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One day at the helm Students take up leadership roles in the community

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DHS students are looking forward to this year’s Youth in Government Program, with hopes that it will provide a distinctive insight on occupations around Davis.

Youth in Government is a unique opportunity that offers students a chance to assume the jobs of school board officials, reporters, city engineers, police chiefs and more on March 29.

Before Student Government teacher Eric Morgan began working at DHS, Youth in Government was already a “school tradition.”

“The thinking that went into it was a desire to get people to peel behind the curtain of the community that they live and a desire to educate people on how a town operates and works, so people can understand why things are the way they are,” Morgan said.

Youth in Government is successful due to an enormous amount of dedication from Bob Bowen, a City of Davis employee and father of last year’s ASB President. Bowen has played an integral part in the program for more than a decade. “He coordinated the city workers with our high school so that high school students would have [this] opportunity,” program chair and junior Kelly Chuck said.

Because students are granted the unique chance to take over important jobs around Yolo County for a day, it is important that they shadow their allotted position on March 28 prior to taking it over.

Junior Maia Polis heard about Youth in Government through Chuck. Polis was mainly interested in gaining perspective into many of the important occupations of Davis; missing school and receiving Chipotle as part of the program were just an added bonus.

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When the recession of 2008 hit, many U.S. citizens expected that it would soon pass. Many thought that it would not affect them in any way—it was just a TV report or a newspaper headline. But fast forward almost four years later, and most of America is still in a slump, Davis included.

California’s Employment Development Department

Davis Community Meals has done its part for the city since its inception more than twenty years ago, offering food and shelter for those who cannot afford it. In recent years, more people have checked in to its transitional housing program or lined up to fill their trays at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church.

Executive Director William D. Pride says that 6,625 meals have been served RECOVERY continued on page 2

School support measures up Davis community passes Measure C, deficit persists

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More than 50 Measure C supporters celebrated at a party on the night of March 6, cheering as election returns came in. An overwhelming 72.3 percent of voters checked off yes in favor of Measure C, a renewal parcel tax providing $6.5 million in funding for the Davis Joint Unified School District.

Initial Reactions Emotions ran high as school board members, teachers, parents and community members embraced each other with congratulatory handshakes and hugs after Measure C had reached the two-thirds mark of votes needed for the parcel tax to pass.

“I couldn’t be happier because I really believe we’ve saved Davis schools as we know them, and we preserved the best part of our school system that we’ve been proud of for many, many years,” school board member Gina Daleiden said.

Delaine Eastin, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction of California, believes that the true values of the Davis community were made apparent in the campaign’s landslide victory.

“Seventy-two percent of the people said yes, we want music, and we want counselors, we want sports, and we want foreign language,” said Eastin, a Davis resident.

“They want the extra AP classes, those extra periods after school; we want all kids to get a great education, not just a few, all of them at every grade level.”

“Yes for Measure C” campaign co-chair Barbara Archer added that the win says a lot about the Davis community and its commitment to education.

“It’s people who really value education; it’s people who value public education,” Archer said. “It’s people who know that good schools equal home values that stay pretty steady, and so there’s a lot of reasons that good schools contribute to a healthy community.”

Despite the outpouring of support, not all community members were happy with the results.

Community member Jose Granda, who led the opposition movement against the measure, believes that the money for the parcel tax will not be used for students’ supplies or materials but instead for staff salaries.

Granda said that he has been paying the

Left: School Board President Susan Lovenburg and Enterprise reporter Jeff Hudson check election results at the “Yes on Measure C” election-day party. Below: Senior Jacob Vanderbilt votes for his first time in the Measure C ballot.

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reported in 2011 that 7.9 percent of the Davis labor force is unemployed, which may seem a high statistic— until viewed in context of Yolo County’s 12.2 percent unemployment rate.

People are learning to live without luxuries while waiting for the climate to change.

For one, car sales are down, as Davis Finance Department accountant Pam Day reports: in recent years, city revenue from automobile sales tax has dipped.

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parcel tax for 17 years and supports education; however, he feels that there should be “five percent cuts across the board and a 20 percent salary cut for administrators,” to solve the deficit problem instead of imposing taxes on the community for funding.

What was saved?

According to Archer, Measure C was pivotal to the future of many programs throughout Davis schools.

Had Measure C not passed, “elementary music would have been eliminated, [elementary] lab science would have been

eliminated,” she said. “I am a huge proponent of school libraries [which] would have been done if this had not passed.”

At the high school level, Principal Jacquelyn Moore notes that seventh period and many teachers would have been lost if Measure C had failed.

“We would have lost teachers because […] sometimes as high as 90 percent in some districts in the budget [goes] for salaries,” Moore said. “Salaries are huge, so when you cut in a school district, you’re basically cutMEASURE C continued on page 2

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Junior Jasper Gilardi explains his proposed amendment to split the ASB President position to the student forum.

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In the wake of the recent ASB election controversy, Student Government has initiated several policy reforms and constitutional amendments to address the criticisms put forth by presidential hopeful Sofia Cardenas.

Effective immediately, a 90 percent majority is no longer required to enact an amendment in the Davis Senior High School Constitution.

Instead, an amendment may be proposed by gathering a petition signed by 30 percent of the student body. The issue would then be brought to a vote, in which 75 percent of the voters— not 75 What happened with Pep Band on Break the Record Night?

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percent of the entire student body— must approve the amendment.

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a new policy, but is not well known.

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MEASURE C: Cuts still looming over teachers continued from 1 ting people. Very rarely are you cutting stuff, like how many basketballs you have or textbooks.”

William Zinn, music teacher and Jazz Choir director, is one of the teachers whose job was saved with the passing of Measure C. “My understanding is that the high school music program would have been in place, but staff would have changed because members of the staff would have been released because of the drop in numbers of targeted numbers of teachers was over five, which is 50 percent of our staff,” Zinn said.

According to Zinn, 50 percent of the music teachers in the district would have been dismissed, but the programs would have stayed in place and been taught by “who knows who.”

Senior Jenice Tupolo, a Jazz Choir member, is relieved that Zinn, her mentor, will continue to teach future generations of Jazz Choir members.

“The other day [Zinn] gave this really powerful speech saying basically that if Measure C doesn’t pass, ‘I’ll finish the year strong with you guys but then that will be it,’ and we were all really sad about it,” Tupolo said.

Senior Melissa Ferris, also in the Jazz Choir, believes that music is just as important as any other academic course at the high school.

“Some kids, they feel good about themselves when they ace a math test or when they run a marathon or

whatever. When we sing with that choir or when we perform a solo, that’s our purpose,” Ferris said. “That should be just as a priority as any academic.”

“It’s really rewarding to know that the community appreciates what we do and values what we do,” Zinn said.

Looking forward Although Measure C was able to save some DJUSD staff members and programs, Daleiden notes that some programs and teachers will still have to be cut due to reduced funding from the state government.

“We are going to hang on to some of our prized programs because of local support. That part’s really good, but we’re still looking at some major hits to our school system while California suffers through an economic crisis,” Daleiden said.

The Davis school systems will be facing a $3.5 million cut in funds from the state, according to Daleiden.

According to a DJUSD resolution, many departments, instructional services and administrative services are still on the chopping block for the upcoming school year. One of the departments affected is the French language department.

DHS French and German teacher Lili Floyd is worried that any cut made in the language department will be detrimental.

“Foreign language is always considered to be a marginal field, but compared to the rest of the world that’s rather a shame, because I think the United States is lacking tremendously in cultural sensitivity which comes from the fact that foreign language is not essential in education,” Floyd said.

The art department will also be facing potential cuts at the high school. Teacher Ted Fontaine is worried that the high school will not have enough classes to meet all of the students’ needs after the cuts.

“It goes back to student need, what students need to graduate and to go to college, go on to a career, that’s our number one priority,” Fontaine said.

According to Moore, ROP classes will be most affected by budget cuts in the upcoming school year due to lack of funding from Yolo County.

Without funding, ROP classes will not be offered unless enrollment for those classes is at full capacity, with the exception of ROP Cisco Networking because that is the only ROP class receiving funding from the county.

“There’s only so much money; even if the board makes a decision and says ‘okay, well, we’ll give money here.’ That means that money can’t go somewhere else,” Moore said.

“No matter what, as you start taking pieces out of there, something else has to give, so what’s going to give?”

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YOUTH: Jobs let students experience possible careers

Youth in Government program chair Bob Bowen explains the program and its process to this year’s applicants.

continued from 1 Out of the 29 available jobs, Polis is most interested in being a fire chief or elementary principal for the day.

“The benefits [of Youth in Government] could be that if I enjoy the job I get, I’ll get a better understanding of what I want to be when I’m older. I might even end up working there one day,” Polis said.

Overall, Youth in Government has proven to be an interactive and popular way to learn about various occupations in the community. According to Morgan, most students are quite pleased with the program. “It’s always exciting how fascinated everybody is, even with the most unglamorous-sounding jobs,” Morgan said.

CONSTITUTION: Plan proposed to split the presidency in the constitution that was never addressed.

Additionally, the prerequisite year of experience in Student Government has been eliminated for the positions of ASB Secretary and Treasurer. The positions of ASB President and Vice President, however, still require one year of experience.

Splitting the Presidency Student Government member Jasper Gilardi has gone even further and proposed what Morgan calls a “dramatic” amendment to the constitution. The junior has drafted an amendment that would effectively divide the ASB presidency into two positions: ASB President and Student Government President.

“What we’ve been talking about doing is actually splitting the ASB President position into its two roles,” Gilardi said. “The ASB President position right now has the role of running Student Government and the role of representing students.”

Under Gilardi’s plan, the ASB President’s sole function would be to represent students: leading the Executive Board and the student forum, as well as speaking on behalf of all students at school board meetings.

Any student may run for this position, regardless of prior Student Government experience.

The Student Government President, in contrast, would run the Student Government class and “provide leadership and vision for the leadership class,” according to the draft of Gilardi’s proposed amendment. The candidates for this new position, who must have one year of experience in the Student Government class, would be chosen exclusively by Student Government.

Gilardi devised this idea in the midst of a class discussion in which Student Government debated whether or not to permit junior Sofia Cardenas, who lacked one year of experience in Student Government, to run for the presidency.

Gilardi and Student Government senior Jacob Vanderbilt, who supports the amendment, believe that students in Cardenas’ place should have a chance to represent the students.

“If she wins a popularly elected vote, then she should be able to rep-

resent,” Vanderbilt said, hence the proposed creation of two presidency roles, in which one would be open to all candidates.

In the weeks following the controversial ASB elections, Gilardi drafted his proposed amendment and presented his idea to the Executive Board on March 5, where it has been met with mixed reactions.

Current ASB President Courtney Jimenez says that “we’re not against revision of the way things are,” but she hopes Gilardi’s idea will “serve as a catalyst to other ideas and compromise.”

Morgan says that while “I think it’s a plan that could work, it’s a plan I have some concerns about just because the idea of two presidents at this school gets a little bit confusing.”

Morgan believes that in order for such a plan to be put into motion, “it will take time for people to get comfortable with it,” and the idea is still in the process of “discussion and dialogue.”

Gilardi presented his amendment to the student forum on March 7, but ran out of time. Gilardi will reintroduce his proposal to the student forum on March 21 at lunch, and he encourages all those interested in learning about his ideas to attend.

In order to enact this constitutional amendment, Gilardi must garner either a 75 percent majority of voters after a 30 percent petition, or a simple majority of the Executive Board.

Fairness in Student Government Another issue raised over the election controversy was the fairness involved in Student Government’s application process. Some students, Cardenas included, believe Student Government is an exclusive group that admits its own circle of friends for membership.

“I think that when they’re picking people to be in the class, they’re picking people they’re already friends with,” Cardenas said. “You can’t have just your friends in the class, because then that’s just one social group.”

Future ASB President Adam King, however, believes that while Student Government is a close-knit group of friends, the members of Student Government become good friends through bonding activities and col-

continued from 1 laborating on school activities, not because they previously knew and selected each other.

