Eye of the Tiger (Issue 7, Volume 15)

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017 ISSUE 7, VOLUME 15

Clearing the political gray area District leaders urge caution when voicing opinions

BY BRIAN NUEVO

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Amid a politically-charged environment as a result of November’s election and acts of vandalism with racist symbols, both Roseville Secondary Edu-

cation Association president Brandon Dell’Orto and Roseville Joint Union High School District superintendent Ron Severson have sent district-wide emails reminding staff to use caution when sharing political and personal beliefs.

Dell’Orto’s email, which was sent to all district teachers, came a week after the November election. It specifically cited division that had arisen at Oakmont High School in response to a teacher handing out safety pins in

what was presented as a show of support for minorities. Other staff on campus, however, identified it as a protest against the president-elect at the time.

The emailed cautioned teachers against using their influence in the classroom to sway political opinion.

Severson sent his email to every employee in the district last Wednesday. In it, he cited recent acts of “hatred, bigotry, bullying and belittling” as a reason to revisit the district’s core

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Students study in class during the intervention period. A CP Government political ideology scale hangs at the front of the class.

FOUR TEAMS MAKE PLAYOFFS

Pathways revisited Freshman Pathways began four years ago with the Class of 2017.

With the first Pathways cohort nearing graduation, in part one of Eye of the Tiger’s coverage we look at the positive aspects of the program. In our next issue, we will explore the impact of the pathways on other programs on campus after four years.

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Four winter sports teams made it to the playoffs this year. The boys soccer team and the girls basketball team both made it past the first round but were defeated in the second, and the boys basketball team lost in the first round. The girls soccer team is the only team who’s postseason hopes remain alive.

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NEXT GAME Girls soccer takes on the #3 Granite Bay Grizzlies this Wednesday @ GBHS at 3:00 p.m.

Security cameras may hit district after OHS

BY KAIA WHITNEY

k.whitney@eyeofthetigernews.com

Within the next year, Roseville High School could have security cameras operating on campus.

This comes after the Roseville Joint Union High School District board approved a security surveillance pilot system for implementation at Oakmont High School, with plans to bring the system to each site in the district after one year.

The decision was finalized at the board meeting on January 14. Measure D funds will cover the expense, which will run nearly $45,000 per camera for parts and installation.

Roseville High School’s campus was recently vandalized with a swastika and Ku Klux Klan acronym on the side of the band room. In response, RHS principal David Byrd promised

to “beef up” security around campus. If district and site administration determine the OHS pilot program is successful, RHS could potentially get the surveillance camera system installed as well.

The cameras will not be monitored at all times, but rather used as a source of reference when any acts that need to be reviewed occur on an RJUHSD campus.

“It is about keeping our campus safe for all of our students and staff at all times,” Oakmont assistant principal Sondra Myles said. “Hopefully this is one more layer of security that can help prevent problems from happening in the first place.”

OHS administration expects the installation of 16 cameras around the perimeter of the campus. According to OHS assistant principal Isidro Carrasco, as of now classrooms aren’t expected

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Sixteen surveillance cameras will monitor public spaces at Oakmont High School next school year as part of a district pilot program.

to be covered by surveillance, but this may change with time.

The district is mainly focusing on covering large common areas such as stadiums and parking lots, especially during the night or at times that no one can be watching.

The purpose of this installation

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BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN

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As freshmen, the Class of 2017 was required to enroll in Positive Power, Pre-AP Geography and World Cultures, Freshman Seminar or AVID 9 for the first time. This meant that all students lost one of their electives during their freshman year and will ultimately graduate having taken one fewer course than they could have if they were able to choose with full autonomy.

Four years ago, former Roseville High School principal Brad Basham, with help from other administrators and a group of teachers, developed and brought his vision of a freshman transition program to fruition.

Each pathway is meant to introduce freshmen to high school, each targeting specific students and using different tactics to teach them skills meant to promote success.

Principal David Byrd said schools should provide programs or classes to assist in introducing freshmen to the high school experience.

RHS is the only school in the Roseville Joint Union High School District with Pathways. Woodcreek High School is currently exploring before- and after-school meetings for freshmen.

“It’s just kind of a universal thing. It’s a transition [into high school] and everybody wants that transition to go smoothly,” Byrd said. “What we’re doing is an actual class that’s designed to help you out with that.”

Senior Clay Bradley found the pathways helpful as a freshman, because he was unsure about high school and felt that with less choices it helped him find where he wanted to go in his high school career.

“I liked the Freshman Pathways because it introduced me to how AP classes should be and the work ethic that I needed to do good in class, so I liked it,” Bradley said.

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AP courses, including an increase of 244 students from 2014 to 2016.

AP US History teacher Jessica Fork believes that it is hard to attribute the increased enrollment solely to Pathways. “[The pathways weren’t] all geared toward AP so it’s not just that, it helps, but I don’t think it’s strictly one thing,” Fork said. “It is hard to say what those factors could be.”

Freshman Seminar Freshman Seminar is meant to help bridge the gap from middle school to high school and quell some of the fears and stigmas freshmen have regarding high school, similar to freshmen orientation courses on a college level.

AVID teacher Melissa Jones helped create the class with Basham and a few other teachers. Jones ultimately created the curriculum using influences from those college courses and AVID. Freshman Seminar incorporates AVID aspects of organization and college preparation, while also focusing on simply helping freshmen make new friends by getting used to the new school with the same group of kids and the same teacher for an entire year.

Freshman Lily Barnes chose to take Freshman Seminar because she was unsure of what avenue she wanted to follow and saw AVID as a four-year commitment that might restrict her.

Despite taking Freshman Seminar, Barnes intends on taking AP classes in her future, including AP Human Geography next year. “[The AP push] is more from the counselors and the parents. In Freshman Seminar you just work on organization and stuff,” Barnes said. “I would recommend it [to freshmen].”

As a teacher, Jones was surprised to find just how much freshmen struggled with frequent occurrences on campus, from knowing what to do at rallies to knowing how to sign in to HomeLink.

“It was interesting though to see what I thought they knew and what they didn’t,” Jones said. “Not knowing how to get on Homelink, not knowing the principal, not knowing the schedule, worrying about rallies and not knowing certain expectations. Those things that seem so normal to us.”

According to senior Caleigh Nordon, who took Freshman Seminar, the class was not really centered on the curriculum, it was mostly about forming bonds with classmates.

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Neal Reilly (Left) and Clay Bradley present in their CP Government and Economics class. Both started their freshman years in the pre-AP CP English 9 and Geography and World Cultures block.

“I had a senior or two in my other classes, but it was nice being surrounded by all freshmen your first year,” Nordon said. “You got to meet new people that needed to meet new people.”

Jones agrees with Nordon, stating the importance of “making some connections and making some friends” at a new school with new peers.

She also sees Freshman Seminar being used for more “soft skills” that core classes don’t have time to explicitly teach, but are necessary to be successful in high school.

“Freshman Seminar ended up being a place where we could put other things in, including some concerns the district had about bullying, all those kind of soft skills that aren’t housed anywhere else,” Jones said.

Nordon did not take the Pre-AP class but still ended up taking multiple AP classes in her third and fourth years of high school.

She finds that a student is bound to take certain classes regardless of the pathway they took as a freshman.

“Honestly it doesn’t matter either way because it didn’t influence me to take AP classes that I took and it doesn’t really make a big difference,” Nordon said. “I would’ve done Pre-AP just to get a feel for [AP classes].”

Pre-AP block Pre-AP English 9 and Geography and World Cultures are designed to prepare students for the rigors of future AP classes that they are planning to take and possibly avoid the shell-shock of the possible difficulties of an AP class.

Geography and World Cultures teacher Cari Oberreuter structures the class similarly to AP Euro, the expected next step on the AP pathway. She wants to teach the same skills as Freshman Seminar, but with more content based.

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“We use the content to give them the skills,” Oberreuter said. “For instance we look at PERSIA and in your social sciences classes in the future you look at things through that lens.”

AP Euro teacher Carol Crabtree noticed a significant improvement in the first year following the pathway implementation.

She saw that students came in ready for the pace of the class, something past classes normally struggled with in the first few weeks Crabtree worries that the pathways can discourage students from enrolling in more rigorous classes their sophomore year.

“The kids in the Pre-AP program all know each other and they come in knowing each other so I think it’s made it more difficult for a student who now wants to challenge themselves they walk into a room where their skills maybe aren’t quite as strong as the other kids,” Crabtree said. “It’s harder now to get those students integrated into the AP classroom community.”

Senior Neal Reilly took pre-AP Geography and World Cultures his freshman year and felt that it helped him be ready for his first AP class.

“It helped and encouraged me to be more comfortable in those higher level classes,” Reilly said.

Freshman Earvin Caballes recommends that future freshmen take PreAP Geo-World Cultures if they aren’t certain of the path they want to follow but want to be set up to follow any of the paths in the future.

“I would recommend they take it mainly because they can know what else to do in high school,” Caballes said.

Positive Power Positive Power started as a class of 15 students. This number has increased to 35 students in the 2016-2017

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AVID 9 AVID 9 is the only class of the four that existed before the creation of Freshman Pathways.

AVID teacher Scott Brink believes the pathways had very little effect on AVID enrollment due to there being an application process that was recently made more rigorous.

“For AVID there is an application process you have to go through so the students that are in AVID elect to be in that class,” Brink said. “We’ve had less attrition because the kids who

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school year. This class targets students who may not be getting encouragement in other aspects of their life and tries to promote their success. “[We] teach organization, time management, goal setting and study skills,” Positive Power teacher Lisa Vaccaro said.

“Students also have enrichment. I teach them how sleeping affects learning, A-G requirements and career exploration.”

An important aspect of the class is having tutors that work with the same people four days a week.

These tutors help students with their work from other classes to target students who can’t get this help outside of the school day.

“They start each day with their home group and tutor,” Vaccaro said. “They bond pretty well with that group and tutor over the term.”

Vaccaro hopes “to help kids get off to a good start” in their first year of high school by supporting them in their other three classes.

The students’ grades and organization are constantly monitored.

“For a student that cannot stay after school for help or that doesn’t have help at home, they can rely on the class for extra time and support they don’t otherwise have,” Vaccaro said.

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start want to stay.”

AVID 12 senior Raja Gossal took Freshman Seminar but transferred into AVID after seeing some of the AVID material in the class.

“I took Freshman Seminar then switched to AVID my sophomore year,” Gossal said. “In all honestly it’s basically the same exact thing, if you like Freshman Seminar you might as well take AVID.” His sister also highly recommended the program to him which helped influence his decision to join.

“My sister always told me about AVID and how much it helped her so I always knew I wanted to take it,” Gossal said.

Freshman Jaden Miller took AVID in hopes that it would prepare him better than Freshman Seminar.

“Academically, it prepares you for all the work that high school is in most [AVID] classes they hold you to a higher expectation than most classes,” Miller said.

He also felt that AVID’s greatest benefits come the longer you stay in the program.

“You have it throughout your four years and helps you fill out college apps once you get there,” Miller said. “And when you are younger it helps with note taking and small things, it is definitely worth taking all four years.”

Across all levels of AVID last school year 95 percent of students enrolled were on track to meet A-G requirements.

