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issue 2 / september 19, 2005 / 7500 mission road prairie village, kansas

Home from Houston: TOP RIGHT: local school nurse, Kay Heley, returns from the trip to Houston. TOP LEFT: Elmora Sumler talks to news crews after arrival. BOTTOM: Tom Are and Michael Koch shake hands upon bus’s arrival at Village Church. photos by Emily Rappold and Katie James

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page 2 / news / the harbinger

Memorial Fundraiser

Second fundraiser held in honor of Lauren Brenner

by libby nachman

The clunk of croquet balls being hit could be heard

throughout Mark and Marilee Brenner’s neighborhood.

They were hosting their second fund-raiser, a combination croquet-and-golf tournament. The funds raised were for the Lauren Brenner Memorial Fund, established in memory of their daughter, Lauren, who died four years ago. She would have been a senior this year.

According to Mrs. Brenner, the event has so far raised about $10,000, and will be donated to a local program called Smiles Change Lives. This program helps to pay for the kids of low-income families to get orthodontia and other medical helped needed to improve their smiles. It was chosen because Lauren’s smile is what people best remember about her.

The two 12-hole courses, that wound their way through the yards of surrounding friends and neighbors, ended up at a barbecue dinner and dance in the Brenner’s backyard. The people invited were friends, coworkers and people who were there for the Brenners following Lauren’s death. In all, 150 people attended on Sat. Sept. 10.

The suggested fee for entering the tournament was $50 per person, but in addition to that, invites could sponsor either a wicket for $50 or a hole for $100. All 24 wickets and 24 holes were sponsored.

The fundraiser was a success, thanks to the friends of Lauren and her family. “They talked about her smile,” Mrs. Brenner said. “They’ve helped us keep her memory alive.”

Contract Pending NEA-SM concerns have stopped teachers from receiving contracts

by sara steinwart

Remembering Lauren: ABOVE a painting of Lauren hung during the croquet game. RIGHT Mr. Brenner speaks to his guests about the day. photos by emily rappold

Position of the NEA-SM *They did not reject the salary

The National Education Association (NEA) of offer.

Shawnee Mission has filed an unfair labor practice *They want to return to the against the Shawnee Mission School District. They table to discuss the remaining are filing it because the district had terminated the issues. negotiations with the teachers’ union and the NEA SM *The outstanding issues were still feels that the negotiations were not complete. They identified as important to are still waiting for a date to meet with the Kansas Labor teachers, based on the NEARelations Officer to see if the negotiations should be re- SM surveys. opened. *Protect their right to bargain There are four monetary issues that the NEA thinks and be heard at the table. should be renegotiated. The first is a change in the sick leave bank, making it teacher funded, and not necessary to pay back the days. The rest of the issues are a change in the deduct days, so that teachers would lose only the cost of the substitute’s pay, a $1000 stipend for secondary teachers whose work load was increased to teaching six classes instead of five and compensation for unused sick days. Until the Kansas Labor Relations Officer sees the case, the Shawnee Mission School District teachers will not have contracts. Due to the teachers not having contracts, their pay and schedules are not set.

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Cooler Text What: Coupons from local merchants Where: Straight to cell phones When: Whenever a new promotion or coupon is available How: Sign up at www.smesports.com Why: To raise money for the all sports booster club and to connect to community to local business

Mole day no more Due to Mr. Appier’s busy schedule, there will be no Mole Day this year by kristen crawford At 6:02 in the morning on October 23 the cafeteria is traditionally crawling with mole fanatics of all ages, only this year the cafeteria will be unusually quiet. Mole Day for 2005 is on hold. Mr. Appier, the main sponsor, says that after being given six classes this year he will be unable to find the time to plan the annual event. Mole Day was initially started by the Chemistry classes to give students an interactive approach to an important part of the course and became a tradition. However, for Mole enthusiasts, there is still hope. The Chemistry II IB students are trying to convince sponsors to allow them to plan the event with minimal input from teachers.

“It’s a tradition and I know when I was in Chem. 1 I enjoyed the extra credit and had fun,” said junior Ben Belz. If the students do take on the task they will have to organize for food donations, set up games, and supervise the event. For chemistry students however it is well worth the work, “I was looking forward to having it and I would be disappointed if it didn’t occur,” Belz said.

Petition for Esmie New Counseling Who: Junior Alex Horwitz Website What: Spreads a petition in attempt to Who: Counseling office

What: a website for students and parents sharing important counseling information as well as dates and deadlines

make a dent in Blue Valley North student, Esmie Tseng’s trial of her murdering her mother

Why: To attempt to get her tried as a juvenile and receive a possible sentence of juvenile detention until age 25 instead of Where: www.smecounselor.org being tried as an adult and receiving live in prison Why: To help inform and guide parents and students through How: By getting as many people as poscounseling inquires sible to sign a petition stating their agreement that she should be tried as a juvenile

issue 2 / september 19, 2005 / opinion / page 3

affected

affections Teens have trouble distinguishing the superficial from the real thing

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an opinion of cay fogel I’ve always had a thing for quiet people. I don’t know why, maybe just because I’m not one. There’s something deeply respectable about silence; about not needing to show off. No outward confirmation necessary.

Unfortunately, teenagers are not known for their silence.

Not when it comes to music, parties, attitudes, or love. This final subject is what I’m hoping to touch upon. I feel that on the whole, teenagers are given a bad wrap when it comes to love and the execution of romantic relationships. The world is full of hormonal teenage stereotypes, flaunting their sexuality and making out in janitor closets. I would say that these stereotypes are unfair (like most stereotypes), but the thing is, we don’t do much to combat the attitude. Some relationships between people our age have a sloppiness, a hyperactivity, as though they won’t see each other in half an hour or a day or two days. As if they’re in such a terrible, loud rush that they can’t just be buddies with one another.

They can only be one thing, and that involves constant physical contact and attachment. They can only mean that

one thing to each other.

It doesn’t bother me that this rushing loudness may give the wrong impression to adults. I don’t care if we impress them as mature or interesting or intelligent, because I know this has nothing to do with the truth about us. It’s just that everything is a lot newer to us, so we have to play around with how to handle it. And besides, there is something satisfying about grabbing someone in the hallway and sucking their face off.

But I think a lot of teenagers are under the impression that if they lose that physical contact, if they don’t display to the people around them that they’re “together”, then the relationship becomes less of a genuine article. It takes a little more time (maturity?) to realize that relationships aren’t about what other people see. It takes a greater level of comfort between two people to spend time together and not hang all over each other than it does to be constantly touching, or standing beside them, or talking about them.

We treat each other like new toys, frantically played with for fear that the fun is limited and too quickly spent.

A lot of girls seem to sacrifice their personalities to be flirty and false around new boyfriends, and although people are only looking for ways to make their relationship seem meaningful and real, this makes relationships seem vapid and thoughtless. When you see the two making out with one another in the pavilion, and she’s on his lap, and it’s such a

stupid, empty gesture you can’t help but scoff. How can a moment be meaningful or important or anything but horny when it’s had on a park bench surrounded by fifteen likeminded, smoking teenagers, laughing and goading on.

There seems to be a loss of dignity. I believe we’re all seeking real emotion, but we’re cheapening ourselves incredibly by confining the expression.

It’s not a terrible fault, and it’s not hard to understand.

We’re new to the whole thing. You meet somebody new and you want to talk about it, you want other opinions, you want recognition and reassurance and excitement. You want to wring all the truth out of it, feel every bit of it, experience it completely. The first thought is to share it.

On the other hand, there is an incredible classiness in people who don’t get sucked in. There is something profound about a relationship that nobody knows about; not because it’s secret, but because no extra weight or meaning is gained by the rest of the world knowing. It has nothing to do with showing off; it’s quiet. Quiet and somehow more real. There is never any doubt as to whether or not such people matter to each other. If it’s not about showing off to other people or creating an image or making you feel good, then there’s nothing left for it to be about but honest emotion, untouched by drama and frivolousness.

Delayed Proaction

The government was unprepared and slow reacting to the Katrina crisis an opinion of ally heisdorffer The waste infested flood waters in New Orleans, littered with decomposing bodies, sewage and life threatening bacteria got my attention fairly quickly. Never did I imagine something of this magnitude would happen in my lifetime with all of the technology and preventative resources we have today. If we can build a dam 725 feet tall made up of 66 million tons of concrete, why couldn’t we stop flood waters from drowning 80 percent of a well established city?

New Orleans was supposed to fix their deteriorating levees some time ago, but with the war going on in Iraq, the federal government decided that funding for the war was much more important than natural disaster prevention in their own nation. Louisiana could not support the funds for the levees with two thirds of the state below the poverty line, so it was an impossible task for them to pay for the restoration themselves.

Even before the hurricane, the government had neglected the poverty issue in New Orleans. There should’ve been programs started ages ago to help the poor population of

Louisiana. The looting and crime that resulted during and after the hurricane was not an uncommon occurrence to the people there. Crime has been a long-standing issue in Louisiana and should’ve been dealt with more properly and got sufficient attention way before the hurricane even hit.

According to nationalstatistics.com, in 2000, Louisiana was ranked as having the fourth highest total crime index, and rannked first for violent murders. Not only are these people victims of a horrible disaster, but they are also the victims of a neglectful government and poverty.

