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Update Volume 40, Issue 8 May 18, 2018 H. H. Dow High School

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The ‘My Turn’ column on page 10 is open to the whole school. Columns will undergo the same screening process as letters. All columns should be turned in to room 218 and should include the author’s name.

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It’s time to be an adult All graduating students must be aware their school accounts will be deleted from the MPS system as of June 30. To keep any records, save all desired work to a flash drive. Be sure to have a back-up email and have it registered with sites like Parchment in order to not lose access because all MPS email accounts will be terminited on the same date.

Farewells and congratulations English teachers Cory Thompson and Mark Pickering are retiring at the end of the school year. Assistant principal Julie Villano has accepted a position as assistant principal at MHS. Congratulations to Thompson for winning the SVL Teacher of the Year and Sean Murray for receiving the Gerstacker Award.

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Letter from the Editor It is time for me to bid a farewell to my wonderful staff and this national exemplary school that has been my home for the past four years. This is the last time I’ll let my thoughts glide across page three of the Update, and the last time my faithful two readers will process the 400-ish words of advice or ranting jibberish I have conjured up as my letter. I am amazed by all the events that have transpired here this year. I started off not knowing what to say to our readers in my letter from the editor. I thought, what could I contribute in my own little space that would provoke any meaning. I then began to feel more comfortable. There were times of pure luck where I could contribute news through my letter and the impact it had on me like the Dow/WE partnership and the Distinguished Women’s Awards. Journalism has taught me more than I bargained for. Have I ever told you the story about how I became a

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journalist? Well, lets just say I wasn’t always on this path. Little freshman Maggie Duly decided to take Spanish 3 and realized how incapable she was of speaking Spanish and looked for the closest escape route which happened to be Beginning Journalism. The end. Some would say what’s meant to be will be. Through my time on the Update I have learned to ask more questions even when they’re tough, to be impartial, to be aware, and most importantly be informed. Our publication has always intended to educate and inform our readers and this year, I believe our staff accomplished that task. We brought you live updates on student protests, analytical articles about current news, and informative features exposing new tends. What I learned this year as an editor and as a student is to never be afraid of pushing yourself to your full potential. Yes. It will be a lot of

work. But it is so rewarding. Our staff worked so hard this year, we were able to earn the highest honor for a high school publication in the state of Michigan: a Spartan Award. And I cannot begin to describe how proud I am. Take a couple minutes to browse what this year’s graduating class is proud of or maybe not so proud of in our stories about most embarrassing high school moments, confessions, and can’t believe they dated. I hope you all enjoy the senior issue, it has been my pleasure sharing my thoughts, advice, and anecdotes with you this year. Enjoy the last issue,

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What WWIII would mean

Visually voicing America’s Students, veterans weigh in on possible war, draft violence Lillian Pressnell

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n the evening of April 15, the US, Britain, and France Pressnell’s Pressing News bombed Syria in retaliation After introducing his human lives. for Syrian president Bashar song “This is America” Some have speculated al-Assad’s alleged chemical attack on Saturday Night Live, that Gambino himself on Syria’s own soil. Despite the Donald Glover, also known is America in the video. strikes and the events leading up as Childish Gambino, He displays this by using to them, little has changed in Syria released his music video. entertainment as a itself. Some anticipated that Russia, I think this video is distraction, committing Syria’s number one ally, would be important because it goes violence, and being a hostile and lash out in response to beyond the typical rap ringleader. Throughout the the strikes. However, the Russian song with it’s many history video Gambino is dancing. military has been rather calm and pop culture references, This dancing distracts the despite Putin’s brusque addressings. and sheds light on things viewer from the chaos Regardless of these events, some like police brutality, in the background. Near people on the internet have said racism, and violence in the end of the video, this is the beginning of WWIII. Per America. Gambino is Gambino sings the words contra, some believe that a WWIII is using his platform to call “This a celly, that’s a not on the horizon. attention to what matters tool”, a phrase that could “I don’t think we’ll ever have to him, which entertainers have double meanings. a WWIII because everyone has should do more often. One could be the use of nuclear weapons, and no one would There are two shooting cellphones to document be stupid enough to go to war,” scenes in the video. The today’s brutality, and the senior Noah Nichols said. first one occurs after the other could be the use of In the most recent major wars, first verse. Gambino is cell blocks, or prisons, as a such as the Iraq and the Afghanistan shirtless, wearing only tool to keep black people in war, there has not been a draft. pants that look eerily the cycle of incarceration. However, during most other major similar to those that At the end of the video, wars of the past, such as both world Confederate soldiers wore Gambino is seen running wars, Vietnam and Korea, a draft during the American for his life, chased by a was used. Because of this reason, Civil War. He then takes a crowd. Gambino seems to some say that there would be a draft strange pose, shooting a have snapped out of his if there was a WWIII. Just like there man sitting in a chair. The American trance while are some opposed to a WWIII, there pose has been identified as the song sings about MEMORIES OF A the “Jump Jim Crow” pose, being a black man, a SOLDIER: These 50 a dance from the late 1800s barcode, and his life not year old photographs early 1900s which was mattering. feature Gary Jankens, popularized by performers I think it’s important a 68 year old dressed in blackface. The for people to use their Vietnam War veteran second shooting involves fame for talking about and Purple Heart a situation that is similar what matters to them. Recipient, which to the racially motivated Entertainers like he recieved after Charleston shooting from Gambino with “This is being wounded by a 2015. After Gambino is America” and Beyonce Vietnamese weapon seen committing both with “Lemonade” are called a punji stick. crimes, each of the setting a precedent for He was frequently weapons is placed in future entertainers to faced with rough a red cloth with care, speak their mind and to symbolizing how America use their platform for the terrain, jungles, and unfavorable weather. values gun rights over issues they care about.

