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Nov. 21, 2014 Vol. 46, No. 3 Lafayette High School – 17050 Clayton Rd. – Wildwood, MO 63011

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Due to recent events in Ferguson, Missouri has been thrown into the national spotlight.

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NEWS numbers 30,000

Number of cans Assistant Principal Kirti Mehrotra hopes to collect during this year’s Canned Food Drive

TURKEY DAY

TRIVIA 1654

$135.27

The year pumpkin pie first became a Thanksgiving tradition (According to National Geographic).

400 million

Pounds of cranberries that Americans use in their Thanksgiving cranberry sauce (According to Ocean Spray).

Average Black Friday online order in 2013. This was up 2.2 percent from past years. *According to Tech-Crunch

Number of cups of coffee consumed daily in America. This amounts to 146 billion cups per year, making the U.S. the leading consumer of coffee. *According to Huffington Post

16.9

Percentage of Missouri homes with “significantly higher household food insecurity rates” than the national average in 2011-2013.

Missouri is one of eight states exceeding the national average.*According to Feeding America

736 million

Pounds of turkey consumed on Thanksgiving in 2012 (According to National Geographic).

80 million

Class Breakouts

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The Largest Class

Chris Lofgren’s 5th Hour Human Anatomy Flex

The Smallest Class Cindy Biehle’s 7th Hour English for Speakers Other Languages

= 4 people

School Safety and Security 88.2 64.3 of public schools that 49.1 Percentage enforce a strict dress code 12.1 Percentage of public schools with controlled access to buildings during school hours

Percentage of public schools using security cameras to monitor the school

Percentage of public schools that perform random sweeps for contraband

*According to the National Center for Education Statistics

You Can Quote Me On That!

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In the old days they would say, ‘Solve’ and here’s a problem. Now, they’ll say, ‘Use your knowledge of computation and analytical mathematical skills to solve the following problem.’”

– Kathy Soucy, math teacher, on the structure change of the ACT mathematics section

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There’s never been a boys championship in school history for cross country.

I was pretty excited, to say the least.

– Boys cross country coach Sean O’Connor, on the team’s State win on Nov. 8

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Sharing Is Caring, Unless You’re Parking Students use petition to challenge parking policy, administration promises a review grant norfleet – reporter –

Not many students have read their student handbook, or could recite every school policy by heart. In fact, many students may be breaking school policy and not even know it.

In the Infractions and Consequences section of the Lafayette High School Parking Lot Procedures, it is clearly stated that parking permits are non-transferable.

A parking permit may only be used by the person to whom it is issued and for only familyowned vehicles that are properly registered.

Misuse of the permit will result in the permit being suspended or revoked and possible school discipline.

This policy has been the subject of controversy recently, as students have started petitioning against the parking policy and pushing for the allowance of shared parking passes.

The petition started by juniors Caroline Jordan and Kelsey Baich is gaining more and more signatures from students who disagree with the policy and believe it needs to be revoked.

Baich and Jordan accidentally turned themselves in when they forgot to display their parking pass in their vehicle and went to explain to administrators why it was not on display.

Unaware of the policy regarding shared parking passes, Baich and Jordan were given a violation and had to give up their parking spot and were told they had to purchase two separate parking spots.

Not expecting the punishment they received, Baich and Jordan tried to negotiate with administrators, but the administrative decision did not change.

After attempts at a compromise with the school, the girls have taken matters into their own hands.

“We started a petition because the administrators were not listening to our side of the story,” Baich said.

Baich said the petition has acquired over 480 signatures since its conception. The administration has yet to officially respond to the petition, but they are aware of it.

Assistant Principal Kirti Mehrotra, who oversees the administration of the parking lot, said she expects students to be honest and follow the school policies, even if they do not agree with them.

Mehrotra said the policy is being enforced because Lafayette has enough space in the parking lot for each student to have their own spot and sharing parking passes can be a liability issue.

She said if someone had some type of contraband in a vehicle parked in the lot, the

taking action after the infraction Juniors Kelsey Baich and Caroline Jordan stand with their old parking pass. Baich and Jordan once shared a parking space, but after receiving a parking violation, it became known that they had only purchased one pass. Since then, their pass has been revoked and they were instructed to buy their own parking passes in order to adhere to Lafayette’s parking policy. They have since started a petition to protest this policy. (Photo by Hannah Martin) owner of the car would face discipline along with whoever the contaband belonged to.

She also wants everybody to be happy and treated fairly so the policy will be examined more closely.

“We are looking into it. We have been looking at other Rockwood school policies and it is possible we will change the policy next year, but it will be discussed at semester break,” Mehrotra said.

Some parents are even getting involved, including the parents of junior Noah Robinson, who came in to discuss the policy with

Principal John Shaughnessy.

Robinson was recently disciplined for sharing a parking pass with junior Sean Higgins.

“It is all about money. If Lafayette allowed us to share parking passes, they would lose revenue,” Robinson said.

Robinson also claimed that sharing parking passes will be allowed next semester because of the meeting his parents had with Shaughnessy.

However, Shaughnessy and Mehrotra have both said the current parking policy will

be enforced for the remainder of the school year, but because of the petition created by students, the Lafayette parking policy will be discussed by administrators at semester break.

As of Nov. 18, Baich and Jordan were still trying to have a formal meeting with Associate Principal Karen Calcaterra to present the petition and discuss the possibility of revising the policy.

If the administration decides to change the current parking policy at semester break, students could have the ability to share parking passes starting next school year.

Parking Policies Around the District Lafayette is the only Rockwood school that does not allow shared parking passes. In fact, every other high school encourages or requires students to share. Lafayette parking policy differs from the rest of the Rockwood schools because the parking lot is able to hold a larger number of vehicles than the rest of the schools. Available parking is not an issue at Lafayette, but Eureka, Marquette and Summit encourage students to go about different ways of making it to school.

Eureka High School

Marquette High School

A student must be a current junior having earned a minimum of 12 credits and must share the permit with at least one other licensed student.

Up to three students (juniors and seniors only) will be allowed to share one parking permit.

Rockwood Summit

Seniors & juniors will be able to purchase one parking permit (3 maximum carpoolers to a permit)

stars & gripes Stars: - Turnabout is being replaced by a winter formal this year. Sorry guys, time to come up with another creative way to ask a date to the dance.

- The cold weather is finally settling. Stick a spoon under your pillow, put an orange in the freezer and hope Superintendent Eric Knost will be just as generous with snow days as our previous superintendent, Dr. Terry Adams.

- According to the 2015 Niche rankings, Lafayette places fifth out of 100 “Best Public High Schools” in the St. Louis area. Like we didn’t already know we’re awesome.

Carpooling among students should be encouraged, not prohibited staff ed

Opinions expressed on the editorial pages do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints or official policies of the school administration.

All editorials (unsigned) represent a majority opinion of the Editorial Board. Signed columns, blogs, editorial cartoons and reviews reflect the vies of the author and not necessarily those of the Image Editorial Board.

- Shout out to fall sports teams for dominating this season. Winter sports, the stakes are high.

- The press reported that Peyton Manning was surprised by the Rams win against the Broncos. Really, no one was more surprised than Rams fans.

Gripes: - B&B Theatres now has assigned seating. Because when we want to watch a movie, we don’t want to sit by any of our friends.

- *Coughs* “EBOLA!” says every American under the age of 20.

- Kim Kardashian’s butt. Put some clothes on, please.

- The Republicans have taken over both the House of Representatives and Senate.

Here comes the gridlock.

