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STUDENT NEWS Magazine MVHS MAY 2014 extra

Cory Haley

Spring is the season for cupcakes. See page 5 for more.

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Breakfast 2 Goj Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Here’s why. by Austin Venable and Katelyn Lewis You wake up, remembering its a Monday. You moan and throw your self back in the bed.

You look at your phone, mortified that you have slept in 30 minutes. You spring out of your bed, running through your house, maybe tripping a few times. You fly in the shower and take a quick, lukewarm shower. You struggle to put on your clothes . You brush your hair, and grab your backpack and car keys. You sprint to your car, and try to turn it on. Only to find out that your jalopy will not start no matter WHAT, the poor car didn’t make it through the night. Horrified, you run like an Olympian to your bus in hopes of catching it, only to see it drive past you.

You yell “Wait!’ but trip and fall into a puddle of rain and mud. Everyone’s already left and the buses are long gone. Now you’re cold, wet, smelly, late, and hungry.

Okay ... That probably wouldn’t happen. But how many times have you skipped breakfast?

You might think “Oh its just breakfast, Ill just wait until lunch.” but this is terrible fallacy. Lets look at some of the common excuses for skipping breakfast;

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We interviewed the official cafeteria manager, Betsy Wickham, to understand the importance of breakfast better.

“It’s called breakfast because you are breaking the fast. You should eat at least an hour after you get up so you can start your energy build-up for the day. If you don’t have anything in your stomach, you don’t have fuel to burn.” We also asked Wickham about the weight loss myth on skipping breakfast. “People think that their body will use their fat stores to take in calories; but that doesn’t work because the body wants lean protein. If you don’t take in any calories, your body will start to digest your own muscle, rather than fat.”

Don’t have anything to eat at home? No worries! The cafeteria offers a plethora of healthy options. Such as a chicken biscuit, PB&J, doughnuts, egg and cheese, and much more. They also all come with juice, a milk, and a piece of fruit.

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Bring Your Own Technology Is bringing your cellphone to class a good idea?

by Emily Wiesiolek

Cory Haley

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Suddenly, everyone stops working, the teacher stops teaching and the whole classroom is in silence.

It takes over five minutes for the teacher to locate the noise and give a stern look to the student before returning to her desk to make note of the breech of code.

Cellphone usage has turned from a helpful tool to an overused object in a matter of years. With so many things to do, just a simple text or game can cure an itching case of boredom, but with such great tools, comes great abuse.

A recent Pew Research Center poll breaks this down on a larger scale, with over 65% of teenage students around America using their cell phones during class.

Bring Your Own Technology is defined by Stafford County Schools as a way to, “further develop necessary 21st century skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking in a variety of ways throughout the school day.” BYOT is used simply as a way to learn certain lessons through technology, which must be used appropriately and acceptably.

Not only are students allowed to carry their phones, or technology, on them, but Wifi is open and unlocked to all students in anticipation of this new policy.

With students allowed to use the Wifi network anywhere in the building, wouldn’t one consider this teasing? In a world of technological advances and excitement at the tips of anyone’s fingertips with a cell phone, is it not hard to think many would access

it outside of appropriate times?

Looking around many classrooms, sometimes a few peers will have their eyes cast downward, to their lap, pressing away.

Some teachers also dislike BYOT with the only drawback being that it just seems to disrupt class time, rather than engage the students. “I don’t know why they made the rule,” says IB Spanish teacher Maria Alb, “ it makes everything crazy.” No one teacher can survey the entire classroom to make sure no one is accessing other sites, such as Twitter or Facebook.

But on the flipside, BYOT has had many positive reviews. Students finally don’t have to leave their phones in lockers, and can simply slip their phones in their bags—turned off of course.

Almost every teacher in the building seems to have embraced some sort of BYOT, and the lessons can have a profound affect. Recent studies at Vanderbilt University show that multi-media such as video clips, and interactive sites help bring the lesson and information alive.

Unlike a traditional lecture, which without much excitement can lead information to go in one ear, and out the other, technology keeps students on task, instead of daydreaming.

