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STAFF EDITORIAL

EACH MONTH, THE LEGACY UNCUT STAFF DISCUSSES THE COVER STORY AND DECIDES WHAT THEY COLLECTIVELY BELIEVE ABOUT THE ISSUE AT HAND. THIS UNSIGNED STAFF EDITORIAL IS A SUMMARY OF THIS DISCUSSION. artificial appearance does not matter in the big picture. Many n the December Uncut issue, the cover story features the Legacy students walk around during their days, and for whatever life of Trey Volk who dropped out of Legacy as a sophomore in reason, never tell their friends and family about their state of high school, and has since endured far greater struggles with mind. Even though many people care about them and love them drugs and depression than he did as a high school student. He dearly, students don’t tell people in their lives because they don’t has had many adventures unfathomable to many students and believe others will understand. Even though those people are faculty, most of which we were unable to include in the story. loved dearly by their friends and family, they may feel isolated Nonetheless, all of the problems and bad situations Volk has dealt from them. with originated from his depression and anxiety. Sadly, Volk is not Ultimately, if you are suffering from depression, you must seek alone. According to an EPIC Assemblies survey, 17.87 percent help. Because we are all busy people, it may be difficult for us to of Legacy students have either attempted suicide or considered stop and recognize when someone we know is struggling. If you attempting suicide in the past 12 months. don’t want to talk to friends and family about it, you can seek out We, the Legacy Uncut staff, unanimously agree that it is a other outlets. Many people find healing through appointments terrifying statistic. with psychologists or through medication. Others find help by Truthfully, what makes the statistic most horrific is that we were talking to strangers or by taking up new hobbies. Plus, there all surprised by it. Approximately one third of the LHS Media are many great organizations, like Legacy’s Sources of Strength, staff know at least person who is struggling with depression which seek to help those who struggle. The majority of people and suicidal thoughts. Although Volk admits there can be an will care about you and try to understand and help you, because embarrassing persona that comes with mood disorders, that we--as a people--want everyone to live life happy.

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PERSPECTIVE

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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hen I became editor, I wanted stories to be written that are never told because they have the ability to change people’s perspectives on life. This story has changed me. I believe this cover story, which follows the life of a high school dropout, can change you, too. In the story, would-be senior Trey Volk decides to drop out of Legacy during his sophomore year. It caused a chain of events to occur in his life, and generally, it wasn’t for the better. Volk, particularly in the past year, has struggled mightily with depression and suicide. It was different for me, learning and writing about his experiences - and many, many more unwritten - because I haven’t been exposed to that type of environment.

But, as I got to know Trey Volk better, I became more attached to him and became worried about him. Oftentimes, when I wake up now, I fret if Trey is still going to be here.

During the production of the cover story, I found some difficult questions that may not have a right answer. Unfortunately, for many lives, there are wrong answers, and all too often these questions are never attempted to be answered. I quadruple dogdare you to try and find answers to these questions for yourself or

the people you know or may know whonare struggling.

If you are close to someone who is depressed, and they are coping by being involved with bad influences (ex. drugs, people), how would you get them to stop and go down a better path, when the utmost importance is for them to be happy? If you want someone to turn around from depression and become more independent, how do you help them find their place in life? If you are depressed, with struggles incomprehensible to people around you, what could your loved ones do to help you feel better? How could a medical facility or doctor cater and heal each individual’s specific needs from their mental illness?

If you have any answers to these questions, have any comments/ concerns or need someone to talk to, email me: Bswanberg@bpsapps.org. I hope you take all of these Uncut stories to heart this December, and I hope you try your best to help the people around you--that way, everyone can find Happiness during the holiday season.

BRIAN SWANBERG

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Like a story or column in Uncut? See something we’ve printed that just doesn’t seem right, or you know for sure is wrong? Have ideas for a story we should cover or a new short idea that students will love? Then stop talking to your friends about it and please write us a letter to the editor about your praise, complaint, or idea.

It’s easy! Simply write or type it, sign it, and drop it off at the main office, asking that it be put in Mrs. Skalicky’s mailbox. Before publishing it, we will find you for verification, so be sure to include your name and grade.

LHS UNCUT STAFF BRIAN SWANBERG EDITOR

CARTER SCOTT A S S I S TA N T E D I T O R

C O LT O N M A R Q U A R D T DESIGN EDITOR

K E AT O N S M I T H COPY EDITOR

B R AY D E N Z E N K E R LIFE EDITOR

MADISON SHAFER EVENTS EDITOR

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

10 12 EVENTS

LIFE

SABER

HOT RODS

PAGE 6 What you need to know, when you need to know it

PAGE 10-11 A look at the nicest cars in the parking lots of Legacy

A D J U S T I N G T O N E W WAY O F L I F E | PA G E 12

CHRISTMAS WISHES

REFUGEES

BREAKING BARRIERS

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PA G E 1 2 - 1 5 The stories of some of Bismarck’s refugee students

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STUDENT REFUGEES

T W O S I S T E R S P L AY M A L E DOMINANT SPORTS | PA G E 28

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Former student Trey Volk uncovers his dark path since dropping out of Legacy High School.

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What gifts are students of Legacy wishing for?

EAGLE SCOUTS PAGE 8-9 Legacy’s few Eagle Scouts tell about their experiences of becoming the highest rank

COVER CHARGE PA G E 1 8 - 1 9 Claw Corner supports new beanie business as a positive voice for change

JOURNEY OF THE SOUL PA G E 2 0 - 2 5 Former student shares his story of dropping out of school

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OPINION

THE TALMADGE SISTERS

COURTESY OF THE CHIEF

PA G E 2 8 - 2 9 Sierra and Sage Talmadge share their stories of playing in male dominant sports

PA G E 3 4 A tale of Grief

SCOTT’S THOUGHTS

WHAT LEGACY IS (IN)FAMOUS FOR

PA G E 3 3 Carter Scott’s musings about possible high school sports in the future

PA G E 3 5 Senior Alex Anderson shares his thoughts on what Legacy is known for

WINTER SPORTS CARDS

SHREDDER’S LETTER

PA G E 3 0 - 3 2 An inside look into several Saber athletes

PAGE 36 Why “Happy Holidays” is the correct term for society

JAXON’S REACTION PA G E 3 7 Get involved! Why Christmas should be treated as an individual holiday

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SABER (SAH-BEAR):

SPANISH VERB - TO KNOW (SOMETHING) This short will provide quick news from around the school, community, nation and world, along with why it may be important to you.

SHORT BY BRIAN SWANBERG

WHAT’S HAPPENING? The second annual LHS Giving Tree, sponsored by the Key Club, is going on until Friday Dec. 9. Grab an ornament off the Giving Tree in the Learning Commons and fulfill someone’s wish this Christmas.

It will help some less fortunate families from around the Bismarck Mandan area have a happier holiday season.

There is going to be a Santa Run (5k) at the Heritage Center Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. Registration is $35. Children 12 and under are $10 dollars. Register at www.bismarcksantarun.com

First of all, it is a great way for you and your friends and family to have fun. All proceeds will go towards RADD (Runners Against Destructive Decisions), which is an organization which strives to help those recovering from addiction and other bad habits by encouraging running.

Friday, Dec. 9, and Saturday, Dec. 10, go is the Dickens Festival in Garrison. Garrison is the official Christmas capital of North Dakota. This time of year, Garrison turns into a Victorianera town like the one in A Christmas Carol.

People travel from all over the state and neighboring areas (Montana, Canada, South Dakota) for this event. If you want to experience the spirit of Christmas in a different light, you should go to this.

President Barack Obama is nearing the end of his second term. Currently, in the lame duck period, following the election, Obama is in a place of significantly less power.

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WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

Because he has a lesser responsibility and knows who is going to be the next Commanderin-chief, President Obama will take more risks and try to create leverage in order to cement the most important policies of his presidency.

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HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS

A QUICK LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF LEGACY STUDENTS’ CHRISTMAS WISHES

BY MAKYIA HERMAN

WHAT’S YOUR DREAM CHRISTMAS VACATION? JUNIOR CASSIE FUNK Go to Australia.

JUNIOR KALLIE KAUTZMAN Go to Hawaii.

IF YOU COULD BUY ANYTHING FOR CHRISTMAS, WHAT WOULD YOU GET AND WHO WOULD YOU GET IT FOR? SENIOR NATALIE BEISWENGER I would take [my son] Finley to Disney World.

SOPHOMORE ANDREW MESSMER I would buy my dad a M2 Driver.

WHAT’S YOUR DREAM CHRISTMAS GIFT? SOPHOMORE MCKENNA FREIER A vacation to any tropical island.

SENIOR OMAR GUZMAN Egg Nog.

