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Snowpocalypse causes problems: The soccer team, along with other LHS teams, got in trouble for clearing the snow off their fields and courts after it piled on for days.

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Not your average teen moms Students experience fake pregnancy in class

By Yu Kyung Lee Coming back from the Feb. 28 snow day, sophomore Kelsey Guthrie was quick to part ways with Taylor, her infant daughter.

Even though Guthrie had been waiting since last semester to have a chance at taking care of Taylor, a couple days was enough to change her mind.

Frankly, teacher of human growth and development Kristi Henderson was used to it. Worn out and done: That was how most students were after taking

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care of a Baby Think It Over — a computer baby — over the weekend.

“Usually when they come in on Monday mornings, they are dying to get rid of it, saying, ‘Cut this thing off of me. I’m done. I don’t want it anymore,’ ” Henderson said.

Taking care of the Baby Think It Over simulator is part of the curriculum for the human growth and development class and what convinced Guthrie to take the class.

“The purpose is for them to have a simulative experience of what it’s like to care for a child on their own,” Henderson said.

Naturally, the process began with pregnancy.

Students had to wear a 25-pound water-filled empathy belly around their waists for a day that let

them experience what a pregnant woman feels on any given day of her third trimester.

“The fake pregnancy was pretty much to see how it felt to walk around with that much extra weight and see what people’s reactions were to it,” Guthrie said. “I gained 30 pounds in two minutes. It was really heavy. I didn’t wear it all day.”

It’s an exhausting task, Henderson said.

“They get overheated, tired, cranky, difficult to go to the bathroom — all the enjoyable things you have to do when you are really pregnant.”

The empathy belly’s design included two balls that press against the lungs, causing pain, shortness of breath and even bruises in some.

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made for a particularly difficult workout in her aerobics class.

“My legs went numb and my back hurt,” Green said. “It really felt like I was pregnant.”

Green also noted a peculiar side-effect of the empathy belly.

“I ate a lot,” Green said. “I know I wasn’t really pregnant but I did — I ate a lot of food.”

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After a day with the empathy belly, freshman Asia Williams relieves herself of the strenuous toll of carrying the 25 pound weight meant to simulate pregnancy with the help of teacher Jennifer Hare. Photo by Gracie Rinke

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Continued from page 1 After trying a day with the empathy belly, students took turns taking home a Baby Think It Over for a weekend.

Henderson programmed the baby simulator to act like a real baby. It needed to be fed, burped, changed and rocked — even at 3 a.m.

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Fastening an electronic baby into a car seat, sophomore Kelsey Guthrie practices the responsibilities and constant difficulty of motherhood for the Baby Think It Over project in her human growth and development class. Photo by Ashley Hocking

said. She also took home a baby during the snow day break.

“I had to feed it each time, and it takes 20 minutes to feed it, so that was the worst part,” she said.

The computer baby recorded how students treated the baby and gave a score on how well they did. The baby even registered little head bobbles.

“It’s really sensitive, and I didn’t know that until I took it back, and it said the neck moved a lot,” Guthrie said. “That deducted a few points now and again.”

And the fake baby reacted to the students like a real baby.

When Guthrie accidentally fell up the stairs and hit the baby’s soft spot, the baby registered the trauma and did what a real baby would.

It cried for 14 minutes.

“They are pretty accurate in how they react,” Henderson said.

“The more trauma, the more crying. But 14 minutes is a long time to have to listen to it.”

It would be hard to listen to a real baby, but students found it more annoying to tend to a plastic doll they don’t love.

“I’d rather take care of a real baby,” Guthrie said. “It cried like a real baby. It acted like a real baby. It needed to be fed and burped like a real baby — yeah it did — but it doesn’t sit there and make cute faces at you and make baby noises. It just cries, eats, poops and sleeps.”

The only advantage a Baby Think It Over has over a real baby is that, “You can give it back. That’s about it,” Guthrie said.

And the students were more than ready to hand in the baby after two days and couldn’t help but warn other expectant students waiting for their chance to take the baby home.

