Lemen and Mrs. Patricia Mentink, and one dance choreog-rapher, Mrs. Heather Lash, make the casting decisions. Brennan adds input as well. In the end, it is a group decision. Alexander pays attention to specific elements when watching auditions. She said, “I look for commitment, how hard they worked on their audi-tion and making strong decisions.”

Catheatre also continued its tra-

“I look for commitment, how hard they worked on their audition and making strong decisions,” said Ms. Jen-nifer Alexander on how she makes decisions for the cast list. | Photo by Annie Browning

‘GUYS AND DOLLS’ PARTIAL CAST LIST:

BY ASHLEY KINGIs Junior Year the Most Stressful?

1st period: Theology 11 with Mrs. Lewis

2nd period: English 11X with Mrs. Blamey

3rd period: Spanish III IB with Mrs. Egan

4th period: AP U.S. History with Mr. Worrell

5th period: Algebra 2X with Mr. Miller

6th period: Lunch7th period: Photography 1

with Mrs. Monroe8th period: Forensic

Science with Mrs. Gilmore9th period: Resource

1st period: Resource2nd period: French III IB

with Mrs. Darnell3rd period: English IB with

Mrs. Bradshaw4th period: Lunch

5th period: AP Biology with Mrs. Alexander

6th period: Theory of Knowledge

with Mr. Jensen 7th period: Independent

Study: Korean 8th period: Academic

Precalculus with Mr. Nohl

9th period: IB History ofthe Americas

with Sister Mary Ann Stewart

dition of having a no cut-policy. Alexander said, “It is a tradition that has been with the theatre program to try to give everybody a chance to be on stage.”

The auditions consisted of a total of 104 students. According to Alexander, about 85 percent of the students were girls. With the musical having more male roles than men who auditioned, there will be girls dressed as men on stage to make up for this.

Alexander said, “We got lucky. We had a lot of great guys audi-tion who can sing, dance and act.

Overall, Alexander is very pleased with the auditions. She said, “Everybody worked hard, and it was very tough to cast.”

SKY MASTERSON AIDAN CATELLIER

NATHAN DETROIT JOSH PEDUTO

SARAH BROWN OLIVIA LEMKE

MISS ADELAIDE GATES SCHNEIDER

ARVIDA ABERNATHY JESSICA WEIR

GENERAL CARTWRIGHT ALYSSA LAY

AGATHA KATHERINE GRAHAM

LT. BRANNIGAN DAVIS HENSLEY

NICELY-NICELY

JIMMY MCGUIGAN

Page 9Page 8Photo Poll: What is your favorite

Sweetheart candy message?

“Be mine.”

“I love you.”

“U r cute.”

Junior Atlas Walton

Freshman Megan Evanseck

Senior Riley Quinn

Teachers Share their Valentine’s Day Stories:Mrs. Melinda Bundy

“It wasn’t just Valentine’s Day, he did nice things all the time. Like after Brittany was born, he gave me diamond stud earrings.

“On our first date we went to the movies and afterwards came back and he had chilled glasses and we had Champagne. So he was very roman-tic.

“Our second date was Valentine’s Day. So for Valentine’s Day he gave me a dozen long stem red roses and two stuffed animals. One was a little puppy on a heart and the other one was this big stuffed turtle. I don’t know what the turtle was

for. And then two days later he gave me another dozen red roses.“We met when we were 19 and got married when we were 33. We

broke up when we were 19. After we started dating in February, I went to Switzerland that summer to school, and when I came back he was dating someone else, so we broke up. And then, we dated for awhile when we were 22, broke up. He was married to someone else for seven years, and then that ended and then we got back together, we dated, and got married.

“And then we were married for eight years before he died. So many people have said, ‘Aren’t you sorry you didn’t get married when you were 19?’ But obviously it wasn’t supposed to work then, so for some reason we weren’t supposed to be together until later.”

“After we got back together, but before we got married, he embar-rassed the living daylights out of me on my birthday. He had a clown come to school and bring me balloons and a stuffed lady bug for my birthday.”

Teachers Share their Valentine’s Day Stories: Mr. Matt Panzer

BY NICOLE SHOAF

BY NICOLE SHOAF

“At the school I taught at last year, there is a Montessori (school) for the children of the teach-ers. So my daughter was at school there.

“If you remember last year, February was really, really cold. And you have to walk across the parking lot to get to the montessori.

“They sell carnations for Valentine’s Day, so

Teachers Share their Valentine’s Day

Stories:Mr. Nick Lyons

BY NICOLE SHOAF

“One time, I took my wife out for a Val-entine’s date.

“We got in the car and I told her we were going to do dinner downtown.

“We finished eating and she got back in the car. I asked what we should do next.

“I told her to look in her car door on her side, where she found an envelope with two tickets to the broadway show ‘The Lion King’ at the Old National Centre.

“She was elated. She loves musicals like that and The Lion King.

“I think she loved it even more because she knew I took some time to plan it all out.”

Mr. and Mrs. Erotas: High School Sweethearts at Cathedral BY NORA MACANALLY

Go to the school website, the phrase “Lifelong Connections” appears in a place of prominence. Drive up the Hill, those words appear on blue, gold and green banners.

