Cub Reporter Issue 1

Cub Reporter Lawrence Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana

cubonline.org • Vol.65 • Issue 1 • September 20, 2013

Marching into a new year

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New technology changes are coming to Lawrence Township. What role should technology play in current LC classrooms? Join the debate on Page 9.

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Senior Adam Oppenheim documents the reality of homelessness in downtown Indianapolis. Read about it on Pages 12-13.

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Ruby Bridges and U.S. Marshall Charles Burks reunite to share an important message for today’s youth. See it on Page 15.

Class changes, conference changes and new uniforms bring a new year for Lawrence Central athletics. Read more on Page 21.

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What’s Online LC athletics in TV commercials LC purchased nine 15-second ads on the HomeTown Sports Network. The ads promote positive aspects of LC, both academics and athletics.

Portable technology being considered for next school year The One to One Initiative could put tablets or laptops in the hands of students by next year. This year, some classes will be testing the products.

IB art students use new mediums From color pastels to finger painting to shattering glass, IB art students are using different mediums every week.

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Senior Achzionna Riding takes Jill Hilgemeier’s French 5 class at LN, through Skype. Cub photo/Caroline Varie

used as teaching tool ChloeFeyock chloefeyockcub@gmail.com Lawrence North (LN) French students attend LC classes – through Skype.

Beacuse LN no longer offers French 4 and AP French, students were scheduled to shuttle to LC for classes.

Skyping came in because the buses that transported students from LN had to also drive students home. French 4 is during G4, so the bus had to be at LN by 3:20 p.m. for dismissal.

“Kids were losing too much time, sometimes as much as 40 minutes,” French teacher Jill

Hilgemeier said.

To find a solution, teachers and administrators turned to Skype.

“We just did it on the fly,” said LC technology coordinator Denny Krauser, who is in charge of hooking up the cameras. As the classroom is everchanging, teachers and administrators try to find the most convenient and effective ways to teach.

“It’s kind of exciting,” Hilgemeier said of the new style of teaching. “I was pretty nervous at first.”

Students sit close to the microphone and listen as the les-

son is taught. The technology department is trying to mount a camera in the back of Hilgemeiger’s room. A few tech complications have occurred; the audio is often disrupted and Hilgemeier has to spend a lot of time repeating notes.

“We want the students at LN to feel as normal as possible,” Hilgemeier said.

She has also had to shorten her lessons due to the technology issues. LN is now in talks to create a distant learning room so students who are learning at a different location other than the classroom can have a room in which to work.

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Resembling the stages of a day, the marching band’s show opens with a scene symbolizing sunrise. The focus of the show shifts as sophomore Megan Apple stands on sophomore Kevin Davis’ back (left). Color guard members seniors Kiya Eldridge and Mariah Manley and freshman Jalayna Gahs take a stance on the sidelines as this scene comes to a close (above). Cub photos/Amanda Boyce

Spirit of Central Invitational The Spirit of Central (SOC) Invitational is hosted

by LC. Spectator attendance is expected to reach 8,000 and 32 bands will be competing.

Who:

Central Indiana marching bands

What:

Marching band invitational

When:

Saturday; performances begin at 9 a.m., SOC performs at 10:25 p.m.

Where:

Ray Skillman Football Stadium, parking available at LC and at Belzer Middle School

Tickets: $7

Marching band kicks off season with win MolliLoftus

molliloftuscub@gmail.com The Spirit of Central marching band kicked off the 2013 competition season with a big win Saturday at Fishers High School. They took first place and won the music, visual and general effect caption awards.

“Collectively we did all right for our first major performance. The level of energy we gave wasn’t anywhere near our maximum so the potential for the show is still extremely high,” senior Zach George said.

The show, “Shades of a Day,” is not a traditional marching band show and kind of “out there.” Typically the band members leave the dancing to the color guard but this year the band members have a lot of choreography.

“There are a lot of visual effects that differ from person to person and it’s very unique and different from other shows,” junior Michaela Shanahan said.

Color guard member senior Meredythe Cross also described the show as ‘very different and interesting.’

New uniforms have also been bought. They have all black sleeves with a white design on both shoulders and a turquoise turtleneck. The uniforms are expected to come in early October and the band will wear them in competition soon after.

At the end of last school year the performing arts department learned they would receive the Allan Clowes grant, which would help to pay for Lawrence Central’s and Lawrence North’s summer band practices.

The Spirit of Central marching band got the op-

portunity to perform at halftime during the LC/Carmel game at Lucas Oil Stadium.

“It gave us a feeling of true performance,” junior color guard member India Dangerfield said.

The band and guard will perform later in their season at Lucas for semi-state, state, Bands of America (BOA) regionals, BOA preliminaries and BOA grand nationals.

“All of the performances at Lucas are the major ones so to be able to get on the field early really helps our nerves,” sophomore Sarah Hayth said.

“It is always an experience. Performing at Lucas is an immensely different stage. You feel this unspoken pressure to do your best but at the same time you’re almost awestruck at the grandeur of the field you’re standing on,” George said.

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Raimondi announces retirement CarleyLanich

Central Sound in 9/11 tribute Central Sound show choir performed during a special tribute at the 9/11 Memorial on Ohio Street in downtown Indianapolis on Sept. 11, singing “The Star Spangled Banner” and “America the Beautiful.”

Seniors Marrialle Sellars and Regan Desautel also sang an arrangement of “Hallelujah.”

Cub Reporter a national finalist The Cub Reporter newspaper is a Pacemaker finalist. The award, from the National Scholastic Press Association, is known as the “Pulitzer of scholastic journalism.” Three Indiana high schools are finalists — LC, Carmel and Homestead in Fort Wayne. Winners will be announced in November.

Granger captures top national honors Journalism teacher and newspaper/yearbook adviser Elizabeth Granger has captured first place in the category of faculty adviser of student publications from the National Federation of Press Women.

Judging was based on the Dec. 14, 2012, issue of the Cub Reporter as well as on an essay Granger wrote.

It is the sixth time since 2005 that Granger has captured the top honor.

Mark Your Calendar Sept. 20: Key Club tailgate “Car Smash for Charity,” 5-7 p.m., east parking lot Sept. 20: Homecoming; crowning of king and queen during halftime ceremonies; dance following the game in the Perk Sept. 21: Spirit of Central Invitational, LC

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Sept. 24: Spanish Honor Society initiation, 7 p.m., Studio Theatre Oct. 8: Orchestra concert, 7:15 p.m., auditorium Oct. 11: Fall breaks begins at 3:40 p.m., classes resume Oct. 22 Oct. 21: Parent-teacher conferences

carleylanichcub@gmail.com Superintendent Concetta Raimondi announced her retirement Aug. 12 at the Lawrence Township School Board’s August work session.

Raimondi, who is beginning her fifth year as Lawrence Township superintendent, has taken a position at Indiana University teaching classes to graduate students Raimondi preparing for careers in graduate administration. She will also meet with other superintendents in study councils and recruit students to participate in the graduate program.

“I always knew this is how I wanted to finish my career, going back to the classroom and teaching,” Raimondi said. “I love teaching. It’s an art. It’s a science.

It’s everything that I enjoy.”

Raimondi’s last day as superintendent will be Dec. 31. In the nearly five years that Raimondi has served as superintendent, Lawrence has eliminated its budget deficit and is now working within the funds provided

by the state and local taxes.

“The school district is in a perfect position for anyone to come in, or for someone to step up internally, and take over and continue to lead us,” Raimondi said.

“We are in a wonderful position for that and that’s why I felt it was OK to move on to higher education.”

The Lawrence Township School Board will begin searching for possible successors for Raimondi this fall.

The school board is planning to hire a search firm to weigh all options locally, state-wide and possibly outof-state. Whether a new superintendent will be in place by early 2014 is unknown. School board president Carol Helmus said ideally the school board would like to have a new superintendent named by July 1, 2014.

More information regarding the search process will be available at the Sept. 23 school board meeting.

“We have incredible talent internally,” Raimondi said. “It’s important that the school board weigh that with the talent that is external, and decide which would be more beneficial for our district to keep moving in the direction we’re moving.”

Raimondi’s advice leaving the district is for students to be proud.

“This is the most incredible school district and sometimes we forget how truly extraordinary we are,” Raimondi said. “We need to be proud of who we are and always express to our publics the great things about Lawrence.”

Homecoming court members announced CarolineVarie

carolinevariecub@gmail.com The 2013 homecoming king and queen will be crowned tonight at halftime during the LC vs. Center Grove football game.

“The ideal queen and king symbolize what it means to be a Bear,” student council sponsor Effie Keys said. “They would be outgoing, multifaceted and participate in a variety of school activities.”

Many of the homecoming court members (pictured

below) were on the 2013 Prom court, including Prom queen Katie Billman and king Brandon Lee. Matthew Pickle, who is the only male on homecoming court that was not on Prom court, said that he felt “surprise primarily” upon learning that he was voted to be on court.

“It’s already a great story to tell that my name (Pickle) got me on homecoming court, and it would be even better if I won,” he said.

Student Council will host the neon-themed homecoming dance in the Perk after the game from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets are $5, and students must have their student ID and will be Breathalyzed upon entry.

For Parents Parent-teacher conferences Oct. 21

Parents are encouraged to visit with their children’s teachers during the annual parent-teacher conference day on Oct. 21. Classes will not be in session that day.

Katie Billman

Information compiled by Cub Reporter staff

Leah Frischmann

Kaley Gatto

Breanna Lomax

Brandon Lee

Matthew Pickle

Halie Vitali

On the Cover The Spirit of Central marching band will be on the field during homecoming festivities tonight. It will also host its annual invitational Saturday. More than 8,000 visitors are expected as 32 bands compete. As host, LC will perform but not compete. Cub photo/

Makayla Johnson

Ben Hilgendorf

Vencent Hill

Jack Pounds

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Bus safety sees updates HaleyHamilton

Mechanics repair the electrical systems on a bus at the Lawrence Township Transportation Office on Thunderbird Road. Cub photo/Chad Sharp

“The safety of our students and staff is the most haleyhamiltoncub@gmail.com important thing,” Davie said.

