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About Me. Storytelling has enveloped my life from an early point. When I was six, my mother opened a scrap booking store, and as her child, I became her undocumented child worker and adorable salesman. The gig was fun, but what I enjoyed more was making things. I developed an affinity for making scrapbook page designs, even though there were no pictures or text on them. I just liked making things look nice. Fast forward to high school, where I was more or less forced into journalism by one of my favorite teachers. Although I was worried about it at first, he impacted me in the hugest way possible. I quickly became adept in all things journalism, from styling to ethics, and it all fascinated me. Naturally, I applied for a newspaper staff position. Then things changed.
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Being on a staff is so incredibly different than just writing for a class. We’re actually covering things, peoples’ stories, their concerns, their hopes. A year later, I became an editor, and that much responsibility knocked me flat on the floor. I quickly dusted myself off, then went back to work. And with a new adviser, things were insanely different. We quickly became great friends, and she’s now a large part of my life. With her help, I developed a somewhat unhealthy obsession with PANTONE colors, and use them all the time. I’m now attending The University of Kansas, majoring in Journalism and Aerospace Engineering, with a minor in Spanish. It’s a lot, but it’s everything I love. And what drives me is still the same: telling stories.
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Writing In eighth grade, I took a tour of the high school we would be moving on to the next year. My Language Arts teacher, who was supervising the tour, insisted I meet someone. That someone was the Journalism teacher. His words to her were, “this man needs to be in your class next year.” Needless to say, I was. I took the introductory class to newspaper, and aced it. It covered in detail the ethics of journalism, how to write in an articular format, and the drudgery that I’ve come to love known as Associated Press styling. The next year, I was on newspaper staff, a lovely group of three highly dedicated people. It was the golden years of my high school journalism life.
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Making a Super-Intendent The next school year will bring a wave of changes to the students of Ottawa High School; renovations to the school, different teachers, and even a new principal. On Feb. 8, the Ottawa school board unanimously approved the decision to promote Ryan Cobbs [principal] to the assistant superintendent of Ottawa’s school district. This brings new opportunities for Cobbs, as well as moments of reminiscence. “What I’ll miss the most are the kids. I’ll miss being the leader of this staff. I’ll miss standing in front of our student section on Friday nights at basketball games. I’ll just miss walking down the hallways and hanging out with kids,” Cobbs said. “That’s what I will miss the most.” For Cobbs, his job as the principal is coming to a close. Meanwhile, the hunt for his replacement is just beginning. Working very closely with the Steering Committee and staff, administration developed a rubric for what they want to
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see in their candidates, ranging from experience to leadership to approachability. This rubric pulls from a multitude of feedback from the school’s staff and teachers. The candidate also needs to know a few things about the school as well. “The principal needs to know that there is a great deal of pride throughout our school and the community, that we put students first, that we’re a school of visionaries and we have become very innovative,” Cobbs said. The new principal also needs to understand and respect the progress Ottawa High School has already made in certain programs, such as the upcoming school renovations and the One to One program. “This will be a pretty good job for any principal in the state of Kansas to have and we expect to see a number of qualified applicants,” Cobbs said. Most of all, Cobbs is excited to have more time with his family. Currently, his work can stretch far beyond the 40-hour
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work week. With his new position, he will have more freedom in his schedule. “The time that you spend away from your family is pretty rough. I look forward to get home and be with my kids,” Cobbs said. “That’s something that I haven’t been able to do for ten years.” Cobbs is also looking forward to the new challenges he will face as the assistant superintendent. “I think what intrigues me the most about being the assistant superintendent is that we get to start thinking more globally about our community, and not just ‘what can I accomplish here at Ottawa High School?,’ but ‘what can we accomplish as an entire district?’” Cobbs said. “When we push our district forward, we push our community forward. With all of the great things happening in our community… the opportunities to draw people into this community and make it something greater than it already is right there.”
