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An ode to aliens and androids

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’m one of those people who’s convinced they were born in the wrong decade. It’s a little romantic, I know, but it’s the truth.

I love this millennium, don’t get me wrong – after only 18 short years on this planet, I’m proud to say I watched President Obama’s election, owned a set of Pokemon VHS tapes, and can remember dialup Internet. But my heart aches for another era.

I was born a few decades too early.

Thanks to my self-professed geek of a father, I’ve had a lifelong love affair with popular science – and science fiction. I will always prefer cyborgs to centaurs, droids to Dementors. And I’m unrepentant.

Now, when I say sci-fi, I don’t mean Star Wars or Star Trek, necessarily – though there’s nothing wrong with a good lightsaber fight. Those kinds of over-the-top, escapist franchises can be as immersive as, well, wizards, dragons and the like. I appreciate them for what they are: fantasy with a sprinkling of space travel.

But when I talk about sci-fi, I mean the (comparatively) hardcore stuff. The kinds of movies, books and video games that aren’t afraid to spend five minutes explaining to you how this person’s cybernetic arm works, or how that spaceship can get off the ground. It’s a little dry for someone used to explosions and laser-gun shootouts, but I’m an addict.

I love the landscapes, the architecture and the hauntingly beautiful, all-too-often prophetic visions of how the future might look. The rain-soaked, neon-lit streets of Blade Runner’s dystopian Los Angeles are more beautiful to me than Yosemite’s parks will ever be. I love the opulence of Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s hyper-modern Detroit highrises, the grittiness of Akira’s decrepit Neo-Tokyo.

I love the heady philosophical debates that so often result from such extreme technological breakthroughs. How much of the human body can be replaced by cybernetics before we are no longer human? Is it ethical to enslave another sentient species – even if that species is artificial, or alien or somehow inferior to us? In a future where mankind is no longer at the mercy of nature, what is humanity, and what is free will? The best science fiction is parable, spiced up by iris-scanners and cyber-brains.

But the real reason I love sci-fi – the reason it captivates me so much more than, say, fantasy – is that it tends to predict reality.

Take Fahrenheit 451, for instance. The massive, videodisplaying “parlor walls” Ray Bradbury describes are today’s flatscreen televisions. And the “seashell” in-ear radio he invents? iPod earbuds.

So who’s to say the rest of it won’t come true? Who’s to say that 10 years from now, cancer won’t be as thoroughly eradicated as smallpox? Who’s to say that someone like me, with malfunctioning organs, couldn’t just pop into Wal-Mart and 3D-print a new GI tract? What’s stopping us from all being cyberpunks someday, with Google Glass eyepieces and pre-spliced, disease-free genes?

There’s really only so much difference between science fiction and science fact, and man, I can’t wait until that gap closes.

But, until I can get my hands on my own super-strong cyborg body or brain-computer interface, I’m content to watch, read – and wait. *** Haley Massara, a senior, is a Gazette co-editor-in-chief.

Seniors Scott Romuk and Steven Graber compete atop one of the inflatable bungee attractions at Day at the Bay.

THE LAST INCH

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Seniors anticipate pre-graduation festivities, final goodbyes free event where seniors relax and have fun with their friends. The As the end of the school year students can enter into a raffle or approaches, seniors at Granite ride the waterslides.

“I’m really looking forward to Bay High School are already beginning to feel the bittersweet Sober Grad night because it will emotions associated with leaving be really fun staying up all night with friends and saying goodbye high school forever.

Before they say goodbye, to people,” Ko said.

Neha Bavirisetty, another GBHS however, they will be able to senior, is also participate in looking forward the numerous to Sober Grad senior events at the end of the Upcoming Senior Events Night, although for slightly year. “Some of wSenior Sunset: Tonight different the senior events wSenior Breakfast and reasons. coming up are Graduation Practice: “I’m looking Sober Grad Friday forward to Night and Senior Sober Grad Sunset,” GBHS wGraduation and Sober Night because senior Youjin Grad Night: Sat., June 1 Source: Granite Bay High School it’s a chance Ko said. “I’m to win prizes,” excited for Sober Bavirisetty said.

Grad Night, but not so much for Senior Sunset,” Ko said the senior events Sober Grad Night is an event coming up are a fitting end to the run by junior parents, and it takes end of her high school career, as place the night of graduation at she, like many other seniors, is Golfland Sunsplash in Roseville. looking forward to moving on It is an annual event, held for to college.

“It feels like I’ve been here seniors only, and is an alcoholBY NEHA KOMPELLA

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Graduation speaker selection process changed for 2013

BY CHASE EVANS cevans.gazette@gmail.com

Scanning down the list of teachers’ names at the senior meeting in April, a student could vote for any teacher on campus to speak at graduation. Any teacher, that is, besides Karl Grubaugh, Brandon Dell’Orto and Jarrod Westberg.

Those three teachers, referred to as “the big three” by student government teacher Tamara Givens, left off of the list for candidates for teacher graduation speaker as a result of a GBHS management decision.

Either Grubagh, Westberg or Dell’Orto have a long time, and I’m just excited to go and start anew with new people, to start afresh,” Ko said.

“I moved here, so I guess I got to see how (high school) taught me how Granite Bay is kind of like a bubble, and is (different) from

Newsweek ranks GBHS in top two percent in U.S. Success attributed to quality of faculty and instruction

BY GRACE MOORE gmoore.gazette@gmail.com

Granite Bay High School ranked 289th out of the top 2,000 schools in the nation in a list published by Newsweek magazine earlier this month, and 355th out 21,000 high schools in a similar list of America’s best high schools published by U.S. News.

These rankings were based on several factors such as student SAT/

ACT/AP/IB test scores, graduation rate and college acceptance rates.

GBHS’s results place it in the top 2 percent of schools in America.

Guidance counselor Cristina Cross, attributes the school’s performance to a strong foundation, a supportive community and systems that support students, which in turn have attracted dedicated and talented teachers.

Ron Severson, the first principal of GBHS who is now assistant superintended for personnel for the Roseville Joint Union High School District, is given extensive credit for having started the school off on the right foot. Before the school opened, Severson held a series of meetings with the community to find out what

Paul Stordahl Counselor said the key to academic success at GBHS is its experienced teachers. parents and students wanted from their high school.

The district’s good reputation and funding attract high-caliber teachers to apply for the school with a superior salary system.

According to guidance counselor Paul Stordahl, other districts discourage teachers with more experience from leaving their schools by having them take a significant financial penalty upon changing districts. A teacher’s See RANKED, page A6

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Tamara Givens The ASB adviser helped introduce and launch the new graduation speaker selection process.

Senior Ball strikes again Check out photos of the Class of 2013’s big night out.

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been the speaker for every GBHS graduation but one – including 2009, when all three spoke at the same time.

The only teacher to speak who was not one of “the big three” was in 2011 when Judi Daniels spoke. Givens said Daniels went to the senior meeting and spoke to students in the aisles, asking them to vote for her because she was leaving GBHS that year.

“We would have times where the same teacher

what the rest of the world is like.

I think I’m really excited to go out and be able to experience that world.”

Lisa Nguyen is another senior who finds high school to have been fun, but who is ready to move on

See SPEAKERS, page A6 and to graduate.

“I think I’m ready to get out of here and go to college and see new things,” said Nguyen. “High School was fun, and I learned a See EVENTS, page A6

Prescription drug deaths a growing trend for youth Danger comes in a small orange bottle

BY NICOLE BALES nbales.gazette@gmail.com

On Sept. 18, 2009, 21-year-old Joey Rovero had just finished finals at Arizona State University.

That night he was at a party celebrating the birthday of one of his friends and the graduation of another.

He was due home the next day for winter break, but the mixture of the alcohol he had with his friends that night and the narcotic medication he had been prescribed by a doctor instead ended his life.

“It was a horrible, horriblebeyond-description experience for us,” Joey’s mother, April Rovero, said. “We had no idea that Joey had even gone to this doctor and had been given these prescriptions.”

As the story unraveled, they found out that nine days before his death, Joey had traveled from Tempe, Ariz., to Los Angeles to see Lisa Tseng, a physician who they learned was a heavy prescriber of narcotics.

Two other students attending ASU had already planned a road trip to see Tseng and invited Joey to come along. On the way, the two other students coached Joey on what to say to get a prescription.

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Sound the alarm The pros and cons of running fire drills as infrequently as GBHS does.

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erhaps the gift was intended as a joke, but some parents didn’t find the unexpected inclusion of a shot glass in the Senior Ball gift bags funny.

Thankfully, despite the glasses, there were no incidents with alcohol at the Ball. *** The GBHS students who attended the April FIRST Robotics Competition world championships in St. Louis as part of team Renevatio included seniors Mitch Moffat, Linus Halpin, Chandler Brown, Ryan McFarland, Phil Nystrom, Matthew Jew and Hammad Bashir; juniors Kenny Doran, Johnny Zhang, Connor Ryan, Grace Moore and Christian Hamm; sophomores James Brown, Vivek Ajjampur, Josh Hazeghazam, Maadhav Shah, Ashley Alunan, Jacob Rabishaw, Thomas Kambe, Victor Chiu and Alex Chew; and freshman Gauree Shah.

For more on the robotics competition in St. Louis, see News Briefs on page A3. *** Freshmen, don’t miss the KoolAid and Cram after school from 2:45-4:45 p.m. Tuesday, or you might fail your Health and Safety final exam, which would be embarrassing. *** Seniors have a fun week coming up. Senior Breakfast is at 7:15 a.m. on Friday, May 31, and graduation is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. the following morning – Saturday, June 1. *** Sophomore Johnny Mass is making a name for himself in the scootering world at local competitions.

For some cool tricks, check out his YouTube channel WeScooterTV. *** Veteran Air Force pilot Len Kovar visited two periods of Military History students and shared his stories about being a prisoner of war in a German concentration camp during World War II. His book, “World War II Prisoner of War – How I Survived,” has the same thrilling stories of Kovar having his plane shot down over Hungary and the concentration camp death march he faced, months later. *** Congratulations to the Jazz Band!

After three days of music, appreciating fellow arists and good old-fashioned competition, they finished in third place at the Reno Jazz Festival.

GBHS students there included Michael Hagel, Johnathan Swain, Stephan Chang, Aaron Clubb, Scott Downs, Johnny Weston, Eric Yoon, Nick Mastrometti, Ian Fitzpatrick, Lorenzo Burgos, Johannes Carpenter, John Berthelson, Brett Yamashiro, Chris Hailey, Jeanette Deason, Taylor Reynolds, Shelby Carlson, Steven Barham, Noah Hall, Chris Busby, Mikaela Burson, Kate Petterson, Teddy White Eric Jacobs, Spencer Deger and Trey Armstrong. *** GBHS’s chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America elected its leaders on May 6. Juniors Mitch Khan and Chinar Sheth are next year’s presidents. ***

Grace Moore, a junior, is a Gazette News editor.

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For the first time in Granite Bay High history, the Senior Ball was sponsored by the school and organized by students in the GBHS student government program. More than 300 students and guests attended the dinner and dance, which was held in the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Sacramento. Ian Fitzpatrick, above, slow dances with his girlfriend Kelsey Haag. Christian Stone, Jaci Willing, Brigid Loomis and Kristin Kupershoek, left to right in photo above left, enjoy the ride on a party bus on their way to Senior Ball. A shot glass, middle left, given to students attending prom, featured the words “How Far We’ve Come.”

Brian Mueller, Taylor Reynolds, Sara Fask and Scott Downs, left to right in the photo on the left, enter the Hyatt Regency ballroom.

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GBHS students, experts speak up about rape

Students share tragic personal stories, experts encourage informing loved ones

BY HALEY BYAM

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Editor’s note: Two high school football players in Ohio were convicted in March of sexually assaulting a high school girl who was so impaired by alcohol that she couldn’t remember the incident. Gazette reporter Haley Byam has found that a culture of rape isn’t something that’s limited to the Midwest – in fact, it’s alive and well in our own community. *** “He grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the room and locked the door behind me,” said Rebecca, a GBHS junior whose name has been changed along with all the other students in this story. “He was like, ‘You’re not leaving until something goes down.’ ” Rebecca was at her best friend’s house that night.

They were 13 years old, and after playfully insulting her friend’s older brother, she and her friend went to bed.

At around 2 a.m., Rebecca went into the hallway bathroom when the brother accosted her and demanded an apology for her teasing remarks. He then refused to take “no” for an answer.

“I never told anyone about it,” Rebecca said. “I kept quiet. I mean, I was in my best friend’s house.”

The Monday afterward, three of the brother’s friends came up to her, calling her “easy” and a “slut.” When she insisted she hadn’t wanted it, that she had tried to fight his advances, the brother approached her the same day and warned her to stop.

“He came up to me like, ‘You just ruined my life, now all my friends think this,’ ” Rebecca said, “and I just said, ‘Imagine what you did to me. You raped me.’ ” Two years later, she went to that same house to drop off something when the brother’s current girlfriend arrived. The two got in a fight, and the brother looked

at Rebecca and said, “This is all your fault.”

Confused, she asked her friend what was going on. Her friend told her the brother’s girlfriend thought the sex had been consensual.

“Not my fault, again,” Rebecca said.

“What am I supposed to say to that?” *** Kelly was a freshman when the incident occurred, and she had known the senior for a little more than a year.

They went out driving late at night, and she thought nothing of it.

At around 10:30 p.m., the senior parked his car in a dark parking lot and asked her to hook up with him.

Realizing this night was far different Gazette photo /Cleora ReBer than their usual, innocent hang-outs, Activists pose at Slut Walk, an event held to protest the notion that a Kelly told him she wasn’t comfortable woman dressing a certain way makes her liable to be raped. with that. good friend you can tell, I would definitely recommend seeing a Before she had time to think, he was on top of her, therapist. Just letting all your initial emotions out right after it hapreassuring her that “it’s OK” and “it’s going to be fine” and taking her pants off while she kicked and screamed. pens and you still have a good memory of it – that will help.” *** “When I got home, I just cried,” Kelly said. “My During middle school when she lived elsewhere, Emily was mom was sleeping and I didn’t want to wake her up, so constantly harassed by one of her peers, someone she knew from I ran to my room and called my best friend.” track and field. He pulled her into empty hallways during practices The next day at school, the senior spread the story and forced her to touch him, and while this stopped during summer that they hooked up in his car. Other upperclassmen, break, it would begin again as soon as class commenced in the fall. knowing she was only a freshman, decided Kelly just During the spring of her freshman year, after practice had ended, “wanted to get with a senior.”

It wasn’t until the middle of her sophomore year that Emily found herself alone with him at the local high school.

“He pulled me into a side parking lot,” Emily said, “and he forced she decided to tell her parents what had happened to himself on me and raped me.” her, but she decided not to report it to the police.

Completely in shock, she stood up and went home, keeping the “I didn’t want to make a big deal of it,” Kelly said. “I definitely feel that if you don’t report it, and you don’t have a strong relationship with your parents or a really See RAPE, page A6

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The end of STAR grade bumps approaches Common Core may lead to future incentive policy

BY JONAH POCZOBUTT

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Most Granite Bay High School students are familiar with the controversial policy of STAR test grade bumps.

Through this system, students can raise their transcript grades by as much as a whole letter grade simply by doing well on their state-mandated STAR tests.

Needless to say, this policy has not sat well with students who earned their desired grades in their respective classes without grade bumps.

“I do not think (the grade bump policy is) fair because it causes grade inflation and makes people who got A’s look less deserving,” junior Chase Cooper said.

This controversial, second-chance grade-saving policy seems unjustifiable to many students such as Cooper, who believes the STAR test grade bumps offer an unfair advantage to students who did not perform well and cheapens the value of earning an A. However, the system does serve to benefit the school as a whole, according to GBHS STAR testing coordinator Brandon Dell’Orto.

“The district had gotten hammered in terms of end-of-the-year API scores, which (are) how schools are judged,” Dell’Orto said. “It was a flaw in the system to design a test with no fun-

damental value to the students. The API score as much as expected.

This led to grade bumps for Engwhole district decided we had to get lish and Social Studies classes – and our scores up.”

This led to the eventual district-wide classes in other departments – being decision to incentivize students tak- discontinued for this school year.

Even though the deing the STAR test by cision to offer incenallowing the test to We always want tives to improve test have a direct effect on scores was recomtheir grades. to avoid teachmended by the disAccording to ing to the test trict as a whole, each Dell’Orto the policy because there is department within did work to a limited more that (stuGBHS was made reextent and raised the sponsible for deteroverall GBHS API dents) need to how to incenscore. learn than memo- mining tivize their students.

However, after the rizing facts.

This put the decisiongrade bumps were making process for implemented, addi– Brandon Dell’Orto, the grade bump protional problems arose STAR testing coordinator cess in the hands of that brought their valthe teachers. ue into question.

The math depart“The test is designed to break students into fifths (based on ment at GBHS chose to maintain its scores) statewide,” Dell’Orto said. policy of STAR test grade bumps for “What we found after two years of this year.

“The (California Standards Test) for doing the grade bump was that the kids who were trying on the test al- math is actually a really good indicaready cared about school (and already tor for a student’s knowledge of our placed in the top fifth of scores state- subject matter,” GBHS math teacher John Sherman said. “In this way, it apwide).”

Because the students who were al- plies well to what we teach.”

While the main reason for the math ready in the top quintile in California were primarily the ones who tried department’s policy decision is the harder to get a grade bump from the correlation between CST scores and STAR test, the grade bump incentive understanding of the GBHS math curprogram did not improve the school’s riculum, Sherman did mention that the

math department at GBHS is “under the most scrutiny” from the district, which could also affect the policy offered by the math department.

Grade bumps were not maintained in other departments because teachers believed STAR test scores were not an accurate representation of their course subject matter. Low subject correlation and lackluster results led to the cessation of the grade bump policy, according to Dell’Orto.

“We always want to avoid teaching to the test because there is more that (students) need to learn than memorizing facts,” Dell’Orto said.

Despite the current decision, grade bumps for end-of-the-year testing might resurface in the future because of Common Core testing that will be implemented next year, and seems likely to replace the STAR test.

“The Common Core is really saying kids need to be able to read at a high level, problem solve and do deeper math without a calculator,” Dell’Orto said.

This new test could open the door for standardized testing grade bumps in the future if teachers feel believe the Common Core is an adequate representation of GBHS curriculum.

“We are not really sure as of right now,” Sherman said, “but it will be interesting to see how the (Common Core) testing affects our teaching.”

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School emergency drills practiced infrequently

Fire procedures haven’t been rehearsed in 2012-13; student response mixed

BY NICOLAS ONTIVEROS nontiveros.gazette@gmail.com

Last semester, Granite Bay High School students evacuated the 900 building because teachers believed there was a fire.

“The teachers were not sure where the fire was, but they smelled something,” said Armin Anderson, a GBHS junior.

Luckily, this emergency was under control – a simple physics lab caused the burning smell.

“The science classroom in the 900 building was able to handle the situation,” said Joe Herrick, the Placer County deputy sheriff who serves as the GBHS campus police officer. “It was nothing too serious.”

However, the event demonstrates that GBHS is still susceptible to fires. Although GBHS faculty responded to the potential fire well, fire safety is still a concern for administration. Yet, there have been no fire drills on campus during the 2012-13 school year.

“I do not remember the last time (GBHS) had a fire drill,” Herrick said. “There has not been one this year.”

California state law mandates fire drills for high schools. According to California Education Code 32001, fire drills are expected to

occur at least twice a year.

Fire drills are important to keep students and teachers refreshed on the procedures for evacuating a building. “(Fire drills) are good for the staff to prepare,” Herrick said. “It’s only a matter of time until (a fire happens).”

Gavin Smith, a GBHS junior, said the school does not need more fire drills.

“I’m not too concerned of a fire at (GBHS),” Smith said. “I don’t want fire drills to (impede) student learning.”

Fortunately, GBHS is less likely to have a fire compared to the average high school.

An April 2012 report published in the GBHS School Accountability Report Card noted that GBHS facilities earned an “exemplary” rating. On-campus buildings also received a “good” rating, the highest possible rating, for fire safety. “(GBHS) is a relatively new school,” Herrick said. “Most things are up to speed.”

GBHS is close to a couple of fire stations, which are ready to respond to any emergency.

“We are lucky to have a fire station right next to the school,” Herrick said. “There is another one on East Roseville Parkway.”

Although the state education code requires two fire drills per year, GBHS has not had a drill during the 201213 school year.

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Recently, safety procedures for fires have been updated for GBHS teachers.

“We have new safety binders for teachers for emergencies,” Herrick said. “They contain the effective procedures to keep students safe.”

The new “crisis response” binders also have safety plans for other types of emergencies. “(GBHS) has many other types of drills,” Herrick said, “(which include) shelter-in-

ASB UPDATE ASB discusses the end of school year The Gazette talked to junior Jared Mayer, Quad Dance commissioner and Student Government member..

Gazette: What was your favorite part about the Quad Dance for this year?

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Quad this year was great. I liked how the aQUADic theme was Gazette photo / CLEORA REBER very broad and encompassing and it was very interesting to see Jared Mayer, Quad Dance commissioner and Student Governwhat people came up with for ment member, discusses class and events. costumes.

Gazette: What has been your Gazette: Would you recomGazette: Is Student Govern- favorite part about being in mend Student Government for incoming freshmen? Why? ment planning anything else Student Government?

My favorite part about being for the end of the year? in Student Government is how Definitely, it is a great way to For the rest of the year, Student much it has changed me for the make new friends and make high Government is putting on the better by bringing me out of my school a less-intimidating expeSenior Goodbye Rally as well shell and making me more of a rience. Also, getting insight into as Senior Sunset and some other leader, plus all the friendships the events from the beginning would be awesome. senior-only events (like) gradua- I’ve made. tion.

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place and the evacuation drill.”

Still, GBHS students are optimistic about GBHS fire safety.

“I think most people are capable of responding to a fire,” Anderson said. “We really don’t need more fire drills at this school.”

GBHS sophomore Shahzane Ali still wants GBHS safety to be ensured.

“I think we need more fire drills at the school,” Ali said. “Ensuring people are safe

needs to be a priority.”

Ali said he believes other types of drills also need to be emphasized for the GBHS community. “Why don’t we have more lockdowns?” Ali said. “After the recent shootings (in Connecticut), I thought the school would do more drills.”

Still, GBHS faculty and students are capable of responding to emergencies.

“Our staff is well trained,” Herrick said.

“Emergencies are still a priority.”

NEWS briefs

Robotics team went to world championships

The South Placer County Robotics team competed at the FIRST Robotics Competition world championships April 24-27 in St. Louis.

The team, named Renevatio, is comprised primarily of Granite Bay High School students as well as students who attend other schools in South Placer County. To qualify for the state-level competition, Renevatio won the Central California Regional Championships in April.

After that victory, the SPC robotics team made some minor adjustments to the robot which helped improve the robot before heading to St. Louis.

At the world championships, the competing teams were divided into four brackets named Newton, Galileo, Curie and Archimedes after famous scientists.

The SPC robotics team placed 13th out of the 100 teams in their bracket and barely missed the championship round of the playoffs with six victories and two losses, just shy of the seven victories and one loss needed to advance.

During the event, a small spring clip broke free of the robot structure, which then led to a drive system failure. As a result, the robot lost in the team’s deciding match, and SPC had to watch the finals from the stands.

The robotics team elected junior Kenny Doran as next year’s captain on May 18.

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 The SPC robotics team watches the competition from the stands of the St. Louis Rams’ arena.

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Cultural resource will be focused on Middle East

BY AKASH KHOSLA

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In today’s society, people are continuing to seek knowledge in order to better understand the Middle East and other regions where Islamic civilizations have flourished.

However, while there is a high demand to gain such knowledge, it is often quite difficult to get ahold of books, articles and journals that appropriately address such specific topics.

The Sharif family, known for its business “Sharif Jewelers,” has become a key contributor to the cultural diversity of the Sacramento area by creating a library that will have content specific focusing on Middle Eastern culture.

A recent fundraising event was held in order to support the development of this library. People of the SALAM Center for Higher Islamic Learning, including educators, local politicians and friends of the Sharif family, were invited to participate in a lottery for precious items, as well as to participate in an auction for rare and one-of-a-kind objects, such as a Sharif Jewelers’ watch. Guests included UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, former California state senator Roger Dickenson and others.

The successful fundraiser managed to generate revenue to purchase future library furniture, books and other additions.

“It was a great way to reach out to the academic community and the general community,” said Sarah Sharif, a member of the family assisting with the development of the library. “We wanted let them know that the library will soon be fully functioning and that it will be a wonderful resource for everyone to use.”

The library is housed in the SALAM Center, located across the street from American River College in Sacramento.

The building is easily recognizable for its arches, the colors, the dome and its overall unique architecture, which greatly adds to the diversity of the Sacramento area.

A library in the humanities is generally unheard of in Sacramento, let alone an Islamic-based humanities library. Whether it’s Halal-cooking techniques or Qur’anic studies one is searching for, many of the questions regarding Islam and the Middle East can be answered in the Sharif Community Library.

The Sharif brothers are the founders of the library and owners of Sharif Jewelers.

They immigrated to the United States in

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The Sharif Library, unique in both its content and architecture; while also representing an example of the melding of Middle Eastern and Western influences. their early 20s and studied at local the university, Sacramento State.

“We were blessed to have the opportunity to come to America and earn an education,” Mahmud Sharif said. The Sharif brothers, with such a background, are thrilled to give back to the Sacramento community and to their heritage.

“There is an old Arab proverb that states, ‘If you pass through a place, always leave behind evidence that you once there, a legacy,’” Hazem Sharif said. “It is in our culture, in our tradition to do this. My family felt that there could not be a legacy greater

than leaving behind a center that would continue to spread knowledge long after we are gone.”

The contents of the library are still being decided on, but the Sharif family and the SALAM Center have a general idea of the scriptures and online literary databases that the library will contain.

“A major contribution the library is putting into the community is the promotion of the social awareness and responsibility, among others, regarding Islamic culture,” Mahmud Sharif said. “It’s a good time for people to learn more about the Middle

East, Islam and any place that Islam has flourished. With the library, people can educate themselves. The negative light that Islam has been under does not portray the religion or its followers correctly.”

The SALAM community and Sharif family want to support the culturally diverse population of their center by providing materials representing a variety of global cultural and social viewpoints and hope to support intellectual growth and independent learning, and they also want to provide information on current matters of public interest and controversy.

Top students named for Class of 2013 Valedictorian Brian Wei and salutatorian Chandler Brown both have GPAs over 4.50

BY AKASH KHOSLA

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The race for the top academic position for the class of 2013 has come to an end, and seniors Brian Wei and Chandler Brown have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

Wei earned a cumulative gradepoint average of 4.64; Brown’s cumulative GPA was 4.55 While GBHS staff and students are aware the system for choosing the annual valedictorian and salutatorian isn’t perfect, it always allows for at least two great minds to be honored at graduation.

Essentially, the current system

ranks students based on GPA – and nothing else. While some teachers in the past have argued that other factors – community service, student attitudes, attendance and others – the process is actually mandated by policy in the Roseville Joint Union High School District.

Wei said the ranking system is perhaps flawed, but he also said he hopes his spot atop the GBHS rankings is not the reason why the Stanford University admissions department accepted him for the fall.

“Although I’ve had my sights set on it for a while, I never really felt like I was giving anything up by pursuing the spot,” said Wei. “Most classes I took for my own

educational purposes, not for the GPA advantage. Honestly, the ranking system is far from perfect, so I never really cared too much for it.”

Other than boosting GPA, AP courses prove as a valuable asset for college credit in most colleges. The opportunity of having AP courses can lower the financial cost for the student to earn credits in college.

“I personally think that the hard work and effort that was put into getting this title was worth it,” said Brown, the salutatorian. “In receiving this title I also completed 14 AP courses, so I won’t have to pay a large sum to take (those classes) in college.”

Brown will be attending UCLA and plans to double major in computer science and engineering. Wei plans to pursue a special major at Stanford called science, technology and society, or STS – basically, the social aspects of science.

Both Wei and Brown are proud of what they did in their high school career, and they both said they would’ve done it again nearly the same way.

“Overall the ranking system acted as a pushing mechanism, but it wasn’t my deciding factor,” Brown said. “For example, I still decided to take guitar classes all four years because I enjoyed the class. I honestly believe that a certain class ranking and GPA don’t matter too much in college admissions. My best advice is for students to really focus on their extracurricular activities and their SATs.”

“We are currently collecting books and purchasing furniture for the library, so we don’t have an exact opening day,” Mohammed Sharif said. “However, we really hope to be open and fully functioning no later than fall 2013.”

The youngest generation believes in the legacy of the Sharif family, and how important the library will be. “My greatgrandfather, my grandfather and my father all valued knowledge and all did what they could to leave behind great legacies,” Hazem Sharif said. “This generation of the Sharif family would like to do the same.”

Both of these academic elites have learned much about the college system over the years. Brown’s experience has been very beneficial to his younger brother James Brown, who also attends GBHS, as he can now give his sibling sound advice and provide a source of motivation to also excel in his academic career.

“I’m glad to see my brother, Chandler, did really well in his school career and the school acknowledge him as a smart kid,” said James Brown, a sophomore and Chandler’s younger brother. “At the same time, though, his success gives me the motivation to do better than him.”

The main reason why SATs and extracurricular activities are needed is to prove that someone is not just trying to manipulate the system and gain acceptance to a prestigious college, which is very preva-

Brian Wei The senior was named 2013 valedictorian with a weighted GPA of 4.64.

Chandler Brown The senior was named 2013 salutatorian with a weighted GPA of 4.55.

lent according to almost many SAT preparation books. SATs are tough to manipulate in comparison to the ranking system at any particular school – not everyone can get a score above 2,200.

An unknown side effect of anxiety: trichotillomania Malady causes sufferers to want to pull out their own hair

BY WILLOW WOOD

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About 20 percent of teens will experience depression before reaching adulthood.

Anxiety disorders affect about 18 percent of the United States. Although these two disorders are well known, what isn’t well known is the behavioral disorders that can go along with them – specifically, trichotillomania.

Trichotillomania (trich) is a disorder that results in compulsive hair pulling from the scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows or any other parts of the body, causing bald patches.

Hair pulling varies greatly in its severity, location on the body and response to treatment. Without treatment, trichotillomania tends to be a chronic condition that may

wax and wane throughout a lifetime.

“It’s a compulsive disorder on the same level as scab picking,” said Jeanette Deason, a senior who has dealt with trich for 12 years.

It might seem to resemble a habit, an addiction, a tic disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Deason pulls hair from her eyelashes and the back of her head and believes she has an anxiety disorder but hasn’t been formally diagnosed.

It’s classified as three things – an impulsecontrol disorder, an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder or, most recently, it is being conceptualized as part of a family of “body-focused repetitive behaviors” (BFRBs) along with skin picking and nail biting.

The people who pull hair might think the hair feels wrong, whether that means it’s too long or too short or too coarse or they feel like they have to pull it out.

Many ask sufferers: “Does it hurt?”

“Why would you do that?” or “Why don’t you just stop?”

But it’s not that easy.

“People don’t seem to realize that it’s a mental disorder,” said Allison Sharp, a 2012 GBHS graduate. “It only hurts at first, I don’t actually want to be doing it, and I can’t just stop – it’s a compulsion!”

It has also been related to anxiety, as a form of a release for people with highly anxious tendencies.

“I developed trich five years before I ever started having major problems with anxiety, so it’s definitely not solely related to

anxiety,” Sharp said.

People who pull hair most of the time cannot control the behavior, so they might have patches of hair missing.

People with trich will go to great lengths to cover up their bald patches, but it can lead to some unwanted attention.

“In elementary school they wanted to put me in the special-needs class,” said Deason, “as well as my countless middle school bullies.”

Trichotillomania can’t really be treated with medicine, only with strong habit breaking techniques.

“I wear band aids on my thumbs, and I wear these giant fake glasses at home,” said Rachel Cusack, a freshman who has been pulling lashes for about a year and a half. “The band aids are so I can’t pull and when I wear the glasses, I’m reminded not to pull.”

Support groups are offered online or in

person. The Trichotillomania Learning Center has various references for people who need help.

“Last thing I’ve tried is growing out my fingernails so I cant pull my eyelashes, just keeping my hands busy,” Deason said.

Most people keep their hands busy, like playing with silly putty, to distract themselves from the thoughts of pulling their hair.

“I have this toy called a Tangle, which is a bunch of interconnected semicircles that are textured and can be twisted and tangled with just one hand,” Sharp said.

Sharp has dealt with trich for almost eight years but was only diagnosed last year. And now that she’s in college, she is very close to a TLC center so she can get more help.

“I think people should be more informed,” Cusack said. “I had this disorder for a year before I was officially diagnosed.”

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lot, but I’m really looking forward to graduate.”

Although Nguyen is waiting for graduation, she is still look-

ing forward to one senior event that symbolizes the end of her high school career: Senior Sunset.

Senior Sunset takes place on May 24, and is the same day as the emotional Senior Goodbye rally.

“Senior Sunrise is an event that takes at the beginning of the (senior) year, so Senior Sunset (taking place at the end of the year) is kind of like in a movie,” she said. “It’s also a final night with your close

friends. It really symbolized coming full circle – it’s kind of like a culmination of all the events of senior year, and to me it represents the end of high school.”

Senior Picnic is another event coming up towards the end of the school year that many are looking forward to. Essentially, it is an event where seniors enjoy a picnic lunch together, and it took place Tuesday.

“I’m actually really looking forward to Senior Picnic because it’s an opportunity to hang out with the entire senior class before the summer and an opportunity to really cherish the short time we have together,” Bavirisetty said last week. “It’s also a nice way to celebrate because AP/IB testing is over and there’s nothing else to do except graduate!”

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among the seniors this year seems to be that they are itching for graduation.

“The fact that graduation is coming up so quickly is bittersweet,” Bavirisetty said. “I’ve really gotten close to so many people throughout my four years, that it’ll be sad not being able to see them every day.

However, I’m so excited to start a new chapter in my life, and have my own college experience.”

