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CHANGING WANDO HIGH SCHOOL
volume 38, issue 5
MT PLEASANT, SC
dec. 13, 2012
THE
WORLD merry christmas bitches!!!
high school league » 4
mythbusters » 11
electronics » 20
cost of sports » 25
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cliff hanger
The fiscal cliff is looming, but what does that mean? Staff writer Grace Barry helps you understand the most pertinent economical and political issue in the country on page 5.
13 legg
calve perthes
A rare disease has struck twice in the same family. For freshman McLain Fowler, living life with this awful disease has been a struggle. Read about her journey on page 13.
facts & stats
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The PNC Christmas Price Index calculates the true cost of Christmas: $25,431.18. Want to know more? See www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com.
14 holiday
treats
24 fencing
18 singing
for a cure
27 powderpuff
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is baking food for all to share. Staff writer Anna Ewing shares some delicious recipes for Christmas treats on page 14.
Students joined together Dec. 2 for an afternoon of music to raise money for awareness of pancreatic cancer. Read more about why on page 18.
Junior Roman Shtompil has a unique passion -- fencing. He started the sport two years ago when he first moved to Mount Pleasant. To see how he grew to love the sport, see page 24.
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christmas statistics
we asked wando: who do you
do you enjoy giving or receiving gifts more?
buy gifts for?
parents 47% friends boy/girlfriend 29% siblings grandparents 14.5% other total polled // 55
With the annual Powerpuff game, girls gathered for an evening of fun and football. Check out the photos on page 27.
38.8% 32.7% 9%
giving getting both equal neither
16.6% 20.3% 61% 1.8%
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the razor’s edge
nutella
Razor’s Edge is my favorite book. My older brother recomended it to me about a year ago, and I’ve loved it ever since. It is so well written, and the journeys the characters go through are so inspiring.
lychee jelly
I love Nutella, and I eat it straight from the jar and on top of ice cream and fried everything – that’s probably the best way.
I loved Lychee Jellies since I was little and my mom bought them for quilt The quilt is special to me be- me. Lychee Jellies are these magicause my mom and grandma hand cal little Asian nuggets of yummy. stiched it when I was born, and its like my blankie. I’ve always been pillow super careful with it. There are The pillow is the first thing I ever some parts that I’ve even sewed sewed. I embroidered the little roses on it when I was four. back together myself.
ALL PHOTOS BY LIZ BENSON // editor
getting to know » freshman bhavani srinivas things I can’t live without
headphones My headphones are special beBiscoff is this delicious cookie cause I love listening to music and spread that I always eat with my how comfy they are and the mint green color. friend.
biscoff spread
future plans
I want to go to a good liberal arts college like Brown or Middlebury or Williams and maybe become a cultural
anthropolgist. I might want to be a professor or open up a small shop and sell stuff I make and teach people.
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SCHSL What is the High School League? By 1920, a new constitution was adopted, and this transferred control of the organization from the University of South Carolina to the high school officials. In 1921, the name of the Inter-High School Athletic and Oratorical Association of South Carolina was changed to the “South Carolina High School League.” Since the League was increasing in membership, they had to rewrite the Constitution in 1933, then again in 1948. Also in 1948, the League became a member of the National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations. In 1954, the League gained 100 percent representation of the public high schools of SC. The membership of 2011-12 numbered 206 high schools and 208 junior high and middle schools.
Tuesday, Nov. 13 The SCHSL commissioner Jerome Singleton ruled the Goose Creek Gators as using an ineligible player. They had to forfeit all games from the season, including a playoff win.
Wednesday, Nov. 14 The executive commitee upheld Singleton’s decision during a closed session, a violation of the Freedom of Information Act.
Friday, Nov. 16 The Gators took their case to court and were allowed to play their game against Bluffton that night. Circuit Judge Rodger Young presided and granted the order to allow the Gators to play. Also, Young ruled that the executive commitee had to meet on Nov. 19.
Monday, Nov. 19 There is an open session to reconsider eligibility requirements based on rules. The committee again ruled against Goose Creek, ending their appearance in the playoffs.
Tuesday, Nov. 20 Goose Creek officials held a press conference about the case to discuss options.
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ruling on field stands reedy questions if high school league power should be reconsidered jonathan rice co-editor-in-chief You realize you have broken the law. You drive yourself to the police station and turn yourself in, hoping the punishment will be reduced. The officer promptly arrests you, and your consequences are the same as if you had never turned yourself in. What incentive do you have to own up to your mistakes in the future? For Goose Creek’s nationally-ranked football team and its Coach Chuck Reedy, an unintentional violation, self-reported within two hours of discovery, led to forfeiting a season worth of victories and a chance to repeat as state Division II-AAAA champions. Reedy said the violation was unintentional, and it occurred when Goose Creek allowed a fifth year player to play because of a mix-up in his records. When the young man filed for eligibility for football, the transcript showed that he was eligible. However, when he filed for eligibility for basketball, a new transcript was available that made this his fifth year in high school. “Based on this information, we selfreported in less than an hour and a half. We felt like that was the right thing to do and we felt like we would be treated fairly by doing that. There was no intent to break a rule, and there was no competitive advantage gained in any way,” Reedy said in a telephone interview Dec. 5. Despite Reedy’s action, the SCHSL made Goose Creek forfeit all of its games from this season – the same punishment given to a school that is caught playing an ineligible player. Self-reporting the violation did not soften the blow. SCHSL Director Jerome Singleton was unavailable for comment. “This tells everyone that self reporting a violation, whether it be a minor violation or a major violation, serves no purpose. It doesn’t benefit you in any way, shape or form,” Reedy said. “Therefore, I think a lot
of people will be very reluctant self report- champions, and we were two games away ing anything knowing that the High School from doing that,” he said. “Not one perLeague will take what you reported and use son on the team did a single thing wrong, it against you.” not even the young man in question. By The controversy has brought the the league’s constitution the young man SCHSL under direct scrutiny. Every public was eligible.” South Carolina high school that particiAlthough Reedy cannot do anything pates in athletics is a member of SCHSL, to change the ruling of the SCHSL, he which is an independent organization. said he is working to prevent this from Wando football coach Jimmy Noonan happening to other schools. praised Reedy’s decision to self-report, say“I am strongly going to encouring it was a positive reflection of the Goose age the legislature to take a look at the Creek program. High School League to determine if they “The only way to make any wrong should even have a charter,” Reedy said. right is self admission,” Noonan said, “and “We have an entity who answers to no one I applaud Coach Reedy for doing that.” and basically does what they want to do… Because Goose Creek was forced to everything they do is to penalize people forfeit all of its games -- including in the and I don’t think that is what the organiplayoffs, where the Gators had already won zation should stand for.” their first two playoff games -- the Gators Reedy said he and other local athwere eliminated from the postseason. letic directors are working to amend the “If they would have turned themselves High School League and its constituin after two games, then we would have tion. Currently there is not a punishment never heard about it, because they would that matches up with every crime. While have forfeited those two games and still certain punishments do exist for some been eligible for violations, he the playoffs,” “This tells everyone that self said, not every Athletic Direcviolation is adtor Bob Hayes. reporting a violation, whether it dressed. “It just so hap- be a minor violation or a major “We are pened that it going to prowas discovered violation, serves no purpose.” posing to put after a playoff some levels of game.” penalties and Hayes aplevels of vioplauds Reedy’s lations in the action and he said the incident proves the constitution because right now there are need for attention to detail. no guidelines of how to enforce the rules,” “I know coach Reedy, and he is an Reedy said. “I am going to do everything honorable guy and a truthful guy, and if that I can to bring some common sense he made a mistake he is going to admit to because right now they are out of control.” it,” Hayes said. “As an athletic director it reWhile Reedy and other coaches try minds me how important it is to make sure to change the High School League, the that we are crossing our T’s and dotting league is determining the final verdict. our I’s because we are talking about young “Based on the fact that Goose Creek people’s eligibility, and we are also talking may have to forfeit a game to us -- our reabout a lot of other kids. None of us in this cord would change and then everything profession want to go in there and tell our changes. Everyone is waiting on notificateam that because of something that hap- tion of that,” Hayes said. pened off of the field they aren’t able to This opens the door to the possibilcompete for a championship.” ity that Wando could become the Region Reedy views the punishment dealt by 7-AAAA champions for the 2012 season. the SCHSL as unfair and unjustified. “No one wants to backdoor their way “If we had been an average football into any award or win by default,” Noonteam it would have been bad enough, but an said. “I look forward to the day that we these guys had won 26 straight games, can say that we won one outright with no and their whole goal was to repeat as state controversy.”
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approaching a deadline f f i l c l a c s i f e
The United States fiscal cliff will begin at the start of 2013, if nothing changes. A term used to describe an over-50 percent reduction of the United States budget deficit due to the culmination of multiple laws -- including the end of the Bush tax cuts and the spending The cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act f i s of 2011. This dramatic reduction in defcal cliff, if no icit is expected to cause a small reagreement is reached, cession, from which the U.S. is will come about as a result of expected to recover from the compromises that were reached late in 2013, if it hapduring the 2012 Budget Crisis. However, the pens at all. fiscal cliff will, according to the Congressional Budget Office, have positive long-term effects on both deficit and debt, which may be more beneficial than the short-term negative effects. In the end, the fiscal cliff ultimately presents an ages-old economic conundrum: Should we sacrifice in the short term or in the long term?
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if there is a delay
The most likely outcome is a delay through a series of stop-gap measures that would push the decision until mid-2013 or later. The change, even if the U.S. hits the cliff, is not as disastrous as the term implies. The changes will be gradual and will not be felt until later in 2013. The changes when enacted will greatly affect the 1,000 government programs whose spending will be cut.
the democrats
Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, have proposed a plan that would increase taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. These taxes would be implemented on individuals earning over $200,000 a year and households earning over $250,000 a year. These taxes would return the country to the Clintonera tax levels.
the federal government has three options:
the proposed plans
These are the plans proposed how to fix the the fiscal cliff and lower the deficit.
bowles-simpson plan, $4 trillion
The Bowles-Simpson Plan assumes that the Bush-era tax cuts given to the wealthy will expire. After this assumption adds around $0.8 trillion to their baseline, they start tax reform. This includes phasing out employer health care exclusion by 2038, tax municipal bonds, cap tax-preferred retirement contributions and eliminating all other tax expenditures.
obama plan, $2 trillion
the republicans
Republicans, led by Speaker of the House John Boehner, offered a plan that would increase revenue by $0.8 trillion, but does not include a tax on the wealthiest Americans. Rather, the plan would cut $0.6 trillion in health programs, moving the age to acquire Medicare from 65 to 67, and reducing benefits for more a fluently elderly citizens. The Republicans have reached out by suggesting to close loopholes on the taxes in question.
