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RHS’ maintenance rating drops Campus falls from “exemplary” to “good” for first time in six years

BY CAM MEDRANO

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As the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) for the 2016-17 school year prepares for its release, RHS will receive a “good” rating for campus

maintenance and facility rather than the “exemplary” rating the school has received in past years. The new ratings come as a direct score from the Facility Inspection Tool (FIT) report compiled by RJUHSD custodial supervisor Chris McGuire last April.

In order for a school to receive an “exemplary” rating, they must receive a 99 percent average and possess minimal to no “deficiency” marks. This year, RHS was given a 96 percent rating compared to last

year’s 99 percent. RHS received 25 deficiency marks for electrical systems which led to a drop in the final score.

Information gathered during the facility inspection is placed into 15 categories and condensed into eight separate groups. These groups are represented in the School Accountability Report Card, a state mandated report which focuses on student demographics, facility and school performance. A percentage rating for each cat FIT | Page 2

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Students splash in the shallow end of the flooded area in the 900s parking lot last Thursday. The RHS community has given this area the name “Lake Roseville.”

SHELVING TEXTBOOKS District educators question continued textbook funding, consider alternative materials

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ast school year, RJUHSD spent over $778,000 on various textbooks. They plan on spending over $798,000 this year as the science department begins adopting new curriculum and AP courses update their learning materials and exams.

Legislation from 2004 passed in response to the Williams v. State of California case which mandates that all CA schools provide state standard-aligned instructional materials accessible to every student.

“Because of the Williams Act, we have to be on record of what we’re using,” RJUHSD assistant superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Jess Borjon said. “There has to be some accompanying official resource that the district says ‘This is what we’re using to teach the classes so that we’re in compliance with the Williams Act and we can tell the state of California that every single one of our students have the resources to be successful in that class.”

In the past, compliance with the Williams Act often meant procuring textbooks for each student, but with emerging access to free curriculum that is aligned to state educational standards, instructional materials can come in the form of access to online resources provided by chromebooks.

The district board has long strived toward a “one-to-one” program that would provide each student with a personal learning device and

BY COOPER BADDLEY

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Earth science textbooks from 2003 sit in the storage hallway of the 900s west building. Science teacher John Fuller said he chooses to not use these in his class because they are “old and outdated.”

Borjon believes achieving a “one-to-one” program may be necessary to fulfill the Williams Act’s accessibility requirements.

“As a district we are exploring ways to employ a ‘one-to-one’ approach to student digital devices,” Borjon said in an email. “Until this step is taken we have challenges with the Williams Act.” Although RHS principal David Byrd under-

stands the Williams Act and what it entails, he feels like teachers should turn to alternate sources for learning materials instead of relying on the textbook because of the endless opportunities available online.

“I’m not gonna be dismayed if I’ve got educators that are not using textbook. I mean, I’m almost at a place where I feel like in some  TEXT | Page 3

RJUHSD plans to offer dual enrollment courses

BY DANIELLE BENNETT d.bennett@eyeofthetigernews.com

RJUHSD began the process of offering college courses on campus by incentivizing a “dual enrollment” program at its schools. The district is looking to enter a partnership with Sierra College to begin offering community college curriculum and dual credit to students during school.

The dual enrollment program

Accountibility system to aid school-to-family transparency

would allow students to attend college courses on campus during an otherwise free period certain days of the week. In the future, students may have also opportunities to take dual credit courses that integrate the high school and college curriculum so students can receive credit for both classes.

According to assistant superintendent of curriculum and Instruction Jess Borjon, the district plans to initiate a dual enrolled

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Mark Andreatta lectures to one of his AP Human Geography classes last week. He, and other teachers are considering going back to school to get their master’s.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) course at each school by next year.

“As a district we are always exploring ways to provide students opportunities that promote learning,” Borjon said in an email. “Dual enrollment is a way to expand access to college credit for more students. As an example, CTE courses that usually aren’t considered.”

Rather than earning college credit from the score earned on an AP exam, dual enrollment courses would guarantee students credit at the community college for passing the class.

AP social science teacher Mark Andreatta believes that even without a grade bump, the guaranteed college credit would aid students financially.

“There’s some definite upside to [receiving college credit] in terms of if you could graduate from college early and only pay for three years instead of four,” Andreatta said. “That’s a good thing – better than a grade bump would be.”

Borjon recognizes that students benefit from community college credit if it transfers to the college they attend. However, having taught AP courses in the past, he appreciates the consistent rigor of the AP program, which he believes prepares students for any college.

“One argument I would make on the side of advising students to take an AP class is the level of detail and preparation it has for you in regards to the rigor it’s going to meet in preparing you to be a college student,” Borjon said. “If you take an AP class and you have wishes or aspirations to go to colleges around the country, the AP class might serve you better.”

After previously teaching an AP government class that awarded only one quarter of weighted credit, and now teaching a course that awards two quarters of weighted credit, social science teacher Dana Dooley noticed students have more incentive to take her cur-

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The California Department of Education (CDE) unveiled a new accountability system this school year called the California School Dashboard.

It is currently in a soft launch as it only provides information for certain categories as well as all the grades and information coming from last year’s numbers.

The full updated version is set to release by the end of this month and will include features like updated graduation ranks, a facilities report and a new college and career readiness indicator.

The facilities report will take information directly from the School Accountability Report Card, while other categories will be individually rated.

Each category is rated with a score out of five (five showing the highest performance), displayed as sections of a colored wheel. For now, RHS’ equity report includes Spring 2017 ratings of 4/5 for both Suspension and Graduation Rates, 3/5 for English Learner Progress and no ratings for Chronic Absenteeism and College/Career.

CDE Director of Communications Janet Weeks believes this updated information can help school officials know what needs to change and what is doing well at a school, and ultimately use that information to promote change.

“The hope is for principals and other school leaders to use this data to advocate for any change that might be needed at their school or district,” Weeks said.

Weeks feels that having an online grading service like Dashboard is important for schools to implement as it provides information for parents, students and administrators.

“Dashboard provides unprecedented transparency, this is important because information is power and this data can empower districts to make schools better for all students,” Weeks said.

Principal David Byrd thinks the school reports will be beneficial because it tells him exactly what he needs to improve at the school.

“You get data and information if there is any problems, that’s what to me that school Dashboard is all about. ‘Is there anything broken, is there anything that needs to be fixed,’” Byrd said.

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FIT: Exteriors left out of evalutations critical projects that are continuously examined but may not be completed until egory comes from the funds are allocated. amount of school areas “The FIT is not a long marked as being in “good term planning tool for repair” divided by the total our district,” Knapp said. number of surveyed areas.

“Our long term planning In previous years, direcis our deferred maintetor of Maintenance and Opnance. When we talk about erations Kris Knapp conHVAC systems, when we ducted the report himself. talk about roofs and we talk According to Knapp, the about roofs and asphalt and FIT report is a “snapshot” concrete, those are deferred of a school’s current condimaintenance and long term tions – primarily within the projects which don’t transclassrooms. late well into the FIT re“We go into a room, we port.” evaluate the impact to stuKnapp said the FIT redents, the overall environport may act as a resource to ment and it doesn’t necesprove a site requires funds sarily take into account for maintenance. cracked asphalt and things “[RJUHSD] through the like that,” Knapp said. “It’s FIT report has not qualified just the way the SARC is for any additional funding,” designed – it’s focused on Knapp said. “The opportuthe student learning envinity comes if you can show ronment.” a pattern of need. You can RHS principal David use the FIT Byrd believes I think report as it is impora resource tant that the there’s a lot to justify report is pubof schools requesting lished in order from for schools to that proba- funds the state.” remain transOutside bly wouldn’t parent with the areas such public. put that as school “[The SARC] is state-maninformation parking lots and halldated because out there. ways are I think there’s - Principal David not evalua lot of schools that probably Byrd ated by the Maintewouldn’t put nance and that information out there Operations department, so and you should be required the “Playgrounds/School and held accountable to Grounds” category of the make sure you’re public FIT report is annually left with some sort of assessblank and receives a 100 ment of your school,” Byrd percent rating by default. said.

According to Knapp, this While the SARC or FIT is due to the “cumbersome” report might not discuss nature of the task. any longstanding projects, “It’d be challenging to planning for such is disfit the outside areas into the cussed in terms of “deferred FIT report.” Knapp said. maintenance.”

Deferred “If we try to evaluate the maintenance includes non-

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outside because it’s not a standalone building with it’s own surrounding environment it would be difficult to even know where to begin or end.”

Knapp does not expect to issue a report regarding exterior surfaces nor does he believe it is necessary to do so.

“No one has requested one,” Knapp said. “We constantly evaluate our facilities and walk grounds and maintain our grounds to the best of our ability… no one has ever requested a specific report so we haven’t determined an outline or a structure.”

“Pest/Vermin Infestation” is one of the fifteen categories into which the FIT is divided. At the end of last school year, math teacher David Ray experienced a bird mite infestation in his classroom. As a result, Ray and his students relocated to a portable classroom across campus to finish out the school year.

“This happened one time before about ten years ago, the exact same scenario.”

Ray said. “I love the room

NEWSINBRIEFS District firewall causes Google app issues

BY SINO OULAD DAOUD

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RHS experienced a service outage that hindered the use of Google applications for students and staff since it began appering last Thursday.

According to RJUHSD director of Technology Services Tony Ham, the likely source of the problem shifted from Google to the district firewall.

“It initially cropped up in a very brief manner a few weeks ago and led us to believe that it was an issue on Google’s side,” Ham said.

“We think that it’s possibly on our end and have at this point been actively working on it and have narrowed it down to more-than-likely being our firewall.”

Ham said the issues are “completely unrelated” to changes to the content filter

that include a new authentication login before accessing RHS’ Wi-Fi. According to Ham, the intermittence of service outages make solving the problem challenging.

“We are actively working on solving the issue.

I couldn’t say whether or not the changes we’ve made have for-sure fixed the problem because today [Nov. 6] they’ve been intermittent,” Ham said. “When troubleshooting these issues, especially when they’re intermittent, it can be exceedingly difficult so sometimes it does just take a little bit of time.”

Colleagues vote Ash Teacher of the Year

BY KAIA WHITNEY

k.whitney@eyeofthetigernews.com

Principal David Byrd announced culinary and hos-

pitality management teacher Angela Ash as Teacher of the Year in an email early last week.

Ash felt that this title not only honored her, but honored all of the other Career and Technical Education teachers as well.

“This is life, and this is something that every one of [our] kids will benefit from,” Ash said. “It was a big thumbs up to what we are doing.”

