October Print Issue

A12: Farm to Table movement hits cafeterias

The

B10: Go Pro sponsors Fleming’s BMX rides

B2: Inside this year’s One Act play

Newsstreak

where every person has a story

Harrisonburg High School • 1001 Garbers Church Road • Harrisonburg, VA 22801 • 540.433.2651 • Volume XIIC • Issue 2• October 28, 2016

Artists create super sketches

Sister’s diagnosis sheds new light on breast cancer awareness

Christa Cole Print Managing Editor

Nyah Phengsitthy Page Editor When principal Cynthia Prieto’s sister, Susan Prieto-Welch, was diagnosed with aggressive stage four breast cancer, Prieto found herself celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness month every year in October, something she had never previously done.

It all began when Prieto and four of her sisters were attending their grandmother’s funeral in Illinois. Prieto’s sister got a call from the doctor’s office saying that she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, which called for immediate action. Being the second oldest, Prieto found herself scared and frustrated after finding out the news.

“I was really scared. I cried, and then I got really angry because she’s my older sister, and I said, ‘I’m not ready to be the oldest in this family.’ We were all pretty young at the time, she was only 38,” Prieto said.

During all of this, Prieto was a teacher at Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Luckily, it was the beginning of spring break for Prieto, which gave her more time to be with her sister.

“We always made sure that all of us [sisters] went to the doctors appointments, and that one person would take notes because it’s so scary that you don’t remember all of the details. I always tell people that if you have to make a big decision, then you need someone to be with you because they just need to write things down so they can think of questions to ask,” Prieto said.

With Welch’s cancer being very aggressive, surgery was not done right away. Instead, a combination of chemotherapy and

See CANCER page A2

PHOTO COURTESY OF CYNTHIA PRIETO

RUNNING FOR A CAUSE. Principal Cynthia Prieto and her sisters finish the Susan G. Komen 5K race to raise money for Breast Cancer research.

PHOTOS BY CHRISTA COLE

LARGER THAN LIFE. Junior Rose Copeland puts the finishing touches on her 5-foot sculpture that she created for Art III. Copeland constructed her piece based on the idea that the near extinction of bees in our world could have a huge impact on all of us.

See SKETCHES page A2

Eighth graders unable to peform in choir day Andi Fox Staff Reporter For five years, the four classes that made up the high school choir have united with the eighth graders of Thomas Harrison Middle School and Skyline Middle School to perform for Choir Day. This year, however, the eighth graders were not able to come due to a scheduling conflict. Bethany Houff, the Choir Director, is disappointed that the eighth graders were not able to attend for the first time in six years.

“We couldn’t get a day that matched for all three schools, so this will be the first year that our middle schools are not coming,” Houff said.

The high school choir department is composed of four different choirs. Treble Choir is primarily freshman women, the Men’s Choir is primarily underclassmen, the Women’s Camerata Choir is typically tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade women and the Honors Choir is a combination of tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade men and women.

Usually, during Choir Day, all four of the high school choirs spend the day singing

PHOTO BY DAVID GAMBOA-PENA

SING IT! Members of the Treble Choir, Women’s Camerata Choir, Men’s Choir and Honors Choir join together to sing one last closing song for the finale to the annual ‘Choir Day Concert’ held at HHS. together and rehearsing for the concert that they put on with the eighth graders that evening.

“It’s the first time that the ninth graders get to meet the upperclassmen and sit and sing among them. I really appreciate how the upperclassmen serve as leaders to the younger singers and really welcome them into the choir family,” Houff said.

The concert is comprised of five songs.

Large turnout sparks BSU chapter Lucie Rutherford Print Editor-in-Chief Black Student Union may sound exclusive to those of the African American race, but don’t be fooled by the name. This new club can be something for any student, no matter what race.

Senior Harmony Wilson, the corresponding secretary, stresses that BSU is for anyone looking for scholarly opportunities, or simply someone looking to expand their knowledge of the African American culture.

“It’s not exclusively for black people,” Wilson said.

“Anyone is open to come to get educated, and to get help for any minority out there that’s looking for a group to belong to. We’re

From candy trees to thrones made out of a televisions, teacher Jauan Brooks has been assigning her Art III students a five foot “super sketch” for the past 15 years.

The artists can make their assignment into anything they want, as long as it is five feet in length or width and convey some kind of message. Junior Naomi Gelberg-Hagmier worked on canvas, creating a painting of the United States borders holding a whited-out collage of symbols and drawings, representing 14 different Native American tribes across the country. The ideas behind the drawings took hours of research, and the drawings themselves symbolize different aspects of the tribe’s culture and mythology, from canoes to totem poles to fruits.

“The Cherokee have this story called ‘The Origin of the Strawberries’. Woman got mad at man, man was like, ‘Hey, great spirit, help me out,’. So he laid a bunch of fruits in her path, and none of them worked except for the strawberry, so I just

open for anyone.”

The roots of BSU took hold at the end of last year, with two sets of sisters looking to focus on their minority. Out of the four, sisters Evangeline and Ivana Mensah-Agyekum, who are relatively new to HHS, are still here helping run the program. Senior Evangeline is the club’s first president.

“I was already thinking of starting a BSU, but the experience I had at my old school, it wasn’t a thing that was really set in stone, so I didn’t know what to do with it,” Mensah-Agyekum said. “Then the [other girls] came and they wrote a paper and gave it to the teacher, and that’s when Mr. Lamb got my sister and me on board. We started

Next issue...

Winter sport tryouts Election coverage Every Person Has A Story Features Community service opportunitites Feautures on night shift workers Columns and editorials Musical preparations Student bands coverage Humans of HHS

planning and meeting.”

The idea for BSU began when students like Wilson and Mensah-Agyekum came to the realization that black students did not have the same support system as other minorities.

“We noticed that basically every other group around school has their own system going for them in terms of finding out scholarships and just help outside of high school, help within high school, creating community and education about our culture.

We decided to come help with it as a way to educate ourselves and progress ourselves,” Wilson said.

Senior club member Phillip Wilcox also saw the

In previous years, when the middle schoolers attended, the final song was when everyone finally was able to perform together. Senior Kennedy Wolter joined choir her sophomore year because she wanted to learn more of about the mechanics of singing and she wanted something to call her own that her older siblings hadn’t already done.

See CHOIR page A2

PHOTO BY LUCIE RUTHERFORD

STUDENTS UNITE. Black Student Union member, junior Keyera Madden, participates in an ice-breaker during the club’s first official meeting on Thursday, October 20 after school. During the meeting, the student-led discussion focused on integrating the new members, and informing the group of their goals and plans.

See BSU page A2

Follow Us! @NewsstreakOnline @_HHSMedia @StreaksSports @hhsmedia16

Find us on the Web www.hhsmedia.com Updated sports scores and schedules for all seasonal sports Feature package stories and extended coverage of print packages Advertising forms and information Breaking news from school and the community

October 28, 2016

News-A2

The Newsstreak

Sketch project serves as creative outlet for art students SKETCHES from A1 Indians, and I just think it was really

did this fruity kind of thing [for the Cherokee],” Gelberg-Hagmier said.

Smack-dab in the middle of the artwork, black tubing rigidly cuts through the U.S, representing the Keystone Pipeline, with snaking tendrils twisting around it. “[The pipeline] is getting really, really close to Indian reservations and technically, it’s not on their land, but [the planners] haven’t done any environmental impact tests or things like that,” Gelberg-Hagmier said. “And it’s a pipeline for oil, and not gas, and if a gas pipeline breaks, it’s not as bad, but oil would seep. We’ve already taken so much of their land, and [now] we’re potentially destroying it.”

Gelberg-Hagmier feels like we as a country claim to preserve and appreciate the culture, yet we do the exact opposite. “[As] settlers, we’ve slaughtered tons of [Native Americans]. Some of that was by diseases and that wasn’t a purposeful killing, but we know there’s so much that’s been wiped out on the east coast, like there are tribes that have just disappeared because of that, and I feel like we say we’re trying to protect their culture, but we’re not...In my AP U.S. History class, we started off the year briefly talking about American

Copeland chose to do a sculpture, bringing light to the extinction of bees for her project. “[My piece] is a wire honeycomb [sculpture] that has copper flowers, roses and aluminum leaves on it...It just basically represents the inevitable disappearance of bees, and how they’re endangered, and basically how flowers need bees, and bees are dying, and so nature is dying, but nature’s still going to happen, even if the bees die,” Copeland said. Being so passionate about this topic, she is hoping her artwork makes individuals think.

“I guess [I want people to] take action. I mean, bees are actually going extinct now, so there’s not a whole lot we can do, but just to make preserves, just to think about our actions and what it does to nature,” Copeland said.

Copeland spent around 12 hours on this project, making mostly everything by hand, including her time-consuming copper roses. She is pleased with herself and her product, especially considering the challenge of the assignment.

“It was really intimidating because, usually, I work on a really small scale of like watercolor and pencil, so I’ve never really done wire sculptures and big stuff, but that was the project, so I just kind of took it on....I’m pretty proud of [my work],” Copeland said.

odd that we don’t talk about them anymore,” Gelberg-Hagmier said. “I guess, oh, ‘technically it wasn’t America yet, so like oh, it’s not part of our history’, but I feel like it’s such a sad thing that we don’t talk about it.”

Because of the size, Gelberg-Hagmier had issues at first with drawing the map.

“I did the outline of America...then I did all my research, and then I was like, ‘oh dear, I have to actually do it’,” Gelberg-Hagmier said. “And I talked to Ms. Brooks like, ‘Ms. Brooks, I’m struggling,’ so she was like why don’t you break them down into smaller sections, so that’s what I did...I drew each section of the giant map in pencil, and then took sheets of paper and put them over, and then outlined where it was and labeled what tribe it was...I just did each one of those individually, and I would paste it on with a gel medium to keep it in place.”

Despite the difficulty, all of the Art III students had fun with the project and plan to show off more super sketches in the future.

“I was really surprised that they said they really enjoyed it, even though it was intimidating and overwhelming for them, they really enjoyed the process,” Brooks said. “So I’ll continue to do it.”

Going another route, Junior Rose

PHOTO S COURTESY OF NAOMI GELBERG-HAGMIER WORK IN PROGRESS. Art III junior Naomi Gelberg-Hagmier represents the effects of the pipeline. “We wiped out the Native American culture and pushed them into reservations... now things like building the pipeline... interfere with their life.”

Choir Day adapts to Prieto passionate about breast cancer research change in performers Nyah Phengsitthy to her every day. I would call her ev- al. The experience changed Prieto’s Social Media Editor

CANCER from A1

PHOTO BY DAVID GAMBOA-PENA

HARMONIZING. The Honors Choir, made up of sophomores, juniors and seniors, performs a song for the Choir Day crowd.

CHOIR from A1 “[The best part was] singing our last song and [having] all of the choirs be there,” Wolter siad.

“There were a lot of people on the stage and you could hear every part. It was really cool.”

The absence of the middle schoolers impacted the duration of the concert.

“The concert will be shorter, because usually the middle schools will each perform one or two pieces on their own and then they join us for our closing number. Our closing number will just have the high school students,” Houff said.

Another difference between this year and previous years is that Choir Day took place on a half day, which meant that the students didn’t get to miss any class. Instead, they prepared for the concert after school.

Usually, Choir Day poses as a chance for the middle schoolers to sing with the high schoolers and get to know them. Junior Katya Kirilyuk, who couldn’t be in a normal choir class due to a scheduling issue, is a TA for one of Houff’s underclassmen choirs.

“I think it’s a great opportunity [for the eighth graders] because next year they are going to be here, so we can get to know them,” Kirilyuk said.

Not only is the lack of attendance of the eighth graders bad for the future of the choir, but it’s sad for the graduating class.

“It’s my last year,” Wolter said. “I wanted to see who would be taking over once I’m gone.”

The event is also a nice chance to meet new people and hang out with friends. “[The best part about the event] is singing with different people. You can meet new people, especially the freshmen, that you don’t know,” Kirilyuk said.

Fortunately, Houff proposed a solution for this year in response to the missing eighth grade presence.

“In the spring, I’m going to take one of my choirs to both middle schools so they can sing for the eighth graders and we can still have a collaborative experience,” Houff said.

radiation was started immediately. With both parents and all sisters there, the Prieto family was in and out of the doctors frequently, along with trying to support each other emotionally.

“We played cards. We talked. We tried to laugh, tried to be upbeat.

[Welch] lived in the same town as another one of my sisters, so she was never alone for any of her chemotherapies. Later that summer, she finished her last radiation, so we all went and celebrated,” Prieto said.

With work and travels, Prieto wasn’t always around her sister, but that didn’t stop them from communicating.

“I was taking a trip to Europe one summer, and I promised I would talk

ery day just to hear her voice. She had just had surgery and I called her to see how it went. Every day, whether I was here in the states or traveling, I spoke to her. Some days it was really sad, some days it was really scary, some days it was really upbeat,” Prieto said.

Prieto made sure to send her sister care packages and gifts to make her feel better. Because of taste changes that come with chemotherapy, flavor packets for water was a regular. To help pass time, Prieto also downloaded books for her sister to read on her Kindle.

After having one surgery and spending three months in chemotherapy, Prieto got a call from her sister one day, bringing the news that she was in remission. Prieto cried again, but this time tears of joy.

This October will mark the 18th year for Welch’s breast cancer surviv-

outlook on life. Every five years, the five sisters get together to go to a spa for the weekend and celebrate being with each other.

“I very [much] value the time I get with my sisters. I make sure to make my phone calls. I make sure to send them emails and make sure [my sisters know] what is going on in my life.

The five of us are on the phone all of the time and we make it a point to get together at least three or four times a year,” Prieto said.

Every year, Prieto makes a donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and wears pink during the month of October to show her support for Breast Cancer Awareness. This year, Prieto will be participating in a 5K for breast cancer along with other teachers in the school to show her support for her sister and anyone fighting the disease.

BSU set up to provide strong community for African Americans BSU from A1 need for a club, and hopes to build a stronger black camaraderie within school walls.

“I feel like at HHS they have all the other clubs for different people; the Spanish Club or the Kurdish Club, and I feel like we need to have a strong community in the school based on African Americans [where we can] concentrate on things that are plaguing the black community,” Wilcox said.

Not only is BSU focused on education and progression, but it is a place of resources for anyone interested.

“A lot of students don’t really know about their resources or where to go for scholarships, so what we have is a system of community where we have some upperclassmen who are already going off to college and some underclassmen who don’t really know how the process works. We’re helping them find out where to look for scholarships, where to go and who to talk to for those resources,” Wilson said.

The first meeting was held on Wednesday, Sept. 21, the first club day. According to Wilson, there was a surprisingly large turnout.

“It was a lot of people. I guess that could be taken as a good or bad

PHOTO BY LUCIE RUTHERFORD STARTING A CHANGE. Senior Harmony Wilson speaks to fellow BSU leaders about their plans for the upcoming year, as senior Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum looks on from the board. The group of leaders, superived by guidance counselor Korey Lamb, sought out ideas to attract students and set goals.

thing… I think people were just attracted to the sense of ‘we have a club for us’, like our minority,” Wilson said. BSU’s goal is to meet every activity day, as well as a choice activity for students on ELT (Extended Learning Time) days.

For Mensah-Agyekum, having BSU present at HHS is a way to encourage her fellow minority to enroll in more challenging classes, an

issue she has become very aware of.

“I’ll be in my APs and I’ll be the only black student… even though I’m a girl, I’ll be the only black student in most of my classes, so that’s something that would be nice to change,” Mensah-Agyekum said. “[Our goal is] providing them with a safe space, a place to talk, to communicate, discuss, debate, encourage and be a support system.”

Upperclassmen prepare for upcoming SAT, college placement tests Sarah Earle News Editor As the school year unfolds, SAT preparation sessions are underway, along with the SAT itself. Juniors and seniors are preparing by taking the SAT, reviewing with teachers and friends, as well as reading practice books. Junior Alina Dovganetskiy has a particular strategy to balance doing well on the SAT and keeping up with AP classes. “[It has been] extremely [difficult juggling both AP classes with the SAT preparation], because a lot of [AP

classes] give me a chapter reading two nights before the next class. I have four classes like that, so I’m trying to balance an hour of homework for each class a day, and then that doesn’t leave much time for SAT studying, but I try to do the best that I can,” Dovganetskiy said.

Dovganetskiy decided to not take the SAT right away, but a month from now to fit it in her schedule. “[I’m planning on taking the SAT] Nov. 5...The earlier I get the first one over with, the earlier I know if I have to take a second one, and I have AP tests are later

in the year,” Dovganetskiy said. “I was about to sign up [for the October SAT], when I realized that there are a lot of things going on that month and I didn’t know enough about the test, so I gave myself two months to prepare instead of just one.”

Dovganetskiy has a variety of methods for preparing for the SAT. “The SAT Prep that I’m taking is College Board mixed with Khan Academy.

I’m taking online practices and then I’m planning on taking a pretest type of thing that you can find on college board and so that’s

helping me practice,” Dovganetskiy said. “I’ve been googling tips and tricks, finding youtube videos, finding articles. I’ve been practicing a lot and [what I can improve on] is something that I really think about all the time. I probably could be doing more than I am, but I’m just trying to stick to a schedule and practice 30 minutes a day.”

Dovganetskiy has concerns about certain parts of the test, but her goal is to improve her skills by November. “[The most difficult subject to prepare for is] defi-

nitely math because, right now in English, we’re doing a lot of English things, but I haven’t taken math since last year and my next math class is going to be next semester, so there’s not a lot of practice I can do besides online,” Dovganetskiy said.

Though math is typically a struggle for Dovganetskiy content wise, reading presents a challenge in the time limit on each section.

“I am [concerned about the SAT being timed] because I took a practice reading test and the last four questions I had to circle; I didn’t have enough time to get to those. What

I’m going to do is I’m going to take the test without timing myself, figure out if I even need to practice timing, and then I’m going to start practicing timing.”

Though she hasn’t taken the official SAT yet, Dovganetskiy feels confident that the time she has put into preparing for the test will pay off.

“As of now, I think the reading and writing sections won’t be as bad as the math section, but I honestly can’t really tell how well I’m going to do. I just hope that I’ll do well enough to get into the college I want to get into.”

October 28, 2016

News-A3

The Newsstreak

Civil rights activist addresses staff Abby Hissong Editor-in-Chief Author and civil rights activist Jonathan Kozol, a recent guest of James Madison University, took time to pay a visit to several HCPS schools during his brief stay in Harrisonburg.

Soon after graduating from Harvard, Kozol became a teacher in the primarily black Boston Public School District. After a brief time as a teacher, Kozol was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem, which at the time was against the school’s designated curriculum. As a result, Kozol became deeply involved in the civil rights movement and education equality for all students.

“I felt that I had an obligation to fight for those of us who hadn’t grown up privileged. I knew that we needed to find a way to make sure that every child has the same opportunities growing up. I had an amazing education that not many other kids had access to, and I knew that somehow I needed to give back,” Kozol said.

Kozol came to HHS to speak with staff and administration on how he believes schools should teach minority students in order to be most effective. During his speech, Kozol opened the forum up to the audience to ask him questions on particular issues in regards to working with minority students and families. Many took the opportunity to inquire about what they could do to effectively teach ESL and minority students, while still following the SOL guidelines required by Virginia.

“When I’m visiting a lot of the big city public schools, I see how restrictive the set out curriculum for schools really is... Sometimes when I see this, it reminds me of those “12 cities in 12 days” European tours that people used to take. You never get a chance to get off a bus and wander down

PHOTO BY ABBY HISSONG

HERE’S THE POINT. Author Jonathan Kozol addresses HCPS leaders in the HHS Media Center, focusing his speech on effectively teaching minority students. the street and find anything out on your own because it wasn’t on the itinerary,” Kozol said. “And as we all know, it’s usually those little things that we remember best when we come home. I think it is important for all teachers to help guide students in their learning, but at the same time you also need to encourage them to ‘get off the bus’ so they can make their own connections.”

Kozol is the author of several nonfiction books that recount the unequal conditions inner city and primarily low income schools face in relation to upper-middle class, suburban schools. While HCPS schools may not technically be an “inner city” school district, the school’s minority and income

rates are similar to those of one.

Superintendent Scott Kizner was very interested in hearing what Kozol had to say on the matter of how staff can most effectively integrate newcomers as well as ESL students into the school community.

“I think the value [in Kozol speaking to the staff] was that issues that have been important the last 50 years focusing on equity and academic excellence, continue to be concerns in 2016. A few important takeaways I had were to never lower your expectations for minority children and to make sure you have supports in place not only for the students, but also their families. Most importantly, to help staff become more aware and sensitive of children

different than they are, and make sure no child is denied access to the programs that we are most proud of,” Kizner said.

After taking a tour of both Spotswood Elementary and HHS, Kozol stated that HCPS school system was one of the best he has ever seen in trying to address the gap regarding the learning of minority and non-minority students and the caring culture at the schools he visited. “[What makes HCPS unique is] our staff has a laser focus in providing targeting support for all children and an unwavering belief that learning has no limits for all children. In addition, we have spent the last six years learning about the best practices to promote equity and excellence for all children. For our students, this includes all aspects of our school system such as advanced classes, fine arts, STEM education, extracurricular activities and leadership positions. In addition, we are making it a greater priority to employ staff from diverse backgrounds,” Kizner said.