are some opposed to the draft. “I really don’t like the draft, I don’t think there’s any reason why we should be fighting countries in the first place,” senior Kaitlin Gandy said. “The government has a problem with another government, not the soldiers. They just are inexperienced and young and you’re sending them to fight in something that they don’t fully understand.” Gary Jankens, a 68-year-old Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient, was drafted when he was 19 years old. He is in favor of the draft and believes it’s a good thing. “I think we need it,” Jankens said. “That’s the way Israel is. Every person in Israel serves in the army. That’s what this country needs.” However, the people who are drafted don’t always want to be. This can affect the way that the military is both perceived and how it works as a unit. “From what my understanding is, is that we are a stronger, more lethal, and better disciplined force for being an all volunteer force, and the reason why that is is because we don’t have a bunch of people who don’t want to be here that were forced to be here,” US army recruiter Michael Kuhn said. “We

have people here that chose to be here, so therefore when they come and they make that commitment to do so, they kind of put more of themselves into it because they chose to do it. Not only that, but they seem more willing to train harder go faster be better soldiers when they volunteer to do it.” As the times have changed, people’s thoughts and feelings on the draft have changed, including college students and those who are eligible for the draft. As a 19-yearold, Jankens believed it was his duty. At 18 years old, Gandy is adamant on the opposite viewpoint. “Just because I was born in a place doesn’t mean I have to die for it,” Gandy said. “You see all these ads and they target young men specifically, like ‘oh wow I’m a tough man because I worked in the service, I did my civic duty’. It really plays on the idea of masculinity.” Many different opinions of both the draft and WWIII exist, and this will likely not change, especially if the US ends up having both. “I would definitely feel like I was wasting my time doing something that I wouldn’t want to do,” Nichols said. “It would feel almost like I was going to jail or something.”

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BASE CAMP: US Army sniper Gary Jankens in his 20s, photographed in a bunker at camp during the Vietnam War. This was where soldiers in active service slept.

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Nikolas Cruz, 19 years old, opened fire with an AR-15 rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 students and staff members, and injuring 14 others. Students have become teenage activists on the national stage, organizing protests across the country.

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During the Midland Dow varsity football game’s national anthem, students from both schools link arms below the scoreboard, based on the kneeling protests by NFL players to raise awareness for inequality. “I was coming here to protest the unequal rights that has been going on for a while now,” sophomore Maddux Kigar said.

dent James Eric Davis Jr. shot and killed his parents James and Diva, the CMU and DHS campus went into lockdown. “I understand it’s for our safety, but I thought the lockdown was a little bit extreme because he was on foot and an hour away from Midland,” senior Hannah Rose said.

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an leader Kim Jongun met with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in Seoul, South Korea, in a discussion concerning denuclearization. They determined a common goal of removing all nuclear weapons from both countries, as well as meeting with the US to find an end to the divide between the two countries.

For 17 minutes during 3rd hour, around 200 DHS students walked out to protest for gun control after the Parkland shooting. The group also remembered Jessica Forsyth, a former DHS student and gun violence survivor, and Amedy Dewey, an MHS student who was shot and injured earlier this year, and the victims of the CMU shooting.

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800,000 people from all over the nation rallied in the National Mall area of Washington DC to protest gun violence. Several DHS students attended the protest, including sophomore Ben Vercellino. “I felt empowered, seeing so many people that have the same passion as you,” Vercellino said.

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PRO: Natural oils, numerous benefits

Essential oils have same purpose as pharmaceutical drugs Amelya Jankens page editor

rom calming anxiety to becoming more energized, essential oils have many uses to benefit people’s everyday lives. During an interview on News 13, aromatherapist Tenesha Vereen mentioned that essential oils have become more popular in the recent years because people are starting to turn to natural remedies instead of pharmaceuticals. Although it is not the same as taking antibiotics, it is able to help with some sickness. Peppermint oil can be used to get rid of congested sinuses. Cindy Zollner is an aromatherapist and has been using essential oils for 25 years. She doesn’t like using pharmaceutical drugs, so she started using essential oils. “I started with peppermint oil and that was the only thing that would ever get rid of my migraines,” Zollner said. There are many different ways to incorporate essential oils in a daily routine. People use it topically as well

