Senior Salute 2014 by The Little Hawk

The Little Hawk Senior Salute May 20, 2014

May 20, 2014

Senior Salute 2014

THE SENIOR LH STAFF

SENIOR PERSPECTIVES

OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!

Seniors share their advice and thoughts on high school, life and personal hygiene. Senior perspectives are on Pages 6, 7, 20, 21, 30 and 31.

Whether travelling across the country or staying closer to home, all seniors are going somewhere. Here is a list of future destinations.

The seniors of The Little Hawk share how their time on ‘The Newspaper that Leads” has prepared them for whatever journey they have chosen.

THE YEAR IN PHOTOS

Take a look at the best photos of the year, featuring seniors participating in City High events.

HAWKEYES V. CYCLONES

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With over 70 students going to Iowa and over 15 going to Iowa State, these two state universities are the top two choices for our graduating class.

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#TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY

#THROWBACK THURSDAY

Everyone changes a lot throughout high school. See the transformations that are most dramatic.

SENIOR SUPERLATIVES

Remember the most popular songs, movies and TV show we grew up with? Take a trip down memory lane with the best pop culture of our lifetime, and our old pictures.

From most likely to become president to best smile, seniors have received a number of “superlatives” determined by their classmates.

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Marco Barenghi

The Little Hawk’s Seniors

Reporter

Future Plans:

Ellen Carman

Co-Executive Editor

Elena Foster

Positivity Editor

Emilie Burden Reporter

Future Plans:

High School in Italy Study Physics in college

Iowa State University Ames,IA Animal Ecology

Being a member of the Little Hawk was great. For sure one of the best parts of my exchange year. I went to sport events, I took pictures, I did interviews and I wrote stories. It was almost like having a job. I had to organize myself and do my job with a deadline, and this helped me a lot to improve my personal organization. It also helped me with communication and organization with other people. I had to talk, decide, organize, write and check together. It made me grow up a lot.

Even though it’s only been a year for me being a part of The Little Hawk, it has taught me quite a bit about people. I was never the type of person to argue about things but this publication might have changed that. I have gotten to experience the ways of productive arguing and fighting to get things done right. Who knows? These skills might be useful against my professors in the next couple of years.

Elijah Jones

Co-Online Editor

Neil Harte

Opinion Editor

Future Plans:

DePaul University- Chicago, IL College of Communication

Iowa State University- Ames, IA Elementary Education with a Special Education Endorsement

Gap year in Los Angeles, CA Acting/Directing

United State Military Academy West Point, NY Defense and Strategic Studies

When I first started working on The Little Hawk as a freshman I had no idea what I was in for. Now, after a crazy year as Co-Executive Editor I realize that The Little Hawk is both the best and most high stress academic pursuit City High has to offer. The paper has given me the chance to be responsible for producing a product that has the ability to help and inform my community. No matter what I do next, I will have The Little Hawk to thank.

Although I was a late bloomer in the journalism world, The Little Hawk welcomed my poor writing skills with open arms and molded them into the ways of a reporter. Being on staff taught me that you can accomplish a lot with a crappy attitude, but even more with a positive one. Laughter is the best medicine, and in the words of Mr. Rogers, don’t do drugs.

Being part of The Little Hawk hasn’t really changed my life, but it has made it much better. Communication is the most important thing to learn in high school; talking, understanding, and social ability. So having the opportunity to be on staff, especially during the incline of such talent, has been an amazing experience. I just came in at the right time, and I’m happy to believe I’ve left my influence nowhere as the staff keeps rising to new heights. ...And Chris is cool I guess.

Although not life changing, being a staff writer and co-opinion editor on The Little Hawk for two years has taught me many things; the main ones were realizing that when I did my work on time and positively deal with stress, everything became exponentially more enjoyable in my life. I have since taken what I learned in the news lab by procrastinating studying for calculus exams and freaking out about in class English essays.

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Leah Hoelscher Copy Editor

Future Plans:

Chris Ohrt

Co-Online Editor

Future Plans:

Daniela Perret Features Editor

Future Plans:

Jacob Potash

Co-Executive Editor

Future Plans:

University of Missouri- Columbia, MO Undecided

University of Iowa - Iowa City Business/English

University of Iowa- Iowa City, IA Pre- Physical Therapy

If I hadn’t been on The Little Hawk staff this year, I probably would be in way better shape. Although not being supermodel worthy, I am the better from being on newspaper. Dealing with the deadlines has taught me timeliness. Dealing with the staff has improved my communication skills. Conducting interviews has taught me to ask the questions I want the answers to. Writing and editing the stories has improved my revision skills. And dealing with the food has taken away any self control I ever had. Thank you, The Little Hawk.

My time in Advanced Journalism has been a very important portion of my high school career, especially working with such talented people. I’m not saying being on The Little Hawk makes you smart, truthfully it might make you a bit insane. The fact is, this is a place where smart people seem to be attracted towards. Joining makes you a part of something much bigger than yourself, in a newspaper with a storied tradition of excellence. Having such high standards can certainly stress you out, but yet again this class has churned out award-winning stories and a shiny new Pacemaker award.

Throughout my three years on The Little Hawk I learned a few things, first being, of course, the ability to write. I remember my first story about a canned food drive Student Senate hosted and it was absolutely terrible. I also learned patience, and communication. Through writing features I was able to hear so many people’s stories and I think that was one of best things about being in newspaper. That, and all the endless work nights, listening to countless arguments among the editors and of course, the food.

Yale University - New Haven, CT Undecided I waited until junior year to join the paper at City. I worked on a newspaper freshman year at my school in Baltimore, writing reviews, political opinions, news, and even the occasional sports story (imagine!). At City, I was amazed to find a newspaper that wasn’t relegated to after-schoolclub status and given one dingy room. I spent sophomore year wallowing in debate but subsequently found in The Little Hawk a compatible group of friends, and a noble (dual) purpose: seeking truth and pissing off Ellen.

