Cub Reporter Issue 7

CUB Reporter March 27, 2015 | CubOnline.org Lawrence Central High School | Indianapolis, IN

Madness comes to Indiana

Danc i for th ng e kids on P.6

Indinapolis hosts the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament P.19 & 22

Show choir, balloons and chicken nuggets: See how students are getting creative with their ‘promposals’ P.15

LC’s bridge to

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News to Use Mark Your Calendar

March 27: Spring break begins at 3:40 p.m.

April 6: Classes resume after spring break April 7: Top 30 dinner/ceremony, 6 p.m., LECC April 15: Senior class meeting/announcements delivery, 8:50 a.m., auditorium April 18: ACT testing, 8 a.m., Student Life Center April 18: Prom, 7-11 p.m., Indiana Roof Ballroom April 24: Blood drive, Studio Theatre April 24, 25: Spring musical, Les Miserables, 7 p.m., auditorium April 26: Spring musical, Les Miserables, 2:30 p.m., auditorium

News Briefs

Benson state finalist

Senior Darian Benson is a finalist for the title of Indiana High School Journalist of the Year. She is coeditor in chief of the Cub Reporter student newspaper.

Harshman to work ‘500’

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Kil-a-bytes first in robotics competition

by KEVIN COX kevincoxcub@gmail.com Team 1024, the Kil-a-Bytes, took first place in their third and largest competition of the season thus far. They travelled to Purdue University on March 20 to compete in the 39-team team tournament.

The two-day competition included an hour and a half drive as well as an overnight stay for the team.

They showed strongly in qualification matches on Friday and Saturday, averaging 106.2 points and placing second in the tournament rankings.

The three-team alliance made up of Lawrence Township, Perry Meridian and New Carlisle faced West Lafayette, Anderson and Walton in the finals on Saturday evening. In the best out of three matches, the Kil-a-Bytes and their allies managed to win the second, as well as the third and final match, with a score of 179-152.

Ryan Mathis, LC senior, said, ”I’m really happy we won. It was very unex-

pected, especially when we were added to the alliance with Team 234 (which was) the leading “bot” at the competition.”

The Lawrence Township Robotics team has now competed in three tournaments. They placed second, third, and first at each one, respectively.

Every competition up to this point has included more than 30 different teams from all around the state.

Typically, the first run for any team includes many trial-and-error-type instances. However, Team 1024 placed second at the 35-team season opener at Lawrence North on Feb. 28. The low rate of malfunction is a good sign for the team as they continue their season.

“So far we’ve done really well,” Mathis said. ”We haven’t had to make too many adjustments to the main functions of the robot.”

The competition at Purdue was the last one before the Indiana State Championship that will be held at Warren Central High School April 3-4.

The Kil-a-Bytes prepare to place their robot into the arena. Cub photo/Zach Mosier

Zach Mosier, LC senior, said, “(The win) was a great way to prepare for the best 32 teams in the state.”

The Kil-a-Bytes have a high level of confidence and momentum after three top 3 performances on the season.

“I believe that this year we’ll do better than we have in years past, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the season holds for the team,” Mathis said.

In this Issue

Senior Ernie Harshman, Cub Reporter sports editor, is a winner in the annual sports journalism competition of the Indiana High School Press Association. He has the opportunity to be a working journalist at Media Day at the Indianapolis 500 in May.

LC best in German test

Junior Andrew Krafinski was named the “best male student” in February’s state German competition. Senior Kara Hairston was named “best female student.” LC took 26 first-place finishes in the competition.

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Music Dept. honored

MSDLT has beem named “a 2015 best community for Music Education” by the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Foundation.

On the Cover People gathered along the Edmund Pettus Bridge at dusk in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 2015, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights march. Photo/Brian van der Brug/

Los Angeles Times/TNS Information compiled by Cub Reporter staff

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of Jared Hayth as Benjamin Franklin

by AUSTIN KRUEGER austinkruegercub@gmail.com Sophomores in Richard Phillipy’s sophomore Lyceum class recently donned the costumes and the personas of some of the greatest minds in history in the longstanding annual tradition of the Meeting of Minds — Michelangelo, Madame de Pompadour, Harry Houdini, Joan of Arc and Mozart among them. The event is based on the 1970s television program, Meeting of Minds, that featured actors playing significant figures in world history. The guests were often from different time periods, cultures and walks of life but were brought

together to discuss topics such as science, philosophy and religion.

“Meeting of Minds was an amazing experience, and I am so thankful I was able to be a part of it,” said Aubrey Raywood, who played Marie Curie in the production. “The project was a great way for everyone to learn about the great minds and their contributions to the world.”

The entirety of the show is set up, run and performed by students, from the lights and sounds to the scripts and performances. Though all students were not required to perform, each was required to write an essay on a great mind.

Cassie Ruch as Madame de Pompadour Rachael Jacobs as Amelia Earhart

Brayan Aguilar as Arnold Shoenberg

Dallas Giles as Josephine Baker

Adia Chaney as Sappho, Jordan Barnes as Helena Rubinstein, Amanda Bradtmiller as Joan Crawford and Grace Gough as Elizabeth Blackwell Cub Photos/Zach Mosier

Emily Vollmer as Indira Gandhi

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Esperanto to be a new club

by CAROLINE HARRIS carolineharriscub@gmail.com A new language club organized to teach students Esperanto will be introduced to LC after spring break.

The language, a mixture of Slavic, Germanic and Romantic languages, will be offered as an afterschool club for any student currently enrolled in a minimum of a level three foreign language.

Junior Michael Duke learned about Esperanto in French class, when French teacher Jill Hilgemeier mentioned the language.

“What makes this language different is that it is normal. There are only regular verb tenses, so it is very limited,” Duke said. “It is a very interesting mix.”

Duke and his classmate, junior John Svendsen, arranged for the club to be held on Tuesdays and Fridays from 4-5:30 p.m. beginning after spring break. About 15 members are currently signed up.

Spanish teacher Tony LaGrotto will oversee the after-school club. Because he does not know Esperanto himself, LaGrotto will be learning the language alongside the students.

Students will be learning vocabulary and grammar from both a textbook and group activities.

“I can’t wait. It is going to be so much fun,” Duke said. “Anyone interested in linguistics and anyone wanting to be a future polyglot should definitely consider joining.”

2008 graduate murdered

by NOOR HEINTZELMAN noorheintzelmancub@gmail.com

A 2008 LC graduate was murdered March 8.

Ian Buschmann died at the age of 25.

According to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police report, David Scott was arrested in connection to the case. Scott was preliminarily charged with both murder and attempted murder after supposedly shooting two males inside an Indianapolis apartment. Buschmann was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at St. Vincent’s Hospital. The other victim is still in critical condition.

After further investigation, the IndianapolisMarion County Forensic Services Agency revealed that both the suspect and victims had been consuming narcotics before the shooting occurred.

Drug paraphernalia and suspect narcotics were also found inside the building.

The investigation is on-going and the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office is in the process of reviewing the case before making a final charging decision.

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LC finalist for TV show

by SAMANTHA KUPIAINEN samanthakupiainencub@gmail.com

From March 9-10 a camera crew from a London production company called Channel 4 was here. LC is one of three final potential high schools from across the country to be featured in a documentary about a typical American high school to be aired on a U.S. television program.

“They are looking for an experience relatable to the U.S. A place that can be appreciated from coast to coast,” principal Rocky Valadez said.

“A high school anyone in the U.S. can relate to: diverse, not too big, and suburban.”

If LC were to be chosen to be featured for this documentary, the decision would be one made after thoughtful consideration and re- Videographers from London, England’s, Channel 4 capture footage of juniors John Chung and Zac Felli studying in Kathleen Legge’s APLAC class. Cub Photo/ Brittannie Travis search.

After watching most of the first will allow them to portray what high school is like in two seasons of the show, documentaries produced by the United States. The final decision will be made in Channel 4 based on British high schools, Valadez said, six weeks or in May; it depends on how long it takes “I looked for a reason to say ‘no.’” them to piece together the short films and make a final But Valadez struggled to find any negatives toward decision. the opportunity.

All of the video captured at the schools will not ap“It’s an honest portrayal of the school. It shows how pear on television. The clips were simply made to help hard teachers work,” Valadez said. “It would be positive Channel 4 decide which school is the best fit for their exposure for LC, the benefit being that we could defy documentary. the stereotype and allow our true story to be told.”

“They started from a really large pool, and they LC is competing against a school from Louisville, looked from coast to coast for hundreds of high Ky., and another from Washington state for the oppor- schools,” Valadez said. “I think they like the fact that tunity of being in the documentary.

LC is diverse and is a place where students have lots The camera crew will return to London and put to- of opportunities. They really just want to see a typical gether a short clip of film collected from each school. American high school experience, and I think this is The company will then choose which school they feel probably a good place to do that.”

Dogs joining schools’ security

by AUSTIN KRUEGER austinkruegercub@gmail.com Lawrence Township and the Lawrence Police Department are teaming up with a non-profit called K9s4Cops to help reduce the possibility of drugs and bombs in Lawrence schools.

The program takes dogs from across the nation and re-purposes them as K9s for police officers’ use.

Lawrence Township will receive two dogs. One dog will specialize in drug sniffing, and the other in bomb detecting.

“It is just proactive awareness.

We have different opportunities available to make sure we keep our school clean and healthy,” Director

hunting and field trials. of Operations Rodger Smith said.

While it’s been in planning for Local police officer Matt Hickey will be in charge of handling one of a few years with the administration to get a K9, this the dogs. Beginning in April, he new program and a yet undeallows LawWe have different rence to make termined police officer will unopportunities available its schools safer starting next dergo a six-week to make sure we keep fall. training period our school clean and The dogs in order to learn will be moved how to control healthy. the dogs propRODGER SMITH from school to erly.

Director of Operations school throughout the year.

Hickey is “We can also a security guard here and has been employed use these dogs to help be proacby Lawrence Township for more tive, teach, train as well as protect,” than 10 years. He and his brother Smith said about how the dogs will already train golden retrievers for be utilized in the district.

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Percussion second at state Profiles may be monitored

by KEVIN COX kevincoxcub@gmail.com

The Lawrence Township Winter Percussion (LTWP) group placed second out of eight in the Percussion Scholastic Open Class at the Indiana Percussion Association (IPA) State Finals on Saturday.

The indoor percussion group, headed by Lawrence North percussion director Nathan Bushey, was extremely happy with its inaugural season.

