December 2013

Play Holidays approaching Holiday hype page. 12 New game consoles page. 20 Meaningful gifts page. 21

Social media madness Students’ actions on online impact theselves, others. page. 14

Police policy sparks controversy Attorney: issuing citations for language violates first ammendment. page. 7

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Table of contents Volume 7, Issue 3 | December, 2013

Béle Benard

‘Seeking human kindness’ Journalism students traveled to Boston in November for the National Scholastic Press Convention. Play’s Béle Benard captured this photo at a subway entrance in Harvard Square Nov. 16. COVER: The mayor’s Christmas tree shines among lots of decorations outside Century II in downtown Wichita. Photo by Jordan Watkins.

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News

College entrance requirments rising; task force reviews student placement system; police give tickets for language.

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Lifestyles

Maize families to open coffee shop with special purpose; students and teachers have life away from city.

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Column

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Opinion

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Entertainment

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Students use Instagram to share holiday spirit; art students deisgn ornaments at glass art gallery.

Play’s sports editor shares experiences learned from color guard.

Microsoft and Sony release new gaming systems; holiday gifts have special meaning for students.

Actions on social media can have strong effects on students and others.

Principal Chris Botts should allow Spirit Central to reopen during En-Cor, find alternate solution to students wandering halls.

Sports

Some athletes dedicate their entire year to one sport; seniors prepare for final season as an Eagle.

Editor-in-chief Jordan Watkins Visual media editor Béle Benard Sports editor Maite Menendez News editor Hannah Henricks Features & lifestyles editor Cheyenne Esser Advertisements manager Dagny Castelli Reporters & photographers Kalee Betzen Cody Campbell Lauren Debes Gabby Hermes Devan Horning Brooke Johanson Alexis Loudermilk Nick Mathias Katie McLachlan Justin Noble Delanie Pierce Mikaela Stevenson Jet Warren Adviser Dan Loving Play is the official newsmagazine for and by Maize High School students.

Play is published six times throughout the year. Play is a student publication and a forum for public opinion.

Letters to the editor should be signed and around 300 words.

The editorials and columns are the sole opinion of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the USD 266 Board of Education, the administration, the faculty or the adviser.

Raise your voice by using your words Submit a letter to the editor for the February issue to D18 or to mhsnewsmag@gmail.com Printed by City Print. © Copyright 2013 Play newsmagazine

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By Devan Horning

ualified admissions to be accepted into college have been modified. Universities will use the following standards for 2015 and future applicants. These standards are used to review applicants for undergraduate admission and are set by the Kansas Board of Regents, the governing body for the state universities.

“The new standards make it more difficult for students,” counselor Paula Betta said. “But that is what they are trying to do.”

Students will have to follow the pre-college or scholar curriculum. In the past, receiving a twenty one or higher or at least a 2.0 GPA would qualify a student to be accepted into college. Now, students are required to achieve both.

Students will be required to complete four credits of math: Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2 (being a prerequisite) and anything above Algebra 2. If a student does not

complete all four credits, then the student has the option of earning a score of 22 on the math portion of the ACT. Requirements for all other subjects are the same. For English a student must complete four credits taken each year of high school, three credits of social studies and three credits of science. One unit of science must be chemistry or physics (essentials of physics will not work).

Three units of electives are also required. Maize requires two-and-a-half credits of electives to graduate: one unit of fine art, one unit of computer and half a unit of speech. This gives students only half a credit left to complete to their discretion.

Courses completed in middle school do not fulfill the requirement.

“The Board of Regents just want students to be prepared and successful in college,” Betta said. n These stories first appeared on our wesbite, www.maizenews.com.

Students and staff donate 3,800 items for Caring Hearts food drive KAY Club gathered more than 3,800 items during its food drive Nov. 11-15, crushing its goal.

The drive benefited Caring Hearts, which provides food for families in need within the Maize and west Wichita area.

“Last year we probably had 600 cans, and this year the goal was 1,600. We got over six times the food we did last year,” KAY Club representative Suzanne McKaig said. “Our success is a testament of the generous and caring nature of MHS students and staff.”

KAY Club President Rachel Blevins, senior, said the club chose teachers they thought would be most competitive to serve as collection representatives.

Many representatives offered their classes extra credit in an attempt to increase participation in the drive.

“A little extra credit doesn’t hurt,” representative Victor Mercado, Spanish teacher, said.

Winning teacher Kevin Frye collected 1,880 cans of soup.

Frye said he believes he was chosen to be a representative because of his ability to unite students and get them pumped in past food drives.

By assigning different categories of food to teachers, students are more likely to get involved and excited for food drives in the spirit of friendly competition, Blevins said.

Pros and cons are apparent in both a mass drive in November and periodic small drives, Mercado and Frye said.

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“On one hand, to do it throughout the year would establish a continuous giving. If you’re specializing in results, it may be better for a one-year drive. If you host a one year drive, you could get students into a frenzy and potentially increase results,” Frye said.n -Nick Mathias StuCo sets plans for winter formal The dance at the end of the homecoming week is a little different than in previous years.

This winter formal’s theme is a masquerade ball. Students are advised to wear a mask and dress their best.

Homecoming is taking place the same week students return from Winter break.

