Eye of the Tiger (Issue 2, Volume 15)

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Junior ex-lineman drops football to star in drama’s fall production of Noises Off Page 9

Tigers sit at 5-1 after suffering first loss of season against Antelope Titans Page 11

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Milliondollar vote hits ballot Measure D may approve “twentyfirst century” facility upgrades

SAM MAILEY EYE OF THE TIGER

Youth service officer Marc Kelley (above) speaks in a senior government class about the law and his duties on campus. Sacramento-based criminal defense lawyer David Garland cautions against the gray area of high school defiance disciplinary guidelines.

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WEIGHING DEFIANCE DISCIPLINE In the wake of a 15-year-old Roseville High School student’s detainment, suspension, arrest and criminal charge after challenging an administrator’s authority, Eye of the Tiger decided to investigate how RHS handles willful defiance.

BY RACHEL BARBER

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A female sophomore student (Eye of the Tiger has chosen to not release the student’s name due to her pending criminal charges from this incident) engaged in a verbal altercation with RHS assistant principal Jason Wilson on Aug. 24. She and her family are now preparing for her day in court as a result of the events that unfolded that day.

According to the student, the altercation began when she verbally opposed campus dress code after witnessing Wilson dress coding another student. On the grounds of her profanity and tone of voice, Wilson requested that the student follow him to the administration building in order to de-escalate the situation.

Because she did not comply, Wilson called RHS youth service officer Marc Kelley for as-

sistance. When the student continued to deny their order, Kelley handcuffed her.

The student said Wilson asked for her name and threatened suspension when she first refused to follow him to the administration building.

“I just wouldn’t say my name, and I didn’t go to the office,” the student said. “I didn’t feel like I needed to for saying my opinion.”

While Kelley could not comment on the specifics of the incident because it involves a minor’s open court case, he said that any student should always comply with an administrator’s orders.

“If the vice principal asks you your name, give him your name,” Kelley said. “If the vice principal asks you to go over there, you should probably go over there. If they need to talk to you, they need to talk to you.”

The student said after denying their requests, she was detained for her defiance and handcuffed up against a maintenance truck in senior square during first lunch. At this time, she began to question the necessity of Kelley’s use of force.

“Everyone saw [that] he pinned me up against the car really hard and was pulling my arms back,” the student said.

After the student was escorted to the administration building, Adelante High School youth service officer Dan Miller arrived to assist. Ultimately, Miller drove the student to Auburn’s Juvenile Detention Center where she was booked and released on two unknown charges.

She currently waits on an unknown court date.

Additionally, the school suspended her for five days.  DEFIANCE | Page 2

RHS bucks districtwide AVID trends

GEORGE HUGHES EYE OF THE TIGER

Junior Eric Peterson plays during the football game on Friday. Principal David Byrd said the student section and band should remember “we are all on the same team.”

Tiger Band, admin address student section harrassment Conflict includes property vandalism, racial slurs

BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN

j.mulligan@eyeofthetigernews.com

During the Homecoming game, a group of students in the Tiger Cage band allegedly harassed several band students, including breaking a band member’s hat, taking an instrument, throwing objects into the band section and yelling racial slurs.

This came after the band moved to a new seating section closer to the Tiger Cage. Drum major senior Amanda Lopes was wary of the move to the center and believes that the situation could have worked out

if both sides showed respect.

“I just want respect going back and forth. We don’t play our instruments to annoy you. We are doing our jobs and what we ask for in return is respect,” Lopes said. “We should not be harassed for doing what we love to do and supporting our school.”

Senior band member Sarah Melchner wants to be near the Tiger Cage, because she has seen the band and student sections cheer together at other schools.

“We should be with the student section, but it should be accepted on both ends,” Melchner said. “There definitely needs to be a better relationship.”

 BAND | Page 2

KALE JIBSON EYE OF THE TIGER

AVID students march in the Homecoming parade. Roseville High School continues to push the program despite other schools in the district dropping it.

BY WAFEEQ RIDHUAN

w.ridhuan@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School continues to maintain its AVID program and added another AVID 9 section this year, despite other schools in the Roseville Joint Union High School District dropping the AVID program entirely.

When Antelope High School and Oakmont High School dropped their AVID programs last spring, they joined Woodcreek High School on the list of schools within RJUHSD who have dropped AVID. Granite Bay remains never having implemented AVID. According to assistant principal Anna Marie Clark,

RHS has a strong presence of AVID on campus valued by staff, students, parents, administrators and counselors.

“We have excellent data that demonstrates that the program is meeting a need and closing a gap with students that volunteer to be in the program,” Clark said.

“It’s a volunteer program.

Students aren’t placed in it.

They choose it.”

According to AHS principal John Becker, AHS had difficulty finding teachers interested in teaching AVID, enrollment for AVID struggled and the program ran into issues with AHS’ master schedule. As a result, the program was dropped, allowing the school to focus  AVID | Page 3

This article is the first in a two-part series about the district measure to generate $96 million to upgrade and construct site facilities.

BY ALEXX DOOLITTLE

a.doolittle@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School may see a new gym replace the small gym, upgrades to the girls locker room, a refurbished pool deck and several other renovations on campus. These projects will move forward if voters pass the bond Measure D this November election.

This measure asks homeowners in the district to pay a tax based on the assessed value of their homes to raise $96 million in tax revenue.

If passed, each homeowner in Roseville Joint Union High School District boundaries would pay $15 per $100,000 of their home’s property value annually.

If passed, each comprehensive high school in the district is guaranteed at least $13 million in bonds.

RJUHSD superintendent Ron Severson guarantees this minimum amount in case extra funds are needed to cover unexpected challenges.

Severson also considers RHS’ high demand for reconstruction and structural improvement, compared to other schools because of its age, when allocating these funds.

“RHS may get a little more because there are more needs to be met, but the goal is that there is something that would enable all the schools to make improvements,” Severson said.

RHS principal David Byrd is hopeful that this bond will carry out his vision for upgraded facilities and advanced education.

“We want to update the facilities and continue to bring them into the twenty first century,” Byrd said.

“That’s why it’s got to be facilities not things that are going to be used for a year and then over with, [the money has] got to be used for things that will last for thirty or forty years, so that’s what we plan to invest in.”

Byrd also plans to allocate a portion of the money to smaller improvements. He said he envisions a refurbished 100 wing, a redesigned engineering lab, improvements made to the football BIG TICKET stadium that include ITEMS new rest SMALL GYM rooms, a

new press  GIRLS LOCKER box and a ROOM redesigned  800-WING snack bar ENGINEERING area.

CENTER RJUHSD said all revenue would stay within the community if Measure D passed. The money cannot be taken by the state nor be used for administrators’ salaries.

In addition, according to Severson, taxpayers within the district will have the opportunity to join the Citi-

 MEASURE | Page 3

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DEFIANCE: Discipline extent subjective BAND: CONTINUED FROM FRONT

“Roseville [blew] things out of proportion a lot,” the student said. “It’s stupid to me, for all that to be brought up just because of my opinion and my defiance.”

According to RHS principal David Byrd, there is no exact policy RHS administrators should follow when dealing with a defiant student.

“It would be nice if someone sat down and wrote the manual,” Byrd said. “The continuum is kind of internalized. It’s not a chart. You have got to use your judgement.”

FILE PHOTO ZACHARY CHEEK He said that administrators struggle with matching The Roseville Police Department leads last year’s Homecoming parade. In the wake of a sophomore student’s discipline with the offense. detainment, suspension, arrest and criminal charges after a verbal altercation with a RHS administrator, principal David Byrd says that administrators have to use their judgement when disciplining defiance. “[Administrators need to have] the kind of mentality of not overreacting, but not who specializes in malprac“Our officers have alin policy, there is a differunderreacting too and that tice cases, believes the code ways been there to just be ence between street laws is the biggest challenge,” is broad. a presence,” Wilson said. “I and rules defined in the Byrd said.

“I don’t think it’s reasonlike to have others around Educational Code. Miller While Miller also could able to handcuff somebody to be a support, whether [or gave the example that vernot comment on the spejust because they’re told not if] others interpret that bal defiance and cursing cifics of the to go to the support as ‘Oh you’re getmay get you suspended on incident, he office and ting someone else against a campus, but not in trouble said that in the person me.’” on the street. any situation says ‘no,’” Garland recognizes that “The rules are different,” where a stuMcKinley disciplinary procedures Miller said. “They have to dent is delaysaid.

“It vary from school to school be, because they are not ing a police needs to and district to district. geared toward one person, officer of rise above a “Schools get funding they are geared toward the their duties, level of just based on enrollment,” Garwhole campus. Causes of the student is some kind land said. “I think there is disturbances aren’t allowed violating the of verbal expressure from some groups because [students] are all Penal Code, change. The to be more relaxed with the supposed to be here to get Section 148 resource ofenforcements of certain ededucated.”

- which proficer needs ucational codes and other[s] McKinley agrees that the hibits resistto have a feel like the uniform presdifference in regulations ing, delaying reasonable ence is necessary to send for a campus are necessary or otherwise belief that that message that the rules in order to better protect a - Criminal defense obstructing the student need to be followed.” school’s student body. lawyer David Garland is a harm to an officer.

Rocklin High School “The school has to ba“During herself or othand Whitney High School sically weigh the right to an investigaers.” in the Rocklin Unified free speech against taking tion if an officer tells you The United States EducaSchool District have enaway that right because to do something, then you tion Department, along with tirely abandoned out-ofsaid speech may put stuknow you have to obey,” the Justice Department, reschool suspension for dents and faculty at risk,” Miller said. leased guidelines in 2014 on defiance in recent years.

McKinley said.

According to criminal school discipline which urgAccording to the CaliforThe student worries that defense lawyer David Gares youth resource officers to nia Department of Educaa campus officer’s presence land, if a person is expressfocus on ensuring “that any tion, Rocklin High School in disciplinary matters does ing themselves in a way school-based law enforcehad a total of 10 “willmore harm than good. that is not well received by ment officers’ roles focus on ful defiance” suspensions “This stuff does suck,” the officer, using profanimproving school safety and and Whitney High School she said. “I just don’t think ity or not being respectreducing inappropriate rehad zero during the 2013cops should be on-campus ful, then an officer may ferrals to law enforcement.”

14 school year. Roseville on a day-to-day basis, bethreaten an arrest due to a The document also urges High School had 115 durcause it just makes the kids violation of Penal Code, that they “not become ining the same year, the highuncomfortable and tense Section 148. He feels, howvolved in routine school est amount in the Roseville even if we’re not doing ever, that such a vague and disciplinary matters.”

Joint Union High School anything wrong. They just broadly interpreted law can McKinley said that an ofDistrict. present themselves as inbe dangerous – especially ficer may become involved Roseville High School timidating.” in investing such authority in disciplinary matters if currently does The into individuals and their they find the need to use not have an s t u d e n t ’s I can do own interpretation of the reasonable force to quell a In-School mother also code. potential threat to students.

Suspension worries whatever I “We’re talking about a “I think it comes down to program. her think is best, about subjective type of measurewhat a reasonable resource However, Wildaughter’s ment, and I think that it is a officer would do,” McKinson believes upcoming as long as catch-all,” Garland said. ley said. that RHS’ court date it’s lawful, According to Roseville The student feels that methods are and what Police Department sera youth resource officer’s effective in affect this as long as geant Rob Baquera, lawful presence is rarely needed disciplining incident it’s ethical orders that a student must during the discipline prostudents. will have abide by include, but are cess.