“It looks like we were previously good friends before the year,” King said. “It seems like we just pick our friends to be in the class, but it’s just the fact that through Student Government we become really good friends.”

Morgan concurs with King. “The class generally builds a close bond through our time together,” Morgan said. “And from the outside it looks like everyone’s choosing their friends.

And what I’ve seen as an adviser is that I get a group of people, most of whom don’t know each other that well, who because of the work that we do together […] they start to become friends with each other.”

This year, 21 applicants are vying for 15 open spots in the Student Government class, according to Morgan. There are four components to the application process: the paper application, letters of recommendation from a teacher, performance at group activity night and individual interview performance.

Group activity night is a new aspect of the application process that took place on March 9 at 7 p.m. Student Government hopefuls played icebreakers such as Triangle Tag and Fast Fingers and participated in a half-hour scavenger hunt. Applicants were graded on a rubric that judged such traits as maturity, communication and initiative.

Membership decisions for next year’s Student Government class are being made this year by a six-member body that comprises of Morgan, King, ASB Vice President-elect Jacob Muller, senior class presidentelect Sugal Sutter, senior class vice president-elect Kelly Chuck and junior class president-elect Rami Rashmawi.

Morgan says that he has recently received many unfounded complaints about Student Government’s policies and operations, including accusations that Student Government is corrupt.

He believes that “people need to understand the role of Student Government,” and in an effort to achieve this, Morgan is working to make the activities and procedures of Student Government more transparent and readily understood by all students.

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Members of the student forum met together for their twice-monthly meeting on March 7 at lunch. To begin the meeting, Davis Police Captain Darren Pytel came to talk to the student forum about an issue pertaining to DHS students: underage drinking.

According to Pytel, the problem of underage drinking in Davis is “nothing new” and has been present since at least the 1980s.

Pytel wanted to ask students’ opinions of the idea of a new ordinance that would make it illegal for people under the age of 21 to have alcohol in their systems in public places.

Although buying alcohol is illegal, Davis police are not legally able to do anything if they encounter someone underage who may have any amount of alcohol in their system. With the new ordinance in place, however, police could cite anyone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.01 or above who is in public and under the age of 21.

Some student forum mem-

bers, like Sofia Cardenas, believed that this ordinance may have negative consequences; intoxicated teens who would normally walk home might choose a more dangerous option like driving because they would be afraid to be caught by a police officer while walking in public with alcohol in their bodies.

However, Pytel stated that the purpose of the ordinance would be to discourage underage drinking altogether. “[Underage drinking] is just bad. You’re putting yourself into bad situations,” Pytel said.

Pytel’s presentation lasted close to 45 minutes, which left just a few minutes for a presentation by junior and Student Government member Jasper Gilardi.

In light of recent issues regarding the qualifications of DHS’ ASB President, Gilardi told the forum of a possible solution to divide the title of ASB President into two different roles.

The meeting ended before many opinions from the forum could be expressed, but the group plans on continuing the discussion at its next meeting on March 21.

RECOVERY: Working together, Davis moves forward to 495 different people in 2011 alone.

“The numbers jumped from 5,000 to 6,000 meals between ’06 and ’07,” Pride said. “We do serve a lot more people since the recession hit.”

All kinds of people line up every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to receive free food—not just the homeless who people expect to see.

“I’ve got a couple of different groups: the elderly, people with some sort of fixed income, people living on SSI [Supplemental Security Income], those with unemployment insurance, and people who wouldn’t be able to work otherwise—we’re talking major mental issues,” Pride said.

Even as the local economy recovers with the rest of America, Pride admits that he doesn’t think the soup line will get much shorter. “These people’s benefits have decreased and they’re scraping by more scantily than ever. It’s more difficult to make it by themselves than it was five or 10 years ago.”

But ask Davis City Council member Dan Wolk how he feels about Davis’ financial future, and he will not hesitate to discuss a bounce-back recovery.

Wolk points out Davis’ unique geographic advantage to become a “thriving economic center,” especially with its location between the Bay Area and Sacramento. He says the recession hasn’t hit as hard as it has in other places, thanks due in part to local housing practices and restrictions on property development. But while he notes that the city is doing comparably well, it’s all relative.

“That’s not to say things have been good. We need to […] make sure we don’t become worse off,” Wolk said. “We are too dependent on the university and Sacramento

continued from 1 for our employment base and economic vitality, particularly compared with other university towns like Palo Alto and Boulder.”

In a memo to the local Business and Economic Development Commission, committee member Doby Fleeman voices further qualms as to why Davis is not performing to its fullest financial potential. The city has to battle the bias that it is not open to business expansion. “A shortage of demand is just as real a constraint or obstacle as any other,” Fleeman’s memo says. Additionally, Davis finds itself backed into a corner—how does it encourage companies to expand while staying true to deep-seated beliefs in sustainability and environmental consciousness?

Davis Roots, an organization devoted to local economic development, is trying to assuage some concerns that residents such as Fleeman have. It guides UC Davis start-ups in hopes of securing them here for the long term. To the delight of Wolk and other members of the Business and Economic Development Commission, it recently obtained the goahead from City Council to move into the Hunt-Boyer Mansion downtown.

Committee members are not only trying to entice graduates to stay, but are also looking to attract more companies to relocate here.

Wolk cites Japanese machine tool manufacturer Mori Seiki and biotechnology laboratory Expression Systems as successes.

“Ultimately, what I would like to see is not just economic development in our community, but […] a new kind of economy. Davis has everything it needs to become a worldwide center for innovation in green technology and sustainable practices. We need to create a ‘Silicon Valley of Sustainability,’” Wolk said.

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Teacher Dan Gonzalez offers instruction on how to tie a tie to help DHS men prepare for formal events during the rest of the school year.

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The recent release of the “Kony 2012” video has brought much awareness to a cause that one DHS club works to support.

The Invisible Children club began in September of this year, but the problem that it hopes to bring awareness and aid to has been going on for almost 26 years, making it one of the longest running armed conflicts in Africa.

The Invisible Children organization is an international organization that tries to end Joseph Kony’s use of child soldiers in Uganda by spreading awareness. Kony is the leader of Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan guerilla group.

Kony “recruits” his LRA soldiers by kidnapping children from their homes and forcing them to fight.

The Invisible Children organization released a 30- minute film called “Kony 2012” on March 5 and the video quickly went viral.

The video intended to show what Kony is doing in Africa to “make him famous.”

The video suggests a plan of action to bring Kony’s name to fame with “Cover the Night.” “Cover the Night” is a worldwide event encouraging people to go out on April 20 to hang posters and banners in order to help in the fight against Kony.

DHS’ Invisible Children club plans to take part in this event, as well as trying to sell “Kony 2012” bracelets and T-shirts.

Junior Gina Ghiglieri, secretary and vice president of the club, agrees with the cause but finds it “sad that people haven’t really paid attention to the club until the video came out,” she said.

Since the release of the video, the club has been discussing fundraising possibilities to support the “Cover the Night” event on Facebook that was created by sophomore Brooke Palmer. The Facebook event page was created shortly after the video release and now almost 1,000 are “attending” the event.

“Our club had about 15 members before, but I think since the ‘Kony 2012’ video more people will join and will try to get active,” Ghiglieri said.

Apart from the Kony 2012 video, the club has done other projects this year to help people in need.

The club held a used-jean drive during the fall semester and collected more than 100 pairs of jeans.

Although the club would like to do more fundraising projects, organizing them is hard, so their main goal is still raising awareness.

“It is difficult planning projects directly through the Invisible Children’s Organization because the school can’t take a political side, so it kind of makes fundraising hard,” club co-president Natalie Ho said.

The Invisible Children club meets every other Monday in L-29.

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SPEAK of the DEVIL Features

Haute couture in high school

By Monica Lopez -Lara HUB Staff Writer

The BlogSpot page “The Grandeur Entrepreneur” is filled with pictures of pale pastel tops, vibrant shoes and brightly colored tights.

The author of this blog is not a designer, model or stylist. She does not live in Paris, New York or London.

In fact, the author of these posts is DHS sophomore and fashion enthusiast Emmy Kappes.

According to her blog, anythingschic.blogspot.com, Kappes’ interest was first sparked in the fashion world in the pages of a magazine.

“After picking up my first Teen Vogue in 5th grade (February, Maria Sharapova issue), this whole new world opened up to me. It’s a place I can express myself in, and a place I can go to when I’m stressed,” Kappes wrote.

The idea for creating a fashion blog first came to Kappes in junior high.

“I first started a blog back in seventh grade. I could honestly go on and on about how terrible that blog was! As I’ve gotten older, though, I’ve learned how to tailor posts to readers’ interests,” Kappes said.

Each one of Kappes’ posts on her blog begins with a distinct salutation: “Lovelies,” and features photos and captions about designer collections, new trends and stores.

“My blog is a combination of outfit posts, makeup reviews, store reviews and travel posts. I like posting on my blog the most when I’m traveling. I feel like it makes so much more sense to snap a few blog pictures while on vacation, rather than in my backyard,” Kappes said.

Aside from her personal photography, Kappes also posts clothing

and accessory sets she assembles herself on the trending website Polyvore.

Blogging comes second after school for the 16-year-old, and she only updates a few times a month.

“I don’t have the following I wish I had, but I still get a lot of people reading my blog,” she said. Her total page views are 8,131 and increasing.

“The numbers have been rising at a faster rate recently too, which is really exciting,” Kappes said.

Her blog has even caught the attention of the writers at Teen Vogue. A few months ago, Kappes received an email from a Teen Vogue writer interested in covering her blog in an article. Unfortunately for Kappes, she did not see the email in time to be featured in the issue.

“It absolutely killed me, but I know that if I could get their attention once, I could do it again. I dusted myself off, and have been working hard to get noticed again ever since,” she said.

For now, Kappes says that her blog-

ging is a relaxing form of stress relief that she enjoys being a part of, whether she is updating her layout or formatting pictures and text.

Sophomore Rachel Baek has known Kappes since fifth grade when the two became good friends.

Baek describes Kappes’ blog as an important part of Kappes’ personality.

“It is where she can express herself. It is where she can be creative

and free. She loves to see the comments she gets from her followers,” Baek said.

As for her future, Kappes wants to remain involved with fashion, although she is not certain at what capacity just yet.

“There are thousands of girls just like me who want to succeed and win a position at a magazine,” kappes said. “I’d like to stay connected though, definitely.”

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Sophomore blogger builds online following of fashion enthusiasts

Robotics team headed to regionals

Senior Stacey Perron (standing) participates in a discussion during Summit. Summit is the youth group for high school students at University Covenant Church.

Students commit to Lent, prepare for Easter

By Rubia Siddiqi HUB Staff Writer

For 40 days every year, millions of people agree to go without an item or activity in preparation for Easter. Many DHS students are among those who give up something valuable to them for Lent.

Junior Jaclyn Miras, a Catholic, has faithfully participated in Lent for as long as she can remember.

“I have taken it more seriously as I’ve gotten older because it has more meaning to me,” Miras said.

Lent marks, for many Christians, the acknowledgement and gratitude for Jesus’ suffering as he went through 40 days and nights without food and water. It serves as a religious cleansing, and sometimes even awakening, as Christians prepare for Easter, where, according to Christian belief, Jesus gave himself up to be crucified in order to cleanse humanity of sin.

“In a way, I kind of feel connected to Jesus because I am participating in Lent and honoring what he did for us by doing a little bit of the same thing,” Miras said.

Senior Stacey Perron feels the

same way. She believes that Lent is significant because it gives Christians the opportunity to think about what Jesus did for them and about their daily struggle of sin.

“By giving up something you may struggle with, like wasting time on Facebook or being addicted to something unhealthy, you then can replace your time with something useful, like reconnect with God and focusing on healthy things,” Perron said.

Perron is focusing on being healthy this year. She has decided to add on an activity rather than subtract one from her daily routine.

“I am eating healthy and exercising more,” she said. “I am also spending 15 minutes with God every day, whether it is praying, listening to worship music or reading my Bible.”

