Issue 4, The Budget, 2018-2019

LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL

LAWRENCE, KS

VOLUME 126, ISSUE 4 DEC. 14, 2018

EAGLE SCOUTS GIVE BACK

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IN THIS ISSUE

LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL

LAWRENCE, KS

VOLUME 126, ISSUE 4 DEC. 14, 2018

Student groups give back to the community in different ways page 05

LHS Boy Scouts get busy with unique projects Page 08

Adopt a Family goes beyond second hour page 06

Carl Knox closes to community page 12 EAGLE SCOUTS GIVE BACK

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ON THE COVER — As 2018 wraps up, the Lawrence High School community gives back in and outside of classes through a variety of programs.

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A YEAR REVIEW IN SNOWFLAKES Snowflakes from the cover help review top news stories of 2018

BY SAMI TURNER & FREEMAN SPRAY SCHOOL

Lawrence High welcomed many new faculty members in high-profile roles, including a new orchestra director.

The district also gained new superintendent Anthony Lewis.

BAND

Marching band suffered a catastrophic encounter with Norovirus while on a trip to Disney World in March.

In spite of it, the wind ensemble took home a Mickey, and multiple soloists achieved awards for outstanding performance.

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SWIM

The boys swim team had an excellent year, thanks to Stephen Johnson, who set four school records in his time swimming. Johnson took first in two competitions at state. The girls team excelled, finishing fourth at state.

PROTESTS

Students took a stand for what they believed in, engaging in multiple protests. Among their efforts was campaign to free Syed Jamal, a man who was separated from his family and faced deportation, as well as walkouts coordinated by SAFER and March For Our Lives.

VOLLEYBALL

The volleyball team dominated the competition, winning the state title to top off a stunning 38-2 record for the season. The varsity team was led by all seniors.

TECH

2018 marks a full year of one-to-one laptops and the implementation of the new grading system, PowerSchool. With these changes, a new slew of problems affected every aspect of student life, from schedules to grades to transcripts.

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A NEW

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“...FIRST AND FOREMOST I WANT TO KEEP KIDS SAFE. I WANT STUDENTS TO LEARN.” —QUENTIN RIALS, THE NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND LHS GRADUATE, WHO REPLACED FORMER ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL MIKE NORRIS IN NOVEMBER

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The gymnastics team had a stellar run, culminating with second place at state.

GIRL’S TRACK

The girls track team had a monumental season, ending with victory at the state championship.

Along the way, Evan Serrate and the relay team both set school records.

CONSTRUCTION

The school witnessed the beginning of a massive construction initiative that will eventually remodel the entire school. The project started off with a few key changes in test rooms, along with a complete replacement of all the turf on the fields.

BASKETBALL

In 2018, the boys basketball team went to the state tournament for the fourth-straight year.

The girls team went to substate after a strong season.

BASKETBALL GAME

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ELECTION

Lawrence High was immersed in a massive movement for student votes. The Young Democrats Club organized a voter registration drive and worked to help students become more active in politics.

ROOM 125

In 2018, Room 125 found success at the 24 hour Film Festival, where Lawrence High was the only school to have more than one awardwinning film. Other films won several awards at additional competitions.

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GIVING BACK Clubs and teams come together to help others

BY ZORA LOTTON-BARKER

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PROM DRESS GIVEAWAY The Prom Dress Giveaway took place on Nov. 3, and Lawrence High and Free State students had the opportunity to take home gently worn prom and formal dresses for free at the Lawrence Public Library.

Students donated their time to help.

“StuCo hopes to give those who otherwise

wouldn’t have access to a formal dress a free formal or prom dress that they can wear to our dances later in the year,” freshman Kenna McNally said. “We also hope that they will choose to come to our dances because we would love to have everyone come out and have a great time.”

DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT Student Council is preparing for the annual dodgeball tournament between Lawrence High and Free State.

StuCo hopes to have the tournament on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day but plans are not finalized yet. They are trying to determine a location so that neither school has a home advantage. They are also going to contact local businesses with the hope that they would be willing to host.

“Lawrence High students can contribute by coming out to this fun event with your friends and engaging in some friendly competition with Free State,” freshman representative Kenna McNally said. “StuCo hopes to create closer bonds with Free State and have an event that both schools can participate in and have a great time while doing so.”