SPEAKERS: Rotation system developed to allow wider variety of teachers to speak Continued from page A1 would speak at graduation two years in a row,” Givens said. “That kind of thing won’t happen anymore in our new system.”

The new system Givens refers to is a cycle of teacher graduation speakers. After a teacher has been voted to speak at graduation, that teacher will be left off the ballot for the next three years. The initial reason for considering a new approach came out of administration concern that this year’s graduation for the largest-ever senior class at GBHS could last too long.

This cycle will give other teachers a chance to be the graduation speaker and

RANKED: GBHS rated as a top-tier high school Continued from page A1 placement on the pay scale usually increases with each consecutive year in a district, and changing districts can make them lose their progress.

However, Roseville Joint Union High School District chooses to accept all years of service in determining an incoming teacher’s salary, which makes the decision for veteran teachers to work at GBHS significantly easier to make.

Stordahl said the change “enables us as a district to hire truly the best teachers that are out there.

“A lot of districts are hiring teachers with experience,” he said.

“But if they don’t really have a pay structure that supports getting the best teachers, they are going to be relegated to teachers with four, five, or six years of experience,” whereas GBHS occasionally has teachers apply with decades of experience.

The district’s Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment system gives inexperienced teachers a helping hand by having more experienced teachers sit in on their classes and provide feedback.

Support is also available to students having trouble at GBHS, another reason for its ranking.

From funding after-school peer tutoring to offering entry-level math and English classes adjusted to be held yearlong, the administration takes several steps to help struggling students, although its hands are tied financially from pursuing more support programs or hiring more faculty.

Still, existing programs were enough to put GBHS near the top of the national rankings.

Some members of the faculty wonder why GBHS didn’t place even higher.

National magazine surveys are incomplete, they argue, because they don’t take into account what goes on beyond academics, assistant principal Cathy Raycraft said. GBHS offers national- and state-ranked opportunities to students in sports, business, media, speech and debate, robotics team and many more – Stordahl said it is difficult to find an extracurricular activity supported by GBHS that is not performing well.

Since such factors are harder to account for in such wide-reaching rankings.

This year’s performance is a jump of more than 100 places from last year on the Newsweek list, and principal MacGuire predicts that, because the worst of the national economic crisis appears to be over, GBHS should only continue to rise in rankings as more weighted classes are implemented and as more students choose to enroll in such classes.

“It’s been an evolution that has taken place in an ongoing basis,” Stordahl said. “I think what you’re seeing recently is what has really been going on since its inception.

That is a continual look at who we are as a school, how we are functioning, trying to pinpoint areas that we can get better and working to get better in those areas.”

ensure different teachers speak each year.

Grubaugh and Westberg, despite not speaking at graduation since 2009, were nonetheless left off this year’s list.

When asked why three teachers were left off the ballot despite two of them not speaking in the last three years, Givens said she didn’t check to see who the last three graduation speakers were.

She said she started with “the big three” and developed the process from there.

“Whenever you start a new process, it is going to be a little rough,” Givens said.

Givens said she expected a bigger response from the students when she announced that those teachers were not on the ballot at the senior meeting.

Despite not being on the list this year, Grubaugh, Westberg and Dell’Orto will be added back onto the ballot one by one.

“I talked to each one of the three of them before, and they each said that it was OK,” Givens said.

Grubaugh, Westberg and Dell’Orto first received the information that their names were not on the ballot when their students came to class after the senior meeting.

“The kids came in and told us that Givens said that we didn’t want to speak at the graduation (because it was too much work), and that was completely false,” Grubaugh said.

Grubaugh said he contacted Givens, explaining to her what the students had said

and asking for a clarification.

“I asked my students that were there, and the adults in the room, if my words could have possibly have come out (saying that the three teachers didn’t want to speak),” Givens said. “They all told me that there was no way.”

Grubaugh said that, while Givens did talk to him about management concerns regarding the length of the graduation ceremony with a record number of graduates, he wasn’t told his name was being left off of the ballot; nor was Westberg. “I didn’t know about the situation until my students came in and told me,” Westberg said.

Despite not being fully aware of what was happening, Grubaugh was not upset.

“I have spoken before and I hope to speak again,” Grubaugh said. “It’s always an honor when they ask me to speak.”

Westberg agreed: “I’m totally fine writing notes for a 10-minute speech at graduation,” he said. “It’s a huge honor.”

Givens still believes students’ wishes are being heard through the voting process. “(Kyle) Holmes, (this year’s speaker), received a huge number and a majority of the votes,” Givens said.

After this year, Holmes will not be on the ballot for the next three years and then, after that, he will return to the ballot.

“Holmes is going to do a great job this year,” Givens said, “and graduation is going to be fantastic.”

RAPE: Stereotyping and victim-blaming hinder prosecution of rapists Continued from page A2 event locked in her mind, where it would stay for more than a year.

She had been suffering in silence for so long that when the emotional trauma finally caught up to Emily, she stopped eating and sleeping. The rapid weight loss alerted her parents to a problem, and they took her to a doctor, where she revealed what had happened.

“After months of hiding it all, I told a few friends, my boyfriend and parents,” Emily said. “I reported it to the police, but I chose not to press charges.” *** Rebecca, Kelly and Emily are not alone in their decisions to refrain from pressing criminal charges – according to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), 54 percent of rapes go unreported and only 3 percent of rapists actually spend time in jail.

But the belief that women “make it all up” to avoid embarrassing rumors about drunken escapades remains. RAINN, however, states that only 2 percent of all reported rapes are actually fabricated.

“I know (false charges don’t) happen often,” said Anthony, a senior, “but it still happens, and that’s a problem. I think women sometimes feel guilty that they did something they wouldn’t normally do.”

According to professor Vicki Hall of Sacramento State University, men can often get caught up in the energy of the group mentality, forgetting morals and common sense.

“We see a lot of rapes in the military,” Hall said, “where men are isolated with women for long periods of time and they become sort of like a pack of dogs. Multiple, charging dogs can do a lot more damage to farm animals than

a lone one can.”

Not all men are rapists. Both women and men can perpetuate rape culture by buying into the either incredibly masculine or feminine images produced by the media, often portraying a passive, subordinate woman controlled by a muscular, powerful male figure.

According to Hall, the two extremes, while unrealistic, cause many to mimic these examples in real-life situations.

While blatant domination in pornography is not a new development, categories set aside specifically for staged rapes contribute to the feeling of banality that surrounds rape in high school environments.

“There is a sense of normalcy,” Hall said. “(Rape in pornography is) disrespectful and usually violent, but it’s become commonplace to many men.”

Comments like “She’s so go-

ing to get raped” in reference to women at parties are all too familiar, and the prominent belief that females in revealing clothing are “asking for it” is more present than ever.

“Obviously, rape is wrong,” Anthony said, “but girls can set themselves up by flirting or leading the guy on. That doesn’t make it right, but it’s true.”

Many disagree with the idea that women should expect advances because of what they choose to wear and maintain that no one “wants” to be raped.

“If you wear provocative clothing,” Rebecca said, “or even no clothes at all, it’s still not an invitation for anyone to do anything you aren’t comfortable with.” *** RAINN suggests for loved ones of a survivor to “Listen. Be there.

Don’t be judgmental.”

CALCASA, the California Co-

alition Against Sexual Assault, is located in Sacramento, and it works to promote awareness of sexual violence and give survivors the help they need.

Professional help is available for those who need it through various hotlines, but RAINN maintains that the decision to seek help remains the survivor’s, and loved ones should respect and empower survivors no matter what path they choose.

“Get help that you need and know that this doesn’t define you forever,” Emily said. “Focus on getting yourself in a good place – that is what’s most important.

It will eventually get easier, and you will be able to focus on other things besides what happened to you.

“You can and will be able to pursue all that you’ve ever wanted – this is just a terrible obstacle you need to overcome.”

OVERDOSE: Lack of awareness contributes to epidemic among teenagers Continued from page A2 After filling out a report in which he described symptoms of wrist pain and anxiety, he was prescribed 90 Roxicodone tablets, 90 Soma tablets and 30 Xanax tablets.

Joey and his friends were told to pick up the prescription 30 miles away at a private pharmacy in Huntington Beach, Pacifica Pharmacy. When they arrived, they walked in, received the prescriptions and walked out, no questions asked.

Since then, Pacifica Pharmacy has been shut down and Tseng was charged and convicted of second-degree murder and has been in prison for more than a year.

Nineteen deaths have been linked to Tseng.

“Joey was a good student, he never had a history of (drug abuse) and we don’t really know what he was doing that night,” Rovero said. “We know that he drank, he was just over the legal limit for alcohol. He had low levels of Xanax and moderate levels of oxycodone in his system, and that’s all it took to kill him.”

Since then Rovero has formed the National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse (NCAPDA) with the goal of creating awareness of the dangers caused by prescription drug abuse.

“Three years ago, no one was talking about this,” she said in a telephone interview. “I had no idea that prescription drugs were being abused or misused. I had no idea people were dying from this stuff at the rates that they were. Nobody was talking about it, and that still angers me so much because we had a very open dialogue with Joey about this kind of stuff, and I didn’t know to talk to him about prescription abuse.

“I had no idea. It was completely off my radar screen, and I feel terrible about that, and I want to give other parents and youth the opportunity to know what’s going on.”

Rovero has recently worked with California state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier (DConcord), who’s currently working on legislation to increase funding for the state’s Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System.

The program is funded by pharmaceutical companies and the state medical board. It’s a system that allows pre-registered users – including licensed healthcare prescribers eligible to prescribe controlled substances, pharmacists authorized to dispense controlled substances, law enforcement and regulatory boards – to access timely patientcontrolled substance history information.

“It’s going to take a two-thirds vote in the legislature, and it’s absolutely critical that it be passed,” Rovero said.

According to the state medical board, the agency doesn’t have the manpower to go through the millions of prescriptions California doctors prescribe every year and track down the “dirty doctors,” like Tseng.

“The medical board needs to proactively monitor these doctors and take the appropriate action against them when they finally do identify a doctor who’s overprescribing,” Rovero said. “The data is there because by law, every pharmacy has to input data seven days after filling it out ... it is in raw from, but it can be combed through.”

Rovero has also spoken to the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, and she said officials there said they could go into the CURES database and find the top 10 overprescribing doctors.

“If they are a consumer efficacy agency – and that’s what they’re suppose to be, watching over and protecting our consumer interest – you cannot wait until a doctor has been in operation and over prescribing mode for five years or more,” Rovero said. “Often that’s the case, and then finally someone files a complaint or the DEA comes in and … they take action.”

On March 11. Rovero organized a rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento to raise awareness about the prescription drug abuse epidemic – and now she’s trying to organize a rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Rovero said the prescription drug epidemic is desperate for more national attention in order for progress to be made.

Bradley V. DeHaven has testified in legislative hearings in Sacramento about the issue. While testifying, he held $9 over his head to protest the fact that the medical board refused to assess its doctors an additional $9 annually in licensing fees to help support CURES. Both of DeHaven’s sons attended Granite Bay High School. They both broke their arm while in high school, one while playing baseball for the Grizzlies and the other on a trampoline.

Both of his sons were prescribed Vicodin, and while one was able to finish his prescription without incident, his older son Brandon became addicted.

Brandon got into some drug-related crime, and soon after graduating from GBHS, he was sentenced to state prison.

To help get his son out of prison, DeHaven organized a sting in the Safeway parking lot on the corner of Douglas Blvd. and Sierra College Blvd. in which he went undercover to expose his son’s drug dealers.

The sting was successful, and Brandon is now 27 years old and two-and-a-half years clean.

“I’m blessed, my son is still alive, and I know way too many people that will never hug their child again,” DeHaven said. “I and those people want to make sure that that list goes down to zero.”

According to the Center for Disease Control, 100 people die per day from a prescription drug overdose.

DeHaven said the media needs to do a better job of reporting about how significant the prescription drug abuse epidemic really is.

“If you think about Sandy Hook Elementary School, a horrific event in December where some crazed maniac walked in and mowed down 20-something people, kids,” Dehaven said, “everyone was shocked, every (TV) station, they’re calling for gun control, changing the laws of the land, making guns illegal all because some crazy idiot killed 20-some-odd people in a day.

“But the fact is, that’s how many people die in the first six hours of every day from a prescription drug overdose, and yet there’s no outrage for all of those parents.”

Both DeHaven and Rovero said increased funding and efficient use of the CURES program is the next step to curtailing the epidemic.

Although the medical board claims it is complaint-driven, according to DeHaven, when complaints surface, DeHaven said the board gives the complainers the run-around and wears them out – and then does nothing about the actual complaint.

“The medical board knew for years of complaints that were filed against Tseng and did nothing about it,” DeHaven said.

“So while a doctor is writing prescriptions to 20-something-year-olds for synthetic heroin like oxycodone and opair … a Joey Rovero walks in the office and dies taking those drugs nine days after his appointment where they took no X-rays, no lab work, asked for no medical records, cash for drugs.

“And Joey Rovero dies while three years of complaints are sitting over at the medical board and nobody has done anything about them until the Los Angeles Times comes in and blows the lid off it.”

According to the CDC, there are 350 emergency room visits for every death, and DeHaven says a better-funded and staffed CURES program will reduce that number as well as the number of fatalities.

“If you think about cars versus drugs, cars we put seatbelts in,” DeHaven said. “Go back to the early 1900s when cars were invented, they use to go 5 mph – you probably don’t need a seatbelt for a car going 5 mph.

“But now cars can go 150 mph, and people are dying left and right, so we as a society stood up and said, ‘What can we do about

this?’ and seatbelts came about, then airbags and other things that make cars safer.

“The same goes for drugs. Drugs weren’t heroin, but now they are. And so laws and reform needs to come into play and address this changing environment because all the rules have changed and the drugs in our parents’ medicine cabinet now are lethal, are deadly and they are addictive.”

Americans make up less than five percent of the world’s population, but we consume 99 percent of the hydrocodone made in the world and about 80 percent of drugs like oxycotin and opana. DeHaven said this is because we have become a nation of pillpoppers.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, among adolescents in the U.S., nearly one in 12 high school seniors reported nonmedical use of Vicodin and one in 20 reported abuse of oxycontin.

“As innocently as it starts out, you can’t stop it,” DeHaven said. “You can’t turn it off. I’ve seen the pictures; I work with these parents all the time. And when someone shows me a picture of their child in a Little League outfit and that child is now dead, that’s hard. … And that kid is dead because of legal drugs put into our world that our government refuses to monitor in a prudent way.

“They need to have a prescription drug monitoring program in every state so that the people who do need the drugs are getting them and the addicts get the help they need for being addicted.”

Kristie M. Manning, a pediatric physician at Sutter Health in San Francisco, participated in the rally on the state Capitol’s steps.

Manning’s brother Kyle Manning, died of a drug overdose at age 23 in 2010.

“Since (my brother’s death), I go to high schools and educate children and use my brother’s story to sort of shock them and use details of the story to tell them how they can die from it,” Manning said.

She said she doesn’t think doctors are properly trained about the side effects of prescription drugs, and so she tries to take the initiative herself to learn more about prescription drugs.

“I didn’t learn about it in medical school or residency,” Manning said.

Like Rovero and DeHaven, she said she thinks the next step to making progress with the epidemic is funding CURES. “I also think we need to look at better ways to treat pain and use a multi-disciplinary (approach),” Manning said, “and not just necessarily use these types of drugs.”

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Have a kinder heart and reach out

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hat makes me boil with an uncontrollable amount rage and fury, what makes me madder than anything in the world, is bullying.

Life is so precious, so incredibly precious, most people don’t realize it, and they take it for granted. Life is an opportunity. And when you bully others, when you put them down, you are not only making someone miserable, but you are eroding your own quality of life. You poison your life with evil and hatred, kokhovat.gazette@gmail.com with viciousness. And you will most likely build on that because it will soon become the only thing you’ll know. It’ll become a habit.

And eventually, you will crumble and fall, because you gain absolutely nothing when being malicious. You will end up having nothing, and most likely no one, in your life.

What is so satisfying, cool and gratifying about making another human being suffer, about making them feel awful about themselves? What good can you possibly gain from that?

But that’s not all. If you’re a bully, you’re only part of the problem. If you are a bystander, that’s almost worse.

In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “to accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor.”

If you stand there idly and “helplessly” as you watch someone get put down, get bullied, get hurt, you’re being a coward. An absolute coward. You are letting bullies win by allowing them to get away with their disgusting, repulsive, nauseating behavior. You are a coward because you choose to do nothing and watch from the sidelines.

And why do you do this? Because it’s the easy route. By being a nobody, you don’t bring attention to yourself, you blend in with the crowd, and go along with whatever’s happening. You’re a follower. A spineless, useless follower. You’re as horrible as the bully because you don’t do anything to stop the antagonist. Your actions (or lack thereof) make you part of the problem. You too, as a result, degrade your quality of life by never mustering up the guts, the courage, to stand up for what you believe to be right.

The absolute worst, most unforgiving thing you could ever do in a situation, where you have the opportunity to make a (positive) difference, to break the status quo, to do something admirable, brave and heroic, is to do nothing.

If, however, you do gather the courage to free, liberate yourself from conformity, to disregard what people think, and just do, I guarantee you’ll feel so much better.

You’ll feel better because when you simply follow your

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instinct – natural instinct, that is – to stand up for someone, help them out, you’re taking control of your life, of the decisions you make. You won’t be making them for anyone else, you’ll be making them for you, and you only, because it’s what you want to do, even if it is “un-cool.”

But who dictates what’s cool and not? Isn’t that just an opinion? I personally think being your own person is by far the coolest, most awesome thing anyone could do!

And don’t ever look down on those people who aren’t afraid of being themselves, of shining, of embracing who they are, because it’s those individuals who make our society prosper, who bring fresh ideas to the table. We would be stuck in a stagnant state if everyone was the same and no one was unique.

Nobody likes a bully. But they’re all too afraid to stand up to them. And when someone does confront them, it just takes that someone, that one push, to give a voice to those too fearful (for their reputation and no doubt by their own insecurities) to be their own persons, and to not bow down to the absurd and senseless oppressions of conformity.

Bullying has to stop. And it will never stop if you just stand by and are acquiescent. And when you do take action, it’s a win-win situation.

No act of kindness is ever wasted, you can’t damage yourself by being just, by being nice and compassionate.

And it doesn’t have to be anything big and radical. Just the simplest, smallest act of telling a group of people who are making fun of someone, or snickering at someone, or talking about someone behind their back to “cut it out,” is enough.

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rashing heads and bashing bodies basically defined my view of the game football players so valiantly participate in, and my knowledge of “their kind” basically ended there.

Why risk tremendous injuries simply to go on a field and run at each other in headon collisions and massive dogpiles? The game of throwing a ball while hurling your body at an opponent just seemed absurd.

But then I realized that kicking a round, spotted ball into a rectangular framed net didn’t necessarily seem any more logical, even though I’ve spent the last twelve years doing it.

After participating in Powder Puff, a holy event at GBHS, I realized what I hadn’t been seeing.

Once we hit the field, the “football jocks,” sometimes described with unflattering terms, turned into coaches. For some, football is undoubtedly their specialty.

What I failed to see was that just because some people had not been the brightest bulbs in areas I preferred didn’t mean they were just duds.

And it’s twofold! Reaching out to someone if they seem like they’re having a bad day, showing empathy to someone, even if they’re a complete stranger, is so incredibly kind, and so unfortunately rare. Giving someone a reassuring hug, asking how their day is, and sometimes, even just listening is enough.

By doing so, you are enhancing your quality of life, and this will soon become your habit: to stand up for others, to be there for others. And you’ll be appreciated for that, and you’ll be a better human, a better person, than all those vile, monstrous bullies and bystanders combined.

And eventually, more and more people will become more comfortable with standing up to bullies, and they’ll subside, because bullies are cowards, and once the source of their energy disappears, feeding off of other people’s miseries and agonies, their pain and hurt, there will be no one left to bully.

Who would you rather be? The decision couldn’t have ever been more yours.

And this next part is for everyone, bully or not: before making a judgment about someone, before mocking them or hating them, take a moment and put yourself in their shoes. Try to imagine what they’re feeling, what they’re going through. And if you were them, how would you like others to act toward you?

Because the littlest words and actions can make such an incredible difference.

Make the right difference. *** Kiana Okhovat, a junior, is a Gazette Voices editor.

how to adapt and bond with those who simply aren’t your match.

Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

As an overwhelmed junior on the first day of school, being told left and right that this year of my life would forever define my future success or Dumbing down “watching for the failure in life, meeting my co-editor with reverse” simply to “follow the person runblue hair was a little frazzling. ning” probably seemed foolish to them, I knew nothing about her other than she but they kept their patience and supported didn’t play soccer, she their sometimes stubborn didn’t paint and she had students.

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As the clocked ticked It took me two full down to zero with the years, and counting, to just winning numbers on the begin to understand who scoreboard, we (the seshe is. It is one of the most niors) rushed the field as rewarding relationships I one, proud unit. Sure, I will will ever have because it inevitably brag about my slapped me across the face “tackle” and blocked pass in so many ways. for the next century. But Things I initially realizing the sense of pride perceived as potential barand accomplishment I had riers, such as her semi-adfor that one minuscule event diction to video games and made me appreciate the leyen.gazette@gmail.com part-time job at a haunted sometimes overly expressed house, made every converpride that the football team sation that much more interesting. shares for their state championship.

Even though I am aware of the “lesson” Every teenage novel will tell you that I have learned, I continue, and will always high school is about finding out how to continue to make the same mistake by humeet people who share similar interests man default. and values. What they never talk about is

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The annoying kid who constantly tapped his fingers on the desk as I tried to apply the quadratic equation was a masterful drummer when I saw him perform in a rally.

When I stopped and actually listened, I realized the boy who constantly rambles about politics is a brilliant student with a one-of-a-kind talent for absorbing information.

There is so much to be said for what you are supposed to take out of high school.

Saying that it is about learning about yourself is purely selfish.

While football players will always be the jocks, and several of them will flaunt it to the point of severe annoyance (deserving of raised-eyebrow-glares), many of them contain the true composure of a respected athlete.

My only lasting pieces of our Powder Puff game is the turf beads that have ingrained themselves into my bedroom carpet after I kept my cleats on for hours after the game. However the memories, and most importantly the respect that I attained for a group of people that I honestly thought little about, will be with me forever. *** Lena Eyen, a senior, is a Gazette coeditor-in-chief.

Taking the voice away from GBHS seniors

he seniors at Granite Bay High School have had their voice stolen from them.

On the ballot to decide which teacher will speak at graduation, a “management group” of adults at GBHS decided seniors shouldn’t be able to choose the teacher they want to be their graduation speaker.

Karl Grubaugh, Jarrod Westberg and Brandon Dell’Orto were all removed from the senior graduation speaker ballot for being chosen to speak too many times in the past – they have spoken at every graduation but one since the school’s initial commencement in 1999.

So why is attributed to a it a problem “management that the same group,” teachers speak something so The voice of the at graduation? vague that no one Granite Bay They are put really knows who on a ballot with decided to change Gazette all the other 15 years of GBHS teachers, and tradition. they win. Often.

Rather than Almost always. allowing the students to decide Those three teachers win who they want to speak at their almost every time for a reason – graduation, the “management because they are the teachers who group” forced seniors into a the students want to speak at their corner in which they couldn’t graduation. pick teachers they might have The Gazette’s reporting makes wanted. it clear that no one wants to own But make no mistake – the this decision. It was ultimately “managers” knew that, if

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Dell’Orto, Grubaugh and Westberg were on the ballot, one of the three would almost certainly have been selected.

And so “the managers” decided seniors shouldn’t get who they wanted.

Make no mistake, Kyle Holmes is a great teacher and will do a great job speaking at graduation, but the fact is that the graduating seniors at GBHS had their voices taken away from them.

Dell’Orto, Grubaugh and Westberg each said they were willing to speak again, and all three said it is an honor to be chosen by the students. But this year, it’s an honor that was taken

away from both the students and the teachers.

So here’s our question – is the graduation ceremony for the teachers and staff, or is it for students? At Granite Bay High, we believe it’s always been for the students and their families.

So why would you take away the will of the students – especially without involving students in the decision in any tangible way? Why didn’t the Class of 2013 get the same choice that every previous class has had?

After all – it’s our graduation.

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Which animal would you like to be?

Being a cheetah would be really cool, they are so fast

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Sean Vajanaphanich I want to be a dolphin because they swim super quickly. Also I like turtles and meerkats.

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were walking over to the Cinnabon shop when Gary Bussy in a full-out sprint crashed into Beyoncé.

They both gathered themselves before Bussy asked, “Aren’t you?’

Beyoncé responded, “Yes I am. I’m Beyoncé. And who might you be?”

“I’m Firehands Christopherson,” announced Bussy loudly in a newly discovered Southern Australian accent.

Priscilla, Beyoncé, and Bussy’s encounter quickly turned into a conversation. They began to realize that they were going to the same place and looking for the same platypus, so they decided to share a cab together and be on their way.

Once they all arrived in Perry’s town, the trio began their search for the small aquatic mammal finding him in the middle of his late afternoon swim.

“Get out of the pond, Perry,” said Bussy.

“Who might you be?” asked Perry as he slowly rose from the pond.

“I’m Iceman,” snapped Bussy.

“Ahh. I see, Iceman. Who are these two lovely ladies beside you?”

“This is Beyoncé and this is Priscilla.”

“The pleasure is all mine, lil’ ladies.

So what might I help you with today, Iceman?”

“You can come with me downtown for the murder of Larry the Lobster!”

“Ahh. Lawrence, a fine young lobster he was. I loved him like a brother.”

Then, Perry walked over to his satchel and pulled a small piece of parchment out of it. “Here. This confession will tell you who did it and why.” Bussy grabbed the parchment and was so excited that he reached for his firearm and shot a bullet straight up into the air.

The small spark let out by the gun lit Beyoncé’s extremely flammable

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ife: what a kick in the pants.

It’s a truly funny and mindboggling assortment of craziness, elegance, ugliness and beauty.

My good friend and close compadre Forrest Gump once compared life to a box of chocolates. Forrest had a point there, but is there any one allencompassing metaphor to describe life in its totality?

We’re about to find out. To finish this piece, I will attempt to do the impossible and fail miserably; to make an all-powerful metaphor.

Think of life as a huge platypus. For this situation, we will name him Perry.

So, Perry the Platypus is swimming around in a small pond in New South Wales where he spends his summers.

In this pond, a small unassuming lobster has managed to miraculously swim his way up from the ocean into this small pond.

Larry the Lobster and Perry the Platypus quickly become friends and join a small polo club just a few miles away from the pond.

Because lobsters can’t live without water, when Larry attempts to go play polo with Perry, he experiences a heat stroke and dies in one of the most tragic deaths in New South Wales history.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe in Santa Fe, N.M., detective Gary Bussy hears about the case from our very own Granite Bay Gazette.

Bussy, a shrewd man, decided to call Edward Scissorhands, head detective at the New South Wale’s School for the Artistically Challenged, to help

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him better understand the events at the Polo Club.

Scissorhands tried to explain to Bussy that Lobsters can’t ride horseback or live out of water, but Bussy, a tough interrogator, couldn’t accept such a convenient explanation.

He saw it two ways: either someone was going down for the murder of Larry the Lobster or his name wasn’t Stonehands Frederickson, as Bussy had forgotten his own name.

Meanwhile, in Australia another small Platypus named Priscilla, saw the same article as Bussy, but her focus wasn’t on the article but on the picture in the paper of Perry the Platypus, for he was a fine young platypus.

Perry was in the paper because he was Larry the Lobster’s only friend.

Priscilla was so struck by the platypus that she decided to go on a vacation to New South Wales with her friend Beyoncé. Jay-Z was vacationing at a small maple syrup factory in Vermont at the time, so Beyoncé had no choice but to go with Priscilla.

Priscilla and Beyoncé left on a Tuesday and reached New South Wales on a Wednesday arriving at the same time as detective Gary Bussy.

At the airport, Priscilla and Beyoncé

hairspray causing a flame to erupt from the base of her hair. This flame shot out at the parchment abruptly turning it into ash.

“Aww man,” said Bussy, “Now we’ll never know!” Bussy got on his knees and began attempting to piece together the ash back into its original form.

As Bussy worked on the ashes, Priscilla approached Perry. “I love you, Perry the Platypus,” she said.

“Even though this is my first time meeting you, I love you too,” said Perry.

Then suddenly a majestic stallion trotted right up beside them. The two platypuses mounted the steed and rode off into the sunset while Gary Bussy tried to fix the parchment and Beyoncé sang at her Jar Jar Binks tribute concert in the background. wEpilogue Gary Bussy spent the rest of his life trying to turn the ash back into Parchment.

Beyoncé went up to the small maple syrup factory in Vermont to be with Jay-Z. They are still both maple syrup enthusiasts to this day.

Priscilla and Perry got married on a Wednesday and ended up having four beautiful platypus children. They currently live happily in the wetland adjacent to Granite Bay High School.

Life is a lot like Perry the Platypus.

Even though life might be involved in some pretty shady stuff sometimes, you’ll be happiest if you love it anyway like Priscilla, and you’ll be unhappy if you get caught up trying to figure out all the crap like Gary does So, for this summer, everybody go out and love life! Have a happy summer everybody! *** Dan Johnson, a senior, is a Gazette staff writer.

Religious overreach into politics

Brad Knirk A panda because they are awesome. They are so fat, lazy, and cute!

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Kelsey Short I would definitely be a narwhale because they have a horn.

It is like a unicorn minus the stupid powers.

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Christopher Busby I’d like to be an armadillo for no other reason besides the name.

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eligion is a big part of a lot of Americans lives including my own.

I became a Christian during my sophomore year of high school. And ever since then religion has been a shaenny.gazette@gmail.com major part of my life. I love sharing my religion with people and telling worst possible arguments.

Bible stories. What I don’t like is being The Bible also condones slavery labeled as a conservative.

(Col. 3:22), forbids It is no secret that tattoos (Lev. 19:28), religion is part of the prohibits getting Republican Party married after a platform, and it is no It’s illegal to bring divorce (Mark secret that a lot of 10:11-12) and says politics into relipoliticians are religious. cannot Many problems that are gion and religion women speak in churches (1 front and center in politics Cor. 14:34-35). into politics and today are deeply divided When I first yet it still occurs. started by religion. Conservative to go to Christians believe church I was abortion should be illegal surprised by the because it is “murder.” sheer amount Conservatives believe gay of “religious marriage should not be allowed because conservatives” attending church and it violates the “sanctity of marriage”. yet committing many of the sins The one thing I hate about religious defined in the Bible. conservatives is how they hide behind I heard excuse after excuse about religion. They claim that something why the writing of the Bible is not is morally wrong because “Jesus said so” or “it’s in the Bible.” These are the appropriate in the 21st century. As a

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new Christian this concerned me.

If something was put in a book that is still being read 3,500 years later then I would think that it would be at least a little important.

Why is it okay to cherry pick verses of the Bible that agree with your current mindset or values and live by those verses but not others? Where in the Bible did God, Jesus, or one of the disciples say that some sins are bigger or carry more weight than others?

I was born and raised in a strongly liberal household with strongly liberal values. Some of these values mirror some teachings of the Bible. While I was taught that it was okay to go to church and speak to others I was also taught to have compassion for others.

In the Bible, Jesus and the Apostles taught us to take care of each other and to always love each other.

And hey, there are also many documented instances of Jesus going to the people and giving away essentially free healthcare.

Now, I am not saying that the Democratic Party should adopt the teachings of Christ into the party platform. That should never happen, for many reasons, including and not limiting the fact that America cannot support one religion and show it favor.

All I’m saying is that if Jesus ran for office in the United States of America he would be a liberal democrat. A Liberal Democrat of unmatched proportions.

Jesus fought for the downtrodden in society. Jesus spent most of his time with prostitutes and tax collectors. I

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If Jesus ran for office in the United States of America he would be a liberal democrat. A liberal democrat of epic proportions.

don’t know a single hard core conservative that would go out of his or her way to spend time with tax collectors and prostitutes.

One of the great things about America is that it is illegal to bring religion into politics and religion into politics. The separation of church and state is one of the most momentous innovations in political history.

It’s illegal to bring politics into religion and religion into politics and yet it still occurs. After politicizing the pulpit all you get are a lot of people mad and angry at you, or, if you’re really radical in your views you end up with a cult. *** Summer Haenny, a senior, is a Gazette staff writer.

Thumbs down: Passes to Folsom Lake are expensive and it can get a bit crowded.

Thumbs up: Boating season is coming up and the lake is open!

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’ve failed, over and over again in my life.

“And that is why I succeed.”

This is the message printed on a poster in my aunt’s classroom. I first saw it in fourth grade, not completely understanding the message.

Failure is a hard lesson to teach. The only true way to learn is to live it: to fail, to be rejected or to be denied.

My high school career is defined by my different failures. All the teams I didn’t make, the positions I wasn’t given, the schools I didn’t get into.

I’ve played soccer my whole life, so naturally I tried out for the freshman soccer team four years ago.

That was my first real disappointment.

And like your first love, you always remember your first disappointment.

I can still feel that pit in my stomach that formed the moment I didn’t see my name on the list; a feeling that didn’t go

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away no matter what I did.

Neither the polite compliments of “you should’ve made it” nor the declarations of “I can’t believe you didn’t make it” helped.

This was my first, but certainly not my last, encounter with the phrase “everything happens for a reason.”

Later in my sophomore year, this phrase came up again. I had applied to be on a fashion board and was denied.

The shock was softer, but nonetheless it – stung.

From there life went by swimmingly for a while, until in my junior year I applied for the role of co-editor-in-chief for the Gazette. This was the year that just so happened to have a record high of applicants–10, with only four receiving the position.

Obviously I was with the majority on that one.

But without a doubt, the biggest blunder to my self-confidence is the inevitable college rejection letters.

In a 24-hour time span, I was rejected by five colleges.

In a word, it sucked.

Those colleges included Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Berkeley.

I understand that these are all reach schools, unless you cured cancer at a young age, but nonetheless, it was disheartening.

Five times I got my hopes up as I logged into my student portal, and each time they came plummeting back to earth, slapping me across the face on the way.