“I’d be like, ‘Child, that thang is going to wear you out,’” Green said. “They’d be like, ‘They [the babies] are so cute,’ but I’d be like, ‘They are cute right now, but wait ’til you take it home.’ That’s what I say.”

As the name suggests, most who experience a weekend with the baby simulator rethink and become adamant against pregnancy any time soon.

“I can barely take care of myself. Trying to take care of a child and me? I cannot do that,” Green said. “I’d have to get a job, I’d have to get a place to stay, all that. It’s too much right now. I have to finish high school.”

The difficulty of the experience discourages teenage pregnancy, Henderson said.

“I just kind of wish that everybody could have this experience because they’d realize how big of a hassle it is to have a kid as a teenager,” Guthrie said. “It would really mess up your social life, and it’d just mess up everything honestly.”

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Debate senior success ORDER YEARBOOKS NOW Senior debate and forensics participant Lauren Pauls goes above and beyond standards set by fellow participants, past and present

By Ella Magerl Senior Lauren Pauls doesn’t spend her time on the field or the court. Instead, she competes with wit and knowledge.

“Debate and forensics take up a lot of time. It’s comparable to a sport and a lot of people don’t realize that,” Pauls said.

“Tournament weekends are at least 20-hour weekends on the road and competing. It’s a lot of work if you want to be serious about it.”

Pauls has been involved in debate and forensics since her sophomore year.

“Doing Model United Nations in junior high kind of got me hooked on public speaking, so I decided why not try debate because it’s kind of similar,” Pauls said.

Debate and forensics are similar but, in debate, participants have a partner and argue the same topic all year while in forensics, students participate in a wide array of events by themselves.

“I prefer forensics,” Pauls said. “It’s a lot more variety, and people are nicer to each other in forensics because the whole purpose of debate is to rip each other’s throats out, but in forensics you don’t have to directly compete with people in the round and you get to know a lot of people and you make a lot of friends.”

Participating in debate and forensics introduces students to a wide variety of individuals.

“My favorite part is the people,” Pauls said. “Forensics especially is a really odd mix of people from all over, every other activity in the school is somehow represented in debate and forensics, but we all get along and everyone’s crazy, and it’s a big family.”

Pauls is also involved in other activities including orchestra and choir. She participated in the school musical in January, and is a member of Model UN. Pauls excels in debate and forensics. She has earned more than 30 medals, won LHS novice debater of the year, debater of the year, speaker of the year, and has been a state finalist in oratory the last two years. Last summer, she qualified to the National Forensics League National Tournament in Student Congress and finished in the semi finals, 39th in the nation.

In addition to those awards, Pauls broke a school record sophomore year, and is set to break another this year.

“The record that I broke in debate was the best novice record for speaker points in the negative side of the topic, so it’s pretty specific,” Pauls said. “I had the lowest speaker point average, and lower is better.”

Pauls is currently fourth all time for National Total Forensic League points. The jump to third place is achievable for Pauls, but second and first place are still a ways off and will prove more of a challenge to accomplish.

She has also just recently been named a National Forensics League Academic All-American.

Pauls’ achievements are comparable to records set by Lawrence High debaters up to 20 years ago.

“The records go back as far as the mid ’80’s,” forensics and

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Talking in front of the class, senior Lauren Pauls presents during her seventh hour forensics class taught by Jeff Plinksy. Photo by Gage Nelson debate coach Jeff Plinksy said. “To say that she’s one of the alltime greats in high school is absolutely correct.”

Plinsky has coached Pauls for six semesters, so he has had the opportunity to see her grow and improve.

“She was always very smart and very well spoken, but what has really grown in her is the ability to walk into a room and be pretty sure that no matter who else is competing in that room, that shes got a good chance to come out on top, and that confidence bleeds through into her nonverbals,” Plinsky said.

Confidence is an important aspect to participating in debate and forensics. Not only does it help the student, but when the judges notice that confidence, they may start looking for reasons to vote in favor of the student.

“Confidence has a lot of the same psychological effects that it does in basketball or football or track,” Plinsky said. “When your opponent thinks you’re confident, they start doubting themselves.”