Cosmic Cadet Since May, Brittany Crossen [12] has been focused on one result. Weekend long tests, adjusting voltage thresholds, fidgeting with terminal commands, all for a single artifact: a flash. A sea of characters cascade down her computer screen, each one a data point, a discovery, a muon. Each one in hexadecimal, Crossen must convert them all to Base 10. Nestled within the program is a linotype drawing of the characters from The Simpsons. “Programmers are weird,” Crossen said. Spanning across one of the hallways was the cosmic ray detector, with its two paddles 30 meters apart. After the conclusion of each test, Crossen and her partner had to deconstruct their detector. Working in a classroom in Malott Hall, Crossen collaborated along with other students on research projects for the University of Kansas. One of the projects entailed sending an apparatus into the atmosphere via weather balloon to emit a spark able to be detected from Antarctica. “Their project was cooler,” Crossen chuckled. “We shared a lab with two guys building a
lightning detector and two other looking for a missing particle, a particle that we think exists but haven’t found any proof of it.” To put her research simply, a muon is a type of particle that is produced when a cosmic ray hits the earth’s atmosphere and breaks apart, causing a flash of radio waves. Crossen’s apparatus detects these flashes, and in doing so, detects the cosmic rays. On average, there is one every five seconds. Her detector is one of 15 deployed in Kansas. “I enjoyed doing the research a lot,” Crossen said. The detector itself looks like a cereal box wrapped in electrical tape, with two PVC pipes protruding from each side. Two wires flow out of each of the tubes, and make their way to a power supply and a data acquisition board. Fermilab, a physics laboratory in Illinois, gave a grant to KU to hire high school students interested in the field of physics to gain experience. This was a joint partnership with Quarknet, a science education organization that partners students and teachers with universities and researchers to bring in more modern physics practices into the classroom.
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Maybe a dozen have summer programs. In the summer of 2015, Quarknet offered Deane a seat at an educator’s conference in Greece. “Only 150 to 200 students have the opportunity to do this,” Deane said. “It’s a pretty exclusive club.” Deane has participated in this event as well as a summer research teacher and program leader. According to Deane, only ten to 15 institutions participate in this six week program. The cosmos has been on Crossen’s radar for quite some time. She received her first astronomy book when she was six, and has been fascinated and entranced ever since. “The fact that quarks are so incredibly tiny and they have their own laws of physics, it’s science fiction and it blows my mind,” Crossen said. “In a way physics is it’s own art.” Crossen also has other passions outside the concentration of science. A self proclaimed band nerd, she has participated for seven years, but has been playing since age three. She is also a novelist, starting the practice at 12, and now has one book and one short story published.
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Streaming Exclusively Music streaming services are great. It still amazes me that I can jump from Kanye to Phoenix to Chopin to Moog Rock in seconds all on demand. Most of all, it’s all in one place, so I don’t have to scavenge for each artist, album, or track I want to listen to and compile them into a single application. I could open iTunes - which already sounds archaic find each song I wanted to listen to, buy it, download it, put them into a playlist, and use the joke of a sync feature to get them to my phone. It would be incredibly time-consuming to do so, not to mention costly. That’s the main appeal of streaming services. Bypass wasting $1.29 on each song, have all of the world’s music in one place, and have access to it at any time or place. And this idea has surely taken off. Streaming platforms have left the oldschool way of purchasing music
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dead in the water, and has given an easy alternative to music pirates. With an abundance of music streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Rdio, Soundcloud, and Google Play Music, just to name a few, the consumer has more options than ever to legally get the world’s music at their fingertips. And to compete with each other, some services partner with artists in order to get exclusives - releases only on their service. This is meant to draw people to their service in order to get that new album from their favorite artist, as well as boost both subscriber count and revenue. It sounds good, but it actually is more counteractive than originally thought. These service-exclusive releases actually cause more harm than good to both the artist and the consumer. Meant to draw
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people to their service for these releases, this tactic simply lessens the amount of people able to listen it. Additionally, it also provokes a copyright issue. To get the few albums not on their service of choice, consumers would much rather download them illegally than pay for another service. This puts everyone in a tight spot. Artists want to get their music out to as many people as possible, consumers want the easiest way to get to that music, and record labels don’t want people to be pirating their releases. The easy fix to this is to simply release albums on every service. That way, customers are happy with their service’s catalog of music, artists have more presence, and record labels don’t have as much of a pirating issue. Everyone should be able to enjoy that new Kanye album, no matter what service they have.
