7301 E. Brown Road, Mesa, AZ Volume 21 Issue 8 May 2009 NEWS Seniors: BRIEFS Get ready to graduate Debt Lists definition of the high school cap and gown and having to lot of people go…I don’t “Annie Hall” that neatly experience. All this time show up early on May 21 to pretend to like everyone at defines the high school Debt lists are posted outside and effort has built up to this practice the ceremony, this our school, but I will truly experience. This guy goes the bookstore. Please check one glorious crescendo, and big event seems less like a miss those I’ve stayed close to a psychiatrist and says, these lists to make sure you have no debts. Seniors with most students are glad to be celebration, and more like to over the years,” said “Doc, my brother's crazy; he debt will not receive their di- finished, but it’s a bittersweet work. Quinonez. thinks he's a chicken.” The plomas. Juniors and sopho- victory. Nothing is more “I picked up my invita- “I know I’m going to doctor says, “Well, why don't mores will not receive their stable and comforting than tions the other day, and when miss it here, but I also know you turn him in?” The guy report cards. This list does By Morgan Evans going to school everyday. I got them, my name was I’m going to love college,” says, “I would, but I need the not include library books, Staff Writer It’s like an electric blanket; spelled wrong,” said senior said an optimistic Eddins. eggs.” High school is pain- which were due May 7. perfect sometimes, but leave Gerald Eddins. One can’t help but feel that ful, long, slightly traumatiz- Well, this is it. 2,700 hours it on too long and you end up Add to that the painstak- most of the student body is ing, and sometimes really Forum Music of sitting in classrooms final- with third degree burns. ing process of finishing up actively sharing this thought boring, but the point is, we Festival ly pays off as the senior class “I'm not sure if I'm ex- this last semester, and things process. need the eggs. anxiously awaits their fancy cited about [graduating]. It could get pretty stressful. There is another joke from Congratulations to Red seems as if the whole process “I have to finish my Mountain’s Chamber Orches- gold-leafed piece of card- stock that declares, “Yes, I has been really gradual” said second semester of bowl- tra, who went to California senior Johnathan Quino- ing to get a P.E. credit by for the Forum Music Festival am a high-school graduate!” nez who is getting ready May 1,” said senior Timothy on Friday, April 17. They On May 21, high school received a superior gold comes to an end for some to attend NAU in the fall. Mahoney. rating, ranking in the top 10 800 lucky individuals. There “Maybe when I'm trying on “With the end of the year percentile in the nation. is an old joke, rehashed by my cap and gown I'll sud- approaching and all the ex- Woody Allen in “Annie denly burst into some fit of citement that comes with it, Last Day Hall” that goes; two el- joy, but right now I'm still finals and AP tests are going derly women are at a Catskill pretty bogged down with end to be a real challenge,” said Thursday May 21 is the mountain resort, and one of of the year stuff.” senior Jessica Dow. last day of classes. Have a them says, "Boy, the food at Like Quinonez, most With the fall semester of safe and enjoyable sum- this place is really terrible." seniors have been totally college looming off in the mer. School will resume on swamped with all the red distance, Red Mountain has August 12. The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small por- tape that comes with gradu- never looked so good. tions." This is essentially the ating. From sending out “It’s going to be pretty PHOTO BY AMBERLY WENSLEY Talent Show announcements, getting a heart-wrenching to see a Senior Morgan Evans has his cap and gown ready for graduation. On May 14 from 7 - 9 p.m., Theatre Club will be host- ing a “Red Mountain’s Got Talent” talent show in the Orchestra and choir auditorium. Theatre Club is Tour California holding the talent show to raise money for a trip to the They attended a clinic for festival. Legler received an outstand- Following the festival, international competition. their first stop, followed by “We competed on April ing musicianship award for students went to a trip at Tickets are $3. a dinner cruise. The next 17, where both singers and their performance.” Disneyland. morning, students went to La Camarata received an out- “At our festival, we “I thought that Disney- Sports Regionals