CMR Stampede Oct22 2009

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october 22, 2009 vol. 45, no. 3

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Tobacco and teenagers smoking at cmr a growing problem WAalter B reuning witness to 113 years of history Rustler football a closer look at the offensive line c.m. russell high school great falls, montana

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Charles M. Russell High School: The Stampede editor-in-chief

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The Stampede, published approximately every four weeks, is a public forum for all voices on campus. These voices include the students, parents, faculty and the community at large.

The opinions and views in this publication are not necessarily those of the Stampede staff, the student body, CMR employees or the school administration.

The Stampede strives to cover the news accurately and fairly; however, when a mistake is made, a correction will be printed in the following issue.

All writers are responsible for the content of their articles. Editors will edit all copy to be free

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The Stampede reserves the right to edit all letters; anonymous letters are not accepted.

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Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/KRT Campus High School Newspaper Service.

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meghan o’dell

art/photo editor

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op-ed editor

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news editor

tim seery

features editor

dayton smith

sports editor

shayna leonard

advisor

beth britton

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THE beat

The landscape around CMR is a homey one when considerNot only are there students who smoke near ShopKo, but ing all the nice houses and businesses around CMR, until you there are also kids who smoke behind cars along the street. see the haze of smoke.

Teachers should patrol the grounds to see if these kids are smokOn the CMR campus, smoking is not allowed. However, ing. Some do patrol right now, but only around the immediate on the streets surrounding CMR and mainly surrounding area of the school. between ShopKo and Sam’s Club, smoking is Teachers should patrol farther out to see for carried on as an after-school activity. We have themselves how many of these students are smokThis problem isn’t ing. They have to notice them at least over at Shopnoticed a growing number of students relocathidden from the ing around CMR and immediately light up their Ko, but there is also a large number of students cigarettes. hiding in or behind cars. school body.

Almost every day the haze of smoke can be Students can also take action when seeing othspotted at lunch and after school. This can’t keep ers smoking. They can contact the SRO to let him going unchecked. Why isn’t action being taken on these stuknow where it is happening. dents? They shouldn’t be able to smoke right next to the school, The SRO can also take action by patrolling at lunch. When and some of them have to be of the age that they still cannot he sees these students smoking he has to confront them. He may smoke legally. do so already, but we haven’t seen action on the after-school We are tired of hav- smokers. ing to avoid certain areas Right now, we don’t see a lot of action being taken on this around CMR because we problem. This problem isn’t hidden from the school body. It is don’t want to be subject to right in plain view and it is almost as if we are all scared to do secondhand smoke. The area around the school is a drug-free something about it. zone, or so we thought. These students shouldn’t be allowed to Action must be taken for this problem to cease. Or else the smoke so close to the school campus. problem will escalate further until it is even more out of conNot only is smoking around the campus just look bad on trol.

CMR, but it makes students at school who don’t smoke feel uncomfortable. It is very uncomfortable to not like smoking and come to school and have to endure students doing it around campus.

Either the SRO or school staff needs to take action against these students. There is no reason that underage smokers should feel the need to light up in plain view of everyone at the school.

If they feel the need to smoke, and we are not saying that they should smoke, smoke away from the school campus. At least do that much.

We aren’t advocating that these students continue to smoke, but that they instead choose to do it some where else. It is not too much to ask of them and it is not unreasonable.

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phone: (406) 268 6178 fax: (406) 268 6109 e-mail: stampede@gfps.k12.mt.us website: http://cmrweb.gfps.k12.mt.us/

Congratulations Rustlers! CMR students and staff have worked yet again to deliver a productive and significant Rustler Spirit Blood Drawing.

The American Red Cross knows that they can count on the students and staff of CMR to donate usable units of blood that will be used to save the lives of fellow Montanans.

The statistics are staggering: every 27 minutes a Montanan is in need of blood. Despite the biological stumbling block of the widespread H1N1 flu deeming many exempt from donation during the Oct. 12 event, Rustlers were not hindered in their ability to impress the Red Cross with their willingness, hospitality, and generosity.

For those of you unable to donate this time, the Red Cross will be back this spring to count on our generosity once again.

On another note, MORP is quickly approaching. This year MORP will take place Dec. 5 in the CMR Fieldhouse. We look forward to a great event for everyone.

Thank you CMR, for defending the pride and sustaining the tradition of selfless service and sacrifice that is our creed.

Tim Seery Sincerely,

Junior Class President

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Human rights universally ignored, U.N. intervention misguided tara slaughter

Maternal mortality in India, rockets from Gaza, riots in Uganda, and genocide in Darfur, are all violent and painful violations of the emotive and controversial topic: human rights.

Human rights are most commonly known as the basic rights everyone is entitled to; including the right to life and physical safety.

Helena Kennedy, chair of the Power Inquiry and advocate of the reform of democracy, stated that “Human rights are the articulation of the need for justice, tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity in all of our activity.”

In 1948, the 3-year-old United Nations put together the official Declaration of Human Rights, written mainly by Eleanor Roosevelt.

This declaration consists of 30 articles, all considered basic and undeniable rights to any human being.

We are all born free and equal. Slavery, in any form, is not tolerable. Torture is outlawed.

Unfair detainment is banned. All have the right to a fair trial, and are innocent until proven guilty.

All have the right to privacy, the right to a nationality – belonging to their country. Freedom of thought and religion is nonnegotiable. Education and culture are essential.

This list of human rights is made up of ideas and privileges that we take for granted every day, for the contradictions that are annihilating these human rights are staggering and innumerous across the globe.

Today, the U.N. consists of 192 countries, and the main goal

is to keep the peace throughout the world, which has proven a more difficult task than anticipated.

Violations of these human rights are most prevalent in under-developed and/or militarized countries. Most of these thirdworld countries have pitiful amounts, if any, of infrastructure and civic institutions.

Schools and hospitals are scarce, police systems are corrupt, right along with judicial systems. Violations lead to crises, crises lead to an even larger number of violations. A vicious circle.

Torture, assassinations, genocide, abductions, slavery, rape, enforced sterilization, medical experimentation, and deliberate starvation are all occurring at this very moment.

Peace negotiations prove extremely complex when these violations lead to civil wars, mostly stemming from “identity issues” that infringe upon humans’ rights to religion and thought.

“It is only understanding and ameliorating these root causes and strengthening civil society that we can truly protect human rights,” said Michelle Maiese, writer of “The Importance of Compensation” and strong advocate of universal human rights.

The problem is not the people until the contaminated atmosphere they breathe, the poisonous water they drink, and the economic pressures that leave but an inch of space between life and death, push them to violate the human rights of their brothers.

Once the tyrranical government ignorant to the poor circumstance of its people is eliminated, then will populations be free to grow and develop in peace and conserve the human rights all are entitled to.

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How’s the United States doing?

According to the Human Rights Watch 2009, our hands are unclean.

2,502

the number of people in the U.S. sentenced to life without possibility of parole for crimes committed under the age of 18. “There are no juvenile offencders serving this sentence anywhere else in the world.”

200,000

the number of students who have received corporal punishment. “Legal in 21 states.”

500,000

the number of rape kits that sit untested in labs across the U.S. “Growing by about 30 a month.”

2008

the year Congress passed legislation to allow certain refugees into the U.S. on a case-bycase basis. “The broad terms of law have led authorities to bar persons who qualify as refugees... including rape victims forced into domestic servitude by rebel groups.”

ATTENTION Nathaniel [Reginald McArthur] Hood.

hey! Choose your MORP date!

Georgia Mae Louise Morrison

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Montana Clean Indoor Air Act sparks controversy

a breath of

fresh air On Oct. 1, the last few cigarettes being lit up indoors were snuffed out. My lungs, and the lungs of many others, are crying out in jubilee. With the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act coming into play, bars and casinos can be added to the list of public places with “no smoking” signs posted in their windows. This is nothing but a good thing for Montana, as we set up to embrace a bright, clean, and healthy future.

The most common proemily peterson test against the bill is that it will hurt bar and casino owners. In areas where similar legislation has been enacted, this has had the tendency to happen only in one circumstance: when there is a bar with legalized smoking nearby.

Unfortunately for critics, this is in fact a state wide ban (with tribal land being the only exception inside state borders). Anyone who doesn’t want to travel the hours it takes to get out of the state or to a reservation is going to have to pick one vice over the other, or God forbid brave the cold to inhale their ticking time bomb before heading back in for another swig.

If anything, bars will gain revenue as non-smokers begin to breathe easier about hitting the scene. With a newly rejuvenated patronage, owners would be silly to let a customer illegally light up and risk perturbing a new customer.

To add to incentive, bar owners face a hefty fine if they let smoking customers slip through their fingers.

It’s not as if this bill is unprecedented or unreasonable. Back in the day smoking was commonplace everywhere: restaurants, concert halls, even planes. Restrictions have been tightening for years, and after a brief period of protest from small factions of the population, people adjust to the new rules and the cleaner air that follows.

It’s impossible to ignore the facts: smoking kills. It’s something they’ve been engraining in our brains since kindergarten. Cancer, Emphysema, asthma, and many other serious health

conditions can become a direct consequence of choosing to smoke, and that seems fair, right? Someone chooses to smoke knowing what can happen to them in the not so distant future, and so they should knowingly except the consequences of their own actions.

Unfortunately, their decision affects more than just them. According to the Surgeon General, it is estimated that at least 250 carcinogenic (cancer causing) chemicals are found in secondhand smoke. Including some found in chemical weapons, car exhaust, and paint thinners.

I’m not saying it should be illegal to smoke. Any person has a right to manipulate their own body in any way they choose, but when their vice becomes a hazard to the lives of others who have chosen not to endanger themselves, it becomes a public issue.