“If Rockher fuand not im- on not limited to, “come with “If no one was hurt physlin has other ture. me,” “please sit down,” or moral. ically, I think that the offiideas on how “When “stand over here.” cer should not be involved,” to change that I was at the - Sergeant Rob “Once you get an orthe student said. “I think the behavior and it school, I Baquera der by a police officer, you vice principals can handle it works – awewas really have to obey or comply on their own, or they should some,” Wilupset,” she with the order,” Baquera be able to handle it on their son said. “But if you keep said. “I couldn’t even hold said. “I can do whatever I own.” running a red light, at some my tears seeing her in so think is best as long as it’s However, Wilson feels point you’re going to get much pain, crying and uplawful, as long as it’s ethithat in most cases, youth rearrested and you’re going set. She was shaking. And cal and not immoral.” source officers are acting on to go to jail, rather than just seeing my daughter in that Steve McKinley, another behalf of the administrators getting a ticket.” situation was really breakSacramento-based lawyer at RHS. Like school districts vary ing my heart.”

We’re talking about a subjective type of measurement, and I think that it is a catchall.

Admin chooses talk to tackle situation CONTINUED FROM FRONT

Sophomore band member Alissa Prosser hoped that administration would take a firm hand with the students and was disappointed when the band didn’t receive an apology.

“I don’t care about kids making fun of us. That doesn’t bother me anymore,” Prosser said. “It’s the fact that we were being harassed and no adult stood up to do anything about it or apologize to us. That hurts me and doesn’t make me feel comfortable performing.”

Administration was informed of the situation the Monday following the game.

Rather than take disciplinary action, admin plans to work towards preventing similar situations from occurring in the future.

“We are talking about it. That’s the best thing you can do” principal David Byrd said. “My sense of this is there is way more support for band and Tiger Cage to collectively be together to give us a presence.

That’s what we’re shooting for, to bring the student body together.”

Byrd sent out an email on Wednesday to encourage RHS staff to recognize and respect the RHS band for the work they continue to put in this year.

In the future, admin wants to encourage the student body to be united.

“When you bring a group of students together you have students who take advantage of that, who do things that are inappropriate and things they shouldn’t do,” Byrd said. “When they do that, they’re gonna be addressed. We’re calling on all Tigers to pull together and say, ‘Wait a minute, we’re not enemies. We are all on the same team.’”

Lopes said she wanted admin to set a better precedent than “a slap on the wrist” for the actions.

She hopes that in the future, if similar problems arise, admin will take a firmer stance on the issues and provide more of a punishment for offenders.

“There needs to be a culture shift so the band kids can sit next to the student section and not make us experience any of that and not have the student section get themselves into trouble,” Lopes said. “But there does need to be some sort of punishment, so it doesn’t set a precedent of you can do this and get away with this.”

UPCOMINGEVENTS OCT 10

Drive-in movie night Watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at 7 p.m. in the staff parking lot.

OCT 12

OCT 21 Teacher work day No school.

Pink Out Pink Out Rally begins at 7 a.m. Pink Out varsity game begins at 7 p.m.

OCT 19

OCT 13 - 14

PSAT administration School begins at 10 a.m. for all non-testing students.

Midterms Students attend first and second period on Thursday, third and fourth on Friday.

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NEWSINBRIEFS District admin addresses “creepy” clowns

BY TRINITY COMPTON

t.compton@eyeofthetigernews.com

District personnel director Brad Basham sent out a district-wide email to its student and parent population addressing a social media trend, entitled “Creepy Clown Safety Message.”

This email follows hundreds of posts on social media of clowns appearing in residential areas and identifies clowns “as a serious threat.”

“If your child has access to clown attire, please make sure they don’t bring it to school,” Basham said.

“If your child comes into contact with anyone with clown attire, they should immediately report it to school officials.”

The email also attached a bulletin from Modesto Police Department addressing the reality of the clown social media threats.

Century charter school slated for early next year

BY ROMAN TYLER

r.tyler@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville Joint Union High School District plans to open Century Charter School in the 2017-18 school year. Though slated to open this year, complications in finding a location for the school and an inadequate amount of students enrolled were an inhibitor,

according to the school’s principal Sybil Healy.

“Part of it was due to enrollment, because most of the enrollment occurs at a late date and also because of some other agreements that we needed to finalize with the district,” Healy said.

Although the school faced setbacks, Healy is optimistic about the school opening and plans to use the 2016-17 school year to further prepare.

“We are using 2016-2017 as a planning year with our $375,000 grant,” Healy said. “We will use that to hire employees and market for students, and work on ordering school materials, including technology, computers, et cetera. So this will be a good opportunity to plan and fill out our community outreach to open the school next year in the fall.”

Interleague connects student governments

BY PRESTON WALTER

p.walter@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School’s Student Government class attended Interleague, a program for student government classes to collaborate on ideas they use to better their individual schools.

ASB President Parker Crews believes that Interleague is a way to see how other schools run their class and hopes that participating in Interleague will fur-

ther the program’s progress through the introduction of concepts.

“Kids from different schools, not in the district come together and we share ideas whether that’s from homecoming to rallies,” Crews said. “Just different ideas throughout the school.

It’s just a bunch of kids like you and me, just like the average student throwing ideas out there and mixing and mingling.”

AVID: RHS adds a section while two district schools dispel all

Class rank discussion dies out, unchanged

BY MEGAN ANDERSON

m.anderson@eyeofthetigernews.com

After over a year of discussion, the Roseville Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees decided to suspend discussion of abolishing class rank for its comprehensive sites.

According to RJUHSD superintendent Ron Severson, the decision made to keep the class rank is set in stone and all schools in the district will continue to use it.

“There [was] a division of opinion on the board and within the district as to whether class rank should be maintained,” Severson said. “There is no plan right now to pursue this further.”

Severson had multiple sources give their input on the class rank that are not involved with the board.

“Many parents and students said that class rank is a real motivator,” Severson said.

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AVID teacher Dean Gadway works with student. RHS added a tenth section of AVID this school year. Meanwhile, Antelope High School and Woodcreek High School dropped the program last spring.

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their resources elsewhere.

“We had a revolving door of interested teachers, struggling enrollment by students and master schedule issues,” Becker said. “The vast majority of students at Antelope would qualify as true AVID students and we thought it would be better to pool our resources and focus on all students [versus] one AVID class at each grade level …

Since we have a schoolwide college-going culture, AVID simply wasn’t need[ed] and allowed us to support our students using different strategies, but with the same goal as AVID.” WHS also struggled with finding staff to teach AVID. WHS principal Jess Borjon said the teacher who started the AVID program at WHS left and they found it difficult to find a replacement.

Around 2009-2010, Borjon decided to drop the program.

“After a few years of trying various people at the lead position, I decided to stop doing AVID,” Borjon said. “ I wasn’t getting buyin at the school and we were still getting a very high percentage of our students to UC, A-G, AP and college going success.”

According to AVID district director Melissa Jones, OHS’ AVID program was dispelled because its sections ran into conflict with their master schedule.

“As I recall, [OHS] had challenges fitting IB, Health

Academies and AVID in their master schedule,” Jones said. “They have a smaller student population and number of teachers than RHS.” Contrary to other schools, RHS has added an additional section of AVID 9 and has three year-long AVID 10 sections for the first time in the school’s history. A part of this growth is attributed to an increased efforts in RHS AVID teachers outreaching to feeder schools who don’t have the AVID program.

According to AVID coordinator Kelly Capell, they’ve increased efforts in recruiting potential AVID students at Cooley Middle School in the past two years because Cooley dropped their AVID program as a result of students feeding into schools without an AVID program.

“Those students no longer knew what it was because [former Cooley AVID students] cycled and graduated,” Capell said.

They’ve also increased their focus on other feeder schools for RHS such as Silverado Middle School and Antelope Crossing Middle School.

Unlike other schools in the district, Granite Bay High School never pushed for AVID on their campus.

Principal Jennifer Leighton said that the school was not and is currently not interested in adding the AVID program. According to Leighton, adding AVID would

MEASURE: RJUHSD’s vision entails at least $13 mil. upgrades

put their master schedule into a “gridlock.”

“GBHS has ninety six percent of its senior class attending college,” Leighton said via email. “We have very active and full IB (overall 90 percent passing rate), AP (overall 82 percent passing rate), PLTW, Performing Arts and Speech and Debate curricular programs, to just name a few.”

Even without an official AVID program, Leighton sees AVID-like strategies on GBHS’ campus.

“AVID strategies are great instructional tools and utilized by many of the teachers on this campus,” Leighton said. “I have personally witnessed several teachers using Cornell Notes and the tutorial method during my teacher observations. Additionally, our English Language Learner instructor is a former AVID teacher and uses many AVID strategies within her EL and SDAIE courses.”

According to Jones, about 35% of students at RHS met the A-G requirements for college and fewer AP classes were offered when she began teaching in 2000.

“It’s wonderful to see so many of our students are now taking advantage of their educational opportunities and following through with important processes related to college admission and financial aid to make their plans happen,” Jones said.

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zens’ Oversight Committee whose role is to ensure the fiscal accountability of the money by frequently meeting to review the district’s progress. Employees of the district will not be included in the committee.

Severson plans to put $30 million of the collective $96 million bond towards constructing phase one of the West Roseville sixth high school.

“We’re asking the rest of the district to contribute so we can get a school out there by the year 2020,” Severson said. “If we can’t get this school on the ground by 2020, we are going to end up busing over one thousand high school kids to other schools in the dis-

FILE PHOTO ROBBIE SHORT

The campus may see upgrades including a new small gym, girls locker room and 800-wing engineering center if Measure D passes.

trict, which will create overcrowding.”

Measure D needs fifty-five percent approval to pass.

Local community involvement and support led Severson to expect the measure will pass giving him high hopes for the future of the district and community.

“It’s very important for our whole community,” Severson said. “We’ve gotten support from both the conservative sides of the community as well as the more liberal. The city government supports this as well, all of the elected officials endorse it, we’ve even had the may-

or of Roseville endorse it.

We’ve got nothing but great support right now.”

Severson believes that overcrowding, aged infrastructure, and the incorporation of 21st century educational facilities are the most important issues this measure would address.

“What this is about is being proactive,” Severson said. “[The district] needs to ensure that we’ve got schools that are the right size, that we’ve got up-todate facilities for all students in our district and that we take care of that for the next generation.”

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NOTICIAS Las escuelas en el distrito de Roseville están indecisos con el programa de AVID POR WAFEEQ RIDHUAN w.ridhuan@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School ha mantenido el programa de AVID y agregó otra clase este año, a pesar que las otras escuelas en el distrito de Roseville han eliminado el programa de AVID por completo.

Cuando Antelope High School y Oakmont High School abandonaron el programa la primavera pasada, la escuela de Granite Bay permaneció sin implementar el programa.

De acuerdo al director de Antelope High School John Becker, AHS tuvo dificultad en encontrar profesores interesados en enseñar AVID, la matriculación de AVID no cumplio las expectativas del programa y el horario principal sufrió muchos cambios.

Woodcreek High School también ha luchado en en-

contrar profesores interesados en enseñar AVID. La directora de WHS, Jess Borjon dijo que el profesor que enseñaba el programa de AVID se retiró y tuvieron dificultad en encontrar su reemplazo. En los años del 2009 al 2010, decidieron eliminar el programa.

La directora del distrito de AVID, Melissa Jones, dijo que el programa en Oakmont High School fue eliminada porque las clases que no combinaban con el horario principal de la escuela que resultó en muchos conflictos.

La directora Jennifer Leighton de Granite Bay High School nunca empujó por el comienzo del programa en su campus. Directora Jennifer Leighton dijo, que la escuela nunca ha estado interesada en agregar el programa de AVID a GBHS. “Es maravilloso ver que tantos de nuestros estudiantes tomen ventaja de las oportunidades educacionales y quieran seguir el proceso que los dirige a las universidades.” Dijo Jones.