Each time I was faced with one of these situations, I was given the same set of

cheesy lines.

“Everything happens for a reason.”

“They don’t know what they’re missing out on.”

“Look on the bright side.”

Those almost made the situation worst.

Deep down, I know all of these to be true, but I needed time to grieve first.

The truth of the matter is that if all of these events didn’t happen, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.

If I would’ve made the soccer team my freshman year, I wouldn’t have joined water polo and then swimming.

Playing those sports in that pool has shaped the person I am today. They were the biggest determinant of me becoming the person I am today. I made some of my best friends in that pool and it’s allowed me to be myself and, as cliché as it sounds, find myself as a person.

If I would’ve been on the fashion board, I might have self-combusted. In my high school years, I became extremely busy to the point the thought of adding one more thing made me want to curl up in a ball and cry.

For this same reason, I’m happy I remained a section editor instead of a coeditor-in-chief. I don’t know if I could’ve handled doing more than that while doing varsity sports, taking AP classes and volunteering.

And instead of going to a prestigious private school, I will be attending UCLA in the fall. I realized that, between Berkeley and UCLA, UCLA was better for what I want to do in life and if I had gotten into Berkeley, I might not have made the decision that’s right for my future.

Everything happens for a reason. I’m living proof of that.

My high school career is made up of massive failures strung together. But I succeeded because I didn’t succumb to the failure. I moved on. I learned how to deal with the idea of failing, then how to prosper from it.

My failures have made me learn and grow as a person.

I’ve failed, over and over again in high school.

And that is why I succeed. *** Hayley McAvoy, a senior, is a Gazette staff writer.

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on’t judge a book by its cover.”

That’s something I was told since the day I entered pre-school.

I was constantly reminded by parents, teachers and older mentors to look past someone’s outward appearance in order to fully appreciate them.

Going through life, it seemed inevitable that I would let them down, and succumb to my judgmental nature. Inside my private mind, I would decide who was smart, who was a bully and even how much money someone had, before I had said one word to them.

That’s something that’s not easy to admit. It was wrong and embarrassing.

But something changed when I entered my junior year and enrolled in the Advanced Journalism class at Granite Bay High School.

I’ve always been a shy and reserved person, scared to explore things outside my comfort zone.

Stopping people to ask questions evoked immense terror within me. I didn’t want to bother people or ask them the questions they didn’t have the answers to. But as a journalist, it was something I needed to do.

I was forced to put on my big girl pants, grab a recorder and talk to people.

And what I discovered was amazing.

People who I’d assumed were too cool to talk to me, too shy to share or too intellectual to hold a conversation, were surprisingly warm, open and completely relatable.

As I interviewed all types of people, I realized how willing people were to help. They wanted to share about their successes and failures, their goals and the people who’ve shaped their lives.

I can recall interviewing GBHS alum Stacey Wong while writing a story about women’s

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success in the academic world. Her obvious intellect and work ethic intimidated me, and I remember being so nervous that my questions would bother her during her time at Stanford University.

When she emailed me back, I was beyond impressed with her depth and detail. I’d always just assumed that she was born brilliant, and that’s how she ended up at Stanford. What I didn’t know was the amount of thought she had put into her academic, social and extra-curricular activities.

Her hard work was overwhelming, and I gained a new appreciation for those “genius students” I had always envied.

I experienced the same surprise when my coeditor Kristin Taylor and I traveled to Grant High School to investigate high school life in a lowerincome environment.

I was absolutely terrified.

But this terror came without any sort of reason.

It was purely a result of the movies I’d seen and the stories I’d heard. What I found when I arrived was a plethora of amazing people with incredible stories.

I shouldn’t have been surprised to find such welcoming and warm people there, but I was.

Kristin and I soon became fast friends with our tour guides, despite our different backgrounds.

The beauty of journalism is the fact that it opens your eyes to all sorts of people. I’m forever grateful for the people I’ve met and the confidence I’ve gained throughout my experience.

I recently traveled to San Francisco for a journalism convention. In the weeks building up to it, I couldn’t wait to spend a four-day weekend with my closest friends in a lively city, learning about exciting journalistic opportunities.

It never crossed my mind that my fondest memories would be hanging out with the other students in the class.

Spending the whole day with peers of all ages and bonding over our journalistic endeavors allowed me to connect with so many new people.

I was able to get to know the girl who’s sat at the computer behind me the whole year just by spending three nights in a room with her. I learned more about her in a weekend than I’d known all year.

By opening my mind, I met dozens of students from all over the country to share ideas about producing a better newspaper.

But the best part of the weekend by far was

sitting in on Haley Massara’s seminar. The room was packed with young journalists eager to learn “how to rant without sounding insane.”

Being able to see Massara in her element, showing off her amazing writing abilities, was incredible.

Before journalism, I wouldn’t have expected this uniquely dressed young woman to hold so much poise and knowledge.

After sitting in the seminar, I came out learning a lot more than how write a terrific opinion piece.

I came out with an immense appreciation for every person I’ve met.

We all have an element; something we devote the majority of our lives to. It’s the thing that motivates us to wake up every day and encourages us to strive for something greater.

Journalism has given me the opportunity to experience someone’s element with them.

When they opened up and allowed me to learn from their experiences and share their stories, I learned more than I ever could have by simply looking at them. *** Madison Touloukian, a senior, is a Gazette Features editor.

The many misunderstandings about the IB program LETTERS I to the n the April publication of the Gazette, there were three articles criticizing the International Baccalaureate program.

The purpose of this response is to clarify a few misconceptions because the representation of IB and its constituents couldn’t have been further from the truth.

First, the article “The IB Question” implied that all the current IB students joined the program with the mindset that we will all automatically get accepted to Columbia or Harvard for the simple fact that we are in IB. This is completely untrue. Most of us joined the IB program because of its rigorous, global, and comprehensive curriculum and definitely not with the assumption that the program guarantees Ivy League acceptances.

Moreover, it is not simply the prestige of the IB program that has earned great college opportunities to students but rather the dedication, hard work and well-roundedness of the students that the IB program helps to cultivate.

The second article discussed an incident that involved a few IB students cheating on a history exam.

I would like to emphasize that this occurred with

less than five students. The majority of us, even under the academic pressure that we all are under, do not succumb to cheating as a method of getting ahead. A single incident cannot be generalized to an entire program.

Another article, titled “Being a Nerd is a Compliment, not an Insult,” IB students were wrongly classified as a group of antisocial kids that “radiate stress” and “have a strange twitch in their eye.”

The reason we seem isolated is because IB students have every class together and thus, our peers are the people we spend the most time with and get to know the best.

However, this does not make us an “expensive” club where high GPAs are the criteria for just talking to us. We’re normal, down-to-earth high school students who have fun and love life as much as the next student at GBHS. Please remember that Granite Bay High does not foster disrespect or attacks on the school’s academic minorities but instead is a place where differences are respected.

-Adithi Reddy, junior

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In Defense of GBiT In response to your article, “Technology purchases prove to be tedious,” it is important to clarify some of the content that may have misinformed the Gazette readership. With that said, there is a very clear purchasing process to procure equipment-nontechnology related items included. The instructors quoted in your article do not reference this process; one would hope they are well-versed with the process and understand the timeline in which purchases are deployed.

Moreover, it would have been helpful to outline that process in your article; many students on campus, including the student quoted in your article, do not understand the purchasing process that is in place in our district. I am happy to provide you additional information, if you would like.

Additionally, there is a perpetual list of technology tasks – referred to as “calls” – that need to be addressed on campus. This list is also inclusive of new equipment installations. For example, if Mr. Jarrod Westberg’s PC were placed higher on the list of calls in the fall semester, then Mr. Karl Grubaugh’s staff computer not booting on Sept. 7, 2012 would have been placed on hold.

When a technology is malfunctioning completely (as with the case of Mr. Grubaugh’s machine), it is difficult for an instructor to do his or her job.

Performance issues that need to be addressed come second to these types of instruction-impacting calls. The third tier of priorities are new equipment installations. It is important to note that GBiT has processed over 350 calls this year; these calls would have otherwise fallen on the shoulders of the district technician, thus delaying new equipment installations further.

Finally, I do want to note that GBiT is continually seeking ways in which to improve efficiency, which continuing to deliver a quality service. With Mr. Mike Fury’s resignation from the district (effective May 17, 2013) and the subsequent hiring of a new Director of Technology, we may see a new approach from the technology staff of the district. In both situations, we hope that the students and staff at GBHS will continue to be able to utilize technology to improve upon the high quality education that is delivered in our school.

-Jared Amalong, GBHS technology teacher

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Gazette photos by Kristin Taylor ď ˇ Drama teacher Kyle Holmes, above left, sings a duet with physics teacher Andrew Phillips during Band Bash. Junior Samuel Copaciu, left, decides to get creative and back flips on the giant blow up slide. Biology teacher Shane Dixon, far above, sits and waits for someone to hit the target at the teacher dunk tank. Freshman Ryan Joy, above, struggles to keep his balance while slack lining. Senior Steven Graber, bottom left, tries to tip the ball over the net in order to avoid senior Aaron Knapp’s block. Junior Kiersten Villarreal, bottom right, tries to attract attention to her choir fundraiser dressed as a giraffe.

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’m seventeen years old and I feel like I’ve been a parent for most of my life. This is because I have a little brother.

I think sometimes being an older sibling makes your protective, caregiver instincts kick in a little early.

There must be some hidden trigger my parents pushed when they told me “Guess what? You’re a big sister!” Since then, my brother has had to tell me all too many times that he doesn’t want nor need a third parent.

And yet I worry.

My brother is ending his freshman year and I’m ending my senior year in high school.

This fall, I will be heading off to college and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t sad, worried, nervous and a whole other myriad of emotions to leave my family.

A huge part of these feelings is because of my brother.

I can admit that I’m a bit of a control freak and perhaps this adds to my parental feelings over my brother.

I want to make sure he succeeds. I want to make sure he reaches his potential. But most of all, I want to make sure he knows how loved and special he is as a human being.

I know some seniors couldn’t care less about what their little siblings will be doing while they’re gone and I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing.

In fact, I might be a little jealous of them because with their disinterest they are also shielded from many other less pleasant feelings – namely concern, worry and fear.

I can only imagine this might be what my parents feel sometimes about me leaving.

And I think I can understand that their anxiety for me and my anxiety for my brother doesn’t stem from a disbelief in the other person’s abilities. The worry comes naturally because that’s what happens when you care about someone – at least that’s what happens when I care about someone.

I’m notorious for over-thinking and over-worrying about the things the people I care about are dealing with. They become my own problems and sometimes it’s hard to see that I have no control over their circumstances or their actions.

The people in my life will go through highs and lows and I can’t prevent it. Caring about people is almost like giving them a piece of your heart, as cheesy as it sounds.

When they have that piece, you feel what they feel, through the good times and the bad times.

It’s because of this piece that I worry about my brother.

I’m constantly being the annoying one saying, ‘You probably shouldn’t drink that soda this late at night,’ ‘You should probably go to sleep soon since you have to get up early tomorrow,’ ‘You should probably start your homework if you want to do well on that test.’

These “suggestions” are met with a quick response of some kind that basically means “You’re not my mom.”

No, I’m not a mom but I will continue to be the one giving “suggestions” to my brother and to many other people in my life, not because I doubt their ability to think and judge situations on their own but simply because they hold a piece of my heart.

*** Meghan Carlsen, a senior, is a Lifestyle co-editor.

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Seniors excited and fearful for independence Students expect positives and negatives to come with college life

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ransitioning to college life can be quite an exciting and even nerveracking experience. A life out of the house and parental care may as well be another planet for some seniors. The feelings for departing seniors can vary to extreme degrees, which reflects just how excited or anxious they are.

Complete independence, roommates, classes, financial situations, professors and campus life define what college life will be for incoming freshman. However, students gauge these different aspects of college with varying degrees of fear and anticipation.

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few hours away for some current seniors, like RJ Marshall who is attending the University of Nevada, Reno.

The very first words out of Marshall’s mouth about what he’s looking forward to most about college didn’t actually have much to do with the school itself.

“I can’t wait to snowboard everyday,” Marshall said.

Marshall, who is very excited for the next phase in his life, said that he is more excited for college life itself rather then the specific college he is going to attend.

“Living in Reno will (stink) … and (I’m) definitely not looking forward to that (part),” Marshall said. “I’ll be in Tahoe or in the mountains as much as physically possible.”

Marshall also said he is not looking

forward to the financial situation his new independence will result in.

“Obviously the big stuff my parents will be helping pay, but I’m going to need to get a job and make money for just about everything else,” Marshall said. “Gas and snowboarding will be taking a large chunk of money.”

Another student bound for UNR is senior Kurt Reinke, who reports being happy to just get away from Granite Bay. “I just need to get away from my house, my family and Granite Bay,” Reinke said. “I’m definitely done with everything here. I want to go out and start my real life at college.”

Reinke said that he is tired of all the cliques that he feels are present.

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in college, people not caught up in the … need to fit in,” Reinke said. “From what I’ve heard, people in Reno are pretty relaxed, especially when you get up into the Sierra Nevadas.”

However, just like many incoming freshman, money is a pressing issue for Reinke.

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The seniors at Granite Bay High School are about to spread their wings and fly out into the real world.

But what students don’t focus on during exciting times like these are the empty nests they are leaving behind.

According to Psychology Today, Empty Nest Syndrome “refers to feelings of depression, sadness and/or grief experienced by parents and caregivers” after children leave home.

“Before a child leaves home, parents do experience stress, fear and anxiety about their child going out into the world without them,” said Natalie Elkin who teaches Advanced Placement Psychology.

The major cause of these feelings of grief or sadness are due to the fact that their focus no longer will be so intently on their child after they leave.

“After the child is gone, there is certainly a mourning period because the loss is quite profound,” Elkin said. “Later on, some parents have a difficult time with the role change. For 18 (to) 20 years of their lives, the major role that these men and women have played in their lives is the role of (the) parent.”

Elkin describes the loss of this role to be something akin to an identity crisis. Parents can struggle significantly when their focus is

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more on themselves and finding their own purpose outside of their child.

Jason Horniman, father of senior Booklyn Klepl, said his family is excited about their only child going off to Sonoma State University in the fall.

The feelings that come with becoming “empty nesters,” Horniman said, can become slightly heightened because Booklyn is their one and only daughter.

“When you only have one child, you have all your focus for raising children (on her),” Horniman said. “Once Brooklyn goes off to college I think probably her mom is going to have that little bit of a hole … If we had additional children … I imagine it would be different.”

Horniman expects to see his daughter maybe once a month but especially for holidays and breaks. As his family prepares for her graduation, Horniman feels he is balancing nervousness with excitement.

“We’re certainly excited that she’s going on to the next step in her life and we’re certainly very proud of everything she’s accomplished so far,” Horniman said. “The nervousness … is (that) she’s going to be living (away from) our house all the time … It’s going to be a big change.”

Kathleen Beiler, mother of senior Megan Beiler, is balancing these emotions as well as her daughter leaves for college just one year after her older brother Drew did. Drew has just See NESTERS, page B6

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Students choose colleges in other countries

Going overseas to pursue a higher education is now an appealing option for GBHS seniors

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As tuition prices rise and acceptance rates for colleges in the United States lower, students are looking to universities in other countries for a more affordable high-quality education – in addition to a priceless cultural experience.

Granite Bay High School senior Bodie Rice will be attending Bond University in Australia in the fall.

“My girlfriend actually was like ‘hey, we should try to do something different’…so we starting looking into it and then we found out that it wasn’t that hard at all,” he said. “They usually want kids from states like California to come over, and they give you scholarships.”

Rice says he is looking forward to living on the Gold Coast of Australia with his girlfriend, GBHS senior Megan Rutlen, who will also be attending Bond Univer-

sity.

“I think it is the best surfing coast in Australia,” Rice said. “Every weekend the school does boat trips to Fiji, which is also a dream place that I’d like to go to.”

GBHS senior Felix von Wendorff plans to attend university in Europe – in Germany, where he has citizenship, or Switzerland.

He cites the dramatically lower tuition prices in Germany and other European countries as a significant motivation for applying.

“It costs about 500 dollars per semester including books – but it doesn’t include housing or food,” he said. “But it’s a lot more independent – you don’t pay 20 or 30 grand a year.”

The prospect of traveling while attending university in Europe is also a draw for Wendorff.

“You can go from pretty much anywhere as a student for under a hundred

Euros,” he said. “You can spend a weekend in Rome (and then) spend the next weekend in London.”

Wendorff has not completed the application process for the European universities yet, as the process starts later in the year than that of American colleges, but he is confident that he will be accepted to the German universities he will apply to.

“It’s more like (if) you meet minimum requirements you can get into any university you want,” he said. “Some universities and some majors are a lot more competitive… besides that, getting into the university really isn’t a problem.”

For international students, minimum requirements may include speaking the language of the country in which a university is located at least semi-fluently, Wendorff says, but are otherwise relatively easy to meet – in the form of an International Baccalaureate diploma, Advanced Placement credits or a combined score of 1300

on SAT math and writing. Wendorff says citizenship is not a requirement or an advantage for acceptance.

Students may also apply for programs and universities that are taught in English, Wendorff says.

“What I think a lot of people don’t realize is that there’s a lot of universities in Europe and Asia that are significantly cheaper than the United States…that only teach in English,” he said. “Maybe (they) don’t have the name recognition of UC Davis, Stanford (or) Berkeley. But they still have the same quality of education.”

He recommends attending an international university directly as a much less expensive alternative to study-abroad programs. “(Exchange students) pay 30 grand to get what would cost, if you applied directly there, only 500 dollars a semester,” he said.

Though German universities are

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generally more willing to accept eligible students than those of the United States, Wendorff notes that the quality at most German universities remains exceptionally high.

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GBHS students begin to anticipate their senior trip to Europe and explain their expectations

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The term “Euro Trip” has often been affiliated with uninterrupted teenage binging, but with the help of Education First Tours, Granite Bay High School presents it in a different, more educational light. “(I want to) learn something about each country’s culture that you can’t really learn in the United States because you aren’t really there experiencing it,” said senior Joey Blackwell who will be attending this summer’s Europe trip. “I’m probably most excited about spending time with my friends (and) traveling around in different countries.”

The students will be leaving June 13 for London and arriving June 14. They will be spending three days in London.

While in London, their tour director will show them different attractions including The Strand, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Convent Garden, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Piccadilly Circus, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.

There is also an optional excursion to Bath and Stonehenge.

From London, they journey to France.

“I’ve never been to Paris, so I’ll be excited to go there,” senior

Justin Ramirez said.

The group will spend three days in Paris and will visit the Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, Champs-Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides, the Latin Quarter, the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral.

“I’m definitely most excited to see the Louvre and to see the palace of Versailles where the World War I treaties were signed,” senior Chet Hubbard said. “It should be really exciting because I’m a total history geek.”

To finish off their stay in Europe, they will spend three days in the Central Swiss Alps, two days in Florence and two days in Rome.

In Switzerland, the tour will take them to the Lucerne Region via Burgundy and they will see the Lion Monument, Chapel Bridge and there will be an optional excursion to the beautiful Mount Pilatus.

“I’m excited about seeing the mountains, (especially) Mount Pilatus. That’s probably the most exciting thing,” senior Kevin Blank said.

From Switzerland, the sightseers will advance into Florence, Italy. EF tours includes sights of Piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio, Chiesa di Santa Croce, the Gates of Paradise and an optional excursion to Pisa.

“I’m extremely excited to go

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see the coliseum and the Roman Forum and have the chance to see amazing historical sites,” Hubbard said. “On top of that, the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel will be amazing to see. I’m extremely excited overall.”

The group will see the Colossuem, the Roman forum, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican City along with St. Peter’s Basilica, the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, and Trevi Fountain, with the option to see the Roman Catacombs.

Although much of the trip involves a guide showing the students around, there will be free time for students to explore.

With this free time comes certain

uniquely non-American freedoms.

“It’s legal,” Blank said, referring to the 18 year old drinking age in Europe.

“I don’t care if they do (drink).

I don’t think I will. As long as they’re having a good time, I’ll be having a good time,” Ramirez said.

According to many, the main draw to the trip isn’t the alcohol or even Europe itself, but the opportunity to have one last hooray with friends.

“I’m most excited about hanging out with all of my friends,” Blank said. “It will be the last big thing that we do with each other as high school students.”

Students bring bags of clothing to gym to exchange with others

BY WILLOW WOOD

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On Wednesday April 17th the Granite Bay High School cafeteria was abuzz with girls doing a little shopping.

“Swap ‘til you drop!” was a clothes swapping event put on by the Peer Helping class at GBHS. “We were in our groups just trying to think of ideas of how to get things going on campus that would raise money for our classes,” said Juliette Burke, one of the students in charge of this event. “We realized people spend much more money on clothes than they need.”

The event was held in the cafeteria and all students had to do was buy a ticket for 3 dollars to support the peer helping class and bring a bag full of 10 items of clothing.

At the end students got to pick up 10 equivalent items of clothing to take home.

Snacks and water were provided to keep shoppers replenished during their excursions, and music was played for entertainment.

“You (were able) to have a fresh update to your wardrobe without spending $45 for a tee shirt,” Burke said.

Unfortunately, the event did not have the sort of success the peer helping class was hoping for. While all the girls in the class were said to be in attendance, only two other people bought tickets, and the coordinators of the event were confused by the outcome.

“We were highly publicized: we went on the bulletin, had flyers all throughout campus and we had ticket sales at both lunches but no one seemed to buy tickets,” Burke said.

Some students just couldn’t make it to the event because it was held on a school night.

“I would have loved to come – I love thrift shopping and this seemed like that sort of thing,” junior Nikki Chang said. “I hope they have it again next year.”

The Peer Helping class puts on many more events for the school.

According to senior Jennifer Larkin, another coordinator of the event, peer helping also does student outreach, which is meant to help students who have just transferred to the school or freshman. They also hold “Cookies and Cram” study sessions during finals week for the freshman.

The peer helping class has put on events such as Point Break, donating Easter baskets for foster kids, Valentine’s Day nail painting, dodge ball games and the themed lunch parties every Friday.

“The main purpose of peer helping is to be aware of what is happening around us, being aware of what other kids are going through in life and (making GBHS) a better place,” said junior Morgan Sullivan, who has been involved in peer helping for a year and plans on continuing. “(During the clothing swap) we (hoped to) help out kids who need new clothes but maybe can’t afford everything,” Burke said.

The original plan was to donate the unclaimed clothing to the Courage House, which is a home for women and teenage girls who have been sexually abused, but they only accept new clothing.

“We ended up donating the clothing to foster homes in the area that had teenage girls,” Larkin said.

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Students plan to hit the books over summer

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With summer on the horizon, students will be receiving a much-needed break from the stress of high school and its tough classes.

Most Granite Bay High School students view their summer vacation as a time for rest and relaxation, but others will use their free time to get ahead of the competition – done in the form of summer classes at local colleges.

Why do these students willingly give up their summer break for more work?

The answer is simple – they get college credits without having to take advanced placement tests and can take courses that are

otherwise unavailable.

Junior Amir Karamlou is one of many students who will be taking advantage of college classes this summer.

“I’m planning to take statistics, so that I (can) empty one of my periods during the fall,” Karamlou said. “(That way) I could take Calculus 3.”

Karamlou has never taken a summer course before, but the benefits of doing so are clear. “(I) won’t have to take an AP exam and the credits get counted directly as college credits,” Karamlou said.

He will be able to avoid difficult AP tests at the cost of some hours by the pool.

Junior Alex Cooney, who has taken United States history over

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the summer and will try to take physics this year, has found many advantages to taking classes over summer.

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Provocative summer clothing can lead to uncomfortable moments between friends when some feel confident enough to show off their bodies while others are more self-conscious.

Girls overcome body-image issues with swimwear

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Tanned skin. Toned legs. Size two.

Large breasts. Skinny arms. Flat stomach.

Women with all these characteristics and more are featured on the covers of countless magazines in preparation for the summer “bikini season.”

However, some girls won’t dare set foot on the beach in a bikini because of their obsession with obtaining only body image media and society has taught them to be satisfied with.

This “perfect summer body” that can be psychologically detrimental to the minds and perceptions of females does not motivate women to be confident in their body.

In actuality, it can lead to self-esteem problems, harsh judgments and bullying

of girls with different body types as well as unhealthy habits that are acquired in order to reach the unattainable goal of perfection.

“I was eventually hospitalized (…) I was so used to going days without food, and I still had no appetite for months after,” said Laurel Teague, a Granite Bay High School junior who struggled with an eating disorder after losing confidence in her own body because of the comparison she made to the women who the media deemed attractive.

Though Teague now knows not to let the bodies of girls around her or in Vogue control her own self-view, she realizes how easily anyone can fall into the trap of trying to look perfect in their two-piece and turning to harmful lifestyles.

“It can start with you saying, ‘oh, I don’t like my belly, it’s not flat enough,’ but then it grows and you start just hating your entire person,” Teague said.

Psychologically, humans are designed to conform. A study from 2009 by the Cell Press explained that our brain produces anxiety-inducing, neural firings when we feel alone in our opinion. Because of this,

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whatever way media tells us is appropriate to look like at the beach or in shortshorts is the way, we will naturally want to believe.

Natalie Elkin, the GBHS Advanced Placement Psychology teacher and a marriage and family therapist, believes that trends such as the summer body obsession are what convince women that they’re unhealthy and that only a small range of sizes is acceptable.

“Unconsciously, we create this idea of what a body should look like,” Elkin said, “Today we’re inundated from wide ranges of technology of these thin bodies…it makes girls think, especially around this time of year, that that’s the only healthy way to look.”

From the constant stimulation shown online, on magazine racks, on TV or even from peers, it is almost impossible for young girls to not look at themselves in comparison to the models with thigh gaps and tiny waists, Elkin said.

“Girls are going to want to be those people on the cover,” Teague said. “Just seeing the image over and over gets it ingrained in your mind that that’s the only

way to be pretty.”

Shelby Carlson, a senior who was previously bullied because of her weight, knows personally that, especially in a town such as Granite Bay, it’s difficult to not have the body of a Sports Illustrated model and still be confident in one’s self.

“There’s just this stigma in Granite Bay that if you’re not a size zero, you can’t wear anything revealing and that it’s gross if you do,” Carlson said. “We have this expectation of needing to be skinny to fit in, which is just not natural for many people.”

The judgments Carlson and many others have received over their weight have included being perceived as inadequate or crass, a societal expectation of people who are not considered skinny.

The bullying mixed with personal beliefs of incompetence only sink people into a sea of self-hatred and embarrassment that can take years to come out of. “(The bullying) can just crush someone’s self-esteem (…) for a while I was bullied about my weight, and I became very depressed,” Carlson said. “I see a lot of other girls who are told they’re not

good enough (...) it’s really damaging.”

Western culture is dominated by a hatred for laziness or inactivity, which are both wrongly attributed to the non-media-approved bodies.

Nikole Farler, a senior, believes that a primary reason that women in magazines can be so influential for other girls is because their photos are often paired with stories on how to win over men.

“Magazines perpetuate the idea that having the perfect, cute little body is the way you get guys,” Farler said. “But people need to learn that it’s not so much how you look, but how you present yourself…confidence is a lot sexier than skin and bones.”

Teague thinks that the media can be self-contradicting when it comes to what it promotes at different points in the year.

“In December, the same magazine that is now teaching you how to lose wait was filled with sugar cookie recipes…they’re holding us to a double-standard,” Teague said.

“People blame society, but you have to remember that you’re following it,” Teague said. “If you can change your own individual view of yourself, that’s a good start.”

Students attend smaller colleges To avoid being lost in the crowd, many prefer liberal arts schools

BY SUMMER HANEY

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Picking a college might be the most important decision a student can make.

Just like any important decision, many factors go into the decision making process. One wants their college to reflect who they are or want to be as a person.

The size, popularity and location of the school also matter. Many students dream of attending a big university with a large athletics program and a name that everybody knows.

But for some students a smaller college is simply just a better fit.

Some smaller schools also offer athletic programs that allow students to keep on playing the sport they love without having the added pressure of

playing for a large Division I school.

Tyler Arenson, a senior at Granite Bay High School, is planning on playing football for Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington in the fall.

Pacific Lutheran is a small school with only about 3,100 students.

“I was planning to go to Montana State,” Arenson said.

“It’s a lot larger than Pacific Lutheran, but I wanted to keep playing football for a little bit longer.”

Money is also a deciding factor in picking a college.

After all of Arenson’s scholarships he will end up paying only $12,000 in tuition alone, a huge positive attribute to the school.

Shelby Carlson, a senior at GBHS, will be attending Northern Arizona University

in Flagstaff, Arizona in the was very influential, the feel fall. and culture of the campus was While NAU is also incredibly ima larger college portant to Carlson. with around “(NAU was) the I feel like I perfect 20,000 students fitting school would get for me,” Carlson only four students from the swept away in said “The culture of last three years the school (…) the everything. academics, (the) have attended NAU, including sports, everything in Carlson.

– Kevin Mugno, the school was what Carlson said I was looking for.”

GBHS senior that the money Another reason she got from NAU was very important in her decision process.

“I got a music scholarship, the Western Undergraduate Exchange Scholarship and the University Grant,” Carlson said. “In the end I will pay $708 a year for tuition.”

While the money she got

students chose a smaller school as opposed to a larger school is because of specific academic programs they offer.

Kevin Mugno, a senior at GBHS, is planning on attending Creighton University in the fall.

Creighton University is a very small college of about 4,500 undergraduate students

located in Omaha, Nebraska.

Because Mugno plans on pursuing a career in the medical field, a good medical program was very important.

“I really liked Creighton’s medical program which was a really big thing I was looking for in a school.”

The Creighton Medical School is a Jesuit medical school that has two campuses.

The main campus is located on the Creighton University campus in Omaha. The other campus is the located in Phoenix, Arizona and is the only Jesuit medical school located west of Omaha.

Regardless of where students attend college, finding the college with the right fit is very important.

“I have never been a fan of huge colleges,” Mugno said, “Because I feel like I would get swept away in everything.”

Gazette: What do you plan to do when you’re older?

Sharif: High school has been a great experience to allow me to see what my passions truly are. I’m especially looking forward to the business classes I will be taking next year. After high school, I plan to attend UC Davis and major either in engineering or business.

After that, I have plans to become an architect or take over the family business of mine, Sharif Jewelers.

Gazette: What do you do in your free time?

Sharif: I work in my dad’s jewelry store every weekend when I’m free, but I wouldn’t really consider that to be free time honestly. In my real free time, I like to look at cars; my main preferences are BMWs, but I don’t mind a little super cars here and there.

-Compiled by Akash Khosla

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Seniors plan for grad school

Students prepare to further their education through masters degree

BY GOKUL ASOKAN

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Most seniors are happy that they’re finally done with high school, and many are looking forward to moving on to the next stage of their education, in the form of college.

Most college discussion, however, is centered on getting into an undergraduate program, since that is the next immediate step. Few students are currently taking the time to think about what comes after, and whether or not they are going to be going on to graduate school.

Senior Hammad Bashir is one of these few students. Bashir will be attending the University of California at Berkeley next fall, and will be majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

“In the Electrical Engineering industry, it helps a lot to go in with a master’s degree in engineering, so I am thinking about pursuing that after my undergrad degree,” Bashir said.

“I might also want to go into more management-based positions, so I might get a master’s degree in Business Administration as well.”

The average salary of someone with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering is around $60,000. For those with a master’s, this number increases to nearly $100,000.

For Bashir, however, one of the most valuable things that a master’s degree can provide is networking opportunities.

“Grad school is a great place to network,” Bashir said. “You are working alongside people who really know their stuff and usually have some deeper knowledge of the industry, and networking with those people is great for increasing your career opportunities.”

Senior Michael Tom, another student who will be entering UC Berkeley as a double-major in Economics and Statistics, fully intends on pursuing a graduate school degree as well.

“I would like to attend graduate school if money permits, hopefully achieving a Doctorate of Philosophy,” Tom said. “I’d like to continue my education as far as the system permits.”

Locals attempt to be healthier and more environmentally conscious

BY CHRIS PEI

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Gone are the days where families need to manage their own crops or raise their own chickens to survive.

For the most part, the average suburban family can hop on over to the supermarket to get whatever food they want, whenever they want.

Yet, healthy, do-it-yourself sustainable eating is becoming more popular than ever, sweeping along the tides of America’s ever-changing food culture.

Local mom Gabriele Windgasse, who currently lives in Loomis, said she’s always been one to take sustainable eating into her own hands.

Her two kids, Anna and Felix von Wendorff, currently attend Granite Bay High School as a junior and a senior.

According to Windgasse, living in a rural-residential neighborhood like Loomis has definitely played a part in her family’s lifestyle decisions.

As an alternative to buying eggs by the carton, her family purchased three layer hens, each serving a dual purpose.

“The chicks are really useful: I don’t like to throw away food so they get the leftovers,” Windgasse said. “So the hens pick the vegetable patches clean when I don’t grow anything there – plus they fertilize the ground. We get one or two eggs a day, which is just enough for us.”

Windgasse puts the organic material that the hens are unable to eat into her compost, which is then mixed with manure produced from the horse that her family owns.

This soil is then used for her family’s private garden, which according to Windgasse, is the most fertile during the summer.

“I try to grow tomatoes, corn, peppers, beans, onions, summer and winter squash,” Windgasse said. “I do try to put in a winter garden (including vegetables like broccoli, kale and mustard greens), which works in our mild climate.”

Windgasse also recently purchased a solar oven – a device that she has previously made by hand in the past.

“Mostly I use it for slow cooking,” Windgasse said. “(I can) put in rice in the morning and have it ready for lunch.

It’s also very good for cooking beans or chickpeas.”

Apart from growing her own fruits and vegetables, Windgasse also bakes her own pizza, bread and pastries.

“When I grew up, it was normal that the cooking and baking was done at home – there were very few, if any, ‘convenience foods’ to buy,” Windgasse said. “I often try to recreate my mom’s recipes – you just can’t get that type of cake at Raley’s or Costco.”