The right to a long healthy life should override the right to a nicotine addiction. Non-smokers deserve to be able to go where they choose and feel certain that the air they breathe is clean and safe.

No one’s barring smokers from enjoying the same places as nonsmokers, they’re simply asking them to respect the rights of others and smoke in the great outdoors, or on their own property.

This ban, finally forbidding smoking in all public places, will greatly benefit everyone involved except those experiencing the slight inconvenience of being unable to smoke wherever they please.

Who knows, maybe the inconvenience will be great enough to cause smokers to quit, and we’ll be finally rid of this nasty epidemic once and for all.

tobacco:

a love story

It began with a plant, as all things seem to do, and evolved into a product of outstanding controversy. Skoal, snuff, chew, Copenhagen, pipes, cigars, and the everpopular “ciggy-butt.” No matter which way it’s twisted, which way it’s made, what color can it’s in, or how often it’s used, it is still the same thing: tobacco.

For thousands of years the leaves of the tobacco plant have been smoked and chewed for both pleasure and medicinal purposes. Early on, around the meghan o’dell 1600s, people began to link tobacco use with diseases such as cancer, but its medicinal purposes such as serving as a protective during the ravages of the plague caused controversy.

Reverberations of the social earthquakes caused by such controversy are still felt, if not more intensely, today. Protests and aggressive rallies against secondhand smoke and for smoke-free public facilities are more prominent now than ever, but where exactly on the moral continuum do the economic ties of the top-dog tobacco industry fall?

As of Oct. 1, smoking was banned in all public facilities in the state of Montana, excluding bars and casinos on tribal lands.

The Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA) includes not only restaurants, as stated in former Montana law, but all bars, casinos and other working and public establishments in which smoking has been previously permitted. This will detrimentally affect the economic ties that have been developed between the tobacco industry and casinos, bars, smokers’ outlets and other tobaccofriendly institutions while also intruding upon the rights of Montana businesses and other public venues.

Economic impacts of a decrease in smoke consumption must be taken into consideration. Tobacco is one of America’s oldest and most profitable industries. Domestic sales for tobacco products exceed $45 billion annually. Money from these sales produces a large chunk of cash making up the federal budget.

The tobacco industry provides 50,000 manufacturing jobs and about 136,000 farming jobs directly, and generates an-

other 400,000 jobs indirectly, according to BBC News.

As the country slowly submerges back into the virtual “normality” of economic stability, job loss and cuts in the federal budget are likely to cause problems. The tobacco industry in Montana will be suffocated and slowly whither away, leaving hundreds out of work and excessive amounts of currency suddenly cut, leaving an already downtrodden state in a position of economic insecurity.

The CIAA has been established to create more healthy environments for students, workers and other peoples in public places. Secondhand smoke has been found to contain carcinogens which can be just as potent as if you were to stick it to your lips and inhale; therefore people have the right to oppose smoking environments in regard to their health.

Legislation is not needed for such opposition, however. Any and all establishments had the right to allow or prohibit smoking prior to the enactment of this legislation which was passed in 2005. The Oct. 1, 2009 deadline marked the end of the reign of owners in their place of business. Now the government says who, what, where, when and why in relation to tobacco consumption in public. Formerly, if customers complained in smoke-friendly establishments, owners could take simple, quick action depending on whether or not it was in the best interests of the business.

Although health issues are of significant importance, the economic impacts of such an act are detrimental to the stability of business throughout the state, directly affecting the state’s economy as a whole. As smoke-free establishments were already offered and others had the ability to determine smoking and non-smoking areas based off of economic interest, this law was completely unnecessary.

If you can’t stand the smoke, take a stroll over to the non-smoking section or the tobacco-free bar across the street. Laws are established in order to sufficiently satisfy the people, not just one particular majority.

If laws create problems such as economic disruption it is likely that they shouldn’t have been made into law to begin with.

happening NOW FASTtakes edited by tim seery

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Going GREEN for Gold

CMR installs upgrade on lighting system, looks forward to additional green moves Since its induction almost a year ago, it has been producing electricity for some of the This year CMR may seem quite literally rooms in the shop buildings. brighter. Over the summer CMR received “In conjunction of putting solar panels on, $354,000 out of a $1.1 million stimulus pack- we’re also going to be putting up an anemomage, to install upgrades to the lighting system. eter (a device that measures wind speed) and CMR principal Dick Kloppel said the main having software so people can log on and get advantage to the new lights id that it reduces that information at any time,” Mark Yeager, Inenergy consumption. dustrial technology department leader, said. “(The lights) produce about 100 percent One of the major projects in the works is more light and uses about 75 percent of the what Yeager likes to call “The Green Machine.” energy it used to,” It is a Volkswagen van Kloppel said. “And that is being stripped will save the district and rebuilt to become $20,000 a year just in completely electric. lighting costs.”

It will be transportThe upgrade was ing kids from North installed by Cascade Middle School to Electric, a local comCMR for math and pany that was conscience classes. The tracted by the convan will run off elecstruction company, tricity from batteries McKinstry. The inthat will be charged stallment consisted CMR’s future “green machine” is undergoing by the windmill and of replacing the old renovations and a transformation from gas to save the district the T8 bulbs with new electricity. Photo by Austin Lahr. cost of purchasing T12 bulbs, putting in gas. new light fixtures and ballasts.

“We still have maintenance costs, but we So why after receiving $354,000 did CMR can do that here,” Yeager said. choose to upgrade the lighting system?

Yeager said that the department is still “Lighting was the quickest way to gain buying parts and a conversion kit to run the the maximum efficiency and save the largest batteries and planning to start removing the amount of money in the shortest amount of old parts and getting it ready for the new parts time,” Kloppel said. as well as giving it the “green” paintjob in the The lighting is not the only upgrade help- next few weeks. ing the school become “green” and save “I want to make sure (the van) is up and money. The industrial technology department up,” Yeager said. “before we start tearing into has a few projects of its own, one of which is it.” mounting solar panels to the windmill. austin lahr

BABY ADS!

FRIENDSHIP ADS! Senior recognition!

Deadline: Nov. 5

See The Russellog staff in room 326 for more information. Space is limited.

Counting the dots on the floor, sophomore Ashley Fogelson works hard on her biology project. The biology classes are studying life on earth currently, and this is a closer look into population. Photo by Georgia Mae Morrison.

Industrial Rodeo makes impact CMR drama department to perform “Our Town”

The CMR Drama Department and Stagecraft is performing Our Town on stage in the Bill Williamson Hall on November 19, 20, and 21. Tickets will cost $6 for students and seniors and $8 for adults. For more information see Mr. Bergquist in room 603. Come and see a play about love, death, and everything in between.

The Freshman Industrial Technology students attended a Trades Rodeo at the Trades and Industry Building on Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 9-11:30. They had the opportunity to hear presentations centering around carpentry, collision repair, welding, electricity, iron workers, plumbing and pipefitting, and sprinkler filling.

Students signed up for five presentations and were introduced to a wide variety of emerging careers.

Rustler wins big in HP contest CMR senior Erik Montague won a laptop from an international contest that was held on YouTube. The HP You on You contest asked people all around the world to submit videos explaining who they are, and Erik Montague was chosen for one of the Top 100 Community Awards. The prize was an Artist Edition HP Laptop.

Journalists to travel to UM The University of Montana School of Journalism and an exhibit of Pulitzer prize-winning photographs is the destination this Friday, Oct. 23, for 21 Rustler journalists and yearbook and newspaper adviser Beth Britton. Students will tour the UM School of Journalism and meet with CMR graduate and J-School Dean Peggy Kuhr.

Following his blood donation Oct. 12 in the Fieldhouse, senior Adam Skrok recovers with juice and a snack.Photo by Beth Britton.

Foreign language potluck

The foreign language department is throwing a foreign foods potluck Oct. 29 from 5:30-7 p.m. in the cafeteria. All foreign language students and their families are welcome, and the foreign exchange Cross country team heads to students will also be in attendance. Bring state this weekend a foreign dish, come in costume, and be The cross country team will head to prepared to carve a pumpkin! state in Missoula to state on Saturday Oct. 24, 2009.

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nick schulz

From Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” to Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall,” speeches are one of the main centerpieces of American history and heritage. This fall and winter the CMR Talking Rustlers speech and debate team is continuing to uphold this tradition in a variety of ways. The Talking Rustlers have a new coach this year, Alex Rosenleaf, who has high hopes for his team.

Rosenleaf, a CMR social studies teacher, said his team definitely has poten-

tial; they just need to apply that talent in practice and stay determined throughout the season.

Rosenleaf is not new at the speech and debate game by any means. He has been speaking and debating since his freshman year of high school. Rosenleaf earned a trip to the national high school tournament for speech and debate in 1998.

He continued to participate in speech for The University of Montana. He was an assistant speech and debate coach for Great Falls High School and Sentinel High School was recently the

head coach at Hellgate High School.

Rosenleaf’s assistants this year are Kandi Rutledge, who coaches Interp and duo; Tony Underwood, who coaches policy debate and public forum; and Kari Rosenleaf, who coaches original oratory and extemporaneous. Rosenleaf himself coaches Lincoln-Douglas and extemporaneous.

Rosenleaf said he is optimistic about the upcoming season and said the team has high potential if they have the determination to win. Rosenleaf is confident in the strong speech team

Looking on with a smile, Alex Rosenleaf (above) listens to his kids practicing their speeches. Photo by Ashley Moore.

Speaking extemporaneously, Evan Sherman (right) practices for his next speech meet. Photo by Josh Philyaw.