All seniors in AVID last year took the SAT and graduated. 80.8 percent of those seniors were accepted into a four-year college/university.

“Our data has gotten better, we have to fill out reports about AP exams, SATs and college,” Jones said. “Our rates are really high because our staff and students work really hard.”

CORRECTIONS In our Jan. 30, 2017 issue, we incorrectly reported the year as 2016 on five pages.

In that same issue, we incorrectly spelled the name of junior Dominique Beasom in the fashion column.

In the 13th paragraph of “Dance program founder returns from retirement,” we also misattributed dance teacher Pilar Steiner’s quote to fellow teacher Patti Baker.

Eye of the Tiger regrets the errors.

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POLITICS: Staff commentary may derail learning CONTINUED FROM FRONT

values and mission.

Neither specifically stated actions that could be taken against staff for sharing or promoting their views, but instead implored teacher and staff to think of what is best in the best interest of the students and to consider the leverage adults have in school environments.

In fact, there actually little in the way of California Ed Code or RJUHSD Policy that specifically and clearly state the degree to which teacher can share, or even push, their political beliefs.

Administrative Regulation 4119.25, which deals with political activities by employees, is almost entirely dedicated to preventing employees from campaigning for themselves in an election during school time or with school supplies. However, only mentions that teachers cannot

push political agendas and wear buttons prior to an election. It does not outline rules regarding political commentary outside of election seasons.

Severson believes that teachers need be careful with sarcasm about politically sensitive issues, but does believe that some classes, for instance social science classes, provide a forum to discuss politics.

“Everyday there are issues in the news that would be really interesting and provocative to discuss with students, that’s where it’s totally appropriate,” Severson said. “If I was teaching math it would probably not be a good time to spend half the period talking politics, there are a lot of things going around in social science to talk about.”

Roseville High School’s RSEA representative, Jessica Fork, believes that sensitivity is important to consider when politics is discussed in the classroom.

“It’s been taught to not to discuss politics in the classroom,” Fork said.

She advises teachers to keep conversations “neutral and to try to show both sides to the story and keep a balanced perspective and not go on tirades.”

AP Lang teacher Scott Brink sees the relationship between teaching and politics, but feels that teachers shouldn’t try to sway opinions.

“There’s some sort of relationship between [teacher] and student, and I don’t think it’s right necessarily for a teacher to perhaps uses their position over a student to impart their own personal opinion on that student.”

Brink said. “I think it’s okay to engage in a discussion about these issues, cause [everyone] has there own opinion as long as there’s a civil conversation.”

Junior Elpidio Aguilar has gone through experiences where a teacher made disrespectful comments

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Above: Roseville Secondary Education Association RHS representative Jessica Fork talks with a student.

Fork advises teachers to keep political conversations “neutral.”

in class while showing a livestream of Trump’s inauguration speech.

“During my priority period we watched Trump’s inauguration everyone had the same view [and] my teacher was talking about how she didn’t like him and shaking her head at some of

the things he said during his inauguration, but it didn’t really affect anyone since most of us had the same views,” Aguilar said.

AP Government teacher Dana Dooley sees the use for talking about politics in her Gov. class, but can also teach it without discussing

current politicians or policies.

“When studying Government in the school format, were looking at the other side of it where it’s not so much the butt that occupies the seat, but what power vested in the seat,” Dooley said.

CAMERAS: OHS pilots new surveillance system CONTINUED FROM FRONT

“We had an incident years ago out there at the football field. If we had cameras out there and could see, that might have been a deterrent to people lighting stuff on fire,” Byrd said.

“But we have to ask questions too like ‘Are we going to put them inside building?

Are we going to have them on the interior and be able to identify people in an unsafe place?’”

Signs will be placed next to each of the cameras to advertise that the cameras are recording at all times, and flyers will be sent home to parents to inform them of the new policy, according to the Jan. 14 district board meeting packet.

Byrd expects that RHS will be a more challenging scene for the camera installation due to the size and sporadic layout of the campus, whereas campuses

such as Oakmont and Granite Bay are more open and will require less strategic placement.

“There are so many nooks and crannies [at RHS],” Byrd said. “Where I came from was a modern school that had this giant quad, and we didn’t have cameras, but if we did you could have put one camera in every corner of the campus and see the internal parts of campus and you could have put one in

every corner of the exterior and you could have seen the entire school and it would have been great. And here I think it’s just more complex and complicate. It’s hard to single an area out.”

Former RHS assistant principal and current social science teacher Jon Coleman supports the new security measures finally arriving at schools, and campaigned for their installation while serving as an

administrator.

“This campus is way too wide open, and we need to take more steps to make sure that our students, faculty, and staff are secure, ” Coleman said. “I think a comprehensive video surveillance system is long overdue.”

Junior Clayton Stauffer believes the security cameras may not improve student behavior on campus.

“With the installment

of the security cameras, I think that the campus could be safer but at the same time they may cause more people to do suspicious activity more secretively, and behind the backs of teachers,” Stauffer said.

The district board has discussed the idea of a comprehensive surveillance program since district meetings back in 2007, but was only actualized with the arrival of Measure D funds.

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Roseville PD enforce parking rules in local neigborhood

BY ZOE STEPHENS

z.stephens@eyeofthetigernews.com

Weekly checks on the parking lot will be conducted including distributing tickets and towing people who park illegally.

The parking checks will be conducted by the Roseville police department, not the youth resources officer.

Emily Brott received two parking tickets last year for parking in the fire lane. Many students resort to parking illegally because there are limited spots on campus.

“Coming to school they leave the gates open for the senior parking lot and so everybody would just have to squeeze in,” Brott said.

“People would just park really stupidly, and nobody wants to go down the alley, and so you would just park in the fire lanes.”

Since the ticketing, Brott is more wary of parking in illegal spots.

“Now I always try to park legally whenever I’m late to school,” Brott said.

“I make the long walk, you know even though it sucks.

I learned my lesson.”

AcaDeca places first in Placer Competition

BY DAN GUNKO

d.gunko@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School’s Academic Decathlon team

nabbed first place for Placer County for the 5th consecutive year in Sacramento’s annual competition.

“It was amazing. I didn’t actually know that it was the fifth year. I was just going in focusing on competing with Western Sierra and Rocklin,” Academic Decathlete Alexx Doolittle said. “And it was amazing to know that we did so well.”

The RHS team edged out its biggest competition, Western Sierra, by a little over 2,000 points.

“When the person was announcing that Western Sierra, our competition, got 35,000, we were super shocked because that was such a high score,” Doolittle said. “And when they said we Roseville got 37,000, we were just in shock.”

37,180.6 points broke Roseville’s own highest record by 11.5 points, while individuals records were broken in the process.

Sophomore Kaitlyn Ang was the biggest contributor on the team, beating out former academic decathlete Robbie Short with the highest points scored by an individual on Roseville’s team, ever.

“I’m really happy about that and I’m really proud. Especially since I didn’t think I would do that good, but I guess I’m a better guesser than I thought,” Ang said. “And I put in a lot more effort and it definitely showed.”

Ang looks forward to what’s to come in future AcaDeca competitions.

“It’s going to be interesting because I know that a lot of people will be leaving because most of them are seniors,” Ang said.

AP Comp. Gov. moves step closer to rollout

BY JAKE LUKASKO

j.lukasko@eyeofthetigernews.com

AP Government teacher Dana Dooley’s proposal for a fully weighted term of AP Comparative Government passed the first step to becoming a class: gaining the district’s Continuous Improvement Leadership Team’s approval. Roseville Joint Union High School District sites may be able to add the class to their course lists next year.

CILT is composed of administrators and teacher representatives chosen by each site, and is led by assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction Jess Borjon.

The next step for the course is approval from the district school board. The board will be voting at the next school board meeting Tuesday, Feb. 27.

If approved, AP Comparative Government will replace the unweighted quarter of Law and Justice that AP Gov students currently would be enrolled in.

Dooley gave a short presentation to the CILT team on what AP Comp Gov and the course curriculum entails.

“What a relief. I’m excited to see tangible progress made toward bringing this opportunity to our students,” Dooley said.

Junior Anuya Kamath is excited to take the course.

“It would definitley be a more useful class and probmore relevant to what we need to know about whats going on in the world,” Kamath said.

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NOTICIAS El distrito de Roseville implementará las cámaras de vigilancia POR KAIA WHITNEY

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Una causa ha sido revisado de nuevo: la posibilidad del instalamiento de las cámaras vigilantes en los campuses dentro del distrito, incluyendo nuestro propio, Roseville High School.

La instalación de cámaras vigilantes fue finalizada en la última junta directiva el 14 de enero. Con aprobar el plano de Measure D, las cámaras de vigilancia ahora son asequibles y se están instalando en el campus de Oakmont antes del comienzo del próximo año escolar.

La escuela de Oakmont está actuando como piloto para esta nueva instalación, y si mejor comportamiento es evidente, las cámaras se

esperan ser colocados en cada escuela en el distrito dentro del año siguiente.

Recientemente, Roseville ha sufrido con los actos de violencia racista, tales como las muchas esvásticas dibujadas sobre las paredes alrededor del campus el último semestre, y las recientes referencias al Klu Klux Klan con dibujos pintados en la pared más lejana de la sala de banda.

Con la colocación de las cámaras, el vandalismo y las tasas de robo se espera que caigan inmensamente.

Los administradores y jefes del distrito decidieron que algo debe cambiar para minimizar los actos de violencia. Los jefes del distrito están muy emocionados por finalmente cumplir esta política de cámaras después de muchos años.

“Se trata de mantener nuestro campus seguro para todos nuestros estudiantes y personal en todo momento. Esperemos que esta

sea una capa más de seguridad que pueda ayudar a prevenir los problemas que ocurran en primer lugar,” dijo la subdirectora de Oakmont, Sondra Myles.

Se espera que las cámaras se coloquen en las áreas comunes alrededor de nuestras escuelas, tales como espacios como el patio y la biblioteca. Sin embargo, se espera que muchas cámaras se coloquen alrededor de nuestro campus para garantizar la máxima seguridad.

El campus de Oakmont está esperando que 16 cámaras sean colocadas alrededor del perímetro de su campus. No se espera que los interiores estén cubiertos por vigilancia, pero las circunstancias pueden cambiar con el tiempo. Ellos principalmente quieren que grandes espacios como su estadio y estacionamientos sean vigilados en todo momento para limitar las acciones vandálicas.

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Se encuentra la escuela de Oakmont High School en donde se implementarán las cámaras de vigilencia. Los administradores del distrito esperan minimizar los actos de violencia por implementar estas cámaras.

El asistente principal anterior Jon Coleman está muy entusiasmado que las nuevas seguridades hayan sido implementadas en nuestra escuela, porque él siente que el retraso de la seguridad haya afectado la escuela.

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Estudiante en Roseville da justo en el blanco

Cambios en el programa de atletismo de Roseville High School

en el estado de California han tenido cámaras instaladas por años ahora, y han recibido grandes resultados en cuanto a mejorado el comportamiento. El distrito escolar de Roseville se esfuerza por obtener resultados similares al tomar estas precauciones futuras.

