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December 21, 2007 - Volume I - Issue 4 - Dexter High School - 2200 N.Parker Road - Dexter,MI 48130 illustration by Nora Green and Maria Brundage

2 Staff Playlist The cancer-causing fad: tanning

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“Fire and Rain”

By James Taylor

• Valentino Argerio

“It’s a calm, relaxed song that has great vocals.”

“Superstar”

By Lupe Fiasco

“The combination of Matt Santos and Lupe Fiasco is magical.”

• Brittany Martini

“Hoochie Mama”

By 2 Live Crew

• Hunter Lyons

“This boombastic booty poppin’ jam makes me want to shake it.”

“No One”

By Alicia Keys

“Alicia Keys is the best singer alive; her voice and lyrics are phenomenal.”

• Alex Everard

“Got Soul”

By Soullive

“Because everybody needs some soul in their life.”

• Scott Crompton

trends

Lisa Richie staff writer

Oompa-Loompa, carrot skin and fake bakers are just a few of the derogatory terms used to refer to people who fake tan.

Despite the negative terms, fake tanning has become popular among students, with every small town throughout America seemingly following its bronzed footsteps.

Since pale complexions are out and the orange glow is in, specialists have discovered the two best methods to ensure that tangerine tinge.

The first method is a tanning bed using ultraviolet radiation, which is junior Stephanie Ager’s preferred method of bronzing. “Being tan, you just feel better,” Ager, who uses the tanning bed quite often, said. “I’d so rather be tan than white.”

Ager has been in and out of tanning beds twice a week since she was 13. She

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said she could never stop cosmetic tanning because “fake tanning rocks”.

Though students may consider this trend glamorous, it has several risk factors including skin cancer, reduced immunity, and the aging of skin. But even the warning label on the tanning beds does not deter sunless tanners like Ager from stopping their UV time. “I don’t believe you can get cancer,” Ager said.

“It’s just a myth.”

In attempt to stop the worries of cancer caused by artifical tanning, tanning salons have sent out the message that tanning is healthful, though medical professionals strongly disagree.

“You can’t protect the skin by damaging it,” said Rick M. Tanner, a doctor at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. “Tanning not only increases the risk for melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma, but accelerates skin aging.”

The FDA has even put a regulation on the number of tanning devices salons

are allowed to have, though Tanner said these attempts are futile. “No amount of regulations can make tanning safe,” he said. “Banning tanning salons is the only way.”

The second method of getting a fake tan involves using sunless tanning products.

This method is the less popular method due to the streaks, residue and unnatural color it may leave behind.

Ultimate tanners may sometimes take part in both, leaving them to stand out defiantly in the crowd with their orange blaze.

So despite the dangers and the unnatural look, students living in Michigan, where the usable days of sunlight are in short supply, artificial tanning has become more of a lifestyle than a trend to some.

“I honestly don’t believe I’ll ever stop.” Ager said. “I’ll be tan at my funeral.”

Crutches become a new fad Unfortunate incidents lead to breaks, dislocations and pain Alex Everard staff writer

Senior Leah Gibson slammed on her breaks to avoid a careless driver in the school parking lot, sending a crock pot of scalding hot chili into senior Betsy Eber’s lap, causing second degree burns, which later became infected.

Eber is the latest person involved in a growing trends, having medical boots or being on crutches.

Eber says her method of getting on crutches was a traumatic ordeal. “I screamed and threw the chili off of me, then I got out of the car and kept screaming,” she said.

Sophomore Alex McMurray has been on crutches for weeks with an injured foot and was even in a wheelchair at one point. “It’s kind of hard when I have to walk far but otherwise I can usually deal with it,” McMurray said. “I broke it in the last football game of the season.”

Crutches can be fairly dangerous as well according to McMurray. “It is hard to keep your balance so you can slip easily when the ground is slick,” he said.

The prolonged neglect of certain muscles that being on crutches can lead to has also proven to be bothersome for McMurray. “I have almost no muscle in my left leg anymore so it will be hard to gain all of it back once I am fully healed”.

Senior Caitlin Henderson also had crutches, and is now in a medical boot for a sports-related injury. “I broke my foot over a year ago playing soccer and was on crutches for eight weeks,” Henderson said. “I had surgery on it, and now I’m back on crutches and a boot for awhile.”

If going to school sounds hard now, Henderson says it is

photo by Candice Wiesner

a lot harder on crutches. “It’s tough because you still have to carry around all your books and everything. The only advantage would be riding the elevator.”

However, sports aren’t the only way to get into one of this years more unfortunate trends.