If your parents receive a letter from the school, “Lifelong Connec-tions” is printed on school station-ary.

Cathedral graduates use those lifelong connections to maintain

Above is Mr. and Mrs. Erotas on their wedding day.Below is Mr. and Mrs. Erotas at graduation in 2005. | Photos submitted

friendships, network and create bonds. And for some couples, those bonds become sacred when they

enter the sacrament of marriage.Mrs. Sarah Erotas is a Cathedral

graduate from the Class of 2005. Her sophomore year here proved to be an important time in her life. This was the year she met the man who would turn out to be her future husband. “We met in theology teacher Mrs. (Rebecca) Heger’s class during speed dating,” she said.

It was there the two became friends, and at the end of their junior year began dating. The school holds special memories from their relationship that Erotas still remembers. “He would always walk me to class, and I would have choir in Cunningham, and he had math in B basement, so he would always be late to class because of it.” Mr. and Mrs. Erotas continued to date through college, even though it was a long distance relationship and married after they graduated. She attended Indiana University while he attended University of South-ern Indiana.

The Bamricks: Love at CHS

The Bamricks maintain a huge connection to Cathedral. Both Mr. Greg Bamrick and Mrs. Linda Bamrick consider it to be a workplace, while at the same time a school for their two children, senior Liz and sophomore Michael. They met working here, Mr. Bamrick as a counsel-or, Mrs. Bamrick as a health and PE teacher.

While some may believe that working and living together may be hard, Mr. Bamrick sees it as the opposite. “We value our time together. We’re both very detail oriented when it comes to our jobs, and we really have to go out of our way to see one another during the day.”

BY NORA MACANALLY

You Belong with Me: Cathedral Shares its Greatest Love Stories I went over and bought a carnation. I walked over to her school - she had no idea I was going to do this - and they were in the middle of gym, playing around and whatever.

“I had the flower behind my back. So the teachers are wondering why I came over.

“So I said, ‘Kaelynn, come here,’ and she said, ‘Yes, daddy?’ I got down on a knee and I took the flower out from behind my back and said, ‘Would you be my Valentine?’

“And she was like, ‘My daddy is my Valentine!’ She was so surprised and so excited that of course all the teachers and little girls said, ‘Oh, that’s so cute.’

“I wrote about it on one of these so-cial media things and people were like, ‘You’re making us all look bad because we’re not getting flowers for our four year old daughters!’ It was just a cute little thing.

“So this year she’s already said to me, ‘Dad will you be my Valentine this year?’ So I said, ‘Yes, sweetheart I’ll be

your Valentine this year, don’t worry. I’ll buy you another flower.’

“She was so excited for her dad to be her Valentine.

“Because it’s on Saturday I’ll just go get her flowers that day and I’ll sur-prise her. I won’t tell her; she won’t put two and two together, she’s still little.

“Now that I’ve started the tradition, I have to do it all the time, but you have to do these things, because how much longer is she going to want her dad to be her Valentine?”

Mr. Greg Bamrick keeps this picture of him and his wife on his desk at school. | Photo submitted

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When did they figure out that they were adopted?

“It’s pretty obvious, since we look nothing alike. It’s always been a topic of conversation; I’ll ask them what color skin they think they have. My daughter says that she is cinnamon and Yoseph is choco-late. All of their baby books were about adoption and we talk about going to get them. There wasn’t a moment where we told them, it’s just always been part of their life.”

What do they think about being adopted?

“Right now, they think it’s pretty cool. They don’t think much about it. I think they sometimes forget. I think Ana sometimes thinks that her dad, she and I are all the same color and that Yoseph is the differ-ent one. When she draws a picture of herself, she normally uses peach so I talk to her about how her skin is darker and beautiful

English Teacher Shares Experiences, Embraces Challenges of International Adoption

Ms. Buffy Craft

English teacher Ms. Buffy Craft re-counts the trials and tribulations of raising colored, adopted children. The Craft Clan represents numer-ous ethnicities: 7-year-old Ana is of Guatemalan descent while Yoseph, who is 5 years old, is from Ethiopia.

and she should try to represent that in pictures. I tell her that people pay a lot of money to have skin her color, from tanning.”

Have other kids said anything to them about it?

“Yes, at first there’s been lots of questions from little kids; it’s always pretty humorous, I enjoy answering those. There was a little girl at the bowling alley and she saw me with Yoseph. She looked at him and looked at me and said ‘are you his mama?’ I said yes and she goes ‘where’s his daddy?’ And when I pointed at Yoseph’s dad, she just looked very confused and I said he’s adopted and she said ‘oh, ok.’ I’ve had other friends’ children ask when their skin was going to change colors, so it’s been a good experience. I think my friends are grateful because it’s taught their children not to notice any difference because they are around my kids all the time. One of my girlfriends lives in Westfield and there’s only one black family in the neighborhood, and her son, Nathan, has become best friends with their son; she said he never even questioned the fact that they looked different because he’s been so used to spending time with Yoseph.”

What grade are they in?“Yoseph is in pre-K and Ana is in first grade and they’re at St. Mat-thew. I went to Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that was obviously something that we thought about since that was my home parish but there’s not much diversity. Being a diverse family we took that into account when we purchased a home, we took that into account when choosing what church or school to be a part of; we don’t want our children to feel they’re the only people of color in their class and in their school.”