“I think the season was a success,” Sean Roach, LC junior, said. “We wanted to come out and showed that (LTWP) would compete at a high level and we did.”

The group’s season included a first place finish at the Plainfield Invitational on Feb. 28, as well as a second place finish over the eventual state champion at the Greenfield Central invite on March 7.

Franklin Central High School surpassed LTWP by a margin of only 0.55 points on Saturday with a score of 91.625 to take first place in the state.

Although LTWP fell short of being titled champion with a score of 91.075, the group still performed at a Box 5 level. Box 5, with scores of 90.0 through 100.0, is the highest scoring range attainable by any indoor percussion group. It is characterized by an outstanding level of

by CAROLINE HARRIS carolineharriscub@gmail.com

Junior John Chung performs the LT Winter Percussion show in state finals performance.

Cub photo/Colin McCarthy

musicianship and performance.

“I thought the performance on Saturday was the most energetic and fun performance I’ve ever had in any performing arts activity,” Roach said.

The first ever season went smoothly due to the experienced performers that the township has developed with a world class group of instructors.

The majority of the LTWP came off a marching band season that included a 12th place finish in the Bands of America Grand National Finals. Leading into the fall marching season, and into the next winter percussion season, the group carries a high level of momentum and confidence.

Now, however, the expectations are set at an even higher level.

Spanish teams take first, second

by LEXI OLSON alexisolsoncub@gmail.com The annual Spanish competition was held at Park Tudor School on March 7. Overall, LC placed second in the advanced level and first overall in the heritage level, which include the native Spanish speakers.

Twenty students competed against students from schools all over Indiana for both individual and group awards. LC was the only public school from Marion County to compete.

“I think overall they did really well. We did better than we did last year, which was the goal,” Spanish teacher Laura Renner said.

“I felt really good about my The ultimate goal was to place in every category, but they only achievements because it allowed placed in the two highest levels, me to put points on the board for which was good enough for Renner. LC,” Cuevas said.

Other first place achievements They also wanted to bring as many students as they could. Many included junior Edelma Morales in heritage teachers ofgrammar, fered extra credit for parWe did better than we did recitation and impromptu ticipation. last year, which was the “Anyone speaking. goal. and everyone Juniors LAURA RENNER Jackeline Niwas welcome,” Spanish teacher eto Renner said.

Garcia In the inand Lucio dividual awards, junior Jazmine Vazquez also placed first in the heriCuevas placed first in the advanced tage level of non-stop conversation. level of grammar and scrambled “The best part was going there sentences, as well as second place and beating Cathedral in most of in advanced vocabulary. the categories,” Cuevas said.

A new computer program designed to monitor students’ personal social network profiles is set to be implemented here next fall. The program is called “Social Net Watcher.”

The program will be used to notify guidance counselors, administrators and certain teachers of flagged words or phrases that could possibly pose danger to specific students or the study body as a whole.

Through an algorithm, the program will be able to filter and detect entire statements on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram profiles that pertain to bullying, acts of violence, or suicide.

Social Net Watcher has sparked quite a Cub Graphic/Lexi Olson bit of controversy due to the seeming lack of privacy for students.

Sophomore Brent Creech said, “We don’t ask the school to handle problems inside of our homes.

It should be the responsibility of parents to monitor social networking.”

Other students have considered not only the privacy issue, but also unnecessary targeting.

“Without suspicion of wrong doing, it’s impossible for the program to work. It’s none of the school’s business of what we are doing on social media,” sophomore Jaren Orr said.

But technology director Denny Krauser said he remains positive and excited for the new program to be here.

“The information will be totally voluntary for students and confidential from anyone but specific LT advisers,” Krauser said. “I am a huge proponent of privacy, and if I didn’t think the program gave students their true privacy, I would not show support for it.”

Not all students are skeptical of the program.

Junior Jack Reasner said, “I think it’s a good idea for the school to try and combat social issues outside of the classroom.”

About 12 schools have used the program and have seen satisfying, positive results.

Social Net Watcher has been successful in other schools due to the true confidentiality of the information, according to vice-president of Social Net Watcher, Craig Martindale.

The information found on social media profiles will be seen only by specific LC advisers, who will be designated by administration.

“We hope that the investment in this program will keep students safe and comfortable in the learning environment,” Krauser said.

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‘beyond successful’

by DREW KANYA drewkanyacub@gmail.com

Ball State and LC students prepare to begin dancing. However, there was not only dancing at LCDM. Students could also participate in activities such as Minute To Win It contests and volleyball.Cub photo/Danica Minor

The Key Club hosted the first annual LC Dance Marathon (LCDM) in the fieldhouse on March 21 and grossed $9,031.32.

One of the events included a Riley families story session.

Four families took the stage and shared their stories with the audience. Other activities included face painting, a volleyball tournament, basketball and a photo booth.

There was a rotation of food consisting of Chick Fil-A and Marco’s Pizza, along with various sides and desserts for all in attendance.

Students from Ball State University, who assisted Key Club in planning LCDM, taught three segments of the signature Riley line dance.

During the closing session, everyone at the event performed the line dance together, leading to the big reveal of how much money was raised.

The money they made from the Dance Marathon will go to Riley Hospital, Magic Castle Cart, and Palliative Care program.

“It was beyond successful.

We had 80 dancers. We did not meet our dancer goal, but they were still more than 150 energetic dancers,” Key Club president and junior Sam Varie.

On Friday of Riley Week, math teachers Tracy Thibodeau and Lonnie Chamberlain get pie in the face by students before school. Cub photo/Leah Arenz

For the first time in six hours, sophomore Sydney Steinhardt sits down with freshmen Kiara Bahamonde, Lauren Koehring and Kateyln Clemow. Juniors Andrea Marti and Olivia Davis, along with senior Kylie Terwilliger, do a quick stretch in preparation of the line dance. Cub photos/Danica Minor

Sophomore Shelby Ingalls and senior Keegan Burrell support the cause by dancing for the kids.Cub photos/Danica Minor

LT’s winter guard places ninth at state finals

by AMANDA BRADTMILLER

amandabradtmillercub@gmail.com

Lawrence Township’s winter guard placed ninth at state finals on March 21 and 10th at regionals in Cincinnati on March 15.

The show was called “Drawn Together,” about LC and LN combining instead of being separate groups. After having practices and competitions every

Saturday for the previous six weeks, the season finally ended with state finals.

“This was a pretty tough season for us because we had to start out brand new with combining schools, new directors, and our whole guard was pretty much all freshmen,” junior guard member Deborah Packman said.

Even with new directors and an almost completely new

guard, the girls trudged on The guard practiced every through intense practices.

Gray day from 7:30 a.m. until “This has probably been the end of first block at 10:21 my toughest a.m. On Thursseason I’ve they Guard has changed days, ever had in all practiced from me into a different my years of 6:30 to 8:30 guard,” Packp.m., and on person. man said. “It JALAYNA GAHS Fridays from was hard trysophomore 6:30 to 9:30 ing to adjust p.m.

Someto all these new things and new times, they’d even meet on Saturdays. people all coming at once.”

“Guard has changed me into a different person. Wthout guard I don’t know where I would be honestly,” sophomore guard member Jalayna Gahs said.

She continued, “I am so much stronger, physically and mentally, than I was when I was in middle school, and I am so much more confident. I hope by my senior year I can be as good as possible.”

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Net neutrality essential to equality The net neutrality debate is not new. Nearly every form of media begins free and open but over time becomes locked down by corporate greed and private interests. The internet, however, has managed to stay surprisingly open. Every voice on the internet is treated, for the most part, equally, meaning that one’s Internet Service Provider (ISP) cannot give preferential treatment to any of the websites he visits. In other words, a small-time blogger has the same “voice” on the internet as a multinational news agency. The looming question remains: Will the internet continue to be an idealist haven of freedom and openness? Or will it, like other forms of media before, devolve into a soulless hellhole where he who has cash is king? These are the questions in the debate over net neutrality.

Why do the ISPs and their bought-and-paid-for Congressmen continue their efforts to pervert the fundamental values of the internet? Why did Sen. Ted

Cruz refer to net neutrality as “Obamacare for the internet”? Because the ISPs are not See P.11 merely pipes through which the internet is accessed.

Providing sub-par internet service is not enough for them; they also must provide sub-par content.

Comcast’s Xfinity directly competes with Netflix so it is in their interest to make Netflix pay millions for the same speeds they’ll provide for Xfinity.

Luckily for all American internet users, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to classify the internet as a public utility, meaning that ISPs cannot exercise any form of discrimination in how it is delivered. However, trade groups representing ISPs plan to sue the FCC in the hopes of nullifying the decision.

Citizens of the internet have won the battle, but the war is far from over.

30-second editorials • The new K9 dogs should be helpful in keeping the school safe. Their use should cut down on drugs in the school, and it’ll be interesting to see how the staff uses the dogs and shares them among the schools and police department in Lawrence. However, the school will have to be careful about how they use the dogs.

• It is inspiring to see how far we’ve come since the first march in Selma. Even though incredible strides have been made — interracial marriages, an AfricanAmerican president and integrated schooling all across the nation, to name a few — remnants of racism still exist today. The fight is not yet over.

• Everyone should donate blood. It takes only a few minutes with some minor discomfort, but the

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blood could be used in life-saving transfusions.

• A documentary centering around LC is an exciting prospect. If LC were to be selected, the students and faculty would have the opportunity to improve the reputation of LC. • Having Indianapolis host the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament is a great way to showcase the city. Having the tournament here allows people all over the country see what Indy has to offer.

• Meeting of Minds is an excellent educational experience. It takes learning a step further, past a mere passive essay and requiring the students to truly step into the minds of their characters. It is an essential piece of the Lyceum students’ education.

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Flashback Friday

World of Weird

by JUSTICE SPRINGER justicemspringercub@gmail.com

During a class presentation, Alexander Rabbit and Hailey Clements present as Albert Einstein and Jim Carrey, respectively.

Tweet us your memorable flashback picture to @ CubOnline or post it to Instagram with #CubFlashback. Your picture could be in the next issue of the Cub.

Netherlands’ new fad In 2012, Dutch artist Bart Jansen shocked the world when he made a helicopter like no one had ever seen. After his cat was hit by a car, Jansen decided to turn his furry friend into a toy. Videos of the remote-controlled helicopter cat went viral, and Jansen received praise for his unique invention as well as much critique.

“People keep on saying it’s animal cruelty,” Jansen said, “but my cat was already dead and I didn’t kill him.”

