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Volume 37, Issue 2
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Law and disorder special section from page 13 to 20
Halloween / 09
chophouse / 22
girls’ cross country / 25
Israel vs Palestine / 29
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talent
The annual talent show on Oct. 12 gave students the opportunities to display their talents, with The Beast Crew taking first place.
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eye for an eye
Take an in-depth look at crime, tragedy and the police response in Mount Pleasant in this issue’s special section.
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Warrior fans lead a new age of school spirit for football games, but administrators warn students not to take things too far.
got golf
Showing leadership and skill, senior Katie Coeyman helps her team reach the state golf tournament. Read more on page 23.
silent war
Palestine and Israel have been struggling over the issue of land for years. Now Palestine wants to be recognized by the United Nations.
united
The varsity football team beat Beaufort 43-21 for a Homecoming victory on Oct. 7. See pictures and read more on page 32.
by the numbers: Halloween
that’s what you said...
Haunted houses, pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating have long been associated with Halloween. Have you ever wondered why we celebrate this spooky holiday?
What is your favorite Halloween candy out of these choices?
36 million the estimated number of trick-or-treaters nationwide in 2009
931 million pounds of pumpkins grown by major pumpkin producing states in 2009
1,814 number of costume rental stores nationwide in 2008
24.3 pounds of candy consumed per capita by Americans in 2009
-All statistics courtesy of halloweenstats.com
41% Reese’s Cups 25% Snickers 15% Hershey Bars
18% Skittles 1% Double Bubble Bubblegum
What do you do Halloween night?
44% Go to a party 17% Go trick-or-treating 21% Other 11%Pass out candy 7% Take a younger sibling trick-or-treating
212 people polled
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Getting to know
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Morgan Blake
How to... carve a pumpkin
TT: If a genie granted you three wishes, what would they be? MB: Oh, that’s a tough one. Can I do more wishes? And then new clothes. World peace?
Make sure the pumpkin is big enough to fit the design, and that the design is appropriate for your skill level. More intricate designs are
2. Clean out the pumpkin.
You’re going to get your hands messy. And your elbows. Scrape and scoop until all guts are out. Be sure to get the seeds and any loose innards. They will cause problems later if not removed.
4. Saw.
Take the saw and cut along your punched lines. Pin each corner of your You may use the handdesign to the pumpkin held electric saws for folding around the edges to longer pieces. Be sure to fit a flat surface to a round cut pieces in the middle one. Then begin punching FIRST. After sawing the along the lines. Don’t waste edge of the piece, push time by making punches it into the pumpkin. If it too close together. does not fall in, resaw the edges.
Light a candle, place the top, and enjoy.
TT: What do you want to be when you grow up? MB: A doctor? Missionary? Not sure.
TT: Are you good? MB: Hopefully. [smiles]
3. Begin punching.
5. Display your pumpkin.
TT: What’s your favorite subject? MB: I like AP Human Geography.
TT: Do you play any sports? MB: Yes, I play soccer. Just for club right now, but I’ll try out for Wando in the spring.
Tribal Tribune staffer Caitie Armstrong, along with Anna Rogerson and Nathan Glyder, helps demostrate the best way to carve the perfect pumpkin.
by caitie armstrong
1. Pick a pumpkin and a design. Tribal Tribune: What’s your favorite thing about Wando? Morgan Blake: I like the vending machines. They’re conveniently located.
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4-4 School Board vote puts building plans on hold elizabeth levi
co-writing editor
For two years, Principal Lucy Beckham has spent hours working with architects perfecting the blueprints for the Middle College. Plans spread across the oversized conference table in her office -- a book of blueprints an inch thick lays among a scatter of 11 more sheets. But after a surprise Charleston County School Board move on Oct. 10, all the time and the plans may be put aside. The School Board was expected to approve the contract continuing the Middle College’s design, but the vote failed at 4-4. Board member Ann Oplinger was absent; because of the tie, the Board agreed to re-vote on the issue at the Nov. 14 meeting. Until then, Beckham said she will continue her work on the Middle College, which is set to be completed in 2014. “If we don’t continue the work and we stop, and then it is funded, then it’s not going to be able to open in time because we didn’t get this part done. So we’ll just keep marching and hope,” Beckham said. The $49.7 million Middle College option – featuring a 108,000 square foot building offering vocational majors and new course pathways from cosmetology to biomedical science as well as more space for AP and dual credit courses – already has funding from a public vote in 2010 that slated a one-cent sales tax in the county to go towards school building improvements. “The committee who was charged with making the decision recommended that the Middle College be built immediately and that a second high school be put on the horizon for as soon as possible after that,” Beckham said. The vote temporarily halting the plans was a surprise, Beckham said. Kate Darby, Wando’s Chairman of the School Improvement Council, said she also was shocked at the failure to pass. “I don’t think that it should be an issue,” Darby said. Moffly, a Charleston County School Board member, is opposed to the Middle College. She said she believes Mount Pleasant needs a second high school rather than a middle college. “I am in support of transforming all high schools in their existing facilities to implement programs that are geared towards dual credit, which is what a middle college does,” Moffly said. “That’s what I’m for. It doesn’t require a new building. You can do it in your existing building.” Beckham said the Middle College, however, would serve not only as a Career and Technology Center, but it would relieve the overcrowding at Wando until a second high school could be built. “The negative that was mentioned [during the Oct. 10 School Board meeting] was that it was going to put even more people in this area – more cars, more traffic. Some of
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Middle College split right down the middle
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Principal Lucy Beckham and Assistant Principal William Outlaw look at the blueprints for the Middle College Oct. 18.
the students in the Middle College will be students who are leaving the trailers that are already here. So it’s not necessarily going to add 600 more students or cars here,” Beckham said. “However, the location was chosen because when we looked at other places in South Carolina and the East – places we visited – the ones that seemed to work the best and were the most utilized by the students were next to the largest high school in the district. It’s logical to put it next to the school that will be the greatest user of the service. The land was free. It was donated by the developer of Carolina Park, and the logic was it was closer to walk to that building than to many of our current trailers,” she added. Moffly said the Middle College is not an advantage to students. “I think it’s so unfair for our students — for you guys, what’s in your best interests,” she said. “Why would you not want a second high school? The second high school would not be in the league that Wando is in by any means sports-wise because I would never promote building a school that large.” Darby disagrees. “I don’t think anyone objects to a second high school. I think most people agree that a second high school should be built, hopefully on that property on Mathis Ferry,” Darby said. “But before that happens, we need more opportunities and we need more seats. Pretty soon ya’ll are going to have trailers all over the Wando campus and that doesn’t make any sense.” According to Beckham, Wando’s size is its advantage and the Middle College will just improve Wando. “I think everybody needs to become aware of what the process was because there was some misinformation given out at the board meeting by some board members who I think perhaps just didn’t know,” she said. “There had been a huge amount of community involvement and the community had made this decision. It was a community decision – it wasn’t a three or four people in a back room decision. I think we have to respect the fact that there are people in Mount Pleasant who really do wish there was another high school, and if this was its own school district, I
have no doubt that probably both would be happening. “But the careers center will serve the other high school,” she continued. “It’s kind of like everybody who went to school thinks they have the idea of what school should be like, but they are limited to the experiences of their own life. That’s kind of what I figured out over time.” Darby also thinks the Middle College will improve the whole community and hopes parents and students will endorse it as well. “I’m going to encourage as many people as possible to go to those meetings and put pressure on the School Board to think about what’s best for the community first, and in this particular case, it’s what’s best for the East Cooper community but it’s also what’s best for the county,” she said. “The whole idea of the Middle College is to be at Wando, centrally located so that kids from Lincoln can take advantage, and then eventually kids at the second high school at Wando South. “It is a win-win and they’re not going to be able to build a high school with the money that’s there. I had parents who were there at the meeting tell me that they were shocked – that they couldn’t believe it [that the vote did not pass]. They couldn’t believe that that action was taken,” Darby added. The Charleston County school board will re-vote on Nov. 14, and until then, the hopes are high for supporters of the Middle College. “I feel like a lot of research has been done on this and moving forward with the Middle College and then a second high school will serve everybody’s needs,” Darby said. “I’m very concerned that if we don’t move forward – if we throw the Middle College out, we wasted money and ya’ll are going to be crowded at Wando – we’re not doing what’s best for our children. I think that’s what we always prided ourselves on in Mount Pleasant,” she continued. “We work hard for our children and our schools because we want the best opportunities we can give them, and that includes a Middle College and then a second high school.”
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The controversy rolls on Hunt Club center of censorship challenge at School Board level emilee kutyla
co-writing editor
Censorship. To many in the literary world -- or any community -- it’s a dirty word, symbolizing creative oppression and the absence of free will. To others, it is more about responsibility and protecting innocence. For the past year, the question of censorship of local author Brett Lott’s book The Hunt Club has been prominent, as media specialist Emilie Woody and Lott have been fighting to keep his novel on the list of recommended summer reading material for juniors. “At first I thought it was kind of funny. I wasn’t sure if it was for real,” Lott said, who is a College of Charleston English professor and the author of 13 books, including Jewel, which was chosen to be a part of Oprah’s book club. “I thought that it was kind of a joke. I didn’t think of it as being as malevolent as it was being portrayed, so at first I just didn’t really believe it.” The Hunt Club has been on the Wando list of summer reading material for seven years, but it was not until the 2010-2011 school year that Woody heard a complaint. “I was surprised, I mean I had read the book. I just didn’t see it that way at all, it’s not that I didn’t notice the language,” Woody said. “I clearly understood it in the context, but I was willing to go back and that’s why we put the committee together at Wando even though we didn’t have to.” After receiving the complaint, Woody
-- with other teachers and administrators -reread the novel and decided not to remove it from the list. “The parents didn’t feel like that was enough because we’re not willing to remove it from the reading list, which is what they wanted to have happen,” Woody said. Based in the Lowcountry, The Hunt Club, Lott said, is not meant as a young adult novel and does contain some graphic language and violent scenes that the parents objected to. “It’s not a young adult novel. When I wrote it, I wasn’t thinking high school readers. I was thinking this is about a kid, he’s 15 years old, he’s trying to figure out who he is,” Lott said. “Who am I on the face of the earth? That was the thing that I was writing. That was the most important element of the book.” According to the complaint, the parents’ believed there were multiple themes that were not suitable for young adults: “We object to the profanity, racial slurs and degradation of women and motherhood. The book displays violence and introduced marijuana, as well as drinking alcohol. The book brings no literary value, and offers nothing toward their literary growth, and has no high moral value.” Woody and Lott find several of these complaints difficult to understand. “The foul language, absolutely, there is,” Woody said. “The book’s theme is good versus evil, and the way that the author clearly portrays for the reader who the good characters are and who the bad characters are, language is one of those things. That’s what happens in literature.” Lott believes the language used is necessary in differentiating between the good and bad characters, and argues that the
book is meant to display a positive message. “The main character used bad language and he’s reprimanded by his uncle for it,” he said. “When the bad people speak badly, I am never going to write a sentence in which a bad guy says ‘gee willikers’ and we all tremble.” Since Woody’s first recommendation to have the novel remain in schools, another committee, at the district level, came to the same conclusion. “That committee gave their recommendation to Dr. [Nancy] McGinley, and Dr. McGinley sent the ruling saying that’s what we’re going to do,” Woody said. “It can stay with disclaimer statements. The parents are not ok with that; the parents are now taking it to the School Board.” The School Board will take the final vote on whether to remove the book from reading lists across the county. Lott finds the idea of attempting to censor a book difficult. “I can’t say unequivocally that books should be banned. No, I don’t think so. I think there are books that nobody needs to read,” he said. “There’s no reason for me to say because I don’t think anyone should read this book that you can’t read it. You can do what you want; it’s called free will.” Working with books everyday, Woody also finds the concept difficult to understand. “As a librarian, I would be very much against censorship,” she said. “You’re reducing access to information for somebody else, so where’s the stopping point?” Both Lott and Woody said they understand the reasons for why a parent might want to censor a book. “The thing for me is that I think young adult literature and adult literature are starting to blur. We have young adults in our building who are dealing with some really tough things,” Woody said. “That’s their reality. For us to say that’s not valid or it doesn’t belong, well what does that say about them?” Lott, though disagreeing that the book should be censored, commends the parents for having an active role in their child’s life. “I don’t have any problem at all with these people saying no, we don’t want our son to read this book. That is absolutely correct, and it shows that these people are parents who actually have an active role in their children’s lives, and that’s a good thing,” he said. “But to resolve it in a way that extracts the book so that no one can read the book is censorship, and that’s wrong.”