Windgasse’s daughter, Anna – a practicing vegetarian – said the availability of

home-grown vegetables definitely helps her maintain her diet.

“On the surface, (all the things we do) seem like a novelty at most,” Anna said.

“It can even end up being an inconvenience or hassle at times too. For example, there are some foods you can’t cook in a solar oven … When you really think about it though, a lot of the stuff we do, while small, ends up adding up and helping the environment.”

In addition to being a mom, Windgasse is also an environmental toxicologist.

Windgasse said her actions, while mostly influenced by her convenient location, have also had a strong “save the planet” principle behind them.

Eating food from a personal garden, or even eating locally, can have a significant environmental impact if made a consistent habit.

According to Rich Pirog of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, the average “fresh food item” travels 1,500 miles to get to the dinner table. By buying or growing locally, pollution and fuel costs associated with transportation are significantly reduced.

Furthermore, such habits are shown to have beneficial effects on one’s health, as well.

GBHS teacher Jenny Padgett said her decision to start eating organic, local foods See FORK, page B7

Tom’s primary motivation for attending graduate school is a simple desire to learn as much as he can.

“I like to learn,” Tom said. “Besides the added benefit of somewhat better job prospects with a master’s degree, graduate school provides a fantastic opportunity to master whatever subject you wish to pursue.

From what I understand, graduate school is a major step towards conducting research that would actually contribute to your particular field of study.”

The graduate school application process involves many steps, similar to the process of applying to undergraduate programs. There are general graduate school tests, like the Graduate Record Examination, and specific exams based on professional school programs, such as the Law School Admission Test or the Graduate Management Admission Test for business schools and Master of Business Administration programs.

Many graduate school applications also involve letters of recommendation and an overview of the grades received during the time spent completing the undergraduate program.

This makes it essential to strive to perform well during the undergraduate years, since many of the most highly competitive schools require very high grade point averages; UC Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law, for example, requires on average a 3.8 grade-point average from its applicants.

Brian Wei, who was admitted to Stanford University and intends on majoring in their Science, Technology and Society program, also intends on attending medical school once he is done with his undergraduate education.

“To achieve my goals,” Wei said, “I am going to have to make sure I maintain a high GPA at Stanford and that I do well on the Medical College Admission Test.”

Although for many, graduate school is a far-off consideration, for Wei, medical school has been a constant goal.

“Since I was a small child, I have always wanted to be a doctor,” Wei said. “I can’t imagine myself not getting a graduate school degree.”

Achieving the perfect tan comes with risks Gazette illustration/ALEXA ZOGOPOULOS

Tanning in excess brings along with it the dangers of skin cancer

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Obtaining the perfect shade of skin color has been a topic of contention for many years.

Does the individual have the right to tamper with their personal look artificially? At what age should tanning be allowed? Is it safe?

Tanning can be a dangerous activity that may end in cancer if done in excess.

However, if kept under control and done with moderation, obtaining that desirable healthy glow can be easy and safe.

Many high school students have noticed that American society is inundated with models, celebrities and actors who have gloriously tan skin. Possessing the attention of impression-

able minds, some teenagers begin to lay out in the sun in order to imitate their favorite star.

“People mainly come in here to tan because they want to feel better about themselves,” Stefani Williams of Amazing Tans said. “It’s a total self confidence thing.”

Amazing Tans is situated in the heart of Granite Bay. The décor is modern with a business-like vibe.

Williams was adamant that the business she is employed for does little to contribute to skin cancer, the most common form of cancer in the United States, according to skincancer. org.

“Honestly, it depends on the person,” Williams said. “Once a month is totally fine. (Tanning) outside is worse (than in a bed).”

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Williams claims that because her customers are kept on a timer, the tanning bed solution is not nearly as bad as many perceive it to be.

Some believe that going in a tanning bed is a young and foolish thing to do. However, tanning laws have been put in place to prohibit overuse in younger people.

“There is a law that was passed in 2012 where (teenagers) are not actually allowed to tan in actual beds,” Williams said.

Williams believes that the dangers of tanning in a bed are minimal. She also thinks that the stigma associated with tanning beds may soon dissolve as a result of the age-limit.

Some GBHS students continue to look for See TAN, page B7

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Random club of the month

A list of facts you will never need to know but always find interesting

One of 2,128 GBHS students is randomly selected every issue

Co-Presidents: Kristine Khieu and Tina Zolfaghari

Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years or older

Gazette: Who can join your club?

Zolfaghari: Anyone who likes to help kids in their community and who has basic 7th grade and 8th academics skills.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

A bean has more DNA per cell then a human.

Why should students join your club?

Helping hands is a great way to get involved in your community and to help kids with questions they may have while also making new friends.

Only two percent of people can lick their elbows.

100 people choke to death on pens each year.

What do you do during club meetings?

At our meetings we either go to Olympus or Cavitt and help the kids with any questions they may have on their homework or help them study for upcoming quizzes.

The average lead pencil will write a line 35 miles long.

In a standard deck of cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

There is no word you can write with just the bottom line of the keyboard.

Source: http://www.allrandomfacts.com/

Helping Hands Club

Gazette photo /KRISTIN KHIEU

Hailey Dredge, freshman What has been your favorite class so far?

My favorite class was art. I really liked my teacher (Mrs. Rider) and painting was my favorite. She just taught me a lot.

–Compiled by Willow Wood

What do you want to do in the future?

I really want to be a doctor or a nurse.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?

I would want to fly because I would love to see everything up high.

Do you play any sports?

I’m not (playing) any right now. But, I like playing soccer and softball.

What qualities do you look for in a friend?

In a friend, I always look for someone outgoing.

When and where does your club meet?

We meet at Olympus every other Tuesday and Cavitt every other Thursday from 2:35 to 4:00.

What is your favorite memory from being in the club?

My favorite memory from the club is meeting all of the junior high students and becoming really great friends with them.

–Compiled by Kristine Khieu

–Compiled by Willow Wood

COLLEGE: Going to school outside of the U.S. is cost-effective, educational Continued from page B2

rate, Wendorff says. He notes that German students are advocating to have the price of tuition lowered even further.

“It’s basically in the state’s best interest to produce high-quality students who aren’t in debt and can then become productive members of society,” he said. “So everybody wins, as far as I see it.”

Despite the advantages, though, Wendorff says the application process for European universities can be long and tedious.

“One thing you realize when you start doing this is that you have to do so much research,” he said. “There’s really no complete

information out there about how to do it. And every university has their own different admissions, especially if you’re not the typical (German) applicant.”

He recommends starting research as soon as possible, staying on top of deadlines, getting in contact with people who can help and double-checking the accreditation status of universities.

Senior Justin Habashi had an easier time applying to the University of British Colombia in Canada, which he will be attending the coming fall.

“The application wasn’t too bad and the only reason I had to go through immigrations…was because I got accepted and they said

as soon as you get accepted then you should apply for your study permit,” Habashi said.

Habashi notes similar advantages to studying outside of the United States as Wendorff. He says that Canadian colleges are less apt to reject students due to overcrowding and that the government subsidizes education much more than in the United States.

“I think it’ a total of 45,000 (students) in just that school, and then they have another campus,” he said. “They accept a lot more people, and then they just expand the campus rather than denying people who are worthy.”

As an international student, Habashi will be paying the highest

NESTERS: Parents are excited to see their children mature in college Continued from page B2

the world and thrive.

Kathleen expressed that knowfinished his freshman year at Mon- ing both Megan and Drew are tana State Univerboth “good kids” sity. who are independent “Having them and self-sufficient That’s where makes it easier to let both gone … so close together and the excitement them go out into the becoming ‘empty world on their own. comes from, just Horniman agrees nesters’ within a year (is) kind of being proud.” that Booklyn also is weird,” Belier said. prepared to go off to “(But) my happicollege independent– Jason Horniman, ly and discover the ness for them outweighs the sadness father of GBHS senior world for herself. for me.”

“She doesn’t know Megan will be everything obviheading off to ously because she Boise State Unihasn’t experienced versity in the fall everything,” Horniand while Kathman said. “But I leen knows Idaho sounds far she do think we’ve done a great job is comforted by the fact that the raising her. I think she’s an increddrive home is actually shorter than ible person and I think she’s got the drive from a school in San an amazing future to look forward Diego and the flights can be direct. to.”

“I’m excited for her actually,” This change however doesn’t Kathleen said. “I think part of it is have to be completely filled with I didn’t go away (when I went) to sadness for parent. With the college … so it’s kind of fun for children’s independence comes the her just to get to go away and do parent’s independence as well. the things that I didn’t get to do.”

Elkin suggested that parents Psychology Today claimed maintaining their own hobbies, that the change from parents into interests and social circles can empty nesters can be made easier help with the time of transition depending on how strong a relaand battle off the feelings of the tionship the child and the parent Empty Nest Syndrome. share.

“Seeking social support is While it is a time of transition important and connecting with for both the Hornimans and the others who are having or have had Beilers, both are confident in their a similar experience can validate daughters ability to go out in to and normalize the experience,”

Elkin said.

The Beilers, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this summer, are excited to have more free time to do what they want as a couple. Horniman expressed similar feelings about his wife’s and his plans for the future after their nest is empty.

“Some of what we’re looking forward to is more travel (and) more time as a couple,” Horniman said. “You don’t always have that luxury or the same amount of time when you’re raising children. You have to focus a lot of time and energy on making sure the kids are getting what they need.”

With a new phase of life beginning for many seniors a new phase of life is also beginning for many parents. Both the Hornimans and the Beilers agree that this previous phase of child-raising has gone by extremely fast.

“You always hear (people) say ‘Oh they grow up so fast,’” Kathleen said. “I’m just glad that I enjoyed all the times along the way.”

As this seemingly-rapid journey comes to an end for most seniors parents are left with a bit of the Empty Nest Syndrome mixed with excitement and pride for their children and what they’ve accomplished.

“By the time you finish high school you’ve already accomplished quite a bit in your life,” Horniman said.

“That’s where the excitement comes from, just being proud that (Book-

lyn’s) reached that point in life and is ready to take the next step.”

rate, but the cost – around 20 thousand a year – falls far below that of New York University, he says, which Habashi also considered and which ranks comparably to UBC internationally.

He is also drawn by the attractive location of UBC – near Vancouver, ski resorts and the beach – and his desire to travel and follow his family’s tradition of fearlessly traversing the globe, he says.

“There’s so much that you can explore – so many billions of people that you can meet and you can really enrich yourself as a human being by just looking beyond an invisible border,” he said.

Habashi says that students who appear less competitive to United

States’ colleges’ admissions may be the biggest beneficiaries of looking internationally.

“You can get so discouraged off of not getting into Davis or something,” he said. “There’s plenty of schools outside the country that are perfectly willing to accept you and that are also extremely good educations.”

Habashi says Canadian universities may be more likely to grant scholarships.

“They’re just not getting a huge influx of students,” he said, “so they’re actually willing to pay for you to go there.”

Wendorff said he also thinks that studying abroad is great for any student – whether an average

student or candidate for admissions to Ivy League colleges.

“I think it’s an option to everybody,” he said. “I think more and more people are going to have to find alternatives, and I think studying abroad is a great alternative.”

Habashi agreed that universities abroad provide unique opportunities and are a viable option for any student.

“You shouldn’t think you’re an inferior student just because a university that offers 5000 positions in a pool of 80,000 people rejects you,” Habashi said. “Honestly, you should just look to other countries. Don’t get caught in the California scheme

of thinking the UCs are the only thing you can apply to.”

SUMMER: Classes lead to academic advantage and credit for colleges

Continued from page B1 into your desired college.”

Not only are classes available for college credit, some courses can only be taken at schools like Sierra College.

Junior Reed Klaeser will be taking advantage of this during the summer in the form of a political science class.

“Summer courses give kids the opportunity to learn what they love when what they love is not offered at their school,” Klaeser said.

In fact, Sierra College offers many interesting courses that are not available at GBHS, including classes in the

fields of automotive technology, fashion design and engineering.

These classes can help students get a head start before going to college.

The classes offered at Sierra College are often viewed as easier than their GBHS counterparts.

“They are generally easier than (AP classes) at GBHS,” Cooney said.

Unfortunately, some disadvantages come with this.

“I’ve heard that the classes at Sierra don’t have the same quality (that) AP classes offered on campus (do),” Karamlou said.

This is one of the

choices one must make when considering taking college classes and can lead to some dislike of the courses. While they are a way to get out of an AP classes students must weigh the advantages and disadvantages of taking a less comprehensive class.

“There is a negative stigma attached to kids who take Sierra college classes among both students and teachers,” Klaeser said.

Nevertheless, many students are compelled to sacrifice their summers for college credits.

Summer courses, coupled with AP classes, are a great way to help

complete your general education faster and cheaper.

They allow students to do something productive during their hiatus from high school, while gaining an edge over other students.

Those who have taken the college classes feel that there are many benefits for one’s future.

“They really impress the colleges with your determination to get ahead,” Cooney said.

“I would recommend taking college classes,” Karamlou said, “to everyone who wants to accelerate in academics.”

SWAP: Peer Helping raises awareness for needs on and off GBHS campus

Continued from page B3 that the event will continue next year, but they’re unsure about the events of next year because of the change that is occurring in the class.

Katrina Wachs, the peer helping advisor, will be retiring at the end of this year, which means a whole

new teacher for students involved hope the peer helping that the same great events We had a class. students enjoyed this year “I’m not sure how great time. will return next year, so that the class will be they can try to improve and run, but I want try to get more students to – Juliette Burke, the event (to be) participate.

GBHS junior retried next year,” “We had a great time,” Burke Burke said. said. “It was a lot of fun and Even with a change in staff the I’m sorry people missed out.”

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College of the Month: EXPECTATIONS: Seniors have varying hopes University of Wisconsin, Madison

Who: 30,367 students Where: 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin Tuition and Fee Cost: $10,384 in-state tuition, $26,634 out-of-state tuition Acceptance Rate: 50.5% U.S. News Ranking: #41

• UW-Madison offers 132 undergraduate majors, 148 masters, 107 doctoral and 12 professional degree programs • UW-Madison has had 13 Nobel laureates, including the only two-time Physics Nobel laureate and the President of Liberia.

Campus Life: • UW-Madison is reputed as one of the top party schools in the country • About 10 percent of its members are in a fraternity or sorority • UW-Madison has more than 850 registered clubs on campus

Gazette illustration/TAMREN JOHNK

School Colors: Cardinal and white Mascot: Bucky Badger (Buckingham U. Badger) Athletics: • Competes in more than 25 sports as a part of the Division I NCAA Big Ten conference • Has won 27 national championships • Has won four national championships in the 2005-2006 school year Academics: • UW-Madison is often called a “Public Ivy” for giving an education comparable to an Ivy League school at a public school cost.

Fun Facts: • It is renowned for its Mifflin Street Block Party. During this party in 2011, a non-political riot broke out and two people were stabbed.

• MTV premiered a show called College Life about eight UW-Madison freshmen.

• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor chose their mascot as a wolverine in response to UW-Madison’s mascot, bucky badger.

- Compiled by Gokul Asokan

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and fears for the future that college life brings Continued from page B1

“I’m going to be paying off student loans for years after college,” Reinke said.

“I won’t be getting any help at all from my dad, so it’s up to me to pay it back.

That’s definitely getting me anxious.”

Another senior pressed with high tuitions is Emmett Bright, who will be attending Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

“Since it’s a private school, tuition is really high,” Bright said. “So I’m really not looking forward to having to pay for myself for a lot of things.”

But Bright said that those feelings are

offset by the university he is attending and what it offers. Bright said he is excited to take part in classes where everyone is inspired to work on art, photography or media production.

Senior Erica Peterson, bound for Southern Oregon University, also can’t wait to meet the people at her university. Although she is certain about that, Peterson admits to not knowing where she wants to go in regards to her academic interests.

“College will let me know what real interests I have (and) I can’t wait to see what they are,” Peterson said.

Peterson said that she is anxious about forgetting to bring anything with her when

TAN: Students run the risk of damaging skin when they tan Continued from page B5 alternative ways to achieve the perfect glow.

“The UV rays for tanning beds are generally lower (than those of the sun),” said Vy, a pharmacist who declined to give her last name. “But there is still some conflicting data in that area. Some say it’s a big factor, others disagree.”

Vehemently against laying in the sun, Vy advocates against dangerous tanning techniques that can result in skin cancer.

“Skin cancer is treatable if it’s benign,”

Vy said, “but if it’s caught too late and (the disease) has become malign then its untreatable.”

Vy recommends everyone get a maximum of 30 minutes a day of sunlight. She says that going out during the day from 12-3 p.m. is the most dangerous time because that is when the sun is closest to the earth.

“Skin cancer is highly likely if you’re exposing yourself to UV rays for extremely long periods of time,” Vy said. “It’s unhealthy.”

Both Vy and Williams agree that being

she moves.

“I’m pretty bad at forgetting things and southern Oregon is a long way for my mom to drive,” Peterson said. “I’d feel so bad if I had to have her bring me something I forgot.”

But there is one thing Peterson fears most. It’s a fear that concerns many seniors no matter where they’re going or what their financial situation is – getting a bad roommate.

“I’m so scared of getting a bad roommate,” Peterson said. “I get along with a lot of people but it would really (stink) being stuck with someone who can’t do the same.” outside during the hottest part of the day, enduring the suns blistering heat, is foolish.

Dispelling the myth that tanning beds are the main reason for cancerous skin cells points a finger at the other culprit— the sun.

3.5 million Americans endure basal and squamous skin cancer according to cancer. org. Some 76,600 cases of Melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, will claim lives this year.

“I’m worried that it’s too much,” junior Marisa Thias said when speaking of her young cousin who is constantly using tanning beds to perfect her skin color.

“I know that skin cancer is really common in our family (even) without excessive tanning,” Thias said. “So the fact that she (tans) all the time is concerning.”

FORK: Growing food at home or eating locally helps environmentally and physically Continued from page B5 was prompted two and a half years ago by watching Robert Kenner’s documentary on corporate farming, Food Inc. From there, Padgett said, she and her husband started small – cutting out fast food from their lives and changing grocery stores.

“Organic food, especially at that time, was more expensive,” Padgett said. “But

we figured that we were in a place in our lives that we could make that financial commitment.”

With the opening of local markets such as Nugget and Whole Foods, as well as several farmers’ markets, the transition was made much easier for her and her husband.

Also important to her change in lifestyle, Padgett said, was her decision to begin educating herself on food.

“I spent a lot of time reading up on raw diets,” Padgett said. “I invested in a Vitamix blender as well as a food dehydrator to incorporate as much fresh, raw food into my diet as I could.”

And while Padgett does not personally own a garden to grow her own

vegetables, due to the of yard space, she It’s been great for lack said she tries to shop as my health but also locally as possible.

For example, Padgett for my soul. occasionally purchases eggs and honey from – GBHS teacher Jenny GBHS teacher Anthony Davis – part of her atPadgett tempt to support the local produce community

as much as possible.

It’s been nearly two and half years, and Padgett believes that her decision to change her dietary lifestyle has truly been a “life changer.”

“You start small and just start to figure things out,” Padgett said. “It’s been amazing. I feel better physically, ideologically and politically. It’s been great for my health, but also for my soul, and how I feel as a human being.”

YEAR: Reviewing recent events REJECTED: Students send out their own rejections when they choose a school Continued from page B1

Massara: Oh, that’s a stretch.

Bales: And it was perfectly sunny the day of Powder Puff when the seniors won, and on Senior Ball.

Massara: Please, we always win Powder Puff. And what GBHS kid in their right mind would bother with Senior Ball without a limo? I’d rather just rewatch The Hobbit.

Bales: Although The Hobbit wasn’t totally accurate to the book, it was still really good.

There was a lot of great movie releases this year and Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars brand – that should be good.

Massara: Tell me you’re joking! That was a travesty.

Next thing we know, a classic novel about the American Dream will be made into some glitzy Hollywood garbage – oh, wait. Ugh, why does everything I like have to get ruined by its own popularity and the mainstream media? I mean, “Gangnam Style” and “Somebody I Used to Know” were decent songs the first 10 times I heard them, but now...

Bales: I agree that sometimes Hollywood misses the mark, but what’s wrong with expanding the art of Star Wars, classic novels and lesser known music to a broader public? And if you’re referring to The Great Gatsby, it is not “glitzy Hollywood garbage.” Sure, the movie adaptation did not accurately portray the novel’s vision, but it was still a great movie and a great performance by Leonardo DiCaprio. He even used the publicity he got from the movie release to draw attention to an environmental charity auction.

Massara: I’m sure it was a publicity stunt. Celebrities are all vapid anyway. Their only redeeming quality is that they sometimes offer people distraction from the dismal state of our country’s politics. The election might be over, finally, but there’s still talk of the Benghazi incident, the insipid fighting over gun control laws, the looming prospect of Obamacare’s backlash... I’ve wanted to jump off a fiscal cliff myself.

Bales: There are so many talented and educated celebrities. Many of whom contribute so much more to society than just offering a distraction. Aside from being an actress, Angelina Jolie is also a special envoy for the UN’s refugee agency. I agree this hasn’t been the best year politically, but at least the Mayans were wrong and the world didn’t end.

Massara: It may has well have. Remember bath salt “zombies”? Hurricane Sandy? The fact that wearing a hoodie can apparently get you shot, if you look shady enough? I’m not so crass as to drag the recent gun massacres in Colorado and Connecticut into this, but come on, can you really blame those doomsday preppers? Maybe the Mayans just dropped a decimal place or something.

Bales: But if the world ended then we wouldn’t have gotten to see the Giants win the World Series.

Massara: And we would’ve been spared the Harlem Shake. ... I’d come up with a better rebuttal, but the worst viral garbage and celebrity buzz comes from Twitter these days. At least I have Tumblr as a refuge.

Bales: Pinterest is mine.

It’s just so cutesy and fun.

And they just made a male version called Manteresting.

It’s cute.

Massara: As... horrible as that sounds, it can’t be worse than Instagram. How a site whose sole purpose is making high-resolution photos look terrible is so popular, I will never understand... Hipsters. The only gift they’ve given this world is Marina and the Diamonds. At least the music this year has been slightly more tolerable.

Muse even came out with a new album.

Bales: I agree, Instagram is pointless. The music is a lot better than most mainstream musicians like Drake and

Kendrick Lamar. But it’s weird how Mumford and Son’s was popular among hipsters before this year and now they’re mainstream.

Massara: Speaking of weird, one thing I can’t seem to escape this year is this fascination with bacon. It’s terrifying. But I’m glad being a “foodie” is trendy now, I guess.

Bales: Speaking of interesting, the Higgs Boson particle was confirmed to exist earlier this year. I’m excited to see Sheldon’s response in Big Bang Theory.

Massara: That show! Oh, don’t make me sic Reddit on you. Sitcoms these days are awful... I can’t stand that Glee and Modern Family drivel. The Walking Dead is where it’s at. But, really, who needs TV when you’ve got Netflix? I can watch twelve episodes of The Powerpuff Girls in a row at 3 AM, and no one can stop me.

Bales: I miss them! That makes the perfect veg out day! Random, but you know what’s really overrated, is Chick-fil-A. Especially the one that just opened on Douglas.

Massara: I guess I wouldn’t know. Even if I wanted to go there, I’m one of those weird liberals who would boycott it. The only evil corporate food-products I’ll gladly indulge in are Starbucks drinks... I know we’re on the same page there.

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“When I visited (Wellesley) I couldn’t help but feel a bit down and lonely,” Decavel-Bueff said.

She admits that, in searching for a college, prestige was a major factor.

“Wellesley is known as the top women’s college and one of the top liberal arts colleges,” Decavel-Bueff said.

However, she soon realized that prestige would not make her happy as a student.

“Through this whole process of choosing my college, I realized that the college you go to doesn’t define you or your future, you define yourself,” Decavel-Bueff said. “Your success depends on your choices and what you make of yourself.”

Senior Gianetta France chose Santa Clara University for its small class sizes and for the chance to play NCAA Division One softball with a partial scholarship.

“I like smaller class sizes because I learn better that way,” France said.

She also applied to St. Mary’s College and some California state schools that would satisfy her softball interests.

“I fell in love with Santa Clara and the atmosphere around it,” France said.

“And the softball coach is awesome.”

France is also excited to stay closer to home, as Santa Clara is conveniently located in the Bay Area, a little over two hours away from her home in Roseville.

However, some students do not realize their distaste for a college until they’ve experienced their freshman year.

“If a student feels like they fit in aca-

demically and socially, then they tend to be happy,” Hamilton said. “If they have not done enough research and then show up on campus, they might not be as happy with their choice.”

GBHS alum Brianna Matheus, who graduated with the class of 2012, experienced this when she attended the University of California at Santa Barbara in the fall of 2012 as a Psychology major.

“I did have reservations about the school, which I didn’t really allow myself to admit, because of the excitement of leaving high school and starting my new life,” Matheus said.

Such reservations included the large party scene that exists on and off campus, and the lack of social and academic outlets. “(UCSB’s student body seemed to be) lacking in cultural awareness,” Matheus said. “Now, everybody has a different opinion and experience regarding UCSB, but my personal encounters with students at the school were not very fulfilling.”

Matheus also did not feel that UCSB had many academic opportunities available for students who were not primarily interested in research.

“I didn’t expect the extremely limited course/major/minor offerings the school has, which is my own fault for not doing enough research,” Matheus said. “I never really thought that I would want to study anything besides Psychology, and since UCSB has a great Psychology program I sort of just settled.”

However, Matheus experienced disappointment when she realized that Psychology was no longer her primary interest.

“Once my first quarter ended, I developed an interest for nutrition, and

Bales: Haha! Yes, that’s my second home. It’s so convenient, there’s like four just on one block. We also got the Walmart Neighborhood Market this year!

Massara: Shows you what’s enough to make the headlines in this tiny town. At least we’ll be free soon.

Bales: Graduation day is almost here! That will be exciting, it’s new chapters for everyone!

Massara: Even I can’t complain about that.

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began doing my research on UCSB’s class offerings relating to nutrition and health,” Matheus said, “only to find that the school not only doesn’t have a Nutrition major, but they no longer even offer a minor.

Matheus eventually decided to leave UCSB after completing the first half of her freshman year. She realized that she was not experiencing college to its fullest potential.

“When I eventually realized that there were more factors to make a logical case against me staying than there were for me to stay, I made peace with the fact that UCSB was just not the school for me.” Matheus said.

She has moved back to her home in Granite Bay and will be taking classes at Sierra College to finish her general education requirements, and hopes to transfer to San Francisco State University to earn a holistic health degree.

Despite the overwhelming pressure that students feel as their college decisions weigh down on them, they must rest assured in the fact that they can achieve happiness no matter where they end up.

“The college experience is too dynamic for one to predict with certainty how it will go… there is a leap of faith that has to occur,” Hamilton said.

Matheus similarly encourages students to trust their gut when making college decisions and accept and embrace the challenges.

“Personally, I think it is brave to admit if something is not right for you,” Matheus said. “At the end of the day, despite the obstacles you will come across, it is most important that you live the life you want, and that you are happy.”

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Colleges aren’t the only ones – students can and do reject colleges

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ear College: In spite of your excellent qualifications, I am unable to offer you a place in my college future at this time.

This year brought more acceptances than I anticipated. I wish you luck with your additional college applicants.

Colleges are often considered to be the heartbreakers, but that is not necessarily the case.

Colleges choose to accept a greater percentage of freshmen that they can actually accommodate because they anticipate being rejected.

Even elite schools such as Harvard University, who accepts only 5.9 percent of those who apply, is rejected by 20 percent of its accepted students, according to its admissions website.

In a random survey of 10 Granite Bay High School seniors, the average number of colleges applied to was 8. While making their college decision, students had many factors to consider.

From financial situations to location, finding ‘the school for you’ is an overwhelming experience, and can be a source of frustration.

Seniors were forced to make important, lifechanging decisions that would directly affect the next four years of their lives.

Senior Justin Habashi decided to attend University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in the Fall of 2013. He will be majoring in Economics and Finance.

Habashi applied to eight colleges, including American University, the University of California Berkeley and New York University.

His was mainly interested in their active campuses located in urban settings, yet his decision was hindered by both their high costs and impacted applicant pool. “(They) were very expensive, and the cheaper ones…so impacted that I didn’t stand a chance compared to the super students,” Habashi said.

He was not accepted to UC Berkeley due to its highly competitive nature.

While Habashi was accepted to American University, he decided against the school because of it’s hefty price tag of over $50,000.

When committing to UBC, Habashi felt that it was affordable and allowed him to enjoy the vibrant city of Vancouver. These combining factors made him content with his college decision.

“I think the college process is a lot like

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pregnancy,” Habashi said. “(It’s) a nine month emotional roller coaster culminating in a commitment that will last you the rest of your life.”

Scott Hamilton, president of Future Stars College Counseling Center, is positive that college decisions must be based on both their academic and personal goals.

“A student (must) feel like a college fits them as an academic and a person,” Hamilton said.

Senior Andrew Greenblatt was confident enough in his college application process that he did not need to reject any colleges at all.

Greenblatt applied to the University of Oregon and was accepted in early September, ensuring that he did not need to apply to any other colleges. As he neared decision making time, he considered the most influential factors that would play into his college experience.

This decision making process is encouraged among college applicants. “(During the final stages of the application process) we will begin to focus on the attributes that will have much more impact on (the students’) experience,” Hamilton said. “Such as strength of academic programs, cost of attendance, distance from home or how many other students they will be sharing the classroom with.”

Greenblatt took some of these aspects into consideration when choosing University of Oregon.

“It’s (has) one of the top sports marketing programs in the country,” Greenblatt said. “(And) everyone in Eugene is amazingly friendly (with) a lot of school spirit.”

Senior Emilie Decavel-Bueff was torn in her college decision between her two top schools – Scripps College and Wellesley College, both who admit solely women.

While originally reluctant to attend an allwomen’s college, she soon realized their overwhelming advantages.

“I’ve always had an issue with self-confidence (and) I feel like it’s been keeping me from experiencing high school,” Decavel-Bueff said.

“I see college as a place where I can change and evolve into who I want to be and be confident about it.”

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ot everyone can be a Division I scholarship-athlete.

Meaning, those looking to play collegiate athletics often find themselves at a fork in the road: walk-on or find another division.

But the allure of Div. I sports can be so irresistible that many are willing to sacrifice academic quality of school or are unable to choose the Division II or III path.

And as I’ve found that talking with friends and fellow athletes -- they can become misguided in their search for what fits them best.

“It’d be so cool to say I played for that school.”

“I can be apart of a top-notch D1 program.”

“I’d be able to wear the official apparel of a nationally elite college team.”

These are the common responses that I hear, and the same ones I generated in my quandary between playing tennis for a Pac-12, 20th ranked team, and a much smaller Division III team on the rise in search of a national ranking.

I always thought to myself how amazing it would be to be able to represent such an amazing team, and show off that I could be a part such high level athletics.

But as a walk-on at UC Berkeley, what would I be doing it for? And I knew right away that I’d be going there for the wrong reasons: prestige, ego-boost and recognition.

In contrast, I knew definitively that, at a school like Tufts, I’d be able to play at a much higher position, and be able to use my skills to see tangible benefits and results as a part of the team.

For me, and for others who try to walk-on, a harsh reality can be that your role on the team can be very minimal, and the expectations are exceptionally raised for you, in order to stay on the team.

This is the same decision making I applied with one of my friends who was facing a similar decision: choosing between Chapman University, a small Div. III school, and Gonzaga University, one of the best basketball teams in the nation.

He shared the same feelings as me: he could be part of an NCAA title-contending team and impressively say he is a part of the team.

And I used the same logic with him that I reasoned with myself: would you even be able to play?

Are you ready for the time commitment, especially with little playing time?

I can’t say I was the reason for his decision to attend Chapman, but ultimately, the attraction of athletic prestige falls down as a façade.

Spencer Briare and Brendan Keeney both walked onto to the Cal Berkeley football team, and Matt Kasner chose to walk onto the Stanford football team.

The commonality: all three are choosing to drop their sport, and in Briare and Keeney’s case, to transfer schools.

Perhaps walking-on isn’t all it is often idealized to be, and while certain athletes can excel in this environment, it is a time-consuming and strenuous path.

So those to who will find themselves in a similar dilemma to mine and my friend – what are you walking on for?

*** Brad Wong, a senior, is a Gazette sports editor.

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Continually changing, the game of soccer -- more specifically, women’s soccer -- has transformed a once young and fresh face to the sport, into a full-fledged leader on and off the field.

This year in particular, senior Brigid Lummis has maintained a role of leadership this year as a captain on Granite Bay High School’s varsity soccer team and is committed to play National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women’s soccer at Sonoma State University for this upcoming fall.

For many, the role of captain can require an exceptional amount of leadership and a positive approach in order to help a team grow.

As an underclassmen on an older team, looking up to a captain as a role model is common amongst younger players on the

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Ernie Cooper led Grizzlies to first state football title

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Back-to-back CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I titles, 10 league championships in 17 seasons, five overall section titles, six NFL players and, of course, the 2012 CIF Division I State Championship.

Since taking over as head coach of the Granite Bay High School football team in 1996, Ernie Cooper has built the program into one of the best in California.

This year, fresh off of a section championship, the Grizzlies started the season off with a disappointing 1-3 record.

“We were able to go through some tough

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With an accumulation of several different injuries, senior halfback Johnny Cooley was gravely concerned that he would not be able to compete in his senior year after a great first season on Granite Bay High School’s varsity football team.

“My family and I were really concerned that my injuries would prevent me from playing,” Cooley said. “Luckily that wasn’t the case and I was able to recover, and for that I’m very thankful.”

Cooley, who has played football for GBHS all four years, was just one of the several key players who helped lead the team to their first ever Division I state championship last December. For this monumental season, Cooley averaged just over 100 rushing yards per game with a grand total of over 1,600 rushing yards and 20 total touchdowns.

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Players benefit from recreational games

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During the off-season for high school basketball, many Granite Bay High School basketball players, have been forming teams with each other or with people from around the area in a league known as Hotshots, a recreational basketball association that ranges in ages from kindergarten to high school and accompanies several different skill levels.

