Volume 5, Issue 3

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CHECK OUT THIS CHURCH: St. Anthony’s is right down the street. Take a tour and find out more about the children’s choir, Sunday Mass, Father Gary and what the church does for the community. Pages 4 & 5.

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THE BREAKDOWN: Get caught up on all your favorite winter sports, including locations, dates, and the captains’ opinions on teams’ top players. Pages 6 & 7.

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SEXY JINGLE BELL ROCK:Seniors Josh Mehlhaff, Kelly Fahie, Celeste Rodriguez, Aaliyah Cooper and Emmanuel Martinez (R-L), along with Junior Roniesha Roberts (middle), show sportmanlike Christmas-time spirit by dancing to “Jingle Bell Rock” at the winter sports pep assembly on Dec. 7. Participants tossed marshmallows through holiday wreaths and popped balloons with their behinds. “The dance was supposed to be funny,” Cooper said, “but I’m not a funny person, and I’m not really coordinated.”

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Rules are the barrier between freedom and restriction.

You are restricted from taking your eyes off this newsmagazine but free to be mesmerized or even mortified by the content you are about to see.

Break the rule, and you’ll regret it.

Rule #1: as overwhelming as it may seem, do not let go of the wheel.

If you look at page 16, you’ll see the people who broke the system by taking the wheel and not letting go. A historic exploration by Aidan Chaloupka.

Rule #2: as crazy as the authority figures may seem, they keep you in check. I suggest you keep them in check at the same time.

Rule #3: as terrifying as it may be, punishment is only so bad if it’s not deserved but I encourage you to go futher than your limit so the punishment is worth the trouble.

Rule #4: you really should follow the rules. No really. Follow the rules.

Now you’re probably thinking I’m insane. Why would I want to get you in trouble?

I don’t. I want you to be free. I want you to feel a rush of rebellion that you have never felt before.

I want you to take your hands and paint them red with fake guilt because you know breaking the rules felt so sensational.

I want you to remember when you had no restrictions and the earth was your playground.

Do it for your mom. Do it for your dad. Do it for your friends. Do it for love.

If you look at page 19, you’ll see that Queneshia Lee did it for revenge.

Who would you do it for? How would you do it? And why on earth are you doing it to begin with?

Sincerely, Vanessa Abenojar

P.S. A little birdie named Jana King handed me a letter. It said, “Ask ‘Hey, random stranger, what’s on your mind today?’ Everyone has a story; let’s take a chance to find out what a few of them are.” Thanks for the letter, Jana. - V. Every issue, the editor-inchief explains the magical and maniacal torture behind the ARROW scene. If it’s less than (or especially) magical for you, let her know at rhsarrow@gmail.com

Have you ever thought about the creed this cult of crazies lives by? No? Sit back, relax, and let me tell you the guidelines of being an ARROWHEAD. |Rafael Agas |Play Hard Staff 1. We honor our Editor-inChief and Managing Editor like gods. They can and will hurl lightning bolts at your throat for defying their wishes. But still we choose to ignore them. Just kidding.

Punishment: You shall be stoned but instead of stones, they will throw pens and pencils, so it’s more like penned and penciled.

2. The imaginary line that separates the eating zone from the computers is to be followed at all cost. It is a rule never broken even though it is constantly broken.

Punishment: The pits of hell will open in the floor and the hands of all the tortured, screaming, undead souls will grab and drag you into the seven circles of the underworld.

3. Music should be always playing in the ARROW room during the early, mid and late hours of paste up. We do not get up and switch it mid-song or take the music player out without the owner’s consent.

Punishment: everybody (especially Mr. Smith, who enjoys all music), will call you out.

4. We eat anything and everything edible that enters the doors of room 238. From six boxes of Little Caesars pizza to homemade tostadas, ARROWHEADS will inhale it.

Punishment: A mob of angry and hungry teenagers will circle and hunt you down like barbarians.

5. We are a family and we always help each other out.

Whether it is a personal problem or a school problem, an ARROWHEAD is always there for fellow ARROWHEADS. Punishment: You will be shunned, no one will like you, you will be eating alone and you will be alone.

We’re not a class, we are a family. If you can’t follow that, then you can just walk out of Rm. 238.

6. Mr. Smith’s words are sacred. No matter how out of line, or dare I say, stupid, it shall not be questioned (unless you have guts, then go ahead, more power to you).Okay, maybe a little questioning.

Punishment: His piercing blue-green eyes will gaze into your soul and freeze your core. You will be forever trapped in a barren wasteland shrouded in a perpetual winter.

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Vanessa Abenojar wishes Ericka Robinson a happy birthday................................................................Editor-in-Chief Ksenia Ivanova needs to stop falling asleep on the couch..................................................................Managing Editor Queneshia Lee is about ready to beat Vanessa with a stack of newspapers................................Copy/Intro Editor Eli De Los Santos has a flawless senior picture..................................................................................................Photo Editor Alex Kalinin wrestles his way to the top....................................................................................................................Arts Editor Brittney Nguyen is better off being alone..........................................................................Ads & Business Co-Manager Mirjam Amstutz misses her best friend Alexandra...................................................................Ads & Business Co-Manager Angelica Nicolas craves some Pho at the moment..........................................................................................Cover Editor Mona Orejudos is glad you’re doing great, I guess............................................................................................Faces Editor Naje Bryant wants her best friend back..........................................................................................................Play Hard Editor Andrea Buenbrazo says sometimes, humans suck. Other times, they don’t...................................Portraits Editor FINE PRINT ARROW is an open forum produced by rule-breaking but responsible journalists and artisans. They all go to Renton High School at 400 S. 2nd St., Renton, WA, 98057, famous for its $1 cookies from the student store and the unavoidable senior presentations. The editor-in-chief is Vanessa Abenojar.

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Curfews could have been passed by maybe 3 or 4 hours so articles could be written to their best quality, and for pages to be exported with the least number of errors possible.

E-mail was possibly downloaded on someone’s phone, despite the fact that their father told them twenty times not to because it “wastes data” to check for an Email from an advertiser.

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with which to say some of ARROW’s rules have been broken in very desperate times. Take, for example, having to write a last-minute article when there doesn’t seem to be any time to get the right quotes or quote the right people. There’s that darned list of over-quoted people the Copy Editor made for the staff. It’s full of people like the ASB President and all the other people involved in every single activity that happens within the school.

And you can’t quote them.

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And you quote that person who has no connection to the school - doesn’t even go to Renton anymore - because at the time of writing the article they were one of the only people on Facebook who could be interviewed. “Oh,” you said, “I forgot she didn’t go here anymore.”

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INDIAN WINTER WONDERLAND

Featuring cheering elves, dancing athletes, class competitions and a rapping santa, this year’s winter pep assembly provided laughter, smiles and syrupy singalongs Interpreter Emily Moody signs each word as the MCs announce the winter sports teams and each one’s plans for the year.

