Picturesque Issue 2015

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2015 Picturesque Issue

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3 Sadie Hawkins: Success or Not?

Evan Ayers

Sports Writer

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8-9 Life During Gold One 12-13 A Look at Catholic Schools Week LIFESTYLE

16 Timehopping Back to 2014 SPORTS

7 Active Off-Season for Football Player STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

4 One Sharp Shooter FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

10 Eggert’s Fourth Year ENTERTAINMENT

11 March Madness Crossword

Hello loyal Outlet reader. I hope that 2015 is going well for everyone so far. I also hope that you will enjoy the very first issue of 2015. You may have noticed while flipping though that this issue is packed full of photos. Well, you are right. This issue has more than the usual amount of newspaper photos.

The Outlet staff has been working hard to capture what life at Borgia looks like. So Chelsea and I would like to present you the ‘Picturesque Issue.’ For the past two months, we have been roaming the halls with cameras in hand to show you what life during Gold One and Spirit week looks like. Take a look to see if you are in of the photos.

If you’re reading this, sadly it means there is only one issue left for the school year. But don’t fret, because our last issue will be here before you know it. Just like in years past, our last issue will be focused on Seniors and it will be in full color. Keeping with Outlet tradition we will have a Senior Map and Senior Connections.

Your Editor-in-Chief, Katelyn Skaggs

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Students in Honors American History I taught by Nathan Caldwell look over an assignment. Students pictured front to back are Liz Frederick, Emma Elbert, Maddie Obermark and Ellie Unnerstall.

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SADIE HAWKINS:

A SUCCESS AT BORGIA Chelsea Hill

Bonnie Eckelkamp Alexis Roberts asks asks Ben Marquart Justin Baylard Mackenzie Struckhoff aks Jack Cundiff

Josie Krawitz asks Atlee Walde

Sarah Eckelkamp asks Spencer Juergens

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This past February a new tradition was added to Borgia’s long list of activities, the Sadie Hawkins Dance. The semi-casual dance is the untraditional ‘girls ask guys’ formal. It was a new experience for upper and lower classmen alike.

Senior Megan Noelke says she was happy the Sadie Hawkins dance was added because she loves school dances and the opportunity to dress up.

“The dance was better than I expected. Although the turnout was low, more people came than I thought. And the music was good!” Noelke said.

Junior Nick Kuchem agrees that it was a great addition.

“I never turn down an opportunity to dance,” Kuchem adds.

Although there was a good amount of people at the dance, some students decided to stay at home instead of going to the dance. Sophomore Abby Gettemeyer explains that even though she passed on the occasion, she is still in its favor.

“It was a really good idea, besides the fact that the girls had to pay for the date. I wasn’t too fond of that,” she explains.

Even though Gettemeyer didn’t want to spend the money this year, she says that it is a great idea to keep around and she would love to go next year.

Kuchem agrees and has creative ideas on making the new

activity grow.

“I think it was a fun idea and as it continues it will grow. We could even do a Court Warming for it and that might draw bigger crowds as well,” he shared.

As the turn out grows, girls will have even more chances to ask the guys in their own creative ways. Noelke particularly liked the untraditional asking.

“I liked the idea of getting to ask the guy because it switched things up,” she explains. “Plus, girls could use the cute ways they have always imagined getting asked with.”

On the other side of things, Kuchem explains what it felt like being the one waiting to be asked.

“It wasn’t too bad. I wasn’t really nervous about it and my date ended up being the best. She was a senior so I looked really cool going to dinner with all seniors,” he jokes.

Overall, the dance was a success. Students who went seemed to enjoy themselves and it brought about a new tradition to the Borgia community. Kuchem adds that the best part was “spontaneous tacos.” The dance was accompanied by several tacos randomly appearing in the middle of the dance floor.

“They may not be apart of the dance every year, but they made the first Sadie Hawkins dance even more fun.” Kuchem joked.

One Sharp Shooter Junior Aaron Eckelkamp holds many high honors in the unusual sport of trapshooting. He started trapshooting three years ago with the American Legion Team and later joined 4H. “We heard that there was a team trying to get started for the American Legion here in Washington,” said Eckelkamp.

“I went over one day and I found it very fun so I decided to start the team and after a couple years, I decided to join 4H.” According to National Shooting Sports, a clay target known as a bird is thrown into the air by machine. The clay target is thrown from a trap house that is in front of the shooter.

“You have no clue where it (the bird) is going to come out and you just have to shoot it,” explained Eckelkamp.