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as in a diffuser. A diffuser will spread the oils into the air so that a person will breathe them in. When it is applied topically, it soaks into the skin. Others ingest them to combat infections. Junior Lilly Schuster and her mom both use essential oils. “[My mom puts essential oils] on my feet when I’m sick and a little bit on my chest,” Schuster said. “It’s almost like using a Vicks rub or something.” Essential oils are highly concentrated oils that are extracted from different sorts of flowers and plants. They are used for natural medicinal purposes. Different scents are used for different reasons. Peppermint can be used for various reasons but a main reason people use it is to be able to breathe better. “Peppermint is great for asthma, it actually opens up the capillaries in the lungs and helps get stuff flowing better,” Zollner said.

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it’s great for any reason,” Zollner said. “If you don’t know what to use, use lavender.” Many essential oils are said to have an uplifting effect on the mind and have properties that will help a person in natural ways. If a person does not know a fair amount about essential oils, it would benefit them to talk to a professional or long time user of essential oils. “Definitely go to somebody who’s certified in using them, just like you would a prescription drug,” Zollner said. Essential oils are a great and natural remedy for a number of health issues and there are many different scents and ways to use them. The oils are great to incorporate in any daily routine. “Some of them have calming properties to them, so they can help you relax and then we use them when we are sick a lot because peppermint is good for breathing,” Schuster said.

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CON: Popular trend, hidden dangers Not being properly informed when using essential oils can be harmful Irshad Husain staff writer

he use of essential oils has been on the rise lately, gaining support for the supposed benefits that these infusions have. As shown by Google Trends Data, public interest has increased by about 600 percent in the last five years, and has grown as a form of treatment for a myriad of ailments. They are now popularly used in aromatherapy, which supporters claim helps their physical and psychological state of being. Essential oils are plant-based oils which contain strong aromatic compounds and are distilled for usage in a wide variety of activities. They have been used for perfumes, cleaners, incense, cosmetics, and most recently as medicines, especially with the increase of aromatherapy. While many believe that they definitely help, some disagree. “Sometimes, people will get rashes on their body,” Monica Dhar M.D. said. “Some people will break out, and these oils can cause allergic reactions in many of their users. If they vaporize it, they can cause irritation of the lungs and wheezing, and it can predispose them to secondary infection. A lot of these essential oils give people allergic reactions, and they don’t even know, or they can also interact with people who are allergic.” Dhar referenced vaporizers, which is another practice people will use essential oils in. Users will typically insert the essential oils into a device in which they can inhale the essential oil blend in water vapor. Even though inhalation is a popular method of consuming these oils, there are sizeable consequences that come along with it. “Be careful about what you’re taking in,” junior Eastin Block said. “I wouldn’t use any substance that might be unsafe for me or that would damage my health. You have to know what you’re doing and all the repercussions of the things that

you put in your body, it can definitely do some harm to your lungs.” Aromatherapy is often referred to as an alternative medicine, due to the fact that people use these essential oils as substitutes for the typically prescribed medications given by doctors. There are a number of essential oil users who will completely forego doctoral advice and prescription in favor of using these herbal remedies. “I feel they delay getting real treatment for the problem,” Dhar said. “It might not really be benefiting them. The essential oils are, at best, a complementary treatment, and they have slower paced results with smaller effects. That’s a drawback. If the patient doesn’t take their medicine because they believe they can get better through their own way, then that becomes a real issue, and harder to solve the problem.” Alternative medicine is often looked down upon because of the fact that it typically has little to no scientific evidence with any strong support for it. It is associated by some with companies that usually scam their customers into thinking their products are useful, when in reality they have little proof that they are. “I think essential oils were designed by clever people to drain naive people of their money,” social studies teacher Brent Chambers said. “There’s no way that they do anything to improve health, other than make you feel that perhaps you’re more healthy because somebody’s convinced you that they might do something positive. It’s not that I have a problem with holistic medicine, I think it can be fantastic, but in the case of essential oils, it’s absolute nonsense.” In addition, there also exists the factor of how knowledgeable people are about how to use and obtain essential oils. “Many people do not sell pure essential oils,” Dhar said. “People often mix and

“I think that essential oils were designed by clever people to drain naive people of their money.” Brent Chambers, Social Studies dilute it, and so sellers don’t sell it as pure as they can. From what I understand, you only need very little in the mixture for it to be marketed as an essential oil. People will also use it in the wrong dosage, and for them to work well, they need to be used in a certain amount and at a certain frequency, which many people don’t know. I do recommend a couple of essential oils but only certain types, in specific dosages, and as a complementary treatment. You can’t expect essential oils alone to help.” Essential oils may provide some benefits to users, but there are many nuances that people often overlook when utilizing these oils. Not only are they more complicated to use than many realize, there are also quite a few drawbacks that they cause.