Lilly Reitz

Adam Schwab

Edgar Thorton

Annika Wasson

Opinion Editor

Future Plans:

Reporter

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Reporter

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Sports Editor

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Warren Wilson College - Asheville, NC Creative Writing & Elem. Education

Gap year, then Kirkwood Writing/Education

Harvard University - Cambridge, MA Engineering and Chemisty

Simpson College - Indianola, IA Elementary Education

Being a member of The Little Hawk taught me the most important things I learned throughout my entire high school career. Through interviews, I learned to talk to people. Through being the Co-Opinion editor, I learned how to communicate with my writers and how to put my (many) opinions into words. I learned, how to stop procrastinating, how to be passionate, and how to be a member of a team. Being a member of The Little Hawk has been the most important part of my high school experience, and as Winnie the Pooh said, “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

The time I’ve been part of The Little Hawk, wasn’t the most enjoyable period of time, my skills appear to be lacking in the hunting down of information I actually want to write about, I also am no good at designing things to go on a website so that isn’t as good either. But one thing I was good at in this, was helping others with their stuff. I don’t have directly linking talents to this, but one thing I know i’m good at is being a help to those around me. This class pointed it out to me, and I am really happy about it.

The Little Hawk is as close to the real world that high school can get. Journalism teaches you about what matters in the world and why. Writing for The Little Hawk has been a transformative experience for me. Many amazing memories have been formed over interviews, re-writes and long nights. I have accomplished a new feat for The Little Hawk, reporting from multiple continents. I have learned to write for something bigger than just schoolwork. Journalism is something that matters. The Little Hawk has been just a short part of my high school experience but its impact has been immense. #turnup

Without The Little Hawk I would not be who I am today. If it hadn’t been for those late work nights, sass matches with Mr. Rogers and battling with writers over deadlines, I would probably be less sleep deprived and have less gray hair. Honestly though, I am so thankful and have truly enjoyed my time working with everyone on staff in these past three years. Getting to cover state tournaments, the Boston trip and dance parties in the newslab are among my favorite memories. Now, before I leave the newslab forever I must say one last time, #sportsisnumberone. May 20, 2014 SENIOR SALUTE

If You’re a Bird, I’m a Bird Elena Foster Everybody wants to change something about themselves. Boys want to be taller, girls want more curves, and everyone wants to be accepted for who they are. The grass always seems to be greener on the other side, but there was a time we didn’t know there was another side, when ignorance was bliss. I was eleven years old when I got up the courage to tell my schoolyard crush that I had been unequivocally in love with him for four years. I asked a mutual friend of ours to go talk to him and see if he was interested in holding hands on the swingset or passing notes during math. His response quite simple. “Well, she smells bad and isn’t pretty. At all.” That was the first time I had ever cared about what others thought of me. Later that year, my friends and I decided to do Secret Santa. Girls were unwrapping stuffed animals and Tamagotchi’s while I found two bottles of perfume and a note that said, “Maybe boys will think you smell better now. Merry Christmas!” I was raised in a house that did not allow

me to wear make up and never found material wasn’t proud to be her. I wasn’t proud of who things necessary to make friends. It seemed I had been. like everyone around me was evolving while I I wasted years of my life trying to cover was stuck in my small pond, alone. I was happy up who I had been, but the best friends I have in my brothers hand-me-downs until I realized stuck by my side when they couldn’t stand my how different I was. odor. They understood that In a foreign land, I’d been change is inevitable. We all taken hostage by mascara consider ourselves to have brushes and flirtatious skirts. phases whether it was tomAs I acquired better hygienic boy or nerd, but life is a I had finally habits, I focused on what was never ending phase. In redemolished the on my face and not what was in alizing this, I am no longer weird girl that my heart. ashamed of my past. My sister called me in SepWe see ourselves as the never showered. tember and I told her about loners, the ugly ducklings, everything going my way. I and are always looking for was finally having the “perfect” ways to be as beautiful as senior experience, filled with the swans. We tend to difootball games and careless weekends. I had minish our success and accentuate our failures. finally demolished the weird girl that never In your four years, be happy with whatever showered. kind of bird you are, whether simple or bold, I looked at an old picture of me in a tie-dye because as long as you remember that you are a shirt, floral pants, and matted pigtails. I was in Little Hawk, your inner beauty will overpower ninth grade. I looked at her, and I realized that any zit or flaw you think you have. I didn’t associate that girl with me anymore. I

Say Yes Leah Hoelscher It can be extremely hard to say yes. To step out of my comfort zone, to take the risk. Not knowing how things will turn out has been the devil on my shoulder my whole life. When I came to City High as a scrawny and frightened freshman, I was told by everyone that getting involved is the best way to enjoy your high school career. You can imagine how hard that was for me. However, thanks to my mom, I was forced to participate in activities, and signed up for cross country my freshman year. I suffered through brutal workouts in the summer that didn’t get any easier when school started. Just kidding, I didn’t go to summer running which is probably why the workouts were so hard! I sweated through every t-shirt I owned and plowed through a pair of $125 shoes in three months. I ended up falling completely in love with cross country and running in general. Enough to sign up for a half marathon. I trained through winter blizzards and ice storms, and plowed through another pair of shoes. When I ran across the finish line on January 8th to be wrapped in 6 SENIOR SALUTE