Have they ever asked why they’re different?

“Ana’s been fine with it, and once again, in the winter, she gets kind of light; she’s got very dark features and in the summer she gets very dark. She hasn’t really had a problem with it and I think that also has to do with the fact that we got her at nine weeks. Yoseph went through an about six months or longer phase where he did not want to be chocolate and

he was very upset and he would cry about it and would say, ‘I don’t want to be chocolate, I want to be like you.’ He didn’t want to play with any kids that were black. If an African-American adult came up to him, he didn’t want to have anything to do with them, so we really had to work on that. I’ve tried showing him pictures of influential African-Americans and talking about it and pointing people out, like in cartoons. I’ll

How did you react at first to the looks?

“At first, I was very sensitive to them because I just wanted to be a normal family, and these are my children and their color has no effect on our family so I just want-ed to blend in with everyone else and be normal. It was really hard at first, it made me very insecure, it almost made me not as ready to go places and I avoided certain places where I knew I would get negative looks. It’s now been seven years, and we have really tried to incorporate their cultures into our family. Now, I look at it as a positive. We are representing a family of 2015. This is where we are in our world now. I think that I can do a lot by just walking into a room with my children, as far as teaching people to be more open-minded.”

What did your parents and other relatives think when you told

them you were adopting?“It was really interesting because my mother grew up in a pretty racist situation. My grandmother’s brother was murdered by two African-American women, so after that happened, their family became extremely racist. Plus, it was the time. That’s how things were. That obviously rubbed off on my mom a little bit. I dated a Hispanic guy in college, and she was really uncomfortable with that and said that she only wanted me to date white males. It’s been the most beautiful transformation ever. She has treated them abso-lutely no different than her other 17 grandchildren and she loves them. She constantly says how it has opened her eyes to race and racism and the negatives of it and that color has nothing to do with a person’s being or who they are. It’s been a really great teachable moment for my mother.”

Craft’s 7-year-old daughter, Ana, likes to say “that she is cinnamon and her 5-year-old brother, Yoseph, is chocolate.” | Photo submitted

say, ‘Look Yoseph, that little boy looks like you,’ or at the museum I told him that my favorite color is black and it’s a beautiful color; his skin is brown obviously. It did take a long time and now he’s finally accepting it, and I think the big change was that at the school that he was in, Trojan Tots, he was the only black kid in the entire program, and now that he’s at St. Matthew, it’s not hugely diverse but there are still four or five kids

in the pre-k program that are Afri-can-American so he’s embrac-ing it more.”

Do you ever get any looks

when you walk in to

places?“Constantly.

I don’t really notice it any-more but it’s constant. Peo-ple are curious whether my children are adopted, they want to ask but they don’t know how to ask. I get negative looks,

sometimes, by people thinking maybe I should not have a child of color. I get comments, some-times, asking ‘why didn’t you have your own children?’ and I say, ‘well, they are my children.’ If I’m looking for it, it’s constant, but like I said I forget about it. If someone babysits my kids and takes them on a walk they’ll say, oh my gosh, I can’t believe how much attention we got. Everybody just turns their heads and so it’s strange if some-body’s not used to it.

BY ΜORGAN CARTER

This is the first in a three-part series by Morgan Carter.

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Why did you decide to adopt children of color?

“A couple of reasons. First of all, it’s easier to adopt internationally. Domestic adoptions are a lot more risky; the mother changes her mind or something like that much more often. In the United States, when we were adopting, the percent-age of moms changed their minds 31 percent of the time, whereas in Guatemala it was less than 1 percent so it was a more for sure thing. And white babies are more expensive. It’s true to adopt from Russia, or any of those places that would have white babies, it was much more ex-pensive. To me, color doesn’t matter; I wanted a baby. We found the programs that we could make work and also I have a minor in multi-cul-tural education, I’ve done a lot of traveling, I taught on an Indian reservation where I experienced being the only white person in the city for six months of my life, so I’ve always been very intrigued with culture. The fact that my children are giving me the opportunity to look into these cultures has been wonderful. When I was in Guatemala for those five months I obviously learned a ton about the culture and tried to incorpo-rate that into our lives here. The four weeks that we spent on two separate trips in Ethiopia, I was able to learn quite a bit about the culture. To me, color is color, but what my kids bring on top of that is culture, so it’s neat.”

How did your kids teach you about culture, and what ways

do you incorporate it into your lives?

“They didn’t teach me. They get kind of annoyed when I try to push culture on them but the process of adopting them put me

possible, it’s a very unique style of food. We go to events that are culturally based. There’s obviously even more that we could do but our lives keep us pretty busy.”

How do yo think it will shape them when they

are older, and how has it shaped them now?”

“Right now, I think they forget about it often until something small happens to remind them and I don’t know if kids have ever said things to them. They’ve never told me that but some of the ways Yoseph was acting made me think that he was getting some comments, but he never spoke about that. Right now they’re just regular kids and kids are color blind, they don’t even notice. When they’re teenagers, it’s probably going to be confusing

situation working at a high school; they’ll come here. As I said, I wanted them to go to a Catholic school but I made sure that it was one that was diverse. You definitely have a lot of Catholic schools that are very, very white, and I did not want to do that. That was one of our first questions, that was one of the first things that we looked into, to make sure that it was diverse, and like I said, that also goes into decisions about where to live.”