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High school is pointless... but pointed

Aditya Middha My Turn Dear Underclassmen, During my last couple days of high school, I’ve taken note of the craziness of it: a mix of head-scratching classes, late nights at football games, waytoo-early mornings, and entertaining school dances. Nevertheless, I accredit Dow High for making me the student I am today, but probably not in the way they intended. For example, if you asked me about the composition of a human cells, I wouldn’t be able to muster an answer (Sorry Mr. Blasy, I swear I paid attention). In fact, most of the information I’ve learned will render useless in my career, contrary to what teachers tell you. But don’t use this as an excuse to flunk geometry, there lies a method to the madness. High school, in the end, is a giant filter. The classes require dedication, no matter the subject, and some students choose to go above and beyond. If that’s not your forte, you can find success through a variety of alternatives such as sports, drama, and debate. Throw in students who value social activity, and it turns out if your passion

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s children grow and learn, it’s important for people involved is not in the classroom, in their lives to educate so be it! The pressure them. Rather than using violence of college, standardized to teach children their wrongs, we testing, and GPA is should use reasoning to make them unbearable for any high understand what they did wrong so schooler and should they can prevent making the same not be the ultimate mistakes in the future. This same idea goal. High school applies to the government, they need intentionally separates to understand that cruelty isn’t the us all into different only way to solve problems. So why paths, but you can only is the bombing of Syria that occured truly waste high school on April 15, for example, deemed to if you’re not involved. be just? When dealing with other Above all, build strong countries, our country should be more relationships. This is the diplomatic and not choose to use last time you will have unnecessary force. a such a strong support According to the Oxford system that wills you Dictionary, violence is any behavior to succeed. Spend time involving physical force intended cherishing your family, to hurt, damage, or kill someone or go out with friends, and something. Not only does the use especially get to know of brutality result in an even more your teachers. In my chaotic situation than before, but it case, I would be at a loss also encourages other countries to had it not been for Mrs. resort to the same tactics. G inspiring me to explore The brutality our government subjects my interest into civil other countries to is detrimental. In order rights or Ms. Hockemeyer to teach other countries a lesson our talking through my government has done things like using personal ambitions. Go physical force, assault with weapons, after school and engage murder, bombs, threats, and much because they really do more. Our country needs to increase its care. respect for other nations. By resorting to The purpose of high violence, innocent lives are ended and a school is not to stuff you country is left broken and damaged. with four years’ worth of What we need to do is be classwork, but rather to facilitate your discovery of life goals, passions, and everlasting relationships. I hope that you use these observations to your advantage, because I wish I had this recognition a long time ago. Signing off, Adi

more reasonable to other nations and rather than attacking them relentlessly, we should be more tolerant and engage with them intellectually instead. Over the past few decades, we have continuously barraged foreign countries that we say that we don’t agree with, but that’s simply not the way the US should run. We can’t jump to using force whenever any other foreign entity simply does something that we don’t consider kosher. We need to diplomatically and peacefully talk with these countries and settle our differences in a more professional matter, especially at the international level. As one of the most powerful countries in the world, we can’t be bartering innocent lives in other parts of the world because of governmental differences, especially when those differences can be managed in a civilized manner. Since there are many problems surrounding the usage of barbarity in the world today, we as a staff believe that it is important to utilize peaceful engagement not only in our daily lives but also when dealing with other countries on an international scale. There is no reason that violence should be used as a go to option against dissenting views when the power of argument and logical reasoning can be employed just as well, if not better, to solve our issues with others. We need to respect everyone, no matter what the problem we have with them is.

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May 18, 2018

FIRST AMENDMENT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

EDITORIAL BOARD: Maggie Duly Lillian Pressnell Katie Ellison Sophie Baus Anikka Thorson

Ben Zeitler Helena Nitschky Trevor McIntyre Zane O’Dell

Corrections for April 8, 2018 - On page 19, Eastin Block’s name was misspelled. -On page 2, Ruth Pasek’s should be a sophomore. -On page 7, Emily Schultheis was miscredited for her work, “Grow”. -On page 18, photos should have been credited to Grace Wilson, Lydia Barber, Maya Stephenson, and Julia Ellis. -On page 16-17, in order to provide a clearer context on junior Luke Mavis’ quotes the following is the full transcript. “Objectivity has its values, but sometimes it can backfire. Having a base of that is good but people who are exploring the news and telling it to you should have some emotion to it. For instance, if we had some move that we’d never seen before in the political spectrum that might be a slant to an area of authoritarianism or something like that, where it should very much cause alarm to people’s safety. I think that the news anchor or whoever’s writing or talking about it that this is something that is off base because sometimes when you do full on objectivism it doesn’t really show that. I think there should be a lot of objectivism but there should also be some subjectivity to it.” “I know some that I’ve talked to just shut themselves out, I don’t think it’s that healthy to do that but it’s kind of this culture in Midland, you have a lot of kids that are heavily influenced by their parents so they’ll usually get one doctrine and they tend to just live off of that doctrine. I’ve noticed a lot of the kids in the school, they’ll hear something through social media is probably the quickest way they get it. Most of the biggest headlines, or things that are going on, I’ve noticed a lot of people just don’t know that that’s happening. I think most of them are completely blocked out of that, and I think that’s partially intentionally on their part.”