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hugs from my family, I was bursting with pride. I realized that if I had never said yes to joining the cross country team, I wouldn’t have been able to have the great experience. After immersing myself in one activity, I felt confident enough to attempt another. At the end of freshman year, while I was busy not doing track, a few of my friends started to get me interested in the vocal music program. The strong desire to get away from the band program gave me the final push to walk into Dr. Grove’s office and ask to join choir. I was blissfully ignorant to how much he would immerse me in the music program. Dr. Grove went above and beyond. He encouraged me to join the choir, the Select Women’s Ensemble, and try out for the show choir program. Having band as my only previous experience with high school music, I was convinced I wouldn’t make it. But I tried out anyways. Maybe it was the leftover thrill from the half marathon or my memories of watching my old baby sitter perform for 4th Ave. But wherever that courage came from, I am eternally grate-

ful. Because I didn’t fail, I made it in. A week before my graduation, thinking back on my high school career, I am insanely proud of myself. I took the challenge. I stepped out of my comfort zone. Tentatively, but I did. It has brought me the greatest rewards of my life. I became a captain of the cross country team. I helped the varsity show choir win four grand championships. I lived in Spain for two whoe weeks. But I can honestly say that when I mentally said yes as a freshman to being a Little Hawk, to joining the cross country team, to trying out for showchoir, to joining the school that leads, was the best decision of my life. I had no idea the countless opportunities it would bring me. City High has witnessed some of the best (see above) and most embarrassing (ask me later) moments of my life. And I wouldn’t change any of them for the world. I wouldn’t change any of my yes’s to no’s. I have a feeling that walking across the stage on Friday and shaking Mr. Bacon’s hand will be the proudest moment of my life.

Between the Lines Ellen Carman Magnolia trees bloom from the first warm around me, towards a diploma. For the past days of spring to the season’s first storm, a sin- four years, it seems as if we have all been gle stroke on the year’s canvas. But I only re- sprinting towards a piece of paper that will almember the magnolia that stood in the back- low us to move on from this place atop the hill yard of my childhood home in full bloom. I and below the bell tower we call home, if only can see the petals, pure white, dipped in pink for another day. paint, fragilely balanced along the tree’s rugI don’t think I will remember a single thing ged arms. They created that got me any closer to a canopy softening the that piece of paper. There light beneath them and will be more diplomas to For the past four coloring the few waxy earn, more clocks to watch, years, it seems as if smooth petals drifting more races to run, and alwe have all been toward the ground with ways an infinite library of an illusory aura. My knowledge to learn. These sprinting towards a memories of the house I are not things I have to say piece of paper that grew up in are hazy. Evgoodbye to. will allow us to move erything I remember, evThere will not always be eryday, happened in the people like City High Little on from this place dappled light beneath an Hawks. atop the hill and old magnolia. I have to say goodbye to below the bell tower I won’t pretend to the co-editor who walked know how our minds out of the school with me we call home, if only sort our experiences into at midnight after completfor another day. what we will remember ing our rookie issue of The or forget, or how we form Little Hawk, realizing for the a reserve of memories that we can recall years first time the rewards of our responsibility. later. Still, I wonder how I will remember my Goodbye to the seventy girls who could days spent at ‘The School that Leads.’ spend hours trying to explain how exceptional I’ve spent a disgraceful amount of time their team is, finally realizing that it is imposwatching clocks in classrooms with walls full sible to describe the bond running in a City of posters so familiar that their words have High jersey can forge. lost all meaning. I’ve wasted nights worrying Goodbye to the friends who ate ice cream about that next test, tomorrow’s workout, or with me sitting on the roof of a car in January. yet another race that will make or break my To streaking down well-traveled gravel roads season. I’ve rushed through these hallways, to commemorate the last day of summer tohaving no regard for the lives playing out gether. They allowed me to voice weakness

and shame without judgement. Together, we laughed so uncontrollably that people stopped to stare. Goodbye to the teacher who cares about the whole process, from the pre-writing brainstorming session through every single draft. And later, when I’m not in her class anymore but it’s been a hard week, she gives up her precious time to listen before school. Goodbye to the principal who treated me as if the things I write have an impact. When he believed that the words mattered, I did too. Goodbye to the coaches who reminded me that the best way to improve performance is to focus not on how I can improve myself, but how I can help my teammates improve. They showed me that the real win is not a Drake flag, but the friendship that earned it. Spring has arrived again and I love seeing the blooming magnolias. Even so, I have yet to see a tree quite as magnificent as the one I grew up with, and maybe that is why it is what I remember. It had a singular beauty enhanced by impermanence. So, I think it will be these people, these relationships that I remember. The same qualities that make them hard to leave also make them impossible to forget. I am confident I will meet other amazing people in my life. However, I am equally sure that the kind of people that have colored the past four years and the relationships this school has fostered are rare. I could have gotten a diploma anywhere. Only this diploma, inscribed with City High, has the spirit and capacity to hold my memories between its lines.

Proud To Be a Little Hawk Emma Greimann For three years I have read the Senior Salutes, eager to absorb the wise words within. Now that I sit here writing one, I realize that we seniors aren’t all that wise. Whether we are off to college, about to start a career, or travel around the world, we find that we are the newbies, the freshman once again. I am ready for change and excited about new adventures. However, I would be lying if I said I am not sad to leave City High. I will miss football games in costume, huddling with the cross country girls before races and talking to Chip everyday. I would be lying if I said I never got scared or nervous. What if I don’t make new friends? What if my roommate has voodoo dolls? Will I be able to sleep without my stuffed animal, Teddy? Honestly, sometimes when I think of the future, I almost shit my pants. So why tell you this? After sitting at a blank

computer screen trying to come up with advice is what makes City High an amazing place. Our that is simultaneously helpful, smart, and hilari- school is a microcosm of Iowa City, with dious, I have realized there is no universal piece versity in every sense, but we all share the City of advice that will make high school a breeze. In High experience. We walk the same halls, we high school, we suffer under the same exams, are all on our we cheer at the same prep ralown journeys. lies. City High is a place to be I will miss football games We all have proud of. Here there is great in costume, huddling with strengths and talent, amazing achievements weaknesses, we and a sense of community rithe cross country girls all have great valed by no other school. We before races and talking to knowledge and are all Little Hawks, and forChip everyday. much to learn. ever will be. We will fail in My parting advice is simhigh school, ple. Time moves fast and evbut we have the power to stand up and succeed. ery goodbye is bittersweet... Treasure your time No matter what our journeys include, we go here. Treasure the people around you. Always be through it together. The common experiences, proud to be a Little Hawk. the common ground we share as Little Hawks May 20, 2014 SENIOR SALUTE 7