Bush’s reaction to the crime that occurred after the hurricane, such as looting and murders, was simply that it “would not be tolerated.” Perhaps he overlooked the fact that there are families down there starving and dehydrated because of the government’s lack of response. Not only was there a slow and insufficient response, but the since resigned head of security at the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA), Michael Brown, was completely incompetent in the matter. He openly admitted to being unprepared for Katrina saying that he thought it was going to be a “standard storm,” although the National Weather Service had already made a statement that it was going to be one of the most disastrous hurricanes history had ever seen.

Brown should never have been a candidate for the position because of his lack of experience and inadequate resume,

now hundreds of people have suffered for Bush’s stupid mistake of appointing him. Obviously Bush was mistaken when he praised Brown on his visit to Mobile, Alabama saying, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” Did he not take a good look around?

Bush can’t even begin to apologize for placing a man in a department where he was completely unskilled and inexperienced just because he had helped him out during his campaign. One hundred and fifty-four people have already been counted dead, and this doesn’t include those that are being found dead in their homes daily. Bush was willing to sacrifice these lives to repay a debt of gratitude. How is Bush supposed to apologize to the people who had to watch family member’s starve to death in their own homes because relief was not sent quickly enough?

To try and make up for his unacceptable response to Katrina, Bush made out a check for $10.5 billion to help repair the damage. Well thanks, Bush, for all your support, but maybe next time you should place someone into head of national security who didn’t prievously train Arabian horses Right now, the people of America are showing more effort than the government by giving their time and money to the victims of the hurricane. If only the government could be as responsive as the people, then maybe our nation would feel safe.

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Parking Lot INVASION

When the administration decided to set aside 20 parking spots invaders are not parking in the back spots, but are instead taking at the back of the senior lot for the use of juniors, they made the prime time spaces. By allowing a few juniors the privilege of an intelligent decision that took into account an imbalance in parking on the worst spaces in senior lot where seniors rarely the number of juniors and seniors parking on campus and the park, more of the good spots are protected. number of parking spots in each lot.

Despite the obvious advantages the new parking policy offers, Every morning the junior parking lot some seniors have resisted. There have is a zoo. Cars are zipping around, brakes been days when all the juniors parked The allocation of twen- legally in the senior lot have had their cars are screeching, and horns are blaring. This year, the school issued 351 junior parking tagged. Some have even had their cars ty parking spots in the permits; the junior lot holds only 230 cars. egged. The students carrying out these senior lot for juniors is If you want a spot, you have to get to school actions on legally parked cars are not only before 7:10. In the rush to park, tension being obtuse, they are vandals. beneficial to everyone. rises and accidents become more and more The new parking policy still leaves likely. seniors with more spaces than they On the other hand, the senior lot is need and decreases the likelihood of almost never full. There were only 308 underclassman parking senior lot and parking permits issued to seniors in 2005, filling up the valuable spots. It eases the and the senior lot has the capacity to hold tension in the junior lot, as well, leading to agree disagree absent approximately 380 students. Seniors can a safer driving environment on campus. arrive as late as they want and still get a spot. If there are so many unused senior parking spots every day and such a dearth of junior spaces, than it is only logical to do a little bit of rearranging. No harm is done to seniors, who still have a comfortable margin of fifty-two extra parking spaces avaliable each day.

Senior Lot Capacity: Unfortunately, it is all too common for a junior who is a little bit behind schedule to arrive and, upon finding the junior lot full, commit the most egregious of campus parking errors. Yes, Seniors With Permit: there have been times when juniors and sophomores, for fear of being late to class, have decided to park senior lot. This creates a real problem for seniors, because the majority of the time the

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Tom woke up for another day at SME. He looked in the mirror and told himelf “it’s great to be a Lancer!” and got ready for school.

He ate a good breakfast and drove the speed limit all the way to Delmar.

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Now Tom was faced with an ethical dilemma: park in a senior spot or try his luck at the junior lot. What if a senior sees him and tags his SUV? What if he gets a ticket? More importantly, what if he gets a tardy just sitting here trying to decide?

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He gleaned the parking lot for a specially marked junior spot.

Alas! They had all been filled!

Tom decided to take a chance. He pulled in carefully and shifted to park.

He quietly closed his door and slunk around the forest of vehicles so as not to be noticed. He tried not to seem guilty as he approached the SRO office, WHEN--

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Tom died.

TOO LATE! A senior leapt from his hiding spot beneath a hedge, wielding a sharpened stick with such ferocity it would make Achilles blush. The battle thereafter was short.

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Epilepsy by davin phillips

Junior Kelsey Lehman’s eyes opened and her mother came into focus. She seemed worried, frantic even. Why? Lehman didn’t ask. She’d just been in school, so why was she here, why was her mother here, why was she in a hospital?

“I didn’t ask why, I always used to [ask] after having a seizure, but my mom never liked it, so I stopped” said Lehman Lehman was diagnosed with epilepsy in the fourth grade. Epilepsy is a brain disorder caused when electrical signals in the brain are disrupted, these changes in the brain are what cause the seizures. Lehman suffers from petit mal seizures. This type of seizures causes her to black out for a short period of time and wake up unsure of what happened.

August the 29th would be different for Kelsey.

“When I woke up I felt like my mind was still left in bed,” said Lehman “that’s not normal for me.”

Drowsiness consumed Lehman as she made her way up East’s’ steeper that usual ramp. She only made it to her locker before she fell down in a fit of seizures. Her seizures have never happened like this. What happened to Lehman was a grand mal seizure, which causes rapid, uncontrollable movements of her limbs for five minutes, and unconsciousness that took her an hour to recover from.

This change form petit mal to grand mal seizures has caused

issue 2 / september 19, 2005 / features / page 5

Junior Kelsey Lehman deals with the threat of seizures great concern throughout her family, and to the doctors who couldn’t explain the change.

“I hate having to explain what happened 50 billion times to different doctors, just so they prescribe me more pills,” said Lehman “I hate pills, I always have” In addition to epilepsy Lehman suffers from hypoglycemia, which is when the body doesn’t know when to stop producing insulin. Lehman has to take huge pills, with high doses, and sever side effects. Depacote is taken for her seizures. Since the grand mail seizure the dosage has been upped from 500 milligrams to 1,000 milligrams. This pill is very large and difficult to swallow even for someone who’s been doing it “forever” like Lehman has. Topamax, which she takes for her migraines, this medication causes Lehman’s legs to go numb, her vision to blur, and she becomes dizzy. Anitriphilc and Effexer both have side effects of seizures and the combination of the two could have been the culprit to trigger Lehman’s grand mal seizure.

Since then she’s been taken off Anitriphilc. Lehman takes 8 pills a day and with all the medications she takes she must eat or she pays the price with an upset stomach and violent vomiting.

“The thing that pisses me off the most is the fact that now I can’t drive till February” said Lehman.

For Lehman the loss of her license is the loss of her freedom. According to state law even if Lehman had only suffered from a five second seizure she still would have to

wait six months till she can drive again. If she does drive, and is caught, she would be fined and jailed. Her car was her escape out of the house, and she could go to a place were she could just hangout. Her car also got her to school and too her job. Which she was fired from due to her absence, while she recovered in the hospital from her grand mal.

“My parents and I’ve been fighting more now, [because] their so stressed about taking care of me” Said Lehman.

Even with the loss of a job, a license and a week missed of school, with major amounts of makeup work. Lehman feels that all of this has made her stronger and she can deal with it. Her friends try to make it as lighthearted as possible with small inside jokes, and carefree metaphors for when she “flops like a fish on the floor.”

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BEADING OUT BOREDOM

Sophomore Drew Kane finds profitable passion in jewelry making by sara steinwart

Sitting in front of the TV, Sophomore Drew Kane’s hands are swiftly Sales Specifics stringing beads. She is thinking of designs and making jewelry all while

Average Earring Cost $25.00

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About how many pairs have been sold?

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the quiet murmur of the television goes on. As the purple and white beads string onto the silver chain, Kane seems more interested in the beads than the TV. A year and a half ago Drew Kane was bored watching TV. She brainstormed what hobby she could take up in order to be able to stay interested while watching TV. Due to her natural interest in art jewelry making was the first thing that came to mind.

“I have never been able to just sit in front of the TV and watch,” Kane said “Making jewelry just gives me something to do so that I don’t get bored while I am watching TV.” Art has been one of Kane’s favorite subjects since she was in elementary school and for the past year and a half she has been making jewelry to sell. She makes mostly necklaces and earrings made of Swarovski crystal and sterling silver.

She first saw jewelry made of silver and crystal in art store windows.

After seeing some of the different designs the stores had made Kane wanted to be able do make them on her own. In the beginning her jewelry making consisted of buying beads and crystals and anything else she thought she would need.

“I just saw how the jewelry was made in the stories and tried to copy

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some of their ideas and then use my own also,” Kane said.

After working on her own for a while, Kane decided that she needed to find out more about jewelry making. She went to a class at Urban Arts and Crafts where she learned more about different ways and types of jewelry she could make. Urban Arts and Crafts is a local crafts store that offers classes to art students across the metro.

For Kane, what started as just a hobby to pass time has turned into a profitable endeavor. She began selling the majority of her jewelry for $1535. At first she only sold jewelry by word of mouth, but this past summer she had a big advancement in her jewelry making career: she had her first show. Business manager, Annmarie Arensberg, helped with all of the preparation for Kane’s show.

“I set up who else was going to be there, made sure that people knew when and where the show was going on and helped arrange the house before the show,” Arensberg said.