Esta gran inversión se espera crear un entorno de aprendizaje completamente seguro para los estudiantes en el distrito escolar de Roseville y para disminuir la cantidad de crímenes ofensivos y potencialmente peligros que ocurran en las escuelas de nuestro distrito.

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Con solo tres años de experiencia en tiro con arco, Aubree Hernández, estudiante en su primer año en Roseville High School, se ha clasificado la número uno en el estado para el tiro con arco femenino.

“Empecé el tiro con arco hace tres años, jugaba al fútbol competitivo básicamente durante toda mi vida y necesitaba algo para alejarme de eso,” dijo Hernández.

De acuerdo a Hernández el proceso de obtener el estado clasificado tomó tiempo y dedicación, sin embargo al final valió la pena para lograr uno de sus objetivos dentro del deporte. Hernández fue clasificada el año pasado y pasó por un proceso de tres torneos diferentes que duró aproximadamente un año para completarse.

Según Hernández, el tiro con arco le ha permit-

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ido participar en un deporte mucho más independiente, y le ha traído un sentido de confianza en sí mismo dentro de ella.

Según Hernández planea continuar con el tiro con arco en el futuro, y considera que el deporte es casi terapéutico “Es un poco relajante porque se puede alejar de todo el trabajo de la escuela y, a veces, si tienes problemas en casa, puedes ir al campo de tiro y tomar tu tiempo”, dijo Hernández.

Hernández atribuye a su padre, Len Hernández, como uno de sus mayores

seguidores. Len viaja y apoya a Aubree en todos y cada uno de sus torneos.

Desde la transición, Len ha apoyado a su hija a través de su viaje en el tiro con arco al viajar con ella a sus competiciones, animándola desde las gradas, e incluso ayudando al entrenador.

La capacidad de Hernández para alcanzar un rango tan alto tomó tiempo y dedicación, no sólo por su parte, sino por su entrenador también. Robert Moore ha estado entrenando a Hernández durante dos años, y está orgulloso de lo lejos que ha llegado Hernández.

Recientemente, el programa de atletismo en RHS sufrió numerosos cambios de personal. Comenzaron a practicar en las primeras semanas de Febrero y a pesar de haber un nuevo entrenador para las chicas, Joe Geddes, el nuevo entrenador de larga distancia Josh Errecart y el nuevo entrenador de sprints, Nick Newman, nuevamente promovido el entrenador en solitario Sondra Christian cree que esta próxima temporada será un éxito.

Este año, Sondra se convirtió en la entrenadora en solitario y con la ayuda de su nuevo personal, no se preocupa por la transición a la temporada.

Cuando se le preguntó sobre Errecart expresó su confianza en el entrenador de distancia. “Él es una gran figura

año en la preparatoria, sabía que quería estar en el equipo de baile de Roseville High School. El día en que se anunciaron las capitanas fue una reunión a la que no pude asistir. Todo lo que recuerdo es recibir un mensaje de texto de las otras capitanas diciendo: “Felicidades por ser una capitana!”

Mis ojos echaron una segunda mirada a mi teléfono porque no podían creer lo que estaban viendo. Estaba

tan confundida porque el mensaje de grupo tenía cuatro personas en lugar de dos, porque siempre hay sólo dos capitanas del equipo de baile.

Todavía a día de hoy, nadie sabe por qué el equipo de baile 2016-2017 tiene cuatro capitanas. Muchas asumen que las entrenadoras escogieron cuatro en vez de dos porque tuvieron problemas para escoger las dos mejores.

Tener cuatro capitanas ha

tenido sus pros y contras a lo largo de este año. Ha habido momentos en que tener cuatro capitanas ha sido beneficioso, pero al mismo tiempo más personas, más opiniones y conflictos de interés que tienen el potencial de llevar al drama.

Una de las muchas ventajas de tener cuatro capitanas es ser capaz de dividir el tedioso proceso de coreografía de una rutina, por lo tanto, no siempre estamos estresadas ​​con tanta respon-

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Se encuentra a Aubree Hernández haciendo tiro con arco en el campo de tiro. Hace tres años que Hernández hace tiro con arco.

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Se encuentra a los miembros del equipo de atletismo con su entrenador durante la práctica.

para el atletismo de RHS. Es muy conocido y muy respetado entre el personal y los atletas .”

También tiene confianza en la experiencia del nuevo entrenador de sprints, Nick Newman. Él enseña en Natomas, tiene una extensa experiencia en sprints.

El entrenador de distancia Josh Errecart está entrenando baloncesto femenino en la segunda ronda de playoffs; dice que la transición será muy fácil y está deseando trabajar con los chicos.

Su ausencia se recuperará rápidamente gracias

a sus años de experiencia como entrenador de atletismo y cross country.

“Ha estado bien, quiero decir que he entrenado larga distancia corriendo por un largo, largo tiempo. Entrené en un nivel de adultos y en el nivel de escuela secundaria también, no es que estoy empezando de nuevo, sino estoy volviendo.”

Emma Mays, corredor de vallas de 300 metros e hija del entrenador Sondra Christian también mostró entusiasmo por la próxima temporada.

Esta temporada parece brillante para Roseville.

sabilidad. Pero eso no significa que no haya muchas responsabilidades. Nos esforzamos constantemente por ser buenos ejemplos para nuestras compañeras del equipo. Como capitana, usted está siendo vigilado constantemente, por lo tanto usted tiene que ser más cauteloso de sus acciones y cosas que usted dice.

A pesar de que tener cuatro capitanas ha demostrado que es un buen método de tener liderazgo en el

equipo, también ha demostrado que tener dos capitanas probablemente habria sido la mejor decisión. Personalmente pienso que dos capitanas habrían sido más efectivos para el equipo, pero entiendo por qué cuatro fueron elegidas. Las responsabilidades se dividen más fácilmente entre dos capitáns de baile. Además, la probabilidad de drama se reduce con sólo dos capitanas, lo que beneficia a todos.

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Yaranon siblings dominate In-N-Out Burger by tarah johnson

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The family members filter through the door of their home sporadically – each one’s story of events at work that day more intense and riveting than the last.

For the Yaranon family, this is a daily routine.

The famous fast food chain fellow Californians crave and fondly know as In-N-Out Burger isn’t merely a place of refuge and relaxation for its sun baked customers, but a steady place of employment for five of the Yaranon siblings.

One of seven children, Roseville High School senior Leah Yaranon is the youngest and the last member of the family to secure a part time job at the restaurant that currently employs or has employed four of her older siblings, two of them being RHS alumni.

Jesse Yaranon, Class of 2015, and Ben Yaranon, Class of 2013, stumbled upon In-N-Out in their respective teenage years after their eldest siblings and haven’t left since.

Leah secured the job in January of 2016 and appreciates the guidance her siblings provide.

“I love working with my siblings. It’s a lot of fun.

It’s nice to get a lot of help from them, also I just learn from them too,” Leah said.

“A lot of people don’t have that at their work, so I’m really lucky.”

While a separation between work and home is usually essential for success in the workplace, for Leah, her closeness with her brother and sister both in and outside work is what makes them click.

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“We’re already really close and we’re not afraid to express that at work either. We’re crazy there too, and it’s nice because everybody knows us and they’re like ‘Oh, the Yaranons are here!’” Leah said.

Though the copious amounts of french fries and burgers produced at California’s favorite fast food chain on top of a rigorous time crunch might deter some people, Leah values the independence In-NOut grants her as well as a decent salary.

“It’s really nice having your own job and your own money and it’s really nice working at In-N-Out,” Leah said. “A lot of people don’t like working at fast food places or where its fast paced but it’s actually great because it’s really good pay and I don’t even have to work that much to get a good amount of money.”

The secondest youngest sibling of the Yaranon family, Jesse has recently transitioned from part time to full time at In-N-Out, resulting in frequent eighthour shifts. She credits her love for her job with her

siblings’ presence at her work place and the stability and lightness it provides.

“I always enjoy working with Leah and Ben at work. Just because I know that we’re close and it’s always fun. They’re good workers too, so it’s not like they’re not going to get anything done,” Jesse said. “It’s always fun with them, we can goof around and everyone else seems to really enjoy it, too.”

While figmentary smoke and mirrors typically cast a facade on sibling relationships in the public eye, according to Jesse, there’s nothing withheld at the job when it comes to inner family ties and personalities. Jesse reveals that working with Leah and Ben is a stepping stone to success.

“For me I like the criticism that I can take from my siblings. We know how to deal with the fact that we can be almost mean to each other and it’s not like we hate each other,” Jesse said. “I find it great because it’s shows we care and we want each other to do well at our job, it’s all out of love.”

TARAH JOHNSON EYE OF THE TIGER Left: RHS alums Jesse Yaranon and Ben Yaranon sit with their sibling RHS senior Leah Yaranon (right). Above: Leah Yaranon works the counter at In-N-Out Burger while her siblings flip burgers in the kitchen.

As post high school graduation suddenly transitions from an enclosed space to being at the mercy of the world, Ben attempts to earn himself a decent salary and a name for himself in lieu of a college education. With the job that’s sustained him since 2011 and a management position in the line of vision, Ben values the extra family time In-N-Out grants.

“All of my siblings are the most fun people to work with,” Ben said. “We were always close, and going to work together is just more time to be with each other and hangout. It’s like working with your best friends.”

With several years of experience under his belt, Ben tries to be a guiding figure to his younger sisters through their mutual workplace and personal life experiences in the hopes to teach them life lessons.

“I try to teach them to

not go at anything halfheartedly in life, because you only have so many precious years and you shouldn’t waste them doing something that’s not worth it,” Ben said.

Holding the title of California’s first ever drive-thru hamburger stand and best customer service, it was clear to the siblings’ mother, Theresa Yaranon, where she wanted her seven children to be employed when they made their move to Roseville in 2007.

Theresa believes In-N-Out has only strengthened the already closely knit bond her children share.

“When they come home from work they’re always talking about what happened that day and they talk for like 45 minutes to an hour in the kitchen.

They still have their keys in their hand and their work clothes still on,” Theresa said. “They’re always ask me ‘Guess what happened at work today?’ So they

talk about it a lot and that brings them closer together more in that way.”

Coming from a large family of her own, Theresa is familiar with the potential strain a hefty household can have on funds and salaries.

Trying to stay afloat when money is scarce and there’s one income supporting a family of nine, Theresa is proud of her kids for taking the initiative to support themselves and succeed under the circumstances.

“I’m really proud of them. We’re a large family, there’s seven children all together and Leah is the baby. We’re only on one income and my husband is self employed as well,” Theresa said. “So them getting jobs as early as they could while they were still in school was always going be something that we knew they would have to do, to support themselves. I think that’s really great.”

Foreign exchange inspires, matures senior by zach jose

z.jose@eyeofthetigernews.com

To many Roseville High School students, RHS is like a home. For nine months they find themselves eating together, learning together, and growing as a community.

To RHS senior Shoana Hunt however, her home for the past five months has been in France.

Last August, Hunt left on a foreign exchange trip where she studied abroad in Chambéry, France.

Hunt was inspired by RHS French teacher Suzanne Hoffman to embark on her foreign exchange trip.

“It was last year in December of 2015 and Mrs. Hoffman was talking about exchange students she just brought it up one time. I figured ‘why not ask more about it’?” Hunt said.