Like Perron, senior Christine Tak hopes to gain a better relationship with God this year during Lent by reading the Bible more often. “I participate in Lent because it makes me really discipline myself, which can be difficult, and focus on why I celebrate Easter,” Tak said.

This is Tak’s first year seriously

participating in Lent, and she is giving up ice cream, Tumblr and secular music.

“Well it’s obviously not going to be an easy task, but I think it’s worth the sacrifice,” she said. “I mean, it’s nothing compared to sacrificing my life.”

Father Paul Baba, of Holy Virgin Mary Church, a Greek Orthodox church in West Sacramento, describes Lent as “the most beautiful time of the year when I feel letting go as much as possible of worldly things and to receive the outpouring of God’s grace. It’s an indescribable joy.”

He has been participating in Lent since he was 7 years old, which is the traditional age fasting and the purpose of Lent is introduced.

“We give up that which is desirable,” Baba said. “The Holy Apostles passed down to us the tradition of abstaining from meats, cheese and oil for the purpose of enduring for Christ sake. Prayer must accompany fasting, or it becomes pointless.”

Davis’ robotics team Citrus Circuits is competing in the Sacramento region’s quarterfinals, which conclude tomorrow. The team has participated for several consecutive years, and last year placed first, sending the team to nationals in St. Louis, Mo. The team has been preparing by having weekly meetings at Da Vinci Charter Academy since the beginning of the season. According to team member Alexis Gilbert, the team has also begun driver practice and human player practice. They have also been setting up scouting teams.

“Our robot has a six-wheeldrive train with its main function being shooting baskets and its minor function being going over the ramps and balancing,” Gilbert said.

According to the team’s website, the robots compete on an indoor playing field and “involve very little attacking of other teams robots.”

Although movies and TV shows

often only show robots fighting, the team’s website states that “the goal of FIRST competitions is to encourage creative problem-solving and teamwork, rather than to design the deadliest robot.”

The team is made up of 23 students, not including mentors, in grades 9-12 from various schools in the Davis area. The team is broken into specialized positions such as electricians and programmers, as well as media and business.

“Our accomplishments this season are setting up the Green E watt Saver fundraiser and Farmers Market visits,” said Gilbert, media and business team member for Citrus Circuits. She also adds that the team has applied for three FIRST awards for the first time in the team’s existence and that the team has created “a more in-depth website,” circuscitrus.org.

According to the team’s website, FIRST is a non-profit organization and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is the flagship program that FIRST runs, and in which Citrus Circuits participates in.

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Senior Risa Pesavento (right) works on a robot with fellow Citrus Circuits team members. The Citrus Circuits robotics team is competing tomorrow in a regional competition.

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By Madie Delmendo HUB Staff Writer

Senior year looms just around the corner for the Class of 2013, and soon juniors will be picking out the last classes they will take as Blue Devils. Thick course books have been handed out, full of prerequisites and course summaries.

However, to get a true sense of what senior year can hold in store, juniors can turn instead to current DHS seniors, who know firsthand which classes are the best, as well as the hurdles students face once enrolled. Here is a guide to several classes DHS has to offer: English Composition and Literature AP Comp Lit has a scary reputation of rigorous papers, extensive reading and the impossibility of earning a good grade. Though Comp Lit is a demanding class, most seniors feel that the reward outweighs the price.

Sarah O’Keefe, one of the two Comp Lit teachers at DHS, advises students to think about their lives as seniors.

Ask yourself what other courses are you taking and other involvements you have. “You’re going to have to make some choices,” O’Keefe said.

O’Keefe suggests that for students who enjoy English, Comp Lit may be the right choice, despite the challenging nature of the course.

“My favorite part of teaching this

class is the depths of the discussions that students enter in Advanced Placement, knowing that it will be a challenge,” O’Keefe said. “Then the thoughtfulness that they bring to the class discussions – I truly enjoy that.”

Senior Paris Jackson was in O’Keefe’s English class as a junior and decided to take Comp Lit because he enjoyed having O’Keefe as his teacher. Jackson, too, says that his favorite part of the class is the in-depth discussions the class has about each novel.

“You have to stay on top of the readings and pay attention in class,” Jackson warns. “If you’re going to take Comp Lit, take it seriously.”

Calculus AB AP Not everyone is a math whiz and that’s okay. But if you enjoy mathematics, calculus is a good subject to get under your belt before graduation.

Senior Amy Platenkamp decided to take Calculus AB her senior year because she likes math classes, even though she admits that math isn’t her strongest subject. Platenkamp says that she likes “solving the puzzles” of math equations.

Platenkamp says that she likes calculus so much because she really enjoys the people in her class and the atmosphere.

“My favorite part about having Ms. Henry for a teacher is her stories; she tells really great stories,” Platenkamp said.

Calculus is based strongly on Algebra I and II and Introduc-

tory Analysis concepts. Platenkamp warns that calculus will be difficult for someone without strong knowledge in those fields, but says that “the higher concepts are pretty easy to apply after you understand the basic math.”

Much like Jackson’s comments about Comp Lit, Platenkamp advises future calculus students to get their homework done on time and to pay attention in class.

“If you understand the assignments, you’ll understand the tests,” Platenkamp said.

Physics Honors DHS has 17 science courses overall. With so many options, how does one narrow it down? For those who like a challenge, Physics Honors offers rigorous coursework with a fast-paced environment, but is less demanding than Physics AP, according to the DHS course guide. Students interested in studying physical sciences, mathematics or engineering in college should consider taking this course.

Senior Cara Lammers is considering majoring in engineering and decided to take physics to “get a feel for what that would be like.”

Lammers also enjoyed chemistry sophomore year and wanted a similar experience.

“I enjoy that the problems we do are practical in that I can see exactly how the concepts are used in real life,” Lammers said. “Also we do several experiments in groups so we get to work together a lot, which is fun.”

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Seniors give advice to juniors on rewarding, fun classes

Students in Wayne Raymond’s Physics Honors class work on homework and finish labs during class. Physics Honors offers a fast-paced enviornment, but is less demanding than AP Physics.

According to Lammers, Physics Honors can be challenging because there are very few tests, each of which covers a good deal of material and is worth significant points.

Although the class is a weighted course and the DHS course book says to expect “between 30 minutes to one hour of homework per night,” Lammers says that the homework load is bearable and that the concepts learned in the course are very useful.

Zoology and Botany If you like science, but are looking for something less challenging than physics, than Zoology and Botany is a good option. Students who like biological science more than the physical science courses like chemistry will find a better fit in this course.

Senior Chelsea Brent decided to

take Zoobot because she heard that the course was fun and many of her friends were also signing up for the class.

Brent’s favorite part of the class is the labs, which are a large part of the course’s curriculum. In Zoobot students get to capture bugs, dissect squid to make calamari and eat chocolate covered insects.

In addition to the unique class work, Zoobot students have the opportunity to spend three days at Catalina Island Marine Institute.

Senior Paul Klavins went to Catalina this year because he had heard that the trip was “really fun and awesome.”

Klavins’s favorite part of the trip was the snorkeling trip, but he also COURSE ADVICE continued on 6

By Genny Bennett HUB Staff Writer

Imagine singing alone in front of a panel of judges. Now imagine singing a song in a different language alone in front of a panel of judges. Now imagine singing a

song you’ve never seen before in a different language alone in front of a panel of judges.

This is the process to become one of 32 singers in the DHS Madrigal choir.

Junior Jordan Glassman first auditioned for Madrigals when she was a freshman. She did not make

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By Kashmir Kravitz HUB Staff Writer

Because their parents were acquainted, juniors Marea Newell and Kallie Gregg have known each other since childbirth. Now, their extremely close friendship revolves around several inside jokes and associated “weirdness.” In fact, Gregg said that the majority of this conversation is inside jokes.

So, when did you guys actually become friends?

Kallie: I don’t really remember just because ever since I can remember having friends, Marea was my friend. It’s not like I had a choice…

I mean that in a good way.

Marea: (after much giggling) I’m offended.

K: No, like, you’ve been a part of my life forever.

Do your parents like you guys?

M: Yeah, my parents like Kallie more than me.

K: I’m pretty sure if I stopped being friends with Marea, my parents would disown me.

What is the most bizarre thing you have ever done together?

K: Um…everything we’ve ever done together?

M: When we were little, we pretended my mailbox was a coffee shop and we served […] hot cherry mochas.

K: Which sounds disgusting, but at the time we thought we were really hipster.

What do you guys do together on a daily basis?

K: We watch TV and then I make her watch soccer, and then we eat ice cream.

M: And then Kallie cries some…

K: And then everyone makes fun of me for crying and I wish Marea would cry with me, but she doesn’t.

M: Because I’m a robot.

K: She has no emotions. I have emotions for the two of us.

M: True story, I don’t cry in public.

She stole my emotions as a child.

What is your fondest childhood memory?

K: Well, I remember all of my childhood with sort of fond terror because Marea was a bully.

M: I had really long nails and they called them demon claws and when I got mad I would attack people.

K: Yeah, she clawed me!

M: No, I never clawed you, that was my sister.

K: Yes you did! I called you by your middle name.

What’s her middle name?

K: Can I say it? Patricia.

What’s Kallie’s middle name?

M: God…what is your middle name?

K: Sixteen years later we’re break-

ing up because of this.

M: I’m a terrible human being.

What is the meanest thing Kallie has ever said to you, Marea?

M: She told me to fall out of a tree.

K: I told her I was gonna push her out of a tree. She was being mean, I dunno. We aren’t really mean to each other, we just tease each other.

What is the meanest thing Marea has ever said to you, Kallie?

K: One time I told a really funny joke and she was like, “Wow Kallie that was really funny. Tell it again.”

And I started telling it again and she shoved me out of my bed.

What’s gonna happen to you guys once you go to college?

M&K: Nothing.

K: We’re going to be best friends forever, like actually, no matter where we end up.

What do you guys hate about each other?

K: She thinks she’s Ke$ha. And I don’t understand why she’d wanna be Ke$ha.

M: (after much thinking) I dunno.

Nothing. Kallie is a perfect human being.

K: You hate that I’m taller than you.

M: Yeah, she’s not allowed to be taller than me.

in front of important people and I’m really busy with school and lacrosse so there is the added stress of trying to find the time to prepare my solo,” she said.

Glassman is practicing “Amarilli Mia Bella,” a song in Italian, for her solo by taking voice lessons once a week.

The audition has three different components: a solo, pitch testing, and sight singing.

The solo, preferably in another language, is prepared individually by each person and sung to the judges.

To test a singer’s pitch-matching ability, the judges play five different notes on the piano two times in a row, and then the singer must sing those notes back to the judges.

Lastly, the judges test each person on his or her sight-singing ability; sight singing is singing a song that the singer has never seen before.

The judges give each person a short piece of music and 90 seconds to review the music. After 90 seconds, the singer must tell the judges

what key the song is in and then sing it with no help from the piano other than a starting pitch.

The audition process for ATC is the same as Madrigals.

Katie Sanger, a freshman at Emerson Junior High, plans to try out for ATC because it requires less of a time commitment outside of school than Madrigals.

Sanger does not plan on joining another choir for the upcoming year or re-auditioning next year, but she believes she has a high chance of making it into ATC this year. “[My chances are] high, I have a rare range of voice, second alto, and I have had a lot of training in choir by Mrs. Gardias herself,” Sanger said.

Applications to be part of the Madrigal or ATC for the 20122013 school year were due on March 1. Auditions will start on March 18 and continue through March 20.

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What is the toughest obstacle that you guys have had to face?

K: Honestly, my relationship with Marea is the easiest part of my life.

Like, everything else in my life can like suck super bad but I always have her.

M: She one-ups me on everything!

She has the ability to express herself and I can’t. Can I just say what she said?

What is the most meaningful thing that either of you have ever done for the other person?

