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BUCKETS. Sophomore Francisco CelestinoVelasco goes for the bucket over Broadway as senior Brandon Stees prepares for a rebound during the Streaks’ home Unified basketball game on Oct. 11.

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New team draws huge crowd Sweta Kunver Staff Reporter

Sports, competitions and kindness: three traits shown in our school’s Unified Basketball Team.

Unified Basketball is a team created to welcome disabled students with the help of non-disabled student athletes. This team is coached

by Don Burgess and a few players from the junior varsity and varsity basketball teams. Seniors Madeline

Cooper and Constance Komara, both of whom are on the varsity basketball team, enjoy how happy the kids are with being able to participate. Both explained that this team is welcoming and kind. “[It’s to] make all the special ed kids feel like they’re a part of a team just like anybody else,” Cooper said.

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Sneller spreads word on anti-bullying Garrett Cash Editor-In-Chief

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MEET UP. Chemistry teacher Erich Sneller points to his white board with many different values written on it during a student ambassador meeting. Sneller has the new responsibility of leading the student ambassador program.

Bullying is everywhere.

It’s in the streets, in the schools and in the office.

But what if there was a way it could be changed from the ground up? Student ambassador mentor Erich Sneller is new to leading the student ambassador program along with Lora Cantwell, and he believes that bullying ends where love begins. If people are more open and more willing to communicate, it creates a more comfortable environment for the people around them and facilitates friendships and a general

sense of community. According to Sneller, when one welcomes another into their circle, it’s possible to decrease the possibility of bullying through eliminating a sense of being estranged.

“What I can do is be aware of my sphere of influence here, and how do I work for a positive change here,” Sneller said. “And I don’t know of any case where in a shooting story, someone who had tons of support [and] lots of love and they weren’t bullied, that those people then went and go on to be involved in these tragedies. It seems to be a pattern that people who feel estranged,

people who were bullied, people who did not have a community then lash out in these horrific ways.”

By working with the student ambassadors, Sneller hopes to impart some of the principles from his restorative justice training at Eastern Mennonite University to students in order to help train them to be leaders in their classes and to help them create an open atmosphere. Each student in the group leads a “circle” in their class during the 30-minute advisory period on Monday mornings.

During this time, they put the desks in a circle so that

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Joe to Go offers morning delights Award-winning student-run business serves coffee and muffins Nyah Phengsitthy Social Media Manager If you enter from the North 1 doors of the school on a Tuesday or Friday morning, the smell of fresh coffee and pastries fill the hallway. You can find homemade muffins, biscotti, quiche and coffee at the school’s Joe-To-Go cart. Ran by the students in the special education class, Joe-ToGo began within the last year.

Every week, coffee is sold on Tuesdays, and Fridays sell both coffee and pastries.

The idea for Joe-To-Go began with special education teacher Lisa Long in order to put life skills to the test and raise money for the class.

“Last year we came up with the idea of a student-run business, and within that business we can work on life skills. For example, we count money, we bake, we make coffee, we go to the store to purchase everything,” Long said.

Along with fresh ground coffee, all pastries are homemade and are made from scratch the

B1: Hispanic Heritage Month, Int’l festival

day before being sold. The process for preparing for Joe-ToGo starts with planning days on Monday and Tuesday, where they decide what they want to make that week. On Wednesday, a group of students goes grocery shopping at Walmart for ingredients, on Thursday they bake and Friday is the sales day. For a morning shift, three students work at a time, rotating between the cashier and serving coffee and pastries. Joe-To-Go is only

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BREAKFAST IS SERVED. Students Brent Barry and Donny Winton serve teacher Joe Carico one morning before school.

A10: Fine Arts members show their showcases

B10: Fall athlete features

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Unified team creates new bond

Special Ed students run own business it when we make treats

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JOE TO GO from A1 to go with their coffees open to teachers, staff and faculty and all proceeds go towards the Special Education program.

As of last year, Joe-ToGo won first place in an award for an economic grant and spoke about it at a luncheon on Monday, Oct. 2 at the Elks Lodge held by the Harrisonburg Rotary Club.

“We applied for an economic grant, and we [won] 1,000 dollars. We won first place out of this whole area in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. It’s sponsored by JMU and the Shenandoah Valley Economic Education,” Long said.

When it comes down to working the cashier, freshman Destiny Lambert not only enjoys working with money, but working to prepare herself for the future.

“I think it’s really nice of us to do this because we’re learning how to have a real job… I like

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[like] pumpkin muffins,” Lambert said.

Senior Maria DeSantiago is one of the workers for Joe-To-Go and helps with making the pastries and coffees for each session.

“The money is hard to count.. [My favorite food is] muffins because I like to eat it,” DeSantiago said.

Although it has only been going on for a year, the student-run business has been building up life skills for the students, and they plan to continue Joe-To-Go in the future. Special education teacher Walter Williamson also works with students in preparing for the weekly coffee cart.

“We do it as part of their program for daily living skills where they learn how to follow recipes and measure,” Williamson said. “They’re learning life skill... that will lend themselves into being independent later in life and also job skills.”

A special ed student playing on the basketball team, even a sport, is a little unheard of at the high school and the Unified basketball team is here to change that.

While there have been instances of special ed kids running track or managing sports teams, HHS has striven to create a whole diverse team of both disabled and non-disabled athletes. “[Coach Burgess] has been pushing it.

[They] kept pushing with the school, and they finally got them to say yes. It’s the first year we’re doing it,” Komara said.

For a while now, schools like Spotswood, TA and Broadway have had their Unified teams. This year, East Rockingham and HHS have started after lots of push for the team. The decision was made though, and now these students get to shoot at the court everyday at practice during fourth block.

According to Cooper, this could potentially shape the future for any of the sports teams at the high school. This could, potentially, create a better, diverse platform for sports at Harrisonburg and even invite many more students to try-out for our sports teams. “[I think] a lot more people are interested in helping with it even if they don’t play that sport, it might encourage them to end up playing,” Cooper said.

Both she and Komara strongly believe that the special ed students will gain more attention from other students.

“I hope that when we play here there will be a lot of people coming out to watch them play. [That will] really excite them,” Komara said. “Once they come and support them, they will get closer together.

My coach asked me to help them out and I’ve gotten really close to them, and [with some of them], have art class together. I really like them a lot, they make me really happy.”

As a result of the team, both believe this will create more connections. Not only is Unified Basketball a family, but with their new fans and the school, it has become one big family that everybody wants to be part of.

Unified Basketball is not only taking place in the valley, it is a nation wide activity that many schools participate in. It is also not limited to the sport of basketball.

Many sports have unified sports teams.

They all share the goal of social inclusion through shared sports and competition.

Unified sports has expanded globally to reach nearly 700,000 players and 127 countries.

On Wednesday, Sept. 13, the team started off their season with a win. The team is looking for enough support and practice, to be able to win their next five games. One being a home game on, Oct. 11.

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MORNING GLORY. On their way into school, various teachers grab their morning coffee before taking on the day.

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UNIFIED. TOP: Donny Winton reacts to his free throw shot. MIDDLE: Brandon Stees looks around a Broadway defender for the shot. BOTTOM: The Unified team celebrates their win against the Gobblers on Oct. 11.

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GETTING ROWDY. Members of the Red Sea yell in support of the Blue Streaks Unified team before their match-up against Broadway. The game marked the Streaks last game of the season, ending with a win against the Gobblers.

Student ambassadors meet over bullying prevention ADVISORY from A1 students can face each other and make eye contact, which is, according to Sneller, one of the only times in a classroom setting where everyone gets the chance to see everyone else. During this circle time, the ambassador directs the discussion and creates a comfortable atmosphere so that the class becomes familiarized with each other, which creates a safe ground for conversation.

“Personally, if I’m in a classroom space where we aren’t bullying each other, where we’re living in peace and using kind words, that when we have disagreements, we do so respectfully, then that opens me up more, and I can show more of my identity,” Sneller said. “If I’m in a space where people are critiquing what I’m saying all the time… or saying really rude things to each other, that really closes me up, and I only want to be in spaces where I feel open and where there’s trust, and personally, I’m motivated by that.”

Senior Jenni Marquez hopes to bring awareness of bullying to her classes and help them understand that the ambassadors as well as their teachers and friends are there to help them out and are open to conversation.

“I haven’t seen a lot of bullying around the school,

I just hope people “understand that now that they’re grown up, that it’s not okay; they can do something about it.

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but I know it goes around and [there are] a lot of people that are uncomfortable.

I just hope people understand that now that they’re grown up, that it’s not okay; they can do something about it,” Marquez said.

Even though bullying can happen without one’s notice, it still happens, and it’s still present in the school starting at a young

Events held by HHS in honor of National Anti-Bullying Month October 2017

age, which inspired outreach opportunities for the ambassadors. Last year, the idea to perform a skit in front of elementary schoolers came up in order to show what bullying looks like and how to respond.

The idea was then presented in a student ambassador meeting, and the entire group of students present decided they wanted to participate in it. The goal of the skit is to instill in the younger children the fact that they’re not alone in anything they do.

“If we can work with the younger kids, then hopefully that is setting the stage for a healthier schooling in Harrisonburg City Public Schools, where if they see older students that are concerned and care about them, that might set them on a path that we have a tighter community,” Sneller said.

Other projects include a unity tree, which will exemplify the connectedness of the student body by allowing students to add positive symbols on leaves to represent HHS, as well as a

October 25 Orange Out Day Staff and students wore orange to celebrate being a part of the anti-bullying community

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START TALKING. Student ambassadors circle up with Erich Sneller to talk about the ways to prevent bullying, and how to spread those ideas throughout the student body. focus on community during the first few “circle” meetings during advisory. With the student ambassadors carrying out these projects through the month of October, which is anti-bullying month, Sneller hopes to create a more open and accepting atmosphere in the school system.

“I don’t know if we can

ever completely stop such events [like tragedies going on in the world today], but we can do what we can in our sphere of influence, and Harrisonburg City Public Schools is committed to all of us thinking about, ‘What can we do in our own schools, and how can we make our own schools happier [and] healthier

October 24 Cyber Bullying Parent Meeting This meeting provided education to parents regarding technological aspects of cyberbullying

places?’ Because without that, then it’s really hard to learn. That’s really the inspiration [behind these projects] I think; to learn and be in good community, you have to be happy and healthy, so we’re getting at very base needs here, and this month is a way of highlighting that,” Sneller said.

Unity Tree A paper tree is being created with the goal that students will add leaves identifying what “Unity” means to them

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One-act starts rehearsals, prepares for show Holly Bill Staff Reporter Rehearsals for this year’s one-act are now in full gear.

This year’s production, “The Comedy of Errors,” is a humourous Shakespearean tale with a theme of mistaken identity.

Stanley Swartz, director of the play, had each student read for two shows at callbacks, so when the cast list was released, not only was it a surprise to find out what role each student was assigned, but it was also a surprise to find out what show they would be performing.

The play, set in ancient Turkey and Greece, is about a royal set of identical twins, both named Antipholus.

Each Antipholus has their own servant. Their servants are also twins, both named Dromio.

One day, the two sets of twins, along with the Antipholus’ parents, are on a

voyage sailing across the Mediterranean when their ship gets caught in a terrible storm. The storm causes both of the Antipholus’ to get separated from each other. Unfortunately, each Antipholus has their servant with them, so the servant twins also get separated.

Many years later, one of the Antipholus twins travels with his servant to a foreign country that, coincidentally, is the same town their long-lost opposite twins are located in. This causes numerous mix-ups amongst the townsfolk, causing a big mess.

Senior Julie Hedrick said that the complicated plot of the play even causes confusion among the actors and actresses.

“We’ve been rehearsing it for two weeks, and I’m still confused,” Hedrick said.

Hedrick’s role is Adriana, the wife of one of the An-

tipholus.’ Her favorite part about the one-act is the tight-knit community the one-act builds.

“We’re all there performing in the same show.

Part of it is to build a community and part of it is to be as successful as we can as a show,” Hedrick said.

Along with Hedrick, freshman Stanley Inouye’s favorite part is also getting to know everyone on the cast. Inouye plays one of the Antipholus twins and the one-act is his first high school production.

Compared to his previous productions at the middle school level, the one-act is a change for him.

“The high school productions are a lot more professional and they’re a higher caliber of acting.

High school pushes you to the next level and Mr. Swartz pushes you to the best that you can be and holds you to a higher standard,” Inouye said.

PHOTO BY HOLLY BILL PLAY PREP. Senior Josh Lucas uses leg stilts during one-act practice to prepare for his role while the cast rehearses a scene in Swartz’s classroom.

Inouye feels confident in the school’s production.

“We’re going to do pretty well at VTA (Virginia Theatre Association). I think we

have a really solid cast and we all know what we’re doing,” Inouye said.

Before the cast is to compete at VTA, they held

a free performance at HHS for the public on Oct. 17.

The VTA conference takes place from Oct. 25 to Oct. 29 in Norfolk, VA.

Performers prepare for “Cinderella” BES brings reduced speed Noah Siderhurst Feature Editor

PHOTO BY DANAIT T-MEDHIN AUDITIONS ARRIVE. Freshman Sydney Shaver listens to criticism of her performance during class from her teacher. She is preparing for the dance portion of the audition and anticipates the musical auditions.

Oziel Valdez Staff Reporter With every school year at Harrisonburg High School , there comes the winter musical auditions.

This year’s musical is the classic “Cinderella” story with the magic of a high school production. Freshman Evangelina Velker is striving to get a lead or supporting role.

“Obviously I want Cinderella because that’d be a lot of fun. If I can’t be Cinderella, I’d like to be an ugly stepsister, because I can just portray somebody that isn’t myself and I could just step out of my comfort zone,” Velker said.

Senior Julie Hedrick returns to the audition process this year. Hedrick has been in HHS musicals since her freshman year.

Her latest musical role was as “Katie the Maid” in the 2016 production of “Meet Me In St. Louis.”

Hedrick’s previous musical experiences will differ from this year’s experience.

“I think it’ll be pretty similar to my freshman

year when we did ‘Seussical’ in that the show we’re doing is very family-friendly, it’s kid-oriented and it’s a family affair kind of thing. I think it’s going to be very different than when we did ‘Aida’ because that was a really dark, dramatic show.

And then last year it was a classic show, ‘Meet Me In St. Louis.’ It’s a classic.

Then this year it will be different in its own way, but it will still have that Mr. [Stanley] Swartz theatre touch,” Hedrick said.

Students in the musical have to juggle their time between musical and school. With high hopes of learning new material inside and outside the classroom, freshman Sydney Shaver has devised a plan on how to better handle her school work and the musical.

“I want to learn how to handle [it all] since it’s high school. You’re going to have more responsibility. I want to learn how to handle and control and manage my time, balancing the musical and school work. I also want to learn how to become a better actress. [For han-

dling school work and the musical] I want to have a set time every day to go to bed, where I have to get my school work done and make sure I don’t miss out on that time,” Shaver said.

With every new theatrical performance comes the excitement from the cast for what’s held in store. Freshman Anabella Da Rosa is excited for the new opportunity that this musical provides.

“It’d be exciting and fun just to get into the musical as a freshman. All the older kids I’ve talked to about it have said that it’s a fun and cool experience to be a part of. I think that the overall experience of doing a musical will just be fun and exciting,” Da Rosa said.

An audition workshop for “Cinderella” is still waiting to be announced, however it is set for the real auditions to be held Nov. 13-15. The sign up sheet for the musical is located on the board on the opposite side of the hallway of the choir room.

It was the day after the speed limit dropped down to 25 on Garber’s Church Road, the road that runs alongside the school. Senior Rebekah Vaughan was driving home from school when she saw blue lights flashing in her rear-view mirror.

“I didn’t really know that the speed limit had changed, but there was nothing I could do about it,” Vaughan said.

Before she knew it, the officer had pulled her over. However, because the speed limit had just changed, Vaughan was hopeful that the officer would be at least somewhat lenient. That was not the case.

“He was just like, ‘Do you know how fast you were going?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ Then he was like, ‘Do you realize it’s 25?’ And he said they just changed it. Then he gave me the ticket,” Vaughan said.

About $200 is the amount Vaughan now owes, but she thinks she may have a way to mitigate the damage.

There are three ways that speeding tickets like Vaughan’s can be paid, presuming that the person getting the ticket pleads guilty (admits to not following the road laws). The first is to simply pay online. The second is to pay by mail. And the third, the option Vaughan chose, is to pay in court.

Before coming to this conclusion, Vaughan had to do research. She did some digging in public records and found that the officer who pulled her over writes many more tickets than almost any other officer.