Hunt had long dreamed of visiting France in order to enhance her knowledge on its culture and language.

“I fell in love with the language when I was in seventh grade,” Hunt said.

“English learners want to go to England and I’m a French learner, I wanted to

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go to France.”

While in France, Hunt experienced life like that of a regular French teenager.

Hanging out with her host family and newfound friends, Hunt explored a vast new world.

“I went to school everyday and I tried out a couple of extra curricular activities,” Hunt explained. “I hung out with my friends and we did a lot of studying. We also went to the movies or out for coffee once in awhile.”

Beyond her student

life, Hunt got to experience many firsts across the Atlantic Ocean.

“Seeing snow for the first time, going sledding for the first time, and just being able to laugh and joke with friends and family in another language that isn’t English,” Hunt said.

“I felt really proud of myself being able to do that.”

Hoffman believes that Hunt’s French excursion has definitely elevated her knowledge of French culture.

“She’s matured a lot and

she definitely understands a lot more French than she did,” Hoffman said. “Her comprehension level has really increased a lot, and she definitely has a really strong understanding of French culture.

While she was away, Hunt’s friends and family had to adjust during the lengthy time she was gone, particularly her mother, Kris Hunt.

“It was kind of nerve wracking,” Kris said. “I was kind of a wreck. I just couldn’t focus on anything

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Top: Senior Shoana Hunt works in her drama class during her first week back from Chambéry, France. Right: Hunt visits the famous Eiffel Tower on her foreign exchange trip with her host sister.

except double checking all her stuff.”

Kris felt consoled when her daughter returned home safe and sound.

“It was funny when she came back, half of me was so relieved she was okay, and another part of me saw that she came back more mature and different in some ways and grew overall as a human being.”

Kris said.

Hunt’s friend, RHS junior Emily Botnen, missed Hunt but is glad she experienced new things.

“To have such a good friend leave so soon was a bummer,” Botnen said.

“And even though I know that it was an amazing experience for her, were all really glad to have her back.”

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Hernandez takes aim, shoots for victory

BY VIKTORIA BARR

v.barr@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School freshman Aubree Hernandez takes her place on the archery range, arms poised to shoot her next arrow.

Within three years, Hernandez rose to the number one rank in the state for Cub Female Compound archery.

“I started archery around three years ago,” Hernandez said. “I was playing competitive soccer for basically my whole life and I needed something to get away from that.”

Hernandez notes the process of achieving state rank took time and dedication, but believes it was well worth accomplishing her goals within the sport.

Hernandez was ranked last year and competed in three different tournaments that took approximately one year to complete.

“It’s a long process and it takes all year to get state ranked but it just it felt really good because I was working really hard and that was one of my goals that I accomplished from the beginning of archery, so it just felt great,” Hernandez said.

Hernandez participates in events that include shooting six rounds of six arrows at a distance of 50 meters, 40 meters, and 20 meters.

In Hernandez’s league, there are two different types of tournaments. In one, competitors shoot

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foam animals with orange centers for a target. Hernandez herself usually participates in the standard archery with the traditional yellow, red, and blue targets. Hernandez reflects that archery has given her an outlet to participate in a much more independent sport, and as a result has brought out a sense of self confidence within her.

“Archery has impacted me a lot. I get really excited when I get to go to these events and I think it’s healthy because it has brought this confidence out of me,whereas with soccer it was a team effort,” Hernandez said. “But with archery it’s all on me so if I perform well it makes me feel good.”

Hernandez plans to continue with archery in the future, and finds the sport to be almost therapeutic.

“It’s kind of relaxing because you get to get away from all your school work and sometimes if you have problems at home you can just go to the

range and just your take time,” Hernandez said.

Hernandez credits her father, Len Hernandez, as one of her biggest supporters. Len supports Aubree by traveling to each and every one of her tournaments.

Len was initially surprised to find his daughter wanted to quit soccer, but wanted also to support her in whatever sport she wanted to play. Since the transition Len has supported Aubree through her journey in archery in rooting for her from the sidelines and even helping out with coaching.

“I’m very proud of her for what she has achieved up to this point and I really encourage her to continue to strive and move forward,” Len said. “I hope that she continues to fulfill her dreams within archery.”

Hernandez’s ability to achieve such a high rank took time and dedication, not only on her part, but by her coach as well. Robert Moore has been coaching Hernandez for two

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Top left: Freshman Aubree Hernandez placed first in the state for Women’s Archery this past year. Above: Hernandez aims for her target at her last compeition in Redding, CA. Below: Hernandez works in her math class.

years, and is proud of how far she’s come. Moore believes Hernandez’s dedication shows through the amount of time she spends on the range.

“Aubree reaches scoring plateaus on her path to a perfect score, each higher plateau takes twice as much dedication and effort as the last,” Moore said. “If she continues with determination and focus within a solid mental game she could do very well.”

Through her path of archery Hernandez has gained friends outside her area code, one of which she met two years ago at 3D Nationals located in Redding, California. Hannah Mathison, a fellow archer and newfound friend of Hernandez, continues to

Junior sells customized watercolors

BY GABRIELLA MARTIN g.martin@eyeofthetigernews.com

For Roseville High School junior Kylie Irwin, art transcends personal experience. She is making her original watercolor works available for anyone who would like to buy one.

Irwin showcases her artwork on her Instagram account “@watercolorsbyky.” Starting off with drawings, Irwin decided to explore watercolor painting.

“I’ve always just kind of liked art,” Irwin said.

“It was just something I always liked to do when I was younger.”

Each work typically sells for around $7, depending on the sizes and detailing of the paintings.

“I started doing it a couple years ago and just kind of stopped, and so I just picked it up again pretty recently and decided to do more with it,” Irwin said.

Irwin has been able to pursue her art more frequently lately, as her schedule has allowed more time.

“For a long time I’ve been involved with sports, so since I’m not doing that anymore it’s a way for me to express myself,” Irwin said. “I guess in a way that’s kind of different than others.”

The types of art Irwin produces comes from what she loves and has a deep passion for. She hopes to be personable in her customized art in order to display meaning.

“I also like to paint any of the states and use a flower to represent a specific city, so that it becomes

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show her support for Hernandez by staying in touch through social media and phone calls. Hernandez and Mathison’s long distance friendship has only grown stronger through their mutual interest in

archery.

“I always make an effort to watch her compete,” Mathison said. “Watching her makes me happy to see how far she’s come and I’m incredibly proud of her.”

HUMANS OF RHS RHS freshman Kyli Quile immersed herself in new clubs, sports, and opportunities in her first year of high school. Quile values the close bond she shares with her family and community that allowed her to withstand the devastating blow of her little sister’s cancer diagnosis two years ago.

With her sister’s remission in the line of vision, Quile looks forward to discovering the depth of RHS through her remaining high school years and any new experiences that come her way.

-Tarah Johnson

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Junior Kylie Irwin paints her own watercolor art and customizes them for whomever is interested. Irwin’s art sells for various prices depending on size and customization.

more personable and has meaning for whoever it’s going to,” Irwin said.

“This way it has a sense of home rather than another cute quote.”

For Irwin, painting has sentimental value for her and she feels it’s a way that she can express herself and enjoy it as one of her hobbies. Irwin’s mother Stephanie Irwin is proud of her daughter and her passion.

“I am so proud of Ky,” Stephanie said. “Not just her work, but because she found something she loves doing and found a way to share her love and talent with others.”

Stephanie feels that Kylie really puts the thought and a piece of herself into the work that she does.

“She thinks about who they are and what is meaningful to them.” Stephanie said. “That is what art should be about.”

Irwin’s friend, junior Kate Reilly, has purchased one of her paintings and loves what she does.

“I think she’s really

good at it and I think she has a natural talent and it’s just really cool to see her really pursue it,” Reilly said.

Reilly is supportive of her friend and hopes for her business to expand.

“I hope that her business gets bigger and she get’s more known and more people buy her stuff because it’s really good,” Reilly said. “I’m proud of her because she’s doing it and she’s not letting anything stop her from doing it and really just trying to pursue it and get better at it and grow.”

Irwin initially started out by experiencing and living in the moment of her business, which has now turned into a possible overtime goal.

“My goal was just kind of to show people what I was doing. I didn’t really have a goal originally but then it turned into ‘Okay, I want to see this grow and I want to see what I can do with it,’” Irwin said. “I’d say I met my goal of allowing others to see my work.”

COURTESY KYLIE IRWIN

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According to Stephanie, she feels her daughter should put just as much passion into other things as she does with her watercolor art.

“My only wish is that she would put the same passion into cleaning her room,” Stephanie said.

“

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My sister just turned 6 years old. She was diagnosed in January 2015 with Leukemia. It was a really hard time but she’s in remission now and she’s doing a lot better, treatment should end in March. It was really difficult for me and my siblings but luckily I have a really supportive family and friends who were always there for me.

At first it was extremely hard to get back in the swing of school because I was gone for a long period of time when we found out she had cancer. But my friends and my teachers were really understanding because I’ve been going through it for so long.

It can be really hard dealing with a sick family member but I feel like if you’re open to your relatives and communicate the struggles you’re feeling that it can be a lot easier, and you can always find people in your community. I have some friends who were also dealing with some family members with cancer so we were all open about it and we all helped each other out.

I’m only a freshman and I love it here. I’m having a lot of fun with sports and clubs and I’ve met amazing friends. Now that my baby sister is getting better I can really get to explore this school and what it has to offer.

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Teacher political commentary dilutes learning C hecking personal beliefs at the door stands as a longtime educational standard.

However, following the recent presidential election and an increase in racial hate crimes at Roseville High School, we’ve noticed a jump in the amount of political commentary from staff.

Teachers are people. They have opinions. They voted in the November election.

They read headlines and social media posts before school that shape their perspectives. Political and social awareness is important, but personal beliefs that obstruct learning are not.

Teachers carry great moral responsibility in shaping future generations, so while condemning swastikas on school walls may have a place in the classroom, joking about a politician’s appearance does not.

Roseville Joint Union High School District superintendent Ron Severson sent a staff-wide email last Wednesday that emphasized the importance of supporting students and urged

staff to uphold a welcoming environment at RJUHSD sites and in classrooms in today’s political climate.

This is not a new or local request. Following the election last November, Roseville Secondary Education Association president Brandon Dell’Orto sent an email urging RJUHSD staff to proceed with caution when voicing their political opinions in class.

Consequences of educators voicing extreme beliefs vary around the nation. Last week, a Washington firstgrade teacher was placed on administrative leave after urging people to report undocumented immigrants in her Facebook post.

California Education Code does not clearly list guidelines regarding a teacher’s personal beliefs, and the district school board policy lacks guidelines regarding this issue beyond Administrative Regulations 6141.2 which stresses the importance of religious toleration and 4119.25 which condemns the dedication of class time to a teacher’s individual political gain or

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campaign and briefly condemns the blatant supporting of candidates during an election.

But a lack of rules isn’t the problem – not structuring lessons around personal views should be common sense. For example, if a teacher’s morning consists of a cup of coffee and a

misogynistic tweet from the president, he or she shouldn’t walk into class and lecture on women’s rights to students expecting a trigonometry lesson.