K: On my 16th birthday she made Juniors Kallie Gregg (left) and Marea Newell a cake shaped like M: So, I save all the birthday cards I the Barcelona crest and it was covered with M&Ms. And get in a box and my favorite one is Barcelona is my favorite thing in this one that Kallie gave me when the whole world and most people I was 10 and it says, “Egad! You’re 10!” don’t get it, but she does.

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Sophomore Meaghan Murphy (left) rehearses with the Madrigals choir. Students must pass a tough audition to join the choir.

the cut and chose to join the Advanced Treble Choir instead. ATC is a female-only choir made up of about 30 members. After a year in ATC, she re-auditioned for Madrigals and made it for her junior year.

Freshman Kenya Oto, one of Karen Gardias’ students at Emerson, plans to audition for Madrigals this year. To prepare, Oto has been taking voice lessons for the past four months and is confident that he will make the choir.

Gardias is the director of both renowned choirs, as well as the choir teacher at Emerson Junior High.

“I think I have a pretty good chance because Ms. Gardias has made [our] class sight sing and match pitches whenever we can,” Oto said.

Oto plans to audition next year if he is not accepted this year.

Although Glassman is part of the Madrigals during her junior year, she is nervous about re-auditioning this year.

“It’s always intimidating to sing

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HIGH FASHION AT 102 DEGREES It’s flu season again, and as students pull themselves out of bed and force themselves to go to school, there’s a dramatic change in DHS fashion. Sweatpants replace jeans, and sweaters are chosen in a DayQuil haze. But being comfortable doesn’t necessarily mean foregoing looking good: students can still wear sickness-friendly clothing without becoming an eyesore. Call it malades couture.

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went hiking and kayaking while in Catalina.

“People should take Zoobot because Mr. Bastin is awesome and you get to play with animals and insects,” Klavins said. “I got to hold a tarantula and a scorpion.”

Ceramics & Sculpture If Blue Devils want a creative break from textbooks and tests, Ceramics & Sculpture is a good course to take senior year. Not only is Ceramics a class where you get credits for playing with clay, but those credits fulfill the fine art requirements.

Senior Cho Win decided to take ceramics senior year because ceramics is something that she enjoys.

“Ceramics is a stress reliever.

It’s a fun, easy class to take senior year,” Win said. Win adds that it is nice to have a class with no homework where she gets to spend time with friends.

Ceramics teacher Lynnette Diem believes that ceramics is a “good

continued from 5 counterpoint to the more academic classes” that DHS offers.

“The class allows students to relax a little and express themselves in a creative environment and make something that will last them a lifetime,” Diem said.

Diem believes that seniors should take ceramics before they leave DHS because it will likely be the last time they have the opportunity to take such a class.

The first semester of ceramics focuses on becoming comfortable with clay and clay techniques and learning how to use a potter’s wheel. The second semester is more open-ended with students, in consultation with Diem, coming up with their own projects.

Student projects are showcased in an art show held at the end of the year.

“Students can really benefit from using what I call their heads, their hands and their hearts to make something personal,” Diem said.

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Through the years, DHS has seen many changes, from new rules and policies to alterations in buildings and students’ behaviors. The school has remained a safe place to learn and socialize, but it took more than thirty years for that secure environment to recover from tragic incidents that occurred in the ‘80s.

Two UC Davis students, John Riggins and his girlfriend, Sabrina Gonsalves, were kidnapped on Dec. 20, 1980 as they made their way to a party that night. The couple was ultimately murdered. Riggins was a DHS graduate.

“I think the event changed the culture at DHS, and even the town, forever. It was definitely a loss of innocence for the town,” DHS alumnus Stephan Zweifel said. “Over thirty years later, it is still difficult to drive past DHS without remembering these two remarkable people.”

Just three years later, another tragedy struck DHS. Thong Hy Huynh was stabbed during a fight between a group of

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Vietnamese students and a group of Caucasian students on May 4, 1983.

Huynh’s death led to the foundation of Friendship Day. Friendship Day was created in an effort to spread peace at the school and create a stronger connection among students.

While Zweifel, class of ‘77, was attending DHS, there was the threat of a strike arising among the teachers during his junior year. Teachers were upset over the possibility that their contract conditions would not be met by administration, so they were debating whether or not to go on strike.

“Most of the details went over my head, but I still recall my calculus teacher almost breaking down in tears as he tried to explain to his class that it was the most difficult decision he had ever made in his professional life,” Zweifel said.

“It finally got through my thick head how devoted the teachers were to their students.”

Zweifel could feel a special connection to teachers while he attended DHS in the ‘70s.

“The teachers were amazing: many of them had been college students in the late ‘60s and the stories they told about meeting

Bobby Kennedy, marching with Martin Luther King, et cetera were inspiring,” he said.

Chuck Gasser graduated four years before Zweifel, in 1973, and agrees that the teachers at DHS were excellent.

“I liked some of my teachers a lot. I had great biology, math and social studies teachers,” Gasser said. “I had one math teacher who took me and a couple of other kids to UCD after school on her own time for math enrichment programs.”

Back then, DHS did not offer AP courses, but Gasser believes some classes held students to high standards.

“College was not too difficult, as the courses I had taken at DHS were taught at a high level,” Gasser said.

However, he does believe that DHS’ academic expectations have risen, considering a student could be in the top 5 percent of her class with a 3.86 GPA. Carol Owen, who graduated in 1975, agrees. “ DHS is so much more competitive academically than it was when I went there,” she said.

Not only has DHS’ academic prowess increased, but its rules and policies have gotten more

strict too.

“It was much easier to cut class,” Owen said. “Senior skip day was part of the rites of passage; no one got in trouble.”

Owen, now a Davis parent, believes there has been an increase in drinking among students.

“There was a lot of drinking back then, but I think that not only is there even more drinking now, but the drugs seem to be a much bigger problem,” Owen said.

During Gasser’s stay at DHS, there was a designated smoking lounge for the students.

“For a while there was a smoking lounge off the MPR because neighbors of the school had complained about students ditching campus to smoke in their yards,” Gasser said.

The MPR served a much larger purpose to students in the ‘70s than it does now, especially because there was a closed campus at lunch, so students were more likely to get food from there.

The MPR itself, plus a few classrooms between it and 14th Street, is one of the only buildings that remains from the ‘70s besides the Old Gym. “DHS was much smaller in

The principal’s message in the yearbook addresses World War II. “These are dark days for us all […] The world is looking to you, the coming citizens, to strengthen the feeling for Democracy and to continue the good work that is now being done.”

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The graduating class of 1937 leaves behind a “senior will.” Each graduating senior writes a brief statement leaving something behind to an underclassman or teacher. One of the wills reads: “I, Calvin Covell, will my industry in P.E. to Mr. Halden so that he may lose some weight.”

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The HUB changes its publication format from a magazine to traditional newsprint. This is the year The HUB began to publish the way we know it now.

A newsmagazine called Axle joins the three existin Davis High publications: the Blue and White yearbook, The HUB and The Spoke literary magazine. The Axle published two eight-page issu this year, patterning its style after “TIME” magazine

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iends, and on the fields of Davis’ oldest high school 1973 than it is now,” Gasser said. “There were small classrooms where the library is now, and the library was then where the learning skills center is now. There was a row of classrooms along the teacher parking lot, but perhaps just one more row of rooms and that was it.”

“The school was smaller. The newest part was the H building, and the dance room was pretty new also,” Owen said. “The library is bigger and better, and the athletic facilities are really nice now.”

Athletics at DHS have remained a big part of the school, with the typical sports powerhouses, such as water polo, swimming, track and cross country, standing strong throughout the years. But in terms of competition and sports participation, the school has changed dramatically. Although freshman are now welcome to compete on high school teams, this was not always been the case. “[Students were] not allowed to play in matches because of the separate junior high and high schools. I am still a little bitter,” Zweifel said.

hool transportation methods, 10 percent veyed reported riding a moped to school. ow what a moped is? Perhaps the most popular transportation method he good old bicycle.

Senior Emily UhrhammerMorrow has seven family members who attended DHS in the past, and has a sort of insider’s look into the high school, as her family members can describe what the high school used to be like for them “It hasn’t affected my high school experience too much in either direction,” UhrhammerMorrow said. “I guess I would say that having such similar high school experiences is both bad and good. It can be nice sometimes because they understand certain traditions and the school culture.”

Since Morrow’s parents’ time at DHS in the eighties,

the school has changed a considerable amount.

“None of the buildings were painted blue and white, including the old MPR and Old Gym,” she said. “I don’t really think anything about the changes, they are just nice updates. The new facilities we have today are very nice,” Morrow said.

“It is a modern cliché to say that high school was terrible, but I really enjoyed high school at DHS,” Gasser said. “I made great friends and learned a tremendous amount on every subject that I took there.”

With an aerial photo of DHS taken in 1981 in the background, students cheer at a pep rally in a photo from a 1980s yearbook.

The annual Powderpuff football game is cancelled due to excessive conflicts between the junior and senior classes. Compare: nineteen years later, the rough Powderpuff game of 2011 led to discussions of pulling the plug on Powderpuff due to unsportsmanlike conduct.

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Politics of contraception

ccording to President Obama’s campaign website, beginning on Aug. 1, many insurance plans will be required to cover contraception without co-pays or deductibles as part of preventative care for women. This addition to the Affordable Care Act, passed in March 2010, has spurred controversy around the country. Kashmir Kravitz believes this is a necessary policy, while Glenn Hull opposses the mandate.

HUB Staff Writer

It is absolutely absurd that after decades of dispute, the birth control controversy is still an issue.

Birth control should be provided by health insurance, and there is no logical reason why it shouldn’t.

Obama’s addition to the Affordable Care Act would severely reduce the amount of women who avoid care.

Some religious organizations felt that Obama’s law would violate their rights because they do not believe in the use of birth control.

As a result, on Feb. 10 Obama amended the law so that the organizations themselves were not forced to provide birth control, but women could still receive free contraceptives through the insurance provider directly.

There is no reason that religion should dictate whether or not contraception is provided by insurance.

Lack of birth control would cause more need for abortions, which is considered a sin in many of those same religions.

Regardless of what your religion says, our Constitution of the United States of America does not, cannot and will not dictate female or male reproductive or health care rights.

Even so, with the change of the law, there is still dispute over insurance-provided birth control.

The opposition claims that it would cost the government loads of cash and, if a woman wants birth control then she should just pay for it herself.

Well, the whole entire point of the Affordable Care Act is to provide for those who cannot afford health care while also providing for those who can.

Then, of course, the next argument: “don’t have sex if you don’t want kids!”

Let’s set something straight: birth control is not used purely for reproductive prevention. Millions of women, according to Obama’s

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website, aren’t even sexually active and take birth control to regulate their menstrual cycle.

Also, people like having sex.

People don’t necessarily like raising children, especially if they are not financially sufficient or prepared to raise kids.

Look, abstinence is a good choice, but the majority of America is not abstinent and will not be abstinent, even with sex education in schools.

Sex is an important part of a romantic relationship. You can have sex for the first time once you are married to someone and realize you aren’t compatible.

So, no matter how much they preach that their religion forbids birth control, the campaigners against insurance-covered birth control are basically blatant sexists.

A man can walk into a store, buy a cheap pack of condoms, which are also frequently provided for free, and go bang whoever he darn well wants.

But a woman has to pay hundreds of dollars a year for her birth control. And, when a woman does use birth control, she is often condemned a “slut” by chauvinistic hogs like Rush Limbaugh.

Women are people too; women deserve to have a choice. As difficult as it is for certain members of this country to grasp such a ludicrous concept, it is the truth. Thus, women can choose whether or not to use birth control if it is provided to them for free.

Women are allowed to speak, write, read, work, vote and run for political office, so women should be allowed to choose whether or not they want to have sex without high costs.

You want me to pay for your … pleasure?

Birth control should not be given out for free by health insurance companies. Taxpaying companies and citizens should not have to pay for unwed people to have sexual relations with each other.

There are really only two reasons why people have sexual intercourse: to have a baby, or to receive physical pleasure.