With humorous oral interpretation on the mind, Aaron Sammons (far right) brings a laugh to the crowd. Photo by Josh Philyaw.

which has a lot of talent, but the debate team has been struggling because they do not have any legislative debaters. Rosenleaf said the team has slightly increased in numbers from last year from about 20 students to roughly 25. Rosenleaf said he is confident that by the end of the season his team can be in the top half in AA in Montana, and possibly in the top five if they really practice hard and apply themselves.

Speech and debate season for the Talking Rustlers starts this Friday, Oct. 24 when they compete at Great Falls High for a one-day meet. Rosenleaf is hopeful his team can start the season off strong and continue to perform well and maintain focus as the season continues.

2009-2010 Talking Rustlers Schedule October 24 - G.F.H. Kickoff Tournament November 6-7 - Butte Invitational 13-14 - CMR Electric City Invitational

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Growing up, surviving in a TEXTING world dayton smith

Teenagers are quieter than they used to be. No, they haven’t suddenly matured over night. It wasn’t in one day that their voices died down either.

Growing up these days means growing up in the middle of a revolution. It’s the technological revolution. Staying in touch with someone halfway across the globe is just a mouse click away.

Though people are finding it easier to stay in touch, it’s true, their voices are being heard less and less. About five or six years ago, right in the middle of this revolution, came the onslaught of text messaging.

It took a while, but finally found popularity around the time wireless phone companies started offering it unlimited with their monthly plans.

You don’t have to question how popular it has become, the numbers speak for themselves. Roughly 85 percent of the United States is a mobile phone user, nearly all of whom at least have text messaging included in their subscription.

It’s obvious that texting, or Short Message Service (SMS), isn’t just a phenomenon. It’s revolution.

As technology takes over our society, information and communication is becoming more and more instantaneous. The halls of a school are quieter these days, as students shuffle from class to class with their eyes fixed squarely down at the phone in the palm of their hands.

Who needs to search the school for one’s best friend between classes when they can communicate just by sitting back and pressing a couple of buttons?

But really, how did we get to the point we’re at today? Ten years ago, teenagers were still stressing over calling that certain crush’s house phone at 9 P.M. just to talk.

High school used to have the added factor of uncomfortable phone conversations, with plenty of awkward pauses. When you made plans, you had to trust that whoever they were with would actually show up. You couldn’t text them every five minutes to see how far away they are.

This shakeup in the whole scheme of things started about five years ago. If you’re in this generation, then you know full well the way to keep in touch in middle school was chatting on the Internet, primarily on MSN Messenger. Everybody came home, everybody logged on, and everybody talked. It didn’t matter if you really had nothing in common with, or anything to talk about with someone you chatted up, the conversation just kept going until phrases like “what are you up to now?” and “so…” became just as redundant as “Hey, what’s up?”

Middle school is about the time when kids start to feel confident about their “maturity” as well as start to appreciate the presence of the opposite sex in the classroom. It’s an ever-present distraction, unless you’re taking weight training or High School House, and even then there’s a chance it’s co-ed.

But middle school is really the time when kids just can’t keep it off their mind. They start to get “girlfriends” who they’ll spend time with occasionally, but rarely speak at school, and most likely have a friend deliver the message to when it’s time to break up.

So, they think they have it figured out, but really the whole concept of kids dating in middle school, let alone those stories you hear on Maury about 12-year-old’s getting pregnant, is pretty ridiculous. It didn’t cause much harm, however, until recently.

About five or six years ago, middle-schoolers having cell phones became about as common as their mother packing them a lunch. And right around this time, cell phone companies began to experiment with the unthinkable: unlimited text messaging for less than $20 a month.

A new door was opened in the realm of awkward adolescent conversation. No longer did young boys and girls, inhibited by their shyness in person have to rely on the possibility of being online at the same time as their special someone.

Now anytime, day or night, they could hide behind a smaller LCD screen and open their hearts without any of the uncomfortable pauses or responses they might elicit face to face. Text messaging, like the Internet, allowed kids to express the emotions they didn’t fully understand, and were most likely too immature to properly handle. It still is, and probably will continue to happen, with its slight consequences, but in the long run it’s mostly harmless.

When it’s not harmless is when it really gets weird. When has anyone ever thought that the idea of taking a picture of themselves in a naked or even semi-naked state was a good idea? Let alone a good idea to send it to someone. More so, kids, but mostly girls, turn their backs on each other every day. Kids get in trouble everyday because of foolish actions whose consequences they can’t comprehend.

When people date in middle school and high school, chances are, whether they like it or not, that it’s not going to last more than a month or two at best and isn’t going to resemble anything close to a real adult relationship.

Sending a current boyfriend a “sexy pic” on a cell phone is just one of those “Duh” moves that sounds like, and is, a bad idea. You’re going to break up, most likely fight about it, and somebody’s going to want to get back at the other one…

I wonder how they might. It’s not like they can send a picture stored on their phone to just everyone in their contacts, right?

Sexting, as it’s nicknamed, the act of sending or receiving sexually explicit Don Wright, MCT Campus messages, pictures, and videos via cell phone, has been made into a much bigger deal than it really is. Before the computer age, kids played spin the bottle.

When the Internet became popular, kids found ways to do inappropriate things with that, and so it’s only natural that youthful troublemakers would find a way to push the limits with cell phones, too.

Though cases of child pornography have been prosecuted in a few states due to sexting, many more kids around the country and the world are doing it. 47 percent of teenagers admit to having viewed a “sext” at one time or another. It may seem like a lot, but it’s not going to stop and it’s just as common, if not more so, in young adults.

Texting has come a long way, but it seems appropriate that progress in the world of rapid connectivity and communication would be just as rapid.

So here we are, five years past the onset of text messaging, where you can’t receive a text without the impulse that it needs to be responded to the very second you read it. Going to dinner doesn’t mean you’re getting a chance to have a nice one-on-one with a person. It means you’re having a chance to see how many times they’ll interrupt your conversation by replying to a text… chances are it’s more than once.

By staring at computer and cell phone screens all day, we hope to stay in better touch with those around us. But the truth is we’re losing touch. It’s hard to hold a real, compelling conversation with someone when you’re only practiced in the brief, fragmented communication that is texting.

Text messaging, along with the rest of our scientific advances, is a nice luxury to have and there’s no denying that. Its consequences are both positive and negative, and though some aspects can be debated, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s here to stay and is going to have a major role in the technological reshaping of our society.

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How has texting affected your life?

Tabitha Hometchko

“It’s handy in case of an emergency.”

Eamon Ormseth

“Without texting I would probably have to do boring stuff like water skiing and mountain climbing.”

Ryan Durkin

“I just text my mom.

We try to keep in touch all day.”

Justin Santy

“It’s a good way to stay in touch and meet girls.”

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Big Deal

Events you should know about

Nov 4 Nov 5 Nov 6

Connecting the dots: Dual credit program encourages high school students to attend college

Fruit Sale Begins

Parent Teacher Arena Conferences 3:30 p.m.-7 p.m.

FB Playoff Quarter Finals VB Playoffs

Nov 10

Parent Teacher Scheduled

Nov 12

Cross Country Awards 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Conferences 3:30 p.m.-7 p.m.

VB State

Nov 13

Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament Football Playoff Semi Final

Nov 17 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 23

French Trip Meeting

Stampede Distribution Wrestling First Practice

FB Playoff Championship

Boys Basketball First Practice Girls Basketball First Practice

Nov 25

Parent/Teacher Conference No School

Nov 26

Thanksgiving Break No School

The new addition to MSU-Great Falls College of Technology offers students more classroom space and course opportunity.

Photo by Dirk Lawhon. dirk lawhon terms of money saved on tuition, fees, and books that otherwise have to be spent taking courses in college.

To be eligible for Tech Prep credit, a student must earn Looking for ways to cut college costs? So is the rest of our high school’s population. Right now, many high school a “B” or better in an approved high school class and meet students are considering signing up for dual enrollment any additional conditions set by teachers to target compeclasses to save up for college. These classes are different tence and skill.

The courses at CMR that offer Tech Prep credits infrom other classes in that they offer both high school and college credit to high school students. The purpose of the clude: •Honors Chemistry dual enrollment program is to help students get encour•Human Body Systems and Functions 2 aged about attending college.

•Information Processing The courses, also called dual credit or college credit •Computer Literacy 1 classes, are offered by a multitude of subjects. Some of the •Accounting 1-2 courses offered at CMR include: •Textiles and Apparel 1 and 2 •AP US History •Auto Body Repair 5-6 •Developing Child 1 and Child Related Career 2 •AP Government •Calculus 2 •Welding 1 and 2 •AP English •Honor Statistics •Architectural Draft 3-4 •AP Biology •Criminal Justice •Automotive Technology 3-4 •Forensic Science •Anatomy and Physiology •Power Tech 1 •EMT •CISCO 1, 2, 3, and 4 There are also courses that are offered to be taken at •DC Electricity 1 and Residential Electricity 2 taken MSU COT. These include: •Welding - offered in the afternoon at Paris – this course together •DC Electricity 1 and Applied Electronics 2 taken tocould earn students certification for life after high school.

•Auto Refinishing - offered to be taken at the COT and gether •Metals Manufacturing 2 could earn students a credit toward graduation at MSU. •Art courses (Art workshop 1-2 + 1 Studio) These courses could potentially save prospective col•Speech 1 and 2 and/or debate lege students a lot of money.

If you would like to apply for dual credit or would like Another way students can find savings on college costs is in the Tech Prep program. Tech Prep credits provide col- more information on dual credit courses, speak with your lege credit for certain high school courses, giving students counselor. advanced placement in programs of study leading to a certificate or associate degree.

