Construction conducts chaos

words of a feather
September 28, 2011
In This
Issue...
News
Fashionable feathers
grow on hair;
trends erupt again in
hair history
Page 2
La Voz Hispana
Grupo multicultura
baila para
Echopoético
Page 4
People
Female riders saddle
their horses and
gallop away
Page 6
Sports
Football players stay
on top despite injured
players
Page 8
Features
Latino Leader MAPS
inspire students to
lead by example
Page 10
The Official Student Newspaper of
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1500 E. 15th St.
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It’s a teenage disease
be texting at night. You have
more things to talk about.
Since I’m not good at biology in general, me texting at
night makes the grade suffer
even more,” Rodríguez said.
Some parents have taken
precautions to prevent long
term-effects of cell-phone
use.
“I’m texting friends at
night when I’m supposed
to be in bed. They just say
‘give me your cell phone, or
you’re grounded,’” freshman
Jacob Dittbrenner said about
his parents’ reasoning behind
taking his cell phone at night.
“If they didn’t take my phone
away it probably means
they don’t care, and since
Photo by Dulce Castañeda
they take it away it probably
The use of cell phones during night hours has decreased the number of sleeping hours students means they care I get enough
obtain in a night. Additionally, there is an increase in radiation, drowsiness, and a decrease in sleep.”
finishing homework on time.
Sleep deprivation isn’t the
only effect on cell phone ustexting back,” junior Laken [being] tired and I just want ers, however. Cell phones
Dulce Castañeda
Beyard said.
to nap and I want to leave as emit electromagnetic radiaCopy/Content Editor
The incessant stream of soon as possible. I send about tion, posing a potential cancer
text messages at night is tak- 200 texts a night, around risk to heavy users according
Z z z z z z z z z z z z . ing a toll on student perfor- there,” sophomore Vanessa to a February 22 New York
Zzzzzzzzzzzz. Rrrrrrrrrrrrr.
mance during school. One Rodríguez said.
That’s the sound of sleep- is more likely to see tired,
A little drowsiness is only
ing mixed with a periodically drained, and weary students the beginning to the longvibrating cell phone invading at school as a result of kids term consequences a reduced
sleep mode.
leaving cell phones turned on number of sleeping hours can
Sleep loss among teenag- during night hours.
have on students.
ers and adults is being attrib“I’m sure that if students
Over time, drowsiness can
uted to the constant use of are on they’re phone or they be linked to a deficiency in
cell phones during sleeping sleep with their phone next to cognitive abilities. Students
Drowsiness
hours. Recent studies sustain them and they wake up ev- pay less attention at school,
that teens are the most vul- ery time it goes off,” School retaining less information,
nerable to cell phone health Nurse Abbie Page said. which results in lower test
hazards.
“I’m sure it makes them feel grades and overall reduced
“I wake up and see a mes- tired.”
cognitive use, therefore not
sage and I say, ‘Oh, well I
Many students feel a vari- developing a full use of the
gotta’ check it’. If they text ety of emotions about an in- brain’s functions.
Homework neglect
back right away, I’ll stay up complete night’s sleep “like
“It’s an addiction for me to
The road construction by
the high school has been going on since April.
It was scheduled to be
done by September, but the
date is being pushed back to
October.
Students have forgotten
why the road is being rebuilt
in the first place.
“Isn’t the road being rebuilt
because it’s bumpy?” Junior
Alex Courtright asked.
There are a couple of reasons. The first is that it can’t
hold the weight of the busses.
The average weight of a
38 to 84 passenger school bus
is about 11 to 14 Tons. That
is about 22,000 to 28,000
pounds in curb weight without passengers.
Curb weight is the weight
of the vehicle with nothing
in it. When 84 high school
students are added, that accumulates to 14,700 pounds in
weight. That would make the
weight of the bus at 42,700
pounds. The largest amount
of students riding a bus is 82;
that is if all the students are
riding and that depends on
the day.
The second reason is a
wider road was needed to
help prevent accidents. The
average road should be about
12 feet wide for cars to pass
each other safely.
Construction crews are in
day 98 of what was supposed
Times article. Even the World
Health Organization (WHO)
has defined use as “possibly
carcinogenic,” the equivalent
to pesticides, cleaning supplies, and tobacco smoke.
“I thought it was a myth,
but I’ve heard of it. I guess
it is a little scary if you think
about it,” senior Alison Sandoval said about the WHO
findings.
Sleeping with cell phones
only increases the amount of
radiation users are exposed
to. The WHO advises minimizing cell phone use and
avoiding unnecessary contact.
The use of cell phones
seems to be a virus to the
world of sleep, injecting
teenagers with its side effects
in recent decades.
Freshman
Dominique
Ortega-Nguyen agrees.
“It keeps you up all night
and it brings you off task
from doing your homework.
It doesn’t do anything for
you.”
Texting side effects
Construction conducts chaos
Emily Behrends
Staff Reporter
Volume 6 Issue 1
to be a 115 day process. That
is, with improvements made
by October 22.
Students driving to school
are noticing that gas is starting to add up. Even more,
they have to watch their
morning clocks more carefully because more traffic
means slower travel.
“I get frustrated by the
fact I have to get up earlier,”
Courtright said.
Students who ride the buses are also seeing that their
buses are arriving 10 minutes
later than usual. Buses can’t
leave their parking spot until
a certain time, and then add
the slower traffic. They are
arriving late to homes too, by
five to ten minutes.
Also, parents are noticing that it takes longer to get
places around town, adding
to the frustration.
“Get the dang road done,
now” junior Jake Bratsovsky
said.
However frustrated patrons and school officials may
be, there are some positives.
“There is going to be a
turning lane [on Iris],” Assistant Principal Jim Moore
said.
Teachers and students alike
hope that when the construction is finally completed, a
smoother, shorter ride to and
from school will result.
The current plan with the
entry into the faculty drive is
where the construction ends.
Photos by Emily Behrends
They plan to make the drive Road construction surrounding the school began in April and
so it curves 15 feet south or will continue through at least October 22. Road closings have
toward the greenhouse.
detoured drivers and made 15th Street more popular.
Reduced cognitive use
Exposure to radiation
Student Council
slashes the slang
Maribel López
Staff Reporter
“Faggot. Fag. That’s gay.
That’s retarded.”
These terms can be heard
down the halls and in classes,
but the essential meaningx
behind the words are lost.
As a result, the CHS Student Council is organizing
a campaign called Slash the
Slang, an organization that
was proposed in summer
leadership workshop at Nebraska Association of Student Councils (NASC).
The workshop was for student council members of the
entire state if Nebraska.
This organization is going
to bring attention and educate people about derogatory
terms.
The point of the campaign
is not only to make people
aware of the words but make
people aware of the meaning
of them.
“A lot of times people say
things without realizing the
gravity of what they’re saying,” senior Meghan Shrewsbury said.
What has been the reaction?
“The people that get offended by the terms will like
the campaign, but the people
that used the terms will probably be annoyed,” junior Alan
Poteet said.
“I don’t usually get offended, but it depends on the
person. I get offended when
someone that doesn’t like me
says them, because I know
they’re using them in a mean
way. Some people just use
them to play around,” junior
Victor Arvizo said.
School isn’t the only place
where these words are used.
School counselor Karen
Buchfink was in an incident
in a local business where
a man approached her and
made a comment about her
job.
“The man came up to me
and I had on my school name
tag that I wear every day and
he said, ‘Oh you work at the
[****] Crete library?’” Buchfink said. Buchfink was
shocked by the man’s behavior and immediately told him
she didn’t appreciate him using the derogatory word he
chose.
She didn’t want to mention the actual word the man
used, but it was offensive to
the Hispanic community.
According to Shrewsbury,
Student Council is also organizing an assembly where
the whole school will join together to talk about Slash the
Slang. It is a also making tshirts and other items to help
spread the word.
“I think that the point of
Student Council is to develop
leadership skills,” Student
Council assistant sponsor
Janet Eckerson said, adding
that they will learn to organize a campaign like this.
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News
Technology frustrates students and staff
Mercedes Thatcher
Layout/Design Editor,
Copy/Content Editor,
Staff Coordinator
“Technology is a huge
deal more now than ever,”
Mark Milian, Technology
Specialist at the University
of Arizona said in a recent
report by CNN.
Many lessons and classes
are taken over Skype and
other video websites like
Moodle. Teachers are using
online websites to post class
assignments and extra notes,
but there are also a variety of
studies questioning whether
the use of technology in
schools is beneficial or not.
Programs such as Moodle
and Google docs as a part of
Gmail are beginning to take
the places of other formerlyused programs like Angel
and Weblockers.
CHS staff are saying that
this could benefit the school
as well as students.
“In the long run, I think it
will be better for the school
to switch over to these easier-run programs,” Information Technology Liaison
Scott Johnson said.
A big discrepancy between using Weblockers and
Moodle occurred because
both programs are effective and liked by many in
the school district. In previous years , much of the staff
became accustomed to Weblockers and must now tran-
sition to Moodle.
“I have been using Moodle in my classroom since
last year so the transition
wasn’t a big deal,” biology
teacher Dawn Draeger said.
Along with Draeger, a few
other teachers have also already been using Moodle
as an academic tool in the
classroom such as English
teacher Lara Kibler and algebra teacher Jeremy Fries.
Others have found themselves making the transition
this year.
“I had just gotten all my
courses set up on Weblockers last year and this year I
am beginning to set up on
Moodle. My classes will
start to learn to use it within
the following week,” Johnson said.
“We did a lot of stuff online last year like online tests
and dissections. We also got
to peer evaluate each other
using Moodle after presentations,” junior Miguel Chavez
said.
Following Chavez’s input, junior Jorge Garcia felt
that Gmail was an effective
way to receive a peer evaluation.
“Instead of having it put
on paper where anyone can
see, we could receive them
on our own e-mail that only
we are allowed to see,” Garcia said.
One of the major switches between the programs
Moodle and Weblockers is,
according to Johnson, We-
blockers costs the district per
student and Moodle is free.
“This is going to save our
district a ton of money,” Curriculum Director Valore Foy
said. “And the programs do
the same tasks overall.”
The program Google
Docs was added into the
school’s technology use
this year, as well. This program is streaming from the
Google network and is also
free for any school district
to use. It allows students to
have an email account based
within the school’s domain.