New Policy Preps for Life To students, it was a surprise. However, to administration, it was no surprise at all. According to Ryan Cobbs [principal], with more than 3,000 tardies over last semester, changes needed to be made to the tardy policy. “We knew that we had to make some changes in our practices in order to try to hedge the number of students who are choosing to be late to class,” Cobbs said. On the last day of the first semester, administration announced a new tardy policy aimed at decreasing the number of tardies students were receiving. According to Cobbs, the reasoning behind the new policy is both to get more students to be in class on time, and to also help students become more punctual and responsible individuals. “Our role as a school is to get you guys [students], again, college and career ready,” Derek Bland [assistant principal] said. “We have to make sure that students understand that there is a very good chance you’re going to have an employer or a professor in college who is going to be strict.” The new schedule states that a student gets two warning tardies per class. On the third tardy, the student earns a 15 minute detention per tardy after until
the sixth tardy, which results in either Friday night school or four hours of community service. If neither are served, the student is assigned one day of out-of-school suspension. While the new policy is aimed at decreasing the number of tardies students accumulate, it also hopes to facilitate more communication between students and teachers, according to Cobbs. “I think that part of this is the understanding that if we communicate with our teachers, there is no teacher that is going to say no,” Cobbs said. For instance, now if a student needs to use the restroom during passing period, they can let their teacher know, get a hall pass, and go. This helps both the student and the teacher. The student now does not have to worry about being late to class, and the teacher knows the student is present and can begin class like normal. Before the new policy, the student may not have notified the teacher, and if the student was late to class, the teacher must pause the lesson to fix the attendance record. “Before we went to this new procedure, I probably had an average of four tardies per day.
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Since we’ve done it, it’s gone down to two, but most often just one,” Brian Stoddard [social studies teacher] said. With this policy, the students are not the only ones that must keep track of things. Teachers are now responsible for tracking students’ tardies and must be present to serve detentions in their classrooms. “What it requires is that the teachers are going to be more responsible in collecting the data and collecting the tardies,” Stoddard said. “It’s our responsibility to keep track of that somehow, someway.” Administration is pushing being punctual to students for a reason. Many employers are uncompromising when it comes to being late to a job, according to Bland. This policy hopes to drive a message home to students that being on time to work is very important in the job market. But for now, it’s just about being to class on time. “I can already tell in the hallway there’s a big difference because more teachers are out there monitoring the hallway, which is a huge thing,” Stoddard said. “And you can tell that the kids are a little more mindful and thoughtful of being tardy than they were before.”
