THE FREE PRESS Issue 2
Edition 20
20 October 2016
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Issue 2 20 October 2016 Edition 20
Print Co-Editors in Chief MARIAH HOUSTON ADELAIDE WENDEL
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Business Staff Pages by ELISE GARD Cover photo by REBECCA CALDERON Growing up, junior Sophia Riedemann’s older sister repeatedly saw and interacted with a mysterious lady in a red dress. After hearing dozens of stories about these ghostly interactions, Sophia Riedemann became less skeptical about paranormal activity.
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JUNA MURAO
ROWAN PLINSKY
MARIAH HOUSTON
KAYA SHAFER
MARIAH HOUSTON
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APES ON THE PRAIRIE
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BYE BYE BROWN BAG
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FROM GERMANY TO THE GREAT PLAINS
KU professor conducts conservation study
Art Department says goodbye to Brown Bag fashion show for now
German exchange trip offers Americans and Germans the experience of a lifetime
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STRETCHING TOWARDS STATE
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HOORAY FOR HORROR FILMS
Future of Kansas high school gymnastics in question
Blair Witch review
SAMANTHA SPENCER
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OUIJA BOARDS: DEBUNKED Halloween classic incites more laughter than fear
ROWAN PLINSKY
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THE GHOST OF YOUR PRIVILEGE Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there
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SPOOKY SPECIALS Survey shows students’ Halloween favorites
MARIAH HOUSTON JUNA MURAO ROWAN PLINSKY Interviewed by ERIN LISTON
KAYA SHAFER
Interviewed by ERIN LISTON
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Interactions with possible ghosts chase away skepticism
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BIRD’S WORD
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DEBATE: THE GAME
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STYLE COLUMN
Do you believe in ghosts or supernatural beings?
Varsity debaters explain skills and techniques
Senior Atticus vonHolten and freshman Beatrice vonHolten
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APES ON THE PRAIRIE KU professor conducts conservation study Above:
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light breeze passes through the tall grass prairie on an abandoned football field unrecognizable through the bright sunflowers. Students step carefully through different species of tall grasses as they try to count specific plants along the way. The AP Environmental Science (APES) class and Environmental Club are helping Dr. Helen Alexander, a University of Kansas ecology professor, conducted an experiment to find the colonization patterns of plants. “One of the real challenges was to get the full diversity of species of the restorations,” Alexander said. “We’re looking for patterns of colonizations; if you only plant the wild flowers in one area will they move on their own to other areas?” The prairie’s creation started in 2013 in
an abandoned football field on the northwest corner of Free State’s property. Science teacher Julie Schwarting helped start the prairie and the study with Alexander. With the help from her students it has been easy to maintain the prairie. “Right now I have juniors and seniors [in APES] who helped plant the prairie as freshmen,” Schwarting said. “They frequently express a sense of pride when they see what they created and how it has changed over time.” In the 1850s, 90 percent of Douglas County land was prairie. Now, less than one percent of the prairies are still intact. The school prairie is not only restoring a part of the former land but is also helping people acknowledge their natural surroundings. “Just like we value historic buildings or cultural heritage, I think we should value our nat
Counting forb plant species, junior Kate Odgers works on the prairie with her AP Environmental Science class. Odgers enjoyed collecting data for the KU experiments. “I like how we’re focusing on rebuilding the prairie that we have broken down, so they don’t go extinct”, Odgers said.
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON ural heritage,” Alexander said. In many science class experiments, teachers focus on facts and step-by-step procedures, by cultivating the prairie, students are able to be involved in a study that does not have an controlled or expected outcome. In classrooms, students can be overwhelmed with facts and step-by-step procedures in experiments, but the prairie gives students a chance to learn how a real field study is conducted. “By setting up this study and having students participate in the data collecting, hopefully we give them a better understanding of how science works,” Alexander said.
Continued from page 6 Junior Elizabeth Runyan also believes helping with the study can be beneficial to students, realizing it is a great opportunity. “It’s fun to have a class that has a lot more field work and it’s really cool to actually be a part of a KU study and help with it,” Runyan said.
After assisting Alexander with her study, Runyan discovered her love for prairie conservation. “I want to go into prairie conservation, because I want to protect the world,” Runyan said. “We live near the biggest intact tall prairie in North America, and I want to be able to preserve that and keep it alive.”
Below: Walking off the prairie, students in Julie Schwarting’s AP Environmental Science class collect data in boots and orange jumpsuits. The classes gathered data on the prairie that will be used in Dr. Helen Alexander’s research. “I love that it’s real research, not something that we know all the answers to,” Schwarting said.