Does it affect with whom they socialize with?

“I’m not going to pick their friends for them and it just so happens that the majority of my friends are white, so the majority of their friends are white, because that’s who they’re around. At school, they just choose their own friends. Yoseph is definitely drawn to African-Americans more. He’ll say that boy looks like me, he loves that. He’ll go play with that boy, especially if he has curly hair like him. I think they’ll always wonder where their place is, I think that’s going to be confusing for them, but I think that it’s also a great lesson for them to learn that your exterior shouldn’t affect that.”

Have they met any other kids in the same situation?

“I purposely have playdates with people that have adopted chil-dren. We’ve been really fortunate in Yoseph’s situation. I have two girlfriends in town; I met them through adoption. One has two young boys who were in Yoseph’s orphanage and the other has two older boys that she adopted when they were older who were also in Yoseph’s orphanage. The older boys remember Yoseph from that. So not only do they have that they’re all black, but they also have they’re all from Ethiopia, so they have similar features, and they were actually in the exact

in the exact same orphanage so that’s been really nice.”

Do they ever want to meet their parents or go back and see what

it’s like there?“Yes, they both have siblings and they want to meet their siblings. So, I’ve explained to Ana that in order to do that she’s going to have to try to learn Spanish because her siblings most likely won’t speak English. One day, we probably will do that. She is interested, she hasn’t mentioned wanting to meet her mom and we don’t know who her father is. She just every once and a while mentions her siblings. Yoseph’s mom actually passed away, which is why he was put up for adoption so we pray to her all the time, talk about her all the time, that she’s watching over him. Sometimes he’ll say ‘I miss my other mom’ who he never knew and I think he just does it when he’s tired or something so then we’ll talk about it. But with Ethiopia being so far and with his mother having passed away, there’s probably not a likelihood that we’ll meet his family ever, but I would assume one day we’ll meet Ana’s family. It’s completely up to her; I don’t want to push it on, her so it’s 100 percent up to her.

Do you think you’ll adopt any-more children?

“No, I don’t think so. I think two is good, and it’s expensive.

Is there anything else that you think readers should know?

“I think that because international adoption is such a big deal right now, it’s going to have an interest-ing impact on diversity, because it’s becoming so much more common. I really think that it’s going to have a positive impact on diversity; something that people will notice in the next five or 10 years. It gives me hope.”

Craft said, “We are representing a family of 2015.” Photo submitted

process of adopting them put me in the situation to learn about their cultures. Ana, she’s Mayan, which is interesting because there was basically genocide going on. They were killing off all the Mayans 20 years ago, so she was even a minority in Guatemala, seen as less of a person. That’s been interesting and the Mayan culture is really beautiful: the art, the clothing. We have pic-tures throughout the house, we don’t just make their bedrooms their nationality. We have stuff throughout our household; even in our conversations, we talk about culture. During Christmas, we do something called La Pisada, which is where you go knock on doors and act like you’re Mary and Joseph and there’s no room in the inn. That sort of thing is a very Latino tradition. We try to go to Ethiopian restaurants as much

and frustrating at times but as I’ve always said, teenagers are always confused and frustrated with their parents for some reason, so at least I already know what mine’s going to be. I worry, primarily, about Yoseph. He’s very athletic, he’s going to be extremely tall, and I am afraid that he’s going to get teased for having a white mother and father, so I am concerned about that but we’re just going to have to wait and see. Luckily, our world is changing a lot. There are kids all over the city that are adopted that have white parents so it’s becoming much more of the norm now. Hopefully, there won’t be those issues, but I do fear that they will be embarrassed by me.”

Will the way you pick their high school be affected by their race

and adoption?“Yes, I’m obviously in a unique

“We are representing a family of 2015.” - Ms. Buffy Craft

Page 12 SportsFour State Titles, Winner of Mr. Football in Indiana, Now a National Champion:

The Incredible Five-Year Playoff Streak of Terry McLaurin ‘14BY JACK ROCAP

Former Cathedral wide receiver Terry McLaurin ‘14 has gone from State champion to a National champion at Ohio State. McLau-rin has a history of winning in the post season. In fact, during his career as a high school and college football player, he never competed for a team that lost.

In his freshman season as a member of the Irish varsity, Mc-Laurin won his first State champi-onship against Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger 31-20. In his sophomore season, the Irish beat South Bend Washington 42-7. In his junior season, the Irish lit up the score-board against Mishawaka 56-29.

In McLaurin’s senior season, he was awarded with the most prestigious honor for Indiana high school football players when he was named Indiana Mr. Football. The Irish went on to win State against Westfield 42-18, ending McLaurin’s storybook career at Cathedral. McLaurin then signed with the Ohio State Buckeyes as four-star recruit.

Terry McLaurin ’14 (holding newspaper) and teammates celebrate their national championship win over the Oregon Ducks. | Photo submitted

McLaurin was part of the first college football playoff in 2015, which involved the top four teams in the nation.

Ohio State was doubted from the beginning, being ridiculed for even making the college football playoff. The doubts of others didn’t stop McLaurin and the Buckeyes from believing that they could win it all.

