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BYRD LEAVES THE NEST Principal David Byrd announced in an email to staff last Thursday that he will depart from his current position to assume the role of the Director of Learning Support Services in the Elk Grove Unified High School District.

Byrd attributes his best accomplishments during his five-year tenure at RHS to his work with CTE, VAPA and elective courses.

Follow Eye of the Tiger for more as we cover Byrd’s leave and search for his successor.

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Physics replaces Chem in pathway

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Beginning next year, RJUHSD will begin implementing a restructured science pathway. While students will still start off with biology as per the current pathway, during their sophomore year they will take physics next rather than chemistry.

According to NGSS lead teacher Mike Purvines, this change is due to the district switching from CP science courses to new NGSS science courses, as the NGSS pathway starts with biology and is followed up with physics.

Physics was previously an elective science course and current physics teacher CJ Addington is the only teacher at RHS who has the credentials to teach the course. Now that NGSS Physics will become a required course for students to graduate, more teachers will need to either attain their credentials or be hired to make the shift successful.

“Now it’s going to have to be collaboratively run between several teachers and that’s going to

Vape rates triple from this time last school year

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Effective next school year, the NGSS pathway will shift the science outline to follow a Biology, Physics, then Chemistry path.

Science teacher CJ Addington is currently the only teacher at RHS with the credentials to teach Physics.

change some things,” Addington said. “So we are going to have to organize how we share equipment and how we share rooms, make sure we are on the same calendar

that sort of thing, so it’s going to take some work.”

Particularly because it is a required course, Addington anticipates that students will experience

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District combats driver shortage, security concerns

BY JARED HUBER

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According to director of transportation Julie Guererro, RJUHSD is currently in the process of replacing district bus cameras and hiring more bus drivers.

The district is currently replacing 22 new cameras on busses in order to address safety issues caused by having an outdated security system.

According to director of transportation, Julie Guererro, along with replacing the bus cameras, there will also be an additional camera installed on the outside of the bus to view the entrance door and surrounding areas.

“The cameras were not compatible to the updates in the software program,” Guererro said. “We weren’t really able to keep them up to date. A lot of them were failing on us, so it was time. It was age

pretty much.”

These new cameras the district is buying will have a much better picture quality than the current onboard cameras, as well as being up to date with the software’s updates.

One main feature these cameras have is the ability to wirelessly upload the day’s footage to the transportation department’s server, meaning no one needs to go out and manually retrieve every SD Card from every camera.

In addition, the transportation department has begun the process of training new bus drivers to address the shortage of drivers they had this year. They hope this will alleviate issues caused by the

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As of this school year, RHS’ rates for students caught vaping on campus are up nearly three times, in keeping with a national increase in vaping among teenagers in particular.

According to RHS principal David Byrd, in order to address this issue RHS is undertaking an “educational campaign” utilizing multiple intervention services for students caught vaping, as well as preventative measures such as district ecigarette information nights and presentations for students in health classes.

Site wellness centers worked to organize an e-cigarette informational presentation put on by program coordinator for the Placer County Prevention Program Alexandra Wrid, after seeing similar presentations done in the Rocklin Unified School District. The presentation at RHS brought in nearly 80 people, both parents and students. Wellness and prevention coordinator Cristina Dobon-Claveau hopes approaching the issue from multiple angles will decrease the amount of students who turn to vaping.

“The e-cigarette and vaping phenomenon has hit us by storm where the youth were knowing more about this product than the adults were,” Dobon-Claveua said. “We want to come at it from a prevention lens, but also be a resource for students who maybe haven’t gotten caught but want to find better coping strategies to deal with whatever symptom they have that they are using the ecigarettes to address.”

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On November 28, six of the seven teachers belonging to the RHS language department left to attend the NAACL - an annual, nationally recognized educational conference for teachers about computational language. Their departure marked the first time the department had attended a professional development activity together.

Since the introduction of Professional Learning Teams [PLTs], RJUHSD has worked to expand communication between teachers and focus on encouraging additional professional development opportunities for departments, many of which occur in the form of workshops and conferences.

When planning to attend a conference, teachers must weigh their absence against what they are seeking to learn at each respective event. Many teachers have found that writing comprehensive lesson plans for substitute teachers doesn’t guarantee class-wide progress. Spanish teacher Maria Pitts, for example, understands that her absence may stunt learning for the day - especially without guarantee that the substitute is familiar with the language she teaches.

“If I know I’m not go-

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AVID teacher Kevin Fagan is part of a contingent of staff members who experience limitations in their search for professional development opportunities due to funding restrictions and other workplace conflicts.

ing to have a sub that speaks the language, [then I assign] stuff that I’m going to expect the students to do on their own, but I know it’s not the same as having somebody who can answer your questions at that time,” Pitts said.

According to AVID teachers Kelly Capell and Dean Gadway, period subs teachers, often from the same department if not the same subject - taking over to teach their class for a period are a trusted alternative, though they are more often utilized if teachers need to leave for a period or two at a time. Additionally, this arrangement takes away the prep period upon which many teachers rely.

In their pursuit of professional development oppor-

tunities, teachers must find a balance between events of interest to them and their own availability. Language department chair Susan Hoffman-Wells has attended a variety of state and national conferences - many of which were done on her own time. According to Hoffman, the colleagues within her department have also chosen to attend workshops over the summer to avoid conflicts.

“When it comes to your specific subject matter, your subject area, the school isn’t training me to be a foreign language teacher,” HoffmanWells said. “I have to work on that myself.”

Available funding is limited in scope and may not entirely encompass the needs of multiple depart-

ments. The language department was able to attend the NAACL conference in Louisiana by using a variety of sources to finance their trip, including funds allocated for their department, as well as a College Readiness Grant and english language development funds, according to RHS principal David Byrd.

“You’re generally trying to find any dollar and every dollar you can find.

Some money comes with shoe strings attached so you gotta be careful,” Byrd said. “[Some of] those have fewer strings attached and can be used for a wider range of audiences. So you just gotta be careful about where the money comes from and what you’re using it on when making those decisions.”

According to AVID teacher Dean Gadway, if a conference is of interest to RJUHSD, district funds can be used to sponsor personnel to attend. Beyond district interest, any workshops or conference that gain staff interest must be introduced through an appeal to administrators and an explanation to the benefits behind the event. If approved, staff must fill out any expected expenditure forms -- including flight, registration, lodging, and transportation.

“If they can’t let you go right then because of money they’re gonna work out way to make sure you are able to attend that conference,” Capell said.

Travelling to nearby conferences is simpler and more cost effective than events that are held faraway, due to budgetary restrictions.

According to AVID teacher Melissa Jones, teachers who attend the AVID National Conference, which charges $300 for registration, choose to resubmit a proposal to attend the conference once every three years, as it is held in California every three years.

AVID teacher Brink typically attends state-wide conferences that are nearby.

“It can be expensive, paying for subs, paying for flights, paying for hotels, all that kind of stuff, so we don’t do it often,” Brink said.

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dressing student misbehavior, which focuses on reforming behavior through positive intervention rather than with punitive punishments like suspensions, which Byrd believes will more effectively help students.

“I know that’s frustrating for some people because they want everyone who does something wrong to be completely removed from the system,” Byrd said.

“But I would much rather reach out to the kid… On the reality it is like a lot of things that may be okay for people to do in the privacy of their own home. They’re not okay to do here.”

According to assistant principal Matt Pipitone, the administrative approach to instances of students vaping on campus varies depending on the number of past offenses and the type of drugs used. A student vaping “higher schedule” drugs such as marijuana rather than tobacco might be put through the school’s Student Assistance Programs instead of or in conjunction with suspensions. However, all instances will be approached with an educationcentered mindset.

For a first offense, administrators will notify parents and refer students to

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Above, several RHS students attended a vaping awareness presentation in the Patti Baker Theater. Presentations such as these are being employed throughout RJUHSD in order to combat rising vaping rates among students in the district.

a diversion class held each month by student resource officer Marc Kelley. The class teaches students about the juvenile law system as part of an attempt to address vaping and other illegal activities students take part in.

Additional counseling may be offered depending on student and parent response.

For a second offense, students will be referred to the newly implemented Wellness Center for a more intensive intervention program. The Wellness Center also uses a curriculum called

Teen Intervene that, according to wellness and prevention coordinator Christina Dobon-Claveau, aims for “harm reduction” by transitioning students to use diminishing amounts of drugs until an eventual end.

The Wellness Center staff is currently working to have Wride return to RHS to speak to students in health classes and potentially put on more presentations in future years. Wride hopes not only helping parents recognize if their child is vaping, but to help students

and parents alike in understanding the impact the activity can have on people’s physical health.

“Your brain is still developing and so you don’t want that addiction to happen,” Wride said. “Because once you start younger, you’re addicted for life.”

In the future, the district is considering working with Roseville Police Department to secure a grant for purchasing vape detectors for bathrooms on campus.

RJUHSD began looking into this option following Rock-

lin Unified School District’s purchase of vape detectors for their schools.

Pipitone urges students to understand that many of the potentially negative of vaping are still unknown, and think twice before making the decision to turn towards e-cigarettes.

“The conversation I typically have with students is would you drink that juice straight. ‘No that’s disgusting.’ But turning it into a vapor and sucking it into your lungs is better?” Pipitone said.

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GoGuardian monitoring divides students, teachers

BY JULIE NGUYEN

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With the transition towards a more technologically-based curriculum at Roseville High School, RHS sought the aid of GoGuardian, an artificial intelligence monitoring and filtering system.

GoGuardian offers four products: GoGuardian Admin, Teacher, Fleet, and Beacon, each offering varying abilities for student monitoring.

GoGuardian Admin’s focus lies in content filtering through the utilization of keywords and URL filtering. Director of Technology, Tony Ham, believes that this in particular GoGuardian is a necessary step now that students are taking home school-provided Chromebooks.

“If we were going to give devices to 10,000 students, it would be our responsibility to have [content filtering] in place as well,” Ham said.

