The Signal - January 2016

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Picture of President Obama speaking to UNO crowd.

Photo by Drew Cameron.

Ana Aguilar Political Reporter

He also asked the crowd and those Americans on television to become more involved in the country’s political system. Talking about how the only way to be a strong influence on this government is by participating in politics.

“Things are changing. America has been through changes, but we overcame our fear.

We emerge stronger than we were before,” said President Obama. “That’s what we do as Americans, we have gone through war, but each time we are better than we have been before.”

Gun violence, equal pay, and the raising minimum wage were the main topics of his speech, adding, “they still matter for American families.” He also wants to focus on the future, and saying how instead of being afraid of the new changes we should embrace them.

Obama also said that “every American has a chance to influence this democracy. Not the select few, not the millionaires and the billionaires, but every American.”

President Obama visited the University of Nebraska-Omaha at the new Baxter Arena on Wednesday, January 13th in front of 8,000 people after his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

When doing previous State of the Union addresses, presidents usually do is talk about their goals and their plans to combat problems. On Wednesday, Obama went for a non-traditional style of giving his speech. He reiterated his accomplishments, and what has been improved in the last seven years of his presidency.

His focus this year was trying to get as many Americans to watch the live coverage as possible saying, “this is for you.”

Read the rest of the story, titled “President Obama visits Omaha” on page 3

TJ robotics now ranked among elite teams in the world Derrick Johnson Editor-in-Chief Once again, TJ is taking over VEX Robotics.

Starting only 3 years ago, TJ Robotics, led by Mr. James Crum and Ms. Denise Hoag, has continued to grow and improve enough to compete with the world’s top robotics teams each year. The club’s popularity is rapidly rising and this year seems to be their most successful one yet.

On Saturday, January 16th, TJ’s Optimus Dime (including

Jorge Cisneros, Abdirizak Ibar, Allison Tague, and Brandon Kozak) and Where’s Aldo? (including Brandon Vermilyea, Rosa Valle Lopez, Aldo Avalos, and Sydney Clark) were tournament champions, putting up world ranked scores of 314 and 310.

Their performance that night in Mason City moved Optimus Dime and Full Metal Jackets (including Seth Arthur, Ana Rodriguez, Ernie Rodriguez, and Teayanna Leytham) into world ranks 10 and 13 respectively in Robot skills, and also brought Full Metal Jackets into the top three in the world for

TJ Robotics posing with their multiple awards.

Photo provided by the TJ robotics twitter page.

Top Row: Bryce Vermilyea, Julius Matolek, Tucker Mass, Brandon Kozak, Ernie Rodriguez, Jeffery Griffin, Jorge Cisneros, Seth Arthur, Abdirizak Ibar Second Row: Aldo Avalos, Cydney Bryan, Rosa Valle-Lopez, Allison Tague, Ana Rodriguez, Jimmy Kurtz

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TJ cheerleader performs with All-American squad TJ robotics now ranked among elite teams in the world (continued from page 1)

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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits CB Caucusing information Former president Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary President Obama visits Omaha (continued from page 1)

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Republican Rand Paul speaks at the public library Caucusing in Iowa CBCSD Journalists cover presidential visit Donald Trump: Orangutan

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Moon’s swim team diving straight Artist Breakdown: Twenty One into success Pilots Sports Schedule Yearbook cover finally revealed Cutting the cord Important Calendar Dates

NEWS

THE SIGNAL

TJ cheerleader performs with All-American squad Abigail Edie Reporter TJ senior, Jenna Kousgaard, earned the chance to perform for cheer and dance in the London New Year’s Day parade.

“I get the opportunity to go to London because I made the All American Cheerleading team,” explained Jenna. She went on about how hard and grueling the practices and tryouts were for the team and how grateful she is to get to be a part of the amazing opportunity.

“I got into it by auditioning at our summer camp we go to each year,” said Jenna. “Elise Willits and I both made it.”