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I’m Not Qualified for This Somehow, and I have no idea how, Emma and I have successfully co-edited for two years. It astonishes me that we’ve managed to not burn the place down, and that everything has beautifully yet painfully met its deadline every single time. Even more so, we have had so much fun doing it. I don’t recall a day there wasn’t a boisterous laugh between the two of us. There isn’t a bone in Emma that I don’t love with my whole heart. We’re an amazing team, and I can’t thank her more for doing all of the things that I’d rather not do. I’ve been lucky enough to have had the fortune of having such an amazing adviser as Mrs. Lynch. Seeing her bright - yet sometimes dead tired - face every morning makes my day brighter as well. No matter whatever she may be dealing with, she greets every single
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student that walks through her door with a smile. She embarks on every challenge with creativity and optimism. She gives me way too much freedom than what’s good for me, and I cannot begin to quantify how important she is to me. In short, she’s a miracle worker and deserves the love and affection of ten thousand river otters. This job is like threading a needle while flying a jetpack. It’s difficult, stressful, and quite a bit ludicrous. Understandably, handing this off to another person is a treacherous task. There are so many little pieces to keep track of, so many issues to resolve, and so much effort involved. I feel so incredibly confident in the abilities of the staff that Emma and I will be leaving behind, as much as it may sound that I’m lying through my teeth. Each member brings
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a different asset to the team, as well as a different perspective on problems. Though I’m stubborn enough to usually go ahead with my solution, I truly value their input. In another sense, I’m kind of glad to be moving on. Editing for two years is a lot of constant impending doom; there’s always a deadline to be keeping an eye out for. I can’t convey how excited I am to shed my main responsibility. I’m also looking forward to new challenges and experiences in a different place, and all of the fun that follows. This class has made me absolutely bonkers. After I graduate, I’ll need electroshock therapy to erase the lunacy I’ve developed over the years. But it was all worth it. Most of all, I’ll miss the memes. O shoot waddup.
Path Ways For seniors, the end is nigh. The only things on their mind are walking at graduation, then leaving to finally embark on their journey of adulthood. Though the goal is the same - to finally become an adult - and each student has a unique plan to get there. Many options are out there for students. Many go straight to college, while some choose to veer towards vocational school or even directly into work. For some, it was fairly straightforward. As for the case of Emily Keiter [12], she was aware of her path since sixth grade. “I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher,” Keiter said. “[In sixth grade] I helped with the class before the after-school program started, and from there I just wanted to be a teacher.” This experience with younger kids guided her to working in the preschool program at the high school, then participating in an internship at a daycare. “That just set my plan in place that I really wanted to be a daycare provider,” Keiter said. Keiter plans to attend Emporia State University in the fall, majoring in elementary education, then mastering in early childhood education, in addition to taking a peppering of business classes to aid in future plans of opening a daycare or bakery. “I don’t like not knowing what’s going to happen,” Keiter said. “I want to know all of my steps for
the future.” Keiter isn’t the only one focusing on education. So is Jesse Bentz [12], but with a different focus. Bentz loves music. “High school has led me to vocal music education because I feel that the vocal branch of music has hit me in a more emotional way than instrumental has,” Bentz said. Over the years, he’s spent countless hours in the music hallway, learning, practicing, and evolving. When pondering his future after high school, his girlfriend suggested he attend Baker University. He took a tour of the campus in November, and immediately became attached to it. For him, the sell is the close-knit community and campus he will envelop himself in. “The choir director really connected with me, saying that they want me there,” Bentz said. “Her giving me that assurance that they want me there and they want my voice there and that I’ll make a difference there led me into saying, ‘Hey, I want to go to Baker.’” But college isn’t everyone’s plan; some have other ideas after high school. Melody Smith [12] plans to take a more militaristic approach. “I always knew that I want to do something to help people, and I think that’s ultimately the best way,” Smith said. Smith plans on enlisting in a branch of the military, either Air Force or Navy. This desire to help came from a difficult time in her
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life. “When I was younger, I was really alone,” Smith said. “When I was bullied, nobody was there to help me, so there’s always this instinct to help people.” Her decision was ultimately a practical one, but she had quite a bit of influence from her stepfather, who wanted to go into the military at a young age as well, but didn’t. Smith believes that for the four years in the military, the benefits she gains is worth it. “My parents don’t have a lot of money to send me off to college, so the benefits are wonderful,” Smith said. And others plan to continue their profession they’ve already been involved in for years. Wesley DerHammer [12] plans to continue working at his current job, and work up the ladder. He also plans on joining the military as well, and using the benefits from the G.I. Bill to go to college. “I kind of want to be Walmart’s jack of all trades, doing anything and everything,” DerHammer said. DerHammer already had plans to join the military, participating in the Split Training Option, allowing him to being training during his Junior summer, attend Senior year, then continue training after graduation. “I don’t want to be just stuck at home going to work, I want to learn more, get more knowledge for different jobs,” DerHammer said. “The more money, the better.”
