CUBrepor er Lawrence Central High School
7300 E. 56th St.
community
Indianapolis, Indiana
Cleanin’ up the
Volume 60
Issue 11
April 24, 2009
Roots and Shoots club organizes activities to help the environment BradOppenheim photographer
Cub photo/ Mimi Strobel
Cub photo/ Mimi Strobel
Top: Roots and Shoots member junior Caroline Hall spends April 11 picking up trash on the banks of White River. Bottom: The club arranged for Indianapolis trash collectors to pick up the litter that had been collected by students.
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News.........................................1-9 Opinions................................10-13 Features............................14-18 Entertainment...................19-24 Sports................................25-28
Even though Earth Day comes around only one day a year, several students here participate in activities to help the environment on a regular basis. During the weeks leading up to Earth Day, the Roots and Shoots environmental club was helping one step at a time. On April 11, students paid it forward and gave up part of their Saturday to go downtown to the White River. The students cleaned up some of the trash that had accumulated in and around the river over the past several years, and they ended up picking up enough trash to fill more than 50 trash bags. Zoology teacher Kathy Madren said, “I was overwhelmed at what I saw in the river. I thought it was rewarding that I got the opportunity to take LC students down there and help clean up our environment.” On April 18, a group of students spent three hours of their Saturday morning planting flowers along Binford Boulevard. The club even took their efforts out of state. Over spring break several students in Madren’s zoology classes and Anne Milligan’s botany classes spent the first few days of their break in southern Alabama. While down there, they grabbed some trash bags, put on some gloves and cleaned up trash that had accumulated along the Alabama shoreline. Junior Chantalle Thompson said, “At first I wasn’t really open to it and people explained what we were doing and then I felt better about
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Nursing is becoming the country’s fastest growing field. See page 3 to read about the LC students participating in McKenzie Career Center’s Cub photo/ Eric Rees nursing program.
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Above: Freshman Itzel Juarez-Beristain plants flowers on a Binford Boulevard median for the Roots and Shoots environmental club.
cleaning up.” While there, they also planted more than 2,000 plants. Milligan said, “It was a cool experience to go down there (Alabama). It was rewarding to see the students still glowing about the whole experience even though they were exhausted and covered in mud.” Several students stayed closer to home and also grabbed plastic grocery bags and went back behind LC to collect trash that had been left in the woods. Earth Day was first recognized in 1970 and is meant to show the awareness of what the effects of polluting the earth can be and encourages people to help clean up their environment. Many steps are now being taken to help reduce the amount of pollution on earth. These steps range from cars running on electricity and ethanol to fluorescent light bulbs and planting trees. Several students are helping the planet one step at a time by doing the smallest things. Currently, the Roots and Shoots club is in the process of planning a trip of environmental volunteerism to Costa Rica during the summer of 2010.
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Few things stick out in the American psyche like the Barbie doll. From her humble beginnings to where she stands today, follow Barbie’s impact on LC’s student body on page 17. source/marlbe.com
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Sure you know LC’s baseball, basketball and football teams but what about the men’s volleyball team? Read about who they are and why they play on page 26. Cub photo/ Eric Rees