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MARCH 2, 2015 | ISSUE 9, VOLUME 13

Why RHS suspends DEFIANCE STILL PUNISHED, BUT FOCUS CASE-BY-CASE

BY SEIÉNNA PAPINI

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Despite a statewide effort to eliminate willful defiance as grounds for suspension, Roseville High School administration does not want to remove these suspensions altogether, but is looking for different ways and programs to reduce them.

In the Roseville Joint Union High School District, RHS had the most suspensions (both for federal offenses and willful defiance), at 377 total suspensions in 2013-14. Of those 377, 205 suspensions were due to willful defiance of authority and disruption.

In California, other school districts, such as the

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), have already made strides to eliminate the suspension of students on the grounds of willful defiance. In 2013, the LAUSD school board banned suspensions of defiant students in a 5-2 vote, which marked a step back from a zero-tolerance learning environment, in which students would be suspended for just about any type and severity of action – everything from federal offense to classroom disruption.

Even more recently, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill in June of 2014 to ban suspensions of defiant students from kindergarten to third grade.

Although RHS is not looking to completely eliminate suspensions for willful defiance, they are look-

ing to take a more humanistic approach.

RHS administration feels that a lot of factors go into disciplinary actions, one of those factors ultimately being the student themselves and what is going to get through to them, so that the problem may be corrected in the most efficient way possible.

“One thing you find out is that one size does not fit all,” RHS principal David Byrd said.

This January, an RHS team using a framework from Positive Behavior Intervention Schools (PBIS) – whose mission is to focus on the balance of every student’s academic, social and emotional growth and outcomes in school – proposed new ways to  SUSPENSIONS | Page 3

Financial Lit pushes forward District plans course as requirement for C/O 2016

BY SOPHIA MOGANNAM

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Despite delays, the Roseville Joint Union High School District recently proposed plans to ensure the implementation of a mandatory financial literacy course for the Class of 2016 – meaning that all current juniors in the district would have to complete the course THE COURSE in order to graduate.  To be offered on RJUHSD is curBlackboard rently working with  Not for credit, pilot programs and but required for expects that the graduation course will become  2016 seniors a requirement for may complete at the 2015-16 school any time year.

At the last district counselor meeting, the RHS counseling team was informed of the financial literacy course and its proposal by the RJUHSD Board of Trustees. According to RHS counselor Graciela Fernandez, the personal finance course will be online via  FINANCE | Page 2

WHILE THEY’RE AWAY Seniors bond over Air Force relationships

CIF passes stricter rules for safety

BY JOSLYN CARRELL

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ven though seniors Dora Mendez and Nicole Dunger’s significant others are hundreds of miles away, they find support in one another.

Both Mendez and Dunger are dating men in the United States Air Force. Mendez and her boyfriend, Roseville High School alumnus Nick McCullum, started dating her sophomore year and his senior year. McCullum chose to join the Air Force after graduating and has been in the Air Force for a year.

“I was shocked at first, not just for us, but knowing that it’s a dangerous job,” Mendez

said. “His father, grandfather and brother joined the military as well so I kinda knew there was a possibility it was happening, but it’s just another stepping stone in our relationship.”

The long-distance relationship began when McCullum spent two month in San Antonio for boot camp. While at boot camp the couples were only allowed to communicate through letters and phone calls, only permitted intermittently and rewarded to those demonstrating good behavior.

“At the time it was hard not always being  LONG DISTANCE | Page 6

Senior Dora Mendez (top) FaceTimes her boyfriend Nick McCullum, currently stationed in Anchorage. Below, senior Nicole Dunger reads a letter from her boyfriend Robert Ferry, who is in boot camp in San Antonio.

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Robert Ferry (RHS’ 14)

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Changes, additions head for AP

BY GEORGE HUGHES

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Junior Alesha Bonner stretches during a Drama rehearsal last week. She and her fellow performers are currently conditioning for their next production, “Girl Child Soldier,” set to debut Thursday, April 23.

Next year, Roseville High School’s AP program will undergo various changes, such as the addition of a new class and restructuring of other courses to correspond to changing AP tests.

Though AP Computer Science A is currently offered to Roseville High School’s students as an ROP class, RHS is planning on making the course available to students as a regular class during the school day. RHS math and computer science teacher Bradlee Crockett will most likely teach the course next year if enough students enroll in the class.

AP Computer Science A is an entry-level college programming class taught at the high school level, whereas the Exploring Computer Science class offered at RHS is considered an entry-level high school class. The course also requires math skills, so Algebra 2 is a prerequisite for students wishing to participate.

Crockett said that the class will consist of many lectures, but also many hands-on labs where students will be able to use what they know and what they have learned in order to solve problems using computers.

“We are going to learn the language Java, but it is also more of learning about computer  AP | Page 3

Recent mandates from the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) have provided new safety guidelines and policies for athletic programs throughout the state.

These include the two-day contact rule for football, the sev- WHAT’S NEW en-day concussion  Two-day football rule and cardiac arcontact rule rest training.  Seven-day The two-day conconcussion rule tact rule, stemming from Assembly Bill  Sudden cardiac arrest training 2127, mandates that high school football programs may not have more than two full days of contact practices per week and that they only have 90 minutes of full contact during those practices.

Some football players feel this new guideline may interfere with their tackling, as they won’t be able to practice enough on their form tackling.  SAFETY | Page 11

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With the ink dry on a new deal, the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, plans to build a campus on the 1,159 acres of open farmland – donated by the University Development Trust through the Placer 2780 Partnership – in West Roseville outlined above. Warwick administrators expect the campus to serve about 6,000 students by 2031. Although an opening date isn’t yet set, the university has agreed to host postgraduate courses in a temporary space within the next few years. The UK campus operates under a three-year model for its bachelor’s degrees, unlike most universities in the United States, which run on a four-year model, and may continue this set-up in Roseville. The California campus may also extend the Coventry campus’ current $14,000 price tag.

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Admin begins preparations for future PLTW program

by RACHEL BARBER

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In order to aid Roseville High School’s future plans to implement Project Lead the Way (PLTW), administration recently applied for a $14,980 grant from Roseville Citizens Benefit Grant Commission (RCBGC) and is figuring out ways in which RHS would use the money to benefit students’ education.

The money would go towards the purchase of supplemental equipment that would update an existing classroom being modified. Funds would also go for professional development, training for teachers and initial start-up materials to be used by students in new Engineering and Biomedical programs. In addition, the funds would be used for teachers to be certified to teach PLTW. To teach in PLTW, teachers must go through training to learn how to use the technology of tthe program and then be able to teach it to their students while their students problem solve in projectbased lessons.

RHS teacher John Fuller will be attending the first class in the PLTW Engineering Pathway, Introduction to Engineering training this summer at San Jose State University. With the acceptance of the grant, RHS teacher Erin Granucci will attend the first course in PLTW’s Biomedical Science Pathway (BMS) at the University of East Bay and then attend the second course training, Human Body Systems at San Diego State University.

Roseville Joint Union High School District (RJUHSD) superintendent John Montgomery, who was involved in the process

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In anticipation of Project Lead the Way, RHS administrators applied for a City of Roseville grant they hope will help get the new program off the ground next year. If received, the grant money will go toward training the program’s new teachers, John Fuller and Erin Granucci (above), and purchasing basic equipment and materials. of getting RHS the application for the grant, is hopeful for the outcome.

“The grant has not yet been granted, though we are all optimistic,” Montgomery said. “We [will] receive final word in June.”

RHS also hopes to pay for the materials for the classes with another grant called The Capital Region Academies for the Next Economy (CRANE).

The CRANE grant was already awarded to Placer County, and some of that money transferred to RJUHSD. The money may also be used to help seek out a place for the classroom.

There is no final decision of where the PLTW classes will be held on campus next year. Advisors are currently taking the old

Geometry in Construction classroom under consideration, but are ultimately only looking for a facility that is a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) lab where it would be easy to do a lot of teaching and learning in engineering and science. Consequently, no construction has begun yet in preparation for the program.

“The renovations won’t happen quickly,” RHS principal David Byrd said. “They are more likely to happen over a period of several years. We would have to work hard every year to look for funds to maintain these important programs.”

PLTW would replace what was formerly one of one of the largest programs on campus, GIC. GIC was terminated last year when

teachers Jeff Bailey and Tyson Maytanes transferred to Woodcreek. However, Fuller makes it clear that PLTW is a completely separate and new program. “[PLTW] is meant to be a completely different course for students who have an interest in engineering or technology,” Fuller said.

Granucci is the other teacher Fuller that will be instructing the PLTW classes.

“Through PLTW students learn how to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, think critically, practice professionally, work effectively in teams, understand how medical and scientific research is conducted and funded, understand the interdisciplinary nature of science, healthcare, mathematics and English lan-

guage,” Granucci said. “Students would need to be curious and relentless to find answers and to solve problems while collaborating.”

Principles of Biomedical Science, Biomedical Innovation, Human Body Systems and Medical Interventions are the titles of the four classes that would be offered in part of the PLTW program.

“We would be offering both beginning classes in the spring of the 2015-16 school year, and I plan on making the intermediate course for the Biomedical Science available in the fall or spring of the 2016-17 school year,” Granucci said. “I personally would love to get certified in all four Biomedical Science courses as soon as possible so RHS students have the opportunity to take all of the courses. It’s just that cool.”

Overall, Byrd is very excited about the new learning opportunities PLTW would provide at RHS. “We see this as an investment in the future,” Byrd said. “We want the best for our students. We want them to be prepared for the 21st century workforce. We want to be on the cutting edge like other schools in our community.

This may be a small price to pay to have that for our current and future Tigers.”

Montgomery shares in the anticipation and pleasure of the addition to RHS’ educational course offerings.

“I am excited to support Roseville High School’s efforts to bring a world-class program of study to RHS,” Montgomery said.

“Students who are able to participate would be delighted with the opportunity to be a part of this program.”

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Blackboard, and students must complete it within the year. Although there are no credits involved upon completion of the course, seniors will be required to pass or they will not be eligible to graduate.

Fernandez expressed her concerns that the course might be approaching the current junior class at an inconvenient time, as they have not yet been given instruction or any type of warning as to what the course is and what their part will be in completing it.

She also believes that the course’s pilot should be tested on incoming freshmen or sophomores in order for there to be a sense of prior knowledge that the course is approaching RHS. “My concern is to put [the financial literacy] course in this late is kind of like springing it on them, and many of them don’t know about it yet,” Fernandez said. “And, we always think of

how not all of our families have access to computers, or if they do have access, not all of them have Internet at home.”

According to Fernandez, the question is how students will complete the course without computer access.

For those students who cannot access Internet, there may be a need for a plan that would possibly entail making more computer labs available on campus, which would require additional time, money and effort on both the school and students.

Students will be allowed to complete the online course during any time of day or night. Those without Internet access will be provided with access to the Internet through either libraries or the Career Center, which possibly will remain open extra hours in order for all students to be provided with an equal opportunity of completing the course.

Counselors are currently inquiring as to what the course will look

like online and how many hours students are to dedicate to the course.

RHS junior Ashley Bertholf feels that short notice somewhat disrupts the schedule that many students have already set up for themselves upon filling out the course selection guide for next year. However, since the online course is asynchronous, meaning that there will be no need for interaction other than electronically, it will have no impact on current or future students’ schedules because classes will continue to remain the same during the school day.

While students must pass the course, asynchronous online courses don’t require any student training, which allows students to be self-taught. The online course also provides students with opportunities to repeat portions of the material as many times as necessary in order for them to successfully pass.

Bertholf believes the course

will be a positive addition that will provide students with vital financial skills, but thinks that the course doesn’t take into consideration those whom feel that they are already educated on financial matters and cannot afford to drop an AP class or a planned elective in order to complete the course.

“From what I can gather, it seems like a course that would prepare students with budgeting, investing, etc,” Bertholf said. “But what about the students who already have a good grasp on those concepts? I think it should be an offered course for those who would like to achieve a higher understanding of the concepts associated [with financial literacy].”

Aside from concerns about course confliction, however, Bertholf thinks the course would be manageable time and work wise.

Although the plans still appear to be tentative, Fernandez believes that a financial literacy course will be beneficial for in-

coming seniors, as students will be handling financial tasks in their near futures.

“Financial literacy is a big key... you see all of the students that are going into college loan debt, credit card debt, etc.,” Fernandez said, ”I think any student is going to benefit from a financial literacy course, especially in your senior year, you guys are ready to go off into the world and the workforce.”

RJUHSD assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction John Montgomery believes that the course will provide students with informative material that they will be able to carry into their futures, even after it has been completed.

“While the Introduction to Personal Finance course is written as a survey course, it is expected that every student will benefit from the opportunity to learn or confirm some knowledge of personalfinance in the real world of adulthood,” Montgomery said.

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science, which is the science of solving problems with a computer,” Crockett said. “It is how to use the computer as a tool to solve some problems, so we are going to work a lot on problem solving.

It will be more like a lecture class, but we will also do labs.”

Crockett said that the purpose of the class is for students to learn about and gain experience with computer programming, specifically Java. He said that Java is a widely used programming language in many of today’s industries and that having some experience with it can be very useful.

“It could be used to jump-start your career into computer programming,” Crockett said. “Lots of other non-computer science majors require that you take a computer programming course of some type and this could potentially count for that credit.”

Crockett encourages students to take the course whether they are into computers or not and believes that it will be very beneficial to them.

“I think it is a great course if you are interested in computers or potentially taking a path towards computer science,” Crockett said.

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The AP program at Roseville High School will undergo changes in the 2015-16 school year, when AP Computer Science A, which Tiger Tech adviser Bradlee Crockett (above) plans to teach, joins the school’s selection of courses and AP Art History and AP European History adjust to College Board curriculum changes.