Dressed in their snow white winter uniforms, the cheer leaders dance around as Santa’s little helpers to a mix of hip hop and Christmas music.

Ericka Robinson, also known as “Santa with the Fanta,” courageously gives a holiday rap to pump up the crowd with her makeshift “Jolly” basketball belly pulling at her suit’s buttons.

Student winter atheletes deliver an uplifting dance routine to a few of the favorite Christmas jingles that ring out during a time of holiday cheer. “ The dance joined all sports togeteher,” Robinson said. “it was the best part.”

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ST. ANTHONY’S Step inside, hear the Sunday mass, eavesdrop on the children’s choir rehearsal and find out more about the church’s work for the homeless and needy. Join Managing Editor Ksenia Ivanova on a tour of the ministry down the street.

SUNDAY MASS “Christmas means whether we feel god’s

presence or not, god is always present,” Father Bryan Ochs said to his congregation. “That even when we don’t give, He gives back.”

He stood at the podium with two small tables with candles on them to his left at a mass on Dec. 9.

Light poured through the six stained glass windows on each side of the church—a blue glow filled the room.

“I always like to tell people [going to church is] kind of like going to a bar,” churchgoer Caroline Whetham said.

“You get this great feeling. You really feel god’s presence.”

St. Anthony’s has mass every day. Usually, between 80 and 100 people attend. On Sundays the Church is crowded—nearly all seats taken, some worshippers even standing in the entryway.

“The Sunday celebrations, the music—those are the things that help open up the life that is given to us in the sacraments,” Father Gary Zender said after the service.

“Otherwise people go a little dry in the faith.”

Zender believes that while masses do not need to be entertaining, they should contain joy. “[We celebrate] what Jesus Christ has done for us,” he said.

Halfway through the mass, children gathered around a portable, model wooden church, dropping coins and dollar bills through an opening on top. Behind the altar a giant cross loomed.

“We have a practice called the little church,” Zender said. “Children are invited to bring their monetary contributions.”

During prayer, over one hundred people kneel to pay their respects. “Peace be with you,” a young man said to a fellow worshipper.

After the closing prayers and announcements everyone left, taking the glow of the church with them into the cloudy Pacific Northwest afternoon.

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OUR JOYFUL PRAISES SING “What do we pay god?” St. Anthony’s Parish Music Coordinator Theresa Galvez asked a group of boys and girls in the children’s choir. “Do we give him money?”

“No,” the group said in unison, looking around, shaking their heads. A few hands shot upward to provide details.

“We pray to our god.”

“That’s right, we give him tribute with our hearts,” Galvez said.

Approximately 20 students meet every Tuesday to sing in the children’s choir; on this day, they were practicing “The Advent at Nocturne, The Coming of Our God.” Empty dark brown wooden chairs surrounded them.

Our joyful praises sing To Christ, that set us free; Like tribute to the father bring, And, Holy Ghost, to thee.

Gripping their sheet music, the boys and girls focused intently on the music’s rhythm and melody.

“They are wonderful singers,” one watching parent said.

The Children’s Choir is a recent addition to the variety of programs St. Anthony’s offers. Rehearsals began in September, and their first concert was in October.

“The music we’re singing has a lot of big words. I don’t want the kids to just sing words just because that’s what it says,” Galvez said. “I want them to know what they’re saying. We want them to believe what they’re saying.”

Getting personal with young people was not something Galvez did in her last job, where she taught middle and secondary students in a public school.

“There were times [at the school] I knew the kids I was teaching needed to have an element of faith, not for the music part, but for personal development,” Galvez said. “They would come with problems and I felt like they would’ve appreciated a prayer, but it was inappropriate for me to do that.”

Galvez makes a point to get to know her current students in and out of rehearsal. Sometimes they visit her in her office, and they just sit and talk. That doesn’t mean

her program is all chitchat and backstory, though.

Galvez wants the children’s choir to learn technique.

Right now the children are learning different types of harmony and how to participate in a round.

“We’re letting them know that multiple sounds can go on at once and help make good music,” Galvez said. “They are a part of one, not just one.”

She hopes these skills will help them with their public speaking and expression.

“A lot of them don’t have the courage to sing out in public by themselves,” Galvez said. “This gives them an opportunity to do that public singing, but with someone else… It’s not so intimidating.

They get to do it with a friend.”

In this way, the young singers become more involved with a vital aspect of the church: community. “[They are] learning what they do is really an essential part of the service,” she continued. “As they get older they become more involved, infusing the singing with the worship.”

And maybe the voices of youth will touch others in a way the older voices cannot.

“The Children’s Choir adds something that the adults couldn’t give. Children are unique,” Zender said. “Their voices are different from adult voices and it has a different response in our hearts when we hear them sing.”

At the end of each rehearsal, the group comes to together to pray.

“What should we pray for today?” Galvez asked the group of twenty children. One brown-haired girl looked at Galvez quizzically, thoughtfully. “Well, your brother’s not feeling good, should we pray for him?”

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THE BEAT REFERENDUM 74 PASSES IN WASH.

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WHAT FATHER GARY KNOWS ARROW interviewed Father Gary Zender, St. Anthony’s priest, about some work Catholic Community Services has done in Forks, Wash., a community plagued by poverty due to a downturn in local logging and fishing industries. Together with partners like the Bank of America, the church has built what’s now known as Catholic of Siena Village, housing for families and single people. Below, our favorite excerpts from Zender’s interview. > When we dedicated and blessed that space last July a woman gave [that] testimony about how it made a difference in her life… She had been homeless and lived in a truck for three years. > She said: “I can’t express what it meant for me to be able to put up my own Christmas tree.” Something as simple as that, it’s very moving to hear. We kind of take advantage of it, yet we can all relate to how meaningful it is. > This isn’t something we could do alone, or something we could even do with a bunch of churches in Renton… It’s all one big umbrella of outreach to people who are need. > The United States organization Catholic Charities respond to the national things. For example, they called for people throughout the country to assist with [Hurricane] Sandy. >There are worldwide organization, Caritas International and Catholic Relief Services (CRS); they respond to national needs. The CRS has been in Haiti for about 50 years and in many countries for a long time… particularly with disasters—whether from war or natural disaster. > One of the things that’s very important to the Christian faith is community. We don’t become Christian or live a Christian life alone. > Whenever somebody gives, and when they do so in faith, they discover that they’re receiving a lot more than they’re giving.

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LUNCH AND LIGHT A hunched over young man pushes the front door of the St. Anthony’s Parish and walks toward the front desk in the center left of the front office.

“Do you have any lunches?”

“Oh yes, of course,” the receptionist says, handing him a brown paper bag.

The young man clutches the bag with his right arm. His right hand is limp but applies enough pressure to keep the lunch from falling.

Like many, this young man likely came seeking relief. He walked into the Parish with worn out blue jeans rubbing the sides of his sneakers, but he left with a ray of hope in his eyes.