BYOT, as SCPS states, is not a right or requirement for students, it is a privilege, and bad behavior can have that privilege taken away.

So, for the sake of all around fun, exciting learning, don’t abuse. Keep that phone tucked away, out of temptation’s reach, until it’s time to use it. With that one little step, BYOT may be put in affect permanently, and more freedom can be rewarded!

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Abby Poff

Maggie Cherry

Jessica King

Hunter Madden

Rachel Fbod

Jessica Morgan

Carmela McCleary Emily White

Hayley Philippart

Anya Pethokoukis

Nico Villarreal

Steven Dvornick

Sarah Weisband

Reina Ransom

Sarah Rippetoe

David Zamojda Curtis Mussen

Katie Vacher

Kevin Cunningham

Kelsey Krum

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Byron Hoover

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Jacob Rosales

Jessica Morgan

Ashley Mason

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Rosa Morales

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Spring’s in the air, grab a cupcake to share Live, laugh, love … with a cupcake. by Amiti Colson

Spring is all about living, as in breathing in that fresh, new air, listening to the magical sounds of birds chirping all around you, taking in the wonderful sight of bright beautiful colors, basically being in a scene out of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. It’s an enchanted time of year where everything is all right because the weather finally gets a little warmer and the days don’t seem so short anymore. However, the most wonderful thing that comes with spring is … wait for it … wait for it … cupcakes!

Some Mountain View students and staff were more than happy to answer some cupcake related questions: The Viewpoint: Can you describe, in detail, the best cupcake you’ve ever eaten?

Hayley Philippart: Yes, the best cupcake I’ve ever eaten was like num, num, num combined with a little cloud in my mouth that was flying away. It was fluffy with orange icing; the inside was a delicious vanilla. It was delicious!

The Viewpoint: What is your idea of “the” cupcake, as in the “magical one”?

Raven McCrodden: Mmmm, let me break it down for you: a chocolate chip cupcake with chocolate ganache in the middle, topped with the most deliciously amazing peanut butter and chocolate swirl icing … yes that sounds fantastic!

The Viewpoint: What season do you associate with cupcakes? Why? Anya Pethokoukis: I’m thinking that spring is the cupcake season because of the beautiful bright colors, specifically yellow, pink and baby blue.

The Viewpoint: What gave you the feeling/ need to put a cupcake on your head? Was it the power of the cupcake?

IB Psychology teacher Byron Hoover: Well, I was attempting to make a cupcake toupee out of self-pity for my lack of hair on my head. I was also trying to hide my shame of baldness and to prevent the glare of the camera … I’ve broken lenses in the past.

The Viewpoint: When you eat a cupcake are you normally with another person? Do you associate eating a cupcake with bonding with your friends? Why? Jessica Spranger: I normally eat cupcakes with other people and associate cupcakes with the joyful bonding of friends at a birthday party or another exciting event.

The Viewpoint: Do you enjoy cupcakes alone, with a friend or with your sweetheart?

Kevin Cunningham: I enjoy eating cupcakes no matter what the situation is. Eating with friends or a sweetheart would, of course, be more enjoyable, but alone is fine, too.

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When I say jump, you say how high? Senior Gina Henrie tells The Viewpoint about her track & field life. By Kristin Hanson The Viewpoint: What influenced you to do track?

Gina Henrie: I didn’t make the softball team in the spring of my junior year.

One of the personal trainers that we had work with the softball team at Sport & Health, He saw that I had good knees and said, “Hey! You should join the track team.”

VP: What events do you do?

GH: Well, I am working toward being a pentathlete or a heptathlete, which means that you do 5-7 events each meet. I run mostly the 800m, 400m,4x400 relay, 4x800m relay, pole vault, triple jump, and long jump. I used to do the 300m hurdles, but not anymore.

VP: Which one of your events is your favorite?

GH: Pole vault. Absolutely, definitely pole vault.

VP: What made you try pole vault?