“It is also great for students who don’t have a plan to take be in a computer science major that maybe want to get that computer requirement out of the way before when they go to college.”

There are also other alterations to some AP classes at RHS next year, due to College Board’s re-

structuring of the respective tests.

There will be changes made to the curriculums and AP tests of both the AP European History class taught by Carol Crabtree and the AP Art History class taught by Patricia Leong.

These changes will alter the way each teacher prepares their

students for the AP exam at the end of the year. The College Board is changing these classes by giving the teachers specific things to focus on instead of a broad variety of topics.

For example, Leong said that she now has a list of all 250 images that will appear on the AP Art

History exam next year so that she knows which paintings, drawings and other works of art she needs to teach her students about.

She said that this makes the test easier in the sense that the students will know exactly what images they will see on the test, but it also makes it harder in the sense that they do not know what types of questions will be asked about each image.

For AP Euro, instead of having to complete 80 multiple choice questions in 55 minutes, students will have 55 questions to complete in 55 minutes. Because of that, Crabtree said that because the information on the changes were given to her recently, and is still unsure of how differently she is going to teach the class to adapt. Crabtree said that because there are less questions, these questions are expected to be more difficult and will require more analysis.

There will be four short answer questions on the exam next year, one document-based question and one long essay question.

Crabtree said that she is planning on attending a course over the summer to prepare herself to teach the new curriculum next year.

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appropriately discipline students who require it, as opposed to resorting to immediately suspending students, no matter how small the infraction.

The RHS PBIS team’s mission also includes taking statistics and number of suspensions from quarters of previous years, comparing those to the statistics and numbers of the corresponding quarters of the current year and asking themselves if suspensions are up or down, as well as what RHS is doing well, what they can correct and if the suspensions at hand are deep-rooted problems or not.

At this point in time, PBIS is still a work-in progress, and RJUHSD wants to figure out what is ultimately effective and being enforced and what is not.

Although PBIS is a framework that educators use nationwide, assistant principal Matt Pipitone is leading the way with PBIS’ mission at RHS. In the meantime, the implementation of recent programs are designed to minimize the actual total number of incidents that call for disciplinary actions. These efforts include programs such as ROAR, brought to fruition this year, in order to promote respect in the classroom, on-task involvement, awareness of surroundings and responsibility – all in hopes to minimize problems within the classroom.

The PBIS team proposed, and hopes to implement, a “flow-chart system” which would give teachers more guidance in deciding what disciplinary steps are needed to take. This type of approach would require teachers to assess the severity of the infraction and situation at hand and act accordingly to the flow-chart.

RHS administration, believes that evaluating each individual situation is imperative and that they need to continue to ask themselves if they are suspending kids for the right reasons and whether they would try other methods before resorting to suspension.

Some of these “other methods” mentioned include a proposal of a “peer counseling” alternative, as opposed to direct authoritative measures. Byrd thinks that it might be a good idea to create an environment where respected and trusted model students, whether those students be Peer Helpers, Student Government or even students who have been defiant in the past, talk to students who

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Clubs fare well in local events Robotics Club places third in regional championship

Roseville High School’s Robotics Club competed in the Northern Regional Championship, placing third for their division.

The team qualified from the Oak Ridge High School competition in January and presented a robot they worked to perfect since August of last year.

Club president Kevin Carlson and vice president Sophia Diaz both attended the competition in Union City to represent their robot. Carlson believes that, overall, the group did really well.

The Robotics Club went to semi-finals for their division, where they paired with two other teams and competed for the best two out of three matches. Although the group succeeded in the first match, they lost the third due to complications with the robot’s driver-controlled program.

“That’s never happened, but it happened during the match, so there was nothing we could do about that,” Carlson said.

Although the team got eliminated, Carlson wants to focus on programing in order to prepare for next year’s competitions.

“Last year, we just went to a qualifier, and each year, we improve,” Carlson said. “So hopefully, next year we will be good enough to qualify for the [Northern California Regional Championship] tournament again, and then qualify for Western SuperRegionals next year.”

Although she will be graduating this year, Diaz hopes that the team will build a more reliable robot in order to advance further in the competition next season.

Carlson hopes to win a tournament next year and is optimistic about the Robotics Club’s abilities to continue succeeding in the future.

“The team bonding and getting to know other people that share a similar interest is just a lot of fun,” Carlson said.

FBLA members advance to April state competition

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are causing problems in the classroom and give the student more of a relatable way to handle improving.

Byrd believes that this method could be extremely effective, if put into practice.

“I think it would be beneficial if, you know, some seniors who might have been problematic when they were freshman sat down with students who are currently struggling and said, ‘What are you doing, dude? That’s not how we do things here,’ and tell them how they overcame their own struggle,” Byrd said. “I think kids might react better to that sort of method.”

RHS assistant principals also believe in the idea that, sometimes, kids are having an off-day and just need to spend a couple minutes outside of the classroom environment to cool off, get their thoughts together and reflect on their words and actions.

The absence of RHS’ on-campus suspension (OCS) – cut in the 2011-12 school year – made this particular method a little more difficult, though. OCS allows disruptive and defiant students to spend anywhere from a few minutes outside of the classroom to a

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day or a series of days, as a way to discipline these student based on their offense. OCS also required a teacher to be present in another classroom with these students, which, in turn, required funding.

Spanish 2 and 3 teacher Maria Pitts believes that instead of suspension, one thing RHS could consider implementing is community service.

“I actually think that something that would be better for students who are imposing on other students’ learning environment would be community service,” Pitts said. “The way I see suspension is as a vacation. Instead of sitting at home, let’s have them clean the campus.”

Something else RHS administration is carefully taking into account is what keeping disruptive students in class means for the rest of students who are not causing problems, whose learning environment is taking a toll because of one or a couple defiant student that the teacher has to exert extra energy and unnecessary time handling.

As a father of three children, Byrd says that even he gets frustrated when his daughters come home and complain that they have

to spend the class’ shared classroom time disciplining a problematic student. He says, that as a parent, he expects the school to do something about it.

“We can’t just leave [the student] in class because the law says so, because what if it affects the students around them and their learning environment?”

Byrd said.

This is where RHS, as well as many other schools in the RJUHSD, are having trouble – deciding whether to focus on the individual student at hand and keep them in class for their own benefit, as opposed to suspending them and keeping an academic classroom setting for all of the other students.

Byrd believes that the 99 percent of students who do not cause problems should not be negatively, severely impacted by the one percent who do.

This is the reason RHS administration feels that suspensions for defiance are so tricky. Every suspension is circumstantial. A multitude of different factors play into how long of a suspension a student will earn, as well as whether the student has even earned themselves a suspension

or not, such as the severity of the infraction, as well as what kind of punishment the student responds to best.

RHS assistant principals feel that in RHS’ new approach to suspensions, it all entirely depends on what the student will react positively to. Some students are incredibly afraid of getting suspended and so, sometimes, if that student slips up, the best thing to do is to suspend them for a day or two, in order to get the message across and ensure that they will no longer cause problems in the classroom.

However, Byrd is fully aware that there are some students who do not benefit or improve from getting suspended because they enjoy being suspended and away from school, are trying to get suspended and who simply do not care if they get suspended. According to Byrd, for students who are not affected by getting suspended, other methods may be the most effective way to get through to them.

“We are trying to balance treating every kids in a fair way and working with individual kids, depending on what they need,” Byrd said.

After competing against 21 other high schools in the Northern Leadership Conference, Roseville High School’s Future Business Leaders of America chapter is headed to the state competition.

This year’s competition took place at Lassen High School in Susanville. The club faced different tests, ranging from Cyber Security to Business Communications.

The club improved from last year, according to FBLA secretary Sam Wolfe who placed third in his particular test, Securities and Investments.

“I would say we did better than usual and we are continually improving,” Wolfe, a junior, said.

Members who advanced to state include junior Michelle Mah who placed fifth in Business Calculations, senior Robbie Short who placed fifth in Business Communications, junior Allison Suba who placed fourth in Computer Problem Solving sophomore Marc Chappelle who placed second in Intro to Information Tech and Wolfe who placed third in Securities and Investments.

The two group of testers also placed among the top five in their group consisted of Mah, Suba and Wolfe, who took second in Management Decision Making. The other group consisted of seniors Michelle Im, Short and Madie Whalen, who placed first in Marketing.

- Compiled by Adam Erickson and Sophia Mogannam

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NOTICIAS Lo que RHS haría con una beca para Project Lead the Way si la consiguiera POR RACHEL BARBER

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Con el fin de facilitar el futuro de la escuela secundaria de Roseville de los planes para poner en práctica del Proyecto Lead the Way (PLTW), la administración recientemente solicitado una subvención 14.980 dólares de Roseville Citizens Benefit Grant Commission (RCBGC) y es averiguar las formas en que RHS usaría el dinero para beneficiar la educación de los estudiantes.

El dinero se destinará a la compra de equipo suplementario que actualizaría un aula existente está

Nueva universidad de R.U. vendrá a RHS para 2031 POR NETZY ORTEGA

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Después de firmar apagado en un acuerdo, la Universidad de Warwick hará un campus en los 1.159 acres de tierra - donado por la University Development Trust a través de la Asociación de Placer 2780 - en el oeste de Roseville.

Se espera que el campus servirá a unos 6.000 estudiantes para 2031, y será construido después de la intersección de Pleasant Grove Boulevard y Fiddyment Road. Aunque la fecha de apertura aún no está definida, el campus ha aceptado albergar cursos de

modificando. Los fondos también irían para el desarrollo profesional materiales de puesta en marcha inicial para ser utilizado por los alumnos de nuevo programas de Ingeniería y Biomédicas.

Además, se utilizarían los fondos para que los maestros estar certificados para enseñar PLTW. Para enseñar en PLTW, los maestros deben pasar por un entrenamiento riguroso para aprender a utilizar la tecnología de hoy y luego ser capaz de enseñar a sus estudiantes mientras que sus estudiantes resolver problemas en las clases basadas en proyectos. postgrado en un espacio temporal en unos pocos años.

El campus del Reino Unido opera bajo un modelo de tres años para los grados de su licenciatura, y puede seguir este modelo en Roseville. El campus de California también puede continuar con los actuales $14.000 la matrícula de la escuela.

Después de 16 meses en el campus de Coventry, funcionarios del condado de Placer y el consejo de gobierno de la universidad fueron capaces de tomar la decisión juntos en el campus. Esto hace que la Universidad de Warwick el tercer campus de la universidad para firmar en el terreno donado en más de una década.

Español Política de suspensiones POR SEIÉNNA PAPINI

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A pesar de un esfuerzo estatal para eliminar desafío deliberado como justificación de suspensión, la administración de la escuela secundaria de Roseville no quiere eliminar estas suspensiones por completo, pero está buscando diferentes maneras y programas para reducirlas.

En el Roseville Joint Union High School District, RHS tenía la mayoría de las suspensiones (tanto por delitos federales y desafío deliberado), a 377 suspensiones totales en 2013-14. De los 377, 205 suspensiones se debieron a un desafío intencional de la autoridad y la interrupción.

En California, los otros distritos escolares, como el Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), ya se han dado pasos para eliminar la suspensión de los estudiantes con la justificación del desafío deliberado. En 2013, el consejo escolar del LAUSD prohibió suspensiones de estudiantes desafiantes en una votación 5-2, que marcó un paso atrás de un ambiente de aprendizaje de la tolerancia cero, en el que los estudiantes se suspenderían para casi cualquier tipo y la gravedad de la acción - todo, desde delito federal a la interrupción en el aula.

Aún más recientemente, el gobernador Jerry Brown firmó un

proyecto de ley en junio de 2014 para prohibir las suspensiones de estudiantes desafiantes desde el kindergarten hasta el tercer grado.

Aunque los administradores de RHS no están buscando eliminar suspensiones para desafío deliberado, están buscando adoptar un enfoque más humanista.

La administración de RHS siente que una gran cantidad de factores que entran en acciones disciplinarias, uno de esos factores son en última instancia, el estudiante sí mismos y lo que va a llegar a ellos.

En enero de este año, un equipo usando Escuelas de Intervención de Comportamiento Positivo (PBIS) - cuya misión es centrarse en el equilibrio de la académica de crecimiento de cada estudiante - propone nuevas maneras de disciplinar adecuadamente a los estudiantes que lo requieran, en lugar de recurrir a la suspensión inmediata de los estudiantes.

La misión del equipo de RHS PBIS también incluye tomar las estadísticas, el número de suspensiones de la parte privada de los años anteriores, la comparación de los que las estadísticas y los números de los correspondientes trimestres del año en curso y se preguntan si las suspensiones son arriba o hacia abajo, así como lo que RHS es haciendo bien, lo que pueden corregir y si las suspensiones que se plantean son problemas o no muy arraigadas.

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REPORTAJES Estudiantes pegan onda por relaciones de la fuerza aérea POR JOSYLN CARRELL j.carrell@eyeofthetigernews.com

A pesar de que los novios de estudiantes Dora Méndez y Nicole Dunger están kilómetros de distancia, se encuentran con el apoyo de unos a otros.

Ambos chicas Méndez y Dunger están saliendo con los hombres en la fuerza aérea de Estados Unidos. Méndez y su novio, ex alumno de la escuela secundaria de Roseville Nick McCullum, comenzaron a salir con su segundo año y su último año. McCullum decidió unirse a la fuerza aérea después de graduarse y ha estado en la fuerza aérea durante un año.

“Me sorprendió al principio, no sólo para nosotros, pero sabiendo de que es un trabajo peligroso,” dijo Méndez. “Su padre, abuelo y hermano se unieron a las fuerzas armadas, así que poco sabía que había una posibilidad de lo que estaba ocurriendo, pero no estaba completamente preparada.”