In addition to student monitoring, GoGuardian also allows for analysis of student data. While the concept of content filtering is not new to RHS, with systems such as iboss which offered content monitorization, GoGuardian collects student data in order to form

MEGAN HUBER EYE OF THE TIGER

Above, students in Miguel Quinonez’s second period College Algebra class work on Chromebooks. Quinonez is one among many RHS teachers that utilize GoGuardian to monitor student activity during class.

trends, such as through popular Google Documents or heavily frequented YouTube videos.

GoGuardian Teacher offers a company of monitoring abilities that can be applicable to a classroom setting; such as a teacher/student chat function, the ability to freeze screen usage and compiling a report of students activity following each class period.

English Teacher Jamie Handling finds it helpful to use in class and appreciates

that GoGuardian makes it easier to make sure students are working productively.

“Realistically, I can’t see all of the computers at the same time,” Handling said.

“Having GoGuardian on my computer allows me to see what’s on the kids’ screens and to monitor if they’re doing [inappropriate] things… it’s just a way to unify what’s going on in the classroom.”

GoGuardian Fleet offers a more technical feature to a chromebook based cur-

riculum, offering a tracking program of Chromebooks, an identification of its ownership, operating system, and physical status.

Outside of direct student surveillance, GoGuardian Beacon is the result of a partnership between GoGuardian and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This particular segment of GoGuardian will be relied on primarily outside of school hours in order to try and ensure student wellness

and safety.

With this sect of the program, if student data indicates a student might be susceptible to suicidal thoughts or self harm, GoGuardian creates an alert and notifies members of the administrative staff, parents, and the student. The student will then be pulled up to talk to their counselor.

Junior Mai Nguyen was pulled out of class after she made a search for a project in Creative Writing that trig-

gered GoGuardian Beacon as potentially relating to self harm.

Nguyen believes that while it is essential to maintain awareness of students mental health, monitoring searches for these threats could lead to a lot of false alarms.

“I think it actually is important especially for high school students our age,” Nguyen said. “Mental health is starting to skyrocket and I think they should be concerned about students health… But we are also in a school and we do have projects that might end up being flagged by search, but it’s for research. It can be debated” While GoGuardian has coalesced student data with the intent of promoting student engagement, sophomore Barritt Balestrini feels that monitoring student data proves excessive.

“I think the school should trust us more on what we should or shouldn’t do. They gave us the chromebooks, so they think we obviously have some semblance of responsibility,” Balestrini said. “I think they should put the trust in us to do the right thing. Some of us are incredibly stupid, but that’s just some. The rest of us aren’t going to abuse the privilege.”

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Future science classes will experience a shift in curriculum as the NGSS course shifts pathways.

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terpart.

“It’s more of an introductory physics and it probably going to have less math than the college prep would,” Addington said.

“But [physics] is still going to cover the same material.

And it’s still going to give kids the same exposure to the basics of physics.”

The goal of NGSS is to provide students with a more hands-on approach that will be more applicable to the real world, which has altered the content of the courses. With the new curriculum, the topics covered and tested will be branch out beyond those that existed in CP. The test categories will consist of life science, chemistry, physics, and earth and space, whereas the older science classes had tests of just biology, chemistry and physics.

It is unknown as to how NGSS will affect the test scores, but with the NGSS biology already starting, teachers will soon collect the data as to how the

students are learning and adapting to the new courses.

While NGSS Physics and Chemistry will roll out in the next two years, the NGSS Biology course students took this year is still undergoing revisions as teachers begin to discover how to best make it work for students. Physics and Chemistry will undergo a similar process to create courses geared towards students and the ever-changing nature of science.

NGSS Biology teacher Jeffrey Underwood believes from his experiences with the curriculum this year that changing the courses will only benefit students and make them better prepared.

“I think it’s going to affect our students in a very positive way because up until this point science classes have been about just shooting you guys a bunch of facts, then you have to memorize those facts, then you have to regurgitate those facts but those aren’t the types of thinkers that we need,” Un-

derwood said. “So NGSS is actually designed to get you guys thinking in an inquiry based way, which means experimenting coming up with some of your own ideas and producing cool things.”

Purvines states that NGSS was a state adopted program that schools are now trying to increase the science knowledge versus the college prep course that has students just learning NGSS gives kids the opportunity for a more hands on science.

With Purvines’ teaching experience he has the accessibility to greatly improve the science courses.

Purvines believes it is going to take cooperation, experimentation and time for NGSS to find its place in RJUHSD. “[NGSS] is about good instruction, and good projects for students and trying to get teachers across the district to work together and have some good teacher voice along with adopting the new standards,” Purvines said. “It’s a big shift so it’s going to take some time to do well.”

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shortage.

The current trainee-bus drivers have to undergo a course that typically takes a few months to complete, after which they will be able to fill the new positions.

To become a driver,

they must have no more than two points on their driving record, must pass a 50 pound lift test, take 40 hours of training and behind-the-wheel practice, take two weeks of classroom instruction to pass a written exam along with an interview, and enroll in

an EMT Drug and Alcohol program to agree to drug testing.

With these new bus drivers eventually being implemented into the pool of current drivers, students who ride the busses to and from school may be seeing some new, more efficient routes.

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Each year, RHS staff members nominate five female students to run for Girls State - a week long summer program in which about 500 delegates from schools around California gather to form a mock government. This year, the American Legion Auxiliary selected junior Cam Medrano as Roseville’s 2019 delegate.

Danielle Bennett and Rebekah Jenness-Hobbs were named first and second alternate respectively.

Chemistry and Physiology teacher Oliver Weiss was one of the RHS staff members who nominated Medrano and believes she will fulfill her role as the delegate.

“During class she showed that she was a hard worker, very responsible and displayed a lot of good leadership skills,” Weiss said. “Cam’s gonna do great. She’s very personable, knows how to interact with people really well and I know because of that she’s going to do really well.”

California Girls State will take place at Claremont College from June 24-25.

Nominations for Boys State will come later this month.

Junior Prom date moved forward

BY RILEIGH SHULL

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The Junior Prom date that was first scheduled over spring break has been moved forward to March 23 as of last Thursday.

Junior President Mallory Magorka believes the date change is beneficial due to

more people being able to attend the dance.

“A lot of people go out of town for spring break, so I think we’ll have a lot more people go because it’s not during spring break,” Magorka said. “I thought that was really unfair to have it because a lot less people would be able to go, and it’s Junior Prom and a lot of people can only go to it once, so it didn’t really seem fair to not even have the chance to go if they wanted to go.”

Magorka also thinks announcing the date early this year will inform more of the students of the date change.

“I also think since we have to publicize it more because we did change the date, so that’s a big deal and a lot more people will know about it,” Magorka said.

CCC begin featuring daily scholarships

BY AJ WELKER

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At the beginning of this term, the College and Career Center began including a segment in the daily bulletin for a new scholarship every day.

According to college and career technician Jacqueline Seider, they started the program to increase the number of students that they are reaching out to for scholarship opportunities, leading up to the Roseville High School’s local scholarship program.

“I hope it energizes students to start filling out applications,” Seidar said.

“But also, it’s just another way that students can start applying for scholarships and to stack those scholarships so they can start providing the necessary funds for their post-secondary education.”

Drama program expands with new, student directed course

BY AJ WELKER

a.welker@eyeofthetigernews.com

This coming fall, drama teacher Jennifer Saigeon will be introducing a new exploratory theatre class for her students.

“There’s so many students right now who are interested in doing their own projects and its awesome and I want to make sure that I harness that energy so we’re working on doing a professional drama class,” Saigeon said.

According to Saigeon, though Beginning Drama is a prerequisite, the class is open to students with various interests in theatre.

“People can be interested in set design...acting... publicity,” Saigeon said.

“They’re going to put their hands in all of it and see what is the most exciting for them.”

Advanced Drama student Amy Santana believes taking the class can help broaden her perspective as a performer.

“I think even if I were to just pursue the acting side of the theatre career, it’s always good to understand the other side of the story and know what the directors going through,” Santana said. “It makes you a lot more appreciative.”

Saigeon hopes the class will result in student driven work and self motivated progress.

“I think the biggest thing is that students are driving the program and that is always what I’ve wanted to happen,” Saigeon said. “If they’re coming and writing original pieces and they’re producing those pieces... they’re driving all of that and they’re learning so much in the process.”

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Sophomore alberga una larga pasión por el hockey, se reunió con el apoyo de la familia POR CAM MEDRANO

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Mientras que la mayoría de los estudiantes atletas en Roseville High School se encuentran participando en actividades en el campus, el estudiante de segundo año Philippe Moffet encontró su propia pasión en un entorno más poco convencional: el hielo.

Aunque es común que las familias transmiten tradiciones y costumbres a través de cada generación, para los Moffets, el amor por el hockey es su valor más confiado. Y Philippe, es un jugador de hockey de tercera generación y un americano de primera generación.

Según el padre de Philippe, René, tanto él como su hijo comenzaron a jugar hockey a la edad de cuatro años. Pero a diferencia de su padre, Philippe tuvo que mudarse a más de 3,000 millas de distancia de su ciudad natal de Quebec en Canadá.

“No queríamos mudarnos a California en absoluto,” dijo René. “Él ya es-

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A la edad de nueve años, el estudiante de segundo año Philippe Moffet se mudó de la ciudad de Quebec a California para el trabajo de su padre. A pesar del movimiento, Moffet continuó jugando su deporte nativo de hockey, fomentando una pasión que se prolongará en su adolescencia.

taba jugando mucho hockey de alto nivel en Canadá, así que lo primero que [vimos] fue” ¿hay algún hockey en California? “Y la respuesta fue sí.”

En el momento de la mudanza, Philippe tenía solo nueve años.

A pesar de las diferencias culturales y lingüísticas entre un Quebec francófono y una zona suburbana de California, el amor de Philippe por el hockey y el apoyo de su familia siguió siendo una constante.

“Esa fue una muy buena inmersión para él.

Mantuvo sus raíces canadienses,” dijo René. “Como [los canadienses] dicen ‘después de caminar, comenzamos a patinar antes de correr’. El hockey es el deporte nacional canadiense, por lo que significa mucho para nosotros, como el fútbol americano para los estadounidenses.”