Students have an email
and password set up by the
school. Students are allowed
to email within the school
district and nowhere else.
“This program is set up
like a word processing unit,”
Johnson said. So kids will be
able to use it for papers and
other homework.”
However it has also been
a conflict within the student
body as some students are
frusterated that they already
have a Gmail account and
claim they don’t need another one.
“I haven’t even used my
school account yet because
I have already been using
[my own] for two years,” junior Nick Clement said.
Many students are feeling overwhelmed with how
many passwords they have
been given to memorize for
several different programs.
“We have to memorize
two locker combinations,
Photo By Kay Meysenburg
Junior Yesena Azucena checks her grades online. Many students have been frustrated by the recent password changes for Infinite Campus and computer login.
person a password out on the
our student IDs, lunch num- the change was due to the
first day would have been
bers, and now on top of that Google Docs account set
a hard task,” Johnson said.
three or four different pass- up.
“We are all figuring it out as
words and emails for Infinite
“Everything was really
we go.”
Campus, Moodle, Gmail, chaotic and getting each
and signing into our student
link,” Senior Josh Houser
said. “I can barely remember how old I am; it’s annoying to have to memorize all
that.”
“It would have been nice
to know that our passwords
that we have used since freshman year were changed,” senior Aaron Viger said.
Viger, along with other
students, were annoyed by
the fact they were expectPhoto By Emily Behrends
ed to know passwords had
changed, but no one was no- Sophomore Noah Hoover works on a computer in the library.
Many students are having problems getting logged into computtified as to what they were.
According to Johnson, ers and programs like Moodle.
Q & A: New math teacher Fashionable feathers
Drew Rische
raise trendy questions
Emily Behrends
Staff Reporter
Photo By Emily Behrends
Math teacher Drew Rische works on getting his projector to work with his Smart Board during
Friday MAP. Rische was in National Honor Society, Student Council, cross country, basketball
and golf when he was Crete High School as a student and now enjoys teaching math.
Question: What’s your
favorite Toy Story character?
Question: What is your
favorite color of socks?
Question: What is your
favorite restaurant?
Answer: black
Answer: Lazlo’s
Question: What is your
favorite color?
Question: What do you
coach?
Answer: blue
Answer: I’m an assistant
coach for cross-country
Answers: because he has
a good sense of humor.
Question: What was
your favorite subject in
high school?
Question: Why did you
want to teach at Crete?
Question: What is your
pet’s name?
Answer: The name of my
dog is Angus.
Question: What is your
favorite childhood
memory?
Answer: math
Question: What’s your
favorite book?
Answer: vacation in
California
Answer: Holes By Louis
Sachar
Question: What is your
favorite time of the day?
Question: What’s your
favorite thing about
Math?
Answer: 11:44
Question: Why is 11:44
your favorite time of the
day?
Answer: lunch time
Answer: it teaches
students to have critical
thinking skills
Answer: Buzz lightyear
Questions: Why?
Answer: because it is
closer to friends and family.
Question: What’s your
favorite TV show?
Answer: Husker football.
Question: whats your
stance on Twlight?
Answer: I have no stance
on Twlight.
Qustion whats your
favorite bord game?
Answer: chess
Photo By Emily Behrends
Freshmen Mairiam Ortiz shows off her fashionable feather. Feathers are have been popularized
by current pop artists such as Ke$ha and many girls around school can be seen sporting the
trend.
Skyler Doremus
Layout/Design Editor
The controversy continues. Feathers, the new hair
accessory, have grown on
Crete High School.
“I got feathers put in my
hair because I just wanted to.
I thought they were cute and
they looked cool,” senior
Katelyn Roesler said.
“I also liked them because
I could take them out when I
needed to and put them back
in. I did that for my senior
pictures. I’m definitely getting them put back in as soon
as possible.”
The feathers, a fashion
trend , began in the 1970’s
started by Steven Tyler, a
singer in the popular band
Aerosmith.
However, feathers have
been recently made popular
by current pop artist Ke$ha,
according to www.featheryourself.com.
“I got my feathers because I thought they were
different. I was one of the
first people to get them, so I
felt like I set a trend in a way.
It was neat to see how
more and more girls started
getting them,” senior Bailey
Burke said.
“I have no idea. I would
hope they were fake, because having a feather from
a real animal kind’a freaks
me out,” Roesler said after
asked if her feathers were
synthetic.
“My feathers are definitely fake,” Burke said. “I
would never put real feathers in my hair. I made sure I
got the fake ones.”
Local salons in Crete,
such as Clear Springs Day
Spa sell synthetic feathers.
Here’s the problem: putting feathers in hair has
raised the prices, changed
the way chickens are bred,
and raised question in animal rights groups such as
PETA.
“Just like minks who are
killed for coats and snakes
who are skinned for shoes,
roosters suffer when they are
exploited for human vanity
and profit,” PETA member
Lindsay Pollard in a post
written on www.PETA.org.
Fly fishermen have long
used feathers as lures to
catch fish. When the demand
for feathers increased because of the new hair accessories, so did the prices.
Because there are different lengths in hair, some
feathers need to be longer
than others.
Because of this, chickens need to be bred differently. Some are now bred to
have longer legs so that their
feathers cannot touch the
ground because touching the
ground would prevent them
from growing any longer.
This causes problems for
the simple fact that it is hard
to breed chickens perfectly.
“I never thought about
how the chickens were bred,
because I always thought
all the feathers were fake.
It makes me sad that people
are changing the way they
breed the roosters because
it’s changing the purpose of
their lives,” junior Alexandra Smith said.
Opinion
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September 28, 2011
words of a feather
Drew stresses tinsel, not feathers
Can I get an A-men?
Drew Amen
Staff Reporter/Columnist
T
his is my first column
in the student newspaper. No,
its not my opinion on politics or the economy, which to
be honest, I don’t really care
about. I am discussing a more
serious matter. Yes, I am talking about the
mass slaughter of roosters.
I mean, I don’t have any problem with that.
Dick Cheney and I hunt roosters on the weekends. However, the phenomenon of women
using the feathers in their hair is just ridiculous. Sure it’s the “in” thing today but what
am I going to hunt for sport?
With the rooster population decreasing
from all their feathers going into women’s
hair, I am going to resort to hunting something
like polar bears. Also, fly fishers are going to
be mad, too, because they have nothing to put
on the end of their lures. They are going out of
business for goodness sake!
Come on ladies, we need those fish to eat.
This feather fashion was all started by
Steven Tyler. He was some guy with the long
hair from that was famous for singing in the
70’s and 80’s.
Stevie sang for some band called Aerosmith. Maybe some of you youngsters know
who that is. Then in the past couple years it
was brought back by somebody else. You
all know who she is.
Kei$ha. I am kind
of mad at her for doing this. She probably
had no idea what she
was starting. But for
Steven Tyler it was
different. Back in the
70’s and 80’s nobody
cared about anything.
So when he put feathers in his hair, nobody
really cared. But when
Kei$ha started putting
feathers in her hair a
couple years ago, it
got animal activists all
fired up.
Women you should put different things
other than feathers in your hair. Put jewels or
tensile in your hair instead. For instant, there
is a girl in our journalism class that has tinsle
in her hair as well. I’m not saying names for
the sake that she might get shanked. So why
don’t you use that alternative and put Christmas tree ornaments in your hair? It would be a
lot cheaper. Wouldn’t it be cool to have Christmas lights all tangled up in your hair? That’ll
get you that prom date you always wanted.
They may not be real, but at least it saves a
couple roosters’ lives.
I have never been for protecting animals’
rights, but if you ladies use the alternatives I
have presented wouldn’t it be easier than killing off a couple roosters? Christmas lights in
your hair may not look cool. I mean it is kind
of stupid idea, really.
Just use synthetic feathers and that will be enough
for me. Doing so will help
the economy in some way,
I’m sure. Plus I’m pretty
sure in a couple months
this fashion will fade out
and only loser people, like
the girl in our journalism
class, will still have the
feathers in her hair.
So please, people, take
the feathers out of your
hair and replace them
with something much
cooler... like the tinsel, or
the Christmas lights, tree
Instead of going through all the hassles of ornaments, or the jewels. Not only would it
putting these ridiculous things like lights, tin- save roosters but it would look so much betsel or real feathers in your hair and just put ter.
synthetic (faux) feathers in your hair.
So give it a try.
“ Wouldn’t it be cool
to have Christmas
lights tangled up in
your hair?”
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Technology holding us back?
A Few Words
From the Words Staff...
“The children are our future,”
President Barack Obama said. Most people
understand this fact. But the question at hand
is what is holding us back from improving
the future? Most people say that technology
is pushing us ahead, and that we are moving
forward.
The truth is, technology is a pain in CHS
students’ butts. We spend more time in one
day trying to figure out how to
use Moodle and get the computers to work than we do focusing
on the assignments that we are
supposed to do on the programs
themselves.
Many of the students have
experienced difficulties signing
in with their student IDs because
of miscommunication between
the district, staff, and students.
Students these days are not being notified of the information
that they need to know in order
to be able to use their accounts.
The district, first off, could do a better job
of informing staff and students about new
information or changes that have occurred
in our school concerning the student body’s
use of technology. Second off, they could do
a better job of training all staff members on
how to use the new websites. And lastly they
could make sure the program will work effectively for the student body since we are the
ones that have to use it every day.
They could even conduct a survey. Choose
ten or twelve students to use the program for
a week and then record what problems there
were and whether or not the students thought
this program would work for them in the long
run.
The computers are all very slow and many
students feel it takes too much time to actually get to work to make it worth their time.
work? Teachers won’t say ‘Oh well, just redo
your homework and hand it in tomorrow.’ No,
they set a deadline on the computer and when
it is shut off, it is shut off. Too bad and so sad
for the loser who lost their essay somewhere
out there on the web.
Maybe if the school checked out laptops
that students without computer access could
use or take home, it would only be slightly
easier. That is, of course, if those lap tops
work.
Now, no one is saying that technogoly can
never tweak out. That is a given. But when
we have thirty or forty computers that don’t
work or won’t even turn on... that
is when we run into a dilemma.
