May 2012 Vol. 3 No. 6 BTC: The Final Installment (for this Year)... Connor Nelson nect to who we are as residents preparation for a paper Staff Writer of Salt Lake City,” Ling Ritter about their experiences. commented on the experience. Afterwards, Mr. Thom- Wednesday, April 11, was Riley Nevens commented, “It sen gave a preview of the final session for the Beyond was nice getting out of the actual what the junior class the Classroom program of the classroom and taking learning to will experience in next 2011-2012 school year. Some another level...[and] fun overall year’s internships with welcomed and anticipated this spending time with classmates local companies during third and final installment of this and teachers.” the two weeks around year, while others were sorely Sophomores once again had Interim. The goal of this disappointed by their desig- a variety of options to choose internship program is to nated activity. Over the three from, including visiting the new provide the senior class sessions per year, freshmen Natural History Museum of with real-world job ex- extended their studies outside Utah, taking a tour of art in Salt perience, which for them school, and sophomores partici- Lake City, exploring the Tracy isn’t too far away. pated in unique experiences in Aviary, once again visiting the When asked what the the professional workforce. Ju- University of Utah’s cell biol- program has in store for niors reached out and provided ogy lab, and much more. “It was the future, Mr. Thom- service to local organizations, fun,” said Adria Lam of the Tra- sen replied, “you will and selected seniors prepared to cy Aviary, “We made nests, but see us get better at cre- work firsthand in an internship we ran out of material. And we ating experiences that beginning after AP exams. The saw flamingos; that was cool.” connect Rowland Hall Josh Cole at work amid the scenery of program’s mission is to provide Some groups performed service students to the world of the Great Salt Lake. – Photo by Jessie Rowland Hall students with ex- projects for the places they visit- possibilities.” Mr. Thom- Barker citing real-world experiences, ed, such as helping to catalogue sen expanded, “Just like well, beyond the classroom. plants at the Natural History when students take on a brand riences that students in other During this third installment, Museum of Utah. new course of study, so are we schools just don’t have.” We freshmen took a trip to the Great Juniors wrapped up their just learning how best to design look forward to seeing how this Salt Lake, observing the natural service hours by writing a re- opportunities that give our stu- program changes and becomes life of the habitat. “I thought it flection about their projects, in dents the chance to have expe- part of what makes Rowland was a really good way to con- Hall unique. Dance Company Showcases Seniors Shelby Matsumura concert as a chance for “the seniors to stand painted dancers. The performance acted as a Staff Writer as the class that has experienced the most refreshing piece after the intermission. Rainy dance, witnessed the dancers before them, Paul’s dance, “Nexus,” was also different On Friday, April 20, the dance company and the ones who pass down traditions and considering the live music. Anna Smith and held their annual senior dance concert show- aesthetics created and witnessed over their Chase Kroesche performed “Blackbird,” by casing their talented seniors: Charis Ben- 7 years.” We had a great turnout, with the the Beatles, during Rainy’s piece. Perhaps, jamin, Micha Hori, Ellie Kimball, Chelsea majority of seats filled with students, faculty thanks to Rainy’s piece, the dance company Klein, Christine Livsey, McCall Moody, MiMi and parents. Starting at 7pm, “Imprint” was will incorporate more live music into their Nguyen, Rainy Paul, and Breeanne Saxton. short, sweet, and highly entertaining. performances. The finale, “Proteigon,” cho- As usual, the performance was free and The show started with a cool hip-hop reographed by Ellie Kimball, was a great open to the public. Sofia Gorder, our - mar piece called “Welcome to My Hood.” Cho- mixed piece to finish on. The cool, contem- velous dance instructor, describes the senior reographed by MiMi Nguyen, the piece was porary piece brought the audience to full at- a great opening for the night. The dance tention for the last couple of minutes. company, probably best known for its mod- For many of us, the senior dance concert ern dance, truly showcased their talent in stood out as the last time to see our senior “A Holding Pattern,” performed by Guthrie dancers showcase their talents. Sofia knows Burnett, Breeanne Saxton, Abi Hill, Micha that “these seniors will represent the art of Hori, Ellie Kimball, and Alex Beaufort. dance well as they carry their strong voices The next piece, “Do Your Crunches Like into the world.” Even as we wish the seniors This,” was probably one of the audience’s good luck in their future prospects, the dance favorites of the night. The piece was choreo- program will be in great hands next year. graphed by Rainy Paul and was a mix be- This year’s juniors—Alex Beaufort, Guthrie tween hip-hop and an exercise craze. After Burnett, Bailey Carver, Ariel Feola, Bailey the intermission, Christine Livsey’s piece Kirby, Eleanor Layfield, Brighton Moreton, differed from the rest of the show, but in a Nitika Reddy, Cari Sanyer, Corinne Sugino, Dancers perform Charis Benjamin’s piece good way. “We Are One” incorporated Ca- Scout Swenson, and Lila Thulin—will make “Dreamy Allusions.” -- Photo by Stuart Ruck- poeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form in- next year’s performances as amazing as this man corporating music and dance, performed by year’s have been. 2 May 14, 2012 News & Features [email protected] Rowland Hall Gazette

