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Harrisonburg High School • 1001 Garbers Church Road • Harrisonburg, VA 22801 • 540.433.2651 • Volume XIIC • Issue 1• September 25, 2014

HHS welcomes new principal Mia Karr Editor-in-Chief

PHOTO BY BRENNA COWARDIN

An unfamiliar voice traveled through the intercom to greet students on the first day of school this year. After a moment of confusion, it became clear that the voice belonged to new principal, Cynthia Prieto. Although taking charge of an unfamiliar school with over 1400 students might intimidate some, Prieto is eager to jump right into the HHS community.

“I’m not [nervous]. I’m excited,” Prieto said. “I was nervous moving down here because I didn’t know anybody. But people have been so open and so welcoming that I don’t feel that way anymore.”

School principal isn’t the only job that Prieto is qualified for. In fact, she holds three degrees from Michigan State University; Spanish with a teaching certificate and a business minor, English with a writing emphasis, and math with a teaching

HARD AT WORK. Principal Cynthia Prieto works in her new office. Prieto joins HHS this year after serving as assistant principal at Lake Braddock High School in Fairfax County.

Alumnus wins theater award

Faith Runnells Managing Editor HHS alumni Josh Marin, graduated 2008, has recently been nominated by the Richmond theater critics for awards “Best Actor” and “Best Supporting Actor” in two different musicals in Richmond, VA. Marin’s musical career began his sophomore year of high school, when HHS fine arts teacher Swartz cast him in the musical Seussical with the part of a wickersham brother.

“Considering everything going on in theater in Richmond, [the nomination is] a big deal,” Swartz said.

Swartz saw Marin’s potential right away.

“I kept expanding his role a little bit [in Seussical] where I could because everything he did was interesting,” Swartz said.

Marin was a standout student to Swartz even as a sophomore in high school.

“Josh was a great guy to work with. He always took things seriously, in a good way.

He had a lot of a good sense of humor and he was a lot of fun, but he always worked really hard and tried really hard at everything he did,” Swartz said.

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HHS Media brings journalism staffs together Victoria Giron Feature editor

This new school year marked some big changes for the journalism department at HHS. The different media at HHS merged as one to become HHS Media.

HHS Media is a collaborative journalistic effort between broadcasting, newspaper, and yearbook. All three organizations are going to tell stories through pictures, video, text stories, social media, and more.

The stories will be accessible to anyone through its website HHSmedia.com.

Although HHS Media is mostly run by the students who are a part of broadcast, Newsstreak and yearbook, Valerie Kibler, the adviser for Newsstreak, was the mastermind behind the creation of HHS Media.

“I got the idea from Sarah Nichols in California and Mark Newton in Colorado who both instituted it with their schools and to the best of my knowledge, there are not a whole lot of schools in the country doing it,” Kibler said.

After coming up with the idea, Kibler ran the idea by the yearbook adviser Mary Strickler and the broadcasting adviser, Seth Stratford.

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PHOTO BY MIA KARR

ON THE JOB. Senior Newsstreak editor Ariel Vogel glances back at the marching band while junior Newsstreaker Austin Swift takes pictures and sophomore broadcast journalist Cedric Ansah takes video.

SCA plans for Olweus program starts anti-bullying initiative new school year “Everybody that works here has Brenna Cowardin been trained, except for the bus Editor-in-chief

Ariel Vogel Style Editor

At the end of last school year, HHS voted in a new team to lead the school. Senior Rozda Askari (president), junior Josh Byrd (vice president), junior Yasmine Rodriguez (secretary), junior Zahraa Saleh (treasurer) and junior Ayanna Shine (reporter) are the Student Council Association officers for the 2014-2015 school year. The SCA has one important plan for the this year: fun.

“I think we need to hype up the school a little bit more, [because] it’s very boring right now,” Rodriguez said. “School’s about academics, but we are kids.”

Askari and his team are, at the moment, focusing mostly on homecoming, which will take place on Oct 4. “[I want] to have one of the best homecomings we’ve ever had. I have plans [for] doing things that are different, because if we keep everything the same as we have it’ll still be lame,” Aksari said. Byrd added that they’re in a bit of a time crunch.

“It’s very stressful; we’re about a month

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CIRCLE OF TRUST. Male members of symphonic band participate in their first Olweus community meeting during ELT.

On the Web Updated sports scores and schedules for all seasonal sports Feature package stories and extended coverage of print packages Advertising forms and information Breaking news from school and the community Video footage of sports Variety of reviews and blogs Up-to-date gas prices in the area

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program isn’t just another lecture based band-aid for the real issue.

According to guidance counselor David Ward, it’s a culture-changing, community-building phenomenon proven through research to be effective. Ward helped begin the program last spring.

“I think I’m just excited for the students to walk down the hallways and feel secure,” Ward said.

“For somebody in my role, I don’t have a lot of students who come to talk to me about how great their walk down the hall was.”

The Coordinating Committee, made up of students, teachers community members and parents, is at the forefront of the Olweus program. All of them attended a two-day session this summer to be trained in their roles. In turn, they trained HHS staff right before school started.

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drivers and the cafeteria staff, and they will be doing their own separate training,” Ward said.

Senior Alexa Baiges, a member of the Coordinating Committee, enjoyed the learning she found in the training sessions.

“I think the best part [of the experience so far] was that we had to attend a two-day training, and at first we were all really confused and we didn’t know what it was,” Baiges said. “Then we had to train the teachers two weeks later, and it was really cool to see how all of us got it and were able to explain it to them, and they were just as lost as we were when they started, but at the end, they got it, too.”

The Olweus program is based in “classroom meetings” which spread primarily a message of bullying prevention.

“The biggest part of the program is classroom meetings, and

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Coming Up Interview with author and alumni Josh Sundquist Fall sports coverage Club news Comparison of local foods Extended learning time update Debate and Forensics Reviews Columns and editorials Humans of HHS feature

September 25, 2014

News Briefs ELT ELT will be held every Thursday of this year. Olweus anti-bullying training will take place during ELT. Senior Picture Retakes Picture retakes for seniors will be held on October 1. Bring $10. Checks can be made out to Lifetouch Studios.

Key Club See Mr. Antonnicola for volunteer opportunities.

End of First 9 Weeks Oct. 23 will end the first nine weeks of the school year.

Greater Madison Scholarship Seniors attending JMU next fall should stop by guidance to apply for the Greater Madison Scholarship.

VAHLEN Scholarship Program Students who are of Latino/ Hispanic heritage with a 2.5 GPA may apply for the VAHLEN scholarship. You can apply on https://www.eventbrite. com/e/2014-valhen-scholarship-application-tickets-11025273891.

The Christian Connector Students can request information for this scholarship on www.ChristianConnector.com to enter in a drawing for $2,500 in scholarship money.

Homecoming Dance Tickets Homecoming tickets are available in room 437, tickets are $15 per person. They’re available before and after school. The dance will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4 from 8-11 p.m. in the gym commons. Dress is semi-formal.

The theme is Back to the Future and music will be provided by The Party Cartel. Spirit Days will be: Monday - Hat Day; Tuesday - Sports Day; Wednesday - Decades Day; Thursday - Culture Day; Friday - Red Out Day

Olweus student ambassadors will help lead class meetings in ELT OLWEUS from A1 they’ll be focused on topics like bullying or mental health issues, but really it’s going to be what the students want to talk about,” Ward said. “It shouldn’t be about what I or any other adult think should be talked about.”

Baiges also sees the program as more than just anti-bullying.

“It’s not necessarily anti-bullying. If we’re all friends, you can’t really bully your friends. If the school as a whole is a community, the atmosphere will be a lot better,” Baiges said.

Student involvement is key if the program is to succeed, and luckily, a lot of positivity has come from its introduction into HHS culture.

“So far [the student body reaction] has been really positive. We have 60 students saying they want to be involved one way or another,” Ward said. “I’ve heard a lot of students in passing saying, ‘I’ve heard this is really cool. It’s something that I want to get involved in, something I support.’”

Baiges sees this school-wide acceptance of the Olweus program as the starting point.

“A lot of things can be prevented in this school if we’re all together in it,” Baiges said.

The Olweus Coordinating Committee and Student Ambassadors will be planning events every month to spread awareness of their message, and classroom meetings will be held during Extended Learning Time. The first meeting will occur on Sept.

11.

Change however, will not come in a month, or even this year. According to Ward, building a community takes time.

“It’s something that is starting and that we’re really committed to... what I’ve told a lot of seniors that I’ve talked to is that they may not see a change by the time they leave [HHS] because building a community, changing a culture is a really hard thing to do, but what I would hope is that when they come back it will be this beautiful thing, and they get to say, ‘I started that.’”

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HHSmedia.com begins its inaugural year thought that the collaboration was a great idea.

“I think we can help the newspaper out by getting a lot of pictures,” Strickler said.

After running the idea by the advisers, Kibler ran the idea by the Newsstreak print editor-in chiefs Mia Karr and Brenna Cowardin and the online editor-in-chief, Isabelle Burden.

“I was a little skeptical at first, I wasn’t sure it was going to work. But, once I heard more about it and once I heard more about how the process was, I got really excited because I like the idea that we’re going to cover more stories,” Cowardin said.

“It’s tough, but it’s fun and new and excitPHOTO BY MIA KARR ing and I’m really excitCAPTURE THE MOMENT. Yearkbook sports editor, junior ed to see how it takes Sophia Hartman, takes photographs of the Red Sea at the off. I hope it doesn’t football game against E.C. Glass on Sept. 30. Hartman is one crash and burn because of many newspaper, yearbook, and broadcasting students it could possibly do that, who are collaborating to bring multimedia stories to hhs- but we have a good staff media.com. behind us,” Burden said.

Strickler also broke the news to her edMEDIA from A1 itors and staff.

“They were real positive about it be“They’re excited about working with cause they felt that we could take our Newsstreak because they have really strengths and combine them and learn strong writers and because they know that from each other. Our newspaper could some of the things they’ve written in the learn more about shooting video and past could be improved, so they’re excited photos and the kids on the yearbook and to improve. They’re actually worried that broadcasting staffs could learn more about there is going to be so much stuff it’s not interviewing and putting together good going to fit in the yearbook, which is a good stories,” Kibler said. thing,” Strickler said.

Yearbook teacher Mary Strickler Yearbook co editor-in-chief, Meagan

Roberts reacted to the merger positively.

“I was actually really excited because when Strickler said that we were going to be sharing stories and pictures my first reaction was ‘Good, because I’m not good at writing stories.’ I’m really good at writing captions and lead-ins, but I get so off topic when writing stories,” Roberts said.

The editors of the media at HHS worked together over the summer and become more of a single group instead of multiple groups.

“Newsstreak and yearbook got a lot closer over jCamp,” Roberts said.

The editors of the media also decided how to set up for the year in the summer before school started.

“We set up with a lot of spreadsheets and documents and consulting with different teachers to make sure we don’t anger anybody with our ideas. We just recently had a meeting with the editorial board and we met with members of the administration to let them know what we’re doing,” Burden said.

HHS Media did its first collaborative effort at the first home football game of the year. People from all staffs pitched in to take pictures and write stories, as well as using social media. HHS Media plans to do more collaborative stories throughout the year.

“I think that we’re going to start slowly so that it is just one major story per week and we’ll build so that we’ll have multiple stories going on collaboratively,” Kibler said.

Although the editors and advisers have slightly different goals, they all have one common desire for HHS Media to take off and work.

“I’m looking to increase coverage and incorporate some of the new students because Newsstreak often assumes that freshmen know what to do and now we’re doing a lot more hands on stuff and helping them a lot more,” Burden said.

SCA officers prepare for homecoming dance SCA from A1 away from homecoming and we didn’t really do too much over the summer, so we’re really trying to find decorations, find a DJ, and just organize everything,” Byrd said.

The theme for the dance will be Back to the Future, based off of the 1980’s film franchise.

“So the main character is Marty McFly and the year he comes back to the future to is 2015, which is the year we graduate,” Askari said. He explained that the theme will be portrayed through bright, flashing lights and shiny decorations in general.

In addition to homecoming, spirit days are on the minds of the SCA officers. Askari also intends to make pep rallies more of an event.

For spirit days, the SCA plans on keeping the classics as well as bringing in some new themes.

“The one that stands out is culture day.

You’ll get to wear clothes from your certain

culture. We’re a diverse school so that [will be] good,” he said.

Byrd is the only member of SCA who has previously been on the council, and he feels good about this year’s group.

“This SCA from a race standpoint is more culturally diverse than it was last year. It [gives] new points of view because [in] the SCA prior to this year, we all [came] from similar backgrounds whereas [in] this SCA we’re getting new points of view and different perspectives and opinions on certain things,” Byrd said.

All of the members agree: the SCA is run more as a group discussion than as a hierarchy.

“Really, we all play the same role in SCA; it’s a group thing,” Rodriguez explained.

Saleh and Shine, however, take specific roles in the meetings.

“As the treasurer, I give as an opinion [ways] we can make things cheaper, better ways to [get things] for the school and also new activities,” Saleh said. Shine, as the reporter, documents items and records ma-

terials needed by the SCA. Obstacles are found in getting everything done and making everyone happy.

“The challenging part is to meet everyone’s [expectations], to make what [everyone wants happen]. Everyone has a different idea of what they want to have fun in the school and we can’t get to them all,” Saleh said.

Through the fun, the SCA officers hope to bring the school together and to make it a more enjoyable place for students to spend their days.

“Because our school is so diverse and [we] have little groups and cliques, we want everyone to band together and [everyone to] come to things like the Red Sea and tailgates,” Shine said. Essentially, this year’s SCA plans to please as many students as they can.

“I hope [for] people [to see] what I’m doing for them [and] appreciate it, and to accomplish things that people will like and have fun,” Saleh said.

Prieto eager to work with diverse student body PRINCIPAL from A1 in person rather than over the phone to get certificate and a computer science minor. She also holds a masters in Educational Leadership from George Mason University.

In the past, Prieto has taught high school Spanish and math. She decided to go into administration after receiving a scholarship to get her masters and discovering she liked the program. Before coming to HHS, Prieto was assistant principal at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia.

“I love the high school age. That’s my age group,” Prieto said.

Prieto was convinced to apply for the HHS job after doing research about Harrisonburg and the school and finding it was the perfect fit.

“The job description ended with a line that said ‘risk taker with a sense of humor’,” Prieto said. “And I thought ‘wow, this is not a stuffy job description. These people are unique’.”

Prieto applied first with an online application. Then she chose to do an interview

a feel for the place. Her first stop in Harrisonburg was the visitor’s center, where she found a walking stick as a present for her mother. She took this as a fortuitous omen and the interview went well.

HHS is a different school environment than Prieto is used to in some ways- Lake Braddock has 4100 students and a much less diverse student body. Prieto, who is fluent in Spanish (and has some experience with French, Korean, and Arabic), is excited to work with HHS’s large Hispanic population.

“I very much want to meet my students,” Prieto said. Before school started, Prieto met members of the band, football team, newcomer’s class, and Olweus program.

She plans to find opportunities throughout the school day to come in contact with her student body.

“I want everybody to know that I am open to having people approach me. So when I say open door to my office, I mean open door,” Prieto said.

Although Prieto is beginning a new chapter at HHS, she doesn’t plan on making any major changes. Her goals for the year are straightforward.

“I want this year to be successful for all of our students. I recognize that for each success might have a little bit of a different definition. I want this to be a place where students thrive,” Prieto said.

Senior Natnael T-Medhin is optimistic about the new principal “I think she wants the best for the school,” T-Medhin said. “She really listens to problems we have and she really listens to the students.”

T-Medhin cites Prieto’s willingness to bring back senior privileges as an example of her ability to listen to student concerns.

“She seems genuinely enthusiastic about working here,” T-Medhin said.

“I’m thrilled to be at Harrisonburg High School,” Prieto said. “I’m looking forward to working with my staff to serve the community in the best way we know how.”

Marin starred in musicals while at VCU AWARD from A1 since.

Marin’s junior and senior year he was then cast major roles in the musical, his junior year being Bill Sikes in Oliver, and his senior year being the Beast in Beauty and the Beast.

“Those two roles put me in the position of like, this is something I really want to strive for, because I’ve seen success this far and so I want to continue seeing that and break my limits to see what I’m capable of,” Marin said.

