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B1 THE AWARD-WINNING STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF GRANITE BAY HIGH SCHOOL
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Fallen GBHS graduate remembered
katie zingheim kzingheim.gazette@gmail.com
Technology age given bad reputation
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recently spent a productive afternoon entrenched in a few informative hours of Law & Order. While I witnessed firsthand the intricacies of the executive and judicial systems, a commercial for the search engine Bing came on. I am a hard-core Google bandwagon-er. I’ve detested Bing since its inception for admittedly vague reasons. “Is Jack LaLanne dead or alive?”,“I don’t know, Bing it,” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Yes, Bing shamelessly appeals to my love of adorable jungle animals. Who doesn’t want to open up their web browser and be greeted by a baby panda bear, for instance, that fills the entire computer screen? I also enjoy scrolling my mouse over those little transparent boxes and learning how many bamboo shoots said panda bear will consume in a week. I cherish the 20 seconds I can waste soaking up these little intellectual tidbits before proceeding to the Granite Bay High School website to look up my English homework. So I find a contradiction in Bing’s commercial that pairs an amusing concept with the tag line: “What has search overload done to us?” Personally, I find search overload to be a wonderful, wonderful thing. One of man’s finest creations is the automatic suggestion list that, I assume, was crafted by Google. We can learn things we never knew we wanted to know. For example, the stock project in economics could inspire me to look up the phrase “What is the stock market symbol for Wal-Mart?” But I’ve only typed in “what is” when I’m presented with a magical list of possible searches. Before I finish keying in my intended query, I notice, a few lines down, the question “What is lupus?” I, in fact, would greatly like to know what lupus is. Despite the 15 House episodes in which I have watched a patient being diagnosed with lupus, I still have no idea what it actually does. Thus, an engaging and revealing 30 minutes is spent frolicking through the fountain of knowledge that is the internet. I was looking up statistics on the number of arrests for marijuana possession in California (for English, of course), when I came across a summary of the various California gangs by the state district attorney’s office. After about 40 minutes, I discovered that Cryps and Bloods are exclusively African American gangs. I did not know this. I also found it interesting that most white gangs are based on principles of racial supremacy. I can’t imagine any scenario in which that information would be useful. But now I know, and I feel enlightened. I feel a small sense of accomplishment every time I browse the inter-webs for a seemingly useless slice of my day. In reality, I am proving wrong all those who claim the technology age has made us too fast-paced, too hectic, not able to appreciate the little things. I appreciate every little thing about the people I Facebook stalk, the episodes of The Daily Show I watch on Hulu and minutes I spend perusing Fail Blog. *** Katie Zingheim, a senior, is the Gazette’s co-editor-in-chief.
Marine Victor Dew killed in the line of duty 2009, was killed in combat Oct. 13 in Afghanistan. He made similar impressions on all who knew asale.gazette@gmail.com w kzingheim.gazette@gmail.com him. GBHS 2008 graduate Eric Seidman graduated in I got to know Victor just because he was Victor. the same class as Dew. The boys met at Olympus He was an individual – he didn’t follow the crowd. Junior High School soon after I mean, he just stood out. As a Dew’s family relocated from teacher, I think you have specific the Bay Area. kids that you think about “I was pretty intimidated often (because) they made an Even though he (when I first met Victor), to be impression on you – I’ve been honest. But upon hearing him here seven years (and Victor was quiet, he had speak, I realized that he was was one of those kids). a tremendous one of the most down-to-earth In class, he was always a guys,” Seidman said. participant. It’s not that he inner strength. “He could talk to anybody, always had the right answer; and nobody ever had anything but he always had an opinion, – Granite Bay parent against him. This is how believed in the opinion, backed he always was – perhaps if it up and that affected other kids and former Olympus anything changed about him, (so that) they respected him Junior High School it was that more and more when he spoke. He was a silent volunteer Valisa people realized it,” he said. leader. Granite Bay parent Valisa He really touched my heart. Schmidley Schmidley is one of many There are kids you (teach) that others who were impacted by make you say: ‘God I hope my Dew’s kind heart and quiet kids turn out like that’. That’s demeanor. She worked with how I felt about Victor. him at the OJHS snack bar, *** where he insisted on being her teacher assistant. Granite Bay High School teacher Liz McCuen is “When he came to Olympus as a seventh grader, one of many who remember Victor Dew, a GBHS 2008 graduate and Private First Class in the U.S. See MARINE, page A12 Marine Corps. Dew, who joined the Marines in BY ALISON SALE and KATIE ZINGHEIM
Gazette photos /MAGGIE LOUIS
Father Arnold Ortiz, O.S.J., above, blesses Patty Schumacher at the graveside service for Pfc. Victor Dew. Dew’s fiancée Courtney Gold, top left, mother Patty Schumacher and father Tom Schumacher pause and reflect at Dew’s casket.
GBHS students often feel judged on appearance Survey: 32 percent feel unwelcome BY SHANNON CARROLL scarroll.gazette@gmail.com
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the vainest of them all? We may be, according to a survey by Biddle Consulting Group Inc., which focuses on assessing the climates in workplaces and schools. The survey, which drew 1,401 respondents from GBHS last spring, found that 32 percent of GBHS students reported feeling
unwelcome at school because of how they look. While students generally reported feeling positive about the school and felt accepted both by students and staff, those who felt otherwise generally did so because of their appearance. For instance, of those who felt they faced barriers to learning, the majority said their appearance was the reason. A majority of those who felt the administration treated them better
Cathy Raycraft Assistant principal often sees the results of GBHS’s appearance conscious culture or worse than others also cited appearance as the reason. “It’s almost like you have to look a certain way,” GBHS senior Ariel Cervantes said. “There is that stereotype at Granite Bay that basically says you have to look good every day.” Cervantes said she might want to have a career in fashion later on, so the appearance-based culture doesn’t really bother her. See SURVEY, page A6
Fire ravages Galleria, jobs
GBHS students among the many locals affected by recent shopping mall blaze BY STEPHANIE SHAULL sshaull.gazette@gmail.com
On Oct. 21, at approximately 10:30 a.m., a suspect walked into Gamestop on the upper level of Roseville’s Westfield Galleria Mall, where he yelled for customers to evacuate the store and proceeded to light the store’s merchandise on fire. The suspect, Alexander Piggee, an African American male in his early 20’s, was a frequent shopper at the Galleria prior to this incident. “If I had seen his picture, I would
be able to point him out right away. Many people working in the mall had seen him around before,” Westfield maintenance employee Igor Karpov said. After initially being notified of a possible situation, employees continued business for about a half hour. “They told us to leave around eleven o’clock. First, (we) had a fire drill and (were told to) just be still and that there were police around the mall. Then, about See FIRE, page A5
inside this issue
News
A1 – A7
Voices
A8 – A11
Second Look
A12
Features
B1 – B8
Sports
C1 – C6
Green Screen
G1 – G24
Teen suicide Point Break program among many efforts to reduce the effects of bullying
A2
Fund-raiser Community hosts annual Are You Smarter Than a Granite Bay Grizzly? event.
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