Since the incident, Jansen has been invited to art festivals and art exhibits, but he didn’t stop there. After the creation of the OstrichCopter, RatCopter and the Sharjet, Jansen decided to take his work to the water.

Currently underway is the newest invention which was set into motion when a friend gave Jansen a dead badger. He plans to turn the animal into a submarine; however Jansen has found difficulties since he is yet to find a lab that is willing to waterproof the animal for him. In the Netherlands the badger is a protected species, so authorities are trying to discover how exactly the badger died, and until this happens, Jansen is keeping the animal in his freezer.

Other artists from the Netherlands have begun to create art similar to that of Jansen, some of which add a macabre twist, making taxidermy even more creepy than it already is.

“My work fuses taxidermy and art, sometimes creating work that may shock or even Source/odditycentral.com revolt, but I hope it serves as a catalyst for conversation,” Dutch artist Noortje Zijlstra said.

Zijlstra is also an activist for vegetarianism, and uses her art to show her opinions of eating meat by featuring food in many of her works.

“I want people to think about what they put into their mouths,” Zilstra said, “My art has a lot to do with the concept that you are what you eat.”

Social Net Watcher: Don’t opt in

Next year, the township will begin encouraging its students to opt in to the Social Net Watcher program which will monitor the social media feeds of the opted-in students and notifies the administration when it detects statuses, tweets or private messages that indicate the presence of bullying or are sufficiently violent or suicidal. Though Social Net Watcher has a noble purpose and addresses a very real issue, it does not do so practically and the rather uncertain future of the company makes me question how secure our information would be if we allowed for its collection.

It’s no secret that Facebook, Twitter and third party advertisers are creating huge repositories of our information. Do we really need another company to do the same?

Social Net Watcher’s response to this seems to be, “Yeah, we collect your information but we aren’t as bad as the other guys.” To their credit, they claim they will not sell the information they collect and the data should be collected only

school can keep See P.5 the data provided by Social Net Watcher indefinitely, providing one more avenue by which a Facebook status we make now can affect our futures.

Social Net Watcher gives only the names of opted-in students, throwing its effectiveness into question. If I opt in and one of my friends posts

by CHAD SHARP a status about being bulchadsharpcub@gmail.com lied, if he hasn’t opted in, the administration has if the program flags it, but the no way of knowing if this mere fact that it has been collected student lives in this country much means that another copy exists that less goes to a Lawrence school. can come to haunt us later.

They’d have to interrogate me Additionally, the exact data about a problem I may not know that Social Net Watcher provides exists. the schools vary. Currently, only The program is also not truly the names of the students who “opt-in.” When one opts in, it is not have opted in will be provided solely his posts that are collected to the counselors, but this could but also all of his friend’s posts and change. This means my trust must the private messages sent to him. fall to Facebook and Twitter to only I encourage students not to opt share the appropriate informain to Social Net Watcher. The protion — something at which they are gram goes far enough to make me notoriously bad. Additionally due uncomfortable, but not far enough to ambiguity in Indiana law, the to be reasonably effective.

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Do you think LC is a typical American high school?

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Yes, because it’s what you see in the movies.

Cyaire Satterfield, 9

Yes, we have a good mix of people.

Emily Vollmer, 10

No, because everybody doesn’t get along, but yes, because we have school spirit.

Jordyne Adams, 11

No, because we are basic and don’t show school spirit.

Kayla Allison, 12

Yes and no. It’s like any other school, but no because everyone is different.

People show their personality.

Royal Smith, 9

No, because we do things different than other high schools. We have the block schedule and need more security.

Jerome Hawkins, 10

There is too much going on. People do too much, so no.

Rashaw Jones, 11

We are, because we have a lot of diversity and people come from different areas.

Armonte Dunlap, 12

Indentured servitude returning? Thoughts?

Former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University Mitch Daniels has proposed a hair-brained, unrealistic method by which students could pay for college.

He suggests that a prospective college student should find a sponsor and, in exchange for a bought-and-paid-for education, the student would be required to give his patron a portion of his income when he graduated and joined the work force — in other words, modern day indentured servitude.

Others may call it patronage because the sponsors do it not for the good of other human beings but for themselves as they’d be in control of a part of the student’s money for a set amount of time.

Imagine being a college student on graduation day when the realization kicked in that someone would be collecting a portion of his hard-earned paychecks. This cut could cause some of the new graduates who don’t make as much to not be able to afford what they need.

It’s also possible that some college students wouldn’t be able to get a job

work at all and hurts more people than it benefits.

It’s also degrading to one’s dignity to have to practically beg a person to help pay for college instead of showing why you deserve the money as with scholarships. While scholarships find those who deserve the money through applications, all one has to do is beg for money from a patron and it has colleges include a lot more students who may not be ready for it

by AUSTIN KRUEGER and hurts the college’s reputation as austinkruegercub@gmail.com well as the other students with overcrowding issues. at first, lengthening the time it would The best way to hinder the progtake for the patron to get his money ress of this illogical, misguided effort is back. This could scare away possible to have people say what they think of patrons. this proposal and these changes, which It’s also possible that some stuare absolutely illogical and unhelpdents would drop out of college and ful, only causing more problems for could not pay off the debt owed for students trying not to have a lifetime their education even if it’s only been a of debt as a result of paying for colsemester long for the student. lege and giving control of their lives to This idea had been proposed besome patron who’s out for himself. fore Daniels’ time by economist Milton It’s already been put in place in Friedman in the 1950s. Proposed, and some areas, but how long should you denied. wait before it begins to affect you?

Yet Daniels decided to try to bring This is your life. it back. There’s a reason why both inThis is your future on the line, so dentured servitude and patronage died take a stand and say what needs to be out way before our time. It doesn’t said for your future. Say “no.”

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Marches are some of the many ways people raise money and awareness for a cause.

If you could march for a cause, what would you march for?

See P.12-13 “Testicular cancer awareness, because my cousin had it.”

Macoy Riley, 9 “World hunger.”

Kiara Bahamonde, 9

“Breast cancer.”

Cheyanne Hehman, 10 “LGBTQ.” “No homework.”

Niya Innes, 10 Kayley Hodson, 11

“A better swimming pool.”

Spencer Ball, 11 “Unjustified police brutality.”

Antwoin Erving, 12 “Women’s rights.”

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Junior Lauren Chastain has an unamed ball python that lives in a terrarium. A terrarium is a glass enclosure used with snakes and other reptiles. They often come with heat lamps. Ball pythons eat mice and other kinds of bugs.Courtesy photo/ Lauren Chastain

Clockwise from top left: Chastain’s father holds their gyr-saker falcon, Goose. Chastain has five animals including her dog Honey, her two cats, Bear and Leo, and an unamed baby tegu. Junior Lucy Armstrong adopted a blind kitten that she named Stevie. Freshman Zach Magee has two snakes named Kevin and Achilles. Courtesy photos/Lauren Chastain, Lucy Armstrong, Zach Magee

not Pets, Threats

by AMANDA BRADTMILLER amandabradtmillercub@gmail.com

Picture Stevie Wonder, a blind American musician, an award-winning songwriter and singer, and a talented pianist. Some people may start to croon ‘For Once in My Life,’ but when junior Lucy Armstrong thinks of Stevie Wonder, she thinks of Stevie Wonder Armstrong, her blind cat.

Around Christmas time, the Armstrongs adopted a blind kitten from the Humane Society of Indianapolis, and they were prepared for the challenges that were to come.

“We took him home and we bought him toys but all of them had to have bells on them or make some sort of noise because, you know, he’s blind,” Armstrong said. “We kept him in my dad’s office for a while and he would run into stuff. After about a month or so we decided to let him out of the room.”

Cats use their whiskers as sensors, like a bat uses their screech. If nothing hits a cat’s whiskers, it will think there is nothing there and continue to walk.

“He overestimated himself and went right to the stairs. He fell down the

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first step and then the second and then er,” Chastain said. “He teaches them to the third and finally he thought, ‘Woah, hunt and live on their own.”

I’m falling,’ and latched onto one of the Recently, Chastain purchased a steps. He was scared to go down the baby tegu. Tegus are lizards that can stairs for a while,” Armstrong said. mainly be found in Central and South Chairs and stairs or maybe even America and can grow up to 5 feet. a broom and a dishwasher, everyday However, they’ve become popular pets. household They’ve even items, are become an inNone of (my pets) are dangerous for a vasive species in particularly dangerous, and I Florida. blind cat such as Stevie Wonder “It’s acturecommend cats to anyone.

Armstrong. ally super sweet.

LAUREN CHASTAIN Yet, a kitten They’re known junior doesn’t strike for being really many people as affectionate and a dangerous pet. But some are as intelligent as dogs,” Chaswhat about a gyr-saker tain said. falcon?

Having many pets could spark Junior Lauren many animal versus animal fights. No Chastain has close one can read an animal’s mind, so it’s to a zoo at her home. hard to understand what they feel for With two cats, a dog, a each other. falcon, a baby tegu, and a “One time I left the door to (the ball ball python, the Chastain python’s) terrarium open and my cat family has their hands full. crawled in there but neither of them “We get falcons and ended up dead, so I think they became hawks because my dad takes birds in friends,” Chastain said. “None of (my from rehabbers after something happets) are particularly dangerous, and I pened to them when they were youngrecommend cats to anyone.”

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As for freshman Zach Magee, danger was something he was expecting when he bought his two ball pythons.

“My dad used to have some snakes so I was interested in having some,” Magee said. “I have two ball pythons; their names are Kevin and Achilles and they’re about 5 years old.”

You must go to extremes in order to take care of animals like snakes, including separating them while they eat.

“After you put the mouse in there to eat, of course your hand smells like mice. They smell to determine what some things are, so I put my hand in the cage to put one back in his normal cage, without washing my hands. My fingers were in front of his face so he bit me because he saw something that looked like a mouse and smelled like a mouse,” Magee said.

Animals such as snakes can cost a pricey penny, but getting the chance to care for a pet is priceless.

“It’s somewhat expensive to buy mice every week, and the cage, and the heat lamp,” Magee said. “I would definitely recommend them to someone who wants a different sort of pet, but they do take some work.”