- The two 109 roundabouts have finally opened. Even though these were supposed to keep traffic moving, all they’ve done is cause more traffic all the way back to Wild Horse Creek Road.

Point Counterpoint

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Over break, the Lafayette administration will review the parking policy that has been challenged.

Recently, a few pairs of students have had their parking passes confiscated for sharing a spot between the two of them.

The policy is in place to keep students who are not related to each other from sharing a parking spot.

So, the administration will discuss the policy over the Winter Break and if they do choose to change it, the change would apply for the 2015-2016 school year.

Here’s why the administration should change the parking policy.

The administration claims the policy as it stands protects students from liability issues. They say it’s the same reason they don’t allow students to share lockers.

If one student brought a questionable item, both students could get in trouble. They don’t want innocent students to get in trouble. We get that.

But let’s look at the other side.

At all three other Rockwood high schools, juniors and seniors are allowed or even required to share a parking spot due to the limited space in the parking lots.

It is considered a privilege to have a parking spot, even if it’s shared.

And they have the same liability policy as Lafayette.

If those students have to face the same liability consequences and are willing to overlook that so they can drive to their school, Lafayette should have the same opportunity.

Besides, the administration’s claim that liability is an issue would

Illustration by: Grant Norfleet apply to anybody who carpools, even siblings.

Beyond liability, sharing a parking pass has numerous economic and environmental benefits. By using one car for two or more people, students can reduce their carbon footprint.

Sharing a pass saves students money by allowing them to split the cost of parking. Using one car can also save money on gas.

Fewer cars also cuts down on the traffic before and after school.

Parents wouldn’t have to worry about crazy student drivers, and

vice versa. Not to mention, fewer cars could mean fewer accidents.

Furthermore, students should be able to trust their friends in sharing a parking spot.

Are we supposed to think that every person we carpool or share a spot with will in fact bring a gun or drugs to school? No. Clearly, the benefits of students sharing a pass far outweigh the risks.

We encourage the administration to make this change as the policy as it stands is illogical and punishes students for being responsible.

Americans support liberal policies but conservative policymakers patrick levine – reporter –

Some people are interpreting the results of this year’s midterm election as a conservative mandate: a definitive statement that the American people have abandoned liberalism and embraced conservative Republican values.

But I beg to differ. Most Americans still support liberal policies, but their frustration with incompetent lawmakers caused them to vote Republican.

The Republican party took control of the Senate for two reasons: a frustrated public and poor messaging on the part of Democratic candidates.

The Republican message this election was simple and effective: We’re not President Obama.

What do you think about stores starting their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day?

In their policies and in their speeches, Republican lawmakers and candidates sought to create a stark contrast between themselves and the President.

When the President said he supported amnesty for immigrants, Republican candidates opposed it.

When the President advocated for a minimum wage increase, Republican lawmakers opposed the very existence of a minimum wage. And their strategy worked.

Americans saw an ineffective government and blamed the President and the Democratic party. In fact, only 13 percent of Americans said they trust the government “always or most of the time,” according to a recent CNN poll.

This distrust and frustration with the federal government reinforced

the Republican principle that our current government is ineffective and incompetent, thus causing frustrated citizens to vote for Republicans.

The Democrats could have mitigated the damage by focusing on the fact that most Americans support liberal policies on issues ranging from economics to gun control.

Recent polls have shown that 73 percent of Americans support a minimum wage increase, 60 percent support raising taxes on the wealthy, 65 percent support a ban on highcapacity magazines for firearms, 55 percent support making gay marriage legal, and 58 percent support making marijuana legal.

South Dakota, Alaska, Arkansas and Nebraska-- all solidly Republican states-- passed ballot initiatives to raise their minimum wage.

is known as a family “timeThanksgiving so in order to spend more time with your family, those stores need to be closed. For an example, I’m a hard worker. Because I work at Papa Murphy’s I want to be able to spend time with my family rather than working on a holiday and I think it should be a time where, if you do have problems within your family, you should use that time to bond with them.

Parker Eskew, 12

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But rather than focusing on their popular policies, most Democrats tried to beat the Republicans at their own game.

In doing so, the Democrats lost sight of their popular policies and hence lost the election.

In short, the Republicans took control of the Senate because they utilized a strategy of opposing the President on every issue. By doing this, congressional Republicans prevented the government from being effective. Democratic candidates helped the Republicans by trying to distance themselves from their own party’s popular policies.

This is the reason that the Republican party took control of Congress, in spite of the fact that most Americans support the policies of the Democrats.

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In my personal opinion, I believe it’s fine for stores to be open the Thursday before for sales, just as long as the salespersons and workers at those stores are able to spend time with their families, they leave at a decent hour and someone can take over for them later in the evening.

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Robert Healy, 12

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Hallways are like roads; stop treating them like one way streets

know WHAT

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I hate being pushed around. And I’m not talking about being told what to do.

I’m talking about being physically pushed: into lockers, into others and onto the ground.

People these days have no respect for hallway etiquette when you run into someone and knock everything they had in their hands down.

The other day I saw a girl drop her phone and as she tried to grab it, two people walked over the phone and almost stepped on her hand.

They clearly saw it; they only exaggerated their step so they didn’t step on her phone.

That, at least, was nice of them.

But they didn’t bother trying to pick it up for her or even move slightly to the left so she could grab it herself. They just kept walking like nothing happened.

They didn’t say a word to her, but just kept walking. I just stared at them for a minute before pausing so the girl could get her phone without fear of being stepped on.

But she’s not the only one who’s fallen victim to the lack of hallway etiquette. I myself have been almost knocked over in an empty hallway I was at my locker in the middle

Jennifer Butler, Opinion Editor

of a class, and two guys were nonchalantly walking around the corner in the senior hallway. My locker isn’t right at an entrance to the hallway or juxtaposed to a corner; both boys had time to see me at my locker.

And yet one of them ran straight into my backpack and caused me to turn almost 180 degrees.

They had the entire hallway and they still managed to run into me. He didn’t even apologize.

The abuse isn’t just physical. If you run into someone, they’ll bite your head off.

I get a dirty look every time I

run into someone in the crowded hallways. Even when I apologize.

Between the people who stand in the middle of the hallway and the people who are in such a hurry to walk to their next class in six minutes, hallway etiquette has essentially ceased to exist.

The hallway is a road, where the cars are people and every intersection has a yield sign.

You’ve got traffic going one way on one side and the opposite on the other. Trying to turn left into another hallway is almost impossible, and when there’s a pause, traffic stops.

There are aggressive drivers and

there are aggressive walkers. These are the ones who will walk over your note cards without pausing to help pick them up; they don’t care if they step on your hand. They seem to think they are the only ones trying to get to class and everyone else in the hallways are simply roadblocks.

At the same time, there are passive drivers and passive walkers.

These are the ones who stop in the middle of the hall to let someone else get through. They stop to talk to their friends and wait for you to pick up your note cards before carrying on.

I believe passive walkers are generally better than the aggressive ones, but not by much.

I hate waiting for one person to figure out when they’re going to squeeze between two groups of people and continue through the hall.

I usually end up pushing them slightly forward to get them to go.

We can’t have everyone waiting for everyone to go, but we can’t all believe our path is the most important thing in the world; just like when a driver thinks it’s okay to cut you off because where they’re headed is so much more important.

We need a balance between the two so that traffic moves but we’re not total jerks to each other.

Popular Opinion #2

#1

What are your plans for Thanksgiving Day? kayley allen – reporter –

“I’m going to visit my aunt and uncle at their farm in Perryville.”