On October 4th, Jenna made a donation page to help with funds for the trip. She got more than five shares for the page and earned $45 for the trip. She also got donations from her

Editor-in-Chief Derrick Johnson Copy Editor Ana Aguilar Paginator Angela Gardner Staff Morgan Barth Drew Cameron Megan Carroll Abigail Edie Morgan Hanslip Dylan Harold Adriana Ibarra Cody Kinney Tiana Larsen Jordan McAlpine Alejandro Vieyra Cami Wagaman Morgan Wooton Adviser Rob Lindquist Phone: 712-328-6493 Facebook: CBJacketJournalism Twitter:@TJHSJournalism Web: cbjacketjournalism.com

Photo of All American Cheerleaders In London on New years day photo provided by .

TJ senior Jenna Kousgaard is pictured far left.

local church where she raised $1,500, she also raised $400 from a car wash she did with the TJ cheerleaders. Altogether Jenna raised around $2,300.

Jenna performed with several other amazing cheerleaders from around the country that auditioned to be All Americans.

“It was really exhilarating

performing for international television. Everyone there was so excited about cheerleaders, because they don’t have them.”

Not only was Jenna able to perform, but she was able to enjoy the city’s attractions and go on tours while over there.

“The tours were very informative and cool to go on,

I learned a lot about the history and their culture.”

Jenna’s hard work and dedication gave her the opportunity almost all cheerleaders dream of. Make sure to congratulate her as well as Elise Willits on their talents and All American status.

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TJ’s robotics team shows Wings of Hope impressing strides (cont. from pg 1)

Organization hopes to help families with cancer.

Cami Wagaman Reporter

Derrick Johnson Editor-in-Chief

Programming skills.

“Overall, it wasn’t that challenging of a competition,” said Brandon Vermilyea, captain of ‘Where’s Aldo?’. “Personally my team did pretty well up until our robot broke, but we persevered and ended up scoring enough to win the tournament.”

TJ teams Where’s Aldo? and Point Blank Jackets (including Tucker Mass, Adian Holland, Bryce Vermilyea) also now qualify for nationals, beating their record of only having three teams go last year.

Their overall success has not come easy though. Their multiple qualifications to regional, national, and world competitions came from large amounts of hard work. Each member in Robotics has had a high level of dedication in order to accomplish what they have.

“There’s a lot of engineering design, programming, and they have to work in a team. They are required to have extensive docs of their design process and have to be interviewed,” said Hoag.

“They work pretty much from 3 pm to sometimes ten at night.”

With the amount of success already coming from the robotics team, there will be no surprise when they receive even more recognition. Make sure to support them in their upcoming competitions as well as congratulate them on their world rankings.

Cancer affects people both directly and indirectly, and it is important to have a support system. Wings of Hope, located in Council Bluffs, provides the kind of support that people with cancer or cancer families are looking for. Wings Of Hope is a safe place for all cancer survivors and their families to be able to get therapy.

“We’re providing support for people that have been diagnosed with cancer, and their family members,” said Carolyn Ettinger, the Program Administrator at Wings Of Hope, “We see some people when they’re first diagnosed, and going through chemo and need a wig, and we see some people later on after their treatment is over, and they’re trying to deal with more of the emotional things that they have been through.”

TJ has also been affected by cancer, junior Autumn Sullivan, was diagnosed with Leukemia in July of 2015. Since the diagnosis, there have been multiple fundraisers to help Autumn.

Along with the fundraisers, Autumn has a ‘GoFundMe’ page so that people anywhere can donate money so that Autumn can have the surgeries she needs, such as a bone marrow transplant.

At first, Wings of Hope started as a monthly support group, in October of 1987. Then in 1994 they were established as a nonprofit support center. Group

TJ robotics members practicing with their robots Photo taken from the robotics Twitter page.

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therapy and individual therapy is something that is provided.

“I think it’s pretty calming and relaxing here,” said Ettinger, “We try and create that kind of atmosphere so they feel comfortable when they come in. All of our services are free of charge, so we’re just reaching out and helping people.”

Project ‘Gratitude Graffiti’ created by Wings Of Hope, is for people to spread around what they are thankful for. There are Gratitude Graffiti signs posted in various places in Council Bluffs, such as Mercy Hospital, and Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital.

“The idea is that anywhere local to have a sign or a glass window where people can write down each day what they’re thankful for,” Ettinger said.