“I talked to another officer, and he said that since [the officer who pulled me over] gives so many tickets, [the court date] is probably just going to be [as follows]: ‘everyone who was given a ticket by this guy stand up, [this] is you what you did wrong and you can leave,’” Vaughan said.

Her insurance cost will go up, and there’s always the issue of parents.

“My mom was like, ‘it is what it is, you just have to pay for it. Do better next time,’” Vaughan said.

Of course, from Vaughan’s point of view, the whole situation wouldn’t even have occurred if she had known that the speed limit was changed.

“I think I would have figured it out, but he pulled me over before I even saw the sign. I think we should [have gotten] warnings for the first week or so until we knew that the speed limit [had gone] down,” Vaughan said.

Assistant principal Mike Eye mirrored that sentiment.

“I’m hoping [the police] warned early, the first couple days, but I don’t know

PHOTO BY NOAH SIDERHURST SLOWING DOWN. Bright pink flags now highlight the speed limit change on Garber’s Church Road from 35 mph to 25 mph during school hours.

that,” Eye said.

At least for Vaughan, though, that didn’t happen.

To some extent, the school administration was caught slightly off guard by this too.

“I didn’t know about it until the day it happened. The police officer stopped by and… let me know that this was going into effect the next day. I made the announcement so teachers and any students in the building would know about it, but it was after school had let out,” Eye said.

The next day on announcements another PSA went out, but Vaughan didn’t catch it.

“They said it on the announcements, but I was studying for an Arabic quiz and I wasn’t really thinking in English,” Vaughan said.

Eye, as well as anyone else, not just students, has had to be mindful of the new change as well, even if that means setting his cruise control to be certain he’s not going too fast.

“It doesn’t work really well because you have to be doing at least 25, so if you’re doing 24 it won’t catch. I’m just aware of it and do my best to abide by it as well,” Eye said.

In any case, Eye believes that there is a greater point in this besides just giving students tickets. With the new elementary school comes young children, many of whom walk along the road.

“The purpose to me would not be the tickets. The purpose to me would be making sure we’re safe,” Eye said.

Yoder mixes garden, class

Olivia Comer Editor-In-Chief

Waterman Elementary School is taking a different approach to hands-on learning. Special education instructional assistant Kathy Yoder has orchestrated a garden for the students to work on and even eat from. The garden was first started in 2007, and Yoder picked it up last November.

“The garden was very active from 2007 to probably 2012, and then the garden got left unattended and the grass was really tall and that’s when I came on board about this time last year,” Yoder said. “I joined in with the JMU professor that was highly interested in doing that with the garden and then together we

revitalized it.”

Since then Yoder has involved her special education classroom in the garden community to create an even playing field effect for all students. “[Special ed students] tend to all parts of the garden and some of them teach other children how to compost. They also harvest a lot of produce that goes into taste testings. They tend to all parts of the garden and they made tomato sauce for the one day that we served spaghetti to the whole school in the cafeteria,” Yoder said.

The new emphasis on eating fresh has already impacted students of Waterman Elementary School.

According to Yoder, they are even begging to be given healthy foods. “[I hope that they gain]

a love for gardening and they know where their food comes from and they remember how good it tastes. When they’re begging for kale and reaching for a bowl for a taste testing at lunch, that’s pretty bizarre. It’s just pretty awesome to see them wanting to eat what they grow,” Yoder said.

Yoder realized early on that it was going to take a big team to help attend to the garden, so among those she has recruited to help out are EMU students in the Sustainable Food Initiative (SFI). Liana Hershey is one of those students.

“I hope that the more kids are exposed to something the more likely it’ll stick later on in life,” Hershey said. “If they can work in a garden and harvest their own food and

PHOTO BY OLIVIA COMER GROWING FRUITFULLY. Special education instructional assistant Kathy Yoder informs her students on a tomato they grew in the garden at Waterman Elementary School.

know where their food comes from then hopefully they’ll have more... intention of where their food comes from in the future, or at least they’ll have the knowledge about it.”

Hershey was asked by

Yoder to recruit as many students as possible to come and help, so Hershey grabbed Megan Good who is also in SFI. “Just trying a different variety of food is really important to developing

healthy eating habits,” Good said. “What you eat determines a lot of things in your life, so if you can start that young, they are set for their lives.”

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October 26, 2017

HOT Or NOT

BY ETHAN POWERS AND CALEB GOSS

NFL says no: NFL players protest during the national anthem and receive backlash from President Trump and many Americans.

Famous Celebrity Child: Instagram famous, Kylie Jenner is pregnant by boyfriend, rapper Travis Scott.

What a disaster!

Natural disasters occur in Mexico and Puerto Rico causing destruction and loss of power for millions of people.

Haunting Horrors: The grand opening of Fear Forest takes place on October 6th.

Weight on our hearts: Worlds heaviest woman dies on Sept.

25 after losing more than 700 lbs.

Homecoming!

Homecoming kicks off with spirit week on Monday, Oct. 2nd. and wraps Homecoming up with the dance itself.

The Upsets On Saturday, Oct. 14. many upsets occurred in college football to the top seeds in the country leaving many fans upset because their teams lost.

We’re coming to your city!

College Game Day comes to James Madison University for the Dukes vs. Villanova football game. This is the second time in three years that they have come to JMU. Buckets of fraud: Rick Pitino, the Louisville basketball coach, is fired for fraud. Many other coaches being investigated for paying players to come play for their college.

Pumpkin Fun: The time of year has come for Pumpkin Spice everything.

Another shooting: Las Vegas shooting at concert kills many and injures more. This sparked conversations about gun control.

Wubbla-Lubba-Dub-Dub: The HHS Varsity football team takes the dub against Broadway 42-6

What a Petty: Rock icon Tom Petty died on Oct. 2nd after being found unconscious in his home.

Sub Grub; Subway has released the Autumn Carved Turkey sub for a limited time.

Soccer Clash: Goalkeeper Choiral Huda dies after a three-man collision in a game.

Lots of Weining: Famous movie producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual assault

Trump’s repeal of DACA unjustified Sam Heie Feature Editor No child is responsible for the actions of their parents. Trump’s 2016 promise to repeal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was one of the plentiful controversial talking points that was forgotten among the wave of obscure and obscene promises that Trump made in his history-making run for presidency. That is, it was forgotten until last month when Trump urged congress to repeal the act. As with most of his attempted policies, there was a massive uprising against the attempted repeal, this one with extreme ferocity.

Trump had attacked foreigners, but now he was attacking our neighbors and our schoolmates.

Thankfully, the attempt to repeal fell short in Congress.

Although the at-

Get off: Children are spending more and more time on mobile devices.

The push against ISIS: US backed forces say that the self-proclaimed ISIS capital city of Raqqa is abandoned 75% off: Insect populations in Germany decline by 75% Just my luck!

Man finds a lottery ticket worth 24 million in a shirt pocket two days before the final claiming deadline.

Social Crisis: Social media may be detrimental to mental health.

Airbnb be opening: Airbnb opens up their first apartment building.

tempted repeal couldn’t follow through in Congress, the threat of deporting children still jars America. The suggestion that Trump would deport hundreds of thousands of innocent children and millennials should jar a country. We really must ask at this point, whose agenda does repealing DACA help?

To answer this question, let’s start with Trump’s best friends who he built his campaign around: corporations and their CEO’s. DACA recipients, or as they are often called, dreamers, as a whole contribute over 400 billion dollars to the U.S. economy and deporting them would leave an irreplaceable dent in the economy. By nature, most of this massive GDP contribution comes through work under corporations. These absent jobs wouldn’t be filled by other ‘legal citizens’ like the idealist conservatives state. This

repeal would not help al to the U.S. by current corporations.

DACA recipients is 6. The Trump’s second al- sparse memories of their liance that he made ‘home’ country pale in during his run for presi- comparison to the avdency was with the an- erage of 20 years worth gry working of memories class white lived in the people, so U.S. Deporthow would reing would pealing DACA be sending help them? As members of stated before, the commuthe common nity that are Heie-er argumentajust as AmerPower tion for reican at heart pealment in as their white the name of the work- counterparts to a pracing class is opening up tically foreign land. Furjob positions, but once thermore, deportation again, this argument falls would only raise anshort when confronted ti-American sentiment with facts. Mark Zan- which is not good for di, chief economist at business.

Moody’s Analytics says The one hurdle that that there is no evidence remains in justifying DAthat dreamers are less- CA’s stay is one of legaliening the job pool for cit- ty. DACA can be considizens. This repeal would ered unconstitutional. not help citizens.

It spawned out of an Trump likes to focus executive order and beon economics, but when cause of this, was never we focus on ethics, this passed by the legislative issue gets a lot muckier. branch. But if we’ve esThe median age of arriv- tablished that repeal-

Smaller class sizes allow for more student, teacher interaction Garrett Cash Editor-In-Chief Smaller classes are better than bigger classes. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. Of course, it’s not always possible to have a small class. There are issues such as overcrowding that are prominent in our school that prevent an equal distribution of students throughout different classes, which leave some classrooms with nine people and others with 30. This makes it difficult to have a small class where teachers can give oneon-one attention with students. But when there are small classes, they’re great.

With small classes, you’re not distracted.

One of my biggest issues in overcrowding classrooms is the noise level and the various distractions that are going on. I’m easily distractible, even when I’m completely focused on the teacher, and all of the students yelling

across the room at each sure we understand the other and cracking jokes content. and walking in and out It may be perceived of the classthat having room makes a large class it almost imgives students possible for the opportume to listen nity to work to teachers. in groups and This aspect help each of overstuffed other learn, Cash’s classrooms and it does.

Conclusion completely But not evturns me off ery student to any large knows everyclass I may take in the thing, and it makes it future. confusing to see what Furthermore, in a needs to be learned to smaller class, you have pass the test and what the opportunity to re- doesn’t. With a smaller ceive one-on-one atten- class, you don’t have tion from the teacher, as much opportunity to facilitating your ability work in larger groups, to learn the subject and but the personal interdecreasing stress. I did action with the teacher not think I would do well is priceless. in Arabic 1, but my class Yes, people enjoy has around ten people, a larger class. It gives and I’ve managed to do them more time to relax well. And I’ve learned while the teacher helps a ton. If that class had other students and work been big, I would not in groups. But for myself have been able to focus, and other students, it but since it’s a small- makes learning more of er class, the teacher a challenge. In my opincan work with myself ion, smaller classes are and other students on definitely better. a personal level to make

Do you prefer a small or big class size?

Adult Obesity Skyrockets: Adult obesity in the US reaches its all time high.

The X-phone: iPhone X launches in Sept. and pre-orders start on October 27.

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Senior Evans Adam

“Big class size.

You can interact and associate with the people.

You can have group discussions, coordinate and give options and ideas.”

Sophomore Miriam Diaz

“I prefer a small class size because you get to make friends with a small group of people.”

ing DACA would be impractical and unethical, what is stopping us from amending the law? Laws themselves are made to reflect morals and protect interests, so if a majority 58 percent of the population feels as if a law is moral or immoral, is it not our government’s duty to change it? Law isn’t an excuse for unethical treatment, it is a protection against it.

There is no principled or economic justification for repealing DACA. Neither the upper nor lower classes would benefit from it. Trump is representing a minuscule minority who don’t have America’s greatness in mind. Repealing would put America second in more ways than can be portrayed in an article, so we must ask again, whose agenda is Trump catering to?

Off-resort travel is best Ellie Hammond Staff Reporter When in Rome… you should never stay sequestered to your resort. I personally believe resorts are tourist traps and offer the minimum, whereas traveling throughout the Ellie’s place you are visiting Tellings is more beneficial due to the sights and experiences that are provided. Honestly, there is no reason to pay thousands of dollars to travel to a destination just to stay isolated in the hotel pool. You should explore out of the resort and venture to the non-touristy places to understand the culture and lifestyle.

Recently I traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for spring break, and the memories that were created there were not lurking around the lobby, but exploring the streets of the local area.

Adventuring off of your resort will provide more authentic food rather than hired chefs that may not be from your destination. While in Mexico, my resort offered mostly American meals due to the fact that their main customer target of tourists, were Americans. As soon as I stepped foot off the premises, I was filled with locally owned restaurants with homemade products. Even the dingiest places had the most authentic food since it was created by locals.

Lastly, hotels will often overprice numerous items due to the fact that they were shipped from out of the country. Once out of the hotel though, city markets offer goods that are above mediocre quality and at an affordable and valuable price. For example, I traveled to a resort in St. Thomas and when I was looking at possible souvenirs, their quality was factory made and included a logo of the hotel. Although, the downtown portion of the city offered many authentic products made from people all over the island.

In conclusion, instead of staying in the hotel pool, get off your resort and include yourself in the many possibilities and experiences of your destination. Unless you are there for a review of the hotel, or there is no town in sight, there should be no reason to live at your resort 24/7.

School meals need to be more nourishing Hannah Miller Feature Editor A six-year-old kindergartner probably works up quite an appetite playing tag on the playground. After coming inside, they walk through the lunch line and grab a bag of four teriyaki beef bites- four. Even to this tiny, six-year-old girl, these four small pieces of meat are not enough to fulfill her hunger come lunch time.

Now imagine the 200 pound male three times that age, who needs more food than that just for an average snack.

How can we expect this boy, who is going to go to football practice for

two hours after school only selecting the main today, to be properly entree and an apple.

As an athlete, I can nourished with the same say with conviction that small portion as the 50 school serving sizes are pound kindergartner? too small; I shouldn’t The national high school have to buy calorie limit is three lunches only 200 caljust to be able ories above to get through that of grades my afternoon K-5 (according workout. Five to schoolnuyears ago, trition.org). new standards The calorie required cafelimits are set Hannah’s terias to offer assuming Rambles more fruit, the student v e g e t a b les chooses a and whole grains.

They school drink, main entree and 2 of the avail- also had to reduce soable sides, often fruits dium, calories and unor vegetables. If the only healthy fat in all school side options include pink meals. Well, I say calostrawberry mush (no dis ries shmalories. if you like that) or cherry Calories should not tomatoes with ranch, I’m be a main focus of food

consumption. As long as students across the country are getting a good mix of fruits, veggies, meats and other food groups, why should it matter how many calories of it they’re getting?

My brother, now in fifth grade, packs a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for school everyday, but it’s not his lunch. Shockingly, it’s a snack to go with the lunch he buys from the cafeteria.

Over 80% of our school is on free or reduced lunch, which only allows each student one lunch unless they want to pay for the extras. We have a large population of students whose only source of food comes from the school, and yet

they are only allowed the bare minimum to get through the day. Our school does a great job of finding local ingredients and providing us with a variety of options, but the creativity of our local lunch ladies can only do so much under the restrictions set by national standards.

Getting through a school day takes a lot of energy. If you combine feelings of tiredness with those of hunger, you’ve got a perfect recipe for falling asleep in class. If adults want any chance of students getting through the school day with motivation, then we want more food.

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Fall Flavors and Fads Fall flavored foods pop up around town

Jessica Lawson Staff Reporter As October begins, most everyone is getting a craving for anything pumpkin flavored. Throughout Harrisonburg, a large variety of pumpkin flavored things are being offered, and although I am not the biggest fan, many of you may be wondering what the best place is to go to satisfy your pumpkin cravings.

Starbucks, Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin: Although Starbucks may be well known for its delicious pumpkin spice lattes, the company has come up short with its new addition to pumpkin spice foods. This muffin was overwhelming with pumpkin flavor, and not in the good way. The pumpkin seeds caused the

Mr. J’s, Pumpkin Bagel and Creamcheese:

flavor to become sour and takeaway from what should have been delicious pumpkin flavor. The muffin was dry and the cream cheese center was rubbery and overbaked.

Krispy Kreme, Pumpkin Cake Doughnut: Don’t get your hopes up by the name. Though pumpkin cake may sound amazing, Krispy Kreme would have been better off taking the pumpkin part out of the name. It’s not that the pumpkin flavor was gross,

Mr J’s seasonal flavored bagel may have been the most delicious bagel on the menu. The bagel was slightly crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. The pumpkin flavor was there, but it wasn’t overwhelmingly so. The pumpkin cream

cheese was very light, but still had a rich flavor to it.

It was fluffy and almost tasted more like frosting then cream cheese. When you pair the both together, it makes the perfect breakfast food for anyone craving pumpkin. Mr. J’s is definitely the place to go.

Children of the Corn scores as best Halloween movie Sidharth Tandel Staff Reporter Children of the Corn is the best Halloween horror movie. This movie was made by Stephen King in 1984. It combines horror with suspense in an action-packed thriller.

The reason this movie is my favorite Halloween movie is because it always leaves you on the edge of your seat.