The show was at Kane’s house. There was also a woman from New York there who sold purses. There was a good turn out, better than what Kane had expected. She is planning on having more shows in the future.

The newest item on Kane’s jewelry-making palette is that she is going to be able to sell her jewelry at Eclectics. Electics is a locally owned store that sells out of the ordinary, individually crafted arts and crafts.

“I am really excited about being able to sell my art in a store,” Kane said. “It is a big step forward in my jewelry making.”

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Students transfer from private schools to East by hallie mccormick

Stepping through the blue main entrance doors for the

first time, Sarah Elizabeth McCandless’s mind was focused on keeping up with Kristen Mapes. In the new, unfamiliar, school McCandless had no idea where she was going, and was worried that she would get lost.

“There were so many people, and it was so big,” McCandless said. “I was amazed that [Kristen] knew where she was going.”

Since she was trying to choose what high school she was going to attend after her 8th grade year at St. Paul’s, McCandless had been assigned to shadow Mapes for the day.

New students are coming to East from private schools every year. They each have their story about why they decided to become a Lancer. From wanting the challenging atmosphere of the I.B. program to wanting to make new friends.

McCandless was in search of a school with hard classes and curriculum that would challenge her. She had requested the SME office to assign her to an I.B. student.

When she arrived to Mapes’s French 6 class she got really excited for the classes at East. Everyone in the French class was discussing all in French.

“I realized that if I just start taking these classes one day I will be here, having discussions in French.” McCandless said.

After the class had finished, and McCandless was back to hurrying through the halls after Mapes, McCandless noticed how there seemed to be so many activities going on in the huge school.

“There were so many posters up for games, S.H.A.R.E. activities and even a blood drive,” McCandless said. “It

showed that East had the whole package” There were two reasons why freshman Lucy Faerber left Pembroke for East were diversity and school spirit.

Faerber wanted a bigger school. A “real high school,” she said. Someplace where she could attend football games on Friday nights, go to pep assemblies, and shout “BLUE BLACK AND WHITE” at the top of her lungs from the bleachers.

“Pembroke has no school spirit,” Faerber said. “Only the parents of the athletes come to football games, and we didn’t have any pep assemblies.”

Freshman Meghan Benson left the comfort of Sion to move on to SME. There had been only 38 kids in her Sion class, and she was making the jump to East. A school with almost 2,000 students in it.

She had been going to Sion for nine years and wanted a change from the same 38 students. She wants someplace that doesn’t just have academics. A place that has an activity for anyone, and encourages students to get involved.

“I love the pep assemblies,” Benson said. “It gets you so excited and pumped. I love East because there is just so much to do here. There are so many classes.”

With the diversity of classes and people, East attracted sophomore Thomas Henry. But for Henry, changing from Pembroke was a little more difficult than he expected. Henry had always thought that he was going to go to East, but when the end of 8th grade came, he started to have second thoughts.

He was going to miss all his friends. Also, Pembroke’s smaller size offered several advantages.

You can’t get lost in the crowd at Pembroke. It isn’t so competitive in activities either; if you really wanted to get on a team or committee, you could.

Even though East’s large size means he may not be able to get on the committee or team he wanted, Henry decided to

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go to East because of the enormous list of activities.

“There’s always something going on at East because it’s so huge,” Henry said. “It’s an array of opportunities.”

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Last Rights

issue 2 / september 20, 2005 / features / page 7

Sophomore Twins Madison and Morgan Stock overcome odds to reach all goals by claire marston

From becoming manager of the football team to last year being the basketball player with the most three pointers on her team, it’s hard to believe that Sophomore Maddie Stock isn’t able to properly control the right side of her body. With half of her body affected by cerebral palsy, it still hasn’t stopped Maddie’s determination and love for sports.

In 2000, she was even the first person to receive an award for her being the hardest worker on her swim team. She’s even become good friends with Kansas City Royals hitter, Mike Sweeney. In 2002, she and her twin sister, Sophomore Morgan Stock were selected to carry the Olympic torch. But these are only three of Maddie’s achievements. The greatest achievement, however, has been staying alive for sixteen years instead of just forty eight hours.

As she glanced at the two incubators, Mary Shoepf saw her newborn twins for the first time. When she looked, she saw two sixteen inch length bodies with heads the size of a plumb. Weighing only two pounds, the twin girls were lying down on their stomachs so they could breathe more easily and not burn up too many calories. Along their bodies, Sophomores Maddie and Morgan Stock were hooked up to wires and pumps.

Mrs. Shoepf had gone down to the level three nursery at St. Luke’s hospital that day to watch a priest give Maddie her last rights. The doctors had told Mrs. Shoepf that her daughter did not have very much time to live. Mrs. Shoepf went into labor twenty seven weeks early due to a severe case of the flu.

Unfortunately, because Mrs. Shoepf was so painfully sick, her illness had a lasting effect on her two daughters. Both girls suffered from a brain hemorrhage, a type of stroke that usually occurs when bleeding in the brain kills cells.

“The hemorrhages themselves cause blockage of the spinal cord from the body. Because of these brain hemorrhages, they very quickly had acquired a condition called hydrocephalus,” Mrs. Shoepf said.

Hydrocephalus is where the spinal fluid that rotates throughout the body is blocked. The fluid, intern, grows in the head and increases its size. Though Maddie was

diagnosed with hydrocephalus, her sister Morgan wasn’t diagnosed, because her brain hemorrhage level was not as high as Maddie’s. Within a month after her birth, doctors said that seventy five percent of Maddie’s brain had dissolved. Maddie underwent emergency surgery, where the doctors put a pump in her skull to help unblock the blood in Morgan (left) and Madison carry the Olympic torch through Kansas City for the her brain and help it circulate evenly 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. throughout her body.

“They were assuming that Madison probably would not live an independent life,” Mrs. Shoepf said. “They were assuming that she probably would be required to live in a What is cerebral palsy? crib care home.”

A group of chronic conditions that Maddie’s doctors had assumed wrong. have an affect on body movements Five months later, the doctors did more x-rays and found and muscle coordination. out that Maddie’s brain hadn’t dissolved the blood; she was What does the term just compressing it in her brain. The manipulation of her cerebral palsy mean? brain is what caused Maddie to become diagnosed with “cerebral” refers to the brain, “palsy” cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a very generic term for any refers to a disorder of movement. muscular disorder caused from a brain hemiplegia.

Maddie’s cerebral palsy only affected her on the right side source: www.about-cerebral-palsey.org of her body. With Maddie’s cerebral palsy, she has a high not perfect.’ I think that really does show a lot of Maddie’s self muscle tone, meaning that she has to visually look at a joint drive and motivation. “ Mrs. Shoepf said. on the right side of her body and must mentally tell it to move Morgan also feels proud of her sister’s drive. when she wants it to.

“Maddie is just so inspirational,” Morgan said. “She But Maddie’s cerebral palsy hasn’t stopped her from never makes excuses for anything and she just always finds playing sports such as tennis, soccer, basketball, softball and different ways of doing certain things to make it easier for her swimming on a swim team. to accomplish.”

“I wish I could do some things that people can do with two And even though Maddie has achieved major goals, she hands, but it doesn’t really phase me because I know that I still has major ambitions to achieve. One is to make the right can do the same things. I just have to do them differently,” side of her body look as normal and as strong as possible.

Maddie said.

She’s trying to get as much surgery as she can until surgery To help make it easier for Maddie to do the things she loves can’t lengthen or tighten anymore of her muscles. But with with her cerebral palsy, she’s had upper arm surgery, surgery Maddie’s determination, it’s expected she’ll achieve not only on her thumb, foot surgery and botox, to help increase her this, but so much more. muscular movement.

“For her to say, ‘You know what, yeah it looks bad, but it’s

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Directing The inside story the Band on drum majors by kevin grunwald

Drum majors Senior Susie Specker and Cole Spickler look over the band. Photos by Katie Woods.

With 1:30 left on the clock before halftime, Angela Tran signals to her team that it’s time to move. However, it isn’t the game or the score that she’s thinking about, but instead the halftime show. The band exits the stadium seats and starts their procession around the track surrounding the football field.

After the teams stop playing, Angela Tran, Suzie Specker, and Cole Spickler lead the band and flag team onto the field. Angela hops onto a box so that the band can see her.

“Attention hut!” shouts Angela. The band members move their feet together and look up, yelling “Hit” when they are ready.

“Band horns up!” Angela yells. The band raises their instruments, ready to play.

“1,2,3,4!” Angela waves her arms, conducting the band to start playing. At this performance, it’s “Make Me Smile” by Chicago.

Tran, a senior, is a drum major, one of the student conductors of the band.

Angela started playing the clarinet in fifth grade, and continued playing through sophomore year, when, at the end of the year, a few seniors and Mr. Harrison, the band teacher, told Angela she should try out for one of the drum major positions.

For tryouts, the potential drum majors went to a meeting after school to learn the coat of arms, a traditional routine that includes many creative conducting movements. Then, after an interview with a panel of band teachers, Angela was selected as the next drum major. She joined the drum majors from the previous year, Laura Draxler and James Levy.

Now, Angela is the lead drum major. At the end of last year, Senior Suzie Specker and Junior Cole Spickler were selected as the next drum majors.

Drum majors get everything ready for the marching band practices each day, coming to school at 6:30 a.m. to print the marching formations.

At games and other performances the drum majors get to the school early and bring extra hats and uniforms in case someone forgets theirs.