Obama’s plan actually raises $1.6 trillion in new revenue, but when added to a $0.2 trillion proposed stimulus, the result would be a net sum of $1.4 trillion. This amount would come exclusively from wealthy Americans. He would achieve this by letting the Bush tax cuts expire and limit the size of deductions they can take.
republican plan, $2.2 trillion
health care
would like to 1. Let the current policy set for 2013 go into effect. This includes Democrats cut $350 billion over the a series of tax increases and spending cuts that are suspected to next 10 years from federal drive the economy back into a recession, but the deficit would be health care programs Mediexpected to be cut in half. care and Medicaid. The house Republicans would 2. The government can cancel some or all of the spending cuts like to cut a total of $600 and tax increases, which in turn would add to the deficit and pos- billion in 10 years from the sibly force the United States into a similar situation as Europe. same health care providers, raise the eligible age 3. They could find a middle ground that would include spending for Medicare and increase Medicare costs for highercuts and tax increases, but more to a limited extent. This, howincome Americans. ever, would mean a more modest impact on growth. --compiled by grace barry and madison ivey
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Republicans want to increase revenues by $0.8 trillion and cut rates. They want $0.6 trillion in health care cuts, but their plan is not fully formulated as of the moment. Source http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-thefiscal-cliff-plans-in-charts/265901/
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briefs
1 holiday concert
1a
JADE YOUNG // staff
3b
COURTESY OF NANCY DOYLE
LUCIE WALL // staff
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Fifty-seven chorus students were selected for All-State Chorus, the highest number of students to qualify in Charleston County and the second highest number in the whole state. Students will travel to Winthrop University in Rock Hill between March 7-9 to participate. There, they will work with world-class choir conductors and perform a concert. “All-state is a great experience for the students because they’re reading at such a high level and working with such outstanding clinicians,” choir director Mary Elizabeth Goodson said. “They all come back really inspired.” Chorus members presented their annual Holiday Concert Dec. 4 (1A). -- georgia barfield
2 light parade
For the first time, a float representing ‘Wando life’ could be seen in the annual Mt. Pleasant Light Parade Dec. 9. The float’s creation was due to the efforts of the Wando Student Council and spearheaded by junior Taylor Ireland. Wando’s addition to Sunday’s parade was envisioned as something “that would represent Wando and all the different clubs and organizations,” Student Body President Ashley Norman said. “It’s a tradition we hope to continue.” -- andrew taylor
3 new sidewalk COURTESY OF NANCY DOYLE
Nancy Doyle’s exceptional educational class teamed up with ROTC and the horticulture class to build a walkway from the teacher parking lot to the school Nov. 9-15. The exceptional education program won a $5000 Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant— a sum enabling students to both convenience teachers on their way into school but also apply geometry and algebra in the real world. “The experience has been incredibly beneficial for all groups involved,” Doyle said. “It was an awesome experience.” (3A) Doyle and freshman Zachary Bennett work on the sidewalk together, while (3B) ROTC members work together. -- andrew taylor
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notable achievements
First place winner of the business finance series senior Eric Wagenlander sits with a judge and presents his finance plan Dec. 5. “It was a greart experience. I also have to thank Mr. [Kirk] Beilke, Mr. [Ray] McGrath and Mrs. [Sharon] Ansley for preparing the competition,” Wagenlander said.
Junior Annalise Bowen, who works at Page’s Okra Grill, was selected as the Internship Star Employee for the month of December. “ I was a little suprised,” Bowen said. “It was really cool because I was given a $25 gas card.”
Junior Joseph Landing was a finalist in the science fiction category in the 2012 USA Book Awards. “I was pretty happy because I have been submitting to a lot of competitions and it feels good to finally get something,” Landing said.
JADE YOUNG // staff
DECA competition kicks off Five DECA students won first place when the DECA team participated in the Individual Series Events against 11 different coastal high schools Dec. 5. This competition consisted of the team choosing role play events out of 13 specific categories of business, from accounting to food marketing, before arriving at Wando. “They have eight minutes to prep a particular
» quiz bowl The quiz bowl team participated in an annual academic quiz bowl challenge at the University of South Carolina on Saturday, Dec. 1. Overall, 21 different schools competed against each other, and Wando won third place. “I feel like we did really well,” senior quiz bowl team member Kelsey Vories said. “I thought we could have done much better in the semi-finals and actually might have gone on to win it but getting third place, I mean, I’m proud of us.” The quiz bowl coach, Daniel Cieslikowski, agreed, but said the only thing they could have improved was their speed on simple questions. “They did very well,” Cieslikowski said. “[I am] pleased with their epic knowledge.” According to Vories, though, the team is planning on doing even better in the next season which starts Jan. 24th. “I think we have a lot of new people who are really good. Jack Meagher and I are both seniors and we’ve been on the team for four years,” she said. “I think with all of us together we’re going to do really well.” --sarah yergin
specific category in business . . . they are then put in their sections of their categories and they have 10 minutes to read a business scenario which they go over with a judge,” DECA advisor Kirk Beilke said. Wando had 69 registered participants. Six students won second place and seven won third place. --anna ewing
» quick notes The Cyber Warriors team competed in their first competition Nov. 17 at Charleston defense contractor company SPARC. The team received a total of seven out of 10 points in the CyberPatriot competition. Their goal was to clean up a pre-infected operating system as quickly as possible with a five hour limit. “We learn the basics of cyber security, the ins and outs of computers and systems, and we utilize that knowledge to go into the CyberPatriot competition run by the air force,” team member Peyton Jones said. --sarah heywood a Team Kutcher/Team Joe T-shirt, available in » Buy room B232 for $12 to help fight against Pancreatic cancer.
1 and 2 are holding class presentations on Dec. » Drama 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Black Box. They will be performing four shows and admission is free. --madison ivey
AP Government and Economics teacher Misty LeClerc was awarded December Teacher of the Month. “I felt honored that my colleagues felt so highly of me,” LeClerc said.
Bookkeeper Sarah White was awarded December Staff Member of the month. “I just feel awesome about it,” she said. “I’ve been here eight years, and this is my first time to win.”
Senior Suzie Vallez was selected as the Co-op Star Employee for the month of December. “I felt really happy and surprised when I won,” Vallez said. “Only four people win in a semester and I was really honored when I found out.”
Senior Abby Wedlake was awarded the Young People’s Art Award from the Exchange Club. “It feels really good to win because it will look good on my college resume,” said Wedlake. “And hopefully it will get me some scholarships for college.”
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lost in the woods
1. first aid kit IAN HURLOCK // editor
police search ensues after car crash in deserted area
top 9 things to keep in your car
megan parks
2. flashlight/flares
writing editor Her predicament was made worse by the elements. Cold air pierced through her thin yoga pants and Patagonia, making the notion of sleep an impossibility. Incessant thirst and aching hunger – resulting from a busy workday with no lunch. And, plunging further into the unknown, an unforgiving black sky veiled her sight. Senior Kylie Hutchins woke up early Dec 1, to take the SAT. Hutchins went through her day as usual, making decisions that would lead to one outcome. Lost, wrecked and desolate. Hutchins got out of work at Chickfil-A at 10:40 p.m. With 20 percent phone battery and a quarter tank of gas, she thought she would be able to make it to junior Haley Sedgwick’s house in Huger. Turning out of the parking lot, Hutchins contemplated her choice of direction. Turn right to Wal-Mart and buy a phone charger? Or take a left and go on to Huger? She went left. To avoid taking back roads, Hutchins opted for a different route than usual. She guided herself using her phone’s GPS. Around 11:30 p.m., Hutchins is lost. She calls her friend for help, and Sedgwick suggests meeting at the BP gas station, about 20 minutes from Hutchins’ current location. “A couple minutes later, I’m driving and I get into a pot hole. I spin out into a ditch and I hit a tree,” Hutchins said. Shaken and unsettled, trying to keep calm, Hutchins first calls Sedgwick. “She was freaking out. She told me she was going to call the cops,” Sedgwick said. “And I was like ‘Okay, you said you’re in Huger, I’m going to be there soon, tell me what road you’re on.’” Unsure of her location, Hutchins tells Sedgwick she’s stranded in a ditch on Farewell Center. Because of the unspecified instruction, Sedgwick and her mom begin the search on Farewell Center road
You never know when you are going to get in an accident or when you are going to slip on your friend’s stairs and scrape up your leg. The kit should contain bandages, wraps and a soothing cream for burns because airbags may cause burns. In case the battery fails and the hazard lights cannot be turned on, you need to provide some signal that you are there and alert on-coming cars.
3. high visibility vest Glad that her car is still functioning and she was not injuried, senior Kylie Hutchins shows off the dried mud on the side of her car, the only sign the accident ever happened.
instead of lane, where she’s currently stuck -- one mile away. “Then I call 911, and before I was able to say anything, my phone went dead,” Hutchins said. After driving for two hours, Sedgwick and her mom were out of answers, still looking for a lost girl. “So it finally started to settle in, what if we don’t find Kylie? What if she’s gone?” Sedgwick said. A hysterical Sedgwick continued sending frantic text messages, with the faint hope that Hutchins was able to read them. “I failed to ask her if she was okay when she called me and said she had gotten into an accident,” Sedgwick said. “I just assumed, since she was calling me, that she was okay. And so I thought, maybe, what if she had gotten a concussion? And she was lying outside, and she was practically dying?” Sitting in her small Suzuki Vatara, Hutchins begins to wonder when she will be found. “It was in dense Huger -- I’m in the middle of Marion National Forest at this point,” Hutchins said. “You couldn’t see my flashers. I was on a one way dirt road. Just trees, high grass. It was pitch black. I hadn’t seen anything for 20 minutes.” At around 1:45 a.m., still trapped and directionless, Hutchins realizes she must take action. “I get on my hands and knees, digging the roots out from my car. I’m breaking up the trees so I can get out. The side’s all scratched up and bent in on a couple of
parts. My mirror’s off,” she said. “I end up digging myself out, but I still don’t have cell phone service and I don’t know how far I should go since they were looking for me.” Finally free from the clutches of the dirt road, Hutchins arrives at a four-way intersection. “I had gone straight, I would’ve been on Farewell Center Road and I probably would’ve run into them,” Hutchins said. “But instead, I went right.” After driving for about a mile, Hutchins drove into an area of the road that seemed secure, but abruptly dropped off into another ditch – getting lodged in the mud again. After a sleepless night, Hutchins decides that at around 7:00 am, when the sun begins to rise, she would walk to an address she remembered passing. But at 6:45, Hutchins saw headlights for the first time since she left highway 17 that night. It was one of the 20 state troopers that had been looking for Hutchins, joined in pursuit by the Berkeley and Charleston Country police department and a helicopter search. ‘You’re a sight for sore eyes’ was the first thing the state trooper said before giving her his jacket – the first thing the shivering Hutchins heard after eight hours. A couple of minutes later, another trooper pulled up with food and water. But Hutchins’ car was still firmly lodged in the ditch. In the end, Hutchins was surrounded by 12 state troopers. It took six of them to push her car out, four escorting her back to Highway 41 and two escorting her home.
A vest will come in handy for accidents at night. On-coming cars can see you, and it may even be used to flag down help.
4. jumper cables
You never know when your battery is going to fail and the car won’t start. Any car can help you jump your car, but not everyone carries one of these. It’s better to be safe and spend $30 to save yourself the money from calling a tow truck.
5. duct tape
You never know when you are going to need to do a quick fix, and duct tape will at least supply a binding material in a pinch.
6. various tools
Various Tools: Tools may be the last thing on peoples mind after they get in an accident, but it could save you from having to be towed. I would bring a lug wrench, a few screw drivers, a jack, a fire extinguisher and an aerosol can of inflator/sealer for a quick fix of a flat tire.
8. white rag
White Rag: A white rag hanging from the driver’s side door is the universal symbol for broken down. Always keep a rag or a towel in your car in case of a breakdown on a road to flag down other drivers.