Student Councillater dates. With the majorityElection of All voting for Results student body cided by bothAre faculty and In the ris- student body offices (secretary, officers was held on Friday, April ing junior class. Next year’s pre- publicity director, historian, and 27. In a mass ballot, the student fects are Ariel Feola as the head treasurer) open for next year, body chose their favorites out prefect and Austen Van Burns, there are many ways to serve. of the candidates from two ris- Sam Ball, and Sydney Maves as The catch is, prospects have to be ing grades. Teddy Janes ran un- the remaining prefects. elected. opposed and will be next year’s Class officers were elected The race for student body secretary. Abeni Czajkowski will also on Friday, April 13. Rising president was incredibly close, be next year’s historian. Connor sophomores elected Ling Rit- rumored to have been decided Nelson (myself) will serve as ter as their president and Zach by one vote. The winner was publicity director. Maddy Foley Levinthal as vice president. Ris- Student body president candidates Tyler Labov, signaling the begin- was elected treasurer. The num- ing juniors elected Bryce Baker Tyler Labov and Hank Shipman. ning of the highly-anticipated ber of candidates for each posi- as president, and after late en- -- Photo courtesy of Thomas Beb- “Labro” administration, since tion was relatively high, enough tries and a late election on Friday, bington his twin brother Doug ran unop- for races in nearly every position. May 4, Aaron Wadley as vice

Connor Nelson posed for the position of student “I’m really happy with the num- president. Rising seniors chose Staff Writer body vice-president. “I’m ex- ber of candidates this year,” said Ben Schloesser as president and cited to have the opportunity to Liz Paige, advisor for Student Katie Hayashi as vice president. It’s election season again! be on student council and serve Council. “It shows great interest Predictions for next year? Liz Although only the seniors can in a greater capacity and serve in being part of Student Coun- Paige hopes that next year’s Stu- vote this November, the student with my brother Tyler,” reported cil.” dent Council will be “invested in body had its chance to vote for Doug. The student body will get Prefect elections were on May what we do, and as committed next year’s student body presi- a taste of their leadership once 4th. This position is unique due to making a fun and meaningful dent on Friday, April 13, as well the seniors leave. to the fact that candidates are de- year as I am.” as the rest of Student Council at The Unofficial Beyond the Classroom Jessie Barker saying, “If I have time between classes, I Staff Writer tend to do some work. I am usually able to finish most of it.” Recently, Hannah has The bell that rings at 3:40 is the sign just won her first blue ribbon and says, “I for most of us to go home, but not for thought that I might faint because during some special students at Rowland Hall. the class my horse decided to start be- I’m not talking about the Rowmarkers or ing bad right as the judge was looking at the kids on our sports teams. I’m talking me.” We are looking forward to finding about the students who do other extraor- out what else Hannah accomplishes! dinary activities outside of school. These Lainey Epperson, a sophomore, athletes have to find a balance between plays volleyball. Lainey was inspired to school, friends, and their extracurricular start playing because her stepsister did, activities. I have chosen to highlight a and she “wanted to be just like her.” She student from each class from a number of has been playing for five years now, and people who responded to my questions this past summer Lainey was part of a about their sports, each with an incred- U.S.A. High Performance team that trav- ible and unique story. eled throughout the U.S. and abroad. The Freshman Hannah Morris is a com- best part of this experience for her was Ethan Fedor competes in a cyclocross race. -- petitive horseback rider. Hannah has at the end of the tournament, before ev- Photo courtesy of Ethan Fedor been riding for two years, and her horse eryone went to the airport, when they all is named MV Count Echo. Hannah tells “played games together in the pool.” She me she got into the sport because “a very went on to say, “Even though the major- good friend introduced [her] to it”; also, ity of us didn’t speak the same language, her “parents both rode when they were I am still in contact with all the friends younger.” She says that weekly, she I met, and it