Adding to the gains that HCPS has already made towards closing the gap between students, Kizner also hopes to implement Kozol’s points regarding the equality of all students in the future. Through the creation of a district leadership team that consists of teachers and administrators who meet monthly to review all school practices, Kizner is confident that equal education for all students can be attained.

“Although we are not fully at the point we would like to be, we have seen significant improvement in our graduation rate and dropout rate for children who are minorities, including English language learners and children with disabilities,” Kizner said. “I am very proud of our staff and students… I believe HCPS can be a beacon of light for every school system and community that is dedicated to the mission of equity and excellence for all students.”

Fox, Campillo named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists SCHOLARSHIPS Sam Heie Feature Editor

her freshman and sophomore years, until finally, she was accepted using her junior year scores.

“Freshman year I took the PSAT just to practice and my dad told me that I could potentially get a scholarship for it if I scored well. My dad got a National Merit Scholarship in college, so I kind of knew about it throughout the years. I didn’t think I was going to get one.

Freshman year, I looked up the cut off score for the scholarship. [My score] wasn’t high enough and I didn’t think I was going to be able to bump it up,” Fox said.

The scholarships administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation usually do not exceed $3000. This

amount is minimal in paying for a large college tuition.

“The way the money works is you can tell them your top Seniors Molly Campillo choice school and then that and Zoey Fox were chosen as school could give you some semi-finalists for the National money through the National Merit Scholarship program.

Merit program. Some schools The program, which focuses take it more seriously and on students who have achieved sometimes give full rides. high PSAT scores, has chosen There are also some corpora16,000 high school students tion-based scholarships that nationwide as semi-finalists. If can be used for any school. My chosen, they have the opporbigger hope is that the prestige tunity to receive multiple monwould help me get into the etary scholarships, the main schools I want,” Fox said. one being the National Merit Because of a discrepancy Scholarship. in the PSAT test administered To enter for a National Merin 2015, it was cancelled. This it Scholarship, Fox had to score meant that Fox and Campilwithin the top three percent lo could not apply using their of the nation. Fox was chosen PSAT scores. Instead, Campilon her third try; once in each lo applied with her normal SAT scores. Fox scored a 1480 and Campillo scored a 1540 out of 1600.

“We were hoping that we would be able to apply, but we weren’t sure because of the PSAT mess up.

The chances were pretty slim, but it worked out pretty well,” Campillo said.

Out of the 16,000 current semi-finalists, 15,000 of them will be chosen to move on to become finalists in January. Half of them will automatically receive a $2,500 scholarship to any university they choose.

“The way they PHOTO BY SARAH EARLE choose the finalTOP STUFF. Seniors Zoey Fox and Molly Campillo earned National Merit ists is they take Semifinalist status based on their PSAT scores from their junior year. Both the semi-finalists are now eligible for scholarships provided by the college board.

from across the nation and distribute it evenly per state. [For example,] Virginia will have much more finalists than South Dakota. They match the population with the upper scores and choose a percentage based on that,” Campillo said.

Although the original process to enter for a scholarship is based mainly off of the scores on the PSAT, becoming a finalist requires a whole new application.

“You have to write an essay about yourself and you have to get a transcript and SAT scores sent to them. They kind of want a resume of what you do in school and extracurriculars,” Fox said.

Fox wants to attend college at the University of Chicago or the University of Washington Saint Louis. Campillo hopes to attend the University of William and Mary to study International Relations.

“I’m really lucky in that my parents have been putting money away for me to go to school,” Fox said. “If I go to an in-state school, they can pay for it. But I felt that I had to contribute somehow, so that gave me a bit of motivation. It’s also kind of just a prestigious thing. You get some money from it, but the bigger impact is the prestige that could help me get into some schools.”

There are currently 53 schools offering full ride scholarships to National Merit finalists. Although the PSAT score doesn’t count for acceptance, it can be used as extra credentials.

“I’m really grateful that it worked out the way it did. High school for me is making sacrifices that you don’t necessarily want to make, and this really validates the work I’ve done,” Fox said.

Bay Alarm Medical Scholarship Due March 31 Must be considered a volunteer (Seniors helping Seniors elderly), write a 500-1,000 word essay that answers the following three questions: What is the most important lesson you’ve learned from the senior you work with?

How has working with seniors impacted your life?

How would you encourage others to spend more time with their grandparents or elderly? submit a photo of his or herself and the senior discussed.

Virginia Mayflower Scholarship Due March 15

Must be any one or more of the following -a Virginia resident related to a Virginia resident a member of the Virginia Mayflower Society must have a GPA of B or the equivalent and must also be sponsored by a current teacher or member of the Virginia Mayflower Society.

The Christian Connector

Free Christian college information services as well as a $2,500 Christian college scholarship drawing. www.ChristianConnector. com

Boston University Trustee Scholarship: Due Dec 1, 2016

25 students are offered the scholarship that covers full tuition, orientation and student fees for four years to Boston University.

The Gloria Wille Bell and Carlos R. Belle Scholarship

For students pursuing their degrees in engineering, math, physics, computer science or another related field at the University of Michigan.

The University of Kentucky School of Prudential Spirit of Library and Community Award Information Science

Due November 8 Students in all grades who feel as if they’ve made a difference in the community may apply.

For students seeking school library certification Contact Jeffrey Huber at jeffrey.huber@uky.edu for more information

The Newsstreak

October 28, 2016 The Harrisonburg High School Newsstreak The Policy The Newsstreak is published by the students of Harrisonburg High School every month. Reproduction of any material from the newspaper is prohibited without the written permission from the editorial board. Advertising rates are available upon request.

It is the policy of the Harrisonburg City Public School Board to comply with all applicable state and federal laws regarding non-discrimination in employment and educational programs and services.

The Harrisonburg High School City Public Schools will not discriminate illegally on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, disability or age as to employment or educational programs and activities.

Editorials appearing without a byline represent the majority opinion of the staff, but not necessarily the opinion of the adviser, school administration, or the school system.

Signed editorials are accepted from people on the staff, but are subject to editing according to published guidelines and policies. Editorials may be edited for special reasons.

Letters to the editor are encouraged and must be signed and a telephone number must be given.

Names may be withheld if the editorial board feels there is a just cause.

The Newsstreak reserves the right to edit and may refuse to publish ads or letters deemed inappropriate, libelous, or obscene. Please drop your letter by room 444 or give them to any staff member.

Letters may also be sent to the high school.

The Editors and Staff Editor-in-Chief: Abby Hissong Print EICs: Lucie Rutherford, Owen Stewart, Christa Cole Online EICs: Garrett Cash, Olivia Comer, Angel Hendrix Advertising Managers: Madison Varner, Audrey Knupp, Anna Rath Photographers: Christa Cole, Andrew Rath, David Gamboa-Pena, Yogesh Aradhey Page Editors: Kyle Brown, Anna Rath, Yusuf Aboutabl, Christian Rodriguez, Nyah Phengsitthy, Yogesh Aradhey, Hannah Miller, Jackson Hook, Theo Yoder, Lucie Rutherford, Abigail Hissong, Christa Cole, Noah Siderhurst, Sam Heie, Owen Stewart Staff Reporters: Yusuf Aboutabl, Yogesh Aradhey, Kyle Brown, Garrett Cash, Christa Cole, Olivia Comer, Danny Dombrowski, Sarah Earle, David Gamboa, Sam Heie, Angel Hendrix, Abigail Hissong, Jackson Hook, Audrey Knupp, Samantha Little, Irene Liu, Owen Marshall, Hannah Miller, Nyah Phengsitthy, Anna Rath, Christian Rodriguez, Lucie Rutherford, Noah Siderhurst, Owen Stewart, Madison Varner, Theo Yoder, Carrie Yoder, Max McDaniel, Hannah Daniel, Lene Andrawas, John Breeden, Ryan Doerr, Andrew Ely, Lily Gusler, Jackie Mateo-Sanchez, Forrest Matter, Jewelia Rodriguez, KiYosia Wallace, Andi Fox, Zoey Fox, Andrew Rath, Edgar Sanchez-Bautista, Vivian Neal, Carson Rising, Iris Cessna, Ty McDaniel, Anzhela Nyemchenko, Victor Ruvalcaba-Flores, Jake Urbanski, Josh Wilson, Kenyaa Wright, Samantha Little Professional Affiliations The Newsstreak participates as a member of several journalistic evaluation services including the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA-2010 Gold Evaluation and 2005, 2009 and 2015 Silver Crown Winner), Quill&Scroll Journalism Honor Society (2012 Gallup Award), National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) All-American, the Virginia High School League, Inc. Trophy Class Award, and the Southern Interscholastic Press Association All Southern Ranking and 2010 Scroggins Award winner. hhsmedia.com opt out notice: If you do not want to allow your student’s full name or image to appear on the school newspaper site, please send an email to vkibler@harrisonburg. k12.va.us stating: I DO NOT want my son/daughter (place student’s name here) to have his or her name or image published on the new online version of the newspaper, www. hhsmedia.com.

Op-Ed-A4

Leadership time needs reorganization changing.

Even freshman, who have only experienced five sessions, are alThe Streaks Leadership meetings ready beginning to tire of the extra held every Thursday are well known “class” that takes away time from around the school, but not in the more worthwhile activities, such as way administration might hope. InELT choice activities, study halls or stead, many students have come to directed classes. find them repetitive and redundant, Seniors who have attended since as the same issues are brought up freshman year have taken everyyear after year. thing they can from the meetings, One change made to Streaks and there isn’t much left to say Leadership meetings this year was about the same topics. putting students in randomized Many students are voicing that classrooms. The idea was to get a they’d rather report to the classmore diverse group of students in es they’re failing to improve their every classroom conversation to grades than continue with leadmix up the discussion, yet the reership meetings, and that’s saying something.

While new topics have been brought up this year, such as the The unsigned staff editorial appears in each issue and reflects the majority opinion of the Newsstreak Staff Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is comprised of all editors-in-chief, page editors, advertising reinforced cell phone managers, photographers and selected freshman journalism students. In no way does our opinion rerules and the new tardy flect that of the school system or the administration. policy and other things

NEWSSTREAK STAFF EDITORIAL

sult yielded the opposite. While the chemistry in select classes was one of ease, allowing students to voice their opinion, most classrooms ended up with awkward silence.

Rather than talk with students they may get to know a little better in their first block class, students are now reluctant to express their thoughts to complete strangers.

Though the idea seemed reasonable, the overall negative attitude towards the meetings has seemed to grow even more.

Bullying, respect, drug abuse and other common topics are brought up every year, but just like the topics, nothing seems to be

WHAT IS THE STAFF EDITORIAL?

you’ve most likely heard about several times, this is not the case for every school year. A preferred solution seems to be incorporating the Streaks Leadership meetings into the freshmen class schedules only, while allowing the other grades to partake in other ELT activities.

Including only freshmen in the classes benefits all grade levels by improving camaraderie among the ninth graders, possibly encouraging them to enforce change as they become the leaders of the school in future years, while the remaining grade levels are spared.

Despite the negative connotation, the meetings aren’t the worst things to happen in the world, students will get through them and learn what they need to know. But the fact that choice ELT is finally back is a celebrated event for many students.

Morning traffic leads to road rage Zoey Fox Staff Reporter

ART BY ZOEY FOX

College scene doesn’t change you Abby Hissong Editor-In-Chief

outside. The music was deafening, so I relied on hand signals as my primary mode of communiWith visiting friends cation. Random, sweaty in college comes the people kept accidentally sweet taste of the freebumping into me, and a dom in the forms of drink was spilled on me dining hall food, commumore than once. My faDear Abby 3.0 nity bathrooms and of vorite shoes were wet course, college parties. and sticking to the floor, but still I (Admittedly, the latter was the part was excited, because duh, I was a I was most excited about.) So when high schooler at a college party.

I went to visit my friends at UVA for About half way through the the first time this year, I was ready night, I started to see through the for my first night out as an honorary cracks in the mature fronts my felcollege student to begin. low party-goers put up that I had I hung out in the dorms catchfelt so intimidated by earlier that ing up with my friends, hearing night. With that, I realized much about all they had done so far, their to my chagrin, that college parties classes, their crushes and everyaren’t really all that different from thing in between. But after meeting high school ones. The houses are their roommates and hallmates, I bigger, the music is louder and the couldn’t help but feel a bit out of curfews are later, but the people, my element. Everyone around me for the most part, are pretty much seemed so mature and put togeth- the same. Everyone is still self-coner. I kind of felt like the kid sister tag- scious of their dance moves and ging along with the grownups. their outfits. People still laugh way After having spent far too long too loud at jokes that aren’t that getting ready for the evening’s fesfunny in an attempt to look like they tivities, I soon realized there was belong. People are still trying to figno reason to even make an attempt ure themselves out. And right there, to look nice. Within three minutes in the cramped basement of some of stepping into the dimly lit frat random fraternity, I realized that house, my hair was already up in a contrary to popular belief, you don’t ponytail and my makeup was runjust magically grow up when you go ning because it was 50 degrees to college. This epiphany was both hotter inside the house than it was comforting and disconcerting.

that we leave the car in the middle of the road and walk.

While we sat through no less than “I hope you hit three cycles of the red a skunk!” I yelled light, I brushed my hair at the driver of the in the rearview mirror small red car in front and muttered about of me. As a person poor traffic engineering who knows nothing until my sister dragged about cars, “small” my attention back: “It’s and “red” are as spegreen.” I shoved the car What Does cific as I am capable into drive and floored the Fox Say of getting, and as a it—because we were person who takes getting through this rules very seriously, I light or we would die was annoyed. trying—when a silver SUV jetted I was battling the traffic con- up beside us in the right lane. Just gestion on Reservoir Road. With as I began to accelerate, it slid the JMU students, the buses, a into the shrinking space between few lost 18-wheelers trying to find our car and the car in front of us, their way back to I-81, and the and made a left turn. fact that half the road is closed And I exploded. I yelled elabfor construction, it’s basically an orate profanities at this cheatasphalt hellscape. And Small- er-pants who had bypassed the Red-Car’s driver had neglected to waiting cars and cut in line like a signal before he pulled out of the kindergartener going to recess. I Sheetz parking lot, cutting me off. ranted; I screamed wordlessly; I Ever the sulky preacher of road- looked at my sister and demandway regulations, I recited pious- ed how this could possibly be jusly, “The right of way is given, not tice. I honked my horn. For the taken.” first time ever, I felt that someone My roadrage—if it can be had warranted the scalding hoscalled rage—usually manifests tility that the horn conveys. itself in these ridiculous remarks We pulled into the parking lot made to my empty car in a totally behind the SUV, and I almost hit normal voice. I could be talking the guy because I was so focused about the weather, except that on shouting at him. Not even this I’m making statements like, “Hon- could halt my tirade. “I should ey, why are you even in a car? just crash into you, you—ugh!”

You would literally go faster if you Screeching about unfairness, walked.” Then I laugh at myself I careened down an aisle and and forget what made me angry parked in the first empty spot I in the first place. My roadrage saw. I scrambled out of the car, is the gentle annoyance of the oblivious to everything but that driveway, not the unadulterated damn SUV. All that mattered was wrath of roadways ravaged by justice; I had to know who was construction. driving it. My gaze could have left That was before I encountered scorch marks on the asphalt as it HHS 2K16 morning traffic. roamed the parking lot, searchDay three of the new school ing. Focused. Until finally—there. year, and according to the clock Maybe I was wrong. A hunon the dashboard my sister and dred yards away, partially obI were actually on time as we scured by the procession of cars, turned onto Garber’s Church I could easily have been mistaken.

Road.

But I think the figure climbing out Except I hadn’t considered the of the SUV was a teacher. caravan of vehicles snaking out And I started laughing, beof the parking lot, ending right cause she did teach me somein front of me. As we rolled to a thing: that sometimes life is like a stop, we realized that we could Thursday morning traffic line. Perconceivably be idling here for haps in life, sometimes the right 10 minutes. My sister was only of way is something you take. half-joking when she suggested Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time. I learned a lot about myself at the multiple frat parties attended that weekend— like how emphatically I can sing along to “Closer” by the Chainsmokers, how good I am at making new friends in the line for the bathroom and most importantly, discovering my hidden talent for finding the dog at any party. But when it came down to it, the best part of my visit wasn’t going out. It

was getting brunch downtown with my two best friends. It was staying up until 5 a.m. by accident because nobody realized how late it had gotten. It was making new friendships while keeping up with the old ones.

I am still very much looking forward to making my own debut next year as a true college student, but I’m no longer expecting to become someone different when I step onto campus.

Don’t judge homeschooled kids who transfer to public school Hannah Daniel Columnist For the majority of my life, I have looked down upon homeschooling.

Even though some of my best friends are and were homeschooled, I had never favored the more “traditional” alternative to public school. I felt that children that were not enrolled at a public or private school were missing out socially, developmentally and educationally. But I had never thought to ask their opinions concerning it, until one day at lunch, I had a conversation with Jane Wyatt.

Jane Wyatt, a blonde-haired, bubbly junior, had been homeschooled ever since kindergarten.

She entered the HCPS system in eighth grade, and has been widely successful in her courses, sports and the Fine Arts Academy. Even now, four years in, she can’t help but look back fondly on her time spent learning at home with her mom.

“You learn everything at 100%, you have a tutor at your disposal

day and night, [and] I data collected from the could learn in pajamas College Board in 2014 or [while] climbing a showed that SAT scores tree,” she said, nostalamong homeschooled gically. children were actually Her mother taught above the national averher children until about age for SAT scores (567 the fourth grade ed- Hannah-Rama in critical reading, 521 in ucation level. Then, it math and 535 in writing was up to Jane and her for homeschooled stusiblings to teach themselves. dents, versus 497 in critical read“We learned to teach ourselves ing, 513 in math, and 487 in writing from books, which is an important for all college-bound seniors). But if skill that you use in [higher edu- homeschooling was perfect for her, cation],” Wyatt said. They didn’t then why did Wyatt come to the have traditional tests to prove their public school system? retention of learning; instead, Wy“I came to HHS because of att’s mother required her children sports. In Virginia, homeschoolto submit portfolios that demon- ers can’t join public school sports strated their learning. teams… I played on a lot of travel For Wyatt, this was helpful be- teams, but colleges would never cause she doesn’t consider her- see that,” she explained. self a good test-taker. She believes Not only did she want to particthat her experience being homes- ipate in high school sports, but she chooled helped foster her love of also desired to learn how to be a learning, and a love of learning is public school student. She entered the most important part of educa- HCPS in eighth grade so that she tion in general. could experience class changes, So, homeschooled kids aren’t standardized testing and a more losing anything because of the rigid schedule than she was prevismall-scale experience. In fact, ously used to. When she entered

ninth grade, she applied to be in the HHS Fine Arts Academy. These opportunities were defining factors in Wyatt’s choice to leave her homeschool education.

All this being said, however, don’t get me wrong: homeschooling is not the answer for every single child. Personally, I plan to send my kids to public schools because I value skills such as lateral learning, group activities and social cognition that come with a public school education.

But not all children are the same, and we all learn at different speeds and in different ways. I am simply trying to break the stigma surrounding homeschooling. Homeschoolers do not conform to socially awkward, ultra-religious stereotypes that are common in the media; parents are not always crazy conservative, and the kids themselves often turn out a-okay, as seen by Wyatt’s academic and social record. So when it comes to homeschooling, as they say: don’t judge a book by its cover.

The Newsstreak

October 28, 2016

Op-Ed-A5

HOT or NOT Unwanted attention from men dehumanizing HOT OR NOTS

BY OWEN STEWART

Candidate controversies: As the presidential race heats up, questions about the tax payments of Donald Trump and the health records of Hillary Clinton continue to pop up.

HHS wins homecoming game: After rain postponed the homecoming football game to a Monday night, the Streaks were able to beat Waynesboro 25-14, improving to 2-3 on the year.

Athlete deaths: Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and legendary golfer Arnold Palmer both passed away this month. Fernandez was 24, and died in a boating accident, while Palmer was 87.

Farm to table week: The Streaks cafeteria received all of their food in a farm to school method throughout the week of Oct. 3-7.

Clown patrol: Multiple recent reports of people dressed as clowns attempting to entice children have parents on edge.

Triple helix: A baby was born with DNA from 3 different parents for the first time ever.

This was achieved through mitochondrial donation, a technique used to help couples who have genes that carry genetic mutations, in this case, Leigh syndrome.

Hurricane ravages caribbean: Hurricane Matthew made landfall in Haiti as a Category 4 hurricane, killing over 260 Caribbean citizens, and caused an evacuation of over 2 million Americans is likely as it churned towards the US. Bridgeforth boys: On Oct. 15, the football team took on Broadway at JMU’s Bridgeforth Stadium, winning the game by the final score of 35-6.

AFM paralyzation: An obscure muscle disorder called acute flaccid myelitis, similar to polio, has been paralyzing children throughout the US this year, with 50 cases reported in 24 states. The disease can make a child completely immobile in just a couple of days.

One Act to VTA’s: The cast and crew of the one-act play headed to Norfolk for VTA on Oct.28.

Hallo-Monday: Oct. 31 falls on a Monday this year, meaning lots of tired students at school on Tuesday.

Potter movies back in theaters: As a way to celebrate the Harry Potter saga, all eight of the movies inspired

by JK Rowling’s book series returned to theaters for a week, starting on October 13.

Kim robbed, loses $10M in jewelry: Reality TV icon Kim Kardashian was robbed while in Paris early in the month, and had over $10 million worth of jewelry stolen from her hotel bathroom.

