2011 May Issue

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May 24, 2011

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Yearbook and Newspaper win MIPA awards

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It is really because we are creating a piece that people will keep for the rest of their

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Junior Lara Martin to working with teachers and students to enhance student media,” according to mipamsu.org.

This is not an easy award to receive. Yearbook students start in Sep. and work until March. Ministories, interviews, and photos are compiled throughout the year for publication. After March, students work until the end of April to produce the spring supplement.

“It is really cool because we are creating a piece that people will keep for the rest of their lives,” junior Lara Martin said. “It’s their high school memories.”

Students may recall last year’s three dimensional yearbook, complete with 3D glasses. That was alumna Shannon Midgely and Martin’s design and the one that won the Sparty.

This being the first Sparty win for the Yearbook and their advisor English teacher Sara Millard, the staff was very happy.

(Please see “Awards” on p. 2)

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US- 220 teams

by Nick Diamond/ Christiana Tanner

School Team What’s black and white and read all over?

Newspaper and Yearbook students know.

They spend countless hours interviewing, writing, creating side-bars, laying out pages, and selling ads in order to print their respective publications.

A year’s worth of work, which is culminated at the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) Conference where schools are rewarded for different aspects of their yearbooks and newspapers.

On April 26, at the MIPA conference this year, the Yearbook staff won the Spartan Award for last year’s yearbook, the highest honor a Newspaper or Yearbook class can earn there, for last year’s yearbook, and the newspaper staff won the Gold Award for The Source.

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Canada- 17 teams

Israel- 6 teams

Mexico- 7 teams Australia1 team

Around the World Viva la Mexico! The mascot of Team LamBot 3478 from San Luis Potosí, Mexico walks around the conference center. The Adambots mentored the Lambots this year. The Buzz Adams sophomore Eric Celerin (left) and senior Matt Brisson (right) meet the mentor from the Nortre Dame Prep Killer Bees. “You can go around and talk to people about their robot and they know what they’re talking about,” Brisson said. Team Work The Adambots robot scores points for their team, the red alliance. The Adambots had to pair up with two other teams during matches to form an alliance. (photos courtesy of the Adambots)

Robotics team goes to world championships

by Rohan Arepally/ Julia Nagy Opinion team/ co-Editor-in-Chief “Let’s see how they do as we begin,” the announcer, wearing a shirt with rockets and planets on it, says, “Three, two, one, go.”

A bugle call sounds, indicating the start of match 027 for the Adambots.

The Adambots, the combined Adams and Stoney robotics team, went to the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) World Championships in St. Louis from April 27-30. They won Best Website and the General Motors

Meet the robot

Team of the Year Award.

“It is weird,” Stony Captain senior Andrew Markel said about winning the GM Team of the Year Award. “When they were reading off the stuff we’ve done, some of us were like ‘Not us. Us. Not us.

No, wait a second that could kind of be us. Holy cow! That’s us!”

During the competition, the Adambots robot grabs an inflated red triangle as other game pieces (inflated yellow and white circles, inflated blue squares) are thrown into the field from all directions.

The robot extends its arm to the top row of pegs, placing the triangle on one of them and scoring points.

Name: -Seraphina

“The robots compete to hang as many inflated plastic triangles, circles, and squares on their grids as they can during a match,” explains the Adambots website.

“The higher the teams hang their game pieces on their scoring grid, the more points their alliance receives.” An alliance, comprised of three teams, battles another alliance during a match.

The Adambots made it all the way to the quarterfinals in their division comprising 88 teams.

“We were kind of depressed that we didn’t make it as far as we wanted to,” sophomore Ben Bray said.

At the end of the qualifying

Nickname: -Saint Seraphina, because she’s their “holiest” robot yet

matches, the top eight teams selected the other teams they wanted to align with for the elimination matches.

The Adambots knew any chance of making it to the finals was over when the eighth seeded alliance selected them.

“We could have easily been picked by a better alliance than we were,” Markel said. “We were basically everyone’s second pick, which is a bad position because there’s not an opportunity for everyone to pick you, and the lower alliance will pick you.”

The Adambots did not want to pair up with the eighth seeded (Please see “Robotics” on p. 2)

Body: -Six wheel -arm and grabber base (photos courtesy of the Adambots)

Senior wins All-MIPA Student Journalist of the Year

by Courtney Bourgoin/ Catherine Foster

Tears of Joy Advisor Gayle Martin and senior Julia Nagy cry when discovering Nagy won the All-MIPA Student Journalist of the Year award on April 26. “I was ecstatic for Julia and very proud of her,” Martin said. (photo by Chandler Clay)

Lifestyles Team/ Lifestyles Editor Loud cheers echoed throughout the Lansing Conference Center when members of The Source heard the words they had waited for. “It’s a great pleasure to announce Julia Nagy from Stoney Creek High School,” MIPA President C.E. Sikkenga said.

On April 26 at the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Conference, Senior Julia Nagy was announced AllMIPA Newspaper Student Journalist of the year.

“It felt like an earthquake,” Nagy said. “Everything felt surreal. I was shaking and crying and I was doing this awkward half laugh, half cry that made me look like a creature from the movie Alien.”

Nagy had to fulfill lengthy requirements to apply for the 2011 Student Journalist/ All-MIPA Competition. She had to write a resume, write an essay on why she wanted to win, obtain six letters of recommendation, and submit eight samples of her writing.

“She has done stories about heroin, teen pregnancy and cyber bullying,” Sikkenga said in his award speech. “Her portfolio shows great depth

with lighter stuff as well.”

Nagy did not always have a passion for journalism however. As a sophomore in newspaper, Nagy “absolutely hated the class.”

It was not until junior year, when she went to Washington, D.C., that she found an interest in journalism. “When I went to the Journalist Museum, I realized I can combine my love for writing and history and can be a part of history,” Nagy said.

She started attending summer workshops and caught the eye of highly regarded journalist Bobby Hawthrone.

(Please see “All-MIPA” on p. 2)

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BRIEFS

National Honor Society Inducts New Members

On May 9, the Stoney Creek national Honor Society inducted incoming sophomores, juniors, and seniors into the society. In order to be inducted into the NHS, sophomores will have to have three extracurricular activities and three teacher reccomendations. Also, on this day, graduating seniors will be reduced. They will recieve their honor cords and commendations.

May 24, 2011

I want to be the person who changes someone’s life

“Her accent was so cool.”

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Vertebrate Class Travels to Zoo

with

Kelsie Pittel

“so it’s like, whoa, BA”

“they were from his snail farm”

Todd Vince and his Vertebrate class visited the Detroit Zoo on April 20 in an effort to observe zoology.

The class has been taking this field trip every year since Vince has been teaching it. There, the students were required to observe animals and journal their behaviors. Additionally, they met with the director of the penguin house and listened to a lecture about the upkeep and care of penguins at the zoo.

“Even having been to the zoo before, it’s never a bore. Everytime you go there you see something different. The people at the zoo are always willing to answer questions you have and are very knowledgeable about the animals. It’s exciting to see the various animals in their biomes so close to eachother.” Senior Corrin Pilibosion said.

Fantastic Feathers:A common sight at the zoo, a peacock roams freely, to the delight of the zoo’s visitors.

Source: Explain to all the ignorant folk out there, including myself, what scholarship you won.

Pittel: Its called the NETC American Leadership Program.

Basically madame Jarrell had these nomination forms and I had her and Mr. Mageria fill out the recommendations. They narrowed it down to like thirty or forty kids, and then I had an interview, and from the interview, they narrowed it down to the fifteen or twenty kids that are going on the trip. Basically we’re going to Boston for three days and then flying to Paris and then taking a train to London and then flying back to boston. It’s like ten or eleven days long. There’s kids from Nebraska, Texas, Florida, California, pretty much all over the place.

The scholarship is the trip, and so I had to pay like six hundred dollars for the insurance, but the rest was free. It’s like a four thousand dollar trip. It’s so cool.

On May 15, the German Club sponsored a trip to Frankenmuth. the event was open to anyone who showed an interest in attending.

The German Club has sponsored this event in the past as well.

Activities on the trip have included baking pretzels and even a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt takes place all over town and leads the students into many different stores, exposing them to all the different parts of German culture. (compiled by school team)

Date of Birth: May 18 1993

Plans for College: University of Michigan Personal Motto: You’ve got a life, go out and live it.

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(photos by Nick Cruz)

Senior Kelsie Pittel flashes a good natured smile as she sits down on the bench. Like every other AP French student, she’s been studying the language for at least five years. But when it comes to understanding culture, Pittel has something her fellow frenchies don’t: A scholarship that will send her on a trip to Boston, London, and Paris.

But when given the chance to sit down and answer our questions, its clear that Pittel is willing to give as much as she takes. When asked about the hypothetical inheritance of a library, Pittell states “I’d make it into a public library” without hesitation.

Always curious about other cultures, and always understanding, don’t be surpised if Europe fails to send Pittel back.