“It’s a nice way for people to be thinking about things that they’re thankful for instead of focusing on some of the bad things that are happening in their lives.”

Cancer is hard to deal with, even if you are not the one who has cancer. If you or someone you know is having a difficult time dealing with cancer, directly or indirectly, and you want to provide or get support, Wings Of Hope can help. Call 712-3258970 and make an appointment.

Ask for Carolyn or Brenda, they would be more than happy to help! If you are unable to make a call, visit the Wings of Hope website, at www.wingsofhope. org.

POLITICS Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton For more news on caucusing in Iowa, visits C.B. follow this link to the Daily Ana Aguilar Political Reporter

Nonpariel.

On January 5th, Hillary Clinton came to Council Bluffs at Iowa Western Community College as one of her campaign stops to spread her core beliefs to an audience of 600 people.

She came to Council Bluffs as the Democratic nominee frontrunner hoping to gain even more followers on her visit to Iowa, especially with the February 1st caucuses looming.

While at the event she focused on showing the people that she is the better candidate because she is more equipped and experienced than the others. She also explained how she is the only one that can maintain the progress that Barack Obama has made throughout the years, as well as saying how our economy does better with a democrat in charge.

“Our economy does better when there’s a democrat in office,”claimed Clinton.

“Democrats only inherited the bad problems of the past republican president.”

“I want to make college affordable for middle class,” she said, opposing Bernie Sanders’ view on free tuition for all students going to a public college or university. “I have a plan to make possible to go to a four year college without borrowing money.”

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Hillary Clinton speaking at the CB rally. Photo courtesy of Ana Aguilar.

As well as saying, “I want to give kids opportunities…”

Claiming that she supports the idea of teens working ten hours a week to make sure that they value education and work hard to improve their future.

Clinton made it clear how Iowa is a leading example of using clean energy, explaining how it is one of the states that gets most of its electricity from wind turbines.

“We need to build on that, and power every house on America,” said Clinton.

Furthermore, she also talked about her beliefs on what she plans to do while being in office, one of her bigger points that brought the audience up to loud cheers was about taxing the rich as well as raising the minimum wage.

She also talked about defending the rights of everyone and making equality a priority,

as well as her support for better education and improving the different opportunities she wants to give children for them to live in their full potential.

During her speech she also got the opportunity to talk about her opponents, specifically the republicans. Alleging how their way to handle a problem is by simply ignoring it like it does not exist.

An example she made was climate change, pointing out how the first thing to solve a problem is admitting that there is one. Calling a “crisis” on climate change, agreeing with the global agreement on climate change that Paris presented just a month ago.

At last, she asks people for their support by coming out and caucusing for her on February 1st.

“Work with to make sure we carry Iowa this November of 2016.”

Former president Bill Clinton Drew Cameron stumps for Hillary Photographer Former president Bill Clinton came to Woodrow Wilson Middle School on Saturday to promote his wife, Hillary Clinton.

Several people, including some TJ teachers came to hear him speak and express his views on the current political race.

Hillary’s chances of winning are slightly improving. Hillary will continue to visit Iowa until the 21, be sure to go and listen to her message.

“As the Secretary of State, she got sanctions against Iran and had Russian and China getting along... I confess, I didn’t think she could do that.” - Fmr. President Bill Clinton.

Make sure to check out page 4 for even more political news as well as cbjacketjournalism.com

President Obama visits Omaha (cont. from pg 1)

Ana Aguilar Political Reporter In his speech at UNO, the Commander and Chief restated his four questions from the previous night. How do we make sure this new economy works for everyone? How do we make sure the spirit of innovation is used? How do we keep America safe without becoming the world police? And how do we infuse social principles into our politics?

“There’s something about the Midwest, it’s people, and how they pull together. People treat each other with respect,” Obama said on his visit to Omaha. He even referenced ‘Obamaha,’ the name given to the city due to his win on the Nebraska caucus when running for President the first time.

Obama also talked about the progress that America has been through since being in office. Stating that seven years ago we were in an economic hole, but now the U.S. has one

“No students should be priced out of a college education. We should guarantee two years of free community college.”