The drum majors attended a camp in the summer to learn how to conduct. At the camp, they were also taught tips like watching the band move rather than listening to the music, so they won’t get behind while conducting.

Mr. Harrison relies heavily upon the drum majors to help him conduct.

“East is the only school without an assistant band director, so our drum majors do more than those at other schools in the district,” Harrison said.

katrina 850 miles from New Orleans, the effects of America’s worst natural disaster are being felt.

With fundraisers; East graduates attending New Orleans schools; and students who went straight to the storm’s relief efforts: East is all but unconnected.

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A Temporary Home: A bus brings Hurricaine survivors to Prarie VIllage. photo by Katie James

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Beads bring the funds Lancers raise over $2,000 for hurricane victims

and during lunch from Sept. 7 to Sept. 16. As of last Wednesday, a total of over $2,400 has been collected from After watching the outbreak of chaos as Hurricane the bead jugs alone, according to librarian Kathi Knop.

“I’ve never really had a goal in mind,” Gilman said. “I’m Katrina slowly submerged the city of New Orleans, freshman Charlotte Gilman felt compelled to do something to help. But just glad people are helping and have so much money to one person’s money wasn’t going to be enough- she needed contribute. SHARE really helped spread the word.”

But SHARE isn’t the only organization supporting the more, she thought. Little did she know that East would raise cause. There are members from 13 different groups around over $5,000 to give to the American Red Cross.

Gilman wasn’t the only East student wanting to give the school who are on the committee. Each group was assigned one day to collect donations. aid. The Lancer cheerleaders had Schulte and Gilman thought already started by collecting over that after a while, students $2,000 at the football game against would lose interest and stop Northwest on Sept. 2. The $1,000 donating. But they’ve come up profit from the first Cappuccino with new ways to get people to Day of the year was also donated give money, such as a bake sale to the cause. Other students and and debate-sponsored jewelry classes had also begun to compile SHARE isn’t the only sale at the Oct. 8 SHARE Garage donations. But Gilman felt the need Sale, giving beads for donations for an organization to bring all the school organization at the Lil Lancer Dancer Clinic other groups together. helping raise money for and a car change day.

“I talked to my mom about “A lot of people have loose starting something at school to the Katrina relief fund. coins in their car, so we came up collect donations and then I went Here are a few more: with the idea to go around in the to the SHARE office to see what we junior and senior parking lots could do,” Gilman said. one day and collect everyone’s Gilman met with senior SHARE Cheerleaders loose change,” Schulte said.

Exec Matt Schulte, who was eager Choir “Hopefully this idea will be to take on the task of organizing the as successful as the Katrina Hurricane Relief committee.

Debate Beads.”

“After hearing that my girlfriend, Friends of the Library “I can’t believe how much who was going to be a freshman has been donated so far.” at Tulane, had to be evacuated, I The Harbinger Gilman said. “I just hope wanted to do whatever I could to The Hauberk everyone enjoys their beads and help out,” Schulte said. remembers to care. The people Together, Gilman and Schulte Senior IB students in New Orleans may be out of came up with the idea of giving Orchestra danger, but their lives are still out Mardi Gras style beads for messed up, so they need our donations. With a $300 contribution National Honors Society help.” from Gilman’s own pocket to get Stuco the ball rolling, donations were collected before and after school

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Junior pays for accident with own money to avoid raise in insurance by [stephen nichols] “Oh my gosh, calm down, David,” Junior David Isenberg said to himself after he had backed his Mercury Sable into last year senior Rachel Maynard’s car.

It was Isenberg’s first accident and he wasn’t even sure what insurance information he was supposed to have or for that matter where it was in the car. After a phone call to his mom, he was ready to get out of the car.

“It was pretty calm,” Isenberg said.

“We had to exchange names, insurance and policy number but we both agreed we were going to get it fixed without insurance.”

Rather then watch his insurance rates go up after the accident, Isenberg paid for his repairs without the company’s help.

“There was no insurance involved because in the long run it was better to pay out of my own pocket,” he said.

This is a decision that insurance

agent Joe Lucas would have recommended himself.

“If the damage is under the deductible there’s no point in turning it into the insurance company because they’re not going to pay for it,” he said.

A person’s deductible is a set amount that a person will pay before the insurance company will cover the damage.

For example, Isenberg’s deductible is $1,000 but the repairs only cost him roughly $400, which meant that if he had reported the accident then his rates would have gone up without getting any help from the insurance corporations.

“Your rates are going to jump 15 to 20 percent with one accident,” said Lucas.

“Why turn [the insurance report] in and get the black mark and have to pay for it anyway?”

However, if there is an accident and the damage is substantial, Lucas goes over the steps to handle the situation in

a calm and efficient manner.

First, after the accident, make sure no one is injured and then proceed to exchange information with the other driver.

Never claim responsibility for the accident; that’s for the insurance companies to decide. Then, call the police and fill out an accident report. Once home, call the insurance agent of the company and give them the information. From there, the insurance companies should handle it.

If the insurance company decides that the accident does turn out to be your fault, be ready to pay higher rates.

“If any driver is in an accident, there’s a very slim chance that they won’t increase your rates,” Lucas said.

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Insurance agent Joe Lucas explained that if Atkinson had not been able to be put on diversion, it would have wrecked havoc on his insurance.

“They would have hit him with a major spike in his insurance,” Lucas said. “Best case scenario, it would have doubled. Worst case scenario, the insurance company wouldn’t have renewed him.”

To keep insurance rates low after a speeding ticket Lucas recommends paying a multiple of the ticket to keep it off the insurance statement.

“If you’re between 16 and 21 and you get a ticket, pay the multiple and get the thing [ticket] fixed,” Lucas said.

Although Atkinson’s situation is different than just a speeding ticket, it could get even worse if he is hit with one more moving violation ticket.

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“When the light turns green, go!” James Kurz yelled out the window of his grey Saab 900 to Senior Michael Atkinson as they waited at the 75th and Mission stoplight. They were both in the left lane and Kurz needed to make a right at Somerset, a few streets north. The plan was to speed ahead of the rest of the other cars so Kurz could make it into the right lane.

The light changed to green.

“He got next to me and we just kept going,” Atkinson said.

They shot out of the intersection and whizzed down Mission. The speedometer jumped quickly, leaving the 35 mph speed limit in their dust.

By the time they hit Somerset, a motorcycle cop was directing them into Corinth Square.

Atkinson was clocked going 66 mph. As a result of going over the speed limit by more than 30 mph, he was also arrested for reckless driving.

He had to post bail along with a variety of other costs including teller and lawyer fees, which totaled over $1,000.

Because speed alone cannot determine reckless driving, Atkinson was allowed a six-month diversion period. If he doesn’t receive another moving violation ticket, both the reckless driving charge and the speeding ticket will be kept

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by [daniel heady] It was the week before WPA, and Sarah Smith* had a bad feeling. She thought the after party was going to be fun. But knew she would be taking a risk.

The night started out as it was supposed to: salmon and a glass of champagne before the dance.

Drink number one.

“I couldn’t really feel it at the dance,” Smith said.

At the first party, she had a beer. Drink number two. At the next party, she downed two more beers: drinks three and four. Then someone handed her a glass.

“I was told it was a mixed drink, so I started drinking,” Smith said. “Teens gulp, they don’t sip, so I downed it and I don’t remember anything after that” She tasted the Everclear.

As the night went on, Smith drank more. She doesn’t remember beer number five, or the five shots afterwards.

“There are pictures of me drinking drinks that I don’t even remember having,” Smith said.

At 1:50 a.m., 10 minutes until curfew, she stumbled over the coffee table on the way out. Her date said nothing.

“I guess he thought I could drive,”

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Smith said.

She and her date had talked about using a taxi prior to the dance.

“Just in case,” Smith said. “But I was beyond the point of comprehension so we didn’t call.”

While driving her date home, Smith hit several curbs and when she pulled into his driveway, she turned off her headlights.

They walked to the door, and kissed.

When she pulled out, her car headlights were still off.

“He chased after me to remind me to turn them on,” Sarah said. “That should have been a clue.”

It was then that she got pulled over.

“It was like I woke up from a dream; I had never been that blacked out before,” Smith said. “It was all clear when he tapped on my window.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recognizes three tests for drunk drivers: the horizontal gaze, the walk and turn and the one-leg stand.

“He knew immediately that I was drunk,” Smith said. “I couldn’t even walk.”

After the DUI test, Smith was taken to the police station.

Kansas’s “Zero Tolerance” policy means that any teenage driver blowing a .02 or above on a Breathalyzer is considered drunk.

According to officer Erik McCullough of the Prairie Village Police Department people think that they can cheat the test, by either blowing softly or just refusing to take the test.

The penalties of an underage DUI include a suspended license for a year and up to one year of diversion. Cindy Jarvis of American Family Insurance estimates that a teenage DUI could double your monthly payments.

“I’ve spent over $2,000 on court fees and fines and lawyers,” Smith said.

“People think that we are just trying to be mean when we pull you over, but we have worked the accidents and seen the trauma,” Officer McCullough said. “We are trying to protect you.”

Smith was lucky, she didn’t die or kill anyone, but she did make a mistake.

“Even if you don’t know the person, take their keys when they are drunk,” Smith said. “They will thank you in the morning. I should have died that night. I don’t know why I didn’t.” *Name changed to protect privacy.