“We fix about 80 lunches a week,” Pastoral Assistant for Involvement and Outreach Mary Ann Smith said. “Lunch is for those who work in the area.”

St. Vincent de Paul Society, an organization connected to St. Anthony’s, provides the lunches the church then distributes.

“Some people come every day. We don’t ask questions,” Volunteer Wilma Rucker said, sitting in for the receptionist. “We assume that the people who ask for them really need them.”

And yet, some people need more than a lunch; they need a place to stay. For homeless men, there’s Arise, a church project aiming to do everything from paying people’s rent to light and utility bills. The program houses the homeless two months out of the year.

“Essential to our mission is to serve those who are poor, sick, imprisoned and strangers—all those who are in need,” Zender said.

Good deeds such as these are meant not only to help people in times of need, but to give faith and save lives.

“It’s giving of ourselves mostly—giving of our talents, giving of who we are to others,” Smith said. “When we give that human connection, we grow as people. Those who receive, receive hope, and receive something that will help them for at least one more day.”

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|Mirjam Amstutz |Ads and Buisness Manager Washington state voters recently passed Referendum 74, making the state one of nine states allowing same-sex couples to marry.

With marriage now a genderless institution, homosexual and transgender couiples may receive the same rights and benefits previously reserved for heterosexual couples.

Everyone may now sign the marriage document and call each other statecertified spouses.

“I think the new law is fair for gay people”, junior Wan Na Huang said.

“They get the same opportunity like that. I also would have approved it.”

Some students say they support homosexual individuals but would not have voted for Ref. 74.

“I just don’t like the new law because it changes the definition of marriage,” senior Mar’Quel Davis said, “and I don’t want the definition to be changed. I know people who are gay and some of them are my friends, even a couple of my relatives. I don’t believe in discrimination.”

Junior Tupo Lauaki agrees.

“I accept gay people. There is nothing wrong with them, but I don’t really support gay-marriage. We don’t look down on them, but still I would have voted no [on Ref. 74].”

Gay couples started picking up their marriage certificates and licenses from county auditor offices Dec. 6, a day after the election But because Wash. state has a threeday waiting period, the earliest a certificate could be signed to validate the union was Dec 9.

The law doesn’t require religious organizations or churches to perform marriages, and it doesn’t punish churches if they don’t marry gay or lesbian couples.

But that didn’t stop hundreds of local same-sex couples from lining up at the King County Administration Building early Thursday. Licenses were issued form 12.01 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ref. 74 shows that a majority of voting Wash. state citizens believe people who are not heterosexual but wish to be married should have the same rights and privileges as married, heterosexual couples.

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knowmoreplayhardintro The Breakdown: The full scoop on the games for every winter sport, including the victors, the opponents and the results. We posses all the on-field and on-court action, and all the glory is at your fingertips BOYS SWIM Overall Statistics

Varsity has 0 wins, 2 loses. Fourth in Seamount League

Opponent

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@Tyee

@Highline

@Kennedy Catholic

@Steilacoom

Date

Dec.20

Dec. 20

Dec. 20

Dec. 13

Dec. 4

Results

TBD

TBD

TBD

37-124 (L)

117-14 (L)

Captain Benny Souriyadeth’s Recognitions: “Danny Mar and and Dan Pham.

They are some of our fastest racers and hard workers.”

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Overall Statistics

Varsity has 1 win, 1 loss. Fifth in Seamount League

Opponent

@Kennedy Catholic

@Hazen

@Tyee

Kennedy Catholic

Tyee

Date

Dec. 18

Dec. 11

Dec. 11

Dec. 4

Dec. 4

Results

TBD

120-133 (L)

120 (W)

120-118 (W)

120-79 (W)

Captain Cindy Nguyen’s Recognitions: “Cynthia Fang has really good form, works hard in practice and always has a good attitude.

Also Liza Murtaugh has a really good bar routine and good attitude.”

WRESTLING

Varsity has 2 wins, 0 loses. Fourth in Seamount League Junoir varsity has 1 win, 0 loses. Third in Seamount League

Overall Statistics Opponent Date

@Shelton Dec. 15

Results

TBD

Ineterlake

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Foster

Dec. 13

Dec. 8

Dec. 6

Mariner Dec. 1

49-18 (W)

Tournament

64-18 (W)

Tournament

Coach Keith Eager’s Recognitions: “I would say Sam Nicolas and Emmanuel Martinez beacuse they put in a lot of work from last season to this one, and started thier own free-style wrestling club and went to free-style state contests. They do alot for wrestling.”

GIRLS BASKTEBALL

Varsity has 5 wins, 2 Losses. First in Seamount League Junior Varsity has 2 wins, 2 loses. Second in Seamount League C-Team has 1 wins, 0 lose. Fourth in Seamount League

Overall Statistics Opponent

Evergreen

Hazen

Tyee

Eastlake

Date

Dec. 12

Dec. 7

Dec. 5

Dec. 1

Garfield Nov. 30

Results

65-24 (W)

58-20 (W)

53-2 (W)

42-39 (W)

61-20 (W)

Captain Taylor Farris’ Recognitions: “Alisha Stowers. She hustles. She’s a good teammate and very positive.

She is a team player. She is a hardworker and doesn’t give up.”

BOYS BASKETBALL

Varsity has 6 wins, 0 Losses. First in Seamount League Junior Varsity has 4 wins, 0 loses. Second in Seamount League C-Team has 0 wins, 1 loss. Fourth in Seamount League

Overall Statistics Opponent

@Evergreen

Hazen

@Tyee

Mt. Rainier

Date

Dec. 12

Dec. 7

Dec. 5

Dec. 1

Juanita Nov. 30

Results

49-64 (W)

89-56 (W)

30-69 (W)

67-62 (W)

76-58 (W)

Captain Jonathan Patterson’s Recognitions: “Justin Pienh. He is an extremely great shooter. He cheers up the teammates and does what’s needed. Also Jordan Holland, a hard worker. We can’t do it without him.”

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loved the vibe I got from wrestling,” Rodriguez said.

On the other hand, Rodriguez is still striving to improve.

“I’m a hard worker and I’m striving to become a better wrestler,” Rodriguez said.

With his first tournament over and weighing in at 170 varsity, he seeks to drop more weight.

“I wrestled at 170 varsity at the last tournament, and I want to drop down to 160 towards the end of the season,” Rodriguez said.

The results of that earlier match didn’t make him happy.

“I lost both of my matches; one only by points and the other match with a pin,” Rodriguez said.

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|Angelica Nicolas |Cover Editor Covered in sweat, his shirt no longer appears gray but black, junior Abel Rodriguez says this year was the right year to join wrestling.

“I felt it was the right year because I was no longer busy, and I felt ready for the season,” Rodriguez said. “I really wanted to do it sophomore year because I found out Samuel Nicolas was doing it, but I wasn’t able to join due to personal reasons.”

Encouragement from friends - and some weight lifting at the end of his sophomore year - made him want to get on the mat.