McLaurin described the mental preparation for the games.

“We believed we had a good game plan to beat both teams; it was just going to come down to execution. To beat two great teams back to back (which) was a huge accomplishment for our team. We didn’t doubt ourselves, so we took it as motivation to show the country we were the best team in

the country.”Ohio State played Alabama in

the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. Alabama was a nine-point favorite.

The Buckeyes trailed at first, but rallied after the first quarter to defeat number one Alabama. The Buckeyes had now advanced to the national championship game to play Oregon in Arlington, Texas.

On Jan. 12 the Buckeyes set off to play Oregon, which was favored by a touchdown, for the national title. Even though McLaurin was not dressed, he was with the team during these two games. Ohio State, lead by Ezekiel Elliott’s four touchdowns, won the first college football playoff 40-20.

McLaurin described his time during the college football playoff.

“(It was a) very unique experi-ence to be in the first ever college football playoff. And to win the entire thing is even more grati-fying. I got to experience great things at the bowl sites as well as got to develop my game with the additional practices during the bowl season practices, something I won’t forget.

“Media day was pretty crazy, (as) guys were getting interviews left and right about all kinds of stuff. To be on a national stage like that is humbling, but we just wanted to represent our team and university the best we could.”

Irish football Head Coach Mr. Rick Streiff had some words about his former player.

“Just as excited for him to have

success at the next level as I was to watch him here,” Streiff said.

A former teammate and Northwestern signee, senior Jared Thomas, described his emo-tions on McLaurin winning the national championship. “Man, I was just ecstatic when I saw them win. It really shows that anything is possible, with Terry going from winning a State championship to winning a national championship. My favorite moment with Terry was every day I got to go out at practice with him and see him do things that were jaw dropping.”

From his freshman season at Cathedral, McLaurin has been a winner. Never tasting the bit-terness of defeat, he hoisted up the championship trophy each year of his high school career. Even mov-ing on to Ohio State, McLaurin brought his winning ways to an historical program.

He described his experiences on his five championship squads.

“I have been fortunate to be on some really good teams in my athletic career. It’s special to be on a championship contending team every year, then to win it all every year. Up until this point is special. Both are great accomplishments in and of themselves. Winning State was very special because I got to do it with guys I grew up with as well as went through high school with. And to know we did it all four of our years is special because we will look back on it at our reunion and truly be amazed at what we did.”

McLaurin hopes to keep his playoff winning streak alive for next season. Ohio State will be an early favorite to repeat its title as the 2015 season begins. McLaurin will play as freshman redshirt, as he did not see action this past season. He said he is ready and hopes to be a contributor to the Buckeyes in 2015.

“Winning a national

championship proves you’re the best team in the

country, especially with the new

(playoff) set up. There is no doubt we were the best, which makes it that much

sweeter.”Terry McLaurin

Page 13Sports

Mens Basketball Wrestling

WWomens Basketball

Winter Sports Prepare for Tourney Competition

The wrestling team will head to Semistate tomorrow in hopes of getting another chance at putting up a banner gym wall.

After earning the school’s first State championship last year, the challenges of recreating the magic for the team involve, replacing the talent of past seniors and State quali-fiers. “You know it’s difficult to reload what we lost. We lost two huge guys in Vinny Corsaro ’14 and Wesley Bernard ’14.

“Those two scored an enormous amount of points for us in the State tournament last year. It’s tough to replace them, but we got some guys that have stepped up in Blake Rypel, Brendan Bailey, and Skylour Turner. So we got a good shot,” Coach Sean McGinley said.

Several wrestlers could score points in the tournament. McGinley said, “Right now we have senior Ben Harvey, 170 pounder ranked Number 2 in the state, junior Blake Rypel, a 195-pounder ranked Number 1 in the state. Also ranked Number 1 is Breyden Baily, a 120-pounder. Skylour Turner at 113 pounds; Ben Stewart, 182 pounds; and Ryan Guhl at 220 all could score some points in the State tournament.”

The team may also be able to rely on one of the most improved wrestlers, of the year, for some much needed points in the tournament. “Junior Trevor Bagwell (is a) 250-pounder who is coming off of a great week and just went into (the) Sectional. I’m looking forward to his Re-gional competition.”

To repeat as the State champion, the team will lean on its captains. Both seniors and team captains Patrick Troy and Harvey will have opportunity to lead their fellow wrestlers. “(Harvey and Troy) have definitely been leaders, not only not the wrestling mat, but also in the classroom and in their communities.”

Semistate competition is scheduled for tomorrow at New Castle, with prelims starting at 9 a.m.

As a team, McGinley’s squad finished second in the Re-gional, with 174.5 points to Regional champion Lawrence North’s 181.

Irish wrestlers who qualified for tomorrow’s Semistate, with their weight class and individual finish in the Region-al: sophomore Skylour Turner (113, first), sophomore Brey-den Bailey (120, first), freshman Zack Melloh (126, first), freshman Dylan Stewart (132, third), junior Trevor Bagwell (152, third), senior Ben Harvey (170, first), sophomore Ben Stewart (182, second), junior Blake Rypel (195, second), and junior Ryan Guhl (220, first).

