North Pointe - May 22, 2015 Senior Issue

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SENIOR ISSUE

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015

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Adrian College Donald Robertson

College for Creative Studies

Kailah Martin-Turner

Alabama A & M University

Michael Caruso Devyn LaValley Lauren Nyquist

Lansing Community College

Bianca Banks

Albion College Olivia Angott Will Colborn Madeline Denison Kedric Gabriel Malene Smith Matthew Stander

Alma College Andrea Hernadi

Aquinas College

Columbia College Chicago Olivia Benton Nicholas Gbur Alex Greene

Creighton University Julia Anter

DePaul University Alex Andreoli

Joseph Ciaravino Kelly LaBarge

Dickinson College

Boston College

Eastern Michigan University

Megan Lesha

Brown University Ann Marie Nicholson

Bucknell University Duncan Ragland

Central Arizona College Marquis Harper

Central Michigan University Simone Adams Phil Aufdemberge Alec Bessette Michael Buterakos Stephen Carlson Michael Creagh Max Ertzbischoff Amber Gardener Hope Haynes Ethan Jerry Courtney Lamparski Brian Linington Gregory Mattes Shannon McEnroe Kelsey Parafin Olivia Ritchie Daniel Robinson Eric Simoes Alanna Sparks Emily Surzyn

Clark Atlanta University Lindahna Mahone

Maxwell Yoshida

Anetta Harris Allaynia Tripp Shayla Whitfield

Florida Gulf Coast University Jennifer Lemanske

Georgetown University Erica Lizza

Grand Valley State University Micah Darnell Sage Edmonds Gabriella Ermanni David Gerlach Rachel Joseph Katherine Kalina Marisa Mieczkowski

Henry Ford Community College Kayla Barnes Kayla Kindle Janice Magee

Indiana University Justine Lynn Jenna Mazzola Ryane Pangborn

Jackson Community College Angel Lawson

Kalamazoo College Samantha Hicks

Lane College

Nicholas Ribco

Macomb Community College Ryan Babcock Shreya Bacon Erik Bauer Kushtrim Berisha Kade Callaway Sheldon Chavis Rachael Lentine Caroline Lopatina Olivia O’Hara Timothy Raynal Jayne Solomon

Madonna University Kennedy Bryson

Marist College Raymond Mattingly

Jack Muschong Elise Paglino Victoria Potapenko Alisha Quain Anne Race Haley Reid Jack Rieth Andrea Scapini Daniel Sosnowski Christian Sottrel Meghan Veltri Benjamin Washington Diajah Williams

Muskegon Community College Michael Bowden

Oakland University Megan Gutsue Ryan Lazzell Matthew Wieczorek

Saginaw Vall0ey State Universit y A’vierre Todd

University of California, Santa Cruz Kaley Makino

University of Dayton Tyler Benser-Ridley Kayleigh Gehlert Thomas Goffas Peter Lundy Juliette Tripp

University of Detroit Mercy Barbara Fama

University of Kentucky Katherine Roy

University of Miami Emily Hoshaw

University of Michigan

Duncan MacAskill

Emily Aziz Zachary Backer Christopher Bahr Thomas Burke Katelyn Carroll Nicholas Cusmano Katharine Derringer Graham Eger Nicole Haggerty Deanna Hanley Brandon Hogan Anna Hopkins Wendy Ishmaku Dora Juhasz Nathan Kane MarkKoester Nicholas Koester Jamie Lackner Robert McGovern Michael Sacchetti Maria Tsakos Emily Waldner

United States Air Force

University of Michigan-Dearborn

Jasun McWhorter

John Akiki John Leone Nicholas Lucchese Cameron Willoughby

Miami University

Saint Xavier University

Mackenzie Clark

Alicia Brown

Michigan State University

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Vita Aluia Emily Bahr Delaney Bennett Madeleine Bessert Alexander Blunden Benjamin Borland Brendan Bresser Harris Bunker Christian Burke Lexi Ciaramitaro Olivia Cook Nathan Doss Richard Filipelli Conor Griffith Anna Gruber Autumn Gutierrez Timothy Herd Brittney Hernandez Trevor Joy Richard Kent Joshua Kozakowski Cameron Kozik Steven Licari Karina Lucchese Kathryn Lucchese Michael Marchiori Molly Marcin Emily Martinbianco Shayna Meyers Michael Molitor