Students’ performance is being
affected by their frustrations with
the technology. If Moodle doesn’t
feel like signing you in on the day
that you need it the most, what are
you supposed to do? Just say “Oh
by the way my paper won’t be
turned in today because Moodle
wasn’t in the mood to sign me in,
so I will just take that F now,”?
Teachers would never go for that.
And why should they? Technology is supposed to make their lives easier, too.
Technology always seems to be the new
thing that’s supposed to help us learn better.
However, going back to the stone age sounds
like a safer plan in some respects. Unfortunatlely.
The real question is,
what is holding us
back from improving
our future?
Granted, there are a lot of students who need
to use the netwrok at the same time, but it’s
frustrating when we are all having to use technology within a short amount of time and it
doesn’t really work out for anyone involved.
What if something gets lost over the net-
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words of a feather
La Voz Hispana
La minoría ahora es la mayoría
Todavía sigue
Brenda López
Reportera
Crete ha tenido un gran
crecimiento de gente latina
en los últimos años. Este es
el primer año que los latinos
representan más del 50%
de los estudiantes en las escuelas.
En Crete la escuela primaria es la más afectada por
este crecimiento. Los latinos
ya no son la minoría sino la
mayoría.
La ciudad de Crete ha
atraído mucha gente hispana.
Tiene reputación de ser una
de las ciudades en que la
diversidad es vista de una
manera positiva.
Según oficiales del distrito
escolar, una de las razones es
porque las escuelas de Crete
tienen servicios para toda la
familia. “Creemos que si ayudamos
a los padres con sus metas
educativas, también estamos
ayudando a los estudiantes”,
dijo el superintendente Sr.
McGowan.
El distrito tiene programas
preescolares para niños, programas de GED (General
Equvalency Diploma) para
los padres y programa para
madres jóvenes que siguen
en la escuela.
De acuerdo con Sr. McGowan la diferencia más
grande que ha notado es el
crecimiento en las escuelas
preescolares, las cuales no
existían pero ahora tienen
más de 170 estudiantes.
Este año es el primero en
Jéssica Vázquez
Reportera
el que un 54 por ciento de
los estudiantes en la escuela
primaria se clasifican como
hispanos. La clase de ELL
(English Language Learners)
ha incrementado de 37 por
ciento a 40 por ciento este
año.
“El crecimiento de nuestra población hispana ha sido
algo positivo para nuestros
estudiantes y personal. La
interacción con otras culturas, idiomas y experiencias
han enriquecido el ambiente
de educación”, comentó la
directora asistente de la primaria, Sra. Bruha.
Este aumento de latinos ha
creado nuevas oportunidades
de empleo con la necesidad
Foto por Laura Tercero
La construcción en Iris y
la calle trece está retrasada
por más de un mes causando
aumento en tráfico, costo e
irritación del lado de los
afectados.
El director de trabajos
públicos, Tom Ourada, dijo
que el proyecto de 115 días
laborales empezado en abril
está retrasado y sin fecha fija
de conclusión. Poder terminar la construcción en la avenida de Iris a finales de septiembre es la meta principal,
según Ourada.
Las reparaciones puestas
en marcha consisten en la
mejoría para las calles,
de maestros de ELL, personal
“Cuando los estudiantes aumento de espacio de estacy traductores.
juegan me he dado cuenta
Las profesoras de aula que los que hablan español,
también han notado el cam- tratan de hablar más inglés
bio. Srta.
para que sus amigos los enSabade, profesora del tiendan. Es chistoso porque Evelyn Segura
jardín de niños explicó, “Me los que no hablan español Reportera
he dado cuenta que muchas quieren aprender y hablarlo”
A la escuela de Crete, ha
veces cuando los niños en- dijo Srta. Sabade.
llegado un nuevo maestro
tran ellos no tienen el idioma
Pero a los alumnos el cam- que remplazara al Sr. Fries en
(inglés). Así que hace una bio no les interesa.
Álgebra A y B. El Sr. Dozeal,
Junior Lizzy Wendelin quien fue maestro de Álgebra
gran diferencia en la forma
de enseñar y las estrategias comentó, “La verdad yo no II, ya no está; entonces hubo
que utilizamos. También me noto la diferencia que haya nuevas oportunidades de traencuentro usando menos pa- más hispanos. Para mí, se si- bajo para todos los maestros.
labras y más fotos para que ente igual. Pero entiendo que
Sr. Riche es el nuevo maelos estudiantes puedan rela- a los profesores si los afecte stro de matemáticas en la esporque tiene que haber más cuela superior de Crete.
cionarse con ellas”.
Ahora que la mayoría de maestros”.
“Se siente bien estar aquí
¿Qué son los planes fu- de regreso porque aquí es
estudiantes son latinos todos
los documentos que se man- turos del distrito si el patrón donde yo me gradué”, dijo el
dan a las casa están en espa- continua?
Sr. Riche
“Seguir haciendo las Esñol e inglés.
Al preguntarle como se
De la misma manera, cuelas Públicas de Crete una siente estar aquí de nuevo o
cuando los padres necesitan de las más importantes del si es raro él contestó, “ No,
hablar con la maestra tiene estado. Nuestros estudiantes yo enseñe dos años en Scotts
traductores para poderse co- tienen enorme potencial y Bluff y comencé en una nuevoy a continuar la búsqueda va escuela. A veces era difícil
municar.
Está claro que el incremen- de oportunidades que los pre- porque no conocía a todos los
to de latinos ha afectado a los pare para cualquieras metas profesores, pero la transición
profesores en varias maneras. futuras que puedan buscar a Creta fue fácil porque ya
¿Pero cómo ha afectado a los en Nebraska o en el mundo”, conocía a algunos de los
contestó Sr. McGowan.
maestros. Se siente bien estar
estudiantes?
de regreso.
Además de eso, el dijo,
“No fue raro regresar, creo
La mayoría de los estudiantes en la escuela elementaria
que cree una buena relación
consiste de la minoría, muchos siendo de origen Hispano
cuando era estudiante aquí,
o Latino.
así que esas relaciones se han
ionamiento, mejoría de
tuberías de agua y instalación de luces.
El trabajo ha afectado a
miembros de la comunidad
por el aumento del tráfico.
Assenet García, senior,
comenta que su trayectoría
es más larga por culpa de la
construcción; no sólo tiene
que levantarse más temprano
gastando tiempo y gasolina,
pero también hacer la larga
espera al final del día escolar
en el semáforo.
Mr. Conway comenta que
el proyecto es necesario e
inevitable por lo que solo
queda esperar..
Por ahora la construcción continua y continuara
hasta finales de septiembre
o principios de octubre.
Nuevo maestro
Echopoético junta talentos
para espectáculo en Doane
Monica Mendez
Reportera
Echopoético sucedió el
quince de septiembre en el
auditorio de Doane College.
Esta presentación fue dedicada para promover la cultura hispana y para celebrar
la independencia de México
y Chile. Pero, ¿que es Echopoético? Echopoético es una
fusión de poesía, música,
ritmo y una combinación de
diferentes culturas y diferentes artes.
De acuerdo con el poeta
Dominique Garay, el origen
del nombre Echopoético viene porque él se comunica
usando las palabras mientras
Oscar Ríos viene comunicando las mismas emociones pero con música, con el
propósito de crear un echo.
“Creo que la inspiración
esta dentro de nosotros mismos. El talento de Dominique
son las palabras, la poesía, la
creatividad. Mi talento es la
música, el ritmo y las notas
es algo que naturalmente yo
pude encontrar.” fueron las
palabras del músico Oscar
Ríos.
Además de Dominique y
Oscar, un grupo de estudiantes involucrados en Prizm
club se ofrecieron para participar como bailarines. Ellos
En breve
Foto por: Laura Tercero
quedado así hasta hoy.
Otro cambio fue el cambio del Sr. Fries quien ahora
enseña Algebra II. “Me gusta
enseñar la clase de matemáticas más avanzada, porque
entonces no tengo problemas
enseñando la clase” dijo.
Unos de los estudiantes,
Alberto López, junior, comentó sobre este tema, “Yo
creo que es bueno que los
maestros que son nuevos
traigan nuevas ideas y maneras para aprender.”
Con estas “nuevas ideas y
maneras” los alumnos serán
afectados con nuevos profesores y diferentes modos de
estudio.
Las puertas se cierran
Maribel López
Reportera
Por razones de seguridad,
la administración de la escuela superior de Crete impuso un nuevo procedimiento
que indica que a partir de las
8:30 de la mañana todas las
puertas estarán cerradas con
excepción de la entrada principal.
La razón principal por cual
se impuso, fue el poder hacer
posible que todos los que
entren al edificio tengan que
pasar por la oficina, donde las
secretarias pueden ver quién
entra y quién sale.
Aunque antes los estudiantes dependían de las puertas para llegar a tiempo esto
no ha afectado la tardanza.
Sra. Castañeda, una de las
secretarias de la escuela dijo,
“Los estudiantes que llegan
tarde son los que siempre llegaban tarde”.
Estudiantes como Emily
Potter y Terra Smith quienes
tienen clases libres, no están
del todo contentos. No les
gusta la idea de tener que
caminar desde estacionamiento de los seniors hasta la
entrada principal.
“Es un procedimiento estúpido” dijo Smith.
Líderes Latinos: treinta
que se ponen las pilas
Foto por Jackie Ourada
recibieron entrenamiento del
coreógrafo Pablo Cervantes
quien ha trabajado varias
veces con Dominique haciendo varias coreografías para
sus diferentes piezas.
En su vida diaria Pablo
es consejero académico de
las escuelas públicas de Lincoln, y además dueño de una
compañía de apartamentos,
construcción y transportación. Pablo dijo que haciendo estos tipos de evento, era
para el como un pasatiempo.
Al igual que Pablo, Dominique y Oscar también hacen
otras actividades. Oscar dijo
“nosotros trabajamos con varias entidades, con escuelas, y
centros comunitarios, para
cualquier evento cultural.”
El músico Oscar Ríos
junto con el grupo de bailarines de Prizm Club empezó
la presentación para que así
Dominique Garay pudiera
empezara su discurso. Mientras que Dominique hablaba,
otro de los participantes de la
presentación, Ben Jones, estaba demostrando con arte las
palabras del poeta.