Senior culinary student Joseph Tonas was very excited to hear about Ash’s nomination.

“I think that Mrs. Ash is a very sweet lady. She treats her students very well and does a very good job,” Tonas said. “She is an awesome teacher because she is very considerate and cares a lot about us, and I feel that she does deserve Teacher of the Year.”

With this, Ash now moves up as a finalist for the Roseville Joint Union High School District Teacher of the Year.

Above, students eat in Senior Square. Below, students walk to their next class during passing period. Both areas were not evaluated on the report.

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that I teach in but one of the because it’s important if a quirks about it is it has the school has an infestation. perfect little eaves for birds Everyone should know to nest in.” about it,” Mays said. “It None of the rooms evalushouldn’t just be left out.” ated in the 2017 FIT report On the other hand, Ray were marked for deficienthinks that this specific cies under Pest/Vermin event is not considerable Infestation. According to enough to display in a reRay, the bird mite infestaport. tions that have occurred in “It didn’t his classroom seem so No one discourage him cataclysfrom believing mic to me has ever in the FIT rethat this port’s accuracy. should requested “I’m not inbe advera specific formed enough tised or to say whether report so we we need to its exemplary or make sure haven’t not exemplary that this is but based on determined documentthis example I ed in a an outline. can’t give it five big formal stars,” Ray said.

- Director of way,” Ray Sophomore M&O Kris said.

Austin Mays Senior Knapp was in the classKevria room when Shill has students were told to also expetransfer into one of the rienced maintenance issues portables. Although the inat RHS. festation occurred after last “There’s a lot of cockyear’s inspection, Mays beroaches and that’s really lieves there should be a way gross.” Shill said. “It’s kind to document the bird mite of upsetting when you’re problem publicly. sitting in a class and you “I think that [infestations] see a cockroach by your should be put in the report foot.”

UPCOMINGEVENTS Workshop NOV TheCCCCCNavy will hold an informeeting about 14 mational Navy careers at lunch.

NOV 13 - 17 NOV 16-18

Clash of Classes Week Students will dress up to support their class throughout the week.

Almost, Maine Showings at 7 pm on Nov. 16 and 17, 2 and 7 pm on Nov. 18.

Toys for Tots NOV This Friday is the deadline to turn in toys to Student 17 Government in RM 606.

NOV 20-24

No school Thanksgiving break.

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courses and in some cases, you shouldn’t use a textbook,” Byrd said. “There’s so much more that you can do without a textbook.”

The Williams Act is designed to prevent schools from disregarding students’ needs, but according to Borjon it can also prevent the necessary flexibility of a modern classroom. He recognizes this problem as something that needs to be addressed through teacher requests.

“The district is not coming across as ‘not wanting to go that direction.’ The process has been really teacher dominant in terms of how we go about picking our textbook resources.”

Borjon said that while the Williams Act compels the district to purchase textbooks adopted for a course, teachers determine the reality of the textbooks’ use.

“When we say ‘we’re going to adopt [a textbook] for math,’ we’re now legally obligated to furnish a book for every single student in that class,” Borjon said. “To the degree that the teacher uses that book is up to the teacher.”

PLTW engineering and Earth science teacher

John Fuller believes textbooks lag behind other more modern instructional materials.

“With all the things out there these days though, I mean, for a teacher to rely too heavily on a textbook I think is a bit outdated and antiquated because with technology out there, there’s just so many better ways to learn,” Fuller said.

According to Borjon, the slower modernization of the textbook industry plays a major role in preventing the district from transitioning away from traditional books.

“The industry itself [sets] the rules… We just kind of have to live in their world,” Borjon said.

“If we’re answering the question of ‘how do we modernize education’... the textbook industry themselves have not fully transitioned into the market that we’re playing in.”

According to English teacher Scott Brink, CP English 9 only uses textbooks at the beginning of the term due to their age.

Brink added that the literary content covered using the textbooks may also be printed from the Internet.

“Part of the reason for the lack of use of textbooks is that the Holt curriculum

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Old and new textbooks pile together among various objects. Teachers refuse to use outdated textbooks, but the district won’t replenish books for classes that don’t make use of them.

that we have was adopted in the early 2000s, so it’s pretty old and outdated at this point,” Brink said. “We could probably find them online and print a version of them.”

AP Art History teacher Patricia Leong received a new class set of textbooks this year. Leong prefers the textbook’s content to some open-source online content and believes the books bring students closer to a college experience.

“I like that they have

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United States history and world history textbooks sit underneath desks in Jennifer Birch’s U.S. History class.

the textbook… because sometimes the articles that we get online aren’t as in-depth as this textbook is, and this is a textbook that most major universities use,” Leong said. “It’s something that if they were to go on into college they would be familiar with already.”

While free digital content could save the district money, simply switching to digital versions of the textbooks currently used in the district would have very little impact. According to Borjon, although switching to online textbooks seems convenient, the costs for instructional materials would not actually change.

“It’s more complex than most people realize,” Borjon said after his team investigated how much it would actually cost to implement non-traditional online sources. “There have almost been no savings in digital publishings.”

Byrd believes continued spending on curricular resources is justified.

“At the end of the day, the information is what’s valuable,” Byrd said.

Opting open-source online materials would

save the district money, but at the risk of distributing invalid information to students.

“I think in order for us to really save money in the district going the digital route, we need to explore what open-source materials [are] like,” Borjon said. “I have to add some caution about the validity of the source.”

Byrd believes the district school board could still approve of and incorporate open-source materials into classrooms regardless of the risk.

“I would like to think we can figure that out,” Byrd said. “I would like to think that we can get a pretty good read on what is the approved academic educational resource that are gonna make the most sense connected to a curriculum.”

Fuller uses the textbook in his CP Earth Science class by assigning occasional homework that comes directly out of the issued textbooks. He believes online resources and physical textbooks go together, since if one fails to provide information, the other can easily be accessed in order to help give

the student a better understanding of the content.

“For students that don’t necessarily have online access, you could always resort back to the traditional textbook,” Fuller said.

Even as he uses these resources, Fuller worries that the instructional material may never get updated, as the Earth science textbooks he uses to teach class date back to 2003.

“The books we have been using are so old and outdated. They definitely need to be updated,” Fuller said. “I don’t think any textbook companies have actually released any specific textbooks that accommodate the new standard.”

Byrd said he would not have anticipated the current continued use of textbooks, referring back to the early 2000s when textbooks began to come with digital CD-ROM copies.

“If I had to bet back in 2002 we would have textbooks in 2017, I would have bet you we wouldn’t,” Byrd said. “I’m surprised we still haven’t quite got there. We’re slow to get this done, but I think it’s coming. I think it’s coming fast.”

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rent course.

“It definitely makes an impact to have that weighted incentive – not to say that students are only taking courses for the weight, but if you are putting forth the hard work and effort to a college level course, whether that be an AP course or these dual enrollment opportunities, you ought to be recognized for that with the weighted credit,” Dooley said.

In order to teach a dualenrollment course, teachers must have a master’s degree in the course curriculum. To increase the number of eligible teachers, the RJUHSD Board of Trustees offered teachers a $5000 stipend for getting their master’s degree.

Andreatta believes the stipend is a good incentive for new teachers or ones who already planned to attain their degree – including himself.

“I would encourage any new teachers to jump right onto it,” Andreatta said.

“I’m thinking about probably going after a master’s in psychology. I was actually thinking about that before, but this would spur me on.”

AP social science teach-

er Jessica Fork plans to get her master’s to partake in the program, but predicts it will be difficult to balance her education and career.

“I’m taking a big step,” Fork said. “I’m going to be teaching classes all day, taking classes at night, making time for my family, finding time for my family, so I’m juggling lots of different things.”

RHS principal David Byrd acknowledged that time constraints and cost can make getting a master’s degree difficult, but that going back to school would ultimately benefit any educator.

“Any time anyone learns more about what it is they’re doing for a living, as a result of that they will be better at it – have new ideas, have new understanding of content, have new ways of teaching and reaching kids,” Byrd said.

Dooley, who mastered in sociology and experienced teaching college curriculum at UC Davis, looks forward to the program as an opportunity integrate the college material into these new courses.

“This would not so much change my teaching per-se, but it would mean that I could get more creative with my assessments,” Dooley said.

“Having previously taught college, I could bring in some of my actual college assessments I used with my students which would then even further prepare my students for real college.”

Senior Chloe Lavalleur has taken both AP and community college courses, and prefers college curriculum due to the experience that comes with attending a community college.

“I probably would’ve chosen the college course over an AP, just because the college courses that I have taken were much more comprehensive and I feel like I’ve learned a lot more, especially from the social atmosphere,” Lavalleur said. “When I took courses at Sierra I got to interact with college students who were already working towards majors and out in the real world. Here it’s kind of like a bubble.”

Senior Ashley Blake believes that, while courses on campus would not provide the social atmosphere, they would alleviate some of the challenges with attending community college courses.

“I actually like that idea because when I went to Sierra I had to pay for my classes – I had to pay for the textbook, I had to pay

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Students work in AP Human Geography. They may earn college credit for a good score on the AP exam, but would not need to take an exam to earn the credit in a dual enrollment or dual credit course.

for the class itself,” Blake said. “I think that would really be suitable for those who don’t want to commute or pay for classes.”

Students still have the opportunity to earn college credit for a high school course without taking an AP exam. As of this year, students in Kevin Fagan’s CTE WORKS AP Computer Science A course can receive CSU credit in addition to high school credit for passing the class.

CSU Sacramento accepted Fagan’s proposal that the curriculum aligns with its Programming Concepts and Methodologies 1

course (CSC 15).

“I don’t have to [teach the course differently] since essentially I said ‘here’s the stuff we teach. We think it matches the CSC 15’ and they said ‘yes it does and your students could participate in this program if they want to,’” said Fagan.

Senior Kendall Sparks found the possibility of college credit motivates her to do well in the course.

“I was honestly pretty excited [when I found out],” Sparks said. “I know that I’m going to push myself to do well enough to get the college credit, so to know thats something

to strive for versus taking the AP test is a really good positive.”

Byrd encourages teachers to get their master’s degree to provide students more opportunities for college credit and open doors for teachers.

“I want this for our kids,” Byrd said. “I want them to have the dualenrollment, dual-credit scenario and if we’ve got teachers who accomplish this, those are the people I’m going to be sitting down and say ‘hey, I want you to take over this particular instructional course.”