was a really great experi- spends three days after school training. ence.” Hannah is training so she can go to horse So how does Lainey keep this active shows. pastime and school straight? She has to The shows are usually Thursday finish all her homework at school in or- to Saturday, meaning she misses some der to keep up, because she gets home school. A judge ranks competitors from around nine. She also has to keep up on first place to tenth. In the class itself, there all the homework she misses while she could be as few as one horse or as many is away. She does this by trying to com- as twenty. The judges look for consisten- plete her work before she even goes to cy from the horse and the rider. Depend- tournaments. Many of us can appreciate ing on the class, the judges look for dif- how hard being gone for long periods of ferent things. For equitation they judge time is and how much work Lainey must rider more than horse, and for pleasure do to catch up. they judge more on the horse. Hannah Ethan Fedor, a junior, is a cyclist. does both equitation and pleasure and Ethan became involved in racing around excels at both. This summer, Hannah is age eight because his Dad was a big fan going to travel to Idaho to compete at re- and was eager for Ethan to start. Ethan Above is Hannah Morris; her mom, Julie Rob- gionals. When asked about her balance of erts; and her horse, MV Count Echo. -- Photo homework and riding, she responded by CLASSROOM continues on page 3 courtesy of Hannah Morris [email protected] Features May 14,3 2012 Rowland Hall Gazette Detentions: Do They Really Work? Claire Wang brings with it the idea that detentions can bearing, it is at least an improvement from Staff Writer be evaded, thus further undermining the mandatory school uniforms. The practice of giving detentions seems significance of receiving detentions. In an attempt to control students’ dis- so commonplace that it is rarely questioned. The irregularity of giving dress code regard for detentions, the administration is However, this very fact may be the reason detentions can create the idea that teachers beginning to send detention essays home to for its decline in effectiveness. A recent stu- are biased against certain students and thus students’ parents to help inspire discussion dent survey shows that almost half of stu- give more detentions to those students; about these punishments. Students often dents are not bothered by getting a deten- however, the fact is that many times, teach- believe that detentions have no effect, as tion and that nearly 70% of students don’t ers simply cannot juggle both their school- they do not show up on a college transcript believe that detentions prevent bad behav- work and student discipline. Mr. Hoglund or involve a large disruption in their lives, ior. Has the routineness of detentions led says, “We talk about [dress code] once ev- but if school administrators notice a con- to their becoming not a punishment, but a ery other faculty meeting, as a reminder to tinuing trend of detentions of a certain sort, meaningless chore? there is the possibility that According to Upper School an in-school suspension may principal Lee Thomsen and be given. With the increasing vice principal Ryan Hoglund, competitiveness of college ad- Rowland Hall uses detentions missions, these suspensions to take away something valued could be the line between ac- by the students—in this case, ceptance and deferral or rejec- time to socialize during lunch­ tion. Hopefully, new measures —in exchange for bad behavior. to get parents more involved However, only 18% of students in detentions will prove a bet- actually feel sorry for their of- ter deterrent and begin to re- fense from serving detention. vive the significance of deten- The increasing nonchalance tion. with which students regard de- In an ideal world, deten- tentions raises the question of tions would be related to the whether or not detentions actu- Public humiliation by cutting grass with scissors: a better alternative specific offense; for example, ally work to prevent question- to detentions? – Photo by Jessie Barker eating in the hallways would able behavior. result in the student having to Take the example of dress code viola- vacuum the carpets. However, tions, one of the better-defined offenses at just be diligent.” However, the sheer num- Rowland Hall simply does not have the ca- Rowland Hall. With the onset of warmer ber of dress code violations combined with pacity to allocate unique punishments for weather, Rowland Hall is seeing an increas- the difficulty for teachers of balancing their individual offenses. Unless an entirely new ing number of blatant dress-code violations. time means that there will never be a way position were created to take charge of this, Regrettably, however, many of these viola- to give detentions to every violator. This in- there simply would not be enough time to tions go without punishment. This sets a consistency of detention-giving is another create unique solutions for every offense. precedent for students to show up know- reason the current detention system may be In addition, offenses such as being tardy or ing they are out of dress code, knowing