MLB playoffs: Throughout Oct., Major League Baseball’s postseason rumbled on, beginning with the Wild Card games in the first week of the month and culminating with the World Series, which began on Oct 25.

Elementary school shooting: On Sep. 30, a 14-year old shot up an elementary school in South Carolina, killing his father, as well as a 6 year old who was on the playground.

Snowden’s hiders speak out: For the first time, the Hong Kong couples who hid Edward Snowden, the releaser of classified American information, are speaking out on their experiences attempting to keep Snowden away from captivity.

Championship games removed: Anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) laws enforced in North Carolina have caused the NCAA to remove seven important games out of the state.

Teenager praised by google: 15-year old Advay Ramesh from India was congratulated by Google for inventing a GPS, specially made for fishermen, so they can better map their sea routes and avoid crossing into other countries sea space, leading to arrest.

Powderpuff game cancelled: The annual powderpuff game between the junior and senior girls was cancelled just minutes before halftime due to rain. At the time of cancellation, the seniors had just taken a 7-0 lead with the first touchdown of the night.

The end of a drought: The JV volleyball team beat Waynesboro on Oct. 6, ending a more than year-long losing streak.

Pasadena police standoff: A man was wounded in South Pasadena, California on October 9 in a police standoff. The man was hospitalized after the standoff lasted for a few hours.

Ryan Doerr Staff Reporter

As a woman possessing a pulse who is living in 2016, I am no stranger to unwarranted attention from men.

Their fusillades of halfhearted compliments and sexual outbursts, often strung sloppily together by alcohol, bear no age restrictions, and thus I have been accosted by many a “Hey, little lady!” since the age of 12; and the phrases only get more explicit with age.

With this kind of dehumanizing attention, the sense of childhood that most girls have been privileged enough to enjoy is slowly being pushed away from their grasp; the oversexualization of preteen girls has forced them into becoming women long before their bodies know how to shape their skin around the word.

Entire genres of pornography have been dedicated to “barely-legal” teens; the number of middle school aged girls having intercourse is rising--and more often than not, it is with older men; the clothing geared towards young girls nowadays very closely resembles its adult counterpart.

It’s no wonder these men prowling on the sidewalks don’t know any different: no one is telling them where to draw the line between woman and child.

I once read an article told from the perspective of a black man who had come to notice that people, especially women, would often cross the street when walking past him, for fear

of becoming prey tomed to this casual to whatever sinister distrust of men that intentions he may the fact we are terbe hiding. He stated rified of them does in the piece that he not faze us anymore. understood why the I find that I am prejudices existed, more afraid of men but that these unwalking alone as opconscious displays of Ryan’s Ram- posed to men walking blings racism illustrated what with women. I also needed to change find that I am more about the way people thought. afraid of men walking in groups Upon finishing the article, than men walking alone, and I figured that if I were in the least afraid of men walking in situations he presented, I, too, large groups intermixed with would most likely have attempt- women. If I cannot at first tell ed to flee. Not because he was a person’s visible gender as black, but simply because he they approach me, I become was a man. As I pondered the incredibly anxious unless they subject further, I realized that turn out to be a woman. Men I would probably be more like- yelling out of cars only serve ly to leave the situation if the to irritate me, but men across man I were passing was a col- the street intimidate me. lege-aged white male. See, to I was in Norfolk for a thethe average teenage girl, the atre conference last year, and white frat boy poses a bigger found that “men across the danger than any other kind street” seems to be the most of man on the street. We, as common form of verbal assault women, have become so accus- available. While walking with

Are you offended by Donald Trump’s remarks about women made in recent weeks?

Abortion should be legal Women have right to control their bodies Olivia Comer Online Editor-in-Chief

impression that making abortion illegal will stop abortions from I strongly identify myself happening, and as pro-choice when speaking you yourself are of abortion, but when I say indirectly being I’m pro-choice, that does not a hero by being mean I am pro-baby murder.

Live and let pro-life, you are Pro-choice is a term used to Liv very wrong. It will describe someone who believes simply become an it is for the woman to decide underground, dangerous operwhether or not to keep her baby. If ation that wrongly incriminates you as a spectator are upset about the loss of a potential baby, how women who made a mistake.

Things happen. Life happens, do you think the mother feels? and pregnancy might just be It is not fair to these women for what happens, and the woman, people to stand back and call them murderers without having any con- or teenager, might not be ready. cept of their situation or their life. They’re human, and more imporBefore abortion was legal, tantly, more often than not these women had to have coat hang- women are not without grief.

It is our job as human beings to er abortions. In case you don’t know what that is, I will spare be sympathetic of each other and you the uncomfortable descrip- attempt to understand that things tion, and let your imaginations simply go wrong. You do not have enlighten themselves. Long story to agree with their decision, but short, about 70,000 women died it doesn’t really matter whether every year abortion was illegal you do or not, because it is sim(according to Medical Bulletin) at ply not your decision to make.

Women are not murderers or the hands of unqualified non-doctors reusing dirty, rustic hangers. bad people because they have Now, what does all of that have had an abortion. A major reato do with being pro-choice? I be- son for many women having an lieve that abortion should be le- abortion is that they truly believe gal, for the women who made a that this is what is best for their mistake. If it is not legal, potential child, and in all honesty I feel babies in addition to their moth- there is validity to this statement.

Yes, the child could be put up ers will die. If you are under the for adoption, but this does not always work out the way it does in Annie (contrary to popuUnderstand before deciding your stance lar pro-life belief).

Abortion is a pretty inva“Stop Abortion” sive procedure Laws do not stop abortion. and no woman They only make it more difwould want to go ficult and more dangerous. through that with70,000 women died per out good reason. year abortion was illegal.

What if this baby was going to have a When they occur terrible life and the 88% of abortions in the US mother was trying occur in the first trimester to avoid that poswhen the infant cannot sibility? What if survive on its own yet. there was rape involved? Even if that Prevention is not remotely the 2/3 women practice safe case, this baby besex. Meaning the malongs to the mothjority of women are tryer carrying it, and ing to not get pregnant. if she does not want it, the deRape and incest cision to abort is entirely her own.

14,000 women every For all of those year have an abortion bewho try and make cause of rape or incest. it difficult for this procedure to ocRisk cur, I have one question.

Who It is 10x more likely for a are you to tell a woman to die during childwoman what she birth than in an abortion. can and cannot do with her body?

INFOGRAPHIC BY OLIVIA COMER

Five quick facts about abortion

Yes: 76.47% No: 23.53%

68 students randomly polled INFOGRAPHIC BY RYAN DOERR

a group of girls to a restaurant several blocks from our hotel, a man across the street from us pulled his phone from his ear and asked if we had a calendar. Several of us, assuming he needed the date, began rummaging around our bags for our phones, while the other few simply asked him, “What?”

“Well, you ladies are just so beautiful, you all could make one of those calendars, y’know?” he continued to yell the months out for emphasis, and the girls rolled their eyes and kept walking.

I didn’t think anything of this interaction, as I have become used to this vulgar behavior, but the underclassman girls around me were thoroughly shaken. They all looked very young, even from a distance, and hadn’t yet experienced this kind of attention from grown men--it unnerved them. It made my blood boil. They are all beautiful girls who will now have to develop their “don’t speak to me” faces and start censoring their outfits in an attempt to quell the howls from pickup truck windows, despite the fact it will not make a difference.

Many people say they are angered by this kind of behavior because every girl is “someone’s sister or daughter or wife,” but the bottom line is that every girl is someone. They belong to themselves and no one else, and these men cannot justify their attacks by excusing them as compliments.

They think us raw meat, made to be devoured and discarded; they forget that only animals eat raw meat.

Sleep quick facts Sleep time

z z ...z

Due to sleep patterns, it is normal to not to fall asleep before 11:00 pm.

Sleep deprivation One study found that only 15% of teenagers reported sleeping at least 8 hours on school nights.

Sleep amount Teenagers need 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night to function well.

Effects of school on sleep Teens tend to have irregular sleep patterns between week days and weekends, which can affect their biological clocks and hurt the quality of their sleep.

INFOGRAPHIC BY NOAH SIDERHURST

We just need more sleep Jackson Hook Sports Editor

ple who play sports, participate in clubs and do other extracurricular activities and are exhaustIf you are a teenag- ed when they get home. er, odds are you don’t There are very few out of get to bed in those groups time to get the who actualfull amount ly get everyof sleep you thing done need on a on time and school night. get the sleep E v e r y they need. I school night, envy people I find myself who get home having to set at Captain from a practice, Hook least three or four meeting or realarms to wake hearsal around my restless teen6 p.m. or later and still age body. Every morning get to bed before 10 those alarms fail, and I p.m. With the extensive am blinded by the flash amounts of homework of my room light turn- we are given and the very ing on and my mother little amount of sleep yelling at me because I we actually get, there is am not in the shower. little to no time for my It is scientifically prov- social life after school. en that we as teenagThat is why I love one ers should be getting at hour delays in the winleast 10 hours of sleep ter. It gives the weather each night. Right now, a chance to fix itself, and I am only getting six to me a chance to get a more seven hours. I am cer- substantial breakfast tain that the majority and some more sleep. of the students in this If school started at school get less sleep 8:45 a.m. the teachers than their brain needs would be happier, stuto function properly. dents would be happiI used to wake up er, test scores would be at 7 a.m. on my own higher and the overall atwhen I was in elemen- mosphere in the school tary school. Let the little would sky rocket. More kids go to school ear- sleep means a happily, I want more sleep. er and healthier comI know so many peo- munity at our school.

Mentorship Matters The Newsstreak

October 28, 2016

Feature - A6

Hollenbeck mentors under head of JMU theatre Samantha Little Feature Editor During fourth block every day, the school mentorship program meets to allow students to explore careers that interest them.

Mentees are able to spend time off campus and receive first-hand experience from someone already in that line of work.

Teacher Bethany Everidge supervises this program and has students working with a variety of different professionals to better understand the logistics behind their career of choice.

“The goal is for them to learn, observe and absorb as much information needed as far as what it needs to be in that career as well as what is needs to be successful in pursuing that career,” Everidge said.

One participant in the mentorship program is senior Ben Hollenbeck. Under the main guidance of JMU Associate Professor of Theatre John Burgess, Hollenbeck is allowed behind the scenes of real-world theater, and is given opportunities to participate in certain aspects of the area that he isn’t otherwise accustomed to.

“I enjoy the fact that it gives me a picture of what real life as an

actor is, what the business holds and what we actually have to do,” Hollenbeck said. “It also gives me a chance to work backstage, because most of my theater life is spent on the stage. I never spend any time on sound design, lighting, stage design and costume design, [but] doing this allows me to actually work in those environments and see that world off the stage.”

Because of Burgess’ busy schedule, Hollenbeck found that setting up the mentorship was difficult at first. However, through the help of Everidge, Hollenbeck was able to set up contact with Burgess. Though some details still need to be worked out, Hollenbeck now tries to go every day he has a mentorship block. During these blocks, Hollenbeck gets the opportunity to visit different classes, take tours of the buildings and check out the different facilities.

“We only started meeting around [the week of Sept. 26].

[However], judging from what I’ve seen and actually having met with him, and having moved around in the space, seeing what there is to do, I am a thousand percent into it. I’m totally going to be continuing with the mentorship,” Hollenbeck said.

PHOTO BY ANDREW RATH

ONWARD AND UPWARD. Senior Ben Hollenbeck rehearses for the upcoming One Act play. Hollenbeck’s love of theater has led him to enroll in the mentorship program in the CTE department. He is matched with JMU Associate Professor of Theatre John Burgess.

Though Hollenbeck hasn’t decided on which arts school to attend, he knows he would like to attend graduate school to get degrees in theater and vocal works.

Hoping to get a solid career in

Mentorship gives Aigner look into prospective career choice Jackie Mateo-Sanchez Staff Reporter Senior Jonathan Aigner was given the opportunity to do a biology research mentorship with JMU Biology professor Dr. Ron Raab, whose specialty is dealing with viruses. Because Aigner’s father is good friends with Dr. Raab, Aigner liked this opportunity.

“Throughout the mentorship, I’ve learned a lot of basic and advanced biology techniques, such as growing bacteria on plates with different growing conditions,” Aigner said.

Aigner has been meeting with Raab almost since the beginning of the school year for an hour every other day, approximately five hours every two weeks. They have been working to find a viral treatment for pinkeye in cattle.

They collected soil samples from Myron Blosser’s farm and are currently working on isolating the phages that destroy M. bovis, the bacteria that causes the pink eye.

With science as his favorite subject, the program is beneficial for his future career.

“I want to do something in science when I grow up, so this is a first step into it and I look forward to it in college,” said Aigner.

His top two choices for college are the University of Virginia and William and Mary. Although Aigner is undecided about his occupation, he knows he wants to pursue a career in science.

“I want to continue researching, and trying different things within the science field. That way when I graduate, I’ve tried multiple things and know what I like to do,” Aigner said.

Throughout the mentorship Aigner

PHOTO COURTESY OF JONATHAN AIGNER

IN THE LAB. Aigner’s current study of a pink eye-causing bacteria shows in each circle in the petri dish where that bacteria has been killed by a virus. has gained more knowledge and experience in regards to the Biotechnology field.

“I’ve become better at writing things down instead of relying on my memory. I’ve gotten more confident in my abilities, and I’ve gotten better at opening my mind to new things, ideas and methods,” Aigner said.

“The best part [about the mentorship] is being independent, and being able to leave the school. It makes it feel more serious, and it’s always good to have a change of scenery every once in awhile. It’s very different from normal school,” Aigner said.

Overall the mentorship has helped Aigner prepare for the future, providing him an idea of what he’s going to want to do.

theater, Hollenbeck finds the mentorship helpful, giving him more insight into what he wants to do.

“So far it has been beneficial because it has opened my eyes to

see how many options that I have in theater,” Hollenbeck said. “I don’t have to be the main guy on the stage, I have a lot of different places I can go and things that I can do within this huge world.”

Veterinary mentorship helps confirm Hostetter’s career goals Anzhela Nyemchenko Staff Reporter Senior Aaron Hostetter is on the road to veterinary school, and has a mentorship now to help achieve that goal. Hostetter has wanted to become a vet all his life, and his aspirations have grown as he has gotten older.

“I just love to help people out, and I love my own pets. I just want to be able to help people as much I can,” Hostetter said Hostetter wants to make a difference by working with animals in the community.

However, according to him, taking care of animals is not as easy as one may think.

“People are easy to help because they tell you what is wrong, but animals can’t tell you where or what hurts, so it’s a challenge,” Hostetter said. “You need to know how to work with animals, keep going and to hold your emotions in no matter what [happens].”

To become a vet, one must be willing to vaccinate animals against diseases, deal with illnesses and infections, and treat

wounds. Veterinarians are trained to help, prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses and manage all different types of animals. They perform surgery, prescribe medicine and collect body tissues, feces (body waste), blood, urine and other body fluids.

In order to be a veterinarian, the first step is to get a bachelors degree in biology, animal science or veterinary medicine.

Hostetter wants to attend Blue Ridge Community College to start down the path to obtain that degree. “[I] probably will work in Virginia, because I like this place I’m in right now. You watch what happens, and ask questions,” Hostetter said.

Mentoring under a knowledgeable and experienced professional has helped to guide Hostetter toward this career.

“At mentorship, you learn how to act, and how to do the best you can. Mentorship is where I confirmed what I wanted to do as a career. You learn what to do in different situations.... You get to experience taking care of many different animals,” Hostetter said.

PHOTOS COURTESTY OF AARON HOSTETTER

OINK. One subject of Hostetter’s veterinary work is a baby pig that wasn’t supposed to survive. The runt, covered in fleas and with a bad sore on its foot, had breathing problems and wasn’t being fed by its mother. “We took care of him and now he’s doing a lot better and stays at Massanutten Techinical Center,” Hostetter said.

Everidge leads mentorship class toward career interests Samantha Little Feature Editor The Career Experience Program began three years ago. With its goal to provide students with real-world experience and information in a career of their choice, the program has three components: job shadowing, mentorship and internship.

Though job shadowing and internship opportunities are new components, the mentorship class has been around at HHS for many years. Bethany Everidge has been the Career Experience Specialist for three years, and a Career and Technical Education instructor for six.

“My role as the mentorship coordinator and teacher is to educate [my students] on post-secondary options related to their career interests, support them in their exploration of their career interest and work on enhancing their workplace readiness skills,” Everidge said.

The mentorship program gives juniors and seniors the opportunity to engage in a short-term relationship with an employer in their career field of interest. Everidge has many students working with a variety of

different mentors, including JMU professors and medical professionals at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.

“The mentorship experience allows students to gain hands-on experience… network with professionals, gain awareness of what it takes to be successful in their desired career and strengthen their problem solving,” Everidge said.

According to Everidge, the demand for this class has increased tremendously throughout the years. Everidge now has the opportunity to work with over 60 students.

During the first four to six weeks of school, most of the block time was spent in the classroom learning workplace readiness skills such as proper communication, proper interview techniques and acceptable workplace attire. However, each student has now been placed in their job field, and now spends three to five hours with their mentor every week. They also meet back as a class once a month to share experiences and reflect on areas they still need guidance on. “[Mentorships] allows students to take ownership in their learning,” Everidge said.

“All placements are made on student in-

terest. Thus, they control what career field they want to explore and the knowledge they want to gain.”

When starting discussions in class about what it takes to be successful in a certain career, Everidge describes it as thinking backwards.

“I [first] ask students to think about what careers are of their interest,” Everidge said. “Then, what post-secondary education is needed to be successful in that career field and what university, college or technical school is of interest to them that offers the education needed. Then [finally], what are they currently doing here at HHS to begin pursuing the necessary education path needed for their career interest.”

Everidge finds the mentorship program truly beneficial for all of its participants in finding career paths, and determining what it takes to be successful in their desired profession.

“These students are gaining knowledge straight from individuals that are in their career field,” Everidge said. “The observations, conversations, training and time spent with their mentor is invaluable.”

What‘s your favorite part about mentorship?

Isaiah King, 11 Dana Landacre, Physician Assistant at RMH

“I love being able to experience first hand injuries, pains and bruises in the emergency department at RMH. Everyone is different in what treatment they need, which allows me to learn the many procedures and diagnosis for each patient.”

Mikaila Girshin, 12 Joan Wingfield, Speech Pathologist at Waterman Elementary School

“I absolutely love everything about my mentorship. I get to work with the cutest kids, which is what I love, while also getting work experience in the field I want to pursue.”

INFOGRAPHIC BY SAMANTHA LITTLE

October 28, 2016

James McHone Jewelry

Ads-A7

The Newsstreak

Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Phone Number: (540) 433-1833

Located at 258 Timber Way, Broadway, VA 22815 Phone:(540) 896-7095

Miller, Earle & Shanks, PLLC Attorneys and Counsellors at Law

560 Neff Avenue, Suite 200 Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Telephone: (540) 564-1555

GO STREAKS

L & S DINER

MUTERSPAUGH

Insurance Agency, Inc. Large Enough to Serve,

Small Enough to Care 234 E Market St. #2 Harrisonburg, VA 22801

540-433-2423

Established in 1979

J. Todd Fowler, DDS, PC General Dentistry Phone: (540) 434-2423 Fax: (540) 801-0493 2870-B South Main Street Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Mon-Fri 5:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Sat 7 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

October 28, 2016

DONATE THE GIFT OF LIFE

GIVE BLOOD SCA- Sponsored Blood Drive Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 SIGN UP IN ROOM 444

The Newsstreak

Ads-A8

STEM

October 28, 2016

The Newsstreak

Feature-A9

Blosser gives researchers real-life experience Lucie Rutherford Managing Editor Throughout his teaching career, biotechnology and biology teacher Myron Blosser has traveled across the country and back again multiple times, eight to be exact, with his students. On Oct. 9, Blosser will not quite be going across the country with his STEM biotech students, but rather up the Shenandoah Mountain for a night of science.

“We’re going up there for two main purposes. One main purpose is simply to get together as a class away from the school building for fun,” Blosser said. “But, while we’re there, we’re going to be doing collection, and we’re going to be collecting water samples from a variety of high mountain ponds, streams, lakes and rivers that we will then use to look at the bacterial content of those.”

In addition, some students will be using those same water samples for their independent research on giardia, a gastrointestinal parasite.

When it comes to sleeping up on the mountain, that is no problem for Blosser and his students.

“I have a cabin, and the cabin has a loft in it, so the ladies will be sleeping in the loft.

It’s just on the floor, so [they’ll need] sleeping bags. The guys will be sleeping on the first floor, on the floor with sleeping bags.

We’ll be preparing all of our own food, cooking there, eating together in commu-

nity,” Blosser said.

Blosser’s goal for the trip is that students enjoy being outside, and get a better idea of what research is all about.

“I’m hoping that [students] will see the fact that when you need collection, you have to go get it. I want [students] to see where our samples come from, and see what’s involved in actually collecting samples,” Blosser said. “There will be no lectures. It’s going to be completely different than a classroom, but yet we’ll be involved in the scientific method, using scientific concepts the whole time.”

Senior Zeus Willis has been a part of STEM since his eighth grade year at Skyline, and is ready to step out of his usual element to experience something new to him.

“I am really looking forward to spending time in the mountains because my family isn’t a very outdoorsy type, so I’ve never been camping. A lot of people here have, so it’s really interesting to be spending the night in the woods,” Willis said.