If you have sex to have a baby, you would not use birth control. If unwed people are having intercourse for the sole purpose of pleasure, they probably do not want to have a child.

Taxpayers should not have to finance someone else’s physical pleasure.

There are stores and pharmacies on every street that sell condoms, birth control and any other contraceptive need.

If you really want the contraceptives, pay for them yourself.

If you cannot afford the birth control, then don’t have sex. It really is not that hard of a concept: if you don’t want a child, don’t have intercourse.

If you don’t have the resources to pay for a condom, you should be worrying about working instead of worrying about sex. Productivity and financial well-being should be your priority.

If you can’t pay for birth control, you need to try to better yourself through hard work and practice abstinence. Sex will not get you out of poverty,

but hard work might.

If you don’t want to raise a child, and cannot pay for birth control, just practice self-restraint and don’t have sex.

If you want to use birth control, go ahead and use it; just don’t make other people pay for it.

With free birth control, there will most likely be a spike in the amount of people participating in sexual activities. With the influx of sexual activities, there will be an increased risk of people acquiring sexually transmitted diseases, which will result with a less healthy society. With free birth control there is less responsibility, which will lead to moral degradation.

The new health care plan that President Obama is trying to enact, however, has many good aspects. The new plan provides free physicals for women, screening for viruses that cause cervical cancer, and other services that benefit all women. The plan should continue; just eliminate the birth control.

Advocates of birth control support it because it is considered preventative care for women. That makes sense in a way because it prevents women from getting pregnant, but women would not have to worry about getting pregnant if they did not have sex.

You can prevent a pregnancy from happening without using birth control. Thus, if you can’t pay for your own birth control, you should just abstain from having intercourse.

Sex is unnecessary for personal fulfillment. If you are doing it because you love somebody, there are plenty of other ways to express it.

There is no need risk an unwanted pregnancy and a sexually transmitted disease to experience love, or physical pleasure. That can just as easily wait until marriage.

By adding free contraception to the new health care bill, Obama ruined a bill that was made to help all people. Now, taxpayers have to pay for people’s pleasure along with the services that actually help women and society.

I think Coach Carr from Mean Girls summarizes it the best: “Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die!”

All he does is “Lin, Lin, Lin” Monica Lopez-Lara HUB Staff Writer

Step aside, Tebowmania. “Linsation” is the newest sports craze sweeping the nation.

Standing at 6 feet 3 inches, Jeremy Lin, The New York Knicks’ point guard, definitely has a “Linspiring” story. Lin is the first American player in the National Basketball Association to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.

“Linderella” has come from humble beginnings, having his first experience with basketball on the courts of his local YMCA. After attending Palo Alto High School, Lin chose to attend Harvard University, which had guaranteed him a spot on their team.

Fast forward to Feb. 14 during a Knicks vs. Raptors game. Lin scored the game-“Linning” threepointer, with less than one second left on the clock. Astonished by the “Lincredible” play, Los Angeles Lakers player Metta World Peace

ran by cameras and reporters, flailing his arms and shouting “Linsanity!”

A new cultural phenomenon was born in the world of basketball.

While this trend should have resulted in an encouraging outpour of support and congratulatory attitudes, many of the remarks made by national news stations or sports affiliates have been stereotypical, racist, and even degrading.

In the span of a week, several media outlets and individuals came under attack as they spoke about Lin without any consideration for their words.

An example of such a remark is a message sent out by boxer Floyd Mayweather, who tweeted: “Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don’t get the same praise.”

Although race is a factor, fans aren’t just supporting him because of his heritage. Lin has proved himself to be one of the team’s most valuable players on skill alone.

DHS senior and basketball fan Feiyang Liu agrees that Lin has rightfully earned the appreciation from fans due to his “Linsane” tal-

ent and not just his ethnicity.

“If it was a Caucasian or African-American male who attended Harvard, went undrafted and was forced to ride the bench for an entire year before finally earning a chance at significant minutes, I am sure that many sports fans would have been just as impressed,” Liu said.

Madison Square Garden Network displayed a graphic on air during a Feb. 15 Knicks vs. Kings game showing a cracked-open fortune cookie with the words “The Knicks’ Good Fortune” as a fortune. A cutout photo of Lin with his tongue out hung above the cookie.

Even though the graphic was not made by the network, they should have had better judgment on what they were showing to their viewers, many of whom were offended by the ethnic stereotype presented by the graphic. Overall, it was distasteful and a poor attempt at marketing.

We should be celebrating the diverse mix of cultures that have the opportunity to play professional basketball, and supporting those who perform well and have a posi-

tive impact in our communities.

Liu also believes that the reason behind Lin’s admirability is his humble personality and gratefulness.

“Despite all of the attention he receives for his outstanding individual play, he constantly deflects praise toward his teammates and attributes his success to their support,” Liu said. In fact, Lin has openly discussed his strong Christian faith on several occasions and thanks God after every game.

It is completely understandable that so many basketball fans enjoy “Linnovative” puns, which are always enjoyable and mildly humorous as long as they don’t turn into slurs. People in the public eye, however, need to be more considerate about their remarks toward Lin and the Asian community in general and how they affect others.

“The fact that he is Asian serves only to inspire all those who have been doubted due to physical limitations or preconceived stereotypes,” Liu said.

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by Monica Lopez-Lara and Madie Delmendo The average American spends 6.33 hours on Facebook a month, according to Google Ad Planner. Social media has taken over the lives of many teens, so we are here to show you how to use it wisely. This is the way we see it.

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Seniors Jason Tang (left) and Minuk Kim search for quotes on Kim’s Kindle during their AP Composition and Literature class.

Bring paper books back HUB Staff Writer

Reading, for some, is like going to church for a Catholic, or the mosque for a Muslim. Hemingway can be someone’s personal Jesus, Ginsberg: their very own Allah.

Reading is a religion, a sanctuary, but as of late, that safe haven has been corrupted.

According to a survey released in August 2011 by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group, paperback book sales have fallen 14 percent since 2008. The survey stated that a huge factor in the decline of book sales is the birth of the e-book. So why are people so obsessed with these e-readers?

Tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire can be fun; you can browse the Internet, check your FaceBook, email, or Twitter, play some games, watch that new funny video on YouTube and maybe even read a book if you get around to it. But with so many tantalizing distractions, how likely are you to actually just sit down and read a book? How can you focus on the doomed love between Catherine and Heathcliff when you’re constantly being bombarded with notifications and friend requests? Reading electronically is a distraction, and it takes away from what we are supposed to be doing: reading.

Senior Ashley Tupin, a proud Kindle Fire owner, agrees that the many functions of the device can be overwhelming.

“There’re so many options, like you can read a book or you can be on Facebook […] or you can be playing Temple Run,” Tupin said. “If you get bored or are like, ‘this chapter’s really slow,’ you can go play a game. It’s pretty distracting.”

Picking up and rifling through the pages of a book is a sensory experience. You can feel the rough texture of the paper and the slight indentation of the ink as you glide your fingers across an especially well-written sentence, or smell the strange combination of ink, parchment and mildew that is oddly exhilarating and comforting at the same time. The fluorescent glare of a Kindle can’t even compare.

Flipping through the pages of a book also creates a connection with the person who wrote it. You

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pick up a copy of “The Sun Also Rises” and see Hemingway sitting at his Parisian flat in 1926, clacking away on his typewriter, creating the impossible love story of the promiscuous Lady Brett Ashley and the disillusioned Jake Barnes. Chills run across your skin as you picture Bram Stoker writing longhand in his leather-bound journal, creating his seductive villain, the horrifying Count Dracula. Hemingway committed suicide in 1961, 46 years before the first Kindle was released. How can we experience his prose as he meant us to when we are reading it using technology he could never have even imagined?

Not all arguments against ebooks are as romantic as the former. Some are concerned with the possible health complications associated with staring at a computer screen for so long. There is a lively debate going on in the medical community about whether or not a computer screen causes medical problems or whether the danger comes from staring at the screen for too long without blinking, but either way, why risk it? Why ruin

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your eyes using an e-book when you can just go pick up a harmless and beautiful paper copy from your local bookstore?

Yes, an e-reader or a Kindle can be very convenient; you can have multiple books at the ready in a relatively small package, but it corrupts the sanctity of literature.

When we cross our ridiculous obsession with all things technological with the classics people have been reading for hundreds of years, or even just tween-trash novels like “Twilight,” the words lose some of their meaning.

Books can be all-consuming.

The hitchhiker on the side of the road is a modern Sal Paradise, making his way across the dusty American landscape, running solely on nicotine and daydreams. The little girl window-shopping is Holly Golightly, desperate to shed her inner Lula Mae Barnes, to find a place as perfect as Tiffany’s. Books connect us to the past, to the artists who create them, and we should revel in the beautiful permanence of books instead of forsaking them for a cheap substitute.

Letters to the Editor Decision on grad caps I am writing to follow up the recent announcement that the decoration of mortarboards will not be allowed at this year’s graduation.

This decision was made entirely by students and echoes our desire for Graduation 2012 to be a classy, uniform event. The Graduation Committee, a group of twenty seniors that meets every other week, was responsible for deciding to keep the tradition of no decorated caps at DHS. All seniors were welcome to be on the committee and this group serves as the key work force behind the event. We want graduation to be a special day for

everyone, and our goal is not to suppress freedom of expression— seniors will, per usual, be allowed to wear leis and are invited to audition speeches for the ceremony.

Instead, we want this event to be one that shows we are the Class of 2012, all 534 of us. After all, graduation is not about what is on your cap or about you standing out, it’s about how for that one day, all of us will be at the same place, at the same time, for the same reason— to graduate together, wearing royal blue, concluding our time as Blue Devils.

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The HUB does not normally publish anonymous letters to the Editor, but we made an exception for this letter because it made us laugh: Hulk Hogan has a request for you, brother. He has noticed that the Athlete of the Issue hasn’t interviewed my favorite sport. I respect freedom of press but equality is necessary. So tell the little hulksters what they want to know.

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Like Wishing Happy Birthday Waking up on your birthday with a constant stream of birthday wishes is such a good feeling.

Your best friends, acquaintances and even some lost connections all come together to make you feel special on your day of the year. Wishing someone a happy birthday is a way of saying that in our extremely busy day-to-day lives, you had the kindness to take a moment and think about them.

Inebriated Facebooking Rule of thumb: if there is a red Solo cup in the picture, don’t Facebook it. Don’t upload a status about how “wasted” you are or how “awkward” it is that you can’t remember what happened last night. Like it or not, you are being judged by people you may meet in the future, and their impression of you will be stained. It doesn’t make you look cool, it makes you look trashy.

Friending Relatives Friending relatives on Facebook is a good way to stay in touch with faraway family, plus it shows everyone else that you don’t use social media as a way to show the rest of the world how much you party. Plus it is adorable when your grandparents ask you how to type a heart or say “I friended you on The Facebook.”

Life Narrative Surprisingly enough, the 600 or so Facebook friends you have don’t need to know when you poop and pee. They don’t care that you ate fries for lunch, or that you just bought new jeans.

Use your statuses in an interesting and innovative way. Share a good song, a special moment or a great accomplishment that would make others feel good. Above all, don’t let Facebook become your personal online journal.

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Reading Articles The new fad of reading articles on Facebook is doing society a huge favor. Even if you’re reading “The Dangers of Tweeting While Eating,” at least you’re bringing awareness to something even remotely newsworthy. In a society where technology rules teenagers’ lives, newspapers and books are left by the wayside as teens update their statuses and tag photos. If Facebook social reader apps are what it takes to get people reading articles again, so be it.

Spreading the word In a world of social media, news travels fast. Facebook is a good way to educate others and spread information quickly. Two weeks ago, hardly anybody knew the name Joseph Kony, but now it has become the most viral video in all of history. Spreading the word about causes you care about on Facebook makes others more informed about issues that have the potential to create a lasting impact. In a society of social media, this is a way to use your powers for good.

College Bragging “I just got accepted into Stanford! That’s nine schools now!”