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Carpe Diem Omar Shaban High school. Such a simple concept right? first time I met Mr.Bacon. It was during the I’ve spent countless hours staring at a computer kickoff assembly and he walked up to the podiscreen trying to write a perfect paper saluting um with this aura about him that was very captithe experiences I’ve had during my four years vating, that genuinely made me want to listen to here. But then I realized, how am I supposed the speech he was about to deliver. And man am to write a perfect essay about such an imperfect I glad I did. I had never heard a man speak with place? Dont get me wrong, I love City High and such passion and drive towards a school. He had I truly believe it is urged all of us to a special place that get involved in as you can’t find anymuch as possible There is one thing that we all where else, but we and expand our as students are also horizons because share, one thing that everyone part of City High, our time here is has in common whether boy or and by no means are short and is gogirl, black or white, freshman or we perfect. There is ing to fly by fast. one thing that we At the time as a senior. We all have regrets. all share, one thing freshman I was that everyone has in like “what is he common whether talking about? boy or girl, black or How are four full white, freshman or senior. We all have regrets. years gonna go by fast?” but now as a senior I No one goes through high school without hav- realize he was not kidding. As our time in a place ing regrets. Regrets don’t have to be necessarily we have grown so accustomed to is coming to an bad. Regrets can be defined as the dislike for an end and we’re about to venture into new and unaction that has been committed, but more im- familiar territory you can’t help but start to reportantly, regret of an action not taken. flect on your time here. Everyone wonders how The first day of freshman year was the very to have a successful high school career, and hon-

estly its like Mr.Bacon said, by getting involved in as much as possible. Like why not join a random club, like chess club, or tryout for soccer, or go to a football game? Even if you end up not liking it at least you find out first hand that this specific activity isn’t for you. By getting involved in different things you get to meet new people, try new things, and have new experiences. It is with these experiences that you form memories. Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that the main goal of high school is to provide to you with a good education and you won’t find much better than City to provide that, but I also genuinely believe high school is a time to experiment. What I mean is, try as many different things as you can and expand your horizons. Find out what you are and aren’t interested in because you’re going to regret it if you don’t. Obviously you’re not gonna be able to do everything and that is okay. What is not okay is wasting our time here because at City High, we ALL matter. We matter by making the most of everyday, cause the only regrets we are gonna have are the chances we didn’t take, and like my friend said, “A diploma means nothing without the memories that come with it.”

The Bubble Lilly Reitz Iowa City is covered by a little bubble, set off from the rest of the state, surrounded by corn. Iowa City is a liberal, diverse, and artistic culture with an amazing sense of community. Our town is completely unique in so many aspects, and I’m so happy to have been molded into who I am by our city. Aside from a year in South Dakota when I was three, I’ve lived in Iowa City for my entire life. Iowa City is the only home I’ve ever known. Even though I love Iowa City so much, I’ll be packing my bags on August 19th and driving 900 miles to Swannanoa, North Carolina, a small mountain town outside of Asheville, with a population of less than 5,000. I am beyond excited to move to North Carolina, don’t get me wrong. North Carolina holds some of the most beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen and some of the cleanest air I’ve ever breathed. I love what my college will provide for me and my future, and I love the kindness and hospitality that I experienced in the south. But as excited as I am for my adventures, I will miss Iowa City more than anything. 20 SENIOR SALUTE

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I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do in so bittersweet about leaving. I know it will be North Carolina without being able to eat a big very good for me to go somewhere completely Pancheros burrito in the Pentacrest with my new and start my life on my own, and I’m so glad friends, or what I’ll do when I see trees without I have such an amazing home to come back to sweaters in the cold winter for Thanksgiving, Christmas, months. I’ll miss climbing and the summer. around on the roofs above Leaving my home feels bitIowa Book and Basta, eattersweet, and I’m sure anyone It makes me feel ing Yotopia in the Ped else who is going away for colgood to know Mall, drinking 50 cent 28oz lege feels the same way. I’m drinks from The Den, and leaving behind my favorite city that there is a walking through the library in the world, but I know it will place that can to get some air conditionalways be here to welcome me make me feel so ing or heating (depending home when I return. on the season) on my way As we all grow out of our bittersweet about home. These are just some adolescence and into young leaving. of the little magical things adulthood, we move from city Iowa City holds, and if I to city, see so many things, and tried to list every single one, meet so many people. I think I would fill up all 32 pages that too often people grow up of the Senior Salute. and forget where they came from and who they Although it hurts to be leaving, I am glad used to be. I know I’ll never forget Iowa City and that I feel this way. It makes me feel good to all the things it brought me, because a little part know that there is a place that can make me feel of me will always be here.

Take This Chance Daniela Perret There were 200 meters to go and there was event can begin a whole new chapter of your life. only one other person in the race, who was ahead At the end of last summer, I was involved in of me. I started hearing my name being cheered, an accident that changed almost every aspect of “You’re almost there!” “Go Dani!” “You’re so my life, and in many ways changed my own bestrong!” as I began closing the gap between me ing. In just one moment, my world was turned and the other girl. I could feel my left leg begin- upside down. ning to weaken, but that In that moment, didn’t matter to me. As we multiple thoughts were coming around the raced through my Everything can change final bend I began passing head, but one stood at any moment, my opponent. I was in the out from the rest: suddenly and forever. final stretch of the race running. Just like and my legs felt like lead. that, my running caI could see the other girl’s reer was taken away shadow to my right and I knew I had to keep from me. I was about to begin my senior year ungoing. I kept pushing and finally crossed the fin- able to do cross country, the sport I had trained ish line. I had done it, I ran a race. A permanent for and loved over the past five years. Along with smile spread across my face as I hugged almost not being able to run, I would be unable to walk. every girl on the team. I thought back to the ac- I felt like I would be missing out on so much. cident and my doctors telling me I would never That thought consumed me for a while, but then run again and I felt a surge of contentment. I I thought about all the experiences I had already thought about all the change that had happened had throughout high school and the friendships in just one year. I had made through these experiences. Everything can change at any moment, sudI had gone out for track and cross country all denly and forever. Sometimes people don’t real- three years, through which I had made some of ize how true this is. Everyone experiences change my closest friends, gone to state meets, went out at one point in their lives. Just one choice, one for JV soccer (a good time) on a whim my soph-