ChadSharp While bus safety does chadsharpcub@gmail.com rely heavily upon actions taken by the district, stuThe cause behind the dents are expected to take summer’s fatal church bus steps to ensure their own crash in northeastern In- safety. dianapolis has yet to be According to bus driver determined. However, the Patricia Lowder, the No. 1 investigation has called the safety infraction she sees is safety of privately and pub- students having their feet in licly owned buses into ques- the isles. tion.

“I want to see faces, not Last year the backs of many MS“The safety of our stu- their heads...

DLT buses If they are received a dents and staff is the hanging out failing rat- most important thing.” in the aisle ing, though and we get in Ron Davie a wreck, (the many of the assistant principal s t u d e n t s ) problems were due to could get renon-critical ally hurt,” infractions such as tears in Lowder said. seats and malfunctioning As for the district, windows. The safety issues Lowder said she believes involving the bus drivers are they are doing an “A-OK” job also being addressed. and she has no complaints.

According to assistant Students, it seems, are a principal Ron David, any- bit more critical of the safebody wishing to drive a bus, ty situation on the buses athletic or otherwise, for LC they ride. Sophomore Culmust have a valid drivers li- len Oakes, for one, is unimcense and pass a driving test pressed. in one of the buses.

“Sometimes, I worry Teachers and coaches about the speed of the bus must pass this test if they and the behaviors of the othwish to drive an athletic er passengers. I believe we bus or school vehicle to any should have stronger secuevent. rity on the bus,” Oakes said.

the biennial trip to Japan.

For 20 days, Meguschar takes about 10 kids to the Land of the Rising Sun. Each person receives a Shinkansen pass and for 10 days they travel around Honshū visiting everything from Ground Zero in Hiroshima to popular shopping centers in Shibuya.

To conclude the trip, students stay with a family for the

last 10 days and experience the life of a Japanese high school student, going to Utsunomiya Kita High.

Meguschar’s seventh and last trip to Japan with his students will be in the summer of 2014.

Every other year in the spring, students from Utsunomiya Kita visited Indianapolis for two weeks. Last March

Japanese language program to be eliminated JusticeSpringer justicespringercub@gmail.com Japanese and U.S. government teacher Chris Meguschar will retire LC’s Japanese program after 14 years of studies.

He said it had “just kind of reached a place where it wasn’t moving forward.”

In the language program students learn the three main writing systems of Japanese — Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji — as well as study the culture of the country. Culture studies range from creating a newspaper in the style of pre-war Japan to checking out the most up-todate news.

One of the privileges most LC students look forward to is

was the seventh and final time for LC to host the students from Japan.

“I originally started the program back in 1998,” Meguschar said. “It’s been fun. It’s certainly been an experience.”

The 2012-2013 school year was the final year for first- year Japanese, and the 2015-2016 year will conclude the study of the Japanese language here.

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new teachers

a new weight room a new lounge

New faces and spaces New teacher Q & A: Learn more about the new faces of LC’s staff

Donnie Zelaya

Paige Wyatt

1. English 10 and 11, World Literature

1. English 9 and English 9 Honors

1. What do you teach?

2. When I was little I wanted to be a superhero. Then it was playing centerfield for the Cubs.

2. I used to want to be a professional musician. I love to play guitar and drums, and I used to think that I could go into a career doing those things. It turns out that I am a much better reader/writer/ teacher than I am at music, however!

2. What is your dream job?

3. What is something you would like your students to know about you?

Some of LC’s new teachers are highlighted here.

Dee Anne Sinclair 1. Earth and Space Science, Environmental Science 2. My dream job (perhaps after I retire?) would involve studying mammal migration patterns in the Canadian Rockies.

3. I recently joined the Ball State University Geology Department on a trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp. It took nine days to trek to the Base Camp and three days to trek back to our starting point (Lukla, Nepal). My husband (retired LC art teacher) joined me on this adventure.

3. My great-grandfather was the president of Nicaragua. No joke.

Brian Maloney 1. Counselor 2. I had an opportunity to pursue sports psychology and work with the Olympics team in China. Working at that level would have been extremely exciting. Unfortunately the program did not work out.

However, I have loved working with students before, during, and after this opportunity.

3. I played varsity basketball for four years at Wabash College and am open to challengers for one on one.

David Rawlins 1. Intro and drawing art classes 2. Teaching art at LC 3. I’m fluent in Japanese.

3. I am always, always thinking about them (the students). Every time I see a movie, read a book, watch TV or go somewhere with my family, I am always on the lookout for interesting things to bring to class. I am always looking for ways to be a better teacher...

Stephanie Keller 1. Physical education, health 2. My dream has always been to be a teacher and girls’ basketball coach.

3. I played college basketball at Ball State University from 1989-1993, and I still can shoot the 3!

Information compiled by Justic Springer

Summer renovations highlight safety, security and instruction in the classroom CarolineVarie carolinevariecub@gmail.com Several renovations were made to the building over the summer and in the first weeks of school. These renovations included moving the weight room into the old gymnastics room, installing Promethean boards in several classrooms, replacing lights in the football stadium, repainting and redesigning the Hall of Fame, improving the visitor bleachers and adding new signage throughout the building. Additional security cameras were placed throughout the building.

Dean of operations Ryan Banas said that moving the weight room was the project that “required the most attention and planning.”

“When you take on big tasks like that you can really only afford to do so many of them. We tried to focus on basically two top priorities: anything that impacted safety and security,” Banas said. “Promethean boards in almost every classroom im-

Find out what else is new in the building pacts instruction, and that was the second part of what we were trying to focus on.”

According to athletic director Jeff Irwin, “having a strong sports performance program is key if we want to have competitive athletic teams. A larger and more efficient weight room allows us to have bigger class sizes and get people in and out in a more efficient manner.”

The old weight room is in the process of being renovated into a lounge, and new offices have been cleared for coaches.

Among other uses, the new lounge will function as a hospitality room when IHSAA events are hosted.

“If our coaching staff has the resources they need, this in turn allows them to do a better job in game preparation and teaching for our student-athletes,” Irwin said.

Future renovation possibilities throughout the building and grounds include remodeling the locker area in the band room and refinishing the tennis courts. A “five-year master plan,” as described by Irwin, is in the process of being created to determine where to spend the $500,000 recently donated by the Ray Skillman Automotive Group.

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“As far as race relations today, I think that we have a lot of work to do,” said Ruby Bridges in a press conference in the Indianapolis Children’s Museum earlier this month.

It has been more than 50 years since Bridges courageously broke the barrier of segregated schools. She has since dedicated her life to eliminating the racism that continues today. It still exists in the deep South, where after years of tainted history, people today have been unable to overcome their racial differences.

It still lurks closer to home in rural Indiana, where schools are of very little diversity. But what’s even more alarming, traces of racism are here, in Lawrence Central, a diverse school of 2,300 students of different races, cultures and backgrounds.

Take a peek inside the Lawrence Central cafeteria.

Students sit divided, separated into ethnic and social cliques. Maybe it isn’t intentional, but it’s there. After freshman year, how far out of our way do we go to make new friends or be inclusive to unfamiliar peers?

It’s not a race problem alone, but a social problem and a respect problem. We make little effort to include students of different backgrounds, be that socially, culturally, economi“It’s not funny. cally, ethnically.

In the hallways, students disrespectful.” drop the n-word like it’s of no significance. People tell racist jokes and laugh it off. It’s not funny. It’s disrespectful.

We are all responsible for perpetuating this social and racial divide. We are all responsible for making a change.

“Racism has no place in the minds and hearts of

Ruby Bridges speaks with U.S. Marshal Charles Burks on how she believes children are the key to resolving today’s racial injustices.

Cub photo/Carley Lanich

our children,” Bridges said. “If we are to get past our racial difference, I believe it’s going to come from our kids.”

We are young, open-minded and have a voice. It is up to us to break the lunchroom stereotypes, and there are so many ways to do so. We all cheer for the same football team on Friday night, and chances are we all have had the same teacher at one It’s point or another.

Just as Bridges has shown us, it takes the courage and impact of only one person to defeat prejudice as we know it. Make an effort. Get to know someone new. We attend one of the most racially and ethnically diverse schools in Indiana. Instead of mocking it, we should realize that our diversity is our strongest asset. It’s time we celebrate diversity openly.

30-second editorials

• People who do things off the beaten path keep life interesting. For example, new technology is convenient but vintage contraptions such as Walkmans have character. So instead of waiting eight hours on Black Thursday for the newest gadget, sift through items at a thrift shop. Most likely the items you find won’t be freshly sealed from the manufacturer but that’s OK. There’s something great about owning an item with a bit of history to it.

• Adoption can be a blessing to to both children and their new families. It can be the way for families who want children to achieve their dream. It’s a perfect win-win situation.

• Key Club, drama club, anime club… there’s a club out there for just about anybody. Whether it’s

being put on your resume, college application, to get closer to your school events and activities or even just to get out of the daily grind and do something out of the ordinary, LC offers a wide variety of clubs to choose from. If you’re interested, join a club as soon as you can. See the club sponsor to get a club card and go to this year’s first club session on Sept. 27. And if there’s no club for your interests, enlist a teacher to help you create one.

• Bus safety issues are becoming more and more of an issue in communities. There are accidents daily.

The bus safety rules need to be enforced more on students. Learning how to handle each situation is also necessary for students to know so that all outcomes can improve.

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Seniors lead the pack The Life Obscura

by Ali Duff

Strange news and offbeat music choices On Sept. 20, the government confirmed the existence of a once top secret military base in the desert of Nevada called Area 51. The large base, built around the now dried up Groom Lake, was supposedly responsible for the test of aircrafts like the Stealth Bomber.

It was also rumored to be one of the bases where ruins from the speculated 1947 alien landing in Roswell, N.M., were sent.