The proceeds will be donated to a charity to be determined by StuCo.

WILLOW DRIVE Young Feminists Club held a drive from Oct. 23 to 26 for Willow Domestic Violence Center, which is an institution that aims to restore the health and safety of survivors of family and domestic violence.

The Willow Domestic Violence Center strives to eliminate family and domestic violence in communities by providing safety, education and advocacy, according to its

website. The Young Feminists Club accepted donations including gifts cards, lotions, body wash, deodorant, underwear, socks and washcloths.

“I hoped for a lot of donations, and I really wanted to spread awareness about Willow and get the word out about who they are and what they do for the community,” junior Ella Nobo said.

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CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ithout the efforts of extracurriculars and elective classes, Lawrence High wouldn’t have its reputation for raising large amounts of money for Adopt-a-Family.

Seven of the 30 families adopted this year were claimed by extracurriculars or electives that were not second-hour classes.

Like these classes, a list of the family requests are given to the teacher, who communicates with students about how much money they need to raise. Then, they go shopping for the gifts and outfits their families need.

“It’s just a really fun process because we get to go to Target and go shop,” senior Symphonic Orchestra member Madeline Johnson said. “It’s really awesome because you’re helping a family out and thinking of someone else.”

Because the groups meet less often or collectively choose to donate, every person involved has a responsibility.

“Clubs don’t meet every day or four times a week,” senior Pre-Med Club board member Doha Maaty said. “We don’t see each other, so we have to communicate through chats and the teacher.

And so, with a class, it’s easier because

you see those people every single day and you can remind them. In a club it’s more like the student leaders pushing for this.”

The teachers help the process along by incentivizing students to contribute. Some, like woodshop teacher Jay Hundley and other career and technical education teachers, implement rewards systems involving food. He gives students a donut if they donate at least $2.

“We buy anywhere from two to three dozen donuts every Wednesday, which we call ‘Adopt-a-Donut,’ and [the students] pay $2. They get a donut, and that’s how we earn our money for our families,” he said. “Some days, when we get close, we have ‘Monday Munchers,’ so we go to Munchers and get some stuff.”

Their rewards help to motivate students.

“It’s easier for people to donate if they’re getting something back, and usually most teenagers will buy a donut,” Hundley said. “And I realize $2 is an expensive donut, but we just tell them it’s going to our Adopt-a-Family. It’s for a good cause.”

Sometimes the fundraising becomes so effective that students begin reminding other students to donate. In orchestra, the longstanding tradition of earning

Extracurriculars and electives donate to AdoptA-Family for the holiday season

a dessert after each benchmark is met is always a big hit.

“We work hard to bring in money because we want [brownies],” Johnson said.

“I typically put in more [money] because I don’t want people to harass me.”

The basketball team, which adopts multiple families at a time, varies its form of fundraising from year to year.

“Sometimes we’ll have an online fundraiser, but I think this year we might be having like a pancake and biscuits and gravy fundraiser, so that should be fun,” senior basketball player Garrett Hart said.

Students in these extracurriculars choose to donate because, no matter the size of the family or the rewards they’ll receive, everyone enjoys giving back.

“It’s nice to help people in need in our community,” Hart said. “Because a lot of times you kind of take it for granted, the things you have and you’re able to purchase.”

WRAPPED UP — Sophomore Gracie Moore shops for Adopt-a-Family with her Graphic Design 2 class at Walmart. The class raised about $300 with help from other Career Technical Education classes for their medium-sized family. “I enjoyed helping out other people and picking out some of the gifts,” Moore said. “It was also a fun field trip.”

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GET MOTIVATED Classes find creative ways to entice students to give

ORCHESTRA

“[Orchestra] has a bear-shaped jar, ‘Bling Bear,’ and kids just bring in spare change to throw in whenever.”

—Ben Farney, senior

CAREER & TECH ED

“I’ll be honest, I’m pretty good at selling donuts. I can shake kids down for donut money like nobody’s business.”

— Barb Tholen, journalism teacher

BASKETBALL

“Sometimes we’ll have an online fundraiser, but I think this year we might be having like a pancake, and biscuits and gravy fundraiser, so that should be fun.”