Si bien la mayoría de los niños californianos no pueden decir que han crecido con una pista de hielo de 30

el curso. Ahora que NGSS Physics se convertirá en un curso obligatorio para que los estudiantes se gradúen, más maestros necesitarán obtener sus credenciales o ser contratados para que el cambio sea exitoso.

“Ahora tendrá que ser administrado en colaboración entre varios maestros y eso va a cambiar algunas cosas.”Así que vamos a tener que organizar la forma en que compartimos el equipo y la forma en que compartimos las habitaciones, nos aseguraremos de que estemos en el mismo calendario y de que vamos a trabajar,” dijo Addington.

En particular, debido a que es un curso obligatorio, Addington anticipa que los estudiantes experimentarán un plan de estudios bastante diferente para NGSS Physics, que no será tan expansivo como su contraparte de CP. El objetivo de NGSS es proporcionar a los estudiantes un enfoque más práctico que sea más aplicable al mundo real, que ha alterado el contenido de los cursos.

Con el nuevo plan de estudios, los temas cubiertos y probados se extenderán más allá de los que existían en CP. Las categorías de

exámenes consistirán en ciencias de la vida, química, física, y la tierra y el espacio, donde las clases de ciencias más antiguas tuvieron exámenes de biología, química y física.

Se desconoce cómo afectará NGSS a los resultados de las pruebas, pero con la biología de NGSS ya iniciada, los maestros pronto recopilarán los datos sobre cómo los estudiantes están aprendiendo y adaptándose a los nuevos cursos.

Si bien la Física y la Química de NGSS se lanzará en los próximos dos años, los estudiantes del curso de Biología de NGSS tomaron este año todavía se están revisando a medida que los maestros comienzan a descubrir la mejor manera de hacer que funcione para los estudiantes. Física y química pasarán por un proceso similar para crear cursos dirigidos a los estudiantes y la naturaleza siempre cambiante de la ciencia.

El profesor de biología de NGSS, Jeffrey Underwood, cree en sus experiencias con el plan de estudios de este año que cambiar los cursos solo beneficiará a los estudiantes y los preparará, además de ayudarlos a

por 60 pies en su patio trasero, Philippe tiene el lujo de hacerlo. Mientras vivía en Canadá, René construyó una pista para enseñarle a Philippe cómo patinar y manejar un disco.

“Pasamos mucho tiempo afuera [mientras Philippe tenía] 2, 3, 4, 5 años,” dijo René. “Fue muy divertido verlo e incluso de noche con las luces apagadas ... fue un momento muy agradable para él.”

Habiendo comenzado a jugar a una edad tan tem-

prana, Philippe atribuye sus abundantes hábitos de puntuación a su velocidad y habilidades de manejo.

Philippe actualmente juega para el equipo Capital Thunder 18U en la liga de viajes de hockey juvenil de NorCal. Los Capital Thunder se encuentran en primer lugar con un récord de 121-1.

Según Philippe, jugar al hockey competitivo le otorga la capacidad de formar lazos con sus compañeros de equipo dentro y fuera

del hielo.

“Creo que lo más importante sobre el hockey es el trabajo en equipo,” dijo Philippe. “La química de nuestro equipo es realmente buena. Nos comunicamos muy bien juntos y así es como ganamos la mayoría de nuestros juegos.”

Como Capital Thunder es un equipo de viajes que se extiende por todo el norte de California, Philippe y sus padres se encuentran amontonados en un auto la mayoría de los fines de semana para conducir a pistas que van desde diez minutos en automóvil hasta Skatetown Ice Arena en Roseville hasta una pista desconocida en Fresno o Lake Tahoe. . Según René, se han ido a Vancouver para un torneo.

“Mis padres siempre están ahí para mí,” dijo Philippe.

“Me traen mi comida, me llevan a la pista. Siempre están ahí para mí por la mañana, por la noche, donde quiera que vaya el hockey.”

Mirando hacia el futuro, René se mantiene optimista de que él y su hijo puede seguir vinculando por su aprecio común por su deporte nativo.

“Realmente disfrutamos jugando el juego y es muy divertido,” dijo René. “Tal vez vamos a jugar juntos en unos pocos años.”

NOTICIAS RJUHSD hace un cambio en el camino de la ciencia POR LIZZIE PELZMAN & ASHLYN LEDBETTER news@eyeofthetigernews.com

A partir del próximo año, RJUHSD comenzará a implementar una ruta de la ciencia reestructurada.

Mientras que los estudiantes aún comenzarán con la biología según el camino actual, en su segundo año tomarán la siguiente clase de física en lugar de la química, y la química se convertirá en el tercer curso del camino.

Según el maestro principal de NGSS, Mike Purvines, este cambio se debe al cambio de distrito de los cursos de ciencia de PC a los nuevos cursos de ciencia de NGSS, ya que la vía de NGSS comienza con la biología y se realiza un seguimiento con física y luego con química.

Como la física era anteriormente un curso electivo de ciencias, el profesor de física actual CJ ​​ Addington es el único profesor de RHS que tiene las credenciales para enseñar

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Mientras que los estudiantes aún comenzarán con la biología según el camino actual, en su segundo año tomarán la siguiente clase de física en lugar de la química, y la química se convertirá en el tercer curso del camino.

abordar la ciencia desde una perspectiva empresarial.

“Creo que va a afectar a nuestros estudiantes de una manera muy positiva porque hasta este punto las clases de ciencias han sido solo para dispararles a ustedes un montón de hechos, luego tienen que memorizar esos hechos, luego tienen que regurgitar esos hechos pero esos no son los tipos de pensadores que necesitamos,” dijo Underwood.

“Entonces, NGSS está diseñado para que ustedes piensen en una forma basada en la investigación, lo que

significa experimentar con algunas de sus propias ideas y producir cosas geniales.”

Purvines afirma que NGSS fue un programa adoptado por el estado en el que las escuelas ahora están tratando de aumentar el conocimiento de ciencias en comparación con el curso de preparación para la universidad que tiene estudiantes que solo están aprendiendo. NGSS les brinda a los niños la oportunidad de tener más experiencia con la ciencia.

Con la experiencia docente de Purvines, tiene la

accesibilidad para mejorar en gran medida los cursos de ciencias. Purvines cree que tomará cooperación, experimentación y tiempo para que NGSS encuentre su lugar en RJUHSD. “(NGSS) se trata de una buena instrucción y de buenos proyectos para los estudiantes,” dijo Purvines, “y de tratar de que los maestros de todo el distrito trabajen juntos y tengan una buena voz de maestros junto con la adopción de los nuevos estándares. Es un gran cambio, por lo que tomará algún tiempo hacerlo bien.”

PROXIMOSEVENTOS FEB 13 FEB 21

Donación de Sangre

La extracción de sangre de primavera comienza a las 8 a.m. en el estacionamiento del 900 y continuará durante todo el día.

Concurso de Talentos El espectáculo anual de talentos de RHS se llevará a cabo en el teatro Patti Baker a las 7 pm.

MAR 14

FEB 18

Exámenes Parciales Los alumnos asisten a los periodos 1 y 2.

12:10 despido.

No hay clases Día del Presidente. El día siguiente contará con un calendario de colaboración.

MAR 15

Exámenes Parciales Los estudiantes asisten a los períodos 3 y 4.

12:10 despido.

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Student’s business brilliance shines through

BY ASHLYN LEDBETTER

a.ledbetter@eyeofthetigernews.com

Every Saturday, RHS junior Delaney Nagtalon takes her weekly trip to the post office and tries to outpace the lines of people that form right before closing time. The boxes she always carries into the post office, full of carefully packaged clothes and accessories, are left behind for shipment to buyers from all around the US. Nagtalon has found that selling second hand clothes on the app Depop is a good way to make money. Before beginning her journey into owning her own online store, Nagtalon chose to browse around on Depop for a few months before she considered using it to sell her own items.

Now, she has been selling for

around six months. In that time, she has become a successful shop owner with all of the knowledge that comes with the position. According to Nagtalon, the quality of her shop has only increased with every new trick she learns.

“I’ve learned how to do it better - take better quality pictures, offer measurements so as you improve your shop you get more followers and I’ve definitely been selling more,” Nagtalon said.

Currently, her online shop has almost 500 followers and has earned a five star rating due to Nagtalon’s diligence. Checking her business email and packaging orders have all become part of her daily routine.

Nowadays, Nagtalon experience is much smoother than the “trial and error” that she had to

rely on when she first began.

“It took me a few orders in to figure out what works and how to do it in a way that I don’t lose a lot of profit,” Nagtalon said.

She believes that without the help of her mother, her shop would not be where it is today.

Kay Nagtalon had a variety of skills that she passed on to her daughter to help out her shop.

Among them, Delaney learned how to properly measure clothes so customers could have a better understanding of the fit.

“We just kind of build our knowledge together,” Delaney said.

As Delaney progresses and continues to make sales, her mother offers her all of her support.

“I am extremely proud that she has done all the footwork to build

her business and that she’s successful,” Kay said. “I know that creativity is a big part of building a thriving business.”

When trying to build her shop, Delaney understood that certain decisions had a high impact on whether or not buyers would consider her store to be trustworthy.

As part of her plan to gain more customers, Delaney utilized her skills in landscape photography to suit her business needs.

“I definitely figured out that professional pictures are the way to go,” Delaney said.

Her time as a small shop

owner has also taught Delaney to have a stronger grasp of business tactics, including consciously looking to make a profit from her activities.

“I also make negotiations, but now I’m a little bit more reasonable with them, so I’m taking into account the profit I would be making,” Delaney said.

Due to this, Delaney thinks of her Depop shop as a side job. She works mostly on the weekends to focus on school and not feel pressured to respond to sales in one breath and complete her homework in another.

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Above, junior Delaney Nagtalon checks her online store. She has learned to pay attention to her customers and check over her orders on a daily basis.