Whether or not alien experiments were done at Area 51 remains a mystery, but the truth is most definitely out there.

On another note, I spent a good amount of the summer watching an assortment of quirky and offbeat films.

One of them was “The Squid “...the truth is most and The Whale,” definitely out there.” an independent film by writer/director Noah Baumbach and executive producer Wes Anderson, whom I’d mentioned in many of my columns last year.

“The Squid and The Whale” is the semiautobiographical story of two young brothers, 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline), who learn that their parents (portrayed by Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels) are divorcing. The film follows the brothers through their different struggles after learning of the divorce, and their different ways of coping with their parents’ separation.

If movies aren’t really your thing, then perhaps music is.

An offbeat band (pardon the pun) that I learned of this summer is the indie rock group The Kopecky Family Band. Formed in Nashville, Tenn., in 2007, the band blends guitar-driven rock with funky beats and handclaps to create an edgy, different sound that’s instantly catchy. Songs worth listening to are “Heartbeat” and “Change” from their 2013 album Kids Raising Kids.

I stepped out of my car to head into the LC vs. LN football game, and before I knew it someone was slabbing white paint on my stomach and another was hand printing my arms and legs. It was official; football season had begun.

For the last three years of my high school career, I’ve been about as involved as a student could be.

My weekly schedule would include volleyball, Cub, the student foundation, LC’s Athletes of Charby Katie Billman acter, Best Buddies, LC Leaders, school, food and some sleep when convenient. my school.

On Friday nights after practice, Supporting other LC Bears it was almost is just as imimpossible for portant as me to find the en- “I’ve always thought it being involved ergy needed to be in your own was important to be a fan at football organizations games. involved with my school.” and activities.

This year, it’s If students are different. doing what they I’ve always love, shouldn’t thought it was important to be they have a support system behind involved with my school, but I had them every step of the way? managed to leave out an important When our volleyball team aspect: being involved in supporting played LN, I couldn’t explain

Organized Chaos

how much my team appreciated having a legitimate student section for what seemed like the first time. Just seeing your peers take a couple hours out of their week to support what you work so hard to do makes every day’s practice worth it. It’s knowing that the people in your school support you, believe in you and know that you can do it.

I’m not sure what it is about being a senior.

Maybe it’s the fact that there’s an assumed right to have the first few rows in the student section.

Maybe it’s the fact that we have less than one year until we’re out of these halls.

Or maybe, it’s just the feeling of belonging to something bigger than yourself.

Every class has an automatic bond that connects the students in it as a community, and for us top dogs, this is our year to rule the dog house. Let’s support each other while we do it, and show all the other schools why it’s time to fear the bear.

Through the eyes of a bear I was walking to the concession stands at a football game when someone started playing with my tail. I’m going to be honest and say that it startled me to the point where I almost dropped my porridge.

I know that when you see me walking around at games you do see my tail. And some people come up from behind me and pull on said tail.

I respect your curiosity, but can you please stop pulling my tail? I don’t really want you to pull off my tail, because I have become rather… attached to it.

And although I am not a human, I need my feet.

Someone stole my feet while I was sleeping last year and for that whole week I was bed-ridden until they were returned.

While I did enjoy being able to stay in bed and munch on nuts and berries while playing video games, I also enjoy going outside to attend tailgates and whatnot. Having to

and sometimes the kids are scared of me.

One time, a kid was so scared he tried to run away and ran straight into a wall.

Every once in a while I’ll be at a game and a student will ask me, “Who are you?”

I will almost always answer with silence. I am, after all, a bear.

And bears can’t talk.

But I do understand what you’re saying, and I will most

by Bubba the Bear likely point to the big “Bubba the Bear” on my jersey.

I love representing our school, wait until someone returned my and so I really enjoy interacting feet was un-bear-able. with the student body.

I am a friendly bear, and as Whether it such, I like havbe hugs, high ing my pictures “I love representing our fives, or handtaken with stuschool, and so I really shakes, I will dents and their enjoy interacting with the respond if you little brothers come up to me or sisters and student body.” and ask for a other children. hug.

But not all children like bears.

I am, after all, an exceptionally Parents and students will ask friendly bear. me to take pictures with children,

Can’t bear it any longer

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Technology in the classroom

AmandaBoyce amandaboycecub@gmail.com

Should we receive netbooks or tablets?

If we get netbooks or tablets it would cut down on the cost of book rental because we wouldn’t need books since we could access the online books. This kind of technology would be beneficial to students because they could access the internet during class and it would get them ready for college.

HaleyHamilton haleyhamiltoncub@gmail.com

I think we should receive tablets because they are easier to store and more practical than carrying around a laptop every day.

Tablets are also making doing work more interactive by allowing you to use your fingers as a stylus and being able to touch the screen. This would get students more intersested in their work.

Would more students get involved?

Students would get more involved if we brought technology into the way we learn.

Not just with the Promethean boards but with the students receiving netbooks or tablets. It would get the students interested in learning with assignments online.

More students would get involved with classwork. On the other hand, however, I think that switching to more technology based classes would take away the social aspect of classes. They would be more involved in their technology than learning.

Would it limit teacher-tostudent interaction?

Yes, that would limit the teacher interaction with those students because they wouldn’t get the proper learning experience of being in an actual classroom. It could limit the interaction between teacher and student because some students can’t learn without face to face contact.

More technology in classrooms would take away the amount of interaction between teachers and students. Programs such as Skype and online classroom discussions limit the amount of one-on-one teaching.

Students would lose at least some of the high school experience.

Speak Your Mind: Are tablets in the classroom a good idea?

They are a good idea to integrate technology into the classroom.

Sarah Higgins, 12 Yes. It would lower the costs for book rental.

Kahlil Garcia, 12

Yeah. It would maker note taking easier and save paper.

Maddie Kupiainen, 11

Yes. The students can interact more with their teacher.

Coleman Petras, 11

No. It will just create a distraction to the students.

Carmela Arteaga, 10 No. I think it would make the teachers assign more homework.

Mark Leyden, 10

Yes, we should be able to use technology, like we did at Belzer.

Breonna Smith, 9 Yes. It makes more resources available to students.

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FEATURES Clubs: Getting involved at LC In-depth coverage of students, global issues, rising trends and the not-so-average Bear

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Student African American Brotherhood, SAAB, meet together to discuss volunteer and fellowship activities they will participate in this year. Cub Photo/Chloe Feyock

More than 15 club offerings were available to students during club sign-up days last week, ultimately attacking every type of students’ interests one way or another.

Sign-up sheets were crammed with names; especially on that Thursday, during D lunch, when Latino Club members recruited new members with their attention-grabbing table surrounded by eager students ready to join.

One of the newer clubs, named Pay It Forward, is for students who believe in doing random acts of kindness in the community. Key Club, one of LC’s most well-known clubs, is prominent when it comes to giving back to the

community.

The National Spanish Honor Society (NSHS) will oversee Spanish Club.

NSHS will also be engaged in charity and volunteer work while tutoring after school for all levels of Spanish.

LC’s drama club, Center Stage, is open to aspiring actors who have an interest in theater. Thespians is the honor society for actors and technitions. They will oversee Center Stage, as well as attend the regional and the state thesbian conference during the year.

Several clubs, including National Honor Society (NHS), plan to become more involved in school activities throughout the year. NHS successfully planned Finals Fun Week last year, which they plan to continue. Members will also plan to start a Dance-a-thon in the spring.

Join a club Clubs meet during school once a month. The first club day will be next Friday during Block G2. Students should show teachers their club card to be excused from class.

G.E.M.S.(Girls Empowered & Motivated to Succeed) Teacher/Supervisor: Jennifer Franklin G.E.M.S. is a way for teen girls to address the various challenges of life and utilize what they learn to help other girls. The organization is designed to encourage girls to make positive choices at this critical stage in their physical, cognitive, emotional and social development.

Requirements: Must be a female student at LC Will hold elections this fall to select student leaders for the club!

Pick Two Teacher/ Supervisor: Elizabeth Granger Pick Two challenges students with words. Players draw letter tiles, creating their own crosswords as quickly as they can. When students use all their letters they yell, “Pick Two!” Granger says it’s like Scrabble in hyper-speed.

Requirements: All students are eligible to join Pick Two would host a tournament if they can get a large number of students to join!

Spanish Club

Key Club governor Sally Finkel watches as students sign up for her organization during club sign-up week. Key Club is an international service organization in which students volunteer throughout the community. Cub photo/Carley Lanich

Teacher/Supervisor: Laura Renner Spanish Club’s main goal is to explore the Spanish language and culture through various activities, but overall it hopes to prepare students for the annual Spanish competition, called Concurso, against other high schools this spring.

Requirements: Open to any students currently enrolled in Spanish Spanish Club is working on giving any participating student in the competition a FREE dinner to celebrate!

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spring; a fall supplement will cover spring activities. This will allow sebrittannietraviscub@gmail.com niors to get their yearbooks while Senior Drew Nixon tweets LC’s they are still at LC and for students to sign each other’s yearbooks at football games as they unfold. the end of the school year.

Senior Carley Lanich adds “I have had nothing but posivideo of game highlights via Instative feedback about that change,” gram.

Granger said. “I think the book A crew of Cub Reporter staff will mean more to students.” members post stories within 24 One of Granger’s major goals hours of the event. is to have everyone pictured in the And pictures from the game yearbook. To achieve this, Prestige will appear in the Bears’ Den yearwill come to LC to take senior porbook — in the spring.

More Black and traits of students who get free or It’s all part of an expanded White Pages reduced lunch — at no cost. Qualijournalism presence this year, all fied seniors will falling under need to register Lawrence Cen“USA Today tweeted in advance, tral News Netand they will work (LCNN), us to thank us and said only be taking an addition to they’re following us.” head shots for LC journalism.

Elizabeth Granger the yearbook.

After yearadviser More details book adviser Ed about this will Poe retired last be reported before the end of the year, newspaper adviser Elizabeth Granger added the yearbook to her month.