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rom hardcore gamers to the standard players, the new popular video game Fortnite is sweeping the world with its presence. The game has multiple layers to it, while still seeming to keep it relatively simple. Up to 100 players are allowed into a game at one time. Depending on different modes, players will either be by themselves or on teams of up to four players. Players then use weapons and anything else that they can find and/or harvest around the giant map to take out other competing teams. The players also have to watch out for a circular lethal storm, that gradually lowers the player’s health, and is able to take them out of the match. The last player/team standing is the winner. One student that enjoys playing Fortnite is freshman Alvin Lopez. “Fortnite is basically a video game on three separate consoles, PC, Xbox, and PS4, and basically there’s two modes,” Lopez said. “There’s save the world edition, that’s what’s it’s called, and then a hundred player PvP player vs player mode, which is the more popular one, you can hear about people talking about that one more commonly.”

Fortnite isn’t the only game of its kind. Other video games in its genre include PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and H1Z1. However, Fortnite has some advantages over the others of its kind, at least to its avid players. “I think the building in the game is what separates it from all of the other games,” Lopez said. “I think if there’s no building, it would just be the same exact thing as PUBG or H1Z1, basically.” One important aspect of Fortnite

is also the fact that it is available on almost anything that is capable of running the game, that being video game consoles such as the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and even on PC computers. Epic Games, the developers of Fortnite, have even found a way to bring the game to iOS mobile devices, and further plan on bringing it to Android devices in the future. Sophomore Sentthur S.K.V., finds this versatile compatibility for the game to be amazing. “It’s astonishing, the fact that

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they’ve brought it to like pretty much everything,” S.K.V. said. “I’m not so much surprised that it’s on like PC and console, but now it being on the phone, being on the phone is, like, it’s amazing because there’s just so many programs and stuff. There’s so many scripts to run in the game that it’s like packing it up into like one app for the phone. That’s crazy. That’s a lot of things to run.” Not only do more people seem to be trying out battle-royale style games, there seems to be almost a level of addiction with how much people are playing them. Junior Sophie Dehn is one who plays the game and knows why people can’t seem to stop playing. “Once you lose, you really don’t want to lose,” Dehn said. “You’re trying to get [to] the number one [spot], so it gets addicting because you’re trying to be the best at all times.” Fortnite is one of, if not the most popular video game lately. With how popular it has become, the player base has gotten incredibly large, and the developers of Epic Games seem to be making a fortune off of their creation. Junior Logan Rivard gives her thoughts on the future of Fortnite. “I can’t see it dying out anytime soon just because it’s such an addicting game,” Rivard said. “Even after the game has been out for so long, people are still talking about it and posting about it all the time, so obviously it’s still a form of entertainment for a lot of people.”

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Ready for racing

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RunWalk instills healthy lifestyle habits Alex Doty

Page editor he Tridge. The Great Lakes Loons. The Center for the Arts. Dow Gardens. All of these local attractions bring in thousands of visitors each year to this mid-sized town. However, once a year, almost 2,500 people come from all over for one event in particular. This event is the annual Dow RunWalk hosted by the Greater Midland Community Center (MCC). Saturday, May 19 from 7:30-11:30 a.m. marks the 33rd anniversary of the race. The event offers several races in both run and walk speeds for the mile, 5k, and the half marathon. The top three competetors in each division will be given a prize at the end of the races. With an event this size, it takes plenty of dedicated workers. One of these people is Race Management & Promotions Manager Jennifer Adamcik. Adamcik has been working at the MCC since 1991, but has been involved with the RunWalk event for 11 years. Year round, Adamcik plans the five races hosted by the MCC which are spread from early spring to August. The largest race of the five is the Dow RunWalk, whose numbers skyrocketed after Adamcik took over. “When I started 11 years ago, we were at 900,” Adamcik said. “We have fluctuated everywhere from let’s say 2,500 up to 3,500 at our top and now we hang out around 2,500 a year.” The event will start on Collins Street and then loop through the surrounding neighborhoods. That way, visitors to Midland get a glimpse of the city. “We are kind of landlocked where we are because of Eastman Road and Buttles and Indian and Haley, and there are certain streets that we cannot run on,” Adamcik said. “So we are in the neighborhoods of and around the Community Center. We like the course we have that runs through the Midland neighborhoods, it’s flat and it’s fast and you get the beauty of the Midland neighborhoods too.” Adamcik attributes this plateau of participants to other races around the area that compete with