The movie starts with a couple, Burt and Vicky, that are going on vacation. They end up finding a dead boy in the middle of the road. They attempt to contact the authorities but get a blocked signal. Wondering why there was no service, the young couple travels to the nearest city in a car and don’t see anyone.

Assuming people would be in the middle of the town, they head towards the middle of the city and find themselves getting surrounded by kids with farm tools. The kids then slash the tires and take Vicky. Burt flees the scene on foot, but a mob of kids chase him down.

Burt manages to outrun them and hides, then waits until night to look for Vicky. He realizes late that night that the kids have found him and runs

Cupcake Company, Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcake:

but because there was no pumpkin flavor at all. This was an over-baked cinnamon sugar doughnut with a sandy texture, nothing more, nothing less.

This cupcake was delicious; it was soft and the whipped cream was fluffy.

However, there was one problem. This cupcake’s pumpkin and cinnamon flavor was almost non-existent, making it just taste

like a regular cupcake. Maybe if you’re looking for a good cupcake you would like the Cupcake Company, but it’s definitely not the go-to for a pumpkin lover.

into a cornfield to find Vicky’s dead body. Being severely outnumbered and surrounded, Burt is unable to do anything and is killed. The movie ends with the 19-yearolds sacrificing themselves to “He Who Walks Behind the Rows” (the one worshiped of the kids’ cult) because they had grown out of age.

In my opinion, I really enjoy watching this movie and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good scare.

In addition, this movie is not one of Stephen King’s more popular movies, but I think that it should be.

Children of the Corn could easily be better by making a newer, recreated version of this movie with better props, higher quality filming equipment and hiring more qualified actors. The overall plot of it is exceptionally well-written, and I wouldn’t change a thing. However, this movie is an overall great movie because it will always leave you wondering, ”what happens next?” Although it may be extremely old and not have the best reviews, it gives horror movies a good name and is a movie I would highly recommend.

CHILDREN OF THE CORN. The famous horror movie was directed by Stephen King and first premiered in 1984.

Starbucks steals title of best pumpkin spice latte Adriana Jiminez Staff Reporter After going to Dunkin’ Donuts, Sheetz and Starbucks, the award for best pumpkin spice latte goes to Starbucks. I could not get enough of the drink. It had a very good taste to it, especially when it is not extremely hot.

When I first tried the pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks, I was satisfied with the taste of it.

Starbucks took time on making the drink and making sure they had all the right ingredients.

When I got the drink handed

to me, I thought it was going to taste horrible and weird because I had never tried it before, but it actually tasted really good. Starbucks is a place where I drink everything from coffee to frappuccinos. When I go to Starbucks I usually get a double chocolate chip mocha, which is my most favorite drink. Sometimes I challenge myself to try different drinks at Starbucks, because I do not always want to get the same drink over and over again.

The two other places I tried the pumpkin spice were Dunkin’ Donuts and Sheetz. The Dunkin’ Donuts latte honestly tasted like water. That latte tasted nothing

like pumpkin and it was cold.

I still liked it a bit, but overall it was a disappointment. The Sheetz one was way to hot; there was no way I was going to drink the whole thing without burning my mouth. When I first tried the latte, it tasted like pumpkin, but then the aftertaste was one of coffee.

I recommend everyone to get a Starbucks drink because they will leave you in shock of how good they taste. This is especially true with pumpkin spice lattes. Starbucks makes all your drinks with care and love, and that is how you know that they’re good.

Halloween attractions around the valley

Darkwood Manor

Fear Forest

104 N Hawksbill St. luray, VA 22835

6340 Oak Shade Rd. Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Open: Oct. 6 - Nov. 4 Friday (7pm-11pm)

Admission

$15.00

per person per event

Saturday (7pm-11pm)

• haunted house • Doctor Brain´s 3D Mind Maze

(7pm-10pm)

Oct. 6- 31 FrIday

Attractions

Sunday

Open

(7-11pm)

SatuRday (7-11pm)

Admission

$15.00

per person per event

Attractions

• Fear Forest • Fear crops • Haunted Hay Wagon Ride • Zombie Laser Haunt

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New Garbers Church speed limit is necessity are children’s lives that are being saved.

According to aplus.com, over The addition of the new Bluestone Elementary School has 30% of fatal traffic accidents are sparked conversation when it caused by speeding. The only two comes to the speed limit on Gar- things that cause more accidents bers Church Road. When the road are impaired driving and distractwas previously a 35 mph zone, driv- ed driving. If you think about it, ers and traffic drove dangerously speeding contributes to these two fast on the long flat sections of the bad habits of driving immensely. By road. There have been numerous putting the pedal to the metal, you accidents due to irresponsible, fast are lessening your reaction time, driving. But today is different. Five you are impairing your judgments to ten year-olds fill the sidewalks and you are making your vehicle after Bluestone Elementary releas- harder to control. On top of that, es their students. Many little girls an accident at 35-40 mph is going and boys walk with their parents, to be much more severe than an siblings or stuffed animals mere accident at 25-30 mph, and the acfeet from the dangerous road. As cident is far less likely to happen in cars zoom past, the children are the first place when you are going put in danger of being struck by an at a slower speed.

Speeding is not the only thing out of control driver. The change of speed limit has the purpose to con- that may impair your judgment, trol this danger and make it far less being young does as well. In elelikely for an accident to occur. The mentary school, your brain is no change of speed limit is a neces- where near fully developed. The sity, not an inconvenience. These frontal lobe of the brain contributes to your decision making skills and reasoning The unsigned staff editorial appears in each issue and reflects the mawhen makjority opinion of the Newsstreak Staff Editorial Board. The Editorial ing choices.

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SLOW DOWN. The speed limit on Garbers Church Road has decreased by 10 mph due to the addition of Bluestone Elementary School especially at a young age, you do not make good decisions and your judgments are impaired. In fact, your brain isn’t fully developed until age 25. This leads to little kindergartners not being aware of their surroundings. They can walk out into the middle of the road without a care in the world. They might be playing with their brother or sister, they might be running away from their parents, but here you come in your 2009 Toyota Tacoma going 40 mph and BANG, no more kindergartner. This accident could have been prevented if you were

going 10 mph slower because you would have had time to react and slow down.

You may complain and you may grumble, but this speed limit change is one for the better. The last thing you want is to hit a child because you felt it was inconvenient to go 10 mph slower. Almost everyday after school there are now police cruisers waiting outside. If saving a child’s life is not an enough incentive for you to go slower, getting a speeding ticket should do the trick.

cause stress Straws dividing the student body Increasing incoming classes tary schools, two middle schools Karleigh Gentry Staff Reporter

Sophomore, Sarah Deloney is a follower of the instagram account, but doesn’t think the straws getting taken away is a The Harrisonburg City Pub- very big deal. lic School system has taken the “I don’t feel like it’s particustraws away from everyone at larly a bad thing, just because I school. Teachers, staff, and stu- think it’s better for the environdents all have varying point of ment to not use straws, and I views and opinions. feel like they aren’t necessary,” Personally I feel that if straws Deloney said. are so expensive, and we cannot Students mainly say that the afford to buy them any more, straws need to come back; howthen we shouldn’t get straws. ever, teachers also have opinI would much rather ions about the issues use the money that at our school. was previously spent Nicholas Zimon straws for having merman, Family and food, especially for Consumer Sciences fourth lunch. teacher, is one examI don’t drink the ple of a concerned milk, or the juice member of our at school, so I nevschool, that has exer even realized the pressed his opinion. straws were taken Karleigh’s “I know a lot of away until I was scrolltimes, when I’ve seen Calling ing through instagram people in the cafeteria, one night. Most students would they’ll take a straw and then just complain about things they don’t use it,” Zimmerman said. dislike, or are upset over; howThe main excuse for the ever, senior Justus Sneary, de- straws vanishing is due to ficided to take action on the issue nances, but not freshman Evgeby creating the HHS Walkout 2.0 ny Maslennikov.

Instagram account. The account “I am pretty sure they have feed includes: memes, and vid- a large enough budget to have eos of students talking about straws, [after all] they have a the issue. Sneary’s account now large enough budget to get has over 300 followers, and in dozens of computers,” Maslenaddition the straw petition was nikov said. at 115 signatures on October 6, Personally, I believe straws and continues to increase. are not needed, and we should “It’s more sanitary if you’re focus on buying more important not putting your lips on the things instead of an object that edge of a cup that has probably is wasted, thrown away, and unhad other peoples hands on it,” used.

Sneary said.

Shyann Keiser-Litwin Staff Reporter

and only one high school. A couple of years ago, they should have realized that the high school would We have all noticed that the high reach the point at which it is now, school has gotten more cramped which is overcrowded.

The administrators knew that since the population increase this year it would be harder to get over the past years. As the overto classes, so they made all student population the change of seven grows, so does the size minute passing periods of the freshmen class instead of three or four that comes in every minutes. year. The increase is so Teachers this year big that teachers don’t have to teach classes have their own rooms of up to 30 students anymore; instead, they per class.

Having such have to move from full classes means that Shyann I classroom to classroom. every student doesn’t The school also had to Am learn as much as they put classes outside in need to or get as much trailers.

If they don’t build on to the high help as they need. The teachers school or build a new one altogeth- are having a hard time because er, the school will house over 2000 they are only one person, and stustudents by 2019. The school is dents are depending on their help. only able to house 1300 students, Many times the students don’t get and this year it houses over 1500 enough of the teacher’s time, so students. I think that Harrisonburg they just forget about what they City Public Schools needs to get a need help with and ignore it. We grip on the population before it re- really need a new high school or ally effects the high school. It’s re- add on to the high school so that ally sad that we have five elemen- we can take stress off of the students and the teachers.

Student 14-15 body 1527 sizes by 16-17 year 1746

(As of October 2017)

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Helicopter parents holding back children things as a child, or maybe it’s because they experienced it but then grew old As many sub-18 year and still want to live up olds know, parents can those moments. make many bad decisions.

What these adults don’t Of course, the ultimate aw- understand is that they are ful parent move would be harming their child or chilto abuse or neglect their dren. Part of being a person child, though being a heli- is being their own person copter parent is a very close and making decisions for third. Yes, this is a serious themselves. By constantly claim to compare it to the shoving their thoughts into former two, though just their kid’s head day after like them, it is something day, that child will soon rethat can really hold back a alize they can’t do anything young adult’s capabilities. for themselves. Without I’d consider myself one of having the simple freedom the lucky ones in that my to make their own choices, parents are far from a he- whether good or bad, that licopter parent, though I’ve child will never witnessed it first be able to grow hand in some up. of my friends’ N o w , guardians. there are kids The definition who manage to of a helicopter stay out from unparent goes like der their parent’s this: a parent overbearing who takes an wing, and these Lucie’s Logic are the strong overprotective or excessive inones. With such terest in the life a powerful influof their child or children. ence hovering above them This could not be any closer constantly, it would be easy to the truth, which makes to get sucked in. I know sense, since it is the defi- some high school students nition. A helicopter parent who have been able to hold literally lives through the their own thoughts, though thing they created. Maybe still have the annoying it’s because they weren’t buzzing in their ear all day, able to experience those and if not buzzing in their

Lucie Rutherford Editor-in-Chief

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ear, buzzing in their pocket, and yes, I am talking about a phone. With school, social life and the many activities (which are probably pushed by the guilty helicopter parent), it is inevitable for a young adult to be away from their parent, though nowadays, there is always a phone to stay in touch. For me, I could go a couple days without hearing from my parents if I’m out of town.

Some may call this a bad relationship, but for me, it’s

far from it. I love my parents; I just call this freedom.

Some aren’t this lucky, and instead get a text on the hour, every hour, checking in. It could be as simple as ‘How are you doing?’ ‘What are you doing?’ ‘Where are you?’ or the ultimate, ‘Did you get the snacks I packed you?’ It is toxic to throw these questions at them 24/7. The occasional check in is alright, though too much can get unhealthy.

Just like every other age

in this world, young adults need their room to breathe.

Toxic is the best word to reflect the actions of a helicopter parent. As the victims of this parenting know, nothing will ever change if it is not changed by the kid themself. Not that I have personally experience, but I can take a pretty good educated guess that it takes a lot of talking, a lot of willpower and a lot of force to crawl out from under that overweening wing.

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October 26, 2017

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Grant from Qatar brings new class this year

Lucie Rutherford Editor-in-Chief

Up until this year, HHS has only had two language options: French and Spanish. Three more languages were added to the curriculum this year, Arabic being one of them. Though the program has been an idea for a long time, the school has gotten a grant from an international organization based in Qatar, boosting the program’s start. Director of Testing, CTE and World Language, Jeremy Aldrich, is one of the people that has been working behind the scenes to solidify this connection.

“We’ve been excited about having an Arabic program for a long time, and this year we finally did it. We also found support from a great international organization called Qatar Foundation International, QFI, based out of Qatar in the Middle East and connected with them at some professional conferences,” Aldrich said. “We saw how they are interested in connecting students around the world, growing Arabic language education, sup-

porting STEM, and these were all like ‘Yes, yes, yes, these are all things we want to do.’”

After connecting with the organization, HCPS applied for a grant for 25,000 dollars and was awarded it.

The grant will go towards books, instructional materials and teacher training.

“In addition to this very generous grant, they are sending our teacher, Ms. Alhassani, to a conference next summer and a conference in the fall, and I am getting to go to a conference in Qatar in November, which is an international education conference that they have every two years,” Aldrich said. “I am really excited about that. I am looking forward to connecting with more educators, finding opportunities for our students and seeing our Arabic program grow along with other programs that are related, like STEM.” When it comes to taking the Arabic class at HHS, it is not just new language learners that are enrolled.

“We know that it’s good for kids who are learning Arabic for the first time, and it’s also good for kids who speak Arabic at home

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3-2-1. Senior Dharakshan Shaikh participates in class by using a white board to communicate her knowledge of the word “teacher” in Arabic. but maybe don’t have opportunities to read and write. [It is] to build their literacy skills, because to be employed, you need to have literacy skills. It’s one thing to speak a language, but it’s another to be able to use it like an adult,” Aldrich said.

In terms of how the class is going now, Aldrich has seen great success and a good future for the program.

“I was just visiting an Arabic class, and what I see is students who are learning a lot. I was actually pretty

Trump affects our students Sam Heie Feature Editor It’s hard to remember all of the comments Trump made in his run for presidency. One comment would be flushed into the countless controversies that arose with them. Recently, however, one comment has resurfaced and generated whirlwinds of protests and outrage; DACA. DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was an Obama era policy that created a pathway to citizenship for undocumented children.

The plan covers approximately 800,000 current citizens, but the Trump administration’s recent actions have put this plan in jeopardy.

The Trump administration has recently rescinded DACA, closing the door for eligibility and benefits. These actions have sent tremors through the political parties and caused numerous protests.

These tremors have reached into the high school as well, where Principal Cynthia Prieto says the effects have been felt.

“There is an underlying stress, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be stress about worrying about myself, but maybe I’m worried about my mom, my dad, my brother or my uncle. It depends on the ages and whether or not they are in that window,” Prieto said.

The average age of a DACA recipient is 25 to 26 years old, but there are still DACA recipients in high school.

“This has been a hope that they have had and consequently have been working towards. They have scholarships, they are going to certain schools, they’re halfway through their studies, they’re looking for jobs and the possibility that DACA could be pulled out from under them is a huge source of stress,” Prieto said.

The rescission of DACA caused Prieto to take action. The school cannot legally protect any of the DACA recipients, but Prieto has found other ways to support her students.

“We’re working very closely with NewBridges. There’s a two day event coming up at Skyline [Middle School] that’s purpose is to inform and fund raise for NewBridges. Everyone is welcome to come and show their support for the community,” Prieto said.

NewBridges is an organization based in Harrisonburg that works with the immigrant community. What started as a project endorsed by several local churches in 2000 turned into an independent nonprofit.

Alicia Horst is the Executive Director for NewBridges.

“The mission of NewBridges is to engage immigrants, connect cultures, and build community. We work on this mission by providing immigration legal counsel, help persons to navigate medical costs, and connect persons with community resources,” Horst said.

Horst and the rest of NewBridges have noticed a substantial increase in the workload after the rescission of DACA. “...there are many people that have to renew permission to work, but do not have a pathway to citizenship. And there are those who are not eligible to apply to work or to a pathway to citizenship. In very simplistic terms, if someone is eligible to become a lawful permanent resident, they may also be able to eventually apply for citizenship, but the process requires many years, a lot of money and changing policy creates new roadblocks to an already very

difficult process,” Horst said.

HCPS reached out to NewBridges in order to create a relationship with the students. NewBridges holds informational meetings and events for faculty, students and parents.