La desafianza de un estudiante de Roseville High Schhol y su incidente con el asistente director, Wilson POR RACHEL BARBER

r.barber@eyeofthetigernews.com

Estudiante en su segundo año (que Eye of the Tiger ha decidido no incluir el nombre debido a los cargos criminales pendientes de este incidente) se involucró en un desacuerdo verbal con el asistente del director Jason Wilson el veinticuatro de agosto.

De acuerdo al estudiante, el conflicto comenzó cuando ella verbalmente se opuso al código de vestir después de ver a Wilson regañar a otro estudiante.

Por el uso de profanidad y el tono de voz, Wilson pidió que ella lo siga a la oficina para mejorar la situación. Pero porque ella no obedeció, Wilson tuvo que llamar al oficial de jóvenes de la escuela, Mark Kelley, por asistencia. Cuando el estudiante continuó a

desobedecer las órdenes, Kelley la esposó.

El estudiante dijo que después de negar lo que ellos pidieron, ella estuvo detenida por su desafío y la recargaron contra el camión de mantenimiento para esposarla. A este tiempo, ella empezó a preguntarse acerca de la cantidad de fuerza que utilizó Kelley.

“Si un subdirector te pregunta por tu nombre, le das tu nombre,” Dijo Kelley.

“Si el vicedirector te pide ir allá, deberías ir para allá.

Si necesitan hablar contigo, necesitan hablar contigo.”

“Todos vieron que él me inmovilizó contra el coche fuertemente y estaba jalando mis brazos hacia atrás,” dijo el estudiante.

Dentro del distrito de Rocklin, han eliminado el programa de suspensión fuera de la escuela por completo. Roseville High School no tiene el programa de suspensión dentro de la escuela. Sin embargo, Wilson cree que nuestros métodos en disciplinar a los estudiantes son éxitosos.

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“Drive in” noche de película Presentarán la pelicula Ferris Bueller’s Day off a las 7 p.m. en el estacionamiento de la facultad

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El día de los profesores No hay escuela

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Exámenes finales Los estudiantes atenderán la primera y segunda hora el jueves y la tercera y cuarta hora el

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El día del examen PSAT Los estudiantes que no piensan tomar el examen llegarán a las 10 a.m.

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El Pink Out rally El pink out rally comenzará a las 6:30 a.m., y el juego de Varsity Football a las 7 p.m.

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NOTICIAS

REPORTAJES Profesor Smith dona sangre para salvar vidas en su comunidad POR KENZIE DUNCAN

k.duncan@eyeofthetigernews.com

El profesor de inglés de la escuela Roseville High School, Stuart Smith, ha donado mas de 10 galones de sangre durante el transcurso de su vida. Smith ha donado sangre por más que 20 años.

“Empecé a donar sangre cuando regresé a vivir a California después de graduarme de la universidad, de hecho, he donado mas de 10 galones,” dijo Smith.

Una razón porque Smith dona sangre es por la experiencia en que su esposa se encontró años antes de que se conocieron.

De acuerdo a Smith, una de las cosas que salvó

la vida de su esposa fue la transfusión de una gran cantidad de sangre.

De acuerdo a su esposa Jennifer Smith, las donaciones de sangre son regalos generosos que salvan vidas.

“Pienso que es un regalo increíble lo que Stuart le da a nuestra comunidad. Cuando donas sangre, le estás dando vida a un necesitado, les das otra oportunidad.

Stuart sabe esto y ha donado sangre por más tiempo de que lo he conocido. Piensa en todas las familias en que todavía tienen a sus seres queridos solo porque Stuart tomó tiempo de su vida para ayudar a un desconocido. Son muchas vidas.” dijo Señora Smith.

De acuerdo a Smith, donar sangre ayuda a fortalecer la sociedad y es una manera fácil en que se puede contribuir en una manera positiva.

La pasión de dos hermanos y estudiantes de Roseville High School POR VIKTORIA BARR

v.barr@eyeofthetigernews.com

Los hermanos y estudiantes de Roseville High School James Jones y Donovan Jones han crecido con un gran amor inmenso por el mar, y es por eso que comenzaron a explorar las profundidades del mar y todo lo que tiene que ofrecer. Desde los diez años ellos son buzos certificados.

Ellos comenzaron este pasatiempo hace siete años y han estado apasionados por el buceo desde ese tiempo.

Donovan comentó, que al comienzo, “me dio mucho miedo, pero con el tiempo, visitando muchos mares convirtió mi miedo en sión.”

diversión.”

James piensa continuar su carrera de buceo y sacar su maestría a los fines de octubre.

De acuerdo a James y Donovan, para poder salir al mar, primer, se tiene que tomar cursos basados en términos de buceo. Cuando se termina esos cursos y demuestra que puede aplicar las técnicas en la piscina, eventualmente se puede practicar en el mar.

La madre de los hermanos James y Donovan, Lisa Jones explica cómo sus hijos desarrollaron el interés por buceo y como les ha cambiado la vida.

De acuerdo a Lisa, la familia Jones ha desarrollado una tradición familiar que no solo fortalece la coneccion entre ellos pero también provee una oportunidad para ayudar el medio ambiente.

POR MEGAN ANDERSON

m.anderson@eyeofthetigernews.com

El equipo de golf de mujeres ha dominado la mayoría de la temporada y por ahora comparte el puesto número uno en la Conferencia de Capital Valley con los Wildcats.

El equipo es dirigido por las estudiantes en su último año Kayla Kwong y Abby Hall, que tienen el puntaje promedio más bajo en todo el equipo, todas las jugadoras han derrotado la primera mitad de la liga sin perder una batalla. Pero sin embargo, se encontrarán con competencias desafiantes.

“Cuando jugábamos contra Ponderosa, estábamos sumando las puntuaciones finales y como yo estaba en el último grupo todas se estaban mordiendo las uñas

En la foto de arriba se encuentra los alumnos de las clases de AVID caminan en el desfile de Homecoming.

REPORTAJES

CORTESÍA JAMES JONES

En la foto de arriba se encuentra los hermanos James y Donovan Jones con familia navega las profundidades del mar.

DEPORTES

DEPORTES Las mujeres de golf han dominado la temporada

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porque sabían que iba ser un juego reñido,” dijo Hall.

“Alguien dijo que perdimos y todas nos rendimos con desánimo. Entonces nuestro entrenador sumó las puntuaciones y supimos que ganamos por un punto y empezamos a gritar de alegría.”

El equipo de Tigres está hecho por siete estudiantes en su último año y una estudiante en su tercer año de la preparatoria. De acuerdo a la estudiante y jugadora Anna Ostrom, jugar juntas sobre los años de la preparatoria les ha dado la oportunidad de crecer juntas.

Ella atribuye el éxito que han tenido a la unión como equipo.

El equipo tiene mucho por alcanzar para la próxima temporada, sin embargo, y todavía se tienen que enfocar en el resto de esta temporada.

Las jugadoras esperan derrotar a los Bruins por se-

gunda vez, mañana por la tarde en Sierra View Country Club. Fukuman reconoce la importancia de este partido y todo lo que tiene que ver con alcanzar el título de liga. Él tiene fe en las jugadoras y sabe que van a salir victoriosas.

“Nuestro equipo se ha enfocado y ha trabajado duro para ganar nuevamente el título de campeones en el CVC este año,” dijo Fukman.

Los equipos de voleibol en Roseville High School han tenido éxito POR KALE JIBSON

k.jibson@eyeofthetigernews.com

El equipo de mujeres de voleibol ha tenido un comienzo impresionante y cautivante en la primera mitad de la conferencia de Capital Valley. El equipo de varsity en este momento

carga el puntaje de 6-2, y junior varsity 7-1 con solo una derrota.

Entrenadora Cindy Simon siente que el equipo va a poder alcanzar la meta porque los Tigres son uno de los equipos más altos en la liga. Ella piensa que ellos hacen un trabajo excepcional cuando trabajan juntas en la cancha cada vez que se reunen.

De acuerdo a Simon, el equipo luchó por encontrar la formación correcta al principio de la temporada y el equipo tenía necesidad de una colocadora fuerte y consistente.

“Nuestro enfoque era encontrar una colocadora que se conectaría bien con las jugadoras del equipo,” dijo Simon. “Nos faltaba un componente importante de nuestro juego y al comienzo de la temporada sabíamos que esa posición iba a ser una difícil de llenar, y que nuestras jugadoras se iban

GEORGE HUGHES EYE OF THE TIGER

En la foto arriba se encuentra el varsity equipo de voleibol se comunica antes del jugar. a tener que adaptar a una nueva colocadora.”

El equipo de Junior Varsity ha mantenido un récord impresionante de 7-1 durante los primeros ocho partidos de la liga con su única derrota contra los Vikings de Oakmont. Aúnque el equipo tuvo una pérdida, jugadora Kate Slack piensa que el equipo podrá jugar igual de bien en la segunda mitad como lo hicieron en la primera.

“Creo que podemos ju-

gar igual de bien o mejor en la segunda mitad de la liga,” dijo Slack. “Todavía tenemos que trabajar en cosas como la comunicación y el movimiento de nuestros pies, pero creo que podemos conseguirlo con el tiempo.”

Simon piensa que todos los equipos van a tener éxito debido a la cantidad de niñas en el equipo, especialmente porque muchas de ellas han jugado en clubes en los años anteriores.

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Senior, Pavao family unite during tough times

by CLAIRE OERTLY AND VICTORIA WILKINSON

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Roseville High School senior Travis Pavao and his family have been doing as much as they can to help support his three year old little sister, Kraven, who is sick with leukemia.

According to Pavao, he first found out about his sister’s condition about a year ago and it immediately took a toll on him emotionally.

“I kind of just broke down right there,” Pavao said. “It’s been emotional.”

Before the diagnosis, the family recognized a change in Kraven’s attitudes and physical state.

For example, she was tired all the time and had bruises all over her body, but the family did not think much of it due to their active lifestyle.

“As a parent you try not to think bad anyways,” Pavao’s mother Sheree Schober said.

According to Schober, it wasn’t until she noticed bruises on Kraven’s forehead that she took her to the hospital.

When Schober found out about her daughter’s sickness she was crushed.

“I was losing my marbles. I was crying and my husband was at work,” Schober said. “I was going crazy.”

To add to the stress, while in the hospital, Schober and her husband Mike received the news that the establishment where they both worked

was being shut down, creating another obstacle in their lives.

“The place where we had worked for 20 years was closing their doors,” Schober said. “So we both lost our jobs while we were finding out that our daughter had cancer all at the same time.”

After, Pavao and his family became more united and were able to help despite the emotional wreckage.

“We’re kind of getting stronger as a family. We stick together as much as possible,” Pavao said.

According to Pavao, a positive attitude is the key to staying strong in such a hard time.

“We just try to be happy and supportive about it and not try to think of the worst thing,” Pavao said. “We try to be as positive as possible because none of us want to see anything bad happen to her.”

While Pavao lives in Roseville, the rest of his family, including his mom and sister, live in the Bay Area so he does not get to see them very often. Pavao had a hard time coping with his situation and it was evident in his attitude and obvious to his friends.

“I was upset because he was really broken about it,” friend of Pavao Nick Tirone said. “He’s my best friend and it’s hard to see him like that.”

The change not only in Pavao’s attitude but the rest of the family as well was apparent.

“All the kids, it affects all of them,” Schober said.