“This idea has been in the works since last year,” chair of the dance committee Ashley Klein said.

Administration has been hesitant to allow the idea to be put into works.

“Because of recent shootings, they were afraid for safety reasons,” Klein said.

The dance is 8-11 p.m on Jan. 11 at Maize Recreational Center, behind Taco Bell.

Klein expects a good turn out.

“I’m just really excited because it’s different and I can’t wait to pick out my costume,” sophomore Sandy Carlo said.n -Katie McLachlan Booster club decides on sound system In bimonthly meetings, the booster

club decided on a new sound system for the football stadium.

Daktronics looked over the stadium and gave two options for systems.

Every year the booster club figures different ways to improve the facilities at Maize.

The options equalled a $12,000 difference due to the fact that one system is larger than the other. The booster club chose the larger and higher-end system.

The current price of the system is $45,000.

While still figuring installation costs, the system is planned to be installed within the next six to eight weeks. The goal is to have the system installed before the start of spring sports.n -Delanie Pierce Plans for Europe trip in action Social studies teacher Staci Brown is conducting a trip during the summer of 2015 to Europe.

The cost of the trip is expected to be $3,585, which includes sightseeing, entrance passes, plane ticket, hotel stay and daily breakfast and dinner.

Students will travel to Dublin, North Wales, Lake District, London and other locations during the 11-day trip.

“We will be jam packed the whole 11 days with activities. We also have our own personal tour guide throughout the entire trip,” Brown said.

Fundraising options, to raise money for the trip, have not been determined.n -Mikaela Stevenson

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he Placement Task Force is working to present some of the top options for district placement to the Board of Education in February. The school district put together the task force to consider alternatives to its high school placement system after hearing numerous complaints from parents.

District administrators say they want to equally represent and listen to all the viewpoints within the district. They have set up the task force to include students, teachers, parents and board members. Junior Akim Richards represents the students of Maize High and supports using a wide variety of people to work on the task force.

“The reason that [involving the entire community] is good is because we hash out everything that is wrong and right with each option--the pros and cons with different viewpoints,” Richards said.

Currently, the district sends a card to parents, which they mail back indicating their building preference. Of course, most students who attend Maize South Middle -- the bigger middle school -- want to attend Maize South High.

But because Maize High is larger than South, the district says there is no logical way to give everyone their preference without quickly making student populations disproportionate to building size.

Last year, nearly 50 students did not receive their preference, upsetting many students and parents. Twenty-six students appealed to the board for transfer but did not at first receive their wish.

After many appeals and media attention, the district granted all 26 appeals as an immediate, but not sustainable, solution to the problem.

Many in the district are still unhappy with the handling of building placement. A group started a Facebook page called Parent-district.org with the goal of uniting parents and students who felt they were not receiving the basic answers they deserved, parent Karlee

Task force considers new placement options

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Johnson said.

She is one of the administrators of the Facebook group and a mother of two children in the district. She also worked in Maize for nearly six years. She reflected the necessity for the Facebook page from the little communication she received from the district.

“We were getting no answers. There was nobody answering our questions,” Johnson said. “The district office would not see any of us, they would not talk to our kids, so we the parents would meet every other night for 10 days trying to figure out why.”

The group, which began in January, wanted to have its voice heard at board meetings and to discuss possible improvements to the system. However, the group has also spurred some controversy around how it goes about making its voice heard. It has become known in the district for its cartoons and strong words that many feel are mean-spirited and distasteful.

“I understand where they are coming from. But maybe we’ve become a society of facilitators, you don’t always get your way,” social studies teacher Skeeter Rankins said. “On the flip side, this was the can of worms opened in the first place. If I’m a parent, why would I perhaps exploit that? I understand their reasoning -- doesn’t mean I agree with it.”

While the group is unhappy with the district’s handling of the issue, PDO representative Karlee Johnson couldn’t provide specifics for a solution.

However, the Parent-district org group and many others in the district feel this task force is a step in the right direction, but are still skeptical a sensible solution is realistic.

For example, the current system has many criticisms in regard to possible recruitment, especially in the area of sports. Recruitment is difficult to detect, and although Maize does not

face these issues often, the district has set certain precautions for students. To help combat the potential for competition between the two schools, Maize has extended KSHSAA’s current rules. If a student switches schools but maintains the same address, KSHSAA requires the student to sit out for 18 weeks. Maize has not only enforced these rules but added an additional two seasons for students to sit out, a major obstacle for student-athletes.

Another option would be dividing the district by boundaries. Goddard and Lawrence, for example, have adopted this method with minimal conflict.

However, splitting up the district comes with major obstacles.

“I have one concern that I think is really important -- and that is to have a balanced enrollment,” superintendent Doug Powers said. “Our district has some pockets of extreme wealth and pockets of extreme poverty, and I think it’s critical for us as a district to not create a system of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots.’ ” While a boundary system is what many of the district’s critics recommend, it most likely would not solve the problem. Unhappy parents cite separating kids from their friends as their biggest issue with the current system.

But because Maize High is larger than Maize South, the same number of students would still be split up after middle school.

Compromises will be made with each choice.

In any case, both sides have stated they have the same goal -- making the entire district the best it can be.