GBHS senior Daniel Romero has been playing in the Hotshots league since fourth grade and has been enjoying it ever since.

“I think it’s a great way for a group of friends to bond without having to play through high school,” Romero said.

Many Hotshots players at GBHS are pleased that many other students are joining the league.

Romero says he loves the fact that more people from GBHS are joining Hotshots.

“It is good that more people are joining because it makes the games more enjoyable, playing against people you know,” said Romero.

Another GBHS senior, Jacob King, also plays in the Hotshots

league with Romero. He agrees with Romero that seeing more students join the league is very exciting.

“Playing against your friends in a competitive league is the most fun you can have playing basketball,” King said.

While playing against a peer, the desire to destroy the other team for “bragging rights” becomes quite important and inspirational.

Most games become very intense as the physical play and sense of competition increases.

“Being on a winning organization like the Warlocks, you want to beat everyone especially those from (GBHS),” Romero said.

Jack Dockham, a junior at GBHS, is part of a similar team called the Hoodratz and is one of the coaches of the team.

Like Romero and King, Dockham relishes over the idea of starting a Hotshots team.

“It’s awesome,” Dockham said.

“It gives people a chance to ball out without the commitment of a high school or AAU team.”

In the Hotshots league, a team doesn’t necessarily have to have a set day to have practice, which might also be an element in the

rise in popularity for GBHS students.

They don’t have to take time out there studies to go to practice and games, which are on Fridays.

Many students have different reasons to join the Hotshots league. Romero said that students are joining because they are finally finding out that it is really fun and you get to play basketball with friends.

King said Hotshots is rising in popularity because students can put a team of friends together and play.

Not only is Hotshots a way to bond with friends, it also may help one improve their game during the course of the season.

Hotshots is year-long, so students at GBHS don’t have to worry about rushing or catching a deadline, in fear of missing out and being forced to wait a year to sign up.

Dockham loves Hotshots very much and he hopes to continue playing and coaching with his friends.

“Hotshots is very fun and fairly cheap,” Dockham said. “It’s a good way to spend a Friday night.”

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At a recent game, a Hotshots player goes for an inside shot. Recently, many GBHS students have competed in this league, either by themselves or with friends.

Students organize dodgeball tournament The 420 Purple Mountains win first-ever title

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On May 3, eight dodge ball teams of six met in the Granite Bay High School gymnasium to fight for the title of champion in the first annual GBHS dodge ball tournament.

Standard dodge ball rules applied – a catch meant that the thrower was out and a player from the catching team

could re-enter play and the tournament consisted of a pool play format, followed by double elimination, meaning that the teams played each other, and were then seeded 1-8 based on their performance. From there, teams were eliminated immediately if they lost, and the last two teams who remained were to play in the championship game.

Senior Steven Graber, who helped organize the event, said that planning for the tournament started a few months earlier.

“Organizing the event involved getting the teams to sign up and securing a date for the gym, stuff like that,” Graber said.

“Givens said that there had been a tournament several years before but nothing like this. Nothing like this tournament

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Along with Graber, senior Courtney Richardson also helped to plan and run the tournament. While Graber took over the pre-planning aspects, Richardson’s responsibilities came on the day of the tournament.

“I made the bracket, refereed for the games, and organized all the teams,” Richardson said. Brandt Misik was helping me run it too. “(Misik) and I were actually on a team but we were knocked out in the first round.”

Of the eight competing teams in the tournament according to Richardson, each had a unique name. Some team names included the Young Go-Hards, The Misfits and The Birds.

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wood, were the top seed following pool play, but were knocked out in the first round of double elimination.

The surprise upset went to show the tight-knit skill levels and the incredible competition between each of the competing teams.

And though the Dodge-A-Holics and The Birds made an early exit, two teams successfully withstood the fierce competition, eventually making it to the tournament’s championship game.

Those two teams were the 420 Purple Mountains and the Freshman Baseball Team.

The 420 Purple Mountains were a team of Granite Bay seniors, consisting of Ryan Rosa, Scott Romuk, Austin Schiber, Kolby Anderson and Austin

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Bue, led by senior Griffin Powers.

“We had played the freshman baseball team twice before the championship match up and each team won one game, and then lost the other,” Powers said. “But the 420 Purple Mountains absolutely dominated the championship game.”

Nonetheless, the squad took home the first ever GBHS Dodge Ball Title.

Though they received no prize or ribbon, no trophy or plaque, the 420 Purple Mountains have undoubtedly cemented themselves in Granite Bay High School dodge ball history forever.

“I remember that (the 420 Purple Mountains) were super competitive about it,” said Richardson. “The other teams were a lot more laid back.”

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Junior player scouted by college teams

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For many athletes, game time can be both exhilarating and awkward.

It can be bad enough dealing with embarrassing parents at home, but dealing with excited parents every time game day come can be both exhausting and mortifying.

On the Vinny Esposito Granite Playing under his Bay father and coach High this season as School second baseman. baseball team, there is one athlete that doesn’t have to worry about what their parents might say or do to embarrass them on the sidelines.

Junior Vinny Esposito plays varsity baseball for the Granite Bay Grizzlies under his father, head coach Pat Esposito.

Esposito said that he is very fortunate to be playing for his father and that it is a very enjoyable experience.

“It’s awesome,” Esposito said. “I can talk with him about the game and stuff so it’s fun.”

Esposito has grown up playing baseball all his life, and now starts for the varsity team at second base.

Esposito doesn’t like to keep track of his statistics because he says that he doesn’t like numbers.

However, regardless of how he performs on the stat sheet, his play has aroused interest from college scouts. Both the University of California at Santa Barbara and California State University Sacramento have been actively tracking him as a potential player for their respective teams.

“Over the summer especially is when college coaches come out to see you play baseball,” Esposito said. “I have talked to a couple of them (…) it’s been fun so far.”

Although it is not uncommon for baseball players to have very serious pre-game rituals and be superstitious, Esposito does not participate in it.

“A lot of guys from baseball are superstitious but I’m not very serious about it.”

For many athletes, making it to the professional level and playing their sport as a career is a dream they wish to attain.

Esposito hopes to play baseball for a living, but for now is planning to take his baseball career one step at a time.

For him, it’s about improving himself as an all-around player.

“For me, it’s just taking it one step at a time and just trying to get as good as you can and making it as far as you can.”

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Granite Bay High School athletics has a tendency to breed excellence. This year alone, two Granite Bay sports hold the title of state champions.

However, once high school ends, it will typically bring the end to a high school athlete’s sports career.

But in just this spring sports season, there is an exceedingly large number of GB athletes who will be taking their talents to college.

Granite Bay’s track and field team had tremendous success this year and the varsity boys won the league title, due to the exceptional efforts put out by the talented senior class.

Trent Brendel, a four year track and field and cross country athlete, is the captain of the distance squad for GB track and field. He is committed to run track for the University of California, Berkeley.

“I decided to go to Cal because I loved the campus, and when I met the team they welcomed me with open arms and made me feel important, even though I am not as good as the kids from southern California,” Brendel said.

Brendel made it to the state championship last year for track, and has also gone to state in cross-country multiple times. Brendel is also the

current GBHS record holder for the 3200 meter race.

Brendel began his distance career in the seventh grade and quickly realized he had a natural talent for the sport.

“In seventh grade, I tried out for cross country and I won my first race and kind of just kept going from there. (I) had two undefeated seasons of cross country in junior high,” Brendel said.

Even though Brendel has had a decorated career for the track team, he is proudest of making it to the state championship meet last year for the 3200.

“My best moment was last year in May at Masters Finals when I finally qualified for the state meet in the 3200,” he said. “(It) is a pretty big deal for track and field.”

Alex Marakas, one of Brendel’s teammates, has had quite a remarkable senior season.

Marakas is a jumper who competes in the long jump, triple jump, and high jump. This is Marakas’s first season on the track team, and he has already made a name for himself as an elite jumper.

“I was going to jump at Cal Poly but then I got a call from the UCLA coach and now I have decided to go jump for UCLA,” Marakas said.

It is remarkable that an athlete can join the team first year and already be competing at such a high level.

UCLA’s track and field team only offers positions to top level athletes on its team.

Before Marakas joined the track team he competed on the baseball field for GBHS. “I switched from baseball to track

because of an arm injury that put me out,” Marakas said, “and after a few meets I really started to realize my potential.”

Marakas has gone on to achieve feats in his first year on the team that four year athletes often never get close to achieving. He is less than a foot away from breaking the triple jump record and he has already broken the high jump record.

“I jumped 6-feet, 9-1/4 inches, and the previous record was only 6-feet nine,” Marakas said. “And I recently jumped a 45-2 1/2 in the triple, so I may end up triple jumping and long jumping in college along with high jumping.”

Over on the baseball field, Granite Bay has a pitcher who will be pitching in college.

Travis Magness has made his decision to commit to play for Linfield College in McMinnville Oregon.

“I am going to play for Linfield, and they even offered me some money to go play for them,” Travis Magness said.

Magness hopes to take his game to another level in college and see where that can take him in life.

“I hope to get a lot of playing time in college and improve a lot,” Magness said, “and to see where that takes me.”

The sheer number of GBHS athletes moving on to play in college has been increasing since the 2012-13 school year began.

Now, as the school says goodbye to their seniors at graduation, these athletes will bring their talents to the next level.

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Trent Brendel (pictured at far left) standing on the podium to receive his medal at a recent track meet.

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It is not often that a freshman is able to compete at the varsity level.

It is even more uncommon for a freshman to make it to the state championship.

Current sophomore Brian Graber shocked everyone his freshman year by being one of the few track athletes to have the opportunity to go all the way to the state championship.

Graber competes in the high jump and made it to the state meet last year with a jump of 6-feet, 4 inches.

But this year, the level of competition has been raised and athletes must make a jump of 6-feet, 5 inches to qualify for the state meet.

Graber, however, is not worried at all and is confident he will qualify for state this year.

“I will definitely make state this year,” he said. “I have already jumped higher than I need to for qualification.”

Graber has a personal jump record this year of 6-feet, 7 inches. Graber, only a sophomore, has dominated just about every dual meet this year and last year with first place finishes in his event.

Graber is on his way to take down Granite Bay High School track legend Kevin Nielsen’s high jump record of 6-feet, 10 inches, which was set Nielsen’s senior year.

“I hope by the time I am a senior I will be able to jump 7-feet, 4 inches,” Graber said.

A jump of that height is nearly unheard of at the high school level.

7-feet, 5 inches was the average qualifying height for the 2012 Olympics, and if Graber is able to achieve his goal of 7-feet, 4 inches, it will be a tremendous accomplishment for a high school student.

Graber’s talents have not gone unnoticed and he has heard from some prestigious colleges commending his talent on the track.

“I have received a few letters from UCLA and some other California schools,” Graber said.

I have received a few letters from UCLA and some other California schools.

– Brian Graber, sophomore high jumper

Graber’s senior teammate Alex Marakas has been offered a position on the jumping team at UCLA as well.

Marakas has a personal record of 6-feet, 9 inches and has only been on the team for one year.

With the opportunities being offered to Marakas, there is no question that Graber, who is on track to break Marakas’s personal record, will have a future in competing in the high jump event at a level beyond high school.

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At a recent track meet, Brian Graber leaps over the bar while competing for Granite Bay High.

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Boys’ volleyball wins its fourth section title Spring sports conclude their seasons and reflect back on their accomplishments Boys’ golf “Having won a state title last year and to have so many guys returning, we would have obviously liked to have done better in playoffs. This was a great group of talented players and although we didn’t make to the state tournament, its been great coaching them.” Coach Stafford

Girls’ soccer “The team’s season went very well. We had a slow start trying to figure out our formation and team chemistry but the leadership from the returning girls was terrific. We ended up finishing second behind Rocklin and Roseville who tied for first.” Coach Broers

Boys’ tennis

“It was a fun season, but it was very disappointing because we had such a good team and we just never lived up to the potential we had.” senior Brian Wise

“We started off slow because we are such a young team with a bunch of new players. But we rallied toward the end of the season and finished strong almost beating Davis, the number one seed in playoffs.” junior Mackenzie Brito

“Season was great. We developed a lot of team bonding, and I though we played well throughout the season.” freshman Mitch Iwahiro

“We won the Sierra Foothill League and got hot at the right time. Overall, we made it to the semi in Division 1, and out of 24 teams we were top 4 in Sac-Joaquin section.” Coach Anderson

Track and field “Everyone did wonderfully! Next week we have sections at Elk Grove. We have athletes from throwers, jumpers, vaulters, distance and sprints who are expected to move forward to masters. Varsity boys just won the SFL league championships. The varsity girls took 3rd. A lot of great performances all over the place.” Coach Nasca

Boys’ volleyball “We won our fourth section title and I couldn’t have been more proud of the team. Out of all of the teams recently, these group of guys improved the most this season. Also, this is the first year the CIF has a NorCal championship, and I’m looking forward to competing in that.” Coach Honberger

Boys’ lacrosse “We had a successful season and finished strong with three impressive victories in the last week. We made the North Coast Section playoffs , which is one of the top sections in the state.” Coach Scott Pink

Girls’ lacrosse “The girls played well this year despite some rough starts. There were a lot of new players, so there were some struggles with chemistry, but in the end I thought the team rallied and played well.” Coach Brokowsky

Swimming “The season overall was strong for both girls and boys. Both went undefeated in league for the sixteenth straight season for boys and fifteenth for girls.” Coach Sherman

Baseball “I thought the season was positive. We would have liked to do better than we did with the amount of talent. We won league and we got better as the year went on. But there are so many different variables in baseball and the season was a little shorter than we hoped.” Coach Esposito

Softball “This season we hit well and scored more runs than ever before, often we were ahead going into the last two innings of the game... But since we are still in the process of learning how to win we would have one rough defensive inning and end up losing close games.

I look forward to next year and another step in the right direction for GBHS softball.” Coach Granger

“I think it very well. As a team, we are more seasoned and improved on our times and measurements. Also, we won league, which is a huge accomplishment.” junior Tony Ellison

“Being able to win sections was the best thing I could have asked for. Being able to improve this season the way I did really helped us out in playoffs and I can’t wait for next year.” junior Brandon Freitas

“I had a lot of fun this year playing and I though we played very well. We had some occasional bumps in the road, but in the end, I thought we rallied as a team.” senior Spencer Castonguay

“Considering how many new players we had come on our team this year, I thought we did exceptionally well. Team bonding is one of those things you need to win, and although it was tough at first, we all connected pretty well.” senior Sarah Kaplan

“I think the season went fantastic. When section came around, we could have swam better, but we had a lot of fun. Plus, we won our league, which is a huge accomplishment in itself.” junior C.J. Stone

“It’s a shame to end our season so early. But overall we have played well the last three years and have great group of guys in terms of life as well as baseball, and I’m definitely going to miss them next year.” junior Vinny Esposito

“I think that we played well up to our potential at certain points during the seas, but also we seemed to lack our full potential in some games, purely based on our focus and effort shown at practice.” junior Claire Ellinwood

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Senior shows spirit at various GBHS athletic events Khurana strives to support the ‘underappreciated’ sports at school

BY AUSTIN ALCAINE aalcaine.gazette@gmail.

Granite Bay High School athletics has had its share of dedicated fans.

However, many of these fans only cheer teams on periodically, or are only dedicated during the football and basketball seasons.

But at times, a fan comes along that dedicates himself to his school and attends every athletic event.

Asseem Khurana is that dedicated fan.

Khurana is a fan along with being a GBHS athlete himself.

He knows how it feels when a wild crowd cheers him on, and he wants every athlete to have that same experience.

“When I joined cross country, I noticed we did not have a lot of fans other than parents,” Khurana said. “I felt that (it wasn’t) right for a varsity sport like cross country to go underappreciated, especially when we have so much going on, like a freshman girl winning the state title for the team.”

Khurana then set out to cheer on all

the “underappreciated sports.”

Khurana started going out to the swim meets and realized how exhilarated the swim team was when fans came to watch.

“I really did not know what to expect when I went out there but I was surprised by how exciting it really was,” Khurana said.

Khurana’s school spirit grew and soon he and a few friends began cheering on various spring sports, like baseball, swimming, track and field and softball.

“When we were at the games I feel like we were getting a lot more energy going out there and the team could really appreciate our

cheering for them,” Khurana said.

Even though Khurana has now resigned from the track and field team due to an injury, he still comes out to the track every Wednesday regardless of the location of the team’s particular meet.

Khurana cheers on his former teammates and has been preparing himself as a fan for the biggest meet of the year, the SFL finals at Roseville.

“This is going to be the seniors’ last meet ever, and I really want to get out there and make sure they have the loudest cheering they have ever (heard),” Khurana said.

Asseem Khurana GBHS student has dedicated himself to supporting all athletes competing at the school.

Khurana’s immense dedication to GBHS’s athletics has caused a positive influence for many people on and off the field.

“I just want to make sure everybody has the craziest fans possible when they are out on the field competing for Granite Bay,” Khurana said.

COOPER : Impacting lives on and off field Continued from page C1

times early in the season and not fold tent,” Cooper said. “Our great senior leaders led that way and rededicated themselves to winning ways.”

Cooper’s Grizzlies then finished the season by winning 12 straight games to finish the season 13-3.

A 32-23 victory over Oak Ridge in the Sac-Joaquin Section championship game and a 45-17 pounding of St. Ignatius in the Northern California championship game led the Grizzlies to the Division I State Championship.

In front of 7,361fans at the Home Depot

Center, the Grizzlies won a thrilling 21-20 game to claim the D-I State Title.

Cooper praises the dedication of his players as the reason the team was able to pull off such a feat.

“Grant Caraway at quarterback just had a tremendous year; a great flyback in Tony Ellison, an amazing halfback in Johnny Cooley; Taft Partridge, the toughest fullback in the whole area, a good offensive line,” Cooper said. “But our defense really led the way this year.”

After the incredible victory in the State Championship, Cooper was named the California State Coach of the Year by

Cal-Hi Sports, just the 3rd coach from the Sacramento area to receive this honor.

“It’s a great honor, but there is no way I get that honor without the great coaching staff and amazing players,” Cooper said.

“I get that honor because of those guys and all the hard work that they put in.”

Those same guys, however, credit their success and growth as athletes to their coach. “(Cooper) is the world’s best motivator,” senior safety Aaron Knapp said. “When he needs you to perform, he knows how to get the most out of you.”

“With a meticulous attention to detail, he

was always pointing out the small things that could help me improve as a player,” starting quarterback Grant Caraway said. “(Cooper) doesn’t get the credit he deserves,” junior flyback Tony Ellison said.

“He puts in endless hours of his own time watching film and making sure the team is prepared for the next game.”

As for next season, the Grizzlies are in for a whole new experience.

“We’re going to be a totally different team,” Cooper said. “With only a couple returning starters, the young guys on the team are going to have to become old guys real quick.”

Cooper’s 155-43-1 record as head coach at GBHS speaks for itself.

But off the field, Cooper has an equally significant impact on players.

“Coach Cooper placed a large emphasis on developing us not only as football players, but also as responsible, hard working young men,” Caraway said.

“Coop changes young men’s lives by his coaching,” Ellison said. “He has been one of my greatest inspirations because he wouldn’t trade me or any of my teammates for anything and his passion for the game itself is what drives me to play the way I play.”

COOLEY: Reminiscing on season and state championship Continued from page C1

“As my football career progressed, I could feel myself improving,” Cooley said. “But I attribute most of my improvement to the work I put in during the off-season.”

During Cooley’s first two seasons on the football team, both the freshmen and junior varsity team went undefeated in their league matches.

It was an accomplishment that Cooley says directly translated over into the success the team had during his junior year, when the team won the Sac-Joaquin Section championship.

It was also during that year that his athleticism and football excellence began to gain attention from more than just his GBHS fans.

“Being coached by (Ernie) Cooper was just great all around and he definitely pushed me to always do my best on the field,” Cooley said.

Looking back at the start of his latest season, Cooley recalls the entire team remaining unusually calm, despite the tough losses the team endured.

“We weren’t too shaken or upset about the losses,” Cooley said. “I remember Cooper telling us that we have got to get back to the basics and that’s exactly what we did.”

After the team regrouped from the losses, it was at that point that Cooley says that the team chemistry on the team began to kick in.

“Being able to play with (a

group of guys) since the age of six was a main component of our success this year,” Cooley said.

“We all played so well together and that just translated over into the actual game.”

As the Sierra Foothill League matches concluded, Cooley could sense that he and the rest of the team were getting hot at the right time.

“After we beat Napa (High School 52-0), the entire team kind of knew that if we were going to keep our playoff hopes alive, our offense was going to have to come up huge,” Cooley said.

When the team finally arrived at the Sac-Joaquin section championship on Nov. 30th against Oak Ridge High School, only one

LUMMIS: Inspires teammates to play better and be competitive on the field Continued from page C1 soccer team.

Savanna Thompson, a freshman on the varsity team, is always eager to model Lummis as an athlete.

“She always pushes everyone to be better and provides a role model for everyone to look up to,” Thompson said.

With her four years of high school soccer experience, Lummis set out on making an impact upon her peers and younger players this varsity season.

“My philosophy is just to lead by example and I try my hardest at every practice, game, or whatever it is,” Lummis said.

As a three-year veteran on the varsity team, Lummis has impacted not only her teammates, but her coach as well.

“Her verbal leadership skills with the rest of the team have grown each year and I think this year, she has had the most impact in terms of being not only a good role model, which she has been all three years, but actually taking up

a leadership position as a senior. It has been a big help for the team,” varsity soccer coach Mark Broers said.

Throughout her high school career, Lummis has attended one section championship and three playoffs, including playoffs this season.

As a sophomore, Lummis worked day-in and day-out to gain a starting position on the team.

That same year, the varsity girls’ soccer squad made it to the section championship, a defining moment in Lummis’ soccer career.

“The most rewarding experience was when I was a sophomore playing on varsity and that year we made it to sections,” Lummis said.

“I was lucky enough to be able to play in that game as a sophomore and I ended up scoring the winning goal against Rocklin.”

From that moment on, Lummis continued to dedicate herself completely to improving her own game as well as inspiring others in the process. “(Loomis) is really positive and

she is motivational to all of us and has helped me become a better person because she has taught me how to be an effective communicator on the soccer field,” Natalie Rhodes said.

Lummis has impacted players and coaches with her uplifting spirit, recognized by many.

Broers, having coached Lummis for her three years here at GBHS, said, “(Lummis’ best attributes are) her work efforts and positive attitude. She is always helping her teammates out when they make mistakes and she never gets down on them.”

As Lummis finishes her GBHS career to move on to adulthood and collegiate soccer, she and the varsity girl’s soccer team are headed to playoffs to finish off her final season.

“Since I am a senior this year and we have a young team,” Lummis said, “I think that my experience has played a great role in our season, I just try and guide the younger ones and I put my whole heart into it.”

SPORTS BRIEFS Boys’ Volleyball

Softball

On May 16 the team won their second Sac-Joaquin Section D1 title in a row, defeating Nevada Union High School 3-1 The Grizzlies have now won four of the last five section titles The team will also be competing in the CIF’s first ever Northern California championships

The girls’ wrapped up their SFL season with a loss to Rocklin High School by a score of 9-2

Baseball The baseball team was knocked out of the section playoffs on May 13, falling short to Jesuit High School 11-5 The team finished with an impressive overall league record of 11-4

thing was on Cooley’s mind.

“After we didn’t get invited to the NorCal championships last year, that feeling of not being able to go stayed with me until that game,” Cooley said. “So come that game, I was determined to give it my all and hope that we would get the invitation.”

During that game, Cooley was one of four Grizzlies who would convert a touchdown for the team and rushed for a total of 116 yards.

After the victory, the team’s hard effort paid off, earning them a spot to play for the state championship match, the only thing standing in their way was St. Ignatius College Preparatory.

“For that match, we were building off of our momentum from the previous match and were feeling unstoppable,” Cooley said.

In what Cooley says was one of his best games in his career, the senior halfback led the offense that night, converting four touchdowns and rushing for a monumental total of 216 yards.

With the NorCal championship won, the football team was off to Carson City for the team’s appearance in the state bowl game.

“I was a bit nervous leading up into it,” Cooley said. “(Long Beach Poly) had a great group of players, some of which were going to top colleges for football.”

After a back-and-forth match

between the two teams, the GBHS football team’s final drive and chance to win the state championship rested on Cooley, and when the opportunity presented itself, Cooley showed no hesitation in his execution.

“Before I knew it, I was in the end zone, and I couldn’t believe what had just happened,” he said.

“It was an unreal feeling.”

Looking back at the game, he couldn’t think of a greater moment to finish his high school football career.

“It’s crazy (...) I just think of that moment. That one moment that won it for us,” Cooley said.

“It was the greatest feeling I’ve ever had.”

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2012-2013 All-Grizzly Team The Gazette’s sports editors pick the finest athletes at GBHS

First Team

Trent BrendelwTrackw Sean Brown wWrestling w Cal Berkeley Brendel was one of the best Indiana University Northern California runners in the 1,600 meters, placing fourth in the Sacramento Meet of Champions with a time of 4:16:04; he also won the Stanford Invitational Division II 5k race in 15:36. He will be running track and field at UC Berkeley.

Brown reached the fourth round in the state tournament, with a season record of 36-6 He also placed third at the Tim Brown Memorial High School tournament among wrestlers from around the state and will wrestle for Indiana University this fall.

Johnny Cooleyw FootballwSierra College

Aaron Knapp wBaseball/Football wCal Berkeley

Cooley rushed for 1,605 yards and 18 touchdowns for the state-champion GBHS football team. He scored the game-winning touchdown with a minute left in the Grizzlies’ 21-20 victory against Long Beach Poly in the Division I state championship game.

Knapp anchored the Grizzly secondary with seven interceptions, including two in the state championship game. He was selected the Most Valuable Player of the game, as well as first-team all-section for the Sac-Joaquin Section. He will be playing baseball for Cal this fall.

Grant Carawayw Football/Lacrossew Cal Poly, SLO

Lauren Fitzgerald wSwimmingw Rice University

Tommy ThompsonwSoccerw Indiana University

Maggie Bellw Cross Countryw Freshman

Brigid Lummisw Soccerw Sonoma State University

Grace Reegow Swimming/Water Polow Junior

Beau Hershberger wFootballw University of Nevada, Reno

Tony Ellisonw FootballwJunior

Caraway was the starting quarterback for the Division I state championship football team, averaging 117.4 passing yards per game, for a total of 1,878 yards in his 2012-2013 career.

He also plays middie for the lacrosse team and has scored 31 times with 17 assists.

Lummis has been a varsity soccer player since her sophomore year and this season has scored six goals and is the current varsity captain. She will be playing soccer for Sonoma State University this fall.

Cameron SmithwFootballw Sophomore

As a sophomore, Smith anchored the Grizzly defense, leading the team in tackles with 196 and tackles for a loss with eight. He also added 3.5 sacks and four interceptions.

Smith was also selected to the all-section first-team for the Sac Joaquin Section.

Taylor Nelsonw Volleyballw Junior

Nelson helped lead her team to an undefeated record in the Sierra Foothill League and third place in the CIF State Tournament. She finished the season with 173 attack kills, 188 digs, 59 assists and 72 serving aces. She will be playing volleyball for Cal Poly, San Luis Obsipo, after graduating.

Alex Marakasw Track and Fieldw UCLA

Marakas placed first in the triple jump, third in long jump, and first in high jump at the Sierra Foothill League (SFL) Championships finals.

He also set an SFL record high jump with a leap of 6 feet, 9.25 inches and will run track and field for UCLA.

Fitzgerald qualified for the Olympic trials last summer in the 200-yard backstroke. She has competed at the USA Swimming Winter Nationals, is currently ranked 32nd in the state and will be swimming for Rice University this coming fall.

Reego began playing on the varsity team her freshman year.

Now in her third year on varsity, she was the leading scorer in the SFL with 73 goals. She also added 19 assists and 35 steals and was named first-team all-league and second-team all section.

Second Team

Thompson led the Grizzlies’ varsity soccer team in goals both his freshman and sophomore year. This year, Thompson scored three goals and recorded three assists in four games before tearing his meniscus. He will be forgoing his senior year to play at Indiana University.

Hershberger led the Grizzly defensive line with 90 tackles, 5.5 tackles for a loss, and eight sacks, along with two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble, and one interception. He will be playing football for the University of Nevada, Reno next year.

Maxwell Vigeantw Swimming/Water PolowUC Davis

Vigeant led his water polo team to a 21-4 record, winning the Sierra Foothill League title and placing second in the Sac-Joaquin Section. He finished the season with a total of 110 goals, 31 assists and 36 steals and will be playing for the University of California at Davis this fall.

Brandon Baumgartenw GolfwUniversity of Oregon

Baumgarten led his team last year to a 2012 CIF State Championship Title with a score of 73. He also competes individually and this year placed eighth at the Future Collegians World Tour Junior Golf Tournament. He will be playing golf for Oregon this fall.

Chloe Forliniw Tennisw Air Force Academy

Forlini captured four consecutive SacJoaquin Section Division II titles as well as winning four section doubles titles with her twin sister Lily. She will be playing tennis for the Air Force Academy next year.

Bell won the CIF State Cross Country Championships Division II title after running the third-fastest time for a freshman in the 26-year history of the CIF. Bell also scored five goals and recorded three assists for the varsity soccer team.

Last season, Ellison was one of the few players in GBHS history to play varsity as a sophomore. This season, Ellison rushed for 1,185 yards and 11 touchdowns, while also accumulating 585 yards and eight touchdowns receiving for the Grizzlies.

Katrina Reevesw Basketball/Lacrossew San Diego State University

Reeves averaged 9.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.3 steals per game for the girls’ basketball team. She was also the starting goalie for the girls’ lacrosse team. She will be playing lacrosse for San Diego State University next year.

Paige Leew GolfwUC Davis

Lee qualified for state every year for the past three years and has been ranked in top ten girls golfers in California. She was also named Northern California Player of the Year by the Junior Golf Association of Northern California (JGANC) and will be playing golf at UC Davis.

Lauren KinlochwTrack and Fieldw UC Davis Kinloch holds personal records 35’5” feet for shot put and 128’11” for discus, placing first at the Roseville District Cup and placing fifth at the Stanford Invitation for discus throw.

Kinloch will be throwing for University of California, Davis.

Honorable Mentions Scott RomukwBaseball/ BasketballwSenior

Makenzie Britow SoccerwJunior

Greg Smithw VolleyballwSenior

Luke Busseyw FootballwJunior

Ryan Rosa wBaseballwSenior

Daeja Black wBasketballwfreshman

Brian Graber wTrack and FieldwSophomore

Lily Forlini wTenniswSenior

Spencer Castonguayw Lacrosse/Football wSenior Mitch Iwahirow TenniswFreshman Daniel Romero wBasketballwSenior Gabe Meza wBaseballwSenior

Zach BurgerwLacrossew Senior Jordan Andersonw SwimmingwSophomore Anthony Pedersen wBasketballwSenior Colin Brown wFootball/Track and Fieldw Senior

Brad Wongw TenniswSenior Vinny Espositow BaseballwJunior Maddy Wallace wTrack and FieldwSenior Dominic Scotti wSoccerwJunior

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Summer Reading List

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Conflicting College Colors

Students sport unrealistic and opposing university affiliations Everyone gets excited about colleges.

The college sports, the academics, the town, the lifestyle – and especially to find out see which one fits best for you.

However, when I come to school and see twenty different people wearing the same college sweatshirt (and its not a college spirit day), that’s when I get aggravated.

It’s Monday, and as I walk around school, all I see is college gear galore.

UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, Cal, University of Southern Califiornia, and University of California as San Diego are just some of the main colleges I see represented throughout the day, with Stanford and USC being the most popular.

Generally, I think when kids wear college attire it is often a statement of what college they see themselves attending in the future. I’m not against people having a “dream” school. If they have one and stick to it, I’m fine with it.

However, it’s when people make unrealistic choices about their future college that starts to get on my nerves.

For example, the main colleges I see represented around school are Stanford and USC. So let’s be real. These schools are very difficult to get into.

I don’t want to be pessimistic, but that’s the truth. Many students don’t have the GPAs, take the AP and honors classes, or participate in the extracurriculars or

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athletics necessary to be accepted into these and other premier colleges.

Let’s take Stanford for example. It was ranked as having the 5th lowest U.S. acceptance rate in 2011 by U.S. News and World Report and had a 6.6 percent acceptance rate in 2012. Also, more than 81% of their 2012 freshman applicants were ranked in the top 10 percent of their classes.

Now, let’s look at USC. In 2012, its acceptance rate had decreased by 4 percent to 18 percent. This percentage is definitely better than Stanford, but not by much.

The kids getting into these schools appear to be far more accomplished than many of the people I see wearing these college shirts and sweatshirts around

Granite Bay. However, People still proudly wear their Stanford shirts as if they have already been accepted and deciding on attending there.

But supporting just one unrealistic school is actually better than those kids who have a whole section in their closets devoted to their different college wardrobe purchases.

I’ve heard of students going on college road trips over spring break and buying sweatshirts from every college they visited.

I just don’t see the point in buying five $50 sweatshirts. It’s as if they feel that buying a sweatshirt will help them be accepted.

First, it’s a waste of money, and second, what are you going to do with all of those sweatshirts once you actually end up going to a different college?

I’ve also seen a student wearing a UCLA sweatshirt with a USC shirt on underneath it.

Anyone who knows these two schools knows that they are huge rivals. You can’t just go around wearing shirts from both these schools at the same time. Maybe it aggravated me a bit more because my sister goes to school at UCLA, but still, it looks dumb.

Trying to brand yourself with gear from one or more prestigion schools doesn’t improve your chances of acceptance or makes you smarter, so why bother?