“NewBridges meets with HCPS students to explore options, both through our office and through community resources. We also give HCPS staff information that may be helpful for students. We help to create public workshops that are sometimes hosted and sponsored by HCPS schools,” Horst said.

One of the DACA recipients who received their citizenship in high school through communication with NewBridges is 20-year-old former HHS attendee, Sofia, who has withheld her last name for confidentiality.

“I came to the U.S. with my family when I was three years old in 2001. I remember we moved to California where we lived for a couple of months before moving to Broadway, Virginia. I went to Thomas Harrison [Middle School] for sixth grade but I didn’t really have any friends there. Most of my friends still lived back in Broadway. I grew up there and we still live in the area,” Sofia said.

Sofia was undocumented all through her childhood and even up until the end of middle school.

“In my freshman year, my mom and I reached out to NewBridges. My mom had her citizenship already, but I hadn’t gone through the process. They said it was going to be a really long process and I would need a lawyer to deal with all of the paperwork. Around the same time, my lawyer said I might not be able to get my citizenship because of things that were happening with politics,” Sofia said.

Sofia was attempting to get her citizenship during the heated political debates about immigration. Her lawyer was worried that the new onslaught of anti-DACA ridicule would stop the process for Sofia. Despite this hurdle, Sofia and her mother persisted with the attempt at citizenship.

“After waiting for a year for things to settle down, we got a new lawyer and tried again. All we did was give the lawyer money and they figured everything out with the paperwork. I finally got my citizenship after a year and a half of paperwork,” Sofia said.

Much to her dismay, Sofia’s legality as a citizen has been put into the political spotlight.

“I expected there to be some political issues with DACA eventually, but it was still shocking when it happened.

It put my entire life at risk. I was lucky enough to have a plan B because my mom had gotten citizenship, but many others may not have,” Sofia said.

Sofia often finds herself working the graveyard shifts in order to make enough money to support herself and put herself through college. She usually works six days a week and at least eight to ten hours a shift. Sofia believes that her hard work is common for DACA recipients. The average hourly wage of a DACA recipient is $17.46, more than ten dollars over the minimum wage “It makes me mad to see Trump trying to repeal DACA when I’m such a hard worker. I work more hours than a lot of people and I keep to myself. Trump needs to put himself in our shoes,” Sofia said. “He can’t just sit on his butt and judge us without knowing our struggles.

He needs to hear our stories. He needs to know our struggles. Everything else I would say to him isn’t too nice. I don’t like him too much.”

amazed at how much they can do here in whatever it is now, the fifth week of school? [I saw students] who are happy, who are engaged, and so I know that we picked the right teacher.

I think that more and more kids are going to want to sign up for it,” Aldrich said.

With the grant, Aldrich is looking to go beyond using it towards textbooks and teaching curriculum writing.

“It will enable some special field trips that we probably wouldn’t be able to afford otherwise, [and it will

allow us to get] videos and books, not just textbooks,” Aldrich said.

Some books have already been purchased for the class, such as ones on Arabic culture to help grow students’ understanding of current events and cultural issues.

With the help of QFI, HHS will continue to move toward their goal of giving students a true view of the world.

“We want every student in Harrisonburg to speak English at a high level, to speak their home language

at a high level and then to learn another language that they are interested in,” Aldrich said. “We are going to keep looking at things that make sense to add, because we want every student at Harrisonburg High School, and in Harrisonburg City Schools to be world citizens and to be able to connect with cultures that are important to their family history and also cultures that are interesting to them.”

Bus allows students to get food over the summer Olivia Comer Editor-in-Chief Around 70% of students are on free and reduced lunch, during the summer those students and their families are on their own for food which can be a serious financial hardship.

The HHS cafeteria staff, including Heidi Green, has pitched in to help those families get food.

“It helps the kids who don’t have food it helps

feed them during the summer because there’s no school and if they don’t go to summer school… and if they don’t have food at home they won’t get fed.

So it really benefited the community and those aspects. It was low income housing so it helped them out,” Green said.

Student volunteers and families around the community were welcome to help entertain the kids in different areas while they got their lunch. Toys, col-

oring books and regular books are provided for the kids to take home.

“The cafe bus was really good we went to four different communities. We went to Harris Gardens, Deer Run, Mosby, and I forget the other one. Anyways there were four different spots they served about 200 kids total and each spot had activities there for kids to participate in and it really helped feed the community,” Green said.

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Inouye finds visual arts as place to flourish creatively David Beck Feature Editor The Fine Arts Academy at HHS is a program that combines general study of the arts with focused learning of a particular art. Students can choose different pathways of arts to explore. Junior Julia Inouye is part of the Fine Arts Academy and believes that there are different aspects that come with it.

“We don’t just do visual arts, because in the Fine Arts Academy it’s designed so that you get to experience every strand of the arts,” Inouye said.

Inouye is an idea spokesperson for the academy because she has been in the it since freshman year. Throughout those years, she’s been a part of the visual arts strand.

“I decided to join Fine Arts because the art classes have always been my favorite growing up. I’ve always been really interested in a lot of different forms of arts, like performing arts and visual arts,” Inouye said.

Inouye finds that having a class that primarily creates art allows for her creativity to have time to flourish. With the Fine Arts Academy, visual art has become a creative endeavor to present and share for a class instead of just a hobby to pursue at home.

A few times a year the students have a chance to present the pieces they have created to fit the theme in a showcase. The last Fine Arts showcase theme was A Walk on the Wilde Side, inspired by an Oscar Wilde quote. Students were meant to create pieces to present at the showcase. Inouye was proud of her piece at this show-

PHOTO COURTESY OF JULIA INOUYE

A WILDE POST. From one of last year’s Fine Arts showcases, junior Julia Inouye created a fake Instagram account inspired by Oscar Wilde as her piece to present. case. She created a fake Instagram account (finsta) that represented an Oscar Wilde fanpage.

Chorus helps Cummings with art performances

Ariyah Green Staff Reporter

With many strands to choose from, including theatre, art and writing, the Fine Arts Academy also includes chorus for those interested particularly in vocals.

Sophomore Kate Cummings is currently involved in both Honors Choir and the choir strand in Fine Arts. The knowledge that comes with being in choir helps her succeed in her Fine Arts strand and theater activities. Before joining the choir at HHS, Cummings was familiar with what she was doing.

“You have to audition for Honor’s choir, [and] you have to have a good understanding of sight reading already. Usually, you have to have experience in choir before hand,” Cummings said.

Outside of school, Cummings practices her vocal skills to im-

“Each post was a picture I had taken or composed, and over the picture was a quote that had made it seem to be an Os-

car Wilde quote, but none of the quotes were actually Oscar Wilde’s quotes. It was kind of playing with the idea that Oscar Wilde has become more of an essence and a feeling of words than an actual person,” Inouye said.

Inouye describes the Fine Arts Academy as “a place that allows for creative growth, experimentation and risk taking.” She plans on continuing visual arts or performing arts after high school.

Working with students in the Fine Arts Academy, art teacher Jauan Brooks helps under the visual art strand. Since the beginning of the program, Brooks has been involved. Her role in the Fine Arts Academy is to guide, support and teach students in the visual arts strand.

Brooks thoroughly enjoys working with the Fine Arts students over the years. “[I love] watching them grow and create things they never thought were possible.

Seeing them bloom, so to speak. Just [seeing] the incredible individuals that they become over the years” Brooks said.

She finds that students from the academy come ready to create original ideas.

They think outside the box and have the drive to try create incredible pieces of artwork.

Visual art has given Brooks a way to express herself and keep track of life experiences.

“I don’t feel like I communicate well verbally, so for me I can say it through imagery, or colors, or textures, or shapes. It’s just another way for me to express myself.

It’s how I record I keep a journal with me all the time. It’s the way I see the world. It’s all visual to me,” Brooks said.

How many Fine Arts Academy students are in each strand?

prove on her performance in school.

“I actually do both [private lessons and choir class]. It’s helpful to not only just sing by yourself, [but with others] because staying on your part is a really good skill to have; learning how to blend your voice with the group so it doesn’t stick out… is something I’m working on,” Cummings said.

In Cummings’ eyes, choir is a group contributed work of art.

“It’s really helpful to sing with the whole group and hearing other parts because sometimes it’s easy for you to have your own parts when you are alone. Once other voices are added, it’s hard to stay on that part. It’s really important to rehearse with everybody in the group,” Cummings said. “Join [chorus] for sure because it’s really awesome. It’s really cool how the blend of voices produce an awesome sound.”

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Why do you like being in Fine Arts?

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Junior Aerious Kubin

Dance

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Nichols finds different community in fine arts Elizabeth Quimby Staff Reporter

SIGHT SINGING. Before joining the school’s choir, sophomore Kate Cummings was familiar with working with her vocals from being part of theater and other art performances.

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Some students may dream of becoming an actor, writer, or a professional dancer. Well, now that dream could become a reality for some students. In the Fine Arts Academy, students can be creative and practice the things they like to do.

Members of the Fine Arts Academy have two ‘Fine Arts’ classes: a strand class, where students learn about and practice their choice art, and a community learning class, where they study the other arts.

Freshman Chloe Nichols is part of the Fine Arts program this year.

“I thought it would be a fun opportunity, and just fun to experience in high school,” Nichols said.

While the academy is a place

for students to learn about the arts and improve their skills, it is also somewhere students can have fun. ” Nichols said.

Nichols, like many other students in the Academy joined to spend more time with friends and learn more about her hobbies.

“We learned about drama, and we learned about visual arts, and we have showcases. [For our first showcase] I am writing a poem about myself and what it was like growing up, what I grew up around, and what I felt,” Nichols said.

“I like the environment in the class, and being with my friends.

Everyone is super open, and the class is really positive and everyone is always laughing and having a good time, and we just try to make each other better writers,” Nichols said.

“My favorite part of the class is that you make art, you do what you like doing. From the moment you walk into that class to the moment you leave, you have this art initiative where we need to make something, we need to create something, we need to generate something new and never before seen.”

Junior Sophia Thomas

“I like that it gives us the opportunity to collaborate with artists who aren’t in our strand and learn the similarities and differences between different art forms.”

Junior Kyle Showalter

Fine arts members prepare for barrier show Danait T-Medhin Staff Reporter With its fifth year of running, the Fine Arts Academy has broken through barriers. It has gone through a year of planning with many preparations. Visual arts teacher Jauan Brooks has been closely working with her Fine Arts colleagues prepare for this year’s Fine Arts showcase. “[The showcase] is multiple times a year.

We’ll have three [showcases] this year. [The] freshman’s first showcase… is an IM showcase; the other ones are theme based,” Brooks said.

“Many of the arts that are in the academy are preforming arts. The showcases were to just showcase what the students were capable of doing.”

For this upcoming showcase the theme is “Barriers.” Previous themes include “Anatomy” and “Conflict”. The theme of “Barriers” is set up to have different interpretations among the Fine Arts students.

“With any of the themes that [the students] get, [the showcase] can go in any direction that they want. It can be a literal interpretation [or a] creative interpretation,” Brooks said. “A dancer may literally have a barrier on stage that they need to work around, or it may be in their mind’s eye, a barrier that comes up with artist block they’ve each chosen to interpret that in

PHOTO BY DANAIT T-MEDHIN

LIGHTS. DANCE. ACTION. Dance is one of the Fine Arts classes offered, making it one of the strands. Some members of dance are part of the academy. whatever way.”

Despite the challenges Brooks faces, her passion for instructing young minds in the Fine Arts Academy overpowers it.

“I love what we do in the academy, but it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Coordinating teaching and working with five other teachers is really difficult, but it’s incredibly rewarding and the showcases are those chances where we get to see all of that come together and it’s... exciting,” Brooks said.

Senior Naomi Gelberg-Hagmaier is a visual artist in the Fine Arts Academy, and will be running this year’s showcase with other peers.

“I actually get to be the host. I get to go up there and be like ‘Hi welcome to the Fine Arts Academy Showcase’ and also say ‘Okay now intermission’. I’m actually really excited to do that,” Gelberg-Hagmaier said.

With the preparations and responsibility that comes with a showcase, there is also careful planning and outside of school work. Each student turns in a proposal explaining what they want to do. This year, seniors are planning and doing the work.

“It’s [preparing for the showcase] a little bit intimidating. You know you see all the work that goes into it, and you see all the teachers doing it every year and then all of the sudden it’s like, well it’s your turn,” Gelberg-Hagmaier said.

“Me and the other seniors have looked at what needs to be done for the showcase… we’re each doing various things. I’m creating the poster for it, and there are other people making the show order and all that.”

According to Gelberg-Hagmaier, showcases have always been stressful.

“With showcases in the past it’s always been stressful... It’s really rewarding cause in the end, you end up making something pretty cool,” Gelberg-Hagmaier said. “I’ve been pretty proud of all of mine, but it’s still really stressful….But it’s definitely helped me as an artist and I’ve created a lot of things that I’m proud of through it.”

“I like how we have our specific strands that we’re good at, we get to experience all of the other strands with different days. We get to do art, we get to do theater, we get to dance, and it’s just a combination of all of the arts at our school, and it’s really cool.”

Freshman Mer Alsendi

“I like it because we learn all the arts not just the individual art strand. I don’t just do visual arts, I dance, I listen to music, I sing and I work with others.”

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Italian transfer Traverso moves for better collegiate opportunities, focusing on swimming Sarah Earle News Editor Over 4,300 miles from home, the chance to swim at college level in the US triggered a spontaneous move from Genoa, Italy to Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Senior Giorgio Traverso decided to attend HHS two weeks before school started, with a goal of getting to a Division One college.

With strict scheduled practices almost every single day, Traverso has his mind focused on taking swimming to another level. “[I practice swimming] every day, and two times [on] Sundays. We have only Saturday free,” Traverso said. “We do an hour and a half of swimming. Two times a week, in the morning, we [go to the] gym.

Two times a week, still in the morning, we have an hour and a half of swimming. In Italy, practices are much harder, but less focused what I need; here, it’s the opposite. [The practices here] are a little less distance, but they focus on a lot of what I need.”

Traverso started swimming at a very young age, but it didn’t get serious

PHOTO COURTESY OF GIORGIO TRAVERSO

FLYING. Senior Giorgio Traverso leads the pack in his 100 Meter Butterfly at the 2016 Future Championship held in California. until he realized his passion for it. Although he’s been swimming for most of his life, Traverso sees the need for improvement in his speed. Traverso’s best strokes include Breaststroke and Butterfly. “[I started swimming] when I was four or five years old,” Traverso said.

“My parents wanted me to know how to swim since I [lived] on the sea and I would be at the beach.

Then they just started [taking] swimming more seri-

Velker adjusts to public school after homeschooling Jalyn Sneary Staff Reporter After being homeschooled her whole life, freshman Evangelina Velker says it is a big transition to go to public high school.

“Instead of having the same people [I had all the same people in my classes when I was homeschooled] I had just one friend for the entire day of school [when I was homeschooled]. But here you have different people in all your classes, so it is hard to make close connections,” Velker said.

Despite not having close connections, she did not come to this school without having anyone that she knew.

“I have a couple of cousins that go here I think I have six, no I don’t have six I have four. Four of my cousins go here, and I have some friends from church,” Velker said.

Velker has not lived here all her life, but she just finished moving into Harrisonburg from Tennessee. Even though it was a change to go from waking up at 8 a.m. to 6 a.m, and having less free time and always being tired in the mornings, Velker has enjoyed her experience thus far at public high school.

When she was asked which she liked better, public school or homeschool, Velker could see the pros and cons of each.

“Well they are both completely different and they are both good in different ways. I miss homeschooling but I also like public school,” Velker said.

Velker wanted to try public schooling mostly for the academic part. She thought that the academics would be at a higher standard than they were when she was homeschooled.

“I wanted to see what it was [like] for one, and the academic part was better than what I would have been getting if I had been homeschooled because my mom has big goals for me,” Velker said.

In the academic part of Harrisonburg High School, Velker enjoys all of her classes, especially her STEM class.

“I think my favorite class right now is STEM biology. He is a fun teacher and I like all my other classes,” Velker said.

But the class she gets the most homework in is Algebra 2.

After high school Velker wants to be an astronaut.

ously. [I’ve been trying to work on] my times, in general. [I need to] get all of my times faster and just get used to the yards in a pool.”

In addition to his swim training particularly at a Division One level in the US, Traverso had to enroll at HHS, requiring him to focus not only on swimming, but also academics. So far, Traverso has adjusted to the environment of HHS, but has struggled with the transition from Italian to English. Traverso described

his first few weeks at HHS to be hard, yet nice.

“Taking all of my classes in a language that’s not your first, that’s been the hardest [part so far]. Having all of my friends, my girlfriend and my family [far away has been tough as well],” Traverso said.