“The Maize school district is still one school district. No matter which building their kids go to, it’s going to be a great education.” said Lori Buselt, the district’s communications director, “We are all here because its a great place to be.”n maizenews.com | DecemberPlay

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Policing Morality Lawyer questions constitutionality of issuing tickets for language

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he Maize district police department has seen many personnel changes recently, and a new department policy of issuing tickets for language is stirring controversy.

Superintendent Doug Powers said the tickets are nothing new, but other district staff members Play spoke to said they don’t recall the citations being used for language before this year.

Maize High officer Andre Parker said the district keeps no records of the citations it issues. He and chief Bill Riddle are both new to the district, so they were unaware if the citations were used in the past.

Parker said he uses the tickets as a learning opportunity for students about what kind of language is acceptable.

“If you talk like that at your job, you’re going to get fired,” he said.

Powers said the department isn’t issuing citations for every cuss word, only for those that “substantially disrupt.”

But some who received the citations don’t agree they were being disruptive.

“That’s not true. Not at all,” sophomore Nathan Neimann said about what caused the citation he received. He was issued a citation for calling a friend a name at lunch after the friend took food from his lunch tray.

“I can understand a detention, but a $50 ticket? It’s not fair,” he said.

Sophomore Miguel Perna was fined for the same reason, except in a hallway. Perna admits he yelled the word

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and that it could be offensive to some people. But what is considered offensive enough to criminalize and what isn’t?

Parker said he makes his determinations based off of the training he’s had as a police officer.

“Every one of us has been a police officer before [coming to Maize],” he said.

But can students really be fined for language? Because the district’s officers are commissioned police officers, not building security guards, they must stick to enforcing the laws, not building rules, attorney Frank LaMonte said.

Parker said the citation is a disorderly conduct charge for vile and obscene language. Kansas’s disorderly conduct law, however, doesn’t say anything about vile and obscene language.

Kansas state statute 21-6203 sets the law for disorderly conduct. It says that disorderly conduct includes brawling or fighting; disrupting an assembly, meeting or procession; or using fighting words or engaging in noisy conduct to arouse alarm or resentment. The state of Kansas defines fighting words as “words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite the listener to an immediate breach of the peace.”

So if the students aren’t using fighting words, is their speech protected by the first ammendment? LaMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington D.C., says yes.

“Students have the benefit of First

Amendment protection, and I doubt seriously that a ‘zero tolerance for profanity’ policy could constitutionally be enforced at the high school level,” he said.

Parker disagrees.

“Whether they think they have the constitutional right of free speech, they also have the responsibility to be moral in public,” Parker said.

While many could agree that students should speak respectfully in the halls of a school, the United States constitution is still the highest law in the land, LaMonte said. The U.S. Supreme Court case Bethel v. Fraser concluded that school administration can discipline students for vulgar speech in an assembly, but that’s far from police officers issuing fines for language used in a conversation.

“They are on very shaky ground, constitutionally,” LaMonte said.

It's questionable judgment to involve police in this process at all, LaMonte said.

“A person in a police uniform is going to be more intimidating to students than an administrator, and when a police officer hands you a write-up, it's logical to believe you've broken a law,” he said. “If the police do not have anything better to do with their time, then the taxpayers of your district should be asking whether they really want to be spending their money on ‘cursing cops.’ ” n maizenews.com | DecemberPlay

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Coffee with a special purpose

By Katie McLachlan

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MOXI Junction founders plan is to bring together the community and their special individuals. From left to right: Scarlett Tully, Joanna Kilgore, Pat Leon, Chris Leon, Laren Kilgore and Kara Tully.

MOXI Junction will open in Maize this spring

dream is finally becoming a reality for mothers Joanna Kilgore, Pat Leon, Scarlett Tully and Kate Scheer.

MOXI Junction is a coffee shop that will open soon in Maize. But it’s not the average coffee shop. MOXI stands for Mothers of Exceptional Individuals. Three of the women are mothers of Maize graduates with disabilities.

Joanna is the mother of Laren Kilgore.

Laren, who graduated in 2006, was diagnosed with autism, brain damage and epilepsy when he was 1 month old. Pat is the mother of the Chris Leon, who graduated in 2009 and was diagnosed at birth with Down syndrome. Kara Tulley is the daughter of Scarlett. Kara, who

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graduated in 2007, was diagnosed in elementary school with being developmentally delayed.

“The entire reason is the three of us have special young adults, with no jobs and no way to get them a job. So we came up with this idea of a coffee shop so that we can provide them with a job,” Joanna Kilgore, the group’s business developer, said. “It incompasses everything we’ve talked about for 15 years.”

Laren, Chris and Kara will participate in the running of the shop. Because of their disabilities, they tend to lose interest in jobs faster, therefore, making it harder to find creative jobs that they will enjoy.

Laren will be the dishwasher, so there

will be no throwaways except at the drive through. Kara will greet people and possibly help clean tables.

“We also have a garden outside.

Again, based off the fact that some of the kids don’t want to be around the customers,” Joanna Kilgore said. “They would prefer to be out commuting with the flowers and watering them.”

MOXI Junction will serve specialty coffee and baked goods.

“It’s stuff you would find that your grandma would make or your mom would make,” Joanna Kilgore said.

“We’re not looking at fancy, we’re looking at tastes awesome.”