omore year, and even non-physical activities that I had done: joining Choir my junior year for the year, doing Chess Club, being a reporter, and this year an editor, for The Little Hawk, and I began seeing things from a different perspective. You never know when things are going to change, or how quickly something can change, and I thought about how lucky I was to have gotten the opportunity to have had these experiences. Now, I look back on them with nothing but fulfillment. Almost all of us seniors are going to go through a drastic change this coming fall as we head off to college, whether it be staying here in Iowa City or travelling across the country to California. And so I hope all seniors can look back on their four years at City High with contentment, with no regrets. My advice to younger students would be to take advantage of the opportunities that you are given because you never know when they may be taken away from you, when things may change. If you’re interested in something, take the chance. Go out for Cross Country, take an art class, join Math Club. The experiences that you will have and friendships that you will make may surprise you.

Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk Cassidy Bringle There are parts about high school that have been very cherishable, but everyone has had times where really crappy things have happened to them. They might have let this stuff stick with them, even through their senior year. I think for us seniors on our last day, we need to think about letting go of all the negativity. The good stuff is what we need to remember and hold on to as high school memories, because what someone said about an outfit we wore or that girl dumping you isn’t going to mean a darn thing ten years from now. Here is some cheesy advice from a senior, but I really would have liked to hear this when I was a freshman: Don’t take things so seriously. For goodness sakes, your frontal lobes aren’t even developed yet! Yes, there are times when it is healthy to cry and be upset, but don’t forget that you have so much living left to do. The little troubles really don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Those negative times aren’t what you should remember about high school. There are games, dances, competitions, meets, and shows you should remember more than what someone said about you in the hallway. A stupid kid spreading a stupid rumor just isn’t that impor-

tant. my ostracizer came up to me the next year to Don’t let petty things get in the way when apologize, I accepted and let it go right away. I there are so many other great things to focus couldn’t let what was going on in her life affect on. Now, it may seem big, but sometimes take a who I was and how I acted. I had bigger things to moment to really step outside of your shoes and worry about than a mean girl. Going to homethink about it in the grand scheme of things. Ask coming, being in the musical. You just have to yourself simple questions go on with your life, and let the like “Will this blow over others be stuck in their own perin a week or two?”, “Can sonal gunk. Don’t take I just pretend I didn’t This is a huge lesson to learn things so hear that?”, “In 10 years, in life, you are not going to will I even recognize this be able to brush stuff off your seriously. For person?” Remember that shoulder right away. It will take goodness sake, you are not the problem, some time! It’s a tool to success your frontal lobes you have your own stuff that takes a lot of practice to be to worry about. There are able to get better at. I’m not a pro aren’t even bigger things in life! Colat all yet, some people may never developed yet. lege, jobs, test scores, your be. It took me all 4 years of high next big game or concert. school to become confident in Kill it before it gets under my ability to let things roll over your skin, and you will me. Cliche as it seems, keep your have nothing to worry about. head up and truck on through all the negativity, I’ve dealt with this so much in high school. and push it away for better things in life. As long As a freshman, I was bullied, something I think as you give it a shot, then you might find yourmost people don’t know about me. Being bullied self becoming more confident, and hopefully was terribly hard for me to deal with, but when happier. After all, happiness is key, right? Right. May 20, 2014 SENIOR SALUTE

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Attending St. Seven Mary’s College has become somemonths from now, thing of a tradition for Keighley Ehmsen’s when most City High family. Next fall, she will attend the all girls, graduates are bustprivate school in Indiana where her mother ing out their winter earned her degree and her sister currently coats and gloves to attends. endure yet another “I always said I would never ever ever go Iowa winter, Talbot to an all girls, Catholic school,” Ehmsen said. Morris-Downing “But when my sister got in and we moved her ‘14 will be relaxing there, I just saw how great of a community it at one of Califorhad and how beautiful the campus was, so I nia’s best colleges, just decided that was where I wanted to go.” Stanford University, in “My freshman and sophomore year I 50 degree weather. always said I would go to a coast where it was “I applied to a lot of really warm,” she said. schools on both coasts.” Morris-Downing said, “I wanted to “It sounds dumb, but on the way to my interview at St. Mary’s I got a be as far away from Iowa as I could get.” fortune cookie that said, ‘you’re in the right direction, trust your instincts,’” she Morris-Downing was also acepted to Harvard. Although said. the decision between Harvard and Stanford was tough, MorrisAt St. Mary’s, Ehmsen plans to play intramural soccer and volleyball, Downing knows he made the right decision. as well as write for the University of Notre Dame’s newspaper. She “Going to any school like Stanford will open a lot of doors for plans to major in Elementary Education, which also runs you,” Morris-Downing said. in the family. Both of her grandmothers and “People at Stanford seem really relaxed.” Morris-Downing said, mother were teachers. “When I visited, there were people just laying in the grass relaxing.” While Morris-Downing feels that his time at City High has prepared him for the chalmost seniors at lenges that Stanford may bring. City High are send“City High is a really good school.” Morris-Downing said, “We have a lot of A.P. classes, and everying in college deposits, one is really collaborative.” Sonny Nguyen ‘14 is preparing Morris-Downing plans on majoring in computer science and plans to pursue a to move to the City of Angels to pursue computer science career in Silicon Valley. a career in filmmaking. Nguyen has been editing videos since he was eight years old, and has been making short films The almost as long. His movies have been enjoyed at City decision to High’s Film Fest for the past two years. attend Swarthmore Two years ago, when Nguyen’s filmmaking partner was not an easy one for in crime Elijah Jones ‘14 brought up the idea of moving to Traore. She was waitlisted at L.A. to pursue careers in the film industry, Nguyen was Princeton and was also accepted apprehensive. to Smith College. “When Elijah suggested moving to L.A., I was “I battled for days between Smith and skeptical at first, but I realized I couldn’t really get anySwarthmore,” Traore said. where here,” Nguyen said. In 2013, U.S. News and World Report ranked “Elijah has a friend who works on the set of Swarthmore the third best liberal arts school in the True Blood, so right after graduation we will be country. It is also part of a Tri-College Consorworking on the set,” Nguyen said. tium, meaning Traore can take classes towards Nguyen is slightly nervous about moving her degree at three other schools including the to L.A. due to high crime rates and the higher University of Pennsylvania. expense of living, but is ready to start the “Swarthmore is a liberal arts school so next chapter of his life. I can kind of just step into any field to see “Moving to L.A. is scary because what I like,” she said. financially, I don’t know if we’re go“I hope to be involved in some ing to be ready,” Nguyen said, sports, I don’t want to competitively run, “I’m going to be making rice but I still want to be involved in every single day!” intramurals,” Traore