“Waitlisted for Santa Barbara… lame…” Comments like these are so unnecessary. We understand, getting into college is a very exciting experience that we would like to share with others, but in many cases it is solely used to brag. Share this awesome feeling with those who you know would be genuinely interested.

Face your problems, don’t Facebook them Fighting on Facebook or posting rude and inappropriate comments about others is never okay.

Facebook is not a tool for anger and hatred. Acting this way makes you look ignorant, uneducated about the situation, and stupid. If you have a problem with the way something is being done, take it up with those who are directly involved, instead of mindless ranting and trying to look tough in front of 800 people you barely know.

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Concerns? Write a letter!

The HUB appreciates its readers and enjoys hearing feedback. If you want to write us a letter, submit it to L-20 or dhshub@gaggle.net.

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The HUB Policy The HUB is written, edited and typed by members of the DHS HUB class. It is a non-profit publication paid for by advertisements and donations. The HUB was established as an open forum of student ideas and expression. Our content reflects the interests and ideas of students but not necessarily those of the Davis Senior High School administration and faculty. Staff opinions are the majority opinion of the HUB staff. This publication is not subject to prior review. The administration of Davis Senior High School should not be held responsible for The HUB’s content.

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Senior Sarah Kolarik never imagined that she would be seeing popular artist Florence and the Machine performing at UC Davis’ Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The 17-year-old visited the venue when she was younger to see “famous violinists, pianists and tribal dances with drums, but nothing ever classified as pop.”

Kolarik is among many DHS students who are pleasantly surprised to have some of their favorite modern artists visit a venue right in their home town. Florence and the Machine and The Shins will make their debuts at the Mondavi Center April 18 and April 23 respectively.

Kolarik finds Florence and the Machine’s choice to perform at the Mondavi surprising “because she is such a brilliant artist, and she’s so famous, so it’s hard to believe that she’d pick this small college town in the middle of nowhere,” Kolarik said.

Mondavi Center director of marketing Rob Tocalino explains this increase in popular artists as “a direct result of our great relationship with the Bay Area-based presenter Another Planet Entertainment, who have increased their usage of the Mondavi Center over the past two or three years.”

Tocalino adds that the flexibility of the venue’s Jackson Hall allows the Mondavi Center to vary its performers “from elaborate dance and cirque productions to intimate acoustic piano recitals.”

This flexibility allows Mondavi Center crews to transform the hall into a venue fit for popular artists.

“In the weeks before a show gets here, our production team is in close contact with the artist’s tour managers, going over the specific needs for each production: how the stage will be laid out, what lighting, power and rigging needs will need to be provided,” Tocalino said. “This way, when the trucks arrive, we have prepped the venue so everyone can hit the ground running.”

Senior Emily Bamforth was not as surprised as Kolarik when she heard that one of her favorite bands, The Shins, is coming to the Mondavi Center. “They’re a different kind of band for that type of venue, but it’s not too surprising,” she said.

Both Kolarik and Bamforth feel that the Davis concerts are not only appealing because of the artists but also because of the affordable ticket costs and convenience.

“When again are we going to have this opportunity where the concert is so close to home? It’s hard sometimes to get to Sacramento or the Bay Area so this is just the perfect place to have a concert,” Kolarik said.

Both concerts sold out quickly with 1,801 seats in Jackson Hall, according to Tocalino. Kolarik paid $55 for her Florence ticket and Bamforth paid $45 for her Shins ticket. Both agreed that these prices were ideal for the artist and venue.

“This is such a reasonable price because it’s close to home so you

don’t have to worry about gas or getting there, and it’s not a big venue so you won’t be that far away from the performer,” Kolarik said.

Senior Alex Duleba, who is unable to attend the two Mondavi concerts but would have liked to, feels that if Davis venues begin to host more popular artists they must spread the performances out.

“Right now these concerts are selling out like the day after. I think if these concerts happen more and more often, it’s not going to be as common that these concerts sell out so quickly,” Duleba said. “You just can’t afford to be going all the time.”

Duleba, who is attending the Bon Iver concert at Freeborn Hall the day after the Mondavi Center’s Florence and the Machine Concert, wishes that Davis venues would coordinate with each other so concerts do not end up scheduled back to back.

“A lot of people are only going to be able to go to or afford one event,” he said. “So I think they should communicate with other venues in the area and have more popular artists come like once a month or a little less often.”

Despite the closeness in scheduling of the concerts, Bamforth, Kolarik and Duleba believe that bringing popular artists to the Mondavi Center will benefit Davis.

“I think it will make Davis more well-known and not just be “that college town” but the college town that all the famous artists go to, and it could become the new music scene,” Kolarik said. “I think it’d also make UC Davis a cooler university to go to.”

Duleba feels that the current rush of pop artists to Davis venues such as the Mondavi Center started from the Ke$ha concert at Freeborn Hall in 2011.

“I feel like maybe artists realized that university towns are going to have a lot of people really excited to go to concerts like that,” Duleba said.

“You probably can make a lot of money doing bigger shows at the Mondavi Center, Freeborn and places like that.”

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all from the start,” Robinson said.

Robinson also believes that the reason why so many teenagers read the “Hunger Games” books is because of their uniqueness.

“It’s a new story and it’s different.

It’s different from ‘Twilight’ and it’s different from ‘Harry Potter.’

It’s different in a lot of ways and everyone wants something new,” Robinson said.

“The Hunger Games” is a very popular trilogy but some students still believe that it is not up there with the likes of Harry Potter or Twilight.

“It doesn’t compare to Harry Potter. ‘The Hunger Games’ are like a seven out of 10 and Harry Potter is more of a nine out of 10,” senior Brenna P e r l m a n said. n issio

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When someone overhears a conversation regarding teen novels, they probably think they are talking about either a vampire falling in love with a human or a wizarding boy who is trying to outlast his evil counterpart.

The book they probably don’t think of is one that is set in postapocalyptic North America, where 24 children from the ages of 12-18 fight each other to the death on national television.

DHS students are highly anticipating the film adaptation of the first novel of the trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” which is set to release in theaters across the country on March 23.

“I’m going to see the movie as soon as possible because of how interesting the books were. I can’t wait for the movie to come out,” junior Monica Leflore said.

The “Hunger Games” novels are written by Suzanne Collins and the first book “The Hunger Games” came out in September of 2008.

The book was met with positive

reviews and Collins came out with two sequels “Catching Fire” in 2009 and “Mockingjay” in 2010.

Leflore began to read the trilogy after her friend told her how addicting they were.

“I started reading them last summer when my friend convinced me that they were better than Harry Potter. She was wrong but they are a close second,” Leflore said.

Leflore went on to say that what she believes makes the books addicting is that they are so interesting and suspenseful which causes the reader to never want to put the book down.

Like any series, “The Hunger Games” trilogy has many characters, the main protagonist being Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl from District 12 who volunteers for the Hunger Games in place of her 12-year-old sister, who was originally chosen by raffle to represent District 12.

Sophomore Emma Robinson says that her favorite character is Peeta Mellark, who is the other District 12 contestant in the Hunger Games along with Katniss.

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More bang for your buck: Where to buy computers for a bargain The key factors you need to know in order to buy the right laptop for college are simple: what kind of hardware you need, what kind of computer you are comfortable with, Mac or PC, and what your price range is.

The hardware you need depends completely on what you plan to use the laptop for.

DHS alumnus and current USC student Jared Martin bought a 15-inch MacBook Pro at www. macconnection.com, and the website threw in extra RAM and a carrying case with his computer for a total of approximately $1,260.

“I was extremely satisfied with the deal. It allowed me to have the amount of power I needed to run my video editing platform and effects programs for a much cheaper price,” Martin said.

Martin explained that www. macconnection.com offers zero tax and free shipping in almost every state, resulting in a lower price than the student discounts on the Apple website.

Some colleges and universities specify what kind of hardware their students need to make it through the four years at their school, and UC Davis students can find this information at the UC Davis Bookstore website.

The choice between a Mac and a PC is a personal one.

“It’s really a toss-up between what they prefer and what they feel more comfortable with. The university has no real specification whether you get a Mac or a PC; we are open to either platform,” John, a salesperson at the TechHub of the UCD Bookstore said.

Both Apple and Dell offer college student discounts on a variety of computers. You can access these special discounts on their websites.

Dell laptops at the student discount rate range from $599.99 to $949.99. These discounts can save you an amount ranging from $130 to $300.

MacBook Pros range from $1,099 to $2,299 depending on the screen size you want. You can save up to $200 on student discounts. The MacBook Air can cost between $949 and $1,549 for students, saving you $50.

Similar versions of the PCs found at the Dell website can be found at stores like Costco and Best Buy. If you know what you want, looking at the sales at these stores is a good idea. Just make sure you do your research.

PCs tend to go on sale at these large stores and though the computers are not exactly the same as the ones seen on the website, they have similar hardware and are generally cheaper.

For example, a 500-GB hard drive and 4-GB Dell Inspiron 14z costs $599.99 on the Dell website, when a Dell Inspiron 15R with a 640-GB hard drive and a 6-GB memory costs $499.99 at Costco.

While PCs tend to go on sale at Best Buy and Costco, Macs also have sales right before the universities start.

Both Dell and Apple like to throw in bonus items with purchases for college students.

DHS alumnus and current Wagner College student Michelle Greenough got a good deal on a MacBook Pro when Apple was having a last minute college sale.

“I had a good deal because Apple had a sale for college computers when I bought mine, and I also got a printer with sale for really cheap and a $100 iTunes gift card with my Apple purchase,” Greenough said. “I know Apple isn’t the cheapest, but they had a lot of little deals and are really reliable. I almost bought a Dell instead because there was a deal

that came with an Xbox. There are a lot of deals right before you go to college.”

Before looking for a computer, decide what you want in your computer, make sure to explore your options and search for these little deals that can save you a lot of money.

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Senior Jack Davis plays the character Tartuffe in DHS’ drama class’s production of “Tartuffe.” The play will continue on March 16 and 17.

Totally groovy ‘Tartuffe’ rocks the stage

By Linda Ge HUB Staff Writer

The year was 1969. The world was in a flurry with The Beatles and big business, daisy chains and soldiers, politicians and the civil rights movement. And while the DHS drama production of “Tartuffe” comes 43 years later, it still feels like a product of the time.

Director and drama teacher Gwyn Bruch took a classic 17th century French play about a man posing as a religious guru, and set it in a groovier San Francisco.

“Kids were looking for something bigger. I graduated from high school in 1969, so it was a time that meant a lot to me,” Bruch said.

The set, costumes, makeup and props look true-to-form. Characters crack open silver Pepsi-Cola cans emblazoned with old-fashioned

logos and the blender looks like a dusty resurrection from someone’s garage.

Junior William Kingscott, who plays Cleante, says the “fantastic” set will not be traveling with the cast to Scotland. “What we’re taking from this production here is just all mental stuff, [such as] line deliveries and the spacing and timing of the show. Physically, what we’re doing is all going to change. So [we figure out] a lot of the subtle things now.”

Tartuffe, the happy freeloader played by senior Jack Davis, resides with his groupies in the household of a man smitten by his self-proclaimed pious devotion.

Orgon, played by senior Travis Selph, holds Tartuffe on so high of a pedestal that, upon returning from a trip, he inquires more about Tartuffe’s well-being than he does about his ailing wife, Elmire.

However, the audience soon glimpses Tartuffe’s true nature when he shamelessly hits on Elmire, played by junior Margaret Starbuck.

Hilarity ensues as characters try to expose Tartuffe as the scoundrel he really is. The use of physical humor finds the audience giggling at the absurdity of it all.

Students agree that from every little eye roll and syllable stress, she never fails to make Elmire’s motivations and innermost thoughts clear. Many viewers are persuaded that Starbuck really is a 1960s housewife, seeing she is always on the ready, never off guard, and perpetually throwing out a series of dramatic gestures.

The play will be showing on March 16 and 17 at 7 p.m., and tickets are selling for $10 each.

Profits will help fund the drama department’s trip to Scotland.