La relación de larga distancia comenzó cuando McCullum pasó dos meses en San Antonio para el

campo de entrenamiento. Mientras que en el campo de entrenamiento de las parejas sólo se les permitía comunicarse a través de cartas y llamadas telefónicas, sólo se permite de forma intermitente y recompensado a los que demuestran buena conducta.

Dunger y su novio, ex alumno de Robert Ferry, salieron por un corto tiempo antes de irse a la fuerza aérea. Su comunicación se basa únicamente en las letras, como Ferry se encuentra todavía en el proceso de boot camp.

Ambos se sienten la pérdida de no tener su pareja alrededor de todos los días, pero han mirado el uno al otro para la ayuda. Los dos han sido amigos desde el primer año de la escuela secundaria y compartir una experiencia común ha fortalecido su amistad.

Ambos han explicado que puede ser muy fácil sentirse solo a veces o sentir celos de las relaciones de otras personas, pero que tienen el apoyo de unos a otros disminuye la soledad.

“Nos entendemos más y yo

sabemos lo que está pasando desde que he estado en su situación por lo que ha creado un vínculo más fuerte entre nosotros,” dijo Méndez. “Me ayuda porque sé que no estoy sola en esto.”

Los que están en el ejército se conceden 30 días de dejar un año y una opción de cómo se dividen los días. Debido a las limitaciones de tiempo, McCullum y Ferry son incapaces de llegar a cada evento, como bailes, dejando Méndez y Dunger sin acompañante. Tener unos a los otros para comprender la situación que les permite no sólo van de la mano, pero no pasan el tiempo preocupándose por otras parejas con las fechas.

Estar en una relación con hombres de la fuerza aérea ha dado tanto Dunger y Méndez un nivel diferente de respeto a las personas en las fuerzas armadas.

“Después de escuchar acerca de todos los taladros, cámaras de gas, y las batallas nuestros hombres pasan por, he ganado un respeto mucho mayor para ellos”, dijo Méndez. “Ellos son nuestros verdaderos héroes que arriesgan sus vidas por nuestra seguridad.”

14 chicas de RHS juegan rugby en el mismo equipo

8) Bryce Crouch Viniendo en número ocho es jugador de baloncesto del equipo varsity del tercer y último año Bryce Crouch. Bryce Crouch fue herido con el primer equipo toda la liga esta temporada, ya que fue nominado por todos los otros entrenadores de la liga CVC. Terminó la temporada en un unifome de Los Tigres.

Reglas de seguridad serán

POR HAYLEE SEX

h.sex@eyeofthetigernews.com

Unas chicas de la escuela secundaria de Roseville abordaron su amor por los deportes de contacto a través de participación en el club de rugby Sierra Foothills.

El equipo de club de rugby de 20 jugadores es el hogar de 14 estudiantes de RHS. Debido a la ausencia de un equipo de rugby en la escuela, capitán y medio scrum Lacy Ray encontró consuelo en la SFL. “El rugby es difícil empezar porque las personas no están familiarizados, como la forma en que están con el fútbol,” dijo Ray. “No es de esta zona para que las personas son como lo que es sólo una estafa de fútbol, ​​pero realmente el fútbol es como rugby.”

Según estudiante de último año Nicole Dunger, asistió a una reunión en la que había planeado para la formación de un equipo de rugby masculino de RHS. Dunger fue el primer jugador feminino de RHS.

DEPORTES Los 10 atletas principales 1) Hayden Simpson Viniendo en número uno es luchador Hayden Simpson. En la liga su record era 4-2 y compitió y ganó quarto en el torneo de Masters. Él debe mejorar en los próximos años porque tiene dos más años.

2) Logan Ash Viniendo en número dos es otro luchador Logan Ash. Este año Ash fue votado capitán por sus compañeros de equipo. En divisionales colocó cuarto de clasificación para el torneo de Maestros.

3) Shelbie McKay Viniendo en número tres es jugador de baloncesto del equipo varsity Shelbie McKay. Este año se llevó a Los Tigres en todas las categorías estadísticas tales como puntos, rebotes y robos de balón.

4) Bailey Bowen-Seay Viniendo en número cuatro es jugador del equipo JV mujeres basquetbol estudiante de primer año Bailey Bowen-Seay. De acuerdo con los compañeros de equipo, Bowen-Seay fue un gran contribuyente al equipo.

5) Haley Loughran Viniendo en número cinco es jugador de baloncesto del equipo JV Haley Loughran. Ella demostró ser miembro vital del equipo para toda la temporada. Promedio de puntos de Loughran por partido fue el más alto de todo el equipo, en alrededor de 11 puntos por partido. Según su entrenador Sean Seymour, ella juega mejor cuando empieza en el banquillo.

6) Krystal Garcia Viniendo en número seis es jugador de baloncesto del equipo varsity Krystal Garcia. El jugador de baloncesto del último año hizo apariciones cada año con el equipo de varsity, sin embargo, su primer y segundo año en la única razón por la cual descendió a jugar con su nivel era por su propio bien y fue su propia decisión.

7) Sean Granucci Viniendo en número siete es jugador de baloncesto del equipo JV Sean Granucci. Granucci terminó el año como el máximo alero del equipo y contribuyó en todos los aspectos del juego para el entrenador Bobby Ritter. Al no ver tanto tiempo en la cancha el año pasado, Granucci fue un arranque de cada partido este año.

9) Kaitlyn Errecart Viniendo en número nueve es jugador de baloncesto del equipo de JV y estudiante del primer año Kaitlyn Errecart. Errecart se ofrece en este los diez principales por su papel de un armador.

“Ella ha demonstrado mucha mejora y es un jugador muy talentoso,” dijo su entrenador.

10) Blake Saathoff Viniendo en el último y definitivo punto es jugador de baloncesto del primer año Blake Saathoff.

Sathoff abierta la posición de guardia para Los Tigres del primer año en esta temporada como lo demostró inmensa mejora en la cancha distribuir bien el balón en la segunda mitad de sus partidos.

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Maestra Erin Granucci enseñará el curso de Ciencias Biomédicas el año que viene por Project Lead the Way. RHS se dirigió a una beca para financiar el programa, y el dinero será aplicado a desarrollo profesional y equipamiento.

REPORTAJES

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Estudiante de último año Dora Méndez habla con su novio por FaceTime. Ellos han estado juntos por casi dos años, pero no pueden estar en el mismo lugar ahora porque él es en la fuerza aérea.

DEPORTES

implementadas

POR MARINA EFSTATHIU Y CESAR SANCHEZ sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

Mandatos recientes de la Federación Interescolar de California (CIF) han proporcionado nuevas directrices y políticas de seguridad para los programas deportivos de todo el estado.

Estos incluyen la regla de los dos días de contacto para el fútbol americano, ​​la regla de la conmoción cerebral de siete días y la formación paro cardíaco.

La regla de contacto de dos días, derivada de Bill 2127 Asamblea, ordena que los programas de fútbol de la escuela secundaria no pueden tener más de dos días completos de prácticas presenciales por semana y que sólo tendrá 90 minutos de contacto completo durante estas prácticas.

Algunos jugadores de fútbol consideran que esta nueva directriz puede interferir con su experiencia abordar, ya que no serán capaces de practicar lo suficiente en su forma abordaje.

“Va a ser más difícil obtener una idea de abordar, pero debería ayudar con las conmociones cerebrales,” dijo el jugador de fútbol americano Blake Rayback. “Va

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Estudiante de segundo año Hayden Simpson es el mejor atleta de la temporada invierno según Eye of the Tiger. Simpson avanzó al Torneo de Masters y dirigió el equipo de lucho con su liderato. a ser más difícil también porque nosotros no vamos a ser capaces de prepararse para hacer frente, por lo que nos puede llevar un par de juegos, ya que no podemos golpear en la práctica para que podamos hacer frente hacia abajo.”

Otros jugadores de RHS de fútbol, ​​sin embargo, consideran que un menor número de prácticas se beneficiarán del equipo.

“Creo que es bueno porque no vamos a solicitar tantos lesiones en la cabeza y siento que podríamos estar más curados para

nuestros juegos y pudimos jugar más rápido, jugar más duro y ejecutar,” dijo Junior Jordan Woods.

Varsity entrenador de fútbol y director de deportes Larry Cunha cree que menos contacto en la práctica será un factor más importante al principio de la temporada.

El equipo de fútbol tampoco será capaz de asistir a su campamento anual por equipos de la Universidad de Nevada, Reno debido a esta nueva ley estatal que afecta a todas las escuelas de California.

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Byrd spreads the love with Peer Helping

by MIKAYLA STEARNS

m.stearns@eyeofthetigernews.com

Hundreds of RHS eyes widened in surprise when they saw their principal sitting amongst the Peer Helper speakers at the Language of Love assembly on Feb. 23. Roseville High School principal David Byrd often attends sporting events and rallies, and now has been personally featured in a Peer Helping event, where students share their individual stories of overcoming struggle.

“I was asked to participate by Ms. Erb and some of the students in the program,” Byrd said. “ It was an honor.”

The Language of Love assembly explores the different forms of showing love and affection to each other, and how to effectively create a positive environment.

Many of the Peer Helpers involved spoke to the crowd about their personal relationships, and Byrd joined in just as students in the Peer Helping class would.

“I mostly spoke about my three daughters and the challenges to being a parent,” Byrd said. “I wanted our students to know that being a parent is tough work and we need our kids to tell us they still love us.”

Peer Helping teacher Valerie Erb enjoys RHS’ principals being present during events and involved with the students.

“When we hired our new principal, we wanted someone very visible, and as you’ve seen he’s been in our rallies with Student Government, and now he appeared in a Peer Helping assembly,” Peer Helping teacher Valerie Erb said. “I think he shows up at sporting events, too. He’s been very visible and involved … He wants to be involved.”

Byrd’s story helped to

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Above left, RHS principal David Byrd speaks about his experiences raising his children during Peer Helping’s Languages of Love assembly last Monday. Above right, senior Eric Tyukayev carries junior Zach Galley in a “wedding hug” to demonstrate the touch language of love. Byrd was the first member of RHS’ administration to ever come and work directly with Peer Helping during an assembly. strengthen the meaning of the Language of Love Assembly, according to Erb. “It just makes it more of a powerful message,” Erb said. “It helps the movement broaden.”

Many of the Peer Helper speakers at the assembly admire Byrd’s involvement and welcomed him to the Peer Helping family.

“We heard that he wanted to come in and speak, and we were just absolutely excited to have him,” junior Peer Helper Zach Galley said.

Though many faculty and administration members have attended Peer Helping assemblies, Byrd is the first administrator member come and work with the Peer Helping class.

The repercussions of Byrd’s speech encouraged students to share their thoughts with Peer Helping.

“We had a lot of people in Peer Helping come and tell us that Mr. Byrd was a really good influence on them,” junior Peer Helper Zack Swisher said. “There was actually a girl in our class who

said that he made it more than a class – he made it a movement.

That’s what we wanted to do.”

Even considering it’s past popularity, this year’s feedback was the best they’ve ever received, according to Galley.

“For the Language of Love assembly, we always get the most positive feedback,” Galley said.

“From this year we actually got a lot more than past years, and some of that could contribute to Mr. Byrd being involved.”

Byrd’s relatability to his students fueled his participation

with Language of Love.

“It’s important to me because I want to be a principal that students believe in,” Byrd said.

“I want them to know who their principal is and that he understands their programs and he wants to participate with them. I want them to know I’m a normal, regular guy.”

The assembly ended by encouraging the audience to find their language of love. The languages included showing positive words, kind actions, caring touches, giving gifts, quality time

and application. Byrd concluded his anecdote telling the students to express the languages each day of the week.

The day after the assembly, Erb’s second period Peer Helping class marched to Byrd’s office to thank him.

“We gave a big cheer chant ‘Byrd is the word’ and we had this big ‘Byrd Spreads the Love’ poster with love notes all around it thanking him,” Erb said. “That was our way of paying a heart to him. We had so much love [that] day.”

Girls tackle rugby together on Sierra team Drama set for Scotland

by LUZ FLORES

by HAYLEE SEX

l.flores@eyeofthetigernews.com

A few Roseville High School girls tackled their love for contact sports through participating in the Sierra Foothills League rugby club.

The SFL rugby club team of 20 is home to 14 RHS students.

Due to the absence of a rugby team at school, captain and scrumhalf senior Lacy Ray found solace in the SFL. “Rugby is hard to get started because people aren’t familiar with it like how they are with football or baseball,” Ray said.

“It’s not from this area, so people are like so its just a ripoff of football, but really football is a ripoff of rugby.”

According to senior Nicole Dunger, she attended a meeting in which there were plans for the formation of a male RHS rugby team.

“They never really had a set coach or anyone who wanted to be involved in it here at Roseville, so we didn’t even try to pursue it for the girls,” Dunger said.

When Dunger first started playing rugby four years ago, she was the only girl from RHS. The increase in familiarity within the team has created better communication and execution in games.

“I knew nobody on the team [when I first started], so now I know most of the people on the team and we actually see each other not just at practice and we have better communication,” Dunger said.

Senior fullback Nicole Cojocaru enjoys having other girls from RHS on the team.

“Its really good [having so

Roseville High School’s Drama troupe plans to travel across the pond and make history in the summer of 2016.

The troupe is going to be the very first American group in 11 years to attend the National Festival of Youth Theatre in Scotland.

The Drama department applied to the festival via electronic application, which asked them details about the play that they were performing as well as a recording of a track of their musical’s songs that were performed by their cast.