COURTESY TRAVIS PAVAO

COURTESY TRAVIS PAVAO

COURTESY TRAVIS PAVAO

Three-year-old Kraven Schober was diagnosed with Leukemia 14 months ago. After her diagnosis, her brother senior Travis Pavao, has begun fundrasing on her behalf.

“The family has always been close but now they’re scared of everything, not petrified or paranoid, but if the kids start getting bruises from playing outside you get scared.”

Tirone recognizes both Pavao and Kraven’s progressions from the beginning until now, and says that the two have a direct connection with each other’s emotional and physical state.

“He was closing everyone off and just wanted to stay home all the time,” Tirone said. “She’s getting better so he’s getting happier.”

According to Pavao, the family as well as several friends have been doing as much as they can to raise awareness for their situation and get all the help they can.

“All of my friends know about it so they’ve been posting about it. We have a giant family so it’s been getting around a lot,” Pavao said. “I’ve just been posting on every single one of my social media and just letting people know anything will help out.”

The family’s ultimate goal besides the health of Kraven is to start a shaved ice business where she can work when she grows up and donate a percentage of every snow cone sold to children’s hospitals to help find a cure for leukemia.

“She loves snow cones and slurpees, so our family goal is to get a shave ice trailer, and we’d want to have it painted orange for leukemia,” Pavao said.

Schober has created various platforms to raise money to help pay for

COURTESY TRAVIS PAVAO

Kraven’s hospital stays on all social media platforms, as well as informing all friends and family. The family has a GoFundMe account and Schober has made T-shirts, reversible purses, earrings and brace-

lets towards the cause. The bracelets are $5, earrings $2-5, and purses $25 which are all available for purchase. So far the GoFundMe has raised $2,865 out of the $100,000 goal to go toward the hospital bills.

Brothers deepen their bond through scuba diving

TARAH JOHNSON EYE OF THE TIGER

Above, senior James Jones (left) and sophomore Donovan Jones (right) meet up with each other before they go home after school.

Right, the Jones brothers scuba dive on a trip in Monterey.

by VIKTORIA BARR

v.barr@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School senior James Jones and his brother, sophomore Donovan Jones, have grown up with a love for the sea, inspiring them to explore deeper. They began their scuba diving careers around seven years ago and have been passionate about it ever since.

Both James and Donovan learned how to dive in Monterey Bay at very young ages. James became a certified scuba diver at the youngest possible age to be certified.

“I first learned how to scuba dive in Monterey, it wasn’t too hard of a course but at ten years old it’s kind of hard to learn all of that

information, but you get used to the terminology pretty quickly,” James said.

According to James, various training, tests, and classes are required to become a certified scuba diver.

“There’s a whole lot of training you have to go through in order to become certified and then once you get certified, it’s a relief to just go out there and be able to experience it all,” James said.

According to Donovan, the experience progressively became more enjoyable as time went on, as they steadily gained more knowledge and confidence along the way.

“It was scary at first but then over time we started to visit more places and it got really fun,” Donovan

COURTESY JAMES JONES

said.

To Donovan, scuba diving allows him to explore, see, and experience an environment not accessible to anybody outside of the scuba diving community.

“My favorite part about scuba diving is just the fun in exploring the places where you can’t walk around,” Donovan said.

According to Lisa Jones, the mother of James and Donovan, the brothers transformed their love for the ocean to a determination to scuba dive at a young age.

“When they were little we used to watch my sister and her husband scuba dive all the time,” Lisa said.

“We all would go down to

the beach while they were diving, and both my boys love the ocean and so when they found out that at age ten they could get certified they wanted to do it.”

According to Lisa, scuba diving has strengthened the family’s connection and bond and they take every opportunity to dive and unite as a family.

“We do all of our family vacations based around scuba diving,” Lisa said.

“James has actually gotten way closer with [his aunt] and [uncle] because she does a lot more diving than I do, and I don’t feel comfortable with him diving with anybody except me and my sister.”

Both brothers have

noticed a change in their family dynamic due to their constant interaction when traveling together. According to Donovan, traveling and diving together has brought him and his brother closer than ever.

“We used to fight a lot,” Donovan said. “Now that we travel, we have to be in cars together so we have fun together now.”

The Jones brothers enjoy exploring the depths of the world below and and being able to experience all the different creatures that come with it.

“It’s a whole different environment compared to on land because under water there’s fish everywhere compared to on land,

looking around there isn’t as many like living animals there’s more plants or just nothing,” James said.

The Jones family returns annually to where James learned to scuba dive in the hopes to support and preserve the place the family has learned to love.

“Every year we go down to Monterey and we go count fish and that goes into the national system, we do a lot of clean up stuff, so it’s not only bonding between us but we’re also helping the environment,” Lisa said.

James plans on furthering his career in scuba diving by getting his Masters Scuba Diving (MSD) certificate at the end of Oct.

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Smith reaches 10 gallon mark in blood donations

BY KENZIE DUNCAN

k.duncan@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School English teacher Stuart Smith has donated over 10 gallons of blood through the course of his life. Smith began donating blood when he was attending high school in Auburn.

He then continued donating both through college and after he graduated. In total, Smith has been donating for over 20 years of his life.

“It’s a habit I got started when I was in high school, and I went to Placer High School here in Auburn years ago. It was fun to do. It was a satisfying experience,” Smith said. “I did it when I moved back to California after grad school, and none of those donations even count in the 10 gallons, so I’ve actually done more than that.”

According to Smith, he donates blood regularly throughout the year, accounting for around five to six times in total. Smith participates in the blood drives done at RHS and also through outside donations.

“They’re timed pretty well here, so that I can do at least one donation in between,” Smith said. “This is one of those low grade civic responsibilities you get to fulfill and it keeps

JOHNNY MULLIGAN EYE OF THE TIGER

TARAH JOHNSON EYE OF THE TIGER

English teacher Stuart Smith considers blood donating as a low grade civic responsibility. Smith hopes to continue to donate blood for as long as he possibly can. you engaged. It should be like brushing your teeth, it’s something you just do.”

According to Smith, the act of giving blood is both easy to do and rewarding.

“I started going to blood drives here regularly and it was just clock-work, and that’s the reason I like doing it, [because] it’s something you can do,” Smith said.

“You may not get called for jury duty, you vote every couple years, you pay your

taxes, but this is something you do that you wouldn’t otherwise have to.”

One of Smith’s main motivations behind donating is due to a life threatening experience his wife had encountered years before they had met.

“On a personal level I found out many years later after I started donating that when my wife was a freshman she was in a terrible car accident and nearly died;

her spine was broken and she had internal bleeding,” Smith said.

According to Smith, one of the things that saved his wife’s life was a massive blood transfusion.

During the time frame of the incident Smith was giving blood, and he felt a sense of relief in the possibility that he could have helped.

“This is something you do that you wouldn’t other-

wise have to - it’s not compulsory and yet it makes such a big difference and it costs you so little,” Smith said.

According to Smith’s wife Jennifer Smith, blood donations are selfless gifts that saves lives.

“I think it’s an incredible gift that Stuart has given our community. When you donate blood, you’re giving life to someone in need.

Stuart knows this, and

has been donating blood for much longer than I’ve known him,” Jennifer said.

“Think of all the families that still have their loved ones because he took a little time out of his schedule to help a stranger. That’s a lot of lives.”

Although Jennifer herself does not donate blood, she is grateful for those that do.

According to her, as a result of her accident, and the blood transfusion she had done, she experiences anxiety at the possibility of donating blood.

“Someone gave an hour of their time and saved my life. This huge 10 gallon mark says more about what a generous, caring, thoughtful, person he is. He donates blood because he knows it helps save lives.

These people will never get the chance to thank him, but he does it anyway,” Jennifer said. “To him, it’s just the right thing to do. That’s the man I married, and it’s one of the many reasons I love him.”

According to Smith, donating blood helps strengthen a society and is a simple way for one to contribute in a positive way.

“The more you can do regularly everyday, and make something that’s really important to our health for our society, then the better the society is [and] the stronger it is,” Smith said.

Juniors Mann, Kay add math team to campus

BY JACK ROSETTI

j.rosetti@eyeofthetigernews.com

FILE PHOTO ZACHARY CHEEK

Senior Key Club vice president Megan Magorka (left) and Key Club president Vanessa Quach (right) speak in a meeting.

Key Club sets goals for the year, seeks unity

BY MIA BARBOUR

b.barbour@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School’s Key Club is a student led high school volunteer organization. Key club president Vanessa Quach has many personal plans for the club this year.

According to Quach the club has many fresh and new ideas being planned out such as an Inner Club Movie Night as a way for club members to bond and get to know each other.

“As the holiday seasons come the club plans to work with the local Placer Food Bank, K-Kids, and the Salvation Army,” Quach said.

“Coming up the club has events such as Fall Rally as well as the District Convention that involves clubs from California, Nevada, and Hawaii.”

Their goal is to serve and better their community, even on a global scale. One ongoing project they’re working on is Trick Or Treat for Unicef, in which members are collecting change which will go to directly to Unicef to help raise money for children in need.

“The club is always open to new ideas and as always their goal is to serve the community and have an impact on the world,” Quach said.

As the club president Quach hopes to strengthen the unity amongst members and have members feel comfortable and trust each other in order for the club to branch out to do more activities.

Club editor Cyrena Le hopes each club member will develop a genuine hunger to strive for a better global world. According to Le, she hopes that by joining the club members will have a valuable character building experience through volunteering for their own community as well as acquire helpful skills for their future.

“Key Club’s plans for the year is to get more people involved in community service and bring awareness to the amazing things that Key Club can do for everyone as individuals,” Le said. “In Key Club, we develop leadership skills, self-awareness, social skills, and the love for volunteering for the community we live in.”

Le said.

Vice president junior Zachariah Jose has high hopes for the future of the club and it’s additions.

“What we do have that’s new this year is people, purpose, and potential,” Jose said. “People, new ‘clubbers’ are amazing to get every year, we can really step up our service game.

RHS AP Calculus teacher Michelle Walton will be advising the school’s very first math team. Junior Dylan Kay took the role as president of the club.

“Well I love math,” Kay said. “It’s a really big part of my life now so I just wanted to build a great club.”

Kay’s best friend junior Jackson Mann is also in Walton’s AP Calculus class and plans on being vicepresident of the team.

“There was another student who was originally leading math club who told our class about it,” Mann said. “Dylan is one of my best friends and we joined it together because math is something that we like to do, we think it’s fun.”

One of the main focuses of the club is competing.

According to Walton, the club is focusing their attention on different kinds of competitions they could participate in.

“There’s actually a lot of them.We’re going to focus on probably doing two different ones, one that you submit your answers either

“

GABI HUTSON EYE OF THE TIGER

AP Calculus teacher Michelle Walton (top) is the advisor for the math teams. Junior math team vice president Jackson Mann (left) and junior president Dylan Kay (right) look on as Walton plans goals for the team. online or you mail them in and then they tell you how you did compared to other schools,” Walton said.

“We’ll try to do a traveling one where you go to a location and test at the place. It’s like an academic decathlon, but purely for math.”

Kay hopes for a successful year in terms of competing.

“Well I hope we can

win,” Kay said.

Walton not only hopes to win but spark interest and bring attraction to math.

“I hope that we get some people excited about math and see it as more fun and interesting than just boring worksheets all day,” Walton said.

According to Kay, he’s grateful a teacher like Walton is the advisor.

“She’s a really good

teacher,” Kay said. “She always helps me and give good explanations, she’s just a really good teacher.

I’m glad she’s the administrator.”

Mann has an extensive love for math and appreciates how versatile it is.

“I definitely like how math is challenging and has a lot of complexity,” Mann said. “There’s I just think it’s really interesting.”