Taking advantage of Tech Prep credits can save students time and money and help them avoid unnecessary duplication and delay in their educational process. Every Tech Prep credit claimed represents a “scholarship” in

New SRO provides safe place to talk alex goodwill

C.M. Russell High School’s new SRO does not plan on taking his job lightly this year. Jason Mitchell is an officer with the Great Falls Police Department, and he is assigned to CMR as the School Resource Officer. This year, Mitchell’s main concerns are fighting, theft, and the use of narcotics on school grounds.

Mitchell said the word “resource” is the most important part of being an SRO because he uses a multitude of resources to solve problems in the school and keep the students and faculty safe.

“I take this job very personally,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell was born and raised in Sullivan, Ill., a small farm town where he attended Sullivan High School. There

were 99 students in his graduating class.

At age 21, Mitchell joined the Air Force, a job that brought him to Malmstrom Air Force Base, among other places such as Panama City and Turkey. In 2003, he joined the Great Falls Police Department and worked patrol for four years before becoming a detective. One of the main things that pointed him in the direction of law enforcement, he said, was a ride along he had in high school with a friend who was a state trooper.

“It was action packed, and not knowing what was next was exciting,” he said.

To some, being a School Resource Officer may seem like a job for an extraordinary person, but Mitchell considers himself an average Joe. He

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coaches Little League baseball and Boys and Girls Club football, loves camping and golfing, and has two children who he says are the biggest reason he is involved with law enforcement.

“They provide the motivation to do my job,” he said. Knowing he is keeping things safe and creating a better environment for his children to grow up is what pushes him to do the best he can.

Mitchell has an open door policy and is willing to help students with any problem they come to him with. Good people are often misguided, and if students need any direction, or even legal advice, he said they shouldn’t be afraid to come to his office and talk.

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Playing with a prodigy

Professional violinist visits Great Falls contacted Midori, who came music students Johnson to Great Falls for two weeks during meghan o’dell

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the ’07-’08 school year, and requested a recommendation. Issokson’s name of From the violinist who is the car- topped the list and Johnson quickly toon portrayal of a rock n’ roll legend contacted him. on Guitar Hero II to the cellist who Issokson began studying the vioperformed for the presidential inau- lin at the age of 4 under the Suzuki Grade: 11 guration, Great Falls has hosted its fair program and quickly graduated to share of masters of the music world. reading music by the time he was 6. if you could Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Midori He finished all 10 books of Suzuki have a Superand more have come and shared their within a few short years, and after mastery, but a new era is emerging some time landed at New York’s Manpower, it would and new artists like Jason Issokson are hattan School of Music, earning his be: beginning to set the stage.

Bachelor’s degree and studying To read peoThe week of Sept. 27- Oct. 4 Issok- with a musical legend. ples’ minds son, a prodigy of Midori, took on resi‘I met her (Midori) in dency with the Great Falls Symphony Ft. Worth, Tex., when your favorite and worked extensively with the high I took a master class ice cream flaschool programs around the city. He that she was teachvor: performed with the symphony Oct. ing,” Issoksan said.

Birthday 3, paid visit to top orchestras at both After finishing his high schools and rehearsed with the Bachelor’s he continued his Cake Remix Great Falls Youth Symphony. education at the University of “I feel a huge sense of reward Southern California, earning a Masif you had a working with the high school stu- ter’s degree in music which he finmillion dollars, dents,” Issokson said. “More so than ished up this past May. Midori had you would: performing a concerto, then leaving. also recently begun a professorship Spend it on Seeing others get something out of my at that school when Issokson transstuff I don’t working with them is what makes it ferred. need so rewarding.”

“You just have to have good teachGordon Johnson, director of the ers,” he said. The level of involvement Great Falls Symphony, contacts pro- as a student of Midori is very differ- Issokson performs with flourish for the if there was chamber orchestra during his visit to the fessional musicians each year to re- ent. one thing in the school Oct. 2. Photo by Beth Britton. quest a week to two week residency “She would make you write paworld you could for a performance with the symphony pers like biographies of composers or and Issokson embrace music fully by get rid of, it and the possibility of master classes concert responses. If she felt like you being willing to share their talent with would be: for high school students. This year needed longer lessons, which is al- students.

Age restric“It was an awesome experience,” ways, she would schedtions ule two-to-three hour senior chamber orchestra concertmistress Emily Brown said. “I feel so lessons.” the scariest “He’s just like his lucky to go to a school where we are able to have experiences with profesthing you’ve ever teacher,” CMR orchesseen is: tra director Dennis Dell sional musicians.”

Issokson primarily focused on the said. “He is a true artRabid dogs way in which he, as the teacher, relatist. He came here for the love of music and giving ed to the students. most people don’t “It was less intimidating,” Brown his talent.” know this about you: According to Dell, said. “I was surprised and impressed I pwn noobs on the in the past some profes- on how well he related to the students. daily I felt more confident in my playing sionals have not been interested in the edu- after working with him. Ready to if your life was a movcational aspect of mu- lead.”

“Although the bulk of students ie, it would be: sic, but masters such as Taking in the experience, chamber orchestra Midori ,who takes two won’t become professional musicians, Yes [Wo]Man members are instructed by Dell before being turned weeks residency each I hope that they get an idea of what life over to Issokson for the remainder of class. The orchestra worked on three pieces under the direction year to concentrate on can be like,” Issokson said. I hope they your goal in life: the education of high see how to reach their goals and hope Make everyone around of Issokson during the visit. Photo by Beth Britton. school level orchestras, to give them technical advice that will me happy help the orchestra as a whole.”

with Danyell

RoseFerda

More than a math teacher

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“Radio bug” bites Fred Pfeffier at CMR meg smith

Marcia Anderson’s senior picture, taken in 1968, (above) in a picture with her team, as a student coach, (right) and her now in 2009 (below). Photos courtesy of Marcia Anderson. shayna leonard

For CMR math teacher, Marcia Anderson, being the best she could be was a definite characteristic during her high school years in Forsyth, Mont.

Being involved in a variety of intramural sports including basketball, volleyball, football, and track was only Faculty Flashback the beginning.

She was a student coach and a part of the movement to allow girls the right to compete in high school athletics. Girls were only allowed one hour of gym time a week, and could only compete in track.

“Once the boys tried to take over the gym during our time,” she said. “I sat in the middle of the gym floor and didn’t move.

It was our time in the gym; they weren’t supposed to be there.”

She said the principal got involved and they had to share the gym with the boys, in which the boys got three hoops, and the girls only got one.

“However, that never happened again,” she said.

However, Anderson wasn’t just an athlete; she was committed to being engaged in many other clubs and extracurricular activities at her school. Girls state choir, chess club, drama, yearbook, newspaper, science club, honors society, --this is how her resume reads. Even with all of this to

keep up with, she was still very successful.

“I was also Junior Class Secretary, and salutatorian,” Anderson said. After graduating in 1968, she attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, and then transferred to Bozeman where she earned her Bachelor’s of Science and Master’s of Science.

In high school she was part of the Future Teachers of American organization, and now is fulfilling that dream. She has taught in the same school, in the same room, for 36 years, educating students in almost every kind of math class including Algebra 1, Intermediate Algebra, Geometry, Applied Math, Math 3-4, Algebra 2/trigonometry, Algebra 3, and Calculus.

“I have always liked, and was always good at math,” Anderson said, “It is not subjective, and has a certain way of doing things.” She also said that math, combined with her all of her physical activity, helped her to be fit in both her mind and her body.

Today, Anderson spends her time not only teaching math, but continuing her healthy lifestyle by bicycling, kite flying, and hiking. She also enjoys reading, puzzles, crochet, and sewing.

A word of advice she has for her students is to “work hard, have fun, and to take care of yourself.”

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lead to him working at a radio station in Bozeman during his first year at MSU. But money was short and soon college became too expensive, so Pfeiffer went straight into the radio and television world.

He worked during the 1980’s in Casper, Wyo., as a radio personality in the morning and appeared on television every night.

Kansas can also been seen on his resume as he worked at a radio station in this plains state for 11 years. During this time he also attended community college but never earned an official degree. Although, just because things worked out for him, Pfeiffer doesn’t want anyone else to slide by without a degree.

“If you want to work in TV then you will most certainly need a college degree,” he said.

Then he was lead to KRTV where we all know Pfeiffer from the weather on the five o’clock and ten o’clock news. Working on his fourteenth year at KRTV, his job has lead to him meeting many new and exciting people. Pfeiffer met former President Jimmy Carter and the world’s oldest man.

He has also been given the opportunity to interview Paul Harvey and David Letterman. Pfeiffer says it is all “people to talk to, and places to see.”

For some, high school is a mere four years of parties, homework, and friends.

But for Pfeiffer it was a time to discover a passion and a lifelong career. And with two daughters who both graduated from CMR, Pfeiffer is proud to say that, “high school really changed my life.”

Its 65 degrees and cloudy with a 100 percent chance of CMR spirit raining down from above. KRTV’s very own weatherman, Fred Pfeiffer, has the honor of hailing from C. M. Russell High School with the first graduating class in 1966.

He wasn’t always a Rustler, however.

Pfeiffer started out at as a blue belly at Great Falls High. This was back when Great Falls only had two high schools, Great Falls High and Great Falls Central, and GFHS had two shifts of students during the day. The first shift of students arrived in the morning at 6:30 a.m. and finished at 12:30 p.m. The second shift arrived at 1 p.m. and stayed until about 6 p.m. Working that morning shift at Great Falls High was how Pfeiffer spent his sophomore and junior years.

Then the shiny new CMR opened in 1965 and Pfeiffer was chosen to move over to the other side of the river.