“My mother is from Texas, so I’ve [been learning] English since I was a little boy.

I think [my English] is pretty good enough, but I have a lot of things to improve on.”

In order to not be sad

and not miss his friends and family, Traverso tries not to think about everything he left behind. Reflecting on his hometown in Italy, Traverso notices tremendous differences between Harrisonburg and Genoa, which have contributed to his difficulty to adjusting. “[Harrisonburg] is not on the sea. The people have a different type of mind, different type of thinking.

Here, you can’t go around on a bus; you have to have a car. In Italy, you can just

get a bus and go wherever you want. A lot of people have scooters, motorbikes or cars, if they’re 18 because that’s when you start driving. Usually people just go around with public services,” Traverso said. “[My day in Italy consisted of going to] school, practice and home, then like hanging out with friends. In the summer, I went to the beach a lot, almost every day [and] I also surfed sometimes.”

Traverso is interested in studying Engineering, on top of swimming, at Division One colleges, including George Mason University, Queen’s College and Concordia in California.

“I was thinking on studying engineering. We did a lot of labs and physics [in Italy], and here now I’m taking the DE Engineering class, so it helps [with preparing for college],” Traverso said. “The school system is completely different, so I still have to get used to that. It’s different not waking up and having to speak [Italian]; I usually just wake up and speak Italian and now it’s just English, so it’s hard.”

Pineda finds family in JROTC after childhood struggle Guillermo Torres Staff Reporter A parent’s battle can be the reason a child becomes victorious. Battalion Commander senior Michelle Pineda’s past didn’t break her down, but instead motivated her to make her mother’s struggles worthwhile.

“My parents divorced, and it was mostly because of domestic violence. I was raised around that environment. It really hit me when my parents got separated because it was life threatening, not only to me, but to my mom,” Pineda said. “I just remember her sitting me down and [when] I was like 10 years old and telling me, ‘Look you need to have good grades. I need you to be a good student. I need you to be a good kid because if you’re not, they can send us back to Mexico because I’m not raising a good United States citizen.’ I knew then that I had to grow up.”

Pineda’s growth led to a love for leadership and guiding her JROTC cadets into a successful journey as the leader of the program. Although she’s experienced obstacles in her childhood, it has never stopped her from caring about leading others. It only motivated her to continue to triumph.

“One of the biggest things that I’m involved in here in the high school is JROTC. It has impacted my life in all realms. It has impacted me mentally, physically, spiritually and academically,” Pineda said.

Although becoming the top cadet of the program is considered to include extreme hard work and dedication, Pineda was never discouraged from achieving something that her family didn’t have the opportunity to.

“My family immigrated from Mexico and I’m the first to be born here. The first to graduate from high school. The first to be fluent in English and I’ll also be the first to go to college,” Pineda said.

Her future plans to go to college are definite, but where she’s going is undecided due to the fact that she doesn’t want to leave her mom alone.

“My mom is the one that’s always been there for me. My mom is the one that always goes to my award ceremonies, and she’s the one that sees me struggle with school and working.

She’s the one that’s always been my support since they got divorced in 2010. She’s the only person that I can think of,” Pineda said. “All these years I see her wake up at 5 a.m. in the morning working 12 hour shifts like six or seven days a week, and everyday I wake up to that reality that not only do I have to do this for my future, but I have to do it for hers.”

Sacrifices are what Pineda has learned from her mom, and it’s what she believes that her role as Battalion Commander requires. She wants senior year to be about giving instead of taking.

“If my kids mess up, then I’m taking the hit for it. I’m not going to blame them, or get mad if they mess up because it’s my job to lead and guide them. You do give up some of your own needs, so they can get the best opportunities. You don’t do the best for you, but the best for the battalion.” Pineda said.

Pineda has learned to value the true meaning of family through her struggles as a child, but it taught her to keep her battalion and family in mind throughout her life.

“The things I went through with my mom, that’s who I am and no, I wouldn’t change anything,” Pineda said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHELLE PINEDA

PUSH IT. JROTC Batallion Commander senior Michelle Pineda (right) strides through the running course with her mixed team during a Raider meet.

Fleming spends time doing BMX, skiing, diving, cheering Forrest Matter Op-Ed Editor Junior Jack Fleming loves to live on the edge. He constantly competes in a variety of intense sports and adventures, balancing his fun with school and family.

“I’m a BMXer, skier, diver… cheerleader, band player,” Fleming said.

Fleming loves to dive. He started his freshman year and has continued since, winning several awards along the way.

“Every now and then [I] went to the pool, and sent it off the diving board and hoped that I didn’t smack [into the water].

I was told I should join the dive team, and I was like ‘That’s really cool’, because I’ve seen people get massive height on the diving board and it’s super cool. It was defi-

at one of the meets that year. Last year I got first, and this year is my third year diving,” Fleming said. “We just moved up a class, and now we’re in [a harder competition], 5A, so it’ll be a bit more difficult which will be fun.”

Cheerleading and gymnastics have found their ways into Fleming’s fun. He’s done backflips and even jumped out a school window. “[I did cheerleading] so it would help my tumbling for diving and also because there aren’t a lot of guy cheerleaders and colleges are looking for that. I thought it would be kind of fun,” Fleming said.

With living on the edge, comes the possibility for injury.

“I was doing a bunch of one-footed backflips off of [the sculpture outside]. I would run up, put my foot on it and swing

the other around. I did that a bunch of times, then I was like ‘I want to get it higher.’ I filmed it like 10 times and I was like ‘I want to get it higher because it would look cool.’ So I did it one last time and my foot hit the wrong part of it, which bent [my foot] down which broke my second to last toe. I completely just ate it and fell on my head. It made a great video. It didn’t really hurt that much. Falling on my head wasn’t bad, I was more worried about my foot. I was like ‘Dang it, I just broke my foot again.’

That was so unfortunate.”

Fleming loves to BMX. He is sponsored

by GoPro, and last year he successfully completed a backflip on his bike off of the tennis courts, and onto a steep downhill.

“I started going at it about four years ago, and I pretty much saw [the skate park] one day and went there and kind of

messed around. I went there a couple of times every now and then, and eventually I just got a BMX bike and just rode that there instead. [Then I just] kept going and going more often and more often and here we are,” Fleming said. Skiing is one of the sports Fleming has done for quite a while.

“I started [skiing] really young. My uncle taught me, and he would bring me up to mountains in New York. I caught onto it fairly quickly because I was a roller blader when I was young, or a speed skater, whatever you call it. I think I was sixth in the country. I just leaned toward the freestyle part of it, so I can do flips and stuff on the skis and rails,” Fleming said.

Fleming continues his tricks and stunts across a variety of plains. Cheerleading, diving, BMX and more. He can only imagine what his next trick will be.

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Joya grateful for Salvadoran heritage

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Senior Helen Joya was born and raised in the United States, but that was not the case for her mother and father. They lived in El Salvador before immigrating to America in the mid-90s. Her father was a soldier at the time of a civil war and after a few years of the war being over, he decided it best to leave the country. With limited schooling, he felt as though the education and opportunities that his kids would receive in America would be better than those in El Salvador.

Being in America while still having her cultural and familial ties to El Salvador, Joya finds that it’s sometimes difficult to make sure that she doesn’t lose that culture. Her parents, being very proud of their culture, realize this and want to make sure that she stays in touch with it.

“I haven’t been [to El Salvador] in a couple of a years, which is actually tough because it makes me feel like I’m more out of touch with my culture and my family.

My grandparents are the only people on my mom’s side of the family that live in El Salvador now, so they come to the United States in the summer and they stay here for a couple of months. I get to chat and catch up with them. My family definitely shows more of their Salvadoran side than I do, so they help me keep touch with that side as well,” Joya said.

Though Joya is able to act more with her Salvadoran culture at home around her family, she experiences a duality of being both Salvadoran and American and is still trying to find a balance between two.

“I know that when I go to El Salvador or whenever I surrounded by Salvadoreños, I look like them, but I may not necessarily act like them or talk like them. Then here in America, I don’t look like them and even if I tend to act or talk like them because I’ve grown up around here, it’s really difficult to find balance,” Joya said.

Having been raised in Salvadoran culture with an upbringing that didn’t have as much of an American influence, Joya had to

PHOTO COURTESY OF HELEN JOYA

QUINCE. Senior Helen Joya celebrates her Quinceañera. She is participating in the traditional ceremony of the changing of the shoe in which her parents take off her flats and put on heals. This is representative of turning to an adult. learn about different aspects of American culture herself as she grew up. With that being the case, Joya remembers instances where she would pretend to know about certain events to avoid embarrassment or sounding ignorant until she could learn more about them.

“One of them would be World War Two. I didn’t know who Adolf Hitler was until I was in the seventh grade in my art class because we had a propaganda unit. It’s kind of embarrassing because you should know about that. My parents knew about it, but I just didn’t. I saw this Hitler propaganda poster and I had to pretend that I knew who it was when my art teacher was like ‘the most hated person in the world’. I was like ‘Oh yeah, right, I totally know what you mean,” Joya said.

In her experience being Latina in America, Joya finds that many people tend to label the Hispanic community, specifically as “good Hispanics” or “bad Hispanics”.

“Because I would consider myself hard-

La Repvblica performs in cafeteria Forrest Matter Staff Reporter When a bullet landed less than a meter from brother Juan and Daniel Moya, they knew it was time for their band “La Repvblica” to write a new song. The band know as “La Repvblica” visited the school recently as part of Spanish Heritage Month, and they shared some of their many experiences as musicians.

The band has recently been promoting their new single “Todo Puede Cambiar”, a song that has had a meaning near and dear to their hearts.

“We were doing a tour in Mexico city, and it was Mother’s Day. That day there were some armed thieves trying to steal one of our friend’s car, out in front of the house where we were going to celebrate. One of the people inside went to confront them, and they started to shoot at the house. One of the bullets landed less than a meter away from us. we could feel the dust of the wall from the gunshot. Luckily nobody got hurt, injured, [or] killed; we survived. [That song] has a very special meaning.”

Juan Moya said.

Based in Bogota, Colombia, the brothers have played music throughout their lives.

Both play a host of instruments including piano, bass, drums, several Latin-Ameri c a n instruments and predominantly guitar.

“We decided to become musicians because our father taught us how to play the guitar when we were really small, since we were about 8 or 9 years old. It has been something very deep within our culture; within our culture we listen to a lot of music i’s also the connection that we’re brothers [that makes this mean so much]. It’s a very deep connection musically.”

Juan Moya said. “It’s good for the soul to be able to express your-

self, what you feel in a song as you write, it’s a beautiful thing to do. In the future we see more touring, more albums, more music, more new experiences, so yeah, a bright future ahead.”

The band performed as two people at school, but sometimes more musicians will play with them.

“We usually do a three piece, rock and roll, bass, guitar, and drums. But our drummer couldn’t come with us today, but that’s alright, we know how to play acoustic.” Juan Moya said.

“We have had trumpet players play with us, some congas, bongos.” Daniel Moya said.

The band balances music with careers outside of professionally making and performing music. Daniel majored in peace studies at Notre Dame while Juan got his degree in graphic design and multimedia communications. “[We demonstrate] peace when we’re at schools like this or universities, [and] I also do the visuals of the band, the designs.” Juan Moya said.

The brothers a passionate about their music and are always striving to make it better.

“We mostly enjoy every show we do. We try to put all the effort we have, we try to do it with our passion, and so every show is unique in that aspect.” Daniel Moya said.

working, I like to keep up my grades and volunteer in the community, people would consider me a ‘good Latina’. I don’t really want to be considered a ‘good Latina,’ just a good person or a good student in general. I feel like people tend to generalize the Latino community a lot or stereotype them a lot, and that’s a given for any cultural or social group, but I think people need to look beyond those labels,” Joya said.

Though Joya experiences situations where people may say her ‘Spanish is good for a Hispanic’ and that ‘she sounds so white’, despite the fact that she grew up speaking both languages, or automatically assume she’s Mexican, she tries not to get upset and instead is willing to educate them about it.

“I know that they don’t know, and if they’re not trying to be mean, I don’t want to be rude to them about it. [I’m willing to teach people about my culture], but only if they’re willing to learn it. If they’re adamant about learning about my culture or

are being ethnocentric about patriotism and Americanism, then I’m not going to waste my time,” Joya said. “People aren’t going to change the way they think in five minutes. It takes time and sometimes they may never the way they think.”

When she does encounter people who are more negative toward Latinos, she finds that she is able to talk about it freely with her peers in Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI). SLI is a mentorship program for Latino students that gives them opportunities to discuss goals, college, leadership and volunteering in the community. Joya first found out about SLI when Hannah Bowman came to her class to talk about it and she immediately took interest in it.

“One thing that drew my attention to it was [the fact that it was geared towards Latino scholars], meaning that I would be with a bunch of high-achieving, first generation Latino students and that I would have a support system. I would also have a bunch of people to ask questions and get advice from, which I’ve never had in my life before,” Joya said.

Joya is proud of her accomplishments in school so far and strives to have a reputation of being a hardworking student.

Education was very important to her father and he taught Joya to value it as well. She recognizes the sacrifices her parents made in coming to America, leaving an entire life behind in El Salvador, and knows that she has been given many more opportunities in this country that have been made possible because of them.

“I’m very proud to be Latina because I know like the struggles that my family have gone through it and it makes me feel like we’re stronger as people and as a family.

All the hardships and the obstacles that we had to face and go through allowed us to get to where we are today,” Joya said. “Knowing where my parents come from and everything they went through, it makes me proud of them because I know that they’re strong people and that what I’m doing here makes everything worthwhile.”

Man on the Street

On Sept. 30, Hillandale park hosted the annual International Festival where thousands gathered to celebrate all of Harrisonburg’s cultures.

Terry Bailes (left)

Why did you choose to teach in Samoa?

Elizebeth Etjei

“We literally threw a dart at a map and decided that we could take a year of sabbatical. Samoa was our first choice, we interviewed and had been offered jobs and then they said it would need two years, so we had to teach two years. If we went more than a year we would lose our jobs and our pension.”

What country are you from and why do you make clothes?

“I’m from Ghana in South Africa. I support children in Africa [by selling my clothes I make]. For example this girl she tried to get into high school but she couldn’t get the money to go so I told her that if she made me some clothes I would sell them. She went to high school.”

Sita Kunver

What country are you from?

“Nepal.”

Why do you own an Indian restaurant if you are from Nepal and are the foods of each country similar?

PHOTO COURTESY OF LA REPVBLICA

LA REPVBLICA. The two main

band members Juan (left) and Daniel (right) Moya pose for a band photo.

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“My husband’s family is from India and the food from Nepal and India are very similar.”

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SVSLI gives first generation college students leg up Christa Cole Staff Photographer After high school comes college, and a few students will be the first in their families to attend. Shenandoah Valley Scholars’ Latino Initiative (SVSLI) is a non-profit organization that gives these students a leg up in preparation, as well as leadership and community service opportunities, all with the help of college professors and mentors.

Senior Helen Joya is thinking about Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, hoping to get outside of Virginia and explore.

For Joya, SVSLI provides a knowledge resource that her family can’t.

“I have a support system. When I was a sophomore/junior, there were juniors and seniors I could talk to and ask for advice about high school. I didn’t have that at home. I was pretty much figuring out high school stuff and college stuff all on my own because my parents didn’t know and my older brothers didn’t attend school here,” Joya said.

Senior Guillermo Torres is also in the program, with his top choices currently being Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University and James Madison University, where he hopes to major in English, Criminal Justice, or study law. The most enjoyable aspect of

PHOTO COURTESY OF HELEN JOYA

TAKING THE CHALLENGE TOGETHER. Above: SVSLI students pose for a group photo at the International Festival on Saturday, Sept. 30. “We handed out compliments from a compliment board we made to promote unity, we had trivia games with fun facts, and we had face painting and coloring,” Joya said.

SVSLI to him has been the Socratic seminar-type environment of the “Early College” class.

“We’ve taken a couple visits in general and Dr. Aleman and Dr. Faegan are [our JMU] professors, so when we do ‘Early College’, it’s a college class environment and they treat us as college students which helps to know the expectations,” Torres said. “The leadership development, I think [is the most beneficial] because it really does help you develop as a person and leader.

The best experiences are when we analyze poems

and talk about latino literature because it helps you understand things that you never thought of.”

There are also larger college trips involved. Leadership retreats are taken once a semester, allowing the SVSLI students to spend an entire day on a campus and participate in the workshops they offer. “[Once], we delivered a speech in front of an audience. SLI has helped me become okay with putting myself out there,” Joya said. “As a freshman, I never would have thought that my public speaking skills

would be honed to this extent. Although I get nervous, I don’t dread speaking in front of people anymore. It doesn’t seem as bad to me as it used to. I’ve gotten over that fear and I welcome discussion now.”