In addition, there will be fewer list of classes. She decided to make pages in the book, it will be a little changes in the operation of both less expensive than last year and publications. more pages will be in black and The Cub Reporter has added a white. much larger online and social me“There will definitely have to dia focus along with a much bigger be more planning that has to go staff than in past years.

“I’m excited about the new set- into this book than last year’s,” senior Stephanie Solenberg, yearup this year,” junior Leah Arenz, book editor, said. online editor, said. “We’ve finally One of the reasons Granger equipped ourselves with a staff decided to form LCNN that is willing to get out and tweet and merge the two and post stories right away.” staffs was so staff It’s an upgrade from previous members on years’ work meant to mimic proeach team fessional journalism platforms. could col“We scooped the professionals laborate. with the story about our super“I intendent retiring early,” said think it’s Granger. “We scooped the profesa sign sionals with the story that our of the football quarterback is out for the times,” season with an injury. And when USA Today tweeted us to thank us Granger Lawrence Central News Network said. “If and said they’re following us – oh we didn’t my gosh, that was wonderful.” change, then The print edition of the Cub we would not Reporter is now entirely in color. be doing the “It’s just another way to bring the reader in,” print editor Lanich said, kinds of things that professional journalists “to attract them to our paper.” do now, and my students would Along with the changes in the be at a disadvantage.”

Cub Reporter, LCNN is also makEditor’s note: Leah Arenz contribing changes to the yearbook. uted to this story.

The book will come out in the

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REALITY, DOCUMENTED ‘An experience you could never get sitting in a classroom’ KatieBillman katiebillmancub@gmail.com

Courtesy photos/Adam Oppenheim

Ken Falk, former ACLU legal director

Douglass Hairston, director of the Front Porch Alliance

Geoff, Irish Hills resident

Joel Miller, chairman of the Marion County democratic party

Sandy Jeffers, director at Pathway to Recovery

“Bridge cleaning random, and/or daily, effective Aug. 26.”

What could be seen as a normal road-warning sign along an Indianapolis street had a lifechanging meaning for the inhabitants of the Davidson homeless treatment camp on Aug. 26.

The Davidson camp, formed over the last two years, became a community to 67 homeless individuals until the CSX Transportation Company, one of the nation’s leading transportation services, declared their plan that eventually shut the camp down.

The camp was located under a bridge and railroad system at Maryland and Davidson streets in downtown Indianapolis. CSX claimed they had been unable to clean the bridge (a support system for the railroad) in order to inspect the railway for the past year because of the tents, debris and biohazards under it.

The city’s Department of Public Works (DPW) posted “no trespassing” signs which meant the

camp was required to relocate.

The announcement inadvertently caused every resident of the camp to go elsewhere in the city, some having to leave without their camp comrades, their belongings or a new place to stay.

A similar conflict between a homeless camp and the metropolitan authorities happened in 2010 when the homeless were evicted from their camp without prior notice.

“They did that (the 2010 eviction) with no forewarning,” senior Adam Oppenheim said.

“They came in and tore everyone’s stuff up; they ended up throwing away birth certificates, prescription medicine, IDs, personal belongings… they gave no notice.”

After that incident, Indianapolis came to an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that at least a week’s notice must be given before officials could take action.

“There’s a decent amount of history to this,” LC graduate Andy McQueary said.

As the Cub Reporter reported in its May issue, “Uncharted”

is an upcoming film documenta- possibility of getting arrested if ry about homelessness in Indiathey didn’t leave the property napolis, directed and produced when advised. Of the original 67

by LC graduates Sam Mirpooripeople that lived at Davidson, an and McQueary, LN graduate only around 30 remained.

Alex Oldham, Oppenheim and “Like Maurice said, ‘If it producer Don Sawyer. The crew (filming this documentary) was plans to film for two more weeks easy, everyone would be doing and then start post production, it,” Oppenheim said. “It’s not with plans to release the finished easy; it’s literally taken over our product (with a run-time of lives but it’s an experience you approximately could never an hour and get sitting in a “The situation is literally classroom.” a half) in a After a couple months. ‘Uncharted.’” week of anticiThe film Andy McQueary pation, Aug. 26 includes interLC graduate finally arrived. views with more Tension than 40 individrose between news crews, police uals ranging from ACLU’s forforces and homeless individumer legal director Bill Crawford als, with the crew members of to figures in the mayor’s office.

Footage also includes interviews “Uncharted” nearby, ready to catch every second of the chaos with the homeless themselves on tape. and the filming of the actual Some of the crew stayed at a destruction of the controversial downtown apartment the week camp. before so they were close to the Maurice Young, the “unscene in case anything were to official mayor of Davidson,” happen at a moment’s notice. encouraged the Davidson residents to stay on site and take They stayed the night at the Davidson camp, however — the a stand, even though officials made it clear that they risked the night before the climax of their

“Uncharted” experience: eviction day.

“At 4 a.m, I was woken up to every news station outside,” Oppenheim said. “Every news outlet in the city was out there doing their live report.”

Law enforcement and DPW arrived on the scene around 8 a.m, and officials began confiscating and destroying property around 10:30 a.m. Two garage trucks with compactors began ripping tents apart and lifted and pressed the camp’s bookshelf to ruins. Later, DPW issued a statement saying that any property left could be claimed within 90 days.

At the end of the day, five people were arrested for obstruction of traffic, only one of whom was truly homeless.

“There are a lot of things that aren’t working with the system, and it’s definitely a process that has to start somewhere,” Oppenheim said. “This is the starting point, where things have to change for the better.”

“Uncharted’s” film trailer can be viewed at http://youtu.be/ TfQStBoV-xE.

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REALITY, DOCUMENTED ‘An experience you could never get sitting in a classroom’ KatieBillman katiebillmancub@gmail.com

Courtesy photos/Adam Oppenheim

Ken Falk, former ACLU legal director

Douglass Hairston, director of the Front Porch Alliance

Geoff, Irish Hills resident

Joel Miller, chairman of the Marion County democratic party

Sandy Jeffers, director at Pathway to Recovery

“Bridge cleaning random, and/or daily, effective Aug. 26.”

What could be seen as a normal road-warning sign along an Indianapolis street had a lifechanging meaning for the inhabitants of the Davidson homeless treatment camp on Aug. 26.

The Davidson camp, formed over the last two years, became a community to 67 homeless individuals until the CSX Transportation Company, one of the nation’s leading transportation services, declared their plan that eventually shut the camp down.

The camp was located under a bridge and railroad system at Maryland and Davidson streets in downtown Indianapolis. CSX claimed they had been unable to clean the bridge (a support system for the railroad) in order to inspect the railway for the past year because of the tents, debris and biohazards under it.

The city’s Department of Public Works (DPW) posted “no trespassing” signs which meant the

camp was required to relocate.

The announcement inadvertently caused every resident of the camp to go elsewhere in the city, some having to leave without their camp comrades, their belongings or a new place to stay.

A similar conflict between a homeless camp and the metropolitan authorities happened in 2010 when the homeless were evicted from their camp without prior notice.

“They did that (the 2010 eviction) with no forewarning,” senior Adam Oppenheim said.

“They came in and tore everyone’s stuff up; they ended up throwing away birth certificates, prescription medicine, IDs, personal belongings… they gave no notice.”

After that incident, Indianapolis came to an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that at least a week’s notice must be given before officials could take action.

“There’s a decent amount of history to this,” LC graduate Andy McQueary said.

As the Cub Reporter reported in its May issue, “Uncharted”

is an upcoming film documenta- possibility of getting arrested if ry about homelessness in Indiathey didn’t leave the property napolis, directed and produced when advised. Of the original 67

by LC graduates Sam Mirpooripeople that lived at Davidson, an and McQueary, LN graduate only around 30 remained.

Alex Oldham, Oppenheim and “Like Maurice said, ‘If it producer Don Sawyer. The crew (filming this documentary) was plans to film for two more weeks easy, everyone would be doing and then start post production, it,” Oppenheim said. “It’s not with plans to release the finished easy; it’s literally taken over our product (with a run-time of lives but it’s an experience you approximately could never an hour and get sitting in a “The situation is literally classroom.” a half) in a After a couple months. ‘Uncharted.’” week of anticiThe film Andy McQueary pation, Aug. 26 includes interLC graduate finally arrived. views with more Tension than 40 individrose between news crews, police uals ranging from ACLU’s forforces and homeless individumer legal director Bill Crawford als, with the crew members of to figures in the mayor’s office.

Footage also includes interviews “Uncharted” nearby, ready to catch every second of the chaos with the homeless themselves on tape. and the filming of the actual Some of the crew stayed at a destruction of the controversial downtown apartment the week camp. before so they were close to the Maurice Young, the “unscene in case anything were to official mayor of Davidson,” happen at a moment’s notice. encouraged the Davidson residents to stay on site and take They stayed the night at the Davidson camp, however — the a stand, even though officials made it clear that they risked the night before the climax of their

“Uncharted” experience: eviction day.

“At 4 a.m, I was woken up to every news station outside,” Oppenheim said. “Every news outlet in the city was out there doing their live report.”

Law enforcement and DPW arrived on the scene around 8 a.m, and officials began confiscating and destroying property around 10:30 a.m. Two garage trucks with compactors began ripping tents apart and lifted and pressed the camp’s bookshelf to ruins. Later, DPW issued a statement saying that any property left could be claimed within 90 days.

At the end of the day, five people were arrested for obstruction of traffic, only one of whom was truly homeless.

“There are a lot of things that aren’t working with the system, and it’s definitely a process that has to start somewhere,” Oppenheim said. “This is the starting point, where things have to change for the better.”

“Uncharted’s” film trailer can be viewed at http://youtu.be/ TfQStBoV-xE.

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hree unexpected miracles

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Three babies, three different backrounds, three miracles — all within eight months.