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EAGLE SCOUTS

SEVERAL LEGACY STUDENTS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT MOST SCOUTS DO

STORY BY MADISON SHAFER PHOTOS SUBMITTED myself,” Langerud said. “The things I’ve done and lessons I’ve learned in my riven.

Dedicated.

Deeds experience are irreplaceable.” unchartable. Their passion unfailable.

To receive their Eagle, scouts must They have gone above, and beyond what complete a service project, however was expected, broken through the roof of according to senior Hunter Ripplinger, it’s possibility. They are the Eagle Scouts of not just a project.

America.

“It’s more than just a project, you’re In formal terms an Eagle Scout is the finally accomplishing what you’ve worked highest rank a Boy Scout can achieve, for since you were in cub scouts,” however it is so much more than that.

Ripplinger said. “It takes a lot of effort They are the leaders of today and and it is definitely a hard project, but you tomorrow, looked up learn a lot from it.” to by many, hailed for These boys have seen “IT’S MORE THAN their adaptability, work and done a lot, and have JUST A PROJECT, ethic, and experience. risen up and above all the YOU’RE FINALLY Less than one in ten boys obstacles in their path ACCOMPLISHING get awarded the rank of with the help of their WHAT YOU’VE Eagle, and Legacy is lucky WORKED FOR SINCE fellow scouts according to enough to host six of them. junior Brady Fried.

YOU WERE IN CUB Three of which have been “We’re a tough crowd, SCOUTS.” in the same troop from the Eagle scouts in particular,” very beginning, when their Eagles’ were Fried said. “Eagle Scout is the only rank still a distant dream. that can be taken away, so we have to live While it’s a long and sometimes stressful by that oath we take.” process to get your Eagle, senior Jacob All three boys have put in a tremendous Langerud wouldn’t change a thing. amount of work, and their finished “I look back and there are so many projects definitely show it. Langerud’s experiences that I wouldn’t have done project entailed replanting 300 trees

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down in Mclane Bottoms after the flood for Game and Fish.

“It took me almost 21 hours to prep the site, but the actual planting took only four hours, because 13-15 boys came and helped out,” Langerud said. “It was incredibly stressful but it’s a really great experience and I’ll be able to come back in 30 years and see it still standing, and it’ll still be my project.”

Ripplinger, while still working with Game and Fish, took a different approach. At the game and fish owl pond he planted two flower beds. Fried took an entirely different route than both of the other boys.

“I poured a cement handicap ramp for a private shooting range out in Moffit,” Fried said. “The physical work took two weekends at ten hours a piece, but the paperwork took me almost a year.”

No matter their differences in projects, or ages, all three boys have helped out each other from the beginning. While Fried is a year behind Ripplinger and Langerud, they all have many fond memories with each other since the first and second grade.

“One of my favorite memories is

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Junior Brady Fried stands by the cement handicap ramp he built at the shooting range in Moffit.

probably just going camping with those “While we are all hardworking, Jacob guys,” Ripplinger said. “We’re always and Brady are both trying their hardest helping each other, and everyone out, to be the best they can for others,” always pushing each other to be the best Ripplinger said. “We’re all close and it’s we can.” all about helping everyone get to the Each of these boys has taken away next step.” so much from their experiences and After all the things scouts have to do for continues to grow from them. Langerud in their projects, they are also faced with particular says he’s taken away something a lengthy “interview” of sorts. A board special. of five people sits and ask truly mindful “I had been providing leadership for my questions. Sometimes the review can troop, and for three years they looked take over an hour, however when all is up to me,” Langerud said. “That alone said and done they are also the people has strengthened me that will get to tell scouts “I’VE INSPIRED so much, I’ve become that their worked paid off YOUNG BOYS AND president of tech club, and that they are indeed THAT IS THE MOST I’ve inspired young getting their Eagle.

IMPORTANT THING I boys, and that is the “Five adults ask questions most important thing I COULD HAVE DONE.” and it’s nerve racking... these could have done.” are the guys that will decide Fried has also learned a thing or two. if you have done enough,” Langerud “My first week long campout it was said. “In the end though you just breath thunderstorming so bad, and there were a huge sigh of relief and know that your tornado sirens, but it sticks in my head hard work paid off.” that things happen and you have to deal The things they’ve done and the things with it,” Fried said. “Things might be they have learned they will never forget, difficult but there is nothing you can’t nor will the people the have helped achieve, everything is achievable you just forget them. They aren’t the heroes one might have to work a little harder.” would expect, but they are the heroes Not only are their accomplishments that everyone needs day to day. These amazing, but so is the light they see each Eagle Scouts have a lot to be proud of, other in. and they deserve the recognition.

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BEST CARS

BY SHERADYN SCHMALTZ

SENIOR COLE ALLER 2008 HONDA CIVIC SI Favorite thing: “The way she sits.”

Details: Not slammed or anything- Mexiflush look with wide wheels.

Investment: Aller doesn’t put too much time into his car, it’s more that he spends a lot of money on it.

Fun fact: It takes him two hours to wash his Civic, and it took him three hours to install the headlights.

SENIOR ROBERT KELLAM 2008 FORD F-250 POWERSTROKE Favorite thing: It’s a pickup and can still beat some of the cars in Bismarck and the sound of the exhaust.

Details: New wheels, new tires. Leveling kit, tinted the tailights, washes as often as he can.

SENIOR NOAH JOB 2009 NISSAN 370Z Favorite thing: “Going 0-100 real quick.”

Investment: Spends time working on his car, “All the time, even the important times.”

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SENIOR CREDE CLEMENTS 2010 CAMARO SS

Investment: He works a lot in order to afford his car, but in his opinion, it’s worth it. He’s just always wanted that car.

JUNIOR BAILEY SAUER 2006 AUDI A4 Details: No modifications other than sandblasting and painting the wheels (mainly because he wants to sell it.)

Fun fact: He drives an Audi because before he got his license he did a bunch of research to find the best car manufacturer and Audi seemed to be #1.

JUNIOR BRYCE FAUL 2003 DODGE 2500 Favorite thing: “Going fast while looking cool.”

Investment: Wash twice a week. Every paycheck goes toward making truck look nice.

Some nights, up until midnight.

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FOREIGN ENCOUNTER

STUDENTS’ TALES OF FINDING A HOME IN A FARAWAY LAND STORY BY BRAYDEN ZENKER

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ollowing the end of WWII the United Nations held the 1851 Refugee Convention. The convention defines who is a refugee and what rights belong to these refugees. The rights from that convention still stand today. To become a refugee under the United States a referral to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program is required. If someone was to receive the referral they would need to fill out an application and then be interviewed to see if they qualify for resettlement. An applicant can have a spouse and children (unmarried and under 21 years old).

Applicants may have a same sex spouse, but they have to be legally married to do so. Very rarely, other family members may be on the application. To bring families back together applicants can file an Affidavit of Relationship which is used to reunite refugees with close family.

To be able to apply to be a refugee in the

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U.S. the applicant has to be living out of the U.S. when he or she applies. Next the applicant has to be unable or unwilling to live in his or her home country because of persecution. Persecution applies to race, religion, nationality, membership of a social group, or political opinion.

The Refugee Act of 1980 created the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program to help with resettlement and aid applicants to become self-sufficient as soon as possible after coming to the United States. The act gives refugees job training and placement, financial assistance, and provides assistance with learning English.

Legacy math teacher Akoya Shuler teaches math application to some of Legacy’s refugee students.

“They have so much drive to do well in school. They never really had education before so, now that they do, it’s amazing.

They love being at school an they love learning,” Shuler said. “They never take

education for granted.”

This is Shuler’s first time teaching refugees. It has been a defining experience for Shuler.

“These kids have definitely changed me as a teacher. I’ve adapted my teaching methods and curriculum since they have come. The whole experience has just brought to light the fact that people around the world don’t get the same opportunities that we do here,” Shuler said.

Shuler has learned a lot about her students’ cultures. The refugees at Legacy come from all around the world.

The experience has also taught her important life lessons.

“They have taught me to be more curious about different people and their cultures and now I have a new appreciation for their cultures. I can’t imagine what they have been through in their countries,” Shuler said. “It creates a soft spot in my heart for them.”

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Sophomore Herika Duffi cheers for Legacy’s varsity football team at the Community Bowl. Photo submitted

Shuler has more students than just refugees in her math applications class and was amazed about how they were so welcoming to the new students.

“Our students welcomed them and became friends with them right away,” Shuler said. “I’m so proud of my students for embracing them and making them feel welcomed.”

Sophomore Herika Duffi was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but lived in the Ivory Coast in Africa for three years before coming to the United States permanently. “[The Ivory Coast is] really similar to here in America. I feel in some aspects [Ivory Coast] has more freedom at first. You can have party on the streets, but in some places, if you’re from a certain tribe, you can’t go there,” Herika said.