Junior Heather Cook dislocated her hip while walking in gym class. “I was just walking and then my hip popped out of place, so I was on crutches for awhile,” Cook said. “I’ve had to use them for two months, but now I am finally off of them.”

Even teachers have had the misfortune of being on crutches or medical boots.

Math teacher Paige Lumpiesz was on crutches for a leg injury and is now walking in a boot until she has recovered.

According to Lumpiesz, crutches are a greater hassle than walking boots. “The crutches were really inconvenient, but now the boot isn’t too bad,” she said.

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Brittany Martini staff writer

This Christmas she wanted things to be different. This Christmas she didn’t want to wake up simply to gifts under the tree and the smell of snow in the air. This Christmas sophomore Erin McAweeney wanted more. This Christmas she wanted to give.

So McAweeney is one of the 270 people, families and businesses who are taking part in Operation Good Cheer this year, according to the Operation Good Cheer Program Coordinator Katie Williams.

“Operation Good Cheer is an organization formed over 30 years ago to help families and children around Christmas time by giving to them.”

Williams said. “Every year volunteers ranging from families to even businesses can donate their time, effort and gifts to a child and/or family.”

Participating in Operation Good Cheer came up in conversation between McAweeney and her father.

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But according to McAweeney, the conversation gave her a new outlook on things.

“From the moment he mentioned it, I knew I really wanted to become involved in Operation Good Cheer because I knew that helping someone else around the holidays can really put perspective on the important things in life,” she said.

By being a part of the program, McAweeney said she has already felt the joy of bringing someone happiness on the 25th of December.

“To be a part of the program is good because I feel as if I am helping someone else have a good Christmas this year who has been through a lot and could really use it,” she said.

As a part of Child and Family Services of Michigan, Operation Good Cheer will help more than 4,600 families and children during the winter holidays in Michigan.

“The program helps out people in Michigan,” Williams said. “Participators in Operation Good Cheer know that

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they are helping someone locally.”

In addition, McAweeney said this program is successful because it help out individuals in her own neighborhood.

She also said Operation Good Cheer is a great experience because the participants feel happy about giving to someone in need, and it fulfills the needs of individuals who could use some help around the holidays.

The child who McAweeney is giving to, is receiving a chemistry set, a bike and a coat.

“It’s nice to give something as simple as a coat to a child and have it make their Christmas,” McAweeney said. “It really makes me feel good to give this child a coat, and it mean so much to him, even though it’s something at almost everyone has.”

The feeling of giving to someone in need is what motivated McAweeney to join Operation Good Cheer.

“I really want this Christmas to be special,” McAweeney said. “Not only for me, but the people who are being helped through the program.”

Illustration by Leah Gibson

Shop with a Cop helps children in need Shop with a Cop Facts • About 50 Dexter students participate in Shop with a Cop every year.

• Cops from other counties come to help take the kids shopping.

• While on their way to Meijer, participants ride in a cop car with the lights and sirens going.

•In past years, Student Council has wrapped the presents for the participants.

Source: ewashtenaw.org

Kaitlyn Shepard staff writer

Sitting in her first hour Lit. and Comp. class, sophomore Louisa Wolcott began to think about her upcoming week. She thought of the two tests she had and the homework she had to do.

And like every other teenager, she thought of the weekend, not because of the sports game, or going to the mall, but because this weekend, she got to help those less fortunate. This weekend she helped out with Shop with a Cop. “My old neighbor was a cop who told me about the program,” Wolcott said. “I couldn’t help out last year, but I’m really excited to help out this year. I think it will be a lot of fun to help out with the kids.”

According to the school’s liaison officer Paul Mobbs, Shop with a Cop is a group of officers who raise money and take children in need to Meijer for holiday shopping and then for pizza.

The families meet with the officers at Creekside Intermediate School and have pizza and a visit from Santa before they take the cop cars to Meijer for some holiday shopping.

“I’m going to go and help my old neighbor with all of the kids,” Wolcott said. “I’ll help them pick out gifts and

just make it a fun day for them.”

It’s not always financial reasons why people participate in this program Mobbs said. Some kids just need a day to forget problems they might have.

“Anyone who could use a fun day out can participate,” Mobbs said. “Sometimes it’s kids who have lost a family member and other times it’s kids who haven’t had very good experiences with the police department.”

There are also people who, even though they’re too old to participate in the program, go to help the officers with all of the kids.

“I’m looking forward to it a lot,” Wolcott said. “I get to help kids who are less fortunate than me and do something good for someone else.”