-Barack Obama

of the strongest economies in the world. Plus, he mentioned that 14 million new jobs have been created and the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new low being at five percent, and below three percent in Omaha.

“We’ve busted high school graduation rates,” he said on what has been improved, “no students should be priced out of a college education. We should guarantee two years of free community college.”

Furthermore he insisted on how in this new economy workers should have a voice. He said that we should keep pressing forward on clean energy to create new jobs. Adding, “we should not focus on the past, but the future.”

During his speech he did not name any 2016 candidates but did imply multiple comments towards them, specifically Donald Trump but including Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio; the three Republican front-runners to this point.

In the end he said, “We should reject politics that target people for their race and religion. First Amendment is important, but it doesn’t mean to go around insulting people, it’s being offensive. That doesn’t make us strong.”

At the end of his speech, Obama got the cheering crowd on their feet one last time and stated “This is the greatest country ever.”

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President Obama speaking to the UNO crowd. Photo by Drew Cameron.

Republican Rand Paul speaks at the public library Ana Aguilar Political Reporter Rand Paul started his campaign stops in Iowa this past Thursday, January 7th, at the public library. He had a meet and greet to talk about the reasons why he is the best choice out of all the candidates.

One of the things that he mainly prioritised was national debt, talking about how there is no excuse for America to be in so much debt and explaining how he plans to fix it.

“I was worried about

borrowing a million dollars a minute, think about that...” Paul said.

In addition, Paul spoke on gun control, and his opinion on President Obama’s executive action last week which cracked down on gun sales.

Paul also spent a lot of time explaining the differences between him and the other Republican candidates over foreign policy, which all have taken a much more aggressive stance than him.

In contrast to Marco Rubio, Paul does not plan to raise

Caucusing in Iowa Morgan Barth Reporter

The Iowa Caucus is arriving February 1st, and the Signal staff has started covering political news. Some students are now reaching the age to vote, however they are not very sure what they are suppose to do. Hopefully, the Signal will now help guide students with making their own decisions.

A caucus is for political

supporters or members of a specific political party or movement. In a way, it’s just like voting for your nominee, but it’s more public. The Iowa Caucus is generally the first measurement for delegates to be chosen for the National Party Convention. At the National Party Convention a Presidential nominee is announced.

The Caucus is important in Iowa because Iowa holds the first caucus of the year. The

POLITICS military spending to an extra $1 trillion to combat the rise of Islamic terrorists.

“Rubio is campaigning across America. He’s going to add a trillion dollars to the military because he’s for a stronger defense than anybody else,” Paul said. “But if it comes out of debt and we borrow it from China to put in our military, does that make us stronger?”

He also does not agree with Ted Cruz’s plan to bomb cities in the Middle East held by Islamic

State, saying that that will only cause people to support the terrorists and hate the United States.

“I’m not saying that we should do nothing, I’m just saying we have to be targeted in what we do, and indiscriminately bombing a place is not going to somehow lead less to terrorism.

We’ll wind up with more,” Paul said.

His audience was only 75 people this Thursday, which relates to him polling in the low

“I’m not saying that we should do nothing, I’m just saying we have to be targeted in what we do, and indiscriminately bombing a place is not going to somehow lead less to terrorism. We’ll wind up with more.” -Rand Paul presidential electors will have the power to select candidates for their party. If a candidate wins than Iowa Caucus then they will be granted free media attention, have a boost in fundraising, and their votes will be casted in before anyone else’s. The past two presidents both won the Iowa Caucus.

Iowa is also known as a swing state where both Republican and Democrat are able to proceed in the Caucus. Therefore both sides are fighting for votes. The most important thing isn’t necessarily

to win, but it is definitely not to lose. If you show poorly in Iowa, that generally spells doom for your campaign.

Republican frontrunner in the 2008 election Mayor Rudy Giuliani (New York), decided to pass up Iowa, and because of this his campaign suffered.

He decided Florida was more important, and by the time Florida voters cast their ballots, Giuliani was too far behind the other candidates and shortly their-after ended his run for President.

single digits in Iowa and the nation, according to numerous polls. However, he says that polls conducted before people have begun to seriously tune into the race have little value.