9. $10
$10: Keep $10 in the glove box at all times, you never know when you’ll get stuck in a bind in a parking garage, or your cell phone is dead and will need to use a payphone. -- ian hurlock
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not so different after all life with two mothers, two sisters is the norm for junior sarah heywood staff writer The robot is relatively small compared to the washing machine-sized FRC one he’d be working on later in the week. It’s roughly the length and width of a textbook, with plastic tank treads and an arm for scooping up beanbags. His mom Jennifer* leans over it, looking curious. In just a few minutes, they’ll be heading home to have dinner. Many of their days end late like this one. “There’s the robotics, and the girls have their extracurricular things. We’re either running to piano lessons or robot meetings and practices or plays that they’re in or other special things they’re doing. We’re running all the time,” Jennifer said. But despite being so busy, they always have the time to share a meal together before the day ends. What makes junior Sam* stand out from his peers is not his busy schedule, which many of his close friends share, but his family. Sam was conceived using donated sperm and an egg from Jennifer, who birthed him. His sisters, who are in the seventh grade, were born from Jennifer’s partner of 27 years, Emily*. “My twin sisters are half sisters. They’re from the same donor,” Sam said. And although Emily is not biologically related to Sam, he has always considered her to be another mom to him, his second parent. “Two moms, two twin sisters and two dogs that are both female!” Sam said. Yet Sam does not see having two moms as being even vaguely remarkable. “We’re just a normal family, just like anybody else,” he said. “There really isn’t any difference between us and any other family.” Jennifer and Emily agree, as they see no difference in the way they raise Sam and his sisters compared with that of heterosexual couples. “Parenting is parenting,” Jennifer said. “We are as engaged and involved in our children’s lives as any parent. And we are as
concerned and as loving and as grateful for our children as any parent.” Yet some of the challenges faced by Sam and his family are very unique to LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) households. Some are small -- others, not so much. “Probably the biggest challenge is that every form you fill out asks for the mother’s name or the father’s name, and sometimes I mark through father and put my name, or sometimes I just ignore it,” Jennifer said. So far, however, having children provided the biggest obstacles for Jennifer and Emily. They could not conceive children by themselves and when they finally had Sam and his sisters, there was then the matter of dealing with unsupportive family members. “We had to try way, way, way harder to have children, and we had to go through a lot more hoops to have children,” Jennifer said. “But that just makes them more wanted and more appreciated, perhaps, because we did have the struggles. Not just struggles with family members – which are and have been for us, big struggles -- but also worries about the community, worries about school, worries about their friends – you know, if they’re not going to be asked to sleep over at a friend’s house because of who their parents are.” Their greatest fears lie in the sticky legal matters which set them apart from traditional households. Because Jennifer and Emily cannot marry in the state of South Carolina – nor would an out-of-state marriage be recognized here – they must find creative ways to circumvent some of the gaps in their legal rights as parents. “We had to go through a special adoption of each other’s children, biological children, just to make sure that they were protected under the law… It doesn’t protect me or Emily, it protects the children,” Jennifer said. Protected, in the sense that if something happened to Jennifer or to Emily, Sam’s grandparents would not be able to take him and his sisters away because Jennifer and Emily are now the legal parents of all three children. Aside from that,
Sam and his family are exceedingly normal. Even bullying, an issue which causes a lot of fear among parents from every walk of life, has hardly caused any problems for Sam or his sisters. “It [bullying] really hasn’t been an issue,” Emily said. “A few snarky comments from the elementary school kids is as bad as it got, and he [Sam] handled it better than I did,” Jennifer said. Most of the comments Sam receives nowadays about his family tend to be inquisitive and positive. “In fact now, a lot of people kinda think it’s cool,” he said. And it’s not much of a secret – Jennifer and Emily go to PTA meetings and teacher nights together. Their names and Sam’s were withheld from this article because of worry for Emily’s teaching job, which could be jeopardized by parents unhappy with this knowledge, not because of fear for Sam’s safety. So when his moms stress about school, it’s mostly
about his grades. “I think having two moms, you get a lot more worrying around the house ‘cause women worry more,” Sam said. “They constantly ask me what I’m doing in class, are always worried about my grades and my biological mom probably checks powerschool every day.” His biological father is a different story. “I don’t think he knows I exist,” Sam said. “He was just a donor.” While he would like to meet his father one day, it’s not one of the biggest things on his mind – especially since he feels he hasn’t missed much by not having his father in his life. “My mom actually kinda leans toward a dad figure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her wear a dress,” Sam said. For his family, what they have is normal. “I never knew any different,” Sam said. “Our household is just like anyone else’s,” Emily said. *name changed
RACHAEL NUZUM // STAFF
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busting the myths Ever wondered if the myths you’ve heard all your life are true? Tribal Tribune staffers Sam Walker and Ellie McDermott take a look at some common folklore to see if it is true.
Myth: The MSG in Chinese food causes hunger and sleepiness. “MSG [Monosodium Glutamate] is a naturally-occurring product, and it does not make you sleepy, and it does not necessarily make you hungry,” said Bill Twaler, head of Wando’s Culinary department. “What it does is give you a sense of fullness, so you eat less and you have the idea that you’re full before you [actually] are. That’s why you eat a big Chinese dinner and then twenty minutes later you’re hungry again, because there’s less food [in your stomach],” Twaler said.
Myth: Sugar makes you hyper When babysitting a child, the mother will usually tell you to not give the child anything sugary, especially before bedtime because they will bounce of the walls due to hyperactivity from the sugar. Studies show that this commonly believed fact is not true. Dr. Wolraich of the University of Iowa did an experiment where he got together a group of normal preschoolers and then preschoolers who are apparently “sensitive” to sugar. He gave them sucrose, or common table sugar, then he also gave them artificial sweeteners called aspartame and saccharin which normally have no effect on behavior. He deducted that there were no differences in the children’s behaviors. This very well-known “fact” that we hear around every Halloween and when we drink a soda is in fact not true. S o u rc e : h t t p : / / www.yalescientific. org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-reallymake-children-hyper/
Myth: Stress turns your hair gray People often say that if you stress too much you’ll give yourself gray hair. Well, don’t stress because this is not true! Every hair on your head has melanin that gives it its color. As we grow older its start die out making our hair color turn gray. But scientists have not found any indications that this process is linked to stress. Source: http://www2.counton2.com/ news/2012/nov/05/medical-myth-does-stresscause-your-hair-gray-ar-4902744/ ALL PHOTOS BY JADE YOUNG
Myth: Chicken noodle soup cures colds The ideal food to eat when you’re sick is chicken noodle soup because it makes you feel better. The old wives’ tale is that it cures the common cold, which is partly true. It doesn’t cure the cold completely, but it does reduce the inflammation in the lungs caused by colds by slowing down the white blood cell activity. So when you’re sick, a nice hot bowl of chicken noodle will, just like your mom always told you, make you feel better. Source: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/popularold-wives-tales-fiction-or-fact#slide2=&slideshow=slide5
Myth: Butter helps soothe burns It has been rumored that applying butter to a burned area of the skin alleviates its severity. “I don’t know anything about that kind of voodoo. I’ve heard about those things like butter, mustard,” said Bill Twaler, the head of Wando’s Culinary department. “Maybe butter is supposed to draw the heat out, [but] I just stick my hand in ice water.”
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persevering through the pain Despite leg disease, Fowler draws strength from family
Freshman McLain Fowler plays guitar. Fowler has suffered from a leg disease called Legg Calve Perthes since a young age.
kasey gouge staff writer
JODI LEE//staff
For freshman McLain Fowler, life hasn’t always been easy. She has trouble with something that most people take for granted. When she was little, she was diagnosed with Legg Calve Perthes disease, a debilitating disease that complicates walking. McLain didn’t fully comprehend Legg Calve Perthes disease at the time of her diagnosis. “I was really little so I didn’t really know. I didn’t really understand exactly, it actually took a year for me to understand a lot as I got older,” she said. “I guess it was kind of scary not really knowing much about it and then having all these surgeries so young.” Living with Legg Calve Perthes disease is not easy. A lack of blood flow to the hip bone causes it to crack, giving the tendons and cartilage a chance to pop and become useless. Prosthetic tendons and knee cartilage are necessary since the disease has progressed. Constant pain in the knee, upper leg and back cause McLain to take painkillers to subside the pain. Living with the constant pain and unknowns of the disease is a struggle everyday. “I’m used to it, it doesn’t really scare me anymore… there’s nothing I can do,” McLain said. McLain’s sister, junior Maggie Fowler, continues to encourage her. “If I’m hurting or something, she’ll distract me, she’ll keep me company if I’m in pain or if I don’t want to go out anywhere...she’s really supportive,” McLain said. Maggie helps her sister in any way she can, aiding McLain Spanish and math homework to help her stay caught up on school work. An absence in school is something McLain knows very well. “She’s had a lot [of surgeries] and so she’s always in Baltimore because that’s where she gets the surgeries, so my mom is always gone too…sometimes gone for like a month at a time,” Maggie said. “I have to take care of her a lot... after her surgeries.” That’s nine surgeries to be exact. Accepting her disease proves to be difficult for McLain -- the reality that she is far from normal takes a toll on her everyday life. “I can’t even actually walk around school and everywhere I go out in public…it’s just cause you see everyone walking and it’s kind of humiliating…I guess I just want to be normal,” McLain said. Doing normal, mundane things can be a task in itself
for McLain. She usually doesn’t go out with her friends because she has to use her wheelchair for the long distances. She is faced with back problems and is constantly in pain. Simple things -- leaving class a few minutes early or walking aided by crutches -- can put a spotlight on her limitations. The rare prognosis of this disease causes deterioration to the hip bone, and then allows itself to recover on its own. A usual case of Legg Calve Perthes will last about three to four years, but in her rare case, McLain has been fighting for much longer. It’s been five years since McLain’s disease was expected to subside. But the rarity of McLain’s case is nothing compared to her 18-year-old brother’s, George. “Well my brother actually had it first… and right when he was released [recuperated] [McLain] was diagnosed, and we were the first family in the world to have two kids [with the disease] … because it’s not genetic or anything,” Maggie said. McLain’s brother, George Fowler, was diagnosed around the third grade and received a fixator to correct the cracked bone. A fixator is a steel device that is implanted and drilled into the hip bone for a period of time to slowly correct the blood flow. After the fixator, he received a brace/cast for a longer period of time to set the bone in its correct spot.
George is one of McLain’s biggest inspirations because he has been through the same thing she is experiencing. Knowing that there is an end to the disease helps to keep McLain going. McLain’s mom has become an expert in taking care of children with this disease because two of her children have suffered from it. “It’s made me do things I didn’t think I was capable of doing. It’s made me be a nurse when I didn’t think I could be,” she said. “It’s made me be a teacher when I didn’t think I could be. It’s made me very, very appreciative of walking. Just something so simple as walking.” Facing no certain cure for the disease McLain’s mom often finds herself obtaining as much as she can about the prognosis. “I’ve done a lot of studying and reading and research. I’ve listened to the people that came before that had any information to give me and tell me that what could be done and what couldn’t be done and what should and shouldn’t,” she said. McLain’s mom has learned to strengthen McLain through a little tough love. “She usually hates it when I say this but I just tell her to suck it up and that it could be worse and try to think of the things she can do versus the things that she can’t.”