COURTESY DELANEY NAGTALON

Junior shoots for higher archery status

BY RILEIGH SHULL

r.shull@eyeofthetigernews.com

Six years ago, young Aubree Hernandez visited her grandfather’s home in Oregon on a family trip, unknowingly setting herself on a path that would last years into the future.

Looking back as a junior, she can target her passion of archery as having begun during the course of that very trip, through the inspiration of her grandfather.

After that visit, Hernandez began devoting her time to practicing every day for multiple hours and training herself to become better at her new-found love.

The regimented training was difficult, but within five months, Hernandez found herself winning third place in an archery competition.

Since then, Hernandez has been no stranger to the competitive spotlight.

One of her latest competitions, The Vegas Shoot, is one of the biggest archery competitions in Vegas.

There, Hernandez and well over 100 other archers decided to shoot their shot during the course of the three day event.

As a minor, Hernandez was only allowed to shoot in two of the three days, but that in no way dampened her competitive spirit.

“You shoot three, spot little targets and shoot, then shoot three ends,” Hernandez said. “The competition is getting a little bit more tough, because when you’re younger you shoot super close-up to the targets and when you’re older you have to shoot from 101 yards away. The competition gets tougher and it gets better.”

With competitions as difficult as this one, Hernandez’s father,

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Len Hernandez, has found that the experience challenges her competitively, which he hopes is something she will be able to take with her as the years go by.

“This competition... the mental aspect of the game really comes into play. It really has a lot of mental parts where you think it’s easy... and she has 104 other competitors that she’s going against,” Len said. “I hope she continues with archery and that she retains it to collegic level and helps others learn the sport and continue to shoot far into adulthood.”

Aubree, for whom archery is a part of everyday life, has grown up with her love of the sport and of the competition it promotes.

She wants to share her passion with the rest of the student population at RHS by working to start an archery club for all students to gain the same unique experience that she has had.

“It’s not really common that schools have an archery club,”

Aubree said. “I wanted to bring forward my passion for archery to other students.”

In the process, Aubree hope to uncover more students with some experience in the sport and convince them to be more willing to show off their skills.

“Some students do archery, but they don’t really say it just because they don’t do it as often, but bringing it here might get them out of their shell and might participate in school activities,” Aubree said. “It’s something different – something cool.”

Aubree believes that the club will set itself apart from other sports and clubs on campus, because archery is an accepting activity that anyone can pick up and learn.

She hopes the inclusivity will bring people together and encourage them to challenge themselves.

“What I love about [archery is that] it’s an all-person sport,” Aubree said. “You don’t have to

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Junior Aubree Hernandez is in the process of putting together a club dedicated to her passion. She hopes to gather together students with archery experience to bring their shared love of the sport to life.

have a skill…[and] have to have a built body for it, you can go out and pick up a bow and somebody can train you. It’s super simple.

You can be four years old; you could be 80 years old and still shoot.”

Archery club adviser Jon Coleman – the past adviser for Roseville’s Trap Shooting Club – thinks that a club will interest students and bring attention to the sport and make it more widely known around campus.

“Now we have archery club hopefully our team will have time to grow, build membership and start entering competitions,” Coleman said. “High school has a place for everyone this is just one of those opportunities for kids to get involved and represent their school” Archery club will begin practicing in the next two weeks for Roseville students interested in joining and training with the Archery Club, at MAYA Archers.

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Teacher thinks on her feet, gets book deal

BY MEGAN HUBER

m.huber@eyeofthetigernews.com

RHS dance teacher Dawn Kenniston brought her dance floor mindset into her lifestyle after taking a leap into becoming a published author with her children’s book, That Rat Can Tap! The book features a boy named Parker - named after Kenniston’s own son -- who has a dream about rats living in the attic.

Within the dream, a rat named Fred teaches Parker the art of tap dancing, and when Parker wakes up, he puts on a performance for his father in order to keep the rats safe from the risk of getting caught in a trap.

Though Kenniston has a history of performance, writing is one art form she isn’t very familiar with.

The idea behind her book was based off of her real life experience, though it occurred unexpectedly, and Kenniston chose to run with it and see where it would take her. “[Writing a book] actually was never on my bucket list of things to do. It just came to me one day,” Kenniston said. “I was feeding my kid, he fell asleep in my lap, and honestly there were rats up in my attic. My husband was sitting next to me

watching football and I just pulled out my phone and this book came to me in rhyme.”

Seemingly at the last step, Kenniston hesitated in deciding to self-publish her book. Although self publishing allowed Kenniston to give herself full control of writing, illustration, editing and profits, taking the leap and going through with it was a difficult endeavor.

One of the hardest decisions Kenniston faced when publishing her book was deciding to go through with the publication process, as she was unsure of her abilities. One of the first steps to regaining her confidence was finding a willing illustrator with whom she could build a rapport.

“I wrote it about six years ago, and just kind of sat on it for awhile, and then found an illustrator who worked with me at a previous school,” Kenniston said. “I knew of her interest and I knew of her work and I knew she was willing to work for a, ‘Hey we’ll split the profits, I can’t pay you upfront’ so that was important too.”

Kenniston was also able to add a few more personal touches to her creative process by bouncing ideas and editing with the help of

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COURTESY DAWN KENNISTON

Dance teacher Dawn Kenniston’s children’s book, That Rat Can Tap!, unexpectedly came to her as she was spending time relaxing with her family.

her friend - and her friend’s two kids. As a reward for their hard work, both children had characters named after them.

Advanced Dance student Sydney Oppenheim felt that Kenniston’s decision to add kids into the storytelling process helped add to the success of the story.

“She knows what they like and how to entertain

them, so I think whatever she writes, it will be well taken,” Oppenheim said.

The book has spent a week as the number one Amazon’s Children’s Dance New Releases, along with having a five star rating.

Kenniston was initially not planning to write another story, but she finds herself being inspired by her son to write once more.

COURTESY DAWN KENNISTON

HUMANS OF RHS Sophomore Shaelene Wortham has big plans for her future in theater.

As a child, she gravitated toward the performing arts, despite her parents pushing to see her in a sports uniform. After acting in Intertwined, Wortham’s perception of her ability as an actress shifted. Next month, Wortham will be testing her mettle by auditioning in community productions outside of the halls of high school.

-Nicole Khudyakov

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[In community theater] you don’t really know everyone involved with the program, but it’s good to interact with new and different people. It’s just cool to step into a different thing and ... I just want to learn everything there is to know about theater.

There’s only so much that you can do in school so I want to get deeper into the theater and everything involved in it.

[But you also] don’t know the people judging you, so that’s nerve wracking. In a school production, you know people going into it. But now, it’s refreshing and kind of stressful to not know anyone going into it, but that’s life -- you’re not going to know everyone going into everything.”

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GoGuardian blurs line between privacy and saftey

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ith the new One-to-One Chromebook Initiative, underclassmen throughout the district now have school-issued Chromebooks they can use in class and at home for educational purposes. By next year, students in all grades will have this same access.

In order to ensure students are using these new materials responsibly, the district adopted GoGuardian, a digital interface that allows administrators and teachers to both filter content and monitor Chromebook use.

With this service, educators now have access to new tools that make life in the digital age easier to manage. GoGuardian can limit students from accessing inappropriate content and give teachers the ability to ensure their students are on-task in class. This is necessary in order to maintain a professional and focused educational environment. These Chromebooks are utilities to enhance education and need to be treated as such.

In order for students

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to get the most from their Chromebook, they need to take it seriously. However, in order for students to get the most from their Chromebook, they need to feel comfortable using it.

And a student will not feel comfortable when they know that with each search they make, no matter how responsible their intentions, they are being watched.

Certain functions of GoGuardian tread the line between ensuring student

safety and violating student privacy.

With monitoring features that allow administrators access to search history regardless of where a student’s location is, privacy becomes a greater concern – especially considering that GoGuardian would already filter out inappropriate results, so a student would not be able to view anything they should not.

Though GoGuardian allows for closer surveillance,

there is no way to distinguish if a prior search was made for academic purposes or not. It is impossible to tell whether a student is researching a supposed “harmful” topic for an assignment or contemplating dangerous acts. When the default becomes the latter, rather than making students feel safe, we create an environment in which students feel violated and uncomfortable as they conduct research for a class.

While it is a virtuous act to attempt to identify and help students who are having thoughts of self-harm, monitoring Chromebook search history is the wrong medium to do so. This is not practical, nor is it fair.

A student who is thinking about committing suicide is not likely to be looking up ways to kill themself on a school-issued Chromebook.

A student who’s looking for attention might. A student who is doing a school project might. A student who is trying to be funny might.

But a student who is actually struggling with self harm and suicide has many other avenues to get information.

Instead, what we end up doing is making students who thought they were doing research feel violated and monitored and uncomfortable.

As the district continues to further digital equity, there must be a continued effort to preserve the balance between student privacy and safety.

(This piece represents the views of the 2018-19 editorial board.)

Glass wall provide security theatre while bigger concerns are ignored

BY RYLEY METTEN

r.metten@eyeofthetigernews.com

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round the first week of December, a glass wall and doors had been installed in the hallway of the administration building, with administration touting it as a security upgrade.

Unfortunately it’s all just “security theatre.” There are still unprotected entrances onto campus. The glass wall is not solving any major security issue.

Campus is still open to unwanted visitors through the alley on Campo Street and entrances by the 900s.

The glass wall becomes not just a hassle for the students who want to visit their counselors, but also an unneeded struggle for

those working in the office.

Having to constantly buzz people in through the doors can make their already busy jobs even busier.

Instead of fixing the maintenance problems RHS has, we’ve constructed a roadblock. Funding should be focused on fixing the chronic campus maintenance issues that RHS faces.

We still have uneven sidewalks, rusting lockers, outdated bathrooms, puddles the size of parking lots and flooded walkways. The time, money and energy spent on the door could also be used to fix these greater issues and help students live out their school day without fear of tripping into a pool of rainwater.

Poor drainage at RHS is an issue that can be fixed, should be fixed and needs to be fixed.

People trip nearly daily on the uneven sidewalks in the hallways of RHS - dropping their lunch or backpacks and cracking their phones - and it often makes

a bad day a lot worse.