that flawed. being out of dress code do not have recipro- there is likelihood that they will not be pe- In addition, survey results showed that cal responses. nalized for it. Many of the students surveyed many students consider dress code viola- When asked about an alternative to de- said that they didn’t believe their clothes to tions to be absurd or meaningless. How- tentions, the most popular response was to be inappropriate, and that oftentimes, they ever strict Rowland Hall dress code may have detainees do janitorial work around could show up out of dress code and still appear to students, the fact is that maintain- the school instead of “just sitting there for evade detentions. Survey results show that ing dress-code standards is key to keeping half an hour.” This would allow students to 23%—over one-fifth—of students are will- up the image of Rowland Hall. Without a benefit the school and alleviate the burden ing to violate the dress code. The policy of paradigm by which to judge the clothing on school custodians while serving their having shorts be a hand’s length above the of students, the school risks bearing an un- sentence. By forcing students to do actual knee is not hard to follow and should not professional image in a college preparatory physical work, it is very likely that Row- be hard to spot, but the fact is that many school. Dress code is also a way to prevent land Hall can decrease the school’s deten- of these violations are going unnoticed. distraction and even possible sexual harass- tion rate. ment due to revealing clothing. Though stu- This trend of ignoring dress code violations DETENTIONS continues on dents may view school dress code as over- page 4

CLASSROOM continued from page 2 From biking, Ethan has learned to take initiative, even when there is something he doesn’t want to do. We could all learn a lesson from started on the mountain-bike circuit. At age twelve, he got his first that, especially when dealing with school. road bike and started competing there. As an eight year old, senior Johnny Bebbington was introduced Ethan does quite a few different types of bike racing. Mountain to the game of squash by his father. Now, as a senior, he is in the top bike races test his ability to handle the bike and how fast he can sixty squash players in the country. Obviously, Johnny works very go. In road biking, there are several subcategories, like road races, hard to maintain this position, training ten to twelve hours a week. circuit races, crits, and time trials. Each is a little different from the He says that playing squash does somewhat affect his homework others, but they are described by Ethan as “riding on straight roads time but is less time-consuming than being on a soccer team. He for long periods of time in very close proximity to other riders.” also explains that “the squash club is close to [his] house,” so this His favorite is cyclocross, which he says that is the best to watch also makes up some of the time. Even though the game of squash is as well. What you do is “road bike with mountain bike tires. You not familiar to everyone, we applaud Johnny for his commitment. ride through dirt, or mud, or snow, occasionally in cold weather. He has also learned from the game of squash “how to connect with Often there are staircases or barriers that you need to dismount adults that [he] would not normally get a chance to.” This is defi- and run over.” Ethan does admit that biking affects the time he has nitely an important skill for seniors, especially going into the work- to do homework and says he just had to learn how to manage it. force. 4 May 14, 2012 Opinion [email protected] Rowland Hall Gazette Is It Too Much? Katherine Edgley BattleShelby Matsumura of the Classes Staff Writer Staff Writer

And... the winner of this year’s Moving into the spring trimester, the sun is out, Battle of the Classes IS (drumroll) the flowers are blooming, and all anyone really wants to Juni—yeah right. Every year, Rowland do is go outside and relax. Unfortunately, that ideal is completely smothered year after year by the home- Hall holds a battle of epic proportions, work overload students at Rowland Hall have to face. but this year’s Battle of the Classes was Specifically for students in their junior year, maintain- one of the most unique and controver- ing extracurricular activities and keeping up with the sial yet. Although the “fairness” of the workload is an extremely difficult task. It can be done, competition has been disputed before, but at the sacrifice of valuable hours of sleep every this year’s event caused a heated de- night. bate on seniority privileges and the However, a proposition to solve this imbalance be- prejudice of Battle of the Classes. Rig- tween schoolwork and other activities might be hard ging the Battle of the Classes, a tradi- Sara Mann and Kyleene Johnson to come by. With the increasing load upperclassmen tion for Rowland Hall seniors, doesn’t are willing to take on—some may overdo the number dance in the senior lip sync. – Photo seem likely to change—but it should! of APs they take—other activities such as sports, mu- by Ben Smith Why? Because it discourages any ef- sic, and even just free