To be one of the all time greats, a student also needs a good work ethic, and Pauls has mastered that skill.

“She’s one of those students that’s willing to put in whatever the work is that needs to be done to be good,” Plinsky said.

In addition to a high work ethic, Pauls has other abilities that make her an outstanding competitor.

“She is a very clear communicator,” Plinsky said. “She has the ability to take a complex idea and break it down in such a way that she can communicate it to the average person and get them to understand it, and in doing so she is very good at getting other people to see her point of view.”

Being a skilled communicator is important not only for debate and forensics, but also for college and work environments.

“No matter where you’re working, you’re working with other people and you have to convince them that you have good ideas, and debate and forensics feed right into that,” Plinsky said. “If you look a little closer to the near terms, the research and the speech writing that we do, particularly in debate but in forensics also, is essentially the same thing you do in any field when you do your undergraduate work in college.”

The skills Pauls has picked up from participating in debate and forensics will help her in the future. Currently, Pauls is looking at going to the University of Denver to study international relations.

“I think I’m going to continue doing Model UN there because they don’t have a forensics program, and college debate is a little bit too insane for me,” Pauls said.

Plinsky noted a study done by Emory University. which found that members of the National Forensics League are 19 percent more likely to complete their college degree in four years than other students.

“What that tells us is that debaters and forensics participants are going to college ready,” Plinsky said.

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Bond proposes shift from print to online School board develops plan to spend millions in enhancement of technology over next five years

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One component of the bond issue that would affect LHS students is a proposed expansion of the cafeteria and black box theater.

Making way to replace hard textbooks with wireless e-textbooks in USD 497 classrooms during the next five years is another aspect of the bond proposal. The bond includes $6.5 million to implement recommendations from a technology audit.

“It supports the purchase of learning management software, which would enable the greater use of online textbooks and other digital resources in the classroom,” Julie Boyle, district communications director, said.

This means that vast amounts of new technology would be purchased for in-class use, such as iPads and SMARTBoards. In addition, fundamental technological framework, like wireless access points, switches and routers, would be implemented as well.

“The plan improves the district’s technology infrastructure to support greater depth of use of our school wireless networks,” Boyle said. “This supports greater flexibility, mobility and connectivity across all schools in the district and improves network security

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and disaster recovery.” do interactive text though, that would The school district is already implebe cool. There’s all kinds of things you menting some of these technological could do if it was interactive. It’d be improvements. pretty neat, innovative and actually “The district is piloting this learning useful.” management system and the blended A major concern of this aspect of learning model in the bond is the eight classrooms availability of the “The plan improves across the distechnology for all trict,” Boyle said. students. the district’s technolThe potential “The working ogy infrastructure to switch from hard assumption is that support greater depth textbooks to everybody has e-textbooks for access to that kind of use of our school of technology where all students in wireless networks,” Julie they have downthe district could Boyle said. loaded books,” drastically change Platt said. “Even if teaching methods it’s in a checkout system, I think a lot and the way students learn. of students would be worried [about] Social studies teachers Jack Hood, checking that stuff out because then David Platt and Matthew Herbert were they would be financially liable for the interested in how students view the piece of technology as well.” switch. They polled a handful of their Another concern of the proposed classes to find out if students would like plan was unexpected circumstances, the change in technology. such as technical difficulties.

The impromptu polls in these class“What if the internet goes down?” rooms concluded that the majority of Hood asked. students preferred using hard textbooks The school bond will be on the April over e-textbooks.

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“My little sample poll usually showed one person per class was favorable of electronic textbook reading material,” Platt said.

Hood favors interactive and electronic reading material if it would add to the way the students learn by providing additional links, pictures and videos.

“Truthfully, this could be a really cool thing if they went to truly interactive textbooks,” Hood said. “If all they do is PDFs of the book, then it’s worthless — just give me the book. If you

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thought I’d watch an episode or two, and by the time I realized it, I just finished all two seasons, and was waiting for a third one,” said junior Thomas Frager, Club Vice President.