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Local bands try to break into the big time Seniors Polo Hedriana, Alex Chapman and Logan Condon mix drums, bass, guitar and vocals to create the band Simply City.

Chapman says the band members are “like, best friends.” But Simply City is unusual. Although not signed by a record label, the band is recording its album with a professional producer who “has been in the industry for a very long time.”

For Simply City and other highschool bands, working with a professional producer is a first step toward a career in music. As graduation nears, bands with senior members try to complete these steps, propelling their bands to the big leagues.

Zac Diebles, a producer and friend of the band from Citrus Heights whose music name is Z Rokk, listened to Simply City’s album, “Dreams of Fame.” Because he liked it, Diebles now helps the band design and assemble the music in his studio.

“We play all of our songs for him and he makes suggestions,” Hedriana said. Hedriana sings and plays bass for the band.

For Hedriana, seeing the professional producer work has additional perks.

“I’m hoping to end up working for a record label or playing in a band or just anything that has to do with music,” Hedriana said.

Hedriana and Condon already run a small local recording studio, Punk Bunny Studios, with Condon as sound engineer and Hedriana as producer. The studio has recorded for other DHS bands such as Eluminati, Simon & the Fire Breathers and Spectrum, as well as solo musician and senior Nat Lefkoff.

For any high school band, it is hard to keep playing when members split up and move forward with their lives, but Simply City plans to keep it going, stringing together songs on Skype and Garage Band.E Eluminati, a band composed of seniors Matthias Wilken, Jackson Vanover, John Greer and Matt Austin, has talked with producers as well, planning to send their next album out to producers as soon as it is finished, according to Wilken.

Still, “its not like we’re basing our futures on it, we’re all going to college probably,” Wilken said.

“It’s more for fun, but if something happened it’d be cool.”

Eluminati has come out with a CD before with songs recorded

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By Daniel Tutt HUB Staff Writer

(Left) Senior Nat Lefkoff sings one of his songs for his fellow classmates at the Da Vinci campus. He has released four albums, with the latest one released last month. (Top right) DHS band Eluminati performs at Da Vinci during lunch. (Bottom right) Da Vinci students listen to the shows put on by Lefkoff and Eluminati for a benefit concert.

in the KDVS studio, which offers recording technology and expertise for $20 an hour. This self-titled album, “Eluminati,” came out the summer of 2011.

Fenris Wulf runs the KDVS studio, Studio A, along with assistant Matthew Torres. Studio A caters to local bands and about 20 percent of its customers are from high school. Right now, UC Davis, which subsidizes the studio, is renovating it, but Wulf expects Studio A to reopen later this year.

“We don’t make a lot of money but I like doing it,” Wulf said.

Wulf has 17 years of recording experience, more than 15 of those years recording bands.

With college on the horizon,

and Eluminati members going their separate ways, Wilken says the band will continue to play, but more irregularly, probably over breaks in school or over the summer.

Lefkoff, on the other hand, does not have to worry about parting ways with his band. He’s a oneman show.

He has released four albums, three in high school and one in elementary school. Lefkoff has not released any of his albums under a record label. He is in the DHS band, Simon & the Fire Breathers, formally known as Downhill from Here, which has released one album. Just last month, Lefkoff released a solo album where he sings and plays guitar.

“I understand the difficulty of becoming a successful musician so my expectations are low. My hopes, however, remain high,” Lefkoff said. “Whatever happens, I am sure that I will never stop making music.”

Lefkoff got his music out through www.soundcloud.com, a website which allows free distribution of audio.

Still, he says if a major record label signed him, it would be “awesome.”

According to Wulf, getting a record deal has to do with proving the band can sell records, which normally means building up a local following. After that, he says, the record labels will find you.

Simply City seems to be at this stage, where the band plays plenty of live shows and has developed a fan base, but a record label has not yet attempted to sign them.

However, “as of right now, our goal with getting a record label isn’t as big because we can do all of it ourselves,” Hedriana said. Simply City already knows how to set up gigs, to record and mix their own music and to write its own songs.

“A record label isn’t so much a necessity now as it would be a luxury,” Hedriana said. “If a label finds us, then so be it.”

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Sports in Brief 5 FACTS

Coach Spencer Elliott keeps team on track

JV Baseball:

1 win and 0 losses The JV team is scheduled to play against Jesuit on March 16

Spring Sport Equipment

Men’s JV Lacrosse:

By Grace Calhoun HUB Staff Writer

By Grace Calhoun HUB Staff Writer

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1 win and 4 losses The team will be playing Miramonte at home on March 16

The HUB asked DHS athletes what the typical cost of equipment is in their sports. Here are their estimates.

Graduated from UCD. “I double majored in history and English; I got my teaching credential at Sacramento State.

I guess I contemplated going into law, but I got some classroom experience as a substitute and that reaffirmed my decision that I wanted to teach.”

Badminton:

2 wins and 2 losses The team will play Fairfield on March 19 at Fairfield

Track and Field:

2 3 4

Baseball $10

Favorite food is burritos.

“Burritos are just fabulous.

They have complete protein, rice and beans; all your essential amino acids.”

Badminton birdie $3

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The women won their first meet against St. Francis 79-57.The men beat Jesuit 93-43. The team will have its second meet against Woodland on March 16

Tennis ball $2

Women’s crosse:

Ran 400s, 200s and the occasional 100 meter dash in high school track. Already coached at DHS one year before he started teaching.

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2 wins and 2 losses The team will play Oakridge High School at Oakridge on March 16

shoes Tennis 0 $40-10

Cleats $40-100

Favorite sports team is the 49ers. “I was raised a 49er fan.

My dad brainwashed me at an early age to be a 49er fan, an Oakland A’s fan, an Arizona State Sundevils fan when it comes to NCAA sports, and a Warriors fan.”

es Pyramid spik $8

Women’s JV Lacrosse:

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1 win and 1 loss The DHS girls will play Oakridge on March 16

Women’s JV Soccer:

8 wins and 1 loss The women will play at 5 p.m. on March 16

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“I haven’t had a Sunday with nothing to do since my daughter was born [in 2010].

But now that she’s here we like to go to the park and we like to play with blocks. I do like to play guitar, I like to play with Guapo the dog and watch episodes of Scrubs.”

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Baseball glove $30-300

Swim cap $1.55

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Varsity

Men’s JV Golf:

The team had its first match against Del Campo on March 8. Two Blue Devils were in the top three spots

By Katie Van Deynze HUB Staff Writer

Source: Swim Outlet, Eurosport, Just Bats, Just Ball Gloves, Running Warehouse, Sports Authority, Tennis Express

JV TEAM

By Kelsey Ewing Sports Editor

While the men’s JV lacrosse team may face challenges adjusting to a new coach and a bounty of new teammates, both coaches and players have high expectations for the rest of the season.

While the team has “a lot of depth and good players” this season, coach Jake McCorkle sees challenges in putting together all the components of a good team.

“We have all the pieces to go as far as we want, we just have to put them together and that’s the area

we’re working on,” McCorkle said. “It’ll eventually get there and once it does, we’ll have a team that is as potent as any other.”

While all but two of the defensive lineup are freshmen, offense is strong with many returning players, according to sophomore lacrosse player Daniel Pardee.

“We have a lot of really good [offensive players], but we’re just very injured right now,” Pardee said.

The team has a 2-3 record so far, but McCorkle’s expectations for the rest of the season are high.

“I anticipate this team to do well

this year, and to only grow stronger as the season progresses,” McCorkle said.

Once players adjust to the new chemistry of the team, Pardee anticipates that the team will have a strong season.

“We’re doing better than we started out last year, but I think we can still do better,” Pardee said.

Part of this success relative to previous years can be attributed to McCorkle as a new coach, according to Pardee.

“The new coach is good; he’s really helping us,” Pardee said. “He’s a good addition.”

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New coach, new hopes for JV men’s lacrosse

JV lacrosse players run through drills during practice on March 12.

ATHLETES OF THE ISSUE Russell Richardson

Amy Yordduangjun

Tennis

Badminton

Senior Russell Richardson has been a member of the DHS tennis team for four years and plans to continue playing tennis in college on a club or an intramural team.He usually plays singles.

Senior Amy Yordduangjun is one of the four captains of the DHS badminton team and has been playing badminton for DHS since her sophomore year. She plans to find a club or intramural team to play on due to the shortage of collegiate badminton teams.

How did you start playing tennis?

My dad played so I started when I was five years old. It wasn’t a serious thing; it was just a casual lesson over at the old courts in South Davis before it became an athletic club. He took lessons from a pro and I would go with him during the day so I would just take lessons also.

How long have you been playing badminton?

I started my sophomore year and I have been attending the open gym sessions ever since then, pretty much every Saturday from four to six.

What is your favorite part of playing tennis?

What’s your favorite way to train?

Our team actually takes what would be more of a casual approach to tennis. Given our level of success, you would think we would be super hardcore about everything, but we’re actually pretty laidback. We take conditioning pretty seriously, like we’ll go hard for a few weeks, but practice is more about having a good time.

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One thing I like about tennis is that it combines the aspects of a team sport, but also it’s individual. There are doubles, but for the most part it’s about being on the court by yourself, and it is you against your opponent. There’s the team scoring, but it’s on you to win your match individually, so it kind of combines these two factors, but in terms of playing for Davis High. So we basically have been together for 10 years and we’re all just really good buddies and everyone is just super chill.

What attracted you to badminton?

I like how fast-paced it is. It’s also like you have to prove yourself to the whole school because I get a lot of crap from everyone; even though it’s a rigorous sport, no one acknowledges it. It’s more than what you learn in P.E. It’s strategic and it’s not just brute strength; you have to use your mind, too. In one game you can easily run more than a mile. It’s intense; I like the speed of it.

What’s your favorite way to train?

I definitely like playing practice games with the people who came to open gym; they’re not on the team, they are previous captains from four years ago, they really train you. Practice games are the best way to train for the real match.

By Katie Van Deynze HUB Staff Writer

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SPORTING DEVIL

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Sports

Senior Charlie Klein (left) watches his ball as it soars across the driving range. Sophomore Alex Lafreniere (top) practices her butterfly stroke. Senior Ben Eckels winds up for a pitch. Senior soccer player Dana Granger (bottom) passes the ball in a rainy day warm-up drill.

Athletes spring into action

By Meem Mohsin & Kelsey Ewing HUB Staff Writers

With tryouts finished for all spring sports, each team has played in at least one tournament or game. For five of these spring teams, coaches and players gauge their success so far as an indicator of promising seasons to come.

Men’s varsity lacrosse While he says last year’s varsity men’s lacrosse team was not strong offensively, junior Mikie Schlosser expects that this season’s team

will see more success thanks to better chemistry on the field.

“As a team, we work very hard at practice and everyone gets along with each other. Our team is so close off the field and it translates into success on the field,” the captain said.

Sophomore Mark Bruemmer, who has played varsity lacrosse for two years, confirms that his teammates have made stronger connections than in previous years.

“My weakness last season was being inexperienced at the varsity level; it was somewhat of a new experience last year. I train by

playing over the off-season,” Bruemmer said.

Schlosser feels that his teammates’ extra dedication and effort to improve, both during practice and on their own, will translate to more wins this season.

“We would like to win our league championship.

Our main goal is to win league, and make a run in sections,” Schlosser said.

STATS

The team has six wins and zero losses. The Blue Devils will play Miramonte at home tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Women’s varsity soccer The women’s soccer team this year is working for a repeat win at sections. Senior and captain Dana Granger states that her team is very skilled and she sees consistent strength across the field.

This season, the team has focused on conditioning with the hopes that a faster and stronger team will mean a more successful team.

“Personally, even though conditioning might not be everyone’s favorite thing, I think that it is a vital part of becoming a better player. It’s a really great group of girls and as the season progresses, we will only become stron-

ger both on the field and off the field,” Granger said.

STATS

The team’s only loss is to St. Mary’s, in a close game of 0-1. The team will play Vista Del Lago at home on March 16.