The clearest memory of Ivory Coast that Herika remembers is that she spent a lot of time in hiding.

“There was one time when I was younger French soldiers had come into my house and the only thing I remember was I went and hid under my bed,” Herika said.

“Another time, when I was 10, rebels came into my building. When that happens, you can’t run, you just stay in your house and

lock the doors. The rebels came into my downstairs neighbor’s apartment and ransacked the place and took what they wanted. I just remember hiding a lot.”

Whenever Herika visited Ivory Coast, there was always a threat that something bad could happen to her, especially because she was a child.

“I remember when we moved [to America] and we would go back [to Ivory Coast] just a month at a time, my mom would also tell me I couldn’t wear certain things,” Herika said. “At this time I was 10 and had to wear long sleeves and pants. Being a kid I was always in danger of being kidnapped.

When we would go out she would always make sure I was always covered.”

The only family members who are living in America are Herika’s immediate family.

Herika has a mother and father and an older brother and younger sister. She and her family go back to the Ivory Coast about every 1-2 years.

“Almost all my family is still in the Ivory Coast. It’s hard to reconnect with my family. First just the fact of the language barrier. Though I can speak French, they have their own way of interpreting it. Also, they have a different way of thinking then I

do,” Herika said.

Herika’s parents left the Ivory Coast to try and give their family the best life possible.

“When I came to live here permanently I had to learn a completely new language.

Even though I was born in America my first language was French,” Herika said. “I also had to learn how to act like an American.”

Living in America, Herika has been been given numerous opportunities she wouldn’t be able to have living in the Ivory Coast.

“I can imagine living [in the Ivory Coast], but I wouldn’t have as many opportunities as I do here. I probably wouldn’t be as educated, because you have to pay for school there,” Herika said.

Even though Herika lives away from her extended family, she wouldn’t trade living in America to be with them.

“I’m in love with the way I think,” Herika said. “I believe in people and that everybody is good in someway. I feel that if I was raised in the Ivory Coast I wouldn’t think this way. I hope one day I get the chance to bring my family to America so they can live the life I’m getting to live.”

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Freshman Hussain Thamer is also a proficiency test. The test is scored on refugee student here at Legacy. Hussain a scale of 1-5 and students are placed is a refugee from Afghanistan. in services according to their score on “I feel much better now that I am living the test. Students K-5 are enrolled in a in America,” Thamer said. special Welcoming Center where they still Thamer was lucky enough to have a learn the school’s curriculum, but focus large amount of his family on learning the English “I FEEL MUCH come with him when he language. Students in BETTER NOW THAT came from Afghanistan to 6-12 are enrolled in their I AM LIVING IN America. neighborhood middle AMERICA.” “I love that six members school or high school. of my family were able to Then while they are at come with me to America,” Thamer said. school they meet with their English Hussain came to America without being Language Learner teacher. They work able to speak any English. He has made on trying to become a proficient English extensive progress since then and is able speaker. to have a conversation in English without “Every student comes in with a different having to use Google Translate. background and exposure to English.

“It was very difficult coming to America.

Each progression is really individualized.

I was afraid of the language difference,” Students start with basic English and Thamer said. “But, I feel much better now make their way up to more complicated that I am in America.” sentences and things like figurative English language learner teacher Renee language. It’s a lot of skills to learn in a Feist teaches the refugees’ English short amount of time,” Feist said. development class.

There are about 200 ELL students in the “The class focuses on reading, writing, district who speak more that 27 different listening and speaking. It’s an English languages. This number includes students class that moves students up to English from all of the elementary, middle and proficiency,” Feist said. high schools. There are 28 ELL students If a student registering with Bismarck between Legacy and Century. There are Public Schools has a second language in 8 ELL teachers spread throughout the the household, they are given an English district. Feist teaches at both Century and

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Legacy.

“I come every day and have a class period with these students. It’s not just my role [as ELL teacher], it’s the teacher, the students, the cooks in the kitchen; everyone. Talking and connecting and taking the time to have conversations all for great benefit and growth,” Feist said.

Students take another language proficiency test to pass out of an ELL class. If they pass the test they are monitored for two years after they test out of the class. ELL teachers monitor the students’ grades and have meetings with them to check up on them.

“It’s a sense of accomplishment for the student and myself because there is a lot of one-on-one work. Learning English is like climbing Mount Everest.

When you get to that score, but it’s not all about the score. When you see the the language connecting and the student is very successful and independent that feels good for me that I’ve done my job as their teacher and for the student too because they can be independent and successful. That’s what your whole goal is,” Feist said.

Legacy Custodian Dekonan Duffi came to the the U.S. from Ivory Coast to live in America with his family.

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Source: U.S. Office of Refugee Settlement here and if you have the opportunity to come here you just do. You live better here than in Africa,” Dekonan said.

American life has been a major adjustment for Dekonan and his family, which includes Herika Duffi.

“I thought I was going to stay because it’s more fun over there. Over there you start work at 7a.m. and work ‘till 3. Then people just have fun ‘till the next day. Over there when you go home you have the whole neighborhood and they say hi to you on your way home. That’s something that I miss, but living here is a hundred times better. The government there is in control of everything,” Dekonan said. “The system is much different there. You have to be in a certain circle to have a voice, but here even if you have nothing you can speak up.”

Ivory Coast was in a civil war from 20022007 and they are currently in a rebuilding process.

“We just had a war over there a few years ago, but now it’s safer. But, I cannot say safe though,” Dekonan said.

Dekonan is working two jobs, one at Walmart and the other at Legacy as a custodian.

“I was fortunate to come here. After school it hard to find jobs [in Ivory Coast].

You don’t really know what it’s like over there. People leave out the struggle,” Dekonan said. “Over here you can have a meal three times a day, but over there you may get one meal a day.”

Dekonan has three children, two daughters and a son. They have been living in the U.S. for 19 years.

“It’s better for [Herika] here. The system is much different there. You have to be in a certain circle to have a voice, but here even if you have nothing, you can speak up. She not going to have to work hard like me.”

Lutheran Social Services Case Aide Lisa Omlid works very close with incoming refugees.

“Lutheran Social Services actually started out as an organization to take care of abandoned children in the Fargo area,” Omlid said. “It has since grown and I am part of a branch that resettles incoming refugees in North Dakota called New Americans.”

Lutheran Social Services took in about 500 refugees last year and currently have about 50 living in the Bismarck area, most of which come from the Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine.

“When we get a call that someone is coming, we immediately start to work. We

have to set them up with a fully furnished apartment and pay for the security deposit along with a couple months rent. Before they get here they have to go through a federally mandated medical check and get all the vaccines that the government requires them to receive. When they actually arrive, we help them apply for food stamps, medical services and financial aid,” Omlid said.

Lutheran Social Services also helps get incoming refugees jobs to help support themselves.

“We have a really good relationship with Walmart and Sam’s Club. They are very willing to have the refugees as employees.

We also have some clients get jobs at Sanford and the Cloverdale factory,” Omlid said.

Many other organizations such as the Lord of Life Church help the refugee families in their transition.

“Lord of Life helps a lot with getting these families transportation and things like that but, they also help these families do fun things together,” Omlid said.

Other organizations and church groups that volunteer to help in the Bismarck community are the Unitarian Church, Good Shepherd and the organization Interface.

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STUDENTS OF LEGACY

HERE AT LEGACY UNCUT, WE BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD GET A CHANCE TO TELL THEIR STORY. THROUGH “STUDENTS OF LEGACY” WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE HELPED OUT THE CAUSE. THIS SHORT IS MEANT FOR READERS TO HELP OTHERS UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND WHO THEY ARE

BY TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING IMPORTANT IN THEIR LIVES. SHORT BY UNCUT STAFF

“I LOVE HAVING A GOOD TIME. GRADES ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, BUT I LOVE THE GOSHE BOYS MORE.”

-SENIOR OMAR GUZMAN

“Before I moved here, I would usually go downstairs to my living room and watch YouTube. I’d dance around and it was really, really fun. I was downstairs dancing, and my mom told me my grandma died a week ago, and I was sad ‘cause my mom was sad, but not really ‘cause I didn’t really know her. So, I was spinning around and I turned and saw this white figure flash by, it had been there whole time. And I was like, “Wow!” But, if there was a ghost, then I’m pretty sure it is gone, like I scared it away. So, I couldn’t fall asleep for like three hours--it freaked me out. And to this day, I don’t know what happened.”

-FRESHMAN DAYAN WEHJLA

“I love the joy of wrestling. I love the positive feeling where everybody is clapping their hands because I hurt somebody.