One of Paul’s biggest appeals to his supporters is his insistence that the growth of the federal government and federal regulations are becoming a threat to personal liberty and the nation’s health. He also blames Republicans and Democrats for the country’s growing debt, which draws supporters from liberals.

Paul argues that “..the idea that Capitol Hill is locked in partisan gridlock is just wrong,” he said.

“There is too much compromise, they get along too well and you’re stuck paying the bill.”

It is important for high schoolers to get involved with caucusing now because they are getting to the age where they are allowed to vote. Getting involved with the caucusing will help teenagers onto the right path for future preferences.

If there is a chance to go to the Iowa Caucus February 1st then take it, look online for where the Caucuses are being held. Visit cbjacketjournalism.com for more information on the Caucusing here in Iowa.

OPINION

Donald Trump: Orangutan Cami Wagaman Reporter

CBCSD students and advisors at Obama event. Photo by Nonpareil photographer Joe Shearer on Lindquist’s phone.

CBCSD journalists cover presidential visit Derrick Johnson Editor-in-Chief After an extensive entrance process and a long five hour wait, five jacket journalists got the chance to cover President Obama’s first visit to Omaha since 2008.

Seniors Ana Aguilar, Drew Cameron, Hannah Dieatrick, junior Martina Weaver, and myself teamed up with AL’s co-editors Danielle Rambo and Jessica Borwick to report Obama’s UNO campus visit. TJ was one of the three high schools to receive press credentials to the event.

Thousands of people lined up outside the doors, some

coming up to five hours before the public was even allowed in.

The arena held 6,500 people, but the total number inside the arena during the president’s speech was upward of 8,000.

Unlike most events, we weren’t treated like high school students and were mixed in with the other reporters from other Council Bluffs/Omaha papers. It was a surreal experience being able to actually see the president in person and hear one of his final speeches during his term.

He restated points from his State of Union address, which happened the night before, to reassure everyone that sticking together is crucial to being the best country possible. He also mentioned the importance of

today’s youth in politics and how we all deserve two free years of community college if we’re willing to work hard enough.

The arena’s energy was infectious and witnessing such a supportive and loud atmosphere was crazy. Signs welcoming the president were posted around the arena, the crowd even held up ‘OBAMAHA’ showing strong love for him as they did in 2008’s presidential election.

Although he spoke for about 45 minutes, the crowd’s cheers and the rush of reporting in it made it seem a lot shorter. It’s not often that a high school journalist is allowed into events as big as this one was. As a reporter, it was the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Everyone has heard about Donald Trump, whether they track politics or not. He is all over the internet and in the headlines, he’s the inspiration for thousands of ‘memes’, and he wants to be the President of the United States.

Trump has been compared to Hitler, Mussolini, Voldemort, and even an Orangutan. Trump has voiced his opinion multiple times, about how he feels about deporting Muslims from the United States, which ISIS is supportive of. ISIS believes that if muslims are kicked out of America, that they would get more supporters to fight against America.

One of Trump’s many low moments was when he made a speech about Mexico, stating that they are only sending over criminals, rapists, and drugs. He wants to build a wall to enforce the border, so illegal immigrants cannot cross, but he wants Mexico to build and pay for the wall themselves.

Although Donald Trump makes it known that he believes that everyone leading the U.S. is ‘stupid’, Trump believes that he could call Bill Gates to shut

down the internet, so that we can stop ISIS from persuading people in America to perform acts of terrorism.

“Tell Donald Trump: Hate is not an American value,” quoted Hillary Clinton, Democratic Presidential candidate, via Twitter, along with a picture saying ‘Love Trumps Hate’.

Clinton is not necessarily a walk in the park either, but when it comes to being President, I believe she would be a better choice for a leader.

Although companies that are owned by him have filed for bankruptcy four times, Trump himself has not. All four files for bankruptcy were connected to Casinos, Hotels, and Resorts that were all properties owned by Trump.

Other than wanting to deport American citizens who have earned their freedom, he repeatedly makes inappropriate jokes about his daughter, Ivanka Trump. He has said on multiple occasions that if Ivanka were not his daughter, and if he were not happily married, he would be dating her. Donald Trump, in my opinion, is no less than disgusting.