Prized novels often remain challenged Classics
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984
by George Orwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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And Tango Makes Three
by Peter Parnell/Justin Richardson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Lush
by Natasha Friend
What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Revolutionary Voices by Amy Sonnie
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer
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Notable achievements
Junior Elloit Bacon (Front) and Junior Uly Vannavong (Back) perform their first place routine.
Freshman James Meyers made All Region Orchestra on the cello. “I felt so happy because it was my first time getting in there. I didn’t think I’d get in because I messed up a few times. But I did pretty good; either you get the scales or you don’t, and I got them. I nailed that,” Meyers said.
Sophomore Madison Fields made the AllRegion Orchestra on the bass. “I was really excited because I get an opportunity to play with all these awesome people,” Fields said. Orchestra teacher Derek Deakins said it’s the first time the program has had six members at once make All-Region.
Sophomore Casey Wells made the All-Region Orchestra on the viola. “I couldn’t believe it. I worked really hard on it,” Wells said. “I didn’t know I would make it because I was with all the high schoolers. Hard work paid off.”
Freshman Rika Win made the All-Region Orchestra on the violin. “I worked really hard for it. When I started playing I assumed I didn’t get in,” Win said. “Then I looked on the website and saw I got first violin.”
Junior Irving Chao made the All-Region Orchestra on the viola. “Hard work pays off. you really get rewarded for it,” Chao said.
Sophomore David Hall made the All- Region Orchestra on the violin. “I’m glad I made it. I was suprised and relieved,” Hall said.
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Bacon, Vannavong win annual school talent show The hidden crafts of the student body were put on display Oct. 12 to the delight of many, with juniors Uly Vannavong and Elliot Bacon taking top prize in the annual competition. The final contender managed to steal the show and place in first -- The Beast Crew, a duo of two dancers. They won the judges over with their renditions of breakdancing and choreography. “I got into dancing around sixth grade, and everybody around me was doing it,” Vannavong said. “And that was it.” What makes it such a passionate part of his life, he said, is that “it’s a way to express and entertain people.” Bacon stumbled upon dancing in a different manner. “I started skating a lot and then once I got off my skates, I started dancing. I’ve always been dancing since about three,” he said. “It’s just…I like the way my body feels with the music. The music and my body are one. Mind, body, spirit.” First runner up was Becca Sobieszczyk for her technocolored hoop dancing to Miley Cyrus’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” “My mom actually got started with [hoop dancing]
Sociology and St. James Santee The sociology classes taught by Christopher Poston and Darrell Hedrick are partnering with St. James Santee Elementary School in McClellanville. Wando students will act as student mentors and stress the importance of staying in school and overcoming obstacles in life. “Books and bed time stories were important to us as children, but unfortunately kids at St. James Santee did not have that luxury” said junior Krista Stanton, head of media for the project. There are two raffles going on at the moment, one of which is for the freshman -- a ticket is awarded to each individual who turns in three books, which could then lead to a prize. The other raffle is available to students that can drive -- each ticket costs a dollar and grants an equal opportunity to win a parking space. All the money earned from the parking space raffle will go to the school and the books will go to the children.
through some of her friends,” she said. “They took a class through KC Douglas who owns the business Home Spun Hoops, and they did it as an exercise type deal. And then one night...I was really upset, so she told me to come so that I wouldn’t be sad anymore.” After she went to the class, a new passion was founded. “I was just sitting there and just watching them do it, and then KC came over -- she’s the owner and she’s really cool,” Sobieszczyk added. “She was like, ‘You can’t sit there; you have to do it!’ And I was like, ‘Fine, whatever’ and I picked up a hula hoop and I was just doing it... she’s really good at it, so she was just teaching me all kinds of new tricks. Then I just fell in love with it.” Placing in third was John Butler for his performance of his original song “If You Let Me Down.” “I owe it to a really bad breakup,” said Butler, who won first place in the 2010 talent show. “It was just kind of a song about the pain of it, and also looking forward to somebody new, and just asking them not to do the same thing really.”
-- amanda sharpley Bands of American: Atlanta The Wando High School Band will be competing in the Bands of America (BOA) competition in Atlanta Oct. 28-29. This year’s show is “Daedalus and Icarus: A Metamorphoses,” featuring music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Jay Bocook and James Newton Howard. “Our show’s going to be really amazing…we’ll just have to put all of what we have into it,” said drum major Claire Bogdan.
Yearbook’s Race for the Cure
Over half of the Yearbook staff members walked in the Race for the Cure Oct. 15. English teacher and Legend adviser Jeannie Fox, who formed the team last year, has done several breast cancer walks. “It’s something I just decided I would do” Fox said. “It’s a good bonding experience for us all outside of the classroom -- to kick back and get to know one another while supporting a really good cause.”
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Combining honors and CP
Because of numbers, classes are pushed together matt orvin
would do in an honors class and CP stu“It [has] made teachers really examine dents are doing what CP students would what the difference is between honors and do.” CP,” Truluck said. “It [has] probably made Occasionally, there can be confusion them better teachers and have a better grip between the honors and CP halves of the on that difference rather than a teacher that class. teaches some honors and some CP classes.” “Occasionally there are some logistical Having combined honors and CP issues of people knowing what work they classes has been a tough sell for parents, achave to do and who has to do what project cording to Herring. and what they’re expected to do,” Leggett “[Parents] want to make sure that their said. honors students are getting honors rigor While combining classes may not be and CP parents want to make sure that ideal, Herring said that it can break down their students aren’t getting poor grades barriers and introduce CP students to hon- because they’re in a class that has honors ors classes. students,” Herring said. “ I When think that having to we should choose bem o v e tween cutaway from ting classes separator combinDavid Leggett ing our ing them, students the combiinto applied, CP and honors,” Herring nation classes allow for a workable, if imsaid. “Each student could be pushed to do perfect, solution according to Sparks. more if they were in combined ed courses, “Ms. [Principal Lucy] Beckham has rather than being stuck with the exact same been very, very creative and she underpeople all the time, doing the exact same stands master scheduling that she’s been thing.” able to make these things work, to make At the same time, having combined them possible,” Sparks said. “Until the budclasses has shown the contrast between get issue changes, I think it’s here to stay. It honors and CP, according to Science De- comes to the bottom line, it’s either that or partment Chair Ruth Truluck. nothing at all.”
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Honors and CP classes are often thought of as being completely separate and unique. Now that is changing; budget cuts are forcing schools to either cut or combine classes. “I didn’t know what to expect, I knew it would be different, but I didn’t know how it would influence the class,” said senior and honors anatomy and physiology student David Leggett. The combined classes were put into effect as a solution to under-sized classes that were not big enough on their own for a teacher. This has been implemented for the Chemistry II and Anatomy and Physiology classes. “The option is either put up with [combined classes] or not get the course, and I think [the latter] weighs more heavily than not getting it,” Director of Guidance Sheila Sparks said. “There is no difference [from a normal class] as far as the student is concerned,” Anatomy and Physiology teacher Deana Herring said. “They’re still doing all of the work that an honors student
I didn’t know what to expect, I knew it would be different, but I didn’t know how it would influence the class
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‘Come together, right now’ Madison Ivey
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Sophomore Miranda Godfrey’s first day at Wando wasn’t the easiest. “[Wando] is kind of overwhelming because there are a lot of people, and the first week of school I had to sit at lunch by myself. It was kind of depressing,” Godfrey said, who moved to Mt. Pleasant from Indianapolis during the summer 2011. Getting rid of this feeling and getting accustomed to a new school, as a new student, has always been a fumbling to find a student’s place. To ease the transition, junior Michael O’Brien is helping new students by starting up the Newcomer’s Club. The club is a way for new students to get to know the school and South Carolina with the support of students who know how it feels to be new. “All of the leaders moved here previous years ago, so they help you find out what to do,” Godfrey said. “It’s amazing how different it can be just moving somewhere that’s even in the same country and it feels like
you’re going to a different continent,” said O’ Brien, who moved to Mt. Pleasant from New York the summer before his sophomore year. His personal experiences inspired him to start the club. “I had no family here, no friends, I didn’t even have siblings that were in the high school, so I just wanted a way for [new students] to meet people faster than what I had because that was really difficult,” he said. Godfrey had similar troubles when she moved from Indianapolis for her dad’s job, but the Newcomers’ club helped. “My parents went to the new people’s meeting before school started and then I started going once school started,” Godfrey said. Since a club needs beginnings, it took not only O’Brien’s dedication to the concept, but an administrator’s stamp of approval. “It started last year when I went to [Assistant Principal Bryan] Hearn with the idea, and then over the summer I set it up with [former Assistant Principal Bill] Smyth, and we planned a bunch of events, like a barbeque,” O’Brien said. “We set up an orientation for before when school started to show [the new students] around the school and let them know what the club was about.” O’Brien’s previous teachers, Erin Lowry and Jared Tyler, became the sponsors of the club. “They’re extremely nice, and they don’t even seem like teachers to me anymore,” O’Brien said.
Lowry said she feels strongly about students, especially ones new to the school, having a place where they can attach roots and grow. “I thought it was very essential for kids to feel like they have somewhere to go,” she said, “and have somewhere they are comfortable.” The meetings provide a place where new students can connect, Godfrey said. “There are a lot of people who’ve moved from the same place as you, and you can have stuff in common with a lot of other people,” she said. “If you’re scared, you can find out who has your lunch.” The club has 30 members, but current members have lofty aspirations, O’Brien said. “We are hoping to get everybody involved, and next year we’re definitely going to start off with more events so we can get kids involved right away, because that’s when we need it the most,” he said. “I hope that it grows where it’s not the same people coming every single time,” Lowry said. “I want those people to meet other people. I basically want it to be a place where we can help facilitate friendships, people getting comfortable here getting involved in clubs, getting involved in sports, anything like that.” The club is not only for new students. “If they really like it and they got a lot of friends in it then they can stay next year,” O’Brien said. “I think that would be great; I actually hope that they would do that.”
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Entertainment upcoming festivals
Where:
New Orleans When: Oct. 29-31 Cost: $149
Voodoo Experience
What: Voodoo Experience is a multi-day
Who: Soundgarden, Snoop Dog, My Chemical Romance, Blink 182, Girl Talk
Where: Ashville When: Oct. 29-31 Cost: $184.50
Moogfest
What: A music festival honoring Robert
Moog, a musical pioneer who invented numerous instruments that include the Minimoog Voyager, the Little Phatty, the Etherwave Thermin and many more.
Who: Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, Crystal
Castles, TV on the Radio, The Antlers, Chromeo, Flying Lotus, and more.
Where: Austin, Texas
When: Nov. 4-6 Cost: $135
Fun Fun Fun Festival What: An independent music festival that
celebrates passionate underground culture.
Who: Spoon, Ra Ra Riot, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Diplo, Flying Lotus, The Joy Formidable and more.
Boone Hall Fright Night
Boone Hall Fright Night is perhaps one of the most anticipated haunted attractions, holding some of the most terrifying attractions in the area, from Nightmare Manor to Terror Trail Hayride to Psycho Clowns in 3D. Due to the intense and graphic material of the horrors, it is not recommended for anyone under 12 years of age to enter. Passes can be bought for $25 which includes all four attractions. Fight Night is open on Fridays and Saturdays until midnight and on all other days from dark to 10 p.m.
Cypress Garden’s Halloween in the Swamp
Nature and the supernatural are mixed at Cypress Garden’s Halloween in the Swamp. There will be a lighted pumpkin trail, jump castles, storytelling with Mike Miller, a campfire and marshmallow roast. It is recommended for the whole family. Halloween in the Swamp is on Oct. 20-22 from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Ghost Ship
History seen from another angle; that is what you get this Halloween on the USS Yorktown. The event is based off of Blackbeard and his siege of Charleston. There will tales of eerie haunting’s, tours held about the siege and Blackbeard’s pirates and tales of the skull from Blackbeard which happens to be on board the ship. Tours will be held Oct. 28-31. The first will begin at 7 p.m. and the last will end at 11 pm. Ticket fees are $15 and the parking fee is $5. TANNER HOISINGTON/editor
music and arts festival that started on Halloween weekend in 1999.