Marin went on after high school to go to Virginia Commonwealth University, and continued his acting career in many VCU performances, including Chicago and Grease, in which he performed the main role alongside his good friend also from HHS, Drew Sease. He then graduated VCU in 2012 and has been working on his acting

“I think HHS helped develop him because we took his talent seriously and we gave him opportunities and worked with him to give him the foundation to the success that he had at VCU,” Swartz said.

VCU further attributed his acting career, opening him up to more acting opportunities and knowledge, more about acting in general, rather than any specific role or type of acting.

“VCU taught me a lot of things… the business side of acting, how to get more in touch with my emotional side as far as being on stage, I also did some film stuff with them. They kind of made me a jack-of-alltrades,” Marin said.

Swartz credits Marin’s acting success to his consistent hard work and persistence.

“He’s very charismatic on stage. He’s got a lot of stage presence. He’s not afraid to commit and he’s not afraid to let loose

when he needs to… He’s willing to really work hard, and that’s huge,” Swartz said.

Marin finds many values in acting, to him and the audience both. He says he wants his audience to be a part of the show, rather than just watching it from the seats.

“I don’t want them to just be spectators.

I feel like there’s more of a connection if they’re a part of it and not just watching.

That’s one of the things I think is really cool about theater and that’s why I love it so much,” Marin said. “[Acting is] something I’ve always had a passion to do and kind of has always been a part of me.”

The results of the awards Marin is nominated for will be presented on Oct. 19.

“Even if a person has talent, if they don’t work, it doesn’t go very far. And he worked, so the doors are opening up for him,” Swartz said.

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September 25, 2014

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New faculty members join HHS family

Cast of new employees add to depth of already rich teaching environment Interviews by Marley Adamek, Nicholas Deutsch, Naomi Gelberg-Harmaier, Randee Rose Joven, Isaiah King, and Lucie Rutherford

John Garasimowicz

Claire Leeper

Nikki Wellington

Elisha Hiser

Q: What classes do you teach/what is your job?

A: Right now I teach Technology Foundations, Technology Transfer, and Architectural Drawing Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This is my 25th year Q: Where did you attend college?

A: Central Connecticut State University in Industrial Education, 1997 Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: Most definately my students, I learn something from them everyday Q: What extra currics did you do in high school?

A: Cross Country; I was the third best in the state. Not much aside from that. I worked to save up for college Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Motorcycling, I like muscle cars. I fish, hunt and restore cars too. A very hands on guy Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: Took a long motorcycle ride with friends I haven’t seen or ridden with for 25 years.

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: I am a band director and I teach concert band, and music theory, and piano Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This is my seventh year teaching and my first year at Harrisonburg.

Q: Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

A: I went to JMU. Go Dukes! And I majored in music education.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: I love the moment when you finally make pretty music. When everything clicks and we sound like a group.

Q: What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: I was on the dive team, and I did gymnastics. I was a competitive kick boxer. Obviously I was in band. I was on the newspaper staff and I was the business person for the yearbook.

Q: What is your spirit animal?

A: I’m going to go with a kangaroo.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Play with my son; he just turned nine months.

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: Algebra 1 and Honors Pre-Calculus Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This is my first year.

Q: Where did you go to college? What did you major in?

A: Undergrad at JMU. Majored in Math and Anthropology. I went to grad school at Vanderbilt University and got my master’s in education.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: I love the energy that students bring into the classroom and helping them direct that towards math, and appreciating how awesome it is.

Q: What extracurricular activities did you do in high school?

A: Volleyball, musical theater and I sang.

Q: What is your spirit animal?

A: Gorillas. They are my favorite animal.

They’re amazing and one of my favorite things I studied in college.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I cook, do crafts to put around my house, and I like spend a lot of time with family and friends.

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: Algebra 1, Computer Math, and AP Computer Science Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: 3 days!

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: The students keep things ever changing, and you can’t get bored with ever changing students.

Q: What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: Baseball, Cross Country, and VACE (Valley Academic Competition for Excellence) Q: What is your spirit animal?

A: A sloth!

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Play with my kids, 2 boys. We go to the Massanutten Water Park, Kings Dominion, and the park Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I went to Kings Dominion repeatedly with my kids. I had a blast!

Q: What is your guilty pleasure song or TV show?

A: I’d say Big Bang Theory

Joe Amend

Eric Miller

Paige Vass

Anne Landes

Q: What is your job?

A: I’m the new assistant principal, so I’m not teaching any classes, but I am working with the math department, the health and P. E. department, and the custodians.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: I taught for two years here at Harrisonburg High School from 2001 to 2006, then I left education and was a financial advisor for four years. Then I came back and taught middle school math at Skyline from 2010 to 2014, and now I’m here.

Q: Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

A: I went to James Madison University and I was a major in math and finance with a concentration in statistics.

Q: What is your favorite part of your job?

A: The fact that I get to see and deal with a lot of teachers and a lot of students on a daily basis.

Q: What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: I played soccer, I ran track, and my main sport was wrestling, and I did that in college as well.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Help coach my kids’ sports and watch them play sports and work out in the yard and that’s about it.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I went to the beach twice, once with family, once with friends. Probably the friends trip was the best, we had four families that went, we got a big house.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure song?

A: Baby by Justin Bieber.

classes.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This is my eighth year.

Q: Is this your first year at HHS? A: This is my first year back. I was here my first year then I was gone for six years in between at Keister, Smithland, Thomas Harrison and Stone Spring Elementary.

Q: Where did you go to college?

A: JMU Q: What do you major in?

A: Education.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: My relationship with my students, and summer!

Q: What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: Drama, field hockey, and yearbook. And I was in the choir.

Q: What is your spirit animal?

A: I’m going to go with a butterfly.

Q: Why? A: They’re beautiful, fragile, and strong.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Hang out with my kids and travel.

Q: Where do you travel?

A: This summer I traveled a lot to Florida.

We like to go to the beach but pretty much anywhere as a family.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: Two weeks at Myrtle Beach with my husband and kids.

Jenny Rodriguez

Michael O’Conner

Wesley Livick

Christy Norment

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: I teach the Foundations of Art Course this semester, and next semester I’ll be teaching Art One. It’s just a basic art class of painting, drawing, sculptures, and things like that.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: I graduated from EMU in 2003. Then lived in the Dominican Republic from 20032014. I just came here two months ago so I taught K-12 art there for 11 years. I was married in 2012 to a Dominican so we decided to move back to Harrisonburg because I’m from Fort Defiance, Mount Sidney area.

Q: What did you major in?

A: Art Education. Now I’m studying at Shenandoah University getting masters in TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), masters of Science and Education, which is teaching ESL. Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: I think what really interests me is where kids come from, what they’re about as a person. Then the art side of it, I just really love to see kids get excited about what they can do, then go beyond that and really just become an artist that enjoys.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I love to hike, explore the outdoors. I love camping. I like to cook and hanging out with friends and family. Of course I like to paint and draw, and sing.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I moved back to the United States, that was pretty big. And I got a job at Harrisonburg High school, that was super exciting.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure TV show?

A: I like Project Runway, Chopped and the Office.

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: I teach geometry, double-block. One of the sections of geometry is the MTC geometry as well, and I teach AFDA. Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This will be my seventh year in education.

Q: Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

A: I went to college at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. My actual college degree, I majored in finance and accounting, and I minors in economics. I went back to school to get my teaching certificate in secondary mathematics. So, technically, my college degree is in business with an accounting and finance major.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A:My favorite part of being a teacher is that “ah ha” moment whenever I see a kid that’s struggling and all of a sudden they get it, and it just makes all the struggles you go through worthwhile. And also that, on top of that, I love interacting with high school students.

Q: What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: I was in the German club, and the ski club.

Q: What is your spirit animal?

A: A cat.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I spend time with my family. I love to read, swim and make the attempt to golf at times.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: We went on vacation to Cape Cod. Q: What is your guilty pleasure song or tv show?

A: Family Guy. My wife hates me watching that show.

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: First block Virginia and U.S History. I have planning second block, and third and fourth block is U.S Government.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This is my first year ever.

Q:Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

A: JMU. I got Bachelors Degree in History, and then I got my Masters in The Art of Teaching.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher so far?

A: Being able to interact with adolescents in a daily basis. That sounds maybe cliche, but I’m an extrovert, I get energy off of human interaction, so I enjoy that. Getting to tell people about history, which I really enjoy, is fun too.

Q:What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: I did football. I did tennis. I did basketball, I wasn’t any good. I was a part of my church youth group and within that we did volunteer work at the local, it’s called Valley Mission. It’s like a homeless shelter, it’s a bed and breakfast. I still do that.

Q:What is your spirit animal?

A: I’ve actually done this, I’ve actually taken a test, I think I’m an otter. We had to take an animal personality test in college.

Q:What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I didn’t have to work this summer, so I got to hang out with my two boys. Which was extremely fun, and I also went on a 25 mile canoe trip on the James River.

Q: How old are your boys?

A: Five, the five year old is Ben, and the youngest one is Handley and he’s three.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Canoeing, grilling, and hanging out with friends and family.

Q: What is your job?

A: I am a school counselor, also known as a guidance counselor.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: I taught in South Korea for a year, and I taught as a long-term substitute for a year at Keister ,and then I taught first grade at Stone Spring for two years. I’ve been a guidance counselor for one month.

Q: Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

A: I went to JMU both times, I majored in psychology the first time, and school counseling the second time, in grad school.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a school counselor?

A: My favorite part is getting to know the students and seeing the whole picture of their lives, not just one piece, like academics, I get to look at their entire picture of well-being and try to work with that.

Q: What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: I was a cheerleader, I ran track, played softball, I rowed crew for a while, I was the school secretary. I also did some service wih fraternities.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I mostly take care of my children. I was at home with them for the first five years when I had my first baby. Mr. Norment and I like to take the kids hiking, go to the pool, and mountain biking. I also run a lot, jog a lot, dancing in the kitchen with socks on, we have really slippery floors.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I would say going to the beach, because my five year old, Elliot, was really into it. He didn’t want to eat, or sleep, or anything.

He just wanted to be on the beach, and it was so fun to watch.

Q: What class do you teach/your job?

A: Two STEM Engineering classes. Parttime job.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: A lot of parts of my

adult life.

Q: Where did you go to college? What did you major in?

A: I graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Civil Engineering.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: It’s the opportunity to interact with students and I’m still in the process of learning too. I can learn a lot more.

Q: What extracurricular activities did you do in high school?

A: I was in the band and I ran cross-country.

Q: What is your spirit animal?

A: None.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Several hobbies: like reading, whittling wood, and just working with my hands.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I had the opportunity to spend the whole summer with my wife.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure, song or TV show?

A: guilty pleasure: desserts; song: variety of music like bluegrass and gospel. TV show: doesn’t watch much television.

More: I retired from the Air Force after a 30-year Air Force career. After finishing grad school, I went in to the Air Force. I received an ROTC commission and I spent four years in the Corps of Cadets [in VT] down in Blacksburg. I was also a member of the university’s marching band. Retired from a 30-year Air Force career.

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: I am a new Special education resource teacher. I teach an academic lab and support students in all general education

Q: What classes do you teach?

A: Online courses for Virtual Virginia and PLATO. Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This will be my 15th year. I spent 14 years at Luray High School.

Q: Why after spending 14 years at Luray did you come here?

A: I wanted to be closer to home and be on the same schedule as my kids. I am glad to back as a Blue Streak.

Q: Where did you go to college, and what did you major in?

A: I went to Marshall University. I majored in Sports Medicine and P.E Q:What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: Just being with the kids.

Q:What extracurriculars did you do in high school?

A: I graduated from Harrisonburg High School in 1992 and I did a track, basketball, drama club, band, and I was a Student Athletic Trainer.

Q:What is your spirit animal?

A:Probably a dog.

Q:What do you do in your free time?

A: I have 2 kids so they keep my busy. I pretty much entertain them. We do some traveling. They like to play sports too.

Q:What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: We went to the beach and Sea World.

Q:What is your guilty pleasure song or TV show?

A: I like “Let It Go” from Frozen. My T.V show is and older show, Dallas, and it’s back on again on TNT.

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September 25, 2014

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high school?

A: Not that many because of an afterschool job as wells as on the weekends but, I was in the musical my senior year, 42nd Street.

I was in chorus, too.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I enjoy spending time with my daughter, and being outside.

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: I dug up the sod in my yard and planted a perennial garden Q: What is your guilty pleasure song or TV show?

A: I love crime TV, not true crime, but crime dramas! You name a crime drama on Mainstream TV and I’ve watched it.

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on. The ‘aha’ moment. Seeing the light bulb above their head. That’s really exciting for me.

Q: What extracurricular activities did you do in high school?

A: Gymnastics, Tennis, Dance, Choir and musicals.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Hanging out with friends and going to the movies (romantic comedies, sci-fi and action.)

Q: What is your favorite thing you did this summer?

A: Living in Morocco. I went to Chefchaouen for my last trip.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure, song or TV show?

A: Guilty pleasure: French fries with salt; song: Emotional Girl - Terri Clark (“my theme song”) TV show: Numbers and Project Runway

Q: What classes do you teach/what is your job?

A: English 9, English 10, and also Team Teach 12 Concepts Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: This is my 12th year Q: Where did you attend college?

A: William and Mary University Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: Being in the classroom with the kids interacting and getting them to think and express themselves to watch them grow Q: What extra curricularss did you do in

Q: What class do you teach/your job?

A: Algebra 1.

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: 15 years - in California, Morocco (in Africa for 3 years),

and Liberia.

Q: Where did you go to college? What did you major in?

A: California Baptist University for bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. And University of New England for master’s degree in Mathematical Strategies.

Q: What is your favorite part of being a teacher?

A: I like it when students suddenly catch

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NEWSSTREAK STAFF EDITORIAL The staff of the Newsstreak is excited to announce a new partnership with the Taj and WSBC programs of HHS. All three media teams have joined together to form HHS Media, a collaborative effort that combines the talents of all journalism students in the school to bring better content to you, our audience.

The purpose of this partnership is not to eliminate the separate identities of the three programs. In fact, much will stay the same. The newspaper, yearbook, and broadcast classes will still separately produce the monthly paper, annual yearbook, and daily broadcast, respectively. However, newsstreak. com has a new look. The website,

renamed hhsmedia.com, will feature content from newspaper, yearbook, and broadcast journalists. HHS Media members will also be reporting via facebook, twitter, instagram, and vine.

The main objective of HHS Media is to combine the strengths of our programs to both cover news better and become better journalists. In the professional world of journalism, it is not enough to be able to do one thing; we must be writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and social media gurus. No one is expected to become an expert in all these areas, but we hope that every journalism student will be exposed to them and find something one thing they are passionate about.

Our “all hands on deck” approach also allows us to cover more aspects of an event. It is our goal to

cover one event a week through articles, photos, video, and social media. With the participation of newspaper, yearbook, and broadcasting students, we can cover multiple angles without too much strain on any one reporter. These multimedia packages will appear regularly on hhsmedia.com This is a new experience for all of us, and we’re still learning how to work together as one HHS Media

team. We are trendsetters in that this is not something many scholastic journalism programs around the country are doing. There will likely be some kinks along the way, but we look forward to finding new ways to make our content and coverage better. We hope that you, our readers, will delve into this new journey with us and ultimately enjoy the ride.

WHAT IS THE STAFF EDITORIAL? The unsigned staff editorial appears in each issue and reflects the majority opinion of the Newsstreak Staff Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is comprised of all editors-in-chief, page editors, advertising managers, photographers and selected freshman journalism students. In no way does our opinion reflect that of the school system or the administration.

Summer vacation with family goes awry Mia Karr Editor-in-Chief

were in fact, for my grandmother.

For those of you who are new around here, my grandmother is not really the unassuming milk and cookSome families frolic all day ies type. She’s more the “call 911 in the ocean when they go to when your having a minor emergency the beach. Mine gets tested for to get attention” type. So, early that MRSA together. morning, she informed my mother My sister has a rare gift for that she had called an ambulance becontracting medical ailments, The Mia cause her stomach was hurting. The so it honestly wasn’t too much Perspective call had already been made, so all my of a surprise when my mom remom could do was follow behind the ambuceived a call from the doctor saying her test relance in her car and roll her eyes as my grandsults had come back and she had an infection mother was carried out on a totally unnecessary mostly found in nursing homes. Since she didn’t stretcher. actually feel sick anymore, it was probable that Seeing as she was already at the hospital she was just a carrier. But an antibiotic was prewaiting for my grandmother, my mom thought scribed and a pallor of sickness fell over our it would be a great idea for the rest of the family beach house. to get tested for MRSA. So my dad and I drove The next morning, I woke up to find that only to Atlantic General- which, oddly enough, is not my dad was at home. Upon questioning him, I the name of a hospital in a soap opera- to have found that I, too, have a rare gift- I had managed the pleasure of waiting a few millenniums to to sleep through several ambulances and fire get our throat swabbed by a very sympathetic trucks arriving at the house early that morning. nurse.