Caroline Karsten, 9

“I plan on having a big meal and spending time with my family at my house.”

Matt Ference, 10

“I’m running in the Turkey Trot downtown.”

Colin Gallaher, 11

Should students be allowed to share parking spots?

Do you think people entering to America from areas with Ebola outbreaks should be quarantined for the first several days?

Your Turn

Yes

No

(75%)

(25%)

“I’ll probably go to Tennesse to see my family and go hunting.”

No (28%) Tucker Vaughan, 12

“We do a big dinner and my familly watches football. We also build a fire and make smores.”

Yes (72%)

#3

*poll of 152 students

*poll of 100 students

Caroline Podgornik, Gifted Education

Rate your stress on a scale of one to five, with five being the most stressed.

1

2

6%

3

10%

4

24%

“Going to Joplin to have dinner with the in laws.”

5 22%

38% Dave Witter, Heatlh

*poll of 100 students

“Taking Roll” By Megan Hardie, Cartoonist Okay, class, today we’ll be learning-

Wait, where is everyone?

Juniors and sopho mores have the ACT, EOC, and PSAT’s

Volleyball is at a tournament, Model UN is at a debate

Half of the school has a cold or flu

Alright, just act like you’re working

And stay off your phones

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Students share impact of online attacks

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The Face Of Bullying Freshman Landon Zechman madison kesselring – reporter –

Q: Tell me about your experience with cyberbullying.

A: Well, I went to Rockwood Valley and not many of the guys there liked me. One night, I went to my friend’s Halloween party. We were rockstars, so we both wore heavy eyeliner and makeup. I posted a picture on my Instagram. I got so many hate comments and reports that I was actually asked by Instagram to take it down.

Q: Was there any particular moment that was the worst. Describe it.

A: When people began to give me death threats. That was the worst because it wasn’t just all over social media, it was to my face. I’ve heard it all: fag, homo, loser. I hate those words.

Q: How did you respond to the bullying both online and in person?

A: I fell of the face of the earth. I left Rockwood, and according to my friend, everyone thought I was dead.

Q: How did your parents react?

A: I didn’t tell them immediately what exactly had happened because I like to handle things on my own.

Q: When did you tell your parents and how did you convince them to let you move schools?

A: The comments on the photo and the death threats sealed the deal for me. I told my parents and left. I knew it wouldn’t be the last they [the bulliers] saw of me, but I needed time to regroup and find myself again. After the incident, I left Rockwood in October of 8th Grade to do online schooling. This year is my first year back in school.

Q: As a result of what happened, did you consider deleting social media?

A: I didn’t delete any of my social media. I did delete the photo off of Instagram, but I still have it saved.

Q: Has the cyberbullying continued?

A: No, but I also don’t let it. I stopped posting things for a little while, but I also stopped responding to comments and would delete them immediately.

Q: Did you know the people that were bullying you?

A: Yes, they all went to Rockwood Valley, and they all go here.

Q: If you could say one thing to the people who bullied you, what would you say?

A: I would say to them that what they did to me has only made me a stronger person and a better person.

Q: What have you learned from the experience?

A: I have become a stronger person. Overall, the experience was negative, but it had positive effects. I don’t let much get me down, and I’m proud of who I am.

Q: What advice would you give to people are being bullied?

A: Don’t give up. Keep fighting because you can overcome anything. Just hold on.

Sophomore Elaina Creighton

Q: Tell me about your experience with cyberbullying.

A: Well, freshman year I got an Ask.fm*.

It wasn’t directly after I got it, but probably a couple months after, all these “questions” started popping up. They were calling me dirty names and saying I slept around, but at that point I hadn’t even kissed a guy, so it was obnoxious but still hurtful.

Q: Was there any particular moment that was the worst?

A: At the time, I was dating a boy who was a few years older than me. So, the more I read, the more I began to believe. I figured that if there were that many people saying those things about me, it had to be true.

Q: Did you ever find out who it was?

A: No, but I had my suspicions. I never confronted them about it though because I found it to be too accusatory. I just kind of let it go.

Q: Is that the furthest the bullying went?

A: Thankfully, yes. However, a lot of my friends had the exact same thing happen to them. Many of them took it really hard. I tried not to let it get to me, but honestly, there were a few times I was brought to tears.

Q: When did the bullying stop?

A: I’m not sure exactly when the bullying stopped [for my friends], but for me it really ended when I became comfortable enough with myself that I didn’t believe the things they were saying. After that point it didn’t really matter what others said because I knew it wasn’t true, so I stopped responding to them and stopped using my Ask. Q: How do you feel about the anonymity?

A: In a way, I feel bad for them because if you’re too scared to tell me what you think of me to my face, that just means that you’re not comfortable with yourself. Honestly, I would be fine if someone told me what they thought of me, but if you’re hiding behind a computer screen, that speaks to your character, not mine.

Q: If you could say one thing to your bullier(s), what would it be?

A: Even if it feels harmless because you’re hiding behind a screen, it hurts just as much, maybe even more, as it would if you told them in person. If you wouldn’t say it to their face, don’t say it online, especially anonymously.

Q: What did you gain from this experience?

A: It’s weird, but I did gain some self confidence. I realized that I can be whoever I want to be, and this person doesn’t dictate that.

Q: What advice do you give to those who are currently the bullier or being bullied?

A: People who bully and say harmful things online are the ones that truly need the help. They feel insecure. For those who are being bullied, just remember that even though words hurt, they don’t last forever, and you have the choice to be whoever you want to be. *Ask.fm is a social networking site where users can invite questions from other users on the site or from anonymous users. The site was launched on June 16, 2010.

photo illustrations by Hannah Martin

Students work to prevent cyberbullying by joining #Startswithus campaign garrett mcbay – reporter –

Earlier this year, multiple schools from around St. Louis county collaborated with each other to create the Character Council, a group of students focusing on social media to stop cyberbullying.

The Character Council was created at a CharacterPlus seminar early this fall. Participants from schools across St. Louis County including Ladue, Lafayette, Lindbergh, Melville and others came together to create a hashtag. “#Startswithus was created to raise awareness for cyberbullying.

“We are a group of people who promote anti-bullying both in school and online,” Anna Casey, junior and member of Character Council, said. “Its not just a hashtag, it really does start with us, one person at a time.”

On Oct. 16, the student members from Lafayette, seniors Jordan Miller, Sarah Rao, Jack Rogan, juniors Anna Casey, Chris Foley, Katie Hansen and sophomores Marlo McElroy and Franco Noseda, began to clip students from around the school with clothespins with “#Startswithus” written on them.

Afterwards, the people who were clipped posted photos of themselves on social media with the clips, then continued to pass the

clothespins on to other people. “[All of the participating schools] launched off the program with the clothespins. We got about 20 percent of our school’s population pinned in the day. After the day, there were over 4,000 tweets with the ‘#Startswithus’,” Mandy Lewis, assistant principal and member of the Character Council, said.

Earlier this year, the Character Council held a survey to get information from students around the school to see how they have been affected by cyberbullying. The Council will hold the same survey later this year to view how well their efforts affected cyberbullying at Lafayette.

“It was basically questions of people’s experience of social media,” Lewis said. “Did they experience cyber bullying? Did they see cyberbullying? Had they ever bullied anyone or been a victim? That’s what we wanted to find out.”

The Character Council will be using this information for a summit they will be attending Feb. 10, where they, along with the other councils from the other schools, will be presenting how well their initiative fought cyberbullying.