Anne Armbruster

Siena Heights University Maria Fisher

Texas Southern University DaNaija’ Chatman

Tiffin University Nathan Steinkampf

Trinity University

United States Air Force Academy Matt Kane

United States Army Ciara Root

United States Navy Brian Bourgeois

University of Toledo Malik Bruton Garrett Gersch Karyn Schwartz

University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Nina Scott

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Peter Gritsas

Wayne State University Cinnamin Aslanian Terese Bourgoin Emilio Castronero Amanda Chanske Isabella Cubillejo Francesca Florance Sara Fresard Quinn Gallant Vhern Gerangaya Kristina Ghanem Makenna Holman Maxwell Kolinski William Lorenz Katherine MacDonald Margaret Martinez Jacob Miller Maria Nguyen Christa Raicevich Thomas Remenar Spencer Rocho Kathleen Russo Luke Sturgill Gabrielle Tatum Panayiotis Varlamos Ke’ arra Wallace Kyle Young

Western Michigan University Victoria Carrion Charlie Delaney DeNishia Driver Alexis Farrar McKenzie Frame Noah Gekiere Jake Howard Gyanei’ Johnson Brian Keelan James Keller Donald Kummer Brent Lathan Emily McBride Jordan McCormick Mark Miller Mallory Rice Juliet Sonaglia Jayla Spivey Janay Terrell

Working Austin Cunningham Michael Lammers

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COMMITTED to the game

By Andrea Scapini & Wendy Ishmaku

Who: Marquis Harper What: Baseball Where: Central Arizona College

Who: Daniel Robinson What: Baseball Where: Central Michigan University

Why: “Playing baseball is fun for me, and playing in college is a great opporutnity.”

Who: Will Colborn What: Soccer Where: Albion College Why: “I’ve grown up with

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These 11 seniors have decided to pursue their athleticism at the collegiate level

Who: Raymond Mattingly Who: Duncan Ragland What: Crew What: Crew Where: Marist College Where: Bucknell Why: “I decided to row in University college because I like being in Why: “Teammates are shape, and I think being on a team provides a good sense of community. I’m most excited to see how I can contribute to the team over the next four years.”

soccer being a huge part of my life. I couldn’t imagine my life without it for four years.”

awesome, and I want all the freshman 15 to be muscle.”

Who: Maddy Denison What: Track & cross

country

Where: Albion College

Who: Justine Lynn What: Soccer Where: Indiana University

Why:

“It’s always been my dream to play college soccer, and I’m most excited to travel and play in the Big Ten. I’m so excited to go to college and still get to do the thing I love most.”

Who: Joe Ciaravino What: Track & cross

Who: Duncan MacAskill What: Diving Where: Trinity

country

Where: Aquinas College Why: “The coaching staff and team are great and really focus on building up their runners. Running has helped me stay on track and keep a strong work ethic, and I believed it would help me in college.”

University

Why: “I chose to dive in Who: Don Robertson What: Soccer Where: Adrian College

college because I want to be able to reach my full potential as an athlete, and I’m most excited to get to know my teammates and see how much better I get.”

Who: Christa Raicevich What: Volleyball Where: Wayne State University

Why: “I’m most excited for the increased competitive nature of play, mainly because I’m really competitive myself and I can’t wait to be surrounded with people that share those kinds of qualities with me.”

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lax, then that promotes more progress anyways,” Kane said. “I’m pretty patriotic because I really love this nation and what it believes in.

It’s difficult to explain what makes me want to go serve my country, but similar to religion, you just believe in something.”

When he visited sophomore year, Kane didn’t think he had the necessary credentials to attend the academy, but he later realized it was in reach if he was willing to go through the extensive application process.

“The application process is actually a really long and hard process, and just waiting for a response from the academy was really tough,” Kane said. “But Mrs. (Milissa) Pierce, my counselor, really kept me on to keep working on my application, and my parents just kept me working towards the end goal of actually getting accepted.”