As Blosser said, the students will be focusing on the bacteria they will continue to work with once they are back in class. For Zeus, this out-of-the-classroom experience will help him learn more about the bacteria he will be working with, and more of what to do with it.

“I plan to learn about the bacteria that we’re collecting… that bacterias are everywhere and learning that you can find organisms everywhere,” Willis said.

When it comes to teaching, Blosser strives to switch it up for students so as to

PHOTO BY LUCIE RUTHERFORD

OBSERVATION TIME. Seniors Tyler Sutton, Tyler Rodriguez, teacher Myron Blosser and recently graduated JMU biology major, James Park observe the water quality from a spring on the STEM Biotech field trip. keep it interesting. With the use of trips such as this one, Blosser looks to stray away from the usual teaching process, making it his own.

“I think [this trip] gives [students] a better idea of what’s involved in research. One of my goals is that my students not only

Radio signals gathered from Green Bank Telescope Theo Yoder Sports Editor

Weaver.

Over the next two days, students spent their time collecting and analyzing data from a separate telescope as well as observing, learning and touring the Green Bank Telescope. Through the night, shifts were given to various groups as to when they should collect data from the night sky.

Some shifts were early in the night, other shifts as late as 2:30 am. Students hiked out of the bunk house to their assigned telescope and gathered radio signals received by the radio telescope. These signals were specifically from clumps of hydrogen located near our galaxy’s equator. Weaver, having this be her first year at HHS and first field trip supervising, was impressed by the minds of the students.

“I love seeing the students work togeth-

er and I am blown away by the smart and capable minds they all have. I have had lots of fun getting to know the students and even participate in some activities,” Galaxies, nebulas, stars and planets are Weaver said. Before coming to HHS, Weavonly a sample of what the Governor’s STEM er worked as a teacher in the midwest, but Academy studied in Green Bank, West Virmoved to Harrisonburg because she knew ginia. After piling into a bus, students venfamily. tured their way over the mountains, bound “I would really like coming on another for the largest movable radio telescope in STEM field trip, but I would need to be the world. The Green Bank telescope, first more prepared. I did not do enough reoperated by the National Radio Astronomy search on radio astronomy before comObservatory (NRAO) from 2002 until 2016, ing to Green Bank,” Weaver said. Weaver just weeks ago changed operators and is hopes to attend another field trip in the now the Green Bank Observatory. near future.

The STEM field trip consisted of 19 juJunior Nathan Gehman, an active memniors and seniors as well as three superviber of the STEM academy since seventh sors: math teacher, Geoffray Estes, Science grade, tries to attend as many field trips Teacher and Co-director of STEM, Andrew as time allows. He has now attended two Jackson and Guidance Counselor, Anda field trips to Green Bank, summer STEM trips to Florida, a fall trip to the Chesapeake Bay and various camping trips.

“The people are always really nice and there is always something new to look forward to. We get to go snorkeling, look at space, study watersheds and so much more,” Gehman said. Compared to his last Green Bank trip, Gehman enjoyed this time around.

“I really liked the planetarium, that is something we did not get to do last time. It was relaxing to lay down and look at the hundreds of stars that we can’t see normally.

Also, the Green Bank Telescope just never gets old,” Gehman said.

Overall, the students were able to effectively collect data on their own with no help from the supervisors. With the data, students gathered into a computer lab and created a spreadsheet where they were easily able to see the trends, PHOTO BY YOGESH ARADHEY allowing them to reach a conclusion STAR GAZING. Junior Parker Ferguson and senior Genevieve Cowardin adjust equipment for as a group. The trip provided a usethe radio telecope to look for hydrogen gas in The Milky Way. ful insight into the minds and lives of radio astronomers today.

Chesapeake Bay trip cancelled after fire Kyle Brown Opinion Editor

On Oct. 1-3 and 13-15, the freshman and sophomores in the STEM Biology class were supposed to go to the Chesapeake Bay for an interactive field trip to improve their basic biology knowledge.

The first trip was called off on Sep. 29just two days before the group was supposed to leave. Originally, the second group was supposed to still go, but the STEM teachers decided against that and to postpone both trips until March of next year.

The reason behind the sudden cancellation of the trips is because of a recent lightning storm that hit the island the students were headed to, Smith Island.

During the storm, the house that they were supposed to stay at received a direct lightning strike, and sent a power surge into the house causing a fire to start in the attic. They were able to put out the fire in time, but the rest of the house received significant smoke damage, so the Chesapeake Bay Foundation asked if STEM could postpone the trip until a later time.

Myron Blosser, the teacher of STEM Biology and a main organizer of the trip, who has been going to the Chesapeake Bay for over 30 years, adapted when he heard about the fire.

“It is what it is. When you’ve lived as long as I have and you’ve done as many things as I have, things just are what they are and you roll with it. I’m disappointed, but life sometimes brings about things that you can’t control. And so over the years, I’ve learned to control the things I can and accept the things I can’t,” Blosser said.

This year was also different from all the previous years doing the trip because this time around they planned two trips instead of one Bay trip.

“We had two trips because this year we have both ninth and tenth graders taking STEM biology, and that is the class that we go to the Bay with. So, we had enough students that we filled up two trips,” Blosser said.

The Chesapeake Bay trip itself is an interactive experience for the students, who get to go and see all the decisions they make here and how they can affect the watershed.

“The Chesapeake Bay trip is a trip where we go and live on one of the islands in the Chesapeake Bay for three days.

There are several small islands that are in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay... I like to go to those communities to find out what it’s like, and how it’s changed, and that the change that has happened in [the fishermen’s] livelihood and lifestyle is because of the condition of the water. Since the Chesapeake Bay is in our watershed, it allows us to understand the impacts that we have here in the Shenandoah Valley, and what they do to the Chesapeake Bay,” Blosser said.

Blosser explains that he likes going on these trips, not only because of the new information learned, but also because of the bonds made.

“I have two big reasons why I go. One is simply watershed education. We learn about the Bay and what our actions do…

There is just so much science down there.

The second thing is, it’s a good experience for us to live together for three days, and bond as a group, it’s very different from school and it’s just a great experience,” Blosser said.

learn about science, but that they do science, and that’s really hard in a school environment,” Blosser said. “We’re really good at teaching scientific concepts to kids, but we’re not very good at having the kids do…

This trip is a do trip.”

Projects propel learning Yogesh Aradhey Staff Photographer Underclassmen in the STEM academy are able to do research partnered with JMU, or other organizations, through their biology class. Students get to choose a project to work on, and perform experiments regarding any scientific field they are interested in.

Freshman Jadelin McLeod’s group is researching the “nitrogen fixing” process of microorganisms. These organisms live in the dirt and capture nitrogen from the air, converting it to a form that plants can use.

“These things called rhizobium japonicum grow in the soil, and what we are doing is testing to see how much they do for the plant,” McLeod said.

The test is conducted by planting soybean seeds and making sure that the only way for them to get nitrogen, a vital nutrient, is through this nitrogen fixing process.

“We plant the seeds in a leonard jar,” McLeod said. “It is a jar with this fake soil in it, which does not have any nitrogen in it, and there is a wick which soaks in a nitrogen free water solution.”

Indicators on whether or not the rhizobium are doing their job are shown in the color of the leaf and the overall health of the plant.

“If the leaves turn yellow, that means the plant isn’t getting nitrogen,” McLeod said.

Another freshman, Leif McCoy, originally began studying the blight, brought in by Japanese Chestnut, that wiped out the American Chestnut tree over 100 years ago.

“It had a huge impact on everyone around here [at that time] because it [the chestnut trees] was a huge source of food and for materials. There were entire farms built in the 1800s made from just two or three trees,” McCoy said.

The freshman class visited a farm in Northern Virginia where a few chestnut trees still remain and collected samples to use for research later.

“That project was a baseline practice though, I kind of branched off of that,” McCoy said. “Jack Fleming and I are doing something with music.”

McCoy and Fleming’s study involves playing different types of music to people and giving them a 20-question, general knowledge test. It will involve some reading, math and history.

“The point is to see if a certain type of music gives you an advantage [in your score],” McCoy said.

This type of research is possible through the STEM Academy because they allow their students to pursue a topic of their choice.

“It is nice because it isn’t an experiment that we do in class where we already know the outcome,” McCoy said.

October 28, 2016

Experience-A10

The Newsstreak

Governor’s school challenges science lovers Iris Cessna Staff Reporter A select few juniors and seniors do not attend our high school. Not all day, that is.

Instead, they enjoy getting up even earlier for the hour-long bus ride out to Massanutten Regional Governor’s school, but enjoy it many of them do.

The decision that Gov. school is worth it, most of the time, is unanimous among seniors Casey Wilson and Anna Derrick and junior Joel McNett.

“There’re definitely days, or nights, perhaps at one o’clock when I’m typing that essay the night before it’s due, and I’m like ‘why am I doing this to myself?’ But at the end of the day, you don’t really get these opportunities in HHS,” Derrick said.

The opportunities she speaks of include a year-long research project that all Gov. school students work on. Wilson is working on a project with measuring the effect antioxidants have on proteins.

“We can find a mentor, we get to do research all year and then we present it at the end of school. It’s the biggest thing that we do there,” Wilson said.

Other things that bring out the contrast between Gov. School and the form of school most of us attend are the connectivity between classes and the amount of hands-on experiences. “[One unique thing we do at Gov. school is] projects within different classes that really allow us to see a connection between, you know, our English class and our math class, and our math class and our science class. And that’s not really something you get in a traditional high school setting,” Derrick said.

What really strikes McNett was the amount of hands-on activities that take place at Gov. school.

“It’s just way more hands-on and interactive. We’ve already gone on five field trips this year, and we haven’t gone on any field trips for normal school yet,” McNett said.

However, the schedule coordination

PHOTO COURTESY OF CASEY WILSON

TRAIL MIX. Governor’s school students (left to right) Savannah Horton, Rachel Tomei, Molly Campillo, Blair Sharman, Anna Derrick,Casey Wilson, Wren Frueh, Emma Nicholas and Dana Jones congregate on the Appalachian trail to attend a hike. The Appalachian trail stretches form Georgia to Maine and goes through the Shenandoah National Park. On the hike, the students surveyed the nature so they could use it for their studies. between Gov. School and HHS can provide difficulties for these students.

“The schedule at Gov. School does not match up with the schedule here. You’ll have days off here that you have days there at Gov. School… And back and forth.

That’s definitely one of the tough things,” Wilson said.

According to the students, other difficulties that come with Gov. School are the workload, and, at the very beginning, navigating being in school with people from all different school districts who you know nothing about.

“You don’t necessarily know everyone, so the first little bit can be a little awkward. You’re sort of staring at each other like ‘Okay… um… we’re supposed to do a project, but I don’t know any of you,’” Derrick said.

However, according to Wilson, these challenges that come with Gov. School are good things in the long run.

“If you have a challenge, it definitely teaches you to persevere and push through it. So having a little bit of a challenge definitely teaches you a lot. Especially when it comes to school, having to balance going there and coming here has definitely made me learn a lot of new things,” Wilson said.

Attending Gov. School has applications for college and beyond.

“You’re just prepared for any work that you’re going to do in the future. You’re prepared to collaborate with other people and be part of that team mentality, and really get a rounded education,” Derrick said.

McNett also believes that Gov.

school helps when it comes to post-high school.

“Just generally, it’s a great resource to have on an application or resume,” McNett said.

On top of being considered a great experience and looking good on applications, Gov. School provides other little things. During the aforementioned hourlong bus ride, POT, or Poetry On Thursdays, takes place.

“On the bus ride home, we all sit around and write poetry and snap for each other.

Sometimes we bring munchies, which are just snacks. It’s a good time,” Derrick said.

The culinary students at the technical school they share a building with also provide Gov. School students with breakfast on Fridays.

Leach at MTC training to be nurse Sarah Earle Feature Editor

school.

Senior Mikaela Leach attends MTC and is in the practical nursing program, a step up from the It starts with a goal and is program she participated in last transferred into a real life expe- year. rience. At Massanutten Technical “I decided to do MTC because Center, students have the oppor- nursing really interested me. tunity to learn and practice skills Sophomore year I realized I was for a profession they’re interest- into nursing. The more I did it, the ed in for their future, rather than more I liked it. [Last year] I did the take normal classes at their base CNA program and applied to the practical nursing program and got in… it’s something I want to do in my life,” Leach said.

Cosmetology Along with nursing, Leach considered other Criminal Justice strands at MTC. Architectural Design “Junior year I was deciding between either Carpentry nursing or criminal justice.

Collision Repair I ended up doing nursing, obviously, but I’ve never Dental Assistant regretted that decision,” Electricity Leach said. “I don’t really remember the deciding Engineering Technology factors. When I went to go visit [MTC], I liked nursing Fire and Rescue better and I thought, ‘I’ll Health Careers just do this one instead of doing both.’ I’ve always Masonry liked certain aspects of Restaurant Careers nursing. Just taking care of patients...medicine...

Veterinary Assistant stuff that we’d be learning Welding stood out to me.”

Depending on the day, Work Based Learning Leach will either do a Auto Technology hands-on project or learn something new.

Computer Repair & Networking “I go straight to MTC in Diesel Technology the morning at 8:30. We generally have something Heating and Cooling Technology to do before the bell rings.

Visual Effects & 3-D Animation We’ll either have a clinical day or a theory day. Clin-

Courses Available at MTC

ical day is when you come full scrubbed, nurse uniform, and we learn a new skill, something like putting on sterile gloves, how to set up a sterile field, or putting in a IV,” Leach said. “If it was a theory day, we would go in...work on something new in the chapter, take notes, do a powerpoint and then do a checkfront or standing…[then] there is a quiz every day on something we learned the day before.”

Although she gets a hands-on experience that she enjoys, it is an adult-level class, putting pressure on Leach.

“I go every single day in the morning for almost three hours.

I’m very rarely at school, so that’s a change. Also, it’s a lot of work [and] it’s a college class. I’m with the adults because you have to apply to the adult program,” Leach said. “It’s considered an AP class, so it’s that amount of workload. You are expected to go home and read. If you don’t, they’re not going to go over it in class, so you have a lot of responsibility to teach yourself a certain amount of things. There are a couple other high schoolers who are in that class, but most of them are just adults who are in their twenties or going back to school.”

Leach plans to finish her twoterm program next year. She plans to work as a Licensed Practical Nurse, and, depending on how that goes, attend a four-year college. As for the future, Leach plans on completing the Practical Nurse Program at MTC next year.

“I would like to think that I would still be as successful [without MTC], but I think that this has

Pic of MTC

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKAELA LEACH

TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE. Senior Mikaela Leach practices taking the pulse of a dummy subject. Her other practices include practical nursing. helped me be a lot more successful because it’s using my time, getting this done while I’m younger,” Leach said.

When she’s not at MTC, Leach practices her nursing skills on her siblings, taking their blood pressures and listening to their heartbeats. “[In] nursing, you have to not think about yourself during the day. When you go out and take care of those patients, you can’t be thinking about yourself, you have to put your emotions else-

where. You don’t have emotions, you don’t have a say. You just have to be this person that’s taking care of them. You don’t get to put your personal opinions in it...that’s the biggest thing I’ve learned,” Leach said. “I would say the best part is that I’m actually doing something in high school.

It’s not like going through high school, trying to graduate, taking these pointless classes I’ll never use. I’m actually taking a class that I can use in my future and it’s very helpful.”

Special Ed students preparing for real world with school jobs Samantha Little Feature Editor HHS has a total of nine special education programs striving to assist all students in reaching their full potential.

One aspect of the special education classes that people might not know of is their practice of vocational skills each day during second block. Teacher Lisa Long finds that the goal for this block, filled with a variety of work opportunities for different students, is to prepare them with training so that they are able to go into the work force once they leave high school.

“It gets them prepared for the real world and gives them job skills that they carry over into a real job,” Long said.

Every student also has the opportunity to move up step-bystep with the work they do. In the beginning, students fill and sort the juice crates in the cafe-

teria, put together the breakfast bags and break down the cardboard from the cafeteria.

Once they seem to be doing well with that, they move on to working with a job coach at the local Goodwill, hanging up and taking down clothes for one hour, three times a week.

After that, they graduate to serving food at the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community (VMRC) three times a week as well. Throughout all of their work, the special education program stresses the skills necessary to be successful in a job.

“We do an employment survey on them and we grade them on how they’re doing. They can get a three, a two or a one,” Long said. “We work on four things: punctuality, quality, quantity and cooperation. Each day when they come back from work, we talk about those four things and use those words so they’re familiar with them.”

Cafeteria manager Tricia New-

comb appreciates the work that past four years. During second “It will definitely help me in the students take time to do each block, he works in the football the future,” Berry said. “I think morning and finds it helpful for locker room folding and putting I’m doing good at my VMRC work both the cafeteria staff and kids. away jerseys for each player. Ber- and I really like it. The work“It fills in that little niche,” ry also spends his third block at ers really love me there, so I’m Newcomb said. “There’s just a the VMRC washing dishes. proud of that.” lot of little tasks [they do] that would take away time that we’re trying to cook. It helps us a lot and it helps them learn other skills, so it’s an awesome program.”

This vocational program has been going on for the 10 years that Newcomb has been at HHS, and every year she finds the students to be a great group of kids. “[Their attitude] is pretty positive. I think a lot of [the students] look forward to saying good morning to the same ladies or doing the same jobs.

I know once in awhile they’re probably tired, but most of the time it’s totally positive on PHOTO BY SAMANTHA LITTLE both sides,” Newcomb said.

Senior Brent Berry has PUTTING IN THE WORK. Sophomore Christian Pierce Warble (left) and been in the program for the post graduate Tawayn Johnson (right) unload juice cartons.

October 28, 2016

Feature-A11

Every Person Has A Story

Amine leaves homeland to reunite with father Sam Heie Feature Editor From goat farmer to track star, sophomore Gebrehiwot Amine has experienced it all. Born in the province of Mai-Mine in Eritrea, a small African country located near Ethiopia and Sudan, he lived with his mother and siblings along with his grandfather. Amine became a

goat farmer at the age of six. He would work from eight in the morning to six in the evening.

“Basically, we would just take [the goats] outside, walk away from home and let them eat. You can’t keep them in one place. In America, there are huge farms with all of the land you could ever use, but you don’t have that in Eritrea.

The president does not allow one person to get that

much land, so we would just take them to forests and let them graze,” Amine said. “We would hang out while we watched the goats and sheep and we would hang out after our work was done. We were brothers and cousins. Everybody knew each other and so everyone got along well.”

Amine attended a village school. There were two different time slots of

PHOTO COURTESY OF GEBREHIWOT AMINE

LIFTING WEIGHTS. Gebrehiwot lifts weights as part of his training for running.

schooling: morning school and afternoon school.

Amine took the former and attended school from 8 to noon.

“In Eritrean school, the students don’t move from class to class. Instead, the teachers come to your classroom prepared for whatever subject they were teaching. You don’t move. You just sit there for so long. I preferred school there, it was shorter,” Amine said.

Due to his grandfather’s development of health issues that restricted him from working his fields on his own, Amine felt it was his obligation to help, and made the best out of it.

“I quit school to help my grandfather. I loved cowboying so much, but it interfered with school. I had so much freedom. We would play games while we cowboyed and it was so much fun. That’s why I quit school. We only had 10 minute breaks for lunch and in between classes in school, but out there, no one tells you what to do.”

Along with goat farm-

ing, Amine started to develop a hobby for electrical engineering. In his village, electricity was scarce, making it hard for his hobby to flourish.

“I have always liked to build things. I taught myself how to build small circuits and other electronics.

Everyone would see them and they would be so interested. They would buy some of the things and tell me that I was a good boy.

I liked that, so I kept on building. On my own time, I started to make portable chargers off of my own understanding of electricity.

I could sell some of them, but I wanted to make them safer and safer.”

Amine’s father moved away before Amine was old enough to properly meet him. He came to America as an immigrant soon after Amine was born.

“My father originally moved to America because he needed more jobs. I used to always cry when my mom told me [he] was in America. ‘Where’s dad,’ I would ask. ‘He’s gone in America,’ she would say. I

came because I wanted to see him. I just felt happy [when I saw my father]. I had never seen him, but I felt like I had known him my whole life. There was more freedom back home, but there was more happiness in America,” Amine said.

After coming to America, Amine entered the Newcomers program. He spoke three languages at the time, but English was not one of them. Amine moved past the first stage three months after arriving, and was able to join regular classes in a total of eight months. He now lives with his mother, his father and his seven siblings.

“In Eritrea, it was just expected to do things you were asked to do and not make a big deal out of it,” Amine said. “No one would say thank you for smaller things like they do here. It isn’t customary back there.

People say thank you a lot more in America. Whenever you do something for someone they are so grateful.”

Walton entertained by classic movies, horror flicks Zoey Fox Staff Reporter

Sophomore Rachel Walton has been a fan of classic films for several years.

“I got hooked on older movies when I was about 14. Planet of the Apes was probably the first one,” Walton said. For those that don’t know, Planet of the Apes is a science fiction classic from 1968 about a group of astronauts stranded on a planet where apes rule, and humans are slaves.

It is one of the many science fiction films she’s now familiar with.

Another is called Reanimator, which is a 1980’s horror-comedy that incorporates elements of sci-fi. Based on a novel by H.P Lovecraft, it’s about a medical student who brings his dead professor back to life. Walton has tried to read the novel too, but she could never get into it the way she gets into the movies. She likes this film partly because it integrates several genres: sci-fi, comedy and horror.