GH: Well, it was the first day of track, last spring, I was running around doing the warm-up lap. Coach Spicer looked at me, then he looked at Coach Tirone, then back at me and said, “Can you do pull-ups?” and I said, “Yes I can.”

I kept running and Coach Tirone called after me and said, “He wants you to be a pole vaulter!” It was really funny because when I told my mom that I wanted to try out for the track team, since I didn’t make softball, she said, “Just watch, their going to make you pole vault. “ She didn’t even know high school still had pole vault! When I told her i was pole vaulting, she just gave me this “are you kidding me” face.

VP: Are you going to do pole vault in college?

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qualify for states at 9’6”. But, if I can make 10 feet or 10’6” by the end of this summer, then I’ll probably make first cut, which means I’ll get to at least workout with the pole vault team at BYU through the fall semester. If I get good enough, then I can compete with the team in the spring.

VP: Which events did you go to indoor track & field states for?

GH: Just pole vault, and I no-heighted. The opening height was 7’9” and I had just made 8 feet the week before. But the week after states, I actually started bending the pole and was able to do 8 feet consistently. Now I have upped that mark to 9 feet. It’s very exciting.

VP: What is the feeling like when you get over the bar, do you feel like you have accomplished something?

GH: Yes. It’s definitely the most accomplished feeling of any track event. It’s the only one that has more of a standardized mark. You’re not racing against a clock and you’re not racing against your furthest mark from before, like you are with any of the jumps or with any of the throwing events. With pole vault, and high jump, it’s the same thing, it’s you have to get over the set standard.

I think that builds this feeling of awesome accomplishment, especially since you’re doing it in a way that isn’t normal for people to do.

VP: What are you going to miss most about Mountain View track & field?

GH: The team. I absolutely love our team. We have a wonderful, wonderful track program. We have amazing coaches, Coach Davis, Coach Porter, Coach Tirone, Coach Spicer, and Coach Gordon. Sure they can all be knot-heads at times, but we all form an actual team. So, even though it’s a sport where everyone is doing individual events, it’s still a team family feeling. And I love that.

The Viewbook Fashion plays a big role in the lives of a lot of Mountain View students, so here is a taste of what trends will be popular this spring season. by Regine Lee

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The fashion editor of Vogue said, “I like a forties dress because it allows you to be prim and blousey at the same time.” In the first picture, a vintage dress that is sold in a place like Target, generally runs for around $36.00. In the second picture, the boots, from forever21, run anywhere from around $27.80 to $59.80 and the plaid jacket is generally sold around $40.00. Jean jackets are sold for $32.80 at forever21, and they can be paired with a black dress to create a great look.

According to “Seventeen” magazine, “Nothing says ‘festival season is here!’quite like breaking out your cutoffs. Rock them to class with more structured pieces,” such as this black, white and red shirt from forever21 or a white blouse.

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According to Shopshela.com, “Now is the perfect time to store away the Uggs and start showing off those fresh pedicures.” .Sandals are one option, but heels are also in style. Paired with a bright color and a cute dress, heels are the perfect shoe choice.

There are always innovative trends making their way into the fashion scene and plaid is no exception.This plaid jacket, bought in Plato’s Closet, can easily be obtained on online stores for low prices of around $26.00 to $149.00. may 2014 l the viewpoint EXTRA l 7

Who’s your favorite?

Have you ever been emotionally attached to a fictional character?

It’s easy to be. If you haven’t read the “Hunger Games” or “The Fault in our Stars,” you might want to turn back. by Cory Haley

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Soap “Call of Duty MW3”

“I felt like a real soldier when he was taken.

He did all these things for his country then he just dies. I felt like I lost a comrade.”

Megan Beasley

Max “Maximum Ride”

“If she was real, I would die and go to Heaven.”

“I went around freshman year saying I wanted to marry her.”

Adian Carlisle

Jake Sully “Avatar”

“He moved to a new place and tried to fit in just like I had to.”

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Booker DeWitt “Bioshock Infinite”

“He’s selfish. He gave away his own daughter to pay his gambling debts.”