RHS drama teacher Stuart Smith believes that one of the reasons the program was recognized is the plays they perform.

“We’re a small program but we have this really established history of doing shows that matter,” Smith said.

Many of Drama’s performances include topics that range from feminism to issues like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The emphasis on mature topics gave Drama the chance to be recognized for their uniqueness among other high school drama departments, which typically cover much lighter fare in their productions.

“If you’re going to have an American company come and go through that effort ... and do all that work, you’re gonna get something that’s really different,” Smith said.

The play that Drama will perform in the festival is called Girl Child Soldier, which covers the difficulties and horrors that female child soldiers did and still go through.

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Senior Lacy Ray protects the ball during a Sierra Foothills rugby club practice last Thursday night. Ray and 13 other girls from RHS play on the team, which gives them a chance to play the sport, which RHS doesn’t offer. many girls from Roseville] because it’s good to have us all here, because we all know each other and we are all friends so its easy to communicate with each other,” Cojocaru said.

The SFL rugby team is a U19 team, but players are cut off once they graduate high school. Currently, the majority of the players are seniors at RHS, which called for the recruitment of underclassmen.

“We [recruited] younger girls because the majority of us are seniors and next year we graduate so we had to find girls who were underclassmen,” Dunger said. “We had so many young girls starting to play, so we were getting girls who were 13 playing against 19 year old girls, so it was very wide.”

Many of the players believe that toughness is a factor in play-

ing rugby, as most of the common injuries are concussions and torn ligaments.

“You have to be tough,” Ray said. “You have to be able to put up with the pain and what people say to you and some people are mean.”

Rugby coach Tony Mokofisi is grateful for the quality of sports-

manship and competitiveness the RHS girls bring to the team.

“There must be something in that water in Roseville,” Mokofisi said. “They’re tough, they’re eager to learn, they are very smart and they play together as a team. They’re fun to work with and I’m happy to have these girls from Roseville.”

seniors

JUNIOR

Miranda Brassfield Joslyn Carrell

Megan Hanby

Nicole Cojocaru

SoPHOMORES

Natalina Decker

Abby Benjamin

Nicole Dunger

Hanna Sex

Emily Earl Juliana Pangelinan

FREShmen

Lacy Ray

Brooklyn Hansen

Andrea Roberts

Juliana Jansen

This play is able to convey the circumstances in which these girls go through by using interviews that was taken directly from women who were actually child soldiers.

“The play is a call to action for us to start doing something for children fighting adult wars,” junior Alesha Bonner said.

Girl Child Soldier is also an original play that was made by past RHS Drama students.

“My students in 2003 developed the original production that came back this year, and that kind of work is unique for a high school program,” Smith said.

Because the festival tends to focus on original works or works that are based around social issues, the topics that Drama covers in Girl Child Soldier, as well as the timing in which Drama applied, helped them get chosen to attend the festival.

The program has chosen to attend the festival in the summer of 2016 in order to raise money for the trip’s expenses.

“It’s not actually killer expensive, but [a lot of it] is the plane tickets and just getting there,” Smith said.

In order to raise money for the trip to Scotland, Drama will be using the ticket sales from their shows as well as perform their spring show to other schools to fundraise.

Despite the fact that Drama will be going to the festival next year, many of the students are very excited be a part of this experience.

“It’s an incredible chance for a learning experience,” senior Kristen Jensen said. “We can connect with a group we’ve never had the chance to before.”

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LONG DISTANCE: Situation hard, but easier together, seniors say Junior customizes for custom style FASHION COLUMN: junior elijah tucker

by MICHELLE IM

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able to talk to him, but his letters gave me the strength to hold on to when we would see each other again,” Mendez said.

Dunger and her boyfriend, alumnus Robert Ferry, dated for a short time before he left for the Air Force. Their communication solely relies on letters, as Ferry is still in the boot camp process.

“It makes my heart skip a beat, even if it’s a three sentence letter it’s still exciting to hear from him since we can’t communicate on a regular basis,” Dunger said.

Both feel the loss of not having their significant other around everyday, but they have looked to each other for support. The two have been friends since freshman year and sharing a common experience has strengthened their friendship.

“Having Dora to go to for knowledge on what was to come made it a lot easier when Robert finally left because I had an idea on what is was going to be like because I had went through it with her,” Dunger said.

When Valentine’s Day came around the two decided to spend it together by seeing the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, as they couldn’t spend it with their significant others.

Both have explained that it can be very easy to feel alone sometimes or become jealous of other people’s relationships, but having the support of one another lessens the loneliness.

“We understand each other more and I know what she’s going through since I’ve been in her situation so it’s created a stronger bond between us,” Mendez said.

“It also helps me because I know I’m not alone in this.”

Those in the military are

awarded 30 days of leave a year and an option on how the days are divided. Due to the time constraint, McCullum and Ferry are unable to make it to every event, such as Senior Ball, leaving Mendez and Dunger dateless.

Having one another to understand the situation allows them to not only go together, but not spend the time worrying about other couples with dates.

“It’s really nice knowing that she will be my date since our men won’t be here for the same reason,” Mendez said. “We’re trying to incorporate something with the air force in our attire like a military bracelet, so we’ll have a little piece of them with us.”

Having a long-standing relationship before entering a long distance one is the norm for most couples, and this was the case for Mendez and McCullum. The couple had been together for a little over a year before McCullum left, having a strong bond before his departure made it a lot easier. However, Dunger and Ferry were up against a bigger challenge, as they had been together for six months prior to Ferry’s departure.

“I thought it was weird and crazy for us to do this at first because we hadn’t been together that long but I think it has made our relationship a lot stronger a lot quicker,” Dunger said. “At

COURTESY DORA MENDEZ

COURTESY NICOLE DUNGER

Seniors Dora Mendez and Nicole Dunger, who are both dating RHS alumni in the Air Force currently stationed out of state, have found strength in their shared situation. first I thought it mattered that we hadn’t been together that long, but when you know, you just know.”

Being in a relationship with someone in the military and having it affect them more personally has given both Dunger and Mendez a different level of respect for people in the armed forces.

“After hearing about all the drills, gas chambers and battles our service men go through, I’ve gained a much greater respect for them,” Mendez said. “They are our true heroes who risk their lives for our safety.”

How would you describe your style?

I don’t really know. I just wear whatever I feel like because some days I could do one thing, and the next day it could be something different, so I don’t really have a set style. I think.

Do you have anything that really inspires you? Any fashion inspiration for that day? How do you pick your clothes in the morning?

As for inspiration, Kanye West is probably my biggest inspiration, and then just people on Instagram like other rappers and stuff. And then, like, whatever music I’m listening to like the day before or something. It kind of sets the mood for what I want to wear for the next day, so that’s kind of how I want to decide what I want to wear. It’s basically how I feel with music if that makes sense.

What did you feel yesterday or how are you feeling now?

I was listening to Kanye, and like I don’t know. He’s just talking a lot about high-end fashion, so I just thought ‘I’m gonna wear something nice’ and more fancy and high-end if that makes sense.

Do you have favorite places you tend to shop at?

Yeah. I get a lot of stuff from H&M, and yeah, that’s pretty much it. And Zara. And Urban Outfitters.

Are your glasses prescription?

Yeah, they’re prescription Ray Bans. They were sunglasses, but I got the lady to make them prescription glasses. I like to make a lot of stuff custom. I made these jeans custom like I bought them and then I made them how I want them to be.

Did you get them tailored?

I did it, because I can sew and stuff.

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Junior Elijah Tucker wears a white button-up shirt and jeans from H&M and a leather jacket from Zara. He tops off the look with a gold watch and brown shoes from Urban Outfitters. He cites Kanye West as a major inspiration.

Do you usually tailor most of your clothes?

I do it to almost all of my clothes, and I make clothes too. I make shirts and sweaters and stuff. I have a brand. It’s called Ibex.

How did you go about starting your brand?

I wanted to make stuff that I wanted to wear. And it really doesn’t make sense to buy things if you don’t really like it or if it doesn’t really fit what you want to wear so I just thought that I was going to make whatever I want to wear. That’s how it started.

How do you go about making your clothes?

Well, I have a sketchbook, and I just draw a shirt or cool design that I want to do. Then I transfer that to Photoshop and make the design. There’s a local print place that I go to, and I send it to them and they print it on a shirt or

sweater or whatever I want to do.

Do you do a lot of custom work through Ibex?

Not too much. I don’t know. I just make sweaters and stuff...A lot of [designs] I just come up with it myself.

What do you think is a good budget on clothes?

People say, “Don’t spend a lot of money on clothes,” but to get a certain look or something that you really want, you might have to spend a lot of money or some money. I think you should just spend reasonably, however much you need to get what you want.

Is there anything you recommend to RHS students, especially guys, on fashion?

They all pretty much dress the same, so they shouldn’t be afraid to dress however they want or to try different things. Don’t be afraid to do things that are different from all the other people.

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oseville High School’s changing policy toward suspension for willful defiance – which now aims to reduce incidence by shifting staff focus from punishing to reforming – is a step in the right direction in the evolution of the school’s disciplinary policy, but it shouldn’t be the last one.

California Ed Code 48900 (k) identifies acts that warrant suspensions for behavioral reasons (as opposed to for more serious offenses, like possessing drugs or bringing weapons on campus) as those in which a student “willfully defied the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.”

In practice, this usually boils down to displays of attitude, like talking back to a teacher, coming to class late or refusing to participate in classroom activities – all of which staff can suspend a student for. Suspensions for willful defiance generally last one to three days, which means one cheeky comment can sometimes knock a student out of class for the better part of a week.

Perhaps this wouldn’t be an issue if RHS and the Roseville Joint Union High School District didn’t often suspend students for behav-

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ior issues, but, during the 2013-14 school year, defiance suspensions comprised nearly half the total suspensions for the school and more than half the total suspensions for the district. We suspend kids for bad behavior a lot – too much.

Too much, because here’s the thing about suspensions for willful defiance: The kids who are likely to receive them are almost always the kids who shouldn’t be missing class.

Take a too-typical example: Say Joey isn’t so hot about his Bi-

College Board APUSH changes blind students to full American past

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hose who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is a quote by George Santayana that perfectly depicts the historical importance of our ancestors - for if we neglect to study our past we are destined to fail.

As many of us may have heard, there has been an uproar behind the recent changes to the Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH) test. Many of these changes have gotten rid of the “bad times” America has had in its seemingly short history of 239 years.

If anyone has ever spent any time with me, you would quickly figure out that I love America and I value all of our history, whether it be good or bad. Going along those lines, I am proud to be called an American no matter the relative “good” or “bad” history.

In addition, many of these events are a true representation of how far our great nation has come in its very short time as a nation, and without mistakes we will never grow as a country.

By picking and choosing what the teachers can put into the APUSH course, the students will get a varying knowledge of what truly happened in the America’s past.

Not only do the students lose a sense of history, but the schooling system will fail in providing these kids with a sense of what is right and what is wrong.

In addition, I do not like to look at these events as if we have failed during these times. Rather, I see these as times that we can learn from and put a step in the right direction. One of the events they are attempting to “erase” from history is events during the slavery era, along with famous speeches like the Gettysburg Address and the famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther

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King, Jr. According to College Board, they are taking out some of the key figures in American history like Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. By taking out these key historical figures the course will lack some of the great revolutionists in our history as Americans. Their reasoning behind the exclusion of key Americana heroes is to have the teachers focus more on the events rather than the people so the teachers can take a more in-depth Common Core approach.

If programs like College Board can use Common Core as validation for deleting parts of American history from the minds of our youth, what keeps the government from pretending some parts of our rights don’t exist?

Recently, our government has tried to impede on a multitude of our rights including one of my favorites, the Second Amendment, which states that we have the right to bear arms.

This is similar to censoring of information in the APUSH classes that College Board has done, and in the future they will continue to impede on our rights, maybe to the point where they assure us we have none.

From taking our right to bear arms to censoring what the youth of America learns, our government has been intruding on our rights that we as Americans hold near and dear to our hearts.

ology class. It’s fourth period, the subject’s not really his thing and his teacher seems to drone on and on forever about photosynthesis while he really just wants to go home. One day, he makes a flippant comment when his teacher asks why he doesn’t have his homework done and, boom, there he goes, for two days and without much to occupy his time besides a laptop and TV screen.

Now, is Joey really learning anything while he’s at home?

(Besides maybe how good it is to not be at school and not in that

Bio class?) Probably not. Though RHS and RJUHSD obviously don’t track how suspended students spend their time at home, it’s certain most would stand to benefit from actually being in class and not on the couch.

RHS administrators know this. The question of whether to suspend a student has never been one of whether it would be better for him or her to be at home and not school, but rather whether it would be better for his or her classmates. Balancing the needs of the many well-behaving stu-

dents with the needs of the few misbehaving ones is, in essence, the challenge RHS administrators face as they move to reduce the number of behavior-based suspensions the school’s staff hand out.

And they are moving. RHS’ leaders are embracing initiatives like peer counseling and PBIS frameworks as possible methods of reducing willful defiance suspensions. They understand the issue, and we support their mission.

We just want to make sure they don’t let up.

When a student misses school, he or she misses out on what is likely the best opportunity for personal growth currently available to him or her. We complain and moan about being here, but, really, there’s almost always no better alternative. Where else would we get to learn as much as we do for as much time as we do?

For most, the answer is nowhere, and that’s why we need to be here.

Sometimes, a student really needs to go home. Sometimes, that’s necessary to ensure an effective learning environment for his or her classmates. But sometimes it’s not.

Let’s not forget that.

(This article represents the views of the 2014-15 editorial board.)