Along with the many hot beverages, there will also be hot chocolate and

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“It wouldn’t be here if we didn’t have special kids, that is it's purpose.” drinks called Italian phosphate, which are flavored drinks with carbonated water.

“Think of it like an old soda fountain,” Joanna Kilgore said.

The coffee shop will also feature an art gallery.There will be unusual photographs, mosaic tables and refurbished furniture.

“It’s really more of an artisan,” Joanna Kilgore said. “It’s not arts and crafts, it’s not museum, we are right in the middle.”

The opening of MOXI Junction has not been easy. It has been three years since the mothers began working on this dream.

The memory of Bob Timmons, who was familiar face where MOXI is located, played into Joanna Kilgore’s inspiration for her son.

Timmons, who died in 2005, lived on West Central in his yellow, two-bedroom house. He would sit on his front porch, smiling and waving to the children who passed by on their way to school..

“I thought Laren would like to be Bob. Autism loves things that move, and I just thought he should be Bob,” Joanna said.

Because the house was on the bus route, she wanted it even with the roof and the walls caving in. The only way she could get the house was to also buy two nearby properties before they were auctioned.

When her husband, Leonal Kilgore, asked her what she was going to do with the other properties, she said she told him “more housing and these kids need a job. I have these awesome artist friends who need to show their work.”

Thinking of what would make people come in, she thought coffee.

“So we started with a very simple idea that we were going to serve coffee from air pots,” Joanna Kilgore said. “And it has morphed into way beyond that.”

That was three years ago.

“It’s really a coming together of hopes and dreams and everything we’ve been talking about for years,” Joanna Kilgore said.

MOXI Junction plans to open in the spring of 2014. n

Cheyenne Esser

Laren Kilgore, Kara Tully and Chris Leon are former Maize students who will work at the MOXI Junction coffee shop when it opens. “It’s really a coming together of hopes and dreams and everything we’ve been talking about for years,” said Joanna Kilgore, one of the shop’s founding parents.

Charcter In Action opportunities MOXI Junction will need volunteers to help before and after it opens. Here’s a look at some things En-Cor classes can do to help out. n Landscaping (mowing, planting, gardening, etc.) n Performing music or hanging art in gallery n Clean and shine chrome silverware n Help with fundraisers Contact your En-Cor teacher if interested.

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10 lifestyles Callie Kanngiesser wakes up around 5:30 Junior every morning like a lot of other Maize students

but she goes to work before she goes to school.

Kanngiesser wakes up early in the morning to feed her horse his hay and grain. This is the unique morning routine classifies her as somewhat of a cowgirl.

Kanngiesser is often referred to as a cowgirl.

Most people would be wrong. More specifically she would be a rancher.

She dedicates much of her time to working on her grandparents’ farm 60 miles away. The farm consists of 60 head of cattle and bulls raised to butcher.

“I worked on a cow farm my whole life. It’s fun, and I like that it’s challenging,” Kanngiesser said.

During the summer, Kanngiesser and her cousins always get together with their horses and work cattle on the farm.

“I’ve also got my horse and when we go to my grandparents’ in the summer my cousins and I always get together on our horses and work cattle,” Kanngiesser said.

Farmers and ranchers are often just referred to as cowboys and cowgirls by the city goers who don’t understand the life of a farmer.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Kansas ranked 13th in the United States net farm income in 2012.Therefore, farming and ranching play a big part in bringing home the bacon.

Farming is more of a physical labor dealing with hay and grain while ranching is mostly with animals, Kanngiesser said.

Applied technology teacher John Albin owns two farms, one at his house and the other farther out of town.

“At my farm we have an orchard, chickens and we are getting a miniature Jersey cow. I’ve been in agriculture my whole life and I love doing it,” Albin said.

Farming is a lot like school, where outcomes often depend on effort.

“My favorite thing about farming is that it applies to everybody, because unless you don’t want to eat tonight, you need to know about farming,” Albin said. “My second favorite thing are the animals. I like watching them and seeing how productive they are. It’s amazing.”

Teacher one day, cowboy the next. Physics teacher Stan Bergkamp is in the same boat as Albin but with a bit of a twist.

“I live on a farm/ranch on the northeast side of town. My typical day just depends on the season,” Bergkamp said.

Bergkamp will sell round bails of hay in the winter time whenever someone needs them. So after school, he might go home, get right on the tractor and load up the hay. Sometimes he will

haul it, and other times the buyer will pick it up. Between the middle of August to the end of May, he doesn’t spend a lot of time on the farm.

“My brother owns a lot of cattle, so sometimes I have to go out there and help him,” Bergkamp said. “If we have a big snow storm coming in, I’ll go over there and help him.”

Tending to the crops and animals consumes a good portion of time, so Bergkamp can’t always find the time to get out there during the school year.

“I like farming because it’s very soothing,” Bergkamp said.

“My favorite part is the challenge of always fighting something. You’re either fighting the weather, the tractor breaking, too much rain or not enough, it’s too hot, or too cold.

So nothing is ever a given with farming.”

He grew up on a farm so he has always been involved in farming except for when he was in the Peace Corps in Africa.