“We hope by focusing on social media that our message will spread and drive the point home,” Chris Foley, junior and Character Council member, said.

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Publications staffs attend national convention; combine work and touring in nation’s capitol

Nineteen members of the publications staff attended the Journalism Education Association/ National Scholastic Press Association (JEA/ NSPA) Fall High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C. from Nov. 5-8.

The annual convention is held in a different city every year and generally between 12-24 LHS students attend.

At the convention, the students got to choose from over 300 learning sessions over a two day period where they learned from professional journalists and journalism teachers from around the country.

Sessions ranged from writing tips, to coverage ideas to design tips. In addition, there were sessions on photography, social media and digital media.

“The most interesting session I attended was ‘Humans in Your School’ which played off of ‘Humans of New York’ to teach different interviewing tactics. It taught us to really appreciate and utilize the idea that everyone has a unique story,” Madison Kesselring, Image staff member said.

But it wasn’t just all work. Along with taking classes, students got a chance to explore D.C. They toured the Newseum, a three-story museum dedicated to media and journalism and went on a day-long tour of the area that included stops at a variety of monuments and museums as well as Mount Vernon (George Washington’s home).

In addition, they had a three-hour Monuments by Moonlight tour.

Digital staff member, junior, Logan Jordan said his favorite was the Lincoln Memorial. “All

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the lights on it made it really shine against the dark night.”

For senior Rachael Krajewski, staff bonding was the highlight of the trip.

“I loved getting to know my fellow publication staff members somewhere outside of school. They’re all super groovy,” she said.

Over 6,200 students attended the convention where the Image also entered this year’s October edition of the newspaper into the “Best in Show” category for tabloid-sized newspapers that are 16 or fewer pages.

A team of judges from around the country spend Saturday morning evaluating all of the entries and award Best in Show honors to the top ten.

The Image received second place in their category.

Publications Adviser Nancy Smith said, “It is an amazing honor. The highest we have ever placed before was eighth. And, the fact that this was one of the largest conventions means we had to compete against many more schools. I am so proud of the staff.”

Along with the “Best in Show” award, last year’s cartoonist, Kourtney Wahl, won an honorable mention in the NSPA’s Cartoon of the Year Awards.

Smith was also honored at the JEA Luncheon when she was named a Distinguished Adviser by the Dow Jones New Fund. She was one of four in the nation to be recognized.

(Above) On Tour Mem-

bers of digital media, newspaper and yearbook gather for a group photo at Mt. Vernon while sightseeing in the Washington, D.C. area (photo courtesy of Lisa Donovan)

(Left) Award Winner The Image placed second in the “Best of Show” competition for newspapers that printed a tabloid size with 16 or fewer pages.

The contest is sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and was open to all the schools that attended the convention.

Visit lhsimage.com for video coverage of the convention

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OUTSIDE OUR BUBBLE Members of the Image staff attended the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C. from Nov. 5-8. At the convention, the staff spoke to students from around the country about their opinions of Missouri in light of recent events in Ferguson. hannah martin

megan rigabar

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For me personally, it just kind of struck home on how far we actually have come on the issue of racism. It might start in Ferguson, but that doesn’t mean for instance that is specifically that lynch pin. It might just be the start of unveiling more events.”

– Ivana Jiang, high school journalist from Cincinnati, OH

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I visited Missouri about a month ago.

I was really inspired by all these people that actually went out and did something about what was happening in Ferguson. Although you’re expecting what happened to change my view in a negative way, it’s actually the other way around. I like the fact that people went out and supported the cause by protesting in Ferguson.”

– Dan Sicorsky, high school journalist from Miami, FL

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Missourians themselves have felt the repercussions of events in Ferguson in a more personal way than people from outside states.

Senior Alaina Strollo, who attended the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C., said she did have an experience where she felt as though she was being judged based on where she lives.

“When I was making small talk with another girl, I mentioned to her that I was from St. Louis, and she said, ‘St. Louis?’ with a shocked expression, as if there were a war going on,” Strollo said.

Kirkwood High School students, too, have begun feeling stereotyped by non-Missourians simply based on their Missouri hometown.

“I was at the Wizards game on Wednesday (Nov. 5) and we met some people from Indiana. We told them we were from St. Louis and the first thing they said was ‘Oh, that’s where the riots are happening,’” Reese Anderson, a high school journalist from Kirkwood, said.

For some, the changing perception of Missourians results from media coverage of Ferguson.

“I think that everyone other than people from St. Louis have seen the media and how dramatized and exaggerated it is. They focus on the negatives like the QuikTrip. Other people don’t know how its only been a few nights of violence,” Allison Hubbard, a Kirkwood student, said.

In fact, some Kirkwood students took part the protests and can attest to the frustration of protesters.

“We had people in our school at the protests. They were tired that [no one] was listening to them anymore and they knew it would get into the media. They were doing whatever they could to be heard,” Alyssa Pope, Kirkwood student, said.

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“I have a lot of close friends who live [in St. Louis] and they always talked about how St. Louis has the second highest crime rate. They’ve been saying it as a joke but now there’s a face to that issue. With all the media attention, people are just looking for ways to spark the event again and get the media to get back out there and cover the situation.”

– Maddie Weikel, high school journalist from Cincinnati, OH

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“I didn’t really think about Missouri before. Obviously the police system was corrupt from what I’ve seen but it hasn’t really changed my perspective because it could have happened anywhere. We’re from Knoxville and that could have happened there.”

– Kaitlyn Marlo, high school journalist from Knoxville, TN

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Nov. 21, 2014

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We Don’t Eat Meat

Many causes unite growing vegetarian dietary movement, but what all vegetarians have in common is they have found a way to put into practice their beliefs Houska’s love of animals leads to her dietary choices mary adcock

purchasing makeup and other products that have not been tested on Senior Breana Houska animals. is a vegetarian because of A few brands that her animal rights beliefs. practice this are The “I became a vegetarian Body Shop, Burt’s Bees because as I got older I and Dr. Bronner’s. learned about all the cruShe also occasionelty in the meat industry ally volunteers at a noand how terribly the way kill animal shelter in St. the animals are treated. It’s Charles, the Five Acres also better for the environAnimal Shelter. ment and I think eating a No-kill shelters do dead animal is honestly not euthanize animals gross,” Houska said. and care for animals unThe American Society til a home can be found Animal shelter volunteer for the Prevention of Crufor them.

Breana Houska volunteers at Five Acres elty to Animals (ASPCA) Volunteers help by Animal Shelter in St. Charles. She played reports that the types of with the shelter’s cats after feeding. (photo cleaning the animals cruelty include factory and their cages, feedcourtesy of Breana Houska). farms. These are large, ing and playing with the industrial operations that raise large numbers of animals, as well as helping with fundraising, animals for food. adoptions, answering phones in the shelter, The focus of these factory farms is quantity staffing the gift shop and adopting/fostering over quality, so approximately 10 billion factory pets themselves. farm animals live in cramped pens, sheds and “I don’t push my opinions or lifestyles on cages and have few standards of welfare in the other people but I am more than happy to form of law, practices and other regulations. enlighten people about what happens to the Houska also protects animal rights by animals they eat,” Houska said.

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Definitions: Vegetarian: a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish or fowl, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, dairy products, nuts, grain, etc.

Vegan: a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.

(Source: dictionary.com)

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Vegetarian cites religion, environmental issues as concerns mary adcock – reporter –

Vini Madapoosi, senior, has been a vegetarian her whole life.

“My parents are [vegetarian] for religious reasons. Hindus don’t eat beef or cow,” Madapoosi said.