“During Reality Sports and pre-season I started to enjoy it, and I

Name and Grade

Emily Tran ‘13

Kathleen Bui ‘16

My-Huyen Pham ‘13

Crystal Gonzales ‘16

What made you interested in joining gymnastics?

The Olympics

I wanted to try something new

Current captains convinced me

The challenge of it

What is your favorite move or event?

Vault

Cat leap

Bars and split leap

Wolf jump on beam

What helps you prepare for competition?

I try to get a good rest

Have a positive mind and attitude

I don’t psych myself out

Staying calm

Do you see yourself doing gymnastics in the future?

Why or why not?

As much as I enjoy it, no.

It’s just a hobby

Yes, I enjoy it. Plus, once I start something I like to finish it

Not competitively.

I’m not pro enough

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| Julian O’Francia | Play Hard Staff Spit-polished, laced-tight, and sole-worthy, the kicks of the boys basketball team provide a new-found punch to the undefeated boys team.

“My shoes are called Nike Hyper Dunks 2012,” senior Jonah Magat said.

“I bought them for $110. I got them from a friend I know. That’s how I got them cheaper than what they retail for.”

Many players put deep thought into which shoes they wear on the court, in what color, and why.

“Most definitely the color pink,” Magat said. “I feel like these shoes make me stand out and get more attention than any other shoes. It’s a color that girls like, which is always a plus.”

Looks aren’t the only thing people look for in shoes. The quality of the shoe can affect players’ performance in games.

“The shoe is so comfortable and light,” Magat said. “It makes me run faster and jump higher, like Derrick Rose. It helps with my game a lot.”

Magat isn’t the only one who wears shoes just for the name or the color .

“I wear the KD4 Aunt Pearls because of the color and the message behind them,” senior Justin Pienh said.

Kevin Durant’s custom-designed shoes were inspired by his aunt. The inside of the strap states, “In memory of Aunt Pearl who inspired us all to continue to fight for a cure.”

“It was the least I could do to show awareness for people who have cancer,” Pienh said.

When it comes to working hard the shoes gives Pienh motivation.

“The shoes give me a reason not to quit,” Pienh said. “Even though these people know they have cancer they always find a way to keep fighting through each day,” Shoes can be very important in Pienh’s everyday life. Pienh believes people should recognize cancer even though it’s not breast cancer month.

Yet even the most charitable shoes sometimes aren’t what they are expected to be for performance on the court, especially for Pienh, who has bad ankles.

“I feel like it doesn’t have much ankle support,” Pienh said. “Once in the first quarter I tweeked my ankle.”

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“I don’t break rules a lot because I don’t like getting in trouble, but for the seniors at the end of the year... they do like one skip day.”

“If the rule puts someone’s life in jeopardy, but I don’t think people should break their moral standards for rules.”

“A lot of people jaywalk when they go off campus during lunch.”

Cinderella Accused of: sneaking out of the house at night and attending a big party when instructed to stay in, lying to royalty.

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“It’s a habit to turn your phone on even in class.”

“They’re eating in class and listening to music. They hide the small in-ear-headphones in their hoods. They don’t want to listen to the teacher.”

‘The most broken rule is probably eating above the first floor or chewing gum in class.”

Rule-breakers, all of us.

Pages 10 & 11: when to break a rule, how, and Pages 12 & 13: forging signatures, texting and eating in class Pages 14 & 15: ideas for changing the system Page 16: revolutionary rule-breakers Page 17: a referral for the rebels Page 18: we created new rules and broke those too Page 19: Queneshia Lee loses her cool Page 20: how rules came to be, a creation story

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WHEN TO BREAK A RU

From driving the getaway car to chewing gum in class: How do I know if I’m a legs off keyboards? Warning: This guide may contain material I’m wondering, “Is breaking a rule necessary?”

... to do something quickly?

Example: I have five minutes left of lunch before I have to go back to class and I just barely got my food. I have virtually no time to eat it so I gobble it all on the way to 4th period Language Arts, avoiding the security and staff who forbid eating on the 2nd and 3rd floors. I get to class on time with a full stomach.

Verdict: Why not? The teachers eat up there.

... to fulfill a selfish desire?

Example: I want to eat the last cookie, and I was thinking it would be okay to break my mom’s don’teat-the-last-cookie rule because, hey, if I don’t eat it, someone else will, and that somebody will probably be my annoying / spoiled little brothers, and they don’t deserve it. I’m the only good kid, and my blood sugar is running low, and to top it off Mom isn’t around. I eat the cookie.

Verdict: No, you shouldn’t have done that.

... to maintain pride or reputation?

Example: My parents expect me to get good grades, and they’re always bragging about my achievements. If I don’t get good grades, I feel like I let the family down. I’m tempted to cheat on my test because of an unexpected test / subject / question. Failure is not an option, and I need to pass everything. I cheat.

Verdict: Ask, “Would my parents be happier with an honest cheater or an accomplished liar?”

... to stand up for my beliefs?

Example: I love my little sister, so if some guy much older than her punches / verbally abuses her, I’m going to beat the crap out of him in a public place. I’m not going to care where I’m at, who’s looking, or what’s going to happen afterward, even if I get arrested, charged with a hospital bill, or banned from certain areas of town. My little sister might be scarred for life—but hey, I protected her!

Verdict: Yes, you have a good reason.

... to help someone in need?

Example: My wife / girlfriend / sister / auntie / mom is yelling “The baby is coming!” and the hospital is an hour away by freeway. You’re driving 60 miles per hour. You stomp on that gas pedal like its Justin Bieber’s face. Or: My friend is in “desperate” need of a muffin at lunch and wants me to steal one since she’s broke this week. She is in detention during lunch and can’t steal one on her own. I do know she likes to mooch off anyone in class as much as possible, so it’s not like she’ll be left to starve.

Verdict: Depends on the circumstance.

Ask, “Do I have a good reason?” Am I breaking the rule...

Double-check: “Do I really have a good reason?”

What’s the difference between a reason and an excuse anyway?

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• make me think, “Well, I exhausted every route...”

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What’s my strategy?

Okay, I’m breaking the rule.

I have an undeniably ethical reason (and no...“Vegas” and “YOLO” don’t count) and the flyest ‘fit around.

Heart racing and adrenaline pumping, I break the rule. I’m grateful there are no witnesses, so I don’t have to break another rule and use my Taser.

I broke the rule! What now?

If society, culture, great philosophers, and my mean, mean auntie deem me a revolutionary historical figure, I should congratulate myself. I’m one of the few. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Robin Hood, and Leon Trotsky are my new colleagues. (For more, see page 16.) I pump my fist like an anarchist.

If the computer lab attendant deems me a loser for switching the keys on the keyboard unnecessarily, I should admit the fact I’m basically addicted to rule-breaking for no good reason, and half the time I don’t know I’m breaking a rule. I’m a rebel only in my mind.