Haunted houses in the Lowcountry
Ghost and Provost Dungeon
Located in Downtown Charleston, this tour is filled with many stories of the past from old streets and alleyways to churches and cemeteries, in addition to the historical pre-Revolutionary War Provost Dungeon. Tours last for 90 minutes and run Tuesday through Saturday. Prices vary. - compiled by julie stoyer
Edgar Allen Poe
&
Sullivan’s
Famed author lives on in the Charleston area amanda sharpley
staff writer
Edgar Allan Poe, Sullivan’s Island -- an eerie combination that lives on. “The Balloon Hoax,” “The Oblong Box” and “The Gold Bug”: Poetry and tales of voodoo magic, pirates, treasure hunting, superstitions and the marsh-ridden South Carolina Coast. It all lives on in more ways than on paper however. Poe is still very much alive.
A view of the Haunted House at Boone Hall’s Fright Night located off of Highway 17.
Located on Ión Avenue, the Edgar Allan Poe Library at any other time of the year may seem like your typical quaint, small town library. However, take a trip down there around Jan. 19, Poe’s birthday, and you’ll find an entire window display done up in his honor. You may even catch a glimpse of “The Raven” or “Annabel Lee” wandering around the front desk, as the employees are often known to dress as characters from his more preeminent pieces. Once you’ve had your fill of literature springing to life — literally, and you’re ready to get your grub on, just down Middle Street lays Poes’ Tavern. The atmosphere is very fitting for your journey back to the 1800s, with portraits of Poe hung all around. Maybe you’ll even decide to take a treasure hunt of your own. All you need is a golden scarab and a hunger for adventure — so it’s probably best to wait after all your food digests from Poes’ Tavern.
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Best of Charleston
The Lowcountry’s best: fudge devon barkley kristen evans and lauren fraser staff writers
Kilwins
The only problem we could find with Kilwins was finding parking. With its location at 59 South Market Street in downtown Charleston, the area can get pretty congested. The streets, however, were not the only thing congested. Upon arriving at the candy shop, we realized just how busy it truly was.
Sweet Julep’s
When we walked into Sweet Julep’s, one thing struck us -- the atmosphere. It makes you feel relaxed, unlike our other choices which could be slightly intimidating. Downtown can be far too chaotic, and Julep’s has an easy going vibe. It is conveniently located just to the left of the movie theater in Towne Center, mak-
Market Street Sweets
Market Street Sweets is located on 100 N. Market St. in downtown Charleston. With their homemade candy and prime location, we decided to put their fudge to the test. Walking into the store, you see a line pushing to get through. It’s the type of store you want to get in and get out of quickly.
the
Shuffle with mitch winkler
So what’s on your playlist? Every issue a Tribal Tribune staffer will share her taste in music, selecting the top four songs they thinks everyone should have on their playlist.
With smooth beat and delicious rhymes, the voices of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg just flow together so well, letting us know that record company people are shady. “Check the Rhyme” is a classic song from one of the greatest rap duos ever.
Listening to “Hobo Girl” makes me want to just get up and trek across the country on a whimsical adventure. The song just sounds so western and romantic with its upright piano. Old west romanticism, basically.
The candy shop was packed and could easily become uncomfortably crowded, yet the service was great and prompt. Their pricing was a little high, advertised at nearly $5 a quarter pound. However, while the prices seemed high, the quality and taste were even higher. Kilwins was easily the favorite of the day.
ing it a nice place to stop in and get a treat -- especially the chocolate fudge -- before catching a movie or shopping. It doesn’t pose the issue of getting yourself lost, and the prices are reasonable. Style is also definitely on their side; all together Sweet Julep’s is a good pick for your fudge needs.
The store has an antiquated and cozy feel. The store has an excellent variety of fudge that tastes fresh from the oven. This savory food is the perfect delicacy because it satisfies the hunger but doesn’t wear you down. It’s on the expensive side but because of its location, it is worth the cost and is the crowning addition to a pleasant city day.
Picks & Peeves with keanau ormson associate editor
PICK: Free time Between work, school, newspaper and everything else, there is so little time to just sit back, play guitar and relax. It may be just a glimpse of the real world but I think that the stress I’m feeling is pretty real. It feels so good just to sit back and relax every now and then.
PEEVE: No lead It’s halfway through the test and you find yourself on a roll. You are doing great. Snap. That final piece of lead snaps and you’re out of luck. You have a sixteen other mechanical pencils in your backpack but not a single one of them has lead. And then you must shamefully whisper to your neighbor for some lead, only to be yelled at by your teacher for all the wrong reasons.
PICK: USC football I have taken the constant battering. the attacks by all the Clemson fans who think that one game will make a difference come November. I have stood my ground and watched as Carolina has thrown their starting quarterback off of the team -- I won’t mention any names. Regardless, I’m proud of my boys this season.
PEEVE: Gym shorts A lot of people make fun of me because I seem to have only one outfit: gym shorts and a hoody. But honestly I couldn’t care less. I’m in school -- I’m not going to torture myself to get up and get ready in the morning. Nope. I’m going to roll out of bed and know I’m going to be really comfortable when I’m sitting in class.
“Check the Rhyme”
““Walcott”
A Tribe Called Quest
Vampire Weekend
The Low End Theory
Vampire Weekend
“Hobo Girl” Fruit Bats The Ruminant Band
Polo shirts, if they were audible, would sound like Vampire Weekend. “Walcott” is the classiest and happiest of all the Vampire Weekend songs. The fast paced piano and ringing guitars just scream Cape Cod.
“East Harlem” is one of the “East Harlem” happiest songs I’ve ever heard. It calms me and Beirut throws me into some quaint local parade, drinking hot Riptide tea in the cold weather while dancing,.. in the sound.
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Tribal Tribune’s most influential horror movies Starring the more well-known Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, Halloween is the slasher film that defined the genre. Halloween popularized the female heroine, the masked villain, open endings to horror movies and more. But what Halloween didn’t have was an unbelievable and embarrassing set up. What is more frightening then an escaped mental patient free in your town?
If there is one movie that fits the requirement of needing to watch it alone on this list, it is The Blair Witch Project. It doesn’t rely on jump scares or gore, instead what earns Blair Witch a spot on this list is that all of the footage is recovered from a real incident. Many movies have used a similar “amateur footage” approach since.
So The Shining may not terrify audiences today, but just like the Torrances and Overlook Hotel it is hard to escape the legacy the 1980 film has left. The film’s release met mixed reviews upon release, but with each viewing you appreciate the amount of perplexity director Stanley Kubrick put in The Shining. The same critics that blasted the movie at first have come back to say that it is one of the best horror movies of all time. Oh, and two words : Here’s Johnny.
“Hello Clarice.” Silence of the Lambs, the ultimate mind thriller follows FBI officer Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) as she studies the famous Doctor Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) as she tries to find serial killer Buffalo Bill. Everything about the film is eerie as Clarice becomes closer and closer to finding Bill. The intense scenes will have you nervous and on your seat, but strangely wanting more. -- tanner hoisington, emilee kutyla, amanda sharpley
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jessica afrin
staff writer
Grouplove is perhaps the perfect band name for a group of people whose music radiates peace, love and sunshine. Never Trust a Happy Song, their first full length album, was released Sept. 13, practically the beginning of fall; the release date was a poor choice, as the tracks are perfect for summer, deserving to blasted from beach radios and car stereos. Luckily, this won’t hurt the band too much. Grouplove was been wellknown by the indie community long before this, even before their debut EP Grouplove dropped at the beginning of 2011. They gained their fans through extensive touring, and big names that sped up their rise in the music world included Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin (father of Grouplove drummer Ryan Rabin), The Joy Formidable (with whom Grouplove toured the U.S. in 2010) and Florence + The Machine (who handpicked Grouplove to open a number of their 2010 West Coast tour dates).
The quintet consists of Christian comes on, the title thoroughly describing Zucconi (vocals, guitar), Hannah Hooper the dark, phantasmal piece that plods (keyboard, vocals), Andrew Wesser along, breaking the mood and flow of the (guitar, vocals), Sean Gadd (bass, vocals) album. It would have been much better to and Ryan Rabin (drums). The five have “Naked Kids” (the ultimate summer members first met at an artists retreat soundtrack) follow “Colours.” before reuniting a year later -- 2009 -- to Each song has a different personality, create music together. a good choice in a world where people I first heard of Grouplove the week get bored easily. “Spun” has a rock ‘n roll Never Trust a Happy Song came out. sound, “Betty’s a Bombshell” is a lilting iTunes was offering story song, and Never Trust a Happy “Chloe” can be put a single off of the Song album for free -in the rockabilly Released Sept. 13 genre (a combination “Colours” -- and it quickly became of country, rock $10 one of my favorite and blues). “Love songs. I then Will Save Your bought the rest of the album and basked in Soul” is sadly bland and uninspired, the sunny beach tunes that dominated the composed entirely of clichés, but “Cruel track listing. and Beautiful World” uses clichés to an The anthemic track “Itchin’ On a advantage, the simple chorus of the folk Photograph” kicks off the album with ballad surprisingly powerful. “Close emphatic hand claps and a rousing Your Eyes and Count to Ten” perfectly bassline. It is a perfect companion demonstrates Grouplove’s community to “Tongue Tied,” an upbeat, catchy spirit, but lacks the life-affirming mood dance tune with a pop/disco beat carried throughout the rest album. and synth sounds. “Lovely Cup” is a Overall, Never Trust a Happy whimsical reggae/pop number that Song is a promising first effort at a full leads listeners nicely into the slower length album. The biggest problems anthem “Colours” that is psychedelic yet (poor sequencing, and cliché-ridden exciting. Unfortunately, the album’s poor songwriting) will most likely be solved by sequencing becomes evident as “Slow” experience and time.
Kick off your Sunday shoes...again Original plot with an amazing storyline
virginia gilliam
staff designer
I go to the Wando plays every year. The first time I heard about Footloose was when it was announced as Wando’s 2008 musical. The play was an unrealistic comedy about a town that had a law that prohibited dancing. The singing and dancing was a little bit too cheesy, and there wasn’t really a plot. Even though it was a lot of fun, I didn’t take too much from the play. However, watching the movie really improved my understanding of what makes Footloose special.
When his mother dies of leukemia, the movie is about these characters rebelRen McCorack (Kenny Wormald), a ling against the laws that keep them from northern boy from Boston, moves to a being teens. It’s full of dancing and amazsmall southern town with his uncle Wes ing music that makes the movie great. Warnicker (Ray Mckinnon). He immeI loved the movie Footloose as it took diately notices Rev. Shaw Moore’s (John the original plot and evolved it into a fullLithgow) daughfledged story. The ter Ariel Moore movie shows us In theatres now (Julianne Hough), that being a crazy Starring: Kenny who becomes a teenager might Wormald, Julianne lead to mistakes, rebel child after Hough the absurd law of but that is what not being able to growing up is all dance in public is about. I loved the enforced. The law was caused by a crazy diversity of the dancing and watching the group of kids dying after a wreck driving characters have fun with life. Unlike the home from a dance. Ren quickly befriends play, the movie really made the story easy a redneck boy who cannot pass up a fight to understand, having significance without named Willard (Miles Teller). The rest of sacrificing the exuberance of the musical.
Top twos
Ever wonder what the top songs, movies and tv shows are for the month of October?
SELLING SONGS “Mistletoe” - Justin Bieber “Make Me Proud” - Drake GROSSING MOVIE Real Steel Footloose “Two and a Half Men”SHOWS MOST-WATCHED “Two and a Half Men” “Modern Family” SELLING BOOKS The Help by Kathryn Stockett Shock Wave by John Sandford
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Happy music for a fading season Radiates peace, love and sunshine
A-List
the
Reviews
Pulse
of the
month
I would still argue that written news is of a higher quality, but trying to cipher through hundreds of thousands of words across various sources is a daunting task. Available for IOS and Android, Pulse is an rss reader that displays pictures along with headlines as you scroll though the latest articles. The end result is like a mosaic and as the developer says it’s news that is “fun and engaging.” - tanner hoisington
What’s your
playlist?
What are your fellow students listening too? Check freshman Julie Watkins’ picks: 1.Rolling in the Deep - Adele 2.Footloose - Kenny Loggins 3.Hey Ya - Outkast 4.How Great Thou Art - Carrie Underwood 5. Steve Earle - Sugarland - Top Twos compiled from New York Times, iTunes and Rotten Tomatoes by devon barkley
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Tribal Special Section 13
Law and disorder
in Mount Pleasant in the United States
43
rapes per 100,000 people
photo illistration by JOSIE MASZK
03
murders per 100,000 people
In a growing town of 67,000 people, conflicts are bound to arrise. The Tribal Tribune investigates how violent crime rates are affected by this changing population.