Student learning takes the backseat when a recent event or scandal dominates class time. Students shouldn’t have to rush to the

next period or exhaust 30 minutes of intervention because a politically-charged tangent derailed class.

However, social science classes may benefit from discussing curriculum with the context of real-world current events.

That being said, teachers must come to the discussion

with even hands and a wellread perspective. Being a social science teacher is far from easy in this political climate, but exceptional educators weigh multiple factors and potential student reactions when facilitating class conversation about an issue.

Introducing personal examples or opinions is not the only way to create emotional ties between students and curriculum. Teachers should proceed with caution knowing their inclusion may take away from the actual lecture.

Staff should apply caution when it comes to all types of personal beliefs.

Teachers face unprecedented challenges in the classroom when grappling with unprecedented world events.

It’s difficult to be a social science teacher in this kind of political climate. However, we should have high expectations for our teachers.

(This article represents the views of the 2016-17 editorial board.)

Inadequate parking makes strict enforcement unjust

BY DOMINIC TAYLOR

d.taylor@eyeofthetigernews.com

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or those who own a car at Roseville High school, you understand the dilemma of parking. Unlike the surrounding schools, Roseville has a small, old-fashioned parking lot reserved for teachers, a few select students and of course the crowded senior lot.

The remaining vehicles are left to fend for themselves, scavenging for any spots that might be open in

other parking spaces.

To make matters worse, almost all the streets that are near the campus have parking restrictions, assigning tickets with ridiculous values to any cars that violate the “7 a.m. to 3 p.m.” law by merely parking in the poorly defined areas, even though they don’t block local residents’ driveways or sidewalks. The streets that have no parking restrictions are sparse and usually far away from campus, causing a walk every day before and after school. Why the restriction?

The parking restriction does not make any sense, but the simple logic behind why there shouldn’t be a law on parking does.

RHS is 104 years old. The school and the town devel-

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oped during a time in which very few families had cars.

This possibly explains why little land was set aside for a

parking lot. The homes surrounding the campus and the families within them almost certainly did not come

before the school, meaning the school had the initial right to the land, designating it a “school zone.”

The residents were aware that they were purchasing a home near a school. They should know that there are going to be cars driving around their house in the morning and afternoon.

Their houses aren’t driveway deficient; they all have space for cars to be situated on the property, leaving no need for additional streetcar space.

This should change because of the fact that we are required to come to school by law and the fact that the residents were not forced to choose those homes by law Instead of the visiting team getting to receive or defer and the home team choosing the side, the home team is receiving and choosing the side, leaving the visitors at a disadvantage.

Surveillance cameras would intrude on campus privacy JAKE LUKASKO

j.lukasko@eyeofthetigernews.com

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t the last school board board meeting on January 24, the board voted on whether or not to revise Board Policy 3515. The revised policy forbids the placement of security cameras “where students, staff, or community members have a reasonable expectation of privacy.”

The supposed use of the security cameras is to discourage and record fighting, theft and property damage.

However, the uselessness of the cameras, combined with ambiguity posed by this wording, seems troublesome.

This revision may allow cameras to be placed in the classroom, although there is no current plan. The school board members and district administrators either endorse this or have no issue with the placement of camera systems in the classroom. This incredibly concerning to me. They have signed onto this potential invasion.

At the meeting I attended, board president Scott Huber said there is not a reasonable expectation of privacy in the classroom.

Where and how are students to speak in confidence? The classroom serves as an important place for dialogue and placing this massive barrier on that important dialogue, one that may record audio, sets a dangerous Orwellian precedent for the privacy of faculty and students. Students and teachers should

have the liberty to speak their mind to the extent they can already. Perhaps there isn’t a reasonable standard of privacy in classroom, but there isn’t an unreasonable standard of privacy in general. Students and teachers, currently, can engage in private discourse without fear or concern.

How many serious cases of vandalism has Roseville High dealt with in the past year? One, maybe two, cases? Very few cases at all.

There is no argument to be made about these cameras preventing vandalism if very few cases exist. The camera systems and the adherence to the regulations required to implement such systems aren’t cheap and spawn a dangerous precedent.

If surveillance cameras were to come to our campus after Oakmont High School’s pilot program next

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school year, the funding required for purchase and installation would be a waste.

The facilities funds spent could instead be directed towards things of actual importance. I, and probably everyone else, would prefer to not have to walk through puddles on my way to class over being filmed.

Drain Lake Roseville be-

fore you focus on recording me, please.

Let’s reduce the number of soaked shoes before we try to deter theft, fighting and vandalism. At least shoes actually get soaked.

While we are worrying about things that don’t happen often, let’s hang some garlic in the classrooms to ward off vampires and car-

ry around crucifixes, just in case we come across one. It seems to be just as likely.

On the topic of theft and fighting, cameras provide little – especially when you subtract and pay attention to their cost and the precedent from the few benefits of cameras.

Whenever a fight happens, there are a dozen witnesses and a student trying to film along with a yard duty and a teacher.

Theft rarely happens, if at all. It is nearly non-existent. I can’t recall a single instance of theft in my over two and a half years of attending this high school.

While adding security cameras would most certainly deter theft, the dangerous precedent created and the cost outweigh the good of these systems.

Privacy is priceless. To place a price tag on privacy is to disregard privacy.

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Honor past, present black achievements

BY TARAH JOHNSON

t.johnson@eyeofthetigernews.com

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hile an honorary month celebrating our nation’s most prominent and innovative black leaders, abolitionists, educators is supposed to feel empowering and riveting, I would like the flaring horns and balloons to stop for just one second.

This isn’t a demand for an already underappreciated month to retreat further into the backs of people’s minds, but an ode for it to come forth and stay a little while longer.

In an ideal world, Black History Month wouldn’t be necessary and instead the acknowledgment of powerful black leaders and figures would be year round.

The concept of Black History Month would be ludicrous, because people already appreciate all the phenomenal innovations African-Americans have brought.

When you’re as young as kindergarten and naivety is at its peak, you’re taught the framework behind influential black beings such as MLK and, in some schools, Harriet Tubman.

As you transition to secondary education, flounderings of black history are almost half-heartedly thrown

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in, in an attempt to fulfill the already ebbing presence of black prominence in American education.

Suddenly you’re graduating and hooray, you’re suddenly free of having to sit through lectures praising black leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X! No more pretending to care about black figures who weren’t as recognized and forcing a smile when Black Student Union makes it their mission to educate both the ignorant and the curious. What a relief; can I get an “amen”?

Don’t mistake my sarcasm for bitterness, but take it for factual proof that there is a problem here.

BHM is rarely acknowledged by young adults and beyond who no longer have to sit through forced talk of black heroes and excellence in school, but yet a select few still have time to complain about the month’s existence at all.

For just one short month, we honor black figures. If that isn’t a slap in the face, I don’t know what is.

Literally the shortest month in a calendar year is set aside to barely teach

about black excellence.

While we’re here and tethered to the “standard” high school education, let’s make more of an effort to educate the uneducated: the painfully ignorant.

Let’s bypass the mediocre standard curriculum of MLK and Abraham Lincoln, whose iconic history is an essential part of our nation, but has been beaten into us each and every year starting from the age of seven.

These are important figures – don’t get me wrong here – but I wish to dig deeper into black history for my sake the sake of my peers. I wish to uncover the secret gems, the unacknowledged figures whose lack of prominence is mistaken for nothingness.

Why keep focusing on the same people throughout our schooling? We could easily delve deeper into rich African-American history.

Let’s learn about figures such as Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughn: three black mathematicians who assisted and played a critical role in NASA’s space-race – which we won.

That’s right. Three black women playing a key role in beating the Russians to the moon.

This should get the Nationalists fired up about African-American figures beyond MLK and Abraham Lincoln.

Let’s learn about Ida B. Wells: a black journalist and activist who made it her mission to stop oppression and who is a founding member of the National As-

sociation for the Advancement of Colored People Let’s break from this preconceived notion that BHM’s only purpose is to highlight our rich past and instead ring in the future, for our black innovators of our current nation are just as important as the ones who shaped it for us.

While Carter G. Woodson, the man behind the integration of BHM into our society, would be honored that his initial “Negro History Week” has morphed into a month long celebration, the acknowledgment of Black history for a mere 28 out of the 365 days in a year is a slap in the face.

Our future is bright and full of black innovators and entrepreneurs. BHM shouldn’t be oriented to the past, but rather a blend of historic leaders, current innovators and future leaders.

If you take offense to my blatant accusations of a lack of interest in Black history in this supposedly unified establishment, visit RHS’ very own first ever Black Student Union.

Designed to educate and welcoming to any color, age or sexual orientation.

Our goal is to educate the ignorant and strengthen inward bonds in a safe community.

If you are revolted by RHS’ recent act of racism on one of our walls being marked by the poignant acronym ‘KKK’ and the infamous swastika during the month where black people are supposed to be celebrated, visit BSU. I would love to see you there.

Twitter poll doesn’t squarely represent juniors

BY BRIAN NUEVO

b.nuevo@eyeofthetigernews.com

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ver winter break, the class of 2018 Twitter account ran a Twitter poll asking what type of music would be prefered at Junior Prom.

The options were a DJ or student-playlist. The poll resulted in 187 of the 236 votes voting for a playlist rather than the normal DJ. As a junior, I felt the Twitter poll was an inaccurate representation of our class.

Rather than tweeting a poll, the junior class officers should let the juniors vote the same way we vote for dance court or sending

out an email asking teachers of juniors to get a hold of votes.

This way would provide the most accurate representation and let the entire junior class know the results instead of word-of-mouth.

I am not even sure 236 people will attend the dance – maybe I’m incorrect on that one, but we’ll see.

I’m no Sherlock Holmes, but I’m starting to suspect that the vote may have included responses may not have been exclusive to juniors.

This means that other grade levels, and maybe people from other schools, decided that we will have a student-made playlist.

I, and many others, feel like the student playlist won’t deliver to the expectations of students right now.

I mean, why would we trust each other’s tastes in music

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more than a DJ who knows what to put in a playlist to keep things together.

Our music tastes differ greatly. The music could go from rap, to country, to rock, to a slow song.

I highly doubt that students can form a better playlist than a DJ who does this as a job. Not just throwing on one or two songs because you, and you specifically, like them.

The money we could potentially save by doing this ourselves must be nice though. That’s one perk I see in this entire thing.

But where is that money going? More decor would be a great addition to the dance.

The playlist could also push blame onto fellow students. Rather than having the DJ take all the flack for horrible music, the blame

moves to the students, which could create conflict.

I haven’t heard about a song limit that would apply to each student. Can one student put 10 or more songs on the playlist?

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that there is a limit. (I just don’t know the limit.)

Also, I need to address the fact that some people will request songs as a joke, which can just ruin the night.

Sure, I’d love to listen to Soulja Boy during the dance, but some people will request stuff like Nickelback– artists we all love to hate.

While the new studentplaylist doesn’t really sound great to me, I hope it works out well for everyone.

And who knows? Maybe you’ll see me dance to Nickelback.

More captains yields more conflict, greater responsibility

BY VIVIANA GOMEZ

v.gomez@eyeoftehtigernews.com

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fter my final dance team performance last Wednesday at the varsity boys basketball game, I decided to reflect upon my two years being on the team.