When Kane was admitted in mid-March, the decision to attend the academy was a simple one for him, as he anticipates trading his childhood t-shirt for a uniform.

“I’m excited to meet people who share the same passion to serve our country, and I know I’m really excited for my uniform because ever since I was a little kid, I wanted my name to be on the uniform with the American flag on my shoulder.”

Senior Matt Kane visited the Air Force Academy campus for a second time over spring break this year. “When I went the first time I definitely knew it was beautiful,” Kane said. “I didnt get the sense that I wanted to go there yet ‘cause I had no idea what I wanted to do, but when I went on the Point Tour, I felt a connection to the campus.”

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WELCOME.MIAMI.EDU

An infatuation with marine life that dates back to 2004 has influenced senior Emily Hoshaw to pursue her dream career path of marine biology by moving 1,401 miles to University of Miami next fall.

“I read this book in second grade,” Hoshaw said. “I realized that I want to be a part of helping marine creatures, specifically manatees, and that’s always what

I’ve wanted to do since.”

Leaving her family for University of Miami wasn’t easy for Hoshaw, despite knowing her love for the waters and animals, yet Hoshaw feels confident that she made the right choice.

“It had a fantastic marine biology program, and that was something I was really looking into and trying to find,” she said. “And, of course, Florida is famous for manatees, which has always been my cause, so it was like a perfect fit.”

Hoshaw recognizes that uprooting herself to move closer to marine life may prove uncomfortable at first. However, her persisting passion is her first priority.

“I get to be in Florida, which is gorgeous all the time and get to be so close to fantastic biodiversity,” Hoshaw said.

Along with those perks, going into marine biology would allow

Hoshaw to exercise her scuba diving expertise.

“I mean, I love scuba diving, so being able to swim and be underwater, it’s fantastic, and having that part of my career would just be awesome,” Hoshaw said.

She feels confident in living in Florida even without her family. Hoshaw says they’ve promised their support.

“They are full for me going in and following my dreams,” Hoshaw said. “Once I started showing them my interest in marine life, they were absolutely behind it.”

Hoshaw’s innate love for the environment has acted as motivation.

“I want to make a positive impact on the environment and all of the marine ecosystems and see what I can do to help prevent loss of endangered species and just working to helping marine mammals as much as I can.”

Senior Emily Hoshaw scuba dove at Epcot in Disney last summer. “I love scuba diving,” she said. “I wanna be a master diver eventually, and I’d love to continue to do it.”

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Senior pursues lifelong interest through declared major

When senior Matt Kane was 6 years old, a simple grey t-shirt adorned with the word “Army” across the front arrived in the mail.

Kane’s then-favorite t-shirt first sparked his interest and then became a symbol of his desire to serve his country by attending the Air Force Academy next year.

“My mom, when I was little, she actually went over to Germany for a day care to watch soldiers’ children while they were working Air Force bases in Germany,” Kane said. “So she sent me an Army t-shirt, and I really loved it.”

The t-shirt was the catalyst that ignited his desire to serve his country at such a young age.

“Ever since then, war films and documentaries are just really interesting to me, so I really knew I wanted to serve,” Kane said. “Whenever we’d go to the library and check out a book, I’d always check out World War II books. It’s just really interesting.”

Air Force cadets’ daily schedules at the academy are vastly different from the typical college experience, as they function on a strict 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. schedule.

“It’s definitely troubling to know that you don’t have much time to relax ... but I guess that’s good because if you have no time to re-

By Andrea Scapini & Wendy Ishmaku

Senior Matt Kane will attend the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs next fall

SOARING towards success

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ABOVE & RIGHT: Caruso’s artwork secured his admittance into CCS. “Generally you’d want them to be your most recent and best works. You wanna give them a sense of who you are as a person right now,” he said.

BOTTOM: Gbur has been drawn to cinema since he was young. “I’ve always really liked movies,” Gbur said. “I do a lot of it, as opposed to my homework. But then I took TV production here, and getting behind the camera, it turned out I really, really liked it.”

MICHAEL CARUSO

ANNE ARMBRUSTER

ANNE ARMBRUSTER

NICK GBUR

After taking classes at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit over the summer, senior Michael Caruso chose CCS over the Cleveland Institute of Art. “Being down there, I got a feel for the atmosphere and what it would be like and the people there, and it just seemed like a really good fit,” Caruso said. “I just have more of a gut feeling about the place than Cleveland.”