Other high schools in the district - like Woodcreek or Granite Bay - have clean, smooth sidewalks and fresh coats of paint almost every year and give the students a reason to have pride in their school.

It’s difficult for students to have pride in a school whose staff don’t even have pride in it.

It’s true those schools are much newer, and therefore have not had the time to deteriorate like RHS, but this doesn’t give Roseville a reason to be neglected. If maintenance was kept up with this school it could be just as aesthetically pleasing and functioning as Woodcreek or Granite Bay. Just because Roseville is the oldest school in the district doesn’t mean we can’t improve certain aspects of it.

You don’t have to demolish the whole school and start from scratch, but we shouldn’t have to settle simply because we’re used to it. Roseville High School

is not a lost cause. Fix the issues it already has before creating new ones.

For example, around Spring of 2018, construction started on improving the bathroom by the 500’s and when returning from summer break it was finished. The renovation made a huge difference for students. With bright orange and black colors, it makes the school not look so gloomy. However, the second you walk out of the bathrooms it seems as if you stepped into a whole different world.

Meanwhile the bathrooms nearest the pool are actually repulsive, and if I need to go to the bathroom, I would rather walk farther out of my way and risk getting a tardy just to be in a cleaner bathroom.

We should put the focus and money the district used on the door to adding a fresh coat of paint in the 400-700’s or painting the bland, gray, stale lockers orange or possibly even fixing the sidewalks.

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This would cause a very positive change in the atmosphere at Roseville High School.

I and many other students would feel much better about Roseville and have a better morale when it comes to going to school.

Rather than spend time on implementing additional useless “add-ons” to the school while our campus is deteriorating further daily, we could fix and update RHS to the standards other schools in the district are held at.

Teachers disrespect student parking situation

BY JORDAN DEL VALLE TONOIAN

j.delvalletonoian@eyeofthetigernews.com

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very morning I wake up dreading the very thing I have to face 180 days a year

for four years - Roseville High School’s parking lots.

With over 2,000 students, RHS is the second largest school in the RJUHSD. Yet it has the fewest number of official parking spaces of any of the schools in the district.

With parking at such a premium around RHS, students often find themselves resorting to parking illegally, double parking and even parking on a dirt lot owned by the federal government - an inconvenience for everyone.

Last year, before the expansion of the Berry Street parking lot, I found myself late to first period multiple times because I had to hunt down a parking space.

Nobody, especially not teachers, should want their students to be late for class.

Yet, I often find myself blocked out of a parking space by none other than… a teacher.

With two lots designated specifically for staff and visitors to RHS, there should be no shortage of spaces for teachers.

The spots they take may be closer to their rooms, or more convenient for them to be able to leave quicker on certain days, but why give up a space, specifically designated for you, a teacher, only to take up a public spot in a student lot?

I understand the lots aren’t ‘student only’ and anyone can park in them, but there should be a priority on student parking.

Spaces closed off to students shouldn’t be left open.

With the construction

of the auxiliary gym positioned to begin this Spring, RHS is about to lose 50 parking spaces.

Luckily, striping of a new lot for staff east of the East 900’s building will take the majority of the hit for this loss.

Even then, I can only imagine what the next school year will be like, teachers who park in the staff lot west of the West 900’s building may decide to park in the lot off of campo street, dubbed the ‘senior lot’ purely out of

convenience based on the distance to their rooms.

All I can hope for is that teachers make the right move and park in the front ‘staff only’ lot. Regardless of how far you may have to walk from your classroom, know that you’re saving another parking spot so a student may use it. I have to walk between classes across campus twice daily, you get used to the walk.

Understand that parking is a premium, take what you can get and let students park.

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Bathroom passes defile student dignity

BY JORDAN DEL VALLE TONOIAN

j.delvalletonoian@eyeofthetigernews.com

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s Common Core, collaborative learning and growth mindsets continue to spread throughout various classes and programs, teacher lecturing hours have shrank as group work takes precedence. Students are encouraged to actually put their knowledge to the test.

With less lecturing, and more individualized learning, it begs the question: why do some teachers still limit how often we can go to the bathroom?

I’m taking two academic classes and two electives this term and in three out of four of the classes I’m only “allowed” to use the rest-

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room twice for the entire semester.

A healthy person uses the restroom between four and ten times a day, not one to two times every five months. I know there’s time to use the restroom between classes and during lunch, but between the long lunch lines, thirty-minute lunches, and short passing periods, it’s not enough

time.

With Roseville’s unique campus, I often have to walk pretty far between classes and I don’t have time to stop and use the restroom, otherwise I risk being several minutes late to class. Lines are long and the timeframe is extremely slim.

I don’t have time to make use of the restroom at lunch.

I shouldn’t have to give up my lunch-time just to make a trip to the restroom.

During lunch, I have to wait in the egregiously long lines, often taking up nearly half my lunch. After that, I try to take advantage of whatever’s left of lunch, eating and working. With RHS’ block schedule, classes are nearly an hour and twenty minutes long, even

if I do manage to find time to use the restroom before class, it’s perfectly reasonable that I would need to again during the long period.

What’s the point of managing a student’s life to the point where teachers decide if students should get to use the restroom or not? If a student decides that they want to use the restroom, even if they’re going to miss an important lecture, what’s the point of saying no?

“Holding it” can cause health issues, and not to mention is extremely uncomfortable. Why should a teacher dictate whether or whether not I’m incontinent in 60 years?

It’s our own responsibility to do what they need to do to get a good grade in the class. If someone decides they need to walk out of class to use the restroom, it’s either an emergency or someone who doesn’t want a good grade in the class.

It’s not a teacher’s job to micro-manage our lives.

District approach to vaping issue antiquated

BY JACKSON YOUNG

j.young@eyeofthetigernews.com

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he newest unhealthy craze in students’ lives is obviously vaping. Look around. I bet you could find at least five or ten kids that vape in every classroom.

While this craze is obviously horrible for you, kids still do it, and in classic soccermom style, the district is trying to stop it.

Don’t get me wrong, vaping is absolutely horrible for you. I’ve seen the effects that nicotine has on people, and having anywhere from a fifth to 30% of our generation have a nicotine addiction is completely untenable.

Despite that, the way that people are going about the anti-vape movement is completely wrong. We should steer away from the current campaign and go towards a program of how horrible for you it is.

Dear future principal,

If you talk to basically anyone that vapes, they would say that it isn’t “that bad” or that it’s “better than cigarettes,” but they are just straight up wrong.

While they are better than cigarettes, that’s like saying cocaine is better than meth.

They are both absolutely the worst.

My reasons from abstaining from the vape pipes isn’t a health concern, but it’s just lame. I don’t even want to be that mainstream.

When I’m at work and I’m talking to a customer that seems cool, and then I see a vape in their hand, my regard for them goes down exponentially. I think that if the officials go from a point of how lame it is, then I think vape rates will definitely go down.

I don’t know if nicotine addictions are becoming cool, but I know the damage that nicotine can do to you. Nearly everyone in my family has smoked, and watching them struggle to quit for years has been devastating and I would not wish that pain onto anyone.

Even at that, this antivape advocacy towards par-

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ents, shouldn’t be framed like it is. On the flyer for the Anti-Vape Parent’s Night, some of the “e-cigarettes” on the flyer aren’t even ecigarettes at all, they’re wax pens, which contain THC and not nicotine.

Comparing weed to tobacco is equivalent to comparing donuts to crack.

While donuts aren’t good if you use it excessively, they won’t kill you if you don’t

do it that much, and crack is, well crack.

This phenomenon is completely uncharted territory for parents and everyone. No one really has any idea how to deal with this because kids are stubborn and don’t want to accept the poor choices they are making.

I would never use a vape pen, and I don’t advocate for anyone to do it – in fact

I actually completely despise it. However, I think that the way that our school and others are handling the epidemic is antiquated.

The “this is your brain on drugs” slogan doesn’t work if the kids don’t think they are doing drugs. While I may not have a complete answer to this conundrum, that does not mean that any answer thrown out there is correct.

A letter to our future principal

I hope your week is going well! My name is Danielle Bennett and I am a reporter for Eye of the Tiger; I’m sure we’ll talk to each other at some point for one story or another. And I’m looking forward to getting to know you better, but before we begin our time together let me just say one thing – you have some big shoes to fill.

The principal we have now has never been one to lead from behind closed doors. He is always available to students on campus, to speak with them and to connect with them. And because of this, he is not just some person with some title that we know must be important. He is a memorable part of our high school experience.

Our current principal has a commitment to supporting the different extracurriculars that are available to students that enrich our academic experience. Whether it’s a club event or competition, something students want to put together on campus, or yes, even an interview about any issue under the sky for our journalism program, he will make a serious effort to provide students with every opportunity to explore their creativity and aspiration.

There is never a fear that we cannot approach him, that we will not be taken seriously or will not be respected. We are students but while we are still young, we are mature enough to have a voice that merits being heard.

So to our future principal, I look forward to what you will bring to this campus. We can always use new ideas and a fresh perspective to spruce up our old school. Change is hard, but it is also how we evolve and grow.

But to our future principal, do strive to continue with the mindset that you will listen to students, that you will value what we say and to continue to strive to make this campus a place for students to explore their interests and build relationships with those around them. School is more than where we learn about academics; it’s where we learn about ourselves.

No pressure.

Your local student journalist, DANIELLE BENNETT

d.bennett@eyeofthetigernews.com

LETTERS FROM A SENIOR

Branch out beyond home

BY AJ WELKER

a.welker@eyeofthetigernews.com

A

s application season finally comes to a close, the inevitable question approaches: where do you want to go?

After months of essays, questions, paper work, SATs, ACTs, letters of recommendation and more, the idea of actually getting to choose where to spend the next four years of my life not only feels surreal, but impossible.

At times, the college search seems like the race to nowhere. The additional hours of writing, editing and scrutinizing outside of homework make the fall seem endless.

But eventually, it ends.

And when it does, we’re all left wondering where we’re going to go.

As a person who didn’t apply for any UCs or CSUs and with all of my top schools being located on the East Coast, I know that I won’t be near any of my childhood or high school friends.