No, they weren’t for my sister. (Gotcha!) They

“Having to go to the doctor on your vacation is rough, huh?” she said. I nodded. But it’s not as if I was all surprised.

My family has a storied history of vacation disasters. One summer my sister got bitten by my grandmother’s dog- while I was getting my thumb x-rayed at the hospital because I had slammed it in the car door the day before. Later on that trip we got into a minor car accident.

That was the worst time, but my sister usually gets sick, I usually have a small existential crisis, and we usually make a few new pals in the medical profession.

Since I’m sure you’re dying to know the verdict, the rest of my family was MRSAless.

The gods of vacation are also merciless. If I’ve learned anything this summer, it’s that I should never go anywhere. Never leave my house, actually. That’s solid advice for anyone. The world is a scary place and you can easily find yourself on the receiving end of a throat swab. So, stay at your house and out of school, don’t do drugs or anything ever, and have a fantastic year.

Work in retail teaches many life lessons Julexus Cappell Online editor-in-Chief Almost every shift I work I contemplate screaming ‘I quit’ and walking out of the building. But, that would be unbelievably stupid… right? I mean it’s not like working retail is similar to constructing rockets.

I actually have a job most teenagers would dream of. Not too many hours so you still have time to do what you actually want to do.

Enough hours to pay for gas, food, and whatever else. Above both of those, I have learned five key things by working for a multi-million dollar retail store that without a doubt will reappear in my life again.

Whether I be the one in front or behind the counter. Here are the lessons learned: 1. Yes means absolutely, no means maybe.

I am the caWorking with 60 plus shier who offers other associates, I have an enticing deal met a plethora of personalof possibly (yes, ities. Your typical jocks who possibly) saving need a seasonal job. Future 10 percent off politicians, future alcoholof your purchase ics. Future teachers, the by signing up person constantly looking for a credit card. for the next party. I guess a Just Julexus person never truly escapes When I hear ‘I’m not interested’, I hear just that. But high school in the retail world. according to every other associate 4. If you’re wrong, you’re wrong. on register with me they hear a If you’re right, you are still wrong.

‘Maybe, if I offer it six other differEven if you don’t work retail, we ent ways, they’ll give in.’ all know the phrase ‘The customer 2. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If it is always right’, which is awesome is, well… put it out anyway. when you are the consumer. Work“Hey management. This wa- er? Not so much. 95 percent of the ter bottle is missing its lid. Where negative encounters you will inevshould I throw it away?” itably deal with are your fault. We “No, no! Just put it back out on don’t have another shirt in that size the floor, someone will buy it.” equates to ‘She probably didn’t Enough said. even go look for it.’ We don’t have 3. Working retail = high school something in general? ‘She is prowithin the real world? viding terrible service.’

5. Be happy. Well, look happy or be unemployed.

You could have the worst day of your life, I mean like you spilled coffee all over your car, followed by a train causing you to be 15 minutes late, to then find out your pet died, and then to realize said coffee not only spilled all over your car seats, it also got on your phone, causing it to malfunction. But when you finally do get behind that register, trying to prevent a mental breakdown, you had better look like this is the best career path ANYONE could take and your face is in a permanent Botox-plastered smile, or be reprimanded.

And these, ladies and gentlemen, are the five top lessons that come to mind when reflecting on my retail experience. Don’t let me scare you off, it certainly not the worst job you can hold– it does come with a discount.

Internet sexism reveals much about society Evan Dotas Feature editor While we all know that the internet is home to some very creepy people, a 4chan user decided to reinforce that reputation by leaking numerous explicit photos and videos of celebrities.

Unlike other times where naked celebrity pictures have been leaked, the majority of these are believed to be legitimate and not photoshopped. That simple fact makes this situation all the more serious.

You see, what this means is some guy put in a massive amount of effort to do this. He stalked phones, emails, any form of communication that these women used and discovered long-since deleted pictures.

This reveals a lot of things about today’s society.

First of all, it proves that nothing is ever deleted. Although it is

true that the snapchat is a daughter, a you sent last month friend, a sister, where your hair was reand above all ally frizzy probably won’t else, a human resurface, that’s just bebeing. One who cause you aren’t a giant has dignity and figure to the public. self-respect.

Since these celebrities Of course, it are so popular, people isn’t wise to take Seven with actually care that much these pictures in Evan about finding their perthe first place. sonal pictures. A bit of But that doesn’t hard work, some impressive hack- mean that we shouldn’t respect ing skills and a primitive sex drive their rights. While the pictures are and this is what happens. public the moment they hit send, This also shows how much we they were intended for one person separate celebrities from human- and one person only. ity. We can’t dare to imagine that Imagine getting on the comMcKayla Maroney has intimate epi- puter and finding that your naked sodes. We worship these people on photos, intended for your boythe screens, but if they do some- friend or girlfriend, were trending thing personal like this we think on Twitter or were the front story that they’re immoral. on a celebrity website. Imagine It also becomes clear how disre- the shame you would feel that spectful some people are. By dehu- your friends are laughing at your manizing these celebrities, people embarrassment. think that a naked photo is just eye Above all, this just adds to the candy. But in reality, that woman numerous offenses that internet

users have committed against women. The men who post these pictures and view them feel entitled to seeing these actresses naked, feel like they deserve to look where only the “luckiest” have ever looked. But if you have to dig up pictures deleted from years ago that were never meant to go to you, maybe this isn’t something you should be seeing in the first place.

This behavior isn’t just demeaning towards celebrities; it is demeaning to women in general.

It makes the point that your body, your privacy is a prize for a treasure hunt into the trash of the cyberworld. No matter who your pictures are intended for, we will find them if we want them. Because, in the end, the men get to decide whose information that is. Your rights, your privacy, your self-respect do not matter.

So to everyone out there, watch out. Your privacy may not be as private as you think.

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September 25, 2014

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Olweus Anti-Bullying Every couple weeks we get to sit down and have a safe and informative discuss about the effects of bullying while building communities Yogurt Bar The cafeteria has added a delicious yogurt bar with a variety of toppings. Lines have been long.

Homecoming On Oct. 4, the annual homecoming dance will be held with a Back to the Future theme Girl’s XC Both varsity and jv teams have been taking home a large number of first place trophies.

Marching Band The marching band’s half-time show is spectacular. They had their first competition on Sept. 20.

The Maze Runner The movie The Maze Runner came out on Sept. 19.

Shake It Off Taylor Swift’s new single Shake It Off is number one on the iTunes top charts. Swift is coming back to the forefront after much touring overseas.

High-Waisted shorts Teens everywhere are wearing high-waisted shorts, reversing the former hip-hugger trend.

TV Shows Many new shows and returning favorites are premiering this week.

NOT U2 Album on Your Phone U2 uploaded their new album directly to everyone’s iTunes. It got mixed reviews and several people want it removed.

Obama begins ISIS attacks Another war across the Atlantic.

This time to remove another terrorist group displeased with the U.S. College Applications Apps fill college-seekers’ lives. No essay is good enough, no activity prestigious enough and we really shouldn’t be procrastinating...

ISIS beheading of journalists The terrorist group has done terrible acts against innocent people. News stations leaking these videos are almost as bad.

Ignore No More This app allows your parents to disable your phone whenever they want.

Summer Ending All we have left from Summer 2014 are pictures and memories.

Now we have school to worry about.

Robin Willams’ Death One of the greatest and most influential actors in history committed suicide this summer after battling with severe depression.

Joan Rivers Death The actress, comedian extraordinary, died in early September while in surgery.

Jennifer Lawernce Nude Pics A few celebrities had nude photos leaked all over the internet.

Don’t look! Doing so is an act of sexual violence.

Anaconda Music Video The popular music video is nothing more than an excellent display of the vulgarity in our society.

NFL reactions Is it too little too late when it comes to punishments for domestic abuse?

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Summer movies impress Mestre Eddie Mestre Opinion Editor There is only one good thing about summer coming to a close. And that is, of course, being able to reflect on this year’s summer movies. 2014 was a year of some greats, some not-so-greats and some really weirds; fortunately for you I am here to discuss my list of the top summer movies of 2014. I highly recommend all the titles being mentioned!

5. Snowpiercer. Harrisonburg is a pretty great place, but it’s also relatively small, and as a consequence of this, we only see larger films. We have to venture to NOVA or look really hard to find a diverse set of movie options. Though Snowpiercer never played in our local theater, it is a movie you can’t miss. In director Bong Joon-ho’s English-language debut, a scientific experiment to solve global climate change sends Earth into an ice age. Inhabitants of a massive train, the Snowpiercer, are the only survivors. Entertaining and philosophical this is a film that surely cannot be missed.

4. X-Men: Days of Future Past. The next film in the X-Men series, Days of Future Past outdoes all its predecessors. Epic and fast-paced, the reunion of some of the most beloved characters of the Marvel comics will not disappoint.

3. How to Tame Your Dragon This sequel belongs up there with Godfather 2 and Empire Strikes Back as one of the most brilliant in film histoEddie the Yeti ry. The breathtaking visuals, the stunning animation and the all-star cast make this movie a must see.

Everyone will enjoy this movie, despite its seemingly childish subject matter.

2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Speaking of sequels, this one also belongs with some of the greats. Epic in all senses of the word, you have to see this movie before the year ends. The performance of Andy Serkis, the visual effects and the plot make this movie stand-out among its peers.

1. Boyhood. There were a surprising number of good movies this summer, I must say. But none of them did to me what Boyhood did. Filmed over 12 years (20022014) using the same cast, this movie breaks away from all contemporary film.

The film follows the life of a young boy named Mason as he matures. It deals with a number of themes and touches base with all its viewers in some way. This movie will change how you look at all other movies.

Shaving legs gets teen thinking Ariel Vogel Feature Editor Every five days or so, I set aside 20 minutes to shave my legs. It could be bright and early (if I’m feeling enthusiastic about life), right before bed or in the middle of a lazy Saturday. Regardless of what time of day I choose to dehair myself, it’s a quick, painless process, with a positive result. I feel--and look--more presentable, because who wants to spend time with a blond gorilla?

My desire to skip the requisite 20-minute gap in my schedule and go hairy one week got me to thinking: What brought on this hairless fad for women in the United States?

Perhaps when skirts got shorter, women wanted to hide any masculinity their bodies might have produced. Maybe ladies decided they preferred the shiny look to the furry look. It could even be that women realized they had nice legs and there was no reason to hide them under a thick pelt of leg hair.

None of these possibilities led most directly to shaved legs, however. The real reason is much less that fashion happened and more that misogynistic men happened.

Or rather, French whores happened.

World War I brought American soldiers to the French cause. However, no one could expect these world-weary heroes to lounge around whilst scantily clad ladies of the night kept showing off their well-toned

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and well-shaved legs.

When the men nobly returned to their loving wives and kicked them back into the kitchen, they also subtly suggested a similar hairless technique for the bed-

room.

So, basically, modern American social expectations for women stem from a couple of horny soldiers with too much free time.

Which brings me to my second question: why should I continue shaving my legs?

What if I protested? What if I refused to assimilate to social norms and went hairy?

I have multiple close friends who have chosen this path, and I don’t think any less of them. In fact, besides occasionally being grossed out on those rare moments I come in contact with the legs, I have more respect for their small resistance to American culture.

And therein lies my answer. Social necessity for smooth legs has molded my mind into the belief that anything but is gross, uncomfortable, unpleasant to look at and unpleasant to feel.

Thus, I am left in a loop. A loop of not wanting to shave, of wanting to resist social norms, of wanting to break out of the mold, but also really not wanting to actually have hairy legs.

High metabolism causes problems Faith Runnells Managing editor It’s safe to assume most people in this world would like to eat endlessly without a weight change. I mean, it sounds good right? However, although it’s cliche, the grass really is always greener on the other side. I promise.

During soccer season of freshman year, I passed out in the middle of a game for what seemed to be no reason. As the circumstances called for, I was then taken to a doctor for the random collapse, and I was diagnosed with ‘hypermetabolism’, basically an extremely, almost dangerously, high metabolism.

What?

I had taken the fall during the game due to basically a lack of energy, because I hadn’t been eating enough. But the thing was, I was eating the exact same amount as everyone else on my team. So I couldn’t understand why I was the only one who was feeling the effect of this so-called lack of energy.

At first, I didn’t really understand it, but

as I have gotten older, I’m realizing my need for frequent food is much, much greater than anyone around me. And it kind of sucks.

Have Faith Most would think this is a blessing; something to cherish... but not really. My normal healthy day’s calories worth is a little over 3,000, over a third more than a typical girl my age. I have to eat something substantial about every two hours, or else I begin to get a killer headache that lasts for the remainder of the day. And in school, that’s rough.

I am basically required to bring food anywhere I go for more than an hour. For a typical school day, this includes two snacks (my go-tos are a PB&J sandwich and a container of grapes), along with purchasing a second breakfast and sometimes even two lunches. It also helps to stay hydrated, so I’ve cut soda out of my diet for over a year and try to always have a water bottle with me. It’s a hassle to even prepare all that food every day, let alone lug all those con-

Attacks on America cause unease Josh Byrd Online Editor It has been 13 years since Sept. 11, 2001 and America feels less safe than any time before according to a new NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll. In the poll, 47 percent of Americans said they feel less safe than anytime in the past.

Why is this? The effects of 9/11 are still present. Each of us feels insecure every time we go through security to board an airplane. But our concerns are not caused only by the events of that horrific day.

The Boston Marathon bombing also put Americans on edge because it was the first successful act of terrorism within the USA since Sept. 11. Failed acts of terrorism such as the 2009 Underwear Bomber and the 2010 Times Square bomber also cause a great deal of angst because of the devastation that might have occurred.

Acts of terrorism against the homeland are not the only situations that make Americans uneasy. Multiple civil wars going on around the world, like the ones in Syria and eastern Ukraine also make us weary.

When commercial airliners are shot down or go missing completely, we remember the past and worry about our own future.

School shootings, like those at Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook, have caused a great deal of stress as well.

Having multiple terrorist groups, like Al Qaeda, planning acts against the U.S. does not help the situation. In the Middle East, the rise of another terrorist organization that has beheaded two American journalists angers and saddens the public. Knowing that several Americans have joined ISIS is extremely disturbing. America’s involvement in yet another war in Iraq increases concerns.

Clearly, there are many events that have caused real apprehension for American citizens, but we shouldn’t live in a constant state of anxiety.

We have a lot in our favor. We have the greatest military in the world. We also have the greatest intelligence in the world. There have been many, many terrorist plots foiled by our intelligence agencies.

While we are certainly not immune from terrorists threats in the future, we will continue to stay vigilant in protecting our citizens, both here and abroad.

tainers and food everywhere I go.

Keep in mind, I also have to eat these extravagant snacks in pretty much all my classes every day….when nobody else is eating. It can be awkward, but most everyone who knows me knows all about the eating need.

Eating as much as you would like may sound appealing, and it may actually be great, if you weren’t required to. Although, without having the option, eating more than double that of my peers around me every day, isn’t what I’d call the greatest thing in the world.

Running leads to strong bonds that last Column of the month

Brenna Cowardin Editor-in-Chief Running kind of sucks. A lot of the time.

Actually, make that most of the time, and I question myself constantly about whether I should stick with it, and then I realize I’m not at all coordinated, so I can’t do anything else, which brings me to the conclusion that I’m stuck with it. But like a loud and annoying younger sibling, I love it anyway.

So this is my goal for the year: enlighten the general public on why running is the worst and best thing ever known to man, and maybe convince some of you all to join in.

For today, just to keep you reading of course, I’ll tell you a story, the story of how I became a runner.

My earliest memory is on the track. All I

can hear is the slapslap of my bare feet against the rubber and my breath pushing in and out much faster than it had ever gone before.

All I see is the chain link fence zipping by. My arms pump at my sides to the rhythm of one foot in front of the other. It is like nothing I have ever experienced before, and despite my young age, I realized that at the time. I was flying.

Now freeze that picture, and think about it: flying doesn’t happen too often because after all, what goes up, must always come down. Unfreeze.

There I was, no longer enjoying the wind through my hair and whatever nonsense I was previously reveling in. I fell hard. Hands splayed, knees catching most of my mo-

mentum and weight. Blood everywhere.