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said. “I also really want to volunteer more. That’s something I’ve always wanted to do, just get out there and help other kids realize their dreams too.” Traore says her time at City High has given her the academic challenges and opportunities she needed to prepare for her application process at competitive universities. Although she is unsure of her specific future plans, Traore knows Swarthmore is a place where she will be able to thrive. “When I talked to someone about Swarthmore, they said I can find my voice among men and women,” Traore said. “That’s more of an ideal situation because in the real world I’m going to be encountering both.”

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UNDERAGE DRINKING COMES AT A COST.

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The funny guy. The singer. The athlete. The nice one. The ambitious one. Or the person who ruined friendships, got thrown off the team, and threw away their future because of drinking. The choice is yours.

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I’m Older Than You

Mr. Morris

I’m older than you, but I’m not old. Today’s much thought about. It’s not my age that weirds my birthday-May 12, 1971. I know you are read- me out. It’s that you are graduating from high ing this at a later date, but I was asked to write school and I just realized that I graduated from a column for you and high school, in this is what I’m thinking May, 25 years about right now. ago. Now, that I’m sure Chip could It’s not turning 43 makes me feel share some more horror that I find a little weirdold. stories with you all about it’s not. I have almost all When I the milestone birthdays graduated our the changes he has out of the way: 18-“what phones were seen over the years. He you need a fake ID for?” still attached to actually had to physi“So, I can vote.” (movie the walls of our reference-look it up); 21house; a GPS cally “get up and turn that mystical age where device was the the channels on the TV” we think we are finally person sitting with his hands when he grown up but were not; next to me in 25-lower car insurance the car looking was a teenager. (really, it’s a big deal). at a paper map And then there are the and yelling at decade birthdays: 30, 40, 50, etc… that some me to take the next exit; and, social media was people lament about but I have never given a bunch of us sitting around on a Friday night

with nothing better to do but watch whatever was on TV. Birds were the only things that tweeted. I’m sure Chip could share some more horror stories with you all about the changes he has seen over the years. He actually had to physically “get up and turn the channels on the TV” with his hands when he was a teenager. The person that I was, who graduated from high school 25 years ago, no longer exists. School, jobs, independence, a wife, and children have hacked away a lot of those rough edges. Long story made short. 25 years is a long time that passed very quickly. I hope your lives will be as happy and sad, fulfilling and disappointing, adventurous and mundane, and as fun and rewarding as mine has been. I’m hoping to see you all at your 25th reunion. At least, I hope you’ll look me up in the yearbook and say, “There’s Morris. Remember that guy? He was __________”

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Movies 2010 Tangled Toy Story 3 Black Swan Despicable Me How to Train Your Dragon 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger Bridesmaids The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn No Strings Attached 2012 The Avengers The Hunger Games Pitch Perfect The Dark Knight Rises Django Unchained The Perks of Being a Wallflower 21 Jump Street 2013 Frozen The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 12 Years a Slave The Great Gatsby

Toys Bratz Razor Scooters Skip-its Nintendo64 Beanie Babies PlayStation

#throwback Names 1995-1996 Michael Matthew Christopher Jacob Joshua Jessica Ashley Emily Samantha Sarah

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Songs 2010 Firework by Katy Perry Like A G6 by Far East Movement OMG by Usher Tik Tok by Ke$ha 2011 Grenade by Bruno Mars Black and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa Moves like Jagger by Maroon 5 Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO 2012 Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift Sexy and I Know It LMFAO We Are Young by Fun.

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2013 Thrift Shop by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hold Us by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke 2014 The Monster by Eminem and Rihanna Timber by Ke$ha and Pitbull Dark Horse by Katy Perry Happy by Pharrell Williams

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ith over 70 students attending the University of Iowa and more than 16 attending Iowa State University this fall, these state universities are the top two college destinations for this year’s graduating class. After surveying students planning to attend these colleges, it seems that cost and options of majors played a large role in their decisions. by

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Why did you choose Iowa State over the University of Iowa? Lauryn Alderson: I really wanted to experience something different. Kevin Buell: I chose Iowa State because it has a superior engineering program. Elena Foster: Because I knew I wanted to get out of Iowa City, and it’ll be a new experience descovering campus life.

Why did you choose to leave Iowa City?

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Kevin Buell: I’ve been in Iowa City my whole life, so I wanted to get out of it and experience something new while being on my own, but still being near my family. Zach Coleman: I want to meet new people, not just hang out with all my old friends. Emilie Burden: My mom doesn’t want me to stay in town, so I can experience the world without my family .

What are you majoring in and did your major have an influence on your college decision? Lauryn Alderson: I’m majoing in kinesiology, and Iowa State was the ONLY college I visited with this major! Emilie Burden: I’m majoring in Animal Ecology, and Iowa

State is the best in state animal college. Elena Foster: I’m majoring in Elementary Education with a special education endorsement, and to me Iowa State has a better special ed emphasis than Iowa.