Torres, on the other hand, is working on overcoming another kind of fear. He too, though, also has a support system in place like Joya mentioned. “[Being the first to go to college is] exciting but it’s also scary because it’s not like I can go to my parents and ask them about college advice or anything, but

there are many people who help me so it’s really exciting,” Torres said. “There’s a lot [of people] but Mrs. Bowman has helped me a lot in having confidence and so has Dr. Aleman, but my family pushes and motivates me and friends too.”

Joya is experiencing the same kind of elation, and is ready to see the results of her labor here in high school.

“I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. Although that’s sounds scary, it’s actually really exciting. My parents can’t help me out with homework or filling

out applications, but that’s something that I’ve never minded. I’m used to doing this all on my own, but I also have many friends who are in the same position I’m in. We support and help each other,” Joya said. “It’s exciting because graduating high school and college is everything I’ve worked so hard for. I’m looking forward to it, my family is looking forwards, and my friends are looking forward to it. It’s exciting and heartwarming because it’s a brand new chapter in all our lives and we get to do it together.”

College application deadlines cause anxiety College tips from

Emma Lankford Staff Reporter

This time of year, seniors have started applying to the colleges that they wish to attend. College applications are known for being a long, tedious process, and one that makes seniors nervous trying to meet the deadlines.

Although she is slightly nervous, senior Ban Mansoor has already begun this process. Right now, her priority is to complete the Common Application.

“Three of the colleges that I’m applying to accept the Common Application, so once I finish that a lot of my work will already be done,” Mansoor said.

Her ideal college is Pace University, but she is also applying to James Madison University, University of Mary Washington, George Mason University, Vanderbilt University and Virginia Tech. Mansoor plans on majoring in either engineering or pre-law with political science, however she has not decided which one quite yet.

Also working on applications is senior Isaiah King.

“I want to make sure that my es-

says answer the questions with clarity, while still staying in the word limit,” King said.

King’s current goal is to have all applications completed by October so that he can qualify for early decision.

King plans to major in pre-med with biology, so his dream school would be the best medical college in America, Harvard University. He is applying to Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Virginia, West Virginia University and James Madison University.

Bismah Afridi is another student currently working on her applications.

“I’m kind of worried that I won’t get accepted to the colleges that I’ve applied to, but I know I still have to try,” Afridi said.

Afridi wishes to major in something involving psych or med, but she doesn’t know anything specifically.

Her college of choice would be the University of Virginia, but she does not plan on applying there. Afridi is applying to James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University and she is trying for Blue Ridge Community College.

Another senior that is striving to

start completing and submitting applications is Ignacio Paz. “I have mixed emotions about my applications. I’m nervous to see which colleges I get accepted to, but I’m also excited to see the results,” Paz said.

Paz would like to attend Virginia Tech, however he is applying to James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University, Bridgewater College, Radford University, Old Dominion University and Christopher Newport University. Paz wishes to major in computer science or business, but he has not decided yet.

Corin Vogel is also working on applying to colleges.

“I’m not very good at actually getting the work done, so I guess I’m worried that I won’t put forth my full effort,” Vogel said.

While he has not solidified his selections, he wants to apply to Georgetown University, George Washington University, University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Colorado College and Colby College.

Vogel is worried that he will not put forth his full effort, and that he will procrastinate getting the applications completed and submitted.

counselors

KOREY LAMB

Find a home “As far as choosing a college, I think it’s really important to find one that you feel connected to, that the feel of the campus is something you can see yourself being a part of and a place that you can call home because you are going to be spending a ton of time and a ton of money.”

Make a list “Have a list of maybe five or six schools. Some that you feel safe, that you know you can get into.

[These may be] local, maybe your parents are good with them. Then think of some reach schools, don’t DANIELLE BRINO feel like [a school] is out of the question because you never know.

You never know what your financial aid package will be too.”

Don’t be restricted to college “It’s awesome if students want to attend college. However, not everybody is ready right away to go to college... The main thing is that you have a plan for some training and education to reach a goal.”

Look at the long term picture “I recommend that students think about what is going to be best for them in the long run with their families, their financial situation. Just because a college has a major that you’re interested in RACHEL LINDEN doesn’t mean that it’s the right fit of a campus for you, especially if you’re going to be living on that campus.”

Give yourself major options “I also think it’s important that schools have multiple majors of interest that in the event that you go in and decide, ‘Oh, I really don’t want to be an accounting major,’ there might be something else there that you are interested in without having to transfer out of that school.”

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DEADLINES AND APPLICATIONS. From left: Seniors Ban Mansoor, Ignacio Paz and Isaiah King have begun applying for college. Some of them are eager for the process, others have more complicated feelings. “I have mixed emotions about my applications. I’m nervous to see which colleges I get accepted to, but I’m also excited to see the results,” Paz said.

Don’t rule out a school just by the sticker price “I also encourage students not to get too bogged down in the sticker price of the school initially because applying for financial aid and scholarships and merit based aid will often times make it that the cost of the school is not actually what it will end up being.”

Virginia college statistics

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Top ranked public colleges and universities in Virginia according to US News and World Report 1) University of Virginia (25th in national colleges)

-$16,146 in-state tuition

-16,331 students

-28.9% acceptance rate

Virginia Tech (69th)

-$12,852 in-state tuition

-25,791 students

-72.6% acceptance rate

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George Mason University (140th)

-$11,924 in-state tuition

-23,812 students

-69% acceptance rate Virginia Commonwealth University (171st)

-$13,570 in-state tuition

-24,212 students

-60% acceptance rate

College of William and Mary (32nd)

-$20,287 in-state tuition

-6,276 students

-34% acceptance rate

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FALL FESTIVITIES

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TRIQUETRUM OR TREAT. History teacher Cara Walton wears complex layers of make up to display a skeleton for Halloween.

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Walking into World History class on Halloween, unsuspecting freshmen would not find the friendly face of their teacher, Cara Walton, but instead a skeleton with dyed hair greeting them at the door. Every year, Walton wakes up hours before the sun to transform her face using makeup, turning herself into a zombie, skeleton or other “monster”.

“I get up around 2:30 a.m. to start my makeup for Halloween.

It takes about three hours to do all of the makeup for school that morning, especially the zombie makeup,” Walton said.

For Walton, Halloween is number one over Christmas when it comes to her favorite holiday.

“My siblings and I dressed up when I was a kid. They were really basic costumes. My parents didn’t get super elaborate in the costume department,” Walton said.

When she was a little kid, halloween was just another holiday with family.

“We lived out in the coun-

ty, so it wasn’t like living in the city on Halloween night. We couldn’t just go door-to-door, my parents had to actually drive us from house to house,” Walton said.

It wasn’t until Walton started teach at Harrisonburg that her enthusiasm for the holiday changed. Homecoming spirit week and Halloween are the only times that she gets to dress up throughout the school year.

“I like to dress up and see the reactions of the students and get feedback on improvements.

[Doing my makeup] is exciting for me. I want to see if I can outdo myself from last year, [and] it is a challenge,” Walton said.

Her favorite costume for school is when she dresses like a zombie, because it is fun chasing students through the halls and scaring them on Halloween.

“I have done the skull makeup for the past couple of years, so it is a nice compromise for the zombie makeup. However, [dressing like a zombie] gets kind of itchy by the end of the day,” Walton said.

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Pumpkin patches, haunted forests provide options for fall fun Sarah Earle News Editor Once October hits, autumn has officially debuted. With the season comes the reappearance of annual fall traditions, including pumpkins, corn mazes and haunted houses. Freshman Elizabeth Healy visits a specific pumpkin patch every single year to start out her Fall.

“We’ve gone to the same [pumpkin patch] my entire life,” Healy said. “We go and you can get different sized pumpkins, each is a different price. They have some that are already picked and some that are not; we go to the patch and just pick out the ones we want.”

Alongside of her family, Healy chose five pumpkins and three gourds. An especially large pumpkin stood out among the rest. “[The best part was when] we got a twenty-five pound pumpkin. It was huge and the biggest [pumpkin at the patch],” Healy said. “They do this competition every year where they have the biggest pumpkin that they’ve grown that year and you have to guess the weight of the pumpkin; I don’t think [my guess] was even close.”

Healy uses her own special trick to ensure the pumpkins she picks will be perfect for display “If you turn [the pumpkin] over and it’s still green, it’s not ready yet. If you turn it over and it’s orange, you can go ahead and pick it,” Healy said. “We put [the pumpkins] on the steps of our front porch. Some of them stay through Thanksgiving and some of them we carve at Halloween.”

Contrary to pumpkin patches, haunted forests are another common favorite fall experience among teenagers. Senior Daniel Ramirez visited Fear Forest in early October for the first time.

A combination of suspense and darkness kept Ramirez on his toes.

“At first I was pretty excited because I had never been [to Fear Forest], taking the wagon ride and [doing] everything there. It built up the whole [experience], so it was pretty fun. Just going through everything, the way they were able to decorate the forest and close out an area [to be] dedicated to a haunted house type of thing, I thought it was pretty interesting,” Ramirez said. “I would definitely say all of the lighting they had around [was my favorite part about Fear Forest]. The characters were pretty cool too, but I just liked the way they were able to light up certain places.”

Ramirez hardly ever gets scared and doesn’t particularly admire scary things either, however at one point that night he was surprised by something he didn’t expect to be right below his feet.

“I’m not a fan [of scaring things]. I don’t watch horror movies, but I’m also not really phased by [scary things]. We went to go see a couple of scary movies, but I wasn’t phased by it, I’m just used to it. We were [chased by a person with a chainsaw], but since we were expecting it. I wasn’t scared by it, since I heard [the chainsaw] turn on. At the beginning, they say they can’t touch you, so you shouldn’t really be scared of anything when you go in there,” Ramirez said. “There

How to Make Salted-butter apple galette with maple whipped cream

Recipe provided by Lare Jalal

PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIEL RAMIREZ

BOO. Senior Daniel Ramirez (middle right) poses with a scarer from fear forest. Ramirez and his friends went together to experience the classic fall fear experience. were some areas where there was some grass and leaves all around. I was expecting people to come out from behind houses and corners, but there were even people laying in the grass and I did not expect them to. They were in full layered clothing, [which] I thought was pretty cool because they actually surprised me.”

For Ramirez, visiting Fear Forest was more of a one time experience. Although he wouldn’t visit Fear Forest in the near future, Ramirez recommends it to

others. While going through the forest, Ramirez also advises people to look ahead.

“Since you’re obviously expecting to be scared in a way, when I was walking past corners or anything, I was looking ahead, looking at possible places [for people to jump out], looking at every spot. I guess it’s kind of trying to anticipate where everything is going to pop out of so that’s what I was paying attention to: where they were going to come from,” Ramirez said. “[Fear Forest] was okay because it was

Ingredients: For the dough 1 tablespoon sugar ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup flour 6 tablespoons butter 1 large egg For the Apple Galette ½ stick salted butter ½ vanilla bean (split lengthwise) All-purpose flour (for dusting) 1 pound baking apples 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar 1 large egg 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 2 cups heavy cream 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup

my first time, but I would definitely try different ones instead of that one possibly. I would recommend [Fear Forest] to any other first timers. If you’ve already been to other [haunted experiences], you might not find it as exciting possibly, but if it’s your first time I would recommend it.”

Whether you choose to pick pumpkins, go trick or treating, scream in haunted mansion, jump in a pile of leaves or any common fall experience, just know there are many options to choose from.

Steps: For the dough Whisk sugar, salt, and flour in a bowl. Add butter and mix until smooth.

Drizzle egg over butter mixture and mix gently.

Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.

Form dough into a disk and rap in plastic to chill until firm (at least 2 hours).

For the cream Beat cream in a medium bowl to medium-soft peaks.

Fold in maple syrup and serve alongside galette.

For the Apple Galette (Preheat oven to 375°) Place butter in small saucepan.

Scrape in vanilla seeds. Add pod.

Cook over medium heat, stirring often until butter foams, then browns (5–8 minutes). Remove pod.

Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface and transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Arrange apples on top, overlapping and leaving a 1½” border.

Brush apples with brown butter and sprinkle with brown sugar.

Lift edges of dough over apples, tucking and overlapping as needed to keep rectangular shape.

Beat egg with 1 tsp. water in a small bowl and brush crust with egg wash.

Sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake until apples are soft and crust is golden brown (40–50 minutes).

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Andrews carries on uncle’s sword collection Caleb Goss Staff Reporter Harvie Andrews is the new track coach here at Harrisonburg High School, but recently, over the past year, Andrews started collecting swords. After his uncle passed away, Andrews was asked to continue his collection.

“My uncle is a doctor of karate but he passed away.

He sent me a few and then they just kept growing and growing,” Andrews said.

Over the course of the year, Andrews has seen and shopped in several stores, periodically buying a sword whenever he sees one he likes.

“It depends on where I run across one, they’re

kind of far in between, but if I see something I like, I pick it up,” Andrews said.

Out of Andrews, nine swords, his favorite sword is the Katana blade. This single-edged sword is characterized by its distinctive appearance.

“It’s probably my favorite because it’s the sharpest one in the bunch,” Andrews said.

For Andrews, these swords aren’t just a collector’s item. To him, they are much more meaningful.

“For me it’s just sentimental value,” Andrews said.

Andrews lives with his wife and daughter junior Nina Andrews. When asked how his family felt about his sword collection, he said they were pretty much fine with it.

“My daughter thinks it’s a little extreme because I’m a little overprotective, but my wife, she’s cool with it as long as she can have a few on her side of the bed,” Andrews said.

Besides thinking it’s a little extreme, Nina also says it makes her feel safe and protected.

“I feel like with the sword collection in the house I feel protected a little bit just in case something were to happen. I’m pretty sure he would never actually chop anybody but it’s just nice knowing that if something happened, they’re there,” Nina said.

Andrews plans on collecting swords for as long as he can and to continue what his uncle started.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HARVIE ANDREWS

SWORD SHOWCASE Harvie Andrews shows off his diverse sword collection.

McGrath shares busy life outside New Market John Breeden Staff Reporter Every morning, sophomore Tucker McGrath gets in his car and drives half an hour from New Market to Harrisonburg to go to school. He says that living in New Market has its positives and negatives. “[Living in New Market] is kind of boring; there’s nobody my age near me so I don’t really have a social life at home.

At the same time I’m always in nature, doing outdoor stuff,” McGrath said.

As McGrath has entered his sophomore year, he has enjoyed his high school life so far. Having done sports year round freshman, he feels good about his second year.

“High school has been good. There was a little

bit of an adjustment period when I started, but now I’m kind of in the groove,” McGrath said.

McGrath isn’t the kind of person who likes to just come home everyday and sit on the couch and watch TV. He enjoys being active and loves the outdoors.

McGrath runs cross country and indoor track, and plays soccer in the spring.

“I had a friend who played [soccer], and I kind of wanted to be like her so I started playing. It went from there, I gained some more interest and I became a little more serious. Then high school came along and I started playing for the team.

I do a little bit of hiking, camping, hunting and a lot of running,” McGrath said.

McGrath is currently on the varsity cross country team and continues to get better. McGrath has always

had a passion for running, and it started at a young age.

“I started running in fourth grade with my dad, and then I became competitive in sixth grade. I just jumped in feet first,” McGrath said.

Almost every good athlete has a person to look up to. An inspiration. For McGrath, his biggest inspiration in his life has been his mother. “[My biggest inspiration] would probably be my mother. She’s super busy, which kind of rubs off on me because I’m always busy. She’s taught me that you got to take on your responsibilities first before you can do what you want to do, and just like any mom she kind of rubs off on me,” McGrath said.

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XC Pride Tucker McGrath stands with a signature cross country shirt. This is one of the many activities that he is dedicated to. Along with cross country, McGrath enjoys anything outdoors.

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Tongen sees pros, cons of taking Algebra 2 early Eighth graders usually take Algebra 1, but Micah Tongen, who currently attends Skyline Middle School, is already taking Algebra 2. Tongen was encouraged by his father, a JMU math professor, to take higher level math classes.

“My dad is a math professor at JMU and he really pushed for me to be in a higher math class,” Tongen said.

Although Tongen enjoys coming to Harrisonburg High School to take Algebra 2, he does face some hardships. Tongen, along

with fellow eighth grader Luke Tao, have to get on a bus after first period.

Every other day Tongen and Tao get on a bus that drives them to Skyline Middle School, but Tongen believes that this can be a waste of time on two parts.