I was going to foment revolution with the proletariat masses, but skipped fourth period and hung out at Safeway instead.

Mix-and-match strategies below for a successful rule-breaking venture:

I make a detailed plan and stress over the smallest details, like, “Should I wear my Converse or my Vans? Should I go at 2:30 or 2:31?” If the teacher so much as looks back at me I’ll try again in another six months while I’m wearing a completely different outfit under a new name.

• Go around the outside / attack from the outside-in:

o Scale walls— I’ll need rope, carabineers, spiked shoes and tall ladders

o Walk up and knock on the door • Attack from the inside-out / infiltrate and subdue:

o parachute in—Call up the captain, get my favorite bed sheet, stuff it in a burlap sack, and

ignore my fear of heights

o Use flattery with the good ol’ Trojan Horse method—Surprise them when its least expected • Non-violent civil disobedience:

o Have a sit-in to demonstrate your dedication and leave under no circumstance, even to take

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o Schedule an appointment—Speak respectfully and at a good time, perhaps in private

What are the consequences?

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• School □ Detention, sent to office, told to step out in the hall □ Verbal warning, put in the corner, push ups □ ISI, suspension, expulsion, referral □ The school called my house, parents came in for a conference

• Church □ Has to read a section in Solomon to the congregation □ Has to help the kids in Sunday school □ People pray in a circle to “revoke” the demons □ Splashed with holy water

• Family □ Grounded / revoked of certain privileges □ No chicken at the family reunion □ Five minute lecture □ Spanked / slapped

• Law / Police / Dictator / Monarch / Judge / Executor / Other Designated Officials □ Jail □ Community Service □ Beheading □ Guillotine

Wait—all those consequences? Maybe this is only intended for serious risk-takers.

I doubt myself. I find myself worrying over the smallest and most useless things possible. Every time I imagine myself caught red-handed, the worst outcomes play in my head over and over again. But I guess that’s good, right? I guess now I can either not attempt anything and keep myself out of trouble or take the chance and see how things end up.

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STORIES OF BROKEN RULES

Explore the tales of a loophole finder, a fearless texter and an anywhere snacker

Forging a Note |Rafael Agas |Play Hard Staff There are people who break rules, and there are people who stay on the right side of the law. Then, there’s sophomore Josh Gumabao, a person who strains the rules but never technically breaks them. A Dearborn Park Elementary School third grade trip turned into a battle of wits.

“My teacher gave me a permission slip to get signed by my parent or guardian,” Gumabao said, “because we were going to the aquarium in Seattle.”

Gumabao is fitted with a black Northface, big smile and confidence.

“He looks like a goody goody,” sophomore Vivian Lai said. “He learns discipline and control from Tae Kwan Do. He looks like the guy who follows all the rules.”

“So I went home that day,” Gumabao said. “But I didn’t [technically] go home; I went to my cousin’s house.”

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Gumabao wanted to guarantee his chances of going on the field trip but his parents weren’t around.

“My parents were going to take too long to get home and sign my permission slip,” Gumabao said. “They’re also probably going to forget about it.”

Under his long, blackish-brown and flippable hair, all of his brain’s neurons sparked, ignited and collaborated to form an idea.

“So, I went to my cousin to sign it,” Gumabao said. “He was my babysitter. Therefore, he was my guardian.”

Gumabao’s cousin Junior wasn’t too fond of the idea, but Gumabao used everything at his disposal, even resorting to a threat.

“I threatened him,” Gumabao said. “I told him that when he’s sleeping, I would take his Pokémon Ruby game and delete it.”

With success on his side, Gumabao was able to attend his third grade class’s field trip to the aquarium and acquire a trophy: a memory of touching sea life.

“He signed that permission slip and the next day I touched a starfish,” Gumabao said.

“That starfish was slimy.”

Texting in Class |Alicia Quarles |Perspectives Editor “I think I can multitask,” freshman Mirriam Gathu said, “even though I know I’m not supposed to.”

Gathu is one of hundreds of people who text during class.

“I usually text people in school,” Gathu said. “I know that I’m not supposed to though.”

Some students feel more comfortable whipping out their phones out of their pockets and texting in class. Some don’t even have to look at their keyboards. Others text more suspiciously.

“It’s fun but at the same time it’s dangerous,” freshman Suaad Hersi said. “I don’t want to get caught. It’s risky.”

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Students know they’re not supposed to have their electronics out in class, but they do it anyway. If a student gets her phone stolen, security isn’t technically obligated to go find it because you’re not suposed to have your electronics at school.

“I text about once every two class periods,” Gathu said, “so I don’t feel as bad for breaking the rule because I know other students use their cell phones much more than I do.”

Students have different perspectives on texting in class.

“I text in class all the time,” freshman Yasmin Igal said. “It’s fun and I don’t ever get caught.

In Gathu’s defense, she sometimes breaks the no electronics rule for good reasons.

“Sometimes I even text my friends at school, but not always just to break rules and be bad,” Gathu said. “Sometimes I’m asking one of my friends who sits across the classroom for a book, or a pen if I forgot my own.”

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Eating at Anytime |Queneshia Lee |Copy Editor School has its set of rules when it comes to keeping the facility in order. For one senior, the rule of eating in class doesn’t sit well with her.

“The eating in class rule is beyond stupid,” senior Janaesha Leath said. “I eat in class either because I’m not full enough or I’m just hungry at the time.”

Leath eats during every class period except for third.

That is the one class she knows she absolutely cannot snack in.

“I don’t eat in my third period class because Mr. King will take my food and eat it,” Leath said. “That’s one thing that sets me off: when someone takes my food.”

Food is the source of energy the human body needs to function. Without food some may find themselves fatigued, weak and not in the mood to do work. Yet schols still need guidelines for students to follow.

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“I take their food away to send the message of not eating in class and breaking the school rule,” History teacher Michael King said.

“If they want us to be alert then they should allow us to eat in class,” Leath said. “If I’m not eating, then I’m sleeping.”

The majority of her teachers understand why she eats in class. To her they are very generous.

“They allow me to eat breakfast or go out into the hallway,” Leath said. “Teachers are very lenient. I have never gotten in trouble. The most I got was a ‘put it away’ in some cases.”

In the end, King is the only one of her teachers to help himself to his student’s food.

“I have had everything from pizza to sour patch kids to chicken sandwiches,” King said.

“I would stop eating in class if all my teachers were like Mr. King,” Leath said.

At the moment King is the only one to get her to stop eating. Only time will tell if his fellow employees will start doing the same.

“If that teacher is brave enough then I say go right ahead and do what I do,” King said.

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THERESA BURNSIDE “Well, I would say the dress length (rule) because I always wear dresses. Matter of fact, I see a bunch of chicks around here wearing small skirts with tights and flats. Even when you go shopping nowadays you can’t really find a dress or a skirt that’s past your knees and is cute. We gotta show them legs! I wear short dresses sometimes and I feel super lame wearing leggings under them just because they are like a hand short. It’s dumb! Uhhh, let us wear our dresses!”