HUMANS OF RHS

Before I came to RHS I was working at Black Oak Unified School District.

What drew me to RHS was that my son played sports here so it was pretty familiar. I love everything about it, going from seven hundred students to over two thousand is really amazing.

It’s super fun.

My personal goals would be to continue to grow in this profession. To be healthy, hopefully get married again someday. I want to be here for years and learn new things. My job makes me feel super blessed that I’m able to work with such easy people. Everyday I wake up and think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so excited to go to work’.”

TARAH JOHNSON EYE OF THE TIGER

Roseville High School Registrar Dana Studebaker is adjusting to both her new position this year in the office and at RHS as a whole. Studebaker’s arrival to the RJUHSD district was due to downsizing at her previous place of employment.

She’s excited to start a new chapter in her life -Tarah Johnson

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EYE OF THE TIGER’S VIEW

Arrest calls for clearer definition of ‘actionable defiance’ Vague policy puts students at mercy of administrative judgement

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n administrator stopped a student in the halls for a routine dress code.

Another student walking by made an explicit comment about the dress code.

The administrator asked the student to return and for her name, she refused, or defied, both of these commands. The administrator summoned the youth services officer to try to control the student.

Once the student defied the youth service officer’s efforts, she was in violation of Penal Code, Section 148 which in this case prohibits the student from obstructing or delaying the officer’s duties. This incident initiated conversation and controversy over whether or not the student was justly handcuffed, but is just a part of a larger question of administrative discipline.

As long as an officer is involved, any student deemed to be acting in defiance is at risk of getting handcuffed

due to a blurry, vague, open-to-interpretation definition of what qualifies as “actionable defiance,” the unlawful behavior described in Penal Code, Section 148. This fact is the larger issue: There is no precise description of “actionable defiance,” so it’s left to administrators’ judgment, judgment that could be questionable and inconsistent, to determine if an officer should get involved in an instance of defiance.

This fluid and undefined procedure is a volatile fit for the power it gives administrators, and students deserve an actionable defiance policy at least as clear as the dress code guidelines. Without a clear and unanimous understanding of “actionable defiance,” an administrator can manipulate it to their advantage to stifle any protesting or disrespectful comments.

“Actionable defiance” shouldn’t describe behavior that isn’t out of the administrator’s control, a student who doesn’t want to give an administrator their name shouldn’t have an officer called to reinforce the authority. That should not be the knee-jerk reaction, anyways.

ZOE STEPHENS EYE OF THE TIGER

If all it takes to violate Penal Code, 148 is the same level of resistance towards an officer as towards an administrator, then the next step after a student defies an administrator’s commands is to call an officer.

And if this level of resistance is all it takes for an administrator to consider “actionable defiance,” then that needs to be either declared in writing or there needs to be fair warnings

and mediating measures between a student rebelling against an administrator and that administrator calling for authoritative coercion, because currently neither are in place and students are at the mercy of administrators’ judgement.

An officer’s assistance should be called if a student is physically dangerous, purposefully denying a student’s right to free education or violating privacy. These

are cases of defiance that are understandably actionable. An officer’s assistance should not be called if a student is criticizing a policy, not identifying themselves or walking away from an administrator who wants to talk to them.

In even an instance of nonviolent, nondisruptive and nonviolating defiance, an officer’s assistance can quickly turn to an officer’s force, which can quickly

turn to an officer’s arrest, thanks to Penal Code, Section 148. No policy should allow a simple protest to lead to a student getting arrested, especially without their knowledge that a simple protest can get them arrested all because of the vague and undefined definition of “actionable defiance.”

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

Suspensions raise concern over posting fight videos Fight videos promote violent culture, deserve punishment

Social media posts too private for disciplinary consequences

BY ANILA LIJO

BY JACK ROSETTI

a.lijo@eyeofthetigernews.com

j.rosetti@eyeofthetigernews.com

R

ecently there have been a lot of physical fights occurring between students at Roseville High School.

I feel like fights between students have been more common this year than in recent years. But, as much as the students who perpetrate the fights should be punished, I believe that the students who record the video should face the same consequences.

As weird as it may sound, the fact that students record fights - even if it’s only for the purpose of entertainment - is not good. Whether the student uploads the video to a social media or even just having it on their phone for entertainment is a form of bullying that should not be tolerated.

I think more than anything, we need to look at the real reason why students fight in the first place. The fights that have been taking place at RHS for the past months have been foolish.

I don’t think it is right for students to fight over sillymatters like calling each other “ugly” or any other hurtful words.

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It’s pointless to fight over such matters in the first place, and if students continue this in the future, then I feel like the school will be going through a lot of chaos: resulting in an increased number of student suspensions.

As a kid, we were taught to apologize to people when we did something wrong not to hurt them, talk things out instead of getting violent and respect everyone around you. When you take videos of people and encourage them to fight, it goes against everything that we were taught when we were kids.

It’s not acceptable to solve complications with physical violence, because it’s immature and we are in high school. We should be old and mature enough to know how to resolve issue using words, like adults.

As much as taking videos of fights encourages bullying it also encourages internet fame. It’s through social media websites, like

Twitter and Instagram, that we see these unacceptable videos and share them with our friends.

Students are most likely going to start fighting for unjust reasons just so they can become “popular” among their peers.

A fight that took place at RHS a few weeks ago resulted in a number of students suspended, which included the students who were fighting, a student who was filming the fight and also one student who edited the video and set it to music.

The suspension of the student who edited the video sparked discussion of whether videographers should be punished the same as the fighters themselves. But when a student goes the extra mile and, say, edits and makes the video into a joke: I think suspension is completely justifiable and should happen.

Just by adding music and inserting some graphics, the video can manipulate view-

ers’ interpretation and make the content or the fight seem funnier, thus making the fight more entertaining.

This may seem like, to most students, a violation of the first amendment, but recording and glamorizing violence to students can’t be justified in any way, shape nor form. Of course the school cannot stop you from saying or doing something that is controversial unless it threatens the safety of the students, but in this case, videotaping fights encourages students to fight for the wrong reasons, which threatens the safety of other students on campus.

Therefore, I think that the students videotaping fights should face the same consequences as the students who fight.

Yes, there might be an increased number of student suspension rates but if that stops students from videotaping and fighting each other then I think it is worth it.

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hortly after your typical Roseville High School throwdown in senior square, two students who uploaded the fights to social media were suspended and forced to delete the videos from their accounts.

Suspension is way out of line for the video posters because they aren’t even actively participating in the fight. They were observing it from afar. Some didn’t even take the original video, merely uploaded it or edited it.

This is different from literally chanting “Fight!” which is worthy of school discipline.

Fighting itself is a barbaric and ineffective way of solving an issue, even if it is entertaining sometimes.

I do not condone violence in any way, but if students fight it’s not my place to stop them.

Fights and the culture surrounding them are terrifying. High schoolers swarm around fights like sharks in a feeding frenzy.

I am not going to step in there and try to educate the kid about why they should

refrain from using physical violence to express their frustration.

Students who post videos of fights should delete the video at request of the brawlers or their parents.

But why should these posts have serious repercussions in school? The only ties these posts have to the school is that they occurred on campus. Other than that, it’s our phone, our social media account and, ultimately, our decision.

This same conflict happened a few years back, too. Admin used social media posts as “evidence” for reasonable suspicion or punishment in school.

So what can admin do?

I agree admin should suspend students fighting during school – that’s reasonable. But the video posters?

No. Are we going to give detention to everyone in the crowd, too? Or to everyone who liked or retweeted the video? What about snapchats roasting teachers or students? Demeaning posts about peers on their finstas?

My point is that other than the fighters, there’s no reasonable way to draw a line between who should be punished or not. They all could be “inciting violence” if you twist it the right way.

Admin twisted the editing of a fight video into deserving of a suspension.

By suspending students for this, administration is encroaching into an area that’s not theirs to enter. Admin shouldn’t be allowed to regulate what we post and or have on our phones.

Admin is trying to keep us safe in school and punish violent actions, sure. But don’t touch my Twitter.

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Test-optional apps ease pressure

BY BEN WELKER

b.welker@eyeofthetigernews.com

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ith most seniors taking the SAT or the ACT for the last time this past Saturday and college application deadlines fast approaching, having a good SAT or ACT score is an integral component in getting into that dream school with a great financial aid package.

Usually a few study sessions and test-prep books will lift a student’s score to the range for which they’re shooting.

But we don’t always score ideally, and when we don’t it’s hard to be optimistic about or confident in about any college application. So when our scores come back less impressive than we had hoped, is attending community college our only option? Or do we have to settle for a college that we are not really too excited about?

It feels like these are our two options, but over 880 college and Universities’ application processes are now test-optional – students can substitute standardized test scores with a written essay or by participating

in an interview based on two current event articles, and the admissions team is able to have another piece of data to evaluate the prospective student.

It isn’t uncommon for an otherwise high-achieving student to earn a below average on either of these standardized tests, for a multitude of reasons. For that issue, test-optional applications are a perfect solution.

I have worked very hard in school and have earned a healthy GPA in multiple sections of honors, AP and CP classes. A test number does not always accurately reflect a person’s ability, and I believe that three and a half hours in a room bubbling in a scantron does not represent my accomplishments from the past three and a half years at Roseville High School.

Test-optional applications are a big deal for students like me who have a learning disability, test anxiety or struggle to sit through a three plus hour test. I love this option as a dyslexic student. I read very slowly, and when I need to comprehend the text, my spelling is very inventive and requires a lot of editing when I am writing.

Now, getting a great score is an awesome accomplishment and if this is not an issue for you because you score well on standardized tests, testing optional

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applications don’t necessarily concern you. But having dyslexia impedes my test-taking and reading efficiency, and knowing that I have the option of not withholding my scores is a huge relief.

Test-optional applications are not only beneficial for the students, but also for the colleges and universities who will be able to admit well-qualified applicants who might have

been turned away because of their standardized test score.

Submitting what I know are inadequate scores makes college applications a process of pessimism and second-guesses, but now knowing that there’s a better way to convey myself and abilities makes me more confident with what I’m including in my applications.

Research continues

to show that high school coursework and GPA are more accurate predictors of college success. SAT scores no longer reliably predict college success and are becoming an outdated tool to assess incoming students.

Schools that are not testoptional put me and many other kids at a disadvantage in their current application process. How many brilliant students with learning challenges won’t attend

the college of their choice because that school didn’t offer them a better avenue to present themselves?

How many brilliant students won’t apply to their dream school because they didn’t know test-optional applications even were an option? Hopefully advisors and counselors do a better job of getting the word out to students as we begin the process of applying for college.

Group work, group discipline shortchange good students

Misbehavior, laziness should be punished individually

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Prior work shouldn’t influence future grades

BY JAKE LITTLEJOHN

j.littlejohn@eyeofthetigernews.com

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have seen many times that teachers will grade students’ work based on what they have done in the past. For example, if a kid gets a good grade on an essay or a test, teachers almost automatically assumes that this student will produce a great essay again.

Teachers won’t read the essay as critically, they will just give them a good grade. The same happens with students who produce poor work early in the term, teachers won’t even look at the work: they will just give them a grade that they feel they will get in the class.

Not that every student has an immediate turnaround in work quality after

their first assignments, but every student gets lucky and every student has offdays. Just because one, or the other, happened at the start of the school year shouldn’t dictate future grades on assignments.

Even if they’re grading the best student’s or the worst student’s assignment, teachers should refrain from “going easy” on students or underestimating their students’ abilities just because of their past work.