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NOTICIAS La administracion de RHS mejora el estado de aprendizaje POR CAM MEDRANO

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Como se prepara para lanzar el tarjeta de reporte de responsabilidad escolar (SARC) del año escolar 2016-17, RHS recibirá una calificación “buena” para mantenimiento del campus y la facilidad en vez de la clasificación “ejemplar” que la escuela ha recibido en el pasado. Las clasificaciones nuevas vienen como una puntuación perfecta del reporte del Facility Inspection Tool (FIT), compilado

por supervisor de custodia de RJUHSD Chris McGuire en el abril pasado.

Para recibir una calificación “ejemplar”, la escuela necesita recibir un promedio de 99 por ciento y tener las menos marcas de deficiencia posibles.

Este año, se le dio una puntuación de 96 por ciento a RHS comparado al 99 por ciento del año pasado. RHS recibió 25 marcas de deficiencia para sus sistemas eléctricos, causando una caída en la puntuación final.

Se pone la información coleccionada durante la inspección de la facilidad en 15 categorías y ocho grupos separados y conden-

sados. Estos grupos son representados en el reporte de responsabilidad escolar (SARC), un reporte mandado por el estado que se enfoca en demografía estudiantil, la facilidad, y rendimiento estudiantil. Una calificación de rendimiento para cada categoría viene de la cantidad de áreas escolares marcado como estar en “buena reparación” divididas por el número total de áreas evaluadas.

En años anteriores, Dirigidor de Mantenimiento y Operaciones Kris Knapp hizo el reporte. Según Knapp, el reporte FIT representa las condiciones actuales de la escuela- prin-

cipalmente dentro de las aulas.

“Entramos una aula, evaluamos el impacto en estudiantes, el ambiente total y no considera asfalto agrietado y cosas asi,” Knapp dijo.

“Simplemente es el diseño del SARC- es enfocado en el ambiente estudiantil.”

Principal de RHS David Byrd cree que es importante que el reporte sea publicado para que las escuelas se queden transparentes al público.

“El [SARC] es mandado por el estado porque creo que hay muchas escuela que no publicarían información y debes ser requerido y obligado a asegurar que la

pero ahora el capítulo cuatro de la clase es dedicado a patrocinar a los huérfanos en Liberia.

Children of Compassion es una organización sin fines de lucro en la cual la meta central es eliminar la pobreza en las vidas de los niños alrededor del mundo.

Se enteró Worden de la organización por la principal asistente Anna Marie Clark, quien conocía el co-fundador de la organización David Dionisi.

Después de enterarse de que el trabajo caridad puede ser entrelazado con el trabajo de la escuela, para mejorar la compasión de los estudiantes y su conocimiento de otras personas, Worden decidió intentarlo.

Ella espera que esta unidad ayude enseñar a los estudiantes mucho de la justicia social, algo que ella cree que es una parte vital a la educación de los estudiantes.

“Ellos aprenden de la compasión y la empatía por el plan de estudios, algo que las escuelas realmente necesitan hacer. No solo son los patrones de educación, pero también la enseñanza del carácter,” Worden dijo.

Liberia fue elegido como el sujeto del apoyo porque no hay muchos médicos dentro del país. Según Dionisi, solo hay 153 médicos en Liberia por cuidar a una población de 4,8 millones de personas, una causa de muchas muertes cada día.

Los estudiantes en la clase de Worden actualmente trabajan a recaudar fondos para los huérfanos en Liberia. Estuvieron dado la oportunidad de participar en recaudaciones de fondos, de hacer su propio sitio web para coleccionar donaciones para los niños y de comunicar por Skype con los niños que ayudan.

“Estoy emocionado por la combinación del plan de estudios, la recaudación de fondos y también poder trabajar con alguien como David Dionisi, quien es cultísimo y trae tanta información,” Worden dijo.

Después de trabajar en África durante la crisis del virus del Ébola y ver los impactos negativos que

Cunha siente que la recaudación de fondos hecho por el equipo varsity de fútbol americano es una necesidad porque el dinero provisto por la escuela no es suficiente para mantener el programa efectivamente.

“El dinero provisto por la escuela simplemente no es suficiente,” Cunha dijo.

“Cada año gastamos dinero en cosas como cascos, protectores, acceso a HUDL, y cámaras y la escuela nos provide el mínimo.”

A cause de la falta de dinero de gasto disponible para extracurriculares, el programa de futbol americano, en específico, acepta donaciones de 22 empresas locales además de coleccionar fondos. Bunz and Company, un restaurante de nativo de Roseville y campeón de Super Bowl Dan Bunz. Cada año, Bunz dona dinero al programa de fútbol americano. Bunz está orgulloso de su linaje Roseville y más que feliz de donar al equipo.

Su historia con el program no es la única cosa que lo anima donar porque también sabe que apoyar el equipo local puede beneficiar su empresa.

“Muchos clientes que vienen aquí son fans de Roseville o tienen hijos que

asisten a la escuela, por eso cuando ven que los apoyamos, estan feliz,” Bunz dijo.

“También sabemos que les gusta a muchos estudiantes venir aquí, sabiendo que es una empresa local y puede ser muy bueno para la empresa.”

Mientras mucho dinero es ganado por donaciones de empresas locales, donaciones de las familias de los jugadores ayudan el equipo también. Missy Baker, una madre de dos jugadores varsity, también se graduó de Roseville High School y asiste cada cada evento por el programa de fútbol americano. Ella aún dona dinero sí misma.

Según Baker, no solo está inclinada a donar a causa de la participación de sus hijos en el deporte; ella y su esposo, RHS exalumno Rick Baker, sienten mucho orgullo de la escuela y el programa.

“Creo que una gran parte, porque los dos de nuestros hijos juegan en el equipo pero definitivamente no es la única razón,” Baker dijo. “Hemos estado aquí por toda nuestras vidas y cualquiera oportunidad de apoyar la escuela que tengamos, y el equipo de fútbol americano en particular, nos gusta hacer lo que po-

evaluación de tu escuela sea público,” Byrd dijo.

Mientras es posible que los reportes SARC o FIT no discutan proyectos largos, planear para ellos es discutido en términos de “mantenimiento aplazado”.

Mantenimiento aplazado incluye proyectos no críticos que continuamente son examinados pero posiblemente no completados hasta que los fondos sean asignados.

“El FIT no es una técnica de planificación larga para nuestro distrito,” Knapp said. “Nuestra planificación larga es nuestro mantenimiento aplazado. Cuando hablamos de los sistemas

HVAC, cuando hablamos de los techos y hablamos de los techos y asfalto y concreto, esos son mantenimiento y proyectos aplazados que no caben en el reporte FIT.” Según Knapp, el reporte FIT puede actuar como un recurso para probar que el sitio requiere fondos para mantenimiento. “[RJUHSD]... a través del reporte FIT no ha calificado por fondos adicionales,” Knapp dijo. “La oportunidad viene si se puede demostrar un patrón de necesidad. Se puede usar el reporte FIT como un recurso para justificar pedir fondos del estado.”

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Roseville High School es la primera implementación de la solución que la organización Children of Compassion tiene para conectar los estudiantes en los Estados Unidos a los de África.

Profesora de inglés KC Worden ha decidido alejar de la rutina original de la clase para cooperar con esta organización nueva. Los estudiantes de Worden generalmente aprendería de las obras de teatro de Shakespeare a este momento,

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Los estudiantes en la clase de ingles de Worden aprenden de la pobreza y sufrimiento de los estudiantes en Liberia. Worden ha podido implementar esta unidad bien y espera impactar a ambos grupos de estudiantes.

el DISEASE infligió en los niños, Dionisi decidió que ahora es el tiempo de iniciar el cambio.

“Si no intervenimos para

ayudarlos, es probable que sigan un camino de crimen o un camino de mucho sufrimiento, y el llave es la educación,” Dionisi dijo.

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j.bateman@eyeofthetigernews.com

En los últimos cuatro años, el equipo de fútbol americano varsity ha comprado por lo menos un camiseta nueva cada temporada. Este es un contraste grande con otros programas como waterpolo, donde los jugadores varsity usan ropa usada.

Sin embargo, esto no es debido al inequidad de fondos de la escuela o aun relatado al dinero coleccionado de espectadores.

Según directora atlética Emily Dodds, la escuela provide la misma cantidad de dinero para todos los deportes. Pero deportes más prominentes como futbol americano, beisbol, basquetbol, y futbol tienen más éxito con la recaudación de fondos dentro de la comunidad.

En el curso del año escolar, el programa del fútbol americano ofrece de hasta cinco eventos de recaudación de fondos, como torneos de golf y cenas ofrecidas por el equipo.

Entrenador principal de fútbol americano Larry

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Obra de otoño

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La prominencia y publicidad que los equipos de futbol americano tiene en el campus y en la comunidad ha causado un aumento de fondos dirigidos a estos equipos que otros deportes no reciben.

damos.”

Mientras las donaciones de padres y patrocinador ayudan, recaudación de fondos es el modo más exitoso con que el equipo puede ganar dinero. Si puede ser más fácil para el programa del fútbol americano a causa de su prominencia y publicidad que tiene en el campus y la comunidad, programas menos conocidos como los de fútbol y waterpolo no tienen el mismo acceso.

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Polo Paul Stewart ha notado una discrepancia entre los dos deportes que entrena.

“Definitivamente es notable cuando ves cada equipo, y principle a causa de cuánto les importa a los estudiantes,” Stewart dijo. “Les importa a algunos mucho vender cosas y a otros, no.”

Mientras Stewart se da cuenta de que algunos equipos más pequeños no tienen el mismo nivel de éxito que tienen los programas

más grandes, reconoce que algunos programas tienen más necesidades que otros.

“Para el fútbol, todo que necesitamos es camisetas nuevos y redes para metas,” Stewart dijo. “Otros equipos necesitan protectorados, cascos, y otras cosas extras. Creo que es bueno que puedan ganar el dinero que ganan, porque tienden a ganar lo más dinero para la escuela y todos nosotros podemos beneficiar cuando la escuela gana dinero.”

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Worden’s class partners with national charity

BY KAIA WHITNEY

k.whitney@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School’s recent work with the charity organization Children of Compassion connected students in the United States with students in Africa.

English teacher KC Worden decided to stray away from the original class agenda in order to help cooperate with this new program. While students in her class would normally be learning about the works of William Shakespeare, unit four of the class is now dedicated to sponsoring orphaned and disabled children in Liberia.

Children of Compassion is a non-profit organization, whose main goal is to release children from poverty all around the world.

Warden found out about this organization through assistant principal Anna Marie Clark, who knew executive director and co-founder of the organization, David Dionisi.