German teacher Carol Heckman had been trying for about 10 years to have children. She had already had five pregnancies fail and decided to adopt. But when she and her husband went to a local adoption agency in Indiana in 1997, they were told that it would take three to five years, but there was no guarantee.

The Heckmans also signed up for a Chinese adoption.

When the six months of paperwork, government inspections and background checks finally cleared, they still didn’t know if there would be a child for them to adopt, or when an adoption might come through.

A short time later, Heckman found out she was pregnant again. But after five failed pregnancies, she didn’t want to get her hopes up. This pregnancy, however, did not fail.

Shortly after she learned she was pregnant, Heckman got a call from the local adop-

tion agency in Indianapolis the 15th anniversary of the saying there was a boy about children’s addition to the famto be born that they could ily. To celebrate, the Heckmans adopt. They named their new took the adoption reunion son John, after Heckman’s trip they’d been saving for dad. Five ever since months later, they adopted “When people say they received Anna — to a document in it was great of us to her hometown the mail with adopt, it surprises me of Nanchang, a tiny photo China. because I thought I of their new They daughter-to-be, was being selfish. I visited Anna’s Hong Tie Ju. A orphanage, few weeks after wanted a family. And and they got that, Teresa to me, I simply got to meet her was born to foster family what I wanted.” the Heckman Carol Heckman (or first family, couple, a week German teacher as it is called past her due in China), who date. She was traveled an healthy and strong. hour and a half to meet them.

One month later, they The Chinese family, who cared left their 6- month-old and a for Anna for the first year of 1-month-old with Heckman’s her life, welcomed Anna with mom and flew to China to pick a big stuffed bear, and the orup their last child, a 13-monthphanage posted a 20-foot sign old daughter. above the orphanage doors Within eight months, the that read, “Welcome Hong Tie Heckmans went from a family Ju Back Home!” of two to a family of five.

Anna was not the only one “It was a crazy but wonwho got special treatment in derful time,” Heckman said. “It China. brought me three miracles.”

“Throughout the tour, John This past summer marked and Teresa were constantly

Anna, Carol, Teresa and John Heckman, flanked by the family’s Chinese tour guides, visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing,China, during an adoption reunion trip last summer. Courtesy photo/ Carol Heckman

being asked by people there has both her American and to be in their photos, because Chinese middle names. many of the local people they Growing up, Anna took met had not seen Caucasian Chinese calligraphy, dancing teenagers before,” Heckman and language classes at local said. “Anna was thrilled not to schools such as IUPUI to make be the center of attention for sure she developed pride in her once, and John and Teresa had Asian heritage. fun being treated like celebriAnna is a junior at Catheties.” dral High Anna’s School, Teresa birth name, a sophomore Hong Tie Ju, at Cathedral was given to and John a her by the sophomore orphanage. at Lawrence Every abanNorth and doned child McKenzie. found in Nan“Those chang is given faced with crithe last name sis pregnanHong, which cies should is a noble consider name for the adoption,” city itself, and Heckman the middle said. “It’s a name generwonderful Hong Tie Ju’s adoption certificate. ally refers to blessing for courtesyphoto/Carol Heckman where a child all involved. was found. Since she was left in When people say it was great the police precinct of the Nanof us to adopt, it surprises me chang train station, Tie (iron) because I thought I was being was a part of her middle name selfish. I wanted a family. And (for the iron railroad). Now her to me, I simply got what I name, Anna TieRose Heckman, wanted. Three miracles.”

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Trends are changing, the popcorn’s popping and yesterday’s ‘in’ is tomorrow’s ‘out.’ Don’t worry, we’ll help you keep up.

More than 50 years later:

Importance of Ruby Bridges’ story remains relevant DarianBenson

darianbensoncub@gmail.com

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-yearold Ruby Bridges walked past angry crowds as she was escorted by four U.S. Federal Marshals into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La. The first grader thought the crowd was part of a Mardi Gras parade, something she often saw in her home town.

At the time, Bridges did not know the crowd was really there to protest her enrollment in the newly integrated school.

Or that she would eventually become a key person in the Civil Rights Movement.

Bridges, now 59, and former U.S. Marshal Charles Burks were reunited for the first time since 1995 on Sept. 14 at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Of the four U.S. Marshals who had escorted Bridges to school, Burks, 92, is the only remaining member.

Bridges attended the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where she became interRuby Bridges at 6 ested in the idea of reuniting with Burks.

The theme of the March this time was how to inspire young people in today’s world.

“I think a good way to do that is showing people what it was like. To share with them our stories,” Bridges said. “I always say it was a different day, a different time. It surely was a turbulent time.”

Bridges now travels around the country speaking to schools about her story.

“I believe that my story, our story, is one that they (children) can relate to,” Bridges said. “Today it is about bullying. And for me, it was bullying on a whole other level.”

At first, Bridges did not

An adult Ruby Bridges and Charles Burks, one of the U.S. Marshals who escorted her to school each day when she integrated the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960, met recently at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

The museum has a permanent exhibit titled “The Power of Children” which tells the stories of three children who made a difference in the world — Bridges, Anne Frank and Ryan White. Cub photo/Carley Lanich

was ever involved with. understand why the protestors Bridges did not realize how were outside her school. Her parents did not discuss it with much of an impact she had her, only that she was going to made on the nation’s education system until she saw Norman be attending a new school.

Rockwell’s painting “The ProbOne image that sticks out lem We All Live With.” And it in Bridges’ mind is the black was not until she was 30-yearsbaby doll in the coffin that a protestor had brought to the old that she felt the need to do something about it. “Everyone school. Bridges has had repeatknew the Norman Rockwell ed nightmares where the coffin painting, but nobody knew the was flying around her bed. story of the girl in it,” Bridges Burks remembers the said. coffin and Every other scenes “I believe that my day Bridges from the mob outside of story, our story, is one walked past a crowd that William Frantz that they (children) threated her Elementary, because of the but he did not can relate to.” let them scare Ruby Bridges color of her skin. Bridges him. said she learned then that you “I was just doing my job. cannot judge a person by the Making sure that nothing hapcolor of their skin. The crowd pened to Ruby,” Burks said. outside her school was made “We knew what we had to do. up of white people. The marWe just had to do it.”

Burks said that being in the shals that walked her in and her teacher were also white, United States Marshal Service but they were not like the was the greatest thing that he

The Power of Children

What: Permanent exhibit Where: Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, 3000 N. Meridian Who: Tells the stories of Ann Frank, Ryan White, Ruby Bridges Cost: $18.50 adult Free 4-8 p.m. the first Thursday of each month

people that threated her on the way to her classroom.

“If Charlie had not done his job, had not answered the class and wasn’t there for me, if the teacher was a different person, I would have been a different person,” Bridges said. “Charlie did not just protect me; he helped shape me to who I am today. Thank you, Charlie, for doing what’s right at a time where it might not have been the easiest thing to do.”

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Still going psycho for Psycho highway. The owner of the motel is one Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a nervous but seemingly charming young man who lives with his mentally ill mother in the hilltop house above the motel. He invites Crane to dinner when she arrives. After a bizarre conversation with her host, Crane returns to her room and decides to go back to Phoenix to give back the stolen money. Before she can, however, makes the fatal decision to

By Ali Duff Crane take a shower. This results in her getting violently stabbed and killed Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has by an unknown assailant, leaving continued to make taking showers Bates to find and dispose of her terrifying ever since it was released body in a nearby lake. in 1960.

Hitchock The film prided himself on concerns Marion not doing verAvailability: Available for rental Crane (Janet and viewing on Netflix batim “horror” Leigh), a secrefilms, but instead tary who starts Rating: R more “suspensethe movie by ful” films. He did Running Time: 109 embezzling not aim to make minutes $40,000 so she his audience can start a new jump out of their seats (he actually life with boyfriend Sam Loomis intended Psycho to be viewed as a (John Gavin). Upon leaving her comedy), only to fear the unknown home town of Phoenix, Crane gets and unexpected. caught during a storm while drivSo devoted was the director to ing and stops at the Bates Motel, scaring his audience that he often a secluded motel nearby the main took to hiding various fake corpses

Mind the App

by Chad Sharp

Retro Reels

Psycho

Source/www.dailymail.co.uk Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) screams as she is attacked in Psycho’s “shower scene”.

in Leigh’s dressing room to judge her reactions.

But what really cements Hitchcock’s signature “suspense aspect” of the film is the music, composed

by Bernard Herrmann. Hitchcock himself was once quoted as saying that “33 percent of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.”

Psycho’s score builds and resolves the movie’s constantly fluctuating tension with much success, despite being a little over dramatic at times.

Even by the standards of today’s movies, Psycho still proves to be a satisfyingly bizarre and thrilling film.

Quiet Strength an inspiration JordanWilliams

book, you will feel and empathize with the pain that Dungy endured.

He went from a young boy who didn’t understand it all to a young Quiet Strength is an inspirafootball player who was not good tional, moving book about Tony enough to be an NFL quarterback.

Dungy’s life and quest to sucAn inspiration to ceed in the NFL. It is me and many otha widely praised book ers, Quiet Strength is a and was awarded five must-read for young stars from Amazon. people, as it tells life Quiet Strength is lessons about dignity, an autobiography of coping with anger and Dungy, whose passion the pursuit of happiof perfection led him ness. It is also a mustto be the first African read for young men, American head coach as it tells the factors of in the NFL to win a being a man.

Super Bowl.

Source/www.shaungroves.com Although it is a Quiet Strength story about a coach in chronicles Dungy’s life as a young the NFL, it rarely references that child whose parents taught him fact, as Dungy explains the turmoil the meaning of dedication and with the job of coaching a profeshard work all the way up the sional team, as well as his personal promise land, the Super Bowl. life.

Even with all the life lessons In this wonderful and very vivid jordanwilliamscub@gmail.com

Quiet Strength Author: Tony Dungy Cost (on Amazon): $11.58 for paperback Length: 352 pages Genre: Autobiography

and advice, this book mainly encourages you to keep your faith.