“I’ve got the teacher side of me, and then I’ve got the farmer/rancher side of me. It’s a nice balance. And when school gets done, that’s when it’s time to start puttin’ up hay,” Bergkamp said.

Even though it may be a lot at times, all three get up the next day and do it all again.

“If you make it work, there’s some element of luck, but it’s also the reward that you get for the effort that you put into it,” Bergkamp said.n

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-John Albin, teacher

Junior Callie Kanngiesser stands with her horse Ace, which she has had for three years. “Falling in love with him was the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”

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HOLIDAYHYPE

By BĂŠle Benard

Top left to right: Alli Pieschl, sophomore; Amanda Kwasniak, senior; Jared Farber, junior. Bottom left to right: Sandy Carlo, sophomore; Kassidy Watkins, junior; Nicole Grimes, junior.

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13 With Christmas just around the corner, holiday spirit is filling the air.

Instagram and other social-media sites are filled with Christmas spirit and cold-weather activities. Also, to prep for the holidays, Art Club visited Karg Glass Dec. 5 to make personalized glass ornaments.

Photos by BĂŠle Benard and Brooke Johanson

Top left to right: Angelina Wiglesworth, junior; Terry Bussart, art teacher. Chloe Cloud, junior.

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Cyber Controversy Now that social media is a growing component in many teens’ lives, schools and students address negative consequences

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witter, Facebook and Instagram are all major components of teens daily lives. Whether or not kids know it, social media sites can affect not only their lives, but another’s as well.

So whats the big deal? All of these social networks won’t matter in the next couple of years, right?

Wrong.

The truth is, social media affects our lives significantly. Nearly everything posted on social media sites is visible to the public. Students’ entire lives are available at anyone’s fingertips.

Potential employers and some schools are more frequently checking profiles of students online.

Whether or not you’re bullying someone over the Internet or making poor decisions, consequences of these decisions could potentially haunt you in the future. A survey from Reppler recently showed that more than 90 percent of recruiters will check your profiles online.

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By Kalee Betzen about a quarter of those teens experience it regularly. Twenty percent of kids being cyberbullied consider suicide.

Although a growing issue among teens everywhere, few inform their parents or adults.

“I think it’s a serious issue at our school between Twitter, Instagram, different social media sites and even texting,” assistant principal Beth Schmidt said. “It’s a 24/7 problem that some kids can’t get away from.”

“I deal with it about one to three times a week.”

Cyberbullying is notorious at schools everywhere for creating conflict between students and, more importantly, affecting their learning environment.

“It leads to dirty looks or it leads to isolation,” Schmidt said.

However, Schmidt said the school doesn’t intervene until they feel that it affects the learning environment.

“We don’t go out and look for it, it’s usually brought to us, and that could be either by our anonymous bullying site that we have on our website, it might be a parent calling it in or a student bringing it to our attention.”

This is a problem no different

than any other district or school in the country, Director of Human Resources Deanna Gooch said.

“You may have thought you were joking, but that’s not a defense for cyberbullying,” Gooch said. “I might be joking and my intent was for you to think it was funny, but if it hurts your feelings it’s not OK.” Punishments for cyberbullying vary from detentions to occasional expulsions.

“If it’s a repeat offense and if somebody has received warnings, it just depends on the severity of it,” Schmidt said.

“We take threats very seriously, and if it is inappropriate language, like nasty name calling, it would have a more severe punishment.”

While issues can often be dealt with at the building level, they sometimes are brought to Gooch. As human resources director, she acts as the district’s expulsion hearing officer.

“We are very serious about dealing with it, so if a student does get brought to an expulsion hearing dealing with cyberbullying, it’s going to be a really, really tough day for that student and their family,” Gooch said.

Gooch said cyberbullying is the worst

kind of bullying because it leaves a mark on a student that everyone can see.

“Now everybody knows about something mean said about you,” she said.

Intentional or unintentional, students using social media are capable of upsetting others and creating conflict.

Senior Alec Edmisten unintentionally sparked an uproar from offended classmates after tweeting “I wish Maize High was more of a family like Maize South is.”

“It was my opinion; I felt it was true,” Edmisten said.

Many students were quick to reply to Edmisten’s tweet. One of those students was senior Drew Johnson, who responded to Edmisten’s tweet by suggesting that Edmisten attend Maize South if he really felt that way.

“I have a lot of school spirit and it bothered me seeing people who go here feel that way,” Johnson said.

“I wasn’t trying to be rude.”

Although many responses to his tweet didn’t have negative intentions, it proved to many just what controversy can come from a simple post.

Another student who responded, junior Justin Haggard, felt the same way.

Even more controversy fueled the fire as Haggard responded to Johnson’s tweet to Edmisten by saying “Someone get him a body bag.”

“It upset me when I saw that someone didn’t enjoy going to Maize High,” Haggard said.

“I wouldn’t say it was rude [Edmisten’s tweet], but if you don’t like it here, you have the option to go somewhere else.”

Within hours, students from Maize and Maize South were quick to voice their opinion over the tweet and which school they preferred.

Haggard in a later conversation explained his tweet meant no threat but was a response explaining how Johnson dissed Edmisten.

Haggard says he doesn’t regret what he said.

“It’s over with now, so it doesn’t really affect me.”