“We talk about our students being global citizens, we have a number of teachers on our campus who do global citizenship projects, and we really promote that idea,” Clark said.“This [program] seemed like it aligned with that idea of global citizenship and provided students with a simple thing to do to make a difference.”

After finding out that charity work can be inter-

twined into schoolwork, to improve students’ compassion and overall awareness of others, Worden decided to give it a try. She hoped that this unit helps teach students all about social justice, which she believed is a very crucial factor in student education.

“They are learning to deal with compassion and empathy through the curriculum,” Worden said.

“It’s not just standards, but also character education.”

Liberia was chosen as the focus of the support due to the extremely low rate of doctors within the country.

Students in Worden’s class worked hard to raise money. They were given the opportunity to participate in fundraisers, make their own website to collect donations, and skype the children for whom they were raising money.

“I am really excited for the marriage of curriculum, fundraising, and also getting to work with someone like David Dionisi, who’s so knowledgable and bringing in so much information,” Worden said.

Dionisi focused on having students connect common core standards to the required education principles through the process of sponsoring others.

After working in Africa during the Ebola crisis and seeing the negative impacts that the disease had on all the children, Dionisi decided that it was time to

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Above, students videochat with children in Liberia. Right, students participating in the fundraising walked RHS’ track in order to “place themselves in the [children’s] shoes.”

make a change.

“If we don’t step in and help them, they are much more likely to go down a path of crime, or a path of a lot of suffering, and the key is education,” Dionisi said.

This new form of education involves teaching students about social justice, and informs them of the current circumstances certain individuals, such as those in Liberia, are facing. Dionisi believes using charity work in common classes will help develop student character without neglecting the skills that the classes originally teach.

One portion of the fundraiser that the students conducted involved having to carry large buckets of

water around the track for a mile. They did this in an attempt to step into the shoes of Liberian children, who must normally walk large distances to access water for their families.

Sophomore Zarah Welker, a student in Worden’s class, felt that this experience was very valuable.

“I learned to be really grateful for what I have, because if you look at pictures of [the Liberian orphans], you’re like, ‘wow that’s crazy’. I could never picture myself in that situation, and it just makes you more thankful,” Welker said.

The students have already made an impact.

An estimate of $8,000 has

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been raised so far.

With the money raised, the students have already been able to get wheelchairs for five Liberian children who previously didn’t have access to them.

They were also able to care for a young boy on his deathbed, who had burns covering half of his body, water kits for purification and clean drinking water, and food for a disabled community that was sur-

viving on very little.

“I really appreciate that [Children of Compassion] actually gave all the [proceeds] to the kids,” Welker said.

The Children of Compassion founders hope to extend this program to schools nationwide in hopes of one day giving every orphaned or disabled child in Africa the opportunity to go to school and improve their average.

Global, family experiences shape freshman

BY NICOLE KHUDYAKOV

n.khudyakov@eyeofthetigernews.com

Many tourists deem their visits to foreign countries memorable, once in a lifetime experiences, but freshman Megan Bischof has an intimate familiarity with globetrotting.

Bischofs’ father, Daniel Bischof, is a vice embassador for the United States in the small country of Timor-Leste - also known as East Timor.

His initial status as a foreign service officer, and later a district mission manager lead Megan to live in multiple foreign countries growing up, along with the rest of her family.

“He wanted to travel and he grew up in one town his whole life,” Megan said. “He just wanted to go out and see things.”

Less than a year after her birth, Megan was whisked off to Seoul, South Korea. There, she and her family lived on a military base for several years.

According to Megan, life on a military base was closed off and much more isolated, which made it difficult to understand the culture of the country around her.

“It was hard to get out and experience stuff,” Megan said. “The second you leave the military base, it’s so hectic.”

Following a stint back in DC, Megan and her family moved to Laos.

COURTESY MEGAN BISCHOF

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According to Megan’s mother, Dana Bischof, moving was both a nervewracking and exhausting endeavor. No matter where the family was headed next, the experience remained a difficult feat.

“It’s stressful, but it’s also really exciting to be able to experience a new place,” Dana said. “ There are downsides of course.

It’s hard to make friends [and it is] especially hard to make friends quickly.”

Megan’s sister, Madison Bischof, agreed with the sentiment that certain parts of moving to each new country were made especially difficult by any previous ties they may have had.

“Hav[ing] to leave all those friends you just made is heartbreaking,” Madison said.

Settling in was also no easy task, as it required attempts to get to know the culture, in order to not be caught completely offguard.

Developing a regular routine was a key method employed by the family, in order to settle in.

“Sometimes, you really love it and sometimes you’re counting the days until you can leave,” Dana said.

As the youngest of three siblings, Megan was in good company no matter where she and her family were headed. Her siblings’

presence mitigated much of the loneliness she would have otherwise experienced.

Madison Bischof found that traveling with her siblings led to a stronger bond and appreciated their positive influence.

“I really think it strengthened the relationship between me and my siblings,” Madison said.

“The only thing that stayed the same was our family.”

Megan treasured the close relationship she was able to form with her siblings due to their unusual circumstances.

“My siblings were there with me a lot of the way [and] it made it easier to know we had each other,”

Left, freshman Megan BIschof sits in her English class. Above, she poses for a photo in her classroom in Laos, where she lived in 2008.

Megan said.

After living in Laos, Megan once again moved back to DC for another two years.

She found that moving back to the United States and adjusting to life there was very difficult, because she wasn’t well-versed in American history and was unfamiliar with much of the culture.

“It’s the hardest thing about being a third culture kid,” Dana said.

After DC, Megan and her family moved to the Philippines for about three years. She greatly enjoyed the Philippines’ beauty and her time in the capital.

Megan was able to make many fond memories in

this time.

“It was the best years of my life, in the Philippines,” Megan said. “[The] most beautiful place I’ve ever seen, I have to say.”

The family’s next move brought them back to the United States, more specifically, to Washington DC. They continued living in DC for a few years and moved to California a year ago, as many of Dana’s relatives live in-state.

“It’s really relaxed [in California],” Megan said.

“I’m used to living in big cities.”

According to Megan, her father most likely plans on staying in East Timor for another two to three years.

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Senior designs Afghan jewelry

BY WILL WAGNER

w.wagner@eyeofthetigernews.com

While most highschoolers have humble beginnings as employees, often starting with jobs within the food or retail industry, senior Ofsana Popal’s first job working with and designing jewelry goes significantly against the grain.

Popal began working with Noor Jewelry, a jewelry store based out of Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2015.

When Popal lived in Afghanistan, she would watch the way the store operated and found herself fascinated by the process.

“I knew the people who started the company and I was interested in jewelry, so I would visit often and see some of the stuff, and how the whole thing took place,” Popal said. “I just really wanted to be a part of it somehow.”

Noor jewelry has a second store located in Sacramento, which is where Popal works and designs custom pieces of jewelry.

“I design templates for the jewelry and how specific pieces look,” Popal said.

Unwilling to forget its roots, Noor Jewelry also has a program that helps Afghan women in need.

“They help finance women in Afghanistan who struggle,” Popal said.

“They [are often] women who are uneducated, due to issues over there in the country and they don’t have financial help the way some [widows or women with children might]. ” The program is simply

Senior Trinity Plummer spends her days working at her job and stressing out about school. Luckily, to help the stress, Plummer enrolled in the drama class this year for the first time and found sanctuary. The class changed Plummer’s perspective about the school and the students she sees everyday.

The program creates a personal bond between students, giving a comfortable setting for the students to practice their work. This spiked Plummer’s interest and she now aspires to be in an RHS Drama Production.

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COURTESY OFSANA POPAL

Above, senior Ofsana Popal takes a selfie displaying jewelry she personally designs and crafts. Below, a map shows where her artisan jewelry is sold in Afghanistan and Sacramento through company Noor Jewelry.

called “Noor” and it helps women gain an education.

“Noor means light and there is a saying, ‘education is light’ because you are given knowledge that kind of guides you,” Popal said. “So within that program with every jewelry piece, there is a big contribution that goes out to women that need financial help to fund their education.”

Popal has always loved traditional jewelry and has had an eye for it her entire life.

“All the pieces are traditional, and me being Afghan, I have always loved traditional jewelry,” Popal said.

Senior Zaniya Jones, a friend of Popal’s, believes that this is a good experience for Popal.

“I think it is awesome.

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“In my free time I like to hang out with friends, but nowadays school is my main priority, especially my drama class.

She is in high school and she is designing jewelry for her and us girls,” Jones said.

Popal also designs her own pieces and shows them off on a personal Instagram.

“I design my jewelry in templates and some of my friends at the company create the jewelry and then send me samples,” Popal said. “If I don’t like them, I actually change up what

BSU enters mentorship program

BY JASMINE LUNAR

j.lunar@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School’s Black Student Union recently expanded their access to a nation-wide level by introducing a new mentorship opportunity.

BSU adviser Keshila Jones developed the idea initially to create a mentorship program for RHS students. She later found herself with the opportunity to bring the idea to life after reaching out to the Kappa Leadership league, an organization with members scattered nation-wide.

Kappa Alpha Psi, a nearby fraternity associated with the League, gave Jones the chance she needed and allowed her to successfully collaborate with the fraternity.

“Kappa Alpha League or Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity have been working with the Roseville Joint Union High School District for the past five years.

They were working over at Woodcreek and then Mr. Borjon of the district office contacted me,” Jones said. “I had wanted to start a mentorship program for students and the leader of the group contacted me and we started going from there.”

The Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, a nationally known African-American Fraternity, focuses on and encourages black male youths to achieve higher goals by mentoring them in certain skills and exposing them to experiences they otherwise might not have had.

They meet every

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COURTESY CAITLIN TRAN

A local Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity member speaks to Black Student Union members at a meeting held at Roseville High School.

Saturday, their first meeting having taken place at Woodcreek High School, where a majority of their members were located.

Due to the recent integration of the fraternity and BSU, future meetings will be held at RHS. Any student can join the Fraternity as they please.

Senior Michael Speights attended the first meeting, where, according to him, experienced leaders introduced varied college and career choices available to the young men, such as going into the military or becoming a doctor.

“It was cool seeing people in the community and what their careers are,” Speights said. “I’m looking for what to do in college and I think it’s [an effective ] way to look.”

He believes the closeknit atmosphere of the community made the experience personal.

“As opposed to a teacher who has to talk to 30 students, it’s one on one with people who have done a lot of things in their life, and you kinda get to

gain knowledge from that,” Speights said.

Junior Caitlin Tran attended the event to take pictures, and although not directly participating, had a positive take away.