“...we were the first family in the world to have two kids [with the disease] ...” mclain fowler
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holiday recipes
reindeer run
staffer shares holiday experience
IAN HURLOCK// editor
hershey kiss & m&m pretzel treat
ingredients:
ered cookie sheet 4. Unwrap the kisses 5. Place them on top of the pretzels 1. Regular Pretzels 6. Place the cookie sheet in the oven 2. Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses for only 3-4 minutes, or until the choc3. M&Ms olate is melted (make sure you keep an eye on the treats so that the chocolate keeps its shape but the pretzels do not 1. Get regular pretzels, Hershey’s Choco- dry out) late kisses, and M&Ms 7. Press one M&M onto each kiss 2. Preheat oven to 225 degrees Fahrenheit 8. Place the sheet into the fridge to let 3. Place the pretzels spread out on a cov- them harden
directions:
IAN HURLOCK // editor
reindeer cupcakes
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madi brandli, staff writer The cold wind stung my face as it blew while the sun began to peek out. It was early morning—around 8:00 a.m. My best friend, Maddie, and I had picked our best Christmas sweaters, laced up our tennis shoes and headed downtown for the annual Reindeer Run. For us, it is a tradition. During our 8 years of friendship, we have never missed an opportunity to run the Reindeer Run. And out of all those years, I do not believe we have actually ever “run” the course. We walk. Slowly, but moving our arms quickly to make it seem like we are exerting energy into the race. One year, we completely ditched the race altogether. We ended up walking off course to Maddie’s aunt’s downtown apartment, had waffles with her cousins, and walked back as if we had been running the whole time. Our parents were thrilled with our times, but later had a good laugh learning about our whereabouts that morning. Getting a good time or ranking in the race was never our goal. Our only goal is to enjoy ourselves, catch up on what’s going on in each other’s lives and basking in the holiday spirit. My favorite part has always been when we get to the Battery. The cool breeze of the ocean is such a relief during our run. There is nothing prettier than running under the shade of the oak trees, looking at the waterside houses and just enjoying the city.
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directions: recipe:
1. Pillsbury Cupcake Mix 2.Vanilla Wafers
3. Chocolate and Vanilla Frosting 4. M&Ms 5. Chocolate Chips
1. Bake cupcakes regularly, can be home-made or out of the box 2. Frost with chocolate icing once cool enough 3. Top with pretzels as the antlers on the side (as shown) 4. Place Nilla Wafers on the bottom center as the face 5. Place white M&Ms on either sides of the top of the wafer as the eyes 6. Place brown and red M&Ms on top of the wafers as the nose
side note: As the Christmas season surrounds us, it’s hard to not want to have a bite of the festive treats that come with it.These fun treats are not only easy to enjoy, but easy to make as well and can turn into simple and meaningful gifts. -- anna grace ewing
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ALL PHOTOS BY JADE YOUNG // staff
Senior Evan Heins laughs as one of four of the cats he is currently fostering crawls over his chest and onto his back. “I mean, everyone loves kittens...” Heins said. “You only have to keep them in the good parts, when they’re cute, and you don’t have to deal with them forever.”
fostering kittens gives heins family opportunity to help animals find shelter deirdre borland staff writer The moment your foot enters the door, it is assaulted by a tiny mass of black fur. One small kitten hangs from your leg, another from your shoe, yet another meows out for food. A room filled with kittens: for many, it’s a dream. For senior Evan Heins, however, it’s all in a normal morning. Heins is one of many who choose to foster, a unique decision that gives kittens without a home a greater shot at being adopted. With local stray cats estimated in the millions in South Carolina alone, the process allows stray kittens the chance to be socialized as well as spayed or neutered. “We basically take the kittens in when they’re young and get them accustomed to humans until they’re old
One of the four kittens looks on as his foster siblings play with their toys below. The cats stay upstairs in a bedroom where they are checked on frequently and played with daily.
enough to be spayed and neutered,” Heins said. “Then we give them back and they get adopted. We don’t keep them, we just get them for a little bit and give them back.” The process of fostering can take anywhere from two to six weeks, Heins explained. Socialization, getting them used to human contact, is key for finding the kittens permanent homes; and it’s a family effort. “We started in the beginning of the summer. My mom has a friend at her work that was talking about how she does it, so my mom thought she’d do it,” Heins said. Donna Heins admits to being skeptical at first. “I thought at first, how could you not get attached to them?” she said. “But you’re doing a better service by fostering than if you kept them. If you keep them, then you wouldn’t do any more.” Beginning in June of this last summer, the family took on a litter of two kittens that would spark a new love of fostering; since that first group, the Heins family has since taken in almost twenty kittens. “We foster through the Charleston Animal Society,” Mrs. Heins said. “And they’re great, we’ve never not had [a kitten] get adopted. They do an awesome job.” The process of fostering is straightforward, easy to do,
and most of all very much needed; the Charleston Animal Society often takes in dozens of stray kittens at a time, relying on families who can take several in and get them accustomed to humans. “To foster they give you a form and everything, and they’ll give you everything you need; they’ll give you cat litter, food, everything,” Mrs. Heins said. “Once they hit two pounds, you take them back. You generally take them back two weeks for a checkup and give them shots and they weigh them. Once they hit two pounds, then that’s when they keep them and spay and neuter them and go up for adoption.” The Animal Society, in addition to requiring foster families, also benefits from donations; blankets and old beds, Mrs. Heins explains, are very much needed. Aside from the practical aspects of fostering, Heins says the best part is definitely the cats themselves. “The best part is having kittens,” Heins said. “I mean, everyone loves kittens. And some people don’t like cats, so you get to keep kittens and get rid of them before they get too big. So you only have to keep them in the good parts, when they’re cute, and you don’t have to deal with them forever.”
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coming helping others a way to give back for concern specialist grace barry staff writer
full circle
be a stay at home mom,” Whittaker said. A chance occurrence started his tenure at Bi-Lo. “I was just shopping there and the manager came up and said ‘Hey, we just lost somebody in produce and we are looking for somebody’ and I mention to the guy, I said, ‘Hey, look, I applied about two, three months ago but I never heard back from you,” Whittaker said. “He goes ‘well, I tell you what, take your groceries home and come on back, and I’ll see if I can take you in.’ He says ‘Are you willing to work?’ and I said ‘I’ll tell you what sir, if you’re willing to hire me, I won’t quit on you.’ And I’ve been with them for 23 years.” Whittaker even volunteered to work this past Thanksgiving on behalf of others. “I worked a shift at Bi-Lo so everybody could be off from seven to three,” Whittaker said. “The reason I do it is because it gives about two people who can be off with their families.” While working his shift, Whittaker received a phone call that signaled the beginning of a abnormal, yet meaningful
LUCIE WALL // staff
Thanksgiving. The one day of the year where the people in this country gather to give thanks for what they have, to reflect what binds them, as people, together. Most Americans spend this Thursday around a large table, accompanied by family and a larger meal, but this is not the case for some. Student Concern Specialist Terrence Whittaker spent the day in a different setting, with a story containing much more than just stuffing. On Thanksgiving day Whittaker could be found, not in a dining room, but in a supermarket, working his second job at BiLo, one he started 23 years ago. “I took the job there because we needed additional income. We had Jordan, our son, so from there she [his wife] wanted to
opportunities to give back
Whittaker stands works with students as a student concern specialist. Whittaker also directs traffic in the mornings and afternoons.
Thanksgiving. “My wife calls me about 10 o’clock, she’s got everything on the stove and in the oven and the turkey and the big bird ready to go, and we didn’t have any electricity in the kitchen,” Whittaker said. “We couldn’t call anybody up on Thanksgiving so... our neighbor, we knocked on their door [on Friday] and said ‘For everything you’ve done for us’ she goes ‘I’ll tell you what, why don’t you bring that bird over here and we’ll cook it.’” Before the Whittaker family ate that Friday, they called a repairman to look at their stove, thinking that it was the problem. “We tried to find an appliance repairman and he said ‘I’ll tell you what, it’s not your stove, its your breaker switch’ so he fixed it and he got our electricity back,” Whittaker said. Just before this repairman was set to leave, however, a conversation sprung up between him and Whittaker. “We got out on the porch and we settled money, and he was putting his tools back in the van, and he goes ‘Hey, it’s really nice that you can have a Thanksgiving like that.’ We got to talk and it was kind of neat because he said ‘You know what, I lost my wife a year ago to breast cancer’ and I said ‘I tell you what, go put your tools up in the truck, I want you to come eat with us,’” Whittaker said. Though it may not be on a Thursday, this Friday Thanksgiving meal helped solidify what the true meaning of the holiday is -- love and helping one another. “It really is a true Thanksgiving story,” Whittaker said. “It doesn’t matter what day it is; you should always give back if somebody’s in need.”
Lowcountry Orphan Relief supplies various goods and services to abused, abandoned and neglected children in the Lowcountry. Donated clothes, toiletries, school supplies, stuffed animals and books are sorted through and organized by volunteers. Eventually these items are distributed at schools and homeless shelters. You can help by donating money for the organization and goods for the children, or even by spending a morning folding clothes and filling orders at one LOR’s Children’s Closet downtown. To donate immediately or sign up to volunteer this Christmas season, go to www. lowcountryorphanrelief.org.
The Wando FCCLA and Key club are organizing the Helping Hands Holiday Drive, an effort to collect supplies for local charities. Boxes are located along Main Street where you can deposit gently used or new toys, clothes, coats and canned goods. These items will benefit Crisis Ministries, an organization that helps homeless people get on their feet, and Camp Happy Days, an organization for kids with cancer that includes an annual camp held in the summer. Bring in gently used or new toys, clothes, coats and canned goods to support this drive. Donations will be collected until mid-January.
Christmas Commandos is an organization for children who are facing their first holiday season after losing a parent. Toys are collected and fundraisers are held throughout the season to gather gifts. On Christmas Eve, a group of darkly dressed volunteers leave the presents in the front yards of the children. The next morning, they will find Barbies hanging from trees and bicycles propped against the stairs – a Christmas they will never forget. Donate toys or money, sponsor a child, help to wrap the gifts or even host a toy drive to get involved. For more information, visit http://christmascommandos. com/
--compiled by sarah russell
two sisters volunteer during the holiday season sarah russell staff writer As senior Lauren Anton helped serve the orphans Thanksgiving dinner, some seemed excited and grateful while others looked distant and lost. She was so overcome with emotion that she had to turn away. “These kids didn’t know what it was like to enjoy the holidays with a stable family,” Lauren said. On Thanksgiving day, both Lauren and her twin sister Angelie helped bring a home-cooked meal to boys from Windwood Farm, a children’s home in Awendaw. The sisters found out about the volunteer opportunity through a member of their mother’s church group. Although the event was run by Life Park Church, the Antons attend Seacoast. “I love little kids,” Angelie said. “They’re not all little kids, it’s age seven to 17, but I just thought it would be a really great opportunity and rewarding.” The event, which took place at Life Park Church in Park West, aimed to pro-
vide a Thanksgiving meal to the boys from Windwood. “Volunteer work that we’ve done in the past was mainly with animal shelters, so this was a new experience,” Angelie said. “I’ve never worked with foster children or orphanages or anything with kids.” Each of the volunteers made a dish and helped serve it to the 40 children. Both girls enjoyed being able to help the boys. “They were so appreciative,” Lauren said “They had wonderful manners and said ‘please, thank you, ma’am, sir.’” “They were all so sweet and really grateful,” Angelie added. “I actually heard that when one of the orphans was getting back on the bus he asked, “Why are all these people so nice?’ It was so sad.” Although the boys’ gratefulness was heartwarming, seeing their hardship was difficult for the sisters. “They got a few kids right before Thanksgiving, so they looked really upset and seeing that was kind of hard,” Angelie said. “Some of the kids looked so sad, it broke my heart,” Lauren said. “I had to turn around because I started crying.” This volunteer opportunity helped Lauren and Angelie see how fortunate they were to have a supportive family. “They have just the essentials to sur-
vive -- food, clothes,” Angelie said. “But knowing that I have a loving family and more than just food and clothes…it makes you really grateful.” “You have to take time to realize how fortunate you are to have a loving family and a house to come home to,” Lauren added. The experience has even affected Angelie’s plans for the future. “I’m thinking about child psychology. I would have my own office but I would definitely be volunteering in orphanages and talking to the children there,” she said. “I’ve always liked psychology and kids, but that experience really touched me. I can see myself doing that.” The Antons hope to visit the boys soon. In addition, they were inspired to do future volunteer work. They will be participating in the Key Club’s Christmas charities as well as the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in college. Volunteering with the Windwood kids gave the sisters a renewed gratitude and a new sense of the true meaning of Thanksgiving. “It was great to help out and serve others, because that is really what Thanksgiving is all about,” Lauren said.