Tears and screams brought my dad to carry me home, and it was a long time before the sniffles stopped that night.

I have a scar to this day, a puffy, pale halfinch triangle right below my knee. It’s not a reminder of the injury, though. It’s a mark of my passion because no matter how much the fall hurt, it was never even close with the joy of the flight.

That is why I run.

Today, I find myself at the edge of a precipice. That cliff is the possible end of my competitive running career, and as much as I hate the nerves before a race and the pain during a workout, I cant really decide if I can accept a life without the joy of crossing the finish line.

Without running, today I wouldn’t spend much time out of the house, and I wouldn’t have met all the wonderful peo-

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Directioners enjoy band, despite rain

Ella Marian Style Editor The Directioners gathered. The date was Aug. 11, the place was Washington D.C., and the occasion was a performance by their beloved boy band on their “Where We Are” tour.

According to junior Jaymie Inouye, her second One Direction concert was a memorable experience.

“It was like I died and had gone to heaven,” Inouye said. Inouye’s seats were close to the catwalk and stage at the concert.

She was so close that she could see everything up close and personal.

“We were right next to the catwalk, so we could basically see every single facial feature in their faces,” Inouye said. Despite the fact the it rained basically throughout the whole concert, it was still a great experience.

“They were just really good entertainers and they sounded amazing. Like you know when you go to some concerts and it’s just a big disappointment because they don’t sound as good in person, but this wasn’t the case with them,” Inouye said.

The opening band for One Direction was 5 Seconds of Summer.

“I also love 5 Seconds of Summer, so it was like a double concert which was

great. They were really great and had a lot of energy and were really excited,” Inouye said.

Senior Michelle Huynh thinks that they will go far in life as a band.

“I thought 5 Seconds of Summer was awesome! They are going to be successful because they are really talented and are getting pretty popular,” Huynh said.

For Huynh’s first-ever concert she found it to be a great experience.

“It was fantastic. I’ve never been to any concerts before and I have to say it was a great first one,” Huynh said. Huynh had some minor downsides while she was at the concert.

“There were some downsides to it.

We were kind of far and I was sick. I also didn’t know all of the songs, but hey, I’m not complaining,” Huynh said. Despite her downsides to the experience the concert exceeded her expectations.

“I thought it was going to be forever and expected a long night but I enjoyed it and time flew even though there was an hour gap,” Huynh said. Her favorite song that One Direction played was “Happily”.

Huynh likes how the song talks about how everyone is awesome.

“I don’t care how people judge me or anyone for that matter. We are all awesome and that’s all that matters,” Huynh said.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JAYMIE INOUYE

SING OUT. The young adult heartthrobs please their fans under the bright lights of the of the stage, on their One Direction: Where We Are Tour.

Lee Brice brings country to Rockingham County Fair Faith Runnells Managing Editor On the Tuesday night concert at the Rockingham County Fair, country music star Lee Brice performed along with openers Jerrod Niemann and Cole Swindell. Being the first concert of the week, Brice set the bar high.

Cole Swindell started the night out, with his #10 hit “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” along with #1 hit “Chillin’ It”. Jerrod Niemann than pleased the crowd as well with his #1 “Drink to That All Night”.

Sophomore Molly Bauhan is a long-term Cole Swindell fan and loved his portion of the concert.

“The concert was one of the best nights of the summer. When Cole Swindell sang

‘Chillin’ It’ there was so much energy and everyone was singing along. It was a blast,” Bauhan said.

Then low and behold, after much waiting, Brice came out for what everyone had been waiting for; the real show.

People sang along, danced, yelled, jumped up and down, waved their hands in the air, clapped, kissed, just about everything you could think of. Some even crowded beneath the stage and reached as high as they could, in hopes he would also reach down and touch their hands for just a quick second.

Although Brice received this kind of great attention from the crowd of 5,000, he thinks nothing of it.

“I’ve always been drawn to [music]…. I was four and five years old, and every time I

saw a piano I sat down because I just wanted to; I was drawn to it. When I was 10 I got a guitar, taught myself how to play, and wrote songs immediately,” Brice said.

Despite the fact that Brice now focuses on touring and his music career, after high school he attended Clemson University on a football scholarship.

“In my heart, I decided [music] was going to be my career since I was a kid. But when you’re going through high school, the motions you’re going to go through is to go to college, and that’s a good thing… So I did engineering, but I had two passions… music and football,” After his football dream was cut short by an arm injury, he felt that dream was complete, and it was now time for his music.

“I went and visited Nashville, and I just

decided this was my time to follow, if I was going to do something that was my dream I was going to do it,” Brice said.

When Brice had one year to go at Clemson University, he left college to begin really chasing his music dream.

“I wouldn’t give anybody the advice to quit college and go chase your dream, but it was something I had lived with a long time and thought about, and I felt right about it,” Brice said.

And his timing was right; his recent hit “I Don’t Dance” became his fourth song to hit #1 on the country singles charts.

To anybody looking for a career in country music, Brice only has one piece of advice.

“You got to go to Nashville,” Brice said.

Kids go gaga for Goo Goo Dolls Atticus Bolyard Staff Reporter A little bit of rock goes a long way in the Valley.

HHS students were able to experience The Goo Goo Dolls firsthand this summer.

The rock band came to the Rockingham County Fair as part of its GDP Tour 2014, along with touring partner Daughtry.

The concert, which was opened by The Plain White T’s, was attended by senior Hannah Durden, who said she had an exciting time.

“It was very high energy; the actual music was pretty good, too,” Durden said, who originally attended the event to see Daughtry perform. Durden said she was actually a little disappointed with Daughtry’s showing, but that The Goo Goo Dolls more than made up the difference.

“I was a little shocked they were so good. I’d heard of them before, but it was a whole lot better live,” Durden added. Junior Laura Ruple, who had not heard any

Goo Goo Dolls music prior to the concert, was also surprised.

“They were a lot better than I was anticipating,” Ruple said, “It was very lively too; I think they did a good job of keeping the crowd excited.” Ruple added that although the bleachers weren’t as energetic as seats closer to the stage, it was easy to move to more spirited areas.

Senior Rozda Askari felt that the relaxed atmosphere of the bleachers was an advantage.

“I was able to chill and just connect to the bands- it was very cool,” Askari said, going on to add that lots of people view concerts as just places to listen to music, but that he thinks they’re so much more.

“I gained a greater appreciation for rockthey’re all down to earth dudes- it’s about entertainment, not just blaring tunes,” Askari said.

The Goo Goo Dolls certainly entertained, leaving concert-goers happy and content.

“It was fun,” Ruple said, “a good way to end the summer.”

PHOTO COUTESY OF LAURA RUPLE

Panic! At the Disco pleases crowd in PA Hunter Manzono Outdoors Editor Imagine jumping around and losing your mind with total strangers to the intense music of an incredible rock performance.

Panic! At the Disco is an American rock band that is quickly rising through the ranks of popularity. This artistic group first started around 2004, and is turning the heads of producers.

Aug. 9 this year, Ryan Doerr and Megan Labarge traveled up to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to attend one of the bands’ concerts. Ryan Doerr has been a huge fan since the band got more popular.

“They’re a punk rock band, and they’re very fun to listen to. I listen to them and follow them on all social media, but I’m pret-

ty sure I heard about it through songkick,” Doerr said.

This was her first concert, and the experience was a good one.

“I would definitely go again. There were a lot of drunk people, but it was a lot of fun.

Everyone knew the words to all the songs and they sound so good live,” Doerr said.

“The best part was the final song, This is the Gospel, because it was what everyone was waiting for, and the energy was incredible.”

Concerts such as this are not only a great way to relieve stress, depending on an individual's preferences, but they are also a great time. It’s a great place to go with friends and family.

“I would definitely recommend it to others, they’re very upbeat and a lot of fun,” Doerr said.

PHOTO COUTESY OF MEGAN LABARGE

CLAP TO THE BEAT. Panic! fans dance and move to the music, while trying to get a glimpse of the band.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NICOLE DOWNEY

SING OUT. The young adult heartthrobs please their fans under the bright lights of the of the stage, on their One Direction: Where We Are Tour.

Vampire Weekend brings music to life Ava Reynolds and John Earle Feature Editor and Staff Reporter Despite what the name implies, Sophomore Ryan Doerr reports there is nothing frightening about Vampire Weekend after seeing them live at the beginning of the summer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Doerr, who has been listening to Vampire Weekend for several years now, had been waiting for an opportunity to see them preform.

“I spent a lot of time kind of randomly looking for artists that I like on Songkick for their concerts to see if they came near me, so when I found Vampire Weekend I got some friends to come with me,” Doerr said.

Vampire Weekend has four members and formed back in 2006. The group consists of four male vocalists who have a passion for rock and roll, with an Indie sound.

The lead singer of the band, Ezra Koenig, helped the band win their first grammy last year, and three other prominent music

awards. Their first album came out in 2008.

“Their first album wasn’t my favorite, but all around I love them. My favorite songs on their newest album is probably Obvious Bicycle and Hannah Hunt, ” Doerr said.

Despite the fact that Doerr already was a devoted fan of Vampire Weekend, seeing them live only helped her love for them grow.

“I wasn’t as sure that they were going to be really really good live, but they were phenomenal, and the show itself was really good,” Doerr said.

For her first concert ever, Doerr had a very enjoyable experience.

“Everyone was really friendly, you could pretty much start talking to people around you even if you didn’t know them,” Doerr said.

Whether they are a kickoff to the summer, or a fun gathering with friends in the winter, Vampire Weekend’s high energy and phenomenal show is not just for the weekend.

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PHOTOS BY YOGESH ARADHEY

OVERLOOKS. One of the spectaular views from the hike at sunset on Massanutten Ridge Trail. Our area has multiple outstanding venues for enjoying the great outdoors.

As fall arrives, check out some of the scenery available in your own back yard.

Hikers enjoy Massanutten Ridge Trail Yogesh Aradhey and Hunter Manzano Outdoors Editors For many years, hiking has been a very popular sport, because it not only gives you a spectacular view in the end, or just an adventure seeing the beauties of nature, but you also get great exercise in the process.

I have discovered how great the sport can be in the past few years.

Hiking is an unbeatable way to relieve stress, depending on the level of difficulty and the ability level of the hiker. Some people just like walking through the flat, lush valleys while others enjoy the rugged mountainside. So no matter what your background or fitness level, this simply easy activity has changed countless lives.

Being some of those people, we enjoy hiking as well as many other outdoor activites and frequently get out to the woods for some form of hiking. This is an overview of one of our recent hikes.

The sky was a deep blue and a cool summer breeze counteracted the sun staring down on us. We started walking up the gravel road to our trailhead and we were met by beautiful greenery and cool temperatures.

The first section of the trek was from the parking lot to the top of the Massanutten Ridge. It was a fairly gentle climb up and the change from bottom to top was fascinating. As we neared the ridge line, the ground got shady with small, tan, loose rocks and the trail was lined with low undergrowth.

The first view we enjoyed was one overlooking the Massanutten resort, we could see the ski slopes and to the right you could see mountains off in the distance.

From here we connected on to a 74-mile trail that follows the Massanutten mountains known as the Ridge Trail. We would only be hiking a part of this. The trail was undulating with a slight net gain in altitude and the sandy, rocky theme followed us as we continued to round the “bowl”.

We also noticed bigger rocks and boulders that eventually turned into shelves that you had to climb to get up. Our second viewpoint was about half way around the bowl and the sun silhouetted anyone standing there.

Overhead, the sun began its descent as we continued our journey South and East and began our last climb up a steep rocky

path that would bring us to our final view point and mark the end of our uphill. With every step, the peak was brought closer to us and after about an hour, our trail emptied onto a fire road which we followed up for about 200 yards before we reached the top.

Our hard efforts rewarded us with an absolutely break taking view of the surrounding Valley! The massive ridges looked like small grooves below us and a mat of trees covered the forest in a textured carpet. The landscape stretched out before us and we were reminded of why we had put so much effort into the climb.

From our vantage point we could see vehicles, little ants, crawl along a the thin line of Route 33 through McGaheysville. Words and pictures cannot do justice to the spectacle we witnessed, the sun setting to our right and the breeze that cooled us down.

After a substantial break, we needed to keep moving as the day threatened to end leaving us in darkness. We put on our harnesses and set up rappelling equipment that would allow is to scale down the cliff face. One at a time, we backed over the ledge and dropped down to the ground far below us.

Once safely at the bottom we packed up the gear and continued with the hike. The next section was down a super steep ridge with loose dirt and a thick layer of leaves on top. As we came slipping and sliding down, the only way to slow yourself was to get down and slide while dodging boulders and other obstacles.

Nighttime settled in and with virtually no visibility, the descent was even more precarious and challenging. The darkness shrouded everything and left you wondering what was ahead of you till the last second.

Navigation also became a problem because by this point we were on private property and did not have any trails to follow. This can be a real problem for beginner hikers and is something you should be mindful of when planning a hiking trip.

Beginners especially can panic when it gets dark and run off in some direction and get hurt and even more lost. The trick is to stay calm, keep your bearings, keep your line and try to figure out where you are and where you need to get to. Fortunately for us after a ways of walking we found a trail that would lead us out and we took that down to our car.

PHOTOS BY YOGESH ARADHEY AND TYLER RODRIGUEZ

Safety should be practiced outdoors Hiking clubs based in Valley David Gamboa Staff Reporter Having the ability to stay safe in the wild can be the difference between life and death, eating the wrong food, getting caught in a storm, or losing your footing on a waterfall. Safety is crucial for all, from the average joe to the avid hiker. Having the right knowledge can make it just as fun as it is safe.

Sophomore Tyler Rodriguez has a long history out in the woods and battling the elements. He can be found hiking in the mountains and just about anywhere challenging.

“Just know your limits and don’t do anything that you really don’t feel comfortable with,” Rodriguez said.

Wearing the right clothing can be the first step in hiking safety. When traveling through rocky terrain filled with thorn bushes and high grass stuffed with ticks and bugs, close-toed shoes and long pants are essential.

Life long hiker Andrew Rath has been hiking even before he could walk.

“I started off hiking in a backpack with my dad.” Wet, rocky terrain can be treacherous. “You need to make sure you wear closed toed shoes with a sturdy sole,” Rath said. If you find yourself hiking in high altitude or during the colder seasons many

layers and cold gear may be needed. On the other hand, in warmer climate short sleeved shirts and cool clothes would be better.

Being knowledgeable of the plants and animals in the area is very important. Whenever you’re out in the wild you should never eat a plant that you aren't sure is safe to eat. Two plants could look similar and one could be perfectly safe while the other could kill you.

Whenever encountering a potentially dangerous animal you should try to get away without startling or frighten it which could provoke a fight. If it does happen to charge, depending on the animal, you should stand your ground, throw your hand in the air, look as big and menacing as possible and scream as loud as you can.

Getting caught out in inclement weather can be life threatening. Planning is another step to a safe hiking trip.

Make sure you tell family and friends where and when you’re going. The more you plan, the less likely you are to end up in a bad situation.

Being prepared can keep you safe while hiking. Knowing and being familiar with first aid can always come in handy.

Going alone is not a safe way to hike, with friends is a good solution. Stay aware of the weather, know the land, know your equipment, and know your limits.

Martin Beck Staff Reporter A wall of canteens, wool socks and bottles of bear repellent greet the aspiring hiker upon entering Walkabout Outfitters in downtown Harrisonburg.

The shop emits a pseudo-log cabin feel, with its wooden pillars and earthy smell. Vince Mier, the manager of the store, has established a new hiking group, open to the public.

“This will actually be our maiden hike. … [We’re expecting] about 20 people,” Mier said, discussing their next excursion. The group is open to younger and less experienced hikers. “I’m bringing my son, and he’s all of 16 months old. I know some college-age students will be coming out. Really, varying ages.”

He enjoys seeing the sport from a beginner’s perspective. “We’re not out to break any speed records, just to have a good time,” Mier said.

When asked what he enjoys most about group hiking, he cracked a smile.

“The social aspect of it. Getting new people out to the trail is always cool,” Mier said. Mier has been hiking seriously for eight years, trekking the complete Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 2011.

An estimated two to three million people visit the Appalachian Trail each year, with 1,800 to 2,000 attempting its entirety. It took Mier 154 days.

The leader of another group contributes to Mier’s perspectives.