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Design I never really thought of design as a part of journalism. As far as I was concerned, the end goal was to get the text on the page as clearly and efficiently as possible. However, my opinion changed completely when I became acquainted with my most recent adviser. Since day one, she called articles “packages,� and was keen on finding the best way to deliver them to readers. Her ability to discern the best way to package stories - as an article, photo essay, video, etc. - Inspires me. She is a born storyteller. Because of her, I’ve become rather obsessed with the art of packaging.
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Brittany Crossen [12] has spent countless hours turning data into cosmic events. Over the summer, she worked in KU’s physics lab detecting cosmic rays. Read more on page 10. Photo illustration by Gavin Wade
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During the homecoming assembly on Monday, candidates Kord Ferguson [12] and Meghan Hinman [12] race toward the other side of the gym. Ferguson and Hinman completed the contest in the shortest time. Photo by Kaitlyn Madden.
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Through the four years of seeing the newspaper, three of which actually being on staff, it’s undergone a huge revival. In the summer of my first year, everyone on staff believed the paper deserved a fresh look. The old design (left above) wasn’t all that appealing to the eye; we wanted the paper to be something people wanted to pick up. What we came up with was a milestone in the design of this publication. The top bar, which didn’t use space adequately, was a thing of the past. We in-
Participating in the fall musical, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Brad Graf [activities director] attempts to spell "cow." For more on the fall musical, check out pages 4 and 5. photo by Courtney Clayton
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Events Being a journalist, photographing events effectively is a necessary skill in the tool belt. Thankfully, it’s something I’ve become accustomed to over the past few years. I’ve covered assemblies, ceremonies, graduations, rallies, dinners, and a lot more I’d rather not list out. Shooting events is always a lot of fun and a little bit of a chore. When I’m prepping my camera bag, I feel like I’m preparing for war; I end up overpacking
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Sports In sophomore year, my newspaper adviser assigned me my first sports shoot, the beginning of the year’s soccer scrimmage. I wasn’t too excited; sports had never engaged me, and to cover reportedly the most boring one of them all didn’t entice me the least. Still, I fulfilled my journalistic duties, and went. I fell in love with it. After my first game, I
shot every home match I could. The action that could be captured in an instant astonished me. Needless to say, I ended up with a lot of photographs. So much so, that every boys soccer photo in the yearbook that year had my byline. Since then, I’ve photographed multiple sporting events at the high school I attended, sometimes traveling out of town to do so.
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Portraits I’ve never thought of myself as a people person. On any given day, I’d rather be with the golden trio - me, myself, and I - than anyone else. Somehow, though, I enjoy taking portraits over almost everything else. But due to my rather antisocial habits, the portraits I end up taking the most are of myself. Call it what you want - narcissism, self-image obsession - I just find it P R O F I L E ,
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Experience Editor - The Review
August 2015 - May 2017 Run and manage a newspaper staff with a quarterly publishing schedule and website. Write, edit, and design articles of my own, as well as those of reporters. Coordinate with printing company about schedule, volume, etc.
Reporter - The Review
August 2014 - May 2015 Report on topics concerning the school and surroundings. Write, edit, and design articles. Report to editor about timeframes and scheduling.
Commercial Producer Sutton’s Jewelry
November 2014 | Contract work Collaborate with company to determine content, length, and feel. Shoot and edit video, then finalize with company.
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References Kara Lynch
Adviser - The Review
(785) 218-4241 lynchk@usd290.org
Rachel Chushuk
Former Adviser - The Review
(913) 280-4335
Cathy Sutton
Owner - Sutton’s Jewelry (785) 242-3723 suttonsjewelry@gmail.com
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