El artista Ben Jones dijo
“me gusto la escala proyecto, de es épico. Los ensayos
fueron divertidos al igual que
estar el escenario. Pintando
las últimas piezas de pintura
estuvo padre.”
Las bailarinas Daisy Ortiz
y Guadalupe Luna opinaron
lo mismo. Ellas dijeron “me
gusto estar en el escenario y
además quería estar con mis
amigas quienes también se
ofrecieron a participar.”
Al poeta Dominique le
gusto hacer este evento dijo
“para mi es algo natural
porqué las cosa que pasan
en la vida me inspiran.”El
quiere comunicar esa inspiración presentando poesías,
canciones y obra de teatro.
Guadalupe Pérez una de las
estudiantes dijo. “me pareció
muy importante participar
con personas muy profesionales como Ben, Oscar, Pablo
y Dominique y a la vez me
divertí con mis amigas. ““
Elízabeth Santoyo
Reportera
El grupo “Líderes Latinos” fue creado para ayudar
a los estudiantes latinos de la
secundaria de Crete a estar
preparados para ir a la universidad y ejercer roles de liderazgo en ambos la escuela y la
comunidad
El grupo fue creado por
Sra. Eckerson, Sra. Wickard y el equipo de Education
Quest a finales de año pasado. Veintiocho de los latinos
más destacados de la escuela
fueron elegidos.
Participación en el grupo
requiere que estos estudiantes mantengan un GPA de
3.0, participen en dos clubs,
deportes o actividades de
liderazgo para así garantizar
que estarán preparados para
ir a la universidad
Sra. Wickard dijo, “ El
propósito de Líderes Latinos
es hacer que los estudiantes
participen en más actividades
escolares y ayudarlos a aplicar para becas para que asistan a la universidad.”
El grupo participará en una
variedad de actividades con
el fin de desarollar su conociemiento del sistema educativo después de la secundaria
y la importancia de involucrarse en la comunidad.
Los estudiantes expresaron su orgullo al haber sido
reconocido de esta manera.
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Felipe López
words of a feather
Daisy Ortiz
Dos estudiantes latinos que se destacan por su participación activa en la escuela
Jessica Vázquez
Reportera
Felipe López, junior, ha
estado en Cross Country por
tres años. Él ha sido reconocido por su liderazgo en deportes y por su excelencia
académica. Al principio del
año, fue puesto en un MAP
dedicado a Líderes Latinos
con GPAs sobresalientes.
Entendiblemente, pues el
joven de 16 años ha sido tan
dedicado al deporte como a
sus estudios.
LVH: ¿Es difícil balancear
la escuela y los deportes?
Felipe: Sí, a veces. Por
ejemplo, el jueves pasado
tuvimos una competencia.
Después de la cual tenía tarea. No había dormido mucho
y tuvimos practica en la mañana. Al otro día estuve muy
cansado.
LVH: ¿Tienes una clase
favorita?
Felipe: ¿A parte de arte?
(Ríe) Creo que sería entre
World Studies o Alemán.
Pero eso es si no cuentas
arte.
LVH: Y de toda la escuela,
¿qué es tu cosa favorita?
Felipe: Tendré que decir
Cross Country. Me ha ayudado en varios aspectos académicos y personales. Te
convierte en alguien dedicado. No sólo dedicado al deporte, pero dedicado a sacar
buenas calificaciones en la
escuela. Eso es lo que hizo
Cross Country para mí.
LVH: ¿Cómo decidiste
unirte al equipo?
Felipe: Luís [Valdés] entró
al equipo y estuvo insistiendo
toda la primavera del octavo
grado. Yo quería entrar a
Track que era el deporte en
el que realmente quería participar. Por fin, nos unimos a
comida como puedas. Usualmente termino muy lleno.
Pero siempre es buenísimo.
LVH: Fuiste elegido para
Líderes Latinos, ¿cómo te sientes?
Felipe: Me sentí un poco
emocionado por haber sido
uno de los elegidos para el
Track. Ese año, Señor Royuk
me empezó a convencer y recluír para el equipo. Al año
siguiente, era un miembro de
Cross Country.
LVH: Y de Cross Country,
¿qué te gusta más?
Felipe:
(Respondiendo
rápidamente) Los ¨Spaghetti
Feeds.¨ Dos días antes de
las competencía, los padres
planean cenas de espaguetis.
En las cenas, comes tanta
programa. Creo que realmente ayuda. Siempre es
bueno tener a alguien que te
ayude y te provee sugerencias en la tarea.
LVH: ¿Cuáles son tus
planes para el futuro?
Felipe: Quiero ir a la universidad. Todavía no se si en
Nebraska o no. No lo he decidido.
Este año, más alumnos hispanos de lo normal han entra-
Evelyn Segura
Reportera
do a Crete High School. Daisy Ortiz, la hermana menor
de Marco Ortiz, graduado de
hace un año; no sólo tiene el
nombre de su hermano, sino
también la misma capacidad
y compromiso en la escuela.
Aunque Daisy es sólo una
freshman ya está involucrada
en muchas actividades. Pero
ha encontrado un modo de
balancear sus actividades
extracurriculares con sus estudios.
LVH: ¿En cuáles cosas te
has involucrado este ano?
Daisy: Estoy de porrista
voy hacer fútbol y creo que
pero ahorita si nos llevamos
bien.
LVH: ¿Es un gran motivador tuyo?
Daisy: Si porque mis papas esperan mucho de mí
como él tuvo buenos grados
y esperan que yo tenga así
bien igual. Que él que se
ha involucrado igual, que los
maestras me conocen mucho,
tengo una reputación por él.
LVH: ¿Si no fuera por
Marco crees que estarías
donde estás ahora?
Daisy: No, porque él era
el que siempre me ayudaba
con le tarea o me explicaba si
como en matemáticas que era
lo que más no me gustaba el
era el que lo me lo explicaba
y él era el que me decía que
me metiera así en otros programas así como en el Consejo Estudiantil. Fue el que
me dijo de Prizm Club y él
también que me motivó para
hacerme porrista.
LVH: ¿Como sientes tu
estando involucrada en tantas actividades?
Daisy: Me siento bien
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porque así siento que no me
para hacer mi tarea y enton- tomo malos pasos. Estoy
ces salir con mis amigos. Mi así nunca tengo tiempo para
mamá me pone a hacer mi hacer así como malas cosas
tarea y apunto mis cosas de siempre tengo así reuniones
así como de mis clubs en el o tengo práctica.
calendario para que no se me
olviden.
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LVH: ¿Cómo mantienes
tus notas y participes en cosas de la escuela?
Daisy: Mantengo mis
notas por haciéndolos por
primero y usando mí “MAP”
La Voz Hispana
J.V. sugiere cambiar ¿Se casan?
canal algunas veces
Jessica Vázquez
Reportera
Son las 12:37. Es la hora
del almuerzo y todos se apresuran a la línea. Las televisiones ya están encendidas
y puestas en el programa de
los deportes. Las tres televisiones que fueron colocadas
el año pasado el área de almuerzo, fueron compradas con
una generosa donación que
fue otorgada a Student Council. Después de haberlas tenido por un año las televisiones
sólo son utilizadas para ver
los deportes y de vez en cuando, las noticias.
Si pagamos tanto dinero
por las televisiones, en mi
opinión deberían de ser utilizadas para propósitos educativos. No nos referimos
a programas de ciencias o a
documentales, pero podríamos utilizar las televisiones
para involucrar a los estudiantes en los acontecimientos
de la escuela.
Si pudiéramos utilizar las
televisiones para enseñarles a
los estudiantes lo que ocurre
dentro de su escuela, a lo mejor estarán más interesados
que si les enseñamos los últimos resultados del juego de
fútbol. No estamos tratando
de ofender a los estudiantes
que son fanáticos de los deportes, pero como parte del
cuerpo estudiantil, ¿no tenemos todo el derecho a expresar nuestra opinión de lo
que queremos ver?
Yo pienos que sí. La mayoría de los estudiantes no
están muy interesados en
noticias o acontecimientos a
menos que estén relacionados con ellos mismos o algo
que los afecta. Por esta razón,
es mi propuesta que las televisiones sean utilizadas para
darle al cuerpo estudiantil
una manera de ver lo que esta
ocurriendo en la escuela. Con
cortos breves de los diferentes clubs en la escuela, o con
noticias acerca de la comunidad y miembros de la sociedad, será más fácil proveerles
a los estudiantes una manera
de estar alerta de los acontecimientos actuales.
Hablando con los miembros de la administración, se
comentó acerca de las dificultades de estar cambiando
los canales constantemente.
Pero aquí esta una mejor propuesta, ¿qué tal si cambian el
canal de las televisiones una
cada día? Un canal diferente
por cada día de la semana.
Podríamos ir de deportes, a
noticia, a noticias estudiantiles, a entretenimiento.
Esa es mi opinión. Ahora
falta la opinión del resto de
la escuela. Y quien sabe, a lo
mejor un poco de variedad
nos vendrá bien a todos.
Línea de almuerzo ¡Ya basta!
La Voz Hispana
Volteando la cabeza hacia
el reloj uno se siente frustrado
al ver pasar el tiempo y sentir como si estuviera todavía
en el mismo lugar en la fila
del almuerzo. La fila del almuerzo en la escuela de Crete
High es muy larga por tantas
personas nuevas y quita bastante tiempo para comer.
Todos sabemos que sólo
hay trienta minutos en todo el
almuerzo y más de la mitad
de ese tiempo se nos va en la
línea. Y ese es otro problema,
la verdad no parece ser fila!
Hay de tres a cuatro personas
en grupos en vez de una persona tras otra como debe de
ser una fila.
Esta es una manera que
tiene la gente que cortan en
la fila sólo por estar con sus
amistades platicando y eso
no debe de ser así. Porque
para las personas que de verdad tienen hambre y que sólo
les importa comer con más
tiempo tienen que perder más
tiempo en la fila sólo porque
otros simplemente no quieren
esperar su turno.
También hay maestros
que no ponen atención a esto
pero para otras personas que
no hacen nada malo sí les llaman la atención.
“Estaba en la clase y toco
el timbre y corrí a la fila para
tener un puesto más cerca y
sí, llegué pero el Sr. Conway
me mandó para el final de la
linea”, cuenta júnior Dimas
Adame.