Justin Risley

Anthony Dass

Beatrice Prior “Divergent”

Jorge Alvarez

Prim Everdeen “Hunger Games”

“When Prim died, it was pointless. Now all the minor characters are dead and all the major characters aren’t cool.”

Denise Cable

Naruto Uzumaki “Naruto”

“I would hug him until he dies if I could.”

Nicole Gron

Addie Flores

Augustus Waters “The Fault in our Stars”

“I cried for three hours when he died.”

Will Herondale “Infernal Devices”

“If there was a way to marry fictional characters, I would.”

The Fashion Evolution In a world of high fashion and price tags, does conformity really matter? by Emily Wiesiolek

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igh school—it’s the place where hopes and dreams are made and crushed. Throughout life, high school always tends to be the one place documented by movies and television shows that can be immensely cruel. Maybe it’s the classic illustration of rich, preppy cliques full of gossiping girls or ragged bullies going through personal trials and tribulations clothes have become the subject of much abuse. To get a better idea, a recent study conducted by the Rathbone Organization shared that girls within 15 and 22 years of age stated that over 56 percent of the group was bullied either verbally or physically due to their clothing preferences. With this being said, is it possible with those staggering numbers that fashion will transform from being a matter of individuality to conformity?

Can anyone blame a person for desperately begging their parents for a pair of Uggs or a North Face because they don’t want to hear the ominous words: “Why are you wearing that?” It’s humiliating to be made fun of for what clothing choice you display. Let me be a personal testimony on selling out to conformity.

I love to buy things, I’m talking ten hours later I’m still stuck in the door at the mall looking back at some shoes I missed that I probably could live without.

I never used to be this way, the word shopping used to send me into a frenzy of illogical fears and a whole lot of tears, leaving my mother having to go by herself to get me anything remotely acceptable for school. Fifth grade, at the young age of 10-years-old, I found out how important fashion was.

A girl I knew for almost all my life looked at what I thought was an adorable array of Justice picked outfits and distastefully spat, “That looks really ugly on you, you’re not five.” Laughing at it now, I realized how quickly I went from wearing clothes kids should wear that are 10, to pretending to be a high school student out of fear.

Now that I am a high school student it makes me sick when I walk past the elementary school and see little girls getting picked on for their clothing choice. Not many little kids see this, but clothes aren’t just something that you wear to impress people.

Clothes were first just for the bare minimum, surviving the elements.

One can safely assume George Washington wasn’t denied of becoming the first president of the United States because he wasn’t wearing the latest frills--or worse, his clothes were a little bit too 1775.

Clothing has suddenly snowballed from survival to self expression, which is healthy--in its own means. Every person should be allowed to wear clothes that makes them feel happy, even if it doesn’t match.

Someone shouldn’t have to look on Twitter or flip a magazine to figure out what to wear, so they don’t get persecuted like some sort of witch on trial in Salem.

Individuality is something we are all born with, every singular person on this Earth. So why dress the way others wish to see you? People don’t seem to understand some students can’t afford the same high priced clothing choices another can. It’s extremely unfair to hold it against them.

Sure, everyone would love to get along with everyone else and pretend that there was no bigger picture, and that the superficial was more important than what’s inside. But it isn’t feasible in the world of today for conformity to run anyone’s life.

Ever heard that saying, “So if someone jumps off a cliff, your going to as well, right?” Conformity is everyone jumping off that cliff because some kid said death was a fashionable thing to do. Warning: it isn’t.

Individuality is something amazing, magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar label fashions that are sometimes odd or strange because they have a real meaning behind them.

That doesn’t mean go out and dress like a space alien, but the next time you put down something you really like because your afraid someone will disapprove, remember, if it’s appropriate, why not? Remember, dare to wear something instead of conforming to the present trend.

After all, who knows, something good might come out of it.

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Five things you should know about softball Varsity head coach, Beau Banglesdorf, talks about the girl’s varsity softball team.

by Hailey Bullis

Senior Amber Scites warming up by throwing in paractice.