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-13 sq miles -Founded in 1971 -2500 sq feet -Managed by Kansas State University -Founded in 2013 -Native tall grass prairie -Managed by students, teachers -Open to the public and Kansas University -Located in the Flint Hills -Demonstration site -Number one grazer is the -Opened to the public grasshopper -Located in the abandoned football feild -Inhabited by bison -Number one grazer is the grasshopper
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BYE-BYE BROWN BAG Art Department says goodbye to Brown Bag Fashion Show for now
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n late October of 2015, a runway sat between the staircases in the Commons and stretched through a crowd of students. Spectators from all grades gathered around to watch some of the art department’s finest students parade down the runway modeling their hand made costumes of mythological figures. Every single one of the costumes was made out of brown paper bags. The Brown Bag Fashion Show was in full swing that cloudy, late arrival morning. The fashion show may have happened early on a Late Arrival morning, but it was beloved by the faculty and students inside and outside of the art department. “The Brown Bag Fashion Show showcased people in the art department” senior Will Benkelman said. “I think that was cool because [the art department] does not always get the spotlight.” This year, the Brown Bag Fashion Show will be taking a leave of absence. “The department is going through a lot of changes,” art teacher Rachel Downs-Blair said. “We have two new art teachers, one of which felt uncomfortable doing something like [the Brown Bag Fashion Show] their first year.” In order to make the Brown Bag Fashion Show happen, the responsibility of faculty includes taking three weeks out of their curriculum, so they were be tentative about taking on that kind of challenge this year. Also, the school did not pay for supplies, and participants would not usually buy their own, so the teachers ended up having to pay for the materials. “It’s been hard to get kids to participate, and it has been something that we have had to require.” Downs-Blair said. “I don’t think it should have to be a requirement.” However, the Brown Bag Fashion Show may be coming back. In the future, the
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During the 2015 Brown Bag Fashion Show, art teachers Rachel Downs-Blair, Michelle Salmans and Marsha Poholsky, showcase their outfits. Teachers as well as advanced students created their own outfits to model in the show. “The show was a way to think outside the box,” Poholsky said.
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Showing off her costume, senior Marissa Valles-Mora models in the 2015 Brown Bag Fashion Show for the first time. This show has been a tradition for more than a decade. “[By not having the fashion show] Free State is going to lose a lot of creativity, people are creative and can make great things,” Valles-Mora
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Photo by KLAIRE SARVER
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On the runway, senior Will Benkelman shows off his “guns.” The Brown Bag Fashion Show was an annual fall event. “The show is something that makes Free State unique” Benkelman said.
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Photo by ALI DODD Art Club or the Graphic Design Club may have a hand in putting on the show. The Brown Bag Fashion Show was one of the events that set Free State apart from other high schools. It demonstrated creativity and collaboration skills. Participants from last year’s show are sad to see Brown Bag go. “I think the Brown Bag Fashion Show will definitely be missed.” senior Lane Weis said. “I know everyone that participated in it, either as a designer or model, had a lot of fun.”
“I know everyone that participated in it, either as a designer or model, had a lot of fun.” - SENIOR LANE WEIS
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FROM GERMANY TO THE GREAT PLAINS
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Exchange trip offers Americans and Germans the experience of a lifetime
ossing and turning in and out of sleep on a 10 hour plane ride to Germany, five Free State students and one Lawrence High student departed on a five week journey full of soccer spectation, schnitzel and expanded frames of reference. The group landed at the Hamburg Airport, scanning the crowd for their German host families. “I hopped off the plane, and I had no idea who [Julius was] and who I was supposed to look for,” junior Harrison Miller said. “It was definitely kind of shocking, but the day I got
there was my birthday actually and we got home and they had a nice little breakfast for me and some gifts.” German exchange student Julius Herold hosted Miller over the summer in his hometown of Eutin. “So the first night was very strange because I knew one wall behind me there was sleeping a completely strange person,” Herold said. “We know each other now, and we are just the same person.” Herold is now experiencing the ‘strangeness’ of being immersed in American culture.
“It’s a little bit different, not only a little bit, because everything is different,” Herold said. “The school is different. The look of the whole country is different. The houses are different. For example, I said to Harrison that everyone in Germany has a hedge in the front of their house, and you guys just have grass which is so strange for me.” Despite the anxieties of being in a foreign country, Herold believes the personal growth he will experience will make the trip worthwhile. “I’m going to be more confident after this,” Herold said. “I’m starting to speak better
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was able to explore. “There’s a city called Lubeck that’s a 30 minute train ride south of Eutin, and one day while our Germans went to school, [senior Will Benkelman] and I took a train down to Lubeck and just wove through the city and saw everything,” Sedlock said. “It gave us our own personal vision of the city. We sat down at lunch and started talking with this 65 year old man from Sweden, and he gave us all this life advice. It was a very surreal day.” Bornhoft now “ You have to see not only the place or has the chance to country in which you live, but you have explore America as Sedlock returns the to see the whole world.” favor of hosting. - GERMAN EXCHANGE STUDENT NIKLAS BORNHOFT “You have to see not only the One specific aspect of life in Germany that place or country in which you live, but you surprised Sedlock was the school system. have to see the whole world,” Bornhoft said. “The school is way different; It seems like “I can improve my English, and I’ll learn to be it’s a lot more diluted,” Sedlock said. “They take independent.” 12 classes, and rather than being super intense German exchange student Leonie Krause on them they have a broader understanding of sees similar positive changes coming her way. things. They don’t have homework, and the way “We’ll learn to be a bit more independent they acquire their knowledge is just so different because we don’t have our parents with us here,” and fascinating.” Krause said. “You can experience everything on While in Germany, Sedlock lived in Eutin your own, and you can make you own choices with German exchange student Niklas Bornhoft. and decide what you really want to do and what Although Sedlock spent some of his exchange not.” in Eutin, it wasn’t the only part of Germany he Along with Krause, junior Elizabeth Grinage
is hosting a second German exchange student, Pauline Bockelmamm. Bockelmamm hosted Grinage during Grinage’s exchange to Germany over the summer. “I was looking forward to hosting because it’s like you always have a friend at your house, and you can just hang out and learn from each other,” Grinage said. Learning the culture of one’s host family and sharing the culture of one’s own country is what foreign exchanges are all about, according to Krause. “You learn how different it is in different cultures and how people are living,” Krause said. “They don’t all do the same thing or eat the same thing, you can really see how different it is all around the world, and you can just value new things.” Left: German exchange student Niklas Bornhoft and his American host senior Charles Sedlock have known each other since Sedlock’s exchange to Germany over the summer of 2016. Bornhoft hosted Sedlock in his home town of Eutin.