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Neutral Net

by LEAH ARENZ leaharenzcub@gmail.com

tain websites to pay for high quality and speed of service on their network and that this could cause smaller websites On Feb. 26, the Federal Commuand companies to be forced out of havnications Commission (FCC) voted, in ing high quality and speed if any at all. a 3-2 vote, to regulate internet service They believe that this could generate a providers (ISPs) as carriers of a public monopoly by creating barriers to enterutility under Title II of the Telecoming an online industry. munications Act. Functionally, the FCC Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., has approved net neutrality, the policy that taken a stand for net neutrality. He said ensures open access to the internet. that net neutrality “fosters innovation “Net neutrality says that internet and competition by ensuring that any service providers have to treat all comnew products and services developed munications on the internet the same,” are not blocked or limited in speed.” secondary eLearning coordinator JerWith full control and legal freedom emy May said. “This net neutrality law that ISPs had without net neutrality, says that providers like Comcast cannot ISPs could have tiered services such as slow your services down or alter your gaming, video, file sharing, social netservices because all data is equal.” working, and marketplaces and charged Without net neutrality, it is possible customers to use these services. For that ISPs could permit certain websites example, Comcast could have charged to pay them for faster services and households $9.99 per month to access charge the cusYouTube, $5.99 tomer to use those per month to acThis net neutrality law says cess Twitter, and websites. This was found to have that providers like Comcast so on. happened when With this cannot slow your services Netflix, an online control, AT&T down or alter your services found itself with video distributor (OVD), paid the power to cenbecause all data is equal.

Comcast, an ISP, JEREMY MAY sor a Pearl Jam for faster internet secondary eLearning coordinator concert that was speeds. streaming over It is alleged that Comcast had their servers. The band delivered some slowed down the speed for OVDs beanti-George Bush lyrics during their cause OVDs account for a large portion Lollapalooza performance. They issued of internet traffic. Sandvine, a coma letter in support of net neutrality after pany that assists ISPs in finding and they were notified of the incident. resolving network congestion, found However, this could help issues of that more than 50 percent of aggregate spam and incorrect information on the internet traffic between 7 and 11 p.m. internet. If a reliable source of informacomes from OVDs. Comcast is of the tion is able to connect with better speed position that OVDs that put more data and quality than a less accurate source, on their networks than other websites it could prevent websites with inaccurashould pay for that space. cies to surface in browsing.

Through a series of complex delibRep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., said that erations, Comcast made it clear that she is “supportive of an open internet.”

Netflix would need to pay Comcast Her statement also included that “the to provide high speed online videos FCC’s action to bypass Congress will to their customers through uncondeter future expansion, innovation and gested broadband networks. Seeking to investment of broadband services.” maintain customer satisfaction, Netflix “The impact on schools and busireached a paid agreement with Comcast nesses would be huge,” May said. “If and high video speeds and quality were service providers were allowed to tier restored to both companies’ customers. those services and charge more based Proponents of net neutrality are on the type of data access we were doconcerned that, if left unregulated by ing, that would have a huge increase in the FCC, ISPs will continue to force cer- our internet service fees.”

With Net Neutrality Uncensored content Spam is present Regulated Internet Service Providers Equal internet speeds and qualities

Without Net Neutrality Possibly censored content Less prevalent spam Internet Service Providers collect money from websites for faster speeds Unregulated Internet Service Providers Unequal internet speeds and qualities Possibly blocked spam Internet Service Providers collect money from consumers for using certain types of websites Cub graphic/Leah Arenz

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Leraris in Selma for anniversary

by BEN LERARIS Selma March attendee

Freshman Ben Leraris’ grandparents, Leon and Janet Riley, returned to Selma 50 years after their participation in the 1965 event. Courtesy photo/Leraris family

The march in Selma 50 years ago, in a museum photo. Fewer than 600 people were involved in the original march. Courtesy photo/Leraris family

SELMA marching on

by BRITTANNIE TRAVIS brittannietraviscub@gmail.com

An estimated 70,000 people marched the day after the 50th anniversary to honor this historic event. Photo/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS

A woman at the 2015 Selma march protests for equal voting rights with a sign from the American Civil Liberties Union. Courtesy photo/Leraris family

Michelle and Barack Obama, and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), were at the anniversary.

Lewis was in the 1965 march. Source/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Far more people were in Selma this month than were there for the original march in 1965. Photo/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Fifty years ago, an estimated 600 civil rights marchers took to the streets to voice their right to vote in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. The marchers were soon blocked by law enforcement and, as violence struck, March 7 became known as Bloody Sunday.

Two weeks later, marchers set off for Selma again, and boarding an airplane to join them, from California, were freshman Ben Leraris’ grandparents, Leon and Janet Riley.

“He goes down to Selma with my grandma,” Leraris said. “Both (were) involved in a protest on the mayor’s lawn that resulted in lots of people being jailed or (put in a youth recreational facility).”

Marchers, including the Rileys, were confined in the facility as the jails filled.

Leraris said his grandmother described meeting a woman lying down who identified herself as Viola Liuzzo, who became a mutual companion for the couple.

“Only 300 marchers were approved (to leave and continue marching, but) my grandma was not one of them,” Leraris said. “She went home, and my grandpa drove one of the latrine trucks (to Selma).”

Riley was one of three drivers to drive through the march from Selma to Montgomery.

“It (the march) took four days, and then they got to Montgomery,” said Leraris. “Dr. King gave a speech on the steps of the Capitol building, and my grandpa was one of six people chosen to form a human body shield around Dr. Martin Luther King (after the speech).”

Leraris said people were worried that there was going to be an assassination of MLK, and that Riley selflessly volunteered to create a human body shield around him.

“On the way back, my grandpa was driving people back from Montgomery. He got pulled

over three times and was completely hassled by that my grandpa had high the Alabama State Troopers,” Leraris said. respect for her, and so did Riley was stopped for having to many people my grandma, so by going to see in his vehicle and also for being a “nuisance,” where she was buried . . . was completely mind Leraris said. blowing.”

As Riley continued along the route back to Along with Leraris and his family attending Selma, he was stopped by a man in the street. the Selma march anniversary, junior interdisc “The man said ,‘Someone’s been shot,’ ‘The teachers Michael Burr and Richard Phillipy took lady I had been riding with had been shot’ or their students on a field trip to watch Selma in something to that extent,” Leraris said. theaters.

The woman shot happened to be Liuzzo as “It was Ms. Swain’s (assistant principal Retha she was with a man by the name of Leroy. The Swain) idea on what classes to invite,” Burr said. two had been going back to Montgomery that “We’re not quite to the Civil Rights unit, but it night when Liuzzo was confronted by KKK mem- worked out nicely in that we had talked about bers. She was shot and how blacks were kept killed on U.S. 80 and from voting after the became a memorable 15th Amendment was Dr. King gave a speech on the woman to the Rileys as passed.” steps of the Capitol building, they remembered her Junior Sloan and my grandpa was one of six at this month’s Selma Samuels said she liked 50th anniversary repeople chosen to form a human Selma, but she didn’t enactment march. like that minor details body around Dr. Martin Luther Leraris was able to of the movie were attend and witness his incorrect.

King (after the speech). grandfather’s return “We discussed BEN LERARIS to Selma as the entire freshman whether it was a family went there to movie’s responsibility participate in the anniversary. to educate people or just entertain them,” Burr “My grandpa really wanted to come back to said. “ We (discussed the changes in the movie) see how things changed, I would say,” Leraris and will discuss the more emotional aspects later said. “(My grandfather) had never come back to when we get to the 1960s so it is in context.”

Selma (since what happened).”

Although students like juniors Jordan The first place the Leraris family went was to Macklin and Mikeinah Downs enjoyed the film, the National Voting Rights Museum. Leraris said both were disturbed by the graphic details of the that going to the museum was a nice way for him violence. to start off the trip. Leraris also attended Presi“The movie’s events were portrayed well, dent Barrack Obama’s speech. but some of the scenes were a bit too graphic,” Also, the Leraris family drove to Liuzzo’s Downs said. memorial which was along the route of where she Overall, Downs said Selma did teach the was killed. viewers new things.

“My grandma and grandpa walked up there, “The movie showed the brutalness of segand we were right behind,” Leraris said. “I would regation,” Macklin said. “At the same time it say it felt sort of right in a way because I knew showed how people come together for change.”

Going to Alabama has made me a changed person. I now appreciate the things that people take for granted.

There were a couple of monumental things that struck me when I was in Selma for the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights March. First, the atmosphere. Selma is a quiet little town ⅞ of the year, and you could tell. It was not made to hold all of those people, which contributed to the atmosphere. Everywhere was packed. So many people and faces were all crammed into that small town, and I just soaked it in.

The thing that struck me was that I, a teenage white male, was the minority. It was a unique experience to have because I believe white people now can go almost anywhere and still be the majority. So to have the uncomfortable experience of being different really gave me an eye into what life might have been like for African Americans.

And that was truly remarkable and something I feel is hard to accomplish now, which makes it special.

I also appreciated being able to experience this with my Courtesy photo/Leraris family grandpa. I had heard about his journeys to Selma but never really understood the significance of them.

But I got to travel back 50 years with him to understand what he did. I got to go on the road where my grandpa was bothered by Alabama State Troopers and where most of the march took place. I got to go with him to the memorial of Viola Liuzzo, someone my grandpa had lots of respect for. It was an honor to take this trip with him.

I was mostly struck by the martyrs of the Civil Rights movement whom I didn’t know anything about. The people who had brothers and sisters and parents and kids. The people who died because of their beliefs. The people who you never heard about but who still had an impact on the movement. People whose decisions made people more passionate and fight harder for the right thing. People who exposed the weak injustices of an old society. The people who were innocently killed. The people whose determination was to be admired. The people whose courage was to be appreciated.

Those were the big things I noticed.

But almost everything I did will have a lasting impact on me. And I hope to carry on my grandfather’s legacy.

President Barack Obama made a speech while I was there in Selma that I got to hear. He said we have come a long way, but there is still work to be done. And I hope to keep marching, for people like my grandfather. For heroic martyrs. For the people who were innocently suffering.

We have come a long way, but it is not far enough.

We need to keep marching.

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Leraris in Selma for anniversary

by BEN LERARIS Selma March attendee

Freshman Ben Leraris’ grandparents, Leon and Janet Riley, returned to Selma 50 years after their participation in the 1965 event. Courtesy photo/Leraris family

The march in Selma 50 years ago, in a museum photo. Fewer than 600 people were involved in the original march. Courtesy photo/Leraris family

SELMA marching on

by BRITTANNIE TRAVIS brittannietraviscub@gmail.com

An estimated 70,000 people marched the day after the 50th anniversary to honor this historic event. Photo/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS

A woman at the 2015 Selma march protests for equal voting rights with a sign from the American Civil Liberties Union. Courtesy photo/Leraris family

Michelle and Barack Obama, and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), were at the anniversary.

