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“Hitchcock High School Unleashed”

February 17, 2015 CAMPUS NEWS COLLEGE OF THE WEEK

Texas A&M University

Announcements

February Rotary Students of the Month: Shelby Worrell & Alex Espericueta Mascot: Aggies Feb 13th: NHS is holding a bake sale during lunch. School Colors: Maroon & White Feb 20th: Junior Achievement Location: College Station, TX (Kindergarten and 1st Grade) Application Deadline: December 1st

Total Undergraduates: 44,072 Seniors Only Student to Faculty Ratio: 22:1 Feb. 24th: TSI: College Campus Visit/Job Shadowing (Select one) Required Tests: SAT or ACT New senior scholarships arriving

daily…BEWARE OF DEADLINES!! Word of the Week: Incessant- Non-stop, constantly. Quote of the Week: “The only thing worse than interests, and goals. It’s not important what being blind is having sight but no vision.” grade are you in, if people like your favorite sport or music, then you can share your particular wisdom and it will probably help Hometown Hero someone. Let’s learn a little bit from people who shared with us this week:

By: Carlos Alvarez “There is no such thing that practice HITCHCOCK- Geno Gutierrez, also known as makes perfect, perfect practice makes Coach G, is a Hitchcock alumnus who graduated perfect” - Marvin Brown, junior. from Texas State University. Coach G has lived “Someone, who never makes mistakes, in Hitchcock his whole life. He took the position never tries anything new” – Brandon of a Spanish teacher and as the head coach of the Davis, junior. Crosby Middle School football team because he My favorite saying is “Who, if you wants to give back to his hometown and win a don’t? When, if not now?” state championship. He’s extremely competitive and it has rubbed off on his athletes because both the 7th and 8th grade teams had impressive records. Coach G’s mentality is to outwork your opponent and your future opponents. “My job is to love my players and to make sure my players love and work hard for each other,” Gutierrez said.