German Club Sponsors trip to Frankenmuth

Basic Bio

“I just think that the French culture is so cool, so it’s a desired destination for me. I’m going to take some French in college, but who knows after that? “

Hart Middle School Hosts Relay for Life

This June 25 Hart Middle School will be hosting the Greater Rochester Area’s relay for Life. This is the thirteenth year Hart has hosted this event. This year, their goal is to attract 47 teams and recieve $130,000. It is a 24 hour walk and will start June 25 at 9 a.m. and end june 26 at 9 a.m. People of all ages come to join in the fun and work together to raise money to fight cancer. Each team takes turns in walking around the track throughout the relay while the other team members participate in games and fun charity activities. Anyone is welcomed to attend to join the fight against cancer.

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S: What would you do if you inherited a library?

P: I would be happy. I’d make it into a public library.

S: How does someone as fluent as you study?

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P: Usually the best way for me to study trying different ways of studying. I start out taking notes and reading the book, and then maybe looking at the book’s website. I like to change it up and make it more interesting. If you stick to doing one thing over and over, you’re going to kill yourself.

Robotics

(Continued from p. 1)

alliance.

The teams selected by the top eight had only two choices- accept the alliance invitation or be out of the competition.

“You only decline if you want to be gracious because your robot just blew up or something,” Markel said.

Although the Adambots did not make it as far as they wanted to, they still had fun at the high-energy conference.

“Mix a Five Hour Energy with a Monster and hand it to the most hyperactive child you can find,” Markel said. “That was [the atmosphere] for me.

The Adambots enjoyed meeting other teams.

“Friendly, loud, and there are a lot of smart people [there],” senior Matt Brisson said. “It’s really cool because you can just go around and talk to people and learn things, and it’s not intimidating at all.”

Awards

(Continued from p. 1)

whoa, B.A. And the wedding just happened, so it’s on my mind.

S: Why did you decide to study french?

P: It was because of the exchange student I had in my house, Caroline. She stayed with me for a year when I was going into ninth grade. I had done it S: What is it that makes an the year before, but I continued accent so awesome? it because I was talking to her P: It’s kind of a conversation and like we were saying before, starter right off the bat, be- her accent was so cool. And our cause when I go there my goal French class has all become is to start conversations with friends, so that’s cool. We’re ten people. I’m going to ask if it going to go to the eighth grade is really obvious that I’m Amer- French class and taking in rapican, and they’ll id fire French, probably say yes. and when you say anything S: If you were in French to cast into a french the French One film, what role kids, they are would you play? so impressed.

P: I’m trying They’re like, to think of the “you said, ‘Tres standard french Bon?’ That’s so Senior Kelsie Pittel films. I feel like cool!” there’s always someone who saves someone else and makes S: What is your opinion on them into great people. I want escargot? to be the person who changes P: I’m excited to try them. I someone’s life. went to Belgium to visit my sister and I went to some meeting S: How do you plan to com- with her , and we were clearly pete with Paris, and all its glori- the youngest people in the ous culture? room by like twenty years, and P: I feel like I’m not going to that was the first time that I try to compete and just observe, tried snails. I like them. It was but if I feel risky, I’ll try to imi- so bizarre because the man sittate it. They are really cultured, ting next to me was actually the and it will be difficult to break one who had the snails—they into that. My focus will be ev- were from his snail farm. erywhere, and it won’t be attentive to any specific thing—I’ll S: How will learning french just be absorbing everything. benefit you in the future?

P: I’m not really sure. One S: If you had the chance to reason I decided to stick with make a call from one of Lon- it is because my sister is godon’s famous red telephone ing into International Relations booth’s, to any historical figure, and wants to move to Europe, who would you call? so I can go visit her. And EuP: That’s a tricky question. rope, especially Paris, is a place Well, since it’s London, I would that I definitely want to visit. I want to call someone British. just think that the French culSo maybe I’d just call up Kate ture is so cool, so it’s a desired [Middleton] and ask how that destination for me. I’m going huge wedding went. She’s a to take some French in college, historical figure now that she’s but who knows after that? I just married to the a Prince. She can wanted to keep it up. relate [to me], and now she’s (compiled by Claire Donaldson) a historical figure, so it’s like,

“If you stick to doing

one thing over and over, you’re going to kill yourself.

”

for Millard because she’s tried to step it up every year and it’s paid off,” junior Danielle Edwards said.

Even though the class won one of the most distinct titles in the state, students also won several individual awards from MIPA for last year’s yearbook.

In spite of Yearbook’s Sparty success, “The Source” did not win a Sparty for the first time in three years. Even though this title was not given to the students, the class took a record number of 29 individual awards and a Gold Award for overall publication.

Senior Monica Nowak and coEditor-in-Chief Sarah Dittrich won first place for an alternative story format, a sport layout called Revolutionary Racket.

“It was the thrill of a lifetime,” Nowak said. “At first, I didn’t think we had gotten it. But Sarah shouted, ‘Monica, that’s us!’ We ran up and got the award and it was amazing.”

All-MIPA

(Continued from p. 1) “In a class of more than 50 students, she stood out,” Hawthorne said in a letter of recommendation. “Only a handful of students amaze me. Julia was one of those students.”

Now in her senior year, Nagy is co-Editor-in-Chief and dedicates her time to helping her staff.

“Julia taught me the ways of the journalist,” senior Anne Marie Barry said in a letter of recommendation.

Gayle Martin, Nagy’s advisor and mentor, has always seen Nagy’s potential.

“Julia has always been very dedicated and a good writer,” Martin said. “All I did was provide a venue and an opportunity for her to develop what was already in her. I knew how much she wanted it and it was just a culmination of everything she worked for.”

Through all the hard work and dedication, Nagy has triumphed.

“I had done something great,” Nagy said. “I made history and made other people proud, which made me proud.”

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May 24, 2011

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Changes coming to online grading

it’s not good for them.”

This may come from the fact that many students understand the system Sixty-four point six and try to cheat it. Current percent. Sixty-five point online student Junior seven percent. Ninety-one Katheryn Wright agrees point five percent. Sixty- that a change would make Six. These are actual final a difference in effort. grades of students in an “A lot of kids blow off online class. What grade their classes,” Wright appears on each of their said. “I think [the change] transcripts? A “G.” would be good for A “G” is a passing people’s education.” grade that does Harris agrees, citing not count towards the fact that he would the students G.P.A. have worked harder While these students to get a better grade. may have received this “If they had told me credit, they will be among in the beginning of the the last online students semester [that it would to receive this pass-fail be graded,] I would have grade.

Effective next tried to get a good grade,” year, the administration Harris said. will record “Making us grades, not get a [actual] as passgrade makes fail, but as us actually letter grades try.” according to While the Senior Sam plan does Harris. have its The plan supporters had been to a m o n g institute the teachers and Senior Jiwon Lee new policy students, in the 2010t h e r e 2011 school year, but an are those, such as issue with paper work senior Jiwon Lee, who and the wording caused has taken two online the postponement. classes, that disagree.

Students were to receive “[In my] Calculus class, “G” grades for passing all of our homework was and “H” grades for failing, based on correctness and according to the Distance our tests were significantly Learning Handbook. The more difficult,” Lee said. new handbook is available “[And] because online online and reflects the classes are significantly change. more difficult than classes Erin Rodger, the Calculus during school, they BC teacher, has perhaps shouldn’t have exact grade been the mentor to the transfers. That’s not fair.” most online students in the The principals were school. Rodger estimates merely told there would that she has mentored be a change and not given ten kids, and feels that a reason why, according to changing to letter grades Assistant-principal John will increase motivation. Kelly. Change is coming “I don’t feel the kids whether it is wanted or are getting the same out not. of the online [classes],” “It was not our call,” Rodger said. “If a kid is not Kelly said. “It is something going to be self motivated we were told.” to finish the course,

by Dan Moore School team

Moving on to bigger and better things: Assistant Principal Kevin Cumming

sits at his desk after a phone call from Principal Larry Goralski. Cumming and Goralski have been working together for 12 years.

(Photo by Rob Sparks)

Assistant Principal moves through ranks

by Paige Efting/ David Hanna Lifestyles team/ School team Assistant Principal Kevin Cumming has finally been given the position as principal at Adams high school after seven years of teaching biology and 12 years of being an assistant principal.

Starting this fall, Cumming will be back at Adams as principal.

Cumming’s last two years have been here at Stoney Creek.

Cumming got offered the job because the current principal Diann Flock is retiring. When Cumming heard there was a job opening, he asked for an interview and luckily got the job.

“It’s the next step in a progression going from a teacher, to assistant principal to principal,” Cumming said.

He also is going to take some of the things from what he has learned at Stoney to apply them to Adams

“Each school has its different culture,” Cumming said.

“At Stoney, the students are more laid back and the staff is great; they are more teacher leaders.”

Cumming has experienced many new things at Stoney including, the senior walk.

“I had heard a lot about the senior walk, but I had never seen it and I thought it was a really cool thing,” Cumming said. “I was very excited when I got to see it because it was so energetic.”

For Cumming the best part of being a principal is being able to interact with the students.

“My favorite part is helping out the students, but I don’t like disciplining them,” Cumming said.

Sophomore Sammy Herrick is sad to see Cumming go, but she is also excited that he can be the principal at Adams.

“I’m really going to miss Mr. Cumming. He would

Rotary Interact sends supplies to African students but this option faced complications.

“If we had sent the supplies directly to Africa, Who says May is too early they would have gone to be preparing for the straight to customs,” Choi upcoming school year?

Thanks to the efforts of said.