According to Mobbs this program is a positive experience for both the kids who participate and the officers who volunteer.

“It’s a positive experience that allows both the officers and the kids to see each other in a different light than the side that they see when officers visit homes,” he said.

During this time of the year, there are a lot of people trying to help out people less fortunate than themselves.

And all of the volunteering really has an affect on how they see the world. The same is true for Wolcott.

“I think it will make me appreciate everything I have more,” Wolcott said. “Even the littlest thing you can do to make someone happy is worth it in the end.”

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Student turns to veganism Born and raised a vegetarian, sophomore Laura Kemp switched to veganism in seventh grade. A vegan is a vegetarian who omits all animal products from their diet and Kemp said the switch was due, in part, to the value she places on the environment and a healthy lifestyle. “Ethically (as vegans) we don’t want to harm animals when we don’t have to, and (veganism) is • Kemp also for health reasons,” she said.

While vegetarians choose not to consume flesh foods, vegans take it one step further and live what they call a “cruelty-free lifestyle,” avoiding dairy, eggs, fur, leather, wool, down and cosmetics or chemical products tested on animals.

“All the chemicals and hormones put in meat and animals in order to process the meat for stores, it’s really unhealthy,” Kemp said. “It would really be beneficial for our health if we all ate more plants. I think then the world would be a better place.”

Many vegetarians will eat products such as fish and diary, which vegans will not touch. But this can make it difficult to buy food to fit her diet. Kemp said, “It can be frustrating to find healthy foods for vegans in a normal store, but it’s not a problem when I go to stores like Whole Foods or Hiller’s in Ann Arbor.”

Vegans account for 0.2 percent of the United States population according to a 2002 Time/CNN poll.

Vegans have a lower risk of colon cancer, heart attack, high blood cholesterol, prostate cancer and stroke, according to the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation.

Some worry that despite these health benefits, vegans may be susceptible to malnourishment and vitamin deficiencies. However, Kemp said that is not a problem for her. She said, “There are lots of supplements, such as soy milk and vitamins that can be taken, which can replace some of the things missing in a vegan’s diet.”

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Different diet options face students Calorie count in lunchroom Shantal Daratony staff writer

Lacto vegetarian. Ovo vegetarian. Vegan. While they may all sound alike, there is a distinct line between these three eating styles.

Vegetarianism is a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea and slaughter by-products.

But vegetarianism branches off into many different subcategories including lacto vegetarian, ovo vegetarian and pesco vegetarian.

Lacto vegetarians do not eat meat, poultry, fish or eggs, but they do consume milk.

Ovo vegetarians do not eat, poultry or fish, but they do eat eggs.

Pesco vegetarians eat fish, and due to this, some vegetarians refuse to call pescos vegetarians.

A second, non-mainstream common eating choice among students is veganism.

A vegan not only abstains from eating meat, dairy products, eggs and honey but also abstains from using

products that contain animal ingredients or are tested on animals.

For many vegans, veganism is not just a diet but a life style.

Fruitarians are similar to vegans but only eat foods that don’t kill the plant it grew from.

For example, an apple can be picked without killing the apple tree, but a carrot will kill the plant once it has been picked. Therefore fruititarians eat apples but not carrots.

Many people think because a student eats one of these diets, they may not get the correct amount of protein, calcium and other vitamins.

However many vegetarians and vegans say they have found ways to ensure their body gets enough nutrients.

Vegetables, beans, nuts and soy products provide these essential nutrients, they say.

In a vegan or vegetarian diet colorful vegetables such as broccoli, cucumbers and carrots are especially high in vitamins, calcium and zinc and are a good source of protein.

Wrestlers diet can be unhealthy Pressure to make weight may lead to health issues later Kyle Boren Contest Manager

Vegetarian lifestyle difficult to start Sophomore Carolyn Buckley leads a vegetarian lifestyle and became a vegetarian in eighth grade following in the footsteps of her sister as well as some of her best friends.

However, Buckley admits to liking meat. “When I was not a vegetarian, I loved meat. It was really hard to give it up at first,” Buckley said.

Buckley finds vegetarianism even harder in her family because she is the only one. “After my sister left the house and went off to college, I’ve had to make all my own food. Sometimes, my parents even forget (I’m vegetarian),” Buckley said.

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A weighty issue: Senior Bret Marsh maneuvers on a teammate during practice. Marsh wrestles at the 119 pound weight class yet regularly weighs in at 125 pounds.