Lewis was in the 1965 march. Source/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Far more people were in Selma this month than were there for the original march in 1965. Photo/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Fifty years ago, an estimated 600 civil rights marchers took to the streets to voice their right to vote in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. The marchers were soon blocked by law enforcement and, as violence struck, March 7 became known as Bloody Sunday.

Two weeks later, marchers set off for Selma again, and boarding an airplane to join them, from California, were freshman Ben Leraris’ grandparents, Leon and Janet Riley.

“He goes down to Selma with my grandma,” Leraris said. “Both (were) involved in a protest on the mayor’s lawn that resulted in lots of people being jailed or (put in a youth recreational facility).”

Marchers, including the Rileys, were confined in the facility as the jails filled.

Leraris said his grandmother described meeting a woman lying down who identified herself as Viola Liuzzo, who became a mutual companion for the couple.

“Only 300 marchers were approved (to leave and continue marching, but) my grandma was not one of them,” Leraris said. “She went home, and my grandpa drove one of the latrine trucks (to Selma).”

Riley was one of three drivers to drive through the march from Selma to Montgomery.

“It (the march) took four days, and then they got to Montgomery,” said Leraris. “Dr. King gave a speech on the steps of the Capitol building, and my grandpa was one of six people chosen to form a human body shield around Dr. Martin Luther King (after the speech).”

Leraris said people were worried that there was going to be an assassination of MLK, and that Riley selflessly volunteered to create a human body shield around him.

“On the way back, my grandpa was driving people back from Montgomery. He got pulled

over three times and was completely hassled by that my grandpa had high the Alabama State Troopers,” Leraris said. respect for her, and so did Riley was stopped for having to many people my grandma, so by going to see in his vehicle and also for being a “nuisance,” where she was buried . . . was completely mind Leraris said. blowing.”

As Riley continued along the route back to Along with Leraris and his family attending Selma, he was stopped by a man in the street. the Selma march anniversary, junior interdisc “The man said ,‘Someone’s been shot,’ ‘The teachers Michael Burr and Richard Phillipy took lady I had been riding with had been shot’ or their students on a field trip to watch Selma in something to that extent,” Leraris said. theaters.

The woman shot happened to be Liuzzo as “It was Ms. Swain’s (assistant principal Retha she was with a man by the name of Leroy. The Swain) idea on what classes to invite,” Burr said. two had been going back to Montgomery that “We’re not quite to the Civil Rights unit, but it night when Liuzzo was confronted by KKK mem- worked out nicely in that we had talked about bers. She was shot and how blacks were kept killed on U.S. 80 and from voting after the became a memorable 15th Amendment was Dr. King gave a speech on the woman to the Rileys as passed.” steps of the Capitol building, they remembered her Junior Sloan and my grandpa was one of six at this month’s Selma Samuels said she liked 50th anniversary repeople chosen to form a human Selma, but she didn’t enactment march. like that minor details body around Dr. Martin Luther Leraris was able to of the movie were attend and witness his incorrect.

King (after the speech). grandfather’s return “We discussed BEN LERARIS to Selma as the entire freshman whether it was a family went there to movie’s responsibility participate in the anniversary. to educate people or just entertain them,” Burr “My grandpa really wanted to come back to said. “ We (discussed the changes in the movie) see how things changed, I would say,” Leraris and will discuss the more emotional aspects later said. “(My grandfather) had never come back to when we get to the 1960s so it is in context.”

Selma (since what happened).”

Although students like juniors Jordan The first place the Leraris family went was to Macklin and Mikeinah Downs enjoyed the film, the National Voting Rights Museum. Leraris said both were disturbed by the graphic details of the that going to the museum was a nice way for him violence. to start off the trip. Leraris also attended Presi“The movie’s events were portrayed well, dent Barrack Obama’s speech. but some of the scenes were a bit too graphic,” Also, the Leraris family drove to Liuzzo’s Downs said. memorial which was along the route of where she Overall, Downs said Selma did teach the was killed. viewers new things.

“My grandma and grandpa walked up there, “The movie showed the brutalness of segand we were right behind,” Leraris said. “I would regation,” Macklin said. “At the same time it say it felt sort of right in a way because I knew showed how people come together for change.”

Going to Alabama has made me a changed person. I now appreciate the things that people take for granted.

There were a couple of monumental things that struck me when I was in Selma for the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights March. First, the atmosphere. Selma is a quiet little town ⅞ of the year, and you could tell. It was not made to hold all of those people, which contributed to the atmosphere. Everywhere was packed. So many people and faces were all crammed into that small town, and I just soaked it in.

The thing that struck me was that I, a teenage white male, was the minority. It was a unique experience to have because I believe white people now can go almost anywhere and still be the majority. So to have the uncomfortable experience of being different really gave me an eye into what life might have been like for African Americans.

And that was truly remarkable and something I feel is hard to accomplish now, which makes it special.

I also appreciated being able to experience this with my Courtesy photo/Leraris family grandpa. I had heard about his journeys to Selma but never really understood the significance of them.

But I got to travel back 50 years with him to understand what he did. I got to go on the road where my grandpa was bothered by Alabama State Troopers and where most of the march took place. I got to go with him to the memorial of Viola Liuzzo, someone my grandpa had lots of respect for. It was an honor to take this trip with him.

I was mostly struck by the martyrs of the Civil Rights movement whom I didn’t know anything about. The people who had brothers and sisters and parents and kids. The people who died because of their beliefs. The people who you never heard about but who still had an impact on the movement. People whose decisions made people more passionate and fight harder for the right thing. People who exposed the weak injustices of an old society. The people who were innocently killed. The people whose determination was to be admired. The people whose courage was to be appreciated.

Those were the big things I noticed.

But almost everything I did will have a lasting impact on me. And I hope to carry on my grandfather’s legacy.

President Barack Obama made a speech while I was there in Selma that I got to hear. He said we have come a long way, but there is still work to be done. And I hope to keep marching, for people like my grandfather. For heroic martyrs. For the people who were innocently suffering.

We have come a long way, but it is not far enough.

We need to keep marching.

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Will you go to Junior Christian Jennings asked junior Natalie McFadden to prom on stage at a show choir competition.

by NOOR HEINTZELMAN

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Clenched hands trembling around a bouquet of flowers, forehead beaded with sweat, and thoughts racing. Three telltale signs of a nervous high school boy about to ask a girl to prom. However, instead of a flower bouquet, senior Tyler Fudge was clutching a tray full of popcorn chicken nuggets.

Fudge cooked 70 nuggets before he came to the conclusion he needed only 25 to 30 to spell out prom.

“After I cooked up the nuggets, I had to think up a ‘promposal’ pun to tie everything in a witty way,” Fudge said.

He eventually decided to write, “I hope you’re not too chicken to go to prom with me,” on a sign.

“By far the most successful part was making sure I didn’t misspell anything on the sign,” he said.

Originally, Fudge had planned to ask senior Hannah Perkins by

Senior Tyler Fudge asked senior Hannah Perkins to prom by spelling out “PROM” using chicken nuggets. Senior Garrett Carr asked senior Carlie Tonnis to prom by putting 200 balloons in her bedroom. Cub graphics/Leah Arenz

last Friday, Carr left school early spelling out the word “prom” on to spread roses on Tonnis’ bed, jibbitz, the add ins used for Crocs. as well as hanging a poster on her “She is the type of girl who wall asking her to prom. Carr soon enjoys the looks, comfort, and conreturned to school to pick Tonnis venience that only Crocs can offer,” up to surprise her when they arFudge said. “But then I found out rived at her house. To get Tonnis to the jibbitz cost $10 each and were go to her room, on back order, Carr asked her to so I then had to I then had to think of put her backpack think of another nifty idea that another nifty idea that away.

“He told me would make any would make any girl to put my backgirl say ‘yes.’ say ‘yes.’ Then, only pack in my room Then, only one so I did, and then thing came to one thing came to I saw everything mind. Nuggets.” mind. Nuggets. in my room,” Senior GarTYLER FUDGE Tonnis said. rett Carr was senior Similar able to make his to Tonnis’ big girlfriend have a surprise from Carr, sophomore memorable “promposal” to finHannah Vitali was shocked with her ish off both of their senior year by scattering 200 balloons throughout first “promposal” by junior Chris senior Carlie Tonnis’ bedroom.

Ooley. Ooley put 250 yellow bal“I was pretty surprised because loons all over his room to surprise he was joking about doing it next Vitali. week,” Tonnis said.

“I was asked by Chris,” Vitali Along with the 200 balloons, said. “He wrote ‘prom’ on every

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with me? single balloon in his room.”

At a show choir competition, junior Christian Jennings asked junior Natalie McFadden on stage.

Both are members of Central Sound. The Friday before Central Sound performed at North Central, Jennings asked choir director Milo Ellis if McFadden could represent their show choir on stage during awards.

After their performance, Jennings ran into their warm-up room to get two posters that said, “Prom with me?” At the time, McFadden was backstage, not aware what was going on. In the auditorium, Jennings asked the announcer in advance if they could make an announcement when Lawrence Central was called forward.

“We walked in the front of the stage with the posters and everyone cheered in the audience and she said ‘yes’ and cried,” Jennings said.

Editor’s note: Amanda Bradtmiller contributed to this story.

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Sophomore Dashawn Ball donates blood during one of the many visits the Indiana Blood Center makes to LC each year. One pint of blood is taken from the approximated 10 pints of blood our bodies contain.

The blood is stored for later use. One pint of donated blood can save as many as three lives. Cub photo/Lexi Olson

Raise your sleeve, save a life

by SAMANTHA KUPIAINEN samanthakupiainencub@gmail.com

Just one prick of a needle could save many lives. People like math teacher Martha Weber.

Weber can advocate first-hand the benefits of donating blood and the lives saved because of it. If it weren’t for the generous citizens that raised their sleeves and donated blood one day, she wouldn’t be as well off as she is today.

“I had a surgery, and they messed up,” Weber said. “They perforated my uterus.”

Doctors didn’t realize the mistake they had made, and it went downhill from there.

“My stomach filled with blood because of it,” Weber said. “I was in extreme pain. I’ve had two kids and never before have I experienced a pain

like that.”