the Dow RunWalk, but all are reaching a steady number of racers. According to Adamcik, high school students make up a significant portion of the race’s participants and many more come out to support their friends. Freshman Lucas Bateman is among the many who signed up this year and is simply running because he enjoys it. Bateman also participated in the event last year, running in the one mile race. “It was a pretty fun experience,” Bateman said. “You get to meet other runners that are faster than you and you get to meet other runners who are just starting as well.” Along with individuals, groups can also sign up to run in the event. Each year, 15-20 RunWalk challenge teams sign up from local businesses, Midland Public Schools, and the Midland Daily News. This year, English teacher Sarah Hechlik organized a group of her own. The group is made of 14 teachers who are all looking to enjoy their time together outside of school while sporting their “We are Dow High” shirts. “It’s part of my 20-time project,” Hechlik said. “Being a risk-taker, trying new things, doing things that I’ve talked about doing and not always following through with. This is one of the things I’ve always liked to do to get a group together to exercise.” Although the race is tomorrow, it is not too late to sign up. Late registration starts at 3 p.m. tonight at the Curling Center. An individual racer will cost $35 and a family will cost $80. Besides running, the Dow RunWalk has much more to offer. For example, the race Expo will be held at the Curling Center tonight from 3-7 p.m. At this event, many local businesses and non-profit organizations will have demos, samples, coupons, and activities for racers and their families to view. Other than the Expo, race day itself will have plenty of activities as well. “On Saturday morning we’ve got lots of activities for families, inflatables, face painting, outdoor activity

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ROAD WORK AHEAD: The above map illustrates the course of the races. These roads will be closed from 7:3011:30a.m. on race day. SQUAD UP: (Far left) Front row: Sharon Koscielski, Jeff Richards, Julie Villano, Lynn Burns, Melissa Wagner, Katherine McKane. Back row: Brett Seamster, Miriam Bloom, Mistine Nasrey, Steve Last, Alex Karapas, Sarah Hechlik, Jennifer Coppens. sort of stuff,” Adamcik said. “Plus, there’s always the opportunity to volunteer.” The process to prepare for the race is a tedious one in order to make everyone’s race day experience the best it can be. “We start two minutes after we finish,” Adamcik said. “We will sit down in the Curling Center after the race and we’ll go ‘what can we do for next year?’” For the event to be continue each year, the MCC relies on sponsors to help make the race successful and bring the community together as a whole. “With their support we can put on a successful race at a low cost for our community and, obviously, without their support we wouldn’t be able to put on a race,” Adamcik said. “It really is a community and regional event that draws everyone into the Midland community, but our goal is to create healthy habits for a lifetime so instilling that in our youth and into our older ages to keep people healthy and motivated.” With all the preparation, weather can still rain on their parade. “We had that issue with the Loons’ Pennant Race a couple weeks ago and we would’ve run that race if it wasn’t icy,” Adamcik said. “We will run no matter what unless it is thunder and lightning and if it does, we will delay for as long as we can.” Even if Mother Nature decides not to cooperate on race day, the running and the walking will continue.

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A senior’s final words Zeit Writes We’ve got a letter from the seniors on the back page. You should read it; there’s some solid advice in there. I wrote 43 words for that, but I felt so limited. I’m normally really long-winded. Then I realized I can be long-winded. I mean, look photo by Alex Doty at all these words that I THROWN FOR A LOOP: Senior Kenadee Torres poses next to the logo she designed for the 33rd annual Dow can type. Okay, here’s a RunWalk in commercial art. Her favorite part of the design was the different loops of the shoelace letters. longer senior advice thing, because I have the means and the motivation to give Alex Doty Page editor it. You’ll find that some long with the students and with the schools.’ Since that was and there a tweak or a change here of these are serious and some are a little silly but, teachers from DHS who something being taught in the or there.” as I mentioned before, I are active in the DowRun commercial art curriculum then the The process, though have room to do both, so Walk as racers, there are also many kids already knew how to do logos complicated, is familiar to the bear with me. students active in the design of the and it was a good marriage.” students by the time RunWalk logo each year. This year’s logo was The students get one month to designs are to be selected. Tip #1: Be you, but made by senior Kenadee Torres make their design and have it go “Before the group even comes strive to be the best you Her design is on posters around through the entire process. in we’ve done a hypothetical possible. When I was a the city to advertise the race and “The kids have a meeting, where logo assignment and I teach the freshman, I would never its festivities, and will appear on six or seven people come in from kids what makes a strong logo,” have imagined myself t-shirts on race day. the community, both printing people Gledhill said. “It’s things like as serving as class Torres made the logo last year and people associated with the simplicity, strong colors, it’s easily president, partaking in a in commercial art class, taught community center, and they present recognizable. We actually do a male beauty pageant, or by art teacher Kurt Gledhill. all the aspects of the race and all the full assignment where we make organizing a schoolwide “The person’s design that designs,” Gledhill said. “There are logos for hypothetical companies spirit day. I’m still shy at gets selected is used for the next a series of stages where they make and then we critique through that. heart, but I’ve started to year,” Torres said. “Last year, my thumbnail sketches, rough designs, By the time the group comes in come out of my shell. design was chosen and is being and numerous critiques through they’ve already done it once so Tip #2: Do not eat used this year.” the process. The peers in the class they know what they’re doing. excessive amounts of Next year’s logo was designed give feedback to each other on their The series of critiques seem to peanut butter if you do not by senior Maggie Duly. The designs and once the designs are take care of themselves.” have immediate access to design of the logo has been finished, the same group that came With all of the practice, water. I found this out the built into the curriculum for a at the beginning comes back. The designing was easy for Torres, hard way after my bolus significant chunk of time. kids give a formal presentation but it still took outside help to of peanut butter and Ritz “We’ve been doing it for 20 with the digital screen and explain find her muse. crackers lodged in my years, I believe,” Gledhill said. what they did why they did it what “We had to design 40 logos and throat, and I almost died on the football practice “Someone approached Carol Lewin, everything means. That group then so we would look online and get field during a Thursday who was the graphics teacher takes everything back and spend inspiration from there,” Torres before me, and said ‘we were two or three hours judging the said. “I saw a design that had run in walk-through. Tip #3: Instead of looking for a logo and we thought pieces and deciding who’s the best shoelaces and that’s where I got my volunteering at an it’d be cool to have a partnership and they usually come back to us idea from.”