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“The one where a principal signs a paper to let you go off campus. That should change because I know that all us freshman were freaking out about it but then we realized that it was fine to go without getting signed off. So it’s not okay because no one ever really follows it and it’s sad that only those who go a couple of times get caught and those who go all the time don’t get caught and don’t even have it signed.”

From a young age, we are taught that when we see something wrong, we fix it. But then, we are expected to follow each and every rule set before us with total and complete obedience. When we bend the rules every now and then, it is not to outright rebel against authority. Well, not always. Sometimes it is to try and instigate a change in the system.

Martin Luther King did it through sit-ins and bus boycotts; Steve Jobs did it by defying everybody’s expectations and revolutionizing modern technology; Marilyn Munroe did it by accepting her body and

JENNY ALMONIDOVAR “I think the no food on the third floor rule is booty. I mean, I know we have rats and all, and people should know how to clean after themselves, but we shouldn’t have to have restrictions on eating food.

We should crack down more on being clean instead of trying to prevent things that way. Our students are so lazy that Mr. Devlin took away the microwaves because people didn’t even clean them up when they spilled their cup of noodles. Yeah, it’s gross and tiring to see our school in a mess and no one likes it. I saw this big spill in the middle of the commons today and no one cleaned it up. MAKES NO SENSE!”

JAQUELINE ARREOLA “Chewing gum, I guess. The only reason why they would have the ruleis because of people sticking gum under the desk. But as long as people don’t stick gum under desks it should be fine. I can’t think of a way how they can monitor that. If they take the gum off and allow students to chew gum for a week and there’s no gum on the desks then it should be fine.”

becoming a role model for curvy women everywhere; Johnny Depp does it through his quirky and unique tactics that defy all convention; the Blue Scholars do it through lyrical lines that attack your ears and touch your soul; these words, perhaps, do it by communicating with you in the hallway or in class or at home. Society expects us to be perfect and to follow rules some say are “in our best interest,” but are they? Sometimes other people know what’s good for us, but sometimes we know what needs to change.

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“A rule that I think is dumb would be the amount of passing time and the tardy punishment. If you’re late you’ll be given a lunch detention.”

MARIUS HEARD

“I don’t agree with not being able to retake tests in math. Tests count for seventy percent of our grade.

If you do badly then there is no hope for you.”

ALICIA EASTER

“The two lunches. Because I think that there should be one hour lunches because it’s harder to connect with friends when there are two different lunches.”

ANDREW NGUYEN

“We should eat wherever we want because it’s easier to walk up the stairs with my food instead of staying downstairs.”

MARIKO YORITA

“I think the rules at this school are actually pretty okay and reasonable. If I had to choose, I guess no eating on the second or third floor.”

CLAUDIA WILSON

“The no hats in the computer lab rule! I don’t understand how my hat is interfering with anything.

It doesn’t bother anyone, so I just don’t get it. I would like to not have that rule at all. It gets people in trouble for no reason!”

KRISTIAN TANGOL

“It’s a stupid rule to not have us eat our lunch on the second and third floor. Teachers should just trust us to not leave any crumbs or drop food during lunch.”

ROWEL DANAO

“No hats in the computer lab. I think we should be able to wear them everywhere. We can wear them around school and the teachers don’t say anything about it, so I don’t get why in the computer lab.”

SHANIL PRASAD

“Not being able to wear pajamas because some people are lazy and they should be able to come to school comfortable, so it’s better for them to learn.

Yeah, I’d change it so people can be more comfortable and learn better, without sleeping. Pajamas are okay, but no pillows!”

KRIZIA COAGDAN

“I’d break the rule that people who WORK on the school newspaper can’t be in the school newspaper.”

BANYON MCBRAYER

“I think the amount of time we have for lunch is too short and most students go off campus to get their lunches. By the time lunch is over they’re barely getting back to school and they end up getting in trouble for having food. They should extend the lunch time so students won’t be in a rush to get to school because they are going to be late to their class.”

JOSE MENDEZ

“There’s like this one thing: some girls have really low-cut shirts and they don’t really wear undershirts or something, or they have tights on and they’re wearing really short shorts. It bothers me because it doesn’t really look good for Renton High.”

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NINE REVOLUTIONARY RULE-BREAKERS

Civil rights, moral values, social justice and passion are what drove these nine revolutionaries to liberate themselves from the clutches of established society |Aidan Chaloupka |Know More Staff THE MAN WHO EMBODIED AN IDEAL Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Trotsky was first arrested at age 19 for illegally organizing the South Russian Workers’ Union, but he quickly escaped using a forged passport. Finding refuge in various countries (all for relatively brief lengths of time), and making short unannounced ventures back to Imperial Russia, he continued to oppose the tyrannical monarchy he so despised until 1917, when he played a vital part in organizing workers unions in St. Petersburg.

Post revolution, Trotsky’s fame soared.

However, due to his criticism of the recently empowered dictator Josef Stalin, he was exiled. Eventually finding refuge in Mexico, Trotsky continued to denounce Stalinism, as well as the impending doom that was to come if Adolf Hitler and other Fascists went unchecked. After miraculously surviving an assassination attempt in which machine guns emptied bullets into his walls, he finally succumbed to the agents of Stalin after taking a pick axe in the head.

THE WOMAN WHO PUT IT TO WORDS Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) Simone helped bring to light that woman were (and are) often thought of as the “other” sex. Instead of merely noting successful women’s “masculine traits,” she said women should be accepted and embraced as their own. She even went on to criticize other feminists for their role in comparing successful women to men. Her ideas would serve as a major inspiration for the “modern” face of feminism.

THE MAN WHO DID IT ALL FOR AN OLD PIECE OF WOOD Ioannis “Jack” Halikias (1898-1957) A Greek immigrant to New York, Halikias risked his reputation, his family relations, and his livelihood for the instrument he so loved, the bouzouki. Due to the bouzouki’s associations with hashish smoking and gambling, Halikias practiced in secret to avoid being beaten by his father; he even employed the help of his twin sister, who held an umbrella in front of him so he would not be seen. After a time of hardship and pickpocketing, Halikias secured a recording contract with Columbia Records and went on to record the first bouzouki solo in history, “To Minore Tou Teke.” The record was a hit and changed the face of Greek culture. When Halikias became disillusioned with the practices of Columbia Records, he returned to a life of crime, where he was known as “The Gentlemanly Thief.” Local and visiting musicians regularly visited his Washington Heights flat in New York.

THE WOMAN WHO WAS AN EPITOME OF WHAT THE NAZIS DESPISED Roza Papo (1914-1984) On the eve of the 1941 Nazi invasion, Sephardic Jew Roza Papo joined the Yugoslavian National Liberation Army, a resistance movement dedicated to liberating the southwest Balkans from fascist control.