“It’s pretty nice [coming to HHS, but] not being with my friends every other day at the middle school [is hard]. [Driving from school to school every other day] is either wasting the bus driver’s time or the teacher’s time,” says Tongen.

Many people do not know that Tongen is taking Algebra 2 so when his teammates see him in class they question him. They wonder what an eighth

grader is doing there. Not only do they question him at school, but they also question him at home about his schooling.

“Lots of people ask me what I’m doing and I’m not really sure what to say. I do JV sports and so when I see people they’re like ‘I thought you were in eighth grade’ and then it’s like ‘Yeah, I’m taking a math class.’ And lots of people at home ask me how I’m doing in school and my parents always bring [up my Algebra 2 class],” says Tongen.

Tongen is planning on proceeding to precalculus or trigonometry next year, with the encouragement of his dad.

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October 26, 2017

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Rutherford, Comer end careers with success Jackson Hook Sports Editor Every year, a new set of seniors take the stage for high school sports. They are responsible for being the leaders and mentors to the underclassmen. Seniors Lucie Rutherford and Olivia Comer have taken that role for the 2017 season and have led their team to a record that has, so far, already surpassed that of the past two years combined. Comer, who has spent four years on the varsity team, is already satisfied with the way her team has played this year and hopes to finish the season with a record above .500 which has been scarce for varsity volleyball teams in the past.

“I really just want to come out with a winning season. We have tripled our wins from last year already and I am super grateful for that, so even if we don’t win another game this year I’ll be happy. I think we’re capable of making it now with a winning season,” Comer said.

Rutherford has taken to the role of being a stand-in coach when needed. She believes that taking on the role of captain means that everyone is kept in check while still having fun.

“I’ve really enjoyed [being a leader]. It’s just the little things like in practice you have the say over everybody else and you determine when you start stretching and when you start warming up, things like that. You’re kind of the second coach in a sense, so if the coach isn’t there you get to take over,” Rutherford said.

Closing the book on the chapter of a high school career can be saddening to some seniors, but Comer

PHOTO BY THEO YODER

KILLIN’ IT. Senior Lucie Rutherford celebrates after winning a point against the Knights of TA. The Streaks went on to lose to the Knights 3 sets to 1. finds that she will be happy about how the season plays out no matter what.

“Words can not describe how much I’m going to miss volleyball, and I’m short, so there’s no way I’m going to play anywhere but high school. I’m going to try and do intramurals just because I think I would go insane if I didn’t have volleyball or something active to do,” Comer said. “It’s awesome but at the same time it’s really sad. Usually it’s sad when we lose because I realize that that’s the last time we are going to play that team at that location.”

Rutherford has spent all of her high school years playing volleyball on both the JV and varsity team.

She believes that her experiences throughout her career have helped with how she has performed in her fi-

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nal season as a Blue Streak. “[Being in my final season] is kind of bittersweet because I’ve been doing it since I was a freshman.

It’s definitely nice to end up as a captain this year. I feel like my work paid off,” Rutherford said.

Comer is the only senior to participate on the varsity team for all four years of high school and can still remember when she was given the opportunity to play. “[My proudest moment] was probably being a freshman on varsity,” Comer said. “I just remember going into the room with [my coaches] Andy Thompson and [Hannah] Bowman and they asked me, ‘Do you want to be on the varsity team? You’ll get playing time,’ and my face hurt from smiling. It was awesome.”

There are small things that players may wish had gone different in their careers, but Comer is satisfied with how all of her seasons went because of her bond with her team.

“I would not change a thing. I have loved every second being on Harrisonburg’s volleyball team.

Even when we lose it never feels like a loss because we’re always so happy,” Comer said.

Post-season success is one thing that the Streaks have not been familiar with in recent years, but this year has brought higher chances.

“We’re 5A this year, and we’ve only played one 5A team so far in the regular season and that’s Albemarle, and we played amazing against them. Many people said that’s the best they’ve

ever seen Harrisonburg play, so I really don’t know what the other schools are or what they’re like,” Rutherford said. “It would be really cool to get at least one win and continue into the next round of the post-season. We just all have to come together and play like we did [against Albemarle],” Rutherford said.

Rutherford is especially proud of her team for playing through the entire game and continuing to compete late in sets. The Streaks struggled with losing in close sets last season and the seniors have made it a priority to always stay focused to the end.

“This year we’ve only been beaten in three [sets] twice, and that was against Spotswood and Albemarle.

A problem last year was that we could never fin-

ish,” Rutherford said. “We would get to the fifth set and just choke. Bowman gave us a stat that we lost 21 sets last year by two points. [This year] we’ll get neck and neck and then come out and win. So that’s a huge difference from last year.”

Rutherford hopes her teammates have learned something from this season that will help them through the rest of their volleyball careers.

“I hope that the underclassmen have learned to just stay hype. When you stop talking, that’s when you lose all of your energy. We play our best when we’re goofy and joking around on the court,” Rutherford said. “I hope they have realized that and the [younger girls] carry it on next year.”

King hopes to qualify for states in final year Madison Varner Advertising Manager Ever since senior Isaiah King was in fifth grade, he has run cross country. He ran throughout all four years of middle school, he ran through all four years of high school and through all the summers in between. Running has become a large part of King’s life and he wishes to continue his passion in the future while attending college.

“I ran a little bit before middle school, but I thought I would do sprinting until the

cross country coach in middle school asked me to come out, and that switched me to long distance,” King said.

Being part of a team includes creating bonds with not only your other teammates but as your coaches as well. King has developed a strong bond not only in his athletics, but on a personal level.

“I’ve definitely formed a strong bond with my head coach Lauren Jefferson, it's good to not only have respect for your coach as a coach but also as a friend. She's definitely helped me out with bringing

my time down and also just helping out with life, like college applications,” King said.

With King knowing this was his final season of cross country, he set goals that were long term as well as short term for this year. With HHS moving into 5A for the 2017 season, King thinks there is a better chance to reach states.

“I want to qualify for states.

We've been in the 4A region that included some of the top runners in the nation, so it was pretty hard to qualify, so now we are in 5A so we should have a pretty good shot,” King said.

King’s favorite part of being involved with cross country has been the competition as well as racing with hundreds of kids. “[My favorite part has been] the bigger meets we go to.

One race is about 500 to 600 kids, so just being able to race against a lot of competition and being successful in my races,” King said.

Running for eight years has allowed King to guide the younger runners on the team. “[Some] advice I'd give is get a good pair of running shoes and log your miles over the summer,” King said.

Morris leaves legacy on football field after four years of varsity Owen Stewart Sports Editor

At the end of each high school sports season, the final home game is dedicated to the players who won’t be back on their school’s field again. Senior night for the football team took place on Oct. 20 against Fort Defiance, and one of those seniors, running back and cornerback Collin Morris, described the emotions he expected to feel when he steps onto the field for the ceremony before the game.

“For me, it’s gonna be a rough night. I probably won’t cry, but I know a few people that will. I’ll definitely be playing with all I have because it’s probably going to be my last game on the Harrisonburg field,” Morris said.

As a four-year member of the varsity team, Morris has been a part of two teams that finished the season with winning records, but he wants to see the team take another step for his final season and do something that hasn’t happened during Morris’ tenure.

“Our biggest goal this year as seniors, [especially] me, AC [White] and Stedman [Clark] is to get to the playoffs because we haven’t made the playoffs during

our four years on varsity,” Morris said. “We’ve always had a pretty decent team except for our freshman year, but since then, we’ve had winning seasons. [This year] we want to go to the playoffs, and I think we’re on the right track to get there.”

After the season, Morris will head off to college, and he hopes to continue his athletic participation, although he has plans for if that doesn’t work out as well.

“I might play in college, either at [Christopher Newport University] or the University of Richmond, but if I don’t, I’ll probably try to go to Virginia Tech, George Mason or Old Dominion, try to get into the engineering field and see where that goes,” Morris said.

Despite the fact that Morris will leave high school after this year, he hopes people will remember him in the future for his athletic prowess, but also for his personality.

“I want other people to remember that I was a pretty good football player, a nice guy and a smooth guy,” Morris said.

While his high school career has spanned many games, practices and team traditions, a few in particular stand out for Morris as

PHOTO BY CHRISTA COLE

DOWN, SET, HUT. Senior Colin Morris takes the ball out of the backfield in his junior season. The Streaks went on the beat the Gobblers 35-6 in the Valley Football Classic. memories he is not likely to forget.

“Two moments that I will always remember [would be] walking up the hill with my teammates before the game and this last game with Rockbridge we played. [Also], the TA game we played a few years ago,”

Morris said.

Looking back a while, Morris notes that he’s made some adjustments to himself, both in his physical and mental aspects of the game.

“I’ve definitely gotten a little bit bigger since my freshman year. I was a bit

of a scrawny kid,” Morris said. “I’ve matured a little bit and I’ve grown into my leadership role a little better as I’ve gotten older.”

As Morris and the rest of the seniors end their careers, a new line of Blue Streaks will take on a bigger role next season, with

the team’s leadership being passed down. To these returning players, Morris offers a simple message for them to abide by.

“My message would be that it all happens during the offseason,” Morris said.

“It doesn’t just happen during the season.”

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October 26, 2017

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Football is more challenging than volleyball Jackson Hook Sports Editor I want to start off by saying that I believe that volleyball and football are both very challenging sports to play in terms of physical and mental ability. However, I do believe that there are some things about football that are significantly harder than volleyball.

Football practices are the hardest practices for any varsity team. Each week there is a new opponent that plays the game completely different than the previous one. It is impossible to know what defense you are going to be running each week before the season begins. Football is the only sport in high school where the film is analyzed by players and coaches. It is even given a specific day out of the practice week to watch game film from the previous Friday night game to fix mistakes and watch the next opponents film to

figure out what you need to do to beat them.

Football’s two sides of offense and defense are a lot more complicated and harder to master than most sports. The terminology and skill sets are more unique than that of any other sport. The first thing that everyone thinks about football is that it is a contact sport and that whichever team is more physically gifted will win.

This is not true at all. While being physically gifted can be an advantage, football is a mental game before all else. A week of practice is spent just to master the plays that you plan on running against the opponent on Friday. The field is huge and the setting is always extremely loud so it’s not like the coach can tell you what play you’re running. Players and coaches both have to come up with and memorize plays, nicknames and signals that they can use.

Lastly, football is probably the most demanding physically in a sense of

having to be well rounded.

There are many more positions on a football team that require you to have different skill sets. The positions are clearly diverse and can require the player to be a different weight, faster, shorter, taller, stronger, etc. Take a punter and a defensive lineman for example. In one position, you kick a ball away to the defending team as hard as you can without letting it bounce out of bounds or into the end zone. In the other you shove your hands onto another player’s chest and push each other until you get passed him and try to wrap your arms around and throw your entire body weight onto another human being. Football’s positions are very diverse.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare both sports considering they are extremely different. I have tremendous respect for both sports, but I do know there are certain things about football that can make it more challenging.

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READY...SET. Senior wide receiver Jackson Hook lines up before the snap at James Madison University’s Bridgeforth stadium. Hook believes that football is a challenging sport because the athletes have many different positions that require different sets of skills.

Volleyball, football require different technique, skill set Sophie Sallah Staff Reporter

PHOTO BY ETHAN POWER

BALL’S UP. Freshman Sophie Sallah practices spiking a ball over the net before a JV volleyball match. Sallah thinks that volleyball requires a different skill set than football.

Many people say that football is the hardest sport of them all. With everyone on the field trying to prevent the other team from reaching their end zone at all costs, it’s easy to see why.

Never mind the fact that playing football is one of the most common causes of sports injuries. But do all of these factors establish football as the “hardest sport?” While football is a challenging sport in it’s own way, every other sport has similar obstacles of its own.

I’ve been playing volleyball since I discovered it as a little kid at camp. There

are numerous challenges in volleyball and they are completely different than football. It’s unfair to both sports to try to put one above the other in terms of how difficult it is. The two sports are drastically different and require totally different skill sets. Football is a contact sport where you use your feet. Volleyball is a non-contact sport where you use your hands.

Football is played in an uncontrollable environment, while volleyball is played in a pretty constant setting.

The only major similarity is that they both use a ball.

Volleyball is uniquely challenging since it is in such a small court and has a set of rules unlike any other sport. The sport requires so much mental toughness

and teamwork. Every point is fought hard for; when you lose it, it’s very important to move on from your mistakes as a team. Volleyball is an extremely intense sport, a lot of the goal is just making it hard for the other team to return the ball and gain points. It’s a fast-paced game that requires you to think on your feet. Unpredictable things happen all of the time and each player has to make rapid decisions that could make or break the point, set or even game.

It’s not fair to call one sport more difficult than the other, since they have so few similarities. Volleyball is a challenging sport in many ways, but so is every other sport that you can play.

College athletes receive enough money through scholarships

Athletes deserve to make money in NCAA despite “amateurism”

Kyle Brown Guest Columnist

Owen Stewart Owen Editor

tuition, which can be 20 to up to 60 thousand dollars a year depending on the school. These scholCollege athletics arships, in themselves, has long been known are payment enough for as the step between playing college sports. high school sports and Another reason many the pro league. College people fail to realize athletics offer an extra when talking four years of about this sittraining and uation is what sometimes the money is many more, used for. Yes, to student while the monathletes. One ey is not used very controfor an actual versial topKyle’s payroll the colic that has Korner lege kids can been brought receive, the up before money is given and is continually being directly to the NCAA and brought up again and the school the students again is the idea that colgo too. That may seem lege athletes should be like a bad thing, but peopayed for their sports. ple fail to realize that This idea is a very practhis money is put directtical point of view but ly back into the school’s would not be very effecathletic program. For tive looking into it. example James Madison The biggest disqualiUniversity was able to fying point would be the invest in the renovation fact that students are of a 62 million dollar receiving scholarships stadium because of the nationwide for playing money the school had for specific colleges. Acearned, similar to that, cording to the NCAA, the Texas Longhorns college athletics are were able to renovate giving over 3 billion doltheir locker rooms for lars away in scholarship a cost going over a milmoney each year. Of all lion dollars. That money that money given out, could have been going to around 20,000 students a pay roll, but instead it will receive a full ride to goes into things like that, college, according to a which benefit the players CBS news study. All those in a different way. Anothstudents with a full ride er benefit athletes all redon’t even need to worceive in substitution for ry about money at all, a paying ‘job’ is a bunch because a full ride offers of team merchandise. complete coverage of all Most division one and the financial costs that two schools will give the are involved in college. team a few hundred dolEven if students are oflars worth of merchanfered a smaller amount dise to wear per player. of money as a scholarAnother major reaship, most scholarships son why college students will still cover the cost of shouldn’t receive mon-

ey is the commitment factor. While this seems like an odd reason to exclude payment, it really isn’t when you think about it. When students commit to a college they are verbally saying they will play their sport for them, already knowing the conditions. Knowing these conditions means they already are okay with not being payed, and accept the amount of scholarship money they are receiving. A big argument being made is that athletes don’t have enough time to actually get a job to get paid because they have very little time after school and homework. When they commit, however, they are acknowledging that they know the sacrifices being made when they play a sport for the college.

One final problem that comes along with paying student athletes is the physical amount of money they will receive.

There would have to be a draft or a strong recruiting facility in order to pay students. Also, if students are getting payed, the scholarships should be taken away from schools and students would have to pay tuition themselves. The better players would obviously receive more money and the worse would receive less. This is almost exactly the same as the current scholarships given out to students, meaning there is barely any difference than what is being received now financially.

The term ‘student-athlete’ has been used for decades by the National Collegiate Athletic Association referring to the members of college athletic teams. The term was first brought about in 1964 by Walter Byers, the NCAA’s first executive president, during a period of time where the fact that college athletes weren’t being paid compensation for their work was being questioned.

Despite a NCAA regulation that only 20 hours of in-season practice is allowed per week, athletes from every Division I sport report averaging over 30 hours of practice a week.

52% of Division I football players spend at least six hours per day at practice.

Yet, they aren’t allowed to make any money off of their efforts because they are considered ‘amateurs’ by the NCAA. That money goes to the NCAA itself.

Jerseys with players numbers, commercials with players in it, even video games that include players do not allow said players to make money despite the fact that their likenesses are used in all of these.

I find this completely unfair. In the current econ-

omy, one of the biggest ar- time, those measly hours guments among the work- won’t make them enough force is the level of the money to make a living national minimum wage. anyways. While colleges The lowest levrefer to athletel of legal pay ics as an ‘amafor an employteur extra-curee ranges anyricular activity’, where from $8 in 2014, Northto $15 dependwestern Uniing on the city versity’s footor state you are ball team, led in. However, no by quarterback Lil Stew’s matter what the Kain Colter, Sports minimum wage took this issue is, it seems to to the Nationbe ignored that one of al Labor Relations Board, the biggest businesses in who proceeded to declare America gives absolutely athletes ‘employees of the zero opportunity for their university’. In other words, employees to make mon- they declared that being ey. a college athlete is a job.