“Our philosophy is that people are a part of nature and really need a connection with nature,” said Ralph Grove, head of the Shenandoah chapter of the Sierra Club. Founded in 1892, the Sierra Club is a nationwide organization that organizes more than 20,000 local and international outings annually. His group does a variety of hikes, from trips to mountaintops to tramps along riverbanks, and anything in between. Grove joined in 1986.

Akin to Mier, Grove asserts that it is the social element of hiking that keeps him coming back. He says that, on a whim, he’ll head over to the mountains to take a stroll, but “I have to say, I enjoy walking with people more. It’s nice to have someone to share the experience with.”

To share a hiking experience, contact harrisonburg@walkaboutoutfitter.com for more information on Mier’s group, including their next hike or ralph. grove@gmail.com for more information about Grove’s group and the Sierra Club as a whole.

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Cynthia Prieto

Ellie Plass Online Managing Editor

Q: Favorite song or genre of music?

A: It totally depends on my mood. I love Bohemian Rhapsody though.

Q: Favorite sport?

A: I do like to watch football.

Q: Favorite team?

A: Probably the Redskins.

Q: What would you do in an alien takeover?

A: I would want to make sure I speak their language.

Q: How many languages do you know and speak?

A: I speak Spanish, English, I can communicate in French, but I am not fluent. I play with Korean, and German, but mainly just greetings and stuff like that.

Q: Top items on your bucket list?

A: I have a long travel bucket list. I would love to go to Egypt, I want to learn to play the piano, and there are a bunch of different people I would love to meet, like the Dalai Lama.

Q: What were you like in high school?

A: I was pretty social. I was active. I rode horses, played basketball, ran track, and did gymnastics.

I taught art, which was a lot of fun, but I was very social.

Q: Where did you get your education, grow up?

A: High school was half in Columbia, half in Michigan. College was at Michigan State University.

Q: What’s been the best part of being at HHS? A: Being at the school, meeting the students, meeting the staff; what a great group of people.

Q: Favorite food or style of food?

A: It depends on my mood, but I am a pasta person!

Q: Favorite TV show?

A: NCIS. Q: Favorite movie?

A: Mama Mia. Q&A BY AVA REYNOLDS

Irene Reynolds was principal of HHS for 12 years, and before that she was assistant principal for two years. She saw the school move from the old building to the new; she even saw our football team make it to the state championship game.

Now, she’s been retired for three and a half years.

“I have some hobbies. I have a boat, so I do a lot of boating. I’m also a member of the Coast Guard auxiliary,” Reynolds said of her new life in Southport, North Carolina.

“I do a lot of walking, and walking on the beach,” she continued, adding to the serenity of her retirement.

“I think one of the fondest memories was when we

moved into the new building,” she said. The staff all came together with their hard work and pick-up trucks and made the move a pleasant one for Reynolds.

Reynolds’ retirement has reminded her of the things she loved most about the job. Because she no longer gets to enjoy those things every day, she admits to missing them.

“I love to work with adolescents, so I miss the interaction and going to a day job every day,” Reynolds said.

She wasn’t quite ready to sink all the way into retirement.

She substitutes every once in a while, but still she misses the camaraderie with the teachers she had at Harrisonburg.

Although she loved her career at Harrisonburg, there are a couple things that she doesn’t miss. The politics that sometimes surrounded the position never sat well with Reynolds.

“I don’t miss outside interferences. We knew what we needed to do. The teachers knew what they needed to do,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds left her position popular with the staff. Choir instructer Bethany Houff remembered a trip she enjoyed with the retired principal.

“When she came on our band and choir trip to Hawaii, I really enjoyed wayching her interact on the beach [with the students,” Houff said.

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BREAK IT UP! From the 2006 HHS Yearbook, (TAJ), this picture depicts a wrestling match between two teachers, Eric Miller and Mike Patterson, hosted at a Renaissance Rally. Principal Irene Reynolds jumped in to “beat” the men off each other with a tennis racket, much to the amusement of the crowd.

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MOVING DAY. Located in the 2006 HHS Yearbook, TAJ, this image shows Kirk Moyers and then-principal Irene Reynolds moving furniture into the new high school.

Retired principal reminisces about time at HHS Brenna Cowardin Editor-in-Chief

When Miss Universe, the Secretary of Army and numerous professional football players visit, you know something’s going on. In 1994, that something was HHS’s centennial celebration. Retired HHS principal John Heubach reminisces about a homecoming to be reckoned with.

“There were over 9,000 alumni who could’ve been contacted, of course a lot of them had passed away, but over 1,000 showed up,” Heubach said. “We had a celebration with receiving a letter from the governor in the JMU convocation [center], and we had dinners and dances by the decade.

If you were graduating from HHS from 1940-1960, you went to dinner with people from that class, and we had music from that period at their dances.”

Heubach was proud of the accomplishments of HHS alumni.

“To see what Harrisonburg High School, a single high school town had produced with its graduates after they went off into the world was just heartwarming,” Heubach said.

Homecoming wan’t the only morning Heubach woke up excited to go to work. That excitement last-

ed throughout his 10-year tenure in a role that people fulfill for five years on average at HHS. “It’s like running your own kingdom,” Heubach said. “You were in our own little microcosm.”

Heubach used the power that came with being principal for good.

“I really liked being able to affect change and see immediate results,” Heubach said. He began the Core program, night school with self-paced instructions for students who need other options besides the classroom setting. However, not every student can be given everything they require to thrive. “[What I liked least about being principal] was not having the resources to meet every child’s needs,” Heubach said. When he began teaching, there were 742 students, and by the time he moved to the Central Office, HHS was home to over 1,000 students.

“Beginning in 1990, the diversity started to hit, and that was wonderful. I grew up in large cities, so I was used to diversity, and it was wonderful to see that happening in Harrisonburg,” Heubach said. He strived to build a community through the student body every year starting out with the words, “We are Harrison-

burg High School.” “[One simple thing I would’ve changed about my tenure as principal was] I would have gotten each student a lapel pin saying, ‘I am Harrisonburg High School,’ and each lapel pin would have a number on the back, and every Friday I would call over the intercom and say, ‘Okay if you’ve got your lapel pin on and you’re number 995, you won $25 for this weekend.’

Just to make students more aware of a collective identity,” Heubach said.

However, Heubach did a great deal. He had mandatory classroom observations to complete, disciplinary issues to deal with, budgets to plan, teachers to hire, parent teacher conferences to arrange and sporting events to attend.

“It’s a thankless job description, there’s not enough hours in the day,” Heubach said.

As the years went on, and the standards for graduation went up, students began to have the same problem. With only six classes a day and 24 credits over a high school career, students were left with very little room for elective classes. Heubach addressed this issue with “zero period.”

“I worked with the faculty and changed the sched-

ule... some classes began at 7 am, called zero period,” Heubach said. “This was for students who wanted to take 7 classes a day... It was a great change because it allowed students to take 28 credits and be in the fine arts.”

Despite how much he loved the job, when an opening came to him from the central office in 2000, he took it.

“My daughter was starting high school, and I didn’t want to be in the school when she was there,” Heubach said, explaining that he didn’t want her to be seen as treated differently than other students because she was the principal’s daughter.

Today, after 32 years in public education, Heubach is retired, enjoying life on the beach, but that’s not to say he doesn’t miss Harrisonburg.

“The mountains are gorgeous, the Valley is beautiful and your heart tugs,” Heubach said.

Heubach retired what some people would call early, but his career was one of extremely high points, like the 100th anniversary of HHS, and very low points, the reason he took the office of principal.

“Mr. Cogar, Paul Cogar was his name, was a tremendous principal, and I

PHOTO FROM TAJ 1993

TO THE RESCUE. John Heubach stepped in as principal at HHS when the former principal died from liver failure over spring break in 1991. An assistant principal at the time, Heubach was principal for the duration of that year and was promoted officially at the beginning of the 1991-1992 school year. had the pleasure of working with him for four years.

He passed away due to liver failure, due to hepatitis-C over spring break.

He had a liver transplant before we went on spring break, and he was recuperating, and then his liver just failed. It came as a total shock,” Heubach said.

“Obviously, school goes on, I’m assistant principal at the time and I continue in that capacity for a few months and I had another assistant principal with me. It wasn’t until Febru-

ary that the school board decided I was the best candidate given the circumstances.”

The school, and community pulled together to continue to serve the students of HHS. “How did I handle it? I don’t know, life happens,” Heubach said. “The faculty pulled together, the students pulled together, all of them helped me figure out what we had to do to continue moving forward.

It was like trying to keep your head above water.”

Harrisonburg High School principals through the years B.B. White 1915-1917 James C. Johnston 1909-1913 B.L. Stanley 1923-1949

Melton Wright 1956-1958

Robert H. Horn 1963-1965 C.B. Dix Jr. 1968-1973

John E. Heubach 1991-2000

Perry Pope 2011-2011

Lemuel D. Vick 1978-1987

Claude W. Milam 1965-1968 J. Henry Robinson 1913-1915

William H. Keister 1894-1909

C.E. Cooley 1949-1956

Norman E. Smith 1917-1923

Henry C. Bowers III 1973-1978

Cynthia Prieto 2014-?

Tracy Shaver Irene M. Reynolds 2011-2014 2000-2011 Paul N. Cogar 1987-1991

Ray V. Sonner 1958-1963 TIMELINE BY HARMONY WILSON AND ARIEL VOGEL

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I’m with the Band

New band director aims to perform well this year

Eddie Mestre Staff Writer Ahhh, the flowers have bloomed, the school year has begun and a new band director has taken charge of all things instrument related. This year Claire Leeper joined the band community and took off with new goals and expectations.

Leeper was a flutist in high school, shes pretty good at the alto sax, and she is at a middle school level for every other instrument in the band room (she blames the fingerings). She had been in charge of the band program at Fort Defiance High School for seven years before moving to HHS. There are a few large differences between Harrisonburg and Fort. “The arts are supported here. At Fort I was my own cheerleader and the only cheerleader really,” Leeper said.

Because of a heavy agricultural environment around Fort Defiance, a lot of the focus goes there. Here, several staff members and people from the community are involved with the arts, which is a huge help to Leeper.

This help is great because she has a marching band to worry about. Every year, the marching band show has a theme; this year’s theme is Attractions. All kinds are addressed in the show; love, magnetism, gravity. The show begins with “Come Together” by the Beatles and goes into a deep exploration of the word “attractions.”

The color guard also helps make this idea more visual with intricate costumes, rifles and silks.

J.R. Snow composed all the music and in a very Snow-like fashion has incorporated lots of musicality into the songs. Especially the second part of the show: “It has lots and lots of dissonance and cluster tones and all the things Snow does so well,” Leeper said.

And they will be ready. “We have two of the four tunes on the field memorized,” Leeper said, and they have been working hard to get the other two parts set by then.

This year has posed new challenges to a lot of the band, as the marching style has been completely reversed.

“We are doing a toe lead marching style versus a heel toe,” Leeper said. A new marching style is easy for the freshmen that have never marched before, but for upperclassmen, it is a difficult adjustment.

“As a senior, it has been sort of hard to readjust. We also need to encourage and push the freshmen, which can be difficult because of the new marching style,” senior Rachel Cavoto said.

But aside from some small things, Cavoto is very pleased with the new leadership.

“We are going in a direction the program needs. It’s not as much fun sometimes, but it will definitely be worth it.”

The students are motivated to be pushed to their limits. “This group thrives off intensity,” Leeper said. According to Leeper, the group constantly asks themselves “How hard can we work?” and “How much harder can we push ourselves every day?” This desire to achieve allows the band to shoot higher and perform better.

To Leeper, after school marching band

PHOTO BY RANDI JOVEN

SOME HELPING HANDS. The new band director Claire Leeper helps drum major, Ava Reynolds conduct the marching band during the first home game. isn’t everything. “[I’ve brought] lots of pep! In my mind marching band is Friday night and supporting the football team,” Leeper said.

There is no Friday night show this year which allows the band to focus on stand tunes.

“The more music that you have and the more interesting of an environment you can provide, the more people will want to

come and be a part of that environment,” Leeper said. A lot of time has been devoted to “getting the crowd there” to really support the school.

Leeper teaches the Concert band, while Daniel Upton teaches the Symphonic band.

“One of my secret goals is for concert band to be better than symphonic band… that’s my ultimate goal. Bring it on, Mr. Upton!”.

Marching band adjusts to new freshmen members Jessica Nguyen Online Editor

Drum Major Ava Reynolds, a junior, stands tall as she conducts the marching band. Every face looks to her; many old, some new. The new faces are the ones that are constantly slipping, tripping, bumping into others.

“They [the freshman] are doing an excellent job figuring out the whole high school change. I can’t imagine going from a smaller band to something this big,” Band Director Claire Leeper said. “The hardest thing is to grasp playing and moving at the same time. That’s a really hard thing to do.”

Freshman Urie Conis is getting used to walking around with his instrument.

“I chose the tuba because it looked cool, but the hardest part of practice is car-

rying the tuba,” Conis said, “It’s about 40 pounds.”

Most of the freshman have adjusted from the low-key middle school band to the vigorous high school band.

After participating in band all through her middle school years, freshman Madison Coburn is excited about the change.

“In the middle school band, we would just sit there and learn boring stuff,” Coburn said, “Here, there is a lot more work, but that means there is a lot more fun.”

Even then, freshman Nick Burzumato still struggles with the additional responsibility.

“The hardest thing right now is getting the rhythms right,” Burzumato said.

Freshman Jackie Mateo-Sanchez looks up to her elders.

“They are really accepting and gener-

PHOTOS BY RANDI JOVEN AND MIA KARR

OUR SONG. The band performs their halftime show with the theme “Attraction” alongside the color guard at the first home game. ous,” Mateo-Sanchez said, “After practice “They are very big. And very, very excitone day, they all came up and hugged me.” ed. Which is good, they bring new energy The upperclassmen have gladly accept- into the band,” junior Andy King said. ed the arrival of 50 or so freshmen.

Drum major works hard to improve band field show Danny Dombrowski Sports Editor

PHOTO BY MIA KARR

STAR SPANGLED MUSIC. Drum Major Ava Reynolds observes the field before conducting the HHS Marching Band to play the National Anthem

The leader and backbone of a marching band is the drum major. In high school, the drum major role is usually filled by a senior, it’s not too common for a junior to be in charge.

This year junior Ava Reynolds has proven that she is capable for the job.

Playing instruments and being involved with band is nothing new for Reynolds.

“I started band when I

was in fifth grade. I started with the trombone, but have been playing piano since first grade,” Reynolds said.

Over the past few years, Ava Reynolds has worked her way up the ranks to take over the position this year for the streaks.

“Last year I was a section leader and couldn’t really do much to improve the the program, but this year as drum major I can do a lot more,” Reynolds said.

Her role as drum major goes well beyond just di-

recting them on the field.

“I am the student to director liaison, I do a lot behind the scenes including drill cards, keeping things positive, and everything running smooth,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds has a few simple goals for her band this year.

“I just want people to feel accomplished of what they have done in the season, and feel like they worked really hard and are proud of what they have worked for,” Reynolds said.

PHOTO BY RANDI JOVEN

LETS PLAY. Drum Major Ava Reynolds conducts the HHS Marching Band during the first home game against E.C. Glass.

How many people play each instrument?

Marching band in black, competition members in red Trumpet- 15, 12 Alto Sax- 14, 8 Clarinet- 11, 9 Flute- 11, 9 Mellophone- 6, 6

Trombone- 6, 3 Baritone- 6, 4 Basses- 6, 5 Tenor Sax- 5, 5 Snares- 4, 4 Sousaphone- 3, 3

Bari Sax- 2, 2 Tenors- 2, 2 Front Ensemble- 16, 15 Colorguard- 8, 10 Drum Major- 1, 1 Total- 116, 98

Infographic by Atticus Bolyard

Q & A with members of marching band Geneva Vanwyk Q: What grade are you in?

A: Ninth.

Q:What instrument do you play?

A: Saxophone.

Q: What is your favorite thing about band?

A: That everyone who does band does at least one of the same thing, so we can all get along fairly well.

Q: What is your least favorite?

A: Having to learn to memorize things.

Q: How long have you played?

A: 5 years? 4 years?

Q: What type of music do you like to play on your instrument?

A: I like to learn parts of the songs that my dad plays on the piano.

Q: What’s your favorite band memory?

A: The lock in.

Q: What do you like to do other than play your instrument?

A: I like to draw and write.

Q & A by Maria Snell Feikema

Zach Benevento Q: What grade are you in?