According to Han, “The show is about a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle who is a student under Princess Celestia.”

The show starts by Twilight, “[going] to ponyville to host the summer sun celebration.” But then, as the show progresses, “she wants to stay there, so the princess decides to have her to learn the magic of friendship there,” Han said.

Surprisingly, the somewhat feminine show has attracted a male-dominated club.

“It has pretty much a really girly theme on it,” Han said.

Despite its uncommon theme, the show is still interesting to the club members.

“The episodes themselves are really entertaining and have a lot of mature aspects,” Han said.

A lot of people remember the show and toys from when they were younger, including Frager. It wasn’t until many were older that they became fans.

“Nobody really liked the show when they were younger,” Frager said. “All I’d really do with the figurines is scratch off their cutie marks and pencil in my own, and create my own epic tales.”

All in all, this club may be around for a while.

“We’re actually a pretty decent sized club,” Frager said of their 15 members.

By Felicia Miller There are plenty of unique clubs at LHS: Asian Admirers Club, Gaming Club and even Anime Club.

The My Little Pony club can now be thrown in with the rest of the lot, and although many people don’t understand it, it is now an active club at LHS. The club was founded by LHS “bronies,” or “bro ponies,” which is the slang term for fans’ MLP universe. Mainly, the club is based around a newer reboot of the original “My Little Pony” TV show that was based on the toy figures.

The show was created by Lauren Faust, who also worked on “The Powerpuff Girls,” and “Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends.”

“I knew that she worked on it, obviously it can’t be bad,” club president junior Shawn Han said. “And it wasn’t bad at all; it was really good.”

The fact that the show is aimed at younger children doesn’t seem to matter to these high school students, and many other older fans as well.

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A scrapbook classroom Social studies teacher David Platt decorates room in memories

1. Senior pictures: “The whole purpose of this

room is my relationship with students, and that’s symbolic of [those] relationships,” Platt said.

By Abby Gillam Most classrooms don’t consist of antique roller skates dangling from the ceiling or African safari photographs; most are bare white walls. For social studies teacher David Platt, unique items plastered around the entire room is perfectly normal.

Students look to distract themselves in any way shape or form while sitting in class but for senior Austin Abbott, Platt’s psychology class last semester was a problem rather than a distraction.

“If I was bored I would look around the room,” Abbott said. “I’d ask him about different trips like, ‘What was this trip from?’ or ‘Who went on this

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2. Antique roller skate: “Everything has

a story,” Platt said. “My dad was working for the railroad and wanted me to go to an auction up in northeast Kansas because they were selling these old artifact axes they wanted me to buy.”

trip?’ — stuff like that.”

For some students and teachers, Platt’s room seems chaotic and disorganized with all of the miscellaneous items, but there’s reasoning behind the madness.

“Memories,” Platt simply stated. “I’ve been lucky enough to be in this room for a long time. I think I’ve been teaching in this room since 1998 or 1999, so [there are] just lots of things that trigger old memories.”

Although chaotic through a student perspective, Abbott believes Platt’s room is the way it is because that’s simply the way he organizes things.

While Platt believes it’s warm and welcoming, Abbot

3. Tumbleweed: “I took it on a geography club

trip,” Platt said. “We take so many adventures together along with bike club.” Photos by Abby Gillam

thinks it can be a little overwhelming.

“At first I was claustrophobic in his room,” Abbott said. “There was so much going on. His window shades are always down so you can’t see out. If the door was closed in his room, I’d freak out. It would always have to be open.”

Besides the memories, Platt admits to keeping the paraphernalia because of the relationships with students he has developed from a lot of the items.

Not only does he keep memories taped to the walls, but at one point in his teaching career, he had tried to turn his room into a “History museum” because of his department.

Although his classroom can seem crazy, Platt

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doesn’t think his home atmosphere is the same as his classrooms.

“My house is pretty relaxed, laid back, and warm in greeting,” Platt said. “It’s maybe a little more tidy.”

Despite the craziness, Abbott believes that the brief images students see of Platt’s room as they walk down the hall are “teasers” inviting them to Platt’s class. These quick glimpses are what students have to look forward to in the future.