And then, when your opponent starts getting up, and the audience is cheering for them, and you knock them down again, it is the best feeling. The only thing that sucks is that you have to cut weight. You go through hot waters cutting weight.

This week I had to cut 8 pounds, so it was really bad because you have to starve and dehydrate yourself. But, you can’t get too dehydrated because we have hydration tests every two weeks. But, because of all the workouts, and cutting weight, you get a good chemistry with the team.”

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BEANIES FOR A CAUSE

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eeing her daughter calling, she picks up the phone. Her daughter begins telling her excitedly about her new business that is helping others around the world. She enthusiastically describes how workers clean up litter polluting the streets of Haiti and use this litter to create backpacks. To make these backpacks they employ Haitians, by employing these Haitians they are able to offer them a fair wage. She is also working with a fair trade company called Manos in Uruguay.

She supports the efforts of this company by purchasing yarn from them to make beanies. As she hears her daughter describe these wonderful things, an idea sparks inside of her head.

Journalism teacher Sue Skalicky established an idea incorporating her daughter Bre Cain’s new business into Legacy High School.

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“I approached Emily Jacobson with this idea, because I felt that our classrooms could collaborate and provide a product to the whole student body. It will also benefit a family who has a family member struggling with cancer,” Skalicky said.

“THIS GOES A STEP BEYOND ORDERING PRODUCTS AND SELLING THEM.” This idea consists of selling her daughter’s beanies from the school store. Cain is the founder of the business Broken Modern Culture which buys their yarn from Manos Del Uruguay. Their yarn is handmade by rural women in Uruguay´s countryside.

These women are paid fair wages for doing this. Cain has taught herself how to make these beanies and hopes to help

change the current mainstream clothing purchase trends.

“My goal is to educate consumers and get people asking who made their clothes,” Cain said.

Surrounding Cain’s goal is the poor clothing production system that is currently taking place. She says there are around 170 million engaged in child labor worldwide. This has a direct correlation with the high demand of clothing in the US. Children are good candidates for tasks to aid the mass production of materials needed to produce these clothing. For example, cotton picking is easy to assign to children since it doesn’t require much training, plus children’s hands are smaller making it easier for them to safely pick out the cotton. However, Cain disagrees with those methods.

“I can’t, in good conscience, buy these clothes knowing it’s causing these kids to

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Cain believes the reason that big name stores can sell mass amounts of clothes for so cheap is cheap labor which goes hand in hand with child labor. These clothes that are produced are typically less durable and last shorter amounts of time. But, there are also big name companies that are ethical in their manufacturing. Her idea is by recognizing and supporting these companies, the amount of children being forced into these jobs can be decreased.

Her targeted age group is high school and college aged people, since these are the consumers who primarily shop at these big name stores that produce cheap clothing.

“If they knew there was a better option and if they knew it was making a social change I think they would stop buying and enabling child labor,” Cain said.

Business and marketing teacher Emily Jacobson is in charge of the school store The Claw Corner and encourages this change as well. She had minimal prior knowledge of Cain’s business before she was approached by Skalicky, but after

finding out about all of the things she was doing she was delighted and wanted to help support these efforts as well. “[When I heard about this I said] okay, this is awesome, we have to do something about it,” Jacobson said.

This is convenient because the school store is also in need of new merchandise to sell. Jacobson says often when they do new promotions they want to have a story to go along with them, because this pulls in students and encourages them to buy products.

“I think it’s important for the kids to see that they’re making a difference by buying these hats,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson also teaches about a lot of the main factors that Cain addresses within her company. She teaches in her business classes that most businesses start because somebody has a problem they want to solve. She also has her students consider things such as: how are these products going to help people, who is going to be employed, is it going to be inside of the United States? All of these factors are

extremely evident in Cain’s business.

“Especially with Bre’s [business], she has a mission, she’s helping people out. A lot of those businesses aren’t focusing on the money part, but on their story,” Jacobson said.

Selling these beanies in the school store also enables several LHS classes to come together and collaborate. Skalicky’s journalism 1 class and Jacobson’s marketing class are working together to promote the beanies. The journalism 1 class will advertise and promote the product on social media, while Jacobson’s will work the school store while marketing and preparing the items.

“Everybody has a different job to do, but we all have the same goal,” Skalicky said.

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Trey Volk recounts some of the labels that others have called him, which, accurate or not, have harmed him over the years.

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DROPPED OUT FORMER LEGACY STUDENT TRIES TO FIND HAPPINESS

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upposed to be in one of his ten hours of detention, a student begins walking out of school to hang out with friends. A teacher reminds him that if he doesn’t go to detention, he will face credit loss. The student continues to wander away from him. The teacher questions him further, ridiculing the student for caring more about his friends than his future. The student laughs, agrees with the sentiment, and proceeds to leave the school.

Former Legacy student and would-be senior Trey Volk dropped out of school during the spring of his sophomore year.

“That incident was me officially giving up,” Trey said.

However, Trey’s older brother Deion Volk has always had high hopes for him.

“Trey is….potential,” Deion said. “He’s really smart and intelligent. He can do a lot of great things if he puts in the effort. Although he has had to be, and may still need to be, prodded and pushed into the right direction, he can do a lot of great things.”

Deion believes that early on in his life,

personal struggles may have kept Trey from going in that direction.

“I began having depression in third grade,” Trey said.

Depression and anxiety caused issues in many aspects of his life, school included.

“I started not having the right mindset for school,” Trey said. “I remember I began skipping assignments in third or fourth grade.

I would just hide my assignments in my desk.”

Before attending Legacy, Trey had already attempted to commit suicide and had suffered severe anxiety attacks.

“In eighth grade, I was having terrible chest pains, and a physician told me I was having a heart attack,” Trey said. “So they called an ambulance, I get rushed to the hospital and get in. They did tests, and found out that it was just an anxiety attack. A doctor was amazed, and he asked ‘Like how can you be that depressed that we thought you had a heart attack?’ I realized at that moment that I was really killing myself. There was no one holding a knife to me saying ‘You better die’ ‘make yourself die’--that was just me that depressed. I’ve always had problems with that.”

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[LIFE] Once he entered high school, Trey struggled to get by, but he passed his freshman year. Global studies teacher Thomas Bushaw remembers Trey vividly.

“He was highly intelligent, but he was often bored - he slept in class sometimes,” Bushaw said. “He was a kid who could totally wing something and do a good job on it. He didn’t like the atmosphere and structure of this high school, but he was an enjoyable person, and we had a great relationship.”

However, something changed for Trey the summer before his sophomore year.

“I began having some bad influences in my life,” Trey said. “I became friends with people who listened to a bunch

Despite Volk’s choice to drop out, it is rare for students to drop out of Legacy. According to Principal Tom Schmidt, 0.6 percent of Legacy High School students dropped out last year.

Photo by Brian Swanberg

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of trap music. If you listen to the lyrics, if you listen to what he’s saying, [it isn’t good stuff]. I mean, to understand trap music, [you have] to understand that

“THE PROBLEMS THAT STARTED OCCURRING IN MY LIFE WEREN’T BECAUSE OF MY FAMILY --IT WAS ALL ME, BECAUSE [IN MY MIND] IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT ME, IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT TREY, TREY, TREY.” environment. You’re talking about a place where the come-up is selling drugs and doing violence. It sounds bad, but there, if someone is at the bottom, they don’t care.

If they don’t have a talent or not pursuing something, not giving them anything to live for, they are going to go break and steal from people’s houses. And so, that’s what they write about. When most kids listen to trap music, they’re all hyped, but they don’t understand that the [rapper] is serious. He is usually doing stuff like that.”

Many of Trey’s friends were beginning to be interested in that environment, and so he too felt pressure about it. He became inspired to write rap lyrics.

“I began writing all the time, but unlike the trap music, I write motivational stuff,” Trey said. “It still is my passion.”

Trey began skipping more classes and started refusing to do any homework, even though he believed he knew how to do all of it. Legacy principal Tom Schmidt believes his staff tries its best to prevent those situations.

“The homework needs to be purposeful,” Schmidt said. “We want to make sure that the students understand the purpose of doing it, that the study skills you develop, meeting deadlines and completing [assignments]...it’s not just doing the math homework, which is an important thing, but understanding why you are doing the homework is the important thing.”

They couldn’t stop everyone, however, because Trey didn’t care. “[Instead] I would often write lyrics during class,” Trey said. “One time, I was writing poetry and other stuff for [English teacher Laura] Wagner’s class, and I said this poem [aloud] about love and the whole class was just wowed. They had those eyes like ‘you can really do something [with that] in your life.’”

Even though Trey’s lyrics may have been inspiring, his grades were suffering. He

began failing his science and math classes.