Hindus are not universally vegetarian, but the cow is seen as sacred, causing many to avoid eating cow or meat altogether.

The largely Hindu population of India, where Madapoosi’s family is from, has many laws respecting cows, including the law prohibiting the killing of cows.

Cows are valued by Hindus because the god Krishna was a cowherder in Hindu texts, and cows are seen as symbolic of life and Earth.

Nonviolence is also treasured in Indian religions, including Buddhism and Jainism, another reason Indian culture values vegetarianism.

Madapoosi’s diet largely consists of Indian food because of her heritage.

“I eat beans, legumes and proteins from there and rice and vegetables,” Madapoosi said.

A majority of the food she eats is

prepared at home, including the lunch she brings to school because she feels school and restaurants are not as vegetarian Indian cuisine This is a thali plate, with friendly as Indian chapathi tortillas in the foods are. center and a variety Enviof side dishes. Vini Madapoosi’s family eats ronmental benefits of Indian food regularly. veg(photo courtesy of Vini etarianism Madapoosi). have also supported her reasons for continuing to practice vegetarianism.

According to the United Nations (UN) in 2006, gas production from livestock contributed 18 percent to climate change because of the methane and nitrate production from livestock wastes.

This pollutes water as well as air.

Livestock farms also contribute to

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deforestation because land is cleared for the farms.

Less land and water are involved in the growth of vegetarian foods than with livestock farms. Conservation of both are important to consider with the increasing world population that requires more land, water and food.

A 1997 study by Cornell University found that about 32 acres of land in the United States were used for vegetables, rice, fruit, potatoes and beans while about 726 acres were used for livestock farming.

Additionally, producing a pound each of potatoes, wheat, corn and rice utilizes about 565 pounds of water while four pounds of beef uses about 79,200 pounds of water to produce, according to vegetarian author John Robbins.

For those considering vegetarianism, Madapoosi suggests taking vitamins and supplements such as calcium to reduce health complications such as anemia and vertigo from lack of appropriate nutrients like vitamin B-12, vitamin D, calcium, zinc and occasionally riboflavin, which can all also be found in other food sources.

Exercise for health Courtney Klohmann participates in rowing at Creve Couer Lake. (photo courtesy of Courtney Klohmann)

Student athlete puts her health first in making choices about her food intake mary adcock – reporter –

Courtney Klohmann, sophomore, is a vegan turned vegetarian. She became a vegan for health reasons.

Health benefits of balanced vegetarian and vegan diets are lower risk for obesity, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and cancer because of the typical increase in antioxidants and fiber and decrease in saturated fats and cholesterol in their diets.

Other ways Klohmann maintains her health is through exercise. She participates in lacrosse and rowing, and formerly cheerleading.

Klohmann also saw becoming a vegan as a challenge and a goal.

“I didn’t think I could do it, so I

tried,” she said.

However the sparse options in popular foods eventually got to Klohmann.

“I couldn’t go out to eat. I literally got nothing and it got really annoying,” Klohmann said.

This summer, she went into septic shock, which is a potentially lethal drop in blood pressure due to the presence of bacteria in the blood.

“I was told it would be easier to recover if I was no longer vegan, so I stopped,” Klohmann said.

Klohmann still eats similarly as a vegetarian today.

“You’d have to eat a lot of beans and take vitamins [as a vegan]. I still take vitamins and eat a lot of beans,” she said.

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Nov. 21, 2014

10 life

Too Stressed To Handle

Studies show teenagers are most stressed out age group bryan woode – reporter –

Teenagers are among the most stressed group of people in the nation. Results from the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Stress In America survey shows that individuals ages 18-33 tend to experience more stress on average than any other age group in the U.S. The levels of stress in teens has increasing to unhealthy levels and compares to stress experienced in adults.

High school students have many stressors in their life that are sometimes overwhelming such as school life, family, relationships and more.

“Freshmen and seniors generally experience more stress because they are both in transition,” Director of Guidance Marybeth Desloge said.

Her reasoning for freshmen is they don’t know what to expect and have to adjust to a new school environment. For the seniors, she said they have to deal with work, college preparation, extracurricular activities and a lot of homework.

Stress in teens primarily revolves around school, social life, and lifestyle according to an American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) report.

Many students are concerned with achieving high scores on tests, good grades, meeting high expectations, balancing school with outside activities/work, relationships and more.

“I feel like it’s not always stressful, but it does get stressful at times when it’s hard to balance everything at once,” Alexandrea Ingram, senior, said.

Everyday after school, Ingram goes to ROTC drill practice. After that she either goes to work at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Sweetie Pies or she babysits. “When it’s time to get things done, the stress goes away once you get used to it,” Ingram said.

If these stressors accumulate, they can lead to physiological symptoms (upset stomach, headache, insomnia, etc.) that negatively affect performance at school, work and other activities.

Joshua Waitsman, junior, feels overwhelmed with his schedule.

“At times, it’s really stressful and I’m always worried how i’m going to get the next thing done,” Waitsman said.

Waitsman is a very busy student. Monday through Thursday each week, he goes to ROTC drill practice for about an hour. After drill practice on Mondays and Tuesdays he goes to a Boy Scout meeting until 8 p.m.

He also works two days a week and practices for sports twice a week. Year round, he plays baseball, soccer and football.

Waitsman goes to other clubs such as Investment Club and Player’s Guild. In addition, he takes two Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

Overwhelming stress can also lead to anxiety. Anxiety can cause individuals to have irregular sleeping and eating patterns, irrational fears, excessive nervousness and more.

Although everyone mildly experiences anxiety from time to time, it can become more severe if it’s excessive and interferes with normal life.

Anxiety can evolve into disorder if it carries on too long. There are many types of disorders that are very severe. If anxiety is a disorder, students should seek medicine or therapy.

“Students should practice relaxation techniques, listen to soothing music...exercise, practice what they’re worried about and have positive thinking,” Desloge said.

Throughout the daily lives of high school students, there are many responsibilities and situations that can be very stressful to deal with. These stressful situations can serve as a preparation for the real world.

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Going The Distance To Learn A New Culture Thomsen traveled from her home in Hamburg, Germany to experience the culture of America

kayley allen – staff reporter–

For most, the idea moving over 4,000 miles away from your family for 10 months is incomprehensible. It’s reality for sophomore Kira Thomsen.

“I came from my home, which is close to Hamburg, Germany, but I was born in Switzerland,” Thomsen said.

Thomsen arrived in early August and will be staying with her host family and attending Lafayette until the end of the school year. She will go back home in early June.

“I wanted new experiences, and to learn the language and to just say to myself, ‘I can do it’,” Thomsen said.

Though she was eager to experience a new part of the world, her parents weren’t thrilled about the idea.

“I’ve been wanting to do this since I was 9 years old, but it took a lot to ask my parents to let me do this. I came to my parents, and at first they said no, but then I collected information and they could tell this was something I really wanted to do. Finally, they said yes,” Thomsen said.

After convincing her parents, she had to find an organization to make this possible.

“One year ago I made a list of organizations, and I chose International Experience. I wrote them an application and I had to pass an English test that determined if my English was

good enough. I got accepted, and they found a host family for me,” Thomsen said.

She also had to travel to Berlin to obtain her Visa. After this, she was able to travel to America.

“The first week here was hard because I was really jet lagged, I was in a culture shock and I missed my family terribly. It got better though,” she said.

Thomsen turned to the comfort provided by her host family.

