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December 2012 1 THEValley Voice CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Lancaster, PA December 2012 Volume 14, Issue 3 Buckskin Boosters Build “Sound Mind, Sound Body, Sound Future” Capital Campaign By Brandon Lê ’14 he Buckskin Boosters, the opening of the high school a consortium of CVSD itself. Over the years, it has Tadministrators and undergone minor renovations coaches cooperating to fund and repairs, but the sports various extracurricular activities, complex as a whole had never has launched a capital campaign been renovated until now. The known as the “Sound Mind, complex once was able to host Sound Body, Sound Future” an ever-increasing number of campaign. This campaign aims athletic events, but now that it is to renovate the high school’s decaying in its present state, the sports complex, which now number of events held there requires a complete renovation. has to be limited in order to It will include replacing the preserve the turf, bleachers, and entire sports complex – the equipment from breaking down. stadium, track, bleachers, The “Sound Mind, Sound press box, and entrances. Body, Sound Future” campaign Conestoga Valley High focuses on upgrading its sports School’s sports complex was Please see COMPLEX, page 5 first built in 1958 alongside A sketch of the planned renovations to the high school’s sports Photo Credit: Kendyl Landis ’13 complex. In this Issue . Hard Facts by 3rd Annual Hondares: The Coaches vs. Cancer Fiscal Cliff 2 On Friday, December 14th, CVHS held the annual Coaches vs. Cancer doubleheader fundraiser. “Coaches vs. Cancer Chewbacca Meets is a great cause, the sports teams Mickey Mouse 3 really came together and raised money through a number of ways, especially by selling head and wristbands,” said Nancy Book Review: Lopez, one of the coordinators. Unwind 4 Keystone Exams Scheduled for Secret Lives of January The Keystone Exam schedule Teachers: Karli is posted on the CVSD website. Publishes a Book 5 The exams will be administered to CVHS students in early January. The exams will test Photo Credit: Nicole Reinking students in Algebra I, Biology Face in the Crowd: On December 11th, 24 CVHS students in grades 9-12, pictured in front of the Masonic Conference Center, attended the “Empowering Student Bystanders” conference hosted by the PA Masonic Youth Foundation. and Literature. They are Resolutions 6 These students will now be charged with taking this new information, energy, and camaraderie and designed to be given as end-of- turning it into a club that creates events to empower other bystanders. course assessments to measure students’ proficiency in the three subjects. Any student enrolled NFL Rookie of the Happy in a Keystone tested area, and Year Selection 8 all juniors (in order to measure Adequate Yearly Progress) are Holidays required to take the exams. Trait of the Month: ”Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” —Theodore Roosevelt Caring 2 December 2012 Fiscal Cliffhanging Frustration When Hatred Threatens the that deduction cost the United Peace of the Grieving, It’s States $67 billion. Cutting that deduction would generate Time to Scrutinize Our Laws almost $700 billion in additional revenues in the next decade. By Tiffany Dimm ’16 That alone is a huge number, but we should be wary of the ast December, the emotional terrorism as punishment economic impact. Nevertheless, Westboro Baptist for the decisions of state legislature if compromise requires it, LChurch, famous in the is an outrage. The actions of then it should be on the table. Snyder vs. Phelps military these hateful people are as bad, There is a litany of tax case, was at it again with their if not worse, than the actions deductions that can be cut on emotional terrorism. This time, of the shooter. Unfortunately, the highest earners, including it was directed against the state the aforesaid behaviors of the interest expense deduction, of Connecticut and targeting this church are Constitutional. the medical and dental expense the grieving survivors of the Hate speech is protected under deduction, the educational Sandy Hook school shooting. the First Amendment provided expenses deduction, and The church tweeted its plans that no threats or incitement countless others. Not all of to picket Sandy Hook Elementary of violence or lawlessness are these should be eliminated, School, who had been just made. Where do we draw the but again, they are on the table. beginning to recover from the line between free expression and Time and time again, I have horrific slaughter of 26 young hateful attacks? In school, verbal made the argument that the larger students and staff, to praise God for bullies are disciplined appropriately. issue here regards government the murders, which they see as “the The mean kids go to the office By Damian Hondares ’13 