Senior charged $90 for rolling through stop sign by [daniel heady] Open lunch was supposed to be a break from the stress of a school day. However, for senior Paul Wiseman, it wasn’t.

“Open lunch was much less stressful until I realized the fear of the police hiding behind every corner,” he said.

Wiseman was on his way back from eating lunch at Arby’s in Corinth Square when he decided to take a short cut. Full from their “five for 5.95” deal, he decided to go down El Monte.

“We didn’t even need to go down that street,” he said. “But we figured that it would be more efficient.”

As Wiseman approached the 79th St. stop sign, his friend senior David Sabin pointed out the motorcycle cop in the southeast corner driveway at the intersection.

“I saw the cop as I was turning, but I figured that I had stopped enough that it wouldn’t really be that big of a deal,” Wiseman said. “But as soon as I turned onto Delmar, I saw him in my rear view mirror.”

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The first thing that went through Wiseman’s head was that he would only get a warning. He pulled into the YMCA parking lot and turned down his Keane CD. “He asked for my license and registration and at that point I knew I was going to get a ticket,” Wiseman said. “I figured like a $50 ticket max, but when he came back he handed me the ticket and it was $90 for rolling a stop sign.”

“Most of the time one ticket isn’t going to affect your insurance rates,” Cindy Jarvis, American Family Insurance agent, said, “but after you get two or more your rates will start going up because most companies remove certain discounts that you receive.”

“My insurance hasn’t said anything yet,” Wiseman said. “I have gotten two tickets but they have been a while apart. In the end, the moral is to be careful when driving and obey all the rules, because that day instead of arriving back at school $5.95 poorer, I arrived over $90 poorer.”

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The Bravest Ones of All

Katrina victims deserve our sympathy and respect an opinion of evan favreau

Over the last three weeks you and I have been sympathizing with the tragedy that has befallen the citizens of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina has turned out to be one of the most destructive events our country has ever faced, and millions of Americans have been directly affected by it. The evacuees who have had to flee to Baton Rouge and Houston and Little Rock have been receiving sympathy from people all around the world. But there is more to these evacuees than just sadness and pain, a quality some may not think of when watching the television. These evacuees are some of the strongest and bravest people that I have met.

They do deserve our sympathy, but they also deserve our admiration and respect.

Two weeks ago, a week after the storm ravaged New Orleans and the area, I was one of eleven people given the oppurtunity to travel to Texas and directly help evacuees residing in Houston who have been left seemingly helpless. Traveling with two coach buses stocked to the brim with Aquafina and Chex Mix, just waiting for our guests, our plan was to offer to these evacuees now living in the Astrodome and nearby Reliant Center a fresh start.

On the ride down we had grand and satisfying ideas of bringing back 100 willing individuals just waiting to start their life over in Kansas City. When we got there we spread the word of our group from Kansas City offering housing, job placement and education. The response we got was underwhelming when compared to our lofty expectations. But as we stayed down there it started to make so much sense.

The evacuees were still in a state of shock or even denial. Many of them were clinging to the idea of returning to their homes within the next couple weeks, something that, to an outside observer, seemed like a stretch and completely unreal. Others were still looking for family members and wouldn’t dare consider leaving Houston, now a city of 200,000 evacuees, where their family might be located. It was impossible to not understand their doubts when confronted with this opportunity. As I stood in the Astrodome, seeing cot after cot filled with displaced families, a rush of sympathy swept over me, a feeling that surpassed whatever CNN could possibly provide.

Despite their uncertainties, we had several people who actually wanted to come with us. These evacuees are the bravest people I know. Just for an outside observer you have to

acknowledge the strength it took to come with us. All we had were paper pads written with sharpies and they were supposed to trust us. We were working with the local organization Heart to Heart International, though the action appeared to be (and perhaps was) a grassroots effort. An outsider’s look would be enough for anyone to realize they have enormous strength underneath the surface and that they deserve so much more than our shadow.

However, a true understanding of their strength came after the impersonal mass of victims became thousands of individual humans with individual lives and individual stories that are sharing this awful experience.

A family decided to travel 750 miles north, even though their father and her husband were still in Corpus Christie. One man told us, as he was already sitting on the bus ready to depart for Kansas City, that he had yet to contact his family from Louisiana since the storm.

Another man, after he committed to coming with us, pulled me aside and asked me for the honest truth: were we for real? Were we not just making this up and trying to take any money he had left?

Chances are you and I cannot even begin to imagine what kind of decisions these victims have already made and are continuing to make. Though some of us probably think so, I am willing to bet that none of us has the strength it takes to move to a new city some haven’t even heard of with people you are choosing to somehow trust and in the process leaving behind everything you have known.

These new members of our community have continued to show their strength and resilience as they start their new life here in Kansas City. Most have already found jobs, and the kids are eager to get back to school. They show astonishing perseverance and initiative that has rarely been seen before.

It’s after these details came to light that I truly realized how brave and strong these evacuees were. Even with all these reservations and fears and questions, they were going to a completely new part of the country with people they’ve known for an hour.

So don’t just sympathize with these evacuees. These Americans who were homeless deserve so much more than that. Respect them. Admire them. Chances are, you and I don’t have what it takes to do what they’ve done.

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Alan Garriga

Something just felt like it was going to be alright...nothing has gone wrong since.

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Alan Garriga is taking it easy.

Since he called the phone number scrawled on a sticky note, left by members of the Village Presbyterian mission group, everything has gone his way.

“Since I’ve let God take over, nothing has gone wrong.

There have been no tempations.”

Alan, who took shelter in the Houston Salvation Army shelter following the mandatory evactuation of New Orleans, is a recovering alcoholic and drug user. His renewed faith in God and help from the ‘good Christian people of Kansas City’ have kept him motivated to find work and stay clean.

“I feel like I’ve been healed,” Alan said.

He has had several job offers, two resulting from contacts made at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and is hoping to be retired in ten years.

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Three victims of Katrina come home to Kansas City and hope for the best

Jeff Billingsly

People talk about southern hospitality, but I think midwestern is better.

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He wants to drive a pick-up truck again. And go to a Kansas City Chief’s football game. And get married.

Jeff Billingsly, who is not scared of the KC winters and snow, lived in West Jefferson Parish, miles from New Orleans, and the location of the broken levees.

“I waited until the last minute to leave,” Jeff said.

Upon boarding the buses to come back to KC, one of his first questions was “Okay, who here can marry me?”

His fiance is planning to arrive in the next week as Jeff looks for work as a carpenter. He has an apartment picked out and hasn’t thought much about what he left behind.

“Everything, I can replace,” Jeff said. “I can’t replace my girlfriend, and that’s why she’s coming. I miss her.”

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Michael Koch

In 10 years, I will be old and grey-headed, and hopefully in Kansas City.

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Michael Koch’s move to New Orleans was not meant to be. He had only been there for three weeks trying to find a job as an accountant after his work ran out in Gulf Port, Mississippi.

“It [Katrina] just kept coming and coming closer,” Michael said. “I left late, but I left.”

Upon arrival in KC, Michael, who holds a certified public accounting liscence, sent out three resumes to various firms in the are, including H&R Block, and has numerous interviews set up in the coming weeks.

To him, Kansas City is a nice change from the short time he spent in New Orleans; it’s clean and the crime rate is lower.

“It’s a big city, but doesn’t feel like one.”

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YO HO HO!

It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day today! by ian mcfarland

Fighting for Fun Sophomore uses swords as hobby by clare jordan While many decided to solve summer boredom by going to the pool, or just sleeping, sophomore Bryan Gold decided to spend two weeks at a stunting camp.

For the past three years he has taken classes in Japanese sword fighting where he learned about the opportunity to stunt. They would do little flips and other minor stunts in Japanese sword fighting that got Gold interested in what actual stunting would be like.

So, he packed his bags and went to Konoshow, Wisconsin where he began to learn how to jump up from laying flat on his back without the use of any arms, just like they do in the movies.

Although Gold enjoyed stunt camp, he doesn’t plan on pursuing a career as a stunt double.

“It’s a little too dangerous, it’s a good hobby though, last weekend my friends and I made a small movie with us using stunts to jump out of a tree,” Gold said.

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Molly Knight

If you could have color contacts, what would you want?

I think those are weird. No, I don’t want color contacts.

What was your favorite TV show when you were five?

I don’t even know. I watched what my sister watched. When I was a little older, it was Full House.

Dream car?

I don’t like cars that much. I like my car that I have now, a Jeep Cherokee.

What’s the best restaurant?

That leaves a lot of choices. For my birthday I went to Habatchi steak house.

YEEEARRRRGGGHHH! ‘Tis nothing more glorious than this day, bein’ the third annual National Talk Like a Pirate Day! It’s a day to bring out the inner scurvy curve in all of us. Say, did you ever hear the one ‘bout what a Pirate movie is rated?

Yah, I know, it’s as dead as tha Cap’t’n’s ol’ missus, bless her heart in heaven. Anyways, to help you all prepare for the best day of the year, me and the boys put together a list of supplies to keep nearby to make sure that this National Talk like a Pirate day is the best one ever... YEARGH! • Lots and lots of booty... NO, not the bedunkadunk!

• A love for the great open blue.

• First Aid Kit. There’s nothing funny about not being prepared.

But no matter what Geena Davis tells you, DO NOT watch her 1995 pirate Adventure movie “Cutthroat Island.” That’s a real stinker, that tis.