As a woman, a Jew and a Communist, she was everything the fascists despised, and her work as a commander of partisan hospitals played a major role in keeping the army that would defeat the fascists in good order. As the first female general in the Yugoslav army she operated numerous military hospitals during World War II, in which her actions played a major role in securing the health of the troops.

As a woman, a Jew and a Communist

THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE VOICE OF A PEOPLE Fatma Sid Ahmed (1830-1863) Renowned from a young age for her knowledge of the Qur’an, which she studied with her father as well as independently, Ahmed was fiercely free spirited, even refusing the marriage her parents had arranged in order to pursue her education.

Later in life she would lead military activity against French colonizers and organize resistance, inspiring the masses to resist the actions of the French colonizers with her orations. Fatma showed the French as well as the world that women can be bold and charismatic in political activities.

After capture, Fatma died in a prison with extremely poor conditions, sharing the same fate as her army. She continues to be a national figure in Algeria and elsewhere in North Africa.

THE MAN WHO NOBLY BROKE THE LAW Baha’u’llah—born Mírzá Husayn-`Alí Núr Exiled from Iran for his dissident faith, dreamed of a world of enlightenment and tolerance. His movement, known as the Baha’i faith, was derived from Shia Islam.

This effectively doomed followers’ relations with the orthodox ruling classes of 19th century Iran, who viewed the religion as an illegitimate threat to power.

He escaped to Ottoman Turkey, where he sent letters to figures including Queen Victoria, the Russian Tsar and Napoleon III urging global unity. As a potential threat to the Turk’s power, he was given the strictest sentence. Imprisoned, Bahaullah and his followers managed to win the affection of fellow inmates and even guards.

To avoid being beaten by his father

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THE MAN WHO SET A NEW IMAGE Slim Gaillard (1916-1991) Most likely born in Cuba to a mixed family, Slim Gaillard lived a life far off the cliff of “straight” society yet still managed to attract the admiration of audiences worldwide. A musician, Slim’s unorthodoxy is reflected both in his personal life as well as his music. A pioneer of the Bebop movement, he helped set an attitude of widely wandering thought, eccentric clothing, and a whole new way of improvising, even speaking his own slang dubbed “Vout.”

Oftentimes his songs were banned because the words represented a threat to conservative censors, at other times, merely from misinterpretation.

Culturally, Slim played a rather idiosyncratic role in furthering the cause of the African American community; protests were rarely direct, and he relied on comedy and his charming character.

THE WOMAN WHO DIED FOR HER HUSBAND Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953) Rosenberg’s political activity started when she became a trade unionist, leading a strike of women workers against the shipping company where she was employed.

She soon joined the Communist party, where she met her husband, Julius. After word of her husband’s sharing of atomic bomb secrets became known, she was arrested under suspicions that she had been involved in espionage. She would plead her innocence until her execution in 1953.

THE MAN WHOSE DEATH ONLY STRENGTHENED HIS MESSAGE Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Gandhi’s start as a civil rights activist started when he was first hired to go to South Africa in 1893, where he witnessed and experienced widespread racism. During his stay, his philosophy formulated and while he was not the first to praise peaceful protest, he was the first to make fully effective use of it. In 1914, he returned to India where led a Muslim organization even though he was Hindu. In 1919 the Amritsar Massacre exposed Gandhi to the brutality of British rule and the need for independence, and throughout the 1930’s he advocated peaceful protest. A major founder of the “Quit India” movement, he believed that if India fought for democratic freedom, she would need to taste that freedom herself.

On the day India’s independence, Gandhi was assassinated by a separatist.

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A REFERRAL FOR YOU REBELS ARROW asked the leaders of La Resistance, “What rule do you break the most?” As punishment for kindly participating in our survey, we’re dishing out a referral for the whole school. The discipline form below shows the most broken rules according to students. Each hashmark represents 1% of all of you.

VIOLATION EXPLANATION: The ‘violation’ section above shows the rules you have violated recently or will probably violate soon. Each hashmark equals one-percent of the student body. The “electronics” category has the highest total: 18%. (The scientists don’t like when they call us “plugged in.”) Other offenses: slapping, kissing, exchanging harsh words, goofing around in class, violating the dress code.

COMMENTS EXPLANATION The ‘comments’ section shows consequences students have been given from kindergranden to high school. Looking at the results, we’re hoping some of you lied. Maybe you were trying to impress your friends and act bad? We don’t know.

We just did the math like the good math geeks we are. And what we got was the percentage of how many times you all have gotten in trouble and caught.

THE MEANING YOU WISH YOU WERE REBELES

| Evelyn Fitz | NUM83RS Staff This school is filled with rebels.

They live by their own rules, which of course they don’t have. Nothing can restrain them; they are freer than free.

Electronics are good to plan out huge heists. 47% of you are electronic heist planners. You sit and maul over the smallest details, so concentrated that you don’t notice when the teacher has been standing in front of your desk for the past five minutes with his/her hand open wide trying to take your phone away. “THE HEIST IS OFF. THE HEIST IS OFF.” You tap onto the desk in Morse code as the teacher takes your phone away. Sorry, maybe some other day you can do a teenage remake of Ocean’s 11.

“If they give us food, why aren’t we allowed to eat it?” 15% of you, food moochers say as the teachers make you throw away their food. The kids who “secretly” stick their heads under their desks, then into their bags to get one more bite. You always seem to have the tastiest food in your bag. Sadly, so does the garbage can now, because the teacher made you throw out your food.

Then there are those of you who like to make fashion statements, all 7% of you, and wear the most revealing clothing just for the sake of looking good and getting the attention. Your philosophy: If the native tribes in the Southern Hemisphere can sit around bare chested, why can’t I? Well, Madame or sir of the Amazon, we don’t live in the Congo. So cover up and pull up your pants.

The fashionably late, the 5% of you who turned in the survey AFTER I left the room. Do you guys enjoy the rush that comes from running from security? I guess being late and running around trying to get it together is what you live for.

But with every ying there is a yang.

The 10% of you who said none, you enjoy walking on the far side of the sidewalk. Compared to you, Bubble Boy has more adventures in a day than you do in your life. But that’s okay. Thanks to you, teachers still have hope in humanity.

The Meaning offers an interpretation of the numbers you see to your left. The percentages you see are based off of surverys distributed to over 200 students during the week of Dec. 3-7 and have been mathematically calculated.

Our margin of error is 5.41percent.

Num83r5PerspectivesDelinquents When all the old rules were broken and the world was nothing but a network of ashy streets, and the solarpowered agriculture robots threw their batteries to the sun, and the looters ransacking the Wal-Marts realized Wal-Mart was empty and set-up camp, new rules developed, and we broke those | too.

|Naje Bryant |Play Hard Editor We were the repo-rulers, the people who knew the new rules but broke them. We lived in the Wal-Mart. Some wannabe entrepreneur / community organizer got a ladder and removed the “r” to create “Wal-Ma t,” a place for followers to sleep.