“It was hard [for my parents] because it got to a point where I wasn’t doing my work, and I looked at my mom, and I said, ‘I don’t want to finish school,’” Trey said. “She replied, ‘So what are you going to do?’ I didn’t know. My parents both tried explaining all of the ramifications of dropping out, and the struggles I would end up having to deal with. But I didn’t care. I didn’t listen.’

After his incident where he lost credit for classes during his sophomore year, 17-year-old Trey tried to explain his thoughts to his parents.

“I told them how it was to me,” Trey said.

“I could either drop out now, or I could sit in sophomore year again and do nothing until I could sign the papers myself. They finally agreed, but I had to promise that I was going to go to South Central the next year and I was going to get a job.”

Consequently, Trey and his mother signed a permission slip, and Trey officially dropped out of Legacy High School.

Deion didn’t approve of his decision.

“I felt bad, because I really didn’t want him to drop out,” Deion said. “No matter how tough you think school is going, you can get through it. I wanted him to just stick it through because he could’ve gotten through it, but unfortunately he decided not to [stay in school]. That’s his decision, and it is something he will have to live with.”

Initially following dropping out, Trey felt more energized. He started focusing more on building and taking apart computers, coding and playing video games.

Eventually, because of his friends, Trey relented to the peer pressure and began hanging out at trap houses.

“I started going there every day,” Trey said. “A trap house is pretty much a place where drugs would move in and out. We would do a bunch of crazy stuff there.”

Trey’s family was becoming increasingly worried about him.

“I wanted him to stay home and get his life together,” Deion said.

Trey revealed he had a weird relationship with his family at this point. He was very depressed, and therefore, his family wanted him to do things that made him happier. However, they knew that the people Trey hung out with may not have been the best influences on his life.

“My mom did the best she could do. She did everything she could [to help me],” Trey said. “The problems that started

[LIFE] occurring in my life weren’t because of my willing to put that work into the program.” family. It was all me… because [in my mind] However, for students like Trey, it can it was always about me, it was always about also be a downfall. Since Trey never really Trey, Trey, Trey. And, that’s what my mom enjoyed math or science, he lacked the was trying to tell me, but I just didn’t see motivation to do the work. Trey eventually [life] how it was...And I didn’t care--I was fell way behind. After five months, South doing just what I wanted. I was selfish.”

Central told him he had to retake both Trey was beginning a downward spiral. geometry and biology.

Life was starting to become worse and “I gave up then. I couldn’t take it,” Trey worse for him. However, keeping a promise said. to his parents, Trey decided to attend He explained that he began feeling South Central High School the following worse and worse. school year. He enjoyed the experience “I started going through a phase of much more than he did at Legacy. depression where I was hating everyone, “South Central was a very good school,” everything, and especially myself,” Trey Trey said. “I liked everybody; I loved all the said. teachers. They were all motivational. And Trey started to see therapists and at South Central, people didn’t care what psychologists again, but it didn’t help him. you thought or felt. People “It just makes me keep to their crowds and “YOU REALLY HAVE angrier honestly,” Trey move on. It fit more to my TO BE WILLING TO said. “Some people, and GET YOURSELF OUT.” for many people, it has type of personality.”

South Central High School helped a lot, but when Principal Joe Kalvoda echoes these I’m depressed, I have to be the one to sentiments. get myself out. That’s everyone though “We have 127 students--each of them honestly. You really have to be willing to has their own route that they got here, get yourself out.” and there are a lot of unique reasons why,” Licensed Clinical Psychologist Nova Kalvoda said. “For many of those people, Griffith disagrees to the extent that she the system just works better for them.” believes the victim’s family and friends can Even though South Central has a standard help them out of it too. curriculum, the school, like Legacy, runs on “They shouldn’t sit around and mope a unique schedule. about things,” Griffith said. “If you have a “Students sign up for three classes friend that you feel like is depressed, get at a time, and they only work on those them out of the house and do something classes,” Kalvoda said. “Each student with them. Sometimes it’s difficult to have receives a syllabus for that course, and friends like that, especially in high school, the student is required to complete each but you just got to try to be the best friend of those assignments before completing you can to them and get them out of the the course. There is no taking zeros, and house.” there is no taking Fs. A student has to Some of Trey’s friends got him to leave complete each assignment to the teacher’s the house and focus life on other things. satisfaction before moving on to the next. Unfortunately, they weren’t the right Once a student has completed all of those people to help him. assignments, then a student has received “One time, I got to go to a particular trap their half-credit and can move on to the house, and I fell in love,” Trey said. “There next class.” were people there that understood me. I Trey began taking English, biology and was vibing and chilling there every single geometry. day with not a care in the world. Sure, “English, early on, was my priority there were bad things that happened because I knew it would help me write there, but I loved it. For awhile I didn’t lyrics,” Trey said. He ended up completing move out, but I just ended up feeling like his English course in the first three weeks staying. At one point my parents texted of the school year. Kalvoda believes that is me ‘It’s been three days [and so] you have one of the advantages of the curriculum. to come home’. I just said ‘Nah’. That was “What you put into it is what you get out it. I didn’t go home then, and I just stayed of it,” Kalvoda said. “Some students are there and slept on a reclining chair.” willing to do that and can end up doing very well with it. But some students aren’t LE G A CY HIG H SCHO O L | WWW. L H S T OD AY. C OM | D E C E MBE R 2016 | I S S U E T H REE

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[LIFE] These adventures seemed rational to Trey at the time, because he believed it would make him happier. However, it put him at crossroads with his family.

“Trey believed he would do whatever he wanted to do, and so my opinion didn’t matter when he left because at that point he was doing what he wanted to do anyways,” Deion said. “Again, I just wanted him to stay home and get his life together. I was thinking, ‘What are you doing? You’re better than this.’ At that point in time I was just really frustrated [with him].”

Eventually, Trey started to realize that the problems in his life were catching up to him. He couldn’t avoid them anymore.

The other people who lived or often came to the trap house started turning against each other.

“I heard five different plans from five separate people where they would go in and shoot up the place,” Trey said.

At some point, he came to the conclusion that it was better for him to move on and live a better life. Eventually, Trey moved back into his parents’ house.

“When he moved back, to me, [it meant that] he’s grown from that and so I now trust that he can make his own decisions and figure his life out for himself,” Deion said.

But around that time, Trey was charged with a Class C felony: possession of marijuana with the intention to distribute.

He is currently seeking a plea deal where

he gets two years of deferred probation.

Trey would have to be squeaky clean for that amount of time, and if he doesn’t do anything against the law, he won’t face charges. However, if he would get caught doing something during that time, he will be in much more trouble. “[If I get my plea deal] I don’t even think I’ll want to drive my car,” Trey said. “I’m going to work, write lyrics, and study for my GED.” If he does not get his plea deal, he will face 3-5 years in prison come January.

“I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF THAT NIGHT.” After that incident, Trey’s depression became worse. He began to start thinking about suicide more and more. He reached a turning point three months ago.

“I was really depressed, and I went outside and climbed on top of [the] roof of my garage. I put on my headphones, and for some reason I started dancing and dabbing to a bunch of trap music. All of a sudden, this really really sad song came on, and I took off my headphones, got on my knees, looked up to the sky and screamed, ‘Why me! Why me!’ [I said,] ‘God just do something for me, give me something good, I don’t wanna live man, I need something to live for.’ I made a promise to God, whom I didn’t believe at the time, I told this “being”--this thing in the sky--that I would follow the path of righteousness [and] lead people behind in

a good way instead of being depressed and bringing people down with me. I’ll be a good person and give back to society if you can just do something for me,” Trey said. “I went back inside my house, and I’m sitting on my couch, and in front of my couch is my desktop. I put my elbows on my knees, and my hands on my chin, and I was sitting there thinking: I just wanted to. . . die. I was going to kill myself that night. All of sudden, a message pops up from [Legacy senior] Alexia Schafer on Facebook Messenger: “Hey”. I looked up to [the] ceiling saying, ‘You doing this big man?!’ I knew at that moment that I had to get her and was going to get her.”

It was the first time Schafer and Volk had talked in years. They have now been dating for almost three months.

“It’s just weird when something like that happens and you just know, you were put there for a reason. You know that wasn’t a coincidence, it was fate,” Trey said joyfully.

Schafer wholeheartedly agrees.

“It’s crazy because I was just planning on seeing how he was doing after all this time. And then we started talking and I just fell for him. It was like we had a connection that couldn’t be broken,” Schafer said.

Life has started to look up for Trey since they started dating, but there are days when he still struggles.