RHS fails to ensure college success

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ften, teachers, and adults in general, will hear teenagers say something along the lines of “I don’t want to go to school; I’m not even learning anything,” or “When am I ever even going to use this in my life?” Well, there is a larger truth to these statements than one may believe there to be.

It is easy to say that, as a senior in high school, I simply am experiencing “senioritis,” but that isn’t the only annoyance that has frustrated me toward the end of my high school career. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that high school has completely failed to meet my expectations.

However, I do believe that Roseville High School hasn’t succeeded in preparing students for their adulthood as well as possible.

Recently, Common Core represents a significant change to the school’s curriculum. For whatever the reasons may be, I haven’t felt a difference in how I am being taught as a student in the classroom.

While my teachers throughout the years have been outstanding, I feel that I have always been regarded with the same learning abilities as every single one of my peers, which is not an accurate depiction of how quickly or how clearly I am able to understand certain concepts.

If I’ve learned anything from being a high school student, it’s that the degree to which we apply ourselves is nearly completely up to us and our own self-motivation.

So, when a teacher attempts to keep consistent track of how frequently we are studying, taking notes and turning in homework, it is not only forcing us to conform to the learning style of a single student, but it is also doing us a disservice, since our professors will not be holding our hands and making sure that we all copy the same notes into a notebook.

On a similar note, many college classroom settings revolve around the students’ abilities to hold socratic seminars and have

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fluid conversations with their peers that will open up new ideas.

When teachers require students to work alone while reading and annotating packets of text, or to sit and study a textbook, it hinders their ability to fully absorb information and consequently, test scores are not an accurate representation of the student’s knowledge.

The idea is that multiple brains put together are better than one.

This is why it’s important to engage students in what they’re learning.

Otherwise, we aren’t learning so much as we are memorizing information, transferring it onto tests and then forgetting it the second that we move onto other material.

Additionally, high school should prepare teenagers for future careers and bringing inno-

vative ideas to the workforce in any field, rather than focusing on the singular goal of graduating, which renders teenagers unable to succeed in college and beyond because we don’t have the necessary skills to do so.

The “a-g” requirements are a good guideline for the basic education that students should be learning in order to move onto a higher level, but personally, I do not intend on using basic mathematical formulas, like the Pythagorean Theorem, let alone three years worth of required math that I didn’t retain any information from.

While attaining high testing scores and good grades are a big step toward the success of a student and a high school, this doesn’t equal outside-the-box thinking and will not create productive citizens of society by itself.

Exams, such as the SAT and ACT, are only a single factor that can be used to determine college readiness. However, these achievement and aptitude tests are designed to fit only those who are able to perform to the best of their ability when pressured by the time constraints and style of the exams.

Similarly, RHS has failed to prepare us for AP exams, as well.

A survey shows that 83% of staff believe that AP is connected to college success, but this is contradicted with the fact that 85% of students shy away from AP classes and exams because they are simply too much work.

This indicates the amount of students who don’t believe they are prepared and aren’t willing to go the extra mile in order to have successful test results.

However, RHS can alter this trend by exposing its students to opportunities, such as internships, that will get us involved in something that will impact that way we decide to shape our futures.

As 88% of staff believe that student interest is a ‘very good’ predictor of success, teachers could help to introduce any skills that we excel in, and those that we will choose to eliminate from any future options in college.

In my opinion, one of the most valuable concepts a teacher can teach is to be satisfied with the people we ultimately become and to know that our success does not come with the grades we received in high school, but how we choose to utilize our unique talents and abilities for the better.

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RJUHSD, please follow lead of nearby districts: Let us sleep

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ake one look into my backpack and you might think I get my recommended eight hours of sleep each night, when, in reality, I, like most students here at Roseville High School, get, at most, five hours of sleep.

The Crystal Light Energy packets I put in my water aren’t because I want my water to turn pink; they’re because I’m so tired I can’t get through my day without a ridiculous amount of caffeine. The makeup I have isn’t so I can impress some boy, it’s so that I can hide the bags under my eyes from never getting enough sleep. The homework inside is what keeps me and most students from getting into bed at a normal hour.

I, like most of the students here, am tired. Yet for years, our school district has thought that our lack of sleep is nothing more than a product of our inability to manage time. Our homework from the Advanced Placement classes they encourage us to enroll in, study-

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ing for the college entrance exams they push us to take, going to the jobs some of us must have and maintaining our sanity can apparently all be done with time for us to go to bed and get our recommended eight hours of sleep.

In addition to those ridiculous statements, several adults I’ve spoken to think a lack of sleep is also a part of growing up. Part of getting a serious job is becoming a coffee addict. Being too busy to sleep is the new normal. Yet, I refuse to believe that this is how my life should be. Davis and Folsom Cordova Unified School Districts aren’t accepting our lack of sleep as normal, and neither should we.

Both districts are currently considering pushing back the start times of their middle schools and high schools by 45 minutes. Folsom High School already starts at 8 a.m., so the fact that they believe that their start time (which is already later than RHS’) has potentially detrimental effects on their students is alarming.

Being grouchy after not taking a nap doesn’t only apply to toddlers; the emotional effects of sleep deprivation apply to teenagers, too. This isn’t only about our moods – this affects so much more.

Matthew Walker, PhD, professor of neuroscience and Psychology at University of California, Berkeley, stated that sleep deprivation can cause a 40-percent change in a teen’s learning capacity. Several studies add to this and prove that students in schools that have later start times have higher test scores and lower rates of depression and are involved in up to 70 percent fewer car crashes.

Even a tiny chance of improv-

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ing students’ performance should be enough to make our school district make changes. Knowing that around 70 percent of American high school students fail to get the recommended eight to nine hours of sleep per night, our school

needs to push back start times.

Our lives will never stop being busy, but having a later start time will most likely lead to students sleeping for much longer.

Our school needs to put our health first and work toward a

later start time in the morning.

While it may be difficult to work out some logistical schedule details, the benefits it would have for the mental, physical, and emotional health of our students and teachers are enormous.

Meninism for the whiny and uninformed

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Save boys a tardy; reopen bathrooms

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ecently, the boys bathroom in the 900 building has been closed due to a hole in the wall. The once small hole was repeatedly kicked until it was large enough to cause structural damages.

Administration then made the decision to close off the bathroom until the hole had been patched, so it wouldn’t grow any larger.

These reckless students who started the hole have contributed to the demeanor of disappointment surrounding the male student body who have gone out of the way to do their business because of the inconvenience.

When bathrooms are locked, students are forced to commute out of their way during our short six-minute passing period, often making them late for classes.

Surely, they could just wait and go during the period, but many teachers on campus don’t allow students to leave during class. Are our only decisions to be late or hold it? There needs to be a compromise somewhere.

Since the recent closure, many guys have made the hike to the 600 bathrooms to avoid using the even less appealing foyer bathrooms, and the walk takes some time, which raises eyebrows of classmates who don’t know of the struggle and instead have been looking at the clock. So thank you, kids, for destroying my bathroom, bladder and my life.

Regardless of who’s to blame for these damages, the real problem lies with how long these bathrooms have actually been closed.

We can recognize the issues this causes between teacher and student, and feelings of neglect from student to school. It is understandable for the school to close this bathroom to prevent further damage, but that doesn’t mean

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they can’t effectively fix this problem. The bathroom has been closed for weeks, which is more than enough time for to make appropriate structural repairs.

We don’t know whether the school is waiting for the students responsible to come out before making the necessary changes to prevent it from happening again, or if they are using this to reinforce their anger for the damages, but students who had nothing to do with this and simply need to use the restroom shouldn’t be punished for others’ actions. This can get students in trouble with tardies or make teachers angry with them needing to leave class.

Some changes must be made, whether its effectively finding the students destroying these bathrooms and punishing them, immediately fixing the holes, or giving male students in the 900’s a possible pass for being late to class or leaving during the period.

So to you cool kids who find joy in beating walls, stop playing in the bathrooms. It’s unnecessary and killing RHS guys’ bathroom experiences.

f you own a Twitter account and have ever been locked into a mutual followship with a misogynistic teenage boy from your CP English 9 class, you have likely had the opportunity to witness the growing popularity of tweets from the Meninist Twitter accounts.

I was understandably confused about what a “meninist” even was, so I searched ‘define: meninism,’ on Google. I found the actual definition of ‘meninism’ is “a global organization of men that believe in and support the feminist principles of women’s political, social and economic equality.” When I read this, I felt a glimmer of hope.

After years of men dubbing the modern feminist movement “The War on Men,” they have come to their senses and aligned themselves with the cause of equality between the genders. Lol. As I scrolled through the tweets, I read tweets that instead made light of the feminist movement, women in general, gender inequality, women’s struggles and even their triumphs.

I believe I speak for all women when I say that I’ve seen countless t-shirts at mall kiosks that say, “Cool story, babe. Now go make me a sandwich,” and I have answered, “Sure,” when the same

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grimy boy from my CP English 9 class who retweets @TheMeninist devotedly asks me, “Want to hear a joke?” only to hear the same punchline I have been hearing since the third grade: “Women’s rights!” However, the tweets tap into some other sort of modern sexism. In case you are not locked in a mutual follow with any boys like that, the following are a few of my very faves: “If you’re half-naked in your AVI, but won’t send nudes, that’s false advertising.”

“Never argue with an idiot or she may refuse to have sex with you.”

“Retweet if you hate the #LikeAGirl movement.” (In response to the Always commercial that made a valiant effort to teach girls at a young age that doing things such fighting and playing sports “like a girl” is not synonymous with doing things poorly

or any less than their male counterpart.) ((More like, “Retweet if #ConfidentAndEmpoweredYoungGirls make you uncomfortable and hurt your fragile ego.”))

As a woman who has grown up in the wake of third-wave feminism, I am proud to have reclaimed my femininity, after years of adolescence in which I learned that doing things “like a girl” was bad. For years, I have listened to young boys and even boys in their high school and adult years tell jokes about women, their place in a relationship between a man and a woman, women’s rights, sexual assault and domestic abuse. I, and many other young girls, used to laugh at these jokes. I do not laugh anymore.

Feminism has made enormous strides and overcome countless obstacles in the past year and will continue to do so, but we still have a long way to go. However, it would be a lot easier if everyone in the world took around 20 seconds to Google the phrase, ‘define: feminism,’ to which you will be greeted with a definition that reads, “the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men.”

If you concur, congratulations!

You are a feminist. Because that’s

just how words work.

Although feminism also targets the struggles of men and their inequalities, I would be all for meninism if it was men uniting across the globe to combat those struggles, as well as those of our LGBT community and men of color.

Sadly, it is not. Meninism is a bunch of whiny, uninformed, uneducated men and, unfortunately, some women, who view feminism as a negative movement and merely want to take it down.

Meninism, as well as its advocates, invalidate the struggles of women and men across the globe via ignorance and apathy that feminism so desperately tries to bring awareness to and, even after this is brought to their attention, meninists scoff and say our world still does not need feminism.

However, it does. We can pretend that we live in a world where men and women are of complete equality, this is not the case. And I believe a common misconception is that feminism only targets problems that women face, leaving men to struggle with their own problems that stem from sexism.

We need feminism in our world for a multitude of reasons – all of which are not exclusive to one gender.

Educate students about sex; undo the taboo

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magine walking around campus with your friend, minding your own business and suddenly you accidentally eavesdrop on a conversation near you.

One phrase stands out: Sex Ed. At once, babies are crying, your ears are ringing and you think you hear gunshots. All because someone had the audacity to speak about public school sexual education.

How dare they, with freshmen around, with ears that could’ve heard that.

Sex Ed is widely thought of as “taboo.” We just don’t talk about it. Sex is evil and horrible and wrong, right? At least, that what the public education system has ingrained into my psyche each year that I attend.

No one discusses sexuality, therefore it is “not normal” and repressed. This is accepted by many of my peers, and sadly, many adults and teachers. Many people think that if sexuality isn’t discussed, teenagers won’t discover it or have questions or experiment. Refusing to provide teens accurate sexual education doesn’t prepare them for the future, nor does it make them safer.

This “If I can’t see it then it doesn’t exist” mentality is primarily found in abstinence-only communities. But there are multiple studies showing that teens

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who take chastity oaths are more likely to have sex earlier and to have unsafe sex than teens who are not in abstinent communities.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics and a Gallup Daily Survey, pregnancy in teens aged 15-19 is most concentrated in states identifying as “very religious.” This can be attributed to strictly enforced rules and a concentration of conservative ideals in those states as well.

Teens are going to explore sexuality no matter what, but leaving them uneducated encourages them to do it in secret, without the advice and help of an adult.

We shouldn’t leave teens to fend for themselves against people who have no problem taking advantage of them. Young people are especially at risk for being taken advantage of because of their young age, which can contribute to them being at the bad end of an unhealthy power dynamic.

After recently perusing the school-issued Health and Safety textbook, I identified a disturbing amount of problematic ideas stated as fact. They all supported abstinence and shamed sex. “Refraining from sexual activity is one of the most important ways to create and sustain a healthy relationship,” is a real life thing, in print, in a Health and Safety textbook, in a section and chapter titled “Benefits of Abstinence.”

Clearly, there are many benefits to abstinence, like how that you can’t get pregnant or contract certain diseases. But it’s unsafe sex that has negative repercussions, not all forms of sex, like textbooks like to insinuate. “Being sexually active can prevent a young person from achieving his or her goals,” shames the textbook.

Condoning unsafe and premature sexual activity should never be done, but these materials go too far in trying to prove their point. It’s contrary to the state legislature for sexual education for California, which states that “the information must be medically accurate, factual, and objective,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Romanticizing abstinence and shaming people who have sex is not objective, or factual, or sustainable in any way. It’s hard to

teach unbiasedly when the issued information has a clear message: don’t think about it, kids.