“It was kind of like we are going to build a club so you can have people to rely on and you can build these connections with people,” Tran said. “I thought it was really positive and I thought they were really good people for doing that and seeking out certain groups of people because they didn’t have those people growing up.”

Jones is looking for more recruits who would be able to learn from their participation in the mentorship program.

“It teaches students how to be great young men, to grow them into leaders, so they take them on college tours and have adult conversations with them,” Jones said. “Students need role models that look like them so they can relate to them and get that guidance from someone they might not normally get that guidance from.”

I want or alter it. I can add new gems, for example, into it and I can send it back — or just send in another template after it has been changed.”

Popal’s friend, senior Teigen Wagner, is happy for Popal’s success and is a large fan of the jewelry she creates.

“I think that it is good for her,” Wagner said. “I really like her style.”

I just joined the class this year and I’m really starting to like it. I wasn’t expecting a lot out of the class, but I’m learning a whole lot about theatre, and the history of it, and I’m making a lot of new friends.

The class is a different experience than what I have had in previous classes. It’s more of a personal class, everyone aims to get comfortable with each other and it’s really cool connecting with the other students in class. Nothing you would experience in any academic classroom.”

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FIT Report offers misleading snapshot R

HS’ latest maintenance overview determines overall, the campus is in “good” shape. This is incongruent with a tradition of “exemplary” ratings from years past that competed with many students’ daily realities.

The Facility Inspection Tool (FIT) has been developed to determine if a school facility is in “good repair” as defined by the CA Education Code. The 2016-17 report will be copied to CDE’s new accountability system Dashboard for public viewing in 2018.

The report — while lawfully conducted — fails to encompass many of RHS’ exterior faults.

The report includes evaluations of 111 RHS facilities. No exterior spaces were surveyed due to the “complex” layout of the campus and a district focus on learning environments, according to RJUHSD director of maintenance and operations Kris Knapp.

However, FIT dedicates an entire category within the report to exterior spaces.

Within the FIT guidebook, methods to evaluate “playgrounds/school grounds” are even suggested. But, since all 111 RHS facilities surveyed were interior spaces, this category re-

ceived an “N/A” rating 111 times.

This exclusion of exterior evaluations alone ensures the FIT Report cannot be a comprehensive representation of RHS as a whole, considering the majority of campus faults lie beyond classroom doors.

This category’s final rating of school grounds in “good repair” is also misleading. RHS’ current “playgrounds/school grounds” ratio is 0:0 — zero school grounds had “deficiencies” out of zero school grounds evaluated.

This ratio was translated to a 100% positive rating because according to Knapp, a “100” is the “default” percentage.

Mathematically, this translation is impossible.

It doesn’t add up, literally.

This category should have been left “undefined” instead of contributing a perfect score for an unevaluated category to the school’s overall average percentage.

FIT inspectors technically filled out the report to its completion, but the annual overview can be utilized to do more than check off boxes. The FIT offers comment sections to list deficiencies not given as examples, and allows schools to decide what can be sectioned off as a facility for rating. RHS

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utilized none of these options for exterior spaces.

The FIT should be used to transparently document realities, self-reflect on all facets of campus and set goals for improvement.

The current sewage and drainage rating was compiled using only interior data, not taking into account any possible exterior flooding with which RHS students and staff are all too familiar.

The 900s parking lot, amphitheater, senior square and basically all campus walkways experienced

flooding when a rainstorm hit campus March 21 this year. These areas show signs of “trip hazards,” “deterioration” and have the potential to become “flooded areas” under certain conditions. Consequently, if they were evaluated on the report, they would fall to the guide’s examples of deficiency in both of the previously mentioned categories.

However, it is true that the report serves as only a snapshot of RHS’ maintenance because all facilities are evaluated in one day.

Meaning, it is likely inspectors would be unable to detect signs of an infestation in a classroom and record there are none, but weeks later students in the same classroom could be evacuated to a far-off portable to take their final exam due to a bird mite infestation.

This scenario unfolded last spring. However, since the evaluation is already complete, that classroom will be shown as having no pest issues until next year’s evaluation, when this could all happen again.

Neither RJUHSD’s

Department of Maintenance and Operations nor a third-party company has compiled a similar report for RHS’ exterior areas, because it has never been requested according to Knapp. But to truly document campus maintenance, this will be necessary. The first step to solving an issue is to open a dialogue about the problem itself.

RHS’ campus is complex in its design and 105 years old, but poor maintenance shouldn’t be mistaken as charming. The flooded area in the 900s parking lot earns its community-given name of “Lake Roseville” each winter. But it shouldn’t be seen as an amusing quirk.

It’s a serious issue RHS has chosen to just accept. Students walking from a portable to the 900s during a rainy passing period should not have water up to their ankles.

The FIT Report is an annual small step in documenting RHS’ overall maintenance. To truly capture RHS realities, more attention must be paid to issues on campus, even if they are not listed as specific examples on the FIT Report.

(This piece represents the views of the 2017-18 editorial board.)

Extra assignments impede student exam preparedness

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Breaking Down the Walls schedule disrupts classes

BY NOLAN FRAME

n.frame@eyeofthetigernews.com

D

uring the school day, I attended the Breaking Down the Walls program.

At first, I was confused on what the program was, but as soon as I got there and the speaker started presenting I realized it was like a peer helping assembly that the school paid for. Now it seems like I’m trashing it, but it was actually pretty fun. We played games, got to know each other better and best of all they gave us free pizza.

Although I was glad I went, at the same time I wish I didn’t go. You see,

the workshop lasted all day, except the first 15 minutes of first period and the last 15 minutes of fourth period.

Since the assembly took all day, I ended up missing all my classes and a lot of work – work that I’m still trying to catch up on. And you’re now probably thinking, “Well why didn’t you do it on the weekend?”

I did, and here I am still working on it.

Now I have a fairly easy schedule with art, journalism, history and then math.

So the only classes I’m trying to keep up on are history and math.

I think there should have been better scheduling with it, if possible. I wish it was something the whole school did on one day instead of three different days. If you do it all in one day and the teachers know about it, they can work around it and nobody misses work or

falls behind. If I knew how much I would miss, I might not have gone and spent the next week constantly working.

I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t enjoy missing all my classes, because who wouldn’t like missing all their classes to play games and get free food? But again it goes back the work I missed. It’s not fun when you would would usually have your homework done but you have to be working on all the work you missed.

Maybe if there was better scheduling I wouldn’t be annoyed, but it is what it is. I don’t know everything on how it was scheduled, I don’t know if there was a better way to do it or if those three days were the only times to do it. But I just wish there was a way I could attend the program without missing so much work.

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aise your hand if you have ever sat at home and thought to yourself ‘You know what would improve my learning experience? Meaningless, but fun, detours from the curriculum to subjects just barely related. That will definitely benefit my knowledge of the actual class-related material.’

Never? Huh, me neither. I wonder what school was like in the olden days when these teachers were students and decided these enhanced the learning experience. Don’t mistake me – I love spending an entire class period learning about something irrelevant that slightly ties into the class.

I am extremely thankful when my teacher turns on an interesting documentary or movie that I barely have to take notes on because it will definitely not be on an exam. It’s the perfect opportunity to finish the last few problems of the math homework I did at midnight.

But, come exam week and we are still learning the actual material because the detours left us several days off schedule. Or, come

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exam day and I am frantically flipping through pages of rough notes from aforementioned rushed final week in a hopeless attempt to cram more information into my full brain, and I am not quite so happy.

I understand that these detours help engage some students (and are probably easier to plan and grade for, but we’ll brush past that), but fall into the trap too often and we are left vastly unprepared. If the goal is that students do not just “memorize” the information, but fully understand it, a teacher cannot present important information to us in a hurried lesson the day before.

I get that it is difficult to plan everything, teach the lessons, and grade work effectively and efficiently – and believe me I have no envy for the stress teachers must go through – but they should try to ensure students get the most from their class time.

At the very least, strive for the detours to truly add

something more to the class material. Gearing the entire class towards an exam does provide a limited education, and teaches people they should focus on grades and not learning. But it is far more beneficial to have this extra information support what we have already learned. If a science video uses some of the theory we have learned in class in a unique way, I will remember it far more than one that does not.

This goes double with excluding videos that add something less factual to the curriculum. If the class goes into other country’s cultures, these added segments do not need to make claims that our country’s way of doing things is better – that is an opinion for everyone to decide for themselves.

Keep these sources relevant, unbiased, and limited in number, and there is very little to complain about. I might even set my math homework aside and give the detour my full attention.

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New policies muddle PE definition

BY EMILY WRIGHT

e.wright@eyeofthetigernews.com

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very Tuesday and Thursday students in PE have to complete a run of the PE staff’s choice. Students do warmups, go out and run, and then it’s time to go change before they have to go to their next period. But now, as times are changing and technology are evolving, so are PE procedures.

On the Monday after midterms, the PE staff introduced all students enrolled in the PE course to a new privilege that came with running. Every student is allowed to bring their phone along with headphones into the gym and carry them while they run.

Immediately I was thrilled. Rumors had been floating around that there

was a possibility of students being allowed to listen to music while running and now the teachers confirmed them. Most people find it beneficial to listen to music while running because it takes their mind off the task at hand.

But what is not as pleasing is the task we now have to perform after the run is over. Once we finish our run, we have to fill out a log that includes the date and which run we completed that day, as well as the time we finished or laps we did.

Students also record how much effort they put into the run on a scale from one to five. To wrap it all up, students write a paragraph reflecting their performance and perceived effort, how their body felt during the run, and their realistic goal for next time.

When we have our phones to use them for music, teachers prohibit us to use them for any purpose other than that – music.

This is because PE teachers expect us to use this time

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for physical education. Using time towards the end of the period to fill out this log takes away from the time that we could spend performing physical activities. It defeats the purpose of PE – that it is solely for physical education and being active.

But filling in this log also takes away our own

personal time. We logged our running experience for the first time the Tuesday after midterms. By the time it took to explain the whole process, do warmups, run, and fill out the log we had only two minutes to change.

This may seem like a decent amount of time, but not for those who have to walk from the football field to the

girls lockerroom. The walk alone can take more than two minutes.

This log is also supposed to help us see how we can improve on future runs. But I know that I generally put in the same amount of effort on every run. And if I run and comfortably finish with a time that qualifies for an A, why would I need to im-

prove upon my time?

The runs we complete are supposed to get easier every time, but a lot of students are also athletes. I am in shape and so are many other students. So running under two miles twice a week will not help make these runs easier, and neither will the logs that are supposed to help us improve our running time or number of laps.