With this option, there the Rotary Interact Club was no guarantee that the and the student body’s supplies would make it to donations from April 25 to May 6, children in the students in need. The Africa will be stocked with possibility of vandalism all kinds of supplies to also existed.

“We found that [the approach the next school supplies] would often be term with.

Each school year, Rotary intercepted and stolen,” Interact focuses on two advisor Laurene Kaschalk goals: one community said. project and one global That’s when Dadashzadeh project. The club chose to took the reigns and began provide children in Africa researching for an outside with a variety of school source for help. With supplies as its global luck, she came across Develop Africa, a nonproject this year.

“We tried to collect profit organization whose as many supplies as we mission is to deliver these can,” secretary Patty Choi supplies and distribute said. “We put flyers and them free of charge, posters up around the according to the Develop entire school to get the Africa website.

“I’m really word out.” thankful that we With Charity found a reliable Week that organization to took place the ensure that the week of April supplies will get 18, members there,” Choi said. were worried Kashalk agrees. about low . “I feel a little safer participation. that [the supplies] However, it was will make it to a good turnout, Junior Sara where they need to according Dadashzadeh go,” Kaschalk said. to executive With the help of a member Sara reliable outside source, Dadashzadeh. it would be possible to “We actually received a lot of supplies,” make a difference in Dadashzadeh said. “I’m the education of those hoping that we can do children in need.

“There are a lot of kids even better next time.”

After collecting the down there who need our supplies, the club help,” Dadashzadeh said. originally wanted to send “I hope that the tools we them directly to Africa, send will help a kid in Africa achieve that.”

by Christine Kim Sports team

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..a lot of kids down there need our help

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always help us with our problems,” Herrick said.

“But it’s also really good that he gets to be the principal at Adams.

Cumming and Principal Larry Goralski were both assistant principals at Adams before Stoney opened, and they have become good friends.

“It has been a really good time working with Mr. G again,” Cumming said. “When we were at Adams, we became pretty good friends, so it was really fun to work with him again.”

Goralski agrees that Cumming and him will still remain friends after he goes to Adams. Goralski also knows it’s good for Cumming’s career to go be a principal.

“We are pretty good friends, I treated him as a co-principle, so it is going to be kind of sad to see him go,” Goralski said. “But at the same time I know he will be an outstanding principle.”

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That’s not fair.

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BY THE

NUMB3RS Harry Potter Hysteria

309

Pages in the first Harry Potter book “The Sorcerer’s Stone”

784 Pages in the final Harry Potter book “Deathly Hallows”

12

Million prints for the release of the final Harry Potter book. It is a record setting number.

325

Million copies sold of “The Sorcerer’s Stone” (According to www.nytimes.com)

Energized by energy drinks

214

Mg. The average amount of caffeine in an energy drink.

79 Grams of sugar in some energy drinks.

365 million Gallons of energy drinks consumed in 2008 alone.

(According to www.livestrong.com)

Winners!

29

Awards won by the Newspaper staff at this year’s MIPA awards

5

First place awards won by the Newspaper staff

7

Second place awards won by the Newspaper staff (Compiled by Daniel Moore)

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May 24, 2011

OPINION

Issue Wordsearch

Grrr!

Prrr!

AP Tests- The worst 4 hours of everyone’s lives.

Hands down.

Keep it together- As the end of the school year approaches, even the underclassmen are getting lazy with their school work.

Skip the skip days- Seniors are as indecisive as ever this year, not taking one senior skip day, but three unnoficial ones. The lot of them are nothing but tactless truants.

Good bye Seniors! - The last school day for seniors is today and the senior walk is tomorrow.

Have qa good summer Seniors, and good luck next year!

Grade changes- Stoney’s online classes opt for a full grading scale, as opposed to the previous pass or fail system. While this is sad news for some people, some prefer to see slackers put in their place.

June 8, 2011- DONE

The Editorial

NOS: Good for Engines,

Not Brains

Editorial Cartoon

The administration’s decision to ban energy drinks from being sold in school is best for the performance of the students After long nights of checking Facebook non-stop and occasionally glancing at Biology homework, it’s no wonder so many students are groggy.

Energy drinks are not allowed to be sold by the school because of how blatantly unhealthy they are, according to senior Ashley Gaabo of the Cougar Den. It is a good thing that the school is not selling these drinks because it is extremely unhealthy for students to drink them on a regular basis.

Caffeine is technically a drug, though it is legal and has fewer negative health effects than illicit drugs. Regardless, it is extremely unhealthy for developing young minds.

In an informal experiment where test subjects were told to perform

a specific workout first with water, then with Monster Energy, participants showed a definite decrease in physical performance when drinking the Monster Energy drink.

Not only do energy drinks affect physical performance, but they can affect academic performance. The last thing students need is a hyperactive buzz followed by extreme lethargy. That doesn’t promote productive behavior, but rather inattentiveness and a lack of desire to work.

However, the lack of sugary drinks in the cafeteria coolers leaves nothing but flavored and regular water--neither of which are very popular.

To help bring in more sales, regulations should be relaxed. Energy drinks should not

(illustration by Claire Donaldson)

be allowed, but popular beverages such as Arizona Iced Tea should be allowed. There is sugar in it, but it is not in unhealthy amounts, and more importantly, there aren’t any dangerous chemicals in these drinks. The fact is that teens love it and it is really cheap, making the purchase a no-brainer.

The school should capitalize on this fervor for popular beverages like Arizona Iced Tea and Jones Soda, but the school’s decision to refrain from selling energy drinks is a smart one.

The harmful chemicals in energy drinks would not benefit students’ performance in any way. The students’ health is more important than the money the school could potentially make, as the chemicals in energy drinks severely affect performance.

Letter to the Editor Softball coach defends program

When a previous publication openly criticized the football program, I bit my tongue. Feeling not well enough informed about the football program I did not think it was my place to speak. I wish The Source would have done the same before printing an article about this year’s Varsity softball team. You pride yourself on presenting opinions in an unbiased and tasteful manner. I am confused as to how bashing adults who dedicate hours and hours of their time to work with student-athletes is tasteful.

This is my third year as a coach in the softball program, one season as Freshman, and two as Junior Varsity. My first season, of the 15 players I had, eight of them had never played before. With no middle school program and a large soccer-playing population in Stoney Creek’s district, softball (unfortunately) is a sport few pursue.

However, despite these setbacks there are some truly phenomenal young athletes in the softball program. Why couldn’t The Source use this layout to highlight the opportunity this creates for young athletes to get experience at the Varsity level, or how this creates chances for juniors to step up into leadership roles rather than being in the shadows of seniors?

I have played on many sports teams, with many different coaches. The bond between player and coach is sacred. In college, my coach and teammates were my family. True, there were days that I was not their biggest fan, but that never would have deterred me from playing a sport I love, and I am sure it hasn’t for many of the girls now or formerly in the softball program. The coach from last season is not even involved in the program this year, so how do you draw the conclusion that she is the reason kids are not playing? Wouldn’t the idea of a new coach remedy that? I believe there is a bigger issue here that you either failed to explore or are denying even exists.

Lastly, I can not help but feel disappointed in the poor journalism exhibited in this article. While you are great writers and I truly enjoy the variety of topics you cover with your articles to reach all types of students, I am hoping you will see this as a learning opportunity to get better leads for your pieces. One of the players you interviewed didn’t even play for the previous coach.

How is that a reliable source? Her comments could be made on pure speculation and hearsay alone. This is a dangerous trend that I am noticing more and more with each issue of The Source, and I am worried for the future of the paper as a distinguished means of communication.

Sincerely, Katie Pederson

A shining light

Harry Potter series changes life

by Sarah Dittrich

co-Editor-in-Chief When I was eleven and I didn’t get my letter to Hogwarts, I cried for days.

“Why are you a Muggle?” I shouted angrily at my bewildered mother. “You’ve ruined my life. I can’t go to Hogwarts because of you!”

I sat in my closet—it most closely resembled Harry Potter’s room in the Dursley’s house— for a week and alternated between sobbing uncontrollably and furiously practicing spells, just to see if I had even a drop of magic in me. I was content with being a “filthy Mudblood” if it meant that I could go to wizarding school.

It was a terrifying image for my parents—me, muttering Gibberish and waving around a feather duster in my closet, then collapsing into hysterics when I didn’t levitate my Hedwig stuffed animal.

I had been reading the Harry Potter series since I was in first grade. While the other kids in my class explored the emotional depths of The Magic Tree House, I sat in the back corner and read about Harry’s encounters with trolls, evil wizards, and stones that make people immortal.

I was enthralled. There was a magical world hidden in the boring world of spelling tests and dentist appointments. I wouldn’t have to deal with classes that would teach me about annoying math equations and different types of rocks. I could go to a boarding school where I could learn how to make things fly, and best of all, my parents wouldn’t be around to make me clean my room.

It was perfect. Except for the fact that I was a Muggle, and that, according to my mother, Harry Potter wasn’t real—which, to this day, I don’t believe. He’s real and I’m going to marry him.

Hopefully.

Despite the fact that I have aged eleven years since opening Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s

Stone for the first time, I still believe in magic.

I can admit that the type of magic that turns annoying Aryan Pure-bloods into ferrets probably isn’t real, but there are other types of magic that I’ve discovered.