Lo que se debe de hacer
para este problema es dejar a
un grado ir primero a ponerse
en fila y después dejar ir a
otros más hasta que todos ya
se formen en fila. Esto evita
tener problemas con una fila
grande y desesperante.
Los maestros deben de ser
cuidadosos con las personas
que cortan en la fila y también más considerados en
ser justos con todos cuando
se trata de mandarlos para el
final de la línea.
Todo debe de ser, y puede
ser, en orden.
Vamos, que tenemos hambre.
Josselyn Escobar
Reportera
El codiciado actor William
Levy se casa con la actriz
Elizabeth Gutiérrez en Miami, Florida, aunque la fecha
del casamiento todavía no se
sabe.
Hay conflictos sobre la fecha.
Según People en español,
se casan el veintisiete de
agosto y entremetimiento de
Univisión dice que se casan
el trece de noviembre.
Después de unos problemas entre la relación de los
dos en cual se suponía que
William Levy le era infiel a
Elizabeth con Jennifer López
mientras filmaban el video
musical -I’m IntoYou-. por
fin se casarán. William Levy
Foto de cortesía
y Elizabeth se separaron por
un tiempo, pero la pareja ha
vuelto a juntarse, y se espera
que se casen en los siguientes
meses.
Ramón Razo, junior, dijo
“Creo que es una idea estupenda, se verían muy bien
juntos los dos”.
Elizabeth Gutiérrez y William Levy tienen años de
estar juntos y tienen dos hijos Christopher Alexander y
Kailey.
Horóscopos
Aries: 3/20- 4/19 “El verdadero amigo es aquél que está a
tu lado cuando preferiría estar en otra parte” - Len Wein
Tauro: 4/20- 5/20 “A veces podemos pasarnos años sin
vivir en absoluto, y de pronto toda nuestra vida se concentra
en un solo instante” - Oscar Wilde
Geminis: 5/21- 6/20 “La vida no se ha hecho para comprenderla, sino para vivirla” - Jorge Santayana
Cancer: 6/21- 7/22 “La vida consiste no en tener buenas
cartas, sino en jugar bien las que uno tiene” - Josh Billings
Leo: 7/23- 8/2 “La belleza exterior no es más que el encanto de un instante. La apariencia del cuerpo no siempre es
el reflejo del alma” - George Sand
Virgo: 8/23- 9/22 “El sabio no dice todo lo que piensa,
pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice” - Aristóteles
Libra: 9/23- 10/22 “Si no tienes la libertad interior, ¿qué
otra libertad esperas poder tener?” Arturo Graf
Escorpion:10/23-11/21 “En tres tiempos se divide la vida:
en presente, pasado y futuro. De éstos, el presente es brevísimo; el futuro, dudoso; el pasado, cierto” - Lucio Anneo Séneca
Sagitario: 11/22-12/21 “Sólo aquello que se ha ido es lo
que nos pertenece” - Jorge Luis Borges
Capricornio: 12/22-1/12 “El sabio consigue más ventajas
por sus enemigos que el necio por sus amigos” -Benjamin
Franklin
Acuario: 1/20- 2/17 “Vale más saber alguna cosa de todo,
que saberlo todo de una sola cosa” - Blaise Pascal
Piscis: 2/18- 3/19 “Lo peor que puede hacerse es cruzar el
precipicio en dos saltos” - David Lloyd George
Póliza de cartas al editor
La Voz Hispana acepta gustosamente cartas al editor y noticias actuales de estudiantes, docentes, administración, residentes de la comunidad y público en
general. Pedimos que estas cartas no consistan de más de 300 palabras y que incluyan el nombre del autor, dirección, número telefónico y firma original. Todo
material entregado será verificado en persona y por escrito. Nuestro equipo editorial tiene el derecho de rechazar cualquier carta y/o partes de cualquier carta
y podrá devolverla para revisión si contiene lenguaje inapropiado o errores que cambien el significado. Favor de enviar sus cartas a Sra. Eckerson en el salón
708.
Personal Editorial:
Diseño, Redacción
y Coordinación:
Dulce Castañeda
Maribel López
Laura Tercero
Reporteros:
Mayelín Carranza
Josselyn Escobar
Brenda López
Maribel López
Mónica Méndez
Elízabeth Santoyo
Evelyn Segura
Jéssica Vázquez
Consejera:
Sra. Janet Eckerson
‘La Voz Hispana’ dentro de ‘Words of a
Feather’es
producida
por la clase de hispanohablantes nivel III/IV de
la secundaria de Crete.
Esta sección del periódico se ha diseñado para
que estudiantes periodistas informen y eduquen,
específicamente en español y procuren reflección
y discusión en la comunidad. El contenido de
‘La Voz Hispana’ se determina por la clase de
hispanohablantes nivel
III/IV, con el apoyo del
personal de periodismo
escolar, y el contenido
no refleja la opinión del
personal de la secundaria, únicamente de los
estudiantes quienes lo
crearon.El propósito de
esta sección es publicar
la escritura de estudiantes hispanos en una
vía pública para facilitar
el aprendizaje de los fundamentos de escritura y
fotografía periodística
escolar en conjunto con
la clase de español para
hispanohablantes nivel
III/IV.
September 28, 2011
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Students saddle up
Senior Chelsea Harders rides her horse, Keisha. Harders is an active horseback rider and has
competed in multiple competions throughout high school.
The trip costs about $1,919 selling poinsettias during the
and to many, that seems al- holidays, and even selling
most impossible; however, Tupperware, according to
the program offers many op- Lukvik.
Quinn said that Close Up
After taking a one-year portunities to fundraise for
is a good opportunity bebreak, the Close Up trip is the trip.
Throughout the year, the cause “people need to go and
back, and this time close to
50 people have expressed students will be selling raffle see Washington D.C. at some
interest in going on the 2012 tickets, working concessions, point. If you live in Nebraska,
trip.
Close up is a non-profit
civic education organization
aimed mostly at high school
students.
Each year, this group
takes students to the United
States’ capital, Washington,
D.C. This is the 26th year of
the program in Crete, according to substitute teacher and
trip sponsor Bernie Ludvik;
of those 26 years, Ludvik has
been the head of the trip 16
times. Of all those 26 years,
last year was the first trip that
he was not able to go.
According to social studies teacher Jay Quinn, who
Photo by Jackie Ourada
headed up the trip for three
years, there was a lack of stu- Juniors Alex Edwards and Nick Clement look forward to learndent interest in the trip last ing more about Close Up. Many students have already signed
up to go on the March trip.
year.
you are going to see Lincoln
someday… it’s the same with
the country…”
This is a good opportunity
for kids who would not normally be able to go on a trip
like this, according to junior
Marriah Proctor.
Ludvik refers to Washington D.C. as “our city”, because all the buildings there
are paid for by taxpayers,
making Washington “like
no other country’s capital
city…”
Going on Close Up is a
continual learning experience, says Ludvik.
It makes students more
aware of their government,
changes their outlook on
government, and may even
guide their future, as it has
for some of Ludvik’s previous students, one of whom is
now a top advisor to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson.
Students interested in the
2012 trip should find Ludvik or listen for announcements concerning upcoming
events.
One of the many reasons
why six girls from Crete
High School ride horses because it is simply fun.
“Horses have always been
apart of my life. They are
amazing animals. It is fun
to ride horses!” sophomore
Charlene Skillet said.
“ I can’t imagine not having them around.” For Senior Chelsea Harders, it is
not only fun.
“ I ride horses because it
is a big stress reliever when
I m stressed out about school
and such.” Harders said.
Sophomore Bailey Hooper has found a friend to co-
fide in.
“When we are riding, I
can talk and vent and gab
all I want, and my horse will
not give me any back talk or
won’t tell anyone.” Finding
time to ride her horse can be
challenging, especially for
senior Nikki Muff,
“ I ride whenever I can
find the free time to do so.”
Some of these six girls ride
for enjoyment, but others ride
for the competition aspect.
“ For me, this summer
has been the busiest for
horse shows. My family and
I went to one or two shows
every weekend or every other
weekend,” Harders said
Horseback riding takes
time and commitment.
“I would say I spend about
1,500 hours a summer with
my horses. It is a long process,
and when you’re me, going
for an hour is not an option. I
go for hours at a time,” junior
Lexi Bruha said. Hooper says
that working with and taking
care of the horses take the
most amount of time.
“There’s a lot of time
that goes into everything.
You have to clean the stalls,
which takes about two hours
each week. You have to feed
the horses; that takes thirty
minutes each day. You have
to ride them for an hour each
day too.”
Not only does maintenance take time, but preparation costs hours as well.
“ If you are going to a
show, you have to get up ear-
ly, load the trailer, get your
stuff all ready to go, and get
your horse all cleaned up.
Cleaning your horse includes
washing, brushing, and clipping them. Also, if your horse
is hurt or has an infection or
something, you have to give
it its medicineand all of that
good stuff,” Hooper said.
Harders advizes people
that before owning horses
they need to know what they
are getting into.
“Be prepared because it is
time consuming and very expensive.”
Most riders wake up early
in the morning so they can
start training with their horses
early on when it isn’t so hot.
“When I find the time to
ride, I try to do it early in the
day. It is not very fun when
it is one hundred degrees outside,” Muff said.
These six riders all think
that horseback riding has
taught them life lessons.
“Horseback riding has
taught me that there is no
harder harder lesson in life
than falling off of my horse
and getting back on even if I
don’t want to. I always have
to try my hardest,” freshman
Katie Odvody said.
According to Harders,
horseback riding is hard on
the body.
“I will keep riding as long
as my body will put up with
it. I plan on showing in college on a equestrian team or
a ranch horse team.”
There are many more reasons why these six girls will
never give up riding. Bruha
says she will never stop because horseback riding is a
lifestyle, not a hobby. Hooper
and Muff also say they will
never give it up.
“ I will continue riding horses as long as I can
breathe,” Odvody said.
Shaylen Doremus
Staff Reporter
Courtesy Photo
Close Up preparations begin
Kay Meysenburg
Staff Reporter
Jirovec jumps for gymnastics
ten years.
“Gymnastics takes up
much time and I have a lot
of late nights of doing homework,” Jirovec says.