I’ll be thousands of miles away from my family. If something goes wrong, I’m on my own. And I couldn’t be happier.

I love California and I love my family, but this is the time for me to branch out. This is the only time in my life where I’ll be able to completely pack up my things and move with no loose ends to tie up.

For me, college seems like the perfect excuse to explore a completely different side of the country.

I’ve never experienced a snowy winter. Public transportation has always been irrelevant for me. The heaviest winter coat I’ve ever had was a light windbreaker that kept me dry from some light showers.

All of that is about to change.

I’m not saying the East Coast is for everyone, or that moving halfway across the country is how to do your college experience “right.” That’s the infuriating yet liberating thing about higher education – there’s no correct way to do it.

But I implore you, branch out. Take a risk.

I’m not ignorant of the fact that college is incredibly expensive. Housing and book costs alone at certain universities can be daunting, to say the least. But take advantage of every opportunity you have.

Seek out the plethora of scholarship opportunities and fill out your FAFSA on time. College isn’t cheap, but there are a lot of resources that can make it doable.

I know that at the end of my four years, I don’t want a storm of regrets and “what if”s clouding my conscience. I’m aware that my confidence regarding this decision is ignorant at best and pompous at worst.

I’m cognizant of the fact that the second I receive my high school diploma, the fear of leaving everything that feels safe and comfortable will set in and will feel overwhelming.

And I can’t wait.

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It’s hard to read the bard

High school theatre programs across the district vary in producing Shakespeare

BY AJ WELKER

a.welker@eyeofthetigernews.com

Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and Macbeth: the required reading every high school student is familiar with.

Between read-alouds, movies and audio books, our teachers do their best to convey the prestige and integrity of Shakespeare’s work, while still making it accessible to those who find the Bard’s language overwhelming, to say the least.

But at the end of the day, Shakespeare is meant to be performed, not read. In an era of Common Core that encourages collaboration between subjects, why are the performing arts programs at various schools across the district shying away from doing a Shakespeare production every year?

According to Samantha Howard, drama teacher at Oakmont High School, getting audiences to come to a classical production makes an already strenuous task tougher.

“In truth, sometimes it is difficult to bring in audiences for a Shakespeare production,” Howard said.

“It’s difficult to bring in audiences period, but that’s a different discussion.”

At Oakmont, Howard has done three Shakespeare productions in 10 years: As You Like It, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.

“Two out of the three plays we’ve done are in the English curriculum - that wasn’t an accident, but a choice made in the hopes the students studying those plays would come see them.” Howard said. “Unfortunately, I didn’t see any

differences in our audience sizes by choosing those particular plays.”

Though this is disappointing, it’s not surprising.

The plethora of groans and complaints that emerge when Shakespeare is read proves that students aren’t particularly interested in the Bard during class time, so why would they seek it out during their free time?

This problem doesn’t seem to affect every school.

According to Woodcreek High School drama teacher Adrienne Mars, audience sizes are never an issue when it comes to classical work.

“I do Shakespeare about every three years and I take my students to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival every other year,” Mars said.

“Teachers love it and we have huge audiences.”

Once every three years is a decent amount of the Bard’s work and falls in line with Oakmont High School’s amount; however, it only ensures one year of Shakespeare for those in the drama program, two if they’re lucky.

This is just for the students who get to spend the months in preparation working on the show, living in the language and dissecting the text.

For student audiences,

that means in their four years of highschool, they’ll most likely only see two hours of live Shakespeare (if they even decide to go.)

Granite Bay High School, however, finds Shakespeare more of a priority to produce every year.

According to Director Kyle Holmes, the program has continuously played with time periods to make the heavy classical text more accessible.

“We did a production of Much Ado set at Granite Bay High School, where the set looked like a replica of the school outside,” Holmes said. “The year before that we did Macbeth, [and] set it [in] modern Scotland with a 2016 election flare to it.”

Though Granite Bay has had success through the exploration of Shakespeare, other schools have not been as bold. According to Antelope High School program director, Richard Winters, the level of skill required to put on a high quality classical production can go beyond the caliber of the average high school student.

“If a show is well done audiences love them,” Winters said. “It’s tough for young actors and directors to do Shakespeare well.”

As a senior at Roseville High School who has been very involved in the drama department throughout my four years, our theatre program has not done a Shakespeare production. Under previous Roseville drama teacher Stuart Smith, the department’s cycle worked similarly to other high schools in the district.

“We worked on a rotating-three year schedule, so that every student had a chance to work on three different major points of focus.” Smith said.

According to Smith, the Shakespearean plays usually sold well.

“The plays were quite popular and much talkedabout among students, especially when we had good (and gory!) fight scenes,” Smith said.

According to current drama teacher Jennifer Dithridge-Saigeon, Shakespeare is a goal for the program in the near future.

“I would be open to [a Shakespeare production] but I would probably plan it out [for] about a year or so,” Saigeon said. “I have always been interested in doing Romeo and Juliet because all freshmen read it, which means that after freshman year, all students should be familiar with the story.”

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A partnership with the English department could also bring audiences in, according to Saigeon.

“I think [Shakespeare] can work hand-in-hand to support the English department’s exploration of Shakespearean texts.”

Saigeon said. “Students like the challenge of Shakespeare and the more they read/watch/experience his work, the more they begin to enjoy it.”

Throughout talking to various program directors throughout the district, though some have had more success with audi-

ence sizes, one thing is clear: if Shakespeare is to be performed successfully, English departments have to step up.

Whether that means collaborating with drama teachers, incentivizing attending productions, or simply making a point to encourage students to gain a better understanding of the Bard, they should.

If English teachers show enthusiasm, maybe students will, too.

But it’s hard to enjoy live Shakespeare when you’re only exposed to it once every three years.

RHS Theatre Co. recognized for talent at Lenaea Festival

BY JORDAN DEL VALLE TONOIAN

j.delvalletonoian@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School Theatre Company showcased several students in competitions ranging from monologues to musical performances at the 2019 Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

Musical Theatre competition participant Alesandra Cariaga performed I’d Give My Life For You from the musical Miss Saigon.

“It really stuck with me and I’ve been singing that song for a really long time because the topic is really close to me,” said Cariaga.

“I’m really honored to have [been able to perform it].”

Cariaga appreciated the feedback she got from the respondents.

“I was not expecting how nice they were, they were so nice and so responsive and they gave [me] so much good criticism and they really helped [me

become a] better actor.”

At closing ceremonies, Cariaga was awarded with the Respondents’ Choice Award for her performance.

“My heart was beating, I was at home and it was such a crazy experience. I didn’t expect to get something out of [Lenaea].

It was really great to say that you’re being appreciated for the work [you’ve done].”

Also featured was Intertwined, a student written and directed one-act put together by Annabelle Tiznado and Douglas Pomin.

At Lenaea, productions only have 15 minutes to set up and get familiar with the stage and lighting.

“Preparation was definitely any adjustments we had to make from our performance here [at RHS] to the performance at Lenaea.

We spent a few days going over any line adjustments, blocking adjustments, changes to the lighting, things like that,” Pomin

said. “Having that smaller stage it made a lot of the blocking a little more challenging to put together, especially in such a small time frame but definitely with the emotional intensity of the show, the intimate space [the theater at Lenaea provided] improved our performance.”

The company’s one-act Intertwined received no awards this year.

Next year’s Lenaea Festival will be held February 7-9.

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Above, several members of RHS Theatre Company pose for a group photo in front of The Harris Center for the Arts at Folsom Lake College, where Lenaea was held. Below, junior Annabelle Tiznado accepts the Respondents’s Award for Musical Theatre in place of sophomore Alesandra Cariaga.

LENAEA AWARD RECIPIENTS

Duo Scenes

Silver: Alex Clark & Emily Willick ...And Stuff Bronze: Ari Gomez & Summer Edon Perestorkia

Monologues

Respondents’ Choice: Claudia Howenstein Fool For Love

Musical Theatre

Respondents’ Choice: Alesandra Cariaga I’d Give My Life For You

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BEST PICTURE NOMINEES Eye of the Tiger’s A&E Staff reviews this year’s Best Picture Nominees and lays out general expectations for which films deserve the ever coveted Academy Award.

Black Panther

BlackKklansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Favourite

REVIEW BY OWEN YOUNG

REVIEW BY JACKSON YOUNG

REVIEW BY JOEY FREID

REVIEW BY AJ WELKER

One of the more recent movies in the Marvel cinematic universe, Black Panther not only provided a beautiful story line executed perfectly, but followed up with amazing visual effects absolutely stunning to the eye.

Black Panther was also a cornerstone in the African American community. It was one of the first times audiences saw a black superhero lead on the big screen, and it was a beautiful example of cultural diversity.

The movie delivered stunning graphics, an amazing plot line, out of this world visual effects, and left a major positive impact in the black community which should secure Black Panther’s spot as best picture.

Spike Lee’s newest joint BlackKklansman was nominated for Best Picture and it is definitely deserving of it.

The movie blends a bit of humor in perfectly, which is surprising as the book the film is based on was not at all humorous.

Still, Spike Lee does this masterfully. Even though he usually doesn’t have the most hilarious movies, this one was designed flawlessly.

While BlackKklansman didn’t get the notoriety at its release like other Best Picture nominees did, it still doesn’t undermine the greatness of this movie.

Spike Lee was also nominated for Best Director for this film as well.

Bohemian Rhapsody is the biopic of Freddie Mercury and the band Queen, one of the most famous music groups of all time.

This movie explores Mercury’s background and goes into an in depth timeline of his chaotic life consisting of sex, drugs and parties and the struggle to find a sense of belonging.

This roller coaster film ends with the iconic live aid performance shortly before Freddie’s death, signifying one of the most well told stories of the year.

Easily making it a top contender to win an Oscar, especially with Rami Malek and his spot on impersonation of Mercury.

The Favourite boasts a comedic edge as it delves into the complications of sexual politics, especially in the dysfunction of Queen Anne’s castle.