“I’m going to be honest, man, just four of five days ago I was looking for my father’s gun,” Trey said. (Editor’s Note: I contacted him the day after this possible

Left: Trey Volk and senior Alexia Schafer enjoy spending time at Papa’s Pumpkin Patch. Photo submitted Right: Over the course of his life, Trey Volk has attempted suicide four times. Photo Brian Swanberg Far Right: Lyrics are an excerpt from T.R.E’s song “Higher Plains.” T.R.E. is Trey Volk’s rapper name.

Graphic and photo Brian Swanberg

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suicide attempt about being interviewed honestly told me that she for this story.) “When I told Alexia, I started believed in me. It was at a crying because of what I mean to her and point in my life where I really she means to me….It was shocking to me needed it, and it changed because I never cry. I don’t usually feel me. I started feeling better.” anything anymore because of the things Trey’s mother Karen Volk I’ve experienced....My mind is [numb], respectfully declined to be but when I’m around Alexia, I feel things interviewed. again.”

Right now, Trey finds his Griffith believes cases like Trey’s are own relief from the hardships extremely dangerous. in his life by “I would ask him very doing what he “FOLLOW YOUR pointed questions and DREAMS AND WHAT loves: writing talk to them about how and producing YOU DO WELL.” suicide affects their music. friends and family members,” Griffith said.

“Whenever something “I would also encourage them, if they happens to me, I write lyrics are not on medication, to see a physician about it,” Trey said. “It about getting antidepressants. With also [eases my mind] when someone [contemplating suicide] you I produce music for many have to keep close tabs on them to make Legacy students, including sure that they aren’t going to do anything junior Keon Pasley.” like that...you have to be very careful.”

To hear some of Trey’s most Trey, thus far, has refused to take notable work, give Pasley antidepressants, because he doesn’t widely known as Kegotti - a want his own conscience and feelings to listen. be changed. Griffith admits there can be “Whenever Keon [Pasley] some side effects, specifically that it can makes new music, it is cause people to lose feelings of both produced in my studio. His happiness and sadness. However, she mixtape comes out Dec. 9,” believes antidepressants may be necessary Trey said. for some of her patients.

If nothing else, Trey has “When people are depressed, there some words for Legacy is a part of their brain that is not students about their future. functioning right,” Griffith said. “So the “Looking back, What antidepressants would, in essence, fix that makes me mad is that if area for them.”

I went back now, I could If the person suffering from depression probably do it--I just can’t has a plan for committing suicide, Griffith do it because I would recommends that the individual should go be an 18-year-old taking to the emergency room. sophomore classes,” Trey “[Physicians] know what to do at that said. “That’s just shameful to point… they can take care of situations like me. I can’t do it. But I have that,” Griffith said. some advice for [students Finally, Griffith believes that those who at Legacy]: stay in school, know someone who is suicidal has to sense unless you know for a fact the situation to judge what is best for that you have a foolproof way to individual. Sometimes, those instances make it big, which nobody have been able to help Trey. does. School is not hard.

“My mom and I were at a clinic one day, I understand the mindset, because I was feeling really down, and I you know, you don’t want was crying for awhile,” Trey said. “All of to read or do whatever, but a sudden, my mom looks at me and says, just do it. You should also ‘Trey, you’re going to make it. You’re going have confidence in yourself. to do great things in this world.’ It hit Follow your dreams and my heart so hard. She looked at me and what you do well.”

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[OPINION]

BY MAKYIA HERMAN

WHO IS BABE RUTH?

SOPHOMORE SKYLAR SCHREINER “The guy from the sandlot right?”

SENIOR GEORGE NIBLICK “A true American Hero.”

W HAT L A N G U A G E D OE S ‘ B ON J O U R’ C OM E F RO M? JUNIOR BRADY FRIED “Chinese” JUNIOR KYLE SCHATZ “That’s Spanish”

WHO IS SAINT NICHOLAS?

SOPHOMORE JACKSON BERN HARDT “Greek”

SENIOR JOHN SIMMONS “Jumanji”

SOPHOMORE INDIA GIBSON “The Saint”

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Sierra wins a wrestling match.

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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

THE TALMADGE SISTERS’ JOURNEY OF PLAYING MALE SPORTS STORY BY SEAN JOYCE

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hether it be onto the field, the court, the mat or even on the ice, athletes put all they have into whatever sport they play. The passion and effort that they put into their activities give the crowd something to cheer for and inspire younger athletes to keep working at their goals of “making it big.” Athletes inspire many others to play the games they love and to follow their wildest dreams.

With role models at such high standings, sometimes younger children and others look up to the great players that they strive to be.

Senior Sierra Talmadge and junior Sage Talmadge are giving young children, especially girls, the courage to follow in their footsteps to become better athletes and break some of the stereotypes that surround their everyday lives. Both of the sisters play male dominated sports at Legacy, breaking barriers and doing amazing things to inspire others. Sage plays for the Legacy Boy’s JV Football team and Sierra is on the JV wrestling team.

Sage, the younger of the two sisters, plays for the Legacy JV football team, being the first woman to play on Legacy’s football team. However, there were many challenges she had to face in order to

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play the game.

“It was difficult at first to step into a sport I had never played before,” Sage said. “Most people start earlier in life and learn from a young age; I had to learn as a freshman in high school.”

This challenge was a big obstacle in Sage’s journey to be among the best on the team, but she had a motivation to help.

“THERE REALLY WAS A SENSE OF FAMILY AND TOGETHERNESS.” “My dad kind of joked about it because I was bigger than all of the guys, and in middle school I kind of just wanted to,” Sage said. “I’d rather try to do it than regret not doing it later.”

That which started out as joking turned out to go pretty well for Sage. Overall, the season was a huge success for her.

“I really grew as a player and learned a lot more about the game of football,” Sage said. “My goal was to get better as a player and a person, and I achieved that goal.”

By making it onto JV, Sage has broken her own records and set a new goal for herself to meet. This fall season of football was extremely successful in many other ways as well.

“There really was a sense of family and togetherness,” Sage said. “It’s a different feeling than being with girls and it really brings people closer together.”

A large, noticeable increase in girls in high school football has occurred in the past decade or so. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, 1,561 girls played football in 2012, compared to only 1,328 players in 2008. The Legacy football team bringing in its first woman could also open doors for others to follow in Sage’s footsteps, inspiring more young girls to break the stereotypes surrounding them.

Sierra, the eldest of the two sisters, also plays a sport traditionally for men at Legacy. Sierra is part of Legacy’s wrestling program, predominantly boys’ activity at the high school level. Very rarely are there enough women to start an entire girls team, so Sierra is only able to compete against boys in her competitions.

“A lot of players start young, so starting when you’re older than the rest of them makes it harder to figure stuff out,” Sierra said.

Similarly to her sister Sage, Sierra’s biggest obstacle in being a wrestler was having to learn nearly everything from scratch. However, the team, and coaches, were very helpful in Sierra’s transition into this male dominated sport.

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Sage stands with teammate senior Jaeger Marchant on the sidelines.

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“I wasn’t planning on playing a winter sport this year and Lars talked to me about joining wrestling,” Sierra said. “I wanted to really try it and see how it goes rather than not doing it and regretting it later.”

With Sierra joining the team for mainly the same reasons that her sister did football, she was ready to compete in her her first year of wrestling. The amazing journey of hers was just only now beginning.

Sierra’s wrestling coach Lars Jacobsen also played a large part in beginning and advising Sierra along her wrestling career.

“I talked her into it,” Jacobsen said. “I was really happy for her. It opens up so many opportunities for athletic scholarship as the sport for women is really starting to grow.”

Jacobsen sees the benefit in girls’ and women’s wrestling in the country. In fact, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, between 2010 and 2011, the sport of wrestling saw a 19.8 percent increase in female athletes compared to only a 0.3 percent increase in male athletes. Also, the United State’s Olympic team just earned its first gold medal in women’s wrestling in Rio’s 2016 Olympics. Helen Maroulis’s efforts in Rio may be leading to massive spikes in participation in women’s wrestling.

“Sierra is a very hard worker whose personality really helps everyone out,”

Jacobsen said. “The team was very encouraging towards her. It’s like she’s part of a new family.”

The wrestling team was very inclusive towards Sierra when she first joined in the fall; discrimination or awkwardness were not a problem in any way.

“It’s not the feeling of ‘There’s a girl I have to wrestle’; the kids just treat her as anyone else that they’d have to wrestle,” Jacobsen said. “It’s all inclusive and any way we can become better wrestlers or people is used. Everyone’s benefited from Sierra, they’ve learned how to play as a team and be the best people they can possibly be.”

The Talmadge sisters have completely revolutionized school sporting in many different ways. Both the wrestling and football teams are very overjoyed to have Sierra and Sage on their respective teams, and with these new experiences for everyone involved, the teams and the players have grown in their athletics and their lives in general. The Talmadge sisters are the first women to compete for Legacy in their respective sports and have been wildly successful in doing so. Younger girls everywhere are becoming inspired to break the stereotypes surrounding them and do what they want to do.