time are completely ruled out of fort by the other grades. Privileges judges can give points according to the a student’s schedule. keep getting taken away because of rulebook. The junior argument: who There are many benefits to homework in regard to lack of participation, so why would wrote the rulebook? The principal. achievement, self-discipline, and successful learning. we encourage this trend further with After a heated discussion in Stu- Scott Treiman agrees with this statement: “I think there Battle of the Classes? Underclassmen dent Council, the extra point counted is a positive correlation between doing more home- will complain about the unfair treat- towards the juniors’ overall score. The work and having better grades.” However, Scott also ment they receive during Battle of the seniors were obviously bitter about this says, “I do think you have time for activities outside of Classes until they themselves become anti-senior point. The seniors parodied school, although it can be a struggle.” There is a dan- seniors, but where’s the fun in that? A ger to overloading students with homework. Home- the junior music video, “She Thinks couple of this year’s candidates for stu- work overload not only harms sleeping patterns and My Tractor’s Sexy,” by having Oliv- dent body president have shown inter- limits activities outside of school but also puts family ia Filion prance around in a cow suit est in changing this system in hopes of life and personal relationships in jeopardy by sacrific- chased by a skipping Sam Jackson. This creating a fair competition among the ing a great deal of free time during the school year. rivalry, though, was probably the one classes. So how could we get there? One option to fix this would be cutting back on the of the highlights of this year’s Battle Perhaps implementing games that amount of “busywork” assigned. The quality of the of the Classes. This is why we should can’t be rigged would be more appro- homework done is obviously much more important remove rigging Battle of the Classes as priate for such a competition. For ex- than the quantity of homework. Therefore changes a tradition! If there were no predeter- ample, the seniors won flag football that could be made to relieve the homework overload mined winner, the actual competition because, as referee Steve Mond stated, should involve improving the quality of the home- level between classes would rise. A re- “They had a great game plan and did a work and consequently decreasing the quantity. newed excitement would spring from good job neutralizing Scott Silverstein Unfortunately, juniors and seniors often choose to the lower grades. Battle of the Classes in the championship match.” The se- take a very large number of AP courses, and many AP would just be plain fun. Who wouldn’t niors won this round fair and square classes require a substantial amount of homework a want that? If seniors are so much better night to cover the entire course. Sydney Maves, a ju- and initiated a real sense of competition than everyone else, why manipulate nior in the AP US history class, says she has on aver- between the classes. Of course, com- the games? Seniors should prove their age about three to four hours of homework a night. petitions like the lip sync and music superiority with a fair competition! In the spring months, Sydney runs on the track team, video are traditions that shouldn’t be However, this year’s Battle of the and only arrives home around 7 o’clock every eve- removed, but encouraging the teacher Classes was probably one of the more ning, leaving a very small amount of time for her large judges to evaluate each entry more fair- fun ones that we’ve had. The contro- amount of homework. With little time in between for ly would improve everyone’s mood! Is versial extra point launched multitudes a long dinner and relaxation, she starts her homework it really that important for seniors to of debates among students and faculty, and finishes around 10:30 or 11pm. She averages about win the Battle of the Classes? All of this even causing some good-natured, but seven and a half hours of sleep on weeknights, almost tension came to a boiling point dur- competitive, mocking! The seniors two hours below the recommended sleep amount for ing the music videos, when Principal seemed to actually feel threatened by adolescents. Sydney says, “Although I have enough Thomsen gave a controversial extra the other classes. If the school would time for sports and extracurricular activities, I do point to the juniors. Instantly, a large cut out the fixed nature of Battle of the not have any free time whatsoever during the school debate ensued between the juniors Classes, next year would be a blast… week.” The balance between studying for AP tests and seniors. The seniors were furious for everyone! and competing in spring sports can be a tough one, with this extra point, arguing that only and could be significantly improved with a good solu- tion. DETENTIONS continued from page 3 Less homework for students would result in a more active and not sleep-deprived student body, as well as However much students resent detentions today, it is at least an improve- maybe even an increase