Caruso plans on pursuing game design, a field he has thoroughly explored.

“I’ve always just been kinda interested in video games, so I decided to pursue it further,” Caruso said. “But unlike most people, I did a lot of research into it. I watched a lot of making of videos, whereas most people are like ‘Oh, I wanna make games because I like playing video games.’ And then it’s nothing like that, and they drop out.”

CreatureBox, Ubisoft, Valve and Steam are just a few of the companies Caruso has considered working for after college. As long as Caruso gets to explore different art genres, he’s open to many future job options.

“I don’t think I really fit into any niche genres,” Caruso said. “I feel like I could be more broad and be able to do a plethora of different genres.”

Most seniors can agree that picking a college is no easy decision. For senior Nick Gbur, it was an especially tough call.

“Some people just have it all figured out, and I am not one of those people,” Gbur said.

Though there was family pressure to attend Michigan State University this fall, Gbur felt the best place to pursue his film degree was Columbia College Chicago.

“It had a more focused career program.

State’s is much more on the business side of film, and Columbia’s is much more actually doing it with the camera work and all that,” Gbur said. “Their program starts broad and kinda concentrates you in the area in which you want to go, and I thought that was really cool.”

The access to top-quality equipment at Columbia was the biggest factor in Gbur’s decision to attend.

“Well there’s obviously art in cinema.

It’s how it looks. But there’s also the science behind it, the technology,” Gbur said. “So Columbia has all the newest equipment and all the newest cameras.

Everything that’s forthcoming in the industry, they have it.”

NICK GBUR

MICHAEL CARUSO

“I kind of completely changed my direction, and I realized that that wasn’t for me because it’s a lot of work, and it’s not something that I love to do like I love to do art,” Armbruster said.

At the School of the Art Institute Chicago, Armbruster will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and although she mostly paints and draws, she’s excited to explore different types of art and possibly open her own studio in the future.

“I always kind of was the creative of the family,” Armbruster said. “I get it from my mom, and I always just kind of draw or paint or whatever, and I never really took it seriously until I realized that I was not awful at it, and I could probably do something with it and combined with some of my other skills, maybe make a career out of it.”

NICK GBUR

With two months before the application deadline, senior Anne Armbruster spent countless hours working on her art portfolio for the School of the Art Institute Chicago, the college she will be attending.

“I actually stayed home from school for like a week straight just so I can work on things because I do my best stuff when I’m in my zone, and I can’t get that at school,” Armbruster said.

Until junior year, Armbruster didn’t even think about going to art school. For her, art was something she did on the side, until she realized it was her true passion. She originally planned to attend Duke University to pursue engineering or medicine.

ANNE ARMBRUSTER

By Dora Juhasz & Kaley Makino

MICHAEL CARUSO

TOP FOUR: Armbruster has noticed a development of her own unique style. “I never really thought I (had a style) until I like collectively looked at my pieces together, and then they all kind of mesh in a way,” Armbruster said. “I mean, a lot of them are just taken like the references, like places that I’ve been in my dreams or something stupid, and then I usually use the same color scheme because I just loved bright colors a lot, especially with paintings.”

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Seniors expand creative boundaries

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WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 10 YEARS?

By Brittney Hernandez & Emily Martinbianco

buy a Bentley on my way to

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my yacht, which is docked

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I hope I have a good job in marketing at the Omaha

at one of my private islands.

headquarters of Yahoo.

Michael Buterakos

Julia Anter

of time with my original

family and with a good job.

Kayleigh Gehlert

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I see myself in the NHL

in ten years, grinding out

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Driving my Ferrari to go

Nick Koester

family, but spending a lot

there in the zone and

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corner in a box.

somewhere like a crime lab.

Emily Waldner

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Living on a street

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and probably working

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kids, probably a master’s

Definitely with a

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I plan to be married with

flying around out there.

Jake Howard

What will the Class of 2015 miss?

“Teachers and the bond I’ve created with all my classmates.”