“Everything was spick and span,” says Pfeiffer about that first year at CMR. Not only were the classrooms new, but the teachers and principal were new, too.

Pfeiffer said he will always remember his principal, James Bergene, who was, “the nicest person throughout the school.” The principal had a much larger role with the students and he was a well known figure around the school, besides being generally well- liked, Pfeiffer added.

The new high school tried to copy GFHS as closely as they could, and since GFHS had a radio show, the Rustler’s got their very own “Russell Radio Show.” Pfeiffer had been involved in projectionist classes at Great Falls High, but that was his only real dip into showbiz.

Thanks to the urging of a cousin, however, he auditioned to be on the radio show and was soon doing the show for one hour, once a week, with Sheryl Bowen. During the hour the two would banter back and forth, take phone calls, play the hottest music, and relay CMR news to the students tuning in.

“The radio bug really bit me,” says Pfeiffer. And bite him it did. This single radio show at CMR Taking it to the big time, Fred Pfeiffer was given the opportunity to interview David Letterman. Photo courtesy of Fred Pfeiffer.

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Pop Culture

personality Ryanne

Hottest singles, hottest heartthrobs meg smith Country, though vastly seen as “hick music”, finds words for those feelings everyone has felt, but couldn’t explain. These four country boys use lyrics of love and heartbreak to carry us all through good times and bad. And although each song may have the same goal, no two songs are the same; giving each artist his own personal style.

Brad Paisley

Daily grade 12

Q: What song do you get caught singing to at stop lights?

A: Whatever is on the radio Q: What TV show from your childhood do you remember most fondly?

A: Baywatch; me and my best friend always watched it after school.

Q: What famous actor do you crush on the most?

A: Lucas Till from “The Hannah Montana Movie” or Taylor Lautner from “Twilight” Q: When you’re flipping through the channels what show can you just not change from?

A: NCIS; It’s the only crime show that’s not ridiculously fake.

Q: What’s your favorite movie of all time?

A: Lion King; It’s just always my favorite.

Q: What’s the most embarrassing song on your iPod? A: Anything by William Hung Q: If you could have front row seats to one concert which would it be?

A: Anything besides death metal

Melting hearts with his new single, “Then,” Brad Paisley proves himself the hottest of the country singing heartthrobs. The passion in his voice as he sings for the one he loves is enough to bring even the strongest to tears. He sings of the love we all wish to have; that love that makes you explode, the love that only grows.

Paisley reminds us all of that feeling when “I can’t see how I’m ever gonna love you more…But I’ve said that before.” And Paisley always gives listeners something more to love.

Although the title speaks of farms and hot machinery, Jason Aldean speaks of love in his new hit “Big Green Tractor,” which can be found on his recently released album, “Wide Open.” With lyrics like “come and take a ride on my big green tractor,” you can’t help but smile as while enjoying this heartwarming country song. Leaving nothing to be desired, and everything to be gained, take three and a half minutes and listen to the happiness of simple love.

Jason Aldean

George Strait

Proving himself worthy of his crown, the “King of Country,” George Strait, released “Living for the Night,” from his new album “Twang,” out onto the country music kingdom. Singing through the tears of love lost, the King of Country reminds us all of sadder times. He speaks those words we all wish to find when any of us has been “living for the night…”

Married in wedded bliss to actress Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban sings of rainbows and unicorns in his new song, “Only You Can Love Me This Way,” on his latest album, “Defying Gravity.” With songs of heartbreak and tears far into his past, Urban has seen the light and feels the love.

With lyrics that speak of a love that lasts forever, listeners can’t help but smile as they dream about their very own happily ever after.

Keith Urban

Graceling story seems to contradict itself, overall tells amazing story of unusual girl falling in love katie hodges

Girls don’t need boys to be happy, successful people, everyone knows that. Or at least that’s the point author Kristen Cashore tries to make in her debut novel, Graceling.

In this book, we follow the life of Katsa, a girl who lives in a world where certain people have special abilities (“Graces”) and are hounded by the rulers of their country to do their bidding. Katsa has the worst ability of all: a killing Grace.

Or does she?

Among the many small issues I have with Graceling is the fact that Katsa’s Grace is never quite established, but I will leave that issue behind for the moment.

Because Katsa has been used by her nefarious uncle her entire life to do his evil bidding, she has never developed feelings for another person, but remains a strong girl in her own right, proving again and again that she doesn’t need a boy to be strong for her.

Of course, all that changes when Po comes along. They go off adventuring together, but I won’t insult your intelligence by spelling out the rest for you.

The main question after reading this book is if girls can be strong and complete without men, how come Katsa is more or less an unfeeling brute until she meets Po? That seems a bit like a mixed message to me.

Another minor quibble I have is that the sentence structure in Graceling comes off short, jerky, and very rushed at times.

However, once Katsa and Po go off adventuring, the story progresses nicely, with a few twists and turns for when the plot line gets boring.

Like many women fantasy books, a minor detail is the heroine teaching other girls how to defend themselves, and that component is present in Graceling.

Overall, Graceling tells an excellent story of a girl falling in love, even if it does contradict itself.

Movie offers cheeky fun at its goriest

they’ve found themselves. There is even a special cameo made by a well-known actor that Tallahassee extremely admires, which is one “Rule No. 1: Cardio,” “Rule No. 2: Double Tap,” “Rule No. 3: of the most interesting and funny scenes of the movie.

Beware of Bathrooms.” These three rules are just a few of the many Throughout the movie, there is a great sense of fun, as well as guidelines to survive a zombie apocalypse, as stated by the char- little snippets of action. The beginning does a great job of introducacter Columbus. “Zombieland” offers a different sort of experience ing the characters, as well as showing how they work together to from the regular “zombie movie.” With its great mix of characters, survive. The middle and end add even more entertainment as the well placed action scenes, and overall sense characters get closer to reaching their destiof humor, “Zombieland” sets the mark high nation and bond with one another even more for all zombie movies. than before, as well as running into a familiar Like “Shaun of the Dead” before it, face.

“Zombieland” looks at the lighter side of One of the highlights of the movie is the what would happen in a zombie apocamusic that it contains. From the title song lypse. The story follows four main char“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica, to acters: Columbus, the narrator, played the ending credits with “Salute Your Soluby Jesse Eisenberg, (“Adventureland”), tion” by The Raconteurs, “Zombieland” Tallahassee played by Woody Harrelson, whimsically morphs the scenes of the movie (“White Men Can’t Jump”), Wichita played with fitting and fun music. However, there

by Emma Stone, (“Superbad”), and Little are some problems with the plot especially Rock played by Abigail Breslin, Oscar nomtowards the end. There does not seem to be inated actress for her work in “Little Miss some logical sense behind some of the charSunshine.” All the characters work well toacters decisions, which could bother some gether, each bringing his/her special flavor viewers. to the movie. Columbus is the typical nerd This is definitely not a movie for the enwho, through his experiences of being isotire family, nor should it be viewed by people lated from the rest of society, is able to make with weak stomachs. Overall, “Zombieland” a set of rules that allows him to survive. scores an A- for its fantastic character develCourtesy Columbia Pictures/ MCT Tallahassee is the tough-as-nails “cowboyopment, well constructed plot, exciting acesque” type who can kick some major zomtion scenes, and overall cheeky sense of humor. bie carcass while still being able to “enjoy the little things,” like eat- If you’re in the mood for some hilarious comedy, as well as some ing Twinkies. Wichita and Little Rock are a dynamic duo working fun action scenes, “Zombieland” is the movie for you. together so that they both can survive the horrible mess in which “Rule No. 33: Go See “Zombieland.”” erik montague

Styles converge on Wolf Parade’s albums alex goodwill

Wolf Parade has made quite a name for themselves in the indie rock scene. The band is fronted by Spencer Krug on vocals and keyboard, and Dan Boeckner on vocals and guitar. The other members include Tim Kingsbury of The Arcade Fire on guitar and bass, drummer Arlen Thompson (you may have heard him playing drums for the song “Wake Up by The Arcade Fire) and Hadji Baraka on sound manipulation and keyboard.

Wolf Parade’s 2005 album, “Apologizes to the Queen Mary” was recorded under the supervision of Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse.

The album combines flamboyant keyboard riffs with early Modest Mouse style rhythms and surprisingly interesting flailing vocals. The album got its strange name from an

incident on an ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary II, where the band was removed from the ship for breaking down the door of a ballroom and staging a violent seance. The bands second album, At Mount Zoomer, was released in 2008.

Krug and Boeckner have pretty different styles, but it seems to work out for the better and balance the album out. Most of Broeckner’s songs are most acoustic and calm, like “Modern World,” “We Built Another World,” and “This Heart’s On Fire.”

Krug’s songs are more extravagant and electric, like “Grounds for Divorce,” and “I’ll Believe in Anything.” Some of the songs may seem off putting at first, but it’s one of those albums that the more you listen to it, the more you love it.

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Coming

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Attractions

Your month in entertainment

november 3 in theaters:

-The Box -A Christmas Carol

out on DVD: -G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra -The Taking of Pelham 123

album releases: -Slayer- World Painted Blood -Carrie Underwood- Play On

november 10 in theaters: -2012

out on DVD: -Up -The Goods: Live Hard , Sell Hard

album releases: -Flyleaf- Memento Mori -Throwdown- Deathless

november 17 in theaters: -New Moon

out on DVD:

-Bruno -Star Trek

album releases: -50 cent - Before I Self Destruct -Forever The Sickest Kids- The weekend: Friday

november 24 in theaters:

Our Town!

d iors an n e s r o ion: $6 f for adults.