“My host family has been nice from the beginning. I have two brothers and one sister, but she’s in college so I don’t see her that much. They’ve been really open from the beginning. They’re always willing to help me and my host brother showed me around the school,” Thomsen said.

Adjusting to a completely new country, culture and people can be very overwhelming.

“In the United States, everything is bigger.

This high school is much bigger than my school in Germany. In my school there, there were only about 200 people in the whole school,” Thomsen said.

Though the school is bigger, she still has found new ways to help keep up with her school work.

“You can talk to the teachers here a lot more and you can stay after school and get help. It’s a lot better here than in Germany. I also like that you can choose your classes here,” she said.

Thomsen was also forced to face all of the

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“Not everyone is fat. And no one here wears cowboy hats every day. You Americans do have a lot of ice in your drinks though,” she said.

Other everyday things that seem normal to Americans have also amazed Thomsen, such as the idea of take-out food.

“I think it’s strange how you can go to a restaurant, pick up food, and take it home. In Germany, you go in a restaurant and actually eat it there,” Thomsen said.

Though a lot of cultural differences have taken time to get used to, she has been welcomed by the Lafayette community with open arms.

“The people here are all really nice to me.

Just as nice as my friends in Germany. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m foreign, but right now everyone is really nice,” she said.

Thomsen is currently enrolled in French III. “I think French, for Americans, is probably slightly harder than Spanish because the

pronunciation is harder, but I think that Spanish gets trickier a lot faster if you’re learning grammar. Compared to some of the other languages such as Chinese or Japanese, French is a whole lot easier,” Gina Luerding-Looting, French 3 teacher, said.

Though it may seem rare to some, Luerding claims Thomsen isn’t the first to be learning a foreign language in another foreign language.

“I’ve had students from Germany and Croatia. I’ve also had some students from Argentina and other places that weren’t necessarily exchange students, but they moved here and were trying to learn both French and English.

So no, she’s not the first at Lafayette to have done this,” Luerding said.

Still, Thomsen has shown dedication.

“I think that it’s really amazing. If you put yourself in her position, it’s like if you were to go to France and learn German, or Spanish, or any other language other than your own and the culture that you’re in,” Luerding said.

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My Opinion: The UNC Phony Class Scandal

Free passes for students provides lesson all schools, athletes should learn from ben rachell

– sports editor – In recent weeks, information has been released claiming that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) had at least 3,100 students that were given “paper classes.”

“Paper classes” were rogue courses given that students could take in order to boost their GPA without actually having to do anything.

Many of the students found in connection to the phony classes were athletes who couldn’t maintain their grades.

Athletic participation was resulting in educational shortfallings, something that any school that supports the best educational interest of their students doesn’t like to have appear on their resume.

In an effort to improve their GPA, the “easy A” seminars were overlooked in order to increase the graduation rate and keep athletes who would otherwise be benched, playing.

The handout courses students were given by a handful of the teachers were with dealt in sympathy, so that they could pass the standards the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) holds.

The controversy lies in the fact that these classes that were offered not only didn’t meet NCAA standards, but they didn’t hold any educational value.

The courses that were presented to students didn’t help them and were implemented to influence the success of the athletics department.

Unfortunately, with these revelations, a

school’s reputation that was once prided and highly regarded, has been damaged severely.

Positive influence and exceptional education that once stood front and center, has been stripped bare from the allegations.

The new 131 page report was sent over to the NCAA and the reviewing process is currently underway.

The question that comes to mind now is the validity of their basketball titles. In 1995, 2005 and 2009, the university won national championships in basketball.

Those titles could potentially be in jeopardy.

When this report was originally released several years ago, it only highlighted a single professor.

But with the new report, many more people were mentioned including counselors, teachers and coaches alike.

A similar scenario would be as if the faculty of Lafayette collectively bound together to help less academically gifted students get free passes, just so they could do well in their sports and make money for the team. That goes against many educators philosophy.

Activities Director Steve Berry has concerns regarding this practice.

“I mean immediately, you have to step back and look and obviously there is a difference between high school and college in terms of different benefits and rules that we operate under. That being said, what doesn’t change is that they are both educational institutions,” Berry said.

Berry feels that sacrificing academic integrity for athletics is wrong.

“Athletics, while they are a part of the expe-

rience at the college level especially, are a way to fund many athletes to actually participate at those schools. To then turn around and make the athletic portion greater than the academic portion is not proper,” Berry said.

Everyone can agree that cheating in order to pass a class is the wrong thing to do, but should these college athletes who have a legitimate shot at playing professional sports even care?

Professional athletes are getting paid at a rate that is enormous compared to many jobs they could get with degrees.

Essentially, they have financial security.

The reality of it is very simple: do the athletes wish to better themselves from an educational standpoint or would they rather be satisfied with academic complacency?

“Athletes need to decide this for themselves. [The athlete] should be able to decide that himself. Because he may say ‘I’m going to make enough money that my kids are going to be taken care of, and I’m okay with just finishing my career and just existing.’ But there are so many others that want that next step,” Berry said.

Unfortunately, for the vast majority of college athletes who don’t continue on into the realm of professional sports, you could argue that they are setting themselves up for failure in the future.

In order to survive financially, they need to find a profitable interest.

Therefore, schools must place education above athletics. Future professional athletes should reserve the right to be able to decide their path for themselves.

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Nov. 21, 2014

14 sports

Boys soccer kicked out by Vianney Expectations were high for the boys soccer team coming into the season. After a loss in Districts last year against Eureka, the team was looking to go a step beyond.

The Lancers started off decently enough, going 5-4-1 in their first 10 games. The team then alternated between wins, losses and ties until the end, finishing the regular season with a solid 12-6-1 record.

The playoff run started strong with a 1-0 win against the Kirkwood Pioneers. However, it ended soon after that in the District championship, as the Lancers fell to Vianney, 2-0.

Despite the loss in the playoffs, senior goalkeeper Brendan Carnahan said the team still put up a great season.

“We anticipated a good year and, regardless of the defeat in districts, a winning record is something I know we are proud of,” Carnahan said.

Carnahan also pinned the success of the

team this year on their improvements from last year’s squad.

“Letting up goals was a problem last year for sure. We had a solid defense this year,” he said.

Talking individual players, senior Connor Schene and junior Chris Roggenburg were the two dominant forces in the points department, with 14 and 13, respectively. Schene also finished second in assists with four, only trailing junior Colton Boone, who had five.

No matter what sport, losing senior leadership on a team in between seasons can be an absolute killer.

Carnahan hopes the incoming seniors can get the job done. “Putting in hard work is an absolute must to fill in the gaps left by us. They [incoming seniors] will have a young team but honestly, that youth will help them in the long run,” he said.

-by Seth Boester, Asst. Sports Editor

Football puts up solid effort in Districts Going into the season, the Lancer football team knew they would face an uphill battle.

“When we saw our schedule at the end of last season, we didn’t think we were going to win anything,” Brian Boyd, senior, said.

It didn’t help that the team started off the season 0-3.

However, in spite of these initial difficulties, the Lancers kept fighting, winning four games in a row.

“Our team got better every week,” Head Coach Boyd Manne said. “I was proud of the effort they put forth.”

They finished the regular season 4-5, with a 26-23 loss to McCluer North on Homecoming night, but they bounced back in the playoffs.

“We did way better than we expected,” Boyd said.

After beating Mehlville in the first round, the Lancers faced the Eureka Wildcats in the District semifinal just one day after the death

of their teammate, sophomore Noah Cook.

After an emotional three-hour-long battle, the Lancers prevailed, 40-35.