BY MATTHEW MEULEMANBY ZAK BATT

In his second game with the varsity team, junior Eron Gordon makes his presence felt by driving to the basket against Chatard. | Photo by Matthew Meuleman

BY ZAK BATTComing off of a four

game win streak as of Wednesday, the men’s basketball team is rid-ing quite the hot streak. Head Coach Mr. Andy Fagan said, “We were a very inexperienced team this year. A lot of our young guys got some valuable playing time early in the season and they’ve really kind of grown. And now that we have Eron (Gordon) back, it feels like we finally have our full team.”

Gordon has provided the spark in the four games he’s been able to play for the team. Gordon has used his fa-miliarity with his fellow

North Central transfer, junior Jordan Walker, to be great. “We’ve asked Eron to just come in and be a great teammate (and) to be aggressive at both ends of the floor,” Fagan said.

“We’ve relied on senior Jared Thomas, junior Matt Paligraf, and Jordan Walker to kind of be our core leaders.” “We kind call (Jared) ‘Grandpa Thomas’.. There is no ques-tion that out guys look at (Thomas) as a calming presence on the court,” Fagan said.

With Gordon now playing and the team winning, the head coach was asked about continuing the streak with the tournament right around the corner. “Yeah, that’s the expectation. Guys are getting more comfortable with what their roles are and what they need to do for us to win. We think that should translate into some continued success,” Fagan said.

The team next plays Heritage Christian Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Coach Fagan said that he is excited for this game and the rest of the season, especially the State tournament. He said, “We feel as long as we improve every day, we think we have a real chance to succeed in the tournament.”

The Sectional at Lawrence Central opens March 3. Along with the Irish and the host school, other teams compet-ing include Arsenal Tech, Lawrence North, Roncalli and Warren Central.

After thumping Roncalli 65-36 Tuesday night in the opening round of the Sectional, the women’s basketball team will take on Arsenal Tech tonight in the second round of the tournament. The game is set to tip off at 7:30 p.m. at Lawrence North.

The women’s bas-ketball team entered Tuesday night’s tournament game with a 15-8 record. “I think the year has gone pretty well. A goal of ours is to try

The women’s basketball team defeated Roncalli on Tuesday night 65-36. | Photo by Zak Battand improve each year. Year One that I had the job we were 9-13 (and) Year Two we were 11-10,” said Head Coach Mr. Ed Freije. “We’ve been a little banged up at the end of the season,” Freije said before Tuesday night’s game.

However, the team certainly did not play injured. The girls were flying up and down the court putting on quite the show during the 29-point rout of rival and Sectional opponent Roncalli. The team won by both smothering the Rebels on defense and rebounding with great effort. Just after his team’s win, Freije said, “I think (junior) Cienna Jordan did an absolutely fantastic job of being a force and wanting every rebound.” “The seniors really stepped up. You have Katie Klein playing with a sprained ankle but she fought through it and did a tremendous job. Emily (Cline) is always consistent and played great. Maria (Avellana) played great minutes also and Liz Bamrick is just a great team player. I’m all around so proud of them.”

The seniors will have a chance to keep their high school careers alive today at 7:30 when they take on Arsenal Tech in the second round of the tournament. “We know (Ar-senal) Tech is quick, we know they are scrappy, we know they are aggressive on the defensive end. We need to take care of the ball and hopefully we have some carry over to (tonight),” Freije said. The Lady Irish get a chance to get a measure of revenge against Tech after losing to the Titans 42-44 on Senior Night. The team fell behind 10-0 but fought back in the second half.

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5:30 a.m. No alarms needed in our house. I’m ready to go for a walk, eat breakfast and get ready for school.

6:30 a.m. I am in the car with my little buddy, Vincent, on my way to work. Vincent gets to play all day, but I know I have a very important job to do.

7:15 a.m. I run into “my office” where I have to arrange my toys all over the floor. I have no idea why someone thinks putting them in my bed is a good idea. Scattered on the floor is so much better.

7:35 a.m. I get busy making as much noise as possible with my squeaky toys to help the counsel-ors wake up. I know they appreci-ate that.

7:45 a.m. I walk to the mail-boxes and greet people in the hall. Everyone is so nice and pats me on the head.

8 a.m. My real work begins when students start to come into the counseling center. I try really hard to make people have a good day. Being cute comes easy for me.

Learning all of the commands is hard but it is easier when people remind me what I am supposed to do. I think I’m pretty smart and will remember everything on my own soon. I just need to practice.

9 a.m. I am exhausted. It’s nap time. In my dreams people are talking nice to me and pet-ting me. I like that. I am such a good dog.

9:30 a.m. I wake up from a great nap and my day contin-ues.

Play with toys, drink water, go outside to pee, meet people, nap and repeat. Groups of people come to visit as well as individuals. I love them all.

My handler keeps telling me what a good dog I am. I believe her. I AM such a good dog. My day is busy and every moment is very important. I am here for a reason and I do my very best to fulfill my purpose.

4 p.m. I get to go home and play like other dogs. When I am home, I get to run outside and play catch. The best part is when I play with Vincent. He is just my height and squeaks just like my toys, even when I don’t touch him. I must be magical to make a sound come out of him when I walk in the room!