Although Weber can no longer doHer lungs then filled with fluid, and nate blood, others can, and can reap the a relative who was a nurse at the hospipositive benefits it holds. tal just screamed looking at her charts.

“You never know when you’ll need “I’m an identical twin so I asked for (a blood transfusion),” Weber said. my sister’s blood. But it was going to “You’ll never know when you or a loved take four or five days to go through the one will need it.” screening process, Giving blood so I couldn’t,” Weisn’t just someber said. “I can’t thing the receivers You’ll never know when give blood now feel is a benefit you or a loved one will because of the anand positive act, need it. tibodies from the but also the doMARTHA WEBER nors as well. transfusion.” math teacher Siblings are “I wanted to not always perfect give blood mostly matches. They may not be the same because I could and I knew there were blood type or contain harmful antibodpeople whose lives it could save,” senior ies. Checking blood type compatibility is Elaina Roach said.

“It’s easy to give blood. It gets me an essential when giving blood because out of class, there’s free cookies, and it if you receive the wrong blood type it helps save lives,” Roach said. “There’s can cause a life-threatening reaction.

Blood Drive When: April 24

Where: Studio Theatre sponsored by NHS no good reason to not donate blood.”

Many people don’t give blood because they feel it will hurt, or they fear they might get sick because of the needle. However, the Indiana Blood Center estimates that three people’s lives can be saved from just one person’s one pint of blood taken.

That’s three people who can continue to live their lives and do what makes them happy, all because of donors.

“Giving blood doesn’t hurt that much, and if a little pinprick is all it takes to save someone’s life, it’s being selfish by not donating,” Roach said.

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Empire leading the charts

Critic Collective LOGAN YOUNG loganyoungcub@gmail.com

Anticipating new album GodSpeed You! Black Emperor has announced their sixth studio album Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress.

Efrim Menuck, Mike Moya and Mauro Pezzente did us all the favor of forming this nonet in 1994.

Their most recent album Allelujah! Don’t Bend!

Ascend! was released in 2012 after a seven-year hiatus in 2003.

Lift your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven has been their most recognized and I’d have to say best album so far. Sputnik music named this album the sixth best album of the 2000s.

A lot of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s music is instrumental.

They’re succinct in source/cstrecords.com lyrics but when they do occur they are usually sampled vocals or spoken word.

God Speed You! Black Emperor is pulsing drones, energetic guitar riffs, experimental sampling, penetrating spoken word, and a unison of celestial sounds that will leave you enlightened.

In Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven the orchestral like crescendo is faultless. The first three minutes you catch a beautiful airy violin, meanwhile a soft bass drum keeps the beat and finally into a percussion outburst that just continues to ascend higher into an anthem of march.

GYBE’s entire package is complete with guitar, bass, keyboard, violin, cello, French horn and bagpipes. I admire their readiness to use countless instruments and musicians and still somehow master perfect timing and precision. Technical flaws in music are not bad. These guys just seem to revel in their perfectionist character. They’ve released a single from their new album: “Peasantry or ‘Light! Inside of Light!”, available on Pitchfork.com.

by BRITTANNIE TRAVIS brittannietraviscub@gmail.com

Wednesday nights start at 9 o’clock with fierce fashion, a roller coaster of drama and jaw-dropping tension as the kings and queen of the hit television series Empire concluded with the season finale this month.

Although, with Luscious and Cookie temporarily on pause, the original soundtrack should be able to sustain fans as it continues racking up the charts and making its way onto playlists.

Empire (Original Soundtrack from Season One) consists of 18 tracks sung by various artists and cast members including the series two chart-topping newcomers Jussie Smollet as Empire’s Jamal Lyon as well as Bryshere Y. Gray as Hakeem Lyon.

The two gentlemen battle out to the beat of the music in various solos and duets along with the

vocals keep the music relevant to today’s audience.

Climatic vocalist V Bozeman spares dull and throws a curveball with bass and harmonica instrumentals in “What is Love.”

Powerhouses Smollet and Gray rock out with their instrumentals and smooth vocals in “Money for Nothing.” Slow introduction, dominant guitar, popping beat brings this song to life.

Although, with many great songs, I wouldn’t actually listen Source/ theinscribemag.com to the entire soundtrack in one sitting. The songs shows theme “No have so much Apologies.” On Artist: Empire Cast flavor in them that YouTube, the song Album: Empire I’d have to listen has consisted of Genre: R&B, Hop-Hop, Rap to the album in over 2 million views, and curSong Suggestion: “What is Love” maybe sessions.

Overall, this rently holds five Rating: 4 out of 5 is only the start of stars on iTunes.

Empire as it will Empire the return to us next season with a soundtrack is progressively modcontinuation of top-charting music ern for R&B and Hip-Hop songs. and more drama.

The catchy words and phenomenal

Gone Girl is great all around

by LEXI OLSON alexisolsoncub@gmail.com

is more caught up in voices for them both. the act of trying to Nothing bothers me look like a “nice guy” more than when there The illusion of perfection is to the media in order is not an obvious what the world runs on. We try to to get rid of any suspipersonality or set of ignore the evil or ugly things in cion surrounding him, morals for the main society and sugarcoat it with the which does the exact characters in a novel, idea of what we think it’s supposed opposite. so I appreciated that to look like. Gone Girl by Gillian The beginning of I was able to have a Flynn strips away the mask of Gone Girl switches clear idea of who Amy perfection that a couple has built between Amy’s and and Nick were (or in order to hide the horrid truth of Nick’s perspectives, rather, who they were their marriage. his from the days after trying to be).

Source/amazon.com The novel begins with the she disappears and Flynn also adds mysterious disappearance of Amy hers from entries in entertaining crude Dunne on the her journal that date back humor in appropriate places, and morning of as far as when they first some inappropriate places. RegardGone Girl her and her met. less, it still made me laugh, and Author: Gillian Flynn husband’s fifth When a female aulightened the rather dark mood.

Cost: $14.23 (Barnes and anniversary. thor narrates from a male Without any spoilers, I’d like Noble Online) The usual perspective, it can often to warn readers that this novel is protocol is sound feminine. This is not disturbing. It has an unprecedentLength: 415 pages followed as inthe case for Flynn. There is ed ending that personally made Genre: Fiction thriller vestigators try not evidence of a feminine me want to throw the book across to determine bone in Nick’s body as he the room in rage. With that said, it where Amy is and massive search rants about marriage and women never once lacks in brilliance, even groups are formed by her wealthy and his wife. with the troublesome ending. parents.

Flynn manages to completely In a series of unsettling twists As the novel progresses, it set the voices of her characters and characters that readers won’t becomes clear that Nick is acting apart, therefore allowing major know whether to love, hate or strange. He seems unconcerned character development for both admire, Gone Girl leaves readers that his wife has gone missing and Nick and Amy by establishing clear stunned and wanting more.

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Is this too Three Sisters Cafe

Cheesy ?

A hidden treasure to the eatery selection in Broad Ripple is the Three Sisters Cafe. Something they’re known for is their grilled cheese. A grilled cheese that is not meant for tots, but a “grown up” grilled cheese. First of all, the entire grilled cheese has a layer of cheese melted to the top of the bread; something unique but tasty nonetheless. The variety of cheese selection they have is great.

I could choose from Cheddar, Parmesan, Swiss, feta and goat. I got Cheddar and ParmeCub photo/Logan Young san together, and let me tell you, it is the next peanut butter to jelly combo. The cheesy delight has a subtle smoky taste, something unexpected but makes it more flavorful to say the least. The only odd thing is the spicy and sweet pickles served on the side.

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Chef’s Corner

Lincoln Square Pancake House

There is absolutely nothing special about this grilled cheese. It is just bread and cheese on top of each other. It isn’t even melted all the way so when I pulled it apart the cheese didn’t spread out like on the commercials, which is, a quality in my opinion, necessary for all grilled cheeses. You might as well make your own grilled cheese at home and save yourself the time and money of going out to eat.

But one thing that Lincoln Square does excel in is customer service.

Cub photo/Samantha Kupiainen I was waited on right away by a waitress who clearly enjoyed her job. The presentation of the meal was also very appealing. It was placed perfectly on the plate and decorated with a side of fries.

If only its taste matched its appearance.

SAMANTHA KUPIAINEN samanthakupiainencub@gmail.com

Panera Bread

Panera is widely known for its breads - hence the name. It’s no surprise, then, that Panera has mastered the art of grilled cheese making down to a tee.

It’s served on all natural white bread, with the perfect ratio of cheese to bread.

The outer layer of bread is warm Cub photo/Samantha Kupiainen and crispy, while the inside is filled with American cheese, cheesy goodness. And the cheese is organic, perfect for all health freaks around. The only thing that could make this masterpiece of carbs willed with cheese any better is a more spacious dining area to enjoy it in.

CS fourth in state

by NOORHEINTZELMAN noorheintzelmancub@gmail.com

performed to the best of our ability and this year is by far the best from the past couple years. My first year The Central Sound ended its of Central Sound has been amazshow choir season on March 21 ing.” at North Central. The show choir Sweet Sensation ended their placed second in three out of the season March 14 at North Central four competitions during their and placed first, fourth and fifth in season. In state finals, they placed the three competitions they particifourth overall and second best in pated in. “Sweet Sensation hasn’t vocals. According to sophomore won in five years until this year, so Rachael Jacobs, it was a pretty “This year has monumental acSweet Sensation hasn’t complishment,” been really good for us; our sophomore won in five years until rehearsals have Cassie Ruch this year, so it was a really brought claims. us close this “We’ve had pretty monumental year which is more challengaccomplishment. good because ing music and CASSIE RUCH we need to feel our talent has sophomore close in order improved imfor it to come mensely,” Ruch across on stage.” said. “Granted, fourth and fifth “I learned so much about my weren’t the ideal placements we voice and myself as well,” Jacobs originally went into the season excontinued. “Being a part of this pecting, I couldn’t be more proud. group has really taught me to My team worked harder than I’ve fight for what I want, and luckily ever seen us work, and that’s all I it paid off in the end. Our group could ask for.”

Best Buddies hosts fashion show

McKenzie cosmotology student senior Ingrid Quinonez prepares junior Courtney Reeves for the runway at the Best Buddies Fashion Show, which was March 18. The senior interdisc project raised more than $750, all of which went to the Best Buddies Club. The seniors who pulled it together were Kayla Smith, Megan Everett, Callie Tonnis, Brenda Aguilar, Alyssa Sifuentes, Briana Wright, Madison Smerage, Braxton Hiser, Chance Williams and Lamar Duncan. Cub photo/Danica Minor

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Third season of House of Cards lacks punch

by LEAH ARENZ leaharenzcub@gmail.com

know what to do with himself once he was in power, doesn’t mean that Frank has to stop There’s a reason Frank being evil for our entertainUnderwood taps his ring two ment. times when he leaves a room.