Most of the followers were teenagers with no land. We said we would follow to get some space, but we didn’t care.

One of the new rules was to speak common languages listed in the Book of Shared Values.

We broke it. How were people supposed to mutter to themselves like crazy people if they couldn’t speak gibberish? We made up new tongues. (Blee bag blu ska means: Nice, right?)

Another rule: Don’t step on another man’s sleeping bag. The idea was that we’re all in sleeping bags and no one has tons of space, so honor the linoleum. Let families have the corners. Let each man have his bag.

We broke that too. We stepped on bags in the middle of night on our way to pee. And there were too many families and not enough corners. Too many little kids in our den. So families out foraging during the day would return to find us occupying their established corner.

Everyone was supposed to walk in groups and hold hands and be safe and whatnot, but we made the kids do chores alone after we told them about zombies. Kids were a zombie specialty, we said. (The kids were supposed to collect ash for fertilizer. Ash to make things that wouldn’t grow, grow a bit.)

We were supposed to love everyone no matter clean or dirty, but even us post-civilization-era town-folk clung to civilized thoughts.

If you’re going to dig through ashes, wash your hands.

You know how it goes: every once in a while there would be a spot on the gravel ground, a crack of green, a blade of grass or flower poking into a sunless smoggy world. The good people would erect little fences to protect these things. Toothpick garbage. We knelt down and dug around and took things for ourselves.

Afterward we would wash.

We never spoke of borrowing certain tools from certain people. We had a stash.

And you know? Eventually our eyes adapted to the dark.

The trees tried to evolve but didn’t have much luck—them and their stupid reaching toward the sky. We plucked the last leaves and wiped our behinds, and when we ran out of leaves we used other people’s books.

Everyone was supposed to keep an eye out for pieces of old history and report them to the Ministry of Cultural Preservation, but we knew “preservation” wasn’t happening.

The first problem the old humans had was letting technology take over, and everyone should be afraid it would happen again.

Good, poor, or restorable condition: we never reported. We kept every electronic device. One day, we thought, these things would make us useful again.

The kids in the empty Wal-Mart would sometimes play on the ground with sticks, imagining the day when super robots would scoop their ash.

Yeah, right.

We were all just digging our graves.

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Broken Rules, Broken Desk

|Queneshia Lee |Copy Editor It all started in the second grade in Ms. Becker’s class. As a little kid I was not very bad. I was the quiet one who did all her work and got along with everybody. Everybody has that one person who pushes their buttons. For me that person was Patricia Weaver. She was that stuck up girl no one liked.

You couldn’t tell her nothing. She was always right even when she was wrong. Our dislike towards each other all started when Ms. Becker told us we would be having a guest coming in to the class the next day. The guest was her boyfriend. She tried her hardest to convince us he wasn’t, but we weren’t hearing all of that.

Patricia and I sat at the same table across from each other. We never talked to one another because she always made fun of me. That never made sense because I was very nice to each and every person I came across.

We were seven years old, and we didn’t exactly know what “beef ” was. Instead of telling me directly to my face what she didn’t like about me, she would go to the next person and tell them. Unfortunately, she didn’t know that every time she would tell people they would come and tell me.

That day when the guest came in, our only task was to be on our best behavior and enjoy our free time. This particular day, Weaver

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Beaver decided to test me. (“Weaver Beaver was the name I gave her.) She felt it was the best thing to throw a book at me just for the heck of it. See, Patricia has long beautiful wavy hair, hair people would kill for, hair I despised.

Well, today was the day, the day I made Weaver Beaver pay, the day I did something to let her know I wasn’t the one to mess with, the day I got in trouble.

I walked around her as if I were leaving the classroom and wrapped my hands around

her long beautiful hair and banged her head into the desk. I was angry.

Later, the more I thought about it, the more I was embarrassed I had let Ms. Becker down. I couldn’t do the one simple thing she asked us to do.

A long drawn out lecture, phone call home and another lecture by my dad was what followed. Now, looking back at that day, I’m just glad I got my revenge on Patricia even though there were consequences. I don’t regret it, and I never will.

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|Andrea Dyer |Intro Editor When I was younger, I was constantly in trouble; I was still learning the rules.

My grandmother told me it was dangerous to sit in the back of my friend’s father’s truck and my mother told me that even if we were making lost dog posters I shouldn’t have gone into my friend’s house without a parent.

I started to follow big rules, the general, obvious rules that will be plastered on the board or anyone can find using common sense. Be respectful. Be appropriate. No talking to strangers.

Nevertheless, I would accidently get in trouble. I would be scolded

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for setting something down, or singing “Drops of Jupiter” while waiting for our food at the local Red Robin.

I was always annoyed with those rules, thinking, “There isn’t a legitimate reason for that rule.”

Why should I NOT do this? Will it bring our nation to an end? The whole world? Maybe the world isn’t affected by me.

I could easily say “No, I’m going to just take this bag of candy.

Come on, it’s Reese’s!”

What really influences me to follow the rules? The thing that many adults assume is the cause of bad behavior: television. I frown at the actors on my screen portraying characters who make stupid mistakes.

Me? I would never do that. Seeing all the consequences was entertaining at first, but then, repetitive and ridiculous.

I don’t want my story to be recreated on a new “Law & Order” or criticized by newscasters. I follow the rules because I need people to look at me and say “Well, she wouldn’t make it on ‘Jersey Shore.’”

| Mona Orejudos | Faces Editor They can be called many things: laws, restrictions, guidelines, requirements, regulations, and policies.

But ultimately these are rules the President, the government, the authority figures, the teachers, the elders, and most of all, our parents expect us to abide in the rules.

And to me that means: you break them. Even if it goes against what you have learned in the early stages of your life.

You cannot just say “Eff the police!” prior to vandalizing some type of property just because you feel like it. You cannot commit murder just because someone steps on your grass.

You cannot skip 2nd period everyday only to sit in another class to be with your friends.

You cannot not do your work just because you’re busy chatting with your friends about irrelevent topics.

Why, you ask? Simply because that would be arrogant, idiotic, obnoxious, and silly of you.

There must be a good, thoughtful, intelligent and specific reasons behind the action of rule breaking.

Some of these reasons may include: breaking rules that go against what you believe,.

For what you were taught to live by.

For the love and protection of your family.

For the people you’ve learned to love in your life.

Or maybe a situation or a person who questions your character or personality.

Rules are set for the people who have no imagination and need a rubric on how to live their lives. So that makes rule breaking a form of expression within certain circumstances.

Sometimes a little rebellion is good for the soul. Sort of like thinking outside of the box at your own risk.

I’m not talking about burning down a police station but maybe starting a protest for what you believe in.

Honestly, some rules are just made to be broken.

Each month, The Heat showcases the opinions and thoughts of a reporter willing to tell her personal truth. Or make your lower lip tremble. Enough reality to inspire action in you, our reader.

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How Rules Came To Be, a Creation Story

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