Peer Promotes Positivity During Challenge Day Rave-Style Dance
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The Official Newspaper of Warren Hills Regional High School 41 Jackson Valley Road, Washington, NJ, 07882 Volume 23 IssueTHE 02 STREAKFebruary 2011 Peer Promotes Positivity During Challenge Day By: Amanda Brands through an activity that ex- From light- heart- that have been bothering me such as “Have you ever felt ating and everyone was so Editor in Chief plored their differences as ed exercises to eye- open- for years and now I feel like self- conscious about your amicable.” well as commonalities. ing experiences, the day a clean sheet of paper.” body?” students crossed and One of the most “Imagine a world In small breakout was planned to positively A main component re-crossed the line illustrat- awakening activities was where every child feels safe, groups, the students were impact all of the students re- to breaking down the emo- ing the fact that no one is “If You Really Knew Me.” loved and celebrated, where instructed to introduce gaudless of their age or life tional barriers came dur- alone in their struggles. While sitting in a circle, stu- bullying, violence and op- themselves by “ C r o s s dents were encouraged to pression are things of the announcing one the Line taught share one fact about them- past-- this is the work of thing that they me that you re- selves that others in the Challenge Day. “ have never done ally shouldn’t room would not know about Such read the in- but would like to judge a book by them. vitation to 50 middle school do one day. Those its cover,” said As some tears were students to share their ex- remaining then eighth grader shed, students broke down periences during Challenge tossed a popsicle Brittany Heer- their barriers and deepened Day 2011, hosted by the stick into a center wagen. “It’s re- the connection among their high school Peer Leaders. pile if they had al- ally about what peers. An emotion- filled day, the ready completed people feel on “Overall, the students participated in ac- the wish them- the inside that whole thing was really well tivities that promoted equal- selves. matters.” organized,” said eight grader ity and an understanding of As a Yet, ac- Brandon Meyer. “I learned a their fellow peers. theme for the day, cording to Peer lot about myself and others After weeks of students were Leader Chase from the activity.” work and planning, the challenged to Kosberg, it was In the end, both the Challenge Day coordina- break down their not only the middle school participants tors, April Bullock, Emily emotional walls in Peer leaders and middle school students combined in the activity, “Cross the Line.” middle school and the peer leaders appre- (Photo Courtesy Of: Ms. Hope Hollenbeck) Garcia, and Kathy Griffin order to be honest students that ciated the opportunites that came together to promote a with their peers. experience. Despite the fact ing the activity, “Cross the were affected by the event. the day presented. highly successful Challenge Eighth grader that at times four years of Line.” “At first, I was a bit “Challenge Day Day. Amanda Crampton said, age separated the students, Standing along a hesitant because I thought I went very well,” said Peer Beginning the “Challenge Day is where everyone had something to solid line, students were in- wouldn’t open up with the Leader Jennifer Lacail- day with the icebreaker, “I you don’t have to hide, you share. structed only to cross the line middle school students. But lade. “I believe that even if Want to Know My Neigh- don’t have to keep every- “Challenge Day let if a description that the me- soon everything fell into it made the smallest differ- bor Who…” students were thing that has been bother- me open up to others,” said diator read applied to them. place quite nicely,” he said. ence, it was all worth it.” introduced to one another ing you inside.” Crampton. “I told feelings With rounds of questions “The entire day was liber- Rave-Style Dance Glows Up The Hills By: Kevin Kunzmann DJ) Mr. Cedric Hickerson. blacklights, and laser lights clock and the music started. known for his dancing and Shea Kohler, “When I got News Editor Despite all the were diminished, and a team Soon, a crowd party-starter mentality, said, there it seemed like it wasn’t hype, uncertainty loomed of junior executives manned circled around two students “I heard that it wasn’t going going to be as good as I In the spirit of Jer- among the student body as the entrance, selling tickets, apparently in a dance battle. to be a good showing, so I thought, but then