Admiss and $8 s t n e d stu Nov. 19-21.

7:30 Curtain

Admit One

out on DVD:

-Old Dogs -Ninja Assassin -Angels and demons -Funny People

album releases: -Adam Lambert- For Your Entertainment

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the stampede 10.22.09 Who did you support in the Third Punic War?

CHART

nathan frank

senior

The Punic people for the third time.

Who would win in a boxing match: Sean Hannity or a liberal-minded grizzly bear?

How did you celebrate Oktoberfest?

Sean Hannity is a quick scrapper who always has a good counterattack, but if the bear can avoid leaving himself vulnerable, his strength, power and experience will win the fight.

I can’t really remember.

There was a lot of women, soda, dancing and German techno. And [beverages].

Roman Republic.

Dawson Reisig.

nathan hood

junior

nathan carlson

sophomore

Roman Chuck Norris Republic Neither.

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Toga parties.

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freshman

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teacher

Caring,

I usually go for the underdog, but Carthage never really had a chance.

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and roundhouse both of them.

Probably “Don’t

Stop Believin’”

by Journey.

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Party!

What is Barack Obama’s greatest fear?

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his

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Final Countdown”

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by Europe.

The grizzly bear, because Sean Hannity is a conservative wuss.

Slept through class for the entire month of October.

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Spam Song” by Monty

Charlie

Everyone knows there’s no such thing as a liberalminded grizzly bear.

They vote Republican.

I’ve attended Oktoberfest twice in Munich. Lederhosen and Oompah bands, of course.

My grandmother is dead...

2012.

&

the unicorn.

Python.

No humming.

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All-State Music

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Percussionists bring the rock to All-State Band festival nick green

Deftly striking note after note, senior Gabe Palmer focuses intently on his mallet. Photo by Beth Britton.

All State Percussionists Gabe Palmer Jim Allen

Jake Henneford Tom Schaefer

Despite being hidden away towards the back of the band, percussion players tend to be the center of attention. Capturing an almost primal energy to convey complex beats and rhythms, percussion players provide the foundation to almost any band piece.

“Anybody can sit down and hit away, but to be good takes technique and hard work,” senior Gabe Palmer said in response to a widely held belief that drumming is somewhat easy to learn.

While watching a band performance the drumming may seem effortless, but what isn’t seen are the hours of practice put in each week by the percussion students.

This year in Bozeman four percussion students participated at the Montana All-State Band Festival on Oct. 16. For juniors Jim Allen, Jake Henneford, Tom Schaefer and senior Gabe Palmer this will provided the ultimate chance to display their musical chops.

Getting to All-State however is easier said than done.

To get in students make an audition tape which is judged by multiple music professionals from around the state.

More than 370 students from band, choir, and orchestra coming from across Montana performed at the Wilson Auditorium for a group of state music teachers, and the public. And drummers have little room for error because any mistake made by a drummer is going to wind up being heard.

“All-State gives you a chance to push yourself to be better and play with people from all around the state” said Junior Jake Henneford. Compared to the usual band venues of basketball and football games Henneford said that All-State is a welcome change because it provides students with an audience that has no other no other reason to listen than a love of music.

For Palmer this is just another stepping stone on what he envisions as a life of music. He hopes to one day become a band teacher himself and cannot envision a life without music. Henneford also envisions a future in music, having already made it to the top of the high school band ladder. Henneford hopes to go to college and major in music.

Other benefits of performing at All-State can range from making connections across the state to padding college applications. Having been through All-State, the

advice Henneford said he would give to a beginning percussionist would be to work hard and not expect to be an expert right away. Whatever reason students had for going to All-State, after hours of practice and years of dedication they had all earned it.

Making some noise, junior Tom Schaefer carefully ponders his next note. Photo by Beth Britton.

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zach winter

Walter Breuning sits for a photo pondering his very, very long life. Photo courtesy of Great Falls Tribune/Larry Beckner Q – Where are you from?

A – I’m from Schwarzenbek, which is close to Hamburg, Germany.

Q – I heard you transferred from Great Falls High.

What caused the transfer?

A – I changed houses, and the new house was in an area where I have to go to CMR. Q – Very interesting, so what do you enjoy doing in your free time?

A – I enjoy horseback riding, standard dance, and the cinema. I have a few horses at my home.

Q – Have you been able to dance much here in the States?

A – I went to a dance and was shocked to dance very close with boys I didn’t know.

Q – What do you think about American Boys?

A – They’re different, nice.

Q – What have you liked about being a foreign exchange student?

A – I like how I’ve changed. I’ve learned to be more tolerant and to think about a different side of life. The difference in culture is very noticeable.

Q – So what is the cultural difference?

A – I’d say Americans tend to be more open to people, but they’re more closed on what they talk about.

World’s oldest man opens up about life a century ago mauro whiteman

He may have only gone through the tenth grade back in the early part of the twentieth century, but Walter Breuning knows a thing or two about education. Being the oldest man on Earth, Breuning has a lot of advice that he would like to give to current students.

“Stay in school as long as you can and learn as much as you can.”

As Breuning well understands, students in modern technological times face new difficulties in the workplace. Computers have changed everything, Breuning said. In the country right now, people are being laid off because of technology.

Because of this new technological burden on the youth of today, Breuning knows that education will be important.

“You’ve got to be educated as much as you can get,” Breuning said. “To learn is to unlearn. Throw out the old and learn what’s going on today.”

Breuning makes it clear that keeping up to date is an important part of his own lifestyle, and he believes that it should be so for everyone.

“Know what’s going on,” Breuning said.

“You’ll find someday you’re glad you have memory of those things.”

For Breuning, memory is hardly a problem. Even in his old age, he can remember the minutest of details from the century of years

he has lived.

One interesting factoid from Breuning’s long lifetime is the time he spent in the presence of a Great Falls legend: Charles M. Russell.

“He was always there (at the Mint) with his fancy coat,” Breuning said. “He was just another cowboy. Nobody gave him any attention. They liked his paintings.”

However, Breuning recalls that hundreds of people lined up at Russell’s funeral, although Breuning admits that he only went to the Mint for “soup and sandwich for 25 cents.”

As to whether the man was better than the school, Breuning had no comment. He simply commented that he thought it was a nice name to give to the school, to pick someone special and name it like that.

Breuning has one piece of advice which he would like to impart on all students: “I advise all the young people to keep their minds busy and keep their bodies busy.”

Breuning feels that obesity is a growing problem amongst the youth of today, and he feels it is a combination of lack of exercise and getting too much to eat. If youth can overcome this crippling hurdle of society, they can live happy, full lives, much like Breuning has.

“Learn everything you can in this life.”

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It may be the sound of lightning striking the dirt at Jim Wadsworth Motorsports Complex just on the northeast side of Great Falls, or it could be the echo of the Electric City Dirt Riders taking their turn around the

tracks.

The E.C.D.R club is owned by a nonprofit organization and is made up of motocross racers from all age groups and levels. The track has a great view right along the river, and it features one of the top tracks in the state.

One rider who spends a lot of time at the complex is CMR junior Chris Buck, whose father is the president of the club. Riding since he was five, Buck has an extreme passion for motocross.

“I’ve been riding practically my whole life,” Buck said.

He is one of the most accomplished riders in the state, winning prominent awards such as State Champion in 2008. One of the most impressive aspects of his motocross career, however, is the fact that he is the youngest rider to ever go professional in the state of Montana.

To become a professional, a rider must earn points by competing and placing in races. First place winner receives 50 points, and second on down receives less. In order to advance from beginner to the intermediate one must accumulate a total of 150 points. To be able to go professional, 600 points must be collected.

Motocross, just like other sports, requires a certain amount of training, practice, and preparation. Classes are offered at the club, and Buck tries to practice there every day, and during the season at least once a week. He also always makes sure his bike is ready for upcoming races.

Nonetheless, this sport isn’t all

in t he morning Bleskin, offensive ends prove hot for Rustlers

about fun and games. There is a dangerous side to it as well.

“You just have to be careful,” Buck said.

“There are some who have gone pro and never hurt themselves, but there are some who are beginners who have already broken a leg.”

He is all too familiar with this part of motocross; he broke his leg in 2007 when he crashed, and in addition suffered a serious concussion. After that he just had to take it slow to get back into the groove, he said.

“It’s really all about how you ride,” Buck said, referring to the safety practices of other riders. “It’s mostly about style.”

Buck rides year-round, and all over the state. The season series starts in May and ends in August, so make sure to go and watch the Electric City Dirt Riders thunder through the dirt! Even go and watch practice, a sport as extreme as this is definitely entertaining.

“I like it because I’m good at it, and because it’s like being free and exploring,” Buck said.

Photos courtesy of Chris Buck

Rustlers are fiery out of the gate Graupmann also leads the this season winning all of their first team in defensive points. A point is five games. The boys in pads are a awarded for different achievements stout 7-1 all in all with just a two- such as tackles, sacks, interceptions, point loss to Capital on the road in etc. Stenzel holds the school record a hostile environment. for sacks in a game after a great Bleskin leads the state in passing game against Glacier earlier this yards, racking up 1,756 yards on 127 season where he took down Glacier completions thus far. Bleskin has signal caller Shay Smithwick-Hann a powerful right arm giving him five times. the ability to fire a strike to almost Graupmann led the Rustlers with anywhere on the field. He has hit 11 tackles against Capital in a great almost every receiver, but his target but losing effort. Maybe the most doing the most after the catch is important thing though about these tight end Jordan Harper. two great defensive ends is their Harper is disposition. They have humbleness second in the state and a quiet determination about in receptions, them that leads If the Rustlers can yards, and to winning. touchdowns.

