The Aztec- October 2016 Issue

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THE AZTEC VOLUME LXXVIV NUMBER II

VIEWPOINT PG 3-5 Corporate evangelism from church to the shopping mall

News in Brief Dr. Bartlett's Senior Recital Band and orchestra director Dr. Bartlett will be retiring after this semester. Her senior recital later today at the MKHS Auditorium at 7 to 9 pm. All songs are composed by Dr. Bartlett herself. Guest performers include Mr. Justin Lee, Jennifer Quan, and Ms. Phillips. Band Boosters will be accepting donations to help the music program. National Merit Award Finalists Congratulations to the four National Merit Award finalists: Joey Cheng, Douglas Chin, Christina Tran, and Vicky Truong. National Merit Commended Students Congratulations to our 18 National Merit Commended students who placed in the top 5% out of 1.6 million. Patrick Chan, Jenny Chau, Russell Chin, Tiffany Joa, Sarah Kim, Phillip Kwan, Michelle Lam, Colette Lee, Daniel Lu, Danny Lu, Firmin Luong, Becky Ma, Jacqueline Peng, Rhianna So, Carleton Tam, Rachel Wang, Jason Xian and Andrew Yam. (courtesy to mkhs.org)

Your calendar 10/13 -Drama Boosters Meeting (A114, 7pm-8:30 pm), District College Fair at SGHS 10/18 -English Language Advisory Council (ELAC) #2 10/19 -Collaboration Schedule, PTSA Meeting 10/26 - MKHS Alliance Meeting (7 pm-9 pm) 10/31 -Minimum Day 11/1-English Language Advisory Council #3 11/2 -Collaboration Schedule 11/8 -School Site Council #2 11/10 -Drama Boosters Meeting in A114

FOCUS PG 6-7 Digging into the urban legends of Keppel

October 13, 2016

A&E PG 8-9

Drake and Future co-headline summer sixteen tour

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SPORTS PG 10-12 Girls Volleyball wins game against Bell Garden

ASB presents "A Night in Wonderland" KENNETH LIU Multimedia Editor/Videographer

On September 30th at Palm Court, the Associated Student Body (ASB) announced this year’s homecoming theme, A Night in Wonderland, inspired by Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. The dance will take place on October 28th from 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. Ticket prices start at $10 with ASB, $14 without ASB, and $16 at the door. Unlike the previous homecoming dances, this homecoming will be held in the Aztec Arena (“the new gym”) and feature new ideas to ASB takes a group photo in front of homecoming poster. make the dance more enjoyable. One of the biggest changes to come is Previous years only had one Homecoming the hiring of Preferred Mobile Music & ProKing and one Queen that had been chosen motion Events, or PmmnP. PmmnP is a full from the senior class. However, this year will time, high impact entertainment production feature princes and princesses, which will be service that will be professionally decorating chosen from each grade level other than the the Aztec Arena for Homecoming. They also senior class. ASB President Angel Haro said, offer services ranging from staging and pro“Homecoming is a dance for all grade levels, duction to party planning. In addition to the but previous homecomings only interacted decorations, PmmnP will also be DJ’ing at with the seniors so we decided to create a Palm Court to kick off Homecoming Spirit new way to make it more interactive with the Week. other grades.” Secondly, ASB decided to renovate the In the years before, students were not alHomecoming King and Queen court system.

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lowed to attend dances if they had a GPA lower than a 2.0 or a U or N in citizenship. This year’s Homecoming will be the first dance that has its restrictions removed, so all Keppel students can attend! Ultimately, this year will be bringing many changes to Homecoming. Homecoming Chair Amy Huang said, “These changes were all made to encourage more people to come to our dances. We want to make them fun so that students will look forward to upcoming dances.”

Dancing with the Keppel stars JAMIE CHAU Historian

Mark Keppel High School hosted its first annual Dancing with the Keppel Stars at its auditorium on October 7, where the students and staff collaborated to compete and perform different dance routines. Hosted by MKHS Dance Company director Mr. Arroyo, the show was a version of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Contestants picked a number from one to ten, and order of performance was confirmed in numerical order. Winners were determined by judges Collin Kumamoto, Danie Espinoza, and THE AZTEC/VICTORIA RAMIREZ Kyle Yamasaki. The audience was also able Mr. Arroyo is conducting a lottory to decide the order of the 10 dance performances. to voice their opinions by posting a picture Contestant and business and activities director, teacher Ms. Fillpot, Spanish teacher Ms. onto Instagram, mentioning @mkhsdanceco, Ms. Vann said, “Practice is extremely difficult Dominguez, and business and activities direcand voting for their favorite performer with a and challenging compared to advanced danc- tor Ms. Vann, won gifts sponsored by Target, hashtag. The contestant with the most votes reers, but it is a nice way to get to know students.” 7-Eleven, and Six Flags Magic Mountain. ceived three extra points to their score. As a member of the Dance Team, sopho- Contestant and biology teacher Ms. Hake statDancing styles varied from salsa to permore Kristie Quan said, “Some challenges were ed, “It was knocked out of the park.” formances of hip hop, accompanied by special making sure that the moves aren’t too hard and appearances of Mark Keppel’s All Male and that they enjoy doing the routine.” Dance Team. The top three winners, video game design Behind the performance itself was practice.


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