PHOTO BY ZOEY FOX

And with the presence of Halloween, horror movies are on everyone’s minds.

Walton is excited to watch and rewatch some of the greatest classic horror films of

the last several decades.

“I’m pumped,” Walton said. “I don’t know what I’m gonna watch yet, but I did watch Nightmare on Elm Street on Sunday.”

When she first became interested in classic horror movies, Walton was undaunted by their fear factor.

“I’d been told that they were relatively tame at the time I saw them, so I didn’t think it would be too bad,” Walton said.

She added that some of these films are considered the best horror movies of alltime.

“I have to watch them,” Walton said.

Walton especially appreciates the great psychological thrillers, which she finds to be the scariest.

“Jump scares do get to me sometimes, but I feel like a movie does a better job being scary if it has a psychological impact on you. My two favorite horror movies are Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby, and those two depend less on jump scares, and they go more for psychological value. Both of them are top-notch movies with scary, top-

notch endings. Especially Psycho,” Walton said.

Both Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby are movies about ordinary people thrown into situations where they know something is wrong, and they recognize that there is danger, but the main characters don’t know exactly where— or who— it’s coming from.

Walton’s classic Halloween movie recommendation is Psycho.

“Most of the old movies I’ve seen, I’ve actually only seen once. But Psycho I’ve seen four times... I was a little underwhelmed the first time I saw it, but the ending made up for it… I think that the ending of Psycho could be the greatest thing ever seen on screen,” Walton said. “It’s a cinematic work of art, and it gets better with every view.”

Walton hopes to pursue her interest in classic movies in the future.

“I’m interested in cinematography, but I want to study the history of film,” Walton said.

Savulyak utilizes multilingual skill to grow, connect Andi Fox Staff Reporter Sophomore Karina Savulyak is fluent in three languages and is currently learning a fourth.

Originally from Ukraine, Savulyak and her family moved to the United States when she was two years old. “[Other than Ukrainian], I speak Russian, English and I am learning French right now,” Savulyak said. “[At home] we speak Russian, Ukrainian and sometimes English.”

Savulyak lived in Ukraine long enough to learn Ukrainian there.

She learned Russian and English after she came to America. She began to learn French in school as

an elective class.

Being fluent in multiple languages has benefitted Savulyak by helping her meet and communicate with new people.

“Whenever I meet people, [knowing multiple languages] helps me have a conversation with them in the language they can speak,” Savulyak said.

Upon arriving in America, Savulyak picked up Russian and English really easily.

“I picked them up quickly and for me, it’s normal.

It’s like, for you, talking in English, but for me it’s all three languages,” Savulyak said.

Learning French, on the other hand, has been more challenging. When she learned Russian, English and Ukrainian, Savulyak

was really young, so she picked them up easily.

However, Savulyak started to learn French when she was older, in eighth grade.

This made it more difficult to pick up. Savulyak enjoys learning languages and she thinks it’s really interesting, but she is not sure if she is going to learn any more.

Savulyak loves the idea of traveling around to different places and helping people.

“I feel like that’s my job.

I had a dream and God talked to me through it. It felt really nice, because He was talking to me [about] how I can help other people. He showed me pictures about people who are in need and how some people have much less than me, and he showed me how,

later on, I will be able to go off to countries and heal people,” Savulyak said.

As a result of this, she wants to be a missionary when she is older.

“I don’t know how God’s going to lead me, but I am planning to go to lots of countries like Africa and little tiny islands to just help people,” Savulyak said. “I feel like I can’t do anything else; I can see myself doing it.”

Being multilingual will also aid Savulyak in the future as she travels around to different places.

Because she was so young when she moved here, Savulyak doesn’t remember much of her home country. However, she has plans to go back.

“In December this year or either in March or April,

I’m going to go back for a mission trip. I’m already signed up for it,” Savulyak said.

Other than her mom, no one in Savulyak’s family has gone back to Ukraine because they are too busy with school or work.

Savulyak is really looking forward to the trip.

“I am really excited.

I’m just waiting for the days to fly by. I can’t wait,” Savulyak said.

Savulyak’s favorite characteristic of Ukrainians are that they are outgoing.

“Whenever you meet a Ukrainian, they are always happy, and the conversation always continues.

They always know what to talk about. It’s so interesting to be with them,” Savulyak said.

Savulyak’s family em-

braces Ukrainian and Russian culture by eating a lot of Russian and Ukrainian food.

“That’s basically all we eat. The only case we would eat American food is when we go to restaurants or at school,” Savulyak said.

Savulyak and her family moved here because of a recommendation they received from other family members who already lived in America. Now, her whole family lives in the United States, except for her grandfather, whom she misses a lot.

“Basically everyone [lives here]. It’s so sad.

We want [my grandfather] to come back here, and he wants to live here,” Savulyak said.

Hussein adjusts to new lifestyle in U.S. Garret Cash Online Editor-in-Chief

PHOTO BY KATHRYN HULLEMAN

RUNNING FREE. Hussein competes at cross country meet at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia.

After spending his childhood moving around the Middle East, junior Walter Hussein and his family eventually settled in Harrisonburg.

“My parents are from Kuwait, but we moved to Iraq, and we lived there. But we didn’t really like it,” Hussein said. “We emigrated to Jordan, lived there a few years and then made our way to the United States.”

The wisdom gained from experiencing different cultures helps Hussein stay humble and respect others.

“It was a lot to experience.

We made a lot of friends in different places. You get to see how others live, and it affects you. You get to learn something

from them, and they also learn things from you,” Hussein said.

After finally settling in Harrisonburg, Hussein felt out of place at first.

“It’s kind of scary when you’re alone leaving home, knowing no one, and [then] just ‘surprise’ you’re in the middle of nowhere, but it gets easier,” Hussein said. “I felt lonely the first month, but there’s people from where I’m from that helped me, and they’ve been nice to me. It got easier.”

Acclimating to the new environment, Hussein began to test the waters to see where he fits.

One day as he was out, he saw HHS alumnus Abrahm Amine and his friend junior Mo Berhe running.

“I never found myself to be good at a sport… they invited

me for a run, so I joined them.

They told me I can do better than that, and all it takes is practice. I went there and I tried, and I really liked it, and it became part of my life,” Hussein said.

Hussein discovered his passion in running, and has not lost it since that day.

“I love to run. I was scared to try for track when I was a freshman, but my sophomore year, I tried it, and I really liked it,” Hussein said. “There’s really great runners out there who helped me [and] supported me.”

Hussein maintains his determination in the sport through breaking his own records.

“What keeps me into running is that each time I run, I improve. I’m still hoping for the best,” Hussein said.

October 28, 2016

Feature-A12

CRUNCH-A-PALOOZA Cooks spotlight locally grown foods in special school lunch week

Farm to school week focuses on freshness Olivia Comer Online Co Editor-In-Chief Farm to School week throughout HCPS has come to a close, but the cafeteria staff’s work isn’t over.

During the annual Farm to School week, the cafeteria staff works extra hard to make the food homemade and from local ingredients, but what most students don’t realize is that this is not only a one week operation. The head of the high school cafeteria, Tricia Newcomb, was looking forward to Farm to School week, but says it is not that far off from what they normally do.

“We use those vendors throughout the year if it’s seasonal, so it’s not like we only use them for that week.

We just tried to do more [during that week]. Our lettuce is always local, our beef is always local, our wheat flour, we just tried to do more [for

Farm to School week], that’s all,” Newcomb said.

Harrisonburg is not the only school that participates in Farm to School week, the entire state of Virginia uses the month of October to be conscious about eating local food.

“Virginia has adopted that first week [of October as Farm to School week]. It’s on the menus and we try to get the word out there a little bit, but we don’t have anyone doing that for us,” Newcomb said.

Fourteen cafeteria staff members come and go throughout the day, some arriving at 6 a.m. and leaving at 3 p.m., then some who just come for portions throughout the day. Early mornings, specifically for Farm to School week, are used for making specialty items, like the new beef stew.

“The beef stew is a big one. It’s only on the menu [for Farm to School week] and maybe one other time,”

Newcomb said. “We also [made] spaghetti with meat sauce, but like I said, we always do that, [it’s] just people don’t know we do it. Which I guess is sad.”

The meat sauce isn’t the only fresh recipe that is made all year round. The baked potato bar and chili is also homemade with fresh ingredients, not just for Farm to School week.

“We always try to get local potatoes for this time, but we might not be able to get local potatoes. The meat in the chili is local all of the time throughout the year,” Newcomb said. “Unfortunately, we don’t have time to sit down and talk to the children and ask what they liked and what they did not.”

Farm to School brought vendors to the elementary schools and gave farmers from around the Valley a chance to showcase their hard work, as well as cafeteria workers.

Newcomb works behind the scenes for lunch every day Lily Gusler Staff Reporter

behind it.

“Right here at the high school I usually make the menus, but it’s based on the government regulaCafeteria manager Tricia New- tions. I try to incorporate what I comb has been working at HHS know the kids like, and I also try to for 10 years. Every day, 180 days a incorporate what I know the staff year, Newcomb has to plan all the can get done in a few hours,” Newdetails of the lunch menu. Whether comb said. it be chicken quinoa salad or baked “I don’t want to put all the famacaroni and cheese, Newcomb is vorite choices on one day because that might make the kids sad, but I also don’t want to put all their least favorites on one day because that might make them sad, too, so it’s very much a balancing act to try to hopefully make everyone happy,” Newcomb said.

The week of Oct. 3-7 is Farm to School Week, where the lunch staff incorporates more local foods from farms in the area.

“This week we’re incorporating a lot more farm to school.

We do a lot of it year-round and people probably don’t even know we do it, but we’re just trying to step it up and do even more this week. It is [all of] Virginia... Some schools may not do any or very little of it, so part of it is encouraging them to do more. We are always just trying to push it a little bit farther,” PHOTO BY YOGESH ARADHEY Newcomb said.

BEHIND THE SCENES. Cafeteria Newcomb stresses that manager Tricia Newcomb prepares people should know that Farm special lunch during Farm to Table to School Week is not the week. only time HHS is serving local

foods.

“I love people to know that we do have local products all the time.

Obviously some times of the year we have more than others, it just depends on the season, what’s available and what we can utilize here,” Newcomb said.

Sometimes the staff struggles with estimating how many students will be buying.

“I also love people to know that we don’t get a lunch count, so we really don’t know what kids are going to eat, we’re just trying to do our best to guess. Sometimes we might run out of stuff and we don’t want that to happen, but it will happen. We’re human, we’re just trying to do the best we can,” Newcomb said. Newcomb and the lunch staff try to notify people with any updates.

“We try to put out information on social media. So far we have a Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, so we’re just trying to get it out there and have people see what we’re doing. We are so busy doing their stuff that we aren’t really telling everybody, ‘Hey, we always have local lettuce and local beef,’. Maybe people just don’t know that,” Newcomb said.

Grace Gabriele is one of the many people that buy the school’s local salad.

“I feel like the local salad is very beneficial and it makes me feel like I’m making good health choices,” Gabriele said.

Highlights of the week Baked Potato Salad Bar Spaghetti Pizza Egg Bagel Cheeseburger Meatball Sub

21 17 16 16 13 10 7

SURVEY OUT OF 100 PEOPLE

Locally grown foods served during farm-to-table week

PHOTO BY LUCIE RUTHERFORD

PHOTO BY IRIS CESSNA

PHOTO BY IRIS CESSNA

Jennings finds different lifestyle with vegetarianism Sam Heie Feature Editor The cafeteria is required to serve at least one vegetarian meal every day. The salad bar offers both meat and vegetarian options, along with a smaller, but still existent, vegan section. Senior Sarah Jennings is a vegetarian, and has been since her freshman year.

“It’s cleaner eating, I don’t get sick as much. I have a lot of options because I’m not that picky, so it isn’t that bad. I often have meat substitutes,” Jennings said.

Jennings’ vegetarian lifestyle was influenced by her mom.

“When my mom was growing up, they would have a vegetarian night once a week… so I started eating vegetarian once a week.

It wasn’t ideal vegetarianism, but that started it for me. I was really fat, it’s not even funny. I did it to become healthier, I lost about 60 pounds… it felt great,” Jennings said.

A vegetarian diet allows a person to eat everything besides meat. This means that they have

PHOTO BY SAM HEIE

KEEPING IT GREEN. Senior Sarah Jennings finds herself at the school’s salad bar frequently because other lunch choices contain meat. to derive their protein and iron from other sources like beans and nuts. Prominent restaurants that don’t serve these options cannot be utilized by Jennings.

“There’s definitely a social struggle with my friends. They all want to go to Buffalo Wild

Wings, but they don’t really have anything that I can eat. There’s a school lunch problem, too. I know a lunch lady, and I’ll go up to her and ask what we have for lunch today and she’ll say ‘sorry, it’s beef stew,’ so I usually end up just going to the salad bar,” Jennings

said.

Jennings has salad bar about three times a week, depending on the other options because most of the lunches contain meat. “[I think the school] could offer meat on the side. When they have noodles, they have a meat sauce

on the side. I can eat the noodles, but I would enjoy a vegetarian sauce a lot more,” Jennings said.

Vegetarianism comes at a cost for Jennings. On average, a vegetarian meal with the same nutrition level costs $1-2 more.

“It’s definitely more expensive.

Being vegan in general is very expensive. That’s why I’m vegetarian. It really just depends on what you get. A package of four tofu hamburgers is around $5 compared to the $3-4 meat burgers you could get. There is definitely an economic barrier,” Jennings said.

Because Jennings was not raised a vegetarian, she often has cravings for meat and other animal products.

“Basically, anything that I have a meat craving for I can still have, but just a vegetarian version of it. The other day I made a vegetarian chili and I just used tofu,” Jennings said.

Jennings plans to stay vegetarian and eventually wants to start cutting gelatin and some other animal products completely out of her diet.

October 28, 2016

Feature-B1

The Newsstreak

CARVING INTO FALL Fall traditions resurface Ryan Doerr Staff Reporter Senior Megan Labarge loves the fall.

“I love the cold weather and the outfits it lets you wear. It feels appropriate to drink hot beverages, like chai tea. Everything smells better—not just the candles and stuff, but outside, too,” Labarge said. “I just really like being outside with warm things, like a beverage or a person.”

Her opinion is shared among others. Sophomore Parker Rising has a similar love for the chilly time of year.

“Everything that goes into it is just enjoyable, like the weather, the clothes you can wear, the things you can do and all the fall food. I love the idea of fall; everything’s just so pretty,”

Rising said.

When some people think of fall, one of the first things that comes to mind is pumpkins. Freshman Gia Yoder picks pumpkins every year with her family.

“We carve them and then my grandma uses the insides of them to make pumpkin soup,” Yoder said.

“We go to Back Home on the Farm, and I really like the corn maze.”

For junior Iliya Zudilin, pumpkin picking is a new venture.

“This year was my first year. I went with my cousins. We went to Back Home on the Farm, and it was nice to be with friends and family,” Zudilin said of the experience. “We did the corn maze and I really liked that.”

Back Home on the Farm, a local farm that provides a number of fall activi-

PUMPKIN PATCHES IN THE AREA Myers Pumpkin Patch

3831 Bull Run Rd, Penn Laird, 22846 (540) 830-3946 Small: $2 Med: $4-5 Large: $8-10 Offers Honey: $42 per half gallon Corn Maze

Valley Star Farm

1104 Springfield Rd, Luray Va, 22835 (540) 860-8040 Normal Pumpkins: 45 cents per pound Specialty Pumpkins: 55 cents per pound Offer activities for children

Mulberry Hills Farm

6442 Cross Keys Road, Mount Crawford, VA 22841 (540) 810-3125 Pumpkins range from .50 - $8 depending on size Offers petting zoo

ties to the community in the Shenandoah Valley, opened for its fall season on August 27. Among the fair games, farm animal shows, hayrides and corn maze, Back Home on the Farm also offers pumpkin picking. The farm has been open for over 12 years, and some of the locals have been going for years.

“I remember the first time I went pumpkin picking [at Back Home on the Farm] it was the first time I’d ever been on a hayride, and since then I’ve always wanted to go on another one. But every time we go pumpkin picking, we never do,” Labarge said.

Labarge and her family carve pumpkins almost every year, and they are no strangers to the picking process. “[Good pumpkins] shouldn’t be too heavy, because I want to be able

PHOTO BY RYAN DOERR

SLIDING INTO FALL. Junior Jane Wyatt and sophomore Jaden Graham slide down a tube at Back Home on the Farm here in Harrisonburg. to carry it. They should be a bright orange, not a dull orange, because the bright color will be easier to see at night. We always carve them. What else would you

do?” Labarge said.

“I look for the weird pumpkins, because I like that some of them can be different,” Rising said. “We don’t carve them because

they end up looking bad, since no one in my family is very good at art. But we leave them on our front porch and they look pretty cool.”

Carving pumpkins worth hassle Abby Hissong Editor-in-Chief With the arrival of fall comes the commencement of many long standing American traditions, among them, picking and carving pumpkins.

Junior Emily Coffelt makes a point to visit Myers farm every year when it comes time to pick her pumpkins.

“I really love the selection that [Myers farm] provides and the fact that it is locally owned is just an added bonus. Usually I visit with my parents, but this year I went with my friend so I got to experience the farm in a different light,” Coffelt said.

Myers farm is just one of five local patches that sells pumpkins to the general public in the area.

“I think what makes [Myers Farm] special is that you can pick your own pumpkin instead of just choosing one that has already been picked for you.

When you go through all the effort it takes to pick and carve your own pumpkin, you actually care how the whole process turns out,” Coffelt said.

Once you’ve obtained a pumpkin, the next step in the process is deciding how and what to carve a pumpkin as. For senior Roberto Gonzalez this stage usually doesn’t take too long.

“At the end of the day, I believe my pumpkin is probably not going to look

very good regardless of how much effort I put into it. So, I usually just go for whatever design I can find on the internet and that I think is cool, then I attempt to make it look decent,” Gonzalez said.

For Gonzalez, the best part about carving pumpkins isn’t always the finished project. Instead, it’s what comes out of the pumpkin in the process.

“I think getting the seeds out of the pumpkin and baking them with olive oil and salt is the best part of carving pumpkins because they are so good,” Gonzalez said. “But it’s also really fun to actually carve the pumpkin because it is such a great tradition that the American society has.”

Gonzalez has carved pumpkins with his family every year since he moved to the United States in the eighth grade. Since then, he has learned a few tricks on how to get the best results when carving.

“The best tip I can give someone who has never carved a pumpkin before is to go to Walmart and buy a pumpkin carving kit with all the specialized tools and stuff because it makes the whole process a lot easier.

Other than that, just have fun with it and don’t take it too seriously,” Gonzalez said.

Junior Julie Hedrick doesn’t do all the pumpkin carving for her family, but she likes to attempt her own de-

signs on at least one pumpkin every year.

“I personally don’t usually carve the pumpkins, that is my dad’s job.

My dad sticks with the classic jack-olantern faces for the most part, but sometimes I attempt to do designs.

Attempt is the key word there. They don’t always come out very well,” Hedrick said.

Though Hedrick enjoys the time spent with her family in the process, there are parts of pumpkin carving that she isn’t so fond of.

“The worst part of carving a pumpkin is getting all the guts and seeds out, because that is just nasty. Carving pumpkins is just so messy and everything gets everywhere, so having to clean up afterwards can be a pain,” Hedrick said.

Through the ups and downs of picking, designing and carving each individual pumpkin for Halloween night, to Hedrick it is a small price to pay in return for the final result.

“My favorite part [of carving pumpkins] is when you’re done and you turn off all the lights and put candles in the pumpkins so the designs look really good,” Hedrick said. “Seeing your pumpkins at night is really awesome. It makes you feel like all the work put into picking and carving them was worth it.”

What’s your favorite pumpkin item?

Back Home on The Farm 2915 Willow Run Rd, Harrisonburg, VA 22802 (540) 422-6493 Pumpkins are .50 per pound Many activities for children

INFOGRAPHIC BY OWEN MARSHALL

100 people polled at school on Oct. 10

INFOGRAPHIC BY HANNAH MILLER

Find your perfect Pumpkin Spice Latte Starbucks

Panera Too strong.

Tasted incredibly syrupy, and there was far too much sugar. The sweetness overpowered all the other pumpkin spice flavors.

Rating: 5/10

Great thoughts initially. Strong smell and looked awesome. Tasted it, and the flavor was overpowering. Left an aftertaste that tasted strongly of chemicals. Very sugary.

Rating: 7/10

Undertones of pumpkin. Prominent cinnamon taste. Very natural flavor. More of a coffee than your typical pumpkin spice latte, but very tasty.

Rating: 9/10

Amazing taste. The spices were present, but not overpowering. Actual pumpkin could be tasted.

Spectacular!

Rating: 9.5/10

Black Sheep

Joe Muggs

REVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY GARRETT CASH

INFOGRAPHIC AND PHOTO BY LUCIE RUTHERFORD

October 28, 2016

Feature-B2

The Newsstreak

Alger, Cowardin write one act play Noah Siderhurst Opinion Editor

environment as this woman did, and still managing to go to school every day, and still managing to grow up and live a life that is full and complete and happy is really amazing to me.”

Not only is it a story of Betty Joe’s family and personal life, but her education and the impact it had on her as well. Throughout the story, the theme of education as a force for good is present. In fact, the only piece of the show that is completely fictionalized, besides minor characters and dialogue, is the character of a teacher who helps Betty Joe make it out of her abusive home. The symbol of the teacher was important to Cowardin and Alger because of the effect they saw education had on narrative of the story.