expenditures. Whether or not glory of [God’s] work in executing and the problems are solved, but it is politically popular, serious his judgment” against Connecticut out in the real world, there are no ylvester Stallone once an unusual willingness to (even drastic) cuts must be for legalizing same-sex marriage. grown-ups to tell us to be nice. Out starred in a movie called compromise and his was made to government spending. As a result, petitions online have in the real world, hateful speech Cliffhanger, one of the certainly a politically unpopular These need to be across-the- been created against the church. and expression are permitted. S A hacktivist group called Legally, the Westboro Baptist finest films of all time. Of proposal on the right. board cuts. Now is not the course, I say so sarcastically. Nevertheless, the Democrats time to pick and choose. Anonymous posted personal Church is doing nothing wrong, Unfortunately, I am not being (and the President) asserted that In 2012, the United States information of the church and but in actuality, their actions sarcastic when I suggest that Toomey did not go far enough. spent more than $900 billion on posted a video against the members. cause immeasurable pain to perhaps his appearance in How interesting to note that if defense spending. Democrats, In addition, their site directs people already tragedy-stricken hearts. that movie qualifies him for the Bush tax cuts were to expire you are correct. That number to a petition the hackers found on What can we do? How can a seat in Congress. Based tomorrow, $600 billion more is simply unacceptable, and it a White House website stating that we legislate to prevent such on the performance of our in revenue would be raised in must be minimized in order to “[the church’s] IRS tax-exempt behaviors without relinquishing Congressman, attempting to ten years, but that would come take serious steps towards deficit status should be immediately to a government any of our avoid the approaching fiscal cliff, from Americans on every level reduction and avoidance of the fiscal investigated” because it is “better- essential, treasured liberty? That he could not be any less effective. of the socioeconomic ladder. cliff. If the President actually showed known for homophobic displays, is a question which has been Some readers might be Now, many Republicans are an ounce of courage and removed suing people and picketing pondered throughout the two asking what exactly the fiscal coming out of the woodwork, the troops tomorrow, we might be funerals than for providing hundred and fifty so years of our cliff is. A perfectly reasonable asserting that they would be able to reduce that number faster. Christian care to a community.” nation’s history, and will continue inquiry, considering the fact that willing to accept tax increases The larger issue regards Another online petition to be pondered for many years media pundits and bureaucrats if the situation requires it. entitlement programs. In 2012, requests that the church be until the polarized factions of our in the nation’s capital are so In making this assertion, the U.S. spent over $846 billion classified as a hate group rather society can come to an agreement. quick to throw the term around, they are violating Grover on Medicare and Medicaid, and than a religious group. It states And we are part of that without substantially defining it. Norquist’s “No Tax” pledge. it spent almost $820 billion on that the church has been classified society. These are our woes, our On December 31st, the While they would be wrong Social Security. These numbers as a hate group by the Southern issues. And as such we, too, must Budget Control Act of 2011 to vote for tax increases, their add up to over $1.6 trillion, and Poverty Law Center and has acted find solutions to eliminate cruel will go into effect. It will willingness to compromise that is in one year. The programs as a hate group repeatedly. The expressions of hatred while still cause a 2% tax increase for must not go unnoticed. must be reformed immediately. church has in the past picketed maintaining our freedom and free workers by ending last year’s Many will ask why one All options, again, must be on the funerals for shooting victims in expression. This is not a thing for payroll tax cut. It would put would be so fervently against table, even if it angers grandma. the past in Arizona and Colorado. the lawmakers to solve. This is an end to the Bush-era tax tax hikes. The answer is simple. Reform must include a faster The Westboro Baptist Church for us. News such as this should cuts, hurting every American. Tax hikes are always a viable increase in eligibility age and is not behaving in a Christlike jump out at us and shout for us Painful, deep spending cuts option, but statistically, more means-testing.

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