This brings me to ask one question - will anyone actually use the information in the logs to work to improve their time on various runs? It may be help freshmen because they will have this information to build on their sophomore year. But the for the current sophomores, it will be hard to use this information, especially because we are starting this process over half way through the term. We won’t be running the same runs as often as we have before, so it will be hard to compare our previous times and improve because we don’t have them.

Healthy snack options lacking

BY NICOLE KHUDYAKOV

n.khudyakov@eyeofthetigernews.com

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et me be the first in a long line of many to say that I love the vending machines. They are a glowing beacon of light and hope in the middle of an otherwise dim school day. Half of my energy depends on whether or not I get my daily muffin fix alone.

But despite my utter adoration and the near worship I feel in the face of one of these overly large, metal containers of prepackaged snack food, I must confess that even I occasionally tire of the endlessly monotonous supply of sweets available for my snacking pleasure.

Feel free to call me insane or accuse Halloween of meddling with my sweet tooth, but in recent years, it feels like the choices for healthy food available to the average RHS student (or, at least, those of us lacking the

bravery to use DoorDash and Grubhub) has been stealthily decreasing. This is coming from somebody who’s as likely to choose a tomato over a candy bar as she is to take up waterboarding.

So please, take a moment to rediscover the eighth wonder of the world: the disappearing salad bar/fruit cart. While ‘healthy’ isn’t the first word that comes to mind when I think back to my middle school days, my school had a distinct advantage in this category over RHS, all due to that cart.

Now that one of my only sources of in-school nutrition has faded into my middle school past, I haven’t been able to find anything that would serve as a viable replacement for the easy accessibility of that cart.

Of course, adding healthier foods to the vending machines could easily take care of that problem and cover a wider palate of tastes, all at the same time. Even though I, of all people, can understand how tempting it is to have a bottle of Gatorade and a bag of chips and air stuffed into each machine (with only minor chemical-

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ly induced variations in flavor) a little bit of healthier variety can go a long way.

More importantly, a minor change in snacks doesn’t require the presence of a farmer’s market. It can be something as small as replacing the overpriced bagels with a healthy granola bar or a bag of nuts.

While the argument stands that there are veggie wraps and a few other similarly healthy options available in the cafeteria, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be even more easily accessible as food items in the vending machines. Besides, who has the energy or time to walk over to our relatively out-

of-the-way cafeteria and wait in a line that takes up a third of lunch when two vending machines are so conveniently located right in Senior Square?

Now, don’t mistake my irritation as a complete rejection of the snack foods the vending machines have to offer - I haven’t been a high schooler long enough to hit that peak level of insanity just yet. Instead, consider the idea of a few healthier snack options within the vending machines a good deterrent for the long lines of students that form every lunch break, as well as a break from the constant nagging of your dentist.

Blocks prevent schedule flexiblity

BY NATE NGUYEN

n.nguyen@eyeofthetigernews.com

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rom freshman to junior year, the school exclusively offers what it labels as the advanced history courses in the form of year-long classes that alternate with their respective advanced English course.

This structure is designed with the hopes to improve AP test scores, as it would allow both courses to finish in the spring. However, while the system aids some, it leaves other kids in the dust.

Students striving to exceed in both areas and pass both the AP history and

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English tests because they are interested in the two subjects take many benefits from the block system - including longer exposure to material, more in depth coverage, and integration between the two classes.

On the other hand, the system completely forgets the demographic of students with only an interest in taking advanced history.

History-driven students

with an excess of extracurricular activities such as athletics, clubs, or volunteer work have to choose between going all in with the block class or not taking their AP history course at all. Opting to stick it out in the block would result in a large workload for a subject they don’t want to take as well as a diluted course in what they do care about.

The yearlong worth of

AP history blocked with an advanced English course often feels like four courses rather than two, as teachers try to match the work rate of their normal single semester classes.

Even though these blocks are aimed at driven students who plan to go on to a four year college, taking the courses in the usual system rather than as block classes would allow those students more flexibility in their schedules, as well as provide a more realistic experience with a college course’s pace. I hope to see this as an option in the future.

I would be more on board with the block classes if history and English weren’t the only courses given this special program. A science and math block class would have the same amount of connection and relevance to one another as a history and English course.

Security needed outside campus

BY ANUYA KAMATH & VICTORIA YEO opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

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s seniors with fourth period off, we leave school every day after third period through the front entrance of the school. Given that it’s an indoor area, the hallway leading to the doors of the entrance is not monitored by the surveillance cameras recently installed on campus.

This, combined with the fact that we personally have never been checked by staff members to make sure that we’re actually allowed to leave (the staff hasn’t checked with any of the other students we know with fourth off either), makes it seem fairly easy for people to walk in and out of those glass doors without being questioned or checked.

We have to admit this has definitely made leaving campus easier for us (and surely for the dozens of other seniors without a fourth period), but the lack of supervision still raises the question: How can the school account for its students if it doesn’t keep a closer tab on their whereabouts?

What if something happened to a student while he or she was supposed to be in school but wasn’t actually on campus?

Students may want to leave without permission, but it’s still the responsibility of the school to prevent them from doing so, right?

We used to see campus monitors checking the doors, to whom we would have to show stickered ID

cards or give slips to justify our early departure. As of late, we haven’t seen them outside the doors – we see them on campus during passing period and lunch, yes, but not outside.

While the issue of students leaving before they rightfully should is important, it seems that the bigger issue at hand is whether or not someone could enter the school without being verified by faculty or staff. Student safety relies not only on order and proper student conduct within the school, but also protection from any danger that lies beyond the bounds of this campus.

Yes, every visitor is supposed to sign in at the office, and almost all do; but if a threatening individual were to enter our campus, would he or she really be stopped?

It takes one open entrance for someone to gain access to an entire campus of students – it’s almost as if the potential dangers of unmonitored front doors nullify all the security provided by the rest of the iron gates and cameras.

Again, we know how many students are on this campus, and completely understand that it must be hard to supervise all of them. That said, all students deserve safety while in school, and we are left to wonder how exactly our safety can be ensured by the school when the door that separates us from the outside world may as well not be there.

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New Ettore’s yet to capture Sac charm «««««

BY SINO OULAD DAOUD

s.ouladaoud@eyeofthetigernews.com

Last Monday, I enjoyed the hour I got back from daylight savings eating at the new Ettore’s Bakery and Café in Roseville.

Ettore’s Roseville, located by John’s Incredible Pizza and similarly large, initially put me off from pleasant memories of the posh patisserie in Sacramento my family visited to celebrate an occasion.

Ettore’s Sacramento charms its guests with a cozy ambience, tasteful atmosphere and mouthwatering sweets display.

Unfortunately, much of this was lost setting up shop in Roseville. The café, restaurant or bakery – I don’t know what to call it – is a whopping two stories and over 8,500 square feet of chic décor and modern design, with a display of pastries and lunch items that wraps around the whole bottom floor. More an airport café than charming patisserie, the ambience and dynamic of the new location is typi-

cal of Roseville eateries.

My first time here, I met with my parents in the morning for a coffee and pastry to begin the weekend, and forgetting that Ettore’s was a payfirst kind of gig, I walked in on a huge line just to order a butter croissant and iced coffee, and by “iced coffee” I mean a cup of ice and a point toward the hot coffee dispensers by the condiments. You fellow iced coffee lovers know how it went from there – I sat down with a cup of coldish coffee with no ice and a pile of undissolved sugar crystals at the bottom of cup (the croissant was pretty good, though).

I went back for dinner sometime later craving a burger, surprised by the emptiness of the café to contrast with the breakfast hours. I took the burger without a second look. I didn’t particularly enjoy what was between two bagel-esque cheddar scallion buns – mushrooms, tomatoes, swiss cheese and other things that belonged neither on a burger nor with each other.

I would have easily rated the new location three

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Decade old Sacramento cafe, Ettore’s loses comfy cozy charm at new Roseville location. While the ambience and the entrees are lacking, the delectable pasteries make it worth a visit. They also offer amazing hot temple coffee and its “all-you-can-drink”.

stars had my most recent visit before school not reminded me of the optimism that comes with Ettore’s Roseville. I came in on a dreaded Monday and ordered a puff pastry with fresh fruit and custard, and a warm coffee – no fuss.

The hot Temple Coffee – all-you-can-drink, by the way – alone was enough to brighten up my week, and

the pastry fell no short of heaven as an early-morning bite before the ardours of the day began. After refilling my cup with that wonderful coffee, I finished my pastry in first period and went onward with unusually fond memories of a Monday morning.

While it lacks the irresistible charm of the Sacramento location, Ettore’s

Roseville is still one of the most unique and delightful places to breakfast within a ten-mile radius, and a hope that Roseville may one day transcend from forever remaining another suburb that is the backwash of Sacramento culture.

I’ll just say this: either go there super early, have the heavenly peace and pastry of the morning and

carry on with the beautiful autumn day like I did, or go in the evening and just skip right to dessert. Get up when your alarm tells you, and go get the cinnamon roll, bear claw or whatever else you’ll be craving tomorrow morning because it doesn’t get any better than this for miles. Oh, and don’t forget the unlimited coffee.

ALMOST, MAINE: FIVE SETS, ONE STAGE PHOTOS BY GABRIELLE HUTSON EYE OF THE TIGER

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RHS Theater Co. almost perfects Almost, Maine

BY GABRIELLE HUTSON

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

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Almost, Maine’s multiple plot lines all played out on one stage last weekend. RHS Theatre Co. built five sets to portray the narrative.

Every year about the time fall rolls around at Roseville High School, I find myself highly anticipating what RHS Theatre Co. will bring to the Patti Baker stage for their fall play.

With this year’s production Almost, Maine (an endearing romantic comedy taking place in snowy Maine) I was even more ecstatic than usual. Just walking to the Patti Baker in the fall weather made my excitement skyrocket.

By now I’m sure you can tell that my expectations were high.

The play itself is absolutely adorable and heart warming. It’s kind of like the movie Valentine’s Day where you see a multitude of plot lines all broken down in a period of time, all of which are based around triumphant love and horrible heart break. These are, of course, strong emotions portrayed in this type of plot line. To see a crew of high schoolers so seamlessly pull it off was nearly unbelievable.

Seeing as there are many cast members all with different love stories,

you would assume some would feel too hammy or too dry, but no. There was not a lacking of chemistry between one cast member and another. I could have easily forgotten I was watching a cast of teenagers if I didn’t recognize so many of them from our regular, daily lives.

Almost, Maine is captivating not just in performances but in scenery too.