After starting to trap shoot, Eckelkamp’s shooting average went from 85% to 97.9%. In 2014 he only missed 36 clay targets out of 1,750. His shooting average has helped him bring home many wins and trophies.

“You can go to play for money or you can just play for trophies. You win the trophies if you’re the highest in your group. Groups are categorized by your age and your shooting percentage,” said Eckelkamp.

He took home High Over All after placing first in a ten way shoot off in the September Missouri Youth Sport Shooting Alliance Fall Classic held in Linn Creek, Missouri. In 2014 at Missouri 4H State Shoot, he brought home a first in individual, a first in team in the senior doubles, a second place individual after a three way shoot off and a second place team

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in senior singles.

Eckelkamp won his favorite award last summer in Iowa in the handicap category. Handicap shooting is where a shooter starts out at 16 years and they must shoot 97 out of 100 or better and then they are moved back yardage. If they start to shoot badly, a shooter can move forward. It all plays off of how well the shooter is doing.

“It wasn’t just for people just my age, it was for everybody. This included people from 10 years old to 80 years old,” noted Eckelkamp. “It was 700 (people) total and I took first and I got a nice leather bag with my name engraved and where I won it.”

Before Eckelkamp began to trap shoot, he enjoyed the outdoors as he used to show animals at the Washington Fair. Trap shooting has helped him become more involved with the outdoors.

He is a member of Missouri River Chapter of Quails Forever and New Haven 4H Shotgun Club. He volunteers with Quails Forever Chapter and River Valley Chapter.

“I always wanted to work for the conservation so I started doing that when I was young. Trapshooting was just another thing I was interested in and good at,” mentioned Eckelkamp.

He will be attending the Conservation Leadership Corp in March of this year. After graduating from Borgia, he hopes to attend Lindenwood University in St. Charles then find a career in Wildlife Management and Conservation.

“I just plan on going to Lindenwood College because they’re known for their trap shooting team,” he commented.

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Year in and year out, Borgia athletes receive high honors, win championships and sign letters of intent to continue playing in college.

Dozens of state boards plaster the gym walls with the names of memorable high school athletes. This year is no different.

With multiple student-athletes having either committed or signed already, the Class of 2015 might have one of the most successful set of athletes in recent Borgia history. Senior Borgia football standout, Dominic Struckhoff, has continued to compete even though his senior season ended this past November.

Struckhoff was invited to play in the Under Armour Blue-Grey All American Bowl in Tampa Bay, Florida on January 10, 2015. In the All American Bowl, he played along with and against college-ready athletes from all over the country. Though he was listed as a running back, he was mainly positioned as a fullback during the game.

“The game gave me the opportunity to display my talents against other recruits and prove to college coaches I am able to compete at the college level,” said Struckhoff. “The players at the All American

game were at the same playing level I am going to play at next year.”

At the time, Struckhoff didn’t know where he would be playing in college; however on January 22, he verbally committed to William Jewell College, an NCAA Division 2 school in Liberty, Missouri. Struckhoff believes it is a perfect decision.

“From grade school all the way to high school, small schools were always my scene,” he explained. “I had some bigger D1 schools that I had the opportunity to walk on to, but whenever I visited Jewell, it had the feel and education level I wanted.”

Struckhoff shows his strive to work hard, on and off the field. He has been a consistent honor-roll student for the more then one semesters and he believes he is always working to get stronger and faster.

His work ethic and attitude has shaped him

into a leader on and off the field.

Teammate and recent Truman State football commit, Drake Raftery, expressed, “Dom is a guy that everyone looks up to and aspires to be like. His constant work ethic allows him to be a great leader everywhere he goes.”

Raftery has no doubts in Stuckhoff’s ability to compete at the next level.

“For a high school athlete, he is very well prepared. He should have no problem at Jewell,” said Raftery.

Struckhoff noted that he owes his dad a lot of credit for his success.

“He helped me all along the way by giving me opportunities to look at a bunch of schools. When it came down to it, he helped me weigh my options and eventually choose William Jewell,” noted Stuckhoff.

Snapshots of Borgia

Many Borgia students spend their days workng on schoolwork or day dreaming during class. Either way, a student usually only knows whats going on in thier class. The Outlet staff went around Gold 1 classes to give the Borgia community a taste of whats going on in the classrooms.

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As the seniors are coming to an end of their final semester, they can look back on all the great memories and changes made in the past four years. But the seniors aren’t the only ones who have been at this school for a total of four years now.