04 rapes per 100,000 people
0 murders per 100,000 people
229
assaults per 100,000 people
robberies 71
per 100,000 people
167 assaults per 100,000 people
34 robberies per 100,000 people
Statistics were taken in 2010. Each number represents the total number of each violent crime committed out of 100,000 people. Source: areavibes.com
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David Moultrie graduated from Wando in 2010 while holding down a full time job.
Alumnus’ young life is cut short TANNER HOISINGTON/photography editor
Local violence leads to the murder of a hard-working graduate matt orvin
features editor He was known for his smile. He was David “DJ” Moultrie, age 20. His life was cut short. It was all over so quickly. In an instant, two lives were altered. It began with an argument in the parking lot outside of the Walmart Super Center in The Market at Oakland on Sept. 19. Darius Green, 18, allegedly stabbed Moultrie, who then stumbled into the store, near the food center, collapsed and died. According to the Post and Courier, Sept. 30, Green has been charged with murder. Life wasn’t easy for Moultrie. School was a constant challenge, from both an academic and discipline perspective, but Moultrie was always respectful and accepting of help, according to Assistant Principal Sharon Randall. He was put in English teacher Andrea Gallagher’s Senior Seminar class. “He was the perfect fit for that class,” Gallagher said. “He understood the goal, he wanted to graduate, he worked hard, he accepted help, he asked for help when he needed it. You would have a hard time finding somebody who was more proud than he was of what he was able to
accomplish.” Moultrie was known for his smile, demeanor, sense of humor and was well-liked, according to Gallagher. “[He had a] phenomenal smile, I think that he was always smiling, I’m not sure I can remember a time where you couldn’t get him to grin about something,” she said. Moultrie was also able to help other students who were struggling in school to get on the right track. “David connected me to a lot of people who weren’t sure how to navigate school,” Gallagher said. “His success made it easy to say ‘Hey, you’re not sure what to do right now, go here and she’ll talk to you,’ or ‘Let me introduce this teacher to you and she’ll help you out.’” With hard work, perseverance and leaving a positive influence, Moultrie was able to graduate in the summer of 2010 while working full time. He then began working at Walmart, where his father worked, and applied to Trident Tech to study auto repair. “By the time he graduated he had his academics in order. He seemed to have a clue of what he wanted to do with his life,” Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn said. “He was a mature young man. I was proud to say that he had graduated from Wando and had persevered.” Moultrie had a bright future ahead of him. He was on the right path. “It’s just a profound sadness that one of the ones with
such promise was cut short. I think so many people had bright pictures of his future,” Randall said. “It’s just a deep sadness that he wasn’t able to live that life and live those dreams.” But he was able to overcome much in his 20 years. “He was doing all the right things. I hate it that we live in world where you can do all the right things and still have something like this happen,” Gallagher said. Moultrie isn’t the only person whose life has been changed forever. His family and his friends are changed -- as well as the person accused of committing the crime. Randall said people have to make the right choices when faced with conflict. “The first reaction is to pick up a gun or a knife, and it has such irreparable consequences that Bryan Hearn young people don’t think about the consequences, they just act,” Randall said. If the 100-person vigil in front of Walmart on Oct. 4 was a sign, then Moultrie will not be forgotten. “My biggest wish is that his death was not in vain for our students and that positive results will occur, that students will think twice about using weapons when they’re fighting,” Randall said. “If something positive comes out of it, then David would be smiling.”
He was a mature young man.
I was proud to say that he had
graduated from Wando and had perservered
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Mount Pleasant police chief shares views on town’s growth, changes over time
TANNER HOISINGTON/editor
‘We’ve been here before’
Tribal Special Section 15
emilee kutyla
Chief of Police Harry Sewell discusses the change in crime over the two decades he’s been in the police department. Sewell came to Wando to interview with the Tribal Tribune Oct. 7.
co-writing editor
Mount Pleasant Chief of Police Harry Sewell is nothing like many would imagine -- nothing like the intimidating characters that have become the cliché for movies and television shows. In fact, he’s the exact opposite. Now in his 50s, Sewell smiles and jokes during his Oct. 7 interview, appearing to be completely relaxed as he describes how Mount Pleasant has changed since he joined the department in 1990. “I kind of fell in it; some people really know it their whole life,” Sewell said. “I was looking for a job and it worked out and I fell in love with it.” A town native, Sewell has witnessed the growth of Mount Pleasant for almost five decades. Once a small, quiet community, Mount Pleasant is now the fourth largest in South Carolina, but along with this population growth comes an increased crime rate. “Mount Pleasant has grown so much,” Sewell said. “We’re experiencing a lot more robberies, and guns are more prevalent than what they used to be.” Recent high profile crimes such as the hold up at McDonalds and stabbing at the Walmart in Oakland Market have left some in the community worried for their safety. “We have had a spike in crime around here lately, but we’ve been here before,” Sewell said. “It’s not like it’s so unusual that we’ve never had this type of crime or even crime spurts before.” But Sewell still has trouble understanding the reasoning behind these acts. “There’s a big leap from taking a person that’s going to shoplift a pack of cigarettes to sticking a gun in somebody’s face,” he said. “I think they’re both wrong, but there’s a big leap and I don’t know what would trigger that. For the life of me, that doesn’t make sense to me.” Some political figures have recently criticized the Mount Pleasant police department’s methods, but Sewell said he has learned to move past them. “Some comments were made and I think that they’ve gotten blown way out of proportion. I’ll just say that,” Sewell said about recent articles in the Post and Courier. “I’m very proud of our Mount Pleasant police department, and the men and women of that, and I’m also proud of our town government as well.” Sewell said he doesn’t deny there is room for improvement for the department. “One of our biggest improvements that I would like to see and one of my biggest visions is to continue to build on
the technology end of things,” he said, “because we need to be in mobile data and right now we don’t have that in our cars.” Mobile data would allow information to be sent directly to an officer through a computer. Information about recent calls and suspects would help bring the department to a safer and more modern level, according to Sewell. “That’s where we need to be. It’s safer, but it’s also more efficient,” he said. Sewell said he is proud of how the police department remains a constant part of the community, one example being the police presence on school campuses and football games. This presence may disappear, however, if a school board decision is made to remove SROs from schools. “That would be a tremendous mistake, to get rid of them, because it’s so deep-rooted,” Sewell said. “It’s a connection in the community as far as it goes.” Sewell said that school resource officers have played a role in school safety, and have been a way for students to let police officers know what is going on outside of school as well. “If we have some major fight over the weekend that’s going on, our SRO can be in tap on that and try to quell it before some terrible crime happens,” Sewell said, “and I see it over and over again. I also find that it’s just a good communication link.” Sewell recognizes that the rate of teen crime has changed over the past years. “I think the drug world is getting very prevalent out there and I think that it’s getting actually scary as far as it goes,” he said. “I hear more talk of it, and I think that it’s
easier to get your hands on these days.” Besides an increase in drug use, car hopping (stealing belongings out of unlocked cars) and robbery have increased for teens. “I have also seen a big increase in car break-ins with high school students that are out here and they are going car hopping, and they don’t realize the significance of it,” Sewell said. “Usually with those groups they also go into unlocked garages and take beer and they aren’t realizing that this is a felony.” Some teens don’t realize how seriously these types of crimes are taken, Sewell said, and how easily one wrong decision can affect their entire lives. “You can get pushed into a felony and charged as an adult if you’re 16,” he said. “You’ll never be able to vote again and never be able to carry a firearm again. It’s very serious.” Police can’t be the only ones to prevent crimes though. Sewell said it is also a community member’s duty to report suspicious activities. “Who knows your school better than you do, or who knows your home, your neighborhood?” he said. “I know this sounds kind of weird, but you kind of do counter-surveillance. If something doesn’t look right, it’s not right.” Sewell said he just wants to let the community and teens know every choice has its consequences. “Everything you do makes a difference, whether you realize it or not. The choices you make right now is what is going to guide you on to things,” he said, “so my message to them is be careful. Really think through it; it’s got heavier implications than what you think.”
Riding
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emilee kutyla
writing editor
Pouring rain. It’s not the ideal conditions as Officer Emily Ruth sets out on her evening patrol. A Wando graduate of 2000, Ruth has been a member of the Mount Pleasant police department for seven years and always knew that it was something she wanted to do. “I was always, I guess, interested in law, and I don’t think being a lawyer was my way to go because I couldn’t really see myself defending bad guys in a sense, but I also couldn’t see myself having a job to where I sat behind a desk for the rest of my life,” Ruth said. “This allows me to meets tons of people; good, bad and in between, so I think that has a lot to do with it. I think it’s a good balance for what I was looking for.” Dressed in her black and blue uniform with her hair in a tight bun, Ruth has the appearance of every other officer apart from the monogrammed ‘E’ ring that she wears. Such personal touches are also evident in her police cruiser. Devoid of the metal bars that have come to symbolize police vehicles, instead various artifacts sit accumulated in the front compartment. It looks like any other vehicle apart from the radio
along
set where an arm rest should be and hand cuffs hanging by the window. As we set out on our ride along, Ruth describes her car as more of an office than anything else and finds it strange having to welcome someone into the car. “I think it’s where we’re so use to being by ourselves, this is our office, that when somebody comes and sits in it all day, for a brief second you’re like ‘well I hope this person’s a nice person,’” she said. According to Ruth, an officer will be alone while on patrol 98 percent of the time for their ten hour shift. “We work what’s called a rotating shift, so we’ll work for say two days on two days off. We don’t ever work like a Monday through Friday schedule,” Ruth said, “and this way, with the schedule that we have, it allows for each precinct to have at least a weekend off.” Every six weeks, an officer will switch shifts. Ruth finds the time change to be the most difficult thing to become accustomed to. “Your body, after a while, becomes acclimated to that shift that you’re working, so when you switch, we’ll say from first shift, which is from six in the morning until four in the afternoon, and then you switch to evening shift, which will be three in the afternoon until one in the morning,” she said, “and then you’ve got night shift, which is from nine at night until seven in the morning, and each shift, while it’s got its positive and negatives on all of them, I guess the biggest thing that you’ve got to kind of try and get yourself prepared for is making that transition of sleep and
EMILEE KUTYLA/writing editor
Student rides along with Mount Pleasant police officer
Student Resource officer
Student resource officers’ job position questioned devon bowen
Officer Emily Ruth patroles Mount Pleasant on Oct. 18.
everything else.” Before each shift, Ruth and her fellow officers meet for role call, where they discuss which areas require more patrolling than others. “It’s basically like a synopsis, a briefing of stolen cars, what’s been going on in the town, what’s been going on in Charleston in general, as well as the state of South Carolina and up to including the 50 states,” Ruth said. “It’s just kind of what’s going on in our world before we get out there.” Everyday, though, Ruth responds to a variety of calls from all over Mount Pleasant. “We’re able to go wherever we want right now. You patrol different neighborhoods everyday, you go wherever you pretty much want,” she said. “It’s really nice. It’s kind of a sense of freedom, but you certainly at the same time are cognizant of where your other officers are.” A few minutes after starting her patrol, Ruth responds to a call about suspicious activity near by. “We go to people’s houses everyday. We’re in every type of house that you could probably ever imagine… where most peo-
ple feel safe enough to talk to you,” she said. Though the activity turned out to be not quite so suspicious, Ruth follows each call with the same amount of intensity and caution because you never know when a situation might turn towards the worst. Early on in her career, Ruth along with two other officers responded to a call where a man was threatening two individuals with a knife, but once arriving on the scene, the man appeared to be pointing a gun. “It was so split second that you thought ‘Oh my God, this guy has a gun.’ Just how your brain reacts so quickly and ‘oh my God this is bad, somebody is getting ready to get shot because this guy has pulled a gun,’” she said. “Just how Officer Emily Ruth i n s t a nt l y things can change and you think of the other people who are there with you and what it could have meant for them had they been on the losing end of that battle, and yourself.” Luckily, the man did not have a gun, but Ruth remembers the fear and sense of dread that she felt before realizing this. “Literally, from the top of your head and the tips of your toes kind of go just numb and it’s slow motion,” she said.