What other colleges did you apply to, and why did you ultimately decide not to attend them? Lauryn Alderson: UNI, I really liked the size and feel, but none of their majors fit me. Zach Coleman: I applied to Wisconsin, but out of state is expensive, and it is quite a ways from home. Emilie Burden: I didn’t actually apply anywhere else but I looked at Oklahoma State. It was way too expensive as an out of state college.

What are you most looking forward to about going to Iowa State?

Zach Coleman: The new people and the freedom to do anything I want to. Emilie Burden: I will get to hang out with my brother, and be in a different kind of atmosphere. Elena Foster: Going into the greek society at Iowa State because it is one of the best in the nation and has a large philanthropy emphasis.

Why did you choose the University of Iowa over Iowa State? Steven Achrozoglou: The University is better for the majors I’m thinking of. Brady Swenning: Iowa State was never an option, I’ve always been a Hawkeye! Claire Jacobson: The program I wanted was here so why go far away? I didn’t even apply to Iowa State.

Why did you choose to stay in Iowa City? Braxton Bell: I grew up here and have always wanted to be a Hawkeye. Chris Ohrt: I chose to stay because I know where everything is already. Omar Shaban: Because Iowa City is a fun and diverse city. Claire Jacobson: Because there was an extra option to live at home.

What other colleges did you apply to, and why did you ultimately decide not to attend them?

Ryan Cox: I applied to Iowa State but I decided not to go because I wanted to stay in Iowa City. Michael Haring: I didn’t apply to any other schools but I visited them for baseball and I picked Iowa for the Big Ten and Iowa City’s atmosphere. Braxton Bell: None, I’ve known where I’ve wanted to go for years!

What are you most looking forward to about going to Iowa?

Emma Greimann: Having more freedom and being able to take classes I WANT to take. Kole Butler:Moving out of my house, meeting new people, experiencing new things, and having new opportunities. Claire Jacobson: Studying abroad and doing research without having to pay for any of that.

Have any of your relatives attended the University, and did it influence your decision? Ryan Cox: My older sister goes to the University of Iowa, and she has said a lot of good things about it. Emma Greimann: My dad went to Iowa but he would be supportive of wherever I go. Madi Genz: I have two brothers at Iowa, and one brother at Iowa State. One told me to go to Iowa, one said to go out of state, and the last one said to go for the cheapest, so I listened to two of them. Brady Swenning: Yes, my parents went to the University and they are pretty successful, why not follow?

A Change in Perspective Emma Greenberg Leaving elementary school six years ago, I myself to others. What started out as fascinawas a confident person. Everyone there was so tion that my peers could accomplish so much supportive and made everyone feel unique. Not soon turned into jealousy, and eventually made only that, but I would like to think that most me incredibly self critical. And when I received everyone left elementary school with the feeling my first B, I thought it was the end of the world. like they were going to Looking back on it now, of accomplish great things. course I see how ridiculous Junior high made it was to think everything me aware that I wasn’t in my life revolved around It’s easy to lose one of the top 5 people grades and performance. perspective when in my class anymore, It’s easy to lose perspective but good grades still when you’re in constant you’re in constant weren’t hard to achieve. motion. You lose the ability motion. You lose So while I felt like I to look at yourself and your the ability to look at was just now in a biglife and recognize what ger pool of people who matters. When you are at yourself and your were also unique and school every day, constantly life and recognize special, I still knew that turning in projects and getwhat matters. I was included in that ting back tests, it’s hard to group. Once sophomore focus on something other year of high school hit than school and how you though, I began to remeasure up. Teachers push alize that being involved in three clubs, a com- you to take more AP courses, and guidance petitive sport with two a day practices, and tak- counselors tell you to get involved in extracuring a full load of courses not only stressed me riculars to amp up your resumé, and soon you out, but didn’t even set me apart from everyone find yourself swamped in homework and studyanymore. Suddenly I was surrounded by people ing, which you have no time for due to your after who were in the same classes I was, but getting school commitments. The hardest part for me better grades. Somehow those people had time was feeling like I was the only one struggling to to do sports too, but could be varsity athletes. get everything done, since my friends seemed to This began my obsession with comparing have no problems maintaining their 4.0 and be-

ing busy with sports or theater until late at night. My realization that I wasn’t alone came during my junior year, when I would come in early to study with a teacher and find others in the room asking similar questions. Instead of getting frustrated alone at my house about how I couldn’t figure out a chem worksheet or a math problem, I went to my teachers and peers and found out that there were other students struggling just like I was. Limiting my commitments outside of school also made my life easier, I had to admit to myself that I couldn’t possibly be the best at everything. So whether you just received your first B or your first C, know that your life isn’t over. You still have qualities that make you unique, and you bring something to your classes and activities that others can’t: your own opinion. City High itself is known to have rigorous classes, even if the people surrounding you are getting A’s easily while you struggle to keep up, know that in millions of other high schools across the country, there are kids who aren’t even in classes as tough as yours, with teachers that don’t care as much as yours. Take time to reflect on that and appreciate the opportunities you have at City High. Realize that high school isn’t forever and grades aren’t the end of the world. And finally, even though it’s a cliché, make the most of your time here, it’s over before you know it.

Adventure Awaits Neil Harte Just over a month from now—at 8 a.m. on July 2nd, to be precise—the life I have known in Iowa City will become a thing of the past. Gone will be weekends playing video games and catching movies with friends at the Sycamore. Doing homework down at the library with my girlfriend before heading over to Panch for a bite? Nothing but a distant memory. Yes, this summer I will be marching, saluting, and shooting in the woods of New York State along with over a thousand other high school graduates as we complete six and a half weeks of Cadet Basic Training at West Point. Starting in August, we’ll embark on a four-year program at the U.S. Military Academy. Pushups, anyone? That’s right, unlike most of you, I won’t be getting a job or heading off to a typical college experience. Heck, I’m not even going to be a freshman this fall- just a lowly “plebe” or “fourth year,” as they are called at West Point, located 60 miles north of New York City. The Army may 30 SENIOR SALUTE