8 p.m. It’s bedtime. I need a lot of sleep so that I can do my job well tomorrow. Good night, everyone.

Zzz “Good dog” zzz

Guest Column from Finn’s View: Experience a Day in my Life

Mrs. Rebecca Heger (as Finn)

‘The Theory of Everything’ Nominated for Five OscarsBY AMANDA KEILMAN

change them. It is shown that in Hawking’s Book, A Brief History of Time, that he mentions the existence of a God.

The pair had three children, two boys and a girl, before they divorced and lead separate lives. However, they were able to remain good friends.

The movie was directed by James Marsh and was written by Anthony McCarten and Jane Hawking. Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking, while Felicity Jones portrays Jane Hawking.

The movie was nominated for four Golden Globes, winning two.

Redmayne won a Golden Globe for best performance by an actor in a motion picture drama. The movie also won for best original score in a motion picture.

It is currently nominated for 5 Oscars.

The list includes best motion picture of the year, best perfor-mance by an actor in a leading role, best performance by an actress in a leading role, best writing, screenplay based on material previously produced or published and best achievement in music written for motion pictures, original score.

“The Theory of Everything” is an excellent movie that is able to keep the viewers’ attention, al-though it is more than two hours long.

Redmayne had a very convinc-ing performance and rightfully deserved the Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

Viewers walk out of the theatre feeling as if they personally know Hawking. While watching the movie, you find yourself laugh-ing with the characters in good times and feeling their heartbreak during the bad times, which is what a good movie is supposed to do.

Best Places to Dine Around Indy on Valentine’s Day

“The Theory of Everything” is about the life of physicist Stephen Hawking. The movie chronicles the ups and downs of his first marriage to his wife, Jane.

The film in the 1960s, during which Hawking was a fellow at Cambridge University. He is studying to gain a PhD in physics as a cosmology student. In the opening scene, Hawking meets Jane, who is studying art, and an instant connection occurs.

However, at only 21, Hawking is diagnosed with the motor neuron disease, ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The doctors predicted that he would live no more than two years. Against all odds, Hawking continues to live to this day.

The movie portrays the deteri-oration of Hawking’s physical con-dition and the strain it puts on his marriage. It starts with the loss of his ability to walk and continues to the point where he is unable to speak any more.

Stephen Hawking professes to be an atheist, while his wife, Jane, belongs to the Church of England. The movie shows how the two were able to accept each other’s beliefs with out trying to

Share a smooch for a free smothered burrito: On Valentine’s Day, Qdoba offers buy one get one

free burritos. Order one smothered burrito, kiss

someone (friend or strang-er), and get another free.

As a thank you, couples who dine in at Fogo de Chao today, tomorrow or Sunday will receive a complimentary Valentine’s Day card that is good for one free lunch or dinner through April 30.

The Melting Pot offers a special Valentine’s Day menu to its customers,

which includes appetizers, cheese fondue, salad, main

entrées and three types of chocolate fondue for

dessert.

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Not Just Tomorrow But Every Day, We Love CathderalAs Valentine’s day rapidly

approaches, we hear more and more of “I love you.” We have all said it. We have all heard it.

As the words leave our lips they grace the ears of the receiver. Love is com-fortable, kind and enigmat-ic. Love isn’t carrying anoth-er person the whole way, it’s holding their hand, and teaching them to walk.

The Hill holds its fair share of love. We all know that to be true. The arms of another classmate are all too familiar to us. Through the struggles and tribulations that have been encountered this year, we learned to love.

The urge to bring a smile to a sad friend’s face and the sincere care of another are a few of many lessons we learned.

Smiles in the halls. Laughs in the stairwells. Jokes in the lunchroom.

The open sorrow that we all felt united us.

We are not 1,277 puzzle pieces scattered about, we

are together. Not 1,277 sep-arate loves. One love.

Love is an interesting feel-ing. When felt for another, it is absolutely beautiful.

Love is the warm house in a snow storm. Love is the laughter that brings tears to your eyes. Love is true and kind. Whenever people feel that they cannot possibly live without another, there is only one way to describe it, love.

As seniors graduate and move on with their lives, they leave behind a little bit of love.

How lucky the teachers and administrators are to have acquired this much love. How large their hearts must be from each student in each class’s love. How I envy them for being able to experience so many diverse and wonderful loves. How tremendous it must be to watch the children you cared for and love, go on and succeed.

If love were a tangible object, just picture how it

would fill this place. How each classroom would contain stacks of love. The Welch Activity Cen-ter would have piles of it. The lunchroom would be crowded with love. The school would overflow and down the Hill would roll lost loves.

When we are 40 years old and look back at old year-books, we will thank the Lord above for love, both the love we shared and the love we left behind.

The pages will be filled with pictures of radiating faces that also knew that special Irish love. The love that pours out of Loretto and trickles over the rim of Kelly.

When you fold your hands at night or look up to the sky, be gracious for this love. Let the twinkle in your eyes reflect the stars above.

And when you think of your Irish family with a strength that most dream of, pass it on to those you meet and spread a little love.

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Chick flicks are what makes America great. Romantic comedies were Joseph Stalin’s favorite kind of movie. And even though that last state-ment is not proven, chick flicks are the much better choice when selecting a film to watch.