Other than this, though, Cowardin and Alger believe that any more fictionalization would have ruined the effect of the story.

“The story is so dramatic and theatrical, in a sense, that I don’t think we could really add much, and we’d almost be taking away

from it if we tried to make other stuff up,” Alger said.

Originally, the idea for the One Act to be based on a true story and student-written This year’s One Act, instead of being came from drama teacher Stanley Swartz, chosen from professionally written opwho had previously heard a piece of the tions, is being student-written by seniors story. From there, after discussion about Eleanor Alger and Genevieve Cowardin. the viability of the story as a One Act show, Aside from being student-written, the Swartz chose Alger and Cowardin to write One Act is also based on a true story, a stoit. ry which Alger thinks is inspirational as it is “That was a big shocker, that’s like my emotional. whole senior year completely changed, In the One Act, Betty Joe, the main charmaybe my life,” Cowardin said. acter and mother of an anonymous faculty Cowardin and Alger had several intermember, manages to escape an abusive views with the faculty member, and then household. started the writing.

“This woman grew up in a very abusive At first, the process was hard, but as household, abusive in every way you could Cowardin and Alger got used to it, scenes imagine: physically, emotionally, sexually. came more easily. Their collaboration was [The one act] is about how she escapes helped by the fact that Cowardin and Alger that household and ends the cycle of abuse are close friends and have written things with her future family,” Alger said. “I think together before. There were still disagreethe story is really important because it’s a ments, but they were able to compromise. true story, which is just incredible. The idea Although there are still minor disagreeof someone growing up in such a terrible ments on the script, Cowardin and Alger say they are happy with it as a whole.

Throughout the whole process of writing the show, which at times could be “emotionally tolling,” according to Alger, both she and Cowardin found motivation in the story itself as well as other elements around them.

“Overall, it has been a really rewarding process.

I love working with these people, and I love theatre, and I love being able to tell the story that we’re telling, and I think [the story] is really important. I’m very happy to be a part of this process,” Cowardin said.

Cowardin and Alger are also acting in the One Act; Cowardin is playing old PHOTO BY DAVID GAMBOA PENA Betty Joe, and Alger is playBETTY JOE, BETTY JOE, BETTY JOE. (Left to Right) Kate Cummings, Eleanor Alger, Genevieve Cow- ing middle aged Betty Joe. ardin, Noelle Waren and Josh Lucas point at the spot the mother of the main character shot herself Cowardin believes that, when she was younger in “That Was Then”.

even though when they were writing the show they did not know who they would be playing, the fact that they wrote it still has a large, positive impact on their acting.

For Alger personally, writing and acting flow together, creating a better understanding of the character she is playing. For Cowardin, simply the powerful effect of the story was enough to make her performance better.

“Just because now we are already so emotionally and physically invested in this show, it just makes each part of it more meaningful,” Cowardin said.

Another unusual aspect of this year’s One Act is the music. Usually, One Acts are not musicals, but Cowardin and Alger felt that by using music they could better portray the emotions of the story.

“We figured that music can be a really great way to express emotion, so we wanted to both connect people that way and it’s also a cool theatrical effect,” Cowardin said.

The music that they settled on, three songs and one underscore, was written by sophomore Sam Schaeffer and an HHS alumni currently at JMU. The music is in a “mountainy, bluegrass, southern Appalachia” style, according to Schaeffer, because of the setting of the story in Virginia during the great depression.

“The songs are very hopeful, because overall the play is pretty depressing.

They’re about getting out of hard situations and keeping on believing in a way to succeed despite the odds,” Schaeffer said.

Throughout their four years, theatre has been a major part of Cowardin and Alger’s experience, culminating in this year’s One Act. However, Cowardin does not plan to continue acting or playwriting in the future.

By contrast, Alger does plan to continue writing and acting, starting with college.

For Alger, theatre has been something even greater than just a good experience.

“Theatre for me… has been a source of healing almost,” Alger said. “I know that whatever issues I’m dealing with in my personal life, I can work through through whatever show I’m working on at that moment.”

Swartz chooses original student work for fall competitions Christa Cole Print Managing Editor Not only is this year’s one act play being written by students, but it is also different from the norm in its plot. With a working title of ‘That Was Then’, the musical tells the true story of one of the high school’s staff members and his family’s struggles, specifically his mother’s. Director Stanley Swartz and senior writers Eleanor Alger and Genevieve Cowardin have changed only names and other things to protect the identity of the family, as well as adding in a few scenes to better show a character’s traits.

“You have an extremely poor, extremely dysfunctional family up in the New Market area who, the father is so abusive that the mother commits suicide when the kids are nine and 13, and the father is extremely abusive toward the kids as well,” Swartz said. “He literally sells the daughter at 15 years old into a marriage and when the son reaches 15, he takes him to the selective service office and lies about his age and puts him in the army at 15. So the play is basically about the effect [the abuse] has had on the family and how they deal with it all.”

Due to the intensity of the story, Swartz has the actors and actresses doing fun warm ups and activities to keep the kids positive and help them to not be depressed by their roles.

“We’ve been deliberately doing cast bonding exercises and we’re

deliberately ending rehearsals with times of fun. And I’ve been talking to them recently about dropping character, and we’re trying to figure [that] out,” Swartz said. “That’s the part of the problem for us, is figuring out how we communicate these ideas to the audience when you can’t really show anything onstage in terms of what they actually went through, so how do we communicate it to them? It’s an interesting dilemma to try and work through.”

For senior Ben Hollenbeck, dropping character is not the problem, but instead, his main struggle was understanding the man he was to portray: the alcoholic, rapist father.

“We call him Harry Jordan Junior and he’s from a family of ten kids,” Hollenbeck said. “He’s short, he’s got little man syndrome, so he feels like he always has to be bigger and tougher than he already is, and that doesn’t help when you’re also an alcoholic. A lot of bad things happen to him. Just a lot of bad luck, like he was promised his father’s farm, but then he didn’t get it, so he just starts off bitter about that, and then it gets worse.”

The character of Harry Jordan Junior has become something for Hollenbeck to experiment with. “[The character] is very opposite of a lot of things I do and feel.

It seems like he doesn’t have that much complexity at all and...you can’t make this guy a sympathetic character, but you can certainly make him a good villain…there’s sort of a weakness under there,

something that I have to mess around with,” Hollenbeck said.

In all of the darkness and dreariness of the play, there is a light. The guardian angel figure “Hope” has been added to the one act play, protecting characters and portraying actual hope throughout the performance. Senior Noelle Warne shows this presence with only dancing, actions and facial expressions.

“In that scene [where the mother kills herself], it’s so hard for [my character]. I’m not supposed to do anything, I’m just kind of curled up in a ball, because there’s no hope for her; she’s blocked me out,” Warne said. “[Hope] so wants to do something, but it can’t, and to see all the brokenness in that mother and her life and how it’s completely destroying the kids’ [lives is very powerful].”

Not only is she there to be an angelic figure, but also to show a light at the end of the tunnel and to bring a positive element into the show.

“I would say my role [is] specifically with the [children], especially with the youngest one. Whenever she is hurt I will always go up to her and hug her and just trying to comfort the characters. I think just the lightness of my character also helps [bring positivity to the show],” Warne said. “I think the ending song also really helps too, it gives a lot of closure. It [goes], ‘I see a mother proud, her son standing tall. Despite every cloud she fought through it all,’.

PHOTO BY DAVID GAMBOA PENA

SOPPED IN SADNESS. Sophomore Parker Rising and freshman Kate Cummings characters comfort each other while their mother is being abused. Senior Noelle Warne’s character, Hope, looks on in agony.

NOVEMBER 6 HHS Veteran’s Day Parade 2 p.m. @ Downtown Harrisonburg HHS Veteran’s Day Concert 4:30 p.m. @ HHS Auditorium NOVEMBER 14 - 16 Meet Me in St. Louis Auditions 3:00 p.m. @ HHS Auditorium NOVEMBER 21 HHS Percussion & Dance Concert 7p.m. @ HHS Auditorium

October 28, 2016

Feature-B3

The Newsstreak

Falling into fashion

Fall fashion embodies good aspects of season Fall is the most depressing season of my year. I’m not that enthusiastic about its abundance of pumpkin-flavored products, or its comfortable temperatures, or even its pretty leaves.

To me, fall looks like nature is falling apart. Plants die; trees muster one last display of healthy vibrancy before they go bald and gray and sickly; the unfriendly nights descend colder and earlier. This is one of the most prominent metaphors in literature: autumn means getting tired and growing old (if you don’t believe me, consult Shakespeare). It feels intrusive to witness nature dismantling itself this way before it goes to sleep for the winter. Everything is in retreat.

That said, there are less poetic reasons to appreciate the season—namely, sweaters. As

“

In some ways, fall styles take the most pleasant aspects of the season and distill them into fabric.

someone who watches Project Runway sometimes, I think I’m qualified to say that sweaters— and fall fashion —are great.

In some ways, fall styles take the most pleasant aspects of the season and distill them into fabric. Department stores fill their shelves with the whole spectrum of seasonal colors: dark shades with warm undertones, and cheerful reds and oranges. The clothing racks at Kohl’s have a color palette reminiscent of ripe crops and rich meals.

In other ways, however, fall fashion is the opposite of what

“

Zoey Fox Staff Reporter

the world is doing: trees shed their leaves, and I pull sweaters on top of sweaters; corn is razed to prickly stubble, and I scour department stores for deals on fuzzy socks.

The sweater-atop-sweater look isn’t necessarily recommended by the accredited fashionistas at Cosmopolitan, but they agree that layering is an integral part of the autumn season. And layering has all sorts of advantages.

First, mathematically speaking, wearing layers means being able to create a greater variety of outfits (permutations and combinations, people).

Second, for those of us that spend too much time shivering for the sake of looking cute, jackets and sweaters provide a convenient solution to this problem. While we’re on the subject, I’d like to take a moment to appreciate shawls.

Shawls are basically blankets one can wear in public, which is a wonderful concept. In general, it’s easy to be grateful for the soft, oversized shirts that are so much more forgiving than the tight tank tops and rough fabrics of summertime.

Plus, hats and scarves are as cute as they are practical.

Fall might leave me feeling vaguely sad; nature might be turning frail before my eyes, shedding the remnants of long summer days. But every morning, the selection of fall fashion in my dresser offsets the features of the season I’m not that excited about, and reminds me of fall’s redeeming qualities.

What is the best part about fall weather?

Freshman Danisha Nigaglioni “I like that it’s getting chilly, and [it’s] not as hot.”

Junior Dina Savulyak “Wearing warm sweaters, and the pretty nature.”

Which articles of clothing are your fall necessities?

Sweaters

Boot socks

38

Flannels

16

19

Sophomore Samuel Fitzwater “Celebrating Halloween.”

Timberlands

Scarves

16

11

Freshman Yakhnytsya Svitlana “I get to wear coats that are very comfortable.”

Freshman Margaret Sarco “The leaves changing colors, and the wonderful breeze.”

Students and staff show off their fall fashion

Seniors (left to right) Kristelle Kuangu & Ore Funmilayo

Senior Anna Bishop

Sophomore Brendan Carter

Junior Meredith Goss

Sophomore Parker Rising

Sophomore Enrique Vazquez

Sophomore Abgail Showalter

Sophomore Jaquelyn Portillo-Hernandez

Sophomore Alexia Munoz

October 28, 2016

Ads-B4

The Newsstreak

Riner Rentals is a family-owned, locally-grown, second-generation property management and rental company. We have been specializing in residential housing in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County for over 15 years. Let us help you make Harrisonburg home, or help with your property management needs. Riner Rentals: For ALL your housing needs in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

(540) 438-8800 P.O. Box 1391 Harrisonburg, VA 22803 RinerRentals.com

TOWNHOUSES

APARTMENTS

HOUSES

PANO’S

Restaurant

Serving the Harrisonburg area for over 20 years HOURS: 3190 South Main St. Tuesday-Thursday Harrisonburg, VA 22801 11 - 9:30 Exit 243 off I-81 Friday - Saturday follow us on facebook 11 - 10 @panos restaurant Harrisonburg Sunday www.pano-s.com 11 - 9

Chris Hite Sales Consultant HHS Class of 1987

Bus. Phone (540) 434-3900 FAX (540) 434-3130 chite@bobwadeautoworld.com

You will receive a free authentic NFL football with every purchase.

Mane Attraction Bring this coupon in and receive

$10 off CHEMICAL SERVICE $5 off HAIRCUT Good from October 28 - November 28, 2016

Michele Rodamer, Stylist

Larry & Christy Boyett, Owners 540-849-9367

243 Neff Ave. Harrisonburg, VA 22801

540-433-2212 or 540-820-5040

October 28, 2016

The Newsstreak

Ads-B5

October 28, 2016

Sports-B6

The Newsstreak

Banks brothers make difficult move from Northern Virginia Jackson Hook Sports Editor

ia, brothers Jerome and Carl Banks made a difficult move to Harrisonburg.

Junior defensive tackle Jerome Banks and senior defensive tackle Carl Banks both play for the varsity football team this year after moving here late last school year. The brothers were born and raised in

Lynchburg, VA and moved to Centreville in seventh grade.

“I moved because my mom got a job as a principal for a school in Falls Church After spending their entire high school which is like 45 minutes from Centreville. career playing football for the Wildcats of At first it kind of sucked because I didn’t Centreville High School in Northern Virginreally know anything about Centreville, but once eighth grade came I started playing football and that’s where I met all of my friends,” Jerome Banks said.

Carl realized many differences between the two schools including diversity, size and workload.

“Centreville is a big city full of diverse people and Lynchburg is mainly just black and white people, and like two Asians...Centreville was more fast paced. I would have essays due the next day and in Lynchburg you would have an essay due that end of the quarter. That was really different,” Carl Banks said.

After spending about four years in Centreville, their mother got a new job working at James Madison University, causing the family to move to Harrisonburg. The brothers were upset at first when they heard that they were to move again.

“I was a little upset. I had a nice job. [I made] $9.95 an hour. [I had] good friends. When I was told I was moving here I wasn’t ecstatic,” Carl Banks said.

Carl and Jerome enrolled in Harrisonburg with three weeks left in the 2015-2016 school year. Jerome had trouble finding a liking for the new PHOTO BY OWEN STEWART school until he began football.

STRETCH IT OUT. Senior defensive tackle Carl Banks celebrates after a touchdown during a “I didn’t really want to move Valley District game against Broadway High School. The Streaks went on to defeat the Gob- here. I thought that because Centreblers 35-6 at James Madison University’s home field, Bridgeforth Stadium. ville had more stuff to do it would be

better [to stay there]. Right now it’s fine, but the first week or two that I was here it kind of sucked...I thought [playing football] was my only way that I was gonna find friends since I had moved here so late into the year. [Playing football was fun], I was really happy to play for Harrisonburg,” Jerome Banks said.

Carl found that not only was the football play type different, but the way that football players were treated was different.

“Centreville was just rated number 10 in the state for football. It was more fast paced than [Harrisonburg]...Football players are treated different [at Harrisonburg], more special. At Centreville, if you were a football player, you were just a football player and no one cared. Here, if you’re a football player, you get held to a different standard. I kind of like that,” Carl said.

After playing with the Blue Streaks for several games, Jerome tore his achilles and bruised his tibia. He missed a few games, and then returned for an away game versus Broadway High School at James Madison University’s Bridgeforth Stadium. Despite being injured, he is still satisfied with the amount of playing time he has received.

“My freshman year [in Centreville] I started, but my sophomore year I was second string. Now that I have been first string [at Harrisonburg] it has been kind of cool.

I get a lot more playing time than I did at Centreville, so that’s awesome,” Jerome said.

After moving to Harrisonburg, the brothers still communicate with their friends in Centreville.

“Due to social media, I still know everything that’s happening in my friends lives right now, and we still talk a bunch,” Carl said. “But I made new friends when I came here and they have been really fun.”

Competition cheer concludes season at conference meet Angel Hendrix Web Managing Editor Competition cheer participated in their conference meet at James Wood High School on Oct.19, which marked the end of their 2016 season. Throughout the season, the girls had five competitions; however, the final conference meet was their biggest.

Sophomore Hannah Brown first started cheerleading in sixth grade. Because of a broken arm, Brown took a break after that first year, but started back for her freshman year of high school. This is her second year doing sideline cheer, and her first doing competition.

“We had tryouts before school started in August, so we’ve been preparing since [then]. Every competition has made us get better,” Brown said.

Competition cheer practiced every day after school. Each prac-

tice consisted of a warmtain people who up, stunt run-throughs, work great togeththen practicing their full er. If one of them routine of stunts and dancleaves, you have to es, mimicking a real compefind someone else tition. However, they faced and see if you guys several hardships along the have chemistry way. working together,” “Leaping people is hard, Kilby-Woodward and we’re all kind of the said. “It is hard to same size, so some girls rework everything, who have flown all their life and it’s time conare having to come down suming too when and base, which is kind of we have to work challenging. But the most on fixing everyPHOTO BY ANDREW RATH thing versus othchallenging thing is probably when we lose someone S-T-R-E-A-K-S. Senior Jadah Kilby-Woodward leads the er teams that get because we have to change competition cheer team in a routine before their meet. to work on their nally 13 girls on the team, though everything,” Brown said. skills [so that] by Normally, the routine would the final roster number consisted the time they get to conference, remain the same for each compe- of five fewer teammates. Senior they’re really good.” tition to allow the team to get bet- Jadah Kilby-Woodward, a captain, Kilby-Woodward has particiter as they progressed throughout was one of the remaining eight. pated in competition cheer for all “We tried to not let it affect three years of her high school cathe season, but because of the decline of the number of cheerlead- us, but honestly, on a team, every reer, but has been cheering since ers, the routine had to be adjusted person is important, especially in elementary school. multiple times. There were origi- competition cheer when you have “At our conference, the only certain stunts and you have cer-

people we faced the whole season and saw was Milbrook, and they are very, very good. All of them are very good, large teams,” Kilby-Woodward said. “They’re all very involved with gymnastics as well, so they had a lot of tumbling.

They all work a lot outside of the season in cheer or gymnastics, so they’re all very experienced and kind of have an upperhand in that aspect of it.”

The team did not end up placing in the top three, but Kilby-Woodward believes that the team would have performed better had they not lost as many people.

“If we wouldn’t have lost anyone, I think we would have done fairly well,” Kilby-Woodward said.

“We would have been able to make our stunts harder and work on tumbling. I think our routine would have been way more advanced, but it is what it is. We never gave up on each other.”

Mohammed, Gordon transitions Campillo sisters prepare for conference meet from wrestling to football Madison Varner Advertising Manager

Jake Urbanski Sports Editor During football season, athletes tend to gain weight. On the other hand, wrestlers prefer to lose weight, and be at a lower weight class where they can be more competitive.

This is applies to athletes like senior Aaron Gordon, who currently weighs 128 pounds, but plans to wrestle at the 120 pound weight class this wrestling season.

“One of the biggest challenges is the eating… You have to re-adjust your weight, and you’ve got to get the discipline that you didn’t have in football season back, so that you can stay fit and stay in your weight class,” Gordon said.

Weight isn’t the only challenge that these athletes face. Wrestling is more endurance-oriented than football, and athletes must adjust. Last year’s head coach Eric Miller noticed this change.

“Not that this is putting football down, but they don’t come into season in very good shape because the style of football, to run a play and then wait, run a play and then wait, is different than the style of wrestling which is you go hard straight for a short amount of time..You have to build up their endurance and build up their lung capacity,” Miller said.

The work done in wrestling can transfer over to the football field. Sophomore Fahad Mohammed has noticed how wrestling has affected the way he plays football.

“In wrestling, you’ve got to stay low, and it teaches me how to stay low in football. One contributes to the other,” Mohammed said.

Although wrestling has helped Mohammed in football, that is not the reason he participates in wrestling.

“I do it because it’s fun and I like to wrestle. I just love wrestling,” Mohammed said.

With cross country coming to a close, athletes are beginning to get ready to run in the conference meet. This meet is the first of the postseason races. Sisters senior Molly and sophomore Abby Campillo have had the same times on many occasions throughout the season, and hope to push each other to reach their goals at conference.

“We always set goals together; at the last race we were trying to set our split times together. We also can talk with each other throughout the race, so that helps a lot,” Abby Campillo said.

“We’ve definitely set a goal for conference, it’s to PR (personal record). That time would be under 20:30 for us,” Molly Campillo said.

The team has been training and competing all season, but to get ready for conference, athletes have been doing workouts that will prepare them for rest of this season’s races and more to get ready for postseason racing.

“We’ve been preparing for conference by tons of workouts and racing our hardest every race,” Molly Campillo said.

The Campillo sisters have enjoyed running together for the past two seasons and like having someone there to motivate them.

“We definitely push each other to become better. I feel like there have been a lot of races where she will pull ahead, so then it definitely pushes me to go get up with her and try to get my best time,” Abby Campillo said.

Abby Campillo found motivation in having the same time as her sister.

“I think it’s fun to have someone with the same time as you, and have someone there to push you for the whole race. You also have someone there to encourage you if you aren’t feeling well,” Abby Campillo said.

As a senior, this will be the second and last time Molly Campillo will race with her sister Abby at conference.