I have always dreamed of being a dance team captain. Since my freshman year, I knew that I wanted to be on the Roseville High School dance team. The

day that the captains were announced, I was not able to attend the meeting. All I remember is receiving a text message from the other captains saying, “Congratulations on being a captain with us!”

My eyes took a second look at my phone because they couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

I was so confused about why the group message had four people instead of two.

Every past dance team had only two captains, rather than four.

To, this day, no one knows why the 2016-17 dance team has four captains. Many think that the

coaches picked four instead of two because they had trouble picking the best two.

Having four captains has had its pros and cons throughout the season.

There have been moments where having four captains has been beneficial, but at the same time the more the people, the more the opinions and conflicts of interest; which has the potential of leading to drama.

One of the many perks of having four captains is being able to split up the tedious process of choreographing a routine, therefore we are not always stressed with so much responsibility. But

that doesn’t mean that there aren’t many responsibilities. We constantly strive to be good examples to our other teammates.

As a captain, you are constantly being watched and treated as a role model, therefore you have to be more cautious of your actions and things that you say.

Even though having four captains has proved that it’s a good method of increasing team leadership, it has also shown that having two captains probably could’ve been the better decision.

With two captains, meeting up outside of class would be a whole lot easier,

simply due to the fact that there are two less schedules to deal with.

I personally think that two captains would have been more effective for the team, but understand why four were chosen.

Responsibilities are divided more easily amongst two dance captains.

Plus, the likelihood of drama reduces with just two captains– which benefits everyone.

All captains have different qualities and ideas that bring an unmatched uniqueness to the team. With an increase of captains, an increase of team leadership followed.

LETTERS FROM A SENIOR

Don’t procrastinate, value time

BY DELANEY GRIMES

opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

Each spring semester issue, a senior will reflect on an aspect of their experiences at Roseville High School. Guest Delaney Grimes writes the second installment of Letters from a Senior.

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ime management has been interwoven into each of our lives since we were young.

In middle school these skills are put to the test, in high school we are coerced into mastering them through the relentless hours of work.

It’s commonly believed that teachers are unaware of the fact their students have responsibilities outside of the their classroom.

The truth is, teachers are more than aware of this reality than they lead us to believe. The issue is that many of them expect that at this stage in the game, we have mastered our daily routines.

We cannot avoid this controversy; our only option as students is to adapt to the rigor presented on our paths to educated lives, while avoiding failure.

A difficult task to take on, I agree, but a substantial element of achieving ideal time management is avoiding procrastination.

As teenagers, we tend to overestimate our abilities– especially when it comes to how well we can complete an assignment in a limited period of time.

Not only does this constrain our ability to produce exceptional work, but it heightens the stress that is already consuming us. Procrastination is a choice, one that I myself am guilty of.

I am able to tell you that the concept “due tomorrow, do tomorrow” is not one that I would advocate.

Teachers are incessantly telling us “not to wait until the last minute” but this request has become a stage for antics about waiting until the last minute.

That would be my advice to anyone in the education system, or anyone at all for that matter: do not wait.

The older we get, the more coerced we are into believing that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but the fact of the matter is, it is not too late for any of us, even me.

Do not let the wicked tendencies of time management preempt your capacity to yield exceptional work.

We all have the innate ability to be successful, however procrastination will be an inevitable and unavoidable temptation in our lives, one we must evade to move toward a successful life.

Of all the evils I have faced in high school, procrastination has been the most menacing to overcome.

We are regularly instructed to use our time wisely, but when the repetitiveness of this desensitizes its significance, it loses its power of influence.

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Freshman utilizes talent to meet class requirement

BY CLAIRE OERTLY AND VICTORIA WILKINSON g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School freshman Cassidy Noonan is putting on a short musical and dance performance for her pre-AP Global Citizens Project with all proceeds going to St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Noonan wanted to base her project on of her passions for performing arts while also giving back to her community.

“My passion has always been singing, dancing and performing and my teacher was talking about what our passions were and I was trying to think of a way to give back to the community by doing something I’m passionate about,” Noonan said.

Noonan was pleased with her idea as it fulfilled both of her criteria of wanting to give back to the community while also enjoying herself.

“I felt like the performance was a really good way because I can fundraise for a good cause and I also get to do what I love.” Noonan said.

Noonan recruited her friends to help her put on the performance and they are both supportive of her chosen cause and excited to link up and build for the movement.

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Freshman Cassidy Noonan is pictured above in her drama class performing. Noonan put her passion and talent to use in order to meet her pre-AP Global Citizen Project requirements. She plans to put donate all profits to St. Jude Children Hospital.

RHS freshman and friend of Noonan Laurel Bane is the main choreographer for the performance and was honored that she was who Noonan first had in mind and approached to help not only her but to help those in need as well.

“I’m really happy she

approached me first about it,” Bane said. “Doing something for other people is much different than doing it for yourself because when you’re doing it for yourself and other people it makes you feel much better about what you’re putting your effort into.”

Yummy Poke puts spin on sushi

Initially, Noonan wanted to keep her donations local. She later discovered that donating to Kaiser or Sutter would result in the money being sent out to other organizations and charieties, she changed her location of funding.

Noonan wanted to find a

charity that needed and offered more help .

“I found St. Judes and I really liked that, the idea is that anyone who goes to St. Judes doesn’t pay for their treatment and I thought that was a really good idea,” Noonan said. “I wanted to give back.”

According to Bane, there is a lot of work going into the performances in terms of choreographing.

This has been difficult for Bane sine she has been working with different people at different skill levels.

“Teaching people who have danced for a long time and people who haven’t with different levels of experience has been a little hard,” Bane said. “But I think everyone in the group has worked hard and put effort into the choreography I’m teaching them.”

Bane finished teaching the last performance dance on Monday and, in Bane’s opinion, everyone is now ready to finally get on stage and put on the fundraiser.

“There was a lot of time spent in my garage and in my bedroom just kind of dancing around, throwing ideas around,” Bane said.

“It took a long time but we had a great time and I think everyone was excited to finish and learn.”

The fundraising performance will take place on March 4 at 7:30 pm in the J.B. Gale theatre and will run over the course of 30 minutes. The show will include a variety of music and dance numbers coined from various musicals.

There will be an entr fee of $5 for a ticket.

FASHION: JUNIOR EMILY BOTNEN

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Classic cuts, such as the Peter Pan collar, and cutesy colors are where junior Emily Botnen derives her quirky taste in fashion. Color pallettes are the support system of her style, she favors yellows, reds and greens.

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Yummy Poke, located on Blue Oaks boulevard, seperates and stirs up sushi to create a fresh twist on a popular entree. The bowl is all personally made, similar to the style of chain restaraunt Chipotle.

BY GABI HUTSON

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

As a picky eater with picky friends, it seems like all we ever can agree upon to eat is sushi, and that’s what most of my diet consists of. But, after eating sushi four times a week it gets pretty tiring. Yummy Poke on Blue Oaks seemed like a godsend for my boring eating habits. For those of you who don’t know: poke is basically sushi unrolled and thrown in a bowl.

It’s like a buildyour- own type situation so you get to pick your base of either rice, brown rice or vegetables. From there you choose three scoops of whatever kind of fish you want and then all kinds of topping that you could usually find in sushi (I personally opt for avo-

cado, masago and sesame seeds).

Tastewise, let me just say it’s basically sushi with small changes that make it a little bit different. The rice is some of the best rice I’ve eaten in my entire life and I’ve had a lot of different

Three-scoop bowl ($10.50) kinds of rice throughout the years. Altogether the bowl is just super fresh, it avoids the problem that other bowl foods have, such as

the Chipotle burrito bowls, which get repetitive and hard to eat because of their sheer boringness I was pleasantly surprised to find you get to create your own bowl from complete scratch, I really appreciate this because even when I do go get sushi I often annoy the waiters with my modifications, (yes I am that picky) but when I get to pick every little detail of my bowl for myself I don’t have to say “take this off, please” or “and add this” The bowls are generously sized, I often get them after school and feel like I could go the rest of that day without eating.

The smaller three scoop is what I often go for because I don’t have a large appetite and, as I said previously, it fills me up with no problem.

Color coordination is key to junior Emily Botnen’s sense of style. Botnen wears a wide array of color pallettes. In particular, she is drawn towards “bright, vibrant colors.”

Botnen dresses to impress, but drama practice sometimes calls for a lazy day.

BY GABI HUTSON

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

As someone who has a class with you I know you like to split your days half- and -half where you like to have more laid back days and then other where you’re more like “look at me, I’m the star of the show.” So what is it that compels you to dress up when you do?

A lot of my lazier days have to do with because I do theater so if I have a dance rehearsal that day, I kinda have to dress down because I can’t be wearing

a skirt and a cute top and be trying to dance or I’ll look like a fool. So I have to dress down on those days. But I usually do, if I know I’m gonna be hanging with people I want to impress later that day, then I try harder to dress up a little better For your more dressier days, what kind of style do you go for?

I really like color coordinating my outfits. Like, I have really cool yellow high tops I’m wearing right now and I also have a matching yellow raincoat.

And so I like to incorporate colors with that and for, if I’m wearing that, I wear more pastel colors. But then I also have outfits like the the outfit that I’m wearing in the pictures where I have the red rose on my shirt and the red scrunchy and then the green corduroy skirt with the green socks so I like when all the colors kind of go together.

It makes me happy.

What color palettes do you usually tend to lean towards?

It kind of varies. I like more of the classic clothes like Peter Pan collars and skirts and things like that.

Those things are sometimes rare so if I see one I like I kind of just grab it and from there I’ll piece it together with what I already have.

So what are some other things that inspire you in terms of people or trends?

I get really inspired more so by colors. Yeah, mainly it’s just colors. I really like yellow, so I incorporate a lot of yellows into the clothes I wear and a lot of reds and greens. I incorporate a lot of that into the clothing that I wear. So, I’m always instantly drawn to something by the color when I’m shopping, and I definitely gravitate more towards vibrant, bright colors.

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Psychological horrors creep into theaters

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Daniel Kaluuya delivers a show-stopping performance in his newest film Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, this film is the horror genre’s newest gem, shining through its writing, directing, and performing.

Dane DeHaan serves another stellar performance in psycho horror A Cure for Wellness. He plays protaganist Lockhart, a Wall Street tycoon trying to retrieve his business partner from a mental hospital.

Get Out rides line between comedy and horror genres

Oddities convolute Cure for Wellness

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BY SOPHIE COOK

s.cook@eyeofthetigernews.com

As one of the 10 or so movies to have 100% on Rotten Tomatoes before it even came out, Get Out had a massive reputation to live up to. The release of the first trailer back in October had people thoroughly shook. A psychothriller directed by Jordan Peele -who you may know from Key and Peele, you know, from the “Substitute Teacher” sketch your friends are still quoting? yeah, that guy- has gotta be interesting. I was super curious to see what a comedy genius like Peele could bring to the horror genre.

The story centers around a man named Chris who is in an interracial relationship and is about to meet his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. However her parents don’t know he is black and that makes him a bit uncomfortable. They get there and all seems to be going well at first, but quickly Chris realizes that there is clearly something more sinister going on behind the scenes.