Savannah El-Achkar

“TMP… I’m going to be spending a lot more money on pizza next year.”

Steven Licari

“The school spirit.”

Josh Crawford.

“I’ll miss the familiarity and safety net of it.”

Anna Gruber

“The friends that I’ve made.”

John Akiki

“Football.”

Odell Snyder

“I guess I’ll miss the Koesters.”

Shayna Meyers

“The people, really.”

Brian Bourgeois

“The whole experience in general.”

Karyn Schwartz “I’ll miss the connections I’ve made with my fellow Norsemen and teachers.”

Alicia Brown “I will definitely miss seeing everyone’s faces every day and sharing such fun experiences with everyone.”

Mackenize Clark

What won’t the Class of 2015 miss?

“The bathrooms being gross and broken.”

Katelyn Carroll

“The short lunch periods.”

Tim Herd

“I won’t miss waking up at 6:45 for school.”

Micah Darnell

“Not having Union cookies senior year.”

Peter Gritsas

“Getting up early, passing time, going to class every day.”

Ann Marie Nicholson

“I won’t miss hall sweeps.”

Max Kolinski

“Educational classes.”

Shannon McEnroe

“Having to ask permission to go to the bathroom.”

Victoria Potapenko

“I’m not going to miss the Grosse Pointe attitude that’s around this area.”

Katie Roy

“I won’t miss the overpriced vending machines.”

Autumn Guiterrez

“A lot of rules. In college you have a little more freedom.”

Brandon Hogan

OUR PAGE

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Erica Lizza

Haley Reid

Andrea Scapini

Wendy Ishmaku

Brittney Hernandez

Dora Juhasz

Kaley Makino

Emily Martinbianco

Luke Sturgill

Thomas Remenar

editor-in-chief web news editor

managing editor web ideas editor

managing editor web life editor

business manager staff reporter

life section editor

assistant editor of distribution

Eight gals, two pals: Goodbye from your North Pointe seniors It’s 7:30 p.m., and InDesign is stalling. Front page art isn’t finished, and nobody can find the On Campus quotes. Piles of math homework await at home, and yet we forget that anything outside of these four windowless walls exists — at least until pages are locked.

And just when everything seems like a complete nightmare, we dance.

We’re not kidding. Countless pages were constructed from the energy we gained after break dancing to only the best 2000s rap hits. Clearly Jay-Z knew a thing or two about page design.

We did anything we could possibly do to fire up our creative genius in order to present our bi-weekly brainchild to you, the readers.

Whether you realized it or not, you were always the most important part, that fundamental drive to persevere and create.

While you weren’t a part of our B302 family, you were the most essential part of our paper. We put your contacts in our phones when you became a source for a story, Zangle-stalked your classes, called you at the most inconvenient of times and created paragraphs upon paragraphs to show the school your story.

The paper is our child, a baby made with love and disturbingly strong attention to detail. North Pointe is the offspring of English nerds, people who feel strongly about Oxfordian commas and dislike any font other than Georgia 12.

We were named “the cult” by the counselors for a reason. Some of us hid out in Mrs. Adwers’ room for hours each day, huddling in circles in the Bat Cave and suppressing tears when deadlines approached. Some of us saw Mrs. Adwers more than our own mothers. It makes sense, since the North

Pointe room was a place to call home. We had drawers of utensils, a fridge stocked with food, and we had toys (never forget our hula hoop). We even spent our days off huddled around computers in our PJs just to ensure we had pages to publish.

For a serious newspaper production team, we hardly took ourselves too seriously. Laughter was our medicine, but we learned much-needed life lessons as well. Besides being experts on AP style, we know how to work together, to bond and to love. We know how to push through under pressure and take criticism.

North Pointe couldn’t have been produced without our dedicated adviser and so-called surrogate mother, Shari Adwers. She put up with a year of horrendous renditions of popular songs and questionable discussions about Tinder. But most importantly, she supported us. She stayed late to ensure that our pages were as close to perfect as possible. She was tough on us, and we thank her for being so.

Most importantly we thank you, readers. Your stories gave us the chance to harvest our talent. North Pointe is as much you as it is us.

Sincerely, Your Class of 2015 North Pointe staff

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