I’ve discovered the magic of an escape—an escape from drama and heartbreak, from bullies and mean boys—to a world of loyalty and friendship, where good always triumphs over evil.

I’ve held on to this escape, even as the problems I’m escaping from have changed from playground hecklers to making important decisions about my future.

I’ve also discovered the magic of words; words can unite the world. The Harry Potter series has been translated into 67 languages, according to The Telegraph-Journal, a British journal. It has been read by people of vastly different cultures, languages, beliefs, and religions. It has given people a common ground, a difference that transcends fundamental ideals, political differences, and prejudice for an hour or two while people are on a Harry Potter chat room.

People all around the world have not only enjoyed the series immensely, but have grown up with the characters. As Harry became older, so did we. Our generation grew up with the characters, and as they started to mature, date, and look towards the future, so did we.

The Harry Potter characters are my friends— regardless of whether they are real or not. They have helped me forget my troubles for a few hours and a few hundred pages. I have watched them grow and go through the same things that I was—though I didn’t have the Dark Lord trying to kill me every year. And despite the series reaching an end, it will live on as a friend that I can visit on rainy afternoons or when life gets too stressful, and I am eternally grateful for that friendship and that magic.

The Staff Co-Editors in Chief: Sarah Dittrich Julia Nagy School Team Editors: Stephanie Siewert Soumith Inturi Team: Marnier Peeples Nicholas Diamond Colleen Kill Soo Jin Chun Dan Moore Danielle Linihan David Hanna Opinion Team Editors: Kevin Adams Lindsey Scullen Team: Rohan Arepally Chandler Clay Kelsey Jackson Claire Donaldson Lifestyles Team Editors: Anne Marie Barry Catherine Foster Team: Zach Francis Derek Francis Courtney Bourgoin Scott Shermetaro Robert Sparks Paige Efting Sports Team Editors: Monica Nowak Maxwell White Team: Nick Cruz Emma Guschewski Jenna Jonjua Jill Kelly Christine Kim Dylan Wilcox Matthew Pitlock Damian Rotarov Stephanie Siewert Christiana Tanner Photo Editor: Paige Efting Adviser: Gayle Martin

The Policy We, the Stoney Creek Source staff, produce this publication to accomplish the following goals: The Source will serve as a means of communication between students, teachers, and members of the community. We will respect all opinions and will present them in an unbiased and tasteful manner. The Source will inform and entertain readers and address trends and issues important to its audience. Although we are a student publication produced by the Journalism II class, we will strive to make The Source accurate and truthful and to adhere to all standards of professional journalism. We recognize and respect the privileges given to us under the First Amendment, including freedom of speech and of the press. The Source is a forum for student expression and we, the students on the staff, have the editorial authority to make our own content decisions. We will provide a sounding board for the student body and the community; therefore, the opinions expressed in by-lined opinion articles and letters should not be considered to be the opinions of the entire newspaper staff, the advisor, the school administration, or the student body as a whole.

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Co-Editors-in-Chief write their last goodbyes to The Source

by Julia Nagy co-Editor-in-Chief

(photos taken by Chandlier Clay)

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> School: Michigan State University > Major: Journalism > Dream Job: Journalist for the New York Times (photos taken by Chandlier Clay)

by Sarah Dittrich co-Editor-in-Chief I was wholly unprepared for the tears that came as I sat down to write this. I have loved being in the newspaper class, but it is more than that.

I’ll miss the late nights spent with friends working on layout, singing to Glee’s version of “Don’t Stop Believin’” when the work seemed insurmountable.

I’ll miss the days when half of the class stayed after school to discuss books or current events with Mrs. Martin. And I’ll miss the intelligent political debates we’ve had—despite the fact that they usually end with me yelling and calling someone soulless. But luckily, I have these memories, and, what’s more than that, I have a vast amount of knowledge and experience from this class to carry with me to college.

I know more than

Goodbye.

How do I even say that? How can I say goodbye to all of this?

How do I say goodbye to all of you?

How do I say goodbye to Mrs. Martin? How do I say goodbye to this classroom, these tables, these computers, my layout book? How do I say goodbye to a part of myself?

I don’t know to be honest. I don’t know what to say or how to say it. I don’t want to say what I don’t know how to say. I don’t want to say goodbye. It hurts.

I owe everything to this class—my dreams, my hopes, my future to newspaper, to The Source, to the wonderful people I’ve met along the way, to Mrs. Martin.

And how can I even begin to describe what this all means to me?

What this all has meant.

just how to write a nut graf and what a Center of Visual Interest is. I have learned how to talk to people. I have always suffered from crippling shyness—my freshmen math class actually thought that I was mute for the first month of school—but with the easy camaraderie of my classmates and the interviewing skills I’ve learned from Mrs. Martin, I have learned how to talk to people, and, more importantly, how to listen to them.

I’ve learned that everyone has stories to tell, and that you just have to find out what those stories are. I’ve discovered shy kids that sit in the back of the classroom by themselves that light up when they talk about their work in homeless shelters.

I’ve seen the happiest students sobbing because they are afraid that they will end up like their parents. And I’ve seen the tough, “scary” kids

I want so badly for all of you to know how I feel about each and every one of you.

You are all talented and amazing. You are all like family to me.

You have all taught me something, whether it be about writing or design or just about being a good person.

I’ve learned so much from you and I really hope you’ve learned something from me— that I in some way I have taught you something or inspired you.

I’ll miss this class so much with every fiber of my being. I feel my heart ripping.

Newspaper has become such a huge part of my life. It has become who I am.

I’ve lost and found myself in it. I’ve lost myself in the emotion of it, the feeling of it. I’ve found myself in this class, in every story, interview, and layout.

It’s so ironic.

I hated this class when I first took it and now

break down because they are worried about their siblings’ drug abuse.

I’ve also learned that I have a voice, and that my words have more power than I realize.

People care enough to read what I write, and, what’s more than that, they react to it.

And though it is often to express opposing opinions, I am always grateful for people’s reactions, because it means that people are listening to me—the girl who literally has to shout to be heard because her voice is so quiet.

The impact of having readers respond to what I write has taught me more than the power of words—it has taught me to appreciate and wield that power in a responsible way. Speech can cause countries to crumble, it can expose the truth, and it can both enhance and ruin lives. But by learning to channel and edit my

I hate the fact that I’m leaving it. I went from complaining over poor grades my sophomore year to crying when I was announced the AllMIPA Student Journalist of the Year. Did this really all happen? It all feels like a dream.

I want to be suspended in that moment forever.

Winning All-MIPA, making Stoney Creek history, hearing the cheers and feeling the love from my staff—it felt so good.

I am the co-Editorin-Chief of The Source.

By the time this is published I will no longer be. I hope that I have been a good coEditor-in-Chief. I hope I’ve inspired you.

I hope I have left an imprint on you. I hope I’ve made a difference.

I hope I’ve made you all proud, because I know you’ve all made me proud.

Thank you all for making this experience great, but most of all

unfettered speech, I can use this power to change opinions, not just on political issues, but also of people who are unfairly judged or misunderstood, and that is something that I will never take for granted.

I am incredibly grateful for both the opportunity to serve as co-Editor-in-Chief and the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from all of my classmates and from Mrs. Martin.

I’m proud to be on a dedicated, hard-working staff of friends that continually produce excellent issues. Yes, I’m proud of all of the awards our staff has won, I’m proud of the Gold Award, and I’m incredibly proud to serve with an All-MIPA Newspaper Journalist of the Year, Julia Nagy, but I’m most proud and honored to be a part of a staff that never ceases to be satisfied with mere mediocrity.

thank you Mrs. Martin.

I owe everything to you.

Without you I wouldn’t be here today.

I wouldn’t have found my calling. I wouldn’t have known what it feels like to be a part of something important that has impact on not only the school, but on the lives of others.

And how? How can I even begin to repay that debt? Where does one start? What does one do? Just know that I will thank you everyday of my life, every award I get, every opportunity that comes my way. I get to live my dream because of you.

My heart is bursting with the love I feel for this class and with the pain of letting it go.

But it’ll be in my heart always, and I can’t wait to look back on my life and my career and remember that it all started here, with The Source and Mrs. Martin.

I love you all.

Goodbye.

> School: University of Michigan > Major: English > Dream Job: International Teaching

the number of cuts to schools, universities, and local governments

the state budget plan goes through, it will be even more difficult for students to participate in sports.

Stoney is built on more than sports, though. The foundation of this school is the collaboration of the entire building to improve the educational process and to produce strong adults through leading by example and treating every member of the faculty with dignity. This is an aspect that can’t be given a price tag.

Unfortunately, the new budget has tried to do so through the process of privatization. Privatization is the action of outsourcing services to private companies, according to the Oakland press. 48.8 percent of the school districts in Michigan have privatized the services of janitors, secretaries, lunch staff, or all three of them, according to the Mackinac Center’s 2010 School Privatization Survey While this process reportedly

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saved up to $300 per pupil, what is being lost is the pride taken by every janitor, lunch lady, and hall monitor that made our school their home and not just their place of work. This was an incredibly honorable way to approach life that taught many students what it means to be a good worker. Unfortunately, these family members have been replaced by uniformed security guards, a large food company, and janitors who have taken a 25 percent pay cut.