“I see a lot of younger people who don’t have his class [and] I hear people in the hallways like ‘I want to take his class because his classroom looks really cool,’ ” Abbot said.

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“Naka Kon is a fairly large anime convention held each year in KC, where fans of Japanese animation, or anime, comics and TV shows can all gather and hang out with people with similar interests.

Many spend large amounts of time putting together cosplays, or costumes of favorite characters.”

—Anna “Spike” Springe, senior 1. Acquire pajama body suit pattern 2. Sew a version of it with cheap material 3. Take that body suit and take it in 4. Rip the seams out 5. Using the cloth pattern, cut out the fur 6. Sew body suit of fur 7. Pick fur out of seams

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1. Make pattern for handpaws 2. Cut out and sew handpaws 3. Shave down fingers for less fluff 4. Install claws

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2. Check to make sure vision and ventilation are good 3. Cover with duct tape 4. Cut it off to make pattern 5. Install UV reactive eyes, mouth lining, tongue, teeth and lips 6. Cut out fur for head covering 7. Sew parts together and pull over head like a glove 8. Hot glue it in place 9. Sew neck bib 10. Brush out fur caught in seams 11. Shave muzzle and nose, blending for more realistic look

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1. Make Duct Tape Dummy (foot armature made from own foot) of foot 2. Pull sock over it 3. Glue blocks of foam to foot 4. Carve into toe shapes 5. Cover with duct tape 6. Cut apart to make pattern for furring 7. Cut out fur 8. Hot glue it to foot 9. Adhere outdoor pawpads to bottom

LHS travels for spring break Various groups plan trips to take up week away from school

By Matt Roe Every year, students travel for spring break, and this year, many are taking the opportunity to be a part of special trips sponsored by LHS. One of the trips, led by Latin teacher Jason Lichte, will take student to Rome.

Students will get to visit some of Rome’s most famous sightseeing locations.

“We’ll be going to places like the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel and Pompeii,” Lichte said. “We are going to be [in Rome] for the majority of spring break.”

The trip was offered to Lichte’s Latin classes, so students can learn about foreign culture.

This is exactly why junior Thomas Irick is going on the trip.

“I decided to go on it because I wanted to learn more about Roman history since I find it so intriguing,” Irick said.

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travelling overseas for the first time and specifically, getting to see Mt. Vesuvius.

Another trip students are taking this spring break is the Bike Club’s trip to Moab, Utah, with social studies teacher and club sponsor David Platt.

Senior Stephen Hodges is one such student. “[I’m going so I can] traverse the vast American landscape,” Hodges said.

“And to lose my muffin top by hiking and biking.”

Although this is a first time trip for students like Hodges, it is not for Platt.

“I’ve taken students on this trip since 2003,” Platt said.

This year’s trip will cover most of spring break and will highlight outdoor sightseeing.

Platt plans to take students on hikes through Utah’s Canyonlands and Arches National Park.

Orchestra is also taking a trip.

Theirs is to Chicago, and according

to director Rachel Dirks, the trip is “a reward for the orchestra’s hard work.”

Having a clinic at Northwestern University, performing at the Field Museum of Natural History next to the dinosaurs and attending a Chicago Symphony concert are a few of the things the orchestra members will do on the action-packed, five-day trip.

Students, including sophomore Joseph Anderson, have been waiting three years for the trip and have high expectations.

“I won’t get another chance to go on another trip, and I kept hearing the stories from previous trips. It [sounded] like something I wouldn’t want to miss,” Anderson said.

Anderson is most looking forward to going to Medieval Times, a jousting show and dinner.

“It sounds like a fun way to relax after playing at the Field Museum,” he said.

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Soccer coach brings stability Girls soccer starts over once again with the fourth different coach in four years

By Trae Green

Athletes share expectations Leaders from spring sports explain goals for this season

By Vail Moshiri Boys Golf: senior Brett Van Blaricum “The team did all right last season, we took four of us to state, which is pretty good. We were pretty successful doing that, but hopefully this year we can do it as a team instead of individuals.”