DONALD TRUMP: GOOD FOR THE GOVERNMENT online under the politics page at cbjacketjournalism.com.

SPORTS

Moon’s swim team diving straight into success Jordan McAlpine Reporter Now in his 9th year of coaching CB Swim, Coach Adam Moon is having another productive year with his swim team.

Moon started swimming competitively when he was just six, and although Moon’s role has changed from the one being in the water to the person standing along the pool, he still invests a lot of time in the sport.

Last season the CB swim team (which is comprised of swimmers from AL, Saint Albert and TJ) had a productive season and saw much improvement throughout the year. Coming into this year, Moon hopes to carry over their previous success as well as set some new school records, and many personal best times.

“We were just a little bit short of some state qualifiers last year,” said Moon. “Nearly all of our swimmers from last year are back this season so I would like to qualify for state in the individuals races and the teams relays.”

Moon says he didn’t expect to be coaching right away when he moved to Council Bluffs, but

due to his previous swimming experience, Moon was offered the job and has stuck with it ever since. He enjoys the job and appreciates getting to work with the kids on the team.

Coach Moon enjoys the time spent with his swimmers and wants them to enjoy their time in the water, but more importantly the time spent as a team.

“I want them to build long lasting friendships and have good teamwork. Since we have kids from both AL and TJ, I want to see the kids come together this

2/2/16 @ St. Albert 7:15

Girls Basketball:

2/2/16 vs. St. Albert 7:30

2/5/16 vs. Sioux City East 7:30

2/5/16 vs. Sioux City East 5:45

2/12/16 vs. Sergeant BluffLuton 7:30

2/8/16 vs. Sergeant BluffLuton 7:30

2/16/16 vs. Bishop Heelan 7:30

2/11/16 vs Bishop Heelan 7:30

Boys Swimming:

Varsity Wrestling:

2/6/16 District Meet @ Johnson, IA 12:30pm 2/13/16 State Meet vs.

Abraham-Lincoln @ Mashalltown, IA 12:00pm

hard work to be successful this season.

“I learned hard work is what makes you improve, so I’m trying as hard as I can this year to make it to state,” said sophomore Joseph Bain. “You can’t just walk onto the swim team and expect to be good based on how well you do in other sports.”

Bain has been swimming for 4 years and has invested a lot of effort and time in the water. He enjoys the amount of work and time it requires to become good at it. He looks to have a good

year and post good times this season, specifically in the 100 meter butterfly.

Fellow Sophomore swimmer Joseph Plourde is entered his 1st year of swimming for the CB Swim Team. Plourde also has been swimming for 4 years and looks forward to his first season at the high school level.

Plourde looks forward to having a successful first year of swimming at the high school level and has put a lot of time and work in so far in his favorite event, the 50 meter freestyle.

He hopes to see his swimmers continue to work hard and be successful so they can finish out this season strong. So far many swimmers have been improving and posting good personal times, but Moon wants to make sure his swimmers focus only on what they control.

The swim team returns to action at 4:30 on Tuesday, January, 19th when they host Sioux City North at Kirn Middle School. That will be followed up by a 9:00 Invitation at Lewis Central on Saturday, January, 23rd.

CB Swim team in action. Photo by Jordan McAlpine.

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season.”

The swim team has been practicing and competing in meets for just over 2 months and so far Coach likes what he has seen. Some of the swimmers have been in the water up to 8 times a week, plus competitions on top of them. This season the swimmers have put in a lot of work, practicing bright and early in the morning and at night, so they make sure they are ready and well prepared for their meets.

These swimmers devote a lot of time and have to put in a lot of

Clingenpeel having historic season for Jackets Dylan Harold Reporter

2/4/16 @ Norwalk 2/10/16 @ TBD

2/13/16 @ TBD (Times to be announced) Colton Clingenpeel wrestling at TJ. Photos submitted by Ria Stanfield.

Thomas Jefferson senior wrestler Colton Clingenpeel is in the middle of a season to remember for the Jackets, as he is now ranked 9th in the Nation for the 152 pound weight class.

Last season Clingenpeel was one of the leaders for the Jackets wrestling team and posted very good stats in a impressive season for Thomas Jefferson as team.