When teachers do teach Sex Ed, it’s all hormonal glands and anatomical parts (which are important). But I can 100-percent guarantee that those classes will not be learning about birth control, different sexualities, or the specificities about safe and unsafe ways to have sex.

Sexuality blossoms at about age 10-13. And just because it’s beginning to form does not mean you are ready to have sex. There are many other factors to consider when making that decision.

But why should teens have to figure out everything for themselves? Would you rather have a completely biased textbook shame your child about sexuality, along with their dopey friend who gets all his information from an older brother?

Teens are being bombarded with horrible messages from the media, whose sole purpose seems to hide abusive power dynamics within over-romanticized relationships and pass it off as dysfunctional love. It’s not enough for authority figures to just say “Don’t do it,” with all of these outside influences around. Educate, empower, encourage. Do not repress, ignore or shame.

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McFarland tells tale of inspiring underdogs

BY GEORGE HUGHES

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Starring Kevin Costner as first-time high school cross country coach Jim White, Disney’s McFarland, USA inspires viewers with its uplifting storyline that teaches the importance of perseverance and teamwork. The movie is based on a true story, taking place in 1987.

White starts out as a high school football coach, until an inappropriate outburst leads to his firing – a repeated offense on his part. Looking for work, White moves his family to McFarland, California, a small, economically challenged, largely Latino town.

While teaching his new P.E. class, he notices that some of his students are natural runners. He selects the fastest few runners from his class, including jokesters Johnny Sameniego (Hector Duran) and Victor Puentes (Sergio Avelar) and tells them to gather some of their friends in the attempt to form a crosscountry team. White begins to train his unconfident group into state-level competitors.

This underdog mentality is a large factor in the movie’s ability to inspire its viewers. Although the underdog theme might seem cliche, the movie does a good job of proving how far the boys will journey on the road to success.

White’s all-star and fastest runner Thomas Valles (Carlos Pratts) faces family problems at

home that almost lead to his departure from the team. The ways in which the community and the cross-country team unite to overcome all of these problems is quite inspirational and uplifting.

The town of McFarland refuses to back down and helps raise funds for the team so that they can buy jerseys, equipment and shoes. White helps Valles with his family struggles, and his family learns to love McFarland as a home full of life and culture.

The people of McFarland even throw White’s daughter Julie a surprise Quinceanera.

The efforts of all the townspeople coming together to organize and create this special event

Quality, price match at Pressed Juicery

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I was intrigued by the concept Upon walking into the shop, I of cold-pressed drinks, as I had realized that there was no actual only ever made any juice drink seating inside the juicery. You by juicer or blender. I did my simply walk up to the register, research and discovered that cold choose your drink from an assortpressing is the process of extractment of refrigerated juices and go ing juice from fruits and vegon your way. This is really nice etables so that there is minimal for people on the go, because oxidation, allowing for an overall there’s no waiting for someone to abundance of nutrients to be premake your juice. served. In normal people words, In addition to a clean and this juice is healthy and fresh. modern ambiance, my customer Pressed Juicery carries a wide service experience was variety of beverages, ranging a positive one. I was from greens, to roots, to greeted cordially and offruits and even a small fered recommendations selection of coffee. and samples, as well Each sixteen-ounce as directions on how bottle contains about quickly to consume three to five ingrethe juice before dients and prices expiration, which range anywhere was very informafrom two to eight tive and helped dollars (dependme to decide ing on content), which beverage to which is relainvest my money tively pricey, and in. typically attracts Overall, customers with a Pressed Juicery juicing plan. was a thumbs Aside from up in multiple the nutritious categories. You content and priccan’t go wrong ing of the juice, with anything on the taste was the menu because quite refreshing. it is quality, good I could tell the for those oningredients were the-go, energyfresh and that boosting and everything I was tasty. Although drinking was natthe price is on ural and unprothe higher side, cessed. I sampled Pressed Juicery is a both pineapple and good alternative for apple drinks that Apple Strawberry someone looking to included flavors Coconut Juice ($6.50) skip the process of like mint and lime, juicing at home, or simply wantand I ordered a bottle of apple/ ing to sip on something refreshstrawberry/coconut juice. ing and filled with nutrients that The juice was more liquid will last through the day. than heavy smoothie, but it was

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for Julie signifies the acceptance of the White family among all of the other Latino families, showing that it does not matter where somebody is from, only the content of their hearts and minds.

It is quite humorous and ironic that director Niki Caro chose the last name “White” for the family as it further highlights the fact that the family is different from all the others in McFarland.

The ways that the families of McFarland and the Whites put their differences aside to overcome their obstacles are heartwarming and reinforce the inspirational factor of the film.

Many scenes included the whole town coming together for activi-

ties filled with genuine joy and happiness, which the actors and actresses expressed brilliantly.

Solid acting performances from the entire cast brought a very realistic and relatable element to the movie. The audience can feel every bit of emotion that the runners face as the push themselves on through their races, work and home life.

The most impressive performances came from Costner and Pratts, who were both major components of the movie’s success. The film wouldn’t have been nearly as strong without the duo’s very believable acting.

Also notable were the Diaz brothers, Danny (Ramiro Rodri-

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In McFarland, USA, a cross country team empowers its runners and their community with heartwarming commitment and spirit and the idea that it doesn’t matter where you’re from, but rather who you are. guez) , David (Rafael Martinez) and Damacio (Michael Aguero), who are all runners on the crosscountry team. They brought a lot of fun to the team and the movie, always keeping things light. The story of success from little that follows the runners really brings

home the idea that no matter where you come from, you can always be successful. Disney does not fail in bringing yet another uplifting and inspiring movie to its viewers while still managing to keep them entertained and satisfied.

The DUFF targets teen audience

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The DUFF is a recent film adaptation of the 2011 young adult novel by Kody Keplinger. It features the story of a high school senior, Bianca (Mae Whitman), who received a rude awakening in terms of her social perception in the high school realm. Her next-door neighbor/stereoptical jock/childhood friend Wesley (Robbie Amell) makes her aware of her DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) status among her two best friends.

In exchange for chemistry help, Wesley agrees to assist Bianca in “un-DUFFing” herself and winning the heart of a long funny in a ridiculous way. time crush. In order to achieve Instances of visual portrayals of this she must overcome the crude Bianca’s internal musings were intentions of a judgmental stuhilarious because of it’s sheer dent (Bella Thorne). over-the-top of nature, I couldn’t Mae Whitman is adorable and help but laugh. conveys her charmingly witty I also attribute the movie’s and hilarious character flawattraction to its relatable “ugly lessly. Her delivery, comic timing duckling” heroine. The film enand even facial expressions compasses a first person narrative establish her as the allure of the typical of in teen dramas which film. Bianca’s behavior would helps moviegoers associate with resonate as quite frankly ridicuBianca’s character. lous if it weren’t for the fact that The DUFF is, overall, a tale Whitman is such a naturally of teenage self-empowerment. likeable performer. Her chemisThe core storyline offers, though try with Amell was also a strong slightly superficial, a message aspect of the movie. It appeared of social perception with the as though the actors intention of negating genuinely made the offensive nature each other laugh. the films title: WHAT TO LIKE: of Robbie Amell embrace your inner Funny with quirky DUFF. Whether this brings more to his delivery stereotypically “hot successfully nullifies jock” character the objectionable than anticipated. He WHAT NOT TO LIKE: title completely deadds a tenderness, Doesn’t stray from pends on the viewer. sincerity and even Although the film cliches of genre humor to Wesley was charming and establishing value in quirky, its cliche a character that would typically nature and standard teen movie solely be viewed as eye candy. world can’t be ignored. One of Amell also keeps up quite nicely the first scenes even featured a with Whitman in terms of quickscoping of the different ‘cliques’ witted humor. Whitman brought in the high school lunch room out a genuinely funny side of with their designated labels plasAmell that at times even eclipsed tered above each group. (It gave his attractiveness. me a Mean Girls vibe.)

As a whole, the movie was The movie also heavily relies

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The DUFF follows high school senior Bianca (Mae Whitman) through a social awakening in the stereotypical high school realm. on timely elements, such as social media, that will resonate with this generation of youth.

This element will eventually be outdated because the mention of snapchat and numerous social media sites and apps won’t be relevant a few years from now.

It’s vlogger-influenced visual style and frequent use of on screen text is all that really distinguishes it from typical first person narrated teen dramas such as Mean Girls and Easy A. The fact that Mae Whitman is in no way fat or ugly is also an important aspect of the film to note. Because Whitman doesn’t fit into the eurocentric

and weight Hollywood standards of beauty she is considered unconventional enough to cast as “fat” and “ugly” when in reality, she’s neither. It’s unfortunate that Whitman is considered such an unique cast for the leading female role. However, this is a problem in cinema in general, and The DUFF only underscores this detrimental reality.

Though the movie isn’t likely to win over older moviegoers, it’s entertaining and relatable to its intended PG-13 audience.

It’s also quite funny, so if you’re looking for a good laugh with your friends, this is the movie to see.

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Hot Tub sequel fails to live up to original preferred his replacement, Adam Jr. (Adam Scott). He plays the preppy guy that gets abused by It’s a shame that all sequels his more wild “friends.” His can’t be as good as the movies scenes are the rare highlights of they follow. the film.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Whatever your belief on time picks up where the first one travel is, it will be broken after left off – the group is enjoying this movie’s explanation. It even their redone lives, living large references other time travel movand throwing massive parties. ies like Looper and Terminator However, each member experias a foil to their own film. It got ences their own troubles and use chuckle from the audience for the the hot tub once again to try and relatability, but it becomes an desolve a the murder of Lou (Rob cent run-on joke. Unfortunately, Corddry, the bald guy) that hasn’t they were a few of not-so-funny taken place yet. run-on jokes. About the third I can’t say this movie is time you hear it, the chuckle bad; it just doesn’t surpass the you let out the first time will be original. I honestly enjoyed the replaced with a whimper, maybe movie, yet it never had me bursteven pity for the writers. ing out loud with laughter. The The trailers lead me astray film has some funny jokes and compared to the actual movie’s memorable one-liners, but not plot. I expected to travel through enough to make it a flat-out hit. the storyline not stuck in one The comedy factor heavily relies timeline. Nope. on potty humor that Dumber and Instead, writer Josh Heald Dumber Too already proved to produces a plot disappointingly only work once. similar to the first movie. StrugMy favorite parts are when gle, time travel, life-and-death the group is transported into the experiences and life changes future. Seeing all for the better. It was the new invenfun the first time, but tions, places and not quite as much the WHAT TO LIKE: the group’s future second.

Exciting portrayal is very entertainWith all the posof future ing. It reminds sibilities with the me of how talented, familiar cast WHAT NOT TO LIKE: and success of the first Marty McFly Overuse of tired felt when he first film, it is a shame this experienced the jokes, repetitive plot movie had to turn out revolutionary the way it did. Hot hoverboard and Tub Time Machine 2 auto laces in the classic Back to could’ve been the beginning of the Future. the next Hangover series, where The absence of John Cusack all its entries saw a good redidn’t create that much of an sponse. After the overwhelmingissue, as the filmmakers did ly negative public response and an okay job getting rid of his subsequent prediction of poor character (Adam Sr.) – he is rebox office turnout, I don’t think ally not the most comedic actor we’ll be seeing a third chapter of in the entire world. If anything, I the time-traveling hot tub.

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MARC CHAPPELLE EYE OF THE TIGER

The three-taco combination (pictured with carne asada, chicken and tilapia) includes a fountain drink ($6.75). Chando’s Tacos brings “simply delicious Mexican food” to Roseville from Sacramento and delivers agreeable prices coupled with seasoned taste. It is located at 943 Pleasant Grove Blvd., Ste. 120.

Chando’s Tacos’ street eats impress

BY MARC CHAPPELLE

m.chappelle@eyeofthetigernews.com

Taco Bell or any other nearby Mexican joint won’t be seeing business from me any time soon.

That’s not to say that the newly opened Chando’s Tacos and the Americanized food chain are even in the same league, though.

Chando’s has made its longawaited expansion up from Sacramento into Roseville, and I couldn’t ask for much more.

Walking into the small suite, I appreciated the pleasant smell of seasoned meats and spicy sauces.

Chando’s takes delicious food truck-style eats and brings both satisfying flavor and reasonable prices. Their offerings vary from the standard corn tortilla taco to a hearty torta, a Mexican-style sandwich.

During my first of two visits (yes, I went twice in one week – it’s that good), I ordered the

THE APP PULSE

three-taco combo with an accompanying fountain drink ($6.75) I optioned a different filling in each: carne asada, chicken, and grilled (not battered) tilapia. All three included what I’d arguably call the works. Guacamole, cilantro, onions, sauces, cabbage, but nothing super surprising or out of the ordinary from what’d I expect to top a good taco.

In terms of taste, Chando’s has the formula for a straightup good taco down. In terms of presentation, though, they’re decidedly basic. Granted, I’m not expecting any sort of modern art sculpture out of a street taco, so as long as Chando’s serves my tacos in something, I’m satisfied.

In this case, it’s a paper tray of sorts. Nothing fancy, all function.

And do Chando’s Tacos tacos work on my tastebuds. The most notable of my three tacos was the tilapia-filled one – again, the toppings were standard, but the sea-

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seasoning and spicing as the tilapia, but not the same kick.

Maybe citrus and fish just go together really well.

I know for a fact that Chando’s prepares its meats and fish with TLC. I saw it through the wide window showing the behind-the-scenes cooking spin cuts of meat on poles. The meat tenderizes and cooks in this way just like the vastly more expensive, much less accessible, but equally amazing Brazillian steakhouse next door. I’ve always wanted to eat at the upscale steakhouse, so maybe Chando’s is a stepping stone for me and my endeavors in the world of exotically prepared meats.