Learn ye pirate lingo art by Sara McElhaney

•Ahoy! – Hello!

•Arrr! – This can mean anything from ‘yes’ to ‘I’m happy’ to ‘that’s cool.’

•Aye! – I totally agree with everything you just

said/did.

•Aye aye! – I’ll get right on that, sir. Uh-huh.

Yep. from ww.talklikeapirate.com

in season yesterday what’s hot what’s cool

by Amanda Allison

“But mom, these straps diiiiig into my shoulders. It’s not a Northfaceenough said. Um, no, not one of those rolling monstrosities.”

That was fun, wasn’t it? Revisiting the good old days of Backpack Shopping. It was written on your school supply list: backpack. Kids clamored for the latest colors (chartruse that matches my eyes) and the ones with the most strangely named, dangling monkeys (Todd). The first day of school meant checking out what was in the back, behind, in the rear, of the new freshmen. No, no. Not like that. I mean, checking out their hot, two strapped, 117 pound backpacks.

today

This year when I went backpack shopping, my only stipulation was that no one else could have it. My Bag. I later discovered, after hitting every store in the metro area, that no store would have that: My Bag. The key word here is bag: this year, it seems, the It thing is not to have the latest two-shouldered container, rather the most sparkly/adorned/ leather/vintage TOTE. Girls have a bit more trouble walking this year because of being so off-balanced. I mean, come on. They’re juggling walking on heels while a bag roughly the weight of a petite circus elephant rests on their shoulders. Fitting every school book into these stylish totes can be a problem, but as the girl who sits in front of me says, “They (the bags) are super cute. So school, in this case, doesn’t matter.”

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Here’s the dilemma, and future, as I see it: People (girls) cannot fit all of their schoolwork into their bags. Therefore, they will fail all of their classes and never graduate. They will also never have children and will live alone with 13 cats in their older years. Ha. Just kidding.

But really, as the bags keep getting smaller, the work accomplished, and able to fit in their owners’ totes, will gradually diminish. This will result in failing grades and sad lives. All for a sparkly tote. Shame.

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PREVIEW art by sara mcelhaney

this season’s shows bring new plots to old ideas by ian mcfarland

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart I guess the mature thing to do would be to avoid making fun of Martha Stewart here. Too bad I’m not mature. Everyone’s favorite ex-con dinner party connoisseur is joining Hair extraordinaire Donald Trump in a spin-off of the reality TV show that he made so huge. Viewers can expect… who am I kidding; Martha would be more likely to do a spread in Playboy magazine than to bring anything new to a show that isn’t much more than a rehash of other reality TV shows itself. We can expect the same show, just with a criminal as the host. I just hope we can hear “You’re fired, have a muffin!”

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My Name is Earl

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NBC - Tuesdays at 8 Jason Lee is better known for his parts as the evil (“The Incredibles,”) the egotistical (“Mallrats,”) and the, uh, well, let’s just say he never plays nice people. That is, they never were until his title character in “My Name is Earl,” a half-hour sit-com about a slacker who stops slacking and tries to right every wrong he’s made throughout his unimpressive life. For example, in the pilot where Earl seeks forgiveness from a kid he bullied as a child.

The strangest thing of all about “Earl” is its apparent mixture of genres, the commercials portray it as a feel good show. The combination looks something like if “Yes, Dear” and “Touched By an Angel” had a passionate love child; a passionate love child named Earl.

Everybody Hates Chris If “The Wonder Years” had happened 20 years later, taken place in Brooklyn and starred Chris Rock, you might get “Everybody Hates Chris,” a new sit-com based on the adolescence of the famous racially charged comic.

“Everybody Hates Chris” is the most talked about new show for the Fall season by leaps and bounds—and why shouldn’t it be? The idea of a pubescent Rock, who narrates the show, growing up and developing his brand of humor seems thousands of times better than Rock’s last Photo courtesy of UPN film, “The Longest Yard.” If nothing else, “Chris” looks to be at least a better than normal sit-com, the fact that Rock is executive producing a show all about him should make any SNL fan excited.

premiere times

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart - Wednesday 21, 7 p.m.

My Name is Earl - Tuesday 20, 8 p.m.

Everybody Hates Chris - Thursday 22,

Dying to See It

issue 2 / september 19, 2005 / a&e / page 15

by jayne shelton

For the past two decades, audiences have been entertained by Tim Burton’s eccentric films. “The Corpse Bride” doesn’t disappoint. The love scenes are trite, but the characters and endless supply of puns make up for it.

The movie is set in 19th century Europe with a dreary atmosphere. The color scheme of the ‘Land of the Living,’ where the living are as opposed to the ‘Land of the Dead,’ is reminiscent to that of Tim Burton’s 1993 film “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Both are claymation, and rightfully so. Had this movie been animated, like a Disney movie, the color and overall look of it would be too euphemistic for the story. The grim setting and plot work perfectly with the awkward look of the claymation. In this drab context, the characters are the most memorable.

Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp) and Victoria (Emily Watson), meet the day before their arranged wedding, and sparks fly. While rehearsing for it, Victor can’t get his vows right, so he takes a walk in the forest to practice. As he gets the vows right for the first time, he slips the ring on what he thought was a twig, but turns out to be the arm of a buried bride. The corpse bride (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter), takes Victor down to the ‘Land of the Dead’ to stay.

The voices fit perfectly with the characters. Johnny Depp, Victor, sounded amazingly unlike himself and got into the part. The stuttering and wavering tone of his voice brought life to the character. The other voices of Emily Watson and Helena Bonham Carter were well cast too, and they helped impersonate the characters and their personalities.

‘The Land of the Dead’ is where claymation muscles are flexed with dance and musical numbers. They are performed by skeletons, including one named Bonejangles (Danny Elfman). The sets and characters are bright and full of color. The songs’ underlying beat and rhythm is another reminder of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. The characters there are colorful in their personalities and their physical bodies. They all seem to be friendly and benevolent, two traits the living people, aside from Victor and Victoria, don’t have.

The characters are the most impressionable aspect of the movie. There are black widow spider and worm-looking maggot characters.

Victor has a nervousness that is evident in his speech and movements. His body seems frail, almost shaky, and his voice matches it with the constant stuttering and mumbling. The corpse bride is unassuming and gracious, which is how she finds herself in the situation she is in.

Puns about death are constantly thrown at the audience from almost every character. They aren’t obnoxious though, just emphasize the setting, and allow the movie to look at death from a different point of view. The puns were also a way to connect with younger audiences and still make the older

Corpse Bride Is Worth It

ones laugh through simple humor. One of the characters says about the ‘Land of the Living,’ “Why go up there when people are dying to get down here?”

When Victor meets Victoria in the first scene, they immediately fall in love; this concept is cheesy and mainstream for such an original movie.

They meet for at the most five minutes, and already they know they are madly in love and want to be married. This is kind of an old and overused technique, and it can be seen in almost any movie.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride uses its characters and puns to bring out the child within who still loves “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

The puns and backgrounds come together to form an enjoyable movie.

Grade: A-

School Band Plays at Granada

What’s on your

iPod?

The Case to Play at Battle of the Bands by joe demarco When the band “The Case” saw their chance to play at the Granada’s Battle of the Bands, they were sure their hard work had finally paid off.

“We knew that if we actually wanted to take this seriously, this was our chance,” bassist Tommy DeWolfe said.

This will be the first time for “The Case” to play for such a large audience. Their past shows have either been in one of the band members basements, parties, or at First Baptist Church of Shawnee.

“It’s going to be nerve racking because we have never preformed to an audience of this size. But we are just going to have to be able to go out there, put the nerves behind us, and just do our best,” DeWolfe said.

The band is comprised of four juniors: Joey Soptic, Johnny McGuire, Tommy DeWolfe, and Taylor Hinson. Soptic plays lead guitar; McGuire does the vocals; DeWolfe plays the bass and Hinson plays the drums.

The Granada’s battle of the bands, which will be held on

September 24th, will feature 20 plus bands, and judges will judge them on originality. The prize is either $600 or 16 hours in the recording studio. “The Case” members have already decided that if they win they will take the 16 hours in the studio. The average cost of using a recording studio hourly is between 50-100 dollars an hour.

“The Case” has been a band since the summer of 2004, and has recently been practicing 16 hours a week to prepare for their big show at the Grenada. They play mainly alternative music that sounds like a mixture of Coldplay and the Black Crowes. A majority of their music they have written themselves.

Although “The Case” will not get to play for very long, the band is still looking forward to playing for such a large audience.

“We only get to play five songs, but we get to play at the Granada. I don’t think too many high school students get to do that.”

Heather Schimke, Junior Kelly Clarkson - Because of You Papa Roach - Scars The Killers - Mr. Brightside Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl Green Day - Holiday Spice Girls - Two Become One Missy Elliot - Lose Control Simple Plan - Welcome to My Life 311 - Amber N’Sync - Giddyup

page 16 / sports / the harbinger

NORTH STADIUM BLUES The reconstruction of the new North district stadium has created scheduling problems for the football team and fans Drawing for the future: HOK SVE drew up the plans for the new district stadium at North last winter before they began construction in the spring. It is expected to be complete in February of 2006. photo courtesy of HOK SPORT+VENUE+EVENT

by clark goble

J

unior Alex Hodges had a decision to make. Either attend the varsity football game against Olathe Northwest at South or run in a cross-country meet in Topeka on the same morning.

