May/June 2010

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Volume 58, Issue 9

Arcadia High School 180 Campus Drive, Arcadia, CA

May/June y/ 2010

Pow Wow: To Infinity and Beyond

In this issue:

Photo courtesy of BLOG.SUNTIMES.COM

FEATURES pg. 10 2010 Recap: Take a trip down memory lane and see this school year’s pop culture highlights.

Photos by ELLIOTT LEE

PASSING THE TORCH Seniors Jennifer Hang, Kayla Pang, and Joanna Chuang (top from left to right) are transferring their Pow Wow executive powers to juniors Kristie Tom, Melissa Ma, and Christine Xu (bottom from left to right). By KAITLYN JEONG Staff Writer Photos by EVAN DELGADO and ELLIOTT LEE

CENTER SPREAD pg. 12-13 Goodbye Seniors: Pow Wow bids farewell and wishes luck to its graduating members of 2010.

Photo by EVAN DELGADO

CAMPUS FOCUS pg. 24 Looking Forward: With the departure of the seniors comes the transition of our underclassmen, ready to excel next year.

The Pow Wow has become more than just something to read after AP test season has come to a close: it has earned a reputation as a professional and credible source for news on campus and beyond. To uphold The Pow Wow’s tradition of excellence, juniors Christine Xu and Kristie Tom were chosen as next year’s Editors-in-Chief, with junior Melissa Ma as Managing Editor. As the leaders of The Pow Wow, they are not only expected to organize and oversee the production of each publication, but are also responsible for selecting incoming staff members, approving story ideas, and assisting page editors with their layouts on Adobe InDesign. “Kristie, Christine, and Melissa were amazing page editors and they know InDesign inside and out. I know they’ll take those experiences and skills and apply them where appropriate, making the newspaper better than it ever has been before,” said senior Jennifer Hang, one of this year’s Editors-in-Chief. In addition to supervising the production process, Melissa, as Managing Editor, will also

deal with finances. The price of publishing a monthly newspaper is expensive to say the least, making fundraising a vital part of keeping The Pow Wow afloat. Along with the fundraising, ads, and web staffs, Melissa hopes to help “fundraising and ads to keep up the great work funding the newspaper” as well as making possible website improvements to “make Pow Wow as wonderful as it can be.” Their reasons for taking on such a large responsibility? Christine joked that it was “the glitz! The glamour! [And] the well-deserved accolades!” that drew her attention to the position of Editor-in-Chief. On a more serious note, Christine added that next year, she wants “to guide and focus like-minded individuals and mold them into a powerful whole to create something from scratch and see it from start to finish.” Likewise, Kristie’s desire for a successful newspaper drove her to apply for the position. She hopes that, as Editor-in-Chief, she will be able to lead the staff on a mission to “improve the paper” and simultaneously “raise the level of support within the student body.” One of the biggest goals for next year, shared by all three, however, is, as Christine said, for “Pow Wow to be even more dynamic,

unique, engaging, and accessible.” With these plans for the future, however, come large obstacles, including the construction of a new computer lab and an incoming staff comprised mainly of underclassmen. The construction project places the availability of computers, the Adobe programs used to design the pages of The Pow Wow, and the ability to publish monthly issues on time all up in the air. “We don’t want to have to cut an issue,” said Kristie, “so we’ll most likely have to come in on weekends.” As far as the underclassmen staff members go, Kristie stated that “some people may believe that this is a ‘transition’ year for us, with our young staff and group of editors,” but that this staff in particular will have “even more enthusiasm than previous years, and an overall dedication to the newspaper.” Although The Pow Wow staff faces several problems in the coming year, it is plain to see that, under the new leadership of Christine, Kristie, and Melissa, these will be only minor setbacks, allowing the staff, as Melissa said, to “all work together toward a final product--a newspaper we can all be proud of.” kjeong@apachepowwow.com


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