This allows me to meet tons of people: good, bad and in between
staff writer A graduate of 2000, school resource officer Michael Reidenbach is never without a smile, even when dealing with serious situations. “He is a friendly, pleasant person who is thorough in his job, and he seems to enjoy what he does,” school resource officer Sean Weber said. A major part of a SROs job is to help prevent fighting in schools, but some believe having them on campus is unnecessary. “If you need them [the police], you can call them,” Charleston County School District Board member Elizabeth Moffly said in a telephone interview Oct. 7. “I’m not saying you exclude them; when you call them, they’ll come.” Moffly has raised the issue of removing SROs from the Charleston County schools; 32 SROs are currently in district schools, including four at Wando. Mount Pleasant Chief of Police Harry Sewell does not believe removing SROs would be the best option. “When you have 3,500 students in one place, every time something happens a police officer off the street would have to handle that,” he said, “and there’s a time delay, and then it would tax our resources on the outside as well.” The 32 SROs in Charleston County District schools goals go far beyond preventing fights; they also help students form positive attitudes towards law enforcement. “Some people have never been exposed to a police officer at all and find out that it’s no different than any other job,” Sewell said. “I think you find out that it’s deeper, there’s somebody underneath that uniform.” Currently, CCSD pays $681,000 for salary and benefits for the SROs, 27 percent of the $2.5 million it takes to fund the positions. Some believe, however, this money could be put to better use.
“We could put the money wherever we wanted to put it,” Moffly said. “The whole argument that we’re only paying 27 percent of it, well I’ll tell you where the rest of it is coming from. The police department is applying for grants to offset rest of the cost. So the taxpayers are still paying.” Even though taxpayers may still be paying fully, this partnership is essential to both the school district and the police department, according to Sewell. “I don’t think we would be able to have the same staff we have now if they [CCSD] don’t help support that,” he said. If the school district releases SROs, one idea is to put the extra money towards guidance counselors because they are able to connect with the students more. However, Fraser said, this won’t amount to much once divided throughout the district. “On a first school basis it’s not very much money, so it wouldn’t go very far,” School Board member Chris Fraser said. To Moffly, the money isn’t the biggest issue. “The whole point of education, honestly, was [Thomas] Jefferson’s idea. The purpose was to have an educated constituency so that you understood your rights under the constitution of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under governmental interference,” Moffly said. “Now we are locking you in and guarding you with the police because we’ve criminalized students, saying that they’re all bad when that is not the case.” The state law “Disturbing Schools” law was first introduced on Jan. 27, 2009 as Bill 3315 in section 16-17-420. It prohibits boisterous and loud behavior after prior instruction to refrain from it, entering upon schools without permission and for any non-student to disturb or interrupt schools. This law provides SROs to keep outside intruders from entering schools. “We have taken this law and we have used it against students,” Moffly said. “We have growing numbers of criminalizing juvenile behavior in the Department of Juvenile Justice. The majority of the students that are going to DJJ are coming from the school and being charged with disrupting schools. Those incarcerated are for non-violent offenses.
This has become a national epidemic.” Reidenbach disagreed that SROs are criminalizing students. “One thing I guess people do not realize is that a majority of incidences we get involved with do not end in any sort of law enforcement action. We don’t arrest everyone we come in contact with,” he said. “In fact, it is quite the opposite. Most people they have interactions with don’t end in arrests.” Instead, Reidenbach said his and other officers’ goal is to have as positive of an impact as possible. “We try to make as positive contact as possible to change their behaviors, so it won’t lead to arrests in the future,” he said. “However when the situations do occur that we respond to such as a fight, or a drug or alcohol offense, if we feel that the school can adequately address the behavior with consequences, then we allow the school to do that.” If the SROs feel that the criminal justice system, such as the family or youth court, can provide some additional help, then they will use that to correct any behavior that may shape the student’s future according to SRO Reidenbach. “For example if a student is arrested for drug or alcohol offense, court offers you counseling, drug and alcohol education, and community service opportunities that are meant to develop them and build their confidences and skills,” he added. For school resource officers Weber and Reidenbach, forming relationships is the most important goal. “Building those relationships with the faculty, students and staff is one of our primary goals of being here,” Reidenbach said. “We want our interaction with the students and everyone in the school to be a positive thing.”
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Photo illustration by Liz benson
Fighting
outside of school
Fighting among teens has repercussions that can last a lifetime lauren fraser
staff writer
He just went there to see a friend fight. He wasn’t expecting to get involved. But things got out of hand. Although he said he was beginning to walk away, the next thing he knew, someone turned him around and got in his face. A fist soared towards John’s* head and suddenly he was in the middle of an all-out brawl. Fifty people throwing punches and cheering. How did he get here? Why were people fighting in the first place? When his blood seeped into the grass, John couldn’t remember why it happened. “I had people trying to pull me away. I got hit in the back of the head. We finally all got broken up,” John said. “I honestly had no idea who [the kid he was fighting] was until then. I had never seen him in my life.” Fighting between teens isn’t a new occurrence, but it is something that has serious repercussions. According to John, the fights are usually over something small. It starts with angry words between two people and then the next day they are calling each other up and planning a fight. “I guess guys have so much masculine energy and, yeah, they kind of take it out on the spot to start d r a m a ,” said Peter*, who said he has been to numerous fights. “Honestly, the main problem is alcohol. Once you’re drunk, everyone is just kind of crazy.” For some teenagers, fighting is what you do on the weekend. For others, it is their first fight. “I don’t think it is normal for most. Several definitely have confrontations, but there is only one or two that fight pretty regularly,” John said.
With these fights come only two unspoken rules: No weapons and no jumping in. However, when anger builds up and 50 people are there watching their friends get mauled, rules are broken. “No one’s supposed to jump in but that happens sometimes. They join to back up their friends,” Peter said. “It’s bad; it’s just a bunch of kids brawling.” Most of the teenagers just go to watch and don’t plan on getting involved, John said. “You want to be there just in case something does happen, so no one gets hurt – for your friend. Most guys, I guess, though, just like to watch a fight,” he said. “The fight I was in was really bad. It was basically an all-out brawl at one point. If one of them is getting destroyed, you go and pull them off but no swinging. Like you’re not supposed to go and gang anybody.” According to John, once the fights begin, it is easy for things to get out of hand. “One of the kids at this fight I was at got his nose destroyed. Like he was knocked out and had to go to the hospital,” he said. Fighting between two boys can lead to trouble later on. Weeks after his fight, John said he received threatening phone calls and tip-offs from friends about planned attacks. At this point, parents and the police may enter the picture. Students also can get called into the principal’s office to work through problems if parents or the poBryan Hearn lice get involved, according to Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn. “If it causes a disruption during the school day or people feel disturbed because of what’s going on outside of school, then we’ll step in and handle it,” he said. According to Hearn, if any of the issues from out-of-school fights do spill over into the schools, all of the kids involved would be punished. And there are repercussions from this that can affect students
It’s very unfortunate what some
people are finding to do with their free time. It’s very unsettling.
Off-campus fights can get out of hand, and repercussions can spill over into school intervention as well as legal problems.
for the rest of your lives. “The basic charge would be disorderly conduct. If there is alcohol, which a lot of times there is, they would get charged with underage possession or public intoxication,” Hearn said. “It can affect your ability to get a federally-funded scholarship or even state-funded scholarship. It can definitely affect your ability to do that.” So why do some students choose to fight? “Foreign toxins in your body make you do things you wouldn’t normally do, such as fighting,” Guidance Counselor Lauren Hatley said. “I don’t get it. It’s a shame because I see a lot of kids going down the
path of destruction with no return.” Looking back on it, John regrets his involvement in fighting. “It was pretty stupid and it had a lot of bad consequences,” he said. “It was a pain because the cops got involved. You can actually get arrested for being at a fight.” Hearn doesn’t understand why students choose to fight. “I don’t think a lot of them are doing it because they have problems. They’re just doing it as a pastime,” he said. “It’s very unfortunate what some people are finding to do with their free time. It’s very unsettling.” *Names changed
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Learning to take a breather Anger, if gone unchecked, can lead to future problems elizabeth levi
co-writing editor
Those moments when anger takes over. Those moments when violence seems like the only option. Those moments when hitting something – or someone – might make everything better. Those moments are human – natural instinct – but contrary to that state of mind, violence is not the best option and acting on that anger can lead to many regrets. Controlling anger can be difficult, but it is necessary in order to prevent aggressive behavior. According to Beth Keyserling, a licensed marriage and family therapist, violence is a result of stress, frustration and depression, as well as a lack of self control. “I think the violence only stems from other stuff,” she said. “I think a lot of the violence is compulsiveness in a lot of kids.” Guidance counselor Fronde Stille also attributes violence to not knowing how to express anger in alternative ways. “I think it has a lot to do with not having good coping skills – not
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knowing how to handle anger or disappointment or emotions that they know how to deal with appropriately,” Stille said. Lack of coping skills has an impact on people’s violence, but the media’s portrayal of fighting seems to have made aggressive behavior acceptable as well. “I think that Youtube, TV [and] videos have had a huge impact on the way people feel like they should handle situations,” Stille said. “It’s obviously much more prevalent that you can watch somebody beat up somebody else, so therefore it kind of makes it more the norm.” Keyserling agrees. “I think one of the problems is that kids and people in general have become desensitized to violence and that they play violent video games and watch violent crime movies,” she said. “I think that that’s one of the problems. I think that many people, they don’t see a lot of consequences.” According to Stille, boys are more prone to be aggressive. “I think again because that’s more the expectation,” she said. “I hear from a lot of students that you can’t look bad if someone confronts you. You can’t walk away because you’re seen to be the punk or seen to be weak, and I think that happens more with boys than girls definitely.” Dealing with anger and aggressiveness can be difficult for some, but there are many ways to deal with anger and violent emotions. “I think again, seeking sports – sports that are very physically active – verbalizing it, talking to someone about it,” Keyserling said, “is the biggest way to get some of that anger out of their bodies in a way that’s not going to hurt them.” According to both Keyserling and Stille, recognizing that there is a problem is one of the first steps to getting help to deal with aggressiveness. “A big part is recognizing that anger and having someone help them by talking to someone,” Keyserling said. “[It] helps them recognize it if they aren’t doing so – they can do something to help.” But learning to deal with aggressive behavior may not come easy. “It takes time. It’s like anything,” Stille said. “You get in a habit of reacting a certain way to anything, whether it be good or bad, and you have to get into a different habit of doing that.” Overall, both agree that having the skills necessary for dealing with anger and violent behavior is important. “It’s just a matter of learning skills,” Stille said. “The people have to be willing to do that. They have to be willing to say this is an issue for me and I need to seek help for it.” Like Stille points out, seeking help is a big part of dealing with violent behavior. “I think that if people would recognize that they’re feeling angry or depressed or angry...or lonely, or any of those feelings that can contribute to losing control or being violent,” Keyserling said, “if they could go to some adult they trust to try to get some help, because there is help out there.”
Tips to prevent
violence
When angry, it can be hard to control your emotions, but before getting aggressive, try these tips to help you cool down.
1) Excercise Sports and exercise is a great way to get out your aggression and anger. It releases endorphins to calm you down and make you feel better.
2) Write down emotions By writing down your emotions in a journal, you get them out in a non-violent way.
3) Listen to music Listening to music can calm you down and refocus your thoughts on something else other than the anger.
4) Count to 10 Just taking a moment to close your eyes and counting to 10 can help prevent you from making impulsive decisions that you might regret.
5) Get out of situation When in a heated situation, it can be easy to lose control and start acting violent. Removing yourself from the situation and finding a quiet place can keep you from doing something you might regret. -compiled by elizabeth levi
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Consequences
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assault & battery:
if you fight in school:
2nd Degree -
Consequences
Unlawfully injuring another person or offering/attempting to injure another person with the present ability to do so.
Fighting in school can result in more than just verbal lashing from your administrators.
moderate bodily injury
a fine up to $2500 up to 3 years in jail
3rd Degree -
injure/attempt to injure another
Worst offences
3 days of OSS
bringing a weapon
twilight school
premeditative violence
school probation
lynching*
arrest by a Mount Pleasant police officer
a fine up to $500 up to 30 days in jail
*lynching - any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and from which death does not result
If you get in a fight at school, should you automatically be suspended?
20%
Yes
80%
No
Have you ever been to a prearranged fight off school grounds?
Have you ever taken part in a prearranged fight?
28%
10%
Yes
72%
No
Yes
90%
No
If you are arrested off of campus, should you be suspended from school?
11%
Yes, automatically.
57%
Yes, depending on the severity of the crime.