Her dedication transfers
Julie’s parents are very enfrom the beam, bars, vault, couraging of her involvement
and mat to the classroom.
in gymnastics.
Senior Julie Jirovec prac“She is passionate about
tices 24 hours a week in the the sport and it is something
fall (Mon., Wed., Thurs., she enjoys and excels at. We
Sat.) and 25 hours a week in support her 100 percent, but
the summer (Mon-Fri).
there is always a concern
She competes eight to ten about injuries from such a
times a year and her season strenuous sport,” says Kelly,
starts in mid January. Julie Julie’s mom.
has been in gymnastics for
Julie’s friends support her
Alex Weber
Staff Reporter
as much as they can. Senior
Caroline Cote goes to her
meets to support their friend
and she receives a lot of support from her coaches.
“Gymnastics is a challenging sport, but I push my
gymnasts to do their best
and never give up, no matter how tough it is. We all
encourage each other and I
try to motivate them as best I
can,” Danelle Catlett, Julie’s
coach, said.
Julie’s favorite class is
Psychology. Jay Quinn, psychology teacher, said Julie
is a hard worker and doesn’t
have any problems with getting her work done.
Julie’s not sure if she’ll
continue to be a gymnast after this year.
“It depends on how my
season goes this year,” says
Jirovec.
Gymnastics is the only
sport she does and the floor is
her favorite event, where she
can tumble, flip and fly.
Julie believes gymnastics
has made her stronger as a
person, both physically and
mentally.
Activities
Clubs/Activities Calendar
September 29
Early Dismissal
September 30
No School
October 1
Harvest of Harmony
October 3
Prizm Club Meeting @ 7
Band Booster Meeting @ 7
October 4
FFA Meeting @ 7
October 5
Booster Club Meeting @ 7
October 6
Picture Re-takes
October 12
Juniors PSAT Testing
Community Homecoming Pep
Rally - Tuxedo Park @ 7
October 13
Early Dismissal
October 15
NMEA All-State Auditions
Homecoming Coronation @ 7:30
Homecoming Dance @ 8
October 16
Fall Vocal Concert
October 17
Start of Second Quarter
October 22
ACT Test
October 24
FBLA Meeting @ 6:30
FSA Meeting @ 7
People
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Senior Spotlight 3, 2, 1, Blast the Bolts:
Homecoming set to take off
Copy/Content Editor &
Staff Coordinator
Ali Sandoval
Q: Do you plan on
going to college, if so
what college?
A: Yes. Undecided.
Q: What was your favorite class throughout
high school?
A: Spanish 2, because I
love Mrs. Wagoner.
Q: What will your class
be remembered for the
most?
A: 19 fights in 8th grade.
Q: Do you plan on
staying in Nebraska or
moving out after you
graduate?
A: It depends on where I
go to college.
Matt Sullivan
Q: Do you plan on going
to college, if so what college?
A: Yes, but I’m not 100%
sure where.
Q:What was your favorite class throughout high
school?
A: Auto Mechanics.
Q: What will your class
be remembered for the
most?
a. Being awesome.
Q: Do you plan on
staying in Nebraska or
moving out after you
graduate ?
A: Staying here, Nebraska
is where it’s at!
Karlee Reistroffer
Staff Reporter
The homecoming theme
is 3, 2, 1 Blast the Bolts according to Student Council Sponsor Jeremy
Fries, and the rumors
about the dance being switched to Friday are not true.
The football team
will be playing Pius
X Friday, Oct. 14 at
7 pm at Doane’s Simon Field.
The Student Council is expecting most
of the students to attend the
dance. There will be snacks
and pictures will be taken by
R2K photography.
There have been many
rumors that student council
was thinking about hosting
the dance on Friday.
The homecoming dance
will take place on the traditional Saturday night, starting at 8 pm as usual.
What Student Council has
Coronation will still take
place Saturday before the
dance at 7:30 pm at the high
school.
Student Council spends
from the time school starts
until homecoming working to
get everything
necessary ready
on time.
Student Council splits up into
five
different
groups to get everything done.
Its an easier
way to organize
things, according to Fries and
Stu Co members.
“I hope this year is better
than last year,” Stu Co Rep.
Clare Hollman, sophomore,
said. “I feel like more students will come.”
“the rumors about
the dance being
moved to Friday
are not true.”
decided to do differently on
Friday is the homecoming
court will come out at the
game and the presentation
they have at the game will be
different so more parents can
come to watch.
Fall Play Voted Down
Shaylen Doremus
Staff Reporter
Kim Boyer
Q: Do you plan on going
to college, if so what college?
A: SCC Lincoln.
Q:What was your favorite class throughout high
school?
A: English, I love creative
writing.
Q: What will your class
be remembered for the
most?
Our class likes jokes.
Q: Do you plan on staying
in Nebraska or moving
out after you graduate ?
A: I am moving to southern
california after college.
Melissa Ditbrenner
Q: Do you plan on going
to college, if so what college?
A: Hopefully UNL
Q:What was your favorite class throughout high
school?
A: FCS!
Q: What will your class be
remembered for the most?
Everyone was friends with
everyone.
Q: Do you plan on staying
in Nebraska or moving out
after you graduate ?
I think it would be too hard
to leave after college, so
i think I’m staying for a
while.
“There’s no fall play this
year because it really just
pulls people away from the
one act performance,” Drama Club Sponsor Melissa
Casper said. According to
Casper, the decision to cancel the fall play was mutual.
“We really want to make
the one act performance
better. That way we can
make it more competitive.”
Another
reason
for
canceling the fall play is
that the one act can be
taken
to
competitions.
Stu Co
Tasks for
Homecoming
1.Posters.
2. T-shirts.
3. Decorate
business windows
downtown.
4. Print ballots for
voting coronation.
5.Write
announcements for
coronation.
6. Contact the
Crete News to
take pictures of the
court for the paper.
7. Write out a
program for
coronation.
8. Decide who the
MC will be.
9. Order flowers
10. Send out letters
to the sponsors
11.Create a sign up
sheet for treats.
“I’d rather have a really
good one act performance
this year,” Casper said.
“Since there is no fall
play, we can have a variety of students to pick and
choose from so we can
have the best of the best.”
“I don’t mind that we
are not having the fall play
this year. I like competition.
That’s why I’m in speech.”
On the other hand, Senior Drama Club President Kim Boyer feels differently about the subject.
“I’m kind of sad that we
aren’t doing the fall play. I
liked the play, and I’ve never
participated in the one act.”
Boyer said. Boyer also said
that she thinks the play was for
fun, not just for seriousness.
“The fall play was not
about competing. It was
about having fun and being with friends, and even
making
new
friends.”
“In a way, this might be a
good thing, because it was really hard to get to scheduled
rehearsals. A lot of the people
who were in the fall play and
in the one act participated in
speech also, and we had to
schedule times to run through
our lines to practice with
them. That was hard, though,
too because all the practices
for speech, the fall play, and
one act were all in the evenings, so there was major
conflict there,” Potter said.
Even though Boyer
is a little discouraged by
the decision to have no fall
play, she is still hopeful.
“I’m
always
excited for anything dealing
with theater.” Boyer said.
we add up the two scores
and we we put them from
highest to lowest,” Schaaf
said. As seen at the first home
game on the track, there
was a JV team sitting in the
stands and senior Shaylen
Doremus, a new member
to the squad, on the track
with the varsity squad,
“Personally, I wish she
would have been on the
team before, but I think she
wasn’t yet ready.” Senior
Emily Manning, a varsity
cheerleader, said. Manning
encouraged
Doremus in previous years
to try out. Manning has
been cheerleading for three
years.
“Shay (Doremus) tried
out and she knew everything,” Schaaf said. “Shay
had the potential and fit
right in; I am excited to see
how this year comes out.”
Doremus has been the
“wow- part” to the cheerleaders, Senior Macy Sorensen, varsity member,
explained
“ It’s really nice to haveDoremus on the team, and
she catches on pretty well.
Sorensen also said that
a JV team is going to make
the squad stronger and better in the future.
Sorensen said sophomores are taking leadership roles.
“It’s scary because now
we have to split up varsity
into two groups so they
can help out the JV,” Sorensen said.
Both teams practice in
the mornings three times
a week. She also said that
the JV squad has been an
awesome experience and
has helped with communication.
Schaff also explained
that the JV squad will help
cheer in home volleyball,
JV basketball and Varisty
Basketball games.
“It doesn’t matter if we
are split into two teams, we
are all one to make it stronger and better,” said sophomore Dyana Keola.
Both the JV team transition and Shaylen as a senior
varsity member have been
team-building expereinces.
“It’s been a big hit for
the Crete crowd to come to
home games and see that
there is a cheer squad both
at JV and Varsity games,”
Schaaf said.
No matter which cheerleaders are pumping up
the crowd or what games
they’re cheering at, Schaaf
said that the transitions the
girls have gone through
this early in the season will
only prove to make them a
stronger, better squad.
12. Create the pep
rally.
Cheerleading change ups
Laura Tercero
Staff Reporter
“Let’s go Cardinals,
let’s go!” is heard each Friday night.
This, along with many
other cheers, change the
spirit of each year for
Crete.
The spirit, however, is
not the only change for
the Cheerleaders this fall;
there have been a few other change-ups.
Cheerleaders now have
a JV team as well as the
first senior varsity cheerleader in her first year on
the squad.
Sarah Schaaf, head
cheerleading coach, explained this year is a learning expericnce for both her
and the squad.
”In tryouts, the girls
are judged on abitily and
teacher evaluations; then
If you really knew...
Karlee Reistroffer
Staff Reporter
Sophomore Dyana Keola
Q. Are you in any sports or activities?
A. Volleyball and Cheerleading.
Q. What is your favorite movie?
A. Chralie St. Cloud
Q.What’s your favorite class?
A. Band.
Q. What’s your favorite color?
A. Blue.
Q. What do you like to do for fun?
A. I like to hang out with my friends
and play volleyball.
Q. What is your favorite Clothing
store?
A. Wet Seal and The Buckle
Q.What’s your favorite sport to watch?
A. Football.
Q. How many siblings do you have?
A. Four.
Q.What’s your favorite gum to chew?