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Above: [left to right] Lawrence High School student Pierce Saturday, Free State junior Elizabeth Grinage, Lawrence High School German teacher Arne Scholz, Free State senior Charles Sedlock, Free State junior Harrison Miller, Free State senior Will Benkelman and Free State senior Rinny Herndon attended the exchange trip to Germany over the summer of 2016.
Photo submitted by CHARLES SEDLOCK
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English, and I think I’m going to be pretty good in four weeks.” Senior Charles Sedlock also noticed significant variations between life in America and life in Germany after his exchange. “It was like taking a break from life and just living in another world,” Sedlock said. “It’s incredible to see what is the same in Germany and what’s different. The way they use social media is different, they bike everywhere [and] they eat home cooked meals.”
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STRETCHING TOWARDS STATE KAYA SHAFER
Future of Kansas high school gymnastics in
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umors have been circulating that Kansas high schools would lose girls gymnastics next year and the response from the Kansas State High School Activities Association gymnastics administrator Cheryl Gleason doesn’t do a lot to disspell them. “The KSHSAA continues to offer the program for it’s membership and they continue to participate,” Gleason said. “Should a time come when schools cease to participate, then the KSHSAA would take a look at the program’s future.” Gleason inferred that the reason for all the rumors is due to school funding problems the state faced over the summer. “Following past precedence with the boys gymnastics program (which ended in 1990), should the number of schools drop below eight, the KSHSAA will discontinue the state meet,” Gleason said. However, starting next year, Olathe and Shawnee Mission high schools will no longer have teams which would mean, according to Gleason, KSHSAA will not be hosting a state gymnastics championship in 2017-18. There are currently 13 high school gymnastics teams in Kansas. With the loss of the Olathe and Shawnee Mission programs only four would remain: Newton, Emporia, LHS and Free State. The Free State coach Brooke Kissinger hopes to organize a non-school affiliated team for the upcoming years to make up for the loss of KSHSAA’s involvement. This news comes in a year Free State has the biggest gymnastics team in school history. Despite the news the girls are coming together to train and win State. The team trains with LHS in mornings and afternoons. Though training with the rival school could seem like a problem, freshman Monica Kimmel feels that she is still getting focused attention from her coach. Practice can be so consuming that
Kimmel can lose track of who is on the Free State team and who is on the LHS team. After training and bonding with them, the biggest challenge for Free State is often facing LHS at competitions. The benefit of having such a large number of girls on the Free State team is prevalent at meets, where the scoring system is based off team performance rather than individual. The larger the size of the team, the better the chances of winning
overall. Senior Landon Prideaux has been involved in gymnastics since she was only two years old. In her third and last year of high school gymnastics, she has taken on a leadership role similar to that of a coach. “Being a senior, I’m the leader of the team. It’s my responsibility to teach these girls how high school gymnastics works, because it’s a lot different
Continued from page 10 you won’t get as many points as a girl who fell at a really advanced skill.” No matter the future of the team, the girls are relishing in their final year of the competing. For Prideaux, that means not taking any moment for granted. When she started going to Lawrence Gymnastics Academy, she knew how she felt immediately. “I just knew that I fell in love with it. In the gym there was the little girls’ side and then there was the big girls’ side,” Prideaux said. “I actually remember being in the little classes and seeing
[the big girls]. I went over and tried to practice with them instead.” With senior year stress and coaching beginner gymnasts, Prideaux has many things to anticipate in the remaining school year. “Living in the moment of the last of something,” she said. “I think that will be what I look forward to.”
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than club [gymnastics],” Prideaux said. Club and high school are indeed very different from each other. From complex scoring to different material floor mats, gymnasts face drastic changes when transitioning from club to high school teams. “Usually in club you start at a perfect ten [score] and get deducted down from that, but in high school, you start at whatever the start value for your skill is,” Prideaux said. “If you have really basic skills your start level would be down to a seven. Even if you have really perfect skills,
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Opposite page: Doing the bars, sophomore Madoka Ueno prepares to land. Free State practiced with LHS in a city wide gymnastics program. “It’s good that we can see and learn from other people”, Ueno said. Left: In the air, freshman Liliana King-Wilson does the bars event. King-Wilson had some troubles with shin splints, but thought the season went well. “I think that we are a strong team, we just need to work hard during practices and focus during meets”, King-Wilson said.