If you wanted a laugh would you watch the abomination that is a ro-mantic comedy, or would you watch a plain old comedy? If you wanted to watch a romantic movie that makes you cry would you watch a romantic COMEDY, or would you watch a movie that makes you feel for the realistic characters?

A romance movie, or chick flick, is all romance all the time. Romantic comedies are just filthy, mashed together hybrids that don’t touch you as deeply as chick flicks. Ro-mantic comedies...Yuck.

Chick flicks are what you want. Trust us! The famous chick flick, “The Notebook,” is a touching tale of a young man and woman meeting, falling in love and being separated by a mother who does not approve. The plot tugs at the heart strings, but that’s not all. This young

man writes 365 love letters, that’s right, 365, in a vain attempt to contact his young lover. Roman-tic comedies have a $79 million budget, and, even with all that dough, they can only seem to make movies like “Jack and Jill,” which earned a whopping three percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Most romantic com-edies follow a very basic formula. The underdog tries to get the attention of the attractive female lead who is interested, but a miscommunication is inevitable! These over-the-top characters have no idea how to use their words, so it takes some strange change of fate for them to meet and fall in love once again. Gag. Chick flicks are works of art compared to this.

Speaking of great chick flicks, who wouldn’t want to watch screen adapta-tions of Nicholas Sparks novels? Sparks embodies everything that a young, emotionally charged teen such as ourselves looks for in a plot line. The suspense, the passion, the love and the semi-realism that each one of Sparks’ movie characters stands for can bring even the

greatest man to tears. We watched the great

movie “Safe Haven,” another one of Sparks’ screen adaptations, and both of us manly men were brought to man-tears. The way Josh Du-hamel’s character loves Ju-lianne Hough’s character is the way every human wants to be loved.

Plus, how could you not fall in love with his big, dreamy eyes?

That’s another great thing about the sappy chick flick: Nothing quite tops the beauty of every male lead. Ryan Gosling, Zac Efron, Liam Hemsworth and Chan-ning Tatum - can you go wrong with such beauty?

And don’t get us started on the greatest chick flick, and one of the best movies ever, the beautiful “Titanic.”

Rom-coms just can’t compete with something so beautiful. I mean, why do they call them “roman-tic comedies” if they are neither romantic nor comedic? No one has ever doubted the reason be-hind why they are called chick flicks.

In conclusion, chick flicks > romantic come-dies. Duh!

While your Average Joe may see chick flicks and romantic comedies as one and same, any movie fanatic could distinguish the two in a heartbeat.

Chick flicks are annoy-ingly cliched in that they are incredibly predict-able. What makes roman-tic comedies special is the fact that they don’t follow the same generic plot that chick flicks do; rom-coms are much more complex.

One of the ways that romantic comedies appeal to their clev-er viewers is by going against the grain and having a male narrate the film. It’s astonishing how a seemingly slight change makes all the difference in changing the plot.

“500 Days of Sum-mer” is a grand example. While in the beginning, “500 Days of Summer” coincides with every oth-er sappy saga produced, the main character, Tom, is thrown for a loop when his picture-perfect gal dumps him. Watch-ing the process of Tom hopelessly pine after the girl from his point of view is not only a much desired change of pace, it is also makes the movie

enjoyable for men since they can relate to Tom.

Humor adds a dose of intricacy to romantic comedies as well. The raunchy pick up lines and punchy rejections are what make rom-coms so captivating and mem-orable. You can’t help but reminisce about the silly tribulations of your favorite characters.

Furthermore, wouldn’t you rather giggle until your belly ached than slowly shed tears into your tub of ice cream? If this doesn’t convince you, just remember that laughing is an excellent way to burn calories while the only thing you’ll be burning while watching a chick flick is your self esteem. While romantic comedies aren’t going to end in a blur of mascara-streaked tissues, they are just as heartwarming. Rom-coms are provoking and lovable because they are relatable. Every lady knows all too well the gut-wrenching feeling of not being wife material, a la “Legally Blonde,” and all she-alphas can identify with Viola’s rage and drive in “She’s the Man” when she was

unjustly cut from a team for a reason as minuscule as being female.

Chick flicks’ inability to showcase more than kisses in the rain and ignorant “I love yous” sets both genders up for disappointment in the actual dating realm.

No straight male is going to pull a Noah and send his Ally 365 letters proclaiming his love for her, as seen in “The Notebook.” First of all, my grandmother doesn’t even write letters anymore. Second, even if letters were still of our time, boys are not intel-ligent enough to think of sending the girl of their dreams just one letter and they surely aren’t that desperate.

While ladies’ noggins tell them that the Nicho-las Sparks is not a legiti-mate source for which to compare their love lives, their hearts can’t help but feel the blow as they real-ize Zac Efron will never stalk them in the most adorable way possible, as displayed in “The Lucky One.”

Come your next movie night, remember that you deserve a smile, not a week’s worth of tears.

VS

Chick Flicks or Romantic Comedies?Zak Batt & Matthew Meuleman Morgan Carter

“The raunchy pick up lines and punchy rejections are what

make rom-coms so captivating and

memorable.”

“That’s another great thing about

the sappy chick flick: Nothing quite tops the beauty of every

male lead.”