A. Trident peppermint.
Q. What clubs are you involved in?
A. FBLA, FSA and World Language Club.
September 28, 2011
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Sports
Football ranks true; Cards keep winning
Skyler Doremus
Sports Editor,
Business Manager,
Layout/Design Editor
For the second consecutive season, the Cards came
up ranked preseason No. 1,
according to www.maxpreps.
com.
“Last year, we had a lot of
good seniors playing for us,
and knowing that they are
gone, and we are still able
to be a no. 1 ranked team so
far feels outstanding,” senior
lineman John Hoesche said.
“I’m looking forward to the
rest of the season just like everybody else.”
The boys traveled to
Grand Island Northwest for
their first game, where they
proved their ranking to be
correct by winning the game
with a score of 40-16.
“As the game progressed
we got much better, and we
came into the second half
with a better attitude and effort,” McGinnis said.
However, senior wide receiver Mitchell Marvin was
injured, tearing his rotator
cuff in the first half
“It’s disappointing because
I put a lot of work in on the
off season towards football
and after only playing one
quarter of my first game as a
senior it was all taken away
from me,” Marvin said.
On Fri., Sept. 2, their first
home game took place at the
Doane Simon Field where
they played Omaha Skutt,
and once again proved their
ranking to be true with a 36-6
win.
“We missed a lot of assignments, but as we kept playing
we improved on understanding and on offense,” McGinnis said.
The boys faced the Waverly Vikings Fri., Sept. 9 again
at home when they completed
their first shutout with a score
of 33-0.
“It felt good to beat Waverly with a shutout. It gave
us a big confidence boost and
that’s what we needed going into the Adams Central
game,” Hoesche said.
The boys traveled to Adams Central to play the Patri-
ots Fri., Sept. 16.
“The first two quarters
were rough, but we pulled it
off by the end of the game.
It’s not that they were that
good, we were just making
little errors,” Hoesche said.
The final score was 26-16,
keeping the winning streak
alive.
“We’ve got sort of a momentum going; we keep winning,” Senior Ethan Renner
said. However, the leader of
the Cards knows they have
some things to work on.
“The first two quarters
of the Adams Central game
were rough,” McGinnis said,
“We gave them too many
chances to make plays, but
our boys didn’t panic, hung
in there, and scored before
the halftime.”
Moving into their fifth
matchup of the year, the
Cards defeated Norris 54-7,
which helped them work on
fine tuning some things before heading into this week’s
game against Plattsmouth.
The Cards take on the
Blue Devils Friday at 7pm in
Plattsmouth.
Photo by Skyler Doremus
Senior Ethan Renner pushes past a Waverly defender. The Cards shut out the Vikings 33-0 in their
second game of the year and look ahead to Friday’s game at Plattsmouth at 7 pm.
Freshmen step up to the plate
Alex Weber
Staff Reporter
“My biggest thing is staying positive and encouraging
the girls to give full effort on
every play,” Assistant Coach
Josh Siske said about his first
year coaching Cardinall ladies on the diamond.
Siske and other members
of the team may be different
than last year, but the goals
for the girls as a team have
remained the same.
Freshmen Sydney Nieveen
and Jaime Lefebure are both
starting Varsity in their first
year on the team.
Nieveen says that her
teammates have all been “really nice to me and Jaime and
we really appreciate it because it is hard being the only
freshmen on Varsity.”
Nieveen says being on
varsity can be difficult.
“It feels like all the pressure is on me since I’m the
only pitcher.”
“[Nieveen and Lefebure] are amazing. We all
get along,” senior Katelyn
Roesler said.
Head Coach Shawn Carr
says both freshmen have
adapted to their roles.
“Syd has pitched great and
is a big batter for us. Jaime
is a lock down thirdbaseman
and has been the strongest offensive player we have. They
have handled the pressure of
Varsity well,” he said.
As any coach, Carr has
some goals for his team this
year.
“To compete, play well,
and represent Crete in a positive manner; and have some
fun along the way,” he said.
Roesler has already been
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noticing some changes in her
team from the past season,
“We act more like a family.”
Roesler said.
“Both [Nieveen and Lefebure] will be a big part of
how successful we are this
year and the next three. They
have really shown that freshmen and newcomers to softball can step in and play Varsity and make an impact right
away,” Carr said.
The girls participated in
the Crete Invite Sept. 24,
when they went 1-2.
“It seemed like we just
weren’t ready to play in the
morning. As the day progressed we got into a groove,
but it wasn’t enought to win
until our last game,” Sandoval said.
They look forward to playing in the Conference tournament at Aurora at 10 am Saturday.
Photo by Skyler Doremus
Freshman Jamie Lefebure bats during a regular season game against Ashland-Greenwood on the Crete
High School field. The Cards won the game 2-0.
All about Coach McGinnis
Q:Where did you go to College?
A: “I went to Northwest Missouri State for two years
and Wayne State for three years.”
Q:How long have you been coaching?
A: “All together, approximately twenty-five years.”
Q:Where’s your favorite place to be?
A: “Home.”
Q:Where is somewhere you’ve always wanted to go?
A: “Washington D.C., because I think everybody
should go there to see the capitol and memorials.”
Q:What’s you’re favorite gum to chew?
A: “I always chew Doublemint during finals
and championships.”
Q:What’s your favorite color?
A: “I better say red.”
Q:What activities do you like to do with your family?
A: “During the School year, we don’t have a lot of time to
be with them because of Derek and Alex’s activities, but during
Christmas and the summer I like to go on vacations with them.”
Q:What’s your motto, or favorite ‘saying’?
A: “You should be greatful to have the opportunity to play.”
Q:What was your favorite bedtime story as a kid?
A:“Go Dog, Go by Dr. Seuss.”
Q:What’s one thing you always do before a football game?
A:“I find a quiet place to rest to focus for ten minutes.”
Photo by Skyler Doremus
Sports
September 28, 2011
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Cross Country Volleyball
gets pumped stands strong
good because a lot
of the time it causes
competition amongst
the
teammates,”
Royuk said.
The change in the
roster is not the only
unusual thing about
this season. The three
coaches are back:
Head Coach Kyle
Royuk, and volunteer
coaches, PaulVince
Obuon and Viviana
Arreola. Joining the
team though is one of
the new math teachers this year, Drew
Rische.
Rische is not an official coach, however
a volunteer coach who
helps out a few times
Courtesy Photo a week or when he is
available according to
Jackie Ourada
Royuk. “I’m just an assisStaff Reporter
tant coach. I go to practices
three of four times a week
A craze spreading through- and just run with different
out Crete High School has runners throughout practice
captured more students once that might need someone
again this year increasing the else to run with,” Rische
Cross Country team’s roster said. This isn’t Rische’s first
to thirty-nine 2011 season. year coaching, nonetheless
Jumping from having thirty- he has coached basketball
four runners last year, the two years at the previous
number has risen since the school he taught at. He said
his overall opinion on the
last 2010 season.
“There’s a lot more peo- Crete High Cross Country
ple to keep track of,” Senior team was a good one. “The
Cross Country Member, Lu- kids are working hard and
trying to get better,” Rische
kas Renker said.
The athletes are pleased said.
Along with the new
for the rise in the excitement of the team this season. members and new coachAlong with the kids, Head ing, there happens to be a
Coach Kyle Royuk included change in uniform as well.
that he’s also excited for the The girls’ team received
growing amount of mem- new uniforms this year, and
Royuk hopes to get new
bers.
“We have bigger numbers uniforms for the guys’ team
which is always a bonus. It’s next season.
Throughout the chaos, the
growing team seems to be as
united and focused on their
goals as ever according to
the participants. A few of the
runners, including Renker
and Sophomore Truc Doan,
noted how they would like to
improve in the five kilometer run and place more at the
meets this year. On the days
before a big meet, the team
can be found crammed into
Mr. Royuk’s classroom talking and establishing goals for
the next day.
Along with being focused,
the team definitely doesn’t
forget to enjoy their time together.
One of the freshmen joining the team this year, Caitlyn
Higginson, said her favorite
part about the team is how
“we’re all such like a family.” She also commented on
the leadership this year as to
saying they’re encouraging,
always nice and enjoyable to
be around.
Royuk said more ambiguous attitudes and more
athletes willing to work diligently have been added to the
team this season.
Although it may seem like
a challenging sport, when
asked what he enjoyed about
Cross Country, Truc Doan
said he “definitely likes the
fun after you run and the fun
before you run.” Though he
does go on to add, “The middle part is kind of painful.”
Abiding by their motto,
there definitely leaves no
doubt that cross country is a
different sport. On the back
of their dark gray team shirts
this year reads, “Cross Country is a mental sport. We’re
all insane.”
Sports Shorts with Jackie
Jackie Ourada
Sports Columnist
The Senior class of 2011
more than left their mark
last year with everything
they did in the athletic department for Crete High
School.
Questions like ‘How will
Crete do in football this
year without Ryne Reeves,
Brock Sherman, and Ben
Muff?’ started popping
up as the season started in
August. No one could be
caught saying that those
players won’t be missed but
hey, times have changed,
and this is a different football team than last year.
Recently, all of the questions have seemed to be
getting answered. The team
is now 4-0. The players are
showing everyone that they
can live up to the high expectations left when the
2011 Seniors threw their
caps up last May.
For those from the other
towns who ponder if Crete
will make it back to Memorial Stadium, I say this:
Don’t worry about if Crete
will make it back, because
we’re doing better than
expected so far. I would be
worrying about your team
that still has to play us this
season.
The senior class has more
than stepped up their game so
far, while a few players like
Juniors Colton Steer, Cory
Hintz, Garrett Wahl, and
Christian Meinke have been
taking on bigger parts; a few
sophomores are starting to
stand out as well. Matt Siedhoff, Ben Sullivan, Daulton
Stejskal and Vincent Thatcher, to name a few, have been
showing their skills more frequently.
Football isn’t the only
sport that is seeing some
leadership from younger
playmakers though.
On the cross country
team, Junior Logan Sieck
and Sophomores Jordan
Walker and Charlene Skillett are helping out more with
the practices and meets according to a few teammates.
With last year’s leaders like
the Wollam brothers, Will
Veguilla, Lydia Magnuson,
and McKhenna Thiem leaving, the athletes are having to
fill a lot of shoes and step up
in multiple ways.