Immediately from the first trailer, I was totally hooked on this story. It’s really unique and different and a nice change pace to see a story told from this perspective. It, of course, has some of the classic horror tropes like jump scares, figures walking behind main characters accompanied by what sounds like someone slamming their fist on a piano, things popping out at you, etc. However, the film makes up for this with its rare story line and they way in which the story is told.

There’s a clear and obvious satire element in this film that acts as a type of commentary about the awkwardness that’s felt when someone is thrown into an environment where they may not be the most comfortable - i.e. the main character being being the only black person in the room. There’s one scene in particular where Chris and his girlfriend are at a party and everyone there is middle aged and white.

Some of the first things they say to him have something to do with his race, trying to connect with him on this black thing

or trying to find a way to overly prove to him that they aren’t racist. It’s not hateful but it certainly gives perspective on how someone might feel when it seems like they’re being seen for their color first, rather than who they are as an individual. It’s definitely a side to the bigger picture of racism. The directing and cinematography are amazing. A few of the best shots are up close, slow and creeping - which is the same pace of the movie as you as an audience member try to piece together what the hell is going on. This is a film you have to watch twice. After watching it, I tried to think back to all the clues that were given that I had missed and almost every piece of dialogue is a setup or hint to something more important.

It’s also a film for anyone who has screamed at the screen hoping the main character would do what you want them to. My favorite character, the main character Chris’ best friend, is very representative of an audience member watching this story play out as a bystander and he’s amazing. He provides so much comic relief and breaks up the pacing of the film just enough to give you a little break from squirming in your seat.

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BY GABI HUTSON

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

The new Gore Verbinski film, A Cure for Wellness, comes off like a season of American Horror Story stretched across two- and -a -half hours.

While watching I found myself filled with disgust and riddled with fascination – the same feelings I get when viewing the FX series. This movie comes with a hard R- rating and for good reason. It’s filled with disturbing scenes that I can’t believe the actors willing filmed.

In the case of Cure, and many other twisted dark movies, I feel that it is unappreciated now but will, in years to come, be praised as ahead of its time.

As a cinephile I can say that I, and many others like me, have an appreciation for shock factor films.

What others see as tasteless and cheap, I see as an understated art piece. For

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one, the movie is visually stunning, the directing style hauntingly beautiful. It was chilling and eerie yet oddly captivating at the same time. I applaud Verbinski for his innovative style, as I have never seen a horror movie filmed this way before.

While I do appreciate the genuinely twisted nature of A Cure for Wellness, after about two hours I find the oddities tiring and I feel as if they were trying to fill up the last thirty minutes with gut twisting scenes to hold onto audiences’ attentions. I found myself asking, “What was the purpose of that scene?” or “Why was 10 minutes of the film consumed by a scene of Dane DeHaan drowning in a pool of eels? Why are there eels at all?” This is disappointing because the plot was actually good but it was just so convoluted that it’s hard to appreciate.

This film is just too weird to succeed at the box

SMELL THE ROSES WITH THALIA BENNETT Each issue, senior Thalia Bennett recommends the little things to check out in the entertainment world and encourages readers to stop and smell the roses.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is puttinng its shoes on.

- Mark Twain

APPRECIATE Youtube is a treasure trove of subjects, and slants, and voices. From the mundane to the unordinary, Youtube houses it.

And it is for that express potential that it can be used for more than just a refuge from boredom, and instead as a means of learning and exploring for the sake of it.

Though there is infinite possibility in tailoring one’s list of favorites, there are a few channels I recommend.

1. Ted Talk: Worming its way into an English lesson at one time or another during high school, Ted Talks are an institution students know well enough. At their essence, they are a platform for diversity of thought. They showcase speakers from all walks of life and belief systems, and can prove to be surpris-

ingly enlightening to an open mind.

2. Prince Ea: Amongst other things, Prince Ea’s videos are constituted of poetry with a message. He has a definite agenda, but whether or not it is something that it is agreed with, it is presented with gusto.

3. Vice: Vice is a channel of multifarious case studies and features from around the world, spun in a documentary-esque style.

4. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: John Stewart passed the mantle of the Daily Show to Trevor Noah a little over a year ago now, and in that time Noah has established himself as a comedian and an intellect worthy of the post. The Daily Show remains just as bitingly satirical of politics and the state of affairs as before.

READ The Fire Next Time is a pairing of two essays written as letters: the first being addressed to Baldwin’s nephew; and the second to the reader, a vast audience of citizens.

Originally published in 1963, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, a civil rights luminary, is a capsule of the United States’s turbulent past. On the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baldwin seized the opportunity to characterize the experiences of his life and the state of his nation as he knew it, as he saw it, and as he hoped it would be. He boldly personalizes and critically considers the trials, triumphs and tribulations borne by all AfricanAmericans. The content pulls no punches and the narration is stirring. From the first pages of the book, Baldwin establishes himself as a man of conviction, driven by truth and intellect. By the last, his voice stands taller.

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However, I for one appreciated Verbinski avoiding any really recognizable stars for this kind of movie.

The cast he picked was perfect, Dane DeHaan was magnificent as Lockhart a young wall street hotshot who seems to be being shoved into an early grave and Mia Goth (she gave me super cute, 70s Shelley Duvall vibe) as the traumatic girl stunted at the age of 12.

Both actors were superb in their parts especially DeHaan but I expected this from him as he shines in every role he plays. I also just really love Dane DeHaan’s existent and looking at Dane DeHaan, so I could just be biased and I probably am.

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Netflix could be the rise or demise of millennial culture

Each issue, senior Sophie Cook comments on different aspects of pop culture.

BY SOPHIE COOK

s.cook@eyeofthetigernews.com

I’m a basic trendy teen that loves Netflix and here’s why...

I’ve wasted half of my teenage life away binge watching shows. Do I regret it? A little. But still, it’s a pretty cheap price to pay for quality entertainment. I mean, you can try to convince yourself that you like Hulu better but honestly whom are you kidding..?

I’ve recently fallen into a deep dark hole of documentaries. People need to watch more of them. They’re a great way to educate yourself on topics school won’t teach you and also force you to see through the eyes of other people. Or you could watch a nature documentary or something like Blackfish and dwell on the fact that humans are ruining every-

thing good and pure that nature has created...

If you were born in 1999 but still like to call yourself a “‘90s kid,” then boy are you in for a treat.

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Track transitions with new coaches goes. [Christian] was a head coach last year as well so she has her footing beneath her now, so everything’s going really smoothly this year.”

Christian expects the athletes to adjust smoothly to the coaching changes and, like Mays, feels that the transition has been successful so far.

Senior long-distance runner Ellis Shaw said that runners are still adjusting to new coaching methods and activities and is not sure whether the team will improve on last year’s overall performance in league or not.

“I think this season could go both ways, as in better or worse,” Shaw said. “The throwers still have the same coach and should have a solid season, but the runners for both sprinting and distance have new coaches and may have to adjust to new coaching styles and workouts.”

BY BRAD MORIN

b.morin@eyeofthetigernews.com

This year’s track and field coaching staff has seen numerous changes since last season, with new coaches who hope to bring experience, fresh ideas and new techniques to the team.

Changes in coaching staff include Nick Newman as the new sprints coach, Joshua Errecart as the new distance coach, Joe Geddes as the new girls team coach and Sondra Christian as the team’s solo head coach. Last year, Christian co-coached the team alongside Courtney Crosta, who left the coaching position this year.

According to Christian, Newman’s experience as an athlete and coach fit well with the coaching staff.

Errecart, who is also the varsity girls basketball team coach, has many years of coaching experience and long-distance running, and

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Nick Newman, the track and field team’s new sprint coach, models a stretching excercise at last week’s practice. Newman is just one of the handful of new coaching additions to the team this year. doesn’t expect a difficult return to the sport. He plans to transition to coaching track full-time this week, now that the varsity girls basketball team’s season

ended in the second round of playoffs.

Junior 300-meter hurdler Emma Mays feels that the coaches have been doing well so far.

“Errecart has a lot of experience, so I would say it’s really good that he’s out here,” Mays said. “He’s a really good coach so he kind of knows how this

WINTER PLAYOFF UPDATES BOYS BASKETBALL

GIRLS BASKETBALL

BY JAMIE BATEMAN

BY BRANDON DEL ROSARIO b.delrosario@eyeofthetigernews.com

k.ness@eyeofthetigernews.com

g.hughes@eyeofthetigernews.com

The varsity boys basketball 2016-17 season came to an end last Wednesday night after the Yuba City Honkers converted a buzzerbeating shot to defeat the Tigers 63-61 and knock them out of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs.

The team finished third in Capital Valley Conference play and landed a seventh seed slot against the Honkers in the first round of playoffs – the first time Roseville High School boys basketball made playoffs since joining the CVC. The Tigers jumped to a 21-5 lead by the end of the first quarter and held on to a 36-22 lead by halftime.

However, a quick 10-0 run at the start of the third quarter put the Honkers right back into the game and they were tied with the Tigers heading into the fourth quarter.

In the game’s final seconds, Honkers guard Elliot McAlister hit a bank shot from the left of the key that ended the game and the Tigers’ season. The Tigers finished the season 16-12, their best record since the 2011-12 year.

The varsity girls basketball team made the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs for the second year in a row, and, after claiming the fifth seed, took on the Lodi Flames and the Elk Grove Thundering Herd last week. The Tigers put out the Flames 74-34 but were trampled by the Herd in the second round.

Against the Flames, the Tigers were led by senior guard Shelbie McKay with 17 points and senior center Isabelle Bautista with 12 points.

Despite the dominant Tuesdaynight win, the Tigers lost to the four-seed Thundering Herd 57-51 the following Thursday.

The Tigers scored 25 points in the third quarter, but it was not enough to take down the Herd.

With the loss, the Tigers finished their season 21-8; their first twentywin season in over a decade.

Next season, the Tigers will look for support from their ten returning players (one freshman, nine juniors) and players from the 15-7 JV team.

The varsity boys soccer team’s postseason ended last Thursday night after falling 1-0 to the ninthseeded Gregori Jaguars in the second round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs.

To make it to the second round, the Tigers defeated the Rodriguez Mustangs last Tuesday in a 3-1 comeback victory with two goals from sophomore Austin Wehner and one from sophomore Brad Morin.

In the second-round loss, a late goal in the second half from Axel Lomeli, one of the Jaguars’ strikers, broke the 0-0 deadlock.

A Mustang free kick found Lomeli’s feet and he managed to sneak it past the Tigers’ goalkeeper, senior Kyle Kellogg, for the gamewinning goal.

The Tigers’ finished third in the Capital Valley Conference with an overall record of 11-4-6. The team conceded a league-low of nine goals, which helped them reach the playoffs for the first time since joining the CVC in the 2014-2015 school year.

With two upset wins last week, the varsity girls soccer team is the only remaining Roseville High School winter sports team in the playoffs.

The girls have advanced through to the third round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoff bracket and are set to take on the Granite Bay Grizzlies, the number three seed, this Wednesday in the bracket’s semi-final.

Last Wednesday, sophomore forward Mackenzie Gill helped lift the Tigers over the seventh-seeded River City Raiders with a hat trick in their 5-2 first-round victory.

That win sent them to their second-round matchup against the second-seeded Vacaville Bulldogs last Friday, who they overcame with a free kick goal from sophomore midfielder Kylie Granno that gave them the 1-0 win.