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ver wondered how animals eat their food? Instead of going to the zoo, you can check out How Animals eat their food by MEM. The video shows two average citizens enjoying a companionable salad together. Suddenly, one of the men asks the other if he was curious as to how animals ate. This sets off several hilarious displays of “animals” eating. My personal favorite was the kangaroo demonstration. The video was always entertaining, if not hilarious. The main reason for the continual hilarity is the reaction, or lack thereof, of the man on the left. Despite the table being kicked, destroyed and generally disturbed, the man on the left remains consistently unperturbed. Outtakes of this video are

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always caused by the man on the left erupting in laughter because of the actions of his friend. This video had me rolling on the floor with laughter. The folks over at MEM do a lot of great YouTube videos; everyone should check them out!

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he crazy world of Robot Unicorn Attack 2 includes massive whales with cities on their backs, flying unicorns with flaming manes and insane jumps over impossibly wide gaps.

Features like these separate this game from the multitudes of apps put on the App Store everyday. The game is fantastic. Simple, one-touch controls are easy to learn but take a while to totally master. A short tutorial introduces the player to the basics of the game, but I was distracted by the vast amounts of color on-screen, causing me to not pay total attention. Mastering the game is not an easy feat, which means the game can be played repeatedly and remain enjoyable.

To extend the longevity of the game,

the developers have added a myriad of upgrades and community tools that allow you to join Team Inferno or Team Rainbow. Interesting and eye catching, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 is a fantastic purchase on the App Store for the low price of free!

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s temperatures rise but remain below sweltering, many girls at Granite Bay High School are turning to long skirts as a way to look cute while staying comfortable and cool.

Long skirts provide coverage on the legs to avoid the potential discomfort of wearing shorter skirts or shorts, yet are light enough to be wearable in the summer months.

“I think they’re really comfy and school-appropriate, and they’re just an easy way to look cute and trendy,” junior Katie Kindelt said.

The skirts may come to the knees in the front and fall further down the legs in the back – usually a sheer fabric with this style – or may be floor- or ankle-length. They are fashionable whether flowy or more pencil-shaped.

“If it’s a pattern, I wear just a solid shirt or a color,” sophomore Emily Torris said. “Something tighter on top because it’s so flowy on the bottom.”

Kindelt prefers to wear tanktops with long skirts to keep the look casual and make getting dressed in the morning effortless.

“You just throw them on and you’re good to go,” Kindelt said.

The skirts and tops can be worn with a cute pair of flipflops or sandals. Some accessories may be added to dress up the outfit, but many GBHS students feel the beauty in long skirts lies in looking stylish and feeling comfortable with minimal effort.

“I don’t usually dress them up very much,” Kindelt said.

Torris said she found her long skirts at the mall, where they are currently stocked. The skirts are also available at thrifty stores like TJ-Maxx or Crossroads.

The trend may last until the end of the spring-time, below100-degrees weather, or it may continue, depending on how comfortable the wearer is in the extreme heat.

Torris feels that the trend won’t persist as the weather starts to exceed 100 degrees, but Kindelt thinks the trend may continue into the summer – and keep returning year after year.

“I think they’ll probably last awhile because they were still in style a couple summers ago,” Kindelt said. “I think they’re pretty timeless.”

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1. Spoken – Wale Feat. Kid Cudi “I listen to it before my track races to help me focus.”

2. Pursuit of Happiness (Remix) – Kid Cudi Feat. Ratatat, MGMT “I like the clash between the electronic rock and rap genres in this song.”

3. Loud Pipes – Ratatat “The quality sound makes up for the absence of lyrics.”

4. Get Lucky - Daft Punk “It has a good old-school/funky melody to it.”

5. Around My Way – Lupe Fiasco “It has a good beat, and I really like the saxophone.”

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BY ZACK ZOLMER

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he 68-year-old rock legend Rod Stewart has released eight albums since 2002. Among those eight albums, you will find a rock-oldies album, an R&B album, and a Christmas album.

However, Stewart’s new album, Time, is a departure from his regurgitated recent past; it being his first new and original work since 2001. And though Stewart’s best song writing days are behind him, you have to applaud the old timer’s effort.

The opening song, “She Makes Me Happy,” is one of the more upbeat and energized songs of the album. The song begins with an acoustic guitar melody, and it continues throughout with the addition of some accordion and other instruments.

It’s refreshing that an aging artist like Stewart isn’t trying to be something he’s not; yet lyrics like these probably don’t appeal to anyone under 50. The song really establishes the tone for the rest of the album, but it stands out at the same time.

For example, the album’s second song titled “Can’t Stop Me Now” builds off the upbeat rhythm and confidence of “She Makes Me Happy,” showing Stewart’s continued pride and belief in himself and his abilities as he ages.

However, Stewart provides a glimpse into his life’s darker and more saddening, recent past.

In “It’s Over,” Stewart details his secret one time two-week split from current wife of 13 years, Penny Lancaster, wondering aloud “Oh, my dear, what happened to us? Tell me,

where did it all go wrong?”

This song serves its purpose well in that it provides an important contrast to the first two songs in the album, where Stewart at times seemed almost invincible. Now with this heartfelt confession, the song brings Stewart back down to Earth, reminding his listeners that he, too, is only human.

However, not all the tunes in Time are needed or even worth subjecting yourself to listening to. Songs like “Sexual Religion” or “Make Love to Me Tonight” that are sung by a 68-year-old man are truly more awkward and unfortunate than anything else.

But in all, you have to commend Stewart for the valiant effort. Though his performance falters at times, he pulls together a complete and above average album.

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Time by Rod Stewart was released on May 7.

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Unstoppable Momentum by Joe Satriani was released on May 7.

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uitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has released his new album, Unstoppable Momentum. The album is centered around an unorthodox approach to instrumental rock.

Satriani is famous for his hit singles “Satch Boogie” and “Surfing With the Alien,” which both showcase Satriani’s excellent technical guitar playing.

As evidenced by these two tracks, Satriani has revolutionized the instrumental guitar scene by producing music that is appealing to listen to. Many other famed guitarists have not been able to contribute much more to the music scene than five-minute solos.

Unstoppable Momentum represents a continuation of Satriani’s vibrant guitar playing.

“Lies and Truths” is a fast paced track that showcases the intricate blend of classical motifs and strong hard-rock tones.

Satriani’s diverse range of music is developed by another song entitled “Shine on an American Dreamer.” A slow, blues feel is streamlined throughout the song.

Satriani incorporates a mild blend of intense solos and driving rhythms, similar to traditional hard-rock bands.

In the entire album, the solos encompass a grand range of guitar techniques that produce wild sounds.

The whammy bar and effect pedals create the ripping solos Satriani is famous for.

Satriani’s musical talent stems from his excellent composing abilities. The drums, keyboard, and bass formulate the background rhythms to Satriani’s lyrical guitar riffs.

Yet, these instruments all have elaborate melodies.

Satriani write and produces his own music, which helps him create original licks.

The only drawback to Unstoppable Momentum is common to almost all instrumental guitar albums: the repetitiveness.

Although Satriani’s diverse range of music is present in the entire album, the solos begin to sound similar by the end of the album.

The synthesizer becomes almost irritating in both “The Weight of the World” and “The Extremist.” People listen to Satriani for hard rock, not for pop overtones.

Overall, Unstoppable Momentum is a great listen for people who love instrumental rock. Satriani delivers another classic.

Phoenix Bankrupt!

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BY DAN JOHNSON

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hoenix in general sounds like the end of the best day of summer. Their combination of airy electronics, vibrant rhythms and vocalization of a hyper-romantic reality is blended together to create an aura of lightness and tranquility.

Although they keep their identity intact in this new album, they continue to experiment with fresh ideas and musical concepts; one of which is the apparent implementation Japanese and Chinese musical subtleties.

As shown in their official music video for their song “Entertainment,” they deliberately express oriental influence. This effort seems to be a way to conquer the pragmatic aspects of societies that currently have moved away from their humanistic elements.

The music video especially shows a clash between the rigid hierarchical structures and human qualities within the members

of these oriental societies, highlighting humanism as a cause worth fighting for.

It’s a joy to see musicians bring a sense of emotional purpose to life; to bring a spirit of compassion, humanity and love. Each time I listen to Phoenix in any of their musical endeavors, I hear that.

Phoenix has received most commercial success and notoriety for their 2009 album, Wolfgang Amadeus. Fans of Phoenix should not expect another Wolfgang Amadeus when listening to Bankrupt!

I’m not saying that this album is necessarily inferior, but their other album grabbed my attention better.

Other than “Entertainment,” my personal favorites on this album are “Bankrupt!” and “The Real Thing.”

“Bankrupt!” starts with soft background rhythm and a flute-like electronic sound. It’s a little like the start of a day or an even or anything new for that matter. It’s a hopeful energy.

“The Real Thing” presents the inner thoughts of someone growing into his own and realizing what’s truly important. The song then displays the steps he takes to move into a better future.

Much like Phoenix’s style, it doesn’t say what’s important about life in the song or what steps he takes to move forward, but instead, it shows the spirit behind living life earnestly. At this conjunction, there lies a vista into their romantic borage being expressed; romantic borage that itself positively affects the world without any pragmatic steps taken.

I love this concept. It is such an escape from reality, and I hope that others listen to this band, because it can offer them a wonderful escape, too.

Not only is Phoenix just great in general, but they also don’t stay stagnant. They keep moving, exploring and growing, and this album expresses their true devotion to not only their craft but also to life.

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Bankrupt! by Phoenix was released on April 19.

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Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City

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BY GOKUL ASOKAN

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ampire Weekend splashed onto the music scene in 2008, and over time have transformed their image from that of Columbia kids experimenting with African influences into mainstay of indie-pop.

This standard of professionalism is seen clearly in their latest work, Modern Vampires of the City.

While some lament this trend towards a tighter sound, overall the album is certainly a step forward, and represents a band that is willing to take on the mantle of being a master of the music craft.

As ever, the strong back beat runs as a tying theme throughout the songs, although its role shifts from song to song. In the opening track, “Obvious Bicycle,” the beat

is the primary driving force of the song, and apart for the drums, the melody parts take on a very minimalist role. The vocals retain the simplicity, and are patterned repetitively.

Although the song is driven by this repetition of small units, the fact that it is repetitive does reduce its value, especially as an opening track. All in all, this track ends up being the weakest of the album, as the songs increase in complexity and empathic ability as one progresses deeper into the album.

On the immediately following track, “Unbelievers,” the sound becomes noticeably warmer and upbeat, and the guitar becomes much more prominent (although it still retains its largely background image, as it does throughout the song). This track is much more typical for Vampire Weekend, and has the potential to be anthemic if it is properly

hyped.

The following track, “Step”, establishes an even brighter sound, and is highly baroque in nature (if you pay attention, you’ll notice the chord progression is the same one from Pachabel’s Canon in D). This baroque nature is of course helped by the harpsichords, and the wistful nature of the vocals helps create not only a period but also a definite emotion for the song.

Taken all together, Modern Vampires of the City is another strong success for Vampire Weekend. The album acts for Vampire Weekend as Revolver did for the Beatles, codifying their professionalism while at the same time showing signs of more cerebral experimentation. Modern Vampires in the City is certainly a good album, and indicates a positive direction for their future.

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Prisoner of Conscious by Talib Kweli was released on May 7.

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hen it comes to renewing the rap game from the present-day hip-hop garbage, Talib Kweli’s Prisoner of Conscious is the one to look at.

While the mainstream music is incorporating some kind of electronic “party music” feel, Kweli sticks with his roots and continues his distinct, but great style of rhythm and lyrics.

To start off the album, Kweli puts an “Intro” which incorporates a man making an inspirational speech to a group of people, who recites his words as if he was starting a movement.

While the man is talking, there are violins and other string instruments with a piano that

make up the instrumental portion.

The next song on the album, “Human Mic” uses the same instrumental plus a beat as the “Intro.”

Throughout the album, Kweli has several features in his songs, which include Busta Rhymes, Miguel, Kendrick Lamar and much more.

This album contains many melodic instrumentals that range from fast and intense beats like that of “High Life (feat.

Rubix Cube and Bajah),” which also has trumpets and saxophones in the instrumental, to more soothing beats like that of “Favela Love (feat. Seu Jorge),” which has an organ as the majority of the instrumental with a calm rhythm.

Talib Kweli also introduces the more

hyped side of himself in the song “Rocket Ships (feat. Busta Rhymes),” in which he adds a crisp baseline and trumpets;it has a war-like, but jazzy feel.

I personally enjoy listening to “Favela Love” because I love soulful and calmer genres of music, so this song could fit perfectly into my music playlist.

Talib Kweli ends the album nicely with two masterpieces. “It Only Gets Better (feat.

Marsha Ambrosius)” is absolutely brilliant in my opinion. Marsha really makes the song unique and pleasant as she sings the chorus, it’s just beautiful.

The last song “Outstanding (feat. Ryan Leslie),” has a nice instrumental with a perfect beat to go with it. It represents the album quite well, actually: outstanding.

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BY COLLEEN VIVALDI

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he Great Gatsby, a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the one of a kind and priceless story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire during the time of Prohibition.

Baz Luhrmann took a risk by transforming the epic book, into a life-changing film.

Along with the film adaptation, brings upon a very uniquely contrasted album produced

by Jay-Z, presenting an interesting pallet of the unexpected.

Bringing in the big guns like Beyonce, Sia, Lana Del Rey, Jay-Z himself and Florence + The Machine gives the album a twist on rap, pop and a mix of the torched melancholy of alternative.

Set in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby, naturally would require songs with saxophones and trumpets.

Yet, none of the songs bring that to the table.

Instead, it uses synthesizers and samplers,

not the usual suspects from that era, making the adaptation downright intriguing.

One of the main tracks, a remake from the famous Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black,”

by Beyonce and Andre 3000, is one of the stronger songs on the album, consisting of intriguing rap from Andre 3000 combined with the soul of Beyonce.

Not only does the rap aspect enter the world of Gatsby, facets of alternative are inserted to create a parallel of meaning to the indepth movie.

For example, the most prominent song on the album, “Young and Beautiful,” sung by the one and only Lana Del Rey, backs the meaning of the movie with the long-time love of Gatsby and Daisy.

Del Rey smashes it out of the park with the sultry and husky narrative lyrics combined with interesting music that suits the movie to a T. With lyrics like, “Will you still love me, when I’m no longer young and beautiful?

Will you still love me, when I got nothing but my aching soul?”, Del Rey captures the vast love and angst of Gatsby and Daisy.

This album suits all different tastes in music, and that’s what makes it so successful, as it also fits under the umbrella of one of the most popular fiction pieces to ever be written and produced into film.

Ironically suitable for the time period, the Jay-Z-produced album harnesses the concept of the era of the “roaring 1920s” without the traditional 1920s persona.

In the day in age of 2013, as music and society continues to modernize, a soundtrack as this one fits in with that and infuses with the never forgotten period of the past.

In opinion, modernizing the music to suit listeners of all ages really enhances the over-all Gatsby experience, as it is great for a wide range of ages and interests, while still not forgetting the meaning of the everlasting Gatsby story.

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Music from Baz Luhrmann’s Film The Great Gatsby was released on May 6.

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SUMMER TIME Figure how to occupy your time in the hot, summer months

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people can enjoy the park while eating any flavor of Baskin-Robbins ice cream, and Twilight Thursdays, where the park opens late into the evening for every Thursday in June and July and it features good music, themed foods, and a car show.

“The zoo is a great place to come out to over the summer… for yourself or with family or even with a date. It’s the perfect place,” Swank said.

BY KRISTINE KHIEU

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he end of the school year is rapidly approaching and as everyone gets ready to fly off to different exotic countries; some are left stuck in the suburbs.

There are only so many movies to watch and so much frozen yogurt to eat until the summer blends into a monotonous series of events.

Yet, it doesn’t have to be that way. Hidden in the Granite Bay area, many fun events are just waiting to be found.

SACRAMENTO ZOO The Sacramento Zoo has been around since 1927. Home to over 500 animals, the SacZoo has been an established and well-known facility for many years. However, there are some new and exciting events happening this summer.

This past January, the zoo saw the birth of a baby Wolf’s guenon monkey, followed by the birth of CJ, the Sumatran tiger cub in the beginning of March.

CJ has attracted the attention of people from all across the world.

Tonja Swank, from Sacramento Zoo’s Media Relations Department, explains the significance of the birth of the new addition of the family.

“Sumatran tigers are endangered out in the wild as all tigers are,” Swank said. “There are less than 500 Sumatran tigers left in the world.

There are approximately 200 of them in zoos, which sounds like a lot but it’s not very many at all. So, the birth of a tiny little guy like CJ is a really big deal.”

CJ and his mom can be seen by the public in late May and early June.

The zoo has also planned a litany of other events such as the Ice Cream Safari, where

WATER SPORTS As the summer heats up, it’s sometimes difficult to find a nice place to cool down.

Going out on the water is a great way to relax with friends.

Several companies nearby Folsom Lake offer deals on kayak and raft rentals for the upcoming summer season.

On June 15, California Canoe and Kayak Company are hosting its annual paddlefest at Lake Natoma.

This event happens all day and lets amateurs and experts alike demo kayaks and canoes for only $10 per car. Kids 12 and under are free.

This company also offers classes for a variety of other water sports such as paddle boarding and white water kayaking.

Granite Bay High School junior, Danelle Pfennig, has been kayaking recreationally for a while. She recommends it to anyone of any age for something to do over the summer.

“I love kayaking because you get in the water and you can just go places,” Pfennig said. “You can go anywhere on any water… and it’s just a good way to have fun with friends.”

Pfennig has kayaked in the ocean and the American River and recomends both places for a nice place to kayak.

DRIVE-IN MOVIES As the school year wraps up, more and more people plan to watch a movie with their friends.

If you’re an introvert, and you’re not too keen on the idea of seeing your peers, a drive-in movie is just for you.

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Recently, West Wind Theater’s drive-in in Sacramento, has been a hit among teenagers and adults alike.

“Drive in movies are cheap and you can stay in your car,” GBHS junior Ben Lewis said. “It’s fun and you can hang out with your family.”

All you need is a car with a working radio, and it’s bound to be a fun night for the entire family.

These drive-in movies theaters also play some of the latest films to date.

For instance, Sacramento 6 Drive-In theater is currently playing Iron Man 3 and The Great Gatsby.

Most showings are double features which mean that two movies are played in succession.

Viewers get to then watch two movies in one night for the price of one.

Additionally, on Tuesdays, the drive-in theater has a Family Fun Night where tickets are even less expensive.

This summer, ditch the traditional sit-down theater and take a drive out to Sacramento.

“It’s a lot of fun and really family oriented,” Lewis said.

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may be a little overrated.

“I enjoyed going there when I was a kid, mostly because of all the bright colors”, said Kelli McTague, a sophomore at GBHS. “But now, not so much. I mean, its always so unhygienic and crowded, and after a bit it just kind of gets old.”

McTague finds that she

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“I really like roller coasters in general, and then adding water to them just makes you go faster and adds to the experience”, said Amanda Ramos, a sophomore at Granite Bay High School.

The two main waterparks near Granite Bay are Sunsplash, located in Roseville, and Raging Waters, in Sacramento. Although there are many other popular water parks in California, like Six Flags, the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk and Waterworld, they are inconvenient to go to because they are further away than most students are willing to drive.

The most popular water park among GBHS students seems to be Sunsplash, perhaps due to its close proximity to many.

“Sunsplash is my favorite water park, mostly because it’s the only water park I’ve been to,” said Arthi Bobbala, a freshman at GBHS. “I like the thrill of the rides, and its just a fun place to hang out with your friends.”

Gauree Shah, also a freshman at GBHS, agrees with Bobbala that Sunsplash is one of her favorite places to hang out with friends.

“It’s a great way to stay cool, I have a lot of fun there because I love being in the water, and usually I end up seeing a lot of friends,” said Shah.

Sunsplash, located in Roseville, California, is classified as a medium sized water park. Price of admission for the general public is $28, while a season pass costs $85.

Sunsplash encompasses ten major rides, a wavepool, a windy river and one wading area for small children.

“My favorite ride, personally, is the Double-Dare,” Bobbala said. “I think the wide variety of rides at Sunsplash are what makes it the most fun. If you want an adrenaline rush, then you can go on one of the bigger rides, of you are like me and just want to relax in the water, you can go on the windy river (Bermuda Triangle), or go into the wavepool and just relax.”

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A general admissions ticket to Raging Waters is $31, but the season pass for it is a surprisingly good deal. The regular season pass is $31 and $42 for the premium one.

“In the long run, Raging Waters provides you with a better value for your money than Sunsplash does,” McTague said. “Plus, I personally believe that Raging Waters is a lot bigger than Sunsplash, has better rides and better service than Sunsplash.

Raging Waters is home to nine major rides, a volleyball court, a wave pool, a windy river, and one kids area.

“I think it’s a lot more family friendly than Sunsplash,” McTague said. “When I was a kid, and even now, I go to Raging Waters with my family, or just my dad, (and) make it a really fun family day.”

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Ice Ice Baby

The Gazette staff samples frozen treats

Big Spoon

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In order to cope with the scorching heat that signals summer’s approach, I decided to go to Big Spoon Yogurt in Roseville.

After walking into the shop, I was greeted by the pleasant cashier and noticed the friendly ambiance.

I easily found the yogurt dispensers and picked a medium sized cup.

The small, medium, and large cups all provide fairly large portions that can fill anyone up.

There were six yogurt flavors to choose from. I mixed the cookies and cream with the strawberry, which produced an excellent combination of fruity flavors.

The cookies and cream flavor was a little bland on its own, but the strawberry was amazing.

Other yogurt flavors available include chocolate and vanilla.

The next station contained the syrups. Several types of syrups were available, including apple pie and strawberry pie fillings.

I sampled the apple pie filling, which was very sugary but still delicious. The apple pie filling tasted almost like a fresh, homemade apple pie.

Finally, I arrived at the toppings.

Similar to the syrup options, the offered toppings were very sweet: gummy worms, cookies, and Reese’s candy were all available in bite-sized pieces to sprinkle on the yogurt.

Although there were several sweets to choose from for toppings, Big Spoon Yogurt did not offer many healthy options which was a drawback for me.

After searching the entire topping station, I could only find two fruit options, strawberries and pineapples.

As a strawberry lover, I found a grand total of three

Honey Treat

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Frozen yogurt is easily one of the most trendy food items available and has been subject to surges in popularity in the past, followed by steep declines.

However, throughout the tumultuous history of the frozen yogurt business in Roseville, one yogurt shop has weathered the ups and downs in yogurt popularity is Honey Treat.

Honey Treat is a quaint yogurt shop located off of Douglas Boulevard near Mel’s in Roseville.

The décor in the yogurt shop is very simple and quite frankly looks a bit run down.

I was quite disappointed to discover the pacman table that I remembered from visiting the shop a few years ago has since been removed.

The sign behind the counter lists the frozen yogurt flavors available at the shop, which include chocolate, vanilla and peanut butter, amongst other seasonal flavors.

The system of adding toppings at Honey Treat in my opinion was inferior to other shops. Readers who have ever been to Pink Berry yogurt can relate to having an employee grab the specified amount of toppings for you.

While I felt like this was not a big deal, it did seem like my yogurt was less customized because of it.

Another strange aspect of Honey Treat was the topping pricing system.

It costs an extra dollar to get “dry” or candy toppings, and another dollar on top of that for “wet” or fruit toppings.

slices of strawberry in the strawberry container.

Since Big Spoon Yogurt offers such little fruit, many people in line before me flocked to the strawberries.

Unfortunately, the Big Spoon Yogurt staff seemed apathetic to refill the fruit containers.

The prices were phenomenal compared to other yogurt stores I have been to.

Even though Big Spoon Yogurt charges based on how much your creation weighs, I was able to get a lot of yogurt for only three dollars.

Overall, Big Spoon Yogurt is a superb frozen yogurt creamery. The only difficulty is the lack of healthy options.

From Granite Bay, Big Spoon Yogurt is about a twenty minute drive, which is long for getting dessert.

Nonetheless, for individuals who want to soothe that sweet craving and not spend too much money, Big Spoon Yogurt is the ideal place to go.

Nuyo This can quickly drive the price of a cup of frozen yogurt to exorbitantly high levels.

I ordered a small cup, which turned out to be more than enough yogurt for me.

I would actually recommend ordering a child size at Honey Treat if being labeled as a child does not bother you.

Despite the fact that the small size contained a surprisingly large amount of yogurt, the price of $3.95 seemed unreasonably high for me.

With 1 dollar extra for toppings, I felt that $4.95 was too much to pay for the quality of yogurt that I received.

Overall, Honey Treat is slightly overpriced and the yogurt is only average.

I would not recommend driving all the way to Honey Treat with Nuyo being so close, but if you happen to be in the area, frozen yogurt is never a bad call.

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Honey Treat is located in Roseville by Mel’s.

BY PARKER BURMAN

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With temperatures rising, and summer on the horizon, it’s important to know where to find some cool, delicious relief on a hot day.

Nuyo’s frozen yogurt is a great place to find said relief.

A little building with modern white furnishings and many indoor and outdoor seating options, Nuyo provides a nice atmosphere to go along with its yogurt.

One downside to the small size of the building is that on a busy day it can be difficult to find seating for your whole group. This is especially detrimental on scorching summer days where you’d rather not sit outside.

Nuyo offers a variety of delicious flavors for you to taste and mix. They even switch most of the flavors on a monthly basis to keep things fresh.

If you want something new, you can try out their flavor of the month or create something entirely different with the other flavors like chocolate, strawberry, tart or pineapple.

Of course, frozen yogurt is only as good as its toppings, and luckily, Nuyo’s selection proves to be diverse and delectable.

The many options, including cookies, berries, candy, syrup and mochi balls are a testament to the diversity of add-ons to choose from.

Personally, I always get a mixture of all the fruit flavors and top it off with nerds and fresh fruit. There are different flavors every time I stop by, so my order is never the same.

Gazette photo /PARKER BURMAN

Nuyo is located on Eureka Rd. near GBHS. Nuyo definitely provides an impressive amount of possibilities for your yogurt creation, and is as good as, if not better than many of its local competitors in this aspect.

In fact, for those who do not want to order yogurt, Nuyo includes shaved ice on its menu to provide a little variety.

One of the drawbacks of frozen yogurt in general is the cost.

While it is more customizable than ice cream, it is also more expensive, with prices based on the weight of your dish.

While this may not be a problem for some, big eaters like myself may want to keep this in mind while crafting their desert. I have gotten a bit carried away on several occasions.

Nuyo is also in a rather convenient location, just down the road from Granite Bay High School, providing an excellent after school snack for days when you want to spoil yourself or need a pick-me-up.

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eat.

This Month’s Picks

Miabella Gelato

BY AMBER LES

ales.gazette@gmail.com

Once the weather starts warming up and the pre-dieting for that rockin’ bikini body starts to pay off, everyone has one thing on their minds—dessert.

While walking around at Fountains, one of my favorite shopping venues in the area, I had always passed a gelato restaurant nestled between my favorite stores.

Knowing that the summer months would make my visits to this outdoor mall more frequent, I decided to give Miabella Gelato a try.

The gelato shop is quaint, cold and very clean. It has expensive granite floors and stainless-steel appliances, making the colors of the gelato behind the counter drew my eye immediately.

Chalkboard signs near the menu on the wall boast their 18-24 gelato flavors (depending on the season), biscotti, frappes, Italian sodas and semi-freddos, all made fresh daily.

Another sign alongside the menu tells customers that Italian gelato has 60-70 percent less fat than ice cream, which made me feel better about grabbing a treat before dinner.

When I moved toward the counter, an old couple in front of me was doing the get-a-taste-of-every-flavor method before deciding on a particular kind of gelato.

Although this method is usually an annoyance for me, it was incredibly helpful to hear the cashier’s detailed responses to all questions asked about the flavors.

Miabella Gelato gave me the impression that I could sample any flavor I wanted— for as long as I wanted—before making a final gelato decision.

His service to the couple was exceptional, and I didn’t feel intimidated to ask a few

questions myself.

The flavors in front of me ranged from vanilla, banana and chocolate to pistachio, hazelnut, cappuccino, rose, tiramisu and roasted almond.

After inquiring about the most popular flavor hazelnut, I decided to get a small cup of half hazelnut and half cake batter.

Even though it was a small, my cup was filled past the rim and was the most satisfying ‘small’ I had ever gotten from a dessert place.

The hazelnut was (as my aunt said) phenomenal. It was incredibly smooth and, paired with the rich taste of the cake batter, I felt that I had created an ingenious combination.

Their flavors were all presented in an aesthetically appealing way. Some flavors were topped with sprinkles or different syrups or cookies in the pan which made the detailed presentation contrast to the simple decoration of the store.

Keep in mind, future customers—it’s pricey. Sure, I paid $3.50 for a small cup, but in reality, I genuinely felt like the taste matched the price.

Miabella Gelato alone will give me the incentive to drive all the way to Fountains.

Look out fro-yo—here comes gelato!

The Gazette Ranking Panel samples dishes from each of the five restaurants this month and ranks them accordingly.

#5 Honey Treat- Honey Treat offers decent yogurt, but is expensive and out of the way for GBHS students.

#4 Big Spoon- Big Spoon is too far

away to justify visiting, despite the good quality yogurt.

#3 Snotopia- Snotopia offers average

yogurt and above average shaved ice. Its location is convenient for an after movie snack.

#2 Miabella Gelato- Miabella

Gelato offers a great change of pace from typical frozen yogurt shops.

#1 Nuyo- Nuyo has the most convenient Gazette photo /amber les

Miabello Gelato is located in the fountains shopping center

location for GBHS students and consistently delivers tasty yogurt at a fair price.

Snotopia

BY KATE HURLEY

khurley.gazette@gmail.com

In those first couple days of blazing heat in the early summer months it’s hard to imagine a better time where it didn’t feel like your skin wasn’t boiling off if you stepped outside.

Some people attempt to escape the blinding rays of sun by hiding out in the cool dark movie theaters.

For me, that just wasn’t doing the trick.

Across from the local Century movie theater on Eureka, there is a small family owned frozen yogurt shop called Yotopia.

I stopped in one day expecting to get my average order of vanilla frozen yogurt with chocolate syrup and heath bars, but as soon as I opened the door, I realized that vanilla was just too plain for this shop.

It was like a shop I had never been in before, unlike Nuyo or Honey Treat or even Pink Berry. Not because of all the different flavors and toppings that they had to offer for those normal yogurt goers, but for that rebellious frozen treat that would crush any summer sweat.

Gazette photo /Kate Hurley

Snowtopia is located in Roseville by Century 14 movie theater Shaved ice.

Yes, like that shaved ice in a cone that you used to get after your little league games. But Yotopia has shaved ice unlike any you have had before.

Snotopia, previously located in Loomis by Del Oro High School, was a café specifically for shaved ice and is a popular spot for Granite Bay students.

But as the temperatures dropped, so did their business.

When Snotopia went out of business, Yotopia

inherited all their snow cone making supplies and enhanced their business into a year-round success.

Now with new equipment and a variety of 48 different flavors, Yotopia shaved ice is the best in the business.

When I finally was able to pick the combination of flavored syrups to douse my shaved ice in, I watched the teen behind the counter pile on the snow flake like shavings higher and higher.

He loaded on the green apple, passion fruit, and mango flavoring onto my mountain of shaved ice and handed it to me.

This serving was larger than my face, larger than my head, and it was only a small.

I willingly handed over my three dollars and sat down to devour this foreign yet oh-so inviting treat.

This sweet and cool treat was so perfect to fight the oncoming summer heat that I returned to Yotopia twice within one week to indulge in my craving.

Incase you don’t want a heaping mound of delicious flavored ice; they have slushies for .50 cents cheaper.

Shaved ice is a classic, yet somewhat forgotten childhood summer treat.

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all around the world.

s n o i t a c a V r e are you

m m u S Epic S

BY PARKER BURMAN

pburman.gazette@gmail.com

ummer vacation provides a great opportunity for travel.

Many trips will be taken and many sunburns will be received, but it is certain that students will try to make the most of their break.

With so much free time after the last day of school, Granite Bay High School students will be traveling all across the world come June and July.

It’s obvious that with the diversity and sheer size of our student body there will be no shortage of interesting vacation spots visited this summer.

Junior Tanner Hulsebus is heading out to Seattle Washington this summer.

“I’m going there for a rock climbing competition,” said Hulsebus who has been rock climbing at Granite Arch for about four years.

Hulsebus recently qualified for the Sports Climbing Series divisional for Western America, and will be making his first trip to Seattle to compete.

“I’m definitely looking forward to having fun and climbing,” Hulsebus said. “It’ll be cool to hang out with some climbing friends from up there.”

As a first time visitor to Seattle, Hulsebus anticipates a trip to the various land marks found in the city.

“I want to see the Space Needle most of all,” Hulsebus said.

Another sports related trip will be taken by sophomore Chase Bixby.

“I’m going to Stanford’s rugby camp to be taught by their coaches and coaches from other colleges,” Bixby said.

While he has been playing rugby since the seventh grade, the sophomore still seeks improvement for when he plays on the varsity team next year.

“I’m looking forward to being taught some new ways to better my game and learn some new techniques,” Bixby said.

However, not all vacations are full of hard work and competition.

Most students just want a break from the stress of schoolwork or want to get away.

A prime example of this is junior Kevin Burns, who will be traveling to visit Rome, the Amalfi Coast, and other places in Italy with his family this summer.

“We are going to sight see for the time in Florence and then relax and hit the beach for the second half.” Said Burns, who looks forward to his first trip to Italy since he was six.

“I don’t remember a lot of it, so I am super excited

to see all of the sights again and reexperience the country,” Burns said. “I am especially excited to eat the food—Italian (food) is my favorite.”

While not as foreign as Burns’ trip, junior Marisa Thias is taking a trip up to Tahoe with her cheer team.

“I’m excited to go, but they haven’t told us what we’re doing there,” Thias said. “It’ll probably be something to do with the lake.”

A little mystery can build the

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anticipation for a trip even more, and Thias sees the trip as a great opportunity to strengthen friendships within the squad.

“It should be a fun little break to get to know everyone better heading into my final year of cheer,” Thias said.

Whether for sports or for a break, many GBHS students have an exciting trip planned for the summer.

The Granite Bay student body is truly multicultural, and it is evident in the many different planned and unplanned vacations taking place this summer.