Real world applications through commercial art

BenZeitler Zeitler Ben abundance of different events, find one or two things that you are passionate about and run with it. Colleges love commitment to a cause, and what’s more, you get a chance to connect with the people or projects you help. Tip #4: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Tip #5: Teachers, coaches, and administrators truly care about you, so don’t be afraid to approach them for guidance and friendship. I have been blessed to have met a number of tremendous role models at Dow High. In particular, my life has been impacted in a positive manner by Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Thompson, Coach Watkins and Dr. Poole, so this is my chance to put my thanks in print. Tip #6: This one’s for my successor, Jason Laplow. First of all, congrats. Second of all, try to get your sports columns done early. As I write this, it’s 9:18 on Thursday night of production and Maggie Duly is glaring daggers at me because my column should have been done like a week ago. It seems I’ve almost run out of words in this column, so with the rest of my remaining ones I’ll type some of my favorites: Quinoa. Heck. Iridocyclitis. Furthermore. Deoxyribonucleic acid.

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Painting a brighter future Jenna Wray & Sophie Baus

page editor & managing opinion AQUINAS COLLEGE Jacob Pasek Hannah Loveless ALBIAN COLLEGE Nolan Saggers ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Chloe Bean AUBURN UNIVERSITY Jacob Johnson BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Alania Hendrix Ryan Wall CALVIN COLLEGE Andrienne Ora Matthew Pawley CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Nihal Manjia CENTRAL WYOMING Sean Kinnun CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Jacqueline Anaele Alexis Batha Austin Burlew Matthew DeMoville Shayna Draves Kalista Files Alexander Jonas Faith Kinyon Danielle Liakos Leigha Martyn Quinn McCaffrey Brandon Mohammed Ashley Neuenfeldt Zach Parfeniuk Alec Reisig Taylor Renfroe Maija Rettelle Kellie Sauve Ellie Webb Benjamin Zeitler COLBY COLLEGE Naoki Kihata COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES Jessica Brooks DELTA COLLEGE Creighton Annelin Carrie Beckord Marissa Bell Trenten Cabala Mackenzie Chapin Jacob Christensen McKenna Clark Lexus Coleman Evan Coughlin Nathan Crawford Anastasia Denton Matthew Eaton Noah Fransee

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Brent Chambers & Tyler Rey

Amy Bushey & Abraham Yum

Cory Thompson & Ari Okerbloom

Mr. Chambers you are my favorite teacher I have ever had and I look up to you as a role model for my future. -Tyler Rey

Thank you Mrs. Bushey for being my mentor over the past four years. Your patience and dedication for me is something I will never forget. -Abraham Yum

Kathy Snyder & Travis Plessner

Mrs. Thompson, you are honestly the best teacher, person, mom I have ever met. You are so inspirational and encouraging it’s unbelievable. You’ve helped me conquer things I never thought I would. Thank you so much. I love you. -Ari Okerbloom

Mrs. Snyder, thank you for being a great teacher who’s filled with energy and raw knowledge. The impact you have on students should not go unrecognized because you do an amazing job both as a school teacher and human. -Travis Plessner

Coach Schwartzkopf, thanks for being someone I could look up to. You’ve helped me grow so much as a person and tennis player and words can’t even describe your impact on my life. Thank you. -Daniel Zhang

Mr. Evans, thank you for being the kind and happy-go-lucky guy you are. Your excitement about history encouraged me to work harder. -Anne Kidder

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Erica Meyer & Jessican Bunnelle

Cammie Hall & Regan O’Brien

Emily Grocholski & Hannah Loveless

Brian Smith & Rebecca Haines

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Sra. Meyer, thank you for being an all around great person and being a friend to anyone and everyone. You make a major difference in everyone’s life. -Jessica Bunnelle

Cammie Hall, you are my school mom, I actually don’t know how I’m going to function without you next year. -Regan O’Brien

Mrs. G, thank you for always being there to talk to. You make sociology very fun and I’m so glad I could be close to you. -Hannah Loveless

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Herr Smith, thank you for making German class fun and worthwhile everyday for the past few years. You have helped me discover my passion for the language and culture and I am eager to continuing studying it in college. I truly appreciate everything you have done for me. -Rebecca Haines

I would like to thank Mrs. Hockemeyer for being such a great teacher and friend here in high school. Not only did you help me learn to love English, but you have been someone I can just talk to, especially during this senior year. Thank you, I’ll miss our lunches. -Jessica Brown

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Wait...I can’t believe they dated!