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HOORAY FOR HORROR FILMS MARIAH HOUSTON
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single tear rolled down my cheek as I soaked in the horror of Blair Witch; not necessarily because I was sad, but because I am a wimp. The plot of the film included a ragtag group of friends who ventured into the supposedly haunted Black Hill Forest of Maryland. The point of the expedition was to search for the main protagonist’s sister who disappeared in the same woods 17 years earlier. The characters believe the disappearance was related to the legend of the Blair Witch, although some characters are skeptical about her existence. The Blair Witch is the ghost of a woman who was banished from Blair Township for witchcraft. Her spirit now resides in the forest, and she is known for killing those who enter. I may have cried during the film, but I have also successfully cried during every single scary movie I have ever seen, so wearing waterproof mascara and stocking up on tissues is most likely not necessary for people who are more in control of their lacrimation. Although the version of Blair Witch I experienced was released in 2016, the franchise has been evolving ever since the original independent film was released in 1999. The 1999 edition of Blair Witch was about a group of friends who went into the Black Hill Forest of Maryland in 1994. Although the characters disappear, their footage is recovered a year later and the movie is told through the lense of that footage. The 1999 Blair Witch was one of the first films to be told through “found-footage,” causing the movie to take off at a viral level and ultimately leading to the trend of found-footage films. A sequel to the original Blair Witch, called Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Two, was released in 2000, making the film I watched the third in a trilogy. Blair Witch may have pushed boundaries in 1999, but the 2016 rendition was not particularly groundbreaking. Although I appreciated that the video-footage perspective of the film created a personal feeling, I noticed multiple points in the plot that I considered cliche among horror films. People ran out into the woods alone, the African American male was killed off first, the main characters refused to believe the warnings from the character who was portrayed as ‘crazy’ Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Editor reviews Blair Witch when in reality he was correct. I would have enjoyed a plot filled with more twists and less stereotypes. There could have been improvements within the plot; but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie’s focus on psychological terror rather than a physically gory alternative. Blair Witch made me not only contemplate what is true but also reevaluate psychological stability entirely. When fear is at play, the human mind is in a
completely different state than it is in everyday life, and this shift in sanity was clear amongst the characters. My Blair Witch viewing left me cerebrally exhilarated, terrified of trees, kind of crying and ultimately happy with my experience. If ever at a horror movie, make sure to bring someone who can help you laugh about it later, and make sure to always avoid the Black Hill Forest when in Maryland.
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OUIJA BOARDS: DEBUNKED
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Halloween classic incites more laughter than fear
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he rules of a Ouija board are simple. Gather a small group of eager friends on a chilly Saturday night, huddle into someone’s bedroom or basement, turn off the lights, light a few candles, place your hands on the heart-shaped pointer and begin your unearthly experience with the dead. Historically, the objective of a Ouija board is to communicate with the supernatural world. Patented in the 1890s due to an increase in spiritualism in America during the 19th century. The Ouija board has become an icon of teenage sleepovers, Hollywood movies and Halloween in American pop culture. Despite it being sold as a game at toy stores and supermarkets all over the country, many people still view Ouija boards as bad luck, or even dangerous. At 17 years old and a senior in high school, my mom has told me my entire life not to experiment with a Ouija board. Because of my mom’s discouragement, I always felt like there might be some tiny inkling of truth to a Ouija board’s mystic qualities. What I discovered for myself was not what I expected. First of all, where to get a Ouija board when all the adults in your life think it’s either a bad idea or a waste of money? Ouija boards cost anywhere from around 13 dollars to 30, or there’s always the DIY route. I chose to splurge Pages by SYDNEY VOGELSANG
and purchase one from the Toy Store that was about 30 dollars. It seemed sturdy, clean and classic but not quite worth the heavy sum of cash. After I purchased the Ouija board I met up with three trustworthy friends in order to summon the dead. Positioning ourselves comfortably around the Ouija board in the living room of a house almost 100 years old, it seemed like the perfect horror movie scenario to incite some sort of paranormal activity. We lit candles, turned off the lights, grew more serious and placed our hands on the heart shaped pointer, asking out loud if there was a spirit in the room. We felt nothing. Our hands didn’t move, the board didn’t fly off the table, the door didn’t slam, but we remained persistent. We then asked what the spirit’s name was. We still received nothing. Feeling a little discouraged, we decided to all relax our hands and slightly push the pointer all at once. Of course this plan did not go well. Immediately each member of the group began accusing another of pushing in a certain direction, but after going seemingly nowhere for quite a while, we gave up. In my experience trying to excite some sort of supernatural behavior with a Ouija board, it eliminated almost any fears or questions I had about them. The only way I could see a Ouija
board being effective is considering the scientific reasoning behind them. Researchers have said that the truth behind the Ouija board is really explained by the “ideomotor effect”, the human body’s tendency to move without actually consciously making the decision to. Especially on such a frictionless surface, the ideomotor effect could explain the “ghostly” results of Ouija boards. Overwhelmingly, my disappointing Ouija experience led me to believe that the boards are best suited for nervous preteen gatherings and Halloween pranks. Despite their resilience as a spooky classic, if you’re looking to use a Ouija board this October, stick to “Should Janet kiss Brad?” over “How did you die?”
Above: Senior Sam Spencer and friends collaborated in a night of Ouija board exploration. Although Spencer purchased an expensive Ouija board, lit candles and sat in the middle of a dark, 100 year old house, her Ouija board experience was a bust. No ghosts or spirits were summoned.