Every time Dungy fell or came to a crossroads in his life, he remembered his faith and came to the right conclusion for the situation. Even in dealing with the tragic loss of his oldest son, Dungy managed to be a symbol of integrity and a vessel of God. With Dungy’s inspirational stories about his humble beginnings to reaching the ultimate prize, Quiet Strength is a definite must read.

New messaging application, Ansa

Ansa could be the next big thing in messaging apps. It functions as a normal texting app, sending texts, pictures, and videos, until the user enables “Off the Record” mode. In theory, once enabling the feature the other person is notified that they are indeed “Off the Record,” messages self-destruct after 60 seconds. The app also touts a “sync delete” feature which allows users to simultaneously delete a message from their device, the other person’s device, and Ansa’s servers. While all of this sounds good on paper, how well does Ansa cover the basics? I tested the app on an iPhone 4S with iOS 6.1.3, an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1.4, a LG myTouch with Android 2.3.4 Honeycomb and a Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.

Appearance: 10/10 Ansa has a modern Microsoft Office 2013 esque look. The app’s blue and white user interface is very minimal and out of the way. Overall, this is one of the best lookCost: Free ing messaging apps I Rating: 24/30 have used.

Features: 10/10 Platforms: iOS, Android Ansa has innovative feature set. The sync delete feature is especially useful because it does something that no other form of communication allows you to do. It allows you to take back something you’ve said. If you can delete what you said before it is read, it is as if you never sent it.

Usability: 4/10 The app was a mixed bag here. The first issue I encountered was when inviting your contacts to use Ansa it invites all of them. Every. Single. One. I am unable to comment on the usability of the app’s messaging function on the iPhones. When searching Ansa for the other users, it lagged on “Searching for user” for over an hour before the app crashed. On the Android phones it worked flawlessly.

The app found other users almost instantaneously.

Whether you should use Ansa depends on what phone you have. If you have an Android phone, by all means use it. If you have an iPhone this app promise but it just isn’t there yet. This is a new app, and within an update or two it could become a real contender in the world of messaging apps.

Ansa

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Grande’s album: We’re ‘Lovin’ It”’ BrittannieMcKennaTravis

brittanniettraviscub@gmail.com

From kicking off her career with the hit Nickelodeon show Victorious as Cat Valentine, to starring in the show’s comical and quirky spin off Sam and Cat, Ariana Grande has been creating a name for herself, not only in the television world, but in the music world too. Grande’s debut album, Yours Truly, released September third, and features songs with artists Big Sean, Mac Miller and more.

Grande’s lead single “The Way” became iTunes #1 Top Single seven hours after it was released and after its release, it stood at number 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s first Hot 100 Top ten Hit. On August sixteenth, the song sold 1.6 million copies alone in the United States, not including Grande’s Spanglish version of the song.

My initial impression of Yours Truly was that the first track, “Honeymoon Avenue,” http://www.amazon.com gave the album a smooth and beautiful introduction with the added street noises, string instruments, background vocals and easygoing beats which complimented Grande’s voice, but the relaxed beat can only go so far before it becomes tiresome and dull. Listening to the album in one sitting made me restless, which wasn’t what I was expecting beforehand. Grande makes it up by adding a couple of fast and upbeat songs toward the end of her album.

The song I recommend is “Lovin’ It”, which was co-produced by ten-time Grammy Award winning R&B artist Babyface. The song shows off Grande’s

Yours Truly

Artist: Ariana Grande Album: Yours Truly Genre: Pop/ R&B Rating: 4 out of 5 Song Suggestion: Lovin’ It Similar Artist: Mariah Carey, Demi Lovato Selena Gomez, Fifth Harmony

widespread vocal range, and is focused around, like the majority of Grande’s songs, love and affection from a particular guy.

I would recommend this album to any fans of Grande’s television work, and any fans of Mariah Carey or Demi Lovato – because Ariana Grande’s sound and lyrics are similar in comparison.

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Good Vibes for The Mowgli’s

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aliduffcub@gmail.com Alternative band The Mowgli’s released their third album and the first on a major label, Waiting For The Dawn, on June 18, 2013.

The eight piece group originated from a garage in San Fernando Valley, all of its members providing vocals and collaborating on songs. Like the band that wrote them, The Mowgli’s music exemplifies a sense of universal love and unity, with lyrics like “I’ve been in love with love, and the idea of something binding us together” from their song “San Francisco”.

Waiting For The Dawn is a terrifically fresh and upbeat effort that’s full of energy and zest for life. The first song on the album, the aforementioned fan favorite “San Francisco,” is rich with funky percussion, hand claps and catchy vocals.

Another good song is Artist: The Mowgli’s “The Great Divide”, along Album: Waiting For The Dawn with the second to last Genre: Alternative song of the selection, “Hi, Source/www.irsabox.com Song Suggestion: “San Francisco” Hey There, Hello”. The Rating: 5 out of 5 latter track features quick vocals by percussionist Katie Jayne Similar Artists:10.8 Earl, coupled with singing responses from the rest of the group.

Waiting for the Dawn

Overall, Waiting For The Dawn is a terrific collection of music and brilliant major label debut for The Mowgli’s. Waiting For The Dawn is a perfect fit for anyone looking for a bright, summery album that’s

bursting with good vibes.

What’s H t in Indy Local band CD release

New movie theater opening

Come celebrate the release of We Are Forever’s new CD To Be Alive on Sept. 21. The band, which includes LC junior Alex Ayala, will be there performing alongside the bands I See Stars, Drop the Anchor, Chin Up Kid, and My Sweet Fall that night. The release will be held at The Hoosier Dome at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12

Studio Movie Grill, opening Oct. 1 at the College Park Plaza in Indianapolis. With 13-screen auditoriums, you can enjoy your movie and order dinner – all from your seat. You can pre-order movie tickets at http://www. studiomoviegrill. com/ Source/www.laplaza-indy.org/

Les Miserables at Beef & Boards

The stage phenomenon will be performed at Beef & Boards from October 4th to November 24th.

The musical is one of the longest running shows in history. Les Miserables takes place during the French Revolution and tells of the life of Jean Valjean. For information about tickets, call 317-872-9664

33rd Annual FIESTA Indianapolis A celebration of Latin culture will take place on September 21st.

The event will be held downtown at the American Legion Mall. Expect music, dancing, and food to support La Plaza, a community organization that provides support to Hispanic families of Central Indiana. With a new interactive activity, Passport to Americas, participants can learn about the history and culture of that country.

Admission is free.

Battle of the Year film opening today

The film tells the story of a former basketball coach who is supposed to turn a determination-less B-Boy group into world champions. The film stars Josh Holloway (Lost), Chris Brown, and Josh Peck (Drake and Josh).

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Comfy vs. put together? No need to choose As everyone is still getting used to their daily school schedule, and still confused by the weather — too warm one week, too cool and wet the next — many students are starting to have their lazy days. This month I’ll help you look more put together for class (because you just might not be there yet), but still comfy.

Girls: Instead of a T-shirt, running shorts or yoga pants, try wearing leggings and a cute comfy top! When it’s colder in some of your classes, and it always is, you can also try wearing a cardigan over the top of it all. Paired with Converse or maybe some combat boots, you will look cute while still being comfy.

If you have warmer classes, try wearing a simple floral dress. It might seem too dressy for your comfy day, but it literally takes only two seconds to put on. You immediately look put together, and maybe you’ll get some compliments. You don’t have to go for the T-shirt and running shorts every day you feel lazy.

Guys: As you get more tired when the week goes on, you tend to go toward the basketball shorts and the sweatpants, right? Well, try some different colored Bermuda shorts (for

Fashion Speaks: Zak Tran-Wilkerson Q: What inspired you to dress this way?

A: I love to be different and out of the box. I don’t like looking like anybody else.

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example, pastel colors, or if that’s not your style, try just denim) and a nice soft V-neck or button up. It’s super comfy, and you’ll still look nice, and you can get both at H&M for cheap. If it’s colder in some of your classes, try harem pants.

They’re basically better looking sweatpants. You can pair them with a comfy T-shirt, an open button up and some sandals, and you’re set.

Anna’s favorites: Currently, my favorite place to shop is Goodwill, and other stores similar to it (like thrift stores), and it will probably stay that way for a while. It’s a treasure hunt for clothes that you can get for $6 and under, and sometimes I go a little too crazy and spend $40 or over, but it’s worth it because then I have tons of new outfits and not just a new shirt that I bought at Forever 21 for $40. A couple of years ago I always thought it was way too expensive to dress the way

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Q: What are your favorite things to wear/what are your favorite trends?

A: I love to wear button downs and sneakers. I love colors and patterns, but I also love black and gold jewelry. I don’t follow trends.

Senior Zak Tran-Wilkerson shows off his unique fashion sense. Cub photos/ Anna Angrick

Q: What do you think about how the majority of LC dresses?

A: I think a majority of LC all dresses the same. They all try to dress like someone else.

There is no diversity.

Q: Do you have any fashion tips?

A: 1. Be original. Don’t copy and don’t be a try hard.

2. Just because it’s expensive doesn’t make it cute.

3. Know your body, and know how to dress your body.

I wanted to, so I always wore what everyone else wore, and I wasn’t entirely happy with how I looked. Discovering Good-will and other stores like it have really helped me evolve my style. I show my personality in my clothes now and I

To get the look Shirt: Target, $12

Pants: American Eagle, $30 Shoes: Converse, $40 Hat: Thrift store, $1 Accessories: Hand-medowns

have a lot of fun putting outfits together and not looking like everyone else at LC. My favori te thing to wear right now are flowy dresses that I bought from Goodwill recently. They are comfy and easy to put on

in the morning when I’m lazy, but I still look put together.

Try planning your outfits the night before, so you won’t be too lazy in the morning to care about what you look like, and then you’ll look put together.