Sadly, the season came to a close in the District Championship game, where the Lancers lost to the Kirkwood Pioneers, 56-9.

Quarterback Cameron Scales finished his senior year with 1,938 passing yards, 19 touchdowns and nine interceptions.

Senior Justin Perry led the team in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, with 690 and six, respectively.

Closing out the offensive stats, senior Boyd, despite only being third on the team in receiving yards (611), led in receiving touchdowns with 10.

On the defensive side of the ball, seniors Marquise McClendon and Drake Dunker led the team in sacks with 7 a piece, while senior Luke Finder ended with 105 tackles.

-by Patrick Levine, reporter

Girls golf qualifies two for State While not putting up a record setting or championship caliber season, the varsity girls golf team still managed to prove that they have a presence in the Suburban West Conference.

The Lady Lancers got off to a strong start, winning their first match up against Northwest and Seckman.

Throughout the rest of the season, the squad stayed in most of their meets, and while some of the losses, like at the Rockwood Quad, were tough, they still showed that they could compete with some of the elite schools in the area, such as Nerinx Hall, Villa Duchesne and Visitation.

Marquette especially seemed to be an interesting case with the team in every meet that they faced each other.

“We are always neck and neck with them, winning or losing only by a few [points] each time,” senior Sarah Madej said.

While the team ended up being eliminated

by Marquette in Districts, that didn’t stop senior Sammi Charpentier and junior Mindy Hennrich from advancing out of Sectionals and qualifying for State, where they ended placing 23rd and 65th, respectively.

In the absence of two team captains going into next year, Madej and Charpentier, Madej believes the remaining team shouldn’t have much to worry about.

She said, “Leaving the team in Mindy’s [Hennrich] hands, I have plenty of hope that they will be fine and continue to keep our stats high.”

-by Seth Boester, Asst. Sports editor

The Lady Lancers softball team had high expectations going into the 2014 season.

“We expected to do pretty well,” junior Jenny Kohl said.

“I was expecting 15 plus victories,” Coach Scott DeNoyer said. “We were a very good team.”

And indeed they were. They finished the regular season 17-3, ranking number one in the city toward the end of the season.

But the season was not without its struggles. The Lancers occasionally struggled to produce offensively, and inclement weather towards the end of the season threw a wrench in their practice routine.

“We had a good defense but we needed to be able to hit really well,” Kohl said.

“Rain was our biggest obstacle at the end of the year,” DeNoyer said. “We got stuck inside for a few days in a row. If I had it to do over again I would have incorporated some live hitting off pitchers to help stay sharp.”

As they entered the playoffs, the Lancers expected to continue their success in spite of the rain.

They started off the Districts with a solid 3-1 win over Northwest High School.

Four days later, on Oct. 15, they faced the

WIldcats of Eureka in the District championship game.

The Wildcats jumped out to an early lead with a two-run home run in the top of the first inning, and the Lancers never recovered, losing 5-0.

“Honestly, we beat ourselves,” Assistant Coach Ashley Lewis said. “We didn’t have any errors, but we didn’t score.”

The loss left the team feeling disappointed, in spite of their regular season performance.

“We didn’t overcome the obstacle [Eureka] but we played well during the regular season, we just didn’t continue that into the postseason,” Kohl said.

“We had a goal in mind and we fell short,” Lewis said.

But the Lancers remain hopeful for next year, despite the fact that they lose some key seniors, including Maddie Siefert, the teams main starting pitcher and leading hitter.

“I expect our returning players to continue the tradition of working hard in the off season,” DeNoyer said. “I know we will have a new group of Seniors wanting to do all they can to have a successful season.”

-by Patrick Levine, reporter

Softball strikes out in postseason

Top sPin win Caroline Pozo returns a serve in a team match against Ladue High School. Pozo recently won the Class 2 Girls State Championship, and didn’t lose a single set throughout the entire season. (photo by Ariana Catalano)

Pozo pulls off perfect season patrick levine – sports reporter –

Sophomore Caroline Pozo won the Class 2 girls tennis State championship.

She defeated her championship match opponent, Risa Takenaka, 6-4, 6-2 to become the first Lancer to win a singles title since Gabriela Demos won the title in 2008.

Head Coach Donna Stauffer said she didn’t lose a single set all year.

“It was an accomplishment for me after getting second last year,” Pozo said. “It felt good to do better.”

Pozo attended St. Joseph’s Academy her freshman year, where she took second place in state and received the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Player of the Year award.

She transferred to Lafayette when her family

moved into the Lafayette school boundaries.

“I knew how to beat her because I played her last year,” Pozo said of Takenaka.

Pozo also made First Team All-Conference.

Senior Abby Carpenter made Second Team All-Conference, and the doubles team of Pozo and Carpenter made First Team All-Conference.

Carpenter also set the Lafayette record for most singles wins in a career.

Stauffer was pleased with the team’s overall performance.

“We won our Conference for the fifth year in a row and lost in the final District Team match,” she said.

“We did very well, given that we graduated our #1, #2, #4 and #5 players from last year.

The Lancer’s were knocked out of the playoffs in the District championship by the Marquette Mustangs, 5-3.

McCool dives into first State title Seth Boester

– sports reporter – Let’s just say the Lancers had a pretty solid year. Coming into the season, expectations were high for the boys swimming and diving team.

They delivered, as the team managed to tie for 10th place at the State Championships.

Junior Aaron Chang said this success was mainly due to the immense talent on the team.

“We have a pretty diverse squad, with great distance swimmers, speedsters, and a good spread between each of the four strokes,” he said.

Individually, the team put out some great swimmers this year. “[Senior] Michael Murphy has been a really great leader. Also, [senior] John Wilmsen is practically a fish,” Chang said.

As far as problems, he didn’t feel that there were many this season.

“We knew our opponents and what we were up against and we just stepped up our swimming,” Chang said.

While the team as a whole had quite the successful season, nothing topped the performance that junior Matt McCool put up, placing first at the State diving championship.

McCool knew the competition would be tough.

“The guy who got second actually placed first last year and the year before that. His school [Rockhurst] has always been full of tough competition,” he said.

Looking ahead to next year, McCool hopes he can have a repeat of this season.

“I‘m just trying to replicate what I did this year, come back as hungry as I can be,” McCool said.

He also has a younger brother who will be

Taking the plunge Matt McCool prepares to dive in the one-meter State diving championships. McCool would go on to win the event. (photo courtesy of Interstate Studios) coming into high school next year.

McCool is unsure how his brother will transition into Lancer swimming and diving.

“Who knows how that will go,” he said.

While many teams have to endure the hardships that come with a leaving senior class, Chang believes this shouldn’t be a problem for the Lancers.

“Even without them [seniors], we are still pretty strong. The junior class is really good, to say the least. It also helps that there are a lot of us,” he said.

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Dynasty.

Volleyball Royalty The varsity girls volleyball team poses in line after beating St. Joseph’s, winning their fourth State championship in a row. After losing to St. James Academy on Sept. 20, the Lady Lancers went undefeated up until their championship victory. (photo by Jordan Lundquist)

Girls volleyball wins State championship for fourth consecutive year seth boester

– assistant sports editor – To say that the girls volleyball team had a solid season would be a complete understatement.

After winning State three years in a row, one would think the Lady Lancers dynasty could be over. Not this year.

Losing a sizeable senior class, one that was the deciding factor in the championship run last year, fans weren’t sure how the girls would fare this season.

“We had several haters throughout the season. Some of them didn’t expect us to do much,” junior Taryn Griffey said.