“It also holds you accountable because we practice together, so theoretically we should be able to run about the same times. If you are falling behind, you just know you can do it so you push yourself to catch up with each other,” Molly Campillo said.

The conference meet was held at Kernstown Battlefield Oct. 26.

Collins hopes to play basketball after tranferring from Turner Ashby Kyle Brown Op/Ed Editor Aidan Collins is a first year senior at HHS, who transferred this summer from Broadway High School. Collins, a straight-A student, was living in Broadway with his mother, but switched to live with his father, who lives in Harrisonburg. Prior to Broadway, Collins attended Turner Ashby High School. When Collins transferred, he said his old teammates didn’t criticize him for leaving.

“My old teammates were mostly sarcastic, none of them were like ‘Hey, why’d you move?’ and ‘Why’d you betray us?’ I got that, but it wasn’t sincere. I’d like to say most people were alright with it, because they saw my situation and saw it was the best move for me,” Collins said.

Collins not only transferred schools be-

cause of where he was living, but also to play basketball for HHS. “I really believe that what Harrisonburg has been missing is a big man, and I believe that I bring versatility to the team. I can shoot and rebound. I really feel like I can help the team out,” Collins said. When he plays, Collins takes the role of center or power forward on the basketball team.

Don Burgess, the head coach for the varsity basketball team, has been keeping an eye on Collins during the open gyms, and has noticed some good qualities in him.

“The things I’ve seen in open gyms, that Aidan could possibly bring to the team, is that he is a good-sized kid. He’s an upperclassman, so he’d bring some leadership skills on and off the court, and that can be contagious to future teammates,” Burgess said.

Collins has been playing basketball almost his whole life, and started taking his

role on the team seriously in middle school. “[I’ve played basketball] at a high level since middle school, but I’ve been playing my whole life. During seventh grade, I actually started [playing on a team], and I got more serious as high school came,” Collins said. Collins thought it was interesting coming to a new school’s team, and playing in a different team environment. “[The chemistry] is definitely different.

Broadway is obviously not going to be the same as Harrisonburg. What’s different here, it seems as if most people here are kind of individual, and the team isn’t as together as we should be yet, and I think that is a process to work on when the season comes around,” Collins said.

HHS is a district 4A school when it comes to sports, and Collins explained why he’s a little worried about the competition coming from BHS, a 3A school.

“Since Harrisonburg is about to be 5A

and is 4A now, I’m a little shaky on that.

The competition is definitely going to be a step up. Now with all the high level teams, it’s going to be a big transition,” Collins said. With the winter sports season coming closer, ultimately meaning tryouts for the basketball team coming closer, Collins believes that he’d fit in with the team’s lineup pretty well.

“We have wings that can run the perimeter and shoot, but they don’t really have someone in the post who can rebound, we don’t really have that. I feel like I fulfill that role pretty well,” Collins said.

Burgess would like to see Collins grow as an all around player from now to the time of basketball try outs. “[I would like him to] continue to work hard, and have a positive attitude, and continue to get better,” Burgess said.

October 28, 2016

Sports-B7

The Newsstreak

Boys soccer prepares for spring with tough workouts Christian Rodriguez Feature Editor Varsity boys soccer coach Paul Rath prepares for his start of the season, Feb. 20, with his preseason workouts. This preparation is carried out by working on many aspects of soccer once or twice a week leading up to the season.

During workouts, Rath works on footwork and conditioning with his players.

“We work on speed, endurance, biometrics and conditioning the feet to the ball. We start off basic - regular passing and controlling, individual foot work and we do high pressure drills which forces the individual to use their skill,” Rath said.

Rath’s loss of 13 seniors who graduated last year has changed the face of his team, but his goal stays the same.

“It's going to be hard because we are going to have a totally different team this year. The look of the team is also going to change.

My first goal is to be a possession team, so I'm looking for kids that have good field vision, can maintain control of the ball and get rid of it quickly,” Rath said.

So far, many athletes have taken time to come out to the preseason training sessions offered.

“I had 87 sign up so far. Thirty-four have physicals on file, and we had 28 come out to the first one,” Rath said.

Of the students who come to tryouts, a small percentage of guys make the team.

“Anywhere from 150 to 160 try out. We keep 24 JV players and 18 varsity players,” Rath said.

Sophomore Eric Ramirez, who has been on the varsity team since last year, is attending the preseason workouts this fall.

“Last year, coach Rath put me in center attacking mid and striker on his varsity team,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez uses the skills of the exchange students from Spain as a resource to improve, and applies them to his own skills in the sport.

“With the Spain kids here, you can learn a lot about their style of play. They usually play really fast, and over here we don't play as fast. So with them being here it will help make us take their ideas and put it on the pitch. We have to take advantage of what they know before they leave in a couple of weeks,” Ramirez said.

Although Ramirez attends these practices, he is unsure of the potential of the team as a whole.

“Right now I don't know how good the team will be because there are always newcomers that come in. I feel we could go pretty far into regionals with the talent we have, but we don't really,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez describes his goal for the team in order to improve altogether.

“We’ve got to condition starting now. We've got to work as a team, have a great mindset as a team and cooperate as a team,” Ramirez said.

When it comes to personal goals in preparation for the upcoming season, Ramirez is focused on more than one.

“First to make the team, next I really want the number 10. [Also], I really want to motivate my teammates to do well so we can win and go forward as a team. Right now I have SVU,so I'm just trying to get better on my shooting, dribbling and speed as well,” Ramirez said.

PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ

WARMING UP. Sophomore Eric Ramirez receives the pass from his teammate in warms up before the drills start during preseason practice.

Swimmers use VAST clinic to condition for season Vivian Neal Staff Reporter Swimmers are gearing up for the new season that begins on Nov. 7. Many of the competitive swimmers look to the VAST (Valley Area Swim Team) Gators’ Clinics in order to improve their technique and return to the swimming mindset. The high school clinic is offered annually to help swimmers improve endurance, practice their starts and turns and work on their strokes.

Junior Urie Conis has been attending the clinic for four years and has been swimming competitively for HHS for just as long. Although he doesn’t see his swimming ambitions reaching the college level, at this point he is still focused on improving his technique for the high school team.

“At the clinic, we focus on improving our strokes and running drills to work on our arms and legs. It’s open to other competitive swimmers and there are seven of us on the HHS team who attend. The coach is generally the same, but sometimes it gets switched up. I think it does help improve my technique as we are able to focus on each stroke,” Conis said.

Swimming and diving Coach Richard Morrell also keeps up with swimming techniques in order to keep his athletes safe and healthy. On his school website he links dozens of workouts from core training to stroke lessons, all in his own effort to help the swimming athletes. There are times when he doesn’t mind the athletes learning new techniques from other coaches.

“I think the VAST coaches do an excellent job with [the] technique they teach the swimmers. I think every coach has different elements they try to focus on in terms of stroke technique, and I don’t think what I teach is in conflict with anything the VAST coaches teach.... The trick is doing enough drills to get that technique drilled in the muscle memory of the swimmer so they no longer think about doing it in the water; their body just naturally does it,” Morrell said.

Longtime swimmer sophomore Elisavet Savides has been attending the VAST Clinic for over six years along with being a part of the Gators’ team. At the beginning of her swim career, she was not yet old enough to attend the high school clinic, but now she hopes to use the clinic to better prepare her for the season.

1440 Virginia Avenue Harrisonburg, VA 22802

(540) 820-0173

PHOTO BY CHRISTA COLE

WARMING UP. Sophomore swimmer James Henderson does laps of the butterfly stroke. Members of the VAST swim team practice at Westover during the fall.

“I took a break [from swimming] last year and I participated in the HHS team during eighth grade. [During the clinic] We really work on technique… and many of the workouts that people take for granted. We’re just learning how to do them better. Our coach’s name is Maggie and she does the coaching every night. She’s really sassy, so she keeps the swimming interesting,” Savides said.

Although Morrell has his concerns for his swimmers, like the possibility of them having burnouts before reaching the school season or over training from participating in too many swim related activ-

ities, he is still happy to see improvement every start of the season.

“Swimmers that participated in the clinic come in the season better conditioned, so they are ready to take on the demanding distance we swim each day. In fact, our opening two weeks of practice are not as grueling as the VAST workouts, because we are working on learning swim drills and focusing on techniques for the more novice swimmers…. But being involved with VAST certainly helps them improve more over the course of the season because they come to practice more physically prepared,” Morrell said.

October 28, 2016

Sports-B8

The Newsstreak

Ankle injury takes Osinkosky out for season Noah Siderhurst Op/Ed Editor

from it all because I’m not with everybody and working with everybody.”

Osinkosky has still been a part of the team in her semi-mobile state by attending practices and games and serving as help to the coaches.

“I basically want her to be like a junior coach,” Kraus said.

“She’s a third set of eyes for us.”

Although Kraus would love to have Osinkosky back on the court, that seems at best a questionable proposition for this year as Osinkosky’s rehab, which includes crutches for a week and a protective boot for at least three weeks, has not been completed and the volleyball season ends at the end of Oct.

Discounting the obvious disadvantages of being injured, Osinkosky has been able to see some good things happen because of her injury. Her role on the sidelines as almost another coach and her opportunity to observe the game from a different angle have given her a new view of the game that may be helpful when she returns.

Osinkosky’s injury has also impacted the team as a whole by forcing several strategic and dynamic changes on the court.

These changes include the team’s switch from a six-two to a five-one rotation, meaning that instead of having two designated setters, the team now only has one, and several changes to positioning on

the court. One major change involved freshman Sarah Hartman, who went from splitting sets with Osinkosky to setting Despite considerable optiall the time, a move that coach mism for the future by head Delozier believes has been hancoach Laurie Kraus and assisdled well by Hartman. tant coach Danae Delozier, the “[Osinkosky’s injury] was a JV volleyball team has not been big setback, but we’ve stayed faring so well recently, as even really positive about it. Luckthe coaches themselves will ily we have a bigger team this admit. Only serving to exaceryear in terms of a wide variety bate the problem is the forced of skills, so it wasn’t too diffiabsence of starting setter and cult to change things up,” Kraus team captain sophomore Ansaid. drea Osinkosky because of an However, Osinkosky was ankle fracture. also a captain, and to replace “I’m obviously upset bethat on the court is not only a cause I can’t play and it’s hard matter of coaching and strateto watch and want to be on the gy, but requires new players to court playing with them,” Osinstep up to fill her place. Kraus kosky said. “I feel like I’m away thinks that this is made harder because of Osinkosky’s leadership abilities.

“She was such a light and such a leader on the team,” Kraus said.

Even so, several people have stepped up, according to both of the coaches and Osinkosky herself, including sophomore Anne Penrod, the other captain, and freshman Paula Moreira.

“Anne is always trying to get the team pumped up. She’ll do cheers and Paula will do cheers,” Osinkosky said.

Moreira agrees that the main way she has stepped up involves filling the communication void Osinkosky left.

She believes that if the team can improve their communication on the court, they can go a long way in improving their play overall. “[I’ve stepped up] by trying to keep us positive,” Moreira said.

Kraus believes that not only individual players have stepped up, but that the team as a whole has done well to comPHOTO BY CHRISTA COLE WE BELIEVE. Sophomore Andrea Osinkosky cheers on her team from the sidelines during the varsity pensate. volleyball home game against the flames of EMHS. The Streaks lost 1-3.

Tyler misses rest of season with ACL tear Iris Cessna Staff Reporter Every year of high school, and even before that, Senior Elizabeth Tyler has been cheering. Since she was three, the sport of cheerleading has been a big part of Tyler’s life.And now her final year on the cheer squad is being sabotaged by her torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament.)

“It has been really devastating, because I am limited with what I can do. It’s been really hard and upsetting to take it all in,” Tyler said.

Her ACL, an interior ligament in the knee, was torn in cheer practice a few days before school started, putting her out of commision for stunts, tumbles and jumps this season.

“My flyer started to fall… when I went to catch her I just kind of twisted,” Tyler said.

Tyler has, despite her injury, still managed to have a positive attitude and be helpful at cheerleading practice according to Lydia Grogg, a freshman on the team.

“She’s a big help still, even if she’s not in the routine. She keeps the team going with a positive attitude and she’s always happy at practice,” Grogg said.

Lisa Thurman, the sideline coach of the cheer squad, also said that despite the hurdles Tyler’s injury provides for the team, she is still helping in ways that she can.

“I mean, any time you lose a member it’s hard on the team. But, the team bounced back and she’s been at every practice and helped us as far as spirit and just keeping things together,” Thurman said.

Tyler also helps the other members of the cheer squad improve their techniques.

“She helps us out a lot during competitions. She tells us what we do wrong and everything. She gives us good advice,” Grogg said.

Tyler’s inability to be a full member of the cheer squad has left holes in the routine and made it impossible to do some stunts that the team would normally be able to do. And, Grogg says, she her work

PHOTO BY SAM HEIE

GO. STREAKS. GO. The sideline cheer team performed during the fall pep rally but senior Elizabeth Tyler was not present due to her ACL tear. Tyler’s injury occured only two days before school began. Tyler is expected to miss the remainder of the season because of the injury. ethic would have been a major benefit to the team, had she been able to be a full member.

“I just think that with her work that she puts in when she could, we would have been a good team,” Grogg said.

However helpful she is, Tyler still isn’t a full member of the team, and can’t participate in the competition cheering.

“I think some games are harder than others for sideline, and I think all the competitions are hard, because she, well… on sidelines she can still join us and still cheer a little bit, but on competitions she’s completely out, so I think it’s been much harder for her as competition,” Thurman said.

“Plus, this was her first year on competition, so she really missed a big opportunity there.”

Tyler first got started with cheerleading after being taken to a basketball game and connecting with the cheerleaders there.

“When I was a little girl, there was this movie that came out, it was called Double Team, and me and my sister watched it. It’s a movie about basketball, so we were like ‘Okay, we want to go to a basketball game.’

So my parents were like ‘Okay, we’ll take ‘em to a cheap one, like a JV basketball game, and then it’ll be done.’ We ended up falling in love with it. So I got connected with the cheerleaders there...and ever since then I’ve just been cheering,” Tyler said.

With all her years of cheering, her last season in high school is being interrupted, yet Tyler isn’t letting that get in the way of helping her team out.

Exp ec ted time out for an injur y

1-6 3-6 6-9 7-10

weeks for an ankle sprain

weeks for a broken bone

months for a torn ACL

days for a concussion

College athletes deserve to be paid for their hard work Owen Stewart Print Managing Editor There aren’t very many jobs in the world that people will work for free, especially when those jobs are nationally covered by the media, and the employees have their names all over cyberspace.

In college sports, the players are unpaid, yet they spend all their time either in class or at practice, and their likeness is on hundreds of websites.

Despite their appearances Lil Stew’s Sports all over the web, they’re not allowed to profit off of this, or sign endorsement deals, because of the regulations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Over the years, the debate about whether college athletes should be paid for their efforts has grown more intense. In 2014, Northwestern University’s football players applied to the National Labor Relations Board to set up the country’s first union of athletes. Despite the fact that the players had officially been deemed employees, their request was denied, with the NLRB stating that they didn’t believe the union would promote labor stability. The president of Northwestern, Alan Cubbage, said “Northwestern considers its students who participate in NCAA Division I sports, including those who receive athletic scholarships, to be students, first and foremost.” The mention of scholarships is the base for my alternative method.

A way to pay athletes, without having the argument that the free education they receive acts as payment, would be to get rid of scholarships all together, and give the players a yearly payment kept within budget by a salary cap. Instead of paying for a student’s tuition, give them a stipend and allow them to spend their money freely. Not only does this give the athletes the money they need to live a normal life, it helps prepare them for life after college when they have to really learn to manage their money.

This process would start early on, while the players are still in high school. The recruiting game would change, as all schools would have the same salary cap, so the bigger schools don’t have the large advantage over the smaller schools that they currently do. There wouldn’t be a salary cap on a specific player, so a team can offer one player as much as they want (under the salary cap of course), but then they have to work with what they have left to build the rest of their roster.

Another reason that I believe the athletes need a payment is the fact that unlike other students, the athletes don’t have the time in their schedule to make extra money. The players actually spend more time on their sport than they do on their classes, and a USA Today survey proved this. 21,000 college athletes from various sports participated in the survey, and the results are somewhat shocking.

In top-tier Division I schools, two of three athletes consider themselves more athlete than student.

FBS (Division I) football players said that they spend an average of 44.8 hours a week at practice, compared to 40 hours on academics, D-1 baseball players had an average of 40 hours at practice, with just 32 on academics. Golf, hockey and softball were all also above 37 hours of practice per week.

Considering that someone is only awake for around 15-17 hours a day, or around 105-119 a week, this means that around 80% of their time is spent either at practice or in class, leaving almost no time for them to get a job to help them pay for food, school materials and other necessities.

This is especially prevalent in sports that don’t always give full scholarships, as some of those players also have to pay tuition in addition to everything else.

The real point here is that college athletes are full-time workers, and they need to be paid like it. Leaving a 20 year old kid who will likely be going into a non-athletic workforce in a couple years without money managing experience is detrimental, and with the current imbalance in competition between conferences, some changes are necessary to even things out.

October 28, 2016

2016-2017

HHS

NEWSSTREAK

PATRONS

NEWSSTREAK SUPER SPONSORS Bobby and Valerie Kibler Cynthia Prieto Dick and Nancy Krause Eleanor P. Adams Ervin and Patricia Yoder Jim and Rebecca Newcity Judith S. Strickler Kim and Ken Rutherford Mark Varner Michael A. Fornadel Nathan and Regina Hissong Ralph and Carolyn Custer Richard and Sally Morrell Sallie Strickler Ted and Stephanne Byrd GOLD SPONSORS Amanda Dombrowski Bonnie and Bill Stewart Carrie Stevens David and Lisa Varner Donna and Chuck Schwers

Dr. Rob and Ann Rutherford Eric and Becca Miller Gloria Ottaviano and Greg Stewart Gretchen and Stephen Cessna Gwendolyn Baugh Harold Heie Jane and Paul Walton Jeanette and Steve Shepard Joe Glick Karen and Brad Newcomer Karen and Burnes Earle KBMG Consulting Associates, LLC Kira and David Newman Larry Leffel Laura FM Laura Sider Jost Meredith Read Mike and Pam McNallen Mike Eye/ Joan Eye Nancy Miller

Ads-B9

The Newsstreak

Noland and Barbara McHone Richard and Martha Sider Sandra Quigg Scott C. Cole Susan Newsome Ted and Tammy Brown Wayne and Betty Jo Fleisher SILVER SPONSORS Angie Rodriguez Ann Niland Annie and Mark Carpenter Austin Swift Bernita Claxton Betty Smith Bill and Ellen Carpenter Bob Martin Bonnie and Richard Ayers Brad and Julia Stewart Caitlin Francis Campbell Rutherford Carl Droms Carolyn Earls

Patrons are members of the Harrisonburg community and others who support the pursuit of excellence in the journalistic publications of Harrisonburg High School. Money generated from the patron program is used to offset costs of attending journalism conferences, to print our paper, and to purchase up-to-date technological equipment for our journalism lab. To become a patron, see any member of the Newsstreak Staff or stop by room 444. You can also visit www.hhsmedia.com to download a patron ad contract. Patron level is determined by the following scale: HHS Patrons, $5; Blue Patrons, $10; Bronze Patrons, $15; Silver Patrons, $25; Gold Patrons, $50; and Newsstreak Super Sponsor, $100+.

Carroll and Nancy Yoder Casey Cangelosi Chad and Cyndi Gusler Chris and Chia-Wei Yoder Chris Fox Cyndi and Chad Gusler Darrell Wilson Dawn and Chris Womack Deb and John Kugel Diana Flick Dominique Evans Don and Marilyn Pedersen Dori Ottaviano Ellie Plass Emilee Hussack Erica Lewis Faith Runnells Frank and Sherrel Hissong Garry and Peggy Miller Geoffray Estes Gloria Phoenix GranMa and Pop Miller Hayden Rutherford Herman Horne Jack and Mary Broaddus

Jan Eckert Jeff Brown Jerry and Jane Detweiler Jill Hagmaier Jim and Julie Kramer Jim and Shelby Cash John and Marian Fitzwater Johnson Family Julie Slykhuis Kris Vass Krisztina Szekely Mary and Michael Hoysradt Mary Jean Cross and John Asa Hertzler Matt and Maria Swartzentruber Moriah Hurst Myrna Taylor Nora Maguire White Paul Johnston Rachael C. Eckard Robert and Judy Wolfe Roger and Patricia Cole Sandra Conrad

Sara and Dan Gingras Susan Comfort The Krause Klan The Shaver Family Tim and Gwen Stewart Tripp and Linda Denton Zsuzsa Fox BRONZE SPONSORS Anda Weaver Beth and Curtis Cash Carolyn Stauffer David Galgano David Shenk Dennis and Penny Vondrak Gwen Sloop Jere Borg Joe Carico Kathy Starick Kelly Hammond Kim and Randy Hook Laura and Sam Measell Lynda Blackwell Melody and Dennis Wilson Michael and Sandy Briggs

Pat and Earl Martin Peter Norment Rachel Linden Sam Nickels Steve and Anne Turner Sue Pittington Tamra Atkins Teresa Haase BLUE SPONSORS Aaron Gusler Becky Mintzer Beth Clatterbuck Burton Buller Cassandra Copeland Danae Delozier Daniel Upton Debbie Lohman Faye and Emery Yoder Gloria Figueroa Vargas Hometown Realty Group Kevin Mary Beth and Grace Tysinger Kirk Moyers Korey Lamb

Lisa Thurman Lisa Warren Marc Healy Marcus Quintana Moses Tinsley Ms. Brino Ms. Laura Thompson Nathan Barge Phil Yutzy Quillon and Karin Hall Rich Ingram Ryan Henschel Seth Berkeley Seth Shantz Tamra Atkins Terry McCusker Tim Meyers Tricia Comfort Tricia Cummings HHS SPONSORS Bradley Walton Cathy Grogg Chris Shifflett Clara Yoder

Coach Hargrove Colleen Morris Delynda Hendricks Hope LInd Jane Garber Jauan Brooks Jay Hook Kim Hill Luga Samson Ross Foster Roy McCutcheon Russell Wilder Steve Young Suzanne Smith T. J. Butler The Wards Tracey Calderson Veronica Ryman Victoria Giron

October 28, 2016

Sports-B10

The Newsstreak

ATHLETES PARTICIPATE IN UNUSUAL SPORTS

Fleming earns BMX sponsorships David Gamboa-Pena Staff Photographer

HHS

Companies recogFleming skis, dives, nized that Fleming was and is learning to snowan active user of their MEDIA board. He says that the body control he has products, and Lifeproof learned while doing BMX and GoPro have given helps him in his other him discounts for their Go to products. Over time hhsmedia.com sports. For example, Befor additional cause of his experience he hopes to be good coverage. with flipping bikes, he enough to get free bencan now flip skis. efits from his sponsorWoodward, a sports park in ships.