Practice follows a regiment. “We start practice by warming up, stretching, and then throwing, warming up our arms so we don’t have any injuries, and when we are done warming up, stretching we break off into ,like, defensive drills and then offensive drills.” Banglesdorf said.

Positions. “Pitcher, catcher, 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base, short-stop and then there are three outfielders,” said Banglesdorf. “Nine players in total on the field.”

Players and Games. 11 wins, 5 losses. The games usually go from one and a half to two hours. There are 14 girls on varsity. Freshmen Morgan Bates, Isabella Garibaldi, Keirsten Kennedy, sophomore Taylor Levesque, juniors Kellen Cody, Jessica Morgan, Ellie Pharo, Kelsey Romine, Lydia Wanless, Kathryn Whitehead, and seniors Tiffani Phillips, Sarah Rippetoe, Amber Scites and Emily White.

Offensive and Defensive. “Taking batting practice for offensive drills, and we use the batting cages... and do something on the field, hitting, a lot of hitting, bunting, and defensive drills we just set up our infield, outfield and we just ,ah, you know we’ll hit fungo’s(A type of hitting) to them and go through different scenarios that would come up in a game,” said Banglesdorf.

Pre-Game. “It’s basically the same thing we do for practice, it’s just accelerated. Like we’ll get here and we’ll run, we’ll warm up, then we’ll hit , and just hitting in the cages not on the field, and then we’ll run through some defensive drills to get ready for the game,” said Banglesdorf.

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What’s hoppin’ in the next town over?

Here are three of the many popular places that people said they enjoyed going in downtown Fredericksburg and some information about them. by Eleanor Reichhardt

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Most people said that their favorite place to go in downtown Fredericksburg is Carl’s. Carl’s has soft serve ice cream, milkshakes, and sundaes. The three main flavors that they have as soft serve are chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Carl’s is on the edge of the main downtown, on Princess Anne St, but is still pretty popular.

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Goolrick’s is a small little diner on the corner of Caroline St. and George St. The food mostly consists of sandwiches and chips with a soda, water or their delicious milkshakes.

Goolrick’s is not only a diner, but also a pharmacy located in the back of the restaurant.

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Hyperion is a cute vintage coffee shop on the corner of William St. and Princess Anne St. Hyperion not only has coffee, but also snacks and other drinks according to the season. Some summer drinks to cool down with: Frozen Chai tea, Violet Lemonade and Monkeylicious, which is banana in a frozen mocha. They also have sodas. As the picture to the left shows, you can either sit inside or on the benches outside, in front of the shop.

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Other Jobs - Receptionists, Care provider, Dance and daycareTeacher, Figure Skating Instrcutor, Car Wash, Construction, Landscaper, Electrician.

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Busy Days After polling students around the school, we found out how they felt about their jobs. by Emily Archer and Ben Garnett

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Talking Out of 67 people who don’t have jobs, 53 of them want a job and 14 don’t want one.

41 students said they think students with jobs are better at time managment, 34 said they aren’t.

Transportation

Drive - 13 Walk - 1

Distrcating - 2

Being around people and animals

Takes up time - 8

Fun

Long work hours - 2

Only 23 people enjoy their job, 10 don’t.

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46 students think students Those who have job, 13 say they have trouble managing with jobs are more responsible, 33 students say time, 20 say the don’t. they’re not.

Jobs can be a distraction to some people, 74 say it Should studetns is, 26 say it isn’t. have jobs while they’re in school? 59 They said it’s a distraction said yes and 17 said because no.

Takes time away from school - 18

Other - 14

Internships - 1

Retail - 3

Life Guard - 2

Food Services - 13

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The reason people like having a job,

Focused on money - 2

Out of 100 people, 33 have jobs and 67 don’t.

Prom Couples Students were asked to submit their prom pictures via Twitter @MVtheViewpont

by Ashley Friedl

Denae Whittington and Jessica Morgan Juniors

Skylar Mcfadden and Aaron Nason -Junior and Alumni

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Kelly Brennan and Ryan Cole - Juniors

Emily Hunt and Dylan Cropp - Juniors

Hunter Lewis and James Hartman - Seniors

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