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THE GHOST OF PRIVILEGE Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. ROWAN PLINSKY
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t is following us, wherever we go. Lurking, stalking and -- worst of all -- watching our backs. A long, dark hand quick as a spider, reaches up as fast as it can, and opens the door for us. Silently, it slips our job applications on top of the stack. It walks in front of us, shielding us from danger, from harassment from prosecution. It lives with us, in our skin colors, in our gender identities and even in our wallets. The worst part is that everyone can see it, but us. “What could this beast be?” you may ask. What is this ominous essence that has attached itself to us? Is it a poltergeist, or a phantom perhaps? No, this is ghost of our privilege. A ghost can manifest itself in many forms. It can appear in our skin, our social statuses, our genders, our wealth, our education, our religious beliefs and countless other aspects of our lives. To us, our ghosts probably seem pretty awesome. It helps us in almost all aspects of life. Everything we know could be haunted, but we are going in a good direction. Things are looking up. The problem is, not everyone’s ghosts are as strong as ours. Many people do not have a ghost of privilege at all.
Rowan Plinsky is a reporter for the Free Press. This is her first year on staff. She is the co-president of Lawrence Free Poetry and is on the swim team.
Having privilege means we are in a position where we have more opportunities than other people. We are unjustifiably in a higher place socially than others. So what do we do? We were born with this ghost of privilege that we don’t know how to deal with. The key to dealing with our privilege is to understand that we have privilege. Once we are able to understand our situations we should be able to see that it is unjust. We have this advantage that we never knew was there, but once we know, we will understand that not everyone has it. Our ghosts have been disenfranchising others. We may have been given more than we deserve, while others deserve more than they have. There is no way to get rid of our privilege. Whether we like it or not, it will always be there. I have privilege. I am a middle-class white girl who is receiving an above-average public education. I have a lot of privilege, I know that. And I can use this knowledge in order to try to stop the disempowerment of others.
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Editor reflects on missed connections
Somewhere in Montana, there is a friend who takes pictures of cats in autumn and mountains I feel like I’ve been to in my sleep and skies with more stars than spaces in between them. Somewhere in Montana, there is a friend I haven’t spoken to in months. They are ghosts to me now. They are intangible. They are presences I feel occasionally when i’m looking out over a lake, when it’s two in the morning, when the sun is at it’s solstice; but mostly, they are slowly disappearing. There are a lot of people who only come to me in lakes and mornings and sunshine. There are a lot of people I will probably never see again, bodies I will never hug, laughs I will soon forget. Memories are so fickle. Sometimes I can remember moments vividly; but other times, the moments die out, become ghosts, vanish. I have the tombstones of these memories in Facebook albums and Instagram posts. I no longer have them where it’s real, but I’ll always have them where it hurts the most.
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF GHOST STORY
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omewhere in Denmark, there is a boy who helped me scrub burnt Japanese noodles out of a stainless steel frying pan. Somewhere in Denmark, there is a boy who sat with me on a patch of dirt and listened with wide eyes as I told him about a man named Michael Brown and a kid named Trayvon Martin and a country drowning in gun violence. He didn’t understand. He didn’t understand. Somewhere in Denmark, there is a boy I haven’t spoken to in over a year. Somewhere in Montana, there is a friend whose moving car I jumped out of on a night when I laughed harder than anyone in the world, probably.
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What’s the worst thing you’ve gotten while trick-or-treating? “A business card.”
Where do you like to trick-or-treat?
“A stomach ache from eating too much candy.” “A plastic harmonica.”
DOWNTOWN
NEIGHBORHOODS
89.8%
“A subscription to a local dentist.” “Grandma candy.” “Pennies.”
GRAPHICS
10.2%
“Shelled peanuts (a handful, not packaged).”
“Fish bait.” “A tea bag.” “Those stupid vampire teeth.”
No
Do you celebrate Halloween?
“An actual spider.”
4.9%
“Christian pamphlets.”
I used to
8.1%
“Fake ‘Fun Dip’ that made me have weird dreams.” “I got lost two blocks from my house.”
Yes
87%
185 students surveyed Pumpkin images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Snickers and Reese’s images courtesy of Bodo Kit Kat image courtesy of Ged Carroll
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Interactions with possible ghosts chase away skepticism MARIAH HOUSTON, JUNA MURAO AND ROWAN PLINSKY
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he possessed woman sits up in bed. Slowly, she climbs off her king size mattress and stands, facing her sleeping husband. The woman stays there for hours, staring at the sleeping man. At precisely 3:14 am, she leaves the room. Two minutes later, a scream rings throughout the house. The man jumps out of bed and runs towards his screaming wife. The man’s body is flung back into the bedroom and against a wall. The woman appears, covered in blood. She stands over her husband’s body. She makes sure he
is dead. She smiles viciously and lunges at the ghosts since she was in elementary school. camera. Her older sister Chloe was the first to The lights flick on and people begin to have an interaction with a ghost in their file out of the theater. Faces are filled with house. excitement and relief; it was just a movie, Above: right? Ghosts aren’t real, right? There is no Growing up, junior Sophia Riedemann’s plausible way the events of the movie could older sister repeatedly saw and interacted happen to any living breathing human, right? with a mysterious lady in a red dress. After hearing dozens of stories about these ghostly Well...maybe. interactions, Sophia Riedemann became less Growing up, junior Sophia Riedemann skeptical about paranormal activity. heard ghost stories about a lady in a red dress Photo by REBECCA CALDERON from her parents, which made her believe in
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Below: Previous owners of Junior Sophia Riedemann’s family’s home warned the Riedemanns about a suspicious “lady in a red dress.” According to the previous owners, only young children can see her. After living in the same hosue for years, Riedemann said her opinion of ghosts has changed from fear to acceptance. She believes they are kind spirits.