“It took a little thought,” Hodges said. “But going to the Topeka meet made more sense.”

Students at East have to make these types of choices more and more this year after the district decided to rebuild the North District Stadium last winter. Since there is no North Stadium available this season on which to play varsity football games, Shawnee Mission district football games are being moved to non-Friday dates.

The field will not reopen until February 2006, and since all district games are being held at South, there is no feasible way for all these games to be held in Friday nights. East, for example, has had a Saturday morning game already, and has another one in the future, along with two Thursday night game’s.

“It will be inconvenient now, but in the future, the fans will be glad these renovations will have been made,” district manager of operations and maintenance, Bruce Kracl said.

North is adding a new press box and new field lighting, as well as rebuilding concession stands and restrooms under the grandstand. There will also be a separate building built for locker rooms that was not a part of the old stadium.

The work on the North stadium is being done by HOK Sport + Venue + Event. This is the third high school stadium they have worked on, along with the jobs they have done on the Tennessee Titans’, Pittsburgh Pirates’, San Diego Padres’ and Houston Texans’ new stadiums, project architect Jason Ford said.

Among the improvements is an $850,000 synthetic field, which will replace the natural turf used in the past, the district’s athletic director Rusty Newman said.

“I’m sure other high schools will be looking into synthetic turf down the road. It provides safer playing conditions for the athletes,” Newman said. “It virtually eliminates maintenance and other problems caused by unfavorable weather conditions like muddy, chewed up fields.”

A synthetic field has already been installed at the South District Stadium and will last ten to fifteen years. East has already played two varsity football games and held a football practice and soccer scrimmage on the field already this year.

“The synthetic field is very soft compared to the natural fields,” sophomore football player Andrew Tisdale said. “It also looks a lot cooler.”

Fans have to make the choice whether to support Lancer football or participate in their other activities.

“I just don’t want to get up early in the morning and watch football in the middle of the day,” sophomore Jordan

Scheduling Frenzy Due to having access to only one district stadium for five teams, the district had to schedule multiple games at unusual times to the high school level. Here’s how it affects East.

date

Saturday 10/15 Thursday 10/20 Thursday 10/27

opponent Wyandotte Harmon SM South

time

1 p.m.

7 p.m.

7 p.m.

Hahn said. “They should have considered the schedule when they decided to renovate North (Stadium).”

These changes were made at this time because the original stadium was not ready to support the future needs of the district. It could not survive another decade with the same number of activities held in the stadium currently.

Fans, athletes and parents will be glad they have the synthetic field at South for this year, and have the one at North in the coming years, Newman said.

“All Shawnee Mission teams will be able to practice on the field and it will be used for soccer, band practices and other evens throughout the year. We will be able to hold many more events because of the synthetic turf,” Newman said.

The East graduation ceremonies will be held at the South District Stadium on Head of Design- Patrick Lempka HOK SVE May 23. Due to the fact the synthetic Completion date- February 2006 fields are water-resistant, the night Additionsceremonies could be held there if there -New press box that includes; area for filming, coaches was inclement weather during the day, boxes, area for press and a radio broadcasting area.

Kracl said.

The reconstruction is one of many -New locker room building just south of the field that inprojects funded through the $184 million cludes two full-size locker rooms with toilets and showers bond issued approved by voters in 2004. and a coaches office.

-Bigger grandstand with 5,500 seats and a viewing location The replacement of the plumbing, water and sewer lines this summer at East for disabled and their patrons. were also a part of this bond issue.

North Stadium Renovation Overview

-Synthetic field turf like the one at South stadium.

-photo by Frances Lafferty

Just Soccer

issue 2 / september 19, 2005 / sports / page 17

The varsity soccer team has vowed to stay away from alcohol and focus on making this season special by bobby miller Sitting in Associate Principal Mike Wolgast’s office, with eyes piercing through him, was the last place Patrick Kohnle wanted to be. Three days after being pulled over and testing positive for alcohol, and the same day as the season opening game against Shawnee Mission West, Kohnle was being informed by Athletic Director Lane Green, Head Coach Jim Ricker and Mr. Wolgast that he would be disqualified for the rest of the soccer season for violating the drug/alcohol policy.

“I knew it was coming, I was in denial but when it happened I was embarrassed and felt like I had let my team down,” he said But that was a year ago.

Now Kohnle, who enters his senior season and the rest of the varsity squad, vowed at the beginning of the summer that they would spend more time together on weekends to ensure that no one on the team would violate the policy that

Relaxed Rules

•Blue Valley School District if an athlete is caught with drugs or alcohol the player is suspended for a half of the season on the first offense. On the second offense they are suspended for that season.

•Rockhurst if a player violates the rule he is suspended for two weeks and must seek professional help. On the second offense they are liable for dismissal from all teams.

every athlete signed before the start of the fall season.

Whether it is a poker night or just a team get together the soccer team is trying to stay out of trouble by watching after each other.

They have recently found a way that the team can bond together and have fun without doing anything that could get them into trouble. The latest fad is to huddle around a T.V. and watch each other have a shoot out while playing Halo on Xbox. The team will do anything so that no one has to go through what Kohnle went through last season. For 11 seniors it is their last chance to play soccer at East, and they want to end their season on the field and not in an office.

“Since Freshmen year we have been talking about going to the state championship game. Now that we are seniors it’s time,” Kohnle said.

With 14 varsity letter winners returning, led by first team all-state forward Garret Webb, there is a great opportunity for the team to contend for the League Title and possibly the state title if they can stay healthy, out of trouble, and pull an upset over perennial powerhouse Aquinas on Oct. 8. So far the team is 2-1 finishing third in the KAMO Tournament.

With sports seasons only lasting a couple of months, student athletes only have a small amount of time to play their favorite sport with their fellow teammates. If an athlete is caught violating the policy they end one fourth of their high-school sports career. More importantly they remember times such as sitting in Mike Wolgast’s office instead of remembering losing to Rockhurst on penelty kicks Kohnle’s fresman year.

Huddling together: The soccer team gets ready for their upcoming game. photo by kelsey stabenow “Everyone is given such a small window of opportunity to play high school sports and to think that they feel the ‘need’ to consume (alcohol) is a little disturbing,” Coach Ricker said, “Having the ability to tell your children or parents or anyone else who matters to you that you played for SME is a great honor. Telling them that you should’ve played but couldn’t make the commitment, well that is a whole other story.”

Biking Across Borders by laura nelson Timon Traub loves to bike.

It shows when he talks about bicycles — his face lights up. It shows when he explains what he likes in a bicycle — his gestures are animated. His hands fly in wild gestures as he talks, punctuating points and sketching diagrams in the air. His words are slightly tinged with a German accent, but if you’re not listening closely, you won’t notice at all.

Traub, a German exchange student, has been biking as long as he can remember – since before he was three.

He still loves to bike, and his passion for biking has only increased as he has gotten older Traub has been biking as long as he can remember.

As Traub grew up, his love of bicycling grew as well. In Germany, Traub and his family often participated in tours: relatively long bike rides in which many families participate over the weekends.

“And the Tour [de France] is quite popular,” Traub said, “Everyone in Germany rides bikes all the time.”

But it’s still enjoyable.

Traub goes on about the rides he’s participated in like a connoisseur raving about a fine wine.

“When you’re riding along, you see so many interesting things. You see how farmers get their crop and also trees and really weird things, like windmills from 400 years ago.

On a sunny day, riding is great.”

In Europe, everyone rides bikes, especially kids, Traub explained. Bike riding is mostly popular because towns are centered on “cores” of small stores and homes packed

close together. People can bike everywhere because everything is so compact.

“Since everything is so close, everyone rides bikes. And I mean everyone. You know the big parking lots outside the school? Everyone drives big shiny cars? In Germany, we have [parking] lots like that, but they aren’t full of cars. They have that many bikes.”

His hands slice through the air, his arms stretched wide.

Has he used his bicycle here yet?

“Not yet. With the troubles with Laying low: Traub relaxes with his bike in hand my host family…” he trails off. photo by samantha ludington Traub’s original host family, the McKinneys, had planned to go to Germany to visit their daughter, a plan Traub’s bike riding has suffered. He has a bike from K-Mart that was made eight months before they accepted Traub as now, but it’s currently in a Lenexa garage. their exchange student. Since the McKinneys didn’t want to Traub is specific about what he wants in a bike. Good cancel their trip, they made arrangements for Traub to stay gears. Lights. A nice seat. with a friend until they got home.

“The bike I got,” he said, “well… it’s K-Mart quality. But it “Well, they couldn’t cancel their trip, could they?” Traub has good, uh…” he struggles for the word. “Shocks? Shock said. “They went to Germany, met my parents and had a absorbers! Yes, very good shock absorbers. No lights, bad nice chat with their daughter while I stayed with friends of gears. But the shock absorbers are good. ” theirs.”

He hasn’t had time to ride. He’s hoping Mr. Brewster, However, Traub is back with the McKinneys now. He formerly the sponsor of the bike club, will help find him returned to them on Sept. 11 after two weeks with what he some people to ride with. He’s not sure when he’ll start calls “host family number two,” the Nahrstedgs. again, but the bike will be ready for him when he does.

With all the struggles to find and keep a host family,

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ALL DANCE AND NO PLAY Drill Team works their way to the top by ben whitsitt

A bevy of orders from senior captain Jennifer Sosna keep the drill team in line as they learn their new routine at a 7: 00 a.m. practice. Sosna is one of three captains on the team along with seniors Heidi Schmidt and Mackenzie Kelly.