She also noted some of the doubting may have been caused by the lack of complete chemistry during the beginning of the season.

“We were still trying to get used to each other,” Griffey said.

The Lady Lancers got off to a solid start, going 12-7 in their first 19 games. A hot streak then began as the squad went undefeated up until their win at State against St. Joseph’s (the team had two ties along the way), finishing with a record of 27-7-2.

Head coach Zach Young believes the team couldn’t have gotten this far without the improved camaraderie of the squad.

“We didn’t rely on just one or two good players. We had to all click in order to accomplish what we did this year,” Young said.

That’s not to say that there weren’t any standout individual performances this season.

Senior libero (specialized defensive player) Tori Roe finished her final season with an astonishing 550 digs.

Ending her career with 1095, Roe is currently on the top five all-time records list for digs at Lafayette.

Meanwhile, junior Alayna Martin finished ninth in the State in assists with 720.

Rounding it off, junior Amanda Beaton and senior Amanda Noel both finished seasons with a solid number of kills, with 235 and 211, respectively.

As far as obstacles in the season went, the Lady Lancers didn’t have many to deal with.

“We really didn’t have any serious problems” Young said.

Young also wanted the girls to not be pressured by the team that came before them, and realize that each year is new and different.

“I want them to try and make their own legacy,” he said.

With the change into the next season comes

the changing of the old guard to the new. The team will be losing seven seniors next year, some of whom have had major leadership roles.

“The seniors made a huge impact this year.

It’s going to feel vacant without them,” Griffey said.

Young believes this shouldn’t be a problem going into next season.

“The seniors graduating have done an outstanding job showing the younger players how to go about their business as varsity volleyball players,” Young.

He hopes the underclassmen will step it up by the time next season comes around.

“We had several juniors and a sophomore on varsity this year that we are looking to step into those leadership positions,” Young said.

Could we be seeing a potential five-peat in the near future? Only time will tell.

Boys cross country wins State title, girls place second Field Hockey has seth boester winning season, but hopes to improve – assistant sports editor –

The boys cross country team won the State team title, with juniors Dylan Quisenberry, Devin Meyrer and Alec Haines taking fourth, seventh and tenth respectively, and sophomore Austin Hindman leading the team with a third place finish.

Expectations were cautiously optimistic going into this year after last year’s third place finish. Head coach Sean O’Connor knew that the team had potential.

“We finished third in State last year and had everyone coming back this year so we knew it was possible to win state,” Coach Sean O’Connor said. “At the same time, you never know what other teams are going to look like until you race them at state so I can’t say that it was expected either.”

O’Connor also praised the team’s top finisher Austin Hindman, saying that he kept getting “faster and faster” as the season progressed.

The boys team also produced several All-Suburban West runners. Alec Haines, Austin Hindman, Josiah McElmurry and Devin Meyrer made First Team All-Conference and Tommy Laarman and Ryan Rigabar made Second Team.

O’Connor thinks the team will continue its success next year due to the team’s youth and the number of returning state qualifiers.

“None of the guys who counted in our team score were seniors so we should have the whole crew back for next season,” O’Connor said. “McElmurry was the only senior we had on varsity all season and his leadership will be missed.”

Fans can only hope that the juniors from this year can repeat their success next season.

The girls team took second place at State with juniors Anna West and Sarah Nicholson placing in the top ten, taking fifth and seventh place respectively. Senior Elise Larson finished 29th and juniors Julia Romero and Emma Riordan took 36th and 84th.

The girls team also produced several All-Suburban West runners.

Elise Larson, Sarah Nicholson and Anna West made First Team, and Emma Riordan and Julia Romero made Second Team.

The team was happy, but disappointed that they did not take

Off to the races Boys cross country leaves the starting line at the Forest Park Meet. The team won its first-ever State Championship and four runners placed in the top ten. (photo by Michaela Rogan) the State Championship.

“It [taking second] was shocking,” Anna West, junior, said.

“We were ranked first the whole season, so it was a little disappointing when we got second.”

The team will return most of its state qualifiers next season, with only Larson graduating. Next year’s senior class is hopeful that they will be able to accomplish what they fell short of this year, and they’re ready to put in the necessary work.

“We’re losing our number 3 runner [Larson] so that means that someone will have to make up for it,” West said. “We’ll have to train hard.

The Lady Lancer field hockey finished this season with a record of 10-9.

Regarding stats, senior Alexa Simpson and junior Katie Hansen finished the season with 20 points a piece, tying for 10th place in the conference. Hansen also tied for eighth place in the conference in goals with, fittingly, eight. It seemed like Hansen brought a clutch factor to every match as well, as four of her eight goals were game winners.

Simpson tied for third in the Conference in assists with 12.

Finally, on the defensive side of the field, junior Brianna Cronin finished her season with a record of 9-4, a .692 win percentage, 101 saves, and five recorded shutouts.

Despite their solid record, Coach Melissa Lantz said the team performed better than its record would indicate.

“I don’t think our win-loss record was indicative of our play,” Lantz said. “We had a tough schedule, and a lot of those games were determined by one goal, and we just ended up on the wrong end.”

Lantz was also pleased with her team’s chemistry.

“The camaraderie on the team this year was phenomenal,” Lantz said.

“We didn’t have specific captains this year, and our seniors really led our team.”

The team remains optimistic for next year, and expects to improve on this season’s performance.

“I think we learned a lot of things offensively that we can use next year,” Lantz said. “We’ll focus on continually improving the offense next year.”

With a large group of returning players, including two promising freshmen, the Lady Lancers are set to succeed next season. -by Patrick Levine, reporter

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No Shave November

Phone Gadget Necessities

Several students and teachers are participating in the infamous No Shave November.

Below are a few of the people taking part in the annual trend.

Olloclip

A cool add-on for any pocket photographer, the Olloclip is a great way to up your photo game. The Olloclip is a compact set of camera lenses that attach on top of the iPhone’s normal camera. The set includes a fish eye lens, a wide range lens and two macro lenses for increased focus.

Price: $69.95

Pocket Plug & PWR case

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I tore my meniscus and I said, ‘Hey, I’m going to grow a beard.’”

– Chase Behrndt, 11

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This is my first time ever in my life growing a beard.”

– Joe Wier, science teacher

Would You Rather...

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I love it. Every minute. It looks terrible, but I love it.”

– Brendan Duggan, 12

What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?

Cranberry Sauce (12%)

or

Yams/ Sweet Potatoes Green (9%) Beans (4%)

Ever needed to charge your phone but not had a charger? Eliminate this problem with the Pocket Plug and PWR cases from Prong. Both cases come equipped with integrated power plugs for easy charging with a sleek, modern design. As well, the more expensive PWR case comes equipped with an extra battery to keep your phone charged even longer.

Price: Pocket Plug: $39.95, PWR Case: $99.95

Candyshell Amped Case

A must have for anyone who loves to share their music, the Speck “Candyshell Amped” case increases volume and sound quality without sacrificing battery life with extra speakers. The case has a horn shaped channel inside that redirects and amplifies sound naturally.

Price: $44.95

Headphone Splitter The first 5 people to tweet will receive a goodie bag!

Stuffing (31%)

Be stuck in the arctic?

Be stranded on an island?

Mashed Potatoes (44%)

A great way to share music while still keeping it private, a headphone splitter allows users to attach two pairs of headphones at once. Best of all, splitters can be found for relatively cheap prices, starting at as little as $3 on Amazon.

Price: Varies compiled by Garrett McBay

*Poll of 152 students