Even just sitting in my seat during intermission I felt delighted to just be looking at the cute little set(s) on stage. Warm cozy interiors and wreath-decorated house fronts accented by cotton snow and tree stumps made me feel like I was looking at a postcard that’s says, “From Maine, with love!”

My one singular qualm with the play is that I wanted more. This is not the fault of anyone but the original writers of the play but I was so enticed by this young troop of actors that I wanted to see more of their love stories. I wanted to see more development in the characters, relationships and love lives but alas, it was not written that way.

If you find yourself with $8 in your pocket to spare, I would highly suggest using it to go see Almost, Maine and support the drama program.

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Murder on the Orient Express cast twists genre

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BY JAKE LUKASKO

j.lukasko@eyeofthetigernews.com

It’s a mistake to refer to this rendition of the ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ as a mystery. It’s a hilarious comedy with beautiful visuals and talented actors, but hardly a mystery.

With talented actors such as Johnny Depp, Daisley Ridley and Judi Dench, the cast has a great line up, although perhaps not great for a thrilling mystery.

The story comes from a beloved novel of the same name written by the beloved crime novelist Agatha Christie in 1936. The story is about a train traveling to Europe and a man is murdered onboard. Directing the film is Kenneth Branagh, who also appears onscreen as the eccentric world class detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot is forced

to solve the mystery. All 13 characters have an interesting backstory.

Hercule Poirot was a particularly hilarious and endearing character albeit at times repetitive.

I definitely was laughing the most when Poirot was in front of me. From the very beginning, the very first scene of the movie, I knew I was going to enjoy it regardless because of Poirot’s presence.

Judi Dench played her role as Princess Dragomiroff extremely well. Truly no other actor is better equipped to portray the ultra wealthy than Dench.

While the entire movie was a jab at the manners and customs of the bourgeois, Dench sealed the deal with her masterful portrayal.

Her attire matched her character perfectly.

Johnny Depp had a noteworthy performance as Edward Ratchett. I felt like Depp was going to reveal

himself as Captain Jack Sparrow. I was looking for the Black Pearl. Depp performed his best character in a different series.

Regrettably, Olivia Colman (Hildegarde Schmidt) seemed to hardly appear on screen at all but was impressive when they actually had screen time.

Daisy Ridley (Mary Debenham), Michelle Pfeiffer (Caroline Hubbard) and

Penelope Cruz (Pilar Estravados) all have impactful performances and their character development is very entertaining.

The movie is absolutely stunning. Being shot with sixty five millimeter film, everything was up close and personal, as it should’ve been. The backdrop of the movie is reminiscent of the train ride to Hogwarts, coupled

with a similar wonderful soundtrack. The vibe of a Harry Potter-esque train ride was captured.

The garb of the characters complimented the atmosphere well. The costume design was superb and one of my favorite parts of the movie. Everyone belonged in the period they were depicted in.

The whodunit elements are there, like a modern

‘Clue’ but the actual story itself is more of a parody. I was reminded of Clue and the Skytanic episode of the animated comedy series Archer. ‘Skytanic’ The movie has all the elements for a great mystery but strangely comes out as an amusing comedy.

While it’s not the mystery I hoped for, ‘The Murder on the Orient Express’ had me laughing the entire time.

SMELL THE ROSES WITH GABRIELLE HUTSON PLAY:

EAT: Fresh Millions, located on Pleasant Grove, is a new build-your-own bowl style

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”

— George Eliot

restaurant using all fresh and local produce and still manages to be delicious. You choose a bowl with any base you choose whether it be noodles, white or brown rice and then pick and choose your protein (yes they do offer vegetarian options,) veggies, sauces so on and so forth.The serving style is quick and convenient with a tasty end product and I find that almost always have leftovers for later. While the food and variety is great, the ambiance of the place leaves a little bit to be desired.

APPRECIATE:

As an avid fan of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing, I obviously had to make a fake Australian Apple ID to download the new mobile app Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and it was completely worth it. Of course, on the mobile app you do miss some of the original Animal Crossing charm like designing flags and your own clothes but the amazing graphics and good old AC gameplay make up for what the game lacks.

Over the summer, while at my favorite farmer’s market, I came upon a pet adoption van set up and I went in with the intention of just holding some kittens.

While I was holding them, however, I picked one up and could not put her down. I recently celebrated the five month adoption anniversary of that same cat who I named Paloma. In the last five months I have a found a best friend and long time companion. If you have the means to take care of an animal, adoption is the best thing you can do for a furry friend and yourself.

FASHION: SUMMER EDON Sophomore Summer Edon compiles looks that fall on the line between feminine and masculine. She credits her identification as non-binary for her sense of androgynous style.

TRINITY COMPTON EYE OF THE TIGER

BY GABRIELLE HUTSON g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

What are some of your essential pieces that you find yourself wearing a lot?

Flannels, 100 percent, flannels, ripped jeans. I don’t like normal jeans so ripped jeans and converse.

Who are some of your fashion icons or inspirations?

Coming from the LGBT community I do dress very androgynous because I do identify as non-binary.

I don’t really feel like I necessarily have to dress girly or masculine so that doesn’t drive a lot of what I wear.

What is one of your favorite pieces you own

from your wardrobe?

I have a vintage, short sleeve jacket thing and it has roses all over it it’s really cool.

What are some of your favorite trends that are popular in fashion right now?

There’s not really a whole lot of trends that I’m a huge fan of but I do enjoy the flannel thing.

In contrast to that what are some of your least favorite trends?

Pink. The color pink.

At what time in your life did you start to develop a personal style?

Probably seventh grade is when I started actually finding myself and figur-

ing out what I like to wear and what makes me most comfortable.

How do your clothes reflect your personality?

I like to be different I don’t like to be the same as other people so it changes how I treat myself and how I act and what I wear.

What inspired your haircut?

I just never liked long hair and then i realized that I could have short hair.

My parents are really relaxed they would rather fight about other things than my hair let me do whatever I want with it so thats cool I had kinda a ruby roseish style haircut for a while but then I just got bored with it and I shaved my head.

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Injured athletes turn to rowing Students take interest in alternative sports outlet after injuries

BY KARLI DUGGER

k.dugger@eyeofthetigernews.com

Two Roseville High School students have started competitively rowing after injuries they suffered playing sports for the school.

Junior Erin Butler and freshman Dylan Gee are competitive rowers for a non-profit organization called Capital Crew, which is the Sacramento State Aquatics Center rowing program with about 150 high school students.

Before rowing, Butler was a part of the Roseville High School’s volleyball program for two years, but couldn’t continue to play in her junior year due to a pulled muscle injury that never completely healed.

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Freshman Dylan Gee (right) has rowed for the past year and a half while also playing competitive soccer. Gee has begun to focus more of his time on rowing because an injury has prohibited him from playing soccer. Junior Erin Butler has also picked up rowing as a result of an injury.

Her injury caused her to not be able to physically move and jump as fast and high as she had hoped. With some encouragement from her father, Butler then decided to take a private rowing lesson in July, leading her to find her new passion for rowing.

“My dad has always wanted me to try rowing because he knew it would be the perfect sport for me,

but I never had time with volleyball,” Butler said. “So when I got hurt I found out I was still capable of doing the rowing motions, so I gave it a try and absolutely fell in love with it.”

As a first-year rower, Butler managed to earn a spot on the varsity team, which most first-year rowers compete on.

“I decided to row for the varsity team because the

high level of competition would be much more beneficial for me in the future,” Butler said.

Gee has more experience with rowing, as he has been competing for the Capital Crew rowing program on the novice team for about a year-and-a-half.

On top of rowing, Gee also plays competitive soccer and had to learn how maintain a balance between

both sports.

“For Capital Crew, we practice Monday through Friday, so I would have to juggle both soccer and rowing,” Gee said. “Playing competitive soccer made it kind of hard to do both.”

Similar to Butler, Gee was also injured, and got a concussion while playing soccer. Due to his concussion, Gee was unable to continue to play soccer and began to focus all his time and attention into rowing.

Both Butler and Gee have experienced new life lessons in their time rowing for Capital Crew.

“With rowing, you really have to be determined because it is such a team sport,” Butler said.

Gee agrees with Butler, and feels the this sport is revolved around working together a unit.

“When you’re in the boat racing, we all have to come together and put our all in, in order to be successful,” Butler said. “It really is a team support and every rower matters. In other sports one person can carry a team and that doesn’t really work in rowing.”

Varsity baseball fights to keep Athletic PE

BY DEAN EFSTATHIU

d.efstathiu@eyeofthetigernews.com

Normally, both the varsity baseball and softball teams require an athletic PE class in fourth period in the spring term. But because

of Roseville High School policy requiring a coach or staff member to be present during a class, baseball may have to drop the opportunity for practice time.

First-year varsity baseball coach Greg Zanolli is

disappointed that the class is no longer offered, and is currently in the process of trying to get the class back.

However, since Zanolli is not a teacher on campus, he would not be able to check in the players.

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Former RHS student Tyler Bellig partakes in batting practice during athletic PE last spring. Batting practice is an everyday occurence for players during the time normally allotted for fourth period.

“We hope to have the class. I’m talking to the athletic director and try to see if there’s a way to get it back,” Zanolli said. “We have to have somebody that can sponsor it. The class is there, we can have it, if someone is there to check athletes in.”

Varsity baseball player Joe Cirrincione was a part of the class last year and experienced the pros and cons of the required elective firsthand.

“On one hand it was really nice because we were able to get home before 4:30 every day and were able to do stuff outside of baseball,” Cirrincione said.

“It also sucked because had I not had the class I would have been able to take another AP or VAPA.” Varsity softball coach Art Banks believes the class is a great advantage for the players.

“We talked to the kids about it and they have wanted the athletic PE class,” Banks said. “It’s a great advantage for them to use the extra time.”

Banks believes that having this class will have several benefits not just for the success of the season, but for students outside school.

“We start early and get out a little earlier and have a life outside softball,” Banks said. “It allows them to do stuff like have a job after practice.”

This year, freshmen Annie Lemos and Lauren Mirtoni will be playing varsity softball and will take the class.

“I think we’ll have more time to practice as a team and be better,” Annie Lemos said. “The extra time that we get should make us have better chemistry by the time the season starts.”

Performances of the Week OCT. 23-27

Boys water polo secures section playoff berth

BY NOLAN FRAME

n.frame@eyeofthetigernews.com

The varsity boys water polo team is coming in for the performance of the week after beating the Oakmont Vikings on Oct. 25 with the final score of 9-8.

Goalie Peter Edmondson was inspired to play hard after the Tigers’ defeat last year to Oakmont by one point.