as it went sey Shore-inspired dancing, to whether the dance would refreshments, and any appar- Senior Tyler Cascone and came to save the day.” on, it got better.” synth-beat techno hits, and be worthwhile, and the num- el a rave dancer could need. 2009 Warren Hills graduate Dancers began to loosen Pietrangelo and with crazy lights every- bers showed it: less up and have some company walked away with where, the Junior Executive than 25 students fun until the popu- the belief that it was a suc- Committee held a Glo Dance had purchased a lar German-based cess from a fundraising as- for the student body in early ticket in advance techno hit “Disco pect, with predictions that December. during a three- day Pogo” started. their net income was “well After its proposal, span. That’s when they over a hundred dollars.” junior Emily Pietrangelo H o w - went wild. With the success of was given the responsibility ever, the first stu- “’Disco Pogo’ this innovative event still on of laying out the schemes for dent to purchase was definitely the their mind, the junior class the night. a ticket, freshman best part,” dance is keeping the door open for “We needed to find Wyatt Mays, didn’t volunteer Katie any new fundraisers. where to get all the glow ma- even need to think Verdon said. “Ev- Glow dance col- terials, what songs to play, twice. eryone danced so laborator Halie Saccente what people would enjoy “I thought much to it that they said, “When it comes to our and what they wouldn’t, how it was going to be had to play it twice ideas for fundraising, we just much things would cost, how fun and cool,” said in a row.” go with the flow and keep we should do it, things like Mays. “I figured A trendy fundrais- trying fresh ideas.” that,” she said. ‘why not?’ All the Dancers, lights, and music meshed at Warren Hills’ first glow dance fundraiser. ing event became There’s a chance The most important other dances here (Photo Courtesy Of: Gab Messina) a success with the they found a new niche with step was the promotion. Fli- are fun,” help of a dance-off, their glow dance, however. ers were placed throughout Within a few hours A surprising show- Ryan Wariki were stepping, German techno music, and Mays is already definite to be the school, causing a buzz the cafeteria was trans- ing of well over 100 stu- spinning, and twisting to the a wave of 50 late-comers. first in line again next year. punctuated by techno music formed into a makeshift dents- mostly wearing white, fast-paced tempo of a dance Dancers left three hours later Mays said, “All and strobe lights manned by dance hall. Hickerson and a request by the organizers in song, and the party came to with sore knees, ringing ears, they have to do is advertise Warren Hills business teach- his crew set up in the front, order to get the best effects of life. and relieved spirits. again and get more people, er (and the Glo Dance’s own all lights except glow sticks, the blacklights- arrived at 7 o Wariki, who is Said sophomore and they’ll have my ticket.” Marathon Teachers Fractured Fairy Tales P’Burg Rivalry In Page 5 Page 11 Page 14 This Airport Security A New Decade John Lennon Issue: Page 2 Page 8 Page 13 Page 2 Op- Ed February 2011 Editors’ Debate: We Dish... You Decide BODY SCANNERS: Added Bonus or Added Baggage? though travelers’ clothes Originally de- comes at a low cost. Body What about health care stay on, these awkward signed for efficiency, the scanners and pat downs are regulation, or business body scans bare it all. scanners seem to be do- in some cases only follow regulation? Both are cur- As if it weren’t ing just the opposite by up procedures for those rent debates which deserve foreign enough to have creating staggering traffic who set off regular metal equal attention. strangers looking through within the anxious lines By: Emily Wolfrum detectors, and are never We only now care By: Siobhain Ward the wardrobes we’ve of travelers. Op-Ed Editor mandatory. There are also because it’s directly affect- Features Editor packed, we now have them Yet, little do other options, such as pri- ing our families, ourselves, looking past our clothes travelers know, the scan- Gone are the vate searches for those and, God forbid, our con- Air travelers all together. Never mind ning isn’t even manda- days of terrorists incon- who are uncomfortable venience. It is pathetic that have it hard enough as it the awkward pat downs; tory! People wait and veniencing themselves with being examined in a threat of convenience is is. They temporarily pack let’s get done to the bare wait to undergo radia- with bowling ball-sized public.