Haggard doesn’t see Edmisten any differently and wasn’t trying to offend him, he said.

He also said that he is usually careful about what he posts online and saw his response as just.

“I didn’t expect the responses I got at all; it blew up. They just made me feel like I did in the beginning,” Edmisten said.

Edmisten feels prideful that his fellow classmates proved his point by the amount who responded and because they did so quickly.

“I’m always conscious about what I post. … I wasn’t trying to offend him. I think we’re still friends,” Johnson said.n

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arching band season was at its peak with the beginning of our first competition at Valley Center. The band had been practicing for months along with extra help after school. Knowing that it would be important for the color guard to look good, I took all my weapons home to practice. I spent hours on basic maneuvers and even more time on the show work. Pshh, I got this. Why should I worry?

Stay silent.

Stand erect.

Eyes forward.

Focus.

I’m ready to take the field.

Movement 1.

Flawless.

Movement 2.

Spotless.

Movement 3.

CLANG. Get back in.

Remember, don’t react.

CLANG. I’ll get the next one.

CLANG. It was the wind.

CLANG. Seriously, that was only a single.

CLANG. CLANG. CLANG. Shoot!

I HAVE to catch the ending toss!

CLANG. Dropped every toss.

Exiting the field was the worst. I had to pick up that “thing.”

That “thing” that slashed my wrist.

That “thing” that made my face bloody.

That “thing” that I could never catch.

That “thing” that made me frustrated.

That “thing” that made my make-up runny when I left the field.

I felt so worthless and disowned from color guard. My hard work didn’t show on the field. I took so much extra time trying to look good, which got me nowhere. So, I thought, what do I do about it?

Keep going.

And I kept going.

And even better, I’m still going.

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Reopen Spirit Central during En-Cor

By Gabby Hermes for the Play Editorial Board

Gabby Hermes

Business has been slow at Spirit Central after being shut down during En-Cor.

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n an effort to stop students from wandering around during EnCor, principal Chris Botts ordered that Spirit Central, the school store, be closed during the period. While student accountability is important and should be dealt with, closing the store has dramatically affected sales and punishes the wrong people. Building administration should implement other solutions for keeping students where they should be.

Botts said the store needed to be closed because some students were using the store as an excuse to sneak around and break rules.

“We shut it down because students were going to the store without stamps, not going straight back to their En-Cors and hanging out in the lunch room,” Botts said. “Students weren’t utilizing En-Cor in the manner with which it was developed.”

The biggest problem with closing the store during En-Cor isn’t that it’s an inconvenience for students. Profits from Spirit Central are used to fund Business Professionals of America’s trip to nationals each year. Closing the store during its peak sales period is costing

BPA $60 to $75 a day, BPA adviser Penny McAnulty said.

According to Spirit Central’s general manager Molly Green, the store has been closed for 25 days and the total amount lost has been $1,000 - $1,250.

“We did take this into consideration,” Botts said. “We arent saying this is a permanent solution but, on the other hand, students can be more resourceful by going in the morning or during lunch.”

Botts said that the change has helped to solve the school’s problem of students wandering in the hallways. While it is true that there is less traffic during En-Cor lately, this is more likely because students know administrators are walking the halls threatening detentions.

“Generally, we feel we could maybe come to a solution to fix the problem,” McAnulty said.

Senior Olivia Baalman has come up with a possible solution.

“We came up with a pass system idea,” Baalman said. “We would give each En-Cor teacher some kind of pass where they could check in and out students to the store. They would sign

out with their name and what time they left and then we would check them in the store and check them out so that way students wouldn’t be able to just wander the halls. And if they did, they would be caught.”

Botts declined the idea, saying it could be a possibility in the future, but not anytime soon.

Baalman’s solution is simple, sustainable and fully implementable.

Spirit Central workers could give students a slip saying what time they entered and left the store that they could return to their En-Cor teachers.

A slightly different solution could be for Spirit Central to keep a record on a spreadsheet that teachers could access.

Store workers could even email or instant message teachers with the times students entered and left the store.

We acknowledge that these solutions would require a little more work for both teachers and store workers, but it is not fair, or necessary, to punish everyone for the crimes of a few.

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Textbooks vs. iPads

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By Jet Warren

aize is using tablet computers in some math classes this year to test their effectiveness in comparison to traditional textbooks. According to instructional technology coordinator Jennifer Kern, if the program proves successful it could be implemented district wide.

Math teacher Jenny Meirowsky, whose classes are testing iPads, said each student would be loaned a tablet with a protective case, stylus and a textbook app programmed into it. Students could use apps to complete their assignments and turn them in online.

Meirowsky has been piloting the iPads, while math teacher Jo Fair has been piloting Microsoft Surface tablets.

Both are proving to be a huge success, the teachers said.

“It’s been great, and I think students would agree as well,” Meirowsky said.

“Of course, I think that any time we get to use technology in the classroom is great because that is where the future is heading.”

Apple offers free software, called iBooks Author, that allows teachers to create and distribute interactive textbooks to their students. The textbooks can include movies, slideshows and quizzes custom made by the teacher.

Some teachers, however, still believe textbooks are the best option.

“I think it is hard to replace a textbook,” math teacher Roger Pierce said.

“So for math, I think a textbook is the way to go.”