Senior and wrestling team captain Bret Marsh weighs 125 pounds. That’s not a lot, yet he needs to lose six more pounds to get down to his weight of 119. For Marsh, who will wrestle next year for either University of Michigan or University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, losing this weight is a vital part to his success.

But is it a healthy thing to do at this age? Certified athletic trainer Leah Gagnon says she thinks wrestling diets are terrible and wrestlers sacrifice way too much for it. “There is way too much emphasis and pressure on the dieting,” Gagnon said.

However, assistant wrestling coach Andrew Parker said the extent wrestlers diet is exaggerated. “The state has made precautionary steps to prevent serious health problems. Athletes have their body fat percentage taken at the start of the year, and athletes cannot go below certain weights based on that first weigh in,” he said.

But wrestlers such as Marsh have

many ways to get rid of excess weight aside from dieting. Marsh said he will sometimes wrap himself in clothing such as sweats, coats and winter hats and run a couple of laps to sweat out the excess water in his body. “I have to avoid water until after I get weighed in,” Marsh said.

But Gagnon said avoiding water at any time is a bad thing to do, especially when an athlete is in season. “I don’t understand how they can basically dehydrate themselves and then do an energy-consuming sport like wrestling,” she said.

Parker, said however, before all tournaments team members consume high energy foods immediately. “At our Saturday tournaments, we have quite a spread of healthy, high energy foods,” he said.

Despite the fact some see wrestler’s weight loss strategies as unhealthy, Marsh said there is pressure on most of the team to lose weight. “There is a lot of pressure,” he said. “It’s just what the coaches expect you to be at, and the rest of the team expects you to lose the weight.”

Aaron Gilman staff writer

For students, school lunch is a time to relax and hang out with friends.

But do they really know what they’re putting into their bodies? There are many food choices to make at lunch, but which ones are the healthiest and which ones are the worst? Which foods are the most popular? Should students start making healthier choices? Use the guide below to determine your calorie count during lunch. Experts recommend active teens consume between 2500-3000 calories per day.

Entrees

• Stuffed crust pizza: 378 calories with meat: 478 calories • Bosco sticks: 420 calories • Corn dogs: 560 calories • Stromboli: 475 caloried • Chicken sandwich: 375 calories • Tacos with cheese: 480 calories • Grilled cheese: 440 calories • Cheesy taco mac: 400 calories • Wrap sandwich: 160 calories • Pasta with meat sauce: 420 calories

Sides & Beverages • Curly fries: 213 calories • Mashed potatoes: 160 calories with gravy: 260 calories • Cheesy potatoes: 218 calories • Chocolate milk: 160 calories • Two percent milk: 130 calories • Skim milk: 80 calories

Fruits & Vegetables • Carrots: 55 calories • Corn: 120 calories • Green beans: 30 calories • Steamed vegetable assortment: 30 calories • Apple: 65 calories • Orange: 70 calories • Applesauce: 51 calories

all photos by Val Argerio

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The

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Quiz

1. Which holiday was not declared national holiday until 1980?

2. What holiday are songs like “Henerot Hallalu” and “Maoz Tzur” sung?

A: Lamps in cafetria B:Graph-X room C:Elevator button D: Pencil Sharpner

3. What does the word “Kwanzaa” mean in the African language Kiswahili?

4. In 1997 how many dogs in Britain received gifts on December 25?

5. On Christmas what did a traditional dinner in England consist of?

6. Which holiday uses money called gelt?

7. What holiday uses an abbreviation derived from the Greek alphabet?

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8. On what days are Kwanzaa observed?

9. What holiday starts the 25th day of Kislev?

10. What year was Kwanzaa founded?

Answers: 1. Christmas 2. Hanukkah 3. First fruits of the harvest 4. Seven of every 10 5. The head of a pig 6. Hanukkah 7. Christmas 8. Dec. 26-31 9.Hanukkah 10. 1966

Kwanzaa Quick Facts • In Swahili, means “fresh fruits”

• Gifts given to children, must include a book and a heritage symbol.