LC recommends 1. Drew Kanya freshman

2. Talynn Payne sophomore

Books

2. Talynn Payne sophomore 1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3. Danica Minor junior 2. Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin 4. Scott Van Wye senior 3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

3. Danica Minor junior

Music 1. “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons 2. “Just The Way You Are”

by Billy Joel 3. “Motherboard” by Daft Punk 4. “Mountain Tiger” by Hotfox

4. Scott Van Wye senior

TV Shows 1. The Walking Dead 2. Castle 3. The Middle 4. The Wire

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Tennis slices through season Michael Rice

mostly mentality and very little physicality. Even though michaelricecub@gmail.com people think tennis is easy, it is The boys tennis team has not. It is a game that takes evbeen working on the mental as- erything you got,” Taylor said. pect of the sport and using it to That mentality is vital to incorporate their physical skills. the team, especially since they So far the Bears are 3-5. have only 10 players. The reThe season began in August quirement is seven to field a and will end in early October. varsity team, so there are only “Since tennis is only a fall three JV/varsity alternate playsport, it is key for the players ers. to practice The conduring their ference tour“Tennis is a game that off season,” n a m e n t , coach Tim is mostly mentality and which will be Taylor said. played at Ben very little physicality.”

So whatDavis, is SatTim Taylor ever they have urday. LC will head coach to work on, be playing eithey have to do it quickly ther Pike or Warren Central.

With struggling to gain The Bears are preparing for wins this season, the Bears say the Marion county tournament they are going all out to try to as well. come out of this season victoriously.

“The main thing we try to Junior Jacob Pluta serves in an early work on during the season is season match against the Cathedral just all around playing skills,” Irish. Pluta has been a consistent Taylor said. performer at one singles. Cub photo/ “Tennis is a game that is Michael Rice

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Lady Bears push for a win

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Junior Megan Everett battles for the ball against the Cathedral Irish in order to score a goal. Cub photo/Michael Rice

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Since losing their season opener to Bishop Chatard, the Lady Bears have not done so well.

With a record “No matter of 0-7 they they never say they have nowhere to go but up.

Coach Dan Jackson said the team has improved a lot from the beginning of the season.

“Our main focus is to work on our weaknesses,” Jackson said. “We lack basic soccer skills, experience, and overall as a team, depth.”

Jackson said the team has strengths as well. “We have heart,” he said.

He said that during a game the girls never give up. “They have desire to win,” he said.

W i t h only a few the score players standing give up.” the Dan Jackson out, head coach captains really have to step it up to maintain the team and keep them on track. Jackson said that if his captains step up he feels they will become better as a team and hope to get a victory this season. The Lady Bears are now preparing for the post season.

The girls’ swings are “more efficient.”

That’s what girls golf coach Andrew Renie said about the girls and how they have changed their golf swings throughout the season. As the season has progressed, Renie said the girls are “getting better every match.”

Renie also said their No. 1 golfer, sophomore Persephone Apodaca, is “playing the way she is capable of.” Renie added that at the last few matches, the girls on the team are improving their best nine-hole scores of the season.

The girls played their Marion County match at Coffin Golf Course on the 11th and placed 13th as a team, with a score of 439. Apodaca finished first for the Bears with a score of 104.

The girls also played in their MIC tournament at Oak Tree Golf Course. The team placed 10th in the tournament with a team score of 452. Apodca led the team with a score of 102 while sophomore Jasmine Shelt came in at 102.

The girls have been preparing for sectionals, which is on Saturday at South Grove Golf Course.

As for sectionals, the top three teams make it through in each sectional, and that is Renie’s goal for the team.

He said he is “pretty confident going into sectionals” and about how the girls have improved throughout the season.

Last year the golfers finished third in their sectional, behind powerhouses Bishop Chatard and Cathedral. Cathedral and Chatard both return three out of the five varsity players, while LC returns only two. It will be a tough challenge, especially with competiton from other schools like Lawrence North and Park Tudor, but the Bears say they are, up to the task.

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Bears seek more consistency Jacob Helmus

Just like the girls team, the boys soccer team has struggled with their move to the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference, compiling a 0-6-1 record.

The season did start off in a promising fashion, with an exciting tie against Decatur Central, 2-2.

The game was looking like it was going to be a loss for the Bears, as they were down 2-1 with only seconds remaining.

The Bears had one last rush down the field with 10 seconds left and the ball got to the foot of sophomore Nash Griffin, who was able to put it in the net as time expired for the 2-2 draw.

Since that opening game draw, however, the Bears have gone winless.

They have lost six straight games, getting outscored in those six by an astounding 39-2 goal margin.

The move to the MIC has been rough as the Bears wel-

comed Carmel, Center Grove and Ben Davis to their schedule. All three greeted the Bears with big losses, the worst coming from Carmel, which was an 11-0 defeat.

“We have to play hard all 80 minutes,” senior defensemen Mitchell Searles said. “We have a tendency to give up after we get down early and that needs to change.”

If the Bears want to get into the win column, they will have to step up their play because the competition doesn’t get any easier from here. The Bears still have to play Pike, Brebeuf, Franklin Central and Park Tudor, all teams with winning records.

“We are really close. As long as we get off to good starts, play hard all 80 minutes, and finish scoring opportunities, I see us getting a win in the near future,” senior midfielder Ben Hilgendorf said.

The Bears play Brebeuf on Saturday, with the Marion County tournament following on Tuesday.

in the playoffs this year.

As for the rest of the NFL, here are my AFC and NFC playoff predictions.

In the AFC, the Bengals will win the North, the Texans will win the South, the Patriots will win the East, and the Broncos will win the West.

Making the wild card for the AFC will be the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins.

Sorry Colts fans, but the Colts will only go 9-7. And in Peyton Manning’s return to Indy, the Broncos will win 3113.

In the NFC, the Packers will win the North, the Saints will win the South, the Eagles will win the East, and the Seahawks will win the West.

Making the wild card for the NFC will be the San Fran-

cisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons.

For my Super Bowl prediction, I’m going with two teams that got to the playoffs last season. I believe both of these teams will make runs to the Super Bowl like the Ravens did last year, unexpectedly.

Both the Bengals and the Seahawks have combined for a total of three Super Bowl appearances, neither team winning any of them. I believe both will get another chance at getting their first Lombardi trophy.

Super Bowl XLVIII will be played by the Cincinnati Bengals and the Seattle Seahawks.

Of course, the Bengals win their first Super Bowl ever, 23-17.

“Who dey! Who dey! Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals? NOBODY!”

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Freshman Kyle Senninger charges for the ball to prevent a goal for the Carmel Greyhounds. Cub photo/Michael Rice

Bungle Pride: NFL predictions

“Who dey! Who dey! Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals? NOBODY!” I’ve been a Bengals fan all my life, unashamed to show my zeal for the once prominentlyknown Cincinnati Bungles. The Bengals can never overcome the Bengals. Or can they? The Bengals are for real.

If you’re a Bengals hater, which most football fans are outside of Cincinnati, you have the evidence to back up the case that the Bengals, or Bungles, just never will get it done; as in, winning a Super Bowl.

The last two years the Bengals have made it to the playoffs but have a wall and weren’t able to win either of those two playoff games. Andy Dalton has choked and they are just overrated. Really?

Tyler Eifert. These picks will help Andy Dalton find more targets to throw to and give some help to wide receiver AJ Green, who will be blanketed by the defense. The Bengals have the pieces on offense and defense to make a Super Bowl run.

Both the AFC and NFC conferences have teams that can surprise people this season.

by Drew Nixon In the AFC, I believe some teams to watch out for are the The Bengals have arguably Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee the deepest roster in the NFL. Titans, Miami Dolphins and The defense is Super Bowl cali- yes, the Cincinnati Bengals. ber, having been a top five deIn the NFC, look out for the fense the past few seasons.

New Orleans Saints, Chicago A strong draft gives the Bears, Philadelphia Eagles and Bengals a one-two punch at the Seattle Seahawks. Excludrunning back with BenJarvus ing the Bengals and Seahawks, Green-Ellis and Giovani Ber- the other six teams are on the nard and another receiving tar- border of being playoff teams. get, Notre Dame Grad tight end At least three of the six will be

On the Spot

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A flag of the MIC Conference hangs in the rafters of LC’s gymnasium. This is the first year the Bears are competing in the MIC in all sports.

Sophomore Nash Griffin shows off all three jerseys that the football team will be wearing this year. Cub photos/Michael Rice

LC athletics revamp Football team moves up to Class 6A JacobHelmus

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Along with the conference change to the Metropolitan Interscholastic story, the Bears football team is competing in the newly created Class 6A. This is the first year for the new class, which features 32 teams, 17 of which are from the Indianapolis area. This also changes how the postseason will be set up. This season there will be eight four-team sectionals. In order to reach the state championship, LC must win two sectional games, a regional game, and a semi- state game.

LC is a part of Sectional 6, which also includes Lawrence North, Warren Central and North Central. The step up to this class means every week, the Bears will face tough competition.

“It means that we need to keep our work ethic the same

and not slack,” senior offensive lineman Kevin Willis said. “It will really put us to the test,” Willis added.

The other 28 teams in Class 6A are: Crown Point, Lafayette Jefferson, Lake Central, Merrillville, Chesterton, Penn, Portage, Valparaiso, Carroll (Fort Wayne), Fort Wayne Northrop, Homestead, Warsaw, Carmel, Fishers, Hamilton Southeastern, Noblesville, Avon, Ben Davis, Brownsburg, Pike, Franklin Central, Indianapolis Arsenal Technical, Perry Meridian, Southport, Center Grove, Columbus North, Jeffersonville and New Albany.

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Having won the 5A championship last year, the Bears were noticed by a lot of people, —and by sponsors.

While the Bears have had a partnership with BSN Sports that has been going on for a while, the school now has a partnership with Nike.

With this new partnership, the Bears have three uniforms, unlike the two they had last year.

The Bears still have the original white and maroon but have added an additional smoke gray to their wardrobe.

“The new uniforms are awesome and I can’t wait to play in them,” junior defensive tackle Jalik Bruce said.