Andrew Eggert, English Teacher and coach, will also be celebrating his fourth year of teaching this coming May. Eggert is an alumni of Borgia but these four years are very different from when he was a student.

“The biggest change has been the movement towards technology and that’s been cool to see,” Eggert said. “When I was in highschool, we had the big box TV’s that were mounted in the corner.

Now to see the flat screens and everyone with iPads is a cool transition.”

Although the school has changed a lot, especially since graduation year in 2006, Eggert has to agree that somethings are still the same.

“Traditions have stayed the same and that’s nice to see. I mean, some of the teachers are the same, too,” he explains.

Eggert sees the changes in the school, but also in the class of 2015, seeing as they are his first class that he has watched mature from freshman to seniors.

“I think it’s pretty cool to see all of them mature,” he says. “It’s been a very interesting process and now when I look at them, I can still see all of them as freshman.”

Senior Mackenzie Struckhoff has to agree that the senior class has really changed, especially with the help of Eggert.

“He has taught me that in order to achieve the things I want, I have to work for them. No matter if it’s a little goal or a big one, he has helped me realize that nothing is going to be handed to me,” she states. “Mr. Eggert helped me out, personally, when I was strug-

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gling to juggle basketball, school, and family. He made me realize the things that really did matter.”

Of course, the students aren’t the only ones learning. Eggert states that he learned that “being kind and being patient pays off.

There are people that you can see it’s made a difference with.”

Eggert continues on that note by saying, “I hope they’ve learned the same thing. Being kind to people, being good to people, has its benefits. It’s something we should all strive to do.”

Struckhoff can only hope that Eggert has learned a thing or two from the 2015 class as well.

“I hope our class taught him that even though some things need to be taken seriously, it’s okay to have fun and joke around a bit.

I also hope we taught him that everyone makes mistakes, like accidentally shoving a basketball in someone’s face at practice,” she jokes.

Since the school year is coming to an end sooner than believed, Eggert will have to say goodbye to his first matured freshmen. But he won’t be too heartbroken over it, for the best reasons.

“I don’t know if it’s ‘hard’ but it’s... It’s something that’s nice to see. I don’t know if there’s more of a connection, but it’s nice to see them progress and go on to bigger and better things. It’s a proud moment more than anything else.” he explains.

Struckhoff sees it in another light. Mostly because the seniors aren’t only saying goodbye to one teacher who has impacted their lives, but several.

“I truthfully think the Class of 2015 and all the teachers have grown together a lot in the past four years,” she tells. “The bonds and memories we’ve made are definitely going to make saying goodbye on May 20th extremely difficult.”

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Every year, Catholic Schools Week is celebrated in Catholic schools around the country. Borgia is not any different; this year’s week began with ‘Rolled Out of Bed Monday’ also known as Pajama Day. Students sported their best PJs and enjoyed root beer floats during Seminar. On Tuesday, students twinned with other students and some even dressed up like teachers or famous people. The school came together in that morning to celebrate Mass. On Wednesday, students dressed up with an International theme. Thursday’s theme was ‘Throwback Thursday’ and students attended an Extreme Power Assembly. The week was wrapped up with ‘Souper Bowl’ day where students wore jerseys and made canned good donations in support of the Harvest Table . The final activity of the week was the Staff vs Seniors basketball game.

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When you tell people you are going to Detroit, they begin to tell you to be safe and watch your back while in the city. This is what everyone was telling me the summer of 2012, when I was planning on spending a week in the heart of Detroit, Michigan.

I was going with my mom who prepared for the trip to the so called “most dangerous city” by purchasing a can of pepper spray. As we toured the city she gripped me tightly in one hand, and in the other the can of pepper spray ready for anything.

In a way, Detroit is like a pit bull; it gets a bad wrap. Pit bulls are actually really nice dogs unless people have trained them to be mean. Detroit is the same way; it is an awesome city but people have been trained to think badly of it.

Of course, on my first day in this so called ‘bad city,’ I had my guard up. I was preparing to turn a street corner and see someone being robbed. I believed all the horrible tales that were collected in my mind over the years.

However, I soon learned how nice the people were. I also found that I felt very safe because it was hard to turn a street corner and not see a police officer either on foot or horse.

While exploring the city, any tourist can find homeless people sitting on the sidewalks. However, while in Detroit I was never once asked for money or even

food by any of them.

Most mornings, I was greeted happily by them. Every morning there were two homeless men that I passed. They sat and played cards together, and when someone passed them, they would pause the game and talk to them.

Detroit has always been known as a bad city but depending on who you ask, St. Louis can be just as bad. People who grew up in cities like Detroit don’t view them as dangerous cities. It has it problems but for people living there, it’s a hometown.