The proposed budget cut will take hard working students away from healthy activities on the field and rob our school of great faculty members we once had. This isn’t how things were run in this school a few years ago, but if these cuts continue to be made, our school will look even worse a few years from now.

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Budget cuts by the numbers:

Ten percent of the people in the state of Michigan are out of work, and the state isn’t bringing in enough tax revenue, so it is understandable for the governor to want to tighten the belt a few notches during these tough times.

But do you really think cutting the education budget is the answer? Is that your big plan to bring us back in the black?

Governor Snyder’s proposed budget plan calls for a cut of $584 million to the K-12 education plan, which averages to about $300 lost per student, according to the Michigan Truth Squad. If this plan is authorized, students will continue to see rising pay to play prices, faculty members will continue to be privatized, and the standards at Michigan schools

continue to be lowered.

These budget cuts will make participation in school sports decrease due to expensive pay to play rates. It has raised by 15 percent, bringing the prices to an astronomical $185 dollars for the first sport, $115 for the second, and $75 for the third, according to the Oakland Press. This means a three sport athlete will shell out $375 dollars just to step on the field. At the same time as the price to play has gone up, services like busing to games is increasingly unreliable.

“When I played soccer, we rarely had busing to games, and it was frustrating to find our own rides as freshman,” freshman Adam Rolain said.

These problems stem from the recent need to take the sports budget out of the general budget.

According to Vice Principal Kelly, these changes have been made after the district’s funding was cut. If

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Her newfound art success encouraged Senior Audrey Benjaminsen smiles Benjaminsen to stretch her horizons from infectiously and describes herself, counting just her sketchbook to the internet. Her off the adjectives on her hand.

“Poser, hipster, Harry-Potter-and-Tumblr- parents bought her a premium DeviantArt account as a gift and her work began to gain loving foolface.”

Benjaminsen’s love of the Harry Potter popularity.

“The comments and stuff are really series has earned her a reputation over her inspirational,” said Benjaminsen. years at high school, as the “Harry Potter She is recieving more than just comments girl.” Emphasis on the word “the. on her page, which is currently followed by “I first figured out that Audrey was interested in Harry Potter when Audrey and 1,469 people, but requests for work as well.

Sophie [Benjaminsen’s sister] asked me to Benjaminsen has designed program art for make them scarves and cloaks for the book the Harry Potter conference Aeternitas and releases,” Janet Benjaminsen, Audrey’s drawn cover art for the Wizard Rock bands Witherwings and Undesirable #1. mother, said.

Despite her numerous Benjaminsen has carried this love for accomplishments, Benjaminsen years and it is stronger than ever. But the adventures of Harry and his friends are not remains modest. “[The Harry Potter fan community] Benjaminsen’s only love. When she started is a very nurturing environment,” attending high school, she began working said Benjaminsen. “A good place with art, according to Janet Benjaminsen. to start networking.”

She has managed to combine her love of Even with all her success, Harry Potter with her love of art with great Benjaminsen still maintains success. “[Benjaminsen is] one of the few Harry what is most important: her Potter fans who can put her love of Harry love of Harry Potter.

“She will be in love Potter into pure art form,” senior Mandy with Harry Potter for the Hess said. rest of her life,” Janet Benjaminsen entered her first Benjaminsen, Audrey’s fanart contest as a freshman. Held on theLeakyCauldron.org, the contest was to mother, said. “She will make a Chocolate Frog card for Ron Weasley pass it onto her kids as an accomplished adult, complete with and will find other biography and personality profile. When the ways to get involved. contest rolled around again the next year, Harry Potter brings her she won the contest with a rendition of an happiness and if she all-grown-up Neville Longbottom. Her prize hasn’t grown out of was a gift certificate to make her own, orginal, it now, I don’t think hand-crafted wand on wizardwoodwand. she ever will. Whether net. Benjaminsen made her wand with a it is organizing the instead handle of canary wood, for success, and a conference of attending them, wand shaft of bocote, for creativity. In the center of her wand, Benjaminsen asked for or making cloaks for her kids, she will be a unicorn tail hair. involved forever.”

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Finally, the Gryffindor seeker, Linford Williams, a graduate from last year, captures the quickly tiring Golden Snitch, Alex Atang, another graduate from last year, scoring 150 points and winning the game of Quidditch for Gryffindor.

Quidditch is a game that originates from the fantastical world of Harry Potter created by J.K. Rowling. In the world of Harry Potter, Quidditch is a sport played on magical, flying broomsticks on 500 feet by 180 feet playing field with seven players on each team: three chasers, two beaters, one keeper, and one seeker.

At Stoney Creek, organized by Williams, the marching band began playing Quidditch, during the summer of 2010 as an outlet to summer boredom, according to junior Alex Yu. “We just thought it would be cool to play Quidditch and we made shirts and everything,” junior Liz Karney says.

One game of Quidditch with impulsive teams became a tournament with four houses, corresponding to the houses of the Harry Potter Universe. The marching band decided to use the courtyard as its field and played selectively throughout the summer.

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However, because of the lack of enchanted broomsticks with flying capabilities and enchanted flying balls, Quidditch in the real world is more “down to earth.” The goals, normally 30 to 50 feet high, are only about six to eight feet high. The Golden Snitch, rather than being a ball, is instead a person who runs around the field while being chased by the opposing seekers. Moreover, the bludgers do not fly around whacking people. Instead, the beaters throw or hit balls at other players.

The Stoney Creek Quidditch games soon evolved into a competition between the seekers because the game’s dependence on them.

“Lauren [Aiello] and I competed to see whose house would win more games,” Williams says. “He was the seeker from Slytherin and I was the seeker from Gryffindor.”

After the summer ended, the Quidditch games stopped. The marching band could not find time to resume the games because of the lack of proper organization and the lack of players as many had left for college.

This year Yu will organize the new teams and restart the Quidditch games.

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Lifestyles Team/ School Team Co-Editor Throughout the years of Harry Potter, many kids of this era can correspond the time line of their life with the books and movies of J. K. Rowling’s creation. This is no exception for Senior Audrey Benjaminsen.

“When I think of my childhood, I can match up all my favorite memories to the Harry Potter book I was reading at the time or movie that was coming out that year,” Benjaminsen said. “These stories are like mile stones in my life, and I feel that even though they are just fiction, they acted as a moral guide for me to build my life on.”

Benjaminsen along with her mom, uncle, and friends graduate Eva Stormzand, seniors Zach Francis and Derek Francis will be attending this summer’s Leaky Con 2011. This Harry Potter Conference will take place in Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, this July 13 through 17.

“This is the biggest conference I have gone to so far,” Benjaminsen said. “I mean, I have gone to a couple in Michigan and Chicago, but this one will be great- not only because it’s in Universal where they have the whole Harry Potter World, but there will be fans who know the real stuff from not only the books but beyond that. Like, it means more to them than just literature. They think of what they can make of this fictional world to turn it into something wonderful.”

According to the Leaky Con website they are using all the profit of this Conference to donate to the Harry Potter Alliance and Book Aid International. The staff of the Leaky Cauldron has put together a number of other conferences to raise money for various non-profit organizations.

“I think it is amazing how a creation like Harry Potter can spark such a great generation where we can look past the literature and even come up with so much more to give to the world,” Benjaminsen said.

Besides all the serious, heartwarming activities, this conference will also have a number of events such as

musicals like Star Kid Potter and The Final Battle, a live performance of the Harry Potter Puppet Pals, operas of Tales of Beetle the Bard, concerts preformed by The Ministry of Magic and meet the teen authors like John Green. There will also be a Yule Ball, Quidditch tournament, and Universal’s Harry Potter Attractions will be only opened to conference attendees on July 13 and the culminating event is midnight premier of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two on July 15.

Still, those who aren’t as fortunate to travel all the way to Florida for the this premiere, like seniors Whitney Raska and Jillian Hoffman plan to have fun as well.

They have gone the past years with a big group of friends and always dress up as their favorite characters.

“For the last movie premiere of Part One my friends and I got all dressed up and even wore our costumes the next day to rehearsal,” Raska said. “For this next movie we plan on spending the entire day before watching all of the movies then dressing up as usual then going to see the final one at midnight.”

Hoffman is really excited to see the midnight premiere and can’t wait to dress up as Bellatrix one last time.

“It takes forever to prepare my costume of Bellatrix with all the makeup and crazy hair,” Hoffman said. “It’s so worth it though. I feel that I am as crazy as her when I’m done.”

Raska has always dressed up as Hermione Granger for the past premiers.

“I admire Hermione’s character because she beats the stereotype that girls aren’t as powerful,” Raska said. “She’s smart and shows how hard work can get you far.”

Hoffman started reading the Harry Potter series when she was in elementary school for the accelerated readers program to promote children to read. Hoffman wanted to excel in this and Harry Potter was on the more advanced reading list.

“I used to look forward to going home after school to just sit down and read,” Hoffman said. “It was just so comfortable to get lost in the world of Harry Potter every night.”

Even though Raska is only a movie watching fan she still thinks highly of J. K. Rowling and her fascinating world of Harry Potter.

“It’s so surreal to me that someone could have such a wild imagination to create a world like this,” Raska said. “I admire J. K. Rowling’s ability to dream. It’s hard to describe why the series appeals to me, but I think it may be because you cannot expect what will happen next because Rowling’s mind is so unpredictable.”