32%
No, under no circumstances. - 149 polled
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with boys’ cross country coach...
Ian Banker
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What were your preseason goals?
Starting off to go out and win Regions, obviously we want to be competitive in the State meet. Going throughout and developing the younger runners’ talent.
Have you met any of these goals?
We will find out about Region and State meet in the next two weeks. In terms of kids running certain times, we have met our goal of 10 kids breaking 18 minuets. And hopefully we can have a few more jump in there.
What is the teams current rank in the state?
Fourth. Lexngton is way out front, but it’s a dog fight between Mauldin, Stratford, us and Dutch Fork. Who ever comes into the next two weeks, the strongest will come out on top of those four teams.
How would you rate the season?
It’s been going really well. I think we’ve had a lot of team unity. The team is coming together and working their butts off. There is a lot of good leadership coming from the seniors that is filtering down to the younger kids.
COURTSEY OF ALLYSON BROWN
Sports Starting to ‘sink in’ Q &A Boys swim team wins state title, girls capture fourth megan parks
staff writer
Riverside: Second. One sentence, two words. The only school yet to be called. Process of elimination. That was all the Wando swimmers needed to know. That simple combination of letters set the Columbia Natatorium into an eruption of cheers and ebullient screams. The boys swim team won the state championship Oct. 8, the team’s second in four years. “It was insanity. There’s not a feeling like it in the world,” senior David Leggett said. “We all just went crazy. There was a certain amount of, ‘I can’t believe I’m hearing this. I don’t know if this is true’.” While the boys captured first, the girls’ team took fourth place in the annual event. The boys knew they had a shot at first. Throughout the meet, there were ups and downs. But then the meet was almost over -- the team was behind Riverside High. Their hope, though not absent, began to dwindle, Leggett said. “We knew it would be close. Going in we were pre-scored 34 points behind, but we knew that was a margin we could make up,” he said. “We knew it would be really, really close, though. It was a feeling of wanting to win, but knowing we had to do something special.” For the last event, the 400-free style relay, swimmers knew it was imperative to do well. Sophomores Travis Morrin, Ben Hildenbrand and Dirk Bell, as well as junior Zach Lierley, made up the 400-free style relay team. “It was an event that a bunch of us really cared about,” Lierley said. “It was our goal to win it the entire season, so when we actually came down and won it, it was pretty exciting. All the other events really helped us too, but it was the thing that really pushed us over against Riverside. We were just relieved that we won and we did the best we could. We barely beat Spring Valley in that relay.”
Head swimming coaches Nick Reece and Allyson Brown hoist the State Championship trophy after the boys’ team swam to a state championship Oct. 8.
A mere five points stood between them and their victory. For many members of the team, the win is something of a fleeting moment, a dream. “When they first said it, we all freaked out. We were all really happy, but for the majority of us it hasn’t been able to sink in,” Lierley said. “We were down by so much and towards the end, didn’t really think we had a shot. When we heard we won, we really just couldn’t believe it. Afterwards we felt so achieved. It was a good feeling.” In the midst of high spirits, clamor and exhilaration, the team held one unwavering emotion as a whole: accomplishment. “There was a lot of screaming right after the fact. We went and took a big picture on the podium. But afterwards, we just got on the bus and hung out,” Leggett said. “We felt like we were a good team and we managed to pull something together. We were just enjoying the moment.” The girls’ fourth place finish also was exciting, senior Sandy Bell said. “In the very end we didn’t quite pull through, but we still felt accomplished,” she said. “We swam against AAAA swimmers; they were the best of the best. The fact that we're still top five is very impressive, and I’m so proud
of all the girls.” The girls missed third place by five and a half points. “It’s a true testament of how much effort and determination and energy that they've put into training,” said Coach Allyson Brown, whose teams logged 7000 yards a day during practice. “It showed that we weren’t going to let anything get in our way. We had so much stuff put in front of us, but we wouldn’t let it get to us mentally. We knew we still had a shot. It showed how resilient we were,” Lierley said. Bell said state meet is especially important -- the one team to represent yourself and the school. “It’s a chance to swim faster. You’re pumped up because you don’t have another chance to do this. You’ll never have a meet like this again, so you might as well make the best of it and do the best you can,” she said. “We have a lot to live up to. Boys have won the championship multiple times; girls have won in the past. We know we can do it. ““...I can’t even imagine how the team's going to be next year,” she continued. “I truly believe girls will get podium next year.”
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The new Tribe leader
Mascot arrives just in time for end of football season When senior Logan Windham heard the senior class of 2011 was leaving a mascot suit as its final gift, he was thrilled. “I always wanted the school to have one,” he said, “and I knew I was the guy.” Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn and media specialist Emilie Woody agreed -Windham was the best candidate. “After looking at potential students, we had one in mind,” Woody said, “and that was Logan [Windham].” Windham is the mascot through football season and potentially for other sports this school year. Chief Rotunda -- the mascot -- first appeared during the Homecoming pep rally on Oct. 7. Windham said the opportunity to act as Wando’s mascot is “a dream come true.” When he is dressed in the mascot uniform running around at pep rallies or football games, he feels like an “eagle circling its prey.” But because of the heat that the uniform holds, he also feels like an “egg frying on an Arizona highway.” Before the start of basketball season, an official mascot tryout will be held, Hearn said. Because of the commitment this position requires, more than one student may be chosen to act as the mascot. - jonathan rice
Senior Logan Windham debuted as Chief Rotunda during the Homecoming Pep Rally.
NATHAN GLYDER/staff photographer
Bringin’ on the spirit: (Left)The Chophouse tosses baby powder and shoots silly string into the air during the signature “I Believe” chant. (Top right): (From left to right): Sophomores Basil Gaspar, CJ Anderson and Jordan Baudria painted themselves for the Homecoming game against Beaufort. (Bottom right): (From left to right) Seniors Connor Nelson, Lander Smith and Kyle Kennedy cheer on the Warriors at home.
A new meaning to school spirit Student section gets loud this season keanau ormson
associate editor I believe. I believe that. I believe that we will. I believe that we will win. I believe that will win. It’s the chant that has been roaring up and down one specific section of the Wando crowd. The Warrior’s student section, the Chophouse. Since the end of the 2011 basketball season, the Chophouse can be heard at every home game. The Warriors Varsity football team has pushed through to a 5-3 record overall, and each game the Chophouse only gets louder. The “president” of the Chophouse, senior Logan Windham, created the Chophouse in the 20102011 basketball season as a way to bring the students together in one big section. “It was my junior year and [the Chophouse] really started when basketball season came around and the football team kind of had a bad season,” Windham said. “The students kind of got out of the spirit, so I thought of an idea to come up with a student section and called it the Chophouse and that got everyone together.” Since it’s been established, the members of the Chophouse have attended each of the home games of the varsity football
and basketball teams. “Now that we have some good programs, I think all of the students are starting to come together,” Windham said. And since its creation, the Chophouse exists at full force. Senior linebacker Dezmon Venning said the Chophouse is one of the key factors to the Warriors’ success. “The Chophouse has had a huge effect on the team,” Venning said. “When they start the chants, it gets the team all hyped up and you gotta do what you gotta do to please the fans.” Venning, who has gone through all four of his high school years on the football team, has seen the ups and downs of being a varsity football player. Venning said he is proud to be a Warrior football player because of how much effort the student section is putting in to push the team. “The crowd this year changed my opinion because last year they’d chant and [the team would] get excited for a little bit,” Venning said, “but this year it’s all about getting everybody psyched up. The louder they get, the harder we go.” Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn has attended the majority of the varsity football games and has seen the Chophouse grown since it was created. Standing in front of the student section each game, he hears every chant and every yell of the Chophouse. “It’s loud,” Hearn said. “It’s a home field advantage for sure. Most high school crowds aren’t that loud, it’s more on a college level at Wando.” Yet among the baby powder and screams that the Chophouse uses to cheer
on the teams, there are those that believe the student section seems to take it too far. Hearn believes that the issue with the Chophouse is not an issue with the section itself, but an issue with safety. “I have no problem with the Chophouse,” Hearn said, “I do, however, have a problem with underage drinking.” Hearn has had to intervene several times over the course of the football season, he said, mainly for student safety. “I was in the Chophouse [during the Beaufort game] trying to take baby powder, not that baby powder is a safety issue,” Hearn said, “but there are a lot of kids who come and have no desire to leave covered in baby powder. It’s really just more of a patrol issue.” But, obviously not every student is involved. Hearn directed his attention to those students who show up to the games late and begin to get too rough. “I know it’s not more than four or five percent of kids who come to the games late,” Hearn said, “they show up to the game at the start of the second quarter, around 8:10, and they’ve been at their house or a friend’s house drinking, and when you put alcohol in a 16 or 17-yearold’s body, you’re going to have problems.” All negative things aside, Hearn believes the Chophouse has started something big for the Warriors’ fans and hopes future classes will keep it going. “I would like to see it continue,” Hearn said, “I’d like to see the large contingency of fans come out, not just for football but for basketball and all other things too.”
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Oct 21:Wando vs. Goose Creek Varsity football at home
“We haven’t beaten them in a long time. It’s a very important game. It will be huge if we can beat them.” -Senior William Lee
Oct 25:First round of State Tournatment
Varsity volleyball at home “The first round is a big game. We are trying our hardest to win a state championship. We need everyone’s support.” - Junior Sophie Gawrych
Nov 5:
Cross country State Meet
Boys and girls cross country “It’s the biggest meet of the season. We have a really good chance of being state champs.” - Senior Anna Fairey
BRIA GRAHAM/STAFF
Games to Coeyman’s swing comes naturally watch... Senior golfer qualifies for State along with teammates mitch winkler
staff writer
Since she was barely able to walk, the five-year veteran and captain of the girls golf team Katie Coeyman has been playing golf. The senior said her dad got both her and her brothers into the sport when they were young, and she has played on and off since then. “It just kinda comes to me naturally,” Coeyman said. When she was younger, she played in the US Kids’ Golf Association. The winner of the association gets the privilege of participating in the World Masters Junior Golf Tournament. There are two side events that take place at the tournament; the par three and long drive contests. At the age of eight Coeyman finished first in her age division in the league. She was then eligible to pariticiapte in the World Masters of Junior Golf Tournament. At the tournament she participated in the long drive contest and won. Five years ago, Coeyman was in the eighth grade. It was the first year Wando had a girls’ golf team. “My Dad signed me up and I came out [for the team],” said Coeyman, who not only made the team but went all the way
S peaking
Senior Katie Coeyman perfects her swing during a golf practice Oct. 14.
to the Lower State Tournament that year -the first of five times Coeyman has made the trip. This past year she was elected to team captain by her peers and coach. “She is very outgoing; she is not afraid to tell someone that that they need to work harder or get focused or anything like that,” girls golf coach Jennifer Houston said. “She’s very strong academically, and on the
of
golf course she’s very well-rounded, so that’s important to the younger girls.” Coeyman and four other teammates travelled to the Charwood Country Club Oct. 14 to participate in the Lower State Qualifiers. Coeyman placed 12th, shooting an 86. Based on their finishing position, the girls golf team qualified for the State Championship Oct. 24-25.
S ports
Who is going to win the Clemson vs. Carolina football game this year?
Freshman Brian Gore
“Carolina. They have better players than Clemson, and they are an overall better team.”
Sophomore Evan Royer
“Clemson because Sammy Watkins is a boss.”
Spanish teacher Gerald Rice
“USC. They want to prove that they are just as good as Clemson. They are the underdogs.”
Junior Jessica Lawson
“Clemson. They have been more consistent this season.”
Senior Walter Smalls
“Clemson because Carolina doesn’t have Garcia and Clemson has better receivers and they are faster.”
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FACES ON THE
The girls on the varsity volleyball team unite hands in a cheer before playing a match Sept. 28.
FIELD
Sophomore Emily Pitts
Was the first place finisher in the Sandhills Invitational junior varsity cross country race Oct. 8.
Junior Zachary Lierley
Won the 200-yard individual medley (1:52:93) and the 100 yard breaststroke (59:11) at the state swim meet at the USC Natatorium Oct. 8.
Junior Cameron Rouse
Rushed for 118 yards and one touchdown in the 43-21 win vs. Beaufort Oct. 7.
Senior Gimel President Was named to the 75th Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas Dec. 17, at Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg.
Senior Tinsley Hallman Won the Wendy’s Female Hesiman Award for the school and the Bojangles Athlete Award.