With a rare take it one day at a What is more tandem of time and stay humimpressive is that defensive ends ble, they may just the baller plays and the No. 1 tight end. He is a passing and do something quite hybrid offensive receiving combo special. lineman, but he in the state, has the second most the Rustlers catches of any eligible are poised to receiver in Montana AA football. make a postseason run. Under the When Bleskin isn’t handing it off to junior leadership of Jake Bleskin, his star tailback Gavin Hagfors he is the Rustlers are hoping to improve hitting Harper in stride. every week.

Handing it off is not a bad Bleskin has shown he has grown strategy either. Hagfors has just over up fast taking on the pressure of 600 yards rushing on 124 carries, being the Varsity quarterback with and has punched it in 11 times on great poise. It helps to have an allthe year. Harper is most dangerous senior offensive line consisting of coming across the middle on Spencer Hill, Lucas Paine, Matt crossing routes, and at six foot plus Smith, Jake Erpenbach, Garth and 205 pounds he is a great target Mitchell, and Angelo Malisani. for the young signal caller Bleskin.

These guys have given protection The defense has been ireful to Bleskin and opened holes for led by the outstanding play of Hagfors. its pass rushers defensive ends, All in all, the Rustlers are Graupmann and Stenzel. They lead working to improve on the field the Rustlers with seven and nine and taking steps to handle the next sacks respectively. Their ability to week. If the Rustlers can take it put pressure on the quarterback one day at a time and stay humble, has allowed the Rustlers to slip into they may just do something quite zone in the secondary in order to special. shut down the short passing game.

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Bringing spirit to sports

Three seniors behind the pumping up of the crowd stories by josh philyaw

KYLIE BARRINGER Behind all the glittler and glam senior and drill team member Kylie Barringer loves being able to perform for students.

Barringer has been dancing since the third grade.

Jazz tap is just one of the dance classes that she taken.

She will be doing ballet this year as well.

“I think drill is really about teaching us to be better people and how to take care of our bodies,” Barringer said.

“I’m really excited for this year, and we have a great team,” Barringer said.

“We’re going to have conditioning practices during November and we’ll also be learning the two routines that we’re going to take to the competition. We’ll also be working outside of practice on our own to make sure our technique is flawless,” Barringer said. The competition is March 20th.

“I’m going to go to college and perform on the dance team,” Barringer said. She plans on going to BYU – Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

She said she would like to be a dance teacher/ coach and work with students and help them learn to dance.

“Never give up, work hard, and keep trying even if you don’t make the team the first year. If you don’t have the chance to take any dance classes you can learn through YouTube and different sites,” Barringer said.

“Always remember if you’re dancing and you mess up, smile and keep dancing and act like nothing happened.”

BROOKE PORTER Among all the cheers, jumps, and kicks, senior and captain of the cheer squad Brooke Porter wants to set a new standard of spirit.

Porter said that there is nothing wrong with the school spirit at C.M.R. She wants to see the spirit during homecoming and cross-town at all the games.

Porter has been cheering for three years and she still would like to see the school spirit improved. She also took four years of jazz dancing.

“Jazz helped me become more confident in my motions and performing in front of a crowd,” Porter said.

Jazz help her try out for cheerleading.

“To me cheer is all about having fun with friends and being there for the crowd and to pump up the athletes,” Porter said. “It’s the best part of high school.”

Porter said she likes getting to work with the squad, and she helps out when it is needed.

“Our squad this year is a great squad. There are a lot of great and unique personalities on squad, and we work well together,” Porter said, if you want to join, and you don’t think you can do it, keep trying, because it will turn out in the end.

Porter has her weakness “jumps” and her strengths “team work.”

“It’s not something I’m going to continue in college,” Porter said. “It would be a fun experience to be a high school cheer coach, so that’s a possibility.”

Handling her flag with care, Alex Franko shows support for her school and her country at the Homecoming parade. Photo by Beth Britton.

Leaping for joy at the homecoming parade, Kylie Barringer dances her way to success. Photo by Beth Britton.

ALEX FRANKO The experiences of her past motivated senior Alex Franko to join Color Guard.

Franko started Color Guard her junior year, but in her past there was many more activities that she did.

“At my old school they had Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Core (NJROTC) a program which gives students basically a military experience. I was a chief petty officer, commander of the unarmed exhibition drill team. I was on the regular drill team and the arm exhibition drill team and on Color Guard, Franko said. “I missed the whole ROTC program when I got here. I was bummed when I found out that we had to move here because C.M.R doesn’t have an ROTC program.”

She likes the fact that all military personnel do the same thing, and to see the look on people’s faces.

I’m not sure if I want to go into the military or not,” Franko said. “You have to serve if you’re part of the ROCT but it’s a possibility.”

“I get along with everyone in Color Guard, because we all respect the American flag,” Franko said.

“I am going to miss my coach Velma Jordan and going onto the field every home football game.

“Color Guard is for boys and girls. It’s a lot of fun and you can letter. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication, but I encourage both boys and girls to join because they will have fun.”

Cheering on her team, even in the cold, senior Brooke Porter knows what school spirit means. Photo by Kylie Barringer.

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swimming

Trying to get her 200 freestyle done, sophomore Nicole Thompson finshes up a set at a practice session at the Peak. Photo by Simon Ljunggren.

Pre-season swimmers prepare with club swimming at Peak, GFHS

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The Rustler swimming season doesn’t begin until mid-November, but that’s not stopping freshman Molly Harding from getting into shape.

“I want to get a feel Ma ing for what the high school k coaches may want from me,” said Harding. “I want to learn from it.”

As the season approaches, high school swimmers like Harding are preparing for the upcoming season by getting into shape with coaches, both new and old, from swim clubs around the city.

Amy Mullens, head coach for the Peak Waves, also wants to work on getting a feel for coaching high school swimmers. Having coached for only a year and a half, Mullens hopes that her job will help kids with a lot more than speed.

“Our team isn’t just competition driven,” she said. “It gets kids into shape. So it’s fitness and endurance goals we hope to achieve here.”

Mullens said that she got the job almost at random.

“I was a member of the Peak,” she said. “The original coach, Helen Houllihan, pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to be head coach.”

Ed McNamee, one of the coaches for Falls Aquatic Swim Team (FAST) and also head coach for both Great Falls High and CMR swim teams, is also preparing swimmers for this season and in the future.

“I wanted to coach the FAST team because

I wanted to be in control of a team that would transition into the high school team,” he said.

McNamee isn’t the only one getting ready for the high school season. Senior Derek Lair, who swims for FAST, hopes to achieve good goals for his own team and CMR. “I want our team to get W av e s to nationals for FAST and for CMR to do well as a team overall this season,” he said.

Lair joined FAST partially due to his family and the coach.

“I decided to swim for FAST because Ed was coaching and he was the high school coach for our team,” he said.

“My sister also made me go out for swimming because she said it was a lot of fun and it kept her in shape,” he added.

McNamee said the goals for his Falls Aquatic Swim Team also apply to his high school team.

“I want to develop a team to compete at a state level and earn national recognition,” he said.

With only a month before high school swimming starts, the swimmers and coaches are all getting ready for the upcoming swim season and working hard.

“I want to make state this year,” Harding said. “I haven’t done it since I was eight. It would be nice to do it for high school swimming.”

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Wranglers’ head coach executes her winning plan

will just have to do my best to schedule around practices and games.

At only 20 years of age, Dedra However, I have to put school first Poitra, the new head coach of the and then dance. Just as the girls on CMR Wranglers, plans on taking the my team are expected to put school team above and beyond in all areas first,” Poitra said. of dance.

Putting dance second does not “My plan is to work on increasing mean she is letting the team have it technical abilities at practice every easy, however. She wants the team to day,” Poitra said. “I will do my job to become more competitive again, and my fullest ability to see that that hap- is getting the team ready for a nationpens. Also, the girls need to be more al competition in California in March. accountable for things that go on out- Competition dances are expected side of school.” to be at a much Poitra said higher technical that when she level than perforwas on the team mance pieces the her senior year, team would perthe level of techform at a game. nique and train“To get ready ing was very for competition high and she we are going to hopes to bring have to have a lot the team back to of extra practices, that level. just coming in a “The team has Wranglers head coach and CMR graduate Dedra lot on Saturdays. a lot more people Poitra oversees an August practice on Pride Field. We’ll need condithis year that are Photo by Beth Britton. tioning practices, capable doing trick practices, what I want and technique practices. It’s going to take being at a high level,” Poitra said. a lot of effort from every girl on the With many years of dance un- team,” she explained. der her belt, Poitra knows what she There are many girls on the team is talking about. She did ballet, jazz, who wish to continue with dance afand figure skating for 10 years, build- ter high school. Larger colleges and ing a strong foundation of dance. universities expect a lot out of their She joined the CMR Wranglers her dancers, and Poitra is willing to help sophomore year of high school, and any girl trying out for a college team. became a captain as a senior. She and “It is important that girls who the other captain at that time, Alexa want to continue need to research Fromm, were the first inductees into their college and their team to find the Wrangler hall of fame. After high out what the requirements are. Near school, she performed with the Mon- the end of the year, toward tryouts, tana State University dance team for I’m willing to have extra practices a year. Finally, after her year in Boze- strictly to get girls ready for college man, she went to Dallas to try out for dance,” she said. the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

Poitra also understands how im“I was so much shorter than any- portant it is to hold up the Wranglers body there, but it was a great learn- reputation when it comes to things ing experience and I plan to try out other than dance. She expects every again in five years. I want to get this member to act classy and respectable group [of Wranglers] through first,” in any situation. She said the WranPoitra said. gler name means a lot to her, and Now, Poitra attends Montana since Wranglers are recognized in State University-COT. Being a full- many places, she wants their reputatime college student and the head tion to be flawless. She tries to be a coach of the Wranglers takes a lot good example for her girls to follow. of organization and planning on her “I want the girls to see me as a part. role model when it comes to maturity, “This semester it’s not too bad be- behavior, and dancing. They have a cause I have two full classes and on clear idea of what I expect from them part of a class online. I actually only and I think we can get where we need have to be at the school two days a to be.” week. Next semester when I have to take more classes on the campus I

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OFFENSE

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Rustlers 7-1, looking good for rest of season

Greg Oswood Senior, Running Back What is your favorite part of playing offense?

