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Friday Volume 77 2.14.2014 Issue 5 Viewette Tryouts Approaching The parent meeting for information and requirements for viewette tryouts will be Feb. 17 in the cafeteria. Those trying out will have three days to learn a routine, from March 17-20. Official tryouts will be March 21 in the viewette gym.
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The Science of Love
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Students Advance in Solo, Ensemble Students from the band and choir competed Jan 31 and Feb 7 respectively in Solo and Ensemble, a competition in which students are required to learn and memorize a song from the state mandated list. Orchestra is to compete Feb 22 in the Mickey Melton Center. The difficulty of the solo depends on the experience and grade of the student. Difficulty is separated by classes, class three being the easiest and class one being the most difficult. Out of the 22 choir competitors, 19 made a first division rating. Nine class one students received ones, which is the highest score, and 8 of those advanced to state. One hundred fourteen band students scored ones and about 15 of those qualified to advance to state. Laura Aciano
Library Expands E-book Collection The school library has recently expanded its book collection by including the checkout of ebooks using the online ebook distributor Floettshelf. The website link is available through the library webpage. Any student can log into the website by using their usual ID number and login password. Ashley Kempkes
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are really attracted to someone initially but In order to show this to his senior psychology you have a lot of really different opinions on students, Suggs had them make a list about stuff, you are eventually going to gravitate what their ideal partner would be like. towards the center of it and pull each other “[I] then had them describe themselves,” in that direction.” Suggs said. “The only traits that they described However, chemistry suggests that there is in themselves that weren’t in their romantic Love is about to become a lot less romantic. truth behind the saying “opposites attract.” partners were typically psychological traits Love isn’t just from the heart. According “The chemical aspect of love is the fact that that were negative like ‘I’m impatient, I don’t to private practice psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan when they say opposites attract, that actually want someone who is impatient.’” Lockhart, love affects some chemical reactions goes to a chemical perspective,” Standridge Once a person has found someone who they and influences others. said. “People with different chemical makeups desire both on a physical and chemical level, “The feeling of love, especially romantic love, are more attracted to each other than people they release dopamine which also increases definitely affects the brain and our chemistry with the same chemical makeup.” focus. This can cause love to be like an in powerful ways,” Lockhart said. “Attraction In one study, the dirty shirt study, obsession or even an addiction. to someone is affected by the sensory parts researchers gave men t-shirts to wear and sleep “[Psychologists] don’t mean like making a of our brain, the parts that recognize sight, in after they bathed with odor-free soap. They shrine [when they discuss obsession]. It’s like sound, and even smell.” then took the shirts put the shirts in boxes obsession in terms of you can’t get them out Two main chemicals with holes in the top of your head all the time,” Suggs said. “Over are involved within and allowed girls to time it translates into more of a companion, Two main chemicals in the brain the interactions rate how attracted enjoying each others company but not like are involved with the love process: they were to the smell. butterflies in the stomach kind of thing.” in the brain with love: oxytocin and The results yielded a However, not all love is the same. Love oxytocin and dopamine. dopamine. Oxytocin, tendency for attraction for a friend or family member is a different the bonding chemical, to a certain gene. experience than love for a romantic partner or starts the falling in love process. “There is a particular set of genes called a type of food. “Oxytocin is a hormone that basically the MHC genes which basically influences “Love is a very big word that means different increases your trust,” chemistry teacher Bryce your immune system. If you have two people things to different people and in different Standridge said. “Most people that love each with very different MHC genes, [and] they had situations,” Lockhart said. “Even the ancient other have a high sense of trust; obviously offspring, they would have stronger immune Greeks divided the term into different when trust is raised, the love is raised.” systems,” Suggs said. “So the idea was that they categories: Storge, (familiarity), Eros (romantic), When someone enjoys being around tended to pick people that had very different Philia (friendship), and Agape, (unconditional another person or future partner, they release MHC genes. The whole argument with that or divine). So, obviously the things we call love dopamine, the pleasure chemical. study was that people are not all the same.” “[Dopamine] is a neurochemical that when want to some degree Although love The Ancient Greeks divided love triggered, makes you feel really happy,” subconsciously is categorized, into categories: Storge (familiarity), quantified, and Standridge said. “So ,when you are around know what they are people [and] you enjoy their company, your looking for.” Eros (romantic), Philia (friendship), dissected, Suggs levels of dopamine rise, and you want to be Yet, the chemistry that it isn’t and Agape (unconditional or divine) believes around them even more.” of love isn’t all all science. Studies have even shown that all about opposites. “[Love] is relationships start with at least a minor Research suggests that people are generally something so fundamental to the human attraction, no matter how platonic the more attracted to people they find physical condition. That’s what we’ve been doing for friendship may seem to be. similarities with. so long,” Suggs said. “I don’t think it detracts “What they find is that over time if you “People tend to seek out partners that are from the ‘magic’. I could understand why spend time with someone, even if you outwardly similar to you,” Suggs said. “They people want to believe more in love just aren’t initially, overwhelmingly attracted, have the same beliefs and attitudes, they have happening, and not trying to quantify it. [But, there can be [feelings] in that direction,” the same background and the same culture. So I] still think there’s something else besides just Psychology teacher Grady Suggs said. “If you there is kind of a trade-off there with genetics.” the chemical side of [love].”
Staying in Love Two teachers reveal the stories, secrets behind their 35 years of marriage Lauren Bally managing editor
“It’s helpful for us to be able to talk about it, debrief with each other, and unwind,” Frank said. He communicates an unspoken “The other person understands.” language through the signing of The pair met in college in the 70’s his hands, and he remembers. She at Louisiana Tech as art students. helps create beautiful art through They were friends for about a year the movements of her hand, and before beginning their romance, she remembers. They see the and as the end of college grew rings on their fingers when they nearer, Francis decided to propose. teach, and they remember. They “I was scared because I was afraid remember their 35 year old promise she would say no,” Frank said. “But of friendship and love. it was a time to make a decision. Are American Sign Language teacher we going to stay together or are we Frank Herbert and art teacher Ellen going to go our separate ways?” Herbert have been married since Ellen accepted Frank’s request, 1978, and worked as teachers at LHS and since then, Ellen believes her for 15 years. They’ve found that their relationship with Frank has only sometimes stressful jobs has actually grown through working together. strengthened their relationship. “It’s been good for us,” Ellen said.
The Art and Language of Love Art teacher Ellen Herbert and ASL teacher Francis Herbert enjoy time together in the art room Feb. 12 Simone Macklin // THE LONG-VIEW
“I don’t know how it is for other people, but we’re really close. We’re best friends. Things happen, and we know the background on all of it. Now we just have more to talk about really.” Although she is a teacher, Ellen learns many things from marriage. “He teaches me things all the time,” Ellen said. “I know what he wants, the way he wants things done, and the way he doesn’t want things done. It’s just easy.”
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Frank has found that their marriage has grown easier over the years, from the time he first saw her on the steps of the library to sharing their teaching experiences with each other today. “We’ve been together for so long that we’ve gotten to know each other better, living together, being together,” Frank said. “It’s so much easier now than ever, because we’ve learned so much from each other [and] how to be together.”