Even though last season was a very good one for Clingenpeel, he has done even better this year and up to this point has a flawless record. So far he has gone an astonishing 35-0 in his 152 pound weight class.

Clingenpeel hopes to continue to have the results he has so far this season and is looking to become the next state champion for Thomas Jefferson’s wrestling team. A Jacket wrestler hasn’t won a state title since 2004, but Clingenpeel hopes to change that this season. Clingenpeel and the Jackets next tournament is January 15th at home, the meet starts at 5:00 in the TJAC.

Even more stories online!

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NEWS

Artist breakdown: Twenty Øne Piløts Alejandro Vieyra Reporter Anybody who listens to music has their go-to genre they prefer to listen to, but there is a particular duo that can fit into many genres. Twenty One Pilots can be considered as an alternative-rock-rap duo that are rising to the top.

This small musical group started off in Columbus, Ohio in 2009 with three members and played mostly local venues along with releasing a YouTube based album. However, it was not until two members of the three left Tyler Joseph (lead singer) and Joshua Dun (drummer) joined, that things started to take off.

After Dun joined the group, him and Joseph released another album on YouTube entitled Regional at Best, but that was only the beginning. They played a sold out show in their home town (2011) which resulted in recording labels fighting to sign the duo. Atlantic Records was the first to grab them but they later went over to Fueled By Ramen.

It in the beginning of 2013, when their first studio album Vessel was released. It hit number 42 on overall digital album downloads and number 10 on the alternative charts.

Twenty One Pilots eventually got their television debut when they performed their single House of Gold on Conan in August of 2013.

Other performances include the 2014 MTV Movie Awards where the two also permormed Car Radio from Vessel and the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards where they performed in collaboration with ASAP Rocky.

Currently, their single, Stressed Out, from their most recent album Blurryface (2015) stands at number two on the all genres iTunes chart, surpassing artists like Adele and Justin Bieber.

This year they will be doing a tour starting this month called the Emotional Roadshow and will be doing a show in Lincoln NE on July 28th. Tickets are on sale now.

Photo courtesy of twentyonepilots.com

Cutting the Cord

Yearbook cover finally revealed

Tiana Larsen Reporter

With the rise of online streaming, online services have given cable companies more welcoming competition into the marketplace with long-time cable customers craving the new change.

As the new year comes along, getting rid of cable has become more common. The rise of cable prices and poor customer service have people reconsidering whether or not they still want it.

Cable subscribers have stopped using cable because the new content is starting to be available online. With the low cost of online streaming compared to traditional cable, ditching cable is something everyone is doing.

Instead of having cable, people are resorting to online streaming, such as Netflix and Hulu, because there is a lot more flexibility when using these services. Online streaming offers the ability to be canceled without any fees. Also, viewers can subscribe to their favorite shows and be notified when they are updated.

When you pay for Netflix, you are paying for thousands of

Editor Nick Mitchell holding the new yearbook cover.

Photo taken by Drew Cameron

Morgan Hanslip Reporter

Google Chromecast being used in Lindquist’s room. Photo by Tiana Larsen.

movies, documentaries, and TV shows that you can binge watch for however long you want to, similar to Hulu. However, both can be slow to update and also delete content which is why cable still stays a competitor.

Key Calendar Dates

February 2nd: Conferences February 6th: Snoball

Although online streaming may be cheaper, it does not mean that it is more efficient. Online streaming is continually getting popular but despite the trend of “cutting the cord”, cable T.V. seems to be staying around.

After months of anticipation, the yearbook staff finally revealed this year’s yearbook cover.

The theme of “Being Bold” was the focus for this year’s yearbook. Adjectives are used throughout it to show the individuality of every student and group in the school.

“Me and my section editor Jenefer were looking at different ideas that had been at conventions and chose the orange for highlights on the

focus of the pictures,” explained yearbook editor Nick Mitchell.

Many people may find themselves on the cover along with friends, showing school spirit or participating in activities or clubs.

This year’s yearbook is predicted to be out sometime in May or June. You can purchase your yearbook online at jostensyearbooks.com or recieve more information from Mr. Lindquist in room C128.

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