Seniors relive unbelievable relationships from previous yearas Emi Hunt, Anikka Thorson, & Katie Ellison

page editor, managing feature, & managing photo

Alex Jonas & Emily Schultheis “Opposites didn’t attract this time,” Jonas said. “It was like dating my brother,” Schultheis said.

Leif Carlson & Ashley Neuenfeldt “I think we talked in person about four times the whole two months,” Neuenfeldt said. “My friends wanted me to ask her out, but I kept putting it off, so I texted her ‘will you be my girlfriend?’”Carlson said. graphics by Farryn Cook

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Caden Skinner & Mina Fabiano & Chloe Bean “It was 6th grade and I forgot I was dating Mina and started talking to Chloe and brought both to the fair,” Skinner said. Jon Baillargeon & Alexis Whiteman

“While we dated I bombarded him with my cats, probably why we didn’t work out,” Whiteman said. “I adapted to my cat allergy when we dated,” Baillargeon said.

Alex Ieuter & Quinn McCaffrey

“We didn’t even hang out once,” McCaffrey said. ”[Our relationship was] super serious for a 6th grader,” Ieuter said. photos by Emi Hunt, Maggie Duly, Alex Doty, Helena Nitschky, & courtesy of Alexis Whiteman

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What do you meme?

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Class of 2018 pays tribute to different online crazes Helena Nitschky & Quinn McCaffrey

managing design & page editor he year is 2018. There is a “road work ahead sign” and everyone in the car says “I sure hope it does” in unison. The sound of yodeling is faint in the distance. Ms. Keisha is officially dead and Hurricane Tortilla was just classified as a category five hurricane. Arthur has yet to unclench his fist in anger. Daniels white vans are sparkling clean. All is well. This generation has put an emphasis on memes in all their hilarity. Whether it’s just a picture or some sort of video clip, a new meme emerges every day. The class of 2018 pays their respect to some of the most influential online trends of their high school career.

Ms. Keisha? Ms. Keisha? Oh my hecking gosh she hecking dead

Dang Daniel! Back at it again with the white vans ! Daniel Zhang

Stephanie Kuchek (left) & Chirstina Vanderkelen (right)

@vanderkelenc: It is an iconic vine everyone knows. It always manages to make my freinds and I laugh. @stephibku: I just really want to know who Ms. Keisha was, is she really dead? Kermit the frog, tea sipped Britney Bawar

Adi Middah

@theradasian: Because white vans are just really lit. What more could you ask for?

Arthur or John Legend? @adi_does21: This is me when Alex Iueter

@itsabritney: Student leadership doesn’t do

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Hurricane Katrina? More like Hurricane Tortilla!

Coming back from the club like

Can I PLEASE get a waffle? Pierce Morley

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@piercemorley: I really do not even think I have seen that vine before. Emi Hunt

@jrsbrooks23: I really like mexican food. Like tortilla chips and flan.

@elizabethklopf: The little girl looks like she’s having a rough time and that’s my life every day.

I don’t get no sleep cuz of y’all! Y’all not gon get no sleep cuz of me!

Yodeling Walmart boy

@emsahunt: The girl really just wanted to get some sleep, I don’t blame her for that. Kellie Sauve

Zack stop! You’re gonna get us in trouble! Helena Nitschky

I’m washing me and my clothes

@helenanitschky: Wherever you are now Zack, I @kelliesauve: [It’s] my favorite because it’s so hope you don’t get your friends in trouble anymore.

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@justin__53: I was just happy to look like the

simple, of course you can wash yourself and your clothes. little yodeling boy. He really is an icon.

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Going social for senior year

Compiling class of 2018’s favorite tweets, Instagram posts

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ESKEDDIT:(ABOVE) Lil Pump’s wild personality and unique look makes him very popular with urban youth around the world. Asking if you clean a vacuum cleaner are you a vacuum cleaner is just weird enough that it’s funny, making his tweet the best of the year. FOR THE BOYS (OR GIRLS):(ABOVE-RIGHT) As seniors begin to prepare to move away from home to college, they also move away from a lot of their friends, but college is a place for making new ones. DOWN GOES MHS:(RIGHT) DHS celebrity, Steve Poole, captures an amazing video of a buzzer beater shot by Ben Zeitler in the boys basketball game against the Chemics in overtime.