I am not saying that Detroit is all happy go lucky and its 100% safe; I’m saying it has its problems but its not as bad as people make it out to be. So when did Detroit get the bad wrap?

If you really look into the history of Detroit, they have actually done a lot of extraordinary things. The city has made a lot of progress in the motor industry and it’s given the world some pretty great music.

The biggest problem people like to point out in Detroit is the crime level. Well according to

CNN Money there were 48.2 murders per 100,000 people in 2011. Now lets put that up to St. Louis and see how they compare. According to CNN Money, there were 35.3 murders per 100,000 people in 2011. This means that Detroit is the most dangerous city with St. Louis running closely behind it.

St. Louis is just as dangerous as Detroit according to crime statistics. However, St. Louis doesn’t have as bad of a reputation.

I am not suggesting you pack your bag today and head to Detroit, but when planning your next vacation don’t cross Detroit off just because of what you have been told.

The city is filled with wonderful sculptures and amazing architecture. Also, the river walk is a must do if in the city, it gives a visitor the feeling of being at the beach without the sand. It’s also fun to be able to look across the river and see Canada.

I hope that one day people can get all the talk about Detroit out of their head and really appreciate the beautiful city that it is.

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For valentines day this year, a few friends and myself decided we wanted to see a movie. In the running was the wildly known, “50 Shades of Grey.” None of us were sure if we wanted to see it but I decided to read the book just to test the waters. As I was reading it, I realized that the main characters relationship is not only a type of relationship that I cannot talk about in a Catholic High School’s newspaper, but it is also a very abusive relationship.

I don’t mean physically, I mean mentally. It really struck my attention because I knew the book had this stigma for being very inappropriate, but nobody had warned me about the mental abuse throughout the entire thing.

Nobody talked about that side of it, because a lot of people didn’t notice it.

This scares me, if people are unaware of mental abuse in a popular book, then how unaware are they in their everyday lives?

Now to please my friends who have been constantly bugging me about how “the second book is much better” and that he “isn’t as bad in the rest of the series,” I have to agree that this could be true. I realize I can’t make a generalized statement about the relationship in this story without reading the whole series, but I can point out the severity of the relationship in this first book.

For instance, the failure to communicate, which is a top sign for an abusive relationship. Other signs include humiliation, exclusion, guilt trips, isolating from family or friends, and using money to control.

It is important for a person on the receiving end of the abuse to realize that it is not his or her fault. Being in a mentally abusive relationship is very difficult

to wrap your mind around. The abused might not even realize that it is happening. In this instance, it is important for those around the people, who notice the mental abuse, to do something about it.

The initial steps are to make sure the abused knows you believe in them, you are here for them and you are going to help them through this. It is important to make sure the person knows it isn’t their fault and that they are not alone.

If the abuse is bad enough, we are lucky to have a group of counselors here at Borgia that can help take steps in the right direction. But if higher abuse needs immediate attention, the 24 hour national hot line for domestic abuse is 1-800-799-7233. If it’s not as immediate, you can call 1-800-787-3224 to discuss concerns or if you have any questions.

Both hot lines are there to help people going through abuse, if you or someone you know is facing the hardship, don’t be afraid to call.

I might not get the most positive feedback on this remark but my friends and I did decide to see the “50 Shades of Grey” movie. Now I won’t turn this article into a big review, but I will say I was disappointed.

I was disappointed because I thought

the emotional abuse that should be more prominent on the big screen, was almost completely taken out of the plot line. The awareness I was hoping to see brought to the topic completely vanished and it really aggravates me.

That’s why I wrote this article, so instead of reaching millions of people who see the movie, I could help the Borgia community in realizing what emotional abuse is. It’s scary, it’s hard to get through and it’s more common than meets the eye.

If you need to use the hot lines listed above, that’s okay. You’re not alone in the fight of gaining yourself back, and you have a community of people here that are ready to back you up.

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Each Month in 2014 History Justin Bieber gets arrested in Maimi

FEBRUARY

Flappy Bird was taken off the App Store The Olympics start in Sochi “Frozen” soundtrack tops “Titanic” in weeks spent at No. 1 MARCH

Ellen’s Oscar Selfie “How I Met Your Mother” ended Milaysia Airline Flight 370 went missing APRIL

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“Gone Girl” was released Pope John Paul II was beatified Taylor Swift’s album “1989” was released NOVEMBER

Marked 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall DECEMBER

“The Interview” was released