Colman, Weisz, and Stone deliver compelling performances that emphasize the trials and tribulations they force each other to go through in order to determine who, in actuality, is the favorite.

The historical elements of the film are exemplary, and the ensemble highlights the defective manner in which Queen Anne rules. Though the film is graphic, unexpected, and crass, the message of power and politics is expertly delivered, ensuring that this film deserves a Best Picture win.

Green Book

ROMA

A Star Is Born

Vice

REVIEW BY JOEY FREID

REVIEW BY JOEY FREID

REVIEW BY ALEX MULLAN

REVIEW BY CAM MEDRANO

Green Book is a feel-good, heartwarming story about a poor Italian man who gets hired to chaperone a rich black musician, Dr. Shirly, into the deep south during the early 60s.

The film follows the problems the two run into on their trip to get Dr. Shirly to all of his concerts before Christmas.

The movie adds a layer of humor to a rather serious subject matter, as well as explores the extremely entertaining dynamic between the two main characters.

The film was initially met with some controversy about the overall position race plays in the film, making it a bold pick for the Academy.

Despite the dispute surrounding this nomination, the film definitely deserves the Oscar due to its inspiring story.

ROMA, the first foreign language film nominated for Best Picture since 2012 features a unique and different storyline than other nominees.

The story follows Cleo, and the extraordinary aspects of her unextraordinary day to day life.

Though the film is incredibly touching, this is not what makes the film different from the others: ROMA is easily the best shot and features more cinemagraphic excellence than any of its competitors.

The cinematography is reminiscent of Alfonso Cuaron’s other movies, giving the film the look and tone Cuaron is famous for.

ROMA deserves an Oscar due to the film’s unique nature that makes it stand out amongst the other nominees this year.

A Star Is Born follows rockstar Jackson Maine and up and coming star Ally, focusing on his slow fall from the spotlight as his girlfriend rockets to fame.

Bradley Cooper depicts an accurate rockstar as Maine struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction, and the crippling realization that he’s a shell of what he once was.

Lady Gaga’s character Ally attempts to start her own career, while struggling with her rocky relationship.

This film is a sad, emotional rollercoaster that really connects with its audience and evokes empathy.

The chemistry between Cooper and Lady Gaga sparks perfectly with a well written plot, making it an obvious contender to win Best Picture.

In a clumsy display of Dick Cheney’s role in American politics, Vice contributes a unique spin on typical political dramas that flood contemporary entertainment.

While the film itself is rather informal and comedic, it offers an amusing perspective and grants levity to heavier topics.

Yet, with a script lacking in depth and wit and unnecessary scenes, it’s difficult to look past poor casting decisions and a scrambled plotline that seems to never connect.

When watching Vice, it seems as if you’re waiting for the punchline that never comes.

Though the film itself is undeserving of its’ several Oscar nominations, its ambition sets a new standard for future films to match.

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Moffet sticks with childhood passion

BY CAM MEDRANO

c.medrano@eyeofthetigernews.com

While most student athletes at Roseville High School find themselves participating in activities around campus, sophomore Philippe Moffet found his own passion in a more unconventional setting — the ice.

Although it is common for families to pass down traditions and customs through each generation, for the Moffets, a love for hockey is their most entrusted value. As for Philippe, he is a third generation hockey player and a first generation American.

According to Philippe’s father René, both he and his son began playing hockey at the age of four.

But unlike his father, Philippe had to move over 3,000 miles away from his native Quebec City in Canada.

“We didn’t want to move to California at all,” René said. “He was already playing a lot of high level hockey in Canada so the first thing we [looked] at was ‘is there any hockey in California?’ and the answer was yes.”

At the time of the move, Philippe was only nine years old.

nicate really well together and that’s how we win most of our games.”

Since Capital Thunder is a travel team that extends across Northern California, Philippe and his parents find themselves huddled in a car most weekends to drive to rinks ranging from a ten minute drive to Skatetown Ice Arena in Roseville to an unfamiliar rink in Fresno or Lake Tahoe.

According to René, they’ve gone as Vancouver for one of Philippe’s tournaments.

CAM MEDRANO EYE OF THE TIGER “My parents are always At the age of nine, sophomore Philippe Moffet moved from Quebec City to California for his father’s there for me,” Philippe job. Despite the move, Moffet continued to play and foster a love for his native sport of hockey. said. “They get me my Despite cultural and linluxury to do so. While livThe Capital Thunder find food, they drive me to the guistic differences between ing in Canada, René built themselves in first place rink. They’re always there a French-speaking Quebec a rink in order to teach with a record of 12-1-1. for me in the morning, at and suburban California, Philippe how to skate and According to Philippe, night, wherever there’s Philippe’s love for hockey handle a puck. playing competitive hockhockey going.” and support from his family “We spent a lot of time ey grants him the abilLooking to the furemained a constant. outside [while Philippe ity to form bonds with ture, René remains “That was a really good was] 2, 3, 4, 5 years old,” his teammates on-andoptimistic that he and immersion for him. He kept René said. “That was reoff the ice. his son can continue his Canadian roots,” René ally fun to watch and even “I think to bond over their said. “As [Canadians] say at night with the lights out... the most common apprecia‘after walking, we start that was a really nice moimportant tion for their naskating before running.’ ment for him.” thing tive sport.

Hockey is the national CaHaving started playing at about “We really nadian sport so it means a such a young age, Philippe hockey enjoy playing the lot for us just like football attributes his abundant scoris teamgame and it’s a for Americans.” ing habits to his speed and work,” lot of fun,” While most Califorhandling skills.

Philippe said.

René said. nian kids aren’t able to say Philippe currently plays “Our team “Maybe they’ve grown up with a 30 for the Capital Thunder 18U chemistry is we’re going by 60 foot ice rink in their team in the NorCal youth really good. to play together backyard, Philippe has the hockey travel league.

We commuin a few years.”

MOFFET

Winter sports finish league on top

BY ELENA BATEMAN

e.bateman@eyeofthetigernews.com

As of last week, both boys varsity basketball and girls varsity soccer took home their CVC league titles. Girls varsity soccer finished their league season undefeated, with an 9-0-3 record. Boys varsity basketball finished in similar fashion, with a 10-2 league record.

After clinching the league title, girls soccer looks to find success in playoffs and return to the section finals for the third year in a row. After playing varsity all four years, yet each season falling short of a league title, senior Ash-

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lynn Hernandez is proud of her team for accomplishing their goal of winning the CVC. “We’ve been trying to win league all four years and I just can’t believe we finally did it,” Hernandez said.

Now looking into upcoming post season games, Hernandez is excited to see her team continue on, and hopes they can return to finals.

“I really hope we can return to section finals again this year because it’d be

great to win league and sections,” Hernandez said.

“I hope we can dominate teams early so that we can coast into finals.”

Boys basketball won league last Tuesday night following a 78-60 win over the Bella Vista Broncos;

prior to this, Roseville’s boys basketball program hadn’t won league since 1985. The Tigers also accomplished winning 10 games in league. Senior Jaylen Solich is proud of his team for their success in league, and now looks forward to playoffs.

“We were all really excited and now with ten wins we can go into playoffs with some confidence,” Solich said. “I want this season to last as long as possible since I’m a senior so I really hope we can win out in playoffs.”

This week, both girls soccer and boys basketball will play in the first round of playoffs.

Performances of the Week JAN. 14-18

win,” Tavianini said. “Because we had so much energy we were able to use it to our advantage and it helped us win.”

BY JAMES WADMAN

JAN. 21-25

Girls basketball upsets the Inderkum Tigers j.wadman@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the week for the week 1/141/18 is varsity girls basketball against the Inderkum Tigers. Roseville took the win with a score of 71-61.

Sophomore Natalie Russell and Alyssa Sandle both came to play, each dropping 17 points, roughly half of Roseville’s overall points.

Roseville’s matchup was filled with intensity, both teams ranked similarly prior to the game. Junior Julia Tavianini recalls the game being filled with high spirits, which contributed to the team’s success.

“We played with a lot of energy and everyone was in the game and wanted to

Girls varsity player gets hat trick against Yuba City

nandez believes Gill’s ability to transition fastly from defense and offense helped her obtain her hat trick.

“Mack is very good at quick transitioning from offense to defense and when she got the hat trick it really boosted the team’s confidence,” Hernandez said.

“Everyone was having a really good time.”

BY HUNTER HATCH

h.hatch@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week of 1/21-1/25 goes to varsity girls soccer player Mackenzie Gill. She had an outstanding performance against the Yuba City Honkers by scoring three goals. Gill’s offensive threat allowed her to draw more attention away from her teammates, allowing them to score six additional goals. Her performance helped the team defeat the Honkers with a score of 9-0.

Teammate Ashlynn Her-

JAN. 28- FEB. 1

Sophomore dominates against Yuba City

BY BELLA AYALA

b.ayala@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of 1/28 is varsity boys basketball player Josh Alger. Alger had 22 points and 12 rebounds in the Tigers 78-62 victory over the Yuba City Honkers.

Junior Tommy Spencer believes that Alger contrubuted greatly both on offense and defense.

“Josh was very aggressive when driving to the lane and made great reads on offense,” Spencer said.

“On defense he was getting every rebound.”

Spencer also believes that Alger’s performance motivated the whole team.

“His performance helped keep the whole team energized and engaged,” Spencer said.

JAN. 14-18

Sophomore dominates against Yuba City

BY BRAYDEN DOTOLI

b.dotoli@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Feb-

ruary 4 is girls varsity soccer for clinching first place in the CVC and advancing to playoffs after a 1-1 tie versus Bella Vista.

The girls soccer team finished their season with a league record of 7-0-2.

According to senior defender Hannah Heaton, the reason the team has been so successful is due to the fact that they play strong as a team.

“We played really well and worked together as a team,” Heaton said. “We scored late into the second half to come back and tie the game and clinch our first place spot and league title.”

Heaton is excited at the fact of winning league in her last season as a Tiger, “I’m so happy that we won league and that our hard work has paid off,” said Heaton. “I’m so glad that my last season at Roseville we will be winning.”