helping sandy victims a way for howes to help
“In disasters you see the best of people,” Lee Howes said as she sat upright in her chair, photos of missions past propped on her desk and hanging on the walls. For Howes, helping those affected by Hurricane Sandy was her duty. It was one of the colder days in Bergen County, N. J. Howes and her team were cleaning out underneath a trailer which was full of water and mud, making for a difficult job. They finished late afternoon and were surprised when a woman who lived in the trailer came out. “She had nothing left inside her trailer but a few things, and came out with hot chocolate for the team,” Howes said. “She wanted to do her part, in some way to say thank you, it just touched your heart.” Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast Oct. 29, a coastwide devastation. Lee Howes, a volunteer for the Samaritan’s Purse program, decided to help. The Christian faith-based program is dedicated to helping international victims of natural disaster and those in need of medical supplies. Howes, who does “a little bit of everything,” at Wando, from human resources to student curriculum, used her vacation time to help those in need. “They [the organizers of Samaritan’s Purse] called me on a Thursday afternoon and said, ‘By the way, could you be here Monday?’” Howes said. She went up a week later. “I got there at 11:30 that day and was out in the field by 1:15, and under a trailer,” Howes said. She and her team worked for two weeks straight in a trailer park in Bergen County. One of the levees had broken and flooded the trailer park of 150 or more homes. “I changed my jeans from my good jeans to my bad jeans,” she said. The water had risen from a few inches to two feet in the park. The narrow trailers were destroyed. She would go under the trailer and pull out the pink cotton candy of insulation to try to save the floor. “Every morning we would get up at 5:30, we would eat, were gone, stayed all day,” Howes said of her typical day. “We had a bag lunch for lunch, of peanut butter and jelly, and it was the best I had ever had because I was starving by lunchtime.” This process repeated for two weeks, Nov. 9-24. Howes returned Nov. 24, but still remembered what she left in New Jersey. “It’s hard to come back because you hear people complaining and they have nothing to complain about...” Howes said. “We take for granted what we have.” Howes has been serving others her whole life, “being able to serve…that’s where my passion is.” Howes said helping others is how she was raised. “I don’t know how to live my life with it just being about me,” she said.
--lucie wall
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benefit concert
seniors initiate benefit concert, raise money for research alli cherry
JODI LEE // staff
staff writer It wasn’t the usual chorus concert. No black dresses, programs or rehearsal. The venue was even moved to a more relaxed atmosphere. But this concert meant much more than any other performance. This Dec. 2 concert at Awendaw Green – completely organized by students -- would raise over $4,000 for pancreatic cancer research. Another year of choir had begun, but there was a slight change in Chorus Director Eric Wilkinson, according to senior Miranda Kopfman. Wilkinson’s mother, Mary, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this past summer, and he had traveled many miles to visit in Rochester, N.Y., over the course of three months. This is not the first time Wando students have been affected by the disease. Math teacher Joe Kutcher suffered from pancreatic cancer and ultimately lost his battle in July 2012. Showing support for their choir director and former teacher, seniors Kopfman, Maria Sturmer, Allie Klobukowski and Jessica Fraiser decided to organize the benefit. The benefit honored Kutcher and Mrs. Wilkinson, who also lost her life three days before the event. Students auditioned songs to perform at the benefit -- five bands and 16 auditioned pieces were performed. “Chorus students really stepped up, they wanted to help and wanted to play -we had over the amount of volunteers than we could have ever wanted,” Sturmer said. Chorus students each have personal reasons for showing their support through singing. “It’s a good cause, and Mr. Wilkinson is like a father figure to me and the rest of Wando Chorus, so you can’t really stand on the sidelines in a situation like this,” junior Carson Keeter said. The benefit also proved to be a special remembrance for Mrs. Kutcher. “To know that something like that was planned and executed by students in honor of Mr. Kutcher truly brought tears to my eyes,” Mrs. Kutcher said. “I know how very important the students and faculty and Wando is (was) to Joe. They meant the world to him.”
Mrs. Kutcher believes Mr. Kutcher was present the day of the benefit concert. A special bouquet of pink roses proved that. “A few days before Mr. Kutcher passed away, he pointed to something on the wall and asked me if I saw it. I said no – at that point, he realized he really was not seeing what he thought was there,” Mrs. Kutcher said. “I urged him to please tell me what he ‘thought’ he saw. He said it was a multicolored rose.” The beautiful rose reminded Kutcher of two rose bushes Mr. Kutcher bought for her on her birthday in May 2011. After they planted the bushes, the family’s German-Shepard puppy accidentally destroyed the delicate roses while playing. Mr. Kutcher planted the flowers again, but the remaining stub never bloomed again. “After he passed away, my sister-in-law noticed that the bush that never bloomed at all had a freshly bloomed multi-colored pink rose on it,” Kutcher said. While selling tickets at the benefit, an unknown lady approached Kutcher and said she decided to cut the pink roses from her yard to decorate the table. “Yes – Mr. Kutcher saw and felt all the love his beloved Wando sent to him that day! I know it,” Kutcher said. Both Wilkinson and Kutcher have and had a vested interest in their students’ lives and actions. “Over the course of four years you really get to know someone and being with him [Wilkinson] every single day, you get to know him as a teacher and as a person,” Kopfman said. “He’ll have heart-to-hearts with the class or you stop by in the morning to ask him something and he just ends up saying ‘hey, what’s going on with you?’ He just makes a point to know what’s going on with you and making sure you’re okay. He’s kind of like a father to all of us.” The support the Kutcher and Wilkinson families have received will leave a lasting impression and impact the choir’s close family-like relationship as well as the entire Wando family. “He truly loved Wando and all that it represented. It brings us daily peace to know that Wando loved him as much as he loved it,” Kutcher said. “His colleagues and students continue to amaze us at what they come up with to honor him. We want his name and legacy to go on and Wando is helping us do that in many very special ways. I don’t know how we can ever begin to repay our gratitude for that.”
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top 5 dec. movies Django Unchained Dec. 25
Jack Reacher Dec. 21
Les Miserables Dec. 25
need tips on how to wear this season’s most popular boots? features editor georgia barfield is here to help.
BOOTS
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Riding: This is a classic staple to any wardrobe, regardless of whether you spend your days at the stable or not. The simple shape and cognac leather hue have kept it in style for years. Wear them with skinny pants, a ruffle blouse and boyfriend cardigan to complete the equestrian uniform.
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Short Cowgirl: The Chelsea length of these boots and chap-like fringe on the side add modern twist to the typical cowgirl boots. Transform yourself into an urban rough rider by pairing them with dark skinny jeans and an oversized flannel shirt.
Slouch: Versatility is what makes these boots a great ally for any gal. Dress them up with a snug sweater dress and colored tights. For those days when comfort is your main concern, pull them over a pair of leggings and top off the ensemble with an oversized t-shirt and cotton scarf.
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Strappy: The thick buckled hardware and chunky toe of these boots will add just the right amount edge to any outfit. Create the perfect edgy feminine look by donning a dark mini dress, studded leather jacket and textured tights along with these tough girl boots.
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The Hobbit Dec. 14
Zero Dark Thirty Dec. 19
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Moccasin: Channel your inner Pocahontas with a pair of these fringed dandies. They evoke a certain carefree, bohemian aura. Pair them with earth tones, tribal prints and flowy sweaters to complement their native vibe.
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tablet wars here’s a guide to the many tablets on the market.
7 inch
--compiled by waring hills
Nexus 7:
-16GB$199/32GB-$249/32GB with cellular network connections-$299. This was the first tablet launched by Google, and it launched with much success. Running on the latest Android, the interface is smooth and quick. It also features the new Google feature, Google Now, that learns based off of your searches and gives you weather, travel and other helpful features based off of where you are. Out of any possible seven inch tablet, the Nexus 7 is best of the best and is worth a look.
iPad Mini:
Price-16GB$329/32GB-$429/64GB-$529. Cellular network connection available starting at $459. Apple finally entered the seven-inch tablet field with the iPad mini. Although the iPad mini does not have Retina display, it still has 163 pixels per inch which isn’t that bad. The iPad Mini also has one of the best battery lives of any tablet. The biggest downside is the price, which is considerably higher compared to other seven-inch tablets.
Kindle Fire HD:
Price-16GB-$199/32GB-$249.
With the release of the Nexus 7, Amazon decided to release an updated version of their popular Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire HD runs on the Android platform 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Kindle Fire runs on Android 4.0, which won’t give you the smooth style that Android 4.1 offers with the Nexus 7.
Nook HD: Price: $200/8GB
$230/16GB. If you’re looking for a small tablet just for an e-reader, look no further. With all of the Barnes and Noble content, the Nook HD is perfect for reading any books, magazines and videos from Barnes and Noble. With 243 pixels per inch, it has the highest quality of seven inch tablets. The Nook HD is the not the fastest or smoothest though, which drastically takes away from it overall function.
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10 inch iPad 4: 16GB-
$499/32GB$599/64GB-$699. Cellular network available starting at $629. The iPad 4 is the updated version of the iPad 3, which will be discontinued just half a year after release. The new iPad 4 is in many ways the same, but it does have Apple’s new A6X -- the same processor used on the new iPhone 5, which makes it considerably faster than the last version. The iPad 4 also has Retina display which gives it some of the best visuals. It also now has the lighting port, so if you already have old Apple chargers, you’ll need a USB converter. The iPad 4 is the built the bets out of any of the tablets and their experience gives them the edge over Google’s new Nexus 10.
Nexus 10: Price- 16GB-$400/32GB-$500. With the debut of the Nexus 7, Google knew not everyone was sold on the smaller tablets. In October they released the Nexus 10. The best quality of the Nexus 10 is the visuals with 300 pixels per inch, and the resolution is higher than the iPad’s retina display. The only problem is that though it is running on the most up to date Android platform there are some software problems. These are the only thing that keeps the Nexus 10 from not beating the iPad 4.
Microsoft Surface:
Price-32GB-$500/ Touch Cover-$130. With Microsoft’s entrance into the tablet world, they tried something different creating a tablet that allows you to have some computer functions. While the idea is great and the interface is good, the Surface falls short of its high expectations. With finer tweaking, the Surface has the potential to be a great tablet, but right now they just aren’t there.
Asus Transformer Infinity Tab: Price-
32GB-$500/64GB-$600/Keyboard Dock$150. One of the less known tablets, the Asus Transformer is a tablet worth the look if you can spend the money. The overall design of the tablet is one of the best on the market. One feature is a thin strip of grey which is there to enhance wireless communication. The battery life is also incredible at 14 hours. The issue is the price, which can quickly turn people off.