A Magical Night (left to right) Seniors Jill Hoffman, Haley Raska, Anne Marie Barry, Whitney Raska, and Tyler Capa, joined by friends from Rochester High School.Hoffman Raska and friends getting ready to see the Part 1 of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows midnight Premiere. The group of friends enjoyed the movie and can’t wait to see the second part. (Photo used by permission of Whitney Raska)

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Name: Alex Yu House: Slytherin Position: Chaser Broomstick(Shoes): Nike Grade: 11 Quote: “Quidditch was fun. Harry Potter and magic aren’t real, so Quidditch allowed us to escape from stress and reality.”

Name: Liz Karney House: Slytherin Position: Chaser Broomstick(Shoes): Adidas Grade: 11 Quote: “I really like being on a team with my friends in band.

We are all relaxed but we get into it to have fun.” compiled by Soumith Inturi & Rob Sparks

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Soojin Chun/Colleen Kill School Team School’s nearly over! Like a New Year’s resolution, summer is the time to start fresh and further pursue your personal

August 23rd August 20th: Freshman : August 25th: Woodward Dream Cruise (Bloomfield Twp.)

intrests. The summer of 2011 holds some activities that hopefully catches your attention. Follow the boxes and go through the events happening in the Rochester neighborhood and in other close by locations.

June 4th: Rochester’s Farmers Market July 28th: Britney Spears Concert (Palace of Auburn Hills) July 1st: Premiere of Transformers 3

June 11th:

Taylor Swift’s Speak Now World Tour (Detroit)

June 17th:

June 23rd:

All-Star Magic Show (Meadowbrook Theatre)

August 25th:

August 14—20:

August 30th:

Premiere of Harry Potter Deathly Hallows part 2

SCHS Band Camp

Books are almost no longer needed! With only three weeks left of school, students can’t wait for summer to start!

(Photo by Soojin Chun)

June 24—25:

Detroit River Days Festival (Detroit)

Rapunzel “Untangled” (Meadowbrook Music Festival)

9th Grade Parent Night

September 2—5:

Annual Detroit Jazz Festival September 2—5:

June 28th:

School ends!

Green Latern Premiere in theatres

July 15th:

SCHS Orientation

August 18th: Gleaners Iron Chef Competition (Brighton, MI)

June 8th: Seniors Graduate (Meadowbrook Theatre)

June 17th:

Mentor training (Hart Middle School)

Katy Perry Concert (Palace of Auburn Hills)

Arts, Beats, and Eats Festival (Royal Oak)

June 27—August 5: Oakland University Summer Mathmatics Camp

September 6th:

June 24—25:

Jazzin on Jefferson(Detroit)

The SCHS marching band is ready for another exciting summer.

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Fake Twitter accounts get a laugh

by Marnier Peeples

School Team Our world is slowly becoming engulfed by technology. It has created a new breed of people, a new language, a new way of communication, and a whole new way of doing things.

Why write letters and spend 44 cents for a stamp when you can post something on someone’s Facebook, or tweet them? Most face to

face interactions could be completely eliminated with the invention of webcams, Skype, and iPhones with videocams.

One of the more recent technological outbreaks is Twitter. It is where everybody from students, celebrities, and even teachers can update the world on what they are doing every second of the day. But Twitter is used in many

Fake Name: C3P0

Location: Dusty hole Bio: Hello, I am C-3PO, human cyborg relations. How might I serve you?

Funny tweet: “Trying to loose this stupid little droid that just beeps and whistles. Figured I would try stairs seeing as he doesn’t have any legs.”

different ways. In the mix of all the tweets and twit pics, there stands the few “fake,” but funny Twitter accounts. The fake accounts are parodies of real television personalities like Stephen Colbert, as well as some fictional characters such as Darth Vader and Lord Voldemort. A collection of a few of the funniest fake twitter accounts were complied below.

Fake Name: Bender

Location: Definitely not with fembots Bio: Follow me, Jerk!

Funny tweet: “I didn't say I would actually tell you the story.

But there is one. Trust me. Actually, don't ever trust me. But, trust me.”

Fake Name: Homer J Simpson Fake Name: Peter Griffin

Location: My house?

Bio: Attention restaurant customers: Testicles. That is all. HehHehHehHehHehHehHeh Funny tweet: “Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.'”

Location: Springfield Bio: I work at a nuclear power plant. Married with two kids and a baby.

Funny tweet: “I liked hot dogs, until I found out what’s in them. Now I REALLY like hot dogs!”

Fake Name: Chewbacca Location: Rome, Italy Bio: hnnnhrrhhh awwgggghhh wrrhwrwwhw!

Funny tweet: “wruurrrrwww blooarrrrggghhh”

Location: The place where the force is Bio: Tweet I will, yesss.

Funny tweet: “Friday it is not.

Pissed I am. Yesssss.”

Energy drinks pack a caf feinated punch Opinion Editor/Sports Team Junior Blake Adams is slowly killing himself.

His cough echoes through the room, masking the trademark “click” of an opening can. The clock strikes 10 a.m. and Adams is already guzzling his fourth Rockstar Energy Drink of the day.

Adams would be classified by many, including himself, as a caffeine addict, and is rarely seen in the hallways without his backpack stuffed to the brim with Monster and Rockstar.

Unfortunately, Adams may not be the only one. Thirty four percent of people between the ages 12 and 17 consume energy drinks regularly according to a 2011 study by the University of Wisconsin.

Some correlation has

been drawn between excessive caffeine intake and kidney failure, respiratory disorders, heart failure and seizures according to a report the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami published this past December.

Although aware of the risks of caffeine overconsumption, Adams doesn’t plan on changing his habits.

“I can’t get through the day without it,” he says.

“Whenever I don’t have it, I’m really unproductive and I fall asleep in class.

Lately I’ve been having about 500 mg a day, which is way over the recommended dose.”

Adams is right about one thing: 500 mg is an enormous amount over the recommended dosage, which is only 100 mg per day for adolescents. What

Adams doesn’t know caffeine still is included is that he is probably that the average consumer consuming more caffeine is not aware of. than he thinks.

For Adams this means “Energy drink actually manufactures consuming may circumvent somewhere [the FDA around 876 caffeine limit] mg caffeine by claiming that (in addition their drinks are to 10,000 ‘natural dietary mg taurine) supplements’” as opposed due to a to the Junior Blake Adams 500 mg of loophole in FDA Regulation, caffeine he according to the University believes he is ingesting. of Miami study.

But what does this This allows energy drink mean in terms of health? manufacturers to use as The biggest issue is the much caffeine as they fact that we don’t know want in their products, for sure. even if it is over the limit Anatomy teacher Todd of 100 mg per day.

Vince doesn’t have a clue These companies are what Adams is doing to not required to claim his body. “[Caffeine] is a secondary sources of drug; it has physiological caffeine in their products consequences, but as far like gaurana or taurine. as long term effects…”

This means that more Vince said followed by a

I can’t get ““through the

day without it.

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shrug.

Citing the studies above, this means that Adams and other students are likely ruining their kidneys, intestines, and heart faster than even they are aware of, not to mention the “negative correlation between academics and energy drink intake,” also detailed in the University of Wisconsin’s study.

Foods and Nutrition teacher Melissa Mathie believes in reduction of energy drink intake, as opposed to removal. “It’s like anything in life— moderation is key,” she said. “I just don’t think anyone should drink that much.”

And still Adams drinks on. “Well, I know what it does to my body, but it’s not the worst thing I could be doing,” he said. “Yeah, I’m four years caffeinated, but 16 years sober.”

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Calories 220 Sodium 130 mg Sugars 58 g Taurine 20 mg Caffeine 142 mg Total “Energy Blend”Not Listed Guarana? Yes

Calories 200 Sodium 360 mg Sugars 54 g Taurine 2000 mg Caffeine Not Listed Total “Energy Blend” 5000 mg Guarana? Yes

Calories 220 Sodium 260 mg Sugars 52 g Taurine 2000 mg Caffeine 260 mg Total “Energy Blend” 2960 mg Guarana? Yes

Calories 220 Sodium 200 mg Sugars 52 g Taurine Not Listed Caffeine 154 mg Total “Energy Blend”Not Listed Guarana? No

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Are you always lonely when memorizing unit circles? Do you feel gloomy whenever you see an empty chair?

If so, make a study buddy today! Follow all the right steps, and you’ll never find yourself without a hardy pal all through your high school years!

1.

Will your imaginary buddy be a boy or a girl?

Or both, if you want it to be.

It’s all up to you. An animal can also be a great pal if you haven’t yet acquired one already. And if you haven’t, it’s never too late to make one now!

What’s your friend’s name?

Be creative.

SOO JIN’S Say them out loud to your buddy, and find one that feels right to both of you. And whenever you want to change it to shake things up a bit, don’t worry. Your friend won’t mind.

HOW TO

Fake Name: Yoda

(Photo illustration by Claire Donaldson)

by Kevin Adams/Nick Cruz

How to: Make an Imaginary Study Buddy!

2.

Fake Name: Lord Voldemort

Location: N/A Bio: I’m apparating in your windows.

Snatching your people up Funny tweet: “Lord Gaga? People need to stop creating couple names for Gaga & I. It’s not going to happen, not after what happened with Alejandro...”