A: Tenth.

Q: What instrument do you play?

A: Trumpet.

Q: What is your favorite thing about band?

A: The people in it.

Q: What is your least favorite?

A: The stress it causes me. A lot of times it’s fun, but stressful.

Q: How long have you played?

A: I started playing in 5th grade.

Q: What’s your favorite genre of music?

A: I like classic rock.

Q: What type of music do you like to play on your instrument?

A: I like to play stand tunes.

Q: What’s your favorite band memory?

A: The band lock in. We come in and stay the entire night and play dodgeball and eat food and play games. It’s really fun.

Q: What do you like to do other than play your instrument?

A: I like to play hockey, hang out with my friends... I like to bike a lot.

Hollyn Slykhuis Q: What grade are you in?

A: I’m in eleventh grade.

Q: What instrument do you play?

A: Trumpet.

Q: What is your favorite thing about band?

A: Probably the people.

Q: What is your least favorite?

A: It can be a very big time commitment, but I understand that’s necessary, so it’s okay.

Q: How long have you played?

A: This is my 7th year.

Q: What’s your favorite genre of music?

A: Blues rock.

Q: What type of music do you like to play on your instrument?

A: I like to play classical stuff.

Q: What’s your favorite band memory?

A: The chicago trip, my freshman year.

Q: What do you like to do other than play your instrument?

A: I like to sing, and I also like hanging out with my friends, and I like to read.

A: Trumpet.

Lilly Evans- Haywood Q: What grade are you in?

A: Twelfth.

Q: What instrument do you play?

Q: What is your least favorite?

A: Probably the recordings we have to do.

Q: How long have you played?

A: Since 6th grade.

Q: What’s your favorite genre of music?

A: Country music.

Q: What type of music do you like to play on your instrument?

A: Marching band music.

Q: What’s your favorite band memory?

A: Probably any of the homecoming games… freshman homecoming game, because all of the eighth graders that came.

Q: What do you like to do other than play your instrument?

A: I like to do a lot of musical things, like play my ukulele.

September 25, 2014

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New Streaks in the Newsstreak

PHOTOS BY BRENNA COWARDIN

MEET THE FRESHMEN. (From left to right) Freshmen Jesse Green, Liam McGehee, Rose Copeland, Emily Werner and Blake Rhodenizer share their stories with the Newsstreak.

Werner plans to be missionary doctor

Phoebe Copeland Staff Reporter

Meet freshman Emily Werner: a girl whose mind is full of music, theater, and a new school, but whose heart strives for something more.

Throughout middle school, Werner was active in the school band playing clarinet and later flute. She participated in the school musical each year and took as many drama classes as she could. Werner loves to read and most recently completed As You Like It by William Shakespeare.

She’s not afraid of a challenge and that has allowed her to broaden her horizons as a student, team member and person.

Now that she has come to HHS, Werner is just as involved in the arts as she was in middle school. She’s not too intimidated by the new school, although she did admit that the layout has been confusing her somewhat. Despite this small hiccup she likes being in high school because of the new freedoms and responsibilities.

She loves being in the marching band because it isn’t divided by grade level, there is a much more unified feel. Werner likes working as a team to learn harder music and marching combinations. After participating in THMS musicals since fifth grade, she’s excited to audition for the musical this year at HHS, but Werner isn’t just

focused on the arts.

Werner feels like her spirit animal “Pretty much ... any marine mammal,” although she thinks killer whales are under-appreciated. She explained that although she used to want to be a marine biologist, her aspirations have since changed.

After an amazing experience with her church youth group in the Dominican Republic where she saw extreme need first hand, Werner has decided to become a doctor and work in the missions field helping those who she can.

Working in missions would also give her the chance to see new places and experience new cultures. Becoming a doctor isn’t a new idea in her family.

“My granddad [was a] doctor, my great granddad was a doctor, my great grandmother was a doctor. It’s kind of in my blood a little bit.”

Werner is the sort of person who’s excited about life and knows what she wants to get out of it. She has found high school passions in band and theater, but has a larger vision for life after high school.

“I want to be a doctor so I can help people,” Werner said.

Werner has seen more of the world than many her age and plans to put that knowledge to use. Exactly where life will take Werner no one can be sure, but what we can be sure of is that she’ll have a say in the matter.

Green focuses on exciting future Ben Coffey Staff Reporter Freshman Jesse Green gets the job done.

“I am always looking to finish what I have started,” Green said.

Green is from New York and moved to Harrisonburg in the second grade. He just finished middle school at Thomas Harrison.

Recently, he began understanding how important school was to him in his life.

“This is what colleges look at,” said Green, “Even though it is a lot of work, I still need to work hard.”

For his freshman year, he is focusing mostly on JROTC. After his first week of school, he is finding most of his enjoyment in JROTC. Green hopes to join the JROTC teams as an extracurricular activity.

In his spare time, he finds himself using technology and reading for entertainment.

“If it is a good book that I will enjoy, then I will read it,” Green said. “I love listening to music.”

Green is 14, and already has a plan for what his job and college of choice would be. He hopes to get a job in forensics later on in his future. To accomplish his dream, he is looking at taking many college classes in science. Green decided that he would like to go to a college that is local. His plan is to go to JMU, and because of his forensics dream, he enjoys the subject of science as well.

In high school, he is trying to put all his effort into his work.

“I am going to stop procrastinating and get things done,” Green said.

The new school environment is something that Green finds to be enjoyable.

“I like the freedom that we have here at HHS,” Green said, “It is more open with our choices.”

Green has two brothers, Aaron and Josh, and parents who support him throughout his choices.

“They are all very inspirational people.”

Green explains that he finds importance in his education. “I care about my education now, and I hope to get into a good college.”

Rhodenizer finds success with TSA

Aarash Heydari Staff Reporter Meet freshman Blake Rhodenizer. Rhodenizer is likely the first person ever that, when asked “What makes you special?” responded, with a completely serious face, “Nothing.” Rhodenizer has a little sister, Maya, and a little brother, Logan, whom he plays Minecraft with in his free time.

Rhodenizer’s favorite food is pizza. He particularly enjoys pepperoni pizza, and has no preference of pizza place.

He listens to any genre of music, but isn’t the type to put on headphones in public. That being said, he is a proud member of the Blue Streak Marching Band, where he gets along very well with the other band students. Rhodenizer plays the trumpet and is interested in one day learning another instrument, possibly from a different family.

Rhodenizer intends to be a member of the Technology Student Association, which he competed with to a great degree of success at the middle school level.

“My friend Blain and I won the middle school problem solving competition at the state level, where there were 35 other

teams.” The competition involves shrewd usage of a predetermined set of objects, such as wood and tape, to perform a task.

In his case, the task was keeping an egg from cracking under varying amounts of force. In addition to his interest in TSA, Rhodenizer is also interested in joining the robotics team.

Rhodenizer spends the majority of his free time playing video games, but doesn’t particularly mind school work either. His favorite class is World History with Cara Walton. His curiosity is piqued by many of the strange practices of older civilizations, for example the Aztec’s tendencies to wear the skin of other humans. Rhodenizer doesn’t have a least favorite subject, and says that he “likes them all.” Despite a fairly wide range of interests, Rhodenizer isn’t at all sure what kind of career he sees himself going into later life.

Rhodenizer very much enjoys the widely accepting culture of HHS and feels like its best feature is that there exists a place and a group of friends for any type of person.

Excited to be a full-fledged Blue Streak.

Rhodenizer hopes to be able to have a positive impact on the school and learn as much as he can along the way.

Freshman Class Profile Total Class Size: 466 STEM Academy: 41 Fine Arts Academy: 21 Marching Band: 45 In a fall sport: 50 JROTC: 68 (this semester)

INFOGRAPHIC BY EVAN DOTAS

Copeland transitions to public school Austin Swift Sports Editor Big people, strange smells, loud noises.

It’s all pretty overwhelming through the eyes of a freshman. Especially a freshman who had been homeschooled her entire life prior to high school. The brave soul, Rose Copeland, is this freshman, and she is embracing the challenge.

“I was expecting [high school] to be a lot more overwhelming. I felt like it would be a lot louder and more crowded in the halls and I just don’t meet people’s eyes and just walk. It’s definitely different, but I expected it to be more different, like more structure,” Copeland said.

This semester Copeland has gym, Spanish and English, with full year art and the fine arts academy to complete her schedule.

“Right now I have, like, no homework and I’m not looking forward to having a lot of homework. I only have two legitimate classes, because in Spanish no one knows Spanish and we’re learning the basics and in English we’re just reading books,” Copeland said.

Copeland packs her lunch, but that doesn’t mean she can’t have an opinion about the cafeteria.

“I think [the cafeteria] is disgusting. It doesn’t look edible. I mean not everything, but the soup, mainly, is not a natural color and the pizza....I don’t know,” Copeland said.

Third in the line of Copelands, she has brother, Emmett, and sister, Phoebe, to lead by example in the art of high school.

“I came from being homeschooled and that’s definitely more conservative than this, so my sister didn’t really ever tell me

[what to do], but being around her and Emmett through their high school careers helped,” Copeland said.

The homeschooling program Copeland was a part of contained about one hundred students total with eight in her class. The 1500 students at HHS and the 20-plus student classrooms are a new world for her.

“I actually like having more structure for the learning environment. [Homeschooling] had structure, but I like this because it gives me a better idea of what to do with my life. I miss doing homework on my bed all day, I mean obviously I still do homework on my bed, but all day, all day is what I miss,” Copeland said.

Following in the paths of her siblings, Copeland has joined fine arts.

“We’ve just had introduction so far, but there are six strands and it’s all different types of art and mine is visual art. We rotate through the teachers, and so one day we’ll have Ms. Houff and she’ll teach us singing and one day we’ll have Mr. Swartz and do theater and one day we’ll have Ms. Brooks and we’ll do art. So we just learn a bunch of different kinds of art and learn a perspective of what art is,” Copeland said.

In addition to art, Copeland is fond of reading.

“I read a lot, fantasy and fiction mostly. My favorite series is probably the Harry Potter series, closely followed by the Percy Jackson series, but I don’t think I could narrow it down to one [favorite] book. The Harry Potter movies are better than the Percy Jackson movies, but they’re not that good compared to the books,” Copeland said.

Whether homeschooling turns out to be a setback or an advantage, Copeland is looking forward to the school year.

McGehee aiming for advanced diploma Brian Alvarado Staff Reporter Devoted student. Friend. Brother. All are words that describe freshman Liam McGehee.

McGehee is a freshman who is on the track of obtaining an advanced diploma.

“I don’t really wanna know what I want to do after high school,” McGehee said but added he is very serious about going to college.

McGehee then goes on to talk about the challenges and the things that changed during the transition from middle schools “While in middle school, I knew the change to high school would mean I wouldn’t be able to see most of my friends, that had the most affect on me. I do find that there is more work and classes are a little bit harder,” McGehee said.

Currently, McGehee is taking all honors

core classes, so it’s extremely challenging.

He finds geometry the most difficult, but he tries his best and is set on making good grades.

McGehee has two siblings, an older brother who also attends HHS and a younger sister who attends Thomas Harrison Middle School. He has both a dog and a cat, is learning to speak Spanish loves playing soccer after school.

“I love soccer, as for my favorite team, It depends which league, but I love the U.S. National Team and Arsenal of the Premiere league. I play soccer for the high school and am also in the travel league for Harrisonburg,” McGehee said.

He loves the movie Forrest Gump, will listen to any kind of music and enjoys reading books that he finds interesting.

On McGehee’s free time he enjoys hanging out with friends, playing soccer and his free time.

“I really enjoy sleeping,” McGehee said.

September 25, 2014

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Food Truck Frenzy

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Taste of Soul provides unique scenery, pleasant atmosphere Aarash Heydari Staff Reporter If there’s one thing people in the ‘Burg have been figuring out over the last year, it’s that quality food doesn’t always come from buildings. Taste of Soul, like many of the other food trucks that have been popping up around town, has a bite bigger than its bark.

It’s located on 1321 South High Street along with an entourage of other food trucks. Picnic tables and pavilions are set up providing an overlook of South High.

The atmosphere is pleasant. Cars can be heard whizzing by and one feels a sort of connection to the city while eating.

Taste of Soul offers three types of meat, fried wings, boneless tenders, and pork chops, respectively at $1, $1.50, and $2.50

each. The boneless tenders were the highlight of my trip there, and are honestly in the running for best boneless tenders I’ve ever had.

They were neither overly chewy nor overly crunchy, the flavor was absolutely on point, and the meat felt many cuts above that of KFC or any other fast food joint. The pork chop was comfortably spicy and had nice flavor, but I felt it was a bit difficult to chew - more so than a medium-rare steak. I didn’t order the wings, as the $10 meal combo only comes with two types of meat, but I imagine that they would be of similar caliber to the tenders.

In terms of sides, I was satisfied but not particularly impressed. Actually, that goes for everything except their hush puppies.

Their pups are far different from those from another local restaurant, Cookout. Rather than being salty and almost crunchy, they

were soft, sweet and fluffy - almost like a cotton candy version of bread. Their hushpuppies come with any meal combo. As for other sides, they offered mac and cheese, collard greens, and fried potatoes. The mac and cheese was very standard - good if you’re having a craving, but not quite extraordinary. The collard greens were too bitter for my taste, but I don’t have much of a taste for collard greens in the first place.

The $10 meal only comes with two sides, so I didn’t get to try the fried potatoes, but I’ve heard nothing but great things about them.

Arguably the most appealing aspect of Taste of Soul - they offer Kool-Aid as a drink.

I think that speaks for itself.

There’s no question that I would recommend Taste of Soul to anyone who’s looking to try something new out. As far as places to go to alone or with a friend to cool down on a busy day, this is a winner.

childhood grilled cheese sandwich. Two burned slices of bread. Some gooey yellow mass-produced cheese. A crunchy, dry first bite.

Now throw that crap in the trash, because that is blasphemous food.

I won’t lie; I was skeptical when I first went to Grilled Cheese Mania. After all, it’s just a sandwich. The picnic tables, painted with astronauts and planets, were empty.

There were four other trucks, with one advertising delicious barbecue. With all of those options, why was I waiting in line to eat a simple sandwich?

So, in my pessimistic ignorance, I ordered the Mama Mania, which hosts fresh mozzarella cheese, tomato, basil pesto and just a drizzle of sriracha hot chili sauce. And assuming you have any common sense, you’re drooling just like I am now.

It took a considerable time for the order to come, which would be the only drawback. But then, out came the brown paper bag with heaven inside and 32 ounces of

freshly squeezed limeade.

I bit into to the sandwich and immediately cheese jumped out at me. While that sounds like a bad thing, it demonstrates a perfect consistency of cheese. You want it to follow you to your mouth as if pleading to be eaten because it knows just how tasty it is.

There may have been more than a drizzle of hot chili sauce, but I’m certainly not complaining. It also made me drink the limeade more, which (while I don’t usually enjoy it) was heavenly.

After about five minutes, the sandwich was hidden inside of me, a selfish treasure that I don’t want anyone else to discover.

But I will reluctantly pass on that treasure now.

People everywhere spend years looking for heaven and God. And I don’t claim to know where any holy lands are. However, I do know that there’s at least a slight manifestation of heaven right off Main Street in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

PHOTO BY AARASH HEYDARI

PURE SOUL. The Taste of Soul truck is located on 1321 South High Street. The picnic tables set up overlook over South High. It serves comfort food.

Grilled Cheese Mania makes grilled cheese with twist Evan Dotas Feature Editor

When a truck is being used correctly, it is not moving. It is serving gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches.

As I myself wondered, what makes grilled cheese gourmet? First, picture that

PHOTO BY BRENNA COWARDIN

CHEESE PLEASE. Senior Evan Dotas enjoying his grilled cheese from the Grilled Cheese Mania food truck.

Fresh seafood is great catch at Lobsta Rollin Abigail Hissong Staff Reporter Lobster may seem out of place against the mountainous backdrop of Harrisonburg, but a new food truck is bringing the taste of the sea to local diners.

Lobsta Rollin is a fairly new food truck to in the community, located in the food truck court by Mr. J’s & Food Lion. The owner, Shane Bell, is a New England native who grew up surrounded by fresh seafood.

Bell decided to start a food truck specializing in lobster to bring seafood to a place where people don’t necessarily get to have it all the time. Lobsta Rollin originated in Miami, but since then has relocated to the Shenandoah Valley.