Kern explained that if the school upgraded the old textbooks to newer textbooks then they would probably be more online driven, as well as be up to date on information.

“It depends on the curriculum for the way to go,” Kern said. “English might work better with a textbook, while math might work better with an iPad. It really depends on the curriculum.”

Kern said the findings from the pilot program will be taken to the school board later this year. n

Officer conducts self-defense classes

By Alexis Loudermilk stranger confronted English throughout the school year to help teacher Rachel Keith at gunpoint students and staff prepare for lifeand demanded her possessions as she threatening situations. The classes was walking towards the KU campus are open to a limit of 10 students last year. and staff during En-Cor. “He was wearing a ski mask and “You’d be surprised if you’re scared baggy clothes. If you think of your and have adrenaline how strong you cliche ‘hold up,’ that’s what it was are. The stuff I teach in the selflike,” Keith said. defense class is stuff I use. It’s practiShe felt like all she could do at the cal,” Parker. moment was hand over her phone Parker gave advice, though, for and iPod. students and staff who find them“I still have a little bit of residual selves in a situation similar to Keith. paranoia left over. I still do not go “A life cannot be replaced,” he said. outside by myself at night,” Keith “In that instance it’s best to comply said. “I’m much more aware of my with them and give them your stuff.” surroundings when it’s dark.”

Librarian Marlene Meckenstock Keith recommends seniors should has found herself such a situation know how to defend themselves once. She heard a door open and since most will be leaving home for strangers whispering when she was college next year. home alone at night. Her roommate “I think it’s important because you returned to the house at 3 a.m., never know when it’s going to hapheard her screaming and called the pen,” Keith said. police.

Officer Andre Parker is offering “I was petrified for at least six a self-defense class once a month months to a year,” she said. “When

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you’re younger, you’re braver. You think nothing’s going to happen.

I don’t have that reaction now. I’m much more careful.”

The police arrived at the empty house and taught Meckenstock how to sandwich keys between her knuckles for self-defense.

“I think a self-defense class would make you more conscience that there are dangers out there and what situations bring that danger. Our world is getting crazier and crazier,” she said.

Parker’s advice to students and staff in similar situations is to leave the house. But if family members are still in the house “it’s time to fight.”

These two women are living witnesses that life-threatening events could happen to anyone.

“It’s important for everyone to know self-defense,” Parker said. “We don’t live in a nice world anymore.

It’s important to know how to protect yourself and your family.”

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New game consoles hit shelves Updated versions of both Sony’s Playstation and Microfoft’s Xbox were released in November, just in time for holiday shopping.

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icrosoft and Sony released their next generation game consoles in November, just time for the holiday season.

Microsoft’s Xbox One was released Nov. 22 at the price of $499.99. The Sony Playstation Four was released Nov. 15 at a price of $399.99 The new Xbox offers more home entertainment features than its predecessor with a mix of games and apps for an allin-one console. TV apps include ESPN, NFL, Netflix, HBO Go. The new Xbox also includes a Blu-Ray player, a feature the Playstation already had.

Junior Ramsey Jamaleddine bought a PS4 and three games to go with it on opening day at Target.

“I wanted to get the [new] Playstation because of the cost of it. It’s faster and [has] better graphics,” Jamaleddine said, comparing it to Xbox One. While Microsoft looks to improve the Xbox’s home entertainment features, Sony stuck to Playstation’s roots and improved its gaming features. It added a creative hub to share games, involve social media and reward gamers with

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points.

Both companies touted new games that were available on their console only.

For Playstation, those include “Killzone Shadow Fall,” “Knack,” “Drive Club,” “Infamous Second Son” and “Order 1886.”

Games available only on Xbox One include “Dead Rising Three,” “Forza Motorsports Five,” “Ryse: Son of Rome,” and a new “Halo” game.

Popular games “Madden 25,” “Destiny,” “Watch_Dogs,” “Assassin’s Creed Four,” “Battlefield Four,” “Call of Duty: Ghosts” and “Fifa 14” will be on both consoles.

Sony added a touch screen to its new controller for expanded gaming features, plus a wider grip for comfort for gamers. Sony also added a share button that allows live-stream, photos and videos to be shared on social media sites.

Microsoft added a “pick up and play” feature to its controller, allowing users to turn on the system simply by picking up the controller.

Each game consoles offer the same graphics card, with PS4 offering a little

bit more smoother game graphics than the Xbox One. Xbox One has better color.

Both run on AMD “Jaguar” CPU. The Wall Street Journal reported that Xbox One had more sales than the PS4 on Black Friday at both Target and Walmart. n

Top: Playstation Four. Below: Xbox One. Photo credit: IGN

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very year, little kids wait through the night with anticipation for the sun to come up so they can rip open their freshly wrapped gifts. There have been great gifts, not so great gifts, gag gifts and gifts that bring emotion to your heart. Play asked students to share what gifts they’ve received that meant the most to them.

By Delanie Pierce “My favorite Christmas gift would have to be my Camero my parents got me,” junior Kendal Mcguire said, “my other car was getting old and trashy so I loved getting my new one.”

“One year, my aunt got a Frosted Flakes box and put a banana inside,” sophomore Nayeli Cano said. “There ended up being money at the bottom of the box but I actually thought she had given me cereal.”