“It was just really nice to pull through with a victory for our last season game and it just made my whole season,” Edmondson said.

According to Edmond-

son, the team performed amazingly despite facing a strong opposing fan section.

“I did feel good ruining their senior night. We were worried we weren’t going to have the momentum because they had a lot of fans there and their seniors were really ready to try to win their last game,” Edmondson said.

OCT. 30 - NOV. 3

JV football team clinches share of league title

BY EMILY WRIGHT

e.wright@eyeofthetigernews.com

Performance of the Week for the week of Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 was the JV football

team’s victory over the Oakmont Vikings, which clinched the team a share of the CVC title. The Tigers defeated the Vikings 57-21.

Quarterback Tomas Robles believes the team came into the game confident.

“We wanted to finish our season off strong with a win,” Robles said. “We were just excited, we knew we were better than Oakmont so we just wanted to crush them.”

Robles credits the league title to the effort that the team put in this season.

“I think all the time we spent in the weight room and stuff like that [contributed],” Robles said. “All the conditioning we did over summer, all the things the coaches help us do just prepared us so much to win the championship.”

NOV. 6 - 10

Football players earn all-league honors

BY BLAKE BEAMAN

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The performance of the week for the week of Nov. 6 is the members of the varsity football team who were received all-CVC first team honors, Colton Rayback and Alex Evans.

Both Rayback and Evans were named captains earlier in the year, and were key players on both offense and defense.

Evans, a running back, was the focal point of the offense while Rayback served as the leader of the defense while also anchor-

ing the offensive line as the center.

Rayback was top five on the team in sacks, tackles, and tackles for loss, and Evans lead the team in rushing yards and touchdowns.

Rayback feels that he received the award for his versatility on both offense and defense.

“Getting this award was really cool,” Rayback said. “I think I could have received the award for my work on either the offensive side or defensive side, but the fact I did both probably put me over the top.”

Roseville’s rich athletic history made the award that much more important for Rayback.

“It is really cool to carry out the tradition that has been at Roseville forever,” Rayback said.

New sand club may intrude on traditional volleyball

BY BRIAN NUEVO

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After much student request, RHS recently brought to its students a sand volleyball club. As an eager volleyball player myself, I am in full support of this addition to the school’s extracurricular offerings. But as much as I would like to join, though, I’m faced with a problem: sand volleyball, if it actually becomes a sport, will be a spring sport.

Of course, there are various sports that are held in the spring without an issue. However, one of these sports is indoor volleyball, and this is what raises the issue. If boys choose to participate in sand volleyball in the spring, they will not be able to participate in indoor volleyball at the same time.

In addition to clashing with the practice times for indoor volleyball, sand volleyball practices themselves are extremely long (at least a couple of hours per practice, multiple times per week). That too, sand volleyball is a club sport, which means that it won’t even be considered by colleges as a varsity sport.

Even though RHS is a decent-sized high school, it would be hard to build a proper team for sand volleyball. It’s hard enough to build a team for indoor volleyball, given that volleyball in general doesn’t have nearly as much prominence in a northern Californian school as it does in, say, a southern Californian school. It would be even harder to create a second volleyball team.

Being a volleyball player who enjoys both indoor and sand, I’m left in the tough position of having to decide whether I want to play indoor or sand volleyball before the season starts. Even though I am debating, I’m still currently a part of the indoor volleyball team.

I have to also speak for my team when I say that losing impact players to a sand team is not something we’re all looking forward to. In a perfect world, we would have the choice to play both sports, and neither team would take the blow.

Sand volleyball would be a winter sport for both girls and guys, and then indoor volleyball would take place in the spring as normal.

As an indoor volleyball player, I want there to be a balance between the two sports, especially if come this spring, our team will be split. Especially in my last year at RHS, I would love to be able to avail of all volleyball opportunities possible, that said, some things are just out of my control.

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TOP 3 FALL ATHLETES

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JADA KRANIG

BY EMILY WRIGHT

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Four-year varsity tennis player player Jada Kranig is ranked at number one on this year’s top three fall athletes for the stellar season she had, leading the girls tennis team to an un-

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defeated season, CVC title, and a division II playoff appearance.

As this year’s captain, Kranig finished out the season without losing a match in league, while also going 13-4 overall, and was ranked the team’s number two singles player.

Kranig also went undefeated as the number one player when called upon to fill that role.

Despite not being able to advance far in playoffs as a singles player, Kranig was able to make it into sections in super doubles with part-

ner Kenzie Duncan.

Sophomore teammate Isabelle Sanders believes Kranig earned her position on this year’s top three list due to her ability to, as a captain, do more for the team than just be a great tennis player.

“I think Jada is one of the best captains for tennis, on top of just being really good at tennis,” Sanders said. “She’s always supporting the team and helping everyone do their best, which I think helped a lot of us perform really well and eventually go unde-

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JOSH KEATON

BY NOLAN FRAME

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The number two athlete for the top three this year is senior varsity water polo utility player Josh Keaton. Keaton had 40 goals, 12 assists and 24 steals to help lead the Tigers to a third place finish in league.

Varsity water polo coach Brad Molina believes that Keaton is an outstanding player.

“Very unselfish on offense, always looking to pass (although I wish he would shoot more),” Molina said. “He was our best defender one on one on the team. I would always give him the toughest player

from the opposing team.”

Molina says that Keaton is a great leader.

“He’s an excellent leader by example,” Molina said. “Works hard in practice and that translate into the game. Great attitude out of the pool. Everybody likes Josh.”

According to Molina, Keaton played a vital role in making sections.

“Josh was the glue that kept our team solid, offensively and defensively,” Molina said. “Doesn’t always show up on the stat sheet but the coaches and players know this to be true.”

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feated.”

According to Sanders, Kranig’s determination was something that some of the younger players were able to pick up on, and even learn from as they become veterans.

“She never gives up and her mind is always set on winning,” Sanders said.

“Everyone can pick up on her energy and competitiveness and use it to help their own game, especially the younger people who are playing a varsity sport for the first time.”

Sanders believes Kra-

nig’s attitude was a benefit to the team on and off of the tennis court and that the tennis program is in good hands going forward.

“Not even in just tennis,” Sanders said. “I think all around as an person she is just a leader in everything she does, especially as an athlete in every sport that she does. I just think it shows more on the court, and the lessons she has taught us and the way she has mentored us has really prepared us to continue being a dominant force in the CVC.”

ALEX EVANS

BY BLAKE BEAMAN

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fellow senior, Kyle Gard, feels that Keaton was an all around asset to the team.

“Josh is a really reliable player for us,” Gard said.

“He is a really good goal scorer, and he was our goto guy.”

Rushing in at our number three spot on the fall top three athletes is senior running back Alex Evans.

Last year, Evans was stuck on the depth chart behind two all league running backs. This year, with both of the running backs in front of him graduated, Evans took full advantage of his opportunity. Evans, one of the top running backs in the league, put the Tigers’ offense on his back this season, rushing for 1172 yards on 217 carries, good enough for an impressive 5.4 yards per carry, while also scoring eight touchdowns. Ev-

ans was also recognized as one of the team’s four captains.

Teammate Nick Gori thinks Evans really stepped up this season and was able to produce results even when other members of the offense couldn’t.

“He stepped up to the plate and did great even when the rest of our team

and offense would sometimes struggle,” Gori said.

“He pretty much carried the team and he really ended his awesome high school career on a high note.”

Evans was a force to be reckoned with on the defensive side of the ball as well, totaling 10 tackles on a small handful of defensive downs.

MAKING DUE Spirit drives successful fundraising tactics, efforts

BY JAMIE BATEMAN

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Over the past four years, the varsity football team has purchased at least one jersey each season. This serves as a sharp contrast to

other programs such as water polo, where varsity players use hand-me-downs.

However, this is not due to inequity in funding from the school or even related to money collected from spectators. According to athletic director Emily Dodds, the school provides the same amount of money for all sports. But more prominent sports such as football have more success fundraising within the community.

Over a calendar year, the

Jerseys varsity football rotated this season.

football program hosts up to five fundraising events such as golf tournaments and team-hosted dinners.

Football coach Larry Cunha feels that the fundraising done by the varsity football team is a necessity because the money provided by the school is not enough to effectively maintain the program.

“The money provided by the school is simply not enough,” Cunha said. “Every year we spend money on things like HUDL access, and pads, which the school doesn’t cover.”

Because of the lack of available spending money for extracurriculars, the football program not only uses fundraising events but also accepts donations from 22 local businesses.

One of which is “Bunz and Company,” a restaurant owned by Roseville native and Super Bowl champion Dan Bunz.

Every year, Bunz donates money to the football program. Bunz is proud of his Roseville lineage and is happy to donate to the team.

“Since I am from around here, I know the history of the school and program,” Bunz said. “I go to as many games as I can, and I know that the money I donate is needed by the program.”

Bunz’s history with the program is not the only thing that prompts him to donate, because he also

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The Baker household is home to two Roseville alums and two current students. They take pride in their Roseville roots, and have contributed to the program by purchasing posters which have been planted on their front lawn for the past three months. knows that supporting the local football team can be good for business.

“A lot of the customers we get in here are fans of Roseville or have kids at the school, so whenever they see that we support them they really like it,” Bunz said. “We also know that a lot of the kids that come in here are RHS students.”

While a lot of money is gained through donations from local businesses, donations from the families of the players also help out the team.

Missy Baker, a parent of two varsity players, also graduated from Roseville High School and attends every fundraiser put on by the football program. Baker is one of many parents who donate money at the fundraisers.

According to Baker, not only is she inclined to donate because of her son’s football involvement, but also because of the school pride that she and her husband, RHS alum Rick Baker, feel.

“I think a big part of it is because both of our kids play on the team but it’s definitely not the only reason,” Baker said. “We have been here our entire lives and any chance we have to support the high school, and the football team in specific, we like to do what we can.”

While donations from parents and sponsors help, fundraising is the most successful way that the football program makes money.

Smaller programs such as soccer and water polo historically don’t have the

same success in raising money.

Girls water polo and soccer coach Paul Stewart has noticed a discrepancy between the sports he coaches, and credits it to the fact that some athletes care more than others.

While Stewart notices that some smaller teams don’t have the same success as the bigger programs, he acknowledges that some programs may have more needs.

“For soccer, all we really get is sometimes new jerseys and nets for the goals,” Stewart said. “Teams like football need pads and helmets. I think it’s good they are able to pull in the money they do, because they do tend to need it the most and make the most money from ticket sales at the gate.”