— Garrett Hart, senior SURPRISED — Sophomore Aubrey Fischer and junior Mikayla Kaufman shop for their adopted family at Target. Last year, the Adopt-A-Family program helped about 780 low-income families in the Kansas City area.

“Helping people makes me happy, and I’m glad to be a part of something that can leave a family with one less thing to worry about,” Kaufman said. “Also, thinking about the kids’ reaction to getting the gifts they hoped for makes it special.”

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AP CALCULUS BC

“They want to go somewhere for food, so we decided to make that one the top goal.”

— Matthew Ellis, math teacher

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“Completing my Eagle project.

It’s been my goal since first grade when I started Cub Scouts in 2005ish to Jan. 17, 2018, so it took me a little bit.”

—LUKE THONEN, SENIOR

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“We went to Colorado on a weeklong scout trip... and we all woke up at 3 or 4 in the morning and hiked for two hours to [Pikes Peak] and watched the sunrise... It was just the most beautiful thing ever.”

—ALEXANDER ARNONE, SENIOR

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“We were scuba diving in the Florida Keys... and then this huge octopus came out... It was super cool.”

— JACK ANDERSON, SENIOR

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Scouts work to obtain Eagle Scout rank before aging out

BY MEGAN DRUMM STAFF WRITER

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n the heat of summer, Jack Anderson gave back to the bats by creating houses for them at a campground.

The project helped Anderson earn his Eagle Scout — making him among just 4 percent of scouts who complete the Boy Scout’s highest honor.

He is joined by at least seven other LHS students combining work, dedication and leadership in order to earn the rank.

“I wanted to learn things that I couldn’t learn at home,” said senior Alexander Arnone, explaining why he joined Boy Scouts, “and to experience different things that I couldn’t with my family or friends, and I felt like the program would offer that.”

Senior Jack Anderson joined Cub Scouts because of his dad, who also was an Eagle Scout.

“I had respected him so much for that,” Anderson said. “I didn’t know how hard it would be for me to get to LEADING ON — Senior Alexander Arnone, a member of Troop 61, presents his Eagle Scout project to younger scouts. Students working on their Eagle Scout have to delegate work to younger scouts and others who help them complete their projects. “To see my younger scouts take part in a project I planned for more than year…was pretty rewarding,” Arnone said. “[It’s] why I chose the project and make them understand why they’re helping out.”

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where those guys were when I was just beginning Boy Scouts.”

It takes a dedicated person to finish everything required to achieving the Eagle Scout ranking. Eagle Scouts must accumulate at least 21 merit badges, hold a leadership position for a minimum of six months, and finally propose and carry out an Eagle Service Project.

“It’s just kind of about being an Eagle Scout shows that not only were you able to work hard,” Anderson explains, “ but that you were able to work hard for an extended period of time” Once scouts turn 18, they are unable to achieve the Eagle Scout ranking.

“I’m a part of a group called the ‘neck high in water’ group,” Arnone said, “where they just finish their Eagle before they turn 18, because that’s where it caps out. I’m a part of the group that just barely finishes it.”

The idea behind the Eagle Scout Service project is to give back to the community.

“It is the culmination of years of hard work and hours upon hours of time dedicated to scouting,” senior Luke Thonen said, “as well as having the knowledge that your eagle project in someway benefited the community.”

LHS scouts are finding a variety of ways to help the community. While Anderson created houses for bats, Arnone created care packages for veterans.

Arnone said his main job after choosing a service project was to delegate tasks and find volunteers

willing to help donate their time.

“It’s the delegating part which I found really challenging,” Arnone said.

“To rally up these crazy little kids and that was the really challenging aspect of it.”

Thonen created food dispensers for the Lawrence Humane Society for his project, while junior Colton Khatib is planning a project for the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Khatib said he has matured through his scouting experience.

“I love the structure and role of scouting and being able to do incredible tasks with a bunch of boys and have fun,” he said.

Likewise, Anderson learned patience when implementing his Eagle Scout project.

“I learned that you have to be really patient with people sometimes because I’d have things ready,” Anderson said, “I would try contact adults and it would take them a while to respond and I’d just kind of be like, ‘Dude, come on.’ You have to know that some people aren’t’ going to be as passionate about what you’re doing as you are.”