Softball: junior Marly Carmona “We have a lot of returners, but we also lost a few seniors. Our returning pitcher [sophomore] Megan Sumonja, me and [junior] Kristen Gile are stepping up this year.”

Girls Soccer: junior Addison Campbell “I expect to come out stronger and with more heart [this year]. I think some influential players will be [seniors] Ella Magerl and Mallory Thompson.”

Boys Tennis: Senior Austin Abbott “Junior Thomas Irick is a really good tennis player, and we have a solid team [this year]. We should be pretty successful.”

So far, things have changed for the better, sophomore Sadie Keller said.

“Last year we weren’t all supporting each other The players on the Lawrence High girls soccer all the time, and we had some individuals that were team should be accustomed to coaching changes.

Track: senior Monica Howard interested in different things other than building the In November, the program hired its fourth different “I think we did really good [last season]. We program and making the team better,” Keller said. head coach in four years. had quite a few people make it to state. That’s a “This year is going to be better because we have Justin Young, a paraprofessional at Olathe South good sign, and a lot of people are returning.” more seniors, and they are more committed to the High School, will take the reigns from previous program.” head coach Jana Kepler, who Girls Swimming & Diving: senior Heather A solid season this year would resigned in the summer. Young “To take a program Cistola go a long way to bring stability to will inherit a Lady Lions prothat is struggling a little “I think we’re going to be even stronger this the program, especially after the gram that finished with a losing bit and be able to help year. We had many more girls try out this year. I departure of the previous three record last spring of 3-14. them build up and help think we’ll be starting out stronger and faster.” coaches over the last three years.

Young decided to kick off them become a program “We want to give a foundation his first season as a high school Baseball: senior Shane Willoughby that people want to for coach Young, and hopefully he head coach by putting the girls “[Some influential players will be juniors] emulate is something I has a good first year, so he wants to through a rigorous off-season Drew Green, Kieran Severa, Bryce Montes de Oca, have always wanted to stay,” Keller said. conditioning program. [sophomore] Michael Sinks, [seniors] Adam Rea, do.”

Young, who said he always em“After winter break, I made C.J. Stuever and hopefully myself. These players —Coach Justin Young braces a challenge, has aspirations a promise to the team that evhave been leaders before, so they’re used to it.” to stay as long as possible. ery day was going to get harder, “I told the girls when I met them and it did, but the girls came that I don’t plan on leaving,” Young said. “There’s every day with smiles on their faces, always willing no reason to. I’m the head coach of a soccer proto work,” Young said. “That says a lot for what we gram — that’s what I wanted.” have going forward.”

The competitor in him doesn’t allow him to The first-year head coach was glad to have the roll over and accept defeat. Instead Young wants to opportunity to get the girls in shape. When the build a program that other schools fear playing for regular season gets under way he wants as much years to come. time as possible to practice skills that will help the “I didn’t come here just to have fun and try team win. really hard. I want to contend, ” Young said. “I “We need to emphasize tactics because we can told the girls, the end goal here is to win a state Graphic by Gage Nelson be good with the ball at our feet, but we have to championship.” know what to do with it,” Young said.

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The Budget is produced by students in the Digital Journalism and Digital Design and Production courses with occasional contributions from 21st Century Journalism and guest columnists. The newspaper’s goals are to inform, entertain and present a forum of expression for students, faculty, administrators and community members. The newspaper is financed through advertising and staff fundraising.

The editorial staff is solely responsible for the content of this newspaper, and views expressed in The Budget do not necessarily reflect those of the administration of Lawrence High School or USD 497.