• Great feast on Dec. 31 called Karamu • Karamu consists of five parts: - Kukaribisha (Welcoming) - Kuumba (Remembering) - Kuchunguza Tena Na Kutoa Ahadi Tena (Reassessment and Recommitment) - Kushangilla (Rejoicing) - Tamshi la tutaonan (Farewell Statement) Information courtesy of people.howstuffworks.com

Photo by Leah Gibson

Christmas Quick Facts • In 1907, Oklahoma became the last state to declare Christmas a legal holiday • During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States • Franklin Pierce was the first United Sates president to decorate an official White House Christmas tree • More than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent annually in the United States Information courtesy of corsinet.com

Hanukkah Quick Facts • Oily foods, such as doughnuts, pancakes and latkes, or potato pancakes, are eaten to remember the flask of oil that miraculously fueled a sacred lamp for eight days • Nun is nothing, gimel is all, hey is half, and shin requires the player to add a token into the pot • In Hebrew, the menorah is also known as the hanukiya • The candles are added from right to left but lit in reverse

Information courtesy of people.howstuffworks.com

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uPage Friday, December 21, 2007 The Rostrum 5Things to give 5Things not to give 1. Yourself. Being with someone and giving your time to them is one of the best gifts you can give. Also, it’s easy on your wallet.

2. A gift certificate. If you don’t know enough about a person and have no idea where they would want to buy something, you probably don’t know the person well enough to buy them something anyway.

3. Jewelry. This should be designated towards boyfriends/girlfriends only. Unless it is the ugliest piece of jewelry ever crafted or something you put a quarter in a machine to get, the person is bound to like it.

4. Something expensive. Sure, the whole “spending time with someone” is a nice gesture but giving someone something with a big price tag shows them you really like them. But beware. If this is for someone you’re in a relationship with and there is even a remote possibility you might not be with this person for much longer, stay away. It’s not worth wasting your whole paycheck on a future ex.

5. Food. I don’t know if this applies to anyone else, but it does to me. Nothing shows me you love me more than a nice dinner or even a Hot Pocket.

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1. Venereal disease. This is the ultimate definition of the gift that keeps on giving. Unfortunately that gift is having a burning sensation every time you urinate.

2. Deodorant. Yes, your family member/ significant other might have a slight hygiene problem, but there are other ways of dealing with this.

3. A gift that is blatantly for you. As much as you make it seem like your girlfriend might want to see the new “Die Hard” movie on DVD, you both know it’s just so you can watch it with her later. Ladies, the same goes for you. No guy really wants to watch “Hairspray.”

4. A break up. Even though you don’t intend on being with your significant other much longer doesn’t mean you have to do it on a holiday.

Wait until the middle of January when everyone is already depressed.

5. Exercise equipment or a diet book. This goes along the lines of deodorant. Maybe your guy or gal has packed on a couple pounds since you met them in their swim suit in the summer. But there are other

for Christmas

HL: Communist.

HL: Do you have a crush on anyone? If so, would you like to confess your love to them at this moment?

The Grinch

Megan Dinser (12)

MW I can’t vote.

Andy Whitaker

HL: Who will you be voting for in ‘08?

Kelsey Hart (10)

With freshman Max Waldrup

Jake Larosa contest manager

Spencer Bussineau (9)

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Getting presents.

Having no school.

The wonderful caroling.

Holiday cheer.

Hanging’ with my twin, Steve Zenas.

A lot, like seven.

Um, probably none at the rate we’re going.

It depends on Chuck Norris’ mood.

Hopefully in the high 20s.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

I don’t know.

I’ve never seen Santa.

‘Cause he’s effin’ Santa!

Cause he’s too cool to use the door.

I don’t care as long as he brings stuff.

Are elves slave labor?

Yes, they don’t get decent wages.

Um, sure ...

They don’t get dental coverage.

No.

Yes, I import them from overseas.

What are the biggest holiday “don’ts”?

Don’t leave your menorah on all night

Embarrassing yourself

Shaving my sideburns.

Don’t get fat

Don’t let Authier see your fat lipper.

What is the best part of the holidays?

MW: Not really

HL: Max Waldrup: great athlete or greatest athlete?

MW: Great.

HL: I find modesty very sexy.

How many snow days will we have?

HL: Do you find me attractive?

MW: Yes.

HL: Which of my physical features do you enjoy most?

MW: Your eyes.

HL: Clearly you’ve never seen my feet.

Why does Santa use the chimney?

He’s afraid I will shank him. Geh geh geh!

HL: Besides Fidel Castro and I, who are your idols?

MW: That’s about it.

HL: OK, either/or section. “Crank That” by Soulja Boy? Macarena?

MW: Macarena.

HL: Nice, old school.

HL: Boxers or briefs or thongs or nothing?

MW: Thongs.

HL: Naturally.

HL: Well, Max, this truly has been a pleasure. Go back to American Studies now. I love you.

MW: I love you too.

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• MLK Day: No School

• Uwe Kind German Concert

• Boys Basketball @ Pioneer • Girls Basketball vs.

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• Hockey vs. Bedford

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Pinckney • Wrestling Dexter Invitational