For the softball team, Juniors Rachel Pedersen and
Alex Smith have been named
as big helps this season along
with sophomore Tristan
Shaw. There are usually official captain spots on the team
filled by seniors, but various
projects and ideas have been
created from some younger
members. Nicole Reetz, Emily Hintz, and Brooke Nerud
are now having their positions filled since graduating.
While
losing
Taylor
Reetz, Amanda Aksamit,
and Kacey Holdroyd, seniors Nikki Muff, Natasha
Kingston, Breanna Fye,
and Jacy Duntz lead the
volleyball team this year
with some big plays coming from Juniors Morgan
Hill, Kaitlin Bradley, and
Alex Edwards. Seeing no
change from the last two
years, Alex Edwards, Kaitlin Bradley, and Morgan
Hill are still starting and
continually helping the
team out in every set.
One of the biggest
shocks this year though is
the girls’ golf team. Not
a single upperclassman is
listed on the roster, a noticeable change from the
last few years. With three
underclassmen now representing the varsity team,
we’re going to have to see
how things shape up this
season. I wish them good
luck, considering they
have numerous minds to
change.
All in all, the Class of
2011 couldn’t be replaced;
yet no class really can.
If anything, every fall
team will improve since
they are having to work
harder and longer to change
everyone’s perceptions.
Of course most of the
high school will keep up on
the football team’s record
but I definitely encourage
the students of Crete High
to come support all of the
fall sports as they progress
throughout the next few
months.
The Cardinal athletes
are back and possibly better than ever.
Photo by Mercedes Thatcher
Drew Amen
Staff Reporter
Everybody loves a home
game. You get to go and cheer
on the team, shout as loud as
you can and intimidate the
other team.
But what if there were
only four games that you can
go and do that?
Well, that’s what the volleyball team is dealing with.
Throughout this season
they get to travel to 12 different schools. The Fairbury
Volleyball team has that
many home games.
Technically, there is nothing Activities Director Jim
Moore can do about it.
What he can do is schedule when the games are.
When the team plays in duals against another school, its
switches schools each year.
For example, the Lakeview game is here this season,
but next year it will be at
Lakeview.
Most of the games the
team plays in are not duals.
Most of the games are tournaments.
“Coaches like the Volleyball team to play in tournaments because they are more
games in one night,” Moore
said.
And with more games
comes more experience.
All this traveling isn’t
all that bad, according to
the girls on the team; even
though most of the schools
they have gone to are over an
hour away, traveling to different schools has its ups and
downs.
“They will get used to
playing in front of a bigger
crowd,” Varsity Coach Jill
Oltman named as one of the
benefits. The Freshmen and
JV teams will have to learn
how to play under the pressures of playing in front of a
bigger crowd than they are
used to seeing at home.
Also, playing in tournaments is good because they
do get more experience from
each game. Playing at different schools also helps the
team spirit-wise, too.
“They will have to motivate themselves since there
aren’t as many fans there,”
JV Coach Merri Kaye Bradley said.
So the team will leran to
work together and cheer each
other on, too.
There are downsides to
traveling.
Any coach will say school
comes before athletics. That’s
why these kids are called student-athletes.
With all the traveling the
team does, it can be hard for
them to keep up with homework.
“Traveling creates a lot
more stress and when we get
home so late we have to stay
up even later to do homework,” Sophomore Clare
Hollman said.
“It affects them in classes
because they don’t get as
much sleep,” Jill Oltman
said.
When students sleep in
class they can miss important
information.
However, the team has
done a good job of keeping
up in school. Most teachers will point out they don’t
see the players on this team
sleeping in class.
“I think the girls do a good
job of keeping up with what
they need to have done and
staying on top of things,”
English teacher Katie Wright
said. “They work hard and
make sure their stuff is in
early, if not on time.”
The skills these studentathletes learn in the classroom transfer to working together on the court.
“We’re very experienced
and have been playing together for three years,” senior
Bre Fye said. “People will be
surprised by our team’s ability.”
Although the road schedule can be tough on the court
and in the classroom, the
team has a plan to be successful in both areas.
The girls hope that success
carries them into their next
matches at the Skutt Invite
Girls Golf swings into new season;
four girls represent school on team
ber, however, each girl gets
individual attention, which
should lead to helping their
“I like having just four game improve, which Johnplayers but I would like to son said is happening.
The school provides sets
have five more girls,” Head
of
golf clubs for each player,
Girls Golf Coach Scott
and
they don’t have to know
Johnson said about the dehow
to play golf as they are
fining factor of the 2011
taught
by Johnson.
girls team: they’re small in
Since
the team is so small
number.
there
is
only
a varsity team.
Because of that numThe girls practice every day at the
Crete golf course
after school and
they have about one
golf meet per week,
usually all day on
Fridays along with
some duals.
This can be
stressful for the
girls keeping up and
catching up with
homework.
Johnson said he
was happy with
these girls, but he
wishes he could
have more players.
“Nothing is easy
working with the
Photo by Karlee Reistroffer high school kids;
Karlee Reistroffer
Staff Reporter
it definitely shows you patience, though,” Johnson
said. Despite the patience required, Johnson said he sees
the girls improving.
“In all perspective any
positive you can take out of it,
scores are coming down and
I was glad every girl finished
all 18 holes,” he said. “on the
bus ride home, everyone was
tired and it was a quiet ride
home.”
All the golfers get along
with one another, according
to Sophomore April Blackledge
“We are all really close
like a little family,” she said.
“Our team is still inexperienced but I can see us developing some really good skills
and bonds with one another,”
sophomore Lorena Islas said.
Golf districts are October
4 at the York Country Club,
and State Golf is October
10th and 11th at Riverside
Golf Club in Grand Island.
The girls are looking
ahead to hosting the Conference tournament at College
Heights Country Club starting at 10 am.
September 28, 2011
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words of a feather
Features
Casper answers questions
Kay Meysenburg
Staff Reprter
Question: Where did you
go to college?
Answer: Nebraska Wesleyan
University.
Question: What was your
childhood dream?
Answer: I always wanted to
be an astronaut.
Question: What is your favorite animal?
Answer:My favorite animal
is a Dog.
Question: What are your
hobbies?
Answer: My hobbies would
have to be reading, watching
tv, running, and cooking.
Question: What’s your favorite color?
Answer: My favorite color is
probably green.
Question:What was your
major in College?
Answer: I got my Bachelor’s
degree in vocal music performance and English.
Question:Why did you
chose those areas of study?
Answer: They were the
things I loved the most.
Question: Why did you
want to teach high school
students?
Answer: I was a student aid
in a high school and I just
loved it.
Question: Why Crete High
school?
Answer: There are so many
reasons why, but the main
ones for me is the one-onone atmosphere and I feel
the quality of education is a
lot better.
Question: What Clubs do
you enjoy?
Answer: I run Drama Club
and the one Act and I also
volunteer with speech. I
guess you could say I enjoy
those activities the most.
Question: What is your
favorite play?
Answer:Most definitely
Wicked
Question: Why Wicked?
Answer: I just really enjoy it.
Question:Have you ever
seen it performed live?
Answer: I have seen it three
times, in new York once and
I was fourth row from the
stage.
Question: Why do you like
Crete High School?
Answer:It’s a small school
and you can get to know
photos by Jackie Ourada
the students by personality
English I/Reading teacher Melissa Casper helps some of the students in her MAP class study for
rather than just their face.
her English class. This is Casper’s first year of teaching at Crete High School.
Prizm Club performs at Doane
Mercedes Thatcher
Layout design editor
Copy/Content editor
Staff coordinator
Juniors Maribel Lopez and Brenda Lopez sit and wait with
Photos by Mercedes Thatcher
the rest of the Prizm Club performers before their performance. The performace started late and the danceers had Sophomore Vanessa Rodriguez sits in the waiting room and listens to music. Many of the girls
were listening to music or were taking pictures while they waited patiently.
to wait an extra thirty minutes to start.
Knowledge about many
backgrounds and heritage
makes Prizm Club just one
reason why many people join
the club. Another reason multiple girls joined is because
they signed up to participate
in a dance performance at
Doane.
The performance was
done for a stand up poetic
artist performing there. The
girls had around five practices in order to prepare for
the dance.
“Participating in the performance was important to
us because it showed that we
cared for our Hispanic heritage,” senior Jeovana Lopez
said” It was also nice to participate in something I enjoy
doing.”
“Pablo Cervantes came
and asked me if I had any
students that would want to
dance in a performance,”
Guidance Counselor Karen
Buchfinck said. “It was an
amazing offer for Prizm
Club.”
Latinos learn to be leaders
Kay Meysenburg
Staff Reprter
For most students, MAP,
or Mentor Assisted Period, is
a time to catch up on homework and school work, but
for the twenty-eight kids in
Janet Ekerson’s and Jennifer
Wickards’ MAPs, it’s also a
time to learn about college,
student aid, and how to be a
leader in the community.
The new MAP groups are
known as the Latino Leaders.
The program started as a grant
from Education Quest, an organization aimed at helping
and inspiring kids who want
to go to college. This particular grant was aimed at helping first generation college
students, or students who are
the first in their family to go
to college.
Ekerson decided, with the
help of the EQ team, to use
that grant to help minorities who are college ready to
help them to become school
and community leaders in the
process of preparing for col-
lege. “There are maybe about
half of the minority students
who don’t know about help
for college” said Wickard.
In order to be a Latino
Leader, a student must have
a 3.0 GPA, be invited into the
MAP, and have an interest in
going to college.
While in the MAP, the kids
work on regular homework
and receive general information about college and some
preparation for the ACT.
They also go to multicultural
summits and college fairs.
Most of the students in the
MAP group are planning on
sticking with it and think that
this will be very helpful to
students who are eligible.
“The older kids really
help me with my classes…”
said freshman Jesus Lopez.
The kids are already showing
leadership in the MAP, said
Wickard, mostly by helping
the younger or newer kids
with classes that the older
kids have already had.
Photo by Laura Tercero
“I definitely think that this
program should be made per- Juniors Monica Mendez and Elizabeth Santoyo are studying in Janet Eckerson’s MAP. Eckerson and ELL teacher Jennifer
manent…” said Wikard.
Wickard chose to place students in their MAPs in the Latino Leaders program, geared toward college-bound latinos.