BRADFORD ALLEN/staff photographer
‘Don’t count us out’ Varsity volleyball team dedicates more than just time to the game they love madison ivey
staff writer
Undefeated. The girls’ varsity volleyball team was on the fast track to becoming just that, but a devastating loss to Ashley Hall on Sept. 28th changed it all. The team, however, did not let their loss become a trend. Instead, it has made them more determined to win the rest of their games. “It’s really making us work harder for the rest of the season, and I guess a goal for the end of the season is to beat Ashley Hall,” junior Brenna Lauer said. The team has lost no steam going into the second half of their season. Senior night took place on Oct. 10 and is a celebration for everyone on the team. “We honor our six senior volleyball players, and our one senior manager Ben, and then truly we play the rest of the year away,” Coach Alexis Glover said. The night is a night of tears and farewells to the senior players. “Senior night was really emotional,” senior Katy Weaver said. “I feel like as a senior there wasn’t as many tears as there was when I was a junior when the other seniors left, but just when you see the other juniors, and see how
much they care for you, it becomes a very emotional experience.” The season isn’t over after senior night, though. The team still has the latter half of their season and state playoffs. The team just hosted the Wando Invitational Volleyball Tournament Oct. 14-15, where the team came in third. Seniors Tinsley Hallman and Weaver were named to the All Tournament. One challenge the team has to overcome is a second half of the season loaded with away games. At their home-based tournament, “We don’t have a whole lot of competition in Charleston. So, we depend on tournaments for our big competition,” said Glover. It featured some of the Lady Warriors’ best competition: Hillcrest, Aiken, Bishop England, Ashley Hall, Porter Gaud, Lexington, Bluffton and East Side. The team’s third place finish, Courtenay said, is “really good because that’s the best we’ve done in a long time. We beat Ashley Hall who is a major opponent of ours.” The team’s advancement was cut off by a loss to Aiken in the semifinals. The last two games of the regular season are scheduled for Oct. 18 and 19. “This year it’s all of September at home, and all of October away,” Glover said. Away games provide many trials for the players, according to senior Erin Courtenay, “We have to take the team bus so it takes longer to get [to the game] and lon-
ger to get back; so we get in really late, and we have homework to do, and we’re really exhausted,” she said. “The next game it affects how we play because we’re tired and sleepy.” This experience was amplified when the team had four away games in one week during the month of October. The team had another tribulation this season, Glover said. “The flu bug bit us, we had seven hit us one Monday, and then we had another three to four out the next day, and that was last week when we played Ashley Hall,” she said. “I’m contributing a little bit of that loss to the flu bug.” Coming up next are the state playoffs. “We are really serious this year about going to the playoffs,” Weaver said. “The last past years we’ve wanted to do well, but weren’t really serious about making it far in the playoffs and state or anything.” The girls are working hard to prepare for state. “We practice every day we’re not playing,” Glover said. “We bring breakfast and practice and eat and kind of have a good time.” The players are dedicated to their practice playing all summer before official practice started July 29th. With all this hard work, the team loves the support from their fans. “Don’t count us out because we’re not a big sport like football,” Courtney said. “We need fans, it really helps us do better.”
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Eighteen minutes and 59 seconds. The time she knew she would need to beat in order for her to break the girls’ 5K record. Junior Georgia Compton -- a member of the cross country team since 2008 -- achieved her goal by setting a new 5K record with a time of 18:45. Compton broke the record at the Wendy’s Invitational meet on Oct. 1, where she intended to break the 19:00 barrier. “I knew that I had broken 19 [minutes] but I wasn’t sure exactly what my time was,” Compton said. “But then I got through and everyone was like ‘you broke it, you broke it.’” Girls cross country Coach Marie Domin is glad to see Compton set a record. “I felt like I might cry,” Domin said. “I felt like ‘finally’ because she has had some ups and downs.” Last season Compton was injured, forcing her to take time off from running. “We thought she probably would have run this time [under 19:00] last season, but then she got hurt and she only ended up racing three times last year, so I think it Open from 11 am- 2Am
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At the Citadel Run on Sept. 24, junior Georgia Compton (1702) and her sister freshman Rosa Marie (1703) compete against each other for the winning stride.
told me that they can break 19 [minutes],” Domin said. “We go sometimes and do mile repeats on some grass mixed with hill and they still hit the time, so that told me that it [breaking the record] was probably going to come soon.” As for Rosa Marie, Domin believes that she will soon be breaking records of her own. “She’s only a freshman, so she’s probably going to kick some tail,” she said. “I hope to [break a record], but I don’t know,” Rosa Marie said. “Georgia is getting really good, too.” With the season’s end on November 5th, the girls and their coach are hoping to outshine their State Championship win in 2009.
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Graduate pursues a unique career in pop-up books haley brimmer
staff writer His fascination began during childhood. Always sketching in notebooks and gathering ideas from toy collections, 1990 graduate Matthew Reinhart never planned on having the career he has today. Although Reinhart majored in biology in college, he had a change of heart in grad school and decided to study industrial design, which landed him his current job as a children’s book writer and illustrator. “I’ve always been interested [in art] since I was a young boy. I’ve always drawn and I don’t remember a time when I didn’t draw, paint, or build things,” Reinhart said. “I did not know [that I wanted to do this job]; I had no plans for the future.” Although always interested in art, Reinhart was not always interested in reading. “I wasn’t a big reader as a child and I would have been drawn into these kinds of books and been more interested in books,” Reinhart said. “And I hope that I can do the same for other reluctant readers.” Reinhart started off assisting someone he knew who was working on a pop-up book and ended up liking it.
“I just became very good at it, so I kept doing the work and I got better and better,” Reinhart said. “I was able to do more books and it just kind of worked out that way.” Reinhart has been making pop-up books for 12 years, and has created over 20 books, all of which have three-dimensional characteristics. “I think that people are interested in them [pop-up books] because they interact fully. They’re different, they’re fun, and they can be collector’s items,” Reinhart said. Reinhart’s books are all very different, with topics ranging from Star Wars to prehistoric dinosaurs. “I really don’t have a favorite [topic to illustrate] -- I like to illustrate all kinds of things because it’s a challenge to go outside of my usual norm,” Reinhart said. “I do like drawing monsters and creatures a lot,” he added. “Also princesses.” Reinhart is fortunate enough to have had a couple of his books on the New York Times Bestseller List. One of his most popular books, entitled Star Wars: A Pop Up Guide to the Galaxy, spent 11 weeks on the Bestseller list. “There’s another book called Encyclopedia Prehistorica that has been translated into 25 languages around the world,” Reinhart said. “Both have done well and I’m very pleased with them.” Although many of his books feature mythical and fantasy creatures, Reinhart
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Matthew Reinhart graduated from Wando in 1990, and now has a successful career as a pop-up book artist in New York.
actually gets his inspiration from the things that surround him. “There are all kinds of things around me that get me thinking about mechanisms or story lines,” he said. “I can walk down the street in New York City and see something that’s really cool and it will inspire me.” Inspiration is not all that is needed to complete a book, though. There are many steps involved in making a pop-up book, starting with developing a basic concept. “From there, you write a manuscript, which is the story. After the manuscript is written, I start to conceptualize what the pop-ups might be,” Reinhart said. “At that point, I just start sculpting on paper -- cutting and folding paper and seeing what works -- and trying new mechanisms.” After the idea for the pop-ups is formed, Reinhart spends time making the pop-ups and doing the engineering -- making sure everything works and making sure
it can be duplicated. The process this far takes about 2 months. “At that point, the frosting on the cake is basically the colored artwork and I use cut paper collage and water colors,” Reinhart said. “Then, the graphic designers have to lay out the text and the manufacturers are able to produce the book on a mass scale.” From the time Reinhart finishes his job in the studio, it takes about a year before the finished books hit the shelves. Although his job requires him to spend around 60 hours a week working, Reinhart does find the job rewarding. “I’m able to tell stories in the way that I choose and I’m able to work with characters in stories that grew up loving,” Reinhart said. “I’m able to be my own boss, which is incredible, and I’m able to leave a legacy to the world about the work that I do.”
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Centuries-old Charleston house frightens family with troubled souls
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Family and guests frequently made comments about the squeaks of the stairs at night, as if someone were walking up and down them. 89 Beaufain Street is one of 44 privately owned homes in America on the National Trust for both its architecture and history. It was featured as the Charleston Symphony designer house for 2011. My family moved in to the house in 1982, even though it had been converted into six apartments. My father -- who grew up in Charleston -- had wanted the house since he was five years-old, and my parents bought it the day it went on the market. That’s when the “fun” started. My mother was told by many Charlestonians that the house was one of the most haunted in the Holy City. The day we moved in, my mother stood in the hallway and yelled, “I don’t know if there are any ghosts in this home, but I promise I will restore this home to its former glory unless I see you, smell you or think you’re watching us. If so, we move out and you go back to six apartments.” Mom never saw or smelled anything, but that’s not to say many others didn’t. Two of my brothers, Court and Scott, were sleeping on the fourth floor. Court awoke to see the silhouette of a women in a hooped dress reflected in the TV of the attic room. He shut his eyes, saying to himself that it was not real, then opened his eyes and saw the figure walking towards him. This time he shut his eyes hoping that whatever she was she couldn’t see him. When he opened them again, she had turned away and floated into the storage room doors. That’s not the only time that we saw unusual things. My grandparents were visiting from Atlanta; while she was sleeping, my grandmother felt a cold embrace, looked up and saw a gentleman in a Confederate soldier uniform standing over her. Her screams woke everyone up. She and my grandfather left for a hotel that night. In 1986 my mom was attending a reception where she met a famous psychic. After introductions were made, the psychic said to my mom, “You live in an old house in downtown Charleston, don’t you?”
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“Yes,” my mother said, thinking of what a safe guess she had made. The psychic proceeded to tell her that she saw two ghosts --an older woman in an Antebellum dress and a young woman in a 1920s flapper outfit. She said they were good ghosts who didn’t leave the house because they loved it so much and wanted to protect it. Mom didn’t give it a second thought. Probably because she didn’t want to. A few years later while hosting a pool party, one of the guests needed to use the second floor bathroom. This guest had 89 Beaufain Street, former home of senior Katherine King, is allegedly haunted. written a couple of books on ghosts in Charleston. When she remember -- I lived there from birth until I was 7 -- there rejoined the party, she sought my mother out: are three more interesting things that I can report. “Do you realize that you have ghosts in your house? I saw The first was the night my sister Ashley and my two women leaning over the balustrade to the third floor, mom went to say goodbye to the empty house after one was an older women in an Antebellum dress and the moving out. They walked through recalling memories, other was a young flapper.” laughing and crying over all the grand experiences our Mom realized then the psychic knew her stuff. home had given them. They decided to walk in the back That’s when she called the psychic and asked her to yard, past the pool to the area where the garage had come visit. The first thing the psychic said was that the stood prior to Hurricane Hugo. They turned to look at house was full of love, and there was no bad energy. the house and in the back window of my nursery saw However, on the third floor, in my oldest sister’s the gauzy silhouette of a woman waving her hand as if in bedroom, she sensed a woman sitting in an antebellum good-bye. dress and a man in a Confederate uniform smoking a Ashley still hasn’t forgiven my mother for beating cigar in the corner. The woman was crying in earnest over her in the race to get off the property. a child. Interestingly, my sister frequently smelled cigar My Aunt Jenny researched the history of our family smoke and lavender in her room, and felt like somebody to make a scrapbook for my grandfather. What she would sit down on her bed when there was never anyone found shocked us all. My father’s family was originally else there. from McCllenvile and at the turn of the century, in 1900, But family members were not the only ones who had my father’s great-great uncle, William King, moved to “visits.” Charleston. He bought 89 Beaufain Street and moved in Friends from San Diego, Calif., stayed in the same with his family. Our family didn’t know until that time room where my grandmother saw the soldier. The wife that a former family member had owned and lived there. reported each morning that when she would wake up, she Uncle William died of pellagra in the house. He had a would see a Confederate soldier standing in the corner. daughter named Sarah, who was a flapper. Sarah died in They knew nothing of the history of past sightings. It her 20s in the house, of spinal meningitis. didn’t scare her -- instead, she was excited by the sighting. The last thing I have is strictly rumor, but I heard There were many other encounters throughout the through the grapevine that the construction workers years. Often, things would be missing, later turning up found a human skeleton buried in the back yard where in bizarre places. While I never saw any ghosts that I can Mom and Ashley had said their last good-byes.