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do it yourself: christmas crafts t-shirt bleaching
what it is
how to do it
what you’ll need
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mocha spice hand & foot sugar scrub
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personalized mug
what it is
what you’ll need
how to do it
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This makes a cute, practical gift that doesn’t take much time and is easy to make. You can purchase your blank mug or plate (ceramic) at the dollar store, Wal-Mart, Target or a pharmacy.
UIF TVQFS BXFTPNF HJGUT UIFZ EFTFSWF *G ZPV BSF EFTQFSBUF PS TJNQMZ EPO U XBOU UP spend a fortune this Christmas, the solution is simple... DIY (do it yourself). There are TFWFSBM GVO FBTZ BOE DPTU FGGFDUJWF HJGU NBLJOH JEFBT UIBU XJMM NBLF ZPVS IPMJEBZ EFspair melt away. Here they are, step-by-step, with a store guide to help you find the materials for your homemade present. Minimizing cost and maximizing happiness is what it’s all about this holiday season. --caroline rothkopf
ALL PHOTOS BY LUCIE WALL//STAFF
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Walking into the Village Bakery in the Old Village on 125 Pitt St., you immediately get the feel of a small town bakery. As you walk waring hills village bakery in the door, you’re met with the smell of bacon, as they also serve sandwiches. This helped the experience get off to a great start. The bakers were very helpful and answered all our questions. We decided on a slice of their coconut cake. The slice of cake was quickly brought out and we were able to dig in. The icing had just the right amount of richness and the cake wasn’t dry. Overall, it was one of the better coconut cakes I have had. The only problem was the prices. The slice of cake was about $5.50, but the cake was well worth the cost.
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For some reason when we first entered Great Harvest Bakery in the Belle Hall Shopping Center, we had low expectations berachael nuzum cause our first two great harvest experiences at Kudbakery zu and Village Bakery seemed impossible to top. Fortunately for us, we were soon proved incorrect. The whole place smelled amazing, the staff was friendly and there were free bread samples. My personal favorite was the spinach and feta loaf; it was delicious. I expected the place to be a bit overpriced, but the lemon and blueberry scone was around $2, a fair price. (Just in case you were wondering, the scone was amazing too.) The rainbow on the wall was a bit off-putting, but the unique seating – bar stools and a long counter facing large windows – made up for the faux-pas, in my opinion. I highly recommend it.
picks &
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kishan patel
kudzu
Walking into Kudzu at 794 Coleman Blvd., we already knew that it was going to be an excellent experience. The aroma of freshly baked goods was tantalizing and the
service was superb. The people there gave us a bunch of free cookies, which were very good. They were a bit on the crunchy side, but that would be okay if you like crunchy cookies. We came when they were about to close and their merchandise was almost all gone, so we know that it was freshly made daily. We thought it was a little weird they were advertising their lunch specials on the freezers when they mainly specialize in pastries. However, the food looked appetizing, and there were still a lot of people in the bakery. Overall, the food was good, the service friendly, and it was moderately priced.
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PICK: laughing
PICK: bowties
Humor me. Make me laugh, but please don’t try too hard -- you have to be effortless in your delivery. Just kidding. But for real, I want to LOL. LOL so hard that other people want to fine me, but first they have to find me, what’s 50 grand to some one like me, please remind me. Jay-Z said something like that in a song, but with a more expanded vocabulary. I laughed.
You’ve got to look classy – always. But there comes a time when you have to step it up a notch. And it’s in those times that we, the gentlemen, summon the bowtie. This oracle of good looks will never steer you wrong. But beware of the faux bow, the dreaded clip on. It may look the same, but your aura of awesome is severely diminished once your façade has been exposed. But if you can’t tie a bow tie, this is your best alternative.
PEEVE: being politically correct
PEEVE: pseudo surf brands
Freedom of speech means freedom of speech. You have the right to voice your opinion, but the demons of the media would have you believe otherwise. You know why most comedians are funny? It’s ‘cause they don’t care what the media thinks about them -- they know how to make you laugh and that’s all that matters, to me at least. You know what, if the 24-hour news cycle didn’t exist, the world would be a lot funnier, and so would politicians.
Just like Hollister, Aeropostle and Abercrombie and Fitch, these brands are for tools. And who likes tools? Snotty women. Granted, just because you wear American Eagle and its posse of brands doesn’t mean you’re a tool, and just because you date a tool doesn’t mean you’re a snotty woman. But do yourself a favor and don’t wear these brands and don’t date snobby women.
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best of: bakeries
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emily lor
Every issue a Tribal Tribune staffer will share her taste in music, selecting the top four songs she thinks every one should have on their playlist.
“Paradise” Wild Nothing Nocturne
Carried by Jack Tatum’s vocals, floated away by the luxurious melt of instrumental harmony. “Paradise” is a song that erases imperfections from life, encompassed by the comfort of not caring when the moment’s over. Wild Nothing gives you ‘80s inspired sounds with dream-like undertones that can bring anyone to hypnotic state of bliss. “Automatic Stop” The Strokes Room on Fire The Strokes possess an infectious sound that I call to in any time of distress. Soulful and rich vocals are the perfect match to the band’s alluring sound. Interwoven guitars and subtle drum melody sold me on choosing this as my favorite. “Bizarre Love Triangle” New Order Brotherhood This is the song you sing when you’re driving with your perm blowing in the wind. Catchy and relatable lyrics and an upbeat tempo, what more could a teenage girl ask for? If it’s playing at CVS in the toothpaste aisle, I will start singing out loud.
“Cannons” Youth Lagoon A Year of Hibernation I wish Youth Lagoon sang me lullabies to sleep. They have a truly exceptional sound, capturing intimate moments in time. Trevor Powers’ fuzzy, tender voice creates an awe inspiring experience for any listener.
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death cannot stop light indie game ftl pushes players to the limit
SELLING SONGS
Out-gunned, out-manned and absolutely overwhelmed, with constant perils from the universe coming from every direction. That’s what makes Faster Than Light enticing from the start for the gamer that likes a challenge. The particular indie game FTL: Faster Than Light – also interpreted as “For The Loss” – begins with your spaceship and crew embarking on a mission to deliver intelligence to the Federation, scavenging what resources are available while remaining one jump ahead of the advancing Rebel fleet. Your spacecraft in FTL jumps from star to star, not knowing what’s at the other end: an aggressive scout ship, a slaver trap, a free item drifting in space. It’s a game of randomized events, where every situation is unique, and no single game session is the same. Oh right, and if your crew happens to perish along the journey, it’s game over. Yes, FTL is a rogue-like, punishing type of game where death is permanent and random chance kills you just as often as your own bad decisions. But FTL is vastly different from the rest of the genre as it is constantly presenting the player with interesting And it is unbelievably, sickly rewarding. When you play this game, you will die many times (fans of the game call this Fun). You will be eaten by dragons, massacred by elves, infiltrated by vampires and succumb to starvation. You will watch as your generations-old culture crumbles before your eyes. And you will come back again, learning better ways to defend yourself, cleverer fortress designs and superior strategies. If you’re looking for an easy game, Dwarf Fortress isn’t for you. But if you’re looking for a game that’s deep, rewarding, entertaining and free, you should probably give it a try. --jack meagher
choices. Its simple yet elegant interplay of mechanics rewards both tactical thinking and twitch skill, often demanding choices from the player: do you burn the fuel and risk ship damage seeking out the rewards reaped by destroying enemies, or do you sprint for the exit and hope a few lucky random encounters will net you a new crew member or weapon? The constant tension of adapting your tactics for every circumstance and micromanaging your ship’s crew and systems keeps FTL briskly paced and compelling. No matter that the game — which was funded through a massively successful Kickstarter campaign — visually resembles pixelated graphing paper. The aesthetics are charming, as well as highly functional, with a stunning soundtrack. Noting both the relatively high replay value for its price of $9.99 on PC, available for digital download via Valve’s Steam store, it’s clearly a game worth the price. My favorite aspect of FTL is that it’s a story-generating engine. The many permutations of game-dictated events and your accumulated decisions allow for a rewarding variety of experiences. That’s what finely-tuned games have: they let us author our own experiences.
killing them softly Killing Them Softly is what you get when you try to cross a plot about a mob hunt with a theme about America’s failing economy. The result is a movie with a confusing opener, complex characters and a lot of bad language. This leaves the viewer to piece together who is who and what is what. Once the viewer gets a good grip on director Andrew Dominik’s world, the movie is quite enjoyable. The plot is centered around Jackie (Brad Pitt)
who is called into New York City to clean up the mess a couple of small criminals created when they held up a small time crime lord’s gambling business. Killing Them Softly becomes graphic at times making these scenes realistic and making the viewer almost sympathetic for the characters Dominik created. The movie tries to explain the central theme that everyone from the common street thug to the president is trying to make more money than the next guy. Dominik makes this theme very clear in the last lines of the movie when Jackie says, “America is not a country. It’s just a business. Now pay me.” --tommy sanders
diamonds // rihanna locked out of heaven // bruno mars
SELLING BOOKS the third wheel // jeff kinney the elf on the shelf // carol aebersold
GROSSING MOVIE playing for keeps // filmdistrict hyde park on hudson // focus
TV RATINGS sunday night football // nbc the big bang theory // cbs
SELLING ALBUMS girl on fire // alicia keys red // taylor swift
SELLING VIDEO GAMES call of duty: black ops II just dance 4
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staff writer
Video games are meant to be enjoyed, but some take a special type of masochism to appreciate. Dwarf Fortress is one of those games. Dropping you in the midst of a wilderness with only a party of dwarves to take care of, build a fortress with and prepare for inevitable destruction, Dwarf Fortress boasts almost no graphics whatsoever, and easily the most complicated controls of any game ever designed.
top twos
Ever wonder what the top songs, movies and TV shows are for the month of December? -- compiled by albert lee
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spotify Music is great when you don’t have to pay $1.29 per song, and with Spotify Premium, not being interrupted by commercials like YouTube or Pandora is another benefit. Spotify Premium is only $10 a month and gives you access to unlimited music, whenever, wherever. And it doesn’t stop there, folks. You get access to Spotify’s radio as well and can skip any song you want. There is also Spotify Unlimited, which is $5 a month, and even free Spotify. There are small differences with each version you choose, but spending $120 a year on unlimited music is worth it. -- compiled by emily lor
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sports
Q&A chuck rouse
senior lineman committed to play at Wofford College and played in the North-South football game Dec. 8. did you commit to Q: Why play at Wofford? just really enjoyed the A:“Ipeople that I met there and
the whole atmosphere. I went to a couple of games and really felt at home.”
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What was playing at the North vs. South game like? “It was fun. We spent a week in Myrtle Beach just getting to know the guys and improving as a team.”
Q: Did you play? “Yes, I started. I played right A:guard on the O line.” did you feel like you Q: How played? feel like I played pretty A:“Iwell.” did you feel when you Q: What found out you were named to play in the game? kind of always knew I was A:“Igoing to play because my
coach was one of the coaches for the north/south game, so it wasn’t a shock, but it still felt good to be recognized.”
was the most exciting Q:“ItWhat moment? was when we got our first A:touchdown. We were jump-
ing up and down and yelling and screaming. This was the first time in six years that the South won the game.”