The argument made by People get paid for jobs, many that players can get and being a college athlete jobs outside of sports to isn’t just any job. A study make money is invalid as performed by Drexel Uniwell. I again reference the versity and an organizaamount of time spent on tion led by Player’s Assothe field. When spending ciation President Ramogi 40 hours on the field each Huma declared the yearly week in addition to the value of the average coltime spent in the class- lege football player to be room, doing homework around $120,000, nearly and sleeping, only around the same amount as the 10% of the hours, some- average software architimes even less, are avail- tect. In contrast, the avable for these 19-22 year erage athletic scholarship, olds to have free time. examined in the same They shouldn’t be expect- study, is worth around ed to spend their 2-3 free $23,000. Turns out, that hours per day working a provided ‘free education’ second job (because yes, they always speak of to being a college athlete is defend scholarships isn’t a job), and even if they so worth it after all. do work during their free

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Should NCAA athletes be paid?

22 Yes

28 No

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The Newsstreak

October 26, 2017

Gilbert shines in final year Simon Beach Staff Reporter This is senior Steven Gilbert’s second year playing under the Friday night lights. Last year was his first year ever playing football, so he didn’t get much playing time. “[Quarterback] A.C. White introduced me to it and told me I should play and he told me it was a sport I’d like. I’m liking it and it’s a good sport,” Gilbert said.

After not playing much during his first season on the roster, Gilbert worked with his teammates prior to his senior season, and is now a starter. He had some help from the White brothers to be physically ready and skillful enough for this position.

“I worked offseason with A.C. and his little brother Austin White and we worked all summer,” Gilbert said.

The senior wide receiver is pretty happy to be a starter this year, and he thinks it’s going pretty well. “[This season] is going good, I have a lot of receiving yards and A.C.’s helping me out a lot.

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It feels good to be a starter, last year I was working to earn my starting position and Coach Hook made me a better football player,” Gilbert said.

One of the goals that Gilbert has for this year is to have 1,000 receiving yards. He believes he can do this because of how much he has improved from last year. He can move his feet and run routes a lot better this time around. Despite the improvement, Gilbert thinks this will be his last year of PHOTO BY NOAH SIDERHURST football.

“I don’t plan on playing at the next REACHING UP. Senior wide receiver Steven Gilbert jumps up to try to catch a pass during a game against Waynesboro level. It seems like at JMU’s Bridgeforth Stadium. Gilbert started playing football as a junior, and after playing sparingly during his first a lot of pressure, season, he has become the Streaks leading receiver this year. you’re on TV and son Hook, Bubba Fiske and Sam the hardest workers I’ve seen,” being almost halfway to his goal stuff,” Gilbert said. of 1,000 yards so far this year, GilHealy. His fellow wide receivers Healy said.

Gilbert’s favorite part about had good things to say about him.

Gilbert has also played de- bert is striving to accomplish that the season so far is working and “Steven is a great athlete and fense a few times, but he prefers second half along with raking in playing with A.C. and all the a great person, and he’s amazing offense way more and thinks that five receiving touchdowns. other receivers like seniors Jack- on the football field. He’s one of he is a lot better on offense. With

Osinkosky steps into varsity libero role as junior Owen Marshall Sports Editor Going into this year, the volleyball team added a new asset to the squad. Junior Andrea Osinkosky has filled in the place of Athena Benton as the libero for the Streaks. Going into this year Osinkosky didn’t think she was going to start because she hadn’t played on a travel team, she had only played with some friends.

“I hadn’t played volleyball all year. It took a little to get back into it. Then, [Bowman] gave me the leadership role of libero and I just stepped into it,” Osinkosky said.

In any team sport, communication can make or break a

team. Osinkosky has really had to adapt to the increase of this on the higher level.

“There is a lot of talking, you really have to talk on varsity because of the faster pace. That didn’t occur to me until this year when I was actually in the game, I realized how much you actually have to talk,” Osinkosky said.

Osinkosky has seen an increase in responsibility and intensity since she has moved up to the varsity level.

“This year is higher energy and more talking. I guess it comes from experience,” Osinkosky said.

In the middle of the season, an hour before a game, Osinkosky was diagnosed with appendicitis, in turn missing a week and a half of the season.

“I was really surprised when they told me [I’d only be out for] a week because I was really sore.

I just took it easy. It healed on its own. I wasn’t allowed to lift anything above 25 pounds. At first I thought I was holding back a lot, but I got better,” Osinkosky said.

The team has seen an increase in success this year with nine wins as of Oct. 20, compared to only three in the previous year. Osinkosky believes that team chemistry has helped lead to more wins.

“It has to do something with the group of people,” Osinkosky said. “We all just really get along together, we talk well together, we have a good time together and it’s a good combination of people out on the court.”

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Hulleman makes transition from football to XC after injury Theo Yoder Editor-in-Chief

From the Gridiron to XC

Michael Hulleman’s First-Year PR by the Numbers

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Hulleman’s best 5000 meter time, run at the Glory Days Invitational (Oct. 7) Runners beaten by Hulleman during his PR

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Out of 7 Harrisonburg runners at the meet

When the E.C Glass quarterback fumbled the ball in the third quarter, sophomore Michael Hulleman dived for the recovery. His arm was landed on by the quarterback and broken, ending his football season. This was the first game of the season last year when Hulleman was a freshman.

“It was disappointing for sure. Only playing three quarters of the season when you spent two months preparing is disappointing,” Hulleman said.

Hulleman also plays basketball. He had to miss all of preseason basketball training that year due to his injury.

It was his right arm that was broken which caused some problems for Hulle-

man and his completion of everyday tasks.

“It was a huge adjustment coming to school because I couldn’t really write.

Sleeping was incredibly hard as well because you have to contort yourself so you don’t hurt it,” Hulleman said.

He had to wear a cast for two months after the injury occurred. However, Hulleman was still not able to fully use his arm until some time after the removal of the cast. He had to complete numerous exercises to heal his arm back to its full potential.

Now, for his sophomore fall season, he is running cross country.

“I didn’t like the intensity of [football]. It just wasn’t my type of sport. I like the atmosphere and the people of cross country.

I enjoy the compan-

ionship,” Hulleman said.

Hulleman joined cross country a month after practices actually began due to uncertainty about whether he wanted to commit to the sport or not.

“I had some friends on the cross country team, so I wanted to try it out.

I ended up liking it,” Hulleman said.

Hulleman has put up a 20:19 5k time during his first year ever running cross country. Training with his friends during practice has helped him with his rookie year as a runner for the Blue Streaks. He plans to run next season during his junior year.

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The Newsstreak

October 26, 2017

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Indoor track coaches have high season expectations Nyah Phengsitthy Social Media Manager Smaller than the outdoor track team, indoor track is one of the sports to look out for during the winter season. While other sports have begun preseason workouts, the indoor track team hasn’t had team conditioning yet because most indoor track athletes participate in a fall sport.

Instead of team workouts right now, students who plan on joining the team are preparing on their own for the upcoming season.

To be specific, senior Hashaam Ahmed joined the cross country team this year not only to do a senior year sport, but to prepare himself for track. With his personal preparations, Ahmed has been changing small things to make sure he’s ready for this winter.

“Around this time, I usually start drinking more water and try to stay as hydrated as possible. This year I’m doing cross country to stay in shape… I go to work less and start doing my homework earlier,” Ahmed said.

Joining the track team as a new coach this year, math teacher Matthew Denlinger replaced previous assistant athletic director and track coach Tricia Comfort. As of this upcoming track season,

it will be Denlinger’s fourth year coaching. Denlinger previously coached at Turner Ashby High School for two years and has witnessed HHS track at different invitationals.

“I’m excited having seen some of the Harrisonburg kids compete when I was at TA, I think we can compete for district titles right off the bat for the boys and girls team,” Denlinger said.

While the season has yet to begin, Denlinger has already experienced working with student athletes by being a co-head coach for the cross country team.

With multiple track students participating in a fall sport, Denlinger believes those sports will help warm and prepare athletes for what’s to come.

“I think [we have] a lot of potential. There’s a lot of super athletic kids walking the halls of HHS, so it’s just finding a way to get them out there on the track and on the team,” Denlinger said.

After running track for two years, junior Gebrehiwot Amine plans to continue down the running track this year. Like other athletes, it’s just a matter for Amine to personally prepare for track.

“I’ll probably start going to the weight room and try to stay healthy. I usual-

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STRENGTH. Junior Fernando Posada pushes through the heat during the boys JV race at the Glory Days Invitational this XC season. He plans on continuing running throughout the winter on the indoor track team. ly start preparing for track der one of the options for ence. the best of shape,” Dentwo weeks before the actu- a winter sport. Hoping to “It doesn’t matter what linger said. “We’ll coach to al season starts… This year make the team bigger and your ability is, we can find the abilities of the athletes I’m managing my health better this year, Denlinger something for you to do in I have. I don’t think anymore and control what I’m hopes that many students track… We’re going to start one should feel like it’s too eating,” Amine said. join the team, even if a per- slow because there may be much to do no matter what Indoor track falls un- son has no athletic experi- some people who aren’t in their level is.”

Kibly-Woodward continues gymnastics without sister Ashley Iscoa Staff Reporter The HHS Gymnastics team kicks off during the middle of November. Not only does it take commitment, but also a huge amount of preparation.

Sophomore Alyce Kilby-Woodward will be returning to the gym in a matter of time. “[I am looking forward to] improving in all of my skills [this season] and working with other people on the team,” Kilby-Woodward said. “I think we’re keeping a lot of the people from last year. We only lost three seniors this year.

I think we’re gaining some freshmen so I think we’ll all work together nicely.”

Jadah Kilby-Woodward

was one of the three seniors that graduated this past year. The relationship between these sisters was described as an irreplaceable bond. For Alyce Kilby-Woodward, one of the obstacles this upcoming season is not having her sister by her side.

“I don’t have my sister with me this year so I can’t constantly ask, ‘What do I do?’ I’m just going to have to work with it,” Kilby-Woodward said.

Before the season begins, most athletes have a game plan or an idea of how they want their season to go. Although you can’t determine what the outcomes will be of every event or game, you can at least prepare yourself.

“I’ll probably start working out and begin mapping

out my floor routines before I get into the gym,” Kilby-Woodward said.

“I’m changing some of my [floor] routines so I’m just dreading to have to start a new one because I’ve been using the old one for the past years. I’m pretty nervous about that.”

The overall goal of preseason is to create a mindset to start off the season on the right foot. The only person who can decide how you perform is yourself. Awareness has hit Kilby-Woodward about the sport of gymnastics.

“I’ll probably work a lot harder this year because I realized throughout the summer that I’m a lot more passionate about the sport then I thought I was,” Kilby-Woodward said.

Swim team looking to advance in new division Ryan Caricofe Staff Reporter

This year HHS will compete for the first time ever in the 5A division. 5A is the largest division for high school sports and is based on the population of the school. However, preparation has continued as normal for the swim team during this year’s preseason; some swimmers have even been preparing since the summer.

Junior Andi Fox is a member of the Valley Area Swim Team, or VAST, which has been going on for two months now. VAST prepares swimmers like Fox by doing weight training and having practices before and sometimes after school.

Others, like senior captain Christian Rodriguez,

have been swimming independently during the summer and participating in cross country. Rodriguez wants the team to do more hard and intense practices and workouts, especially calisthenic workouts, which include push-ups, squats and leg lifts. Fox is still unsure about the move to 5A. “I am not looking forward to it. Since we moved from 4A to 5A, it’s going to be a lot harder to qualify for states,” Fox said. With qualifying times now lower, swimmers will have to swim faster in order to qualify for competition.

Rodriguez is also weary of the new difficulties that come with moving into 5A. “We are facing a whole new division of schools; the competition to get into states will be harder,” Rodriguez said.

Fox was also aware of the competition the swim team would be facing in the new division.

“We are going to be unaware of what our conferences are going to be like, what regionals is going to be like,” Fox said.

With key swimmers having left the team, the team will have to try and fill the gaps left behind.

The team, however, is optimistic of their chances. Fox is excited to swim with the new freshmen on the team, and believes that they will be extremely beneficial in the team’s hunt for states. She hopes to drop her time and make it to states this upcoming season. Rodriquez is excited to represent HHS as the swim team captain and is looking forward to the state competition.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOB ADAMEK

PERFORM. Sophmore Alyce Kilby-Woodward performs her floor routine during a gymnastics competition hosted at HHS last year. She will be continuing gymnastics through the 2017-18 season.

Basketball team hopeful for successful year Somaia Mallek Staff Reporter School divisions are based on the size of a school, and because HHS is continually increasing in size, they were able to pass the requirement to move from a 4A to a 5A school. When moving to a higher division, a school will play against teams with more people.

According to junior Kobe Johnson, the players will need to make more effort and to focus more because it might be tough at the beginning. In order to accommodate for the tougher competition, the athletes train harder, starting in the preseason.

According to Johnson, the players have open gyms on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but he puts in the extra effort to train by

himself.

“Personally, I do workouts pretty much every day,” Johnson said.

Others, like senior Stedman Clark, are currently playing a sport which helps them prepare for the coming basketball season. In addition, they also go to the gym to work out.

“After the basketball open gyms, me and my friends… go back in the gym and just go at it,” Clark said.

Combining training and a positive mindset, the athletes push into the basketball season.

“I think the season is going to be pretty good.,” Johnson said. “It might be a little tough at the beginning because we’re a 5A school now, so we’re playing hard teams… but it should be a pretty de-

cent season.”

According to Johnson, the basketball team will take it game by game, and they will give all that they have to meet the demands of newer and tougher competition, but the most important part is to go and have fun.

“I expect a 100 percent effort because it’s gonna be really hard this year since we’re [a] 5A school this year, so we need to give it all we got,” Johnson said. “[We need to] just go out there and have fun.”

The team only had two games last year, so they couldn’t accomplish what they want. The team hopes that they can make it farther this year than they did last year, starting by training in the preseason.

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PHOTO BY NYAH PHENGSITTHY

FREE. Junior Andi Fox competes in the freestyle event at a home meet two seasons ago. She hopes with upcoming freshmen and continuing swimmers, they’ll be able to move past the hardships of 5A, and go to states.

TWO. Junior Josh Lichti shoots for a two during a game against Spotswood High School. The basketball team has been putting in extra pre-season effort to try and make up for a disappointing previous season.

The Newsstreak

October 26, 2017

Humans of HHS-B12

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.

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Freshman Caroline Campbell

Freshman Mariel Joven

“How did you feel when you saw your name up on the One Act’s cast list?”

“I felt really shocked because I didn’t even know I was going to get in in the first place and I didn’t even know I was going to get a role. I screamed at the top of my lungs when I saw that I was on the cast list.”

Why did you dress up for decades day?

“Everytime we have something like this in all of my other schools I’ve just gone hardcore 80s and I’m not planning on stopping now.”

Why the 80s?

“It’s easy to do I feel like, lots of neon, weird clothes and my mom has lots of jewelry [for the theme].”

Sophomore Assma Ali

“What is your happy place?”

“I would say outside.”

“Why do you like being outside?”

“I like to look at nature. “

Freshman Lana Ali

“[My outfit] represents beauty, how we’re all different and having fun, because we usually wear these to parties.”

Senior Michael Sy “I am from Germany, I was born in Germany [and lived there for] 16 years.”

What does your country mean to you?

“It means home because I compare the culture to myself. I live the culture.”

What aspects of the culture do you identify with?

“The traditions at home, the food, the things you do with your family and friends, [especially] Oktoberfest.”

Junior Phillip Duong What country are you representing today?

“Vietnam, my parents are from there.”

How has that culture affected you?

“Well I haven’t really been that close to my culture and traditions and today I decided to bring that closer together.”

Senior Juan Romero

Why are you wearing Hawaiian stuff today?

“Because I look nice in this shirt. I’ve been wanting to wear this shirt for awhile and today was the day to bring it out.”

Romero got his shirt from Pacsun.

Do you think it’s important to show school spirit and why?

“It just shows you as an individual, [and that you] think your school is up there, that you like being a Bluestreak.”

Senior Rebekah Vaughan and Junior Kenth Bustillo Why are you dressed up and where did you get your outfit from?

“I bought the leis at Party City, and I just got a dress out of my closet. It’s important to me to participate in school events and just be a part of what’s going on.”

Photos by Olivia Comer, Christa Cole, Mia Constantin & Hannah Miller