The girls’ matchup against the Grizzlies will mark their third consecutive away postseason game.

The Tigers will play the 8-5-3 Grizzlies this Wednesday at Granite Bay High School.

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BOYS SOCCER

GIRLS SOCCER

BY KEEGAN NESS

BY GEORGE HUGHES

CVC 2016-17 ALL SPORT COMPETITION ENTERS SPRING SEASON HIGH SCHOOL

DCHS

AHS

OHS

COHS

BVHS

PHS

RHS

WHS

Basketball - Boys

3

4

1

5

2

7

6

8

Basketball - Girls

2

7.5

3

5.5

1

4

7.5

5.5

Soccer - Boys

2

3

1

7

4

8

5.5

5.5

Soccer - Girls

1

2

3

6

4

5

7

8

Wrestling

6

4.5

1

2.5

7

8

2.5

4.5

WINTER TOTALS

14

21

9

26

18

32

28.5

31.5

YEARLY TOTALS

33.5

40

45.5

60.5

64

67.5

74.5

80.5

After a solid winter performance, Roseville High School is in sole control of the second place spot in this year’s Capital Valley Conference All Sport Competition. At the end of the last fall-sport’s season, the Tigers were tied for second place with the Bella Vista Broncos, who have won the competition six years running. This has been the Tigers’ best winter-sport season since entering the CVC in the 2014-15 school year and it has put them in a good place going forward into the spring-sport season. Trailing only the Whitney Wildcats, who lead by six points, the Tigers will look to outperform as many teams as possible in an effort to grasp the first-place position to win the competition for the first time ever.

Attention seniors: It’s time to prove ourselves

BY GEORGE HUGHES

g.hughes@eyeofthetigernews.com

As a member of the Class of 2017 and as a varsity golfer, I would like to challenge my fellow springsport senior athletes to take it upon themselves to give everything they have to their respective sport this season.

I don’t care whether you have to swim faster than you have ever swam before, or spike harder than you have ever spiked before, or run quicker or jump higher or throw farther or swing smoother in order to be successful. From the wise words of Nike (or Shia LaBeouf, whichever you prefer), just do it.

The reason as to why I am so invested in this year’s spring-sport success lies within the pride I share with my peers for our Class of 2017 and the Capital Valley Conference’s yearly All Sport Competition, which awards the most all-around athletically dominant school in the league each year with a title, a banner and a trophy.

Roseville High School has never won. See where I’m going with this? No? Let me explain.

Even as freshmen, I, as well as many others, knew that something special was brewing amongst our many talented athletes.

The class’ early athletic success and potential quickly garnered more and more victories, titles, passion and support from its students, and many took notice.

The winning trend continued and, as most probably know, the current seniors eventually gained a reputation of athletic dominance that we have upheld to quite a high standard.

However, a simple reputation isn’t good enough for me, and I’m sure that it isn’t good enough for the rest of you seniors, either.

We need to live up to the talk and win the CVC All Sport Competition to solidify our mark in the history books of this school.

We must eliminate even the slightest doubt that we aren’t as talented as we are made out to be and confirm that we are not just a class – that we are the class.

RHS trails only the Whitney Wildcats in the competition, who lead by a mere six points. If spring sports bring their A-game this year, RHS has a chance to overtake Whitney for the first-place spot.

We can do this. We’ve had a great run so far, but nobody remembers how you started; it’s all about how you finish.

So, Class of 2017: let’s finish this thing.

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EYE OF THE TIGER’S

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

SHELBIE MCKAY

MACKENZIE GILL

SEAN GRANUCCI

RYAN BRANIGAN

JAKE SOLSO

Taking the top spot on the winter list is senior girls basketball shooting guard Shelbie McKay. The fouryear varsity player averaged a Capital Valley Conference league high of 16.7 points per game as well as 7.5 rebounds per game. McKay also earned the honor of CVC Most Valuable Player and CVC All League.

McKay led the team offensively and defensively in its successful 21-8 season. She reached the 1,000-career-point mark midway through this year and continued to excel after that, scoring 32 points in the girls’ recent win over the Ponderosa Bruins.

According to senior center Isabelle Bautista, McKay’s work ethic and motivation brings out the best in her teammates.

“She’s an intense player and she brings that energy to games and practices,” Bautista said. “She pushes everyone to go hard in every aspect of the game which translates to success on the court.”

Taking the second spot on our list is sophomore Mackenzie Gill. The second-year varsity forward led the team in goals with 14 and recorded 11 assists this season.

After already having one season of experience at the varsity level, she has more than quintupled her assist tally from last season’s total of two. She also netted two hat tricks this season, one of which was in the team’s 5-2 win against River City in the first round of playoffs last week.

Senior midfielder McKenna Andrew believes Gill’s efforts this season were instrumental to the team’s success and will be for years to come.

“The amount of goals and assists she’s had this year really shows how much practice and commitment she gives to this sport,” Andrews said. “I truly see Mackenzie being a huge part of the varsity team for the next two years and will continue playing after high school.”

Senior varsity boys basketball guard Sean Granucci closed out his high school career with his best season yet, earning himself the third spot on the list.

His points per game and assists per game averages were the highest they have ever been this year, and he also earned All CVC honors to cap it off.

As a guard and one of the team’s best shooters, Granucci was able to score from all over the court and thrived especially from outside the three point line.

Four year teammate senior center Cameron Anderson believes that Granucci’s work over last summer helped improve his shot for this season and made him a more versatile player overall.

“The biggest thing that Sean did this year was he really worked on his jump shot this summer,” Anderson said. “He had always been good at getting to the rim, but this summer he really expanded his game.”

Senior center midfielder and captain Ryan Branigan comes in at number four. Branigan is a threeyear varsity soccer player who, this year, led the Tigers to their first playoff appearance since joining the Capital Valley Conference.

On the offensive side, the Tiger captain totaled two goals and seven assists this year which helped the boys finish in third place in the CVC. He also helped anchor down the defense, which conceded only nine goals in league play – fewer than any other CVC team.

Senior forward Braden Triplett believes that Branigan was one of the main reasons for the Tigers’ success this season.

“Even though Ryan hasn’t done a lot of stuff like scoring he still helps our team a ton through the leadership he shows,” Triplett said. “He knows the game very well and always gives advice on how to take on a team or what we need to work on.

He’s helpful in that way.”

Weighing in at the number five spot, and 152 pounds, is varsity wrestler junior Jake Solso.

Before even competing in the Masters tournament last weekend, Solso had already earned himself 18 pins, 37 takedowns, 187 points and 25 wins in just 33 matches this season.

Junior wrestler Miles Banks believes that Solso, a definitive leader, sets a good example for his teammates and has shown that hard work and practice can lead to drastic improvement.

“He shows that you have to push yourself everyday at practice,” Banks said. “How far he’s come for a wrestler, from not even wrestling freshman year and barely wrestling at all sophomore year to this; it’s impressive.”

Banks also said that Solso’s ability and eagerness to try new things, such as techniques or moves, in matches have also been a factor in his dominance this season.

-Brandon Del Rosario, photo by George Hughes

-Keegan Ness, photo by George Hughes

-Jamie Bateman, photo by George Hughes

-Keegan Ness, photo by George Hughes

-Justin Varlamov, photo courtesy Jake Solso

6

7

8

9

10

TOMMY EDWARDS

AUSTIN WEHNER

JESSICA VANDERHAEGEN

Senior Tommy Edwards comes in at number six on the list as a varsity basketball forward. Scoring the second-highest amount of points for a single player on the team this year, Edwards was vital to the Tiger offense.

He scored many of his points from beyond the three-point arc but also had the ability to drive to the basket for layups, making him a serious allaround threat to opponents.

Even with his many offensive capabilities, coach Greg Granucci strongly believes that Edwards was not just a scorer and that he evolved into a more rounded player this season.

“Tommy has become more of a complete player this year,” Granucci said. “The last couple of years he has kind of been a scorer, and this year he kept scoring but also started to facilitate a little bit more which really helped us out. In practice, also, he became a leader and really pushed everyone to do their best.”

Taking the number seven spot is sophomore Austin Wehner.

Wehner burst onto the varsity soccer scene this year as a forward and was a major problem for his opponents, leading the team with 15 goals.

His offensive success helped lead the Tigers to the playoffs where he continued to excel, scoring two goals in the Tigers’ 3-1 comeback win over the Rodriguez Mustangs in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II bracket.

Senior goalkeeper Kyle Kellogg sees the young star’s talent and knows that he was a crucial component of the Tiger attack this season.

“He has been an amazing asset to the team,” Kellogg said. “He is the strength of the offense and has been playing great all year.”

Wehner is considering continuing his soccer career at higher levels and might try out for the Sacramento Republic Football Club’s Academy program this summer.

Coming in at the number eight spot is varsity girls soccer player senior Jessica VanDerHaegen. The three year varsity forward has been a key offensive threat for the Tigers this season, having racked up seven goals and seven assists. The numbers indicate this season has been VanDerHaegen’s strongest performance yet.

According to teammate senior Juliette Oliver, the senior’s activity on the offensive end has helped lead the Tigers through the season and into their playoff push.

Oliver believes that VanDerHaegen is a leader on the field and her engagement in every play makes her an important factor in the team’s success.

“Her hard work on and off the field really inspires us,” Oliver said.

“She makes the plays happen. Without her, our scoring plays wouldn’t even have started, and ultimately we wouldn’t be as successful as we are now.”

Junior Nate Richardson stepped up big time for the varsity boys basketball team this year and earned his well-deserved spot on the list at number nine.

After recovering from a broken leg his freshman year, Richardson was called upon to fill the shoes of senior center Cameron Anderson, who broke his foot early in the season and was unable to play.

Richardson’s strength is his ability to finish around the rim, even when closely guarded. Because of this, he scored the majority of his points in the paint.

According to forward Cooper Baddley, Richardson took the role by storm and was a necessary piece of the Tigers’ offensive and defensive machine.

“He stepped up when the team needed him and also surprised all of us for turning into one of the biggest parts of the offense,” Baddley said. “We wouldn’t have gotten to where we did without him.”

Closing out the list at number ten is varsity girls basketball center Ari Mccurry. Standing at 6’5”, Mccurry towers over the vast majority of players on the court and uses this to her advantage.

She averaged 9.5 points per game, good for second-best on the team, and led the Tigers in rebounds and blocks with averages of 8.4 and 2.8 per game, respectively.

According to junior point guard Jada Kranig, Mccurry has improved greatly since last year due to the effort she has put in since.

“She worked really hard this past year to get where she is now,” Kranig said. “We’ve all struggled getting the ball to the middle and she’s gotten to the point where she can come to it now and grab it with two hands.”

Senior point guard Skyler Rubey recognizes Mccurry’s versatility.

“She’s been a very key asset to our team,” Rubey said. “She’s a well rounded player and is a lot stronger than most people think.”

-Jamie Bateman, photo by George Hughes

-Ben Welker, photo by George Hughes

-Brandon Del Rosario, photo by George Hughes

-Ben Welker, photo by George Hughes

-Justin Varlamov, photo by George Hughes

NATE RICHARDSON

ARI MCCURRY