Off campus coaches causes unnecessary stress

BY NATALIE RUSSELL

n.russell@eyeofthetigernews.com

Being a three-sport athlete, not having easy contact with coaches can be difficult. Off-campus coaches have many advantages and disadvantages.

With on-campus coaches, there’s easier access to facilities right after school rather than waiting for the coach to show up.

Personally, having played basketball with an off campus coach created conflicts.

There was a confusion on scheduled practice because the girls JV team and the boys varsity team were both scheduled for practice from three to five in the big gym.

With my coach not showing up until 3:05, it was difficult to solve the situation. Boys varsity has priority so they practiced first and the girls JV team had to wait in the foyer for two hours until they were done.

I felt as though this was unfair because the majority of the JV team can’t drive and like myself, live too far away from the school to go home. And even if a player did go home, it is most likely inconveniencing their parent or guardian that has to drive them around because it is an extra trip to the high school and back. Unlike the boys varsity team who the majority of them drive, therefore it is easier for them to come back at five rather than us just waiting in the foyer, Also, with an on-campus coach it is easy to get in contact with them, because they are easily accessible if there is a confusion on practice or game times.

Not only does off-campus coaches sometimes make it difficult to solve conflict, they also have a higher chance of being late to practices. There have been many occasions when I have been stuck outside of a facility such as the cafeteria because my coach is late and they are the only ones with keys to open it. Especially when I have morning practice for STUNT and it is cold outside and we have to wait in the freezing weather until our coach showed up.

And occasionally, she got stuck in traffic so we had to wait even longer.

Now there is only one way to fix that - hiring on campus coaches. But one problem with that is having someone be both a teacher and a coach and maybe other students will think they are favoring one student because they are also a player, and it also may be difficult because one would treat a coach and a teacher differently and if the student treats their teacher as a coach, other students might see this as being disrespectful, when in fact that’s usually not the case.

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TOP 10 WINTER ATHLETES 1 2 3 4 5 Rankings and statistics are as of last Thursday.

JAYLEN SOLICH

ASHLYN HERNANDEZ

ERIC DUTKA

AUSTIN WEHNER

JOSH ALGER

Varsity Boys Basketball

Varsity Girls Soccer

Varsity Wrestling

Varsity Boys Soccer

Varsity Boys Basketball

Coming in at the number one spot for the top ten winter athletes is varsity basketball player Jaylen Solich.

Solich is a two year varsity point guard and has led the team to backto-back playoff appearances.

In his two years, Solich has established himself as an offensive threat in the CVC. This season, Solich is averaging 15.7 points a game and also leads the team in assists per game with 5.4.

Coach Greg Granucci believes Solich’s many offensive assets is what allows him to be so dominate on the offensive side of the court.

“Jaylen handles the ball really well, he’s really quick, and he scores really often,” Granucci said. “Our flow offensively starts with him.”

Granucci believes that Solich’s ability to incorporate everyone on the court has helped to lead to the team’s success this season.

“He does a really good job of getting people involved and he keeps us going,” Granucci said. “He’s a really important part of our success.”

Coming in at number two for the top 10 athletes of the 2018-2019 winter sports season is varsity soccer player Ashlynn Hernandez.

Hernandez has played varsity soccer all four years of high school and her tremendous goaltending has helped lead the Tigers to a first place league finish this season.

Hernandez sits at 85 saves this season, currently holding the second most saves in the CVC. Despite not scoring the team’s goals, Hernandez’s efforts keep the Tigers in competitive situations against challenging teams.

Paul Stewart, Hernandez’s high school coach of four years, attributes the team’s success in more recent seasons to the goalie’s defensive abilities.

“We’ve won the section championship because of her and she’s been our team MVP these past few years,” Stewart said. “When we don’t let up goals in the defense because Ashlynn’s stopping all the other team’s shots, that’s what’s getting us wins.”

At number three on the winter sports top ten athletes is senior Eric Dutka, a varsity wrestler who helped lead his team to a second place finish in the CVC. Throughout the season, Dutka has won 26 matches, and only lost 5.

After wrestling JV his freshman and sophomore year, Dutka wrestled continuously over summer and in the offseason to work his way up to dominating the varsity mat.

Dough Ash has coached Dutka four years and has been able to watch him develop over the years.

Ash believes that today, Dutka reaps the rewards of his dedication.

“Eric has certainly paid his dues by wrestling in the offseason and over the summer,” Ash said. “For wrestling if you put in the effort and time you’ll see improvement.”

After Dutka’s almost perfect season, he now has the ability to advance to masters, the third round of playoffs. If successful, Dutka could also qualify for the state tournament - something no RHS wrestler has done in the poast 11 years.

Coming in at number four for this year’s Top Ten winter athletes is senior forward Austin Wehner.

Wehner so far has lead the varsity soccer team to an 9-3 league record, a third place finish in league, and a playoff birth.

Wehner is currently sitting at 20 goals and 9 assists, the most goals and second most assists n the team. Playing strongly as a forward for Roseville, Wehner contributes greatly each game.

Teammate Gavin Mann describes how Wehner has always been such an advanced player for the team throughout the seasons which is part of the reason the team has done so well.

“Austin has played at such a high level for such a long time it has become very easy for him,” Mann said.

“We can always trust him to make something happen when he has the ball and he’s a big part of the reason we win a lot of our games” Wehner now looks to dominate collegiately, playing soccer at San Diego State University this fall.

Coming in at number five on the winter sports top 10 is Josh Alger. A 6’1” sophomore starting guard on the Roseville High School boys varsity basketball team, Alger was pulled up to varsity basketball last year as a freshman.

Averaging 12.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 1.9 steals a game, Alger’s stats correlate to the high intensity of his play.

Varsity basketball coach Greg Granucci sees Alger as an outstanding part of the team due to his high energy, which makes him a great asset for the team on both the offensive and defensive end.

“Josh plays with a lot of energy, so he helps us both offensively and defensively,” Granucci said. “When he plays hard and with emotion it’s super contagious for our whole team.”

Granucci knows that the talent he brings comes mostly from the energy he puts off.

“His value to our team is his energy he brings on both the offensive and defensive side of the court,” Granucci said.”

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-Kinsey Okelberry

-Bella Ayala

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-Kinsey Okelyberry

-Hunter Hatch

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MACKENZIE GILL

ALYSSA SANDLE

BERNIE GRAVES

ISABELLE SANDERS

TOBIAS METTEN

Varsity Girls Soccer

Varsity Girls Basketball

Varsity Boys Basketball

Varsity Girls Basketball

Varsity Boys Soccer

Arriving at number six for the top 10 athletes of the 2018-2019 winter sports season is senior Mackenzie Gill. Gill is a four year varsity soccer player, and each season continues to dominate the CVC. Throughout this season, the forward has scored a total of 21 goals, putting her first for goals on the team. With 10 assists, Gill manages to outscore her competitors yet also distribute the ball to create dangerous opportunities with her teammates.

Coach Paul Stewart has watched Gill develop as a player these past four years, and finds that this season she’s been playing particularly strong.

“This year she’s taken her play to another level and she’s currently having her best year that I’ve seen her play,” Stewart said. “When we’re down against the hard teams, [Mack’s] giving us the opportunities up top and we can rely on her to bring us back into the game.”

At number seven in this winters top ten athletes is two year sophomore varsity basketball player Alyssa Sandle. Sandle now leads her team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals. Currently averaging 13.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 5.4 assists, and 4.1 steals a game, Sandle dominates both offensively and defensively.

Teammate Julia Tavianini believes Alyssa is the one who keeps the team going, with her consistent reliability and work ethic helping to lead the team to numerous victories.

“Alyssa leads our team in everything, she is the one who is always getting hyped before games and she is a great teammate,” Tavianini said. “She’s always working so hard whether it’s a practice or a game and you can always trust her.”

Sandle has upped her points per game by eight points this year compared to last, and looks to continue to grow in playoffs this season.

Finishing at number eight on the top ten winter athletes list is varsity basketball player, Bernie Graves.

Graves is a two year captain and guard on the boys varsity basketball team, contributing greatly this season both on the offensive and defensive ends of the court. This season, Graves is averaging 6.4 points a game and averages 2.6 steals per game.

According to coach Greg Granucci, Graves’ defense gives the Tigers an advantage.

“Defensively he’s a weapon,” Granucci said. “When he’s locked in defensively he does a good job of taking away the strength of the other team.”

Granucci also believes that Graves has qualities that make him one of team’s better leaders.

“Bernie does a great job of leading by example,” Granucci said.

“He’s very poised and he’s really fo cused so I think he’s one of our better leaders.”

Coming in at number nine for this years top ten winter athletes is varsity basketball player Isabelle Sanders.

Sanders was pulled up to varsity her freshman year and now, in her third varsity season, helps lead the team to success as one of the captains. The team finished 16-10m overall and with a 9-3 record in the CVC. Currently Sanders averages 7.9 points, 2.5 assists, 3 rebounds and 1.3 steals a game with her highest scoring game this season at 20 points in her game against El Dorado.

According to her varsity teammate and fellow top ten athlete sophomore Alyssa Sandle, Sanders leadership extends both on and off the court.

“Isabelle is kind of an everything player and takes notice of what needs to be changed to fix it whether its getting back on defense or taking the ball to the rim,” Sandle said.

Coming in at number ten on the winter sports top ten is junior Tobi Metten. Metten is a captain on the Roseville High School boys varsity soccer team, after being pulled up to varsity last year as a sophomore.

As a dangerous offensive player, playing both center-midfield and forward, he attacks often andfinished the season with 11 assist. Metten also helped the Tiger by scoring eight goals of his own this season.

Teammate junior Blake Geddes believes that Metten is a very strong player and helps the team tremendously on offense.

“He really helps us in our games and we wouldn’t be the same without him because he’s a really strong offensive player,” Geddes said.

Geddes also believes that Metten is a strong leader for him and his fellow teammates.

“Even though he is a junior, he leads the team and helps us stay focused which is why he is one of our captains,”Geddes said.

-Kinsey Okelberry

-Coby Estrada

-Bella Ayala

-James Wadman

-Natalie Russell