Arnone plans to stay involved with his troop as much as he can, even after he completes his Eagle Scout.

“I’d love to be a leader, to coach those younger guys,” Arnone said. “As a young leader, I feel like I could really connect with them if they don’t connect with the older leaders. Pushing the kids through the ranks then hopefully getting to say that I have a couple of Eagles that I got, so that would be rewarding.”

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BLAST FROM THE PAST Explore history through nutty costumes REPORTING BY MERIEL SALISBURY PHOTOS BY FYNN STOVALL

MARTIN LUTHER 1483—1546

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564—1616

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SQUIRREL STORY Students and staff make costumes for stuffed squirrel used in history class

BY MERIEL SALISBURY

STAFF WRITER

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small, stuffed squirrel has become a fascination for students and most recently, a custodian.

History teacher Tracy Murray uses the squirrel as a prop for historical time periods in her AP European History classes. Murray’s students and Ace Grotta, a custodian at LHS, have made costumes for the squirrel.

Senior Jack Foster knew immediately that he wanted to create costumes for the stuffed animal.

“At the beginning of the year she pulled it out, and it was wearing a Johann Tetzel costume, the guy who collected indulgences for the Catholic Church,” Foster said. The squirrel didn’t have many costumes at the time, which inspired Foster to make more.

The first costume that Foster made was a Maximilien Robespierre costume, worn by the squirrel when classes were learning about the French Revolution.

Another was Napoleon’s coronation robes, complete with gold trim, as well as a costume of Klemens von Metternich, an Austrian diplomat in the 19th century.

The most recent costume Foster made for the squirrel was a pink dress. It was modeled after the painting “A Sun-

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day on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” one of George Seurat’s 1884 paintings.

“I don’t want to toot my own horn, but that was probably the most proud thing I did in that class,” Foster said.

Current AP Euro students are also making outfits for the squirrel. Sophomore Sophie Bracker-Sturm created a Shakespeare costume, complete with a tiny bag of rolled-up plays.

Bracker-Sturm doesn’t have any ideas for future costumes, but is confident she will make another.

“I spent five hours making that costume for him, and then I made the bag out of an old T-shirt that I cut up,” Bracker-Sturm said. “I worked on it with my dad, and it was really fun, so if I do make another one, it’ll be really good.”

The latest additions to the squirrel’s wardrobe have been made by Ace Grotta, a janitor in the building. Grotta cleans Murray’s room every night and had seen the squirrel wearing costumes a couple of times.

“I tend to try to make just doo-dads and whatnot for the teachers in my hallways if I can and if I figure out something that they like,” Grotta said.

When Grotta heard that Murray’s birthday was approaching, they decided to crochet two squirrel costumes. One was of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and the other was of a British World War I soldier, based off of a tip from

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history teacher Valerie Schrag.

Grotta found photos that they thought that they could best recreate, and began to make the costumes.

“I took a piece of notebook paper and traced the outline of the squirrel in two different dimensions,” Grotta said.

The costumes are crocheted, which is a skill that Grotta learned at a young age from their Great-Grandmother.

“I’d steal the end of her yarn and tie a different color to it so she could keep going and it would change colors while she worked,” Grotta said. “So I kind of just learned from watching her and making it up as I go.”

When Grotta gave the costumes to Murray, the reaction was exactly what they had hoped it would be.

“I just really enjoy just making people’s day,” Grotta said. “Like, I love to drop things off with my teachers and just have them explode with sunshine.”

Grotta’s costumes were also well-received by students.

“Those ones are pretty good,” Bracker-Sturm said. “I’m going to have to step up my game.”

ROBESPIERRE — History teacher, Tracy Murray’s stuffed squirrel sports senior Jack Foster’s Maximilian Robespierre costume. Robespierre was a leader during the first French revolution during the reign of terror PHOTO BY FYNN STOVALL

EMMELINE PANKURST 1858—1928

WWI SOLIDER 1914-1918

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MORATORIUM NATATORIUM FOR THE

After nearly four decades in partnership with city, school pool closing to public; will remain open for school use

BY GARY SCHMIDT

EDITOR IN CHIEF

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ffective Dec. 13, the Carl Knox Natatorium will be closed to the public.