Men’s varsity golf Golf coach Karl Ronning hopes that each team member achieves his maximum potential. He also expects each team member to do his best to continue to improve throughout the season.

“We do not have any weaknesses, only goals we need to achieve. Every

member is dedicated to the idea of always looking for ways to improve,” Ronning said.

Junior Aditya Jagadish wants to improve his putting and ball control in order to contribute to the team’s overall efforts. “My expectations are, if my busy schedule permits, to play in as many tournaments as I can and to become a better golfer,” Jagadish said.

“Golf is more of a mental game,” Jagadish added.

“If you don’t have a balanced mind, forget about SPRING PREVIEW continued on 15

Answering the questions of New coaches take the field

female, 55 percent of the athletic funding must be directed toward women’s sports, and 45 percent to men.

Budget cuts have forced many universities to cut several sports.

Often, Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in all forms of education programs, is blamed for the cuts.

To clarify the issue, The HUB spoke with Wendi Delmendo, Chief Compliance Officer of Title IX at UC Davis, who has answers to questions regarding Title IX:

“Second, a school can comply by demonstrating continuing expansion of its athletic program for the underrepresented gender.” If there are more women attending a school than men, that school must make efforts to add more women’s sports or positions within women’s athletics.

Q. How does Title IX affect collegiate athletics?

A. “Under Title IX, schools must offer their male and female students similar athletic opportunities and experiences regardless of their gender.” Schools have three methods of demonstrating compliance to Title IX in the area of collegiate athletics.

Q. What are these three methods of compliance?

A. “First, a school can comply by offering male and female students athletic opportunities that are substantially proportional to the percentage of male and female students.” This means that if the student body is 45 percent male and 55 percent

Lastly, a school can also survey its student body about athletic interests and prove that “it is providing opportunities that satisfy those interests for the underrepresented gender.”

Q. Do the provisions of Title IX threaten any specific sports?

A. “To my knowledge, there is not a list of sports that are most threatened because of budget cuts,” Delmendo said.

Q. Is Title IX directly responsible for cuts?

A. Delmendo says that most cuts made in athletic programs are due to budget deficits, not specifically because of Title IX. “Budgets […] are often to blame

for sports cuts, not the need to comply with Title IX.” When a sport is cut, the factors of the decision include the cost of the sport and the availability of competition in the team’s geographic area.

Title IX comes into play when a school cuts a sport that reduces opportunities for the underrepresented gender, but Title IX itself does not enact any cuts.

Q. What were the most recent cuts made in UCD athletics?

A. According to Delmendo, UCD last cut sports in 2010. The sports affected were men’s wrestling, men’s swimming and diving, men’s indoor track and women’s rowing. “These cuts were made for budgetary reasons— not to achieve Title IX compliance.”

Q. Do you have advice for high school athletes hoping to compete in college, in regard to athletic cuts?

A. “High school athletes who plan to compete in college should be aware of this [budget-cutting] trend and be aware that there is no guarantee that any given sport will survive budget cuts.”

At one point during the 2011 season, the varsity women’s soccer team was rated first in the nation on an Adidas poll. But with former coach Allen Carlson’s retirement, Sara Stone hopes to lead the respected team to an equally successful 2012 season.

Both Stone and JV lacrosse coach Lisa Branch are new to teams. Both are replacing coaches that led their teams through highly successful seasons in 2011.

But a fresh face can be an advantage for players and coaches alike.

“It’s a great opportunity on both ends to not have previous history and walk into a situation where it’s a clean slate and each and every person has a fresh start,” Stone said.

The women’s JV lacrosse

team will also be seeing significant changes this season.

Not only is the coach a fresh face to the DHS lacrosse program, but also 15 of the 18 players are new to the team.

After a successful 2011 season with coach Lindie Lorber, former UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis coach Branch hopes to build success by fostering an appreciation for lacrosse in her players.

“There are many great advantages to being new to a team. You can bring new enthusiasm to a team and possibly re-energize them,” Branch said.

Branch hopes that the team will be able to build confidence in her players in regard to both skills and enthusiasm for the game.

“Being a new team, I just need to develop their skills as players and give them a good understanding of the game,” Branch said.

Similarly, one of Stone’s

goals for the soccer team is for her players to enjoy the game. However, Stone hopes to challenge her team this season.

“Most if not all of these players have a competitive spirit within and thrive off hard work and challenges,” Stone said.

Stone is adding a tougher conditioning plan.

“I’m pleased with how the team has responded to the challenge and recognized that there is always room for fitness growth,” Stone said.

“By being fit, we will be strong for the duration of the season. It’s not how we start the season, but how we end the season.”

While Stone encourages high fitness standards to promote better game play, Branch concentrates her attention on establishing a foundation of stick skills.

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By Chloe Kim & Gary Djajapranata HUB Staff Writers

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Title IX

By Kelsey Ewing Sports Editor

Women’s JV lacrosse coach Lisa Branch explains a drill to her team. While the coach and many of the players are new to the team, she has high expectations for this season.

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Sports

College-level club sports offer a less demanding alternative As sports seasons come to an end, some senior athletes put their cleats up for good and hand their old equipment down to their younger siblings. Other senior athletes keep their cleats by the door and equipment in the car. While some athletes retire from their sport in preparation for college, others continue practicing to prepare for a sports career in college.

For many, the decision of whether or not to continue their sport is based on academics.

Junior Manny Guerrero, a varsity baseball player, says intercollegiate sports would “probably take away from [his] grades [in college].” However, Guerrero hopes to continue playing baseball in college through club sports.

DHS alumnus Mari Cajandig plays club lacrosse for Santa Barbara Community College. Club lacrosse gives Cajandig the opportunity to play lacrosse without being overwhelmed by the commitment of playing for an intercollegiate sports team. “When I went to college, I knew I didn’t want lacrosse to be my life,” Cajandig said.

The club team allows Cajandig time for schoolwork and friends as well as lacrosse. She has practice

COURTESTY PHOTO

By Shauna Simon HUB Staff Writer

DHS alumnus Mari Cajandig looks for a pass in a Santa Barbara lacrosse game. Cajandig says that playing club level lacrosse is the perfect combination of competition, fun and commitment.

three times a week with games every other weekend.

To Cajandig, the team is more relaxed than her previous experiences in DHS varsity lacrosse.

However, a UC Davis sports recreation supervisor reminds students that club sports do require a relatively high level of commitment

due to practices, games and travel.

Club sports teams compete against other colleges. However, because student athletes run their own teams, the teams do not represent the college itself. According to UC Davis’ sports recreation supervisor, club teams act as an intermediate between intramural

and intercollegiate sports teams.

For many, intramural sports are too recreational while intercollegiate sports are too advanced and competitive.

Club teams also require a type of financial commitment. Because the players run their own team, they have to supply the team with

needed equipment. Also, games require a lot of traveling which in turn requires a lot of gas. Players are responsible for paying their own traveling fees.

“It can get pretty pricey, but it’s definitely worth the money,” Cajandig said.

College Junior, Kelly Chang, is on the division three Claremont Mudd Scripps Swim and Dive Team. Chang dedicates 15 hours every week to practices and meets.

Similar to a varsity sport in high school, NCAA teams require a certain level of skill not required by club teams. “You have to be qualified to be on an NCAA as opposed to club sports; they’re open to anyone,” Chang said.

Chang sees a notable difference between the level of commitment she puts into her team and the level of commitment in which her friends in club sports put into their team. She believes that student athletes make the decision to be in a club team instead of an NCAA because the commitment level works best for them and their schedules.

The team only affects Chang academically because practices can conflict with class times. Chang believes that student athletes who sign up for NCAA over club sports do so because “they have good time management skills and can take on the commitment.”

SPRING PREVIEW: baseball swings for success

STATS

In the Lincoln Invitational the varsity boys took fifth out of 16 teams on March 5.

Varsity baseball While senior center-fielder Patric Kreidler was not satisfied with the success of his team last year, Kreidler anticipates that the baseball team will go farther this year than any other year he has played for DHS. He believes that his team has pitching depth and good potential

in hitting, and Kreidler says that there is not one specific thing that the team wants to improve on.

“Once we get to playoffs, I want to assert myself more into the role of being the dependable player that my teammates can count on,” Kreidler said.

STATS

The team’s only loss was to Vacaville. The team will face off against Jesuit tonight at Raley Field, weather permitting.

Women’s varsity swimming Doug Wright, the women’s varsity swim coach, hopes that the team will win league championships and qualify for section championships.

Because junior Claire Evans mainly swims on her own time

to train for water polo, Evans relies on swim team to improve her strength.

“We weight train twice a week in order to build up muscle mass for endurance and speed, and as far as getting better, it’s really just repetition and strength,” Evans said.

The team’s newer swimmers are learning how to train, race and compete.

“We train at three different locations, so team unity will be something we need to keep working on,” Wright said. He says his team has great personality and a strong work ethic.

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continued from back page doing well. So I just train to cope with bad shots that I might hit and maybe hit the gym to do some ab workouts to turn faster through my swing.”

STATS

The DHS women beat out the Laguna Creek women 13040. The team will swim against Granite Bay on March 20.

Varsity soccer coach Sarah Stone explains the next drill while the team finishes warm-ups. Stone is new to the team, but has so far bonded well with players.

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NEW COACHES: players bond with coaches

Jerry Nishimoto and Sophia Yin stretch during the “Iron Every Body” class at Hideshi Okamoto’s Fitness Garage. According to Okamoto, stretching is one of the most important aspects of exercise.

Stretching improves physical health

By Nick Juanitas HUB Staff Writer

The most universal aspect of sports is not running or catching a ball, but stretching. Every sports team at DHS starts its practice with a stretching period ranging from 10 to 20 minutes to loosen up before playing.

Stretching is one of the most crucial aspects of exercise to help an athlete’s body defend against injury, according to Hideshi Okamoto, fitness trainer and owner of Fitness Garage.

“Stretching is very important because it is key in preventing injuries and it also increases your movement,” Okamoto said.

When athletes stretch out their bodies, they are warming up their

muscles while also sending blood and oxygen to them.

What stretches a person chooses to do usually coincide with what sport or activity they are doing.

Lacrosse players focus their stretching on their upper body and arms because those are the muscles they use to shoot and pass.

On the other hand, varsity soccer player Kian Bagheri says that he chooses to mostly stretch out his lower body before he plays.

“I mostly concentrate my stretching on my hamstrings, quads and calves because those are the parts of my body that I’ll use the most when I’m playing,” Bagheri said.

One part of stretching that confuses athletes and coaches alike is whether it is more beneficial to stretch before and after working out versus just before.

Cross country runner and varsity lacrosse captain Tim McIntyre believes that you have to stretch before and after your workout, but not to do the same stretches both times.

“You do dynamic stretching before, which is when you do moving stretching like high knees, and then after you practice you do static stretching which is like touching your toes,” McIntyre said.

Bagheri agrees with McIntyre’s ideas on pre- and post-workout stretching, stating that when athletes stretch before their workout, they are loosening their muscles while stretching after their workout releases the lactic acid from their bodies and allows their bodies to fully recover.

continued from back page Because her team is largely new to lacrosse, Branch has focused on basic techniques and conditioning.

So far, the team has been developing ball skills and fundamental concepts on body positioning during game play.

“There isn’t a whole lot to change, just a lot of teaching to do,” Branch said. “I just want them to learn the game and become great lacrosse players.”

Both the varsity soccer team and JV lacrosse team must adjust to the new techniques their coaches bring to the field, but so far players have connected well with both Branch and Stone.

“I think everyone really respects

her, but since we haven’t been playing with her we don’t know how she will react to certain situations,” said sophomore Katherine Gardias, who has so far played three games for Branch.

“I bond with her better than other coaches and she connects well with us so I think she’s good for our team,” senior soccer player Kate Latsch said.

Both coaches are hopeful for the remainder of the season.

“I look at it as a new beginning and opportunity for myself and of course for the players,” Stone said.

“Whenever change is made it’s a new beginning for the coach as well as for the team.”