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON
The tour guide began talking about her house and how it was a hospital. That was when her father began to tell her about all of the paranormal activity in the house. Riedemann expressed that she completely believes in all of the ghost stories she grew up hearing from her family and friends. Stories from other people, such as her brother’s friend, confirmed her belief that her father was not simply making things up. Because of her belief in ghosts from a young age, Riedmann expresses that she has never been afraid of the ghosts in her house. “I’m not really scared of them [ghosts],” Riedemann said “just because I lived there for so long and nothing [bad or scary] really happened.” Being only a child, senior Savannah Fergus had a prominent curiosity of ghosts and anything paranormal. As she grew up she still maintained her belief.
“When I was younger I read a lot of ghost books and watched a lot of Ghost Hunters, Fergus said. “I had a lot of paranormal experiences, like I would lay down to go to sleep and I would see faces, coming at me.” As a strong believer Fergus never questioned her supernatural experiences. She always saw a woman in a white dress, standing at the foot of her parents’ bed. The first time she saw the woman, she was sleeping in her parents’ bed and heard something suspicious.
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“My dad was lying on the couch, watching Chloe play, and she pointed behind him and she said ‘there’s a lady in a red dress,’” Riedemann said. “My dad looked back, but there was nothing there. My sister kept saying ‘there’s a lady, a lady in a red dress.’” Riedemann’s house has taken many different personas, including a hospital, a fraternity house and a warehouse. Her parents moved there when they were just married and were warned about the conspicuous “lady in the red dress” that only children could see. “[Chloe] was taking a nap and when she woke up she walked to my parents room,” Riedemann said. “They asked how she got out of bed and she said ‘the lady helped me, the lady in the red dress.’” Riedemann was first exposed to these ghost stories in kindergarten while she was on a tour of historic places in Lawrence.
Right: Junior Sophia Riedemann’s house, nestled on Ohio Street, took the form of a hospital, a fraternity house, and a warehouse before settling into it’s current form as the Riedemann’s place of residence. It is known for it’s ghost stories and paranormal possibilities.
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON
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standing at the foot of her parents’ bed. The first time she saw the woman, she was sleeping in her parents’ bed and heard something suspicious. “I woke up, and I looked over and she was standing over my dad touching his head and his feet. And then she was gone,” Fergus said. In Fergus’s experience, the more someone believes in the possibility of supernatural beings the more likely it is for supernatural occurrences happen. “I think the more open you are to it the more likely you are to having paranormal experiences,” Fergus said. “People who would
be scared of [anything] happening to them, [I’ve] noticed they don’t have experiences.” According to Fergus, people that come to her house often mention feeling uneasy or claim that they feel something that is not necessarily mean, but just does not want them there. “To me, he isn’t always there,” she said. “But when he is, it just feels like [I’m] sitting next to a relative that [I] don’t know very well, but it’s not like he is trying to hurt me.” Senior Ella Sullivan has been ghost hunting from a young age. Sullivan’s mother, Nancy, started off her paranormal career as a
tour guide for Ghost tours of Kansas. However, after being invited to an investigation with the Kansas Paranormal Research Society, she decided to become an official paranormal investigator. “We investigated anything from a private family home to the Sigma Nu house here in Lawrence,” Nancy Sullivan said. “We would set up cameras around and then would have a base station where someone would sit and watch the monitors all night. People go out two at a time [to] different positions in the house. You always have a walkie-talkie to keep in touch with everyone. And then you just go and sit and ask questions and use your recorders to record anything you might not hear, and you just sit and wait for something to happen.” Nancy Sullivan admitted that her reason for joining the Ghost Tours of Kansas was not her belief in ghosts, but rather her skepticism. “I was mostly just interested in it, and I just wanted to know if there really is something there or not,” Nancy Sullivan said. “I felt like I was more skeptic in the group. I try to find other explanations first, but sometimes you just can’t.” Although she still has her skeptic moments, Nancy Sullivan has had numerous experiences that point her toward believing in ghosts. “We were at a home in Junction City,” Nancy Sullivan said. “We had a psychic with us at the time, and she felt like there was a little girl in the house. The owners of the home had seen a little girl, and the psychic didn’t know the stories [ahead of time]. On two different recorders we have a really clear voice of a little girl going ‘mother?’ My recorder was out in the hallway outside the bedroom and the other recorder was in the bedroom, and we got it on both of the recorders. There weren’t children in the house.” Ella Sullivan spent her childhood attending ghost tours and investigations with her mother, and she also witnessed unexplainable events, heightening her belief in supernatural beings. “In a country club, there was a boy ghost that drowned in the pool, and we found wet little footprints,” Ella Sullivan said. “Nobody was wet, it was in October so the pool was drained, there was no leak in the pipes and it
Right: Along with junior Sophia Riedemann’s experiences with a ghostly lady in a red dress, senior Savannah Fergus has also seen suspicious paranormal activity. She recalls a woman standing over her while she slept. Fergus believes that the less skeptic people are about ghosts the more likely they are to encounter them.
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON
A long, wooden staircase leads to the upstairs section of junior Sophia Riedemann’s house. Since moving to their current home, Riedemann’s family has had countless interactions with an infamous lady in a red dress. Supposedly, only children can see this lady.