-- compiled by caroline rothkopf
taking a stab at
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fencing junior’s love of a unique sport drives him to compete deirdre borland
staff writer
Friday night football lights. The roar of an adrenaline-rushed crowd. Players with numbered backs, storming the field in victory. These are the images that come to mind when thinking of sports: football teams, soccer jerseys, lacrosse sticks. All popular, well-known athletics that are broadcasted anywhere from a sports bar to ESPN. They are the teams schools cheer for, practically religions to many. However, as junior Roman Shtompil will tell you, they are not the only sports out there. Shtompil is a fencer, a unique athlete whose passion lies not in a football, but a fencing foil. And while fencing in itself is a sport that has been around for years, it is one still widely unknown to many. “[Fencing] isn’t what you would expect it to be,” Shtompil said. “It’s not swashbuckling sword fighting, it’s a lot more focused, and it’s a lot more trying to be faster than your opponent.” Having moved to the Mount Pleasant area two years ago, Shtompil wasn’t familiar with the people or the town. Fencing, he said, was a way to get to know both, while also engaging in a sport he always wanted to try. “I fence with the East Cooper Fencing Club,” he said, “And I go to a lesson every Tuesday. I’ll practice at home a lot, too.”
Fencing, as with any sport, isn’t just about practice. “We go to tournaments all over [the state]. There’s one we go to every year that’s up near Charlotte, and there’s one over here every year,” Shtompil said. The tournaments, Shtompil claims, and the people he meets there, are perhaps one of the main highlights of the sport. “In the area there aren’t many fencers, maybe 20 something in my entire club, but from around the state I’ve met a lot of people,” he said. “Every tournament there’s the same [group], so you really get to know a lot of great people.” Fencing in itself is an interesting sport to watch; fencers paring and jabbing and light on their feet. However, as Shtompil pointed out, it isn’t nearly as easy as it looks. Speed definitely counts, he says. The rules are certainly easy to understand, as Shtompil explains. “Fencing in general, you start out on a strip and the two people are facing each other,” he said. “The director [gives the signal], you go and try to block and par and stab each other, and the first one to hit a buzzer goes off and you get the point.” Technique and practice, as in any sport, are key to a good player. For those interested in taking up the unique sport, Shtompil advice is simple; look around for it. “[Fencing’s] not really advertised. Look it up on the internet for fencing clubs. Just find one in your area, see when the lessons are, get in touch with a coach. They’ll get you started.” Shtompil’s passion for the sport doesn’t show signs of depleting any time soon, either. “I plan on [continuing]. I know that most colleges don’t have fencing teams, but most do have fencing clubs. I plan to do fencing for a while, it’s a fun sport.”
Junior Roman Shtompil, fencer at East Cooper Fencing Club, performs a lunge while weilding an epee and wearing his uniform, which inlcudes a kevlar jacket, knickers, plastron, mask and a glove to protect the fencer’s hand. Schtompil has been fencing for two years.
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it’s all about the equipment ALL PHOTOS BY LIZ BENSON // editor
based on prices for new equipment, the tribal tribune calculated what sports are the most expensive based on equipment prices.
softball/baseball gloves: $100-300 batting gloves: $15-30 glove: $50-250 cleats: $70-130 turf shoes: $50-100 bat: $200-400 helmet: $20-60 sliders: $20-40 belt: $10-15 socks: $5-10 hat: $15-30 sunglasses: $50-130 bat bag: $30-100 ball: $3-16
total:
$638-1,511
football
shoulder pads: $180-200 helmet: $50-80 chin strap: $3-12 mouth guard: $2-15 cleats: $100-140 girdle: $15-30 knee pads: $50-70 game pants: $15-30 gloves: $15-150 socks: $5-15 bag: $20-30 ball: $30-60
total:
$485-832
boys lacrosse helmet: $100-230 pads: $30-60 cleats: $60-200 gloves: $30-50 stick: $50-300 mouth guard: $6-10 bag: $50-80 ball: $2
total:
$328-932
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bowl predictions 2013
written by
waring hills, staff writer
jonathan rice, co-editor in chief
Notre Dame and Alabama undoubtedly have two of the best defenses in college football -- respectively they rank one-two in scoring defense. While both have great defenses, only Alabama has Nick Saban as a coach. Giving Saban a month to study gives Alabama the advantage. Notre Dame’s offense ranks 76th in the country in scoring. They’ll need big plays to beat Alabama. Alabama 24-17 Both teams play traditional football and rely heavily on their star running backs. Stanford’s Stepfan Taylor has rushed for 1,442 yards and 12 touchdowns; Wisconsin’s Montee Ball has 1,730 yards and 21 touchdowns. Stanford has the edge with their ground defense ranked 3rd in the FBS. While Ball will erase some of Stanford’s defensive advantage, I see Stanford winning a close one. Stanford 20-17 This game is probably the most controversial of the year. What can’t be disputed is that NIU quarterback Jordan Lynch has had an incredible season throwing for 24 touchdowns, rushing for another 19, and setting the record for quarterback rushing yards. FSU’s defense should be able to contain Lynch with defensive lineman, Bjoern Werner. FSU should be able to break up Lynch’s game and should win easily. Florida State 31-13 This match-up places teams with polar opposite strengths against each other. Clemson will see if their high powered offense can take on LSU’s great defense. Clemson ranks six in the country in points per game and LSU’s defense has held their opponents to an average of 15.6 point per game. Although Clemson should show up to play, I think LSU’s defense will be too much for the Clemson Tigers. Louisiana State 24-21
Alabama is the SEC’s representative in the title game as the conference goes for its seventh consecutive title. I’m picking Bama because they know how to win when it counts. The Crimson Tide is vying for its second title in as many years and its third in four years. Watch for running backs T.J. Yeldon and Eddie Lacy to have big games. Alabama 24-10 Notre Dame vs. Alabama Jan. 7
Stanford vs. Wisconsin Jan. 1
Oregon vs. Kansas State Jan 3
Northern Illinois vs. Florida State Jan. 1
Florida vs. Louisville Jan. 2
Clemson vs. LSU Dec. 31
South Carolina vs. Michigan Jan. 1
Blazing speed. Oregon has it, Kansas State doesn’t. What Kansas State does have is quarterback Colin Klein. Oregon’s speed kept them in the conversation as the best team in the country until its one loss against Stanford late in the season. The Ducks are fun to watch and score a lot of points, and in football the team that scores the most points wins. Oregon 35-21 As bitter as I am that the Gators are in a BCS bowl when my Georgia Bulldogs, who beat the Gators and won the SEC east, are not -- I am picking the Gators. I can’t decide if I’m more frustrated that Florida is in a BCS bowl or 10-2 Louisville from the Big East. I don’t think Louisville has what it takes to go toe-to-toe with the 11-1 Gators. Florida 23-10 For me it’s more of a mystery who will start as quarterback than who will win the game. The Wolverines have Denard Robinson and Devin Gardner, while the Gamecocks have Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson. South Carolina had one of the hardest schedules in the country and still sits at 10-2 despite losing their leading rusher and receiver Marcus Lattimore. South Carolina 17-10
speaking of sports: who do you think will win the national championship and why?
“Alabama because they have a better coach than Notre Dame.”
“Notre Dame because they are ranked number one.”
“Alabama because “Alabama because they have been there before, they beat Georgia and that wasn’t suppose to and they know what it happen.” takes to win at that level.”
“I don’t really watch college. I watch a lot of NFL, but I would pick Alabama.”
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sophomore caroline spach
psychology teacher junior brad batson savannah hallman
senior stephen wilson
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Junior Trevor Pederson (right) and Amy Smilak celebrate with teammates, We’re Inappropriate, after scoring a touchdown in the game.
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senior ansley vaughan Signed with Converse College for women’s golf on Nov. 16.
senior blaine thompson Was selected as the Moultrie News’ first player of the year award. Thompson was a linebacker for the Warriors.
senior victoria klein Signed with West Virginia Wesleyan for women’s swimming Nov. 16.
coach jimmy noonan & senior christian hart
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Noonan received Coach of the Year award and Hart was awarded Quarterback of the Year from the S.C. football Coaches Palmetto Champions Team. “It’s a reflection of the program, players and coaches,” Noonan said about his award. As for Hart’s award, Noonan said, “He [Christian] had an excellent year...It was well deserved.”
powder tough Powder Puff was held at Wando’s stadium Nov. 29. Sixteen teams in all competed but only one was titled Powder Puff champions 2012 -- senior team, Scared Hitless. They won after beating four teams: Southern Style, Pumped Up Chicks, Cool $quad and Necessary Rough-
ness. The winning team, Scared Hitless, has been competing together since their freshman year, but this year was the first time they have won the annual game. -amber kallaur
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(Left) Sophomores Ally Bundron and Ana Ontono celebrate their win in the in the semifinals, which will took them into the final round. (Top) Senior Trey Floyd talks with senior Grace Wachowski about the upcoming game. (Bottom) Senior Alexandra Unrine and senior Davis Banks compromise on the next play.
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sarah heywood, staff writer A crumbling nation, a pretend vacation and the FBI have at least one thing in common: they were all, at one point, a worry for my grandparents. I’ve always known that my mom, my aunt and my grandparents were from Poland. It wasn’t until about a year ago that I realized they had been illegal immigrants and were nearly able to be classified as refugees. It began in 1980, nine years before the Berlin Wall would fall and 11 before the Soviet Union would be dissolved. Poland was a Communist nation, and the times were changing. My mom remembered that it was always difficult to get food, but the government had begun to give out ration cards and food shipments were becoming rare. Teachers would send students out during school to stand in line at the grocery store for them, since anyone who didn’t line up soon enough was unlikely to get any food at all. Certain commodities like sewing machines and washing machines were hard to come by. Financially, my mom’s family was very well-to-do because my grandpa Dziadzia had a good job. But they had little because there was so little to be had. Babcia – my grandma — and Dziadzia suddenly decided to sell their home and many of their possessions to move into a small apartment. Mom, 11 at the time, knew something was happening, but she wasn’t sure exactly what it was. In 1981, the family prepared to go on a cruise. They didn’t ride Carnival or Port Royal, but the cargo ship Dziadzia worked on. They had been to America before, cruising around the Great Lakes, and this time around their first stop after France was going to be Erie, Pa. When they reached their destination, the whole family took a short trip off the ship to visit a nearby Polish club, an organization which brought together members of the local Polish community. But Babcia and Dziadzia weren’t looking
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to chat and make friends –they were looking for help. They weren’t supposed to have left the ship in the first place, and they weren’t planning on getting back on. It wasn’t until later that my mom learned there were two big reasons why they left. The first: Babcia and Dziadzia wanted her and Ciocia Kasia to have a future, something that wouldn’t have happened if they stayed in Poland. The second: if Dziadzia didn’t soon join the Communist Party, he would be thrown in jail and likely never let out. They made contact with a woman in Florida who promised to help them, and therein laid the problem. Walking the roughly 1,200 miles from Pennsylvania to Clearwater, Fla., was not an option. I was stunned to learn that the club members had denied them help, and an Italian convenience store clerk, a complete stranger, was the one who lent a hand and bought them the Greyhound bus tickets they needed to make the trip. The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service also tended to be a problem. The law is you have to announce yourself to the INS within two weeks of arrival, or you could be deported. Dziadzia did just that, and INS had their paperwork, yet when the Polish government
finally learned they had jumped ship, it alerted the FBI. The FBI spent the next four years searching for them, only to find they had established themselves as legal immigrants long before. Sigh. One year later, in the true tradition of the U.S. government, the INS lost their paperwork, and then prepared to have them deported. Mom, with the support of her high school JROTC lieutenant colonel, petitioned the governor of Florida to let them stay. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 came as a stroke of good luck, establishing mom and the rest of the family as legal immigrants, although the past five years they spent in America were counted as being time spent illegally. After, mom and her sister Ciocia Kasia, went to a private Catholic school – America’s school system even had a bad reputation in Poland – before going to a public high school in Saint Petersburg, Fla. Dziadzia got a job as a construction electrician, then as a shipyard electrician, and after working at McDonald’s and a seafood processing plant, Babcia’s Polish education was finally recognized, and she began work as a pharmaceutical researcher. The communist government in Poland fell
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In 1973, young Joanna Heywood gets ice cream with her mother and older sister in their hometown outside of Gdansk, Poland. The entire family fled just a few years later in 1981 after martial law was declared by the communist government. Joanna’s daughter, Sarah, now attends Wando as a senior.
after much upheaval in 1989. But Babcia, Dziadzia, Ciocia Kasia and mom stayed. The reason? There wasn’t anything to go back to. Not anything worth going back to, anyway. The moral of the story may very well be that you shouldn’t trust Americans too much. But I may be exaggerating. My mom’s story proves to me a very good point: there are still people out in the world who see America as a beacon of hope, a chance for a new beginning. We can moan and groan all we want about government over-regulation and taxes and milk that costs another five cents more a gallon, but in the end, we have it so much better than a lot of the world. If we can convince a bunch of hardworking, severely anti-Communist Europeans to stay here, then I don’t think we have things that bad. Mom became a U.S. citizen in 2004, the last in the family to do so. Everyone has gone back to visit Poland once or twice, but they tend to agree that they still like it here more. Babcia and Dziadzia own their own café and art gallery in Connecticut, and Ciocia Kasia and mom are taking care of their own families, with many of the same worries as their parents had for them. Well, without the communism.