Issue Editor-in-Chief: Lily Abromeit Editorial Board: Mallory Thompson, Sports Yu Kyung Lee, Features Lily Abromeit, News Ella Magerl, Design Abby Gillam, Photo Mara McAllister, Online Staff: Keyty Ashcraft-Galve Brooke Braman Trae Green Ashley Hocking (Managing Editor) Forrest Lassman Felicia Miller Vail Moshiri Gage Nelson Harley Phelps Nathaniel Reynolds Grace Rinke Matt Roe Peter Romano Kendra Schwartz (Assistant Online Editor) Zach Spears Nick Steichen Shelby Steichen Morgan Wildeman Advertising: Isaiah Bell Ashley Castillo Business manager: Pat Treff Adviser: Barbara Tholen March 13, 2013

OPINION

Vending machines demanded Health guidelines lead to loss of vending machines

By Allison Williams Food — it remains a necessity in every teenager’s life. Vending machines hold the key to curb your midday hunger. So why have they abandoned them at Lawrence High?

Health guidelines prohibit the sale of soft drinks, fruit drinks with minimal nutritional value and sports drinks anywhere in school buildings or on school campus. This rule restricts the food we eat at school but does not eliminate vending machines all together. With changes, students could benefit from healthy options in vending machines.

Food typically harbored in vending machines is unhealthy. The National Institutes of Health conducted a test to examine the association between the items sold in school vending machines and the dietary behavior of students. The results concluded that school vending machines had either a positive or negative effect on the students’ dietary habits.

This depended on what they sold.

This study also proved that vending machines hold a major part of supporting healthy eating habits in teenagers.

The machines can potentially better students’ diets.

Junior Kassidy Husted would like the vending machines to return. She used the vending machines at least once a week last year and said healthier choices like Chex Mix and fruit snacks

were satisfying.

She added that vitamin water is great opposed to soda. The disappearance of the vending machines left Husted as well as other students baffled.

“I don’t get why they are gone,” she said.

“It’s sad because when I’m hungry during the day, I can’t get anything.”

Last year, sophomore Cierra Hollins used the vending machines “like every passing period,” she said.

“I’m really hungry now,” Hollins said. “It affects my mood. I can’t focus.”

Vending machines benefit students in several ways. As Hollins said, it prevents hunger. With a snack in her system, she focuses on school work -- not her rumbling stomach. Husted found the vending machines convenient because she didn’t have to go somewhere

Graphic by Nathaniel Reynolds else when she is in need of a snack.

“If I had to wait after school for my mom to come get me, I could grab a snack if I was hungry,” Husted said. “It’s also cheap.”

Healthy snacks also benefit athletes.

After school they could get snacks or vitamin water before practice. Nobody should go through a tough practice on an empty stomach. People need food to fuel their bodies.

While vending machines appear to be one of the reason for poor eating habits in teens, the food choices remain the issue — not the machines. As long as they contain healthy options, vending machines can be a strong benefactor in influencing better eating habits. Reinstating the vending machines would help students to control their hunger and could lead them to healthier eating habits.

Editor responds to misinformed athlete Basketball player Rodman wrong to call North Korean dictator his friend Mr. Dennis Rodman: I see you’ve made a new friend, Kim Jong Un, AKA the Supreme Leader of North Korea, and the supreme commander of its army, state party, defense commission, among many things.

Yes, his names sound fancy. But what warranted your sudden friendship?

You said you love the guy despite what he does and what he represents: 65 years of oppression and counting.

Why? Because he is your friend?

Because he loves basketball?

That is preposterous.

Excuse me, Mr. Rodman, but I’m trying to understand.

I don’t think you understand that you have just visited a country filled with poverty and injustice, where more than half of its 25 million people starve to death; where people are tortured and executed for mere political disagreements; where Kim Jong Un’s whims trump basic human rights.

I bet most people in North Korea die before ever touching a basketball, which served the basis for your so-called friendship.

But I bet you didn’t know that.

I’m sure you didn’t know a thing as you mingled comfortably with the elitist of the elites in rooms with A/C and heating, lighting, indoor plumbing, etc, while barely-clothed women and children slowly shivered and starved to death in shacks that provide no shelter from the winter winds.

You probably didn’t realize that the food you ate, the liquor you drank were from the labor of poverty-stricken peasants, products stolen from them by the government.

And your “friend” Kim Jong Un is responsible for all that.

Sure, he inherited the state and its conditions from his father, the infamous Kim Jong Il, but he had a choice: To continue such a devastating regime or bring it to an end.