Chando’s has a leg up on Flame and Fire, though. Their spinning cuts of meat wear hats of pineapple to further absorb good vibes and flavors, as reflected in their logo, also displayed on the wide window.

Dark Sky Paradise exudes newfound confidence

BY RACHEL BARBER

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soning and spices surprised me.

They were so good, they brought me back two days later on my aforementioned second visit.

I would caution the faint of tongue, though. By no means was the spiciness of the tilapia off the charts (or even the middle of the spectrum, really), but for those that know they’re uncomfortable with spice, this could maybe push your limits. If I were you, I would risk it anyway – don’t pass up an opportunity to taste something this good.

Not good are Chando’s chips and salsa. Not only do small bags of chips cost an additional $1.00, unlike most taquerias, their salsa lacked spicy punch.

The tilapia is the best filling to choose as far as my experience goes (Chando’s offers cow tongue, and I’m not that brave), but that doesn’t mean the carne asada or chicken don’t impress.

They too share the same expert

When an album is first presented with a single entitled, “I Don’t F**k With You,” you know it is going to be good… right? A newly-transformed Big Sean released Dark Sky Paradise on Feb. 24, blessing the hip-hop world with 15 new songs.

Sean has been in the spotlight lately, especially with the release of Dark Sky Paradise but also with a few changes in his personal life. Late last year, after Sean’s called-off engagement to Glee actress Naya Rivera, he began dating pop singer and star Ariana Grande and gained lots of attention. Grande even makes an appearance on one of the album’s bonus tracks, “Research.” With the modification to his social life,

his work seemed to follow suit.

Dark Sky Paradise is similar to Sean’s past works but has a much more powerful sound.

Detroit-raised rapper Sean made big news when he signed with Kanye West’s label GOOD music in 2007. West offered him a recording contract and helped produce his debut mixtape, the first volume of Finally Famous, after meeting him on a radio show. The second volume arrived in 2009 and the third following in 2010. West is now featured on the track “All Your Fault” off the album. Other artists apart of Dark Sky Paradise include PARTYNEXTDOOR, Lil Wayne, Jhené Aiko, Chris Brown and Drake. The album features extremely large, talented voices and sizable levels of of egotism.

The album seems to fol-

low the theme of a reviving yet meticulous riot. The confidence of Sean really shines through in most tracks. Standout songs like “All Your Fault” and “Dark Sky (Skyscrapers)” express Sean’s enthusiasm, instilling the songs with a strong sense of determination.

“Paradise,” released beside “I Don’t F**k With You” in October appears on the album with a startling new, powerful verse. Sean’s recent boost in popularity and relevance in the media seems to have made Sean a changed man

when it comes to his ambitions.

Although the album exudes the idea that Sean has gone through some character development recently, he makes it a point to also showcase the fact that he is still in touch with his fans and capable of being down to earth. So much so that he gives out his actual cell phone number in the last track, “Outro” on the album.

Sean signs off with an invitation. “[People] say I changed, how they damn how they do / Say I’m hard to get in contact with, oh, is that true? / But what about

now? 313 / 515-8772, [people], call me.” However, calling this number sends the caller to Sean’s voicemail.

Dark Sky Paradise topped the iTunes charts within the first couple of days of its release. The album began holding the number one spot on the “Albums” chart and certain popular tracks working their way up the “Top 100” chart immediately. Fans and supporters of Sean have enjoyed the album thus far rating it a four and a half out of five stars on iTunes.

I expect the album to boost its sales even more in the near future. I also can assume my favorite tracks “All Your Fault,” featuring West and “Play No Games,” featuring Brown will be the radio hits off the album, given the two featured rappers’ star quality.

MICHELLE’S FOOD JOURNAL

Girl Scouts follow up on years of delicious confections MADDEN MOBILE With a lot of recent “freeto-play” titles purposely failing to deliver with this idea, it’s refreshing to see a mobile game that actually doesn’t pull dollars out of player bank accounts.

Gameplay is spotty at times, but it does allow for multiplayer games and a live marketplace that can yield some massive in-game profits. Football has definitely won this year’s battle on both console and mobile.

- Andrew Smith

This issue, seniors Luz Flores and Haylee Sex got particularly excited about a new addition to the Girl Scouts’ cookie-selling campaign. Michelle Im offered to open her journal to them.

BY LUZ FLORES & HAYLEE SEX

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Dear food journal, Michelle is taking a leave of absence for this issue, but that doesn’t mean that this journal entry won’t be radical, especially since we, the awesome duo of Haylee and Luz are guest writing in her place. We decided to delve into the depths of beloved Girl Scout cookie mania,

reviewing three old favorites as well as a newcomer for this cookie season.

The new face this year is the peanut-butter-flavored, chocolatechip-littered Trio.

Trios are especially important, since they appeal to the gluten-sensitive part of the community. Knowing that they are gluten free, we had a skewed mindset going into the taste test. The Trios surprised us. They were not as good as, let’s say, Thin Mints or Peanut Butter Patties, no, but they did have a nice soft feeling to them and we could taste every single chip. The peanut butter complemented the chocolate

nicely.

Thank the Lord, have mercy on our souls for the creation of Thin Mints.

They taste best when they have dwelled in the fridge or freezer for a while, but they are delectable outside frigid doors nonetheless. With every bite of a Thin Mint, we reflect on our childhoods, all of the chocolatey goodness envelops us, and we just can’t think straight.

The mint isn’t too minty, the chocolate isn’t too chocolatey – the two balance each other out just so. We just wish they weren’t five dollars a pop for only two sleeves of aluminum heaven.

Just in time for the best season in the world, lemon season (duh), Lemonades are back in action. Lemonades are still the choice cookies for lemon lovers. The familiar sweet-tanginess of these scrumptious discs leave fireworks in our mouths (which, surprisingly, is not an unwelcome feeling).

While Lemonades don’t give the same fresh feeling as Thin Mints, they’re still a light snack to eat, which certainly counteracts the heavier and muggier flavors of other Girl Scout cookies.

This glazed confection yields a satisfying crunch without being too crispy, and leaves us with feelings of pure

contentment.

The Girl Scouts strike gold year and year again with these morsels, the addictive Peanut Butter Patties. The distribution of chocolate, peanut butter and cookie is spot-on, resulting in many disappointingly empty boxes and full tummies. These cookies are like a chemical reaction done right. We could go on about how the Peanut Butter Patties are one of the greatest cookies that those little Girls Scouts want to fatten you and their piggy banks up with, but these are such pure and simple comforts that there isn’t any need to talk about their complexities. Sometimes it’s the simple things that really count.

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Safety: Changes also impact non-contact sports CONTINUED FROM FRONT

their form tackling.

“It is going to be more difficult to get a feel for tackling, but it should help with concussions,” varsity football player Blake Rayback said. “It’s going to be more difficult as well because we’re not going to be able to get ready for tackling, so it might take us a couple of games, since we can’t hit in practice so we can get tackling down.”

Other RHS football players, however, feel that fewer practices will benefit the team.

“I believe it’s good because we won’t get as many head injuries and I feel like we could be more healed up for our games and we could play faster, play harder and execute,” junior Jordan Woods said.

Varsity football coach and athletic director Larry Cunha believes that less contact in practice will be a bigger factor early in the season.

“I think it will probably show up in sloppier tackling earlier in the season and then we will catch up as the season goes along,” Cunha said.

The football team will also not be able to attend its annual team camp at the University of Nevada, Reno because of this new state law that affects all California schools. Cunha believes spending more money going to a camp where they will not be able to go full contact will help the team as much as going to a one-day full

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

One of the CIF’s new safety guideline, a tighter limit on full-contact football practice, will prevent next year’s team from practicing with as much contact as they have in previous years. The team had to cancel its annual summer trip to a contact camp at the University of Nevada, Reno to comply with the regulation. contact camp, which is his current plan for the team.

“We may look to find a cheaper local alternative and determine if that cost makes it reasonable for what the benefit will be for our team and program,” Cunha said.

Another new safety guideline passed regarding the return date for players who experience a concussion in their sport. As of now, players must automatically sit out a minimum of seven days so they can recover from their concus-

sion.

“Before the new guideline went into effect, you already had a similar procedure that an athlete had to go through,” Cunha said.

“A certain return date to play was originally five to six days. They have just changed that to seven days from the day of the diagnosis of a concussion. This is not a huge change, but the health care provider is still going to have to clear the student after seven days.”

All high school athletes will also

now be required to take the baseline test before starting any type of school sport. Baseline testing is a computer-generated reaction test that records an athlete’s reactions, memorization ability and sequencing of objects, numbers, shapes and words. This establishes a baseline to measure future tests against when an athlete is recovering from a concussion or his or her physician or coach is trying to determine whether or not they have suffered one.

The new regulation for concussions will start impacting the non-contact sports like volleyball, tennis, golf, baseball and softball, in which concussions occur less frequently.

Roseville High School nurse Dayle Edgerton believes this new safety precaution will help prevent further damages to athletes’ brains, which she said are at risk if they get back on the field before they’re fully healed.

“It will take the pressure off the student and coach to try and get this student back in before they are ready and fully recovered,” Edgerton said.

The CIF also introduced a new sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) guideline, which proposes training and education for all high school coaches so they may recognize, be aware of and be able to manage any sudden cardiac arrests in student-athletes.

“It has been a part of CPR training, but [CIF leaders] are putting emphasis on the cardiac part,” Cunha said. “It is not common, but sometimes it is heat-induced, heart failure or heat stroke – and that part we’ve had, but never the cardiac part of it. But it is necessary.”

All current coaches at Roseville High School have already attended training for sudden cardiac arrests as well as for concussions.

“All of our coaches are already CPR-certified and are prepared for sudden cardiac arrest,” Edgerton said. “We will just take training another step up.”

Sports Shorts Football will return to old SFL schedule for 2015-16 season

BY RYAN ANDRADA & NICK SAPP sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School football schedule is going back to its old ways. Starting next season the Capital Valley Conference will have all varsity and JV teams play on Friday.

According to athletic director Larry Cunha, the decision to go back was made to benefit more financially, as a Friday night JV/ varsity double header could boost attendance.

This year both JV and freshman teams played on Thursday while varsity continued with Friday night games.

Attendance to varsity games this year did not match up to previous years with the new system, though, according to Cunha, and it is unknown if the change to the schedule was the reason for the low attendance.

According to student activities director Lindsey Parker, the change back will reveal if the schedule change had a part of the attendance or if it was just due to the new league. With the low attendance, the gate account suffered this year. Parker is hoping it will go back to normal next year.

“I believe the attendance at games will go back up next year and hopefully next year will bring a healthier account,” Parker said.

The JV football team will be transferring back to Friday nights, which head coach Tim McDowell is happy about.

“They work hard enough,” McDowell said. “They should be part of the whole Friday night experience.”

According to freshman Blake Beaman, he is thrilled that they are going to play on Fridays again.

“It’s good to get an extra day of practice as well as being able to play in front of a bigger crowd while being part of the Friday Night Lights,” Beaman said.

The varsity team will no longer have the whole day to prepare for the game after school, and they will have to go back to warming up on the upper fields before their games. According to Cunha, this is one of the many things affected by the change back to the old schedule.

“There are mixed emotions between the changes because it affects some aspects and benefits others,” Cunha said.

Cole to take over for boys volleyball

BY MATT BRACKMANN

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As the 2015 season draws nearer, the Roseville High School varsity boys volleyball team will be playing under a new coach this season. Jason Cole will be taking the reins from former varsity head coach Cindy Simon.

“I am very excited to be the new varsity head coach here at Roseville High School,” Cole said. “I have been coaching for several years now and taking over this program is becoming more exciting every day.”

With a lot of prior coaching experience, players feel that Cole is capable of leading the team to a successful season.

“He’s a great coach and he’s very intense,” sophomore varsity player Jeffrey Oh said. “With him as our coach I am very confident in how our team will perform this year.”

In addition to Cole now coaching Roseville varsity volleyball, Cole will also be coaching his son, freshman Jacob Cole. Jacob Cole has been playing volleyball for eight years and his dad has

only coached him once before.

“When I was like six he had me practice with his high school girls volleyball team and thats where I started playing volleyball,” Jacob Cole said. “I was pretty much raised in the gym [by him], playing volleyball.”

Cole has previously coached at various high schools in the area and currently coaches Northern California Volleyball Club boys 15-1 Asics and girls 15-2 Roshambo. He recently lead a team to fifth place in the nation at Junior Nationals in Texas in 2014.

“Coach Cole is the perfect coach,” sophomore varsity player Sam Toomey said. “He’s honest when you make a mistake, but really congratulatory when you make a great play. He does something I’ve never seen, he lets the players almost lead the practice.”

With the regular season approaching on Mar. 10, Cole feels the team should have a strong season, and is excited the way things are going so far.

“After our first scrimmage, I realized that this team is a lot more talented than I thought,” Cole said. “It is going to be a fun season.”

Cunha to remain AD until further notice

BY CHASE BLATNICK

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The varsity football coach Larry Cunha is currently the interim athletic director, replacing former AD Jamie Bunch. Cunha is still not one hundred percent sure he will remain in that position going into next year.

“It’s not necessarily my decision to remain the athletic director, thats up to [assistant principal in charge of athletics Jason] Wilson,” Cunha said.

If he stays on the permanent AD, Cunha will still retain his po-

sition as varsity football coach.

“I do not think remaining the AD will in any way affect my commitment to football,” Cunha said.

Cunha expect to learn soon whether or not he will remain the AD..

“I should find out by April if I will be the AD for the 2015-16 school year,” Cunha said.