Trying to learn Jordan Buckley’s techniques.

Spencer Hill Senior, Left Tackle Why do you play football?

It’s fun to hit people. Just get out there and the games are fun.

Matt Smith Senior, Right Guard What is something that you want to tell people about offense?

Offensive linemen are people too.

Payton Skawinski Senior, Wide Receiver Why do you play football?

My dad makes me.

Jake Erpenbach Senior, Left Guard What does it mean to you to be a Rustler?

I see pride. I see power. I see some bad boys who don’t take no crap from nobody!

Kurtis Parsons Junior, Wide Receiver What is your pump-up music?

Anything by Taylor Swift or Miley Cyrus.

The Rustler defense, led by senior Brian Spencer (48), gets in the huddle to discuss the next play. Photo by Pat O’Connell.

SCOREBOARD 8/28

9/4

9/11

VS. Helena High 21-3 @ Glacier 35-24 VS. Missoula Big Sky 29-7

9/19

@ Billings Senior 43-0

9/25

VS. Missoula Hellgate 55-12

10/2

@ Helena Capital 28-26

10/9

VS. Billings Skyview 41-12

10/16

@ Flathead 35-6

UPCOMING GAMES 10/23 VS. Billings West 10/30 @ Great Falls High

CMR in town for final two regular season games of the year megan bernhardt

There’s only two weeks left before the end of the football season, and things are looking up for the Rustler football team.

Coach Jack Johnson is very confident about the final games of the season.

The final two games are against Billings West and Great Falls High, and both teams have losing records.

West has a record of 4-4, and Great Falls High won their first game of the season on Oct. 16, which means their record is 1-7.

Even though the team is heavily favored to win both games, Johnson said that there are still things the team can do to improve.

“There are always things we can do better. It’s our everyday goal to improve.”

In the game on Oct. 16 against Flathead, junior running back Gavin Hagfors ran for two touchdowns and 95 yards.

Junior quarterback Jake Bleskin threw two touchdown passes, and the Rustlers won 35-6.

The team has done many things well this season.

“The receivers have played very well,” Johnson said.

This was proven by the performance of junior Kurtis Parsons and senior Greg Oswood in the game against Flathead.

Parsons caught a 16-yard pass from Bleskin, and Oswood caught a 15-yard pass.

As a whole though, each side of the team (offense or defense) is an entity unto itself.

They each have their own issues, but some issues are more obvious than others.

“The offensive line has been inconsistent, but the defense has been solid,” Johnson said.

Overall though, Johnson is impressed with what he has seen from the team.

“I like this group. It’s a special group of kids and it’s a fun group.”

Jordan Harper Senior, Tight End What is something that you want to tell people about offense?

Show some love to our offensive line. I think only one of them has a girlfriend... Ladies?

Jake Bleskin Junior, Quarterback What is your pump-up music?

I Gotta Feeling.

Gavin Hagfors Junior, Running Back

What does it mean to you to be a Rustler?

To live under a tradition of excellence.

Lucas Payne Senior, Center What is your favorite part of playing offense?

Knowing that we’re the ones to put points on the board.

Angelo Malisani Senior, Right Tackle What is something that you want to tell people about offense?

Scoring is one of the greatest feelings that you can have besides Christmas.

Health &Wellness

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Cancer, lung disease, and bad breath.

Every teenager’s dream, right? brittany osborn

It’s not a dream for tobacco users; in fact, it’s a reality. As the CMR CARE coordinator and counselor, Earlene Ostberg knows the dangerous facts about smoking. She talks about how nicotine can raise a smoker’s blood pressure and clot the blood, which makes a smoker twice as likely to have a heart attack compared to a non-smoker.

“Teenagers are more likely to get addicted quicker to cigarettes and for cancer to form because their bodies have not matured completely and their cells are building faster,” Ostberg said.

Ostberg also explained that tar forms a sticky coating on air sacs in the lungs, so if a smoker gets H1N1 it will be harder to get rid of, and a smoker is more likely to be hospitalized from the virus.

Health teacher, Amanda Ferderer is all too familiar with the effects of smoking. In her classes she teaches about the negative effects smoking

has on the body. Ferderer said smoking can create different lung diseases, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Smoking also affects a person’s appearance.

A smoker’s skin starts to change color, along with discoloration and stains on the fingers used to smoke. Skin isn’t the only body part that changes colors. The teeth of a smoker turn yellow due to the ingredients in the smoke that help the bacteria stick to teeth.

Ferderer has personal experience with smoking effects. Ferderer’s grandfather recently passed away from lung cancer due to smoking and other complications.

“The best way to quit smoking is to set a date, make a commitment to yourself and don’t give into peer pressure,” Ferderer said.

Photo by Erik Montague and Tara Slaughter

Positive effects of quitting smoking Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette:

•You stop polluting the air •Blood pressure drops to a normal rate •Pulse rate drops to a normal rate •Temperature of hands and feet increase to normal

After 8 hours:

•Carbon monoxide level in blood drops •Oxygen level in blood increases to normal

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After 1 month to 9 months:

After 24 hours:

•Nerve endings adjust to the absence of nicotine •Ability to smell and taste things is enhanced

•After 72 hours

•Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier •Lung capacity increases

After 2 weeks to 3 months:

•Circulation improves •Walking becomes easier •Lung function increases up to 30%

•Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath all decrease •Cilia re-grow in lungs, increasing ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduces infection •Bodies overall energy level increases

After 1 year:

After 5 years:

•Heart disease death rate drops to that of a non-smoker •Lung cancer death rate decreases halfway back to that of a non-smoker

After 10 years:

•Lung cancer death rate drops to almost the rate of a non-smoker •Precancerous cells are replaced •The incidence of other cancers, of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas all decrease

•Heart disease death rate is halfway back to that of a non-smoker

SOURCE: Parlay International

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Hitting it big after green and gold

Former CMR student Dave Dickenson goes on to make it big in CFL, NFL katie hodges

When some people grow up and graduate high school, then college, they often take jobs that they might not hate, but that they probably don’t love. That was different for CMR graduate Dave Dickenson.

“Football to me is the ultimate game. I find nothing in life that can duplicate the experience. What a great way to make a living,” Dickenson said.

Dickenson was a standout quarterback at CMR, who graduated in 1991, and went on to play for the University of Montana Grizzlies.

He helped lead the Grizzlies to a national championship in 1995.

After that, he played in both the CFL (the Canadian Football League) and the NFL. Dickenson is currently coaching for the CFL Stampeders in Calagary, where he lives with his wife, two children, and his older brother who also coaches for the Stampeders.

Dickenson has played for the Calgary Stampeders, San Diego Chargers, Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, and the BC Lions.

Getting his start at CMR, Dickenson said that he learned time management, personal accountability, and humbleness playing football here.

“Football at CMR made me aware that not only was I playing for myself, but I had an obligation to my teammates to play at a high level,” Dickenson said. “If I didn’t do my job, I was letting an entire group of guys down. Everything I did would affect more than just myself.”

Dickenson also talked about playing football under Coach Jack Johnson “Jack Johnson taught all of his players discipline, respect, and a “team first” mentality,” Dickenson said.

Although Dickenson has won four championships since graduating from CMR, his favorite experience had nothing to do with a win, instead it involves a game against his favorite team growing up.

“I was with the San Diego Chargers, but my favorite NFL team growing up was the Dal-

las Cowboys. Sept. 11 had just happened and the NFL suspended games for a week,” Dickenson said. “The following week, we went to Dallas to play America’s team, and the patriotism and excitement was an experience I will never forget.”

Throughout his career, Dickenson has made several transitions, from playing high school and college football to playing professional football, and from playing professional football to coaching it.

However, Dickenson acknowledges that it is still the same sport. “[In professional football] decisions are made for financial reasons, which don’t always make sense in the football world,” Dickenson said.

“The game is faster at each level, but for the most part, the guys are the same and football is still football.”

There is also a difference coaching football as opposed to playing it.

“Coaching is different in the sense that it feels like you don’t have a direct impact on game day.

I always felt as a quarterback, that the ball was in my hands, and I had an opportunity to singlehandedly win or lose a game,” he said. “As a coach, you put your trust in your guys, and the work is put in before the game more so than game day.”

Dickenson said that he tries to act as a glue to hold his team together.

“Sometimes, coaches don’t understand the pressure and expectations players deal with. I know first hand how to deal with these and the way the media can divide a team,” Dickenson said. “Not everyone has to be liked on a team, including coaches, but there needs to be mutual respect. I make sure I earn that respect as a coach,” Dickenson said.

Overall, however, the thing Dickenson enjoys most about coaching is staying involved in the game.

“Football is in my blood.”

Standing proud in green and gold, former CMR quarterback Dave Dickenson before he went on to play for the UM Grizzlies and in the CLF. From left to right, Dickenson, his son Cooper, his daughter, Avery, and his brother Craig, after winning the Grey Cup in 2008.

Photos courtesy of Sue Dickenson.