Do you believe in ghosts? 47% Yes 35% No 18% Not certain Have you ever seen a ghost? 24% Yes 59% No 17% Not certain - 262 polled
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To be a state, or not to be a state The violence must end
The status quo must be changed jack meagher webmaster
have a claim to the land, as it was I am convinced that while Palestine promised to them in the United Namay not necessarily have the strongest tions Partition Plan for Palestine. claim to land in the Middle East, and On top of that, while Israelis may while the surrounding Arab nations did cite instance after instance of persecucede the land to Israel in the wake of the tion, it would be folly to presume that Six-Day War, the quickest and most imIsrael has not done anything morally mediate solution to the violence at hand reprehensible itself. The blockade of the remains to recognize Palestine as a soverGaza Strip, in which Israel cut off most eign state and allow them into the United foreign supplies of necessary goods to Nations. In doing so, the UN would be Palestinian settlements, offers the most granting Palestine what they want, and, striking example of such a situation. This furthermore, they would be able to coerce is frequently cited by Palestinians as the Palestine into opening negotiations with main reason for their current discontent Israel to reach peace. with the status quo. Opponents of a Palestinian state And therein lies the heart of the argue that acknowledging their soverissue: what we have now is not working. eignty would only give them hope that Clearly some sort of change is necessary. they could eventually throw Israel out who says the current system is For Anyone of power, but that is both a fallacious working is delusional. This may be the and weak argument. It is fallacious change we need, and we can only see if because it draws conclusions based solely it works by trying it. There’s little chance it on past behavior that does not translate to could make things worse. the potential situation, and it is weak beI am not suggesting that the actions cause it does not account for the fact that by Palestine have been justified, nor am I making such a move has serious potential saying that Israel has been entirely unjustito be beneficial for both nations. Somefied in its past history of swift and violent times, compromises must be reached, and military responses. Regardless of who in this case Israel must give up some of has committed the worst of the crimes, their land in order to stop the atrocities for the good of citizens of both Israel and on both sides. Palestine, peace must be reached, and But the argument for a Palestinian that simply cannot occur outside of a two state hardly hinges solely on the argument state solution in which both nations trade, against it being wrong – that, too, would negotiate, and, above all, cooperate with be fallacious. Rather, the Palestinians also one another.
decided to back out of the agreement. They decided that Israel should not exist. The Arabs -- Palestinians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Saudi Arabians, Jordanians and more -- attacked Israel on the day it declared independence. Because of this, a Palestinian state was not created. The Palestinians sabotaged themselves because the Israelis won the war. Now, the situation of a Palestinian state has been brought up again. The Palestinians have gained the support of many countries -- not only in the Middle East, but around the world. But what these supporters fail to realize is that the creation of a Palestinian state would cause more problems than it would solve. Israel is the only real democratic state in the Middle East. Do you think a Palestinian state would become a democratic republic? Based on the other Arab countries in the Middle East, it would elizabeth levi most likely become another state ruled by co-writing editor a central supreme government and have no form of democracy. People think that creating a PalestinA problem also arises of what to do ian state would solve the problem between with the Jews that currently live in the Palestinians and Israelis. West Bank and the Palestinians that curThose people are wrong. rently live in Israel. Any notion of kicking The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has Palestinians out of the state of Israel and been a prominent world issue since forcing them to move to Palestine would before the creation of the state of Israel be preposterous on the Israelis’ in 1948. There is no doubt that behalf according to the Palestinpeace in the Middle East will not Against ians, but I’m sure they would have come easily and that peace just no problem kicking out the Jews from between Israel and the Arabs is almost their new state. unrealistic. In the wars between the Israelis and But let’s think back to when Israel the Palestinians, Israelis have fought and was created. Let’s think back to why won the land they now own. It is theirs. Israel was created. It was 1948. Six Why do the Palestinians feel the need to million Jews had just been killed in a retake Israeli land, especially when it is Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands only a tiny fraction of the Middle East? of Jews were in the process of being It is because they cannot accept Israel’s kicked out of their homes throughout existence. And that is precisely what a the Middle East. Even more were left Palestinian state would encourage – the homeless throughout Europe. They destruction of the state of Israel. were a people with nowhere to go. Only through the acceptance of the Yes, the way Israel was created was state of Israel can a Palestinian nation be not the best. Yes, there was originally supposed to be a state of Palestine. The formed whose ultimate goal is not the destruction of the Jewish state. problem was that the Palestinians
State plan not plausible
Palestine statehood would be a mistake
Do you think Palestine should be recognized as a state by the United Nations?
23%Yes, it should.
57%
Don’t know enough to formulate an opinion.
20% No, it should not.
- 149 polled
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Time to stand up for the police We see them every day, blue shirts neatly pressed, walkie-talkies constantly crackling, standing in the corner of the hallway. We walk right by them without so much as a nod or a smile, taking their presence for granted. We know that if something -- anything -- happens, they’ll be there: our Student Resource Officers. But some people want to change that. In order to save money, some mem-
bers of the Charleston County School Board are considereding taking SROs out of Wando and other schools. While most board members are in favor of keeping SROs in schools, a few argue that the school-based officers create a police state, which creates resentment toward police and authority figures in students. If this were true, it would be a cause for concern; but it simply isn’t. A study of SRO effectiveness showed that students feel safer
Talk of the tribe I feel like there would be a lot more problems and it would take longer to fix them. - Junior Mackenzie Horne
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at school and coming to and from school when SROs are present. And it’s undeniable that they are effective -- schools in the United Kingdom that have on-site officers report lower rates of bullying and absences. SROs are also valuable as friends and mentors to students. While our guidance counselors are wonderful, it takes time to get an appointment with them. SROs are usually in the hallways, able and willing to talk with students. And male students may feel more comfortable talking about their problems with one of the male SROs than a female guidance counselor. Of course, there is the issue of money. Tough times require painful budget
cuts, and it costs $2.5 million to keep the county’s 32 officers in schools. To some, it seems like cutting SROs is a necessary evil. But in reality, the district only has to pay for 27 percent of that $2.5 million – not a small amount, but hardly enough to make a huge impact on the budget. As a school and as a school district, we need people in many different jobs to keep everything running smoothly, and Student Resource Officers have an absolutely vital job. Between keeping our school safe and helping students with personal issues, SROs are people that Wando can’t do without.
What would be your reaction if the SROs were taken out of schools?
I would feel unprotected because if there was ever a fight there would be no one to stop it. -Freshman Kenton Holden
It would be really whack, because say someone comes in this school with a gun, we’re in trouble. – Sophomore
I’d be nervous because then we would have more drama and lots of fights. – Senior Courtney
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Pre-gamin’ not fun and games no intention to do so, it is still a problem 6:30 p.m. You are at a party with althat needs to be addressed. cohol. You drink, you laugh and you have Too many people bring water and fun. 7:30 p.m. You get into a car, you blast Gatorade in with them to games and spike the music and pull into a parking lot. 8 p.m. You walk into the stadium, you laugh it with alcohol or bring in alcohol itself, hiding this in their purses and bags. Obviand you get ready for a night of exciteously people have found a loopment and mingling. 9 p.m. You start to feel lightheaded, Staff editorial hole for not bringing in your own drinks to the games. This needs you laugh but you mean to to change. Some drink to the point that cry and then you get sick. 10 p.m. You are they cause a scene and alarm bystanders. drunk. Football games are perhaps one of the It’s sad that people feel they must resort to such frolics that danger others and more bigger social events of the fall, especially importantly themselves. When people act for those in high school. We all want to inapporpriately, they either need to own enjoy the atmosphere and have the time up to their actions or the school needs to of our lives. But when people begin to drink, it changes the field. While it may be enforce rules. If people are not supposed to bring exciting and thrilling, underage drinking their own drinks in but find a way to carry is impractical. And while there are those them in, the school should establish the who do not engage in this and who have
Letter to the editor Dear editors of the Tribal Tribune: Greetings. My daughter brought the current edition of the Tribal Tribune home this week and I read the article about internet site blocking at Wando High School, “Let’s free the Internet.” I enjoyed the piece because it was well written, balanced and contained good research. My field is computer science and computer science education, where I too work hard to get information to people who need it to achieve their educational goals. As I was reading the article, empathy filled me as I too have been a victim to the blocking of educational content at Wando HS by the school district. As a parent volunteer at Wando HS, I have been stymied when trying to deliver a professional talk, only to find out that my references to Google Docs, YouTube and blogs were blocked because of the media form, not because of the actual content. Additionally, and for an extended period of time, I could not get an Apple computer connected to the school WIFI because all Apple devices were blocked because of a shortage of IP addresses. Blocking media types (images and videos) and forms of expression (such as blogs and social sites) for a high school is certainly one way to ensure that inappropriate content does not enter. Blocking all content would achieve the same result. But I now see both as draconian because there are better ways to make educational content more accessible at Wando High
School and indeed other schools in the county for the benefit of teachers and students alike. Filter systems that can offer to teachers ways to open up access to the internet on a restricted basis characterize this class of solutions. A teacher may, for example, log into the system and open up YouTube access for a specific time period, such as their class periods, and do so only on that teacher’s computer. After that time period has expired, YouTube access would be removed for that computer. Systems like this are designed around trust-andverify, not blanket exclusion of media types regardless of the useful content contained therein. What I fear is that students, graduating from high schools that limit internet access to an extreme, will be under prepared for success at the university level where access to content (such as blogs) and services (such as Google Apps for Education) is the norm, not the exception. There is some indication that this problem has been faced by other school districts, as you might imagine. Fortunately the problem has solutions. Just today, the head of the Computer Science Teachers Association, Chris Stephenson, who I know from a project at Google (Mountain View),
rule of searching bags and purses before anyone enters the stadium. Then if someone has anything with them -- water or a sports drink -- it will be confiscated. With that said, it is fair to also consider that some people would feel their personal space is being violated. But is a little discomfort now and then too much to ask when people’s safety is at stake? Standard practice at college games is to search bags being brought into games. Opened drinks are automatically throw away. There is a time and place for everything, and a high school football game is not the place for drinking. It is a time to support our school and a time for merriment. By thinking clearly and finding other ways to enjoy the experience of the games, we can become a better school and become better individuals.
posted a note to all K12 teachers in the association regarding new and innovative content accessible through Google services. Her post described a new YouTube feature recommended to K12 teachers: http://www.youtube.com/teachers Last week (and how timely), the subject of opening up internet access in high schools was also addressed in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/ education/29banned.html You may not be able to access these URLs at Wando. You literally may have to wait until you are home to learn more. I feel your pain and join with you in encouraging CCSD to consider a better technical solution that can continue to protect students from inappropriate content and preserve E-Rate funding, but not so severely limit access by teachers and students to legitimate content and services delivered over the internet in support of high quality education. Wando is among the finest public high schools in the nation. I am proud that my family is a part of this stellar school and want to do what I can as a parent to continue to see it thrive.
“. . . There are better ways to make content more accessible at Wando High School.”
Best regards, Chris Starr, Parent
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The Warrior football team beat Beaufort 43-21 Oct. 7, rounding out a week of resounding school spirit with high levels of participation in student dress up days, including Nerd Day, Neon Day, Twin Day and Generational Day. The Homecoming court for king included winner Logan Windham, first-runner up Christian Brumme, second-runner up Dezmon Venning, Michael Golino, Tanner Hoisington, Tyler Fox, Alex Hairfield and George Fowler. The Homecoming court for queen included winner Bonnie McGoogan, first-runner up Danielle Wood, second-runner up Lyndsey Cross, Hannah Sloger, Katie Nelson, Cierra Grant, Rachel Maggy, Rachel Reed and Victoria Robinson.
Football players “bernie” to the fight song during the pep rally Oct. 7 to celebrate Homecoming.
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It was a good week of practice, and then everyone executed the game plan. Assistant Coach Michael Donnalley
Senior Logan Windham accepts his crown and sash during halftime at the Homecoming game. Windham’s Homecoming commercial directing traffic in the West Lot was a crowd favorite. SEAN BARNETT/staff photographer
Senior Hunter Watson leads the judging of fellow seniors’ Generation Day costumes during third lunch. “It’s my last year to do anything like this, and I don’t think I’ll ever have a chance to dress like a senior citizen again,” senior Layne Walker said.
Senior Bonnie McGoogan is crowned Homecoming Queen by senior Sarah Norman, a Student Council representative. “I was so excited. It made me so happy,” McGoogan said. SEAN BARNETT/staff photographer