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have done away with hazing a decade or so ago— (quickly: you only get fifteen minutes), or even which means I won’t have any “Yearlings,” “Cows” how to hang my clothes in the closet. Oh, and did or “Firsties” forcing me to stand for hours on end I mention you can’t carry a cell phone. They stay in my underwear—but there in your room. won’t be rock concerts any time To be honest, soon in Eisenhower Hall, never though, I’m really lookAs a West Point cadet, mind binge drinking in the baring forward to this racks. Hot dates or nights out change. City High was a I will be told when to on the town? Not, as far as I’m great place to spend four wake up, how to eat aware, until I’m a Cow. years, and I learned a lot (quickly: you only get Anyhow, I will soon be leavand made great friends. ing the easy-going environment I truly will be sad to say fifteen minutes), and of Iowa City, where I can more goodbye to my life as a even how to hang my or less do what I want (within Little Hawk. West Point, clothes in the closet . legal boundaries, of course) and though, is the next step when I want, to a fast-paced in my life. Being anxious one where I will be told what to about leaving my family do and where to go 24/7. and friends won’t make Come this July, the simplest my experience away any of choices will be but a fantasy. As a West Point easier, but at some point we all have to leave home cadet, I will be told when to wake up, how to eat and start a new journey. Adventure awaits!

My Advice (To Myself) Elijah Jones Okay, small ones, it’s story time. (Actually, Three Dog Night was right: one truly is the the big ones can pay attention to this too.) ((Ac- loneliest number. Loneliness. And the grope fest tually the big ones are probably the only ones surrounding the hallways isn’t the solution I’m paying attention to this.)) (((What does “big going for. (“Bye baby, I’ll miss you for the next ones” and “small ones” even mean?))) 53 minutes.” *Grabs butt of girlfriend.) There is This is meant to be a nice reflection on my an interesting disease-like effect of feeling alone. time here, and what I learned in the world of While looking across the crowds and hoards of High School- but I can’t seem to get myself to people, or friends, it’s still plaguing the mind. It’s circumvent the more angsty parts. Therefore, I’ll kind of annoying. (No mind, really, there is like still give you all the basis of what I’ve learned, a plethora of people who care about me. Look, plus a healthy dose of I’M GOING TO DIE they are standing in front of me. I’m holding HERE. (And how!) And by the way, don’t think flowers they just gave me because they care. The that this is necessarily meant for you all, I’m flowers are infused with their hearts. Still feeling really just talking to myself, lonely? Yes? Okay, while remembering that High we’ll try this later.) school is manageable if I look This, much like deat it at just the right angle. pression itself, is acI’d rather be Let’s remember that the tually just what we considered lazy or reflections I’ll be giving are learn to walk side awful by people who surely unique- we all have difby side with. Now, ferent mirrors. Unfortunately depression might don’t respect me than for me, mine tends to be more not have hit you like have anxiety attacks like the fun house ones that a pillowcase full of that turn me into a tell me everyone else is Snow batteries like it did White. I know there are some me, but I’m sure social vegetable. of you who will relate here. we’ve all felt it- it’s Remember that film that just like chicken pox. came out a little while ago? (No Shelley, I can’t Oculus, where the characters go to brunch today. constantly are looking into a mirror and see hor- The neighbor kid has depression and I want to rifying untrue things that ruin their lives. Our throw Timmy in there so he gets it now and not mirrors are the same. But instead of looking into later!) Think of depression and loneliness as it and seeing good ol’ Aunt Tracy creeping up your pals. Seriously- they want what we want: behind you with a shiv made out of her hip bone, to not be there. Loneliness doesn’t want to be its just you. Me. The sad realization that the hor- lonely. Depression doesn’t want to be depressed. ror I see in this mirror is what everyone looks This sounds like blasphemy considering it’s the at when they see me. This surrounds my brain depression and/or loneliness that’s making you almost every moment- and I’m here to say (to feel like you’re a horrible human being. But bemyself): STOP IT. If there’s one thing I learned ing a companion to these two is probably the through hell and back here, it’s that the mirror is only way to be rid of the organic plague. So not your friend; more importantly it’s not your snuggle up next to them and play some Uno. enemy either. I’m not the “self-help” guy here, (Or, I guess, solitaire.) we should just know the mirror is really just an High school isn’t the best time to deal with instrument for torture, and imperfections are self-esteem issues. Lucky us that high percentthe reason people like people. ages of kids catch the bug at the pearly gates of

high school… Remember that paper that you need to turn in a proposal for (before you write it) in order to get points? Remember that same paper that you need to draft at least three times before you can get points for it? Remember that post paper paper that you have to write in which you write about your paper in order to get points to add on to the points you got for the paper that you needed a proposal for? Let me say, when you’re dealing with whether its worth waking up in the morning, its a punishment undeserved to get a poor grade. Just keep in mind that no grade will be an accurate description of who you are. Ever. It hurts like a dagger to the spinal cord to get a D, but IT’S NOT A DAGGER TO THE SPINAL CORD. (Which is worse.) The point is beathe. I learned a good way to look at these things. If I don’t do well on an english exam, will my heart cease to beat? (No.) If I forget, or even if I just shelf the homework, will I be six feet under? (Still no.) If I get a C in math, will I start puking blood? (I certainly hope not.) ((Actually, I openly celebrated my C in math.)) The only time I’m dead is when I’m dead. That’s all. I’ve learned in my time here to always take moments for remembering that it’s never life or death. I’d rather be considered lazy or awful by people who don’t respect me than have anxiety attacks that turn me into a social vegetable. The saddest news is that there are people existing who don’t want you to have nice things. An even sadder piece of news is that high school is just the beginning of the madness. Take your critics’ snide looks with a handful of salt, superiority complexes just mean they are afraid of themselves. Nothing is worse than that wave of anxiety when your critics are in the room, knowing any word you say is thrown in the garbage. Whatever you do, just remember you are a person, and you are always worth the same win or lose. I can’t say it’s easy. That would be why I’m writing this at all. It’s hard. But you are your master. So let’s all smash that mirror and start walking like people who don’t have somewhere to be.

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