This season lacked punch.

Because two was powerful. Two It needed more evil, especially was a statement. Because the considering the 45 second third tap is unconventional, trailer that Netflix released unsure, unnecessary. Just like showing Claire Underwood, the third seaFrank’s wife, son of House saying, “We’re Availability: On Netflix of Cards. murderers, The first Francis.”

Rating: 5 stars two seasons of They weren’t Length: 13 episodes House of Cards murderers. were motivated The Claire

by Frank Underwood’s goal and Frank of Seasons 1 and 2 to make it to the Oval Office, were ruthless manipulators which he accomplished at the and sometimes murderers, but end of Season 2. Taking into this season they were a pair of account that House of Cards drama queens. is based around Shakespeare’s Not once was this season Richard III, this lack of moveanywhere close to believable. ment in Season 3 is somewhat It’s not that the actions of predictable. However, just Frank really could have passed because King Richard III didn’t by in the real world, but it

could have used at least a hint of realism in the policies Frank was trying to push through.

The first two seasons succeeded because when they pulled out of what was realistic, they did so with a substantial mic drop.

When they had opportunities to put in mic drops, like when Frank won the election in Iowa, the viewers only found out because of his competitor’s concession speech. There needed to be a much more forceful discussion between Frank and his opponent, Heather Dunbar, leading up to that election.

Big moments in the season might have landed harder if things moved faster. The pacing was agonizingly slow and repetitive. They had to have said “America Works” a million times this season. And the writers spent so much time beating the same three cheesy metaphors to death that I almost

Featured Films Cinderella

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stopped watching. Yes, I know that the black egg represents their lack of children, please move on.

Also, stop showing Remmy Danton (Chief of Staff to Frank) pining for Jackie Sharp (Minority Whip). It was done to death last season and everyone’s sick of it.

This season was a filler

season. They would have been better off giving us a nineminute recap of everything that happened this season and moving on to the 2016 election. But one good thing did come out of it: Netflix set themselves up for a pretty great Season 4. Next year, I’m looking for a stronger, more mischievous Frank and a Claire that’s just as conniving.

What’s H t in Indy Indiana Pacers

Source/moviepilot.com

Throughout the month of April, the Pacers have several home games taking place at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis. Check their game schedule or get your tickets at nba.com for as low as $20.

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Magical. Kenneth Branagh and Chris Weitz bring new life to the 1950s classic. It ups everything I could have wished to see in a remake. I love this movie and I hope this helps a new generation of kids fall in love with Disney and all the wonderful things that come with it – magic.

TERENCE TOKORANGI junior

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Fifty Shades of Grey was phenomenal. It’s not as bad as everyone believes. It makes you have an open mind.

LA’NASIA ENOCH senior

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Indiana Museum Fifty Shades of Grey of Art

During these warm spring days, there is no better place to visit than the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which features various types of art for all ages and an outdoor art and nature park. Entry for the indoor museum is free until April 7.

Insurgent

Indianapolis Zoo

The Indianapolis Zoo opened on March 18 after basically taking the winter off. Plan a visit today to see all of your favorite animals as well as new additions, such as the two new Amur tigers. Tickets can be bought online or at the gate.

I am a huge fan of the books so I had high expectations for the movie. The movie did not disappoint me; it was great.

ANNA WAGER -freshman

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Residents make their way to the Oil for Final Four festivities at the Lucas Oil Stadium. Courtesy photo/ Visit Indy

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Sport Graphics is the company in charge of installing the 44,000 square foot bracket on the JW Marriot Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Courtesy photo/VisitIndy

March Madness in Indianapolis The Final Four Competition for College Basketball is being hosted in Indianapolis this year at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 4 and 6.

by LOGAN YOUNG loganyoungcub@gmail.com

International pop and R&B star Rihanna will perform at noon Saturday, April 4, at White River State Park.

The March Madness Music Festival is a three-day festival featuring free music April 3-5. Courtesy photo/ VisitIndy

No spring break plans? If you’re a basketball fan, staying in town during break shouldn’t be too bad.

With the NCAA men’s Final Four championship taking place, there are festivities included.

The Final Four Fan Fest is four days of interactive activities for only $10 at the door for adults and $5 for children.

From Friday, April 3, through Monday, April 6, in the Indianapolis Convention Center.

There will be opportunities to meet coaches and former players at autograph sessions. There is also a pep rally fully equipped with a band and cheerleaders.

Reese’s is sponsoring a Final Four Friday on April 3.

This is a free event that allows

impact. But you don’t need a people to watch the players game ticket to enjoy the experifrom the Final Four teams ence.” practice. Then, after watching Lastly, but most certainley the teams practice, you can attend the College All-Star game. not least, a March Madness Music Festival will be held at Both are free and admission White River State Park. Ristarts at 11 a.m. hanna and SaturBleachers will day, April Indy is expecting play Satur4, there will day starting be a 5K run 60,000 visitors at noon. Zac at the Lucas to come see the Brown Band, Oil Stadium.

Lady AnteRegistration games. But you bellum and and sign up is don’t need a ticket Kacey Musat 6:30 a.m. to enjoy the experigraves will and the race play Sunday begins at 8 ence. a.m.

CHRIS GAHL starting at 2 Chris vice-president of VisitIndy p.m. There Gahl, viceis limited president occupancy so of Visit Indy, said, “Indy is come early before there’s no expecting 60,000 visitors to room left. come see the games. I can tell Additional information on you that they’re going to gener- March Madness is available at NCAA.com. ate $70 million in economic

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n o i t c A o t n I

The last flake of snow has (hopefully) fallen, and as temperatures begin to rise, so does the anticipation for Spring sports. If one were to take a walk around LC’s campus this time of year, he would be greeted by more than just sunshine and green grass. Whether it be the track, the court, the diamond, or the course, he’d see athletes springing into action.

Baseball

by KOBY CLEMOW kobyclemowcub@gmail.com

The baseball team looks to get their season started off strong.

They hope to improve on a 17-9 record last season and progress further into the postseason, after falling to Lawrence North in Sectional play.

“We’re looking to improve,” coach Matt Buczkowski said. “Obviously we want to make it out of the Sectional and

Golf

by ERNIE HARSHMAN ernieharshmancub@gmail.com The boys golf team is looking to repeat the strong season they had last year. The Bears played well throughout the season, epitomized when they beat the top team in the state, Noblesville.

This year, the team will look completely different as it will be without many key members from last year’s successful team.

Expect the Bears to rely heavily on

Softball

by COLIN MCCARTHY colinmccarthycub@gmail.com After a solid 2014 season, with a record of 13-10, the softball team is tuning up for a strong year.

The 2014 season included an appearance in the Sectional Championship, ultimately resulting in a loss to Cathedral.

“It was a fairly good season,” senior Morgan Leonhard said. “We were proud that we beat Roncalli in Sectionals.”

“I’m hoping for a pretty good season

a little bit further into the State Tournament.”

The coaches hope that experience and maturity will be huge assets for the team; the roster boasts 15 seniors.

As the team begins its season, all thoughts are on a deeper playoff run, and Buczkowski is emphasizing the importance of constant improvement. “(The most important thing) is that we’re working hard every day,” Buczkowski said.

leadership from senior Colin McCarthy and junior Zach Nixon.

“We lost a lot of people last year,” said Nixon, “but we have a couple people coming up (from JV) that will help the team.”

Nixon spoke highly of senior Michael Rice, who, along with fellow senior James Chi, will be playing in some of his first varsity matches.

The Bears tee off on April 15 at Winding Ridge Golf Club, their home course.

this year. I think we have the ability to be a little bit better (than last year).”

Leonhard and fellow senior Ayriel Sprague will look to lead the team with help from a strong junior class, including pitcher Amanda Melzoni and center fielder Deja Shelton.

Melzoni hopes to once again reign on the mound; she had 103 strikeouts and an ERA of 1.17 last season.

“We have strong leadership,” said Melzoni. “This season, our goal is to win the Sectional Championship.”

Senior right fielder Connor Deford chases after a fly ball during a practice on March 19. Cub photo/ Danica Minor

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Tennis

by KOBY CLEMOW kobyclemowcub@gmail.com The girls tennis team is once again taking to the courts. After a respectable record of 13-7 last year, the Bears are back to work and ready to improve.

“My expectations for the upcoming season are that as a team we will work hard,” junior Peyton Carroll said. “We will have a good time out on the courts.”

The team expects younger girls to

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step up and fill the empty roles of the 2014 graduates.

“We have already overcome that (loss of seniors) because we currently have enough girls to have a full roster,” Carroll said.

The girls have strong expectations for the season.

“We have won Sectionals for quite a few years in a row,” Carroll said, “and I am setting the bar high for us to win Sectionals this year.”

Track and Field

by KEVIN COX kevincoxcub@gmail.com

Junior Shania Beaver competes in the 60 meter hurdles at the Indoor MIC Conference finals on March 6 at the University of Indianapolis. Cub Photo/Kevin Cox

The track team is officially off to the races after they competed at University of Indianapolis on March 6 in the Indoor Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (MIC) Finals meet.

“I’m looking forward to another road to State and getting after it on the field,” senior Aaren Bandy said. “There’s never a day off; our team is continuously putting in work to be great.”

The girls track team was crowned State Champions last year after a dominating performance. The seniors con-

tributed heavily with four Division 1 signees.

Both girls and boys teams are comprised of many young athletes this year.

However, they remain optimistic about carrying momentum from their success last year into the 2015 season.

Senior Kayla Smith, defending pole vault State Champion and University of Georgia signee, will be looked to for her continued leadership.

“I’d like to see us get progressively better as the season goes on,” junior Shania Beaver said. “Hopefully by the end, LC will have another appearance in the State Finals.”

Is Crean’s time at IU finally up?

Harsh Critic

ERNIE HARSHMAN ernieharshmancub@gmail.com Assembly Hall is rocking and so are the Hoosiers.

Yogi Ferrell is letting 3s fly left and right and the only sound audible over the raucous crowd is the swish of the net. When the Hoosiers are in sync it’s difficult to stop them. However, when they aren’t, everyone lets them know.