Recent RHS athletes give back to program

BY LOGAN ASH

l.ash@eyeofthetigernews.com

Several recent graduates have returned to Roseville High School to give back by helping to coach the school’s athletic teams.

Two coaches, alumni Austin Ash and Dallas Guerror graduated just two years ago.

Dallas Guerrero, who graduated in 2013, is the coach of the boys tennis team this spring. Guerrero played both football and tennis all four years at Roseville.

After Guerrero graduated from high school, he wanted to keep in touch with his prior team and that is when he found out that there was a position open for the boys tennis team.

“I wanted to keep up with the prior coach and the players who I played with,” Guerrero said.

“When I found out that they needed a coach, I decided I would like to do it.”

Austin Ash graduated alongside Guerrero in the class of 2013 and he is `the current assistant coach for wrestling and he recently took up the position of freshmen assistant football coach and will start that position in the falll.

Ash played football, wrestling and baseball all four years at Roseville High School while receiving top remarks on each team by being captain and the MVP multiple times.

“I had such a positive experience at Roseville throughout my athletic career that I felt that I wanted to pass it onto the next generation,” Ash said.

Guerrero goes to school at Sacramento State, works and he still finds time to give back to his community he grew up in.

“With my father coaching for Roseville when I was younger,” Guerrero said. “I have been around Roseville my whole life.”

Ash currently attends Sierra College, works with a local tile company and is a United States Marine all the while he squeezes in just enough time to help the athletes at Roseville High School and give something back to the same program he played for himself.

“I really wanted to help out at Roseville,” Ash said. “I had to make time in order to help out.”

By only graduating two years ago, Ash and Guerrero played with the kids they are currently coaching and because of this, they have had to change their social relationship with many of the players.

According to senior tennis player Ben Judd, there are advantages that come along with that closeness in age gap.

“One advantage is that he played against a lot of the players that I play so he is able to tell me how that player played against him when he was on the team,” Judd said.

Guerrero also added that he did not anticipate the amount of adapting he would have to do by becoming a first time head coach from the amount of time spent after practice to managing 20 players.

“The hardest part of being a coach at my age was managing 20 players and that’s aside from going to meetings and talking to parents and other coaches,” Guerrero said.

Frosh, JV athletes break into Top 10

BY LOGAN ASH

l.ash@eyeofthetigernews.com

As we do at the end of every sporting season, we compile a list of the Top 10 athletes of that respective season. If you have already examined the list on the back page, you may have taken notice to the amount of underclassmen and non-varsity teams represented.

The reasoning behind this seemingly radical decision is due to the fact that the winter season has had a general lack of senior participation accompanied by a host of injuries in their respective sports. Even when the various seniors and even juniors were competing they never truly stood out from the rest of their teammates, which just so happened to be those at the lower grade levels.

In addition, all of the varsity level teams performed average at best throughout the season all the while the lower level teams have been able to prosper while the varsity teams have to pull up an immense amount of people. Considering the fact that only the best athletes will get pulled up to the varsity level, it speaks volumes for what these younger athletes have accomplished for RHS. The varsity level basketball teams only contributed a total of three of the top ten athletes due to the relatively higher level of success enjoyed on the court by the frosh and JV teams. During the entirety of the season,various players showed a hint of greatness, however, they were only short bursts and no one athlete consistently had great games.

On the flip side, the lower levels played at an exceptional level by banking great statistics and winning a majority of their games, all the while having their best players pulled up onto the varsity level teams.

On the wrestling side of the top ten list, we have only included two wrestlers for a multitude of reasons. Aside from the fact that I am one of the ones on that list, Hayden Simpson and I have almost ten more wins on the team and we lead almost every category on the team for points besides escapes in which Elijah Dustin holds that statistic.

Usually, we like to only include the varsity levels but we have had to expand our horizons this issue for the sport section and did not felt that players from the frosh and JV teams deserved the esteemed winter sports Top 10 athletes distinction. As long as I have gone to Roseville, there has never been a lower level player featured in the Top 10 but we had to make an exception for the lack of upperclassmen performance.

At first, we thought about getting rid of the Top 10 in general, but I fought to keep it for I have, and always will, enjoy seeing the top athletes of each season. It is a great honor to receive a spot in the list and it seemed like a terrible idea to get rid of one of my favorite sections in this newspaper.

Luckily, we were able to compromise and compile a list even if there were quite a few younger athletes, I am more than happy we were able to complete the list to feature our young athletes.

Please see the next page for the full list.

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hayden simpson

Filling in the number one spot on the Top 10 List is varsity wrestler Hayden Simpson.

Simpson was off-andon last year as a freshmen at the varsity level, but made a huge impact on the team in the 2015 season – returning stronger and faster as a sophomore.

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BAILEY BOWEN-sEAY

Freshman Bailey Bowen-Seay comes in at fourth place on the winter sports Top 10 List. Contributing to the JV girls basketball team, Bowen-Seay was a major factor in the undefeated league record the Lady Tigers held this season.

“As a coach, it was fun watching Bailey progress defensively,” coach Sean Seymore said. Defense is not glorious, but it wins games.”

According to teammates, Bowen-Seay was a huge contributor this year. They said she always stepped up and was crucial to their success.

Leading the team with 37 steals, Bowen-Seay was a reliable defensive player throughout

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SEAN GRANUCCI

Sean Granucci, a starting sophomore guard for the Roseville High School JV Tigers basketball team, was placed at number seven on the winters Top 10 List.

Granucci ended the year as the team’s top scorer and contributed in every aspect of the game for coach Bobby Ritter.

Not seeing as much time on the court last year, Granucci was an every game starter this year.

Additionally, he was a team leader.

“Granucci filled the captain position with a great

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Sitting at number 10 on the winter’s Top 10 List is freshman basketball player Blake Saathoff.

Saathoff manned the guard position for the freshmen Tigers this season as he showed immense improvement on the court distributing the ball well in the later half of their games.

According to teammate and team captain Blake Beaman, Saathoff showed the hard work and hustle in practice necessary to become a better basketball player and respected teammate.

“Blake was a great teammate to everyone,” Beaman said. “He

Simpson is highly respected around the league and by his teammates as he is said to be one of the most naturally gifted, and skilled wrestlers for the Tigers this season.

Simpson wrestled in the 147 lb. weight class and will continue to wrestle 147’s going into the postseason.

According to his teammates, Simpson has prospered immensely as a wrestler from last season to this season.

He is one of the hardest working competitors on the team and every match is exciting when he’s on the mat.

This past weekend Simpson went on and competed in Stockton at the Sac-Joaquin section tournament. the season.

According to Seymore, Bowen-Seay was a fun player to watch due to her aggression on defense and mentality to shut down some of her better opponents.

“It was an absolute pleasure to watch Bailey strike fear into the hearts of the most seasoned point guards,” Seymore said. “Bailey brought the will to win and the desire to win every practice and game. She added the maturity of the sophomores to her game as she honed her skills throughout the season.”

success,” teammate Jeffery Oh said. “He always stayed positive and kept the team in check.”

Granucci was a threat on both sides of the ball. His effort to get back down the court after making a great offensive play is what really made him the outstanding player he was. The Roseville Tigers JV basketball team saw improvement on their defense this season with the outstanding effort from Granucci.

“He was our leading scorer and was consistent the whole season,” said Oh. Granucci took over the role of primary ball handler after Alex Gonzalez went down to a knee injury halfway through league play.

was always the one to try and keep the momentum on our side to give us the best effort to win.”

Saathoff was a very viable option for the Tigers in scoring and playmaking, as he created open space for himself and provided open lanes for his teammates to cut and receive the ball to score.

Although Saathoff struggled in the beginning games, as most freshmen would adapting to a new level, Saathoff reacted to the pressures well and provided valuable minutes for freshman coach Brandon Deleo.

“Blake become such a better basketball player by the end of the season,” Beaman said. “He showed a lot of talent and hard work and I think that’s going to help him out a lot going into the future.”

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logan ash

Senior varsity wrestler Logan Ash is coming in number two on our list. Ash is a four year wrestler at Roseville High School.

This year Ash was voted captain by his teammates. He ended league with a record of 4-2 and placed third in the league tournament, qualifying for divisionals.

His overall record is 25-10 on the season. At Divisionals he placed fourth qualifying for the Masters tournament, which the tournament to qualify for state.

“He was a leader in the wrestling room,” head wrestling coach Doug Ash said.

In all scoring categories Ash finished either first or second according to Doug Ash. Winning matches gives the team points in the overall contest and Ash con-

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HALEY LOUGHRAN

Number five on the Top 10 List for winter sports is freshman Haley Loughran. Loughran played for the undefeated JV girls basketball team.

She proved to be vital member of the team for the whole season. Loughran’s average points per game was the highest of the whole team, at about 11 points a game.

H e r average for rebounds per game was also the highest among the JV Lady Tigers, with about four a game.

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BRYCE CROUCH

Coming in at number eight in the Top 10 Lists for winter sports is senior Bryce Crouch, who has just finished his third and final year of playing varsity basketball.

Bryce was pulled up as a sophomore to the varsity level and made a huge impact to the team, even at a young age.

Halfway through this season, Bryce was injured and had to sit out for six season games.

He initially thought he would

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tributed a lot of these points to his team.

In the overall scoring category Ash had 284 point followed by the next best wrestler at 204 points.

Throughout the season, Ash wrestled with an injured shoulder and still contributed well for his team. In the league tournament and divisional tournament, Ash strategically forfeited matches due to his shoulder injuries, so without these forfeits he could have potentially placed even higher. Many other wrestlers supported Ash this season and agree that

he was a big part of the team’s success this year.

“He was a great asset to our team and brought our team some vital points when we needed them in our dual matches,” senior wrestler Zack Farr said.

Her teammates felt like they could always count on her to help win games.

“She is always there and was a good big player even though she doesn’t have the height,” sophomore JV basketball player Tawnie Smith said.

According to Smith and fellow player Cassie Neale, Loughran had huge power moves and fast speed on the court to help them win games.

Loughran started most games but JV head coach Sean Seymour believes she played her best coming off the bench.

“She has a good shot and if she works hard on her form and mid-range jumpers this summer she may be a candidate for varsity next year,” Seymour said.

Seymour knows she has the physical attributes to be a very good basketball player and has the potential to play at the next level. miss the rest of his final season.

Luckily, he was able to return to play off the final games of his high school basketball career in a Tigers uniform.

“I’m proud of him because he’s always a leader, both on the court and off the court,” varsity teammate Gustavo DiVincenzo said.

Bryce Crouch was awarded first team all league this season as he was nominated by all the other coaches in the CVC league. Bryce had an amazing season, as he finished his last basketball season averaging 10.3 points per game, 1.4 assists per game, and 3.8 rebounds per game. Bryce also finished his last season as a captain for the varsity team.

“He was one of the better players in the league, offensively and defensively combined,” coach Greg Granucci said. “He always guarded the best guard when we played. I think he did a great job at his position in our league.”

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shelbie mCkay

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KRYSTAL GARCIA

Coming in at number three on our Top 10 List for winter athletes is sophomore point guard Shelbie McKay. McKay is one of only three returning players on the varsity girls basketball team.

She was pulled up as a freshman last season, and as a second-year sophomore she was given a challenging role, but met all expectations and took on the challenge.

“She definitely lived up to the hype,” coach Josh Errecart said.

Last year, McKay received second team all league as a freshman in the

Coming in at number six on the Top 10 List is Krystal Garcia, who lead the varsity girls basketball team with 38 three-pointers this season.

“She was our second best offensive threat,” said head coach Josh Errecart. “Garcia is our leader and team captain.”

Garcia’s two highest scoring games were against Pioneer and Del Campo, where she had 20 points and 18 respectively.

“She is one of our best shooters,” Errecart said.

The four-year basketball player made appearances every year with the varsity squad, however, her freshman and sophomore year the only reason she went down to play with her level was for her own good and was her own decision. Garcia’s success has always been present while playing at RHS and has

competitive SFL. This year she led the Tigers in every statistical category such as scoring, rebounding, and steals. This season she improved and was recognized as a first team all league player in the new CVC league.

McKay’s energy and hard work has been a big contributor to her success this season.

“Shelbie has so much energy and heart,” Errecart said.

“She is such a great leader and is well respected by other coaches.”

McKay hopes to take the Lady Tigers to playoffs for her first time as a high school point guard next year.

If she keeps going like she has, she may be able to do it. never gone unnoticed.

“Garcia has always been a top player in our program,” Errecart said.

The number six athlete made an impact on the court throughout her four years with her tenacity and leadership.

“She was a big leader and wasn’t afraid to jump on the ball,” sophomore guard Skyler Ruby said.

Our top 10 athlete shows a key attribute that is always great to have on a team and in a program, being a leader and mentor.

“It is like having another coach out on the court,” Errecart said.

“She is a tough outer coach but with a nurturing inside.”

She was a role model for the younger girls on the team as well.

“Garcia was a leader on and off the court,” Ruby said.

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for the freshman Lady Tigers this season.

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“She was our “She played very hard in deteam captain and fense and also looked to score or showed great leadfind the other players on offense,” ership,” freshman Wright said. coach Randy Wright In one of the best games of said. her season, Errecart was able Errecart is feato contribute to a win by hitting tured on this top 10 six three’s by herself. She should because of her suchelp bring a bright future to RHS’ cess and dominance at her position as a point guard basketball program.

For an explanation of why this season’s list includes freshman and JV athletes – whom Eye of the Tiger normally does not feature in its Top 10 season wrap-ups – please see senior Logan Ash’s column (“Frosh, JV athletes break into Top 10”) on the previous page.

List compiled by: Ryan Andrada

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