“I’m really looking forward to this summer,” Burns said. “It should be an awesome experience.”

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open a book.

Teacher Reading List Find out what books various teachers love and suggest for the summer

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eat.

SEASONAL

TREATS

Here are some easy-to-make, refreshing summer treats to enjoy after school ends

BY MADI TOULOUKIAN mtouloukian.gazette@gmail.

Melon Lime Cooler Ingredients 4 ½ cups cubed honeydew melon 1 ½ cups lime sherbet 2 tablespoons lime juice 4 fresh strawberries Place honeydew melon in a single layer on a baking sheet. Cover and freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.

Transfer frozen melon to a food processor with the sherbet and lime juice. Puree until smooth. Pour mixture evenly into 4 glasses, and garnish each glass with a strawberry.

Serve immediately.

Raspberry Iced Tea Original Recipe makes 1 gallon 1 gallon water 3 (3 ounce) galloon-size tea bags 1 cup fresh raspberries ½ cup white sugar ½ cup of powdered lemonade mix Ice cubes Bring the water to a boil in a large pot, and stir in the tea bags, raspberries, and sugar until the sugar has dissolved. Allow the mixture to steep until the desired level of tea flavor is reached, 3 to 5 minutes; remove tea bags, and stir in the lemonade mix until dissolved. Pour tea into pitchers, and add ice to cool.

Gazette photo /cleora reber

Source: Allrecipes.com Blueberry Lemon Popsicle (blueberry popsicle) 1 cup blueberries 1/4 cup frozen grape juice concentrate, slightly thawed (lemon popsicle) 3/4 cup sugar 1 cup water zest of 2 lemons 1 cup lemon juice Make blueberry flavor by pulsing blueberries in a food processor for about 10 seconds, then stirring to combine with the grape juice concentrate. To make lemon flavor, heat water and sugar, stirring, until sugar has dissolved then add zest, bring to a simmer, and remove from heat. Let cool. Pour the sugar mixture through a strainer into the lemon juice, and stir to combine.

Pour blueberry flavor into popsicle molds and fill about 1/4 of the way. Freeze (about 30 minutes), then fill another 1/4 with lemon flavor, and continue alternating and freezing until popsicles are ready.

Gazette photo /cleora reber

Gazette photo /summer haenny

Gazette photo /summer haenny

Blackberry Tie-Dye Pops Makes 1 dozen 1/2-cup pops 9 ounces (1 1/2 pints) blackberries 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice 32 ounces low-fat or nonfat vanilla yogurt 1. Place 7 1/2 ounces blackberries in a food processor. Process until smooth, then pass through a fine sieve into a glass measure. (You should have 1/2 cup puree.) Stir in 2 tablespoons lemon juice; set aside.

2. Blend yogurt with remaining tablespoon lemon juice in a blender until smooth.

3. Layer each 1/3-cup pop mold with yogurt and puree, adding rest of berries along the way. Swirl mixtures together with knife.

4. Let freeze 25 minutes, then insert wooden pop sticks halfway and freeze overnight. Pops will keep, frozen, for at least 3 weeks.

Source: Martha Stewart Kids, Volume 1 2001 Gazette photo /cleora reber

Gazette photo /cleora reber

Watermelon Pops 1 cup sugar 1 (3 ounce) package JELL-O Lime flavored gelatin 2 cups of boiling water, divided Ice cubes, I cup cold water, divided 1 (3 ounce) package JELL-O Strawberry Flavor Gelatin 3 tablespoons miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips 4 ounces Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened 1 1/2 cups thawed cool whip whipped topping Mix 1/3 cup sugar and lime gelatin mix in medium bowl. Add 1 cup boiling water; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Add enough ice to 1/2 cup cold water to measure 3/4 cup. Add to lime gelatin; stir until ice is completely melted.

Refrigerate 25 min. Meanwhile, repeat Step 1 using strawberry gelatin mix and omitting the refrigeration step. Pour into 16 (3-oz.) paper cups.

Freeze for 20 min. Stir 1/2 tsp. chocolate chips into gelatin in each cup. Beat cream cheese and remaining sugar with mixer in medium bowl until well blended. Stir in COOL WHIP; spread over gelatin in cups.

Pour lime gelatin over cream cheese mixture.

Freeze 3 hours or until firm.

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make bank.

How to get a

summer job

Tips and tricks for finding employment

BY NICOLAS ONTIVEROS

A

nontiveros.gazette@gmail.com

s GBHS student Vinny Somanchi finishes his sophomore year, he looks to gain work experience for a dream occupation he intends to pursue after high school.

“I am doing an internship on cyber-security at (the University of Southern California) this summer,” Somanchi said. “I will receive the opportunity to work side by side with expert USC faculty.”

USC will be teaching high school students the essentials of computer programming in order to spark interest in cyber security, which has been a major concern among companies and the government in recent years. “(I will learn) the basic security infrastructure and then continue by working alongside with other high school students,” Somanchi said. “Our goal is to create a more innovative security code that we can implement toward everyday computers.”

Somanchi’s internship is one of many ways local high school students are finding employment for this upcoming summer.

Marisa Thias, a GBHS junior, works at a local entertainment center and plans to continue her occupation during the summer.

“I work at Strikes Unlimited in Rocklin,” Thias said.

“My summer job is very important because it gives me a good way to spend my time while being able to make

TIP #1: hunt for it

Gazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

Apply everywhere you could see yourself working and spend time researching online for local job openings.

my own money.”

Thias believes that high school jobs are important for becoming a competent adult after high school.

“Becoming disciplined about your work schedule and working under managers are key to being successful in later jobs,” Thias said.

However, Granite Bay students and high schoolers across the nation are having a difficult time finding a job.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April, the unemployment rate for teenagers in March was 24.2 percent, which is significantly greater than the overall unemployment rate of 7.6 percent.

As the job market looks dim for high school students, Thias recommends that GBHS students remain determined in searching for jobs.

“Do some research and figure out what places are hiring,” Thias said. “Apply to all the ones you could see yourself working at.”

Getting a job requires being professional: have a well written resume, dressing appropriately and showing dedication.

For individuals who can not find a paid job, volunteer work is a great alternative.

Volunteer work can be for any local non-profit organizations: the SPCA, Sutter Roseville and city governments.

People who participate in volunteer work are more likely to get hired in the future since volunteer work demonstrates one’s competency in a work environment.

Also, as a volunteer, one can develop his or her leadership skills. Volunteer workers must work well with other people and coordinate projects.

Another alternative for the unemployed is education that will enhance their level of experience for when they apply for jobs in the future. Many universities offer enrichment courses over the summer for the inquiring student.

“THINK Summer Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno,” said Maadhav Shah, a GBHS sophomore. “For three weeks, you fully immerse yourself in the college life, live in the dorms…and are subject to everything else that would do in college.”

Shah was unable to find a job for this summer.

Instead, he plans to take a psychology and a geography course.

“I am interested in what it would be like to live at college,” Shah said. “There probably wouldn’t be a harder school experience than taking two college level courses in three weeks.”

As Shah learns more about his favorite subjects, his education will help him get a job or internship in the future for his desired field.

Somanchi has found his passion for cyber-security and will continue to explore his interest.

“I have always had an interest in the technicalities of the hardware and software behind computers,” Somanchi said. “My internship at USC allows me to pursue my hobby and aids me in my future plans as well.”

TIP #2: TIP #3: perfect your resume volunteer

Gazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

Don’t forget to include any sort of leadership or impressive extra-curricular activity in your resume to make sure it shows you’re experienced.

Gazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

Volunteering at a non-profit organization such as the SPCA can be a great way to gain experience and add to your uniqueness when you submit your application.

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summer days.

(productive) summer activities

Ways to spend your summer that don’t include laying on the couch

a d n e t t A p 1. m a c r e m m u s

BY AUSTIN PINK

apink.gazette@gmail.com

Discover special learning opportunities, such as camps for high school and incoming college students interested in computer science, art, journalism or one of any other subject areas. Various camps are held locally that nationally focus on high school students and subject areas that interest them.

2. Tra

Gazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

vel

By hiking, by bus, by train, by boat, by train or by car. For a day or a week, traveling to other environs and unique destinations can widen your perspective on life and assist in determining activities and localities that you enjoy. Plus, a change of scenery can be refreshing for your outlook.

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ke 3. TaLearn what courses are available locally at community colleges and

even nearby state universities. Summer courses are also offered at most universities across the country if you want to visit a particular campus and take helpful courses at the same time. Enroll in courses that can boost your knowledge and interests. Additional credits can also make your school year less stressful.

4. Rese arch a nd visit co lleges

Gazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

Determine what schools are most appropriate and interest you the most. Call or write to them for additional information about the school. Also, requesting an admissions application and financial aid summary can provide valuable information. Finally, visit, visit, visit! Visiting a college is the best way to determine if it has the right academics, location and social vibes for you. Try to schedule an official tour through the school itself if possible.

Gazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

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FOLSOM LAKE activity guide

BY ZACK ZOLMER

S

zzolmer.gazette@gmail.com

ummer is quickly approaching and as the weather gets warmer, so does the water in Folsom Lake.

Each year, hundreds of Granite Bay students flock to the lake from the day school lets out, and this year is no different.

Folsom Lake provides cool water and a fun place to hang out with friends, part of what makes it so popular. Not only that, sports like wakeboarding, jet skiing and tubing are just some of the many activities that students partake in daily at the lake.

“Last summer I probably went to Folsom lake about 12 times this year though I plan on going about two to three times a week,” said GBHS junior Corey Handa.

“I’m usually there for a good three to four hours every time that I go. Times vary depending on what I’m doing.”

Handa said that one could potentially swim, wakeboard, fish, chill at the beach, hike or skimboard, among other things.

For instance, senior Grayson Walker spends most of his time at Folsom Lake skimboarding with friends.

“I go almost every other day to practice my skimboarding at the lake during the summer,” Walker

said. “I usually spend two to three hours out there depending on who’s out there and if I’m feeling the skim.”

And for those interested in skimboarding, Walker believes that Folsom Lake serves as a great venue to do exactly that.

“There is a huge skimboarding scene at Folsom Lake and a lot of guys go out there to skim,” Walker said. “I love that there is usually always good skim and you meet some cool people there.”

And whereas fast-paced, high-action sports may be the most talked about, many tend to forget about the several relaxing, leisurely activities that are ever present at Folsom Lake. Though it may not suit everyone, for some, you simply cannot beat a day of fishing out on the water.

“The fishing, to me, is the best part,” Handa said.

“There are a lot of bass (in the lake) that are adequate size. Also, there are a lot of fishermen who go frequently to Folsom Lake, which tells you that there really is an abundant amount of fish there.”

Even though there will be plenty to be enjoyed at Folsom Lake during the upcoming summer months, for every hot and sunny day, there will always be a few dark clouds.

Certain complaints pertaining to Folsom Lake among Granite Bay students include overcrowded

Hiking

beaches and parking lots, lack of water and having to pay in order to enjoy the lake.

“Also, when I am fishing, boaters cause a lot of noise and commotion, and then the fish swim away,” Handa said. “And at times, swimmers come too close to shore and end up getting tangled up in my lines. It can be a real pain.”

However, if lake-goers themselves take into account certain factors and precautions, it can, in turn, go a long way in keeping many unwanted displeasures and hassles out of your summer lake experience.

“What time are you going to get there? What time are you going to leave?” offers Handa. “If you leave at the wrong time, you could obviously be stuck there for a while. Most common problems can be prevented if you just consider some possible solutions.”

And of course, don’t let these occasional inconveniences deter you from spending some of your limited summer time at Folsom Lake. Though there are certain flaws present at the lake just as there would be anywhere else, the negatives are more than overshadowed by the numerous and incredible positives, just as Granite Bay junior and Folsom Lake frequenter Spencer Palmer can attest.

“It’s not hard to have a good time at the lake,” Palmer said. “There is so much to do, and it should definitely be on everyone’s summer bucket list.”

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the sun.

Wakeboarding Tubing

Fishing

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e r a W y d

d a M

BY NEHA KOMPELLA

Artist of the Month

nkompella.gazette@gmail.com

BY HALEY BYAM

hbyam.gazette@gmail.com

What impact do you feel art has had on your life?

Cake, an alternative rock band based in Sacramento, will be playing May 31, June 1 and 2 at Three Stages at Folsom Lake College.

Pat Benatar, a Grammywinning singer will be playing on June 7 at the Thunder Valley Amphitheater.

Girl in a Coma, an all-girl, indie rock band from Texas, will be playing on June 11 at Harlow’s.

Fleetwood Mac, a BritishAmerican rock band from London, will be playing on July 6 at Sleep Train Arena.

UPBEAT RECORDS

Its very calming, actually. It’s kind of like my zen. When I’m stressed out, I like to paint because… you just think about your life and it’s not a deadline or anything.

Do you see yourself painting in the future?

I do, but not to make money, or as a job. Just in my free time.

What are you painting right now?

CHRYSALLIS RECORDS

Right now, I am painting an Alice in Wonderland themed painting, I’m having a lot of fun.

When did you first start to get into art?

BLACKHEART RECORDS

BLUE HORIZON RECORDS

This year actually, I took Art 1 just to complete my visual arts requirement, and it turned out to be a really fun class. I really enjoyed it, and I plan on taking an art (class) every semester now, because it evens out my hard classes with easier ones. Well, not an easy class necessarily, but one that I enjoy.

Gazette photo /SUMMER HAENNY

Recipe of the Month: Tropical watermelon sorbet

BY COLLEEN VIVALDI

cvivaldi.gazette@gmail.com

Ingredients: •

1 (2-pound) piece seedless watermelon, rind removed and flesh cut into 1-inch pieces to yield about 3 1/2 cups

•

1 (6-ounce) can pineapple juice, chilled

•

3/4 cup ginger ale, chilled

•

1/3 cup fresh lime juice (from about 3 large limes)

•

1/2 cup grenadine (recommended: Rose’s)

• In a blender, blend the watermelon, pineapple juice, ginger ale, lime juice and grenadine until smooth.

• Pour into an ice cream maker and freeze, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, for about 35 minutes.

• Spoon into glasses or small bowls and serve.

Gazette photo /COLLEEN VIVALDI

all grown up.

May 2013

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How did you get asked to

senior ball?

BY TAMREN JOHNK

tjohnk.gazette@gmail.com

My boyfriend, who is a senior, and I are both in dance at school so we went on the Disneyland trip. On Saturday night he wanted to go on the Tower of Terror with me and some of my friends. At the last minute in line, he told my friends the plan of how he was going to ask me to Senior Ball. He then told me that when we get to the top of the tower, we should kiss for the picture. What I didn’t know was that also at that moment, my friends were supposed to hold up a sign that said Senior Ball on it, and my other friend was supposed to hold up a stuffed Pooh Bear that my boyfriend got me because that’s my favorite Disney character. Once we got on the ride, we sat in the front and my friends sat behind us. When we got to the top we kissed and my friends behind us help up the sign and the Pooh Bear at the top for the picture. When we got off the ride, I saw the picture, turned around and saw him holding the same sign that said Senior Ball on it, I was so excited.

– Ali Knorp, Junior

Courtesy photo /ALI KNORP

One day, my boyfriend, JR, asked me to go to the lake to watch the sunset. When we got to Cavitt, I saw a spray painted path of rocks and stones on the ground leading to the lake. I followed the path with him and finally saw on the sand Senior Ball spelt out with pebbles and spray paint. After I said yes, we went back to my house and I walked in my room to find it decorated with balloons, confetti and streamers.

It was cute, old-fashioned and a great night overall.

– Brigid Lummis, Senior

Courtesy photo /BRIGID LUMMIS

I was sitting in the cafeteria at lunch and two of Noah’s friends got up on the cafeteria stage and yelled out for everyone’s attention to be quiet. They both pulled out a script and read out a story about an old knight in search for his lost princess. While they were reading the script, Noah came into the cafeteria on a stick horse, wearing a helmet and armor, and fought off some villains (his friends) with a sword. He then ran around my lunch table on his horse and jumped onto the table. He walked up to me, pulled out a rose, knelt down and asked if I would be his date to Senior Ball in front of everyone. It was something really cute, but totally unexpected.

– Sara Wagner, Junior Courtesy photo /SARA WAGNER

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rock n’ roll.

May 2013

Summer Music Festivals Granite Bay High School students enjoy the sun, music and free-reign at various musical events.

Coachella attendees Jessie Meyers, Hunter Carrington, Tiana Tenuissen and Care Abbott soak up the sun in Palm Springs, while enjoying a variety of bands play live.

Courtesy photos /Hunter Carrington

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BY MEREDITH DECHERT mdechert.gazette@gmail.com

ould Neil Young, Metallica and Stevie Wonder play at the same venue over the course of three days, in addition to over 60 other much-adored bands and musi-

cians?

The obvious answer might seem to be no – they couldn’t possibly.

However, in 2012, San Francisco’s Outside Lands defied the bounds of normal possibilities by bringing these musicians to the grounds of Golden Gate Park from Aug. 10 through 12.

Summer music festivals like Outside Lands attracted a handful of Granite Bay High School students in 2012, and their overwhelmingly positive experiences are motivating many to return – now armed with experience in navigating the festivals and with advice for first-timers.

GBHS senior Brandon Borjon explained why he chose to attend Outside Lands last year after viewing the line-up of bands posted in advance on the festival’s website – and why he will return this summer.

“The first three rows of bands on the setlist were bands I would pay great money to see individually,” he said, “so to pay (about) 300 dollars to have them all in one place and see them back-to-back was just an awesome opportunity.”

Borjon said the proximity of the festival to the Granite Bay area and its attractive setting in Golden Gate Park also encouraged him to attend. “(The venue) was cool because it felt like it was in the city,” Borjon said, “but at the same time it was in the park and there were all these trees.”

Taylor Reynolds, another attendee and GBHS senior, felt that the music bonded the audience together and kept a positive energy in the air.

“Everyone’s really friendly,” she said. “The only time people would fight with each other was if people were trying to push to get to the front of the crowd.”

In order to get to the front of the crowd for Explosions in the Sky, without pushing her way there, Reynolds waited through several bands that played beforehand at the same stage so that she could secure her spot.

She cautions against transportation difficulties after the festival – since one night, she had to walk several hours through San Francisco.

“Leaving the festival, there’s no taxis for hours so me and my friends ended up walking,” she said.

“We didn’t even know if we were going in the right direction.”

Haff and Borjon had similar experiences.

“The buses were just so full and had such huge lines that we really realistically couldn’t take a bus,” Borjon said. “So we had to walk back (to our hotel) and it was like miles upon miles.”

GBHS senior Alexis Snyder also notes that, in her experience, going to the festival by car is much easier than traveling the city by bus.

Snyder has gone to Outside Lands around four times and Coachella several. Though she enjoys both festivals, she says she prefers Coachella, which takes place in April.

“It was even better than Outside Lands,” she said. “It was really hot but they have humongous art things like this giant snail that was probably 50 feet high and moved around.”

Snyder said she enjoys the eccentric people and

atmosphere at Coachella.

“You see everyone who’s interested in similar things as you,” she said. “They are very exotic and everything is very strange and beautiful.”

Borjon had a comparable impression of the atmosphere at Outside Lands.

“It was very psychedelic in its theme, kind of a total hippie vibe,” he said.

Borjon estimated that the total cost of his experience, ticket, hotel and food included, was around 450 dollars. He recommends booking a hotel far in advance to avoid temporarily raised prices or staying with a friend in the area whenever possible.

“The whole time you’re going to be at the festival and you’re just going to come back to sleep,” Snyder said. “I recommend a hostel or something cheap.”

Despite the cost, Haff hopes to attend more festivals next year, including Coachella, the California Roots festival in Monterey or the Electronic Daisy Carnival, an electronic dance music festival held in Las Vegas.

“It’s definitely worth the price, especially if you like the lineup,” he said.

Reynolds said she feels differently. She prefers small concert venues more than festivals and said that, personally, Outside Lands was too much work and expense for her.

“It was fun to go once and maybe I’d go for just one day again,” she said,” but I think I prefer (concerts) inside a theater.”

Haff described Outside Lands as a sort of coming-of-age experience for him.

“For me it was my first time out on my own really,” he said. “It was just me and my buddy headed off to San Francisco for the weekend.”

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movies.

Summer movie marathons An easy way to stay out of the heat on hot summer days

BY KIANA OKHOVAT

kokhovat.gazette@gmail.com

With summer finally becoming a reality, the countdown has begun, and it’s time to daydream and plan all the fun, non-academic-related list of activities to do in the near future.

One of the most enjoyable activities to do with an overwhelming amount of free time is movie marathons.

And not just any type of movie marathons, group movie marathons. One of the most popular film parties is the Potter-themed event. Feeling nostalgic and yearn for that magic again?

Be ambitious and watch all eight films from dusk to dawn. Harry Potter-ize your house, have friends come over in complete costume, and get lost in the Potter world. Re-live those childhood memories, and embrace your fandom once again.

Make an event out of it! Invite friends over, make snacks, have a theme!

Senior Youjin Ko enjoys doing Korean-themed marathons.

“Korean dramas come in series of 20. I wait until they all come out, and then download them all and watch them back-to-back, it’s so relaxing,” senior Youjin Ko said.

In general, when planning these parties, it’s nice to choose series to go through, whether it’s film or television.

For example, for films, popular series include the Bourne Trilogy (a must-see) the Dark Knight Trilogy, the Fast Five Saga, etc. etc.

Or, if you’re really ambitious and thirsty for some relief after a year of academic grind, categorize films by directors.

Junior Gavin Smith bravely ventured into this adventure with the Fast Five Saga.

“I spent a whole day watching every movie, it was definitely worth it.”

Another popular choice for marathons is director Christopher Nolan’s films.

Imagine how fun (and perhaps mentally draining!) it would be to watch The Prestige (a nail-biting thriller), Inception, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises all in

one sitting!

Or, if you’re in the mood for a more whimsical intake, binge on Tim Burton’s films. Burton’s take on filmmaking is so incredibly unique and imaginative that he’s created a film category of its own: Burtonesque.

His films are easily distinguishable by their visually exciting wild colors, twisted, intriguing plotlines and the wide range of personalities his characters have in his films. There’s obviously much more to his films than that, but it’s not possible to completely and fully describe his unique, original and individual touch. As a result, his films often end up elucidating an ewrie and bright feel. Some of his films include but are definitely not limited to: Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows (a personal favorite).

“I love Tim Burton’s movies ... because he really knows how to get a different take on things, and his movies are just so unique ... they are a little creepy, but they’re a good creepy,” junior Cassidy Chiu.

Another equally fun, exciting route to go down would be an action-themed marathon.

There are so many many action films out there, it’s hard enough as it is to just pick one and watch, so why not watch as many as possible? The list includes: Salt, Red,

Red 2 (soon to be release on July 19, 2013), the Mission Impossible series, the Ocean’s Trilogy and the James Bond trilogy and the X-Men series.

Now, these are obviously too many films to see in one day, so why not make the event a couple of days? Watch a few trilogies on Day 1 and watch some more on Day 2. You could even add a Day 3, and dedicate Day 3 to Marvel studios.

Yes, let’s not forget those! Marvel studios has especially been profiting nicely in these past few years with their mega blockbuster creations: Captain America: The First Avenger, (Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes out April 4 2014), The Incredible Hulk trilogy, The Iron Man trilogy, Thor (Thor: The Dark World is comes out November 8, 2013) and The Avengers (The Avengers 2 comes out May 1, 2015). In other related superhero-news, Man of Steel will be released on June 14, 2013. Imagine how exciting it will be to watch all of those films back-to-back!

And last, but not least, let us reconnect with our inner child (which we already kind of did with superheroes), and appreciate the simplicity of Disney and Pixar.

I challenge you to watch all the classic Disney films and all the Pixar creations (Finding Nemo, anyone? Or even Up? Really, who can deny Up?).

Let those films take you back to the days when life was simpler and more innocent. Especially for you seniors, it’ll be nice to re-enter your childhood before departing for your next chapter. As a matter a fact, Monsters University is coming out June 21, 2013.

(Cough cough).

More films have been made than can be listed. And even in this article, there are so many more genres, directors, and actors I’ve wanted to discuss, but can’t because there simply isn’t enough room.

If I did have the opportunity to say everything there is to say about the film empire, it would consist of near 10 volume encyclopedia.

So, as my final adieu, seniors and underclassmen alike, enjoy your summer. And fill it with spontaneous, fun activities, preferably activities you can do with friends. “Happiness is only real when shared.” Take that to heart.

Gazette illustration /Alexa zogopoulos

pictures

Rated: PG-13 By: Alexa Zogopoulos azogopoulos.gazette@gmail.com

the great gatsby: A-

hen I learned there was to be a new film adaptation of one of the most adored and classic novels of the twentieth century, I made sure not to get my hopes up.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fantastic story that depicts the transparency of wealth and the lack of permanence in the new, stimulating world.

I assumed that the new movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan, would follow the unfortunate trend of many other film versions of novels by not accurately being able to portray the main message of the story.

I figured, no doubt, it would be a great film, but it would turn out to be a love story gone unfortunately wrong, rather than a tale of artificial love that can never be brought back to life and our human obsession with holding onto the past.

Surprisingly, I was dead wrong. The film by Baz Luhrmann, who is known in Hollywood for creating modern adaptations of old-fashioned novels or plays, did a strikingly great job at exposing the true meaning of the story.

The Great Gatsby came to the screen as a story about a man who made it from rags to riches, all out of love for a woman, but then let his idealism takes him away into a world where everything stayed just as perfectly as it once was, without change.

I was truly astonished to see that Luhrmann managed to pull off this depiction so perfectly on a two-dimensional screen. I walked out of the theater with the exact same feeling I had as I closed the book at the end, and that is something I have never experienced after reading a book before it hits the big screen.

The movie did not just display dazzling dresses, wild parties, beautiful people and starcrossed lovers, but it managed to contain the key background elements of wealth and reckless partying, while still focusing on the insincerity of them.

My main complaint, however, would be the lack of focus on the times. I know Luhrmann almost never properly follows the timeline of the story he’s portraying, but it bothered me in this case because I felt that the extremity of the times was relevant to the story’s message.

However, that does not change my view that The Great Gatsby was possibly one of the best novelsto-film movies I have ever seen.

W

e-motions

hen I saw the poster for The Big Wedding, featuring an all-star cast with actors such as Robin Williams and Katharine Heigl, I expected a contrived, predictable story with highly-paid stars to make up for intensely corny themes.

I was not proven wrong. Sorry, but that wasn’t a lead-in for the sudden realization that some movies with “wedding” in the title aren’t completely awful. It’s safe to say that they usually are.

The movie begins when Ellie (Diane Keaton) lets herself into her ex-husband’s (Robert De Niro) house to find him with his current girlfriend (Susan Sarandon) in an awkward position, literally.

Everyone is appropriately embarrassed, and by this point, I’m grateful for the chosen cast.

The situation is unrealistic at best, and their acting somehow managed to give it a trace of believability that, otherwise, probably wouldn’t have been possible.

Next, Missy (Amanda Seyfried) and her fiancé meet with a priest (Robin Williams) to discuss the plans for their wedding. The conversation becomes increasingly ridiculous until I actually find myself cringing at the blatant attempts for laughs, mostly centered around the characters’ sex lives, and the horrible misuse of William’s talent.

Lyla (Katharine Heigl) is later introduced as a recent divorcee with an apparently upset stomach, as she throws up on Don while hugging him.

The ridiculousness only escalates when Don and Ellie, shocked by the news that their adopted son’s Catholic, biological mother is visiting, decide to pretend to be married for the weekend.

Obviously, insanity ensues as the two barely tolerate each other, wedding guests fall in and out of tangled love triangles and comedic encounters become gradually more difficult to swallow.

While the cast was wonderful, the plot was hardly developed enough to make a movie, and The Big Wedding will inevitably be placed beside other unimportant films about messy situations and happy endings that all happen to take place during a wedding.

Rated: R By: Haley Byam hbyam.gazette@gmail.com

the big wedding: C-

W

May 2013

film.

O

lionsgate

nce more, another Tyler Perry movie hits the box offices, Tyler Perry Presents Peeples. Although, this movie isn’t actually written nor directed by Tyler Perry, it is merely produced by him. You get a feel for this throughout the movie as, although still somewhat “family-friendly”, the movie takes a more mature route in its comedy.

The movie’s plot follows a very simple and, in my opinion, overused premise. An every day, average guy, Wade Walker (Craig Robinson), wants to ask the love of his life, Grace (Kerry Washington), to marry him. Wade believes it’s a good idea to do this at Grace’s family reunion in front of her entire family to gain their blessing.

So he invites himself to the reunion, causing an awkward situation and gaining the initial dislike of Grace’s family members. Grace is from a well-to-do, east coast, clan-like family, the exact opposite of Wade. This sets up for her overprotective father to do “all kinds of funny things” to see if Wade is truly right for his daughter.

A story of a fish out-of-water, being eventually accepted by the father, and then marrying the love of his life is quite the cliché, if you ask me.

This movie seems like a basically toned down, less humorous Tyler Perry version of Meet the Parents.

The comedy was lacking and was extremely corny most of the time. The only scenes I found to be actually quite humorous were the ones involving Craig Robinson because he is a good comedian.

The whole movie itself was cheesey, with the acting being less than average. This may just be my general dislike for movies of this nature, however, I saw many ways the movie could have been more comical.

It seemed to be a movie that was out-of-date, trying to appease a younger audience and the family friendly audience at the same time. This put the movie awkwardly somewhere in between, and its actors in the same position.

If you like the corny, somewhat slapstick humor of Tyler Perry, then this may be a movie for you.

But if you find Tyler Perry movies revolting, as I do, then this movie is much the same. The movie tried to separate itself from the pack and didn’t do a good enough job of it.

Rated: PG-13 By: Ashcon Minoiefar aminoiefar.gazette@gmail.com

tyler perry presents peeples: D

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Dreamworks animation

By: Chris Pei cpei.gazette@gmail.com

star trek into darkness: A

ow admittedly, I’m not a Star Trek savant.

Apart from an episode or two, I’ve never really delved deep into the realm of the TV series franchise.

And to be honest, the only experience in sci-fi I have is through the novels I’ve read, whether it be Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game or Douglas Adams’ A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Disclaimers aside, though, if I were to judge Star Trek into Darkness from an average moviegoer’s point of view, I’d say it’s definitely worth seeing.

Even if you’re not into sci-fi, like me, it’s a fantastic all-around cinematic experience, with flashy special effects, impressive stunt sequences and a promising cast.

While it may not be as memorable as its 2009 prequel, it’s definitely entertaining enough as an early summer weekend movie.

The film follows Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and his crew’s quest for revenge following a terrorist attack launched by an undercover agent, who is later revealed to the intergalactic criminal and villain “Khan” from the original Star Trek series.

With the help of his first officer Spock (Zachary Quinto), Kirk tracks Khan down and soon unravels a thick web of lies and deceit surrounding his mission, while trying to stop an interplanetary war between Earth and the Klingon Empire.

The plot was fast-paced and action-packed, so much so that I often caught myself getting lost as the film advanced.

And as someone who’s not too familiar with the original plot and characters of the Star Trek series, I have to say that I felt severely out-ofthe-loop amidst the audience’s gasps whenever a new plot twist arose.

That being said, there were so many of said “plot twists” that I eventually learned to just roll with them while I enjoyed the visual aspects of the film, which were much easier to follow.

In the end, though, what really made Star Trek into Darkness into the “cinematic experience” that it is was seeing the characters’ wrenching moral decisions and self-sacrificing acts of heroism – classic movie staples that remain, to this day, timeless and universal.

Rated: PG-13

I

Marvel studios

n what could very well be the final installation of the Iron Man series starring Robert Downey Junior (RDJ), the film did not disappoint me.

Going into it, I really had no idea what to expect of the movie, nor did I have any expectations of my own.

After leaving the movie, however, I was pleased to see that the movie built upon the previous two films in a way that was not too confusing or farstretched.

For this film, the plot summary was that long before he created his first “iron man” suit and rose to international stardom, his self-centered egotistic personality had turned a potential business partner, Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), away and left him with a feeling of revenge and anger. Years later, Killian, along with an associate of Stark, Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), created a virus that is able to cure and continually regenerate human tissue.

With a genetic weapon at hand and a select group of other genetically modified humans, Killian uses all of his disposable resources to wage international terrorism under the cover of a false villain, the Mandarin.

I found the overall plot to be surprisingly wellwritten, and at times, it hits right at home with the idea that American society has a fixation with labeling evil with a face.

However, the execution of the plot did not live up to the expectation it could have.

Nonetheless, the poor execution did not take too much away from the rest of the movie.

The action and combat scenes in the movie were quite entertaining, primarily building upon the advancements made to Stark’s suit. Overall, I never felt as though the action in the movie was cheesy or did not seem to fit in, so in doing so the film avoided having a crucial selling point, action, not deprived of any value of sorts.

As for characters and their respective developments, the complexity and depth of each character was pretty shallow. Had I could have given my input, it would have been nice to see more development out of the minor characters.

Combined, all of these different aspects result in an action packed movie with a hefty amount of one-liners and comedy with an adequate storyline and execution. Put in another way, I would say that the idea of Iron Man and the movie series are a more comedic and light-hearted version of the Batman series.

Rated: PG-13 By: Austin Downs adowns.gazette@gmail.com

iron man 3: B

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filmnation entertainment

ud centers on a fourteen-year-old Arkansas boy named Ellis (Tye Sheridan) who, along with his best friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), ventures onto an island to rescue an abandoned boat stranded in the high branches of a tree. Upon reaching the boat, the two discover a fugitive, the titular Mud (Matthew McConaughey), living in the ruins. Mud makes a pact with the boys to obtain food in exchange for sovereignty over the boat.

While developing his relationship with Mud, Ellis learns more about the outcast’s pasts, specifically, his relationship with the mysteriously alluring Juniper, who Mud has been pursuing since childhood. Because of complications resulting from his murder of Juniper’s abusive former lover, Mud is being hunted down by both the police and the victim’s family.