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editor’s chair despite car troubles, staffer still finds old vehicle endearing COLUMN BY After too many months of working in retail for minimum wage, I had a whopping $1,500 to purchase a car. It just so happened that my older brother was trying to sell his white 1994 Ford Explorer after achieving the ultimate granola dream of buying a Subaru. Buying the Explorer seemed like a favorable option when compared to the creepy Buicks and Oldsmobiles being sold in my price range on Craigslist. And that’s how “Snowball,” as I christened the Explorer, came into my possession, well stocked with the “special needs” of a car that has been roaming the earth longer than myself. The air conditioning doesn’t work, so during the summer I had to rely on rolled-down windows for ventilation. Oddly enough, the two back windows have been glued shut, so I’ve had to make do with only the two front windows being rolled down. Snowball happens to be a luxury edition Explorer. I’m sure at one point its leather interior was sumptuous and comfortable, but years worth of wear and tear have left gaping holes and gashes. It would have been nice to say that despite Snowball’s aesthetic flaws, it was a mechanically sound vehicle. However, I’m not going to. Every few months Snowball gets vacuum leaks. This causes it to demonically shake and roar whenever I’m idling. After a few minutes of idling, Snowball completely shuts down. This added a new level of complexity to waiting at stoplights. Whenever Snowball stalled, I would have to wait for the light to turn green, and rapidly shift to park, restart the ignition and then shift back to drive, all much to the delight of the drivers waiting behind me. After one particular episode of this stoplight pandemonium, the driver behind me furiously drove around me. His left arm protruded from the window, with one particular finger extended. Made in 1994, Snowball dates back to that time before the birth of the Toyota Prius. The manufacturers at Ford did not feel inhumane for creating a car that got 11 miles per gallon. As a result, I’ve grown accustomed to the needle on the fuel gage having an unhealthy attraction to the letter “E.” Perhaps Snowball’s many faults should cause me to loathe it. When I really think about it though, I realize I love this car. There’s nothing like driving across the Sullivan’s Island bridge, windows down, Fleet Foxes CD blaring, salt wind whipping my hair around. I swear I can feel Snowball’s wheels lose contact with the pavement. I’m flying now. Yes, I realize I love this car.
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Junior Jade Young with her father Marc, right, bond every December through their family tradition of apologizing for anything they did wrong over the year.
never losing sight of family family tradition every december brings staffer closer to her father
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, staff Neverending tides of emotion and guilt wash over me as I walk over to sit across from my father. I turn to face him with pleading eyes. “I’m so, so sorry. I wish I could be a better daughter. I wish I could be more understanding and know what you are going through. I know it’s hard, and I’m with you every step of the way. I just want to be there for you.” It was the end of December. Every year, my family has the tradition of making time to sit down and apologize for anything wrong we did over the year to each other. It was my turn. I wanted my father to know what I’ve been pushing to the back of my mind all of these years. My dad has Retinitis Pigmentosa, an eye disease that affects a person’s night vision and peripheral vision. It is also the leading cause of blindness. A majority of people with RP are legally blind by the age of 40. My dad is 46. I have been exposed to RP since I was little. As I was growing up, I knew my grandmother was slowly losing her vision over time. Now she can only see about five percent of what normal people see and is legally blind. As I grow older, though, reality hits hard. The thought of my dad slowly becoming blind scares me. I want him to be able to see me grow up. I want him to be able to see his grandchildren run to him with beaming smiles, wrapping their arms around his legs. That day in December makes me think back to when I was nine, trick or treating with my dad, my friends and
their dads. I always had to hold my dad’s hand and guide him away from obstacles in his path so he didn’t trip. I was annoyed that I had to stay behind- holding my dad’s hand and dragging him along while my friends ran from house to house, their dads laughing and chasing after them. I was so selfish. I remember it was just a few days before when he accidentally stepped on my foot. He apologized profusely for tripping over something that is invisible to him, making sure I was okay. Behind the worry in his eyes, I saw pain. Pain because he wished he could be able to see and make sure he didn’t hurt me. I snap back to the present and wrap my arms around him. “I will always be there for you, dad. We’ll make the best of it. All we can do is hope for a cure, but I’m going to do everything I can to make sure you are taken care of. You are never a burden. I love you so much, and we’ll get through this together.” I step back and look up at him. A pool of tears form in my father’s eyes, rolling down his cheeks one by one. It was the first time I had ever seen him cry. My dad’s loss of eyesight is an every day battle. Since the outer portions of the retina are affected by RP, his lack of peripheral and night vision make it difficult to see anything other than whatever is right in front of him. He has to constantly be aware of his surroundings, and make sure to not trample over oblivious people beside him or objects close to the ground. I will never truly understand what he’s going through, but I know it’s tiring -- despite his constant attempts to assure me he’s fine. I know how hard it is to accept the fact you might go completely blind in a matter of years, chances of being able to see slowly floating out of your reach. Sight shouldn’t be taken for granted. I realize now that my dad has taught me so much about life. He is always smiling and optimistic despite his daily struggle. He is truly my inspiration.
“I will always be there for you, Dad.” jade young
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In a society where credit and debit cards are the preferred method of payment for almost everything, it can be easy to become so comfortable using our cards that we forget to protect the information they hold. This is especially true when using credit and debit cards online, Jodi Lee where scams and legitimate websites can Jade Young look very similar. And with holiday shopJimmy Masalin ping season in full swing, many people Angelica Collins are going to be doing a lot of shopping online. Luckily, all it takes is a little bit Wesley Maszk of awareness to avoid being swindled. Albert Lee When you can, stick to sites you Caroline Kornegay know are safe -- most major brands and
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retailers will have their own secure online stores. If you decide to try a shopping site that you haven’t used before, do a quick Google search to see what other shoppers have experienced when using it. Don’t enter your credit card number for anything but purchases, and never give your social security number online. Even if you take all of these steps, be sure to check your balance statements regularly. As South Carolinians were rudely reminded this October when a hacker broke into state records and stole millions of people’s financial information, sometimes all the preparation in the
world can’t stop a skilled thief. If something about your card activity seems off, freeze your account -- that can stop most of the damage before it’s been done. These tips may seem to be common sense, but it’s tempting to skip important precautions just because it’s less hassle. No one is immune to being a target of credit card fraud, and having to spend the holidays fixing your bank account is a surefire way to make them less happy. But by being cautious and watchful, you can use your credit card safely to get your holiday shopping out of the way and get back to celebrating the season.
letter to the editor Coming into school used to be one of my favorite parts of the day. I like walking down the hallways and saying hello to people. It gets my mornings off to the right start. That is, until I hit a wall of sophomores that not only do not want to wish me well, but actually get my day off to a bad start. “The Mob,” as I like to call them, does not listen as a whole. You have to individually call kids out and physically move them in order to get to your desired destination
every morning. I understand that moving from the Freshman Academy across the rotunda is a traumatic experience, but I promise, the security you find from lumping together with all of your friends isn’t going to last. One day you will realize you can stand with one, maybe two friends and be completely content. Who knows -- maybe you could even find yourself being productive and doing homework or getting help from a teacher.
Imagine that -- actually getting something done in the morning other than making people angry. The moral of this editorial is MOVE. I love seeing your wonderful faces in the morning, but not when they are so close together that I am afraid an infectious disease will spread through the group faster than the school nurse can tell you she isn’t allowed to give you medicine. Thank you for your time. --senior georgia compton
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The Goorin Brothers Hat Shop is the perfect place to stop by Society if you’re near Marion Square and searching for aSociety classy and unique gift. The family-owned company is a little pricey, but the quality is worth it. Their everyday hats range from $40 to $80 while their handmade, fancier hats can reach up to $175. The store also has a series of vintage-looking hair clips and acWentworth cessories that range $16 to $18 -- perfect for any girl. Plus, through December, for every purchase of two or more hats, the store will donate one hat to a cancer patient. --elizabeth levi
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When I first walked into The Vault, it was like going back in time. From hats to varsity jackets to shirts, The Vault carries favorite sports team’s nostalgic logos on authentic fabrics. While slightly pricey -- hats going for $20 and shirts going for aroundM$30 arke--t the St. quality is top notch. Some holiday specials the Vault has are buy three hats get the fourth free and buy four shirts get the fifth free. --madison ivey
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The Savannah Bee Company, located at 216 King Street, directly across from Forever 21, is a novelty shop specializing in honey. From Acacia, a light , crisp version of honey, to Winter White, a in St.spectrum. frawhole Beau frosting-like seasonal treat, this store carries the in St.you are greeted with a tasting section, so fradoor, Beau Once inside the you can sample them all. The pricing is reasonable too, with a three ounce jar going for $6 and 12 ounces ranging between $12-$17. The Savannah Bee Company also supplies all-natural bath products. All of them come with a natural honey base and natural flavorings such as Mint Julip, Earl Gray and Clementine. The soap goes for $6 and the chapsticks are $3.50. The crowning jewels of this store are the Marrecipe ket Stcards laid all over with fresh ideas to utilize your purchased honey.. --madison ivey
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The Tribal Tribune explores the local stores of King Street searching for the perfect holiday gifts. We found four especially unique stores featured here. For more ideas, check out www.wandotribaltribune.com.
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Spelled out in golden, florid letters is Magnifilous Toy Emporium -- the toy store of every dreamy Christmas movie you’ve ever fawned over while baking cookies as a child. And walking into the Charolette St. Charolette St. 525 King Street store, each of those childlike feelings rush back to you: suddenly, for no apparent reason, it seems absolutely crucial that you own the 10-foot stuffed giraffe welcoming customers near the door. From the carousel to the piano that plays itself to the Henrietta St. endless assortment of knick-knacks, crafts, books and toys, there’s nothing in this store that isn’t straight from the daydreams of youth. The prices range from less than $1 to over $2,000. Calhoun Calhoun --megan parks
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