It’s evident that this happens because when students get test back or essays, one student could write a similar essay, and the teachers will still issue different grades. How does this happen? At some point teachers need to take the time to give students the grade that they truly deserve.

Why does this person deserve this grade? Is it because they wrote an outstanding essay in the past, or because they actually believe it is well written and deserves a good grade? Stu-

dents should not be graded based upon past grades, teachers need to not be lazy, and grade on the content.

I just don’t see the point in grading based on who the person is. This is the most lazy thing a teacher can do.

Just take the time to grade, and not guess what they got. These grades affect students so much more than they think. Students don’t want to look back and see that it was their teacher’s fault.

If teachers were to grade work with no name on the paper, this would drastically change the way they grade. Top students may get grades they didn’t expect, and bottom level students may get better grades because it is what they deserve.

I’m not saying that top level students don’t deserve grades they have gotten, I’m saying that I believe that there are still students that may slack off because they know that the teacher will give them a good grade.

BY CARRIE-LYNN LAFRANCHI

c.lafranchi@eyeofthetigernews.com

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have few problems with Roseville High School, but recently some of these few came to my attention and, simply put, make me mad: collective punishment, and group projects with apathetic people.

First things first – I am a really good student; I don’t get anything less than a B, I never talk back and I get my homework done the majority of the time.

Despite my own behavior and performance, I understand that people, myself included, are not perfect and make mistakes which end in consequences. Students use their phones in class without permission, teacher takes their phone, fair enough.

What isn’t fair is the same students who always get in trouble get in trouble, and the teacher “apologizes” for the “inconvenience” and decides to outlaw everybody’s phones.

I don’t see how collective punishment is any more effective than individual punishment because some kids

just don’t care how everybody else feels about them.

And that fact alone complicates everything because it’s not teaching anybody a lesson because what is going to stop the individual from doing it again if they really don’t care?

One of my teachers has a personal policy that if she sees one student’s phone out, she gives the whole class an extra assignment that is more work than the classwork and homework combined. This angers me to no end because it interrupts the class exponentially more than if the teacher were to just take the student’s phone away, and in extreme cases they don’t get to finish the lecture, which is needed by the rest of the class.

Another teacher decided to introduce the phone cubbies two weeks into the semester after just three students continuously were on their phones. Initially she took away their phones, but then she implemented the cubby for all of us because she assumed the whole class would follow the lead of three disrespectful students.

Why are teachers punishing the whole class? It’s unfair to the good students and it unnecessarily pits students against each other.

The other problem I have is group projects with people who just don’t care. As I mentioned earlier, I am a good student and I do what I’m told (which most would classify me as a try-hard, but I really don’t care).

Group projects are difficult in any situation depending on the people involved, because they socialize too easily, don’t try, or only

have one person doing all the work. Some groups do succeed, but my real problem is the idea of one person doing all the work.

Most often I am the only one completing any work (which is good in a way because I know the work will for sure be right) but it aggravates me because the other people in my group get a good grade even though they didn’t do any work.

The problem I had recently was a group test where two boys and I had to compare answers, the teacher would only grade one paper. But the real frustration was that one kid didn’t know the answer but decided to write something down instead of asking the other kid and I if we knew.

And the teacher graded HIS PAPER. We got a 15/20 on the test and I was frustrated, so I verbalized my opinion and they just told me, “That’s a good score for us, calm down.” I feel like I had a valid point but they have no remorse!

The kid whose paper got graded said “I’m only trying to graduate, I don’t care if I have a good grade so good luck with that.”

If you don’t care about your grades, power to you.

But don’t be inconsiderate of your partners and fail, but instead help out and be cooperative. Please, for the love of pizza, be a good person. Or possibly, teachers if you’re reading this, don’t be unfair to the students who put forth effort by putting them in cruddy groups, let them be successful and help out the kids who have troubles or don’t act according to class policy.

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Former lineman says no to status quo

Bailey to star in fall production

by KYLIE IRWIN AND KARLI DUGGER

arts@eyeofthetigernews.com

After weeks of intense consideration, junior Nick Bailey decided to join the drama program and leave the football team, after dedicating two years of his life to the sport. Bailey was influenced by his older brothers who were both a part of the drama program, starring in major school performances, and he wanted to finally join the family legacy.

Bailey had been practicing with the varsity football team over last school year and summer, until he discovered his true love for drama about a week before school started this year.

He has received a lot of support from his family and friends, especially from his mom and brothers, Alex and Jacob Bailey.

“When I told my mom

that I wanted to audition, she was extremely excited because all of my brothers before me had been a part of the program, and she was excited to see me try it out,” Bailey said.

Bailey is currently rehearsing for the fall play, Noises Off. While the play does not have a lead role, Bailey does play a major part. It is a production about a play, and his role within the production is the director of the play.

Former teammate Joey Margaroni was slightly surprised that he was able to get such a big role with no real drama background, but many are expecting him to fulfill this role. They thought his personality fit the role perfectly and is fitting right into the program.

“I think it’s really impressive, especially because this is his first time doing a big drama thing. I think that’s a really good thing for him,” Margaroni said.

Performer Emily Botnen, who plays the part of

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Former lineman Nick Bailey opts out of football to join drama program. He now plays a major roll in fall production of Noises Off. Bailey’s girlfriend, agrees with Margaroni and is excited to see him grow

as a performer and see the progress he has made throughout the show.

“It’s really impressive to see the drive that was in Jacob has come down to him,” Botnen said. “He makes us realize how much more we need to focus and match his energy.”

Botnen says that Bailey is effortless to get along with, and is also very easy to bounce ideas off of.

Many students have noticed the focus and dedication Bailey brings to the program. Drama teacher Ashley White recognizes his dependability and drive he provides for the program, and says he is an inspiration for other performers.

“He loves to get constructive criticism and takes direction beautifully,” White said.

She also sees how Bailey’s athletic background has helped him in their program. She thinks he is more open to different types of instruction. “[He] is a bit more serious, more down to work,” White said. “I think that’s because of his athletic

training background.”

Botnen feels this production will be a great experience for Bailey, as he is branching out into different extracurricular activities and being apart of the department.

“I thought it was really cool because a lot of times, especially at high school, football has the spotlight on it, and programs like drama and dance, not as much,” Botnen said. “So the fact that he was really honest with himself and not thinking I want to do the thing that will make me popular or anything, but I want to do what I really want to do is really inspiring.”

Bailey wasn’t concerned with what others thought, and just wanted to do the activity that he liked the most.

“A few people said I was wimping out on football,” Bailey said. “But it wasn’t really as much for me trying to get out of football but more into drama.”

Junior performs in charity concert

by ALEXIS HARRISON

a.harrison@eyeofthetigernews.com

Junior Jacob Watson was able to display his accumulating skill as a pianist of five years at his concert performance at the Valley Springs Presbyterian Church to approximately 75 to 100 people. All funds made from the concert were put towards charity.

The recital encompassed a total of eight songs, two of which were by his favorite composer Debussy, and stretched just over an hour.

All songs played were classical as that is what Watson is comfortable with.

Watson said that though it was the largest group he’s ever performed in front of he felt as if it was less nerve wracking as he the people who attended were familiar with him.

“In total I think there was somewhere around 75-100 people. It wasn’t like huge or anything but it was the biggest audience I’ve had,” Watson said. “It was surprisingly not that bad I’ve done small recitals and stuff with other people,

but that’s almost worse because you don’t really know the people you’re playing for. Since it was my concert I knew everyone there so I wasn’t really too nervous.”

Apart of the audience was Watson’s grandmother Jane Bevis who felt that as a grandmother it was an overwhelming experience to see him on stage and has a great appreciation for his talent. “ [watching him on stage] was many different things it was exciting it was thrilling it was nerve wracking and it made me very proud to see him up there,” Bevis said. “ If he’s playing piano it’s just the most beautiful thing.”

Julee Moore, aunt of Watson, concurs with Bevis and says that the whole family takes pride in Jacob’s great ability.

“We are so proud of Jacob. I could listen to him play all day,” Moore said.

According to Watson the encouragement of his piano teacher pushed him to follow through along with the gratification of playing for charitable purposes.

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FASHION: Sophomore Anne Hoppes

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by Gabi hutson

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

COURTESY JACOB WATSON

Jacob Watson plays a Debussy piece during his own concert at the Valley Springs Presbytarian Church.

“My piano teacher, especially, was pushing me to do it, just because for her obviously it’s an accomplishment for one of her students and she just wants me to be able to

share the gift of music with other people” Watson said.

“It was gratifying to be doing something good and helping those in need. It gave me reason to practice and perform.”

From the SoundCloud Aliens on the Couch proves to be out of this world

BY CLAIRE OERTLY AND VICTORIA WILKINSON arts@eyeofthetigernews.com

Every issue, juniors Calire Oertly and Victoria Wilkinson will recommend their favorite artists, albums, EPs, mixed tapes and songs from their SoundCloud likes.

Roseville based rap group Aliens on the Couch or A.O.T.C. is a newly emerging group that consists of Mukku$$$, Matte Black, David Codeine, DU$TY BLUNT$, MAHL, Kolean, Sunny K, and Strate Faded. The group recently released their first mixtape, Proof Of Concept, containing six songs last month and since have released three more singles and another mixtape containing just two songs.

When a few of the

Hoppes breaks gender norms with her wardrobe

members began tweeting about how they were working on music we honestly thought it was a joke. But we were pleasantly surprised when we heard their songs and now actually listen to them just as much as we do any other artist that we listen to.

As friends of some of the group members, prior to the release of the first mixtape we did not think it was as serious as it is.

However, we were shocked by how professional the music sounded. Everyone has nice flow pertaining to the beat and the songs sound expertly produced: especially for it being their

very first project.

The songs the group has released vary from slower, more chill songs with some singing to more upbeat raps with rapid, seemingly like never-ending, bars.

One song in particular, “Far Below Basic” feat.

Matte Black and MAHL, reminds us of Chance The Rapper. The beat and singing on the track alludes to him but still maintains the unique style of the group, especially because they mention Roseville.

Some of our favorite songs include “Far Below Basic” and “H00P$” feat.

Matte Black and Strate Faded.

How would you describe your style?

I like to think out of the box a lot. At school I tend to say that simplicity is key. which a lot of people don’t do because they’re like, ‘Oh, a pattern with a neutral color.’ I like to stay all neutral, all solids, because it totally changes the look up and makes it a little bit more icy. I like jewelry; I like men’s fashion also, so I like watches and more of that kind of that thing: very clean-cut.

natural curls, it’s like, ‘I’m here, this is me.’ It’s very empowering to do that.

Especially when I cut my hair, I feel like it allows me to really rock the men’s side of fashion so I really the versatility of it.

What inspires you?

So when I say simplicity I really take that to a tee. Very clean cut; I like watches; I like rings, not in the sense that it’s girly but more of like a high-classy thing. I like very classy people like heels, pencilskirts [and] menswear like men’s jackets.

Do you ever mix feminine and masculine pieces?

Everyday. All the time.

It’s a little bit different. It brings a different feel by combining the men’s and men’s fashion into being feminine. To be able to rock men’s fashion and make it feminine, I think that that’s the utmost respect.

Does your natural hair come into play with your style?

It definitely does because I feel like a lot of people- I also get sew-ins and get braids I’m not saying that “I’m a natural girl.” I have just been doing that lately and I feel like it kind of changes the vibe.When you walk in with your

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Sophomore Anne Hoppes feels limitless with her natural curls and simple style.

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Book-to-movie adaptations flood theaters The Girl on the Train derails high fan and critic expectations

Miss Peregrine’s adaptation serves a perfectly peculiar result

BY SOPHIA COOK

BY GABI HUTSON

The Girl on the Train film was more or less a “Great Value” version of its paper counter-part, the best selling novel by the same name.