Off the field Coach G plans to make his students lifelong learners. He hopes they always thirst for continual knowledge even after they have passed his class. Coach is motivated by his students and Above: Dina Kargashina and Marvin Brown pose for a players. Let’s hope coach remains motivated selfie after sharing their peer advice. while he continues to motivate us. He roamed the halls of HHS not too long ago as a student, and now he’s back to share his knowledge and SPORTS experiences as teacher. He’s highly respected by his supervisors, coworkers, and students. Coach Quote from a Coach: "A champion is afraid of G is the true definition of a hometown hero. losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." -Billie Jean King Student 2 Student Batter up Advice By Joseph Collins By: Dina Kargashina HITCHCOCK- Is baseball America’s pastime? HITCHCOCK- This week’s student to student Maybe so, but it’s certainly not in Hitchcock advice comes from people of all grade levels, High School. Although last season’s record was not impressive, the Bulldogs have chosen not to first case involved a woman that worked at a dwell on the “pastime” and focus on the present daycare in Florida. The woman kicked a 15 time. The team’s first scrimmage is Friday month old baby girl in the back of the head February 13, 2015 in Palacios. Last year’s team repeatedly while she was napping. The second suffered an 8-1 loss to Palacios sending the team case involved a woman and her boyfriend tying on a 9 game losing streak. But this year the up and hanging her 3 year old daughter from a Bulldogs are back and ready. Coached by closet. Both of these children survived but child Hitchcock legends Trini Castro and Morris abuse is still blatantly wrong. I just don’t see Tuck, the team is more eager than ever to start how people can be so cruel to an innocent child the season. Let’s go Bulldogs! that has done no wrong to them. I believe that you shouldn’t work with children or have them Regional bound at all if you’re going to put them in danger. I’m not saying to abort children because I am pro- life and don’t believe in abortions, but I do By: Carlos Alvarez believe that if you don’t want them then you HITCHCOCK- Hitchcock High School has should put the child up for adoption and let always been known for an impressive someone else take care of them properly. Abuse powerlifting team and this year is no different. is never the answer. As of now a total of 14 lifters, 7 boys and 7 girls will compete in the regional powerlifting meet. Black history goes The 7 girls will compete on February 26th in Palacios, while the 7 boys compete on March 7th unresolved in Cleveland, TX. The girls competing are Taylor Kendrick, Raelyhn Swan, Roni Fleming, By: Ry’Ni’sha McDaniel Daelyn Frank, Brettany Birdow, Kiarra Williams, and Avery Moresco. The boys HITCHCOCK- February, also known as “Black competing are Steve Melgar, Anthony History” month, acknowledges African- Scarborough, Logan Holt, Carlos Alvarez, American culture, adversities, and triumphs Xavian Hampton, Hunter Thiem, and Nathaniel throughout the years in this country. Courage is Walker. Congratulations to the 14 lifters who one word that comes to mind when thinking of have qualified for regionals. Be sure to raise the black history month. For example, Martin bar at regionals, one pound at a time. Good Luther King Jr. displayed courage when he gave luck!! his “I have a dream” speech that changed the world in so many ways. Rosa Parks displayed courage when she stood up for her rights and OPINION what she believed in without letting other people run over or intimidate her. Courageous Harriett Tubman helped slaves escape, but as a Child Abuse community we have yet to escape racism in the . African-Americans may no longer By: A Bulldog Journalist be slaves or have to sit at the back of the bus, but I don’t see how some people can be so heartless it doesn’t change the fact that racial tension to abuse children. Recently, I’ve saw two lingers on today. Everyday racial comments go different cases of child abuse on the news. The up all over the internet, but as a society we tend to turn a deaf ear or justify it by saying it’s a freedom of speech. Which may be true, but it ENTERTAINMENT still shows that racism is alive and well in 2015. As humans, we are all created equal and should be treated as such, regardless of our race. So Colombian Crown let’s take time to unite as one colorblind country. Otherwise many of our racial issues will By: Dina Kargashina continue to go unresolved. MIAMI, FL- The most popular fashion contest in the world is . This year’s Return of the squad? finalist was crowned by the outgoing Miss Universe, of . Paulina By: Ellison Matthews Vega of , a 22-year-old student of business administration from has SALT LAKE CITY, UT- Republican Paul Ray been crowned Miss Universe in the 63rd annual is sponsoring House Bill 11 which would allow pageant. beat out contestants for firing squad executions as a “backup” to from more than 80 other countries. lethal injections. Under the bill, the state could convene a firing squad when the drugs needed "It will be a dream come true to represent the for lethal injections aren’t available. European woman of today. A woman that not only cares drug companies that sell these drugs oppose the about being beautiful and being glamorous, but death penalty and rejected the new trade also cares about being a professional, intelligent, proposal. hard-working person," Miss Colombia admitted earlier. “The contests leading up to Miss “We can either revert to the firing squad and get Universe were the first I had participated in. I’m it taken care of or we can spend millions of sure this will be my last as I’m eager to return to dollars trying to mitigate lethal injection. Since my studies in Colombia after the reign,” she we’ve already done firing squads, and that’s later added. what we’ve done for years, it just makes sense. That’s our backup plan to keep the firing squad if we can’t get the drug cocktail,” said Ralph The first Dellapiana, director of Utahans for alternatives runner-up to the death penalty. However, Ray argues that was Nia “the argument of whether we should be killing Sanchez, the people or not isn’t even in this discussion” 24-year-old Miss USA I believe there should be a quicker and more from Las efficient way to do capital punishment. If Utah Vegas, keeps the death penalty, they should try to avoid . The unnecessary suffering. Above: The second winner of Colombia runner-up was Miss Diana Harkusha. Miss and Miss Netherlands Yasmin Verheijen were also among the top five, emerging from 88 other contestants. However, the crowd favorite Migbelis Lynette Castellanos was cut after the top ten. She had unbelievable support locally and back home. She was most likely to be the winner because three of the last six Miss Universe titles have gone to Venezuela, where beauty pageants are big business.

Vega is an unbelievable lady, who impressed the audience by not only her beauty but by her thoughts and expressions. Now we are waiting for 2016 to see who will be the next Miss Universe. Which country do you think is going to take first place?

Must Try Restaurant: Grimaldi’s goodness

By: De’Auvion Jackson

Grimaldi’s is a coal brick oven pizzeria. They sell fantastic pizza. They have many different types of toppings. They have your regular toppings and some that you wouldn’t have in your regular pizza places like Dominos, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars. Grimaldi’s has real pizza that they take pride in. Make sure to give them a try the next time you get a pizza craving.