The truck offers a variety of options, including lobster bisque, lobster mac and cheese, lobster rolls, even lobster tacos. I decided to order their lobster roll, since I had heard such great things about it from

friends and family members.

I was a little leery of the how good the quality of the product would be, seeing as we aren’t close to the ocean, but I was pleasantly surprised.

I received an impressive portion of fresh lobster on top of a soft, grilled bun.

The lobster topping was mixed with light mayonnaise, diced parsley, salt, and pepper. This was great because all the flavors mixed perfectly with each other without overpowering the great seafood flavor. My roll also came with some delicious Cape Cod potato chips, that contrasted with the savory lobster nicely.

The only complaint I had was the pricing, as it is a bit high (ranging in the $9-12 area). However, once I tasted my food I have to say that it was worth it. The portion was small for dinner, but would be great for lunch or a heavy snack! The food truck court’s seating is outdoors, so be prepared to take your food to go if weather isn’t nice outside.

This truck gives the Valley a quality seafood restaurant that is has lacked for a long time. If you’re ever in the mood for seafood, or just want to try something new I would recommend Lobsta Rollin.

PHOTO BY ABIGAIL HISSONG

SEAFOOD. Lobsta Rollin provides fresh seafood for the ‘Burg located in the food truck court by Food Lion.

Sweet, spicy flavors at Tacos El Primo blend well together Jenn Marquez Staff Reporter Tacos El Primo is one of the many places where you can buy Mexican food in the ‘Burg. They make lots of Mexican dishes, such as burritos and quesadillas. They also make something everyone knows: tacos freshly made from the grill! They use pork, steak, and other ingredients. They have many options to go with the tacos such as lime, radishes, and cilantro.

They make sure their customers are satisfied with what is ordered. People that go there say really positive things such as “If you love Mexican food, you have to go” and “ You will leave with your stomach full and your heart happy.”

My order was Tacos de Carne Asada with onion, cilantro, radishes, lime, and some hot sauce. In my opinion, they make their tacos really well. They were initially sweet but when the hot sauce was added, it was sweet and spicy. It worked well together and wasn’t overpowering.

They didn’t have any of the sauces that I would have preferred like Valentin and Tapatio. Besides the hot sauce, the taste hit the spot. The tortilla was so small I could barely grab it, but of course, I have bigs hands.

Trust me, if you go by this place then you probably would want to go grab some tacos. Tacos El Primo is located at 1110 Reservoir St. Harrisonburg,VA. They’re open from 11 a.m. to 9p.m.

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STOMACH FULL, HEART HAPPY. Tacos are surprisingly sweet and spicy.

Mama’s Caboose serves classic American favorites Ella Marian Feature Editor

PHOTO BY ELLA MARIAN

CLASSIC CHEESE STEAK. Mama’s Caboose sells a variety of sandwiches.

Mama’s Caboose is a lovely big food truck that sells subs and sandwiches all over Harrisonburg and Dayton. When first going up, you’ll be greeted with a smile and smells inviting you to eat something.

The Caboose’s most popular sub is the Cheese Steak for $9. You can pick between having beef or chicken along with mayo, peppers and/or onion. I chose the beef cheese steak with mayo, peppers and just a little bit of onions. Along with my sub, I had a small bag of Route 11 sweet potato chips and an orange crush soda.

First of all the smell of the sub was to die for! Most people don’t generally like the smell of a cheese steak sub because it has a really overwhelming garlic aroma.

Mine had a light onion smell mixed in the sweet smell of peppers and, of course, the ground beef. I couldn’t wait to take a bite of it. Usually when you get a sub from other vendors and restaurants, you get a whole

lot of bread and very little meat and other components that go into the sandwich.

Mama’s Caboose gives you just enough of each; a nice medium size roll and a decent amount of beef. The components and condiments meet the proportions.

The sandwich also tasted great. There were so many vibrant flavors that work well together. You could taste everything that was in that sub; the cheese, the mayo, beef, peppers, the onions. In all honesty it was probably the best sub that I have ever eaten. The sub was also good hot and cold.

I had a little bite of it for lunch and then I ate the rest later and sogginess wasn’t a problem.

If you are out and about town and see the big red Mama’s Caboose truck, definitely try something from them because I can guarantee that you’ll love it.

You can find the caboose by following them on Facebook at Mama’s Caboose, call the trucks number, (540) 908-0029 or follow it on twitter. Mama’s Caboose also does catering that varies from sandwich trays to weddings.

PHOTO BY MARIA SNELL-FEIKEMA

DIVERSE AND DELICIOUS. A ssam with sweet chili marinated extra firm with tofu as the filling which is sold at Mashita located on East Market Street.

Mashita adds Korean flavor

Maria Snell-Feikema Staff Reporter

A new flavor has been tossed into the salad. Tangy, spicy, sweet; Mashita, the new food truck that just opened up last year, offers a new and exotic taste. Focusing solely on Korean cuisine, the truck specializes in two main dishes, ssam and ho-pang. Their gray Chevy step van is located on busy East Market Street in a vacant parking lot with a few other food trucks. When I came to the window, I was greeted with very friendly, excited faces, asking me what I would like to order. I decided on a variety of things, all of which are without meat, as I’m vegetarian.

I had just barely sat down at one of their picnic tables, when they gave me my hot food. Everything was presented fairly well, considering how fast it was and that the kitchen is literally smaller than a van.

I was also given the choice of chopsticks or a fork.

The first dish I tried was the ssam with sweet chili marinated extra firm tofu as the filling. Ssam is basically a lettuce wrap with your choice of filling, whether it be meat or vegetable. I had also ordered some spicy gochujang sauce on the side. If you order this sauce, make sure not to put on too much, as it’s very strong. The ssam mixed with the sauce was definitely tastya blend of tangy, spicy, and sweet with a crunch of lettuce to top it off. It was slightly challenging to eat, but I’ve had worse.

This dish is definitely good for those who cannot eat gluten, as it contains none.

The next thing on my plate was hopang filled with roasted shiitake mushrooms. Ho-pang is a steamed bun, which like the ssam, you can fill with anything of your choice. Eating ho-pang was similar to what I would imagine eating a pillow would be like. Because it was steamed, it was incredibly soft and puffy. The mushrooms were perfectly cooked and had a strong flavor, although they were a bit salty. It was quite good and much easier to eat than the ssam.

As a side, I had decided to order the quick-pickle kimchi, which is essentially a mix of various raw vegetables (mainly cabbage) in a sort of pickled red brine. It’s a pretty exotic food, so I would not recommend it to everyone, but I definitely think pickle-lovers, like me, would enjoy it. The first thing I noticed was an extreme tangy zing, but as I chewed, it released a myriad of flavors, some sweet, some sour, some I hadn’t even thought existed, the strongest being that of ginger.

The last dish I ordered was dessert, of course, which there was only one of.

It consisted of around ten miniature donut holes sprinkled with cinnamon with a side of hot glaze. Unfortunately, by the time I had gotten to it, the glaze had already hardened, but I managed to dip my donuts in it nonetheless. The donuts were much more soft and moist than American style donuts, and dipped in the glaze, they were astonishingly sweet. I probably could have done without them, but if you’re known for having a sweet tooth, you would enjoy them quite a bit.

I was pretty impressed by the small gray van, although the portions were a bit smaller than I had hoped. Mashita would be perfect as a lunch, or maybe a light dinner, but if you are looking for something a bit more substantial, this food truck will leave you unsatisfied. Never the less, if you are fine with something light, give Mashita a try. It definitely adds to the variety that we already have here in Harrisonburg, and if you haven’t tried Korean food before, you should give it a go!

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White drives football team as freshman quarterback Mia Karr Co-Editor-in-Chief In his 25 years of coaching at HHS, assistant football coach Joe Carico has never seen a freshman quarterback on the varsity

roster- until now. Not only is freshman A.C. White on the roster, but he’s the starting quarterback for the team, an overbearing role to meet as a player with no previous varsity fooball experience.

Although it’s his first year on the varsi-

ty team, White has been playing football since kindergarden. In eighth grade, he played on the freshman football team. “[Football] is just a way to get your aggression out,” White said. He finds that being a young quarterback on a varsity squad

PHOTO BY MARIA SNELL-FEIKEMA

AN ADRENALINE RUSH. Freshman A.C. White runs with the ball at the home opener against E.C. Glass on Aug. 29th. He is the starting quarterback for the football team.

comes with both challenges and rewards. “[Being quarterback] is a lot of responsibility, because how you carry yourself can affect the whole team and how people think of you, but it’s fun,” White said.

According to Carico, the role of the quarterback is to lead the offense and get the ball to the right person on each play.

Players compete to earn this role, and the coaches select who they think will be best.

Carico stresses the importance of choosing a quarterback that will play solely offense, so they can come off the field and be in communication with the coaches during defensive plays as well.

This rules out some potential candidates.

“If you have a quarterback playing defense, they’re never off the field and you’re not able to make any adjustments during the ball came,” Carico said.

White cites Carico as the coach that he most looks up to.

“He’s helped me out a lot...just leading me down the right path,” White said. Carico, likewise, sees potential in the young player.

“He’s a very athletic young man, and he really wants to be a very good quarterback.

He’s very coachable,” Carico said.

That’s not to say that Carico isn’t nervous about starting so inexperienced a player.

“I’m nervous if I have a senior quarterback before the first ball game,” Carico said. “[A.C] is 14. He’s never started in a varsity game.”

For his first varsity season, White has chosen having a better record than last year as his goal. As far as long term goals, White hopes to get a football scholarship to a division one college. The ambitious young athlete knows achieving those goals will require fulfilling his role as a leader for the team.

“My job is to lead my team to victory,” White said. “I have to accept my role as a quarterback and do what I need to get my team wins.”

Bases provide general support Kickers’ role often overlooked for sideline cheerleading team Evan Dotas Feature Page Editor

Austin Swift Sports Editor Without them, the pyramids and midair flips wouldn’t be possible, relatively unknown but ever important, they are the bases in the cheerleading squad.

Junior Carissa Washington, both a sideline and competition cheerleader, fills one of the base positions on her squad.

“You have to hold the girls foot and most of the weight is actually on the bases,” Washington said.

Bases require different skill sets than other positions, as they have different responsibilities.

“You have to practice spotting the girls foot and lifting up as much as possible and staying sturdy. To me it’s more fun than being a back spot, because you get to do more load-ins, you get to position your hand different ways, which makes it more interesting,” Washington said.

Similar to other sports, size of the athlete can determine their position.

“Most bases are usually average height, back spots tend to be taller and flyers tend to be smaller,” Washington said.

Although the flyers are higher up and have farther to fall, injuries are just as common on the ground.

“I think you’re more prone to injuries being a base, because if a flyer is falling and you’re a base you will usually go under to catch them which means you would hit the ground first which means you would get injured more. [The flyers could get injured] if they didn’t have a good base under them,” Washington said.

Junior Meghan Shifflet is a base and partner to Washington “[My favorite part] is doing the difficult stunts and being able to hit it, or get it right. My least favorite part is when some of the girls can’t focus, like if they laugh during a stunt. It makes me mad, it makes me want to hit it even more,” Shifflet said.

With the satisfaction of cheerleading

comes risks as well, according to sophomore Ciera Hampton.

“I really like that the bases make the stunt go up and the flyer look good, but when we catch them they come down really hard and sometimes it hurts,” Hampton said.

With a sideline squad of 12 bases, organization is key for a successful display.

“The two bases have to be in synch and keep our motions the same because we keep [the flyers] up for a long time,” Hampton said.

The importance of the bases are somewhat understated; however, they take pride in their work.

PHOTO BY MIA KARR

BE LOUD. Junior Carissa Washington (front) cheers with the sideline cheering squad and acts as a base when the girls make pyramids. She also participates in competition cheer during the winter.

Other bases on the team are Julie Hedrick, Ciera Hampton and Meghan Shifflet.

ing soccer has really helped him fulfill his duties.

“Most people on the team that don’t play soccer don’t even know how to kick In many football movies, the quarter- a ball,” he said with a laugh. back ends up being the hero; the team While kicking a ball does seem like makes a massive comeback, the quarter- a very basic task, it is a very important back throws the winning pass, and the one. crowd goes wild.

“In a football team you really need a But in reality, football is not usually good kicker. Whenever you have to punt that exciting. Each player makes a little on your side of the field you have to get mistake. They lose possession. Eventu- it to the other side,” Gonzalez said. That ally, they drive far enough to get within means there is no room for error. One range of a field goal. bad step and it could mean the game.

Then, out comes another player- one If that pressure was not enough, most whose story is rarely ever told. kickers tend to play multiple positions.

Enter the kicker.

Gonzalez plays safety, and freshman Luis When senior Jose Gonzalez is not Hernandez plays defensive end and right starting on the varsity soccer team, he guard on the freshman squad. starts as the varsity football kicker. PlayBoth kickers enjoy playing the other positions, though. “You get to hit other people and you don’t have to feel guilty about it,” Hernandez said.

However, that does not mean that they can ever shirk their responsibilities as a kicker. Hernandez is the only kicker for the freshman team, meaning that he has to always do his best because the team relies on him.

His best advice for being a good kicker is consistency.

“Find your steps, be comfortable with your steps, and keep doing the same thing every time in order to improve,” Hernandez said.

PHOTO BY MARIA SNELL-FEIKEMA Clearly, the kicker has to do KICKIN’. Senior Jose Gonzalez punts the ball to a lot more than people think. start off the game on Friday, Aug 29th. The game It is likely that the kicker will was the first home game of the season and it was never be as revered as the played agaisnt E. C. Glass. Glass beat Harrisonburg quarterback. But Hernandez High School, 50-7.Gonzalez is also on the varsity is accepting of that. soccer team in the spring, and has used his expe“I really don’t care if they rience in soccer to succeed as HHS’s kicker. “Most don’t give us that much credpeople on the team that don’t play soccer don’t it,” Hernandez said, “But even know how to kick a ball,” Gonzalez said. The we as a team, we know that freshman kicker is freshman Luis Hernandez. Of- without us the quarterback ten, kickers have additional positions; Gonzalez couldn’t do what he does.” also plays safety for HHS.

Volleyball sisters both play libero position

Mom’s love of game may have rubbed off on siblings Danny Dombroski Sports Editor

PHOTO BY FAITH RUNNELLS

GET LOW. Sophomore varsity volleyball libero Athena Benton prepares to receive a serve from Page County on Sept. 3.

The volleyball junior varsity squad’s libero, the most defensive player on the court, and the varsity team’s libero happen to be sisters.

Thomas Harrison middle school eighthgrader Molly Benton plays on the junior varsity team and sophomore Athena Benton plays on the varsity squad.

Molly says her older sister didn’t really have a big role in why she picked up the game of volleyball.

“My sister partly was a reason, but my mom played the sport her whole life and I wanted to keep the trend going,” Benton said.

Molly Benton got into volleyball in the third grade at age nine. She actually picked

up the sport in a different country.

“I started playing at this club at my school in Japan,” Benton said.

Molly faces a few challenges out on the court.

“I am really short, I can’t really hit that well, and I am not too good at serving,” Benton said.

Molly has a few goals in mind heading into her first year of volleyball for HHS. “I want to get better at diving and also be louder so my teammates can hear me and we won’t run into each other,” Benton said.

Sophomore Athena Benton is in her second year as libero on the varsity team, but surprisingly she hasn’t been playing the libero position for that long.

“I started playing volleyball in elementary school, but started playing libero about

three years ago,” Benton said.

Athena picked up the sport as an extracurricular activity to do after school with friends.

“A lot of my friends were playing and I had nothing to do after school so I started playing,” Benton said.

Athena enjoys seeing her sister playing the same position as her on the junior varsity team.

“I want to teach her how to play, so she can help her team and it’s exciting to get to play the same sport as my sister,” Benton said.

She has a few goals for her sophomore year for herself and her team.

“I want to go as far as possible with my team and also try to get all conference at the libero position,” Benton said.

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Running helps fitness, friendships Alex Osinkosky Staff Reporter Even in the age of our teacher’s youth, cross country and track were popular sports. Multiple members of HHS staff have participated in these sports including English teacher David Loughran, math teacher Leigh Ann Forde, and spanish teacher Philip Yutzy.

Loughran, an English teacher here at Harrisonburg, also coaches the girl’s cross country and track and field. He participated in track and field and cross country through all four of his years in high school.

He was a two year top 10 runner in the state who also earned all state honors.