In sports, whether deserved or not, the blame always finds its way back to the coach. After a tumultuous season, one in which the Hoosiers lost five of their last seven games, the public has posed a question: Should Tom Crean be fired?

The dominos started falling last year after a medio-

cre season that saw the Hoosier go 17-15, posting a 7-11 record in Big Ten Conference play.

On top of this, off-season issues plagued the Hoosiers. Warren Central graduate Devin Davis, a freshman on the team, was involved in a serious accident when teammate Emmitt Holt struck Davis with a vehicle. Days later, Crean announced the suspensions of Holt, as well as sophomores Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson, for unrelated team rules violations.

Things were looking up at the beginning of this year’s conference play, as the Hoosiers were drifting in and out of the Top 25 ranking and holding a 10-3 record featuring a win against No. 23 Butler.

However, their play quickly fell off as the Hoosiers went 9-9 in the Big Ten finishing tied for 7th place. The season featured a sweep from hated rival Purdue.

With Indiana alumni calling for Crean’s head, should the athletic department make a change?

It pains me to say this, being a diehard Purdue fan, but absolutely not. IU fans (most of them bandwagon fans that could not tell you who DJ White is) are quick to forget that just two years ago Crean led the Hoosiers to a Pre-Season No. 1 ranking, a No.1 seed on the NCAA Tournament, and had two players drafted in the top three picks of the NBA Draft.

Crean took a wounded program that featured two (and that’s a stretch) legitimate Division 1 players after former coach Kelvin Sampson was fired for illegally recruiting players, and transformed them into a nationally ranked team that sank the unbeatable No.1 Kentucky Wildcats on a Christian Watford buzzer-beater in 2012.

Not to mention he won ESPN’s National Coach of the Year that year.

Fans that once wore “We’re Back” shirts and sang praises about Crean are too quick to throw him to the side at the first sign of trouble.

Did I forget to remind you that he signed five-star guard James Blackman Jr. over his dad’s alma mater and basketball powerhouse, University of Kentucky? If IU does end up forcing Crean to leave, the program will fall to the dumps.

While he may not be the best on-the-court coach, the man can recruit. Bring in the best players and you’ll most likely be the best team (unless you’re Brad Stevens).

Don’t fire Crean. I really don’t want to hear all the bandwagon Indiana fans complain about what a mistake it was when their team gets swept by Rutgers next year - which is what will happen if Crean is no longer coaching the Crimson.

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No sure bets when it comes to

March Madness

by COLIN McCARTHY colinmccarthycub@gmail.com

Spring: ink-stained fingers; decisions made, remade, and changed for the 10th time; trash cans piled high of crumpled, ripped, and torn brackets; but above all, the start of madness: March Madness.

At LC, just as in most schools across the country, college basketball dominates the third month of the year. Students and teachers alike spend hours enjoying their favorite aspect of March Madness.

“I love the unpredictability,” orchestra director Jennifer Fowler said. “With college basketball, there’s always that unknown factor. You can root for the underdog and they can win.”

This year, the tournament hasn’t failed to produce shocking upsets. Already, No. 3 Iowa State was defeated by No. 14 seed University of Alabama at Birmingham, 60-59. No. 14 seed Georgia State defeated No. 3 seeded Baylor 57-56 on a last second 3-point shot by their leading scorer R.J. Hunter, a graduate of Pike High School.

On the Panthers’ squad with Hunter, experiencing the magic firsthand, is LC graduate Jeremy Hollowell.

Fowler also commented that her husband’s family embraces the spirit of March Madness by hosting an intense bracket pool where there is always money on the line.

The gambling fever affects all ages, as LC students bet on ballers to try to earn some bucks, even against school regulations. One LC pool, which required a $10 entry fee, will pay the winning student 60 percent of its purse.

Everyone loves cheering for the underdog, but when selecting a champion for their

University of Kentucky junior Willie Cauley-Stein puts up a hook shot over defender Octavius Ellis during Kentucky’s Round of 32 battle against Cincinnati. Kentucky won the bout 64-51, advancing them to the Sweet 16. Cauley-Stein averaged 9.3 points and 6.4 rebounds per game for the Wildcats this season. Source/Mark Cornelison/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS

bracket, fans must choose more wisely. This year, most think the University of Kentucky is a shoe-in for champion.

Kentucky is dominating the college basketball world with

spectacular size and suffocating defense. The entire starting lineup is projected to be drafted in the first round, according to CBSsports.com.

Kentucky went a perfect

31-0 in the regular season; they are attempting to become the first team since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers to finish an entire season undefeated.

“If you want to win (your

bracket pool), you’ll pick Kentucky,” said English teacher and IB coordinator Katie Legge.

“Kentucky has NBA DLeague talent, but in collegiate basketball,” said chemistry teacher Ryan Keller. “Willie Cauley-Stein and (Karl-Anthony) Towns are beasts.”

However, not everyone thinks Kentucky will take home this year’s trophy.

“I picked Notre Dame and Texas to win in the two brackets I filled out,” said junior Lewis Taylor. “I like those two universities. I didn’t pick Kentucky.

I’m not a bandwagon fan. I’m not going to pick them (because) so many people are.”

“Notre Dame will win because they have the bigs to match up with Kentucky,” said economics and government teacher Drew Horvath. “Plus, they have good 3 point and free throw shooting.”

No matter how one picks, it seems inevitable to many that any future champion, besides Kentucky of course, will have to go through the Wildcats at some point.

As bracket pool purses increase, and teams continue aiming for the target on Kentucky’s back, most fans still remember why they truly love March Madness.

“My favorite part is the upsets,” Keller said. “It’s great to see TV coverage of the teams you never see, like Georgia State. That’s the best part.”

Rooting for the underdog epitomizes March Madness. After all, it is called madness for a reason.

Watching basketball powerhouses crumple to their knees at the hands of “nobody” teams certainly is magical.

Editor’s note: Ernie Harshman and Koby Clemow contributed to this story.

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Spotlight Athletes

Cub Cub photo/Danica photo/Danica Minor Minor

by COLIN McCARTHY colinmccarthycub@gmail.com

Dre Davis

Senior Dre Davis plays second base for the baseball team. Davis, who was All-Conference in 2014, hopes to help lead 14 fellow seniors deep into the postseason.

“The class of 2015 has really good chemistry,” Davis said. “We’ve been playing together for a few years now, so I’m expecting a lot this year.”

Davis stresses that his and his team’s success is due to improvements made in the offseason.

“We do the things we need to work

on: fielding, hitting, the team chemistry, running, lifting,” Davis said. “We just get mentally and physically prepared for the season.”

Even after all of his success, including his commitment to play on the team at St. Joseph’s College after high school, Davis remains adamant about improving this season.

“My stats aren’t what I want them to be right now,” Davis said, “so I’ve just been working hard to get better.”

For Davis and the rest of the team, their purpose this year is clear.

“The goal for the season is to win State,” Davis said. “We’ll play our hardest and take it one game at a time.”

Cub photo/Danica Minor

Amanda Melzoni

Junior Amanda Melzoni is the pitcher for the softball team. On the mound last season, Melzoni dominated with an ERA of 1.17 and 103 strikeouts.

Against Franklin Central last spring, Melzoni held the opposition to only one run, and against Perry Meridian, she pitched all nine innings and got her team the win.

Melzoni hopes to continue her exceptional play defensively while also working toward improvement. “(The) weakest part of my game is mental,” Melzoni said. “I tend to doubt myself which is what I’m going to work on this season.”

A key to Melzoni’s success on the field is her time commitment to the sport and her constant battle for improvement.

“I play all year with my travel team, the Indiana Shockwaves,” Melzoni said.

“We only take two months off the whole year, so I just continue hitting lessons, pitching lessons, and agility workouts.”

Melzoni is anxious to see how her work outside of LC will help her performance with the Bears this spring.

“My goal this year is to have a positive attitude the whole year and to improve my pitching stats,” Melzoni said.

“I am very excited for the season to begin.”

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Raising the Barre March 27, 2015

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ny’s production won first overall,” she said. “When competing my solo, I earned the highest To junior Alexa Austin, award given to an individual, dancing is more than just a and I usually place in the top 10 hobby. It’s a lifestyle. A pasoverall.” sion ignited at 2 years of age, Junior Olivia Davis, a felAustin’s love for the art shows low dancer in Austin’s Compano signs of waning. ny, sees her drive and dedica“I dance because I love tion every day, both on and off everything about it,” she said. the stage.

“It allows me to be expressive, “Alexa is a beautiful dancer. artistic and musical.”

She has amazing technique and At the height of her dancalways gives it her all,” Davis ing season, Austin spends said. “Dancing with her has upwards of 20 hours per week shown me how dedicated she is at the Dance Magic Performing to the art that she loves. Alexa Arts Center where she takes is always putting in work at the classes, learns choreography, studio and helping out others excercises on the barre (a so that her classmates improve stationary handrail used for as well.” ballet warmups) and rehearses.

Still, despite the commenDespite this, she manages to dations be an active member of the Na- and the tional Honor Society, the vice awards, president of the Spanish Honor Austin Society, the liaison between holds that a career in dance is Key Club and Riley Hospital not for her. for Children and a member of “I’ve considered going pro the varsity girls golf team, all but it’s a very short career bewhile maintaining a GPA high cause of the physical demands, enough to place her at the top and few professional dancers of her class and pursuing an are successful financially. After International Baccalaureate 14 years of dancing, I have diploma. realized how “I spend taxing it is on I dance because I a lot of time my body,” she over the weeklove everything about said. end preparing it. It allows me to be will Austin for the week, be parexpressive, artistic and I depend ticipating in a on Thursday regional comand musical. nights, the ALEXA AUSTIN petition called only nights junior “In10sity” that I don’t April 17 and spend at the 18. There, she studio, to get caught up,” Ausand her company will perform tin said. “It also helps that my several pieces that will each be body has adjusted to running adjudicated separately. on fewer hours of sleep.”

“We’ve been rehersing 9 When she manages to find to 4 every Saturday and taking free time, she enjoys spendtechnique classes throughout ing it with friends and family, the week, logging about 20 traveling and golfing. hours each and every week,” Austin and her Company Austin said. participate in four to five comThis will be their last petitions every year. Traditionregional competition before ally, she says, they do very well. the national competition in St. “At nationals, our CompaLouis in July.

Austin arabesques in the second act of the original ballet Turning Page in which she plays the lead. In this scene her character, Lilia, is dancing her final scene before her death. Courtesy photo/Alexa Austin