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3.

What does your pal look like?

If you are one of those people who need to picture their pal, make sure to think out their appearance before studying with them. It’s completely your choice on what you decide their features are, your buddy is just happy to get your attention.

4.

Ready to begin your study session?

Take your new friend to your study area and put them to test. Leave an extra chair for them to sit, then start studying! Constantly talk out loud so that your friend will hear you, and then ask them any questions you might need answered. If your buddy is quiet, they are probably thinking.

5.

Still can’t imagine your study buddy?

Go and ask your family members about their own imaginary friends. When they tell you all the wonderful times they’ve had together, it would make your own pal more realistic. Or better yet, draw a picture of them, and then scan it online. Photoshop the image of your friend and put him in one of your own pictures, standing together.

That way you’ll always remember that they are there with you all the while when you study hard!

WARNING: This activity does not exactly guarantee the student a higher grade nor a healthy environment for the student’s well being. Students may be exposed to the possibility of mild side effects from an excessive amount of interacting with nonexistent characters and are advised to read and follow with caution.

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New Coach, New Season, New Players Varsity soccer team picks up the pace

by Emma Guchewski

Game Time Senior Sam Boyle powerfully kept the ball in bounds. The past coach Erin Rodgers observes on the side(photo used by permission from Sam Boyle)

Sports Team The whistle blows and the first strike is placed on the ball; the girls begin the game with a fast pace, keeping the ball away from the opponent for a good 30 seconds before the opposing team decides to strike back and the game really gets going.

The new girls varsity soccer coach Brian Middlestat, who has held his role as JV coach in the girl’s program for the past four years according to the Rochester Community School District website, has now moved up to the varsity level as head coach, replacing previous coach Erin Rodgers.

The girls seem to really be enjoying the new coaching strategies, even though Mittlestat only changed

a few key things in way the varsity team is run.

“For one thing, our warmups are a lot longer this season, and I think that has really helped us focus before the games,” senior Sam Boyle said.

Maddie Michaels, Allison Tayloe, and Carly Frensley all have common opinions about the current season.

During the interview with these three seniors, the three teammates laughed together and bounced ideas off one another, mentioning that the team had a sleepover at the beginning of the month where they all really bonded, which, according to all three girls, is one of the main things that is helping them succeed this season.

“Our friendships this year have really helped

us: no one really fights or gets angry because the talent is pretty evenly distributed,” Frensley said. “The team is solid as a whole, there aren’t specific solid players that bring us to victory. It’s all of us together. We know that whoever is on the field deserves to be out there.”

Another main difference is that the girls are all from different grades; the team isn’t heavily weighted with seniors and juniors, with a few sophomores and freshmen thrown in there like the way varsity teams are usually set up. The team consists of 19 players: four freshmen, three sophomores, five juniors, and seven seniors.

“You can’t even tell which players are the

freshmen when they’re playing. They’re so strong and they really contribute to the teams success,” junior Joanie Sieja said.

“Morgan Darin scored an amazing header last game off Maddie Lucci’s cross, and it was great.”

Joanie is the leading scorer on the team this season, with nine goals in a total of 11 games. This is her third year on the varsity team.

“This season, we’ve defeated every team that we should have defeated.

The only teams we’ve lost to so far are the three teams in the division that are included in the top seven in the state, so that’s pretty good,” Frensley said. “If we keep this up, the is a good chance we’ll get to States.”

Following family footsteps: Freshman earns spot on varsity golf

“freshy

Yeah, I’m the

by Monica Nowak Sports co-Editor Usually playing a sport and achieving a high score would be considered good, but for golf it’s the opposite. This year golf is having a few opposites, one being the best player on varsity happens to be a freshman.

He is one of the very few people ever at Stoney to receive one of the lowest scores for golf, coming freshman Mike Doyle a spot on the varsity team this year.

“Yeah, I’m the freshy on the team, but what can I say? I fit right in,” Doyle said.

Doyle started to play golf of at the age of five and has received awards for being one of the top golfers. Not only that, he has faced plenty of competitions. He even goes out to visit his brother who is at Northwestern. “Competitions can get pretty rough, but you got to keep focus

and stay positive,” Doyle has noticed Doyle’s said. impact on the team.

Doyle’s brother and idol “He definitely has the skill no attends Northwestern questions asked and I’m sure University and is a golfer he and the team will continue there. His brother, Dan to break history,” Benner said.

Doyle, who is a 2006 The team incorporates as one alumnus, was also one of team and manages to all get the top golfers and had a along, according to Benner. low score of 72 when he Because Doyle has was a freshman. However, played for a long time, Doyle managed to beat this also contributed with Dan and had a low score Doyle dealing with two Freshman Mike Doyle coaches. Now his current with 66.

“I mean, we are bros, coach is Ryan Slade. All and even though he is older, and we still the coaches have helped him improve as of today fight, it’s not going to stop me overall immensely, according to Doyle. from following his footsteps and going “Doyle’s a kid that has work ethic to Northwestern,” Doyle said. “The only and he works tirelessly to perfect thing is, I, of course, will always have the his game,” Slade said. “His strongest low score.” attributes are his powerful tone Even captain senior Matt Benner game and his attention to detail.”

on the

team, but what can I say, I fit right in.

”

Doyle is lucky to have a coach that has accepted him as just a freshman.

“Slade is a great coach and I support him 100 percent,” Doyle said. “I’m looking forward to playing for him the rest of my high school career.”

Through it all, not only does it take Doyle effort to do well, but his team as a whole works for it. On May 3, the boys were adjusting their hats, carrying their clubs, and just getting ready to prepare for the game, their normal routine at Twin Lakes, however, the team had a combined score of 147 against Lake Orion. This was the best team score in the history of Stoney boys golf.

All the dedication comes with practice, according to his teammate freshman Michael Linihan.

“It’s not as easy as it looks. The more time you actually put into the game, the better you’ll get,” Linihan said.

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Track team working hard despite bad weather

by Damian Rotarov Sports Team

It looks like a gathering. It looks like a sport. It looks like track.

Each team on the track team is looking to send their best to states to make a good showing for Stoney.

Junior Elias Nasr of the distance team has been trying hard Dribbling Up the Field: Former soccer star and student Luke Norman, number 14, dribbles the soccer ball up the field in one of the Wake Forest games. He to get better. He runs has scored six goals on 42 shots. (photo used with permission by Luke Norman) 400-meter repeats, mile runs, distance runs, keeps up his weekly mileage, and, most of all, he believes in himself and his teammates.

“If you believe in yourself, it doesn’t matter what others say,” Nasr said. “You just got to do it.” they played Virginia. In Detroit Free Press, the

by Maxwell White He runs the mile, his senior season, he Detroit News, and the 800-meter, and Sports Editor never gave up a sack Associated Press. Fisher 400-meter.

Last year, Rarely does a school as a left tackle. He was was also a member of he ran a 4 minute, 24 produce talent that predicted to be an early the All Oakland Country second on the mile, but brings high school sports fifth or sixth round pick Dream Team according he fell short by sevenplayers into the next in the 2011 NFL (National to the Central Michigan tenths of a second when level. While in Stoney Football League) Draft, University website. After attempting to qualify Creek’s case, this is the but went undrafted. graduating, Fisher went for the 4:26 required exact opposite. Since the for States. This year, on to play at Central Luke Norman school opened, the sports he’s looking to qualify Michigan University, and “I’ve been working program has produced Luke Norman, who as a freshman, received on my time, and now many athletes that have graduated in 2008, the program’s Future all that matters is gone on to the next level was a four year starter Ace Award. Last year, my performance,” playing college sports. at midfield for Stoney he started nine games Nasr said.

Jake Vermiglio Creek. Norman was named at different positions He also runs the 4 by NSCAA (National Soccer on the offensive line.

8, or 3200-meter, relay

Jake Vermiglio, who Coaches Association of with the distance team. graduated in 2004, America)All-American in The distance team, was the first four year 2007 and 2008, and the according to Nasr and Jordan Tyler, who starter for football at adidas ESP (Elite Soccer graduated last year, was Coach David Thomson, Stoney Creek. While at Program) All Star in also a four year starter is doing well this year, thanks to a strong Stoney Creek, Vermiglio, 2007 and 2008. Norman playing soccer at Stoney showing from the who played left tackle, was also named to the Creek. Tyler, who played Cross Country team. defensive end, and tight regional team three forward, midfield, and “We had a lot of end was named First Team times according to the defense, either led or people who ran Cross All State by the Detroit Wake Forest Universtiy finished second in scoring Country come out Free Press and was ranked website. Norman is in in each four years on the for Track this year, in the top 20 players in his senior year at Wake team. Tyler was named which is always good Michigan according to Forest, and has in his to the MHSAA (Michigan to see,” Thomson said. the North Carolina State sophomore and junior High

Distance isn’t the School Athletic Website. After his time years, he played in every Association) State Dream only aspect of the graduating, he went on game and made a total of Team and All State First track team, though.

The field team is also a to play at the Milford 38 starts. In his career at Team. Tyler was also a major component, and Academy in New York Wake Forest, Norman has Gatorade Player of the junior Paul Ziemba has before moving onto scored six goals on 42 Year candidate. In his been doing field since North Carolina State shots, and has two assists. freshman season, Tyler his eighth grade year.