“3, 4, 5, 6, switch! Hit, hit, hit!” shouts Sosna as the girls whirl and twirl to the beat of “Bombs Over Baghdad” by Outkast, echoing in the small gym.

It is Sosna, not the coach who is yelling orders to girls trying to master their moves amongst the booming bass of the stereo. Memorizing, spacing and timing are all required to pull off the complicated steps of a routine. Often, girls are seen during the day practicing moves when they have a moment to themselves.

Getting up at 5:30 a.m. to get ready for the day and make it to school by 7:00 a.m. doesn’t change their outlook on the drill team experience. The hours they put in during the week turns into successful shows.

“Sometimes I wish I could be watching from the sidelines, but it is unique to be dancing and I really enjoy it,” junior Laine Macky said.

Schmidt, walks in at the ring of first hour, just coming from taking a test and gets ready for dancing.

“It is worth it in the end,” Schmidt said. “It’s an annoying process but the reward is great.”

The process starts in the summer with the annual drill team camp in Emporia where East gets to compete with drill teams from around the country. This past summer the girls were required to learn a dance in a week and then perform it on the last day of camp. They ended up getting best routine performance, the highest award a team can achieve. In addition, Sosna and freshman Laura Kaufman were named All-American while both the junior varsity and varsity teams were invited to the Orange bowl and the

national championships. But due to a lack of funds, the team was unable to go.

“We could do fund raisers for the championships, but we are so busy from December through February, there is no time,” coach Kristin Anderson said.

The team receives $4,000 from the district fine arts department, but that only covers flag equipment and parts of the uniform. They do two car washes that amass about $1,000 and the Lancer Dancer Clinic covers about $4,000 but it is still short of going to nationals. In February, the clinic gathers elementary school girls who are interested in dance and it gives them the opportunity to learn from the The Drill: Sophomore Leigh Sunderland and junior Molly Emert show off Lancer Dancers.

“We get overlooked,” Kelly their moves during a pep assembly. photo by Megan Koch said. “People don’t realize how Natashia Howell said. much work we put in.”

There are 11 months in a drill team year, every month November marks the time where preparation for January’s Kansas Spectacular begins and also basketball halftime except July is filled with the learning and teaching the fine art shows. The Kansas Spectacular is a competition held on of dance for the varsity drill team. Although technically not a January 20 and 21 and the girls bring in a professional sport, drill team is still seen in the same light as other sports choreographer, Alexis Bugler, three times a week to work on but the girls could care less about that, they would rather concentrate on staying in sync with each other as the beats routines.

“We have to learn dances in a week and sometimes we of Outkast ramble on. have problems with spacing. It doesn’t come easy,” junior

Cooler Talk: How do the other captains contribute to the success of the team?

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Strictly

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senior mackenzie kelly

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‘Kenzie does a lot of the organization. She does the costumes and the paperwork and Heidi makes a lot of the posters. We are like the three musketeers. senior jennifer sosna

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The captains are really great.

Our personalities play off each other and we get along really well. They are focused and organized. senior heidi schmidt

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Jennifer is my right hand man. She is the choreographer. She does anything that one person can do.

Gymnastics Chalk It Up: Freshman Erika Eymann chalks up her hands before her gymnastics event.

Chalk helps prevent slippage when the gymnasts attempt their routine. photos by Linda Howard

Keeping Score: Junior Natashia Howell tallies the score during a Lancer gymnastics meet.

The team looks very strong with their next meet on September 20 at Lee’s Summit. photo

by Linda Howard

issue 2 / septermber 19, 2005 / sports / page 19

Tour de ...

Kansas City Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong

player of the

week

travels to Kansas City with fiance Sheryl Crow by peter goehausen

Taylor Heinlein lancer volleyball hitter Taylor’s take- “Coming into the season, no one expected us to do much after losing all of the seniors. After the JCCC Invintational, we have a lot more confidence. We are young, but we have had alot of people step up for us.”

Teammates Takes- “T (Taylor) always picks us up when we are down or need points. She has basically had to take the responsibility of (graduated senior Stephanie)Bruggeman.”

LAST WEEK In last weekends tournament at the JCCC Invintational, Heinlein recorded 58 kills, 7 aces, and 7 stuff blocks.

She led the team to second place.

THIS WEEK In this weeks South quad, she will be expected to lead the team especially since Coach Terry Wright is absent due to family issues.

A month after winning his seventh Tour de France Lance Armstrong came to Leawood, Kan. No he didn’t take his three children and his rock star fiance Sheryl Crow to Disney World like most champions, but he came to Kansas!

Armstrong and Crow not only came to Leawood, but they stayed at junior Betsy Jensen’s house.

The Jensens didn’t win some crazy contest where the Tour de France champion and his fiance come sleep in your house. Jensen’s mother, Shelley, and Crow were sorority sisters at the Kappa Alpha Theta house at the University of Missouri in the early ‘80s. Though Crow has traveled to Leawood multiple times to see her friend, Armstrong made his first trip here Aug. 27-28.

Betsy was asked to keep quiet about the visit, to prevent the whole neighborhood from checking out the house. However, three of her friends were able to stop by and meet him.

“We tried to act normal,” junior Relaxing in KC:Singer Sheryl Crow embraces fiance Lance Armstrong, seven Emily Watkins said, “but right when we time Tour de France winner, during their stay in Kansas City with the Jensen got inside we all claimed that we’d never family, right. photo courtesy of the Jensen family wash our hand again.”

After winning his seventh Tour comeback to silence his critics. met him, it won’t be the last; she will attend de France, Armstrong announced his “If you meet him you can tell it’s not his wedding to Crow next spring. retirement from Team Discovery and the true,” Jensen said. “He’s a good guy and real “ I don’t consider them ‘famous people’,” Tour. (Before Lance the most consecutive down to earth.”

Jensen said. “ I see them as my moms best wins was by Miguel Indruian of Spain with Since Crow and Armstrong began dating friend and her boyfriend.” five.) However, after a French newspaper in 2004, Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have taken claims they have evidence of him blood trips to his Austin ranch. doping in the 1999 Tour, he has hinted at a Though it was the first time Betsy had

The Week Ahead

What to watch for in Lancer Athletics By Peter Goehausen MONDAY 9/19

Girls Golf at League at Leavenworth CC After finishing third in last Monday’s Free- State Invintational, the Lady Lancer golf team is striving to take one of their first trips as a team to state in over 10 years. Today junior Ellie Leek will be the number one golfer as the Lancers try to win the Sunflower League. Their main competitors for the league will be SM South and Olathe East who both finished in the top five of last weeks invintational. Some of the other top golfers for the team are sophomore Catherine Ward and junior Annie Brill.

Girls Tennis at Olathe North

The tennis team started off on a high note after cruising through the district tournament last weekend. With the state tournament less than a month away the Lancers are going to have to figure out their pairings. Since senior Kristin Bleakley has missed most of the season due to recruiting trips, the number one doubles team has yet to play together

THURSDAY 9/22

Girls Volleyball at SM South Quad

Coming off a major upset of defedning 5A champion Bishop Miege in the semifinals of the JCCC Invintational the Lancers are feeling confident. Though head coach Terry Wright has temporarily left the team for family issues, they are still excelling as a team. Junior Taylor Heinlein has led the team in the post-Bruggeman era. She led the team with nearly 300 hits in the tournament at the Johnson County Invite.

TUESDAY 9/20

GAME OF THE WEEK- Boys Soccer vs. Sm South The Lancers started off their season 2-1 with a third place finish in the KAMO Tournament. They beat SM West,1-0, who was previously ranked 31st in the nation. Senior Garrett Webb led the team in tournament with four goals, all of which came in the opening victory. In the first East- South rivalry game of the year, it will be must win as they get ready to play West again next week. The return of senior Patrick Kohnle from injury will help take some of the load off senior Josh Haith, top, and the defense

FRIDAY 9/23

Football at Lawrence

2-0 alright! Don’t get ahead of yourself Lancer fans. Last year East started off 2-0 and quickly plummeted to the bottom half of the Sunflower League. This Friday at Lawrence will be East’s chance to prove that they are in fact a legitmate contender for the Sunflower League. Lawrence, led by senior quarterback Brian Heere, knocked off heavyweight Olathe North in week two of the season.

quarterback Brett Condie

photos by linda howard and emily rappold

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High Expectations After two straight wins, the SME football team is more pumped than ever, and it seems as if things may be looking up

Fumble Recovery: Junior Dillon Goins runs for a touchdown after a fumble recovery at the 29 yard line during the third quarter.

Junior Bobby Miller and senior Brad Blessen follow close behind, blocking the other team. photo by Linda Howard

Looking Onward: Seniors Andy Patton and Kelly Zumbehl listen as Coach Stonner makes suggestions about the teams offensive unit during a timeout in the game against Olathe Northwest. East’s offense dominated behind junior Collin Hertel’s outstanding performance with 29 carries for 105 yards and a second quarter touchdown. photo by Emily Rappold

Leg Cramps: Senior Bryant Condie sits on the bench with trainer Jenny Edwards after his leg cramped up on the field. Bobby Miller was also taken off the field second half when his leg cramped up. photo by Linda Howard

Dodging the Tackle: Collin Hertel runs the ball up the field and fights off the other team as senior J.W. Vanderloo tries to make a block. photo by Linda Howard