Fleming is no stranger to com- Pennsylvania, hosts different petitions, however, travel and camps that allows athletes of different action sports practice and time has kept him back.

“It's hard to get place to place compete on their state of the because Harrisonburg is a hard art facilities. Although expenarea. I can go to New Jersey, sive, Fleming was able to attend, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and and through this, he was able to Florida, but Virginia, they don’t showcase his skills.

“My counselor liked who I have very many competitions was and saw that I was progresshere,” Fleming said.

At competitions, a rider will ing very quickly. I got to go back usually get a lap around the track and then I got to compete in a competition for my age group, to plan a routine.

“You fill it with big tricks and which I got second in and won have style in it. You try not to some free stuff,” Fleming said.

Woodward has larger jumps have all the mainstream stuff, try to incorporate some creative and ramps than the skatepark in transfers or jumps from different Harrisonburg does. For Fleming, ramps that you wouldn’t think it is harder to learn new things on smaller ramps, but at the of,” Fleming said.

Whenever he has no home- camp he had access to a foam work and free time, Fleming tries pit where he says it is easier to learn new things. Fleming would to go ride.

For Fleming, backflips are his like biking to spread to more go-to trick, but recently he has people, so he can be joined in his passion. been working on double trucks.

“More people should come to “You come out of a jump box and you do a full rotation with the skate park because I always your bike, but while you’re in ride alone and it sucks,” Fleming mid air you turn the handlebars said. around twice,” Fleming said.

NEWSSTREAK

PHOTO BY SAM HEIE

SPIN THE WHEELS. Sophomore Jack Fleming performs a trick on his BMX bike at the skate park at Westover Park in Harrisonburg. Fleming has taken his biking talents to many different parks, most notably the Woodward camp in Pennsylvania. Recently, Fleming has received sponsorships from Lifeproof and GoPro.

After seeing BMX bikers and their tricks on TV and YouTube, sophomore Jack Fleming started BMX in 2012. After doing some research on the sport and realizing the potential for it, he kept on going back.

BMX bikes are different than the average street bike. While regular bikes are designed to go on rough paths and natural terrain, BMX bikes are made for smooth surfaces and jumps like at a park.

“It's a much smaller bike, so it can be maneuvered in a lot of different ways. Mine currently does not have brakes on it, so the only way to stop is to put your feet down,” Fleming said.

When doing bar spins, brake levels can get in the way removing the brakes is a common practice for many who do BMX. A website called Hookit facilitates communication between athletes and large companies for sponsorships. Fleming has recently received sponsorships from GoPro and Lifeproof.

“It's a smaller sponsorship but hopefully as time goes on, I'll get more. As my riding gets better, I might get free things or they'll send me places to compete.

Hopefully I get to travel more and compete more because it's fun,” Fleming said.

HHSMEDIA.COM

WSBC

TAJ

SEE MORE ON THE WEB

Ahmed’s Pakistani heritage inspires his love for cricket Theo Yoder Sports Editor Cricket is more than just a sport for junior Hashaam Ahmed. It is an activity that connects his heritage and family.

He not only enjoys cricket, but spends many hours playing with those in his community that share the love and passion for cricket.

Cricket, extremely popular in Pakistan and India, found its way into Ahmed’s life at the age of five.

“I come from Pakistan, and all the males play it there. It is a fun way to hang out with your friends and all the younger kids play as well,” Ahmed said.

Cricket runs in the blood of the Ahmed

family. Along with his friends, Ahmed has two sisters who play as well. Although the cricket matches are mainly played in Ahmed’s hometown in Pakistan, he plays in our area as well.

“Usually at an event or something we will go out and play together. All the guys from the Pakistani community get together and sometimes have practice days or just play together,” Ahmed said.

The locations of the practices and matches include various parks around the area, as well as a field located outside of Keister Elementary School. Compared to local cricket games, playing in Pakistan is much more rewarding for Ahmed.

“It is more intense. Literally everybody knows how to play there. Here,

many people are still learning and don’t know how to play,” Ahmed said.

The basis of cricket revolves around scoring points for your team. Similar to baseball, scoring runs earns you points for your team.

There are four positions: fielder, keeper, batsman, pitcher. Fielders are in charge of fielding the ball after a hit, a keeper is similar to a baseball catcher that stands behind the batsman and wickets while the pitcher pitches the ball.

The team with the most runs at the end of the innings wins the game. Each inning consists of “overs” which are six balls pitched. Ahmed personally plays the batsman and pitcher positions.

“I’m pretty good. I’ve been playing for a while, so I know the ins and outs of the

game. I can usually tell if someone is going to run to the left or run to the right, so it is easy to see what your opponent is going to do after you have been playing for a while,” Ahmed said, “[Cricket] is just a fun way for people in the community to get together and it takes a lot of teamwork to put your players in certain spots. There is a lot of strategy involved.”

Ahmed usually plays with family and family friends.

“Every time someone new comes into town, we try and get them to join us. It is a fun way to see what others are like,” Ahmed said.

Occasionally, trips are planned over seas to Pakistan as well where they look forward to playing cricket and connecting closely with their family and friends.

Madlax offers lacrosse opportunities for DelBiondo, Rodriguez Anna Rath Feature Editor Although HHS offers a large range of afterschool sports and activities, girls and boys lacrosse is not one of them. This situation has caused some students to find other places to play the sport.

Senior Tyler Rodriguez has played lacrosse for the past two years for Madlax (Massanutten District Lacrosse Club).

“My friend, Jake Urbanski, was playing [lacrosse] and he talked me into it. I’d always wanted to play lacrosse, but never really had a chance to play on a team, so I figured I’d try it out. It’s something new, and I really enjoyed it so I continued playing,” Rodriguez said.

Aside from lacrosse in the spring, Rodriguez runs cross-country in the fall and is on the high school swim

team in the winter. “[Juggling a club sport and school] is like the same thing as high school sports.

I go to practices in the evenings and we play games during the week or on the weekend. [It’s] just like any other sports that would be here at school, it’s just off location,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez is not the only HHS student interested in lacrosse. Junior Gabby DelBiondo used to play for her middle school team before she moved here from Charlottesville.

“I started playing when I was seven and I played for the elementary school I went to,” DelBiondo said, “My brothers played as well, so in kindergarten, they would take me outside and we would throw around together, and then I started playing in first grade.”

Although there is a lacrosse club at HHS, Delbi-

ondo hopes there will be an actual team added to the school. “[HHS] should 100% have a lacrosse team. I remember when I moved here and I was super confused as to why there wasn’t one already,” Delbiondo said, “It’s a really great sport, I really love it and I think everyone else would love it, but to get a team we’d have to have a girls and guys team, so that’s our problem right now,”.

Rodriguez shares the same hope as DelBiondo for a school lacrosse team.

“I think we should definitely have a lacrosse team, because it’s a great sport.

It’s something new, it can get other people who may not have a sport or fit into something, and give them an opportunity to try something new,” Rodriguez said.

Although Madlax is a great opportunity for Rodriguez, Madlax, as of now,

does not have a girls team.

“I was actually considering playing for the guy’s [Madlax] team, because there’s only a guy’s team, but they told me that I was more than welcome to play [with them], so I may be doing that in the spring, we’ll see,” Delbiondo said.

The Madlax team Rodriguez plays for has people from other schools such as Turner Ashby, Spotswood, and East Rockingham.

“At first, it’s a little bit different because you’ve never really met the people because they’re from different schools, so you don’t see them around the hallways or in any of your classes. Like any other club sport [or] activity, you get to know the people you're being around for that long and you develop different friendships. You all just come together and have those connections,” Rodriguez said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF GABBY DELBIONDO

CHUCK IT. Junior Gabby DelBiondo battles with a defender during a lacrosse game. DelBiondo has played lacrosse since she was seven years old.

What sport would you like to see added to HHS?

Nicholas Gladd, 10 “Ping pong...we would be #1 in the district because no one else has it.”

Britney Hammer, 9 “Lacrosse, because some people like it and they should have the opportunity to play it.”

Carlos Avila, 12 “Rugby, because it shows you’re [a] man.

It’s the roughest sport you will play. It would help football players get better.”

Billy Martin, librarian “Lacrosse, because it’s a sport that some of our students play and have interest in doing, [but] we don’t offer it.”

David Polischuk, 11 “Ping pong, because it’s fun, but also challenging to play.”

Yashira Yellon, 12 “Kickball, because we don’t have it and the younger kids would like it.”

INFOGRAPHIC BY CARSON RISING

October 28, 2016

Sports-B11

The Newsstreak

Navedo hopes to continue baseball career Owen Stewart Managing Editor San Juan is a city of about 400,000 people situated in the northeastern corner of Puerto Rico, just over 1,000 miles from Florida. It’s home to some of the most famous beaches in the country, as well as the largest Spanish fort ever built in the New World. It also happens to be the birthplace of senior Kevin Navedo, a third year resident of Harrisonburg. Navedo is an infielder/pitcher on the Blue Streaks baseball team, and has been playing baseball since he was five years old. His move to the United States brought about some changes, both in baseball and in life. “[The move] was really hard for me. I had to adjust to having more practices, more competitive games, a different language. [Baseball is] just more competitive [overall] here than it was in Puerto Rico,” Navedo said. The competitiveness isn’t the only difference in baseball between the two countries, as the types of games that are played also differ.

“We usually don’t have [high school] baseball [in Puerto Rico]. We have international league there.

We played against [the] Dominican Republic, Haiti and also Cuba once in awhile,” Navedo said. Navedo was eventually able to adjust to

living and playing in the US, partly thanks to a couple of his relatives who also play baseball. Navedo’s brother Luis is an outfielder for La Roche College in Pittsburgh, and his uncle, Alex Rios, played for four different teams over a 12 year Major League career, finishing it out with a World Series championship in 2015 with the Kansas City Royals.

Both have assisted Navedo on his game.

“My brother has helped me a lot in fielding sessions, which is why I’m doing really well in fielding right now, and Alex Rios took me down to Florida to one of the spring training camps.

I had a chance to be with [the team] and one of the hitting coaches, so [hitting-wise], they helped me out a lot,” Navedo said.

Navedo also had a rare experience last season, as he shadowed his uncle during the Royals’ trek to the World Series title.

“I got to be with the team in the clubhouse, practice with them in the field [and] be with them in the locker room. I also got to party with them and [hang out] with them on the bus. It was a great experience, but what I remember most was getting to hang out in a car with [All-Star catcher] Salvador Perez,” Navedo said.

As for his own career, Navedo is heading into his final season as a Blue

Streak, and has high expectations to finish out his high school days.

“I would like to go undefeated this year, beat TA twice, and for me as a player, get a scholarship to JMU,” Navedo said. JMU, George Mason and the University of Virginia have showed interest in bringing Navedo onto their college baseball programs, and he’s hoping to add on to his reputation this year.

“I’d most like to improve [the strength] of my arm, and also my hitting. I’d like to accomplish a .500 batting average,” Navedo said.

Navedo has seen some improvements to multiple aspects of his game since coming to America, mainly defensively.

“My fielding has gotten a lot better. My hitting has always been pretty good, but fielding-wise, I’ve [improved]. I think my hands [have improved the most].

[I’m also] moving quicker with my legs, and I’ve gotten a lot stronger,” Navedo said. Over his years here, Navedo has had some experiences to remember, but one, in his first season as a Blue Streak, stands out in particular.

“My freshman year, [I made] the varsity team, and then we beat Louisa County [in the playoffs] on a walk-off hit by Jordan Dove. I tied the game earlier in the last inning,” Navedo said. After

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN NAVEDO

WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS. Senior Kevin Navedo (far left) poses for a picture with the World Series trophy, won by his uncle Alex Rios (middle). Rios won the trophy with the Kansas City Royals during the 2015 season.

that season, he was named a captain for his junior and senior seasons.

“For me, [being a captain] has been a great experience. It’s been great having fun with these guys, I love them all. Most importantly, being a captain means a lot to me because I can be sure that my [teammates] have my back,” Navedo said. According to Navedo, leadership of the team is one of the responsibilities of being a captain and he believes he brings that to the table.

“I think [I bring] motivation so [my teammates]

can look at me as a leader. [I try] to be one of the guys they can look up to so I can motivate them,” Navedo said. Another aspect of being a captain is trying to build chemistry on a team, and Navedo believes that this year’s team should have plenty of it.

“I think we work together pretty well. There are still some things we need to work on, but we’re getting there. The team is starting to come together as a family. I think everyone on the team this year is interested in baseball, which is good. I think we’re going to have a

nice season,” Navedo said.

From the time he was five, just beginning to play the game, until now as a high school senior, baseball has been a constant in Navedo’s life, and the game has become his way of expressing himself. “[When I’m playing], it’s just everything out on the field. I forget everything else outside the field,” Navedo said. “When I get between those lines, that’s me right there. That’s the real person I am.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN NAVEDO

ON THE FIELD. Senior Kevin Navedo looks on from the shortstop position while playing at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Puerto Rico. Navedo moved to Harrisonburg from San Juan in the summer of 2014.

Harris moves from tight end to lineman Owen Marshall Sports Editor

PHOTO BY OWEN STEWART

VALLEY FOOTBALL CLASSIC. Seniors Ethan Harris and David Mitongo walk into James Madison University’s Bridgeforth Stadium before playing Broadway High School on Oct. 15. Harrisonburg went on to defeat the Gobblers 35-6 in the Valley District match-up.

“[His character is] probably the best part of Ethan.

He’s a yes sir, no sir. Whatever you ask him to do, he’ll do for you. The more kids like Ethan that we have, the better off our team is from both football and a personal perpective.”

- James Hook, wide receiver coach

Senior Ethan Harris transferred from Turner Ashby High School to Harrisonburg at the start of his senior year. His primary motivation to move was the JROTC program Harrisonburg offers.

Harris is also a starter on the football team and has seen a position change from tight end to offensive lineman because of an injury to Josh Soto. Lineman coach Moses Tinsley believes that Harris is naturally good in the lineman position.

“One thing we saw in him is that he had good footwork and he was pretty strong. He seemed like a natural to fit the hole we had. That’s why we moved him to the line,” Tinsley said.

Tinsley believes that Harris’ size, being 6’4” 225 pounds, helps him control the defenders which helps the other linemen to expect more on their side.

“He is able to hold down an entire side [on the line]. Defenses might see that they won’t be able to do any blitzes or exotic schemes on that side, so now we know where it’s coming from, either the right or up the middle.

Being able to take away what the defense wants to do and being able to dictate that they’ll only be able to do things in certain areas help us to prepare for that,” TInsley said.

Tinsley believes that Harris needs to work on being more aggressive on the field.

“He [needs to] be more physical. Ethan’s a nice guy, but some-

times I don’t need that nice guy to show up; Sometimes I need that angry guy to show up,” Tinsley said. “[I am] not necessarily talking about hurting people, but you set a tone when you can knock somebody down. When they’re physically afraid to do their job, it makes our job easier to win ball games. [He needs] to be more consistent, [but] other than that I think he’s doing a hell of a job.”

Harris’s friend and fellow lineman, senior Jeremy Pultz, believes that Harris is good at getting his teammates ready to work.

“Ethan is always out there motivating guys to get better, pushing guys to do their best.

He’s trying to get guys to [work] as hard as they can so we can be rewarded in the end. I wouldn’t say he changed our presence, but he really toned us in and helped get our heads straight.

He is a big motivator and is trying to get us to work harder,” Pultz said.

Harris has filled the left tackle spot previously occupied by Soto who is out with a concussion.

“Originally he was our tight end, but [he] has really stepped up and helped us on the line.

He’s really worked hard and worked at left tackle. He is a really big part of [the line] now,” Pultz said.

Harris transitioned into the position in two weeks. Tinsley believes he has done well adapting to the changes.

“I think he has done a good job. He started off playing tight end, and a tight end isn’t any-

thing but a glorified lineman. We just throw them the ball every once in awhile but we weren’t even really throwing the tight end the ball,” Tinsley said. “He has really taken to it. At one point we thought about changing him back, but he didn’t want to. He kind of found a home playing tackle. I think he’s taken a liking to it and if [he] goes off and plays in college, that’ll be his natural position.”

Tinsley believes the line has grown since the beginning of the season and that the guys have bonded together.

“It takes some time for those guys to gel. You can’t just take five guys and tell them to block.

They [have] to be able to listen for each other’s calls and be able to double team; they needed to pull that continuity together. Throughout the course of the first four games face, [they have] faced some good teams.

We played EC Glass, Brookville, Charlottesville and those types.

They took their lumps a little bit earlier; we dealt with some injury issues so that adversity had to kick in,” Tinsley said.

Now that we’ve started district play, they’re starting to say ‘okay we have taken team's best punches. We are still here, we are still standing. Let's see if we can’t work a little bit harder and see if we can’t come out on the other side of these games instead of the losing side.’ Two games in one week is tough on any team, but they handled it and we were able to get two W’s.”

October 28, 2016

Humans of HHS-B10

The Newsstreak

HUMANS OF In keeping with our motto “Every person has a story,” the Newsstreak interviews students every month in the style of Humans of New York creator, Brandon Stanton. The idea is to tell the story of as many of our students as possible. Check out a similar project at www.hhsmedia.com.

HHS

Junior Rawand Ali

“The Greenbank observatory has taught me that astronomy is more than just the study of space and the universe It includes how evertything else besides the Earth functions. I was fascinated about the fact that we are big to our own kind, but really small to the universe.

Senior Carlos Avila Freshman Sydney Plowman

“Its really easy to work together and its really fun to work together as groups and you get to do a lot of projects that are fun and exciting.”

Football to me is a part of life. From the first day that I came I knew it was going to be a brotherhood, and to date it is still a brotherhood. We are like a fist, if somebody needs help, I am there for them, they’re my family.

Football means a lot. It is what got me on track.

Senior Kathryn Hulleman

“I went to Green Bank because I wanted to be educated in scientific experimenting. I wanted to see how to world of astronomy is different than what many people think it is. It is not looking at pictures but studying data and using physics and science.

Junior Jonathan Torres Sophomore Genevieve Kennedy “I’m a really open minded person for the most part, even if someone doesn’t agree with my views, I’m willing to talk with them about it and I have no problem with someone having different views as long as they’re not trying to pick fights and put it in other people’s faces. That’s the only thing that I can ever truly disrespect about someone.”

“I’m passionate about music, that’s the main thing about me. You feel good, you have the same energy as the music’s flow. It’s like my happy place. But always family first.”

Senior Gabriel Alvarez

“It motivates me to become a better student and a better citizen. I’m looking for a good future and to go to college. I want to be a mechanical engineer at Virginia Tech. I like cars and working on cars, it makes the stress go away. It’s calming, it is fun. School, work, there’s a lot of stuff that going on, it’s overwhelming.”

Sophomore Tarius Allen-Geisler

“[My favorite sports team is] Washington Redskins, because my family is from DC.”

Junior Steven Gilbert

“What stresses you out the most?”

“Homework. I have homework for every class: lab report -two pages- and reading.”

“How long do you usually do homework?”

“Two and a half hours a night.”

Freshman Ezras Figueroa

What does Puerto Rico mean to you?

“Puerto Rico is home. It is where where my family is from. We moved when I was younger.”

Senior Rodrigo Menjivar

“My happiest moment is coming here to the United States. My dad wanted me to come here for a better future. In El Salvador, I probably would’ve been in a gang right now like some of my friends over there.

Senior Jayson Cardwell

What is your favorite thing about yourself?

“That I’m artistic.”

What art do you do?

“Drawing”

Senior Jean Pierre Muwami

“What country is your family from?”

“We are from the Congo.”

Jacob Miller

“Why do you like music?”

“I guess I just like the variety and how many different choices there are. Generally, anyone can listen to it overall. If you don’t like music then you’re crazy!”

“What’s your favorite type of music?”

“I would have to say that my favorite type is classic rock or rap. There is a lot of variety”

Photos by Andrew Rath, Christa Cole, Yogesh Aradhey & David Gamboa