University. While at NC played in 22 games, and “Since I am in my Eric Fisher State, Vermiglio had a started half of them. He fourth year of track, pretty good record. As Eric Fisher, who tied for second on the shot-put and discus a freshman, he was graduated in 2009, was team in goals with five have been a big part named an Honorable a three year starter goals, and had three of my life, and they Mention All American by for football at Stoney assists according to the are something I look Sporting News and was Creek. While at Stoney Penn State Universtiy forward to,” Ziemba said. the ACC (Atlantic Coast Creek, Fisher earned Website.

The field team trains Conference) Offensive All State Honorable by doing muscle Player of the Week when Mention awards from the endurance exercises in the weight room alongside the Football team, according to Ziemba. The field team is looking to send junior Michael Eldridge to states for the shotput.

The sprinters also have some runners-such as junior Berrion will only get better.” we’re pulling it together.”

by Jill Kelly Berry and sophomore The boys lacrosse team Both teams have Francisco Kulyckyj-Sports Team has also been successful, focus and manageable that are looking to helping them The sport takes skill. The maintaining a 4-4 record goals, qualify for states. moving up a succeed. The guys are sport takes precision. The after As of now, though, the focusing on their record sport takes athleticism. division. track team as a whole Senior Jake Landuyt and doing well in the This sport has gained doesn’t really know the added playoffs, according to popularity over the past explains where they stand, and few years. This year, both difficulty in the more Landuyt. On the other Thomson attributes division. side, the girls are focusing lacrosse teams are having competitive 1,2,3 Win!: The girls lacrosse team is pictured here before this to the weather. successful seasons. “We moved up a division on doing well in games.

“We had a slow start year,” Landuyt Senior Jacqueline Cox a game against Adams. They have a 5-1 record now, one of The girls lacrosse team this this year thanks to some (Photo by Nick Cruz) has been very successful said. “We’ve lost to some expands on her team’s thebetter ones in history. absolutely atrocious this year, with a 5-1 pretty good teams and plans for improvement. weather,” Thomson the sport, said. record. They squeaked kept the games close.” “We aim to keep practice. Success is about “We’re out a 13-12 win over The new division has improving every game and made possible by all especially the required working our hardest tough competition such keep the wins coming,” teammates putting athleticism, is thrilling.

Notre Dame Prep. with what we’ve been After several wins, as Eisenhower, Clarkston, Cox said. “It’s important forth their best effort. “I love the amount given; we haven’t that we keep working on “When every girl on of different skills it junior Carly Pascaretta and Lake Orion. broken any records Junior Kurt Urbin knows our stick handling skills. the team puts out her encompasses,” Landuyt loves the teams success. the boys have a strong team. If we continue to practice best effort, the wins are said. “Players need to be yet, but one will fall by “Our season is going the end of the year.”

“Our defense is doing hard, then we’ll continue more rewarding and

Former athletes show skills in NCAA athletics Where did all of these former Stoney Creek Athletes play their college sports?

1. Eric Fisher

A. Ohio

2. Jordan Tyler

B. NC State

3. Jake Vermiglio

C. Wake Forest

4. Luke Norman

D. New York

5. Nina Rusiewski E. CMU 6. Zach Schewee

F. CMU

7. Garret Szantner G. Bowling Green 8. Chris Kuppilas

H. Hope College

9. Kelsey Pichel

I. Penn State

1. (E or F) 6. (G.)

2. (I) 3. (B). 4. (C.) 5. (D.) 7. (H.) 8. (E or F) 9. (A.)

Lacrosse teams show strength so far this season

incredibly well,” Pascaretta said. “We improve so much each game and if we keep this up our record

pretty well,” Urbin said. “Our offense is doing even better and I feel like

to play hard in games.”

Both teams focus on improving each

the season is more fun for everyone,” Cox said.

For Landuyt, everything

fast, need to be strong. It really just takes a lot of athletic ability.”

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Stoney Student in the Major Leagues Dylan Wilcox Sports Team I would like to start by thanking my readers over the past two years; it’s been a joy writing for you all. I hope you’ve enjoyed this as much as I have.

As many of you may know, I have one of the cooler high school jobs out there. I am lucky enough to be the bat boy and a locker room attendant for the Detroit Tigers. The purpose of this column is not for me to boast about my job or to seek attention, but rather to share some of my unique experiences and share information that many other fans would not be fortunate enough to experience.

I started to work for the Tigers last year in early September.

My first game was September 7 when the Tigers played their divisional r i v a l , Chicago White Sox. The Tigers won the game 9-1, and that game marked the start of a four game streak in which I was on the field for a Tiger’s victory. Over my time with the team they are 11-4 with me on the field. I’m not saying I make a difference in the game what so ever, just that I am lucky enough to work on the field for a victory.

The locker room is much more fun after a Tiger’s victory, music blasting, players having a good time and joking around. However, in an unfortunate situation of a loss, the locker room has a much more somber feeling, which is somewhat surprising.

Before this job it was my belief that professional athletes did not care much after a single loss, especially in baseball with the season being 162 games long. Contrary to that belief, the players take their job and the outcome of each individual game very seriously, which is refreshing to recognize.

Another perk to the job, outside of being injected into the games and atmosphere, is the relationships you build with the players. Every one of the guys who works down there has a player or two who they become “friends with;” in my case, I’ve become somewhat close with both Brandon Inge and Austin Jackson. Getting to know players certainly has some added perks.

Not only are these bonds with the players unique and fun, but they also are very informative.Throughout my time working there, I have learned numerous life lessons and little tips about baseball.

It’s safe to say that my job is one of the more unique and exciting jobs out there and I would encourage anyone interested in any sport, to pursue a job involving their favorite team.

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Seniors continue sports careers in college

Next school year several future alumni will be representing their respective universities on division one sports teams. last summer while most seniors were enjoying their final high school summer, our school’s top student athletes were deciding which school they are going to attend. Many things go into this decision: the size of the school, academic level, and coaching staff are all major factors.

Heather Thomas Typically, when people think of big time college athletics, they seem to forget cheerleading.

However, this did not stop Heather Thomas from trying out for a Big Ten squad.

All along, Thomas planned on attending Michigan State, but she didn’t always know that cheering for them was in the cards. This spring Thomas is one of three freshmen on the team.

Sarah Szatkowski

Mariana Step

After years on the sidelines due to injury, senior Sara Szatkowski flourished in her senior year and helped carry the Cross Country team to the state finals. There, Szatkowski finished fory-sixth, helping her team finish in 11th place. She ultimately decided to run for the Chippewas of Central Michigan, beginning in the fall semester.

Oh The Places You’ll Go!

An often under-appreciated aspect of any good team is the second or third best player on any team. That has not been any different on the girls golf team, but good talent never goes unnoticed by a good college scout. This is the exact situation senior Mariana Stepp found herself in.

The team lucky enough to have Mariana sign with them was Oakland University.

Amanda Freed Central Michigan

Meg Joiner Spring Arbor

Colleen Kill College of Wooster

Jordan Tyler ‘10 Penn State Joe Stephens Mount Union

Luke Norman ‘08 Wake Forest

Jake Vermiglio ‘05 NC State Brittany Nelson ‘08 Georgia Southern Kevin Bolhuis ‘10 Florida Tech

Sheldon Medici After a successful soccer season on the pitch, including a great game against East Kentwood.

Senior Sheldon Medici had the choice of playing goalkeeper at Temple, I.U.P.U.I., or Western Michigan. He choose the division one program at Western for its size and the opportunity to play Michigan State and Michigan at home. Medici expects to compete for a starting spot next season.

Devon Compton A State championship, two time all state honors, and state finals are among some of the things on senior Devon Compton’s resumé. Compton was one of the most sought after recruits in the state of Michigan for girl’s golf this year. When the coaches stopped calling, the recruiting trips were complete, and the dust settled, Compton ultimately decided to take her talents to the University of Michigan in the fall.

Ryan Finstad After a great graduating class there were very large shoes to fill this year for the senior soccer players; however, senior Ryan Finstad did just that throughout the season. Most importantly was when Finstad scored the game winning goal against the Troy Colts, who were at that time undefeated. Not only did Finstad excel on the pitch, but he also excelled in the classroom, finishing with a 3.98 GPA. a GPA good enough for one of this year’s top scholars honors. Finstad plans on attending Case Western Reserve University to play soccer and study Chemical Engineering.

Brianna Johnson Proud granddaughter of the former dean, senior Brianna Johnson looks to carry on the family legacy by playing lacrosse at Oakland University. A varsity center since her sophomore year, Johnson was thrilled when Oakland approached her about playing for them next spring.

With a career average of around four goals a game, Johnson looks to be a key part of Oakland’s offense next year by most likely playing attack or center.

Trent Drumheller All District, All County, captain, and three year letter winner, senior center fielder Trent Drumheller had college prospect written all over his resume. As of May 6, Drumheller is undecided on where he will be next fall. As of right now, Oakland, Madona, Heidelberg, and Adrian College are at the top of his list. On May 9, Drumheller attended a practice with the Oakland team. He said it went really well and is looking at that as his first choice for the fall.

(Compiled by Matt Pitlock and Dylan Wilcox)