Lawrence High’s pool, named after Carl Knox, superintendent of USD 497 from 1962-1984, has been in a joint partnership between the city’s Park and Recreation Department and the school. However, this year the city decided to discontinue this partnership.

USD 497 executive director of communications, Julie Boyle, said there were a variety of reasons the city listed for its decision to shut down its operations.

“It cited as reasons: low daily admission usage, a lack of offered programs meeting class minimums for several years and difficulty in recruiting lifeguards to staff the pool during public operations,” Boyle said.

The pool will remain open, however, for all its school uses. This includes introductory and advanced swim classes, and the boy’s and girl’s swim and dive teams.

The closure of the pool to the public will carry over some effects from the general public back to Lawrence High. Senior swimmer Will Damron is also a lifeguard who works

primarily at Carl Knox.

According to Damron, without being able to work at Carl Knox, he is going to be much more limited in when he can work.

“Carl Knox is the only place I can work after swim practice,” Damron said.

“I can’t drive all the way across town to get to the Free State pool in time.

I can still work weekends, but I can’t “I THINK IT work weekdays in swim season.”

IS GOOD IF Despite it becoming exclusively THE PUBLIC accessible to the swim team, Damron views no issue with sharing it USES IT. with public use.

IT GIVES “ I think it is good if the public uses it,” he said. “It gives access to a ACCESS TO pool to people on this side of town A POOL TO instead of having to make them go PEOPLE ON across to the other side of town.”

However, he is pragmatic in his THIS SIDE view of why the city shut it down and echoes many of the same points OF TOWN” the city issued.

—WILL DAMRON, “The city doesn’t make money off SENIOR it. It will be beneficial for the city to shut down the pool,” Damron said.

“Upkeep and pay for lifeguards, we don’t get enough people to swim there to keep it open.”

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Opinion Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas

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MERRY CHRISTMAS, NO EXCEPTIONS Going into battle with Christmas spirit

BY NIKKI AQUI

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uite frankly, I am tired of the way liberal media and companies have ruined my Christmas with their “freedom of religion and speech” mumbo jumbo. Specifically, Starbucks.

Starbucks rolled out a new holiday cup that’s decidedly more subdued than years past: a rather plain, red ombre design. This doesn’t sit well with me.

Starbucks is the Grinch who stole Christmas for all coffee drinkers, and we know that all coffee drinkers are devoted to the holiday and preserving the reason for the season.

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They should have said that the red cup was to symbol the blood of our Lord and turned Starbucks into a bar that only serves wine for the season.

Another alt-left conspiracy is the design from last year. The “holiday-esque” design featured a pair of holding hands.

Though the gender of said hands cannot be seen on the cup, it is more than clear this was two gay men. Even Buzzfeed news has confirmed this.

It is an abomination that while getting my coffee, I have to be uncomfortable because of my beliefs. After all, it’s impossible to think of any other religion or group of people who face more discrimination in America than me.

I thought Starbucks was on the right track after it had two black men arrested for using the bathroom. Now, I find myself taken aback and disgusted at their discriminatory, intentionally plain cups that lead to customer interpretation,

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that have been advertised and sold for so many years. Things like this are what put the state of our Confeder — I mean Union — a million steps back.

Thankfully, our voice of reason, President Donald Trump, previously weighed in on the controversy, telling supporters at a rally that the Starbucks cups were evidence of the “war on Christmas.”

He is right! Walking into my nearby Starbucks is essentially like following Gen. Lee into Gettysburg — a brave but futile struggle.

Trump has been oddly quiet about the issue this year. I can’t IMAGINE anything else that might be keeping him busy right now.

The only way to resolve this situation and make everyone happy is to paint the entire nativity scene on each cup — complete with the Little Drummer Boy. The birth of Jesus should not to be disrespected by coffee.

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PHOTO OF THE MONTH

POISED ­— Senior Zuzu Melchor performs a sous-sus during a dress rehearsal for The Kansas Nutcracker at the Lawrence Arts Center on Dec. 4. Several students are involved in the annual production as dancers and crew workers. Melchor plays the hummingbird and dances with the Kansas flowers. “It’s so gratifying to try to make people happy with my dancing,” Melchor said.

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