Now, to try to avoid being that annoying person that complains about how “the book is soo much better than the movie” I will say that I didn’t hate the movie, even though it’s a bizarre film, it’s not necessarily unenjoyable.

Girl is a psychological thriller centered around a troubled woman named Rachel Watson, riddled with depression and alcoholism due to a recent divorce from her cheating husband.

During her train commute to NYC she passes by her old neighborhood, where she gets a perfect view of both the house she previously lived in with her ex-husband, and of one of their neighbors, a seemingly perfect couple, Scott and Megan, that Rachel has become obsessed with.

One day, Watson witnesses something shocking unfold in the couples backyard and goes to the police with that she saw when she learns Megan has

The film adaptation of Ransom Riggs novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was everything I was hoping for and more. However, this does not mean the movie was perfect.

I’d like to start off by saying that this is the first film Tim Burton had directed in four years, yes four years.

Usually people are hindered by a hiatus, but not Burton. However, I do think that it changed his iconic style to be something more cheery and colorful than what we’ve seen before.

I won’t lie I was little bit disappointed when I didn’t get that dark creepy, yet family friendly theme that I’ve come to know and love from movies like Beetlejuice or, my personal favorite, the Corpse Bride.

But after a bit of adapting, I found that there was a lot to appreciate in this new approach.

But beyond just Burton, there is also a lot to marvel at in terms of cast and plot.

Obviously, the plot was based off that of an already great book, so I’m not

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Emily Blunt, who plays Rachel in the book to film adaptation of “Girl” delivers a stellar performace compared to her mediocore gone missing.

The film has a few redeeming qualities, one being the decision to cast Emily Blunt, in my opinion a perfect choice, to play Rachel. Blunt has taken her acting career to a completely new level with this character as it’s a type of person she’s never played before. She does a very good job of portraying someone in as much emotional pain as Rachel is and makes you feel for her despite her mistakes.

As far as directing goes I had no real complaints, I could appreciate the execution of the time jumping aspect and putting you in the perspective of someone trying to piece together a mystery. I didn’t, however,

Solange soul searches in experimental album

BY MARC CHAPPELLE

m.chappelle@eyeofthetigernews.com

Spoiler: Solange Knowles’ A Seat at the Table is very black. And very beautiful.

Her third album is the most experimental of her works, and she explores herself freely and unapologetically.

As tiring as it may be, there’s no denying the parallels between her older sister’s Lemonade and the way this album explores black identity, whether that’s through no-frills declarations like “Don’t Touch My Hair” or moving interludes chronicling rapper Master P’s rags-to-riches story.

A Seat at the Table is the type of album that you listen through in sittings, rather than picking and choosing catchy tracks to stand on their own. Solange pulls off an unfolding narrative, using interludes to blend tracks seamlessly and beautifully into the next. Every track in which Solange dabbles exudes a level of maturity and sense of self that’s refreshing to see and hear.

From beginning to end, Solange crafts a delicate story featuring little sonic embellishments that never fail to please as they come out from around the corner at just the right time – a simple piano or synth melody is all that it takes to bring a smile to my face.

think the director did the best job of explaining how Blunt’s character is putting them together, just that she suddenly remembers bits and pieces rather than has a certain experience trigger a sort of deja vu moment for her. Without reading the book the viewer wouldn’t have any sense of Rachel’s inner monologue and her thought process of exactly how she’s piecing together the mystery. This makes the film a lot more confusing for viewers.

Obviously I’m predisposed to be bias because I am a book fan, and let’s be real, everyone knows the books are always better.

Like any film adaption, it wasn’t just made for the critics but for the fans.

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Miss Peregrine’s young cast exudes talent and potential. In particular, Asa Butterfeild shines among his peers. surprised that it was engaging. While the movie had its own sense of originality, I think it did good by the book and its fans. I also appreciate the diversity of peculiarities. They weren’t just able to fly or have super speed but diverse things like being able to give life to inanimate objects and being made of bees.

However, there were a few plot holes that left me a little lost in the course of the film.

I will excuse this however due to the fact that it is the adaption of the first book of the series and potential sequels could later fill said plot holes.

What stood out the most for me was the cast and the monumental job they

did. Penny Dreadful’s Eva Green plays Miss Peregrine herself and she exceeds the high standards I had for her.

It was such a different light then we see her in as Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful, yet she still seemed in her element. As for Asa Butterfield who plays our protagonist Jake, he managed to maintain his reputation as one of the most talented young actors of our time.

Overall, I found the film to be quite enjoyable and I am highly anticipating the film adaptations of the other books in the series.

It has not been confirmed, but I hope that Burton will be on board for the other films and continue this new lively style.

DUST OFF THE REEL

Sunset Boulevard (1950) by gabi hutson

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

Sunset Boulevard is probably one of the most parodied movies of all times, but does anyone really know what it’s from?

At a time I’m sure they did but now it is a lesser understood reference. I’m sure you have all heard the phrase “I’m ready for my close up” that originates from Sunset Boulevard.

For the film to be so highly mocked, it must be iconic. What makes it so memorable is probably the plot line in general, as well as the grand performance of Gloria Swanson as aging Hollywood starlet Norma Desmond. Trust me when I say Norma is insane.

The acting overall is very dramatic but especially on Swanson’s part. There is one specific scene where

she descends the staircase with a bewildered look in her eye and acts as if she is twenty-something again playing the Queen of the Nile. It gives me chills everytime.

Norma is obsessed with getting her script picked up by a production company and playing the starring role in it. She is fronted with two problems: one, her script is horrendous and two, no one wants to see her on screen anymore.

She goes to great lengths to preserve her career as she practically kidnaps young struggling writer Joe Gillis, played by William Holden.

The film is seen through the eyes of Joe and could somewhat be considered a film noir as he gives an prologue and epilogue at the beginning and end of the film.

FEATURED ARTIST: SENIOR VENESSA DAVIDENKO

Art student displays realism and emotion through drawing

BY SOPHIA COOK

s.cook@eyeofthetigernews.com

How long have you been doing art?

About 12 years, I’m going to an art school, my parents saw one and really wanted to sign me up so they did. And I’ve been going there ever since.

It’s outside of school just to take classes and work on my art.

Do you have a favorite art theme or subject do to?

Yeah I’m really into

animals so I draw a lot of animals. Im definitely into realism, I cannot do anything like abstract. But yeah, right now in Art 3 we have to do themes and my theme is sculpture and emotions that comes from within the pieces that I’m doing, so I’m doing a lot of drawings of sculptures.

What’s your favorite medium to use?

Colored pencil. I feel like I can get the most detail out of them. I did do painting but I haven’t really returned to it.

In art 2 Mrs. Leong had us do a project in colored pencil so after that I was like, ‘oh, I kind of like that,’ so ive been doing that ever since

liked it. My great grandpa on my mom’s side is an artist and my dad’s side of the family, they do a lot of detail work and things like that.

How does art make you feel?

It relaxes me, I feel calm and I feel like it’s a good way to spend time. It’s my hobby.

What impact has art had on your life?

Its helping me pursue a career in art, I wanna go into a career in architecture so it’s helping with that.

Did anything or anyone in particular influence you do art?

I was introduced to it pretty young and I really

Do you have any advice to future artists?

There are no rules in art, there’s no good or bad.

GABI HUTSON EYE OF THE TIGER

Senior Venessa Davidenko follows her passion of art usuing several mediums and taking art classes in and outside of school.

If you enjoy it you should pursue it and get better

and better as you go.

SPORTS

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Tigers 5-1 after loss to Antelope

BY DOMINIC TAYLOR

d.taylor@eyeofthetigernews.com

After the best start Roseville High School varsity football has seen in 10 years, the Tigers took their first loss of the season last Friday night, falling 42-7 to the Antelope Titans. The Tigers, now 2-1 in league, are tied for second place in the Capital Valley Conference with the Cosumnes Oaks Wolfpack.

Both teams marched onto the field on Friday night with 5-0 undefeated records, leading many people to believe that the game would feature a tight matchup.

Instead, the Titans were able to showcase exactly why they have the highest scoring offense in the CVC, which averaged 46 points per game leading up to the clash.

Led by star running back senior Elijah Dotson, the Titans ran through the Tiger defense with ease, scoring six touchdowns while managing to hold the offense to one.

This was a shock to the Tiger attack as, up until Friday, they averaged almost 37 points per game and allowed an average of only 24 per game.

Senior running back Jay Razzano feels that all as-

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A pass slips through the hands of varsity tight end Jimmy Jaggers in the Tigers’ game against the Antelope Titans. Both teams entered the game with 5-0 records but it was the Titans who left undefeated after beating the Tigers 42-7. pects of the team struggled on Friday as opposed to a specific unit.

“Not just one thing went wrong [on Friday] night,” Razzano said. “Our defense let them score 42, which is too much, but our offense only scored seven, which isn’t enough, so it was a full team loss.”

Razzano refuses to let the loss define the team. Instead, he believes that what happens from this point forward will shape their character.

“What defines our team this season is how we bounce back from this loss and how we stick together to work harder with a chip on our shoulder for the rest of our season,” Razzano said. “Our team has tremendous heart and we want this more than anything.”

Senior linebacker Nico Andrada feels that this loss will motivate the boys to recover and improve.

“Our team has grit,” Andrada said. “When something doesn’t go right it

makes us want to work even harder. We have great leaders and players, and I have faith in our team’s ability to bounce back and put up a fight against any other team we may see this season.”

Head coach Larry Cunha still believes in his team’s ability to finish the season strong.

With playoff hopes in mind, he attempted to lift the Tigers’ spirits after Friday’s loss by reminding them that they only

have one tough team left on their schedule: the Whitney Wildcats.

In his opinion the Titans have three strong teams left, meaning that the Tigers could still have a shot at the CVC title.

Despite the loss, the Tigers still had a very impressive string of wins on their journey to last Friday.

They came back from an early 17-0 deficit to defeat Cosumnes Oaks 42-24 two weeks ago, holding the Wolfpack to zero points in the second half.

Many of the boys feel that this was the best moment of the year as this was their first time beating the Wolfpack since entering the CVC. “My proudest moment was beating Cosumnes [Oaks], just because that was the only team in the CVC that we haven’t beat yet, so finally getting a chance to win and beat them was the best feeling,” Andrada said.

The Tigers are set to face off against the 0-6 Bella Vista Broncos this Friday night.

“Our goal is 9-1,” Andrada said. “We have to adapt to our circumstances. We need one more win to seal a playoff spot but right now all we’re focused on is our next game, Bella Vista.”

Polo finishes league, looks toward postseason

BY ELENA BATEMAN AND EMILY WRIGHT sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

With the league finals tournament in sight, the boys water polo team sits in fourth place in the Capital Valley Conference with a record of 3-3. Proving to have been much more consistent than last year’s 1-7 team, this year’s boys are older and more experienced.

Senior Obadiah Stauffer and junior Kyle Gard, two of this year’s captains, both feel that this age difference is one of the factors in the team’s improved perfor-

mance this year.

“Last year we had three or four seniors and this year we have about eight or nine,” Stauffer said. “Overall this year we have a much stronger and mature team because of our ages.”

The Tigers must perform well in the end-of-year league championship tournament to have any hopes of advancing into the postseason.

Gard believes that the team excels on offense but will have to work on communication in order to make it into the postseason.

“We are really good at countering and just mak-

ing good shots,” Gard said.

“Yet we really struggle with communicating in the pool.”

Stauffer is proud of the work that the boys put in and how much they have grown this year.