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Photo by REBECCA CALDERON Left: Junior Sophia Riedemann and senior Savannah Fergus are not the only ones who have experience paranormal activity. Senior Ella Sullivan and her mother Nancy Sullivan have attended multiple paranormal investigations across Kansas. The Sullivans’ skepticism of paranormal activity has shrunk.
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON was really in the shape of a footprint.” The Sullivans have countless paranormal stories, including the inexplicable sound of a music box at a winery in Topeka and a recording of footsteps running down a hall while all the investigators were standing still in an old bookstore in Abilene. Although the Sullivans have encountered what seem to be ghosts, they have never encountered the kind of demons that are portrayed in popular horror movies. “I don’t think it needs to be scary; it’s just people,” Nancy Sullivan said. “I don’t necessarily believe in demons or bad ghosts; it just might be someone who was grumpy in life is grumpy in death.” Although these ghostly experiences have convinced Ella Sullivan of the possibility of paranormal life, she doesn’t believe just hearing her stories will convince other people. “The thing that gets people to believe is having them experience it themselves,” Ella Sullivan said. “I don’t think anyone could ever convince somebody without proof.” Whether someone is skeptical about ghosts or a strong believer in ghosts, Nancy Sullivan claims there is one thing everyone can agree on. “There are some things you just can’t explain,” Nancy Sullivan said.
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Do you believe in ghosts or supernatural beings? Interviewed by ERIN LISTON
senior
ALAIN MARQUEZ
“No, I don’t believe in the after life. I believe ghosts are just evil spirits.” JAKE VISCOMI
“No, I don’t because there’s no real proof. I’ve never seen one so I can’t believe in them.”
freshman
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sophomore
MADISON GOESNER
“I believe in some sorts of supernatural beings. I believe that when you get close to death you can see loved ones who have died, but I don’t believe there are real ghosts that haunt people.”
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freshman
DAVID STUART
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JULIA LARKIN
“No, because there is no tangible proof or real evidence as to them existing.”
“No, I don’t believe in them because I don’t have any proof of seeing them or reason to believe [in] them.”
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junior
NEVA GREGORY
“Yes, I believe in ghosts because I used to live in Atchison, Kansas and I think my house was haunted. We would see my little brother’s toys fly across the floor.”
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ULTIMATE AIRBENDERS Ultimate Frisbee players strive for greatness ERIN LISTON
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he end zone is in sight, and the adrenaline of the team is almost tangible. A handler sends a bullet pass to an open cutter in the end zone. The cutter dives for the frisbee, and his fingers grip the rim of the disc just before it reaches the ground. The pass is successful and the team cheers with excitement. This is no ordinary sport; this is ultimate. Ultimate Frisbee is one of the only clubs at Free State that incorporates physical activity, or a sport into their club. “It is fun because it is a sport without the commitment of an official sport because it is only twice a week,” junior Evan Cornell said. Being in a club that isn’t necessarily considered a school sport has given students a way to get exercise and have fun at the same time.
Even though it is a club available for all genders, Ultimate Frisbee is mainly made up of male students with only two girls on the team. “I think that there is a lack of girls because students think it is more of a guy’s thing, and that they are aggressive and don’t think that girls can play,” junior Angela Oliver said. Although there is currently a lack of females, the team is attempting to reach out to people of all genders and grade levels as an all inclusive club. The team had a tournament on Oct. 16 in Manhattan which they had been readying for through a variety of preparatory exercises. “About 6 other schools [were] involved in the tournament,” freshman Eli Loney said. “We [had] been doing our drills and scrimmaging every Monday and Wednesday all semester to get
ready for it.” Ultimate Frisbee teams usually assign specific positions to players. The two main positions are handlers and cutters. Handlers throw the frisbee to the cutters who seek for open spaces which will gain the team yardage. Junior Andrew Hall is a handler. “There are three throwers on the team,” Hall said. “We also have four Cutters, which are the people who catch the frisbee and run with it.” Having different positions allows the club members to find out where their talent fits. Ultimate Frisbee allows students to come together and be involved in an activity they enjoy with people they can enjoy it with. “It’s a really good group of people,” Hall said. “it’s a fun place to be and anyone can join.”