record songs. The following standing rating,” said senior received a gold rating from land was a lot of fun,” said evening, students either saw Bailey Hill, co-president of our reviewer, which means senior Lianna Rivera, who is Congratulations to the a Hollywood production of La Camarata. “In addition, that we did very well,” said in Chamber Orchestra. following sports teams that “Mama Mia” or a symphony the bass section and Kayla Kopp. Students who attended By Harrison Gearns made it to regionals this with violinist Sarah Chang tour in past years often find season: Editor performing a concerto. that they bond considerably Boys varsity baseball Boys varsity volleyball “We [the orchestra] with their ensembles. This Girls varsity softball Red Mountain students recorded some songs in a year was no different. and the following senior var- from Chamber Orchestra and cathedral,” said senior Chris “I know that tour was a sity tennis players who made the high choir, La Camarata, Kopp, President of Orchestra lot of fun for choir students,” it to regionals: left their little nook in the Club. said Hill. “All of the choirs Nathan Paulson, Kevin Kien- depths of Mesa and ventured “Recording in the cathe- bonded with their members itz, Joshua Brown and Kasey out to California for their dral was really cool because and even with all of the other Currell tour, which took place from the acoustics of it were abso- choirs. I feel that it was a April 15-21. lutely amazing,” said junior very positive experience.” ABC Awards Night Students from orchestra LeAndra Marx, violist in If you have any ques- Congratulations to all Red and choir took a charter the Red Mountain Chamber tions about joining orchestra Mountain students who won bus from Red Mountain Orchestra. “You could hear or choir next year, contact awards and recognition at on the morning of April 15 every string on every instru- Mr. Berkseth, the orchestra the ABC Awards Night on and drove from Arizona ment vibrating.” PHOTO COURTESY OF SHAYLYNN VEEDER director, in room 402. Mr. Thurs. May 7 in the to California, where they Orchestra and choir Juniors Anthony Castillo, Shaylynn Veeder and September Villaverde Johnston, the choir director, auditorium. attended numerous events. students also competed in a posed with Pluto at Disneyland, where they went with Chamber can be found in room 401. Orchestra. INDEX NEWS 1-4 OPINION 5-7 NO MORE NEWSPAPER? PC VS MAC PART II COACHES WRAP-UP FOCUS 8-10 See why Red Mountain will no Seniors William Sowards and See what Red Mountain longer have a school paper. Morgan Evans are at it again. coaches had to say about A&E 11-14 their teams’ seasons. SPORTS 15-16 PHOTO BY AMBERLY - page 3 - page 5 – page 16 WENSLEY PHOTO BY VALERIE PHOTO BY ABAGAIL DAVIS NUNEZ [email protected] www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/academics/english/newspaper Please recycle 2 May 2009 NEWS Holocaust survivor Tells her story to keep the memory alive what happened to many Waffen-SS soldiers,” said “The first day I arrived I If there was one thing destroy humanity,” said other Jews that the Nazis Ms. Handler. “Mothers couldn’t even swallow the that Ms. Handler came out Ms. Handler. “When you knew about. Hungary was were told to give their chil- lunch,” said Ms. Handler. of Auschwitz with, it was a cease to have compassion a partner of Germany, so dren to the grandmothers “After that, I can assure new perspective on life. for human beings, you the same “procedures” and men and women were you, I never wasted a drop “You must stop hating, cease to be a human being were followed. separated. All we could of it.” or eventually you will yourself.” “At first I though it was see around us was barbed After spending years of a mistake,” said Ms. Han- wire.” hardship in the concentra- By Shane Hengesh dler. “My father had been Although the Jewish tion camp, Ms. Handler Staff Writer a sergeant in the Hungarian captives had already en- and her remaining friends Army. They told me that dured hard times, nothing were liberated by the Rus- On April 23, Red this was not a mistake.” could prepare them for the sians. This was not the end Mountain students had Eventually, many were concentration camps. Mil- of difficult times though. the chance to listen to sent to the concentration lions were murdered by the They would all have to Ms. Handler tell the story camps. They were told heartless soldiers. learn to live again. of how she survived the that they could bring what “For every five, one “When the Russians Holocaust.