“We are now getting together as a family more than we ever have,” Stauffer said. “This year we worked much harder in the pool, harder than we ever have before.”

The Tigers’ final game is against the 2-8 Kennedy Cougars, and Stauffer feels confident in the team’s ability to finish the season strong.

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Varsity player senior Ethan Jones looks to pass the ball to one of his teammates. The Tigers have finished league at 3-3 and will have to place well in league finals to advance to the postseason.

Performances of the Week OCT 3 - 9

Girls tennis beats Titans 9-0 for third sweep of season

BY ELENA BATEMAN AND EMILY WRIGHT sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Oct. 3-9 was the varsity girls tennis team’s 9-0 sweep over the Antelope Titans last Thursday. This is the team’s third sweep of the season and the second time that the girls have swept the Titans, meaning that they have not dropped a match against them this year.

Senior Juliette Oliver believes the win was well deserved and became possible because of the girls’ hard work.

“Even though Antelope

is one of the weaker teams in our league, we continued to prepare as much as we could,” Oliver said.

“We practiced really hard in the days leading up to the match so that we would go in strong and get the momentum towards our future matches.”

Oliver believes that this dominant win will serve as momentum to push the team through the rest of the season.

SEPT 26 - OCT 2

Volleyball sweeps Bruins, frosh and JV stay undefeated

BY BLAKE BEAMAN

b.beaman@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Sept.

26-Oct. 2 was girls vol-

leyball’s sweep against the Ponderosa Bruins. The impressive wins boosted varsity to 4-2 in league and kept the JV and freshman teams undefeated at 6-0.

The varsity girls won their game in four sets, losing the first one 25-16 but bouncing back to win the next three 25-21, 25-23 and 25-22.

Going into the game, both the Tigers’ and the Bruins’ JV teams were undefeated. Sophomore hitter Makayla Lira thinks that the team came out slow but picked up its play as the match went on.

“We played really slow in the first set and we were really negative,” Lira said.

“But we realized the importance of the game and started to play better in the second and third sets.”

The freshman team also beat the Bruins in three sets,

maintaining their perfect league record. Freshman defensive specialist Mackenzie Baddley feels that although struggling in the later sets, the girls were able to push through a solid Bruin defense for the win.

“Our energy started to decrease in the second set,” Baddley said. “But we picked it back up in the last set and we were able to come out with a win.”

SEPT 19 - 25

Boys polo crushes Titans 16-5 for second win

BY BEN WELKER

b.welker@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Sept.

19-25 was the varsity boys

water polo team’s 16-5 blowout win over the Antelope Titans.

This marked the boys’ second win in a row and was the second game of their 2-0 start to the league season.

According to junior Peter Edmondson, the Tigers ran their offense very efficiently and effectively which allowed them to achieve an early lead over the Titans.

“We were able to control the game on the offensive end and put the game out of reach quickly,” Edmondson said.

The convincing lead gave everybody on the team a chance to play and excel in an in-game environment.

This, according to captain junior Kyle Gard, was crucial to the boys’ confidence levels at the beginning of the season and has helped them ever since.

Athletic facilities in need of Measure D millions

BY JAMIE BATEMAN

j.bateman@eyeofthetigernews.com

This November, citizens of Placer County will vote on Measure D, a tax bond measure that will raise $96 million for Roseville Joint Union High School District.

RJUHSD has also vowed to give Roseville High School $13 million to put toward facilities if the policy is passed.

If this happens, the money should go solely toward athletic facilities as opposed to being dispersed across other projects on campus.

Plans to devote money toward sporting facilities like the small gym, the football stadium and the pool already exist, but it is possible that money will also be put toward other facilities.

However, there are so many athletic facilities that are in need of improvements that any plans to spend the money on other departments’ facilities should be put off.

I am in complete agreement with the plans to improve the infamous small gym because, frankly, it is an eyesore. The thought of improving its condition has been floating around for years, and I feel that it’s finally time for something to be done about it.

It’s also possible that it will be replaced entirely with a brand new gym, which would be ideal.A new gym would also bring about a new girls locker room, which is another necessary purchase that I am in agreement with.

For years the girls locker room has been hidden underneath the small gym and isn’t quite on the same scale as the boys locker room.

The locker room isn’t just in a bad location; it also doesn’t have a “team room” for athletes like the boys locker room does.

Some people might say that these things aren’t really that big of a deal and that the money should go toward other facilities, like new art buildings and science equipment.

I disagree, as both the art classes and science classes seem to be doing just fine with the state of their current facilities and equipment.

The list of athletic facilities on campus that could use a bit of love and care are endless.

For now, we can start with the small gym and girls locker room but, with that amount of money, the idea that the Capital Valley Conference could be welcoming a new and improved Tiger athletic powerhouse is on the horizon.

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GIRLS POWER ON

All levels of volleyball spike competition

BY BLAKE BEAMAN AND KYLIE IRWIN

sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

The girls volleyball program had an impressive start in the first half of Capital Valley Conference league play. Varsity is 6-2, JV is 7-1 and the freshman team remains undefeated at 8-0. The varsity team is currently tied with the Bella Vista Broncos for second place, while the Whitney Wildcats sit undefeated in first place.

Coach Cindy Simon feels that the team will be able to reach its goal of getting to the finals in playoffs because the Tigers have one of the tallest teams in the league.

The team is led on offense by Washington State University commit senior outside hitter Savanah Smith, who has the most kills (142) and the highest kill per set rate (2.4) on the team, and is anchored on defense by senior middle blocker Isabelle Bautista, who leads the team in blocks with 58.

According to Simon, the team struggled to find the right formation at the start of the season and was in need of a strong, consistent setter.

“Our main focus was to find a setter that could connect and work well with our hitters,” Simon said. “We

were missing a big component of our game and at the beginning of the season we knew that that position was going to be a hard one to fill, and that our hitters were going to have to adjust to a new setter.”

After finally deciding to run a 5-1 formation that revolved around junior setter Jessica Donahue, the girls were able to get into a rhythm.

“We changed our defense and our line up to find the best match for everyone,” Donahue said. “Simon takes our stats and switches up our rotations to see how we can work with each one best, and I think you can tell.”

The JV team has maintained an impressive 7-1 record throughout the first eight games of league with their only loss coming from the Oakmont Vikings.

One of the most pivotal games for the Tigers was their league game against the Ponderosa Bruins. Going into the game, both the Tigers and the Bruins were undefeated in league.

The Tigers came out on top in three sets, winning the third one by a score of 15-9.

Sophomore hitter Makayla Lira thinks it was a very important win for the team and that it has been the biggest game of the season so far.

“It was a good win for us, our team played very well

when we needed to,” Lira said.

The JV team pulled up two freshmen, Shay Lesniewski and Kate Slack, to play with the team this year. Lira thinks they have been a really big part of the team’s success.

“They have been helping out a lot this year,” Lira said. “They’re both very skilled and have been a big part of our team.”

Simon had no doubts in the JV team as the girls went 14-0 as freshmen last year.

She thought they might struggle to find a big hitter for their team due to the loss of sophomore Erin Butler to varsity this year but she feels that Slack was able to step up.

“Slack has done a great job in that position and I really think they will continue to have a successful

season,” Simon said.

The freshman team stands as the only remaining undefeated girls team at Roseville High School this year, boasting an 8-0 record after the first half of league.

Freshman setter Samantha Beaman thinks a big part of the team’s success has been due to the team’s chemistry and hard work.

“We all know each other really well and we’ve bonded throughout the season,” Beaman said. “I think we work harder because we know each other really well and we trust each other.”

Simon thinks that the team is able to succeed due to the amount of girls on the team that have played club volleyball in previous

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The varsity girls come together after a point against the Del Campo Cougars last Wednesday. The Tigers came back after losing the first set to beat the Cougars 3-1 in the match, improving their league record to 6-2. years.

“At the age of 14 they have three or four years of club under their belts, which I feel like really helps at the

freshman level,” Simon said. “From what I’ve seen they’re the most consistent in the league and they’re very mature for their age.”

Golf tied for first in league

BY MEGAN ANDERSON

m.anderson@eyeofthetigernews.com

After 25 consecutive dual-match wins, the varsity girls golf team fell short to the Whitney Wildcats by seven strokes in last Thursday’s match with a score of 224-231.

Nonetheless, the 11-1 Tigers have dominated so far this season and currently share the number one spot in the Capital Valley Conference with the Wildcats.

Led primarily by seniors Kayla Kwong and Abby Hall, the girls stormed their way through the first half of league play undefeated.

However, they still came across a few challenging matchups. After narrowly defeating the Wildcats and the Ponderosa Bruins by four strokes and one stroke, respectively, the girls were excited for what the rest of the season had in store for them.

“When we played Ponderosa, we were adding up scores at the very end and I was in the last group and everyone was sitting there biting their nails because we knew it was going to be a close game,” Hall said.

“Someone said we lost and I just remember the look on our faces was just so upsetting. Then Fukuman added up the scores and we won by one stroke and we started screaming and hugging each other and we were just

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Sophomore varsity captain Shannon Young defends a Ponderosa Bruin attacker in the girls’ 11-9 comeback win last Monday.

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Senior Kayla Kwong hits a tee-shot in the Tigers’ match against the Bella Vista Broncos. The team is 11-1 and tied for first place in the Capital Valley Conference with the Whitney Wildcats. so excited.”

Since then, the girls have lost only one match. Coach Corey Fukuman attributes the team’s success thus far to multiple factors.

“We have a very balanced team this year and every player on our team has been vital to our team success,” Fukuman said.

The Tigers are made up of seven seniors and one junior. According to senior Anna Ostrom, playing together over the course of their high school careers has given the girls the opportunity to grow closer to one another. She attributes some of their success to this chemistry.

“Since we’re all upper-

classmen, it was pretty much just the girls that I had started with when we were all freshman, like Kayla,” Ostrom said. “Then Sydney [Ferre] and Carly [Nicholson] came and they made the whole thing really fun because it was like a clash of two groups and we all became sisters.”

Hall played during her freshman and sophomore years but decided not to play during her junior year.

After hearing that previous team member Delaney Grimes was not returning to the team this year as a senior, Hall chose to return in an effort to fill the gap and help the team.

The girls hope to de-

feat the Bruins for a second time tomorrow afternoon at home at Sierra View Country Club.

Fukuman recognizes the importance of this match in regards to the team’s shot at a consecutive league title and has faith that the girls will be able to come out victorious.

“Our team has been extremely focused and working hard to try and repeat as CVC champions this year,” Fukuman said. “I feel that every girl on our team has improved on their scores from last season and this is probably one of the best girls golf teams we have had at Roseville High School.”

Youth step up to lead polo team

BY KALE JIBSON

k.jibson@eyeofthetigernews.com

The varsity girls water polo team’s season is coming to a close. At 3-3, the team currently sits in fourth place in league and will compete in the league finals tournament to have a shot at the playoffs.

According to coach Paul Stewart, much of the team’s success can be attributed to sophomores Shannon Young and Anne Hoppes; two standout players.

Both combine to average almost five goals per game and are the team’s top two leading scorers, Hoppes having 54 goals and Young with 33.

Young feels that her vision in the pool during games is key to her play.

“I feel like I make a lot of things happen like moving the ball around and seeing things play out,” Young said.

Hoppes is impressed with the team’s progression since last year and feels that this year’s team exhibits much more experienced play.

“I am extremely ecstatic about how far the team has come because last year a lot of times we were losing games and really down for the count and we had players who were just learning the game,” Hoppes said.

In order to advance to the next stage of playoffs, the team must place well in the league finals tournament and Stewart feels confident in the team’s ability to continue on.