He still has a choice.

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But change doesn’t seem like it ever will come for the hopeless North Koreans suffering under the most abject conditions of humanity.

If you think that a single phone call from President Obama can change his ways, you are woefully mistaken.

It has been over half a century since the Kim family’s reign of terror began and tore the country apart, north and south.

My grandfather was a guerilla leader against Kim Il Sung in North Korea when the civil war broke out, and he became a liaison officer between the South Korean and U.S. Armies. While moving with the U.S. troops, he crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea.

He never saw his family again.

He can’t.

What has changed in the three generations since? Nothing, except for the further deterioration of conditions for the people trapped under his rule.

The Kim family still abuses power over its destitute citizens.

Children are still hungry.

The 38th parallel still keeps families broken. Because of your friend, torn families are forced to take up arms against each other.

I’m sure you didn’t know.

I don’t think anyone who learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust ever said, “My, what a great guy, Hitler is. I mean I disagree with his anti-Semitism, but, man, I just love him.”

Maybe you just didn’t think. You were probably blinded by Kim Jong Un’s cult of personality that shrouds who he really is.

You just need to realize there’s something rotten beneath the facade of the Supreme Leader.

Until then, a tip for you, Mr. Rodman. I suggest you rethink your friendship with Kim Jong Un before you confess your love for another brutal totalitarian dictator.

Sincerely, Yu Kyung Lee

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Campaign inspires positive relations Recently-established Be More Awesome group aims to spread kindness, encouragement in school

By Mara McAllister Students spend more than 40 hours a week in the halls of Lawrence High, but for some, that is time filled with negativity.

English teacher Shannon Draper hopes to change this through the Be More Awesome campaign she created and sponsors. Inspired by the Kid President Pep Talk video on YouTube, the Be More Awesome campaign aims to encourage kindness among students.

“The campaign is a way to bring the school together,” Draper said.

“To celebrate the things that unite us and to encourage and to appreciate what is good about LHS and one another.”

Sophomore Joo-Young Lee, a student manager of the Be More Awesome campaign, agreed.

“It’s trying to make LHS a better community for everyone that’s a part of the LHS community,” Lee said.

One way the campaign aims to do this is through the blue Be More Awesome locker notes that decorate the hallways of Lawrence High.

Students can write notes of optimism and gratitude to one another that are posted on lockers or anonymously on a bulletin board.

“We wanted kids to recognize other kids awesomeness in the school and just kind of amp up the positivity,” student manager of the Be More Awesome campaign senior Mackenzie Owens said.

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Another way the campaign hopes to spread positivity is through spirit week celebrations and weekly challenges that encourage acts of kindness.

“Through small acts of kindness and encouragement, we can make LHS a place people want to be each day, not just a place they have to be,” Draper said.

Owens and Lee agree with Draper.

“Why wouldn’t you just want to make it an awesome place to be?”

Owens said of Lawrence High. “You want to make it so that people enjoy being here.”` “High school can be not very fun, and this makes it more enjoyable,” Lee said.

Draper’s teaching career has shown her a real need for more positivity and kindness in Lawrence High.

“Over the last few years at LHS I have seen a number of students who seem to be withdrawn from school, ghosts in the hallway and in the classroom, not really engaging with anyone and anything,” Draper explained. “It may be a little naive of me but … I really hope to help

Hanging on the bulletin board outside social studies teacher Matthew Herbert’s room 101, the anonymous Be More Awesome notes are displayed for students to view. The notes acknowledge good deeds of students and staff members, such as the one above thanking the lunch ladies. Photo by Ashley Hocking change the culture of the school.”

The future of the Be More Awesome campaign is promising as Draper, Lee and Owens look ahead to the rest of the semester and next year. They are planning Be More Awesome campaign commemorative buttons, service projects, and discounts for Lawrence High students at local businesses.

Despite the projected growth of the Be More Awesome campaign, its mission remains unchanged: Be more awesome through positive acts and kindness.

“Above all, be kind,” Draper said. “That is the most awesome thing anyone can do.”

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