Sage jumps on Sierra after Legacy football team beats BHS.

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SPORTS CARDS HAVE Y OU EVER WANTE D TO KN O W W HAT B R E N N A H AN S ON D O ES BEFORE A GA M E ? HAV E YO U W O N D E R E D WH O HUN T ER HU M ANN LOO KS UP TO ? W E WA N TE D TO K N OW, T O O . THAT’S WHY WE A SKE D THE M A N D O THE R AT H L ET E S SO ME QU ESTIONS TO G E T TO KN O W THE M B E TTE R. SHORT BY COLTON MARQUARDT

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

NAME/GRADE: SENIOR BRENNA HANSON

NAME/GRADE: SENIOR HUNTER HUMANN

POSITION: GUARD

POSITION: POINT GAURD

YEARS PLAYED: 10 YEARS

YEARS PLAYED: 12 YEARS

GREATEST ACCOLADE: MAKING IT TO STATE LAST YEAR

GREATEST ACCOLADE: MAKING IT TO WDA

RITUALS: JAMM OUT IN THE LOCKER ROOM

RITUALS: LISTEN TO MUSIC

PUMP-UP SONG: N/A

ROLE MODEL: BRITA FELAND

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PUMP-UP SONG: NEW LEVEL BY A$AP FERG ROLE MODEL: COACH BAKER

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BOYS’ SWIMMING

WRESTLING NAME/GRADE: SENIOR TYLER MESSMER

NAME/GRADE: SOPHMORE DEREK FREBORG POSITION: N/A

POSITION: N/A

YEARS PLAYED: 2 YEARS

YEARS PLAYED: 5 YEARS

GREATEST ACCOLADE: QUALIFYING FOR STATE

GREATEST ACCOLADE: 2 TIME STATE QUALIFIER AND STATE PLACER

RITUALS: STAYING FOCUSED

RITUALS: SITTING ALONE WITH NO MUSIC

PUMP-UP SONG: ANYTHING UPBEAT

PUMP-UP SONG: WILD BOY BY MACHINE GUN KELLY

ROLE MODEL: JEFF STELLE

ROLE MODEL: JOE MESSMER

BOYS’ HOCKEY

GIRLS’ HOCKEY

NAME/GRADE: JUNIOR HUNTER SIGITTE

NAME/GRADE: JUNIOIR MORGAN PAUL

POSITION: DEFENSE

POSITION: DEFENSE

YEARS PLAYED: 11 YEARS

YEARS PLAYED: 9 YEARS

GREATEST ACCOLADE: PLAYING AT STATE

GREATEST ACCOLADE: WINNING 4 STATE TITLE IN A ROW

RITUALS: PLAYING PING PONG OR SEWER BALL

RITUALS: TAPING MY STICK

PUMP-UP SONG: NO SLEEP BY WIZ KHALIFA

PUMP-UP SONG:ROSES BY OUTKAST

ROLE MODEL: JONATHAN TOEWS

ROLE MODEL:DELANEY WOLF

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SPORTS CARDS FIGURE SKATING NAME/GRADE: JUNIOR MEGAN ANDERSON

DANCE NAME/GRADE: SENIOR ALYSSA EMINETH

POSITION: N/A

POSITION: CAPTIAN

YEARS PLAYED: 7 YEARS

YEARS PLAYED: 13 YEARS GREATEST ACCOLADE: MAKING THE ALL-AMERICAN TEAM AT CAMP

GREATEST ACCOLADE: N/A RITUALS: LISTEN TO THE SONG I SKATE TO AND STRETCHING

RITUALS: LISTEN TO MUSIC

PUMP-UP SONG: N/A

PUMP-UP SONG: LOSE YOURSELF BY EMINEM

ROLE MODEL: SELENA MORRIS

ROLE MODEL: COACH PARKER-RICCIO

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SCOTT’S THOUGHTS

EXPLORING OTHER SPORTS THAT COULD BE OFFERED TO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES

Carter Scott has been writing for LHS Media for three years.

He loves sports and is an avid fan of boxing, the University of Michigan, the Indianapolis Colts, the New York Yankees and J.Cole.

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COLUMN BY CARTER SCOTT he North Dakota High School Activities Association offers a large variety of athletic programs that students can compete in. Class A girls and boys can compete in over 20 athletic programs. Among these are some of the world’s most popular sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball and football. Although there are several sports to choose from, there are many other sports that are offered as high school sports in other states. Some of these are not currently realistic for North Dakota at this time however, and others could be added in the near future.

The next sport NDHSAA will add is likely going to be lacrosse due to its growth in popularity in recent years. There is currently a travelling high school team where students from all Bismarck schools compete with other such teams from

throughout the state. When the sport is added as a class A sport it will likely be added for both boys and girls. If it is added as just a boys’ sport, another girls ‘sport will need to be added to maintain the balance.

If the addition of lacrosse is looming, one wonders what other sports may be added in the future. The world’s most popular

“THERE IS A PLETHORA OF OTHER SPORTS PLAYED BY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.” sports that are not currently offered as high school sports in North Dakota are Cricket, Rugby, Boxing and Field Hockey.

All of these sports have good reason for not being available. Cricket and Rugby are much more popular abroad than they are in the United States. Boxing is unfit to

be a high school sport due to its violent and incredibly dangerous nature, a liability nightmare for the NDHSAA. Field Hockey is the most realistic of the above choices. It is offered as a high school sport in other states and has a large presence in the NCAA. Although it certainly does not currently have the popularity to be added in North Dakota it would not be a surprise to see it in the future.

There is a plethora of other sports that are played by high school athletes throughout the country. Among these are archery, water polo, bowling, table tennis, cycling and competitive weight lifting. All of these are currently Olympic sports, and when the demand for them is there, it is feasible to see them becoming available for high school athletes in North Dakota.

NDHSAA can be expected to expand the athletic department when the time is right.

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DEATH AND MY GRIEF RECENT EXPERIENCES IN MY LIFE

Jaxon “Chief” Beitelspacher is a hunter, poet, and a sinner. Better than he once was, but also worse in some ways. He remembers who he once was and where he was going, and he doesn’t want to walk that way anymore. He wears his scars with pride. He’s learned one thing - without the sharpness of pain, life would be dull.

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the other side of the bed. Then my grandpa walked in again, then my eyes got wet and looked out the window, the plains he death of a friend or loved one is just about the hardest were a much easier sight to bear than what we were dealing with. thing someone our age or anyone in general can experience.

My grandpa saw and walked over to me, we hugged and I cried I’ve written about my father’s death a handful of times so it’s in his embrace, audibly. I was still scared to talk. not about that. I’m writing about my grandmother who passed My aunt gave me time alone. Crying, I uttered a sentence to away Halloween day. She survived breast cancer twice, but her, and then sat in silence. A few minutes later I knew we were she couldn’t this time. I’m going to start this off with a bit of going to go. I took my boots off quietly, I didn’t want her to hear background. me leave, I know she did though. The people who were taking It was Sunday, I was at my grandpa’s, he hasn’t been with my care of her, and I am still so thankful for, were in the kitchen. As grandma in about 20 or so years, but they remained on friendly I left we shook hands and one of them said, “We’re doing all we terms. That was when we got the call from my uncle that my can, man.” grandma had days at the most to live. So we “Thank you, so much.” I said.

“I’M NOT SURE left right away, and we went to a lonely spot He said no problem.

I DESERVE on the prairie, where they had my grandma.

On the way out I said, “I don’t care if I’m in PEOPLE LIKE YOU.” We walked into the house where we were the middle of class, if something happens give greeted by my aunt and uncle. The lady who me a call.” lived there showed us to my grandma’s room. A dark room lit I had planned to come back the next afternoon. I decided not only by a candle, and the days last bit of light outside. I walked to come to school the next day. The next day at 12:40ish I got in and found my grandma in a way I did not ever want to see call from my grandpa, he asked how I was doing, then he said her in. She was a bigger woman before, now she laid in bed that my grandma passed away 20 minutes earlier. I didn’t cry. I gaunt and weak, too weak to talk or even open her eyes. She wanted to, but I didn’t. Getting the news was so much easier communicated only in grunts, when she tried to talk she would than seeing her like that. I haven’t cried since the night I went to choke. I sat on a stool at her bedside next to the window. go see her. We went to go see my aunt, now without a mother or I sat there silent. I wanted to talk but couldn’t. I wanted to tell her a brother. My grandpa and I hugged her while she cried. I took that she was going to see her son once again soon, but I dared the rest of the week off school. I will be writing further on how to not speak it. We all knew it was coming, but it felt inappropriate deal with grief, how I cope. for me to imply it. My aunt stood at my side and let her know what But to wrap it up, if you were there for me, anyone, friends, I was up to, she told her I was doing a lot of hunting and a lot of family, I don’t care. I love you all, and am eternally grateful for writing. She said: “Right Jaxon”? I responded with a weak “Yeah, everyone who’s there for me. I’m not sure I deserve people like that’s right.” I hugged my aunt, then she cried a bit and went to you.