“When I was 13 Santa got me a Chocolate lab, “ junior Meghan Grimes said, “even though it is a girl, I named her Brady.”

“I got a limited edition Denver Broncos football from my dad,” senior Chase White said. “It was the first Broncos item I received, which started my love for the Broncos.”

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By Justin Noble

ost high school athletes focus on a sport for about four months, then move on to another or take a break. But for some, there is no off-season. Once high school season ends, they play for a club team to get better and possibly build a career from their sport.

Sophomores Alan Sanchez and Ashley Zane play club soccer to prepare themselves for school soccer. It takes up a lot of time for both of them.

“Every weekend I have to go to tournaments,” Sanchez said. “I would rather have free time.”

Zane and Sanchez have been playing soccer since they were little.

“I started when I was 5 years old,” Zane said. “I’ve been with that team for 10 years.”

Zane hopes to play soccer in college and possibly professionally.

“I mean, if I work hard enough, maybe,” she said.

Sanchez also plans on playing soccer in college.

“But I plan on a better career than that,” he said.

Junior Si Luc is in a club to prepare for the upcoming track season. Running in college is a huge goal and he thinks club can help him achieve that.

“I really want to improve on my running,” Luc said.

Club has also given Luc something to do instead of being bored.

“There is really nothing else I would do.” he said. “I’ve dedicated a lot of my time to running.”

Club takes most of his time, so hanging out with friends will become difficult for Luc. “It’s not that big of a deal for me because I can still talk to them during school time,” Luc said.

Ky-Sean Johnson, a junior who transferred from Wichita Northwest, plays AAU basketball in the summer.

During the fall, he said he works out at the YMCA. “I just love basketball,” Johnson said.

“I was raised in a house that loves basketball.”

Johnson said that with the help of club and high school basketball, he could have a future in the sport beyond high school.

“Hopefully, if these next few seasons

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Sophomore Alan Sanchez has played club soccer since he was little.

Junior Ky-Sean Johnson plays basketball for a club team over the summer.

Junior Si Luc is running track this winter in order to prepare for high school season.

Sophomore Preston Barley swims club year around, preparing for High School.

go well,” Johnson said.

Sophomore Preston Barley swims club while waiting for his high school season to begin. Club swimming takes up most of Barley’s weekends because of meets or practice.

“I can’t really do anything Friday night,” Barley said. “Saturday I’m always tired, and so I go to sleep early. So it affects it a lot.”

Barley gave up playing football to swim year-round.

“I didn’t want to get hurt in football,” Barley said. “I wasn’t as interested as I used to be.”

Overall, swimming is something Barley loves to do although he gave up a lot for the sport.

“Its just one of those sports that I’m good at and I like and enjoy it,” Barley said.n

Sophomore Ashley Zane plays club soccer year-round.

Seniors begin last season T

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By Mikaela Stevenson

he crowd goes wild as the basketball players get the winning point at the last second and the student section goes into an uproar of excitement. For bowling, wrestling and swimming, getting to hear the results from the previous meet gives the player a rush of excitement. Entering into the winter sports season there are incoming freshman and outgoing seniors. For some this is their first year of playing in

high school, then there are the seniors. This is the last season for them to shoot that winning basket, win the last wrestling match, swim the last meter in the race and knocking the pins down for the last time.

Seniors Brayden Byrd, Aaron Shaw, Ariana Perez, Aaron Ake, Colin Olson and Jacob Wilgers have high hopes for their last season with the Eagles.n

Wilgers does nothing but wrestling.

During the summer he is in a summer club wrestling, then when that is over is in another club wrestling until the school season starts.

“I go to the YMCA to lift weights a lot in my free time,” Wilgers said.

“I am kind of excited that it is my last year, I’m ready to move on since I have been doing wrestling for so many years.”

Shaw is in BPA and is the vicepresident of StuCo in addition to playing basketball.

To encourage the team Shaw says, “If they make a mistake I help them out and tell them to keep their head up.”

“It’s definitely bittersweet that it’s my last year playing. It’s something I love doing but knew it had to come to an end at some point.”

Ake is involved in FFA and pep band along with bowling.

“Going to state and getting a 220 average would be my goals for this season,” Ake said.

“It is kind of sad that it is my senior year since I’m not going to be bowling next year.”

On a daily basis, Ake spends about one to two hours practicing to improve skills outside of the school practices.

Olson is involved in NHS, Cross Country and FFA along with swimming.

Staying healthy and making it to finals are Olson’s hopes for this coming season.

“I try to make sure that everyone does their best.”

“There has been a lot of sacrifices to balance my swim life, social life and school.”

Ariana Perez is involved with multiple activities outside of bowling, like scholars bowl, band, NHS and chemistry club. “[Coach Dave] Walker wants us to take bowling seriously.”

“I think that it is kind of weird, looking back to freshman year I was scared and towards the bottom and now I’m here, a senior on the team.”

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Byrd is in several activities other than basketball. She serves on the Red Rage board and also plays softball.

“Some goals we have are to be league, sub-state and state champions,” Byrd said. “I would like to mesh as a team better and focus on our defensive team.”

“It is bittersweet that it is my last year and it will suck at the last game,” Byrd said.

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