With the new look, people are noticing the team not just for talent or for joining the 6A Division of the MIC, but also for their looks.

“The reason we now have three uniforms is because football uniforms are used a great deal and will not last very long,” athletic director Jeff Irwin said. “With three uniforms, we can rotate more and the uniforms will last longer.”

The Bears have worn all three in the first three weeks of the season and plan on having a regular rotation throughout the rest of the season.

All sports switch to MIC

rivalries.” With the move to the MIC, it’s important that we “elevate our program to compete,” Irwin said.

Irwin added that the coaches are moving forward DrewNixon and are preparing the athletes drewnixoncub@gmail.com to compete. “In the end, we just have to play the best we can,” All LC athletics will be Irwin said. making the jump to the MetroIn preparation, all fall politan Interscholastic Confersports have already competed ence (MIC) after a meeting in against at least one MIC oppothe fall of 2012 sent LC and nent and other sports, includPike to the MIC. ing basketball, have begun “Terre Haute North and preparing for their seasons.

Terre Haute South will stay in Also, travel for schools will the MIC this school year for all be much better. Irwin said it sports except football,” athletic saves money and allows the director Jeff school and Irwin said. the athletes to Irwin said “With the move to the get more pubthat the fact licity. Irwin MIC, it is important that all the added that he that we elevate our conference is excited for program to compete. ” the exposure will be made Jeff Irwin the student up of all Indiathletic director athletes and anapolis area schools for the school the 2014-2015 will receive. season and that LC moving up The Bears football team has is “exciting.” started conference play with Irwin said that all the a 2-1 record. The Bears next schools being in Indianapogame is tonight against MIC lis will be “good for creating opponent Center Grove.

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Junior linebacker Carlton Stoval zones in and pursues the Carmel quarterback late in the third quarter in the Battle of the Champions at the Lucas Oil Stadium Invitational. Cub photo/Michael Rice

Bears defense leads way JacobHelmus

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A defeat against Carmel last Friday with a score of 7-17 gave the Bears their first loss in 18 games. That previous loss coincidentally was to Carmel all the way back in 2011, in the second round of sectionals.

LC started this season by blowing out arch-rival Lawrence North 49-3, their fourth consecutive win over the Wildcats. However, the win was bittersweet because the Bears lost junior quarterback Brian Haas for the whole season with a foot injury that he suffered on his last play in the game.

There were many questions regarding who would be the starter for the next game, against North Central. Senior Tyler Redfern got the nod. Redfern struggled for most of the game but ended up leading the Bears to a 34-31 victory over the

Panthers.

Bears junior linebacker DarRedfern ran for two touch- rin Kirkland got an intercepdowns and threw for another. tion after a field goal to give the LC was down 31-27, with 58 Bears a 17-13 lead. seconds left in the game, when Trinity’s last drive to try and Redfern connected with senior win the game was stopped by wide receiver Kenny Jones the stout defense, as senior dethree straight fensive linetimes, givman James ing the lead “The goal is to improve Jones sacked Trinity quarback to the Bears in only on offense each day.” terback and Jed Richman University of a matter of 25

head coach Louisville reseconds. cruit Reggie Next up for the Bears was nationally Bonnafon to force a turnover ranked Trinity School for Boys. on downs and clinch the Bears’ LC played a hard defensive third victory.

Head football coach Jed battle to improve their record to 3-0. The defense forced two Richman said one of the main safeties and scored a touch- reasons the defense has played down on a tipped pass by senior so well is because of their preplinebacker Jack Pounds, which aration. “Each week they know was intercepted by junior cor- their opponent and their ofnerback Marcus Fletcher, and fensive scheme well,” Richman returned it 12 yards for a touch- said. “The defense has bought down, which gave the Bears the into what assistant coach Steve Tutsie has put into place.” lead 14-13.

Since Redfern became the starter, the Bears have struggled mightily on offense, causing the highly touted Bears’ defense to increase its workload. In the game against North Central, the defense played 99 snaps, which caused them to tire near the end of the game, which was when North Central mounted its vicious comeback.

The Bears’ defense features a core of linebackers that are all receiving Division One interest.

Seniors Brandon Lee and Nikia Averrite, along with junior Darrin Kirkland, lead the way, along with huge contributions from senior safety Quintaz Wright, junior defensive lineman Carlton Stovall and senior defensive lineman Cameron Garrett.

The Bears’ defense also played a lot of snaps when they lost to the Carmel Greyhounds.

The Bears had trouble moving the ball on offense and getting

first downs, causing the defense to fatigue near the end of the game. Carmel had good starting position the majority of the game. The Carmel offense was able to drive the ball easier as the game went on and took a 14-7 lead immediately after the Bears took the lead after a Tyler Redfern 59-yard run for a touchdown.

“With a new offensive scheme and having new players substituting in for injured players, it takes time to gel as a unit,” Richman said. “The goal is to keep improving on offense each day.”

The Bears don’t have much time to sulk over their loss to Carmel, as today they will face off against Cener Grove, who overtook the Bears as the top ranked team in the state. Even though the game has some big implications, Richman seems not to be worried. “To us, its just another game,” he said.

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Runners set personal records

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Junior Darin Lawrence has the sixth fastest cross country time in LC history.

He started the season finishing eighth at the first 5k race at Indiana Wesleyan Sept. 7, moving him up to the eighth fastest time in LC history. At the Brown County Eagle Classic XC Invite on Sept. 14, he ran a 15:51 which moved him up to the sixth fastest time.

“Throughout the summer I was training hard, and now I’m finally seeing the results,” Lawrence said.

Sophomore Andrew George got a two-minute personal record (PR) time at Indiana Wesleyan in the junior varsity race, completely skipping over the 18-minute time frame to 17:49.

George got another PR again at Brown County with a time of 17:20.

The varsity boys team finished seventh out of 19 teams at

Cub Photo/RebeccaJohnson Junior Darin Lawrence (above) is racing at the Indiana Wesleyan 5k meet.

At the meet, Lawrence earned a time of 16:02 which he broke a week later with a time of 15:51. Senior Vencent Hill (left) is racing toward the finish line at the Wesleyan meet against Snider High School student.

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Indiana Wesleyan and 13th out of 19 teams at Brown Country.

The varsity girls finished 10th out of 16 teams at Indiana Wesleyan and 10th out of 20 teams at Brown County.

The team was “led by sophomores Kayley Hodson, Lauren Chastain and Taylor Bohlman.

Kayley's 19:02 moved her into third, Lauren's 20:02 moved her into fifth, and Taylor moved into

11th all-time for LC XC,” coach Jonathan Kowalczyk said.

“The athletes are working really hard, probably working harder than I’ve seen out of this group in quite some time,” Kowalczyk said.

Overall, 17 boy athletes and 16 girl athletes were able to get a PR time at Brown County.

The teams’ next meet is 9 a.m. Saturday at Northview Christian Church.

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Senior Kennedy Brown tosses up her serve to strike at her opponent. Cub photo/Michael Rice

LC’s volleyball team has struggled to win consistently as they head into the remainder of the season with record a 6-7.

“We’ve been really good although we lost a fair amount of games,” junior Madison Kupiainen said.

The Bears have faced several Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (MIC) opponents such as Pike, Carmel and Lawrence North. LC stands with three conference wins along with three conference losses so far.

“I would’ve really liked to beat Lawrence North,” Kupiainen said.

The Bears were compet- tional time, we usually will do ing said, making the Wildcats stimulating drills that put us work for every point but in the in game-like situations,” Kupiend, the Wildcats just had more ainen said. stamina.

The Bears need an extra The Bears fell 3-0 to LN in a push to put them over the edge non-conference match. so their record will show some Although improvement. the Bears lost “I’ve seen “I would’ve really to LN, they still a lot of improvehave another liked to beat Lawment from the chance to defeat rence North.” younger girls,” them in the secKupiainen said.

Maddie Kupiainen tional tournaLC needs a junior ment. lot of explosive The Bears energy and Rawill prepare for sectionals with chael Powell has brought nothintense practices and hope to ing less to the table, according end the season with a good re- to Kupiainen.

Experience with close situacord.

“When it gets closer to sec- tions definitely helps in games

facing teams like LN and other big conference rivals.

“Four of our girls are seniors, so next year we’ll be short of four good hitters,” Kupiainen said.

Leaving the Bears after this season are Leah Frischmann, Allison Specker, Kennedy Brown and Katie Billman.

Billman and Frischmann have been on the varsity team for the last four years.

The Bears are about halfway through their season with a somewhat decent record but that doesn’t stop them from striving for better.

“We just come in to every match with our heads high,” Kupiainen said.

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intage revisited LoganYoung

loganyoungcub@gmail.com Senior Christian Graves lost his iPod last spring. With only an insufficient flip phone and no source of music, he felt he had lost himself.

Then, he stumbled upon magic in the form of a cassette tape player and recorder at his local Goodwill store. He’s been listening to and recording cassette tapes ever since.

With his new obsession, Graves recorded 11 full length cassettes during the summer. They range from recorded music to “a day in the life” tapes, which are conversations between him and his friends.

Graves said that he often has to explain what his Walkman-type recorder is and what he’s doing with it. Whenever an interesting situation arises, Graves slips out his recorder to

“I just like doing things the hard way sometimes.”

Christian Graves senior

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capture the moment. Once informed of the strange device, people seem to be intrigued with such an antique and foreign object.

In contrast from smartphones, cassette players come with a lot of hassle. “I just like doing things the hard way sometimes,” Graves said.

With changing the batteries to rewinding back through an entire song, or flipping the tape from Side A to Side B, cassette players take time and patience.

His hobbies, opinions and ideas tend to contrast with the mainstream and designate him as anything but a typical teenager. For example, Graves would rather shop for new music at the local record store than download the latest album via iTunes.

With everyone’s iPods, tablets and smartphones, the current teenage generation has access to anything with the tap of a touchscreen.

“This generation has lost touch with the value in hard work and has become lazy due to digital media feeding us thousands of information at any second,” Graves said.