“My favorite part of running was that I was part of a team, and that everyone on the team was dedicated and driven. I would recommend joining HHS cross country or track because there are no benchwarmers and you are not judged on how fast you are, but how hard you try,” Loughran said.

Loughran is not the only teacher who feels this way about running sports though. Forde, a math teacher here, also ran all four of her high school years, and even made captain her senior year.

“I loved track and field because of all of the friends you make in this sport and would recommend it to students for the same reason. It also helps manage your time, which is especially helpful when it comes to high school workloads,” Forde said.

Yutzy ran from halfway through his freshman year all the way through his senior high school year.

“My favorite part of running cross country was just having a good time hanging out with all of my teammates. Our team won a lot which made it even more fun,” Yutzy said. “Running is a great sport because everybody runs, so everyone is participating and everybody wins in some way. There are many ways to win in running whether

it is placing, setting a PR, or improving. I would recommend joining HHS cross country or HHS track because you stay healthy and can run your whole life. It also builds confidence to complete hard tasks, while helping you improve,” Yutzy said.

Overall, Loughran, Forde and Yutzy believe that running for a sport helps you build confidence, make friends, get in shape, and is all about having a good time.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID LOUGHRAN

PHOTO COURTESY OF PHILIP YUTZY

RUNNING INTO THE PAST. HHS track coach David Loughran (above left) ran for JMU in college. Philip Yutsy (above right) ran track and cross country for Eastern Mennonite High School in 1974 and 1975.

McCutcheon clutch on gridiron Julexus Cappell Social Media Editor Before Colonel McCutcheon entered the military life, he was out on the gridiron with his high school football team. McCutcheon is native to the area, so he played not only for our Blue Streaks but also the Fort Defiance Indians as well.

“I played my freshman, junior and senior year. I would’ve played my sophomore year but the school I went to play against some big guys,” McCutcheon said.

Those “big guys” he is referring to were the former 4A players of Prince George County High School, about 30 minutes outside of Richmond.

As Colonel McCutcheon’s 40th high school reunion comes up in 2015, he reflects on his high school football days.

His positions included kickoff and punt returner, defensive back, and slot receiver.

“They [football teams

in general] need a little guy in the game,” McCutcheon said, talking about his shorter stature.

McCutcheon also reflects on a game he remembered most. Ironically, he was playing for Fort Defiance at the time who was up against the Blue Streaks.

“We were in the Valley District Game. We had to play Harrisonburg and it seemed like their players were just plain bigger than us,” McCutcheon said.

Colonel McCutcheon played against some students that ending up going into the NFL draft.

“I went up against one guy who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and another for the Philadelphia Eagles,” McCutcheon said.

Although Colonel McCutcheon’s high school teams did not have the best stats (according to him), he still enjoyed playing the game.

“Our team just weren’t that good,” McCutcheon said.

Hissong, Rath love soccer Josh Byrd Blog Editor Soccer was a popular sport for teachers to play growing up.

“It was the game to play in Northern Virginia,” Nathan Hissong said. “I think it was the physical aspect of it... it’s not like football, but it’s not a not contact sport.”

He didn’t play for his high school, but he played on the local travel teams. As a player he did not see any major injuries due to the sport.

Later as a coach, Hissong saw one of his players break both of his legs. Hissong use to be the men’s varsity coach at Stonewall Jackson High School in Shenandoah county.

Paul Rath who is the men’s varsity coach at Harrisonburg also used to play the game during high school.

“I just loved the game,” Rath said.

Rath played defensive midfield for most of his high school career. But when Rath’s high school went to districts he had to take his place for the team’s goalkeeper who was unable to play after a concert.

“It was the scariest thing of my life,” Rath said.

One reason Rath enjoys the game is how it is played compared to other sports.

“It’s a players game, you don’t stop, you don’t have time outs, the players get to control the game,” Rath said.

Baseball huge hit among high school staff Ariel Vogel Event Coordinator

level of clarity.

“Even as a baseball person, I can say my least favorite part is how it drags on,” Tysinger said. “The more you know [about the game] the more there is to watch, but it’s a long game.”

History teachers Kris Vass and Marc Healy also played baseball as kids, although they don’t claim it to be a lifelong passion.

“I played until tenth grade. I started playing T-ball when I was probably six,” Vass said. Other things

then took his focus, though.

“I stopped [because] I had other priorities; I guess I took more of an interest in music than baseball,” he said. Healy, on the other hand, stopped playing because he wasn’t recruited by the college team.

“I went from Pennsylvania to Italy, so if I’d stayed in Pennsylvania, who knows?

But a funny thing, the first fire drill at JMU, we went outside and all the people I played high school baseball with in Pennsylvania were

Physical Education instructor Kevin Tysinger was born with a baseball in his hand. Starting at age four, he played baseball from Little League to adult leagues.

“I was born to a father to [whom] baseball was everything. [In] my mind, there’s nothing better than baseball,” Tysinger said.

Most recently he played as a part of the Rockingham County Baseball League.

“I’d love to keep playing now, honestly,” he said, “[but] between family and coaching here and playing in the league, [I knew] something sooner or later had to give.”

Over the years, Tysinger’s appreciation has evolved along with his better understanding of the game. “[My favorite part] used to be hitting and pitching, but now that I’m older the more strategy I realize is there in every single play,” he said. Along PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN TYSINGER with that evolved under- COMING HOME. Baseball Coach Kevin Tysinger also standing, however, came a played for HHS during his high school years.

on the JMU baseball team,” Healy said.

Healy explained that a group of the teachers from the high school played on a softball team together.

“The school system had a softball team that we played on, and we probably did that for about ten years, but as we all got older we kind of quit playing,” he said. Vass also was involved in softball as an adult, but as a coach.

“I was the assistant varsity softball coach the first three years I taught here, but then I quit to go back to school and get my masters,” he said. He added that baseball was a huge part of his life growing up, leading to his involvement as a student.

“It was a something that I grew up [with,] watching the Braves on TBS with my family,” Vass said. He decided his favorite part was the camaraderie he felt with his team, and Healy agreed.

“I think my favorite part about it is that it’s individualized but yet you’re playing for the whole team,” Healy said.

High school basketball fun, but serious experience for Livick Ava Reynolds Feature Editor The lengthy days that often become indistinguishable from one another are usually not remembered from someone’s high school experience. However the memories formed on a team, whether it was Varsity, Junior Varsity, or just some friends getting together and playing, are the ones that stay with people long into their adult life.

For some teachers at Harrisonburg High School, being in a high school environment allows them to look back to the good old

days of high school experiences, especially to those who played basketball in high school. For Mr. Livick, a new history teacher as of this year, playing basketball in high school provided memories and friends of a life time. A favorite memory includes goofing around in practices with friends.

“There was another guy on our team, and we played football together, so we kind of made basketball practice into football practice. It was productive, but not really efficient for basketball, but we would tackle people,” Livick said.

Playing basketball for Livick was not all fun and games though. The team really

meant a lot to him, and he is still in contact with some of the members today.

“When you are with a group of people for a long period of time you need to learn to enjoy them, or it won’t be very enjoyable to play. The family atmosphere was always nice,” Livick said.

Unfortunately, you can’t relive high school. Everyone has moments they would like a redo on, and Livick’s happened when he had a chance to score.

“I missed a wide open lay up one time.

We were winning, and I could have scored, but I missed the opportunity. It was kind of embarrassing,” said Livick.

Even though Livick was on the Junior Varsity team and didn’t always get to play, it still was important to him, and he had a good attitude about his position on the team.

“It was something to do during the winter. When I got to play, I got to foul people which was super fun,” Livick said.

Now, as a new teacher here, Livick gets to enjoy seeing HHS students have experiences similar to him when he was on a high school basketball team, and know that they will one day look back on their days on the team with fond memories.

From playing to coaching, volleyball remains Bowman’s passion Sam Imeson Sports Editor For some of us it may be impossible to believe that at one point our teachers were in fact, teenagers like us; and just like us, they went to high school, went to prom, stressed about classes, and most of them played sports. It may be hard to imagine your math teacher making the game winning shot for his basketball team, or your science teacher hitting a walk-off homerun, but they did all of this just like we are doing now. Sports are a big part of many high schoolers lives, and this was no exception for english teacher Hannah Bowman.

Attending Prince Edward County High School in small town Farmville, VA, Ms. Bowman was a 4 sport athlete.

“I played softball, volleyball, swam, and was on the competition cheerleading team in high school, but volleyball was my favorite sport.” Bowman said.

Bowman played 5 years in her school’s volleyball program and proclaimed that her favorite memory was when she and her team beat their two biggest rivals to win the conference championship.

“I wish I would have played on a club

volleyball team when I was in high school, with coaches and I wanted to give girls an “When you are a teacher and you have and focused a little more on just volleyball opportunity to have a positive relationship students in class, you only get to see that because you need to play more than just with a coach.” Bowman said. side of them. Being a coach I will be with one season of a sport if you really want to Ms. Bowman also coaches a travel team the girls for multiple years and it is nice to succeed and play at the next level.” Bow- called the Stonewall Junior Olympic Volley- be able to get to know them outside of the classroom,” Bowman said. man said. ball Club.

Despite not playing for a club team, the multi-sport Bowman excelled as a setter for her high school team and caught the attention of Colby College, a small liberal arts school in Waterville Maine, where she played for four years for the Mules as a libero and defensive specialist. (The libero is the main passer in serve reception, they are responsible for controlling the ball and making it easy for the team to run the offense.

The libero will almost never come off the court and they are responsible for covering a much larger area on the floor than the other players.)

But Bowman’s connection to the sport goes beyond just playing. She is now entering her third year of being an assistant coach for the Harrisonburg High School volleyball team.

“I wanted to coach primarily for a PHOTO COURTESY OF HANNAH BOWMAN love of the sport. I always either had SETTING HER FUTURE. Hannah Bowman played volleyball throughout high school and cola positive or a negative relationship lege and is currently coaching.

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FALL SPORTS KICK OFF WITH NEW PLAYERS, EXPERIENCED VETERANS

VOLLEYBALL

Freshman Olivia Comer Q: How many years have you been playing?

A: Five years.

Q: What position do you play?

A: Setter.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Getting better.

Q: What is your favorite part of playing the sport?

A: I like that everything you do you control. You can do a lot on your own to practice.

Q: What are your goals for the season?

A: I want to be able to jump set by the end of the season and be able to spot-serve.

Senior Kaelen Adams Q: How many years have you been playing?

A: Five years.

Q: What position do you play?

A: Middle hitter.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: To see how well we do because we have a lot of young players.

Q: What is your favorite part of playing the sport?

A: The intensity and dedication you have to put in.

Q: What are your goals for the season?

A: To do better in the conference than last year.

INFOGRAPHIC BY HUNTER MANZANO

FOOTBALL

Freshman A.C. White Q: How many years have you been playing football?

A: I’ve been playing since kindergarten, so about nine years.

Q: What position do you play?

A: Quarterback.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: I’m looking forward to improving as a team. I think we have a great line-up, better wide receivers and everyone is just more committed than they were last year.

Q: What is your favorite part of playing the sport?

A: I love playing to win.

Q: What are your goals for this season?

A: To have a way better record than last year.

INFOGRAPHIC BY ABIGAIL HISSONG

Senior Tanner Grogg Q: How many years have you been playing football?

A: I’ve been playing ever since flag football when I was like, five. So about 12 years.

Q: What position do you play?

A: I play right tackle and defensive end.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Winning some games.

Q: What is your favorite part of playing the sport?

A: Getting to hit people, and the brotherhood of the guys on the team.

Q: What are your goals for this season?

A: For the team to make the playoffs, and to possibly play college football.

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Junior Chase Berkshire (1st year) Q: How many years have you been playing?

A: [I] started, not this summer but last summer.

Q: What position do you play?

A: It usually goes one through six for a tournament, like your top six. I’ll be anywhere from four to five.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Looking forward to conferences, which is when tournaments actually start getting serious, when you move on.

Q: What is your favorite part of playing the sport?

A: It can be really frustrating, but once you string together a few shots its rewarding.

Senior Scott Wise Q: How many years have you been playing?

A: I’ve been playing for four years, and this is my first time on the Harrisonburg Golf team.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Just learning and perfecting my mechanics. It’ll be good to learn different techniques to score better.

Q: What is your favorite part of playing the sport?

A: It’s just fun going out there with your friends and hitting around playing nine holes every day after school. It’s relaxing.

INFOGRAPHIC BY EDDIE MESTRE

COMPETITION CHEER Freshman Julie Hedrick Q: How many years have you been cheerleading?

A: Four years.

Q: What position are you?

A: Base and back spot.

Q: What are you looking forward to most this season?

A: I’m mostly looking forward to the games and competitions.

Q: What is your favorite part of cheerleading?

A: Stunting and tumbling.

Q: What are your goals for this season?

A: I want to perfect a standing tuck.

Senior Staci Helyer Q: How many years have you been cheerleading?

A: Eleven years.

Q: What position are you?

A: Front spot- used to be base but cannot anymore since I got a concussion.

Q: What are you looking forward to most this season?

A: I’m looking forward to just having fun with the team. It’s small this year so we’re really closely bonded.

Q: What is your favorite part of cheerleading?

A: Winning competitions , dancing and jumping.

Q: What are your goals?

A: I really want to make it to States least place at Regionals.

INFOGRAPHIC BY PHOEBE COPELAND

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Freshman Ashton Landes

Freshman Alina Dovganetskiy

Q: How many years have you run XC? A: Three to four years.

Q: What are you ranked on the team?

A: Somewhere in the top 14.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Improving my running time.

Q: What is your favorite part of XC? A: I love to run.

Q: What are your goals for this season?

A: Break 20 minutes.

Q: How many years have you been running?

A: This is my first year Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Getting to know people and becoming a better athlete.

Q: What is your favorite part of doing XC? A: Definitely the people, the environment is really friendly and everyone’s the best.

Q: What are your goals for the season?

A: To have a good PR and be a better runner at the end

Senior Nathan Woods

Senior Laurie Serrell

Q: How many years have you run XC? A: Four years.

Q: What are you ranked on the team?

A: Varsity.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: Breaking 19 minutes.

Q: What is your favorite part of XC? A: The people and the team.

Q: What are your goals for this season?

A: Breaking 19 minutes, overall, going for 18 minutes.

INFOGRAPHIC BY JULIE HEDRICK

Q: How many years have you been running?

A: This is my fourth year running.

Q: What are you most looking forward to this season?

A: To see how the younger girls grow. I’m excited to see how they will step up and be leaders.

Q: What’s your favorite part of XC? A: It’s more than just a sport, it’s a team.

Q: What are your goals for the season?

A: To take the whole varsity team to States.

Q: What do you like most about running?

A: It gives me great looking legs.

INFOGRAPHIC BY ETHAN SCRIBANO

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Junior Miraliz Quinones Freshman Natali Vellon “If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?”

“Bed.”

“Where do you see yourself next year?”

“I might be in Florida. My family thinks it’s better for me.”

Freshman Francisco Florenci

Senior Natalya Murray “My biggest dream is to actually do something that impacts the world and benefits it... On the side I write inspirational speeches.”

“What was the happiest moment of your life?”

“When my little brother was born.”

Freshman Ali Aljabar “Do you like HHS so far?”

“I’m not so sure about that yet.”

“What do you not like?”

“I don’t like science.”

“Are you supposed to be in science right now?”

Laughs. “Yes.”

Junior Hector Espinoza After my questions were answered he asked, “Is that all?”

Senior Maria Medieros and Junior Isis Gutierrez “What’s your favorite thing about Maria?”

“I like that she’s very trustworthy.”

Sophomore Nicole Nicklas

Freshman Jason Diaz Senior Laura Donegan “I just grabbed a bottle of dye and was like, ‘let’s do this!’”

“Life has its ups and downs, and it’s never going to be the best, but if you work hard, it will be better.”

“I like looking at evidence and trying to catch the bad guy.”

Freshman Hakeem Sharief

Sophomore Matthew Huffman “If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?”

Smiles. “On vacation.”

Senior Angel Rayes

“Why do you like playing football?”

“You get to tackle, catch and throw the ball, score a touchdown. You get a chance to win with your team.”

Senior Luis Valderramos

“Where do you want to be a year from now?”

“I don’t really know about that.”

Shows me the book cover. “I like it because it talks about God.”

Juniors Justin and Jason Strother

Senior Stefany Gudoy

“We like the same stuff.”

“I’m supposed to be writing about a memory.”

Senior Yulissa Bautista “What’s your biggest goal right now?”

“To graduate.”