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FOUR THINGS LEGACY IS FAMOUS FOR OR...INFAMOUS FOR

GUEST COLUMNIST ALEX ANDERSON

1. CAKE EATERS Our Chromebooks, airport, and football field are just a few of the many common bashes on our school. No matter how good we are in sports, people are still going to hate on us because we have so many nice things. While they talk trash on Twitter, I’ll be busy designing my “custom colored Chromebook.”

2. BRETT MITCHELL You may find him singing anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, yelling “No rubbernecking!” during a test, cheating in his kid’s BMFL league, or ruining your GPA. If you’re looking for brownie points, try giving him an ice cold can of Diet Mountain Dew. If that does not work, ask him about his college football days at Jamestown College. #rolljimmies. If you have not already, help to expand his social media fame and add him on Snapchat: big_ mitch44 .

Ginger Sean Gandy is on the prowl daily in the halls of Legacy.

3. SEAN GANDY

Last year we had “man-bun,” now we have the ginger hall monitor Sean Gandy that takes away your Starbucks and makes you keep your feet off of the seats. His Fitbit reads 20,000+ steps a day as he patrols our giant school, keeping furniture safe. He never goes hungry, because he always finds food to steal from students.

Students may dislike seeing him close in to take their food, but he is also doing the school a good deed. He keeps our furniture from getting trashed and is aspiring to become a social studies teacher when he gets the opportunity. For now, don’t eat in the wings, keep your feet off of the seats, and the legendary red-bearded man will have no issues with you.

4. DODGEBALL A true Legacy tradition. A game taken more seriously, and causing more emotion, than any other sport at Legacy. If you ask Cody Knowlen where his loyalty lies, he is going to tell you it is with the Purple Cobras.

With a heartbreaking championship game, a new team rallied to take the W. The Dodgefathers, a team made up of juniors that shocked the nation with their win over the Purple Cobras. Devastating as it may have been, the Purple Cobras are ready to retire their jerseys, but never forget their high school dodgeball glory days.

“I dedicate my Sabros performance to science teacher Brett Mitchell.”

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SHREDDER’S LETTER

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HAPPY HOLLIDAYS IS MORE INCLUSIVE

COMMENTARY BY KEATON SMITH

like Judaism and Islam, and it doesn’t harbor a holiday like Kwanzaa. Let et me start off by saying I respect everyone’s First me put it this way, imagine being in Amendment right to say what they want. However, I believe a grocery store and someone telling that it is advantageous to say “Happy Holidays” over “Merry you “Happy Hanukkah”. For most people, Christmas”. I say this because, in a month like December, there the first thought in their mind might be are multiple holidays and saying “Merry Christmas” only refers “I’m not Jewish, so why would I be to one. Therefore, I see it to be advantageous for companies and happy it’s Hanukkah?”, and likewise people alike to refer to the holidays and not just Christmas. Yet, we can say that this is the same what I feel is the big topic of debate is way a person that doesn’t “AT THE END OF THE celebrate the change of wording, because for some Christmas DAY EVERYONE IS reason not referring to Christmas can be feels. Yet, interestingly, DIFFERENT.” unreasonably problematic. people who don’t hear Let’s take into example the red cup “Merry Christmas” issue with Starbucks. Last year, Starbucks decided that for the might get angry at the fact upcoming winter holidays it would change its cups to plain red that their holiday isn’t being instead of decorating them with drawings of Christmas tree specifically identified. This ornaments like they had done in the past. This interestingly is outrageous to think that stirred up controversy because some people were outraged by by somebody including the fact the Starbucks had not included Christmas in its design. all religions one would What is so crazy about this is that it shouldn’t be that big of somehow be offended that a deal. Starbucks simply, and somewhat cleverly, decided to their holiday isn’t receiving exclude themselves from the politics of religious holidays by not special recognition. featuring Christmas-esque features on its cups. If Starbucks would At the end of the day, have put a menorah - the candle structure that Jews light during everyone is different, and Hanukkah - on their cups people would have had a fit about how choosing to acknowledge Christmas should have been the theme on the cup. Granted, these differences can play a Christmas is much more popular than Hanukkah, but I think we lot better in social situations should understand that a company opting out of Christmas so than assuming someone that it does not exclude any religion is an understandable move. celebrates your holiday. I’m In terms of holidays, there is Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, not saying that anyone has and Milad un Nabi - an Islamic holiday celebrating the prophet to say “Happy Holidays”, Muhammad’s birthday. All of these holidays occur in December but I am saying is that being alone, and for a company, including all holidays would be more a little more inclusive in your inclusive for all individuals. Now, in a predominantly Christian dialogue might lead to more state like North Dakota, I may not be preaching to the choir, but comfortable social situations if one were to go over to the closest big city, Minneapolis, one and a more profitable would see that there is a diverse range of religions. So, logically business. we could say that “Merry Christmas” is not inclusive to religions

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JAXON’S REACTION

NOTHING WRONG WITH MERRY CHRISTMAS

COMMENTARY BY JAXON BEITELSPACHER

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and it works. You don’t hear much about troubles between the think it’s a bit of a stupid two different genders in prisons. It would be chaos if they were discussion to have because all confined in one facility.

“Happy Holidays” involves Not to mention, celebrating all holidays as one, and not any many different occasions - if one holiday in particular would not allow much festivity. It really you’re specific about one of isn’t worth your trouble to make sure everyone’s satisfied, there them the other person won’t will always be people who disagree with you, there isn’t much know. Imagine if your mom you can do about that. It it will always be, the world wouldn’t came into your room and work if we all agreed. That’s really common sense philosophy, we said “We’re going to Korea.” seem to be straying away from those kinds of concepts.

Chances are If someone who didn’t know me asked me “IF YOU SAY MERRY you’d like to how often I get to see my dad, I wouldn’t get know which CHRISTMAS AND THEY offended about it. They didn’t know he died, END UP JEWISH, OH Korea, you’d it’s an innocent mistake. It’s harmless. Happy WELL, GET OVER IT.” want to know Holidays is the thing that your lazy neighbors if you were leave on the window from late September to the going to the North or South. middle of March.

If I went to jail I’d want to While it’s easier, it is also lazy. Two events taking place in one know what for. I’d also like month should not give you an excuse to recognize it as one. It’s to remember why the hell kind of like having a birthday close to Christmas and your uncle I’m going to jail if I can’t even giving you one present and saying that it’s your present for both. remember what I did. They If you say Merry Christmas, and they end up Jewish, oh well, get are all individual holidays, with over it. Whether the person’s offended or not the world will keep different origins and purposes, on turning and it isn’t a big deal. I think we are straying further and deserve to be recognized and further from individuality, and resorting to groups and labels. as so.

In conclusion I believe you should know where you’re going, Unity, doesn’t always work. or why you’re in jail. Twins being born within the same night Think of the prisons, how does not mean they are one. I believe in recognizing things they separate prisoners, individually, instead of by categories and labels.

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GREAT WONDERS OF THE WORLD EVER WONDER WHY CERTAIN THINGS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE? SO DO WE. THIS MONTH WE ASKED SEVERAL LEGACY STUDENTS THEIR THOUGHTS ON SOME CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES. SHORT BY SHERADYN SCHMALTZ, BRIAN SWANBERG AND CARTER SCOTT

HOW DOES SANTA GET AROUND SO FAST? JUNIOR THOMAS SCHEETT “He’s a ladies man.”

SOPHOMORE ZACH REAMANN “A ferrari.”

FRESHMAN SARAH BRUSCHWEIN “Probably time travel.”

SOPHOMORE ANDREW MESSMER “Easy man, he’s really the Flash.”

JUNIOR ALLISON HENSLEY “His car.”

WHY IS RUDOLPH’S NOSE RED?

JUNIOR KEON PASLEY “Because he’s a blood.”

SENIOR ZACH MEDUNA “ He probably has a massive blood clot.”

SOPHMORE VICTORIA HELM “Red is a trafic color.”

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FRESHMAN WILLIAM TERNES “Wormholes.”

JUNIOR CODY RUDNICK “Because he got into some chemicals, did some radiation testing” SOPHOMORE MARIAH FORSTER “Because it’s to guide Santa’s Sleigh, or maybe it’s just because it’s cold.”

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