Mud also learns about Ellis’s life, including his advances towards a high school junior named Pearl, who alternates between returning and rebuffing his affection.

Over the course of the movie, Ellis ostensibly loses his naiveté about the nature of love while seeing these relationships fall to pieces directly before him.

There are a number of things Mud does well.

The cinematography is stunning, each shot of the Mississippi’s rippling surface or the expansive shore of the island is captivating in its scenic glory.

Both Sheridan and Lofland’s roles are skillfully performed. The actors manage to evoke the vulnerable, Scout Finch-like braggadocio essential to their characters with considerable ease. While McConaughey occasionally overdoes his performance, the failings simply add to the whimsy of his romanticized character.

Although there was an excellent amount of build-up to develop the over arching theme of lost love and innocence, Mud loses its grasp on viewers because it lacks the resolution needed to support such a grand theme.

At the critical point of the film, when all subplots converge into a single comprehensive struggle, the movie eschews profound contemplation in favor of cheap action and gunfire.

Frankly, the movie felt as if someone had thought to make a pun out of the age-old phrase “his name is mud to us” and threw together thematic elements, seemingly at random, to form an unsatisfying film to be lauded only by the overly pretentious.

Rated: PG-13 By: Savitri Asokan sasokan.gazette@gmail.com

mud: C+

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May 2013

under the sea.

The aQUADic Dance

ď ˇ(Clockwise) Madi Touloukian, Joey Long, Christine Dickson, Alex Rocca, Lexi Geraghty, Carli Kelley and Tatum Thompson danced the night away under the sea at Quad dance.

Gazette photo /Kristin taylor

Gazette illustration/TAMREN JOHNK

Mud

C+

Iron Man 3

B

The Great Gatsby

In Theat ers

A

Star Trek Into Darkness

C-

The Big Wedding

D

A-

See Dark pages 22-23 for reviews

Tyler Perry Presents Peeples

Good-bye

of

Senior Edition May 2013

senior year SCRAPBOOK

BY HAYLEY MCAVOY

hmcavoy.gazette@gmail.com

Every senior year starts off with the symbolic “Senior Sunrise” event. Traditionally, seniors are supposed to watch the sunrise together, wear their senior shirts and start off their senior year together as a class.

But, of course, the class of 2013 never saw the sun peak above the horizon because there were clouds perfectly covering it as the sunrise began.

With this rather peculiar beginning, the biggest class ever to go through Granite Bay High School began their senior year.

The first memorable senior event was the yellow domination at Sports-a-Rama.

Led by captain Joey Long, the seniors finally took the trophy home.

“It was very surreal,” he said. “I was not expecting it.

“When we won, there was just so much energy everywhere and then they picked me up and it was crazy, I was freaking out.”

Long felt that the competition was friendly as he recalls just “dancing around and messing around” with junior captain Owen McNiff. “(There was) just all around good vibes all through the competition,” he said.

Senior Sara Howarth has been on the team all four years and was proud to finally come out on top.

“It was fun to finally win and be able to celebrate with the whole team,” Howarth said.

From there, seniors moved on to the homecoming football game.

“I felt so lucky to even be nominated (for homecoming king), but to win just didn’t even feel real,” said John Haff, homecoming king. “It’s hard to put into words how lucky and fortunate I felt.”

As he and queen, Megan Zabrowski were crowned, the GBHS football team led a crushing defeat over Lincoln of Stockton 47 to 13.

But that wasn’t where the football team’s greatness ended.

Exceeding last year’s triumph of gaining the section title, the grizzlies completely transformed from pre-season to post-season, becoming section, NorCal and State champions. “(The state championship game) was an acGazette photo /LUKE CHIRBAS

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cumulation of us seniors working hard in the program,” said senior quarterback Grant Caraway.

It was a nail-biter game, coming down to the last few minutes.

Thankfully a couple hundred students were watch the game play out down in Los Angeles because of router buses made available by the school for students.

Howarth was one such student who road on the router buses.

“It was the best thing about senior year,” Howarth said. “The whole school came together and we all bonded on the bus ride and at the game.

Senior Maddy Harris was also able to attend.

“It was really fun being on the router bus with my friend Elise (Leben),” she said. “It was just really great bonding with other classmates.”

The Grizzlies winning the State championship was a rare occurrence and it will forever go down in the class of 2013’s history.

“It was an awesome opportunity that I will never forget,” said Howarth.

For the students, players, teachers and family members, it was a game that will always be remembered.

“It was just a great way to end the season,” Caraway said.

Another close win by the seniors took place during the annual Powder Puff game. The senior girls defeated the juniors by a narrow one point in the last couple of minutes, scoring off of a 2-point conversion made by senior Annie Spargo.

Caraway served as an offensive coach for the senior team.

“We had a tough loss last year and were coming to make a comeback this year,” Caraway said.

For foreign exchange student from France, senior Camille Mallet, football isn’t what she grew up with, but she soon adapted after a few practices.

“It was fun playing a typical American sport,” she said. “Even though we were girls.”

Mallet also liked the fact that she was able to meet fellow seniors that she didn’t normally interact with.

Howarth was another participant, but because of a wrist injury sustained in a practice, she was unable to compete in the game. However, she still said it was one of the best high school experiences.

“The game was still really fun,” she said. “I wouldn’t have traded that memory for anything else.”

For Caraway, the ending was all he could have dreamed of.

“I couldn’t have asked for it to be any better,” Caraway said.

The clock for this game inevitably ticked down, just as the final countdown of senior year. Ending with the symbolic senior sunset and graduation, the class of 2013 will be gone for good, but the legacy will live on.

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freshman-to-senior TRANSFORMATIONS Seniors reflect on their four years in high school and give advice to incoming freshmen

BY KRISTINE KHIEU

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enior Lisa Nguyen is going to University of California Los Angeles to study Biology. She has been a dedicated student since the first time she stepped onto GBHS and it’s obvious Lisa Nguyen that her hard work has Nguyen learned that it’s good paid off. ask for help.

Her number one piece to She will be of advice is that “it studying biology never hurts to ask for at UCLA in the fall. something.”

In Nguyen’s junior year, she applied for the Young Naturalist Award Scholarship. In order to apply, she needed to set up and execute an experiment. So, she decided to research the ponds next to Granite Bay High School and how its size has been shrinking.

Without gathering much information from the Biology teachers on the status of the ponds, Nguyen decided to just jump into the deep end.

“I got Mr. Braly’s really tall boots… and I hooked a whole bunch of sensors up, slogged into the deepest pond, dipped all the sensors in and recorded all the information,” Nguyen said.

After piecing all the data together she found that her results were inconclusive. Although the lab didn’t go as planned, she still raves about her experience.

“Even though I didn’t do the most productive experiment, I got to go explore and go animal hunting,” Nguyen said, “It’s an experience that I’ll never forget.”

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s ASB President, senior Paige Finkemeier is a common face at GBHS. She’s a key player for student government and is involved with Paige countless activities.

Finkemeier Even though she’s ASB President, liked by most, Finke- Paige Finkemier meier explains her advises incoming freshmen not struggle with fitting to get caught up in. in what others “I remember my think of them. freshman and sophomore year, I cared a lot about what people thought about me. And, over time, I’ve learned to just not,” she said.

According to Finkemeier, addressing this problem really helped to just enjoy high school.

In addition, she advises under class men to “get involved and stay busy.”

Whether that’s through the school or through a sport, Finkemeier stresses the necessity for a strong support group during the stresses of high school.

For the future, she plans on going to Point Loma Nazarene University to study nursing.

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enior Brendan Angelo has been involved in a plethora of different time consuming clubs since the start of his freshman year. Angelo expresses his conflict with not being more Brendan Angelo involved with these Angelo joined activities. numerous clubs “I joined a good to meet other number of clubs students. He throughout my 4 will be attending years, but instead of Loyola Maryjust joining them I mount University. wish I would have participated in what they did more often,” Angelo said.

“So go join a club or a few, but don’t just join it, actually participate. You’ll have much more fun that way and you won’t regret it like I did.”

To the students of GBHS today, Aneglo also offers his advice on how to stay motivated as the school year slowly comes to an end.

He said that unmotivated students should give themselves an incentive, something that he has done which he claims to be highly effective.

Angelo stated that the way to do this is to have the mentality that “you have to finish your homework before you can watch that episode of Game of Thrones, or play video games.”

He admits that this may sound cliché but this tool has worked for him in the past.

Angelo plans on attending Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, next year.

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TRANSFORMATIONS “I’ve managed to see the value in immaturity, I like to say, cause with maturity I think you’re just painting this false face of this is what society expects you to be, but once you see the value of liberation from that, then you’ll really see that you can just do whatever makes you happiest and whatever makes other people happiest.”

Several seniors talk to the Gazette about how they have transformed over the past four years

- Justin Habashi

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“So freshman year, I was just like I don’t care about anything like I’m just going to do whatever, you know what I’m in high school, yolo… I’m still a kid at heart, but the choices I make are grown up.”

- Annie Loomis

I think the number one thing throughout high school has probably been maturity because life has it’s ups and downs.

High School was a pretty big roller coaster for me personally, so it made me grow a lot as a person, so that was probably the biggest thing for me.

- Chet Hubbard

“I would say that I’ve gotten a lot more handsome.”

- Bryce McIntyre

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The Great Guide to College Dorms START What kind of rooming situation are you in next year?

greek life

Sorority: College sophomore Lauren McAvoy -UC Berkeley -Vice President of Recruitment at Kappa Alpha Theta 1. What criteria do you look for in girls who are rushing?

At Cal, girls are matched with houses based on a mutual selection process, where the girls and chapters pick who they want to see the next day based on the interactions they had on that current day. When talking with girls during recruitment, we look for those who are easy to talk to and who we can have a genuine conversation with. We want all of the girls to just be themselves during recruitment because we want to get to know them as much as they want to know us.

2. How do your room and living conditions compare to that of on campus housing?

Living in a sorority is definitely a lot more convenient than living in campus housing, and in my case, it is a lot cheaper. We also have a chef that cooks us meals Monday through Friday, that is included in our semester dues, and is much better quality than the dining commons. And while I currently live in a quad, you get to choose the amount of people that you live with each semester based on, in my case, how many house points you have. Next semester I will have more house points, so I get to live in a larger double. Regardless of the room you’re in though, you get to pick who you live with, so obviously you choose your best friends, which is the best part.

Fraternity: College freshman Kyle Pawlak -UCLA -Lambda Chi Alpha 1. Is fraternity life like what it looks like in the movies? Is it what you expected it to be like?

Yes and no. While there is, of course, the social aspect that most people expect to come as a part of Greek life, Greek life as a whole, at least at UCLA, does not fit into the narrow stereotypes many envision. Compared to what one would expect from “ frat” stereotypes, there is a much greater emphasis on brotherhood(or sisterhood for sororities), bonding, and being a good brother or friend than I expected. Furthermore, some chapters, such as mine, do strive to do some good in the community. For example, my chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha runs and participates in philanthropy events constantly throughout the year.

2. What is the rush process like at fraternities?

The rush process itself is a bit crazy. It is, quite literally, well more than a thousand young men packed into a few blocks, all acting much more universally polite and friendly than they might under normal circumstances. Everyone is trying to meet everyone else in a short amount of time and make judgments about their character (if you are in a house looking for new members) or about the prospective house options (if you are rushing and searching for a fraternity to join). If you are a “rushee” you must constantly weigh if this is a house you want to pursue, and whether it is best to spend your time here or elsewhere to maximize your chances of getting a “bid “ to a house or houses. And once you have a bid, or multiple, then you have to decide which house you want to join.

3. What advice would you give to high school seniors who plan to rush in the fall?

My best advice to freshmen is to not immediately accept the first bid you get – often you can hold a bid and decide later on to join. This gives you options that you wouldn’t have if you give into the original rush of excitement of having a group want you among their ranks. Also, don’t get discouraged if you don’t get a bid quickly.

4. Is fraternity life for everyone?

I would not say that fraternity life is for everyone.

I think, at a place like UCLA, there is such a wide range of options available that almost anyone can find a group that they fit into well.

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3. How is philanthropy a part of Greek life?

Philanthropy is definitely one of the key aspects of being a part of a sorority. Each house usually has at least one big philanthropy event each semester that raises money for their respective charity. For example, we do Theta Dodgeball in the fall, where we have different sororities and fraternities pay to enter the competition and compete for prizes. Therefore, in addition to attending your own philanthropy, you can attend other sororities and fraternities’ events to help them raise money for their charities. These events are great ways for our entire Greek Community to come together and support each other in the name of a good cause.

4. Does hazing occur on the Berkeley campus?

Hazing is illegal and 100 percent not tolerated on our campus.

Sorority: College freshman Dorien Johnk -UCLA -Delta Gamma 1. What are your favorite and least favorite parts about Greek life?

My favorite part about Greek life is the Greek community. Within my chapter, we have such a strong sisterhood, which keeps us so closely bonded together, and I know I could count on any one of my sisters at any time. Outside of my chapter, the Greek community is amazingly welcoming, and I meet new Greeks every day that help me network and become my friends.

My least favorite part would be that since we’re all also students and have challenging academic lives, balancing academics and a busy Greek life can at times be stressful.

3. What made you want to go Greek?

I wanted to go Greek because UCLA is a large university, and I wanted to find something to be a part of that offered me a great community, support system and networking opportunities that also was a lot of fun. It wasn’t hard to decide to go Greek!

4. What was the rush process like and what advice do you have for high school seniors who will be rushing in the fall?

The rush process was unlike anything I have experienced, but in a good way. It allows you to get a glimpse at each chapter and find the best fit for you while still having fun and meeting new people. My best advice would be to go into rush with an open mind and heart, to not be nervous but be confident in yourself and your abilities, and to enjoy the experience!

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Rooming with a friend from GBHS: Senior Caroleana Kvaterchuk -Point Loma Nazarene University -double majoring in Spanish and Christian Ministries 1. What made you decide to go to PLNU? I decided to go there because it has my intended majors that public schools don’t offer and it’s gorgeous and I’ve always dreamed of living on the beach.

2. Why did you decide to room with Maddie Breining? (GBHS senior who is also attending PLNU)) I decided to room with Maddie because we got super close this year and have so much in common and we clicked instantly, so there’s no reason not to room with each other.

I’m very lucky to be able to room with her.

Went through the “Random Roommate” process: Senior Wyatt Nagler -University of Colorado Boulder -undecided major

3. What do you think the pros are of being roommates with a friend from high school?

We know so much about each other and we can handle each other’s annoyances.

We’re already so comfortable with each other. It’s going to be so cool having her with me throughout these next years because we’re like sisters so it’s going to be awesome.

4. Cons?

No cons! She’s going to be like a mother to me.

1. How did you decide to do the random roommate process?

When I signed up for housing online, it automatically assigned me to a random guy and it was just the quickest way.

2. Have you contacted him yet?

I contacted him through Facebook and he seems like a cool guy. We have already become decent friends and we’re going to meet up when I go to Boulder over the summer.

3. Pros of Random Roommate?

I think some of the pros of doing a random roommate is that you get to get out of your shell and experience new things… Even if he is weird, I don’t have to spend too much time with him and I can meet other people. Overall I am pretty stoked to have a random roommate.

Picked a roommate through the school’s Facebook page: Senior Chandler Awalt -San Diego State University -majoring in Broadcast Media 1. Why did you decide to pick a roommate through Facebook?

I wasn’t gutsy enough to go through the “random roommate” process, where the school picks a roommate for you.

2. How did you contact her?

She initially found me through the Facebook page for incoming SDSU freshmen and messaged me.

3. Have you met her in person?

I haven’t met her face to face, but we will officially meet when we go to the same orientation in July.

4. What are the pros of rooming with someone you found on Facebook?

I feel like you get to know a little about them before living together and when you choose someone over Facebook you can make sure they have similar interests and a similar lifestyle.

5. What are the cons?

There aren’t any surprises with meeting your roommate, which can be exciting. But not having your roommate be a surprise can be a good thing!

-compiled by Kristin Taylor

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AnAn inspirational teacher - .

“They understand your strengths and weaknesses,” said Francesca Schorer when describing the best teachers she has had during her experience at Granite Bay High School.

“They keep students involved and paying attention for an hour and a half each day,” Schorer said. “They don’t just give you a bunch of busy work that is not going to benefit you.”

For Schorer, her most inspirational teacher has been Jillyan McKinney, who was her teacher for both Advanced Placement European History and Social Psychology.

“I had inside jokes with her,” Schorer said.

Senior Franny Schorer enjoyed being in Jillyan McKinney’s Social Psychology class.

‘elaborate ... Without being challenged, you’re not going to get any better.”

During Farler’s four years, one of the most memorable experiences she had was in David Tastor’s Advanced Placement Literature class.

“He really pushed you to think abstractly,” Farler said, “or think about things you never thought about before.”

“They challenge you,” said Nikole Farler when referring to how she would describe her greatest teachers. “You’ll have one thought, and they’ll turn around and be like, ‘now explain’ or

“Her attitude is just so funny ... she is able to just be sarcastic with people.”

Schorer said she anticipated a somewhat boring history class sophomore year, but teachers like McKinney made classes like it entertaining.

“I was a stressful student, especially with AP Euro,” she said. “It was my first AP class and I was freaking out all the time.” “(McKinney) reassured me all the time ...

Even on the last day of school, she was like, ‘I know you’re gonna do great things in your life.’”

Farler said that Tastor introduced new authors and poets whose work she was immediately entranced by, including Katie Makkai’s poem “Pretty,” which she hopes Tastor will share with his classes every year.

“I really respect people who have a really great understanding of what they teach and are passionate about it,” Farler said, “so having (Tastor) as a teacher and having someone be as passionate about literature as I am is really great because it’s someone you can look up to.”

“(They’re) willing to go above and beyond helping their students,” said Allison McReynolds in regards to her most influential teachers. “(They make) sure everyone understands the material and successfully gets them through the course.”

McReynolds said that during her high school experience, Brandon Dell’Orto, who teaches Advanced Placement United States History, has been one of her greatest teachers.

“He doesn’t just stand up there and lecture,” McReynolds said. “He makes you do projects, and he ensures that even if you don’t do very well on the quizzes, there are other things that you can do to make sure your grade is where you want it to be. As an AP teacher, he steps back and says ‘don’t stress out too much about this, it’s not

the end of the world.’”

In addition to all the work that Dell’ Orto puts into teaching, McReynolds appreciates the fact that he is also GBHS’s testing coordinator and the former and future president of the Roseville Secondary Education Association.

“I would just (like to) say thank you for just being so funny and lighthearted,” McReynolds said. “(He is) not only a great teacher, but also a great person that I can just have a conversation with.”

“(They) give their kids the opportunity to develop their knowledge and to really sprout as a student,” said Trent Brendel when talking about what makes a teacher inspiring. For him, that teacher is Karl Grubaugh, the Advanced Placement Economics

teacher. “I’ll ask any questions and he’ll answer them and give this nice long explanation and cover any points that I’m curious about.”

Brendel said Grubaugh even stayed nearly all day before the AP Econom-

Senior Trent Brendel and Karl Grubaugh, the AP Economics teacher, make supply and demand “x” curves.

ics test in order to help with some extra studying. Even while he took a break to eat dinner with his family, he was still willing to answer any questions, which Brendel really appreciated.

“It shows that he really cares and that he cares that you know what he’s trying to teach,” Brendel said. “I think it’s that extra effort that is really inspira-

tional.”

After taking Grubaugh’s class, Brendel said he was actually considering becoming an economics major.

“I just think the resources he has to bring to the table for all of us are really beneficial,” Brendel said. “They’re gonna help me later in life in my endeavors with college and the like.”

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From the desk of Mr. McGuire — A Letter to the Class of 2013: If I could be granted one wish for this class, I would wish that the world that is about to meet you – educated young adults prepared to accept the responsibilities and the accountability that comes with them – knew you the way we know you. Currently the world I see reported, the world I see discussed and debated, challenged and criticized seems to be angry, confused and chaotic. If you exist in the middle of that reality – if you contribute to that reality – it is common to see discouraged, frightened, even angry people just trying to make it through the day, cynical about life’s prospects.

If that world knew who was about to join them, I am confident we would see a little less tension and a lot more hope. You have always been a class that wants to make it better for others. You have always been a class that cares. You have always been a class that believes inclusion, tolerance, and hope are contagious. When I was growing up my mom often demonstrated a fondness for aphorisms. Most of the time I never fully understood what she was saying. That’s the nature of aphorisms. I suppose, upon reflection, that once I understood she was attempting to impart a lesson to me, I quickly lost interest. But one aphorism I will always remember: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Every time I wished I could stay up late or stay home from school, or eat cake for dinner or get a real motorcycle for my 12th birthday, I would hear that response. I just thought it meant “no.” Later in life I started to understand that wishing won’t get the job done; desired results will come only through action. That’s just fine with me. I’ll keep on expecting beggars to ride horses because I know that your class is a class of do-ers, a class of principled, kind, compassionate, goal-oriented young men and women who will have a significant and positive impact on everything they go about. I wish to ride; you act. Good balance. If I had one wish, I wish this world would know what they are about to receive as a gift. And I hope, as my mom would say, they will not look a gift horse in the mouth. I certainly don’t.

I am grateful for the four years we had with you and excited about the future – everyone’s future. I ask now that you grant me the grace to share one last aphorism that, not surprisingly, attempts to impart a lesson. Being the class you are, I am betting you won’t lose interest. Everyone wants to save the earth but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes. Perhaps just before you leave Granite Bay High School to get started fixing everything previous generations broke, you could offer your mom some help one more time. You are just the class to do it! I wish you the best!

Mr. McGuire

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Best Sc hool Spi rit: Justin R amirez

Best Eyes (female ): Caroleana Kvaterc huk

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Most likely to be enrolled in Hogwars: Hayley McAvoy

Best Eyes (male): Jacob Peterson

Next Pr esident: Paige F inkemier

Most likely to catch Pikachu: Jeremy Ly

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Most likely to throw a ch air at Hillary Clinton: Will G eorge

Most likely to throw a chair at Rush Limbaugh: Jason Seminar

Next singer on The Voic e: Madison Javier

Next Steve Jobs: Patrick McKenzie

ext n e h t t in a p o t ly e k Most li n jo r o B n o d n a r B : a Mona Lis

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ve: Most likely to set the cur Brian Wei

Next Steven Spielberg: John Haff

Next preformer at Carneg ie Hall: Johnson Khor

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Partners in crime: Chloe and Lily Folini

Best athlete (female): Katrina Reeves

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hese past four years have been, as put so poetically by Shrek, a matter of peeling off the layers of the onion, which as Donkey put, sometimes stinks.

Stepping onto campus as a freshman new to both Granite Bay High School and Northern California, I was, to say the least, not ecstatic.

If there was anything that I had to learn it was that I had to be patient in some things but relentless in others.

For me, stumbling across The Gazette was just that: a random stumble. The decision to take introductory journalism instead of chemistry (which yes, I eventually took) ended up spurring a passion for writing and creating relationships with random individuals who are now my closest friends. However, once I came across my love for the Gazette, I realized that there was nothing that I wanted more than to push myself to achieve a leadership role.

There is a select group of people that you can spend 11 consecutive hours with, and in the process wipe the tears of laughter off you’re face from things that really aren’t that funny, bang your head on the desk when they misspell the same word for the one 100th time, walk around campus wearing unicorn costumes, and eventually collapse onto the floor in frostedcookie induced coma.

Because this is not the Oscars, I don’t have the time to reel off the list of every person who has helped me “get to where I am today.”

But I want to say thank you to the teachers like Mrs. McCann for acting kind enough to chat with the lost little freshman that I was on the first day of high school.

To teachers like Mr. Tastor who taught me that the best essays are the ones you don’t want to print because you know you can take it that extra mile.

To the teacher’s like Mr. Stephen’s who showed me that you can ride a pink bicycle while getting into a professional art gallery.

And of course, to Mr. Grubaugh, whose passion and dedication as an advisor to a school program created an experience for me that I will never forget.

It would not be a complete goodbye-letter without thanking my mom, dad, Joe, and of course Willy...dog restrictions on campus are merely suggestions. Without your continued love and support I wouldn’t have put my foot on this pavement on that first day of high school.

-Lena Eyen

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was so convinced I was going to hate it here.

Granite Bay High School would be terrible. My long-haired 8th-grade self simply knew this to be fact.

Sixteen Candles and Carrie had taught me all I needed to know; the sky is blue, wood floats, and high school is traumatic. Simple as that. So as my last pre-high school summer ended, I resigned myself to my fate.

But one week in, I received a little slip of paper during my fourth period class. I was summoned to room 514 – called before the desk I would later type this letter from – and told that I, a lowly freshman, had made it onto the Gazette staff.

It’s been eight terms since then, and journalism has remained my one constant. I fell in love; there’s no other way to describe it. I found my home, my sanctuary, in Word documents and interview transcriptions, in page layouts and mugshots.

And I found it in my first week here.

I know how lucky I am. How easily I could’ve been one of those universally disenfranchised kids who never seems to care about much of anything. I know how lonely these years could have been.

And I know – and you know, if you’re a high school student or ever were one – that there were still difficult weeks. That one period of sanctity couldn’t always be enough to salvage a miserable day. That through trials and tribulations, through depression and chronic

illness, through academia and anxiety, journalism was, at times, merely a consolation.

But that was enough. The newspaper gave me a purpose, a reason to drag my sorry carcass out of bed no matter what adolescent horrors awaited me.

Without it, I can honestly say I don’t know where I’d be right now.

So let me take this chance to thank the Gazette, and the lovely people on it – people who I, in all likelihood, would never have spoken to had my work not forced me to, and who I’m so glad to have known – for making me feel, for an hour and a half a day, like I could do anything.

To my dedicated advisor, Mr. Grubaugh: You are the Atticus Finch to 40-something Jems and Scouts. You have been a role model and personal mentor to me since that first day, and you’ve taught me so much more than an AP stylebook ever could. I owe you so much, and I will never forget you.

To my co-editors-in-chief, Lena Eyen, Nicole Bales and Chris Pei: I don’t know if we’re siblings or spouses at this point, but for better or worse, you’re like family to me. I can never thank you enough for putting up

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with me the last two years, and I hope college life treats you as well as you deserve.

To all my English teachers, as well as Mr. Dell’Orto, Mr. Valentine, and Sensei Iwasaki: Thank you for enduring my incessant commentary, my weird writers’ ego, and my uncomfortably obvious enthusiasm.

To my friends Mattie Salinas, Nikki Chang and Lindsey Johnston, as well as my patient and loving boyfriend of several years, Alex Van Noland: Thank you for being my wailing walls, my loving companions and my Player 2’s. Graduation is not the end.

To anyone – especially faculty – who’s ever been on the receiving end of my voice recorder, or fielded questions from me: You are very brave and very kind, and your cooperation has helped me pursue my calling. Being an interviewee isn’t easy, I know.

And lastly, to the Gazette staff I leave behind, and the underclassmen I haven’t and won’t ever get to meet: Geek out. Be shameless. Love room 514 as much as I have. And know that if a chemically-imbalanced weirdo like me can find her niche here – can find something that makes her happy – anyone can.

- Haley “Graph” Massara

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often catch myself pondering the “what-ifs” of each day that passes by my often already weary head.

And now, after having submitted my intent to enroll at the University of Michigan, a rather weighty “what-if” has suddenly drifted into mind.

What if I had ended up going somewhere else? What would my life be like then?

Now don’t get me wrong: these “what-ifs” aren’t exactly regrets. Rather, they’re open doors to opportunities that might have been, given that I had gone one way or another.

They exist as invented memories, with no home except in my half-hearted desires and reveries of the great “what-if” that lies in all of us.

To me, high school is the origin, the birthplace of this “what-if” mentality. What if I had joined this one club or sport? What if I had gone to this one party? What if I had done better on that one final?

In retrospect, my childhood prior to high school resembled some sort of arcade rail shooter, jerking me back and forth with every sharp corner or turn. I had no independence, no joystick to pilot my own decisions.

It wasn’t until my freshman year in high school that I finally felt the world by the soles of my own feet. And it was glorious and frightening at the same time.

It was like suddenly being jolted awake and flung into gunfire, hapless and confused.

“Overwhelmed” would be a good word to describe how I felt. The idea of an infinite number of opportunities startled and repelled me at first.

The turmoil that arose from having too much to choose from and too little time to choose piled up on top of me like a landfill.

I would trudge through each day knowing there would be regrets and unfulfilled desires waiting for me when I returned home.

Yet, there also lay hidden a certain comfort in the chaos that I was bombarded with: the fact that the sensing ends of all my nerves were being fully and beautifully occupied by the grand expanse of the world around me.

I discarded explanation and reason and let feeling flood my life for the first time.

I saw each decision I made rippling out, influencing each facet of my life in a colorful splendor.

And it was then when I realized it: the great “whatif” wasn’t something to be feared, but something to be embraced.

As I start my life anew in college, my only hope is to continue embracing this ideal, as wholeheartedly as I’m able to.

And embracing that very ideal is my advice to anyone in high school who is still deep into questioning themselves or the world as it is.

Take the great “what-if” and just know this: no matter how limited or mundane the course of a life may seem, there’s always opportunity and open doors that lie waiting.

-Chris Pei

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lthough there are parts of high school I’ll miss, I’m so excited for the new chapter in my life and to take all the lessons I learned in high school and apply them.

I have a collection of lessons that I have learned over the past four years, but most recently I’ve learned how quickly things can change.

I mean, even though I am very ready to graduate, it hasn’t even fully hit me that I am graduating next week.

Coming to terms with change has never been an issue with me because I love change, but what has been an issue is when I find myself planning the future in result of the change. Which comes to part two of my most recent lesson: sometimes it’s best not to think ahead.

Looking back on the past four years my happiest and most peaceful memories have been when I lived life taking one day at a time. Coming to peace with the imperfections in my life and genuinely appreciating each of those individual days.

And even though I have big goals I’m ready to pursue after high school, these days are secretly the days I am really excited to have more of in the future.

Another pro to not planning and enjoying life day to day is it helped me find my passions and things that really make me happy.

Through this philosophy, the Granite Bay Gazette and journalism found me. And through all the decisions I made in high school, applying for the Gazette was by far the best one.

The experience and the relationships I’ve made have not only led me to find a passion for journalism, but they have greatly influenced my growth as a person.

I have met some of the best people working on the Gazette; ones that I hope to continue having life-long relationships with and ones that I would be blessed to cross paths with again.

They have all taught me things I will carry with me to my next chapter and working with them will definitely be one of the things I miss most about high school.

I also really have to thank our advisor, Mr. Grubaugh who taught me that people are more important than the process. Not only does your passion and graciousness make you a great advisor and teacher, but it also feels like having another dad.

I don’ t want to go on forever, but I really do appreciate all the relationships I’ve built over the past four years and all the lessons I’ve learned and can’t wait to see how I’ll use them in my future.

-Nicole Bales Gazette illustrations /THOMAS TAYLOR

Senior Edition May 2013

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California Lutheran University Kevin Blank Ty Serna

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Chapman University Anthony Pederson Taylor Reynolds Bryan Wise

University of San Diego Charlie Gunn

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Wheaton Madi Touloukian Liberty University Jeffrey Williams

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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Chris Pei Kimberly Sinclair Megan Zabrowski

University of Arkansas Allison Sims

University of Nevada, Reno Mitchell Bodnar Zachary Burger Erika Chauvet Vamsi Chekuri Colleen DeYager Jonathan Eitzman Joesph Ellis Zachary Erickson Steven Greer Ryan Hendershot Beau Hershberger Reed Jantzen Matthew Jew Paige Lebeau Elizabeth Leben Divya Manohar Richard Marshall Ryan McFarland Patrick McKenzie Mitchell Moffat David Zavesky

University of Central Missouri Shelby Rushing University of Colorado at Boulder McKenzie Healy Michael Nagler Philip Nystrom Michelle Percevic Jacob Peterson University of Connecticut Julia Webb University of Hawaii at Manoa Justin Calton William Fredette Navin Tagore-Erwin University of Indiana at Bloomington Tanner Thompson Thomas Thompson University of Iowa Jeanette Deason

University of Missouri Christopher Benz University of Montana Mason Conen

University of Oregon Nicole Bales Samantha Bales Brandon Baumgarten Dalton France Andrew Greenblatt Summer Haenny Michael Hagel Anthony Milo

University of Washington Deven Patel U.S.Air Force Academy Chloe Forlini Lily Forlini Western Washington University Michelle Dupar West Point Military Academy Patrick Carroll Holly Rodeo

Johnson & Wales University Caroline Anderson

Air Force Alex Ware McKenzie Fairbanks

Marist College Shannon Dover

Army Aaron Gibson Carlton Modin

Middlebury College Bryce McIntyre

Bodenseehof, Germany Zachary Rogalski

Northeastern University Emma Farrell Hamaseh Sorooshian

Bond University, Australia Bodie Rice Megan Rutlen

Pacific Lutheran University Tyler Arneson

Denmark Carsten Hastrup

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Pacific University Brooklyn Klepl

BYU Taite Harris Ashlyn Howes Camille Newbold

Purdue University Renee Merchant

Employment Luke Jarvis Trever Johnson Everett Lee Clarence Palmer Taft Patridge

Rice University Lauren Fitzgerald

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Reed College Brandon Borjon

Gap Year Cleora Reber

Sante Fe University of Art and Design Emmett Bright

Germany Natalie Fiore

Seattle University Colleen Lambert

Online Anna Zlomke

Creighton University Kevin Mugno

Southern Methodist University Neil Martin

Paris Exchange Camille Mallet

Dartmouth College Sydney Stansberry

St. Olaf College Katharina Biermann

Gonzaga University Trevor Barnes Kiah Drongesen Nikole Farler Natalie Haskell

Texas Christian University Marissa Hayes Sara Howarth

BYU-Idaho Daniel Proudfoot Colorado Christian University Concordia University Chanelle Canfield Andrew Carr-Hall

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Tufts University Brad Wong Williamette University Kaitlin Wilson

Thrive, Bayside Church Brandon Annis Rotary Exchange Program Frances Beier University of British Columbia Justin Habashi US Marines Logan Burson

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