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Above: Sophomore Malachi Starr and sophomore
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Jori Rudisell practice for their next meet. “A he United States federal govof the most experienced and skilled lot of [preparation] is cutting new evidence, a ernment should substantially debaters on the team. One of the lot of formatting, practicing strategies”, junior Hirsh Guha said. increase its economic and/ skills they focus on most in varsity or diplomatic engagement with the level debate is speed. Photo by CLAIRE PURCELL People’s Republic of China.” “We’re pretty fast,” Guha said. Across the country this year, “In the past, people spoke kind of students on their schools’ debate slow and focused on eloquence. so you just practice talking faster and teams are arguing this resolution Now it’s ‘how many arguments can faster. with evidence It’s a lot of practice. and documents We work on cutting ev“A lot of [preparation] is cutting new that they have really fast, going evidence, a lot of formatting, practicing idence gathered and ‘cut’ through news sources themselves. Juniors strategies.” fast.” Hirsh Guha and Camp can give some - JUNIOR HIRSH GUHA Ting Ting Shi teams the upper hand are taking on that they need. Even this resolution as the second varsity I get out in as little time as possible’. within their team at Free State. The two have That’s what I mean when I say varsiown school’s team, they will have more both been part of the debate team ty is a lot more technical, you’re just experience. Guha enjoys the feeling of since freshman year, but they agree focusing on shorthand, saying a lot finally knowing what he’s doing. that they didn’t initially enjoy the of words that only a select number “It’s not my first year on varsity but it co-curricular. Guha remembers of judges can understand as fast as is my first year actually caring about it,” feeling intimidated by the whole idea possible.” Guha said. “There’s something real exciting of attending a debate tournament: The skill of speaking ridiculously about being the big man on campus.” waking up at 5 a.m. to go to a 12 fast can come in handy when you’re There’s an idea that debate is a game. hour long tournament with five trying to throw off the other team. There are skills that you acquire, and then rounds, to stand in an enclosed room Most people can’t speak at the rate there are skills that just come naturally. with your partner, two debaters of varsity debaters, though. In fact, Guha explained a few of these skills and from another school and a single these speedy speakers had to spend their importance. judge, and argue a claim that you a lot of time to get to the level that “Aside from your ability to speak, your previously couldn’t care less about. they’re at now. eloquence, your strategy,” Guha said, “Your Shi doesn’t even remember why she “I went to camp this summer ability to bullshit yourself through any took a debate class in the first place. and they taught us how to spread,” situation is definitely something that’s going Nonetheless, the duo are now some Shi said. “We do a lot of speed drills to help you out in life.”
DEBATE: THE GAME
Varsity debaters explain skills, techniques
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MODEL senior ATTICUS VONHOLTEN Where do you shop? “I shop online, Arizona Trading Company, Sunflower Outdoors.”
What inspires what you wear? “I like things that are comfortable and that I feel good in.”
How would you describe your style? “I try to be as tactical as possible.”
How do you think your personality influences your style? “I’d like to think that I’m outgoing so maybe I look like somebody who is.”
What is your favorite clothing item?
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“I like my arcteryx pants a lot, they’re like the only thing I wear.”
What is your favorite color? “Light pink.”
What is your favorite animal? “I like marmots and dogs.”
What music do you listen to? “I listen to all kinds of music, a very wide range.”
What fashion trends do you love? “Cargo pants, they’re making a comeback and I’m into it.”
What fashion trends do you hate? I’m not super into loud graphic clothing.”
What is your dream job? “I’d love to be a freelance artist.”
If you had a million dollars, what would be the first thing you bought? “I’d buy new glasses, I need some new glasses. I’d also probably donate it.”
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Tell us something about yourself. “I love to make screen prints.”
SIBLINGS freshman BEATRICE VONHOLTEN Where do you shop? “I go to a lot of thrift stores, Arizona Trading Company, Wildman, any thrift stores I can find on my travels.”
What inspires what you wear? “I don’t really have a fixed style, I just wear whatever I like. I do a lot of art so I wear paint clothes and that’s developed my style.”
How would you describe your style? “Pretty vast, a lot of old clothes. I wear dresses and jean jackets a lot.”
How do you think your personality influences your style? “I’m kind of quiet but I like to wear loud things sometimes, but I’m pretty perky so I wear a lot of colorful things.”
What is your favorite clothing item? “I like my floral dresses I have.”
What is your favorite color? “Burgundy.”
What is your favorite animal? “I really like dogs.”
“Mac DeMarco, The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, Girls.”
STYLE
What music do you listen to? What fashion trends do you love? “I like the mom jeans, those are my favorite right now.”
What fashion trends do you hate? “Chokers, I can’t do chokers.”
What is your dream job? “I want to go to art school and follow a career path in the arts. I’m thinking tattoo artist or technical theater.”
If you had a million dollars, what would be the first thing you bought? “I’d buy a really nice house in Chicago or Arizona.”
Tell us something about yourself. “I like to do art of all kinds, drawing and theater.”
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senior MORGAN LUBACZEWSKI ARTISTS 29 30 31
ARTIST OF THE MONTH
“Capturing the emotion and also the technical observation of it, but also getting my own style into it”
Photos by NICOLA SANTANGELO Page by ELISE GARD
FEAUTURED ARTISTS ARTISTS
senior CHELBE COLLINS senior MADISON BRUHNS
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junior BRADLEY HAMILTON
senior HUANG VU
CLUB ACTIVITIES Art Club
Cupcake Club
Can We Talk
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m. in Room 205
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 26, after school in Room 210
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 28, 8-9 a.m. in the Black Box
Environmental Club
Finer Things Club
Foursquare Club
Next meeting: Thursday Oct. 20, after school in Room 412
Next meeting: Friday Oct. 28, after school in Room 313
Next meeting: Tuesday Oct. 25, 7 p.m. at the Firebird statue
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Graphic Design Club
Lawrence Free Poetry Club
Next meeting: Wednesday Nov. 2, after school in Room 515
Next meeting: Thursday Oct. 27, after school in Room 200
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 26, after school in Room 320
Math Cult
Sight Singing Club
Ultimate Frisbee Club
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 20, 8-9 a.m. in Room 405
Next meeting: Wednesday Nov. 2, after school in Room 602
Next meeting: Monday Oct. 24, after school in Room 403
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Young Feminists Club
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Next meeting: Thursday Oct. 20, after school in Room 319
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 26, after school in Room 602
Next meeting: Wednesday Oct. 26, after school in Room 321
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