in performance in school. The ment from Saturday detentions, which were a burden to students and teachers key to having less homework at Rowland Hall is not at alike. Though this practice was abolished over five years ago, students used to all easy to come by. Scott Treiman suggests that using have to come in on Saturday mornings or afternoons, depending on the serious- the block schedule more would significantly decrease ness of their offense. Students would clean the school for four-hour shifts. This homework. Blocked classes not only cut down on the practice was ultimately abandoned due to the unfair responsibility placed on amount of homework but allow students to balance teachers. their homework load however they see fit. Block also In the end, penal systems will never be perfect, and infractions will always may help with the quality of learning in classes them- be made. Though the school’s system of detentions works well enough for the selves. Scott may have found the answer to the home- status quo, there can always be room for improvement. New measures by the work overload problem at Rowland Hall. The perfect school coupled with a possible reform in the detention system could reduce solution may lie right in front of our noses, and that is Rowland Hall’s detention rate. block weeks. [email protected] Opinion May 14,5 2012 Rowland Hall Gazette Home Ec Is More Than Food Cookery Katherine Edgley dients allows people to Staff Writer become more aware of where the food comes Do you know the best time of year to from and the quality of buy strawberries? Do you know whether to the food they are buy- wash white laundry in cold or warm water? ing. A home economics Do you know how to sew a button back on class would be benefi- a shirt? If you do, you are on the right track. cial for all students be- However, I can quite confidently say that cause it would build a many high schoolers do not. Therefore, I foundation of cooking think a home economics class would be ex- and maybe even inspire tremely useful for Rowland Hall students. newfound interest in A home economics class consists of learning the field of cookery. about skills necessary to run a home, rang- Another impor- ing from cooking, cleaning, and sewing, to tant skill that students more technical skills such as interior design could acquire by taking and managing money. All these skills are a home ec class is clean- necessary to learn in order to live on your ing. A lack of knowl- own and to ensure a healthy living style. edge of simple cleaning Katie White cooks for the Interact dinner. A good skill for a home First of all, without education about the concepts like laundry ec class! -- Photo courtesy of Maher Farrukh basic techniques of cooking, many people re- can cause a lot of diffi- sort to instant meals that only require a few culties for college, and minutes in the microwave. However, there a lot of tinted clothes would be saved if stu- think it would be helpful for all students are several consequences that arise from dents learned how to do laundry earlier on planning to attend college away from home a reliance on instant meals. Frozen foods in their lives. Along with laundry, the issue and, more specifically, for their mothers. I lack nutrients, taste worse than fresh foods, of cleaning and basic living hygiene is also will even go so far as to say that prepara- and are generally more processed than any an extremely important one, especially for tion for college life is almost as important home-cooked meal and therefore not as students entering college. as academic preparation for college because healthy. A rise in the consumption of fro- I am sure many adults’ experiences tak- without an idea of how to live alone and in zen and highly processed foods is only one ing home ec were less than satisfactory. a healthy way, many students may have a disadvantage of not learning how to cook. However, Rowland Hall could find a way whole level of stress added to their college Cooking and purchasing individual ingre- to make the class useful and effective. I experience. Why Socializing Matters: A Look into the Death of Spring Fling and What We Can Do to Reverse a Troubling Trend Claire Wang students stated that they vious years. The Aloha scheduling conflicts. This year’s Student Coun- Staff Writer chose not to buy tick- and Halloween stomps Another reason stu- cil has done a lot to try to Troubling news was ets to Spring Fling be- have always been popu- dents choose not to go to inspire students to attend received the Thursday cause no one else was lar and well attended, and dances is the increasing dances and stomps, such before Spring Fling: the going and many people this year’s Winter Formal amount of inappropri- as creating raffles for tick- underclassman prom thought Spring Fling last was one of the biggest in ate behavior exhibited ets and increasing public- was to be cancelled this year was bad due to a years, according to Stu- there. As outfits grow ity for dances, and these year, the next, and for the bad DJ. While the issue of dent Council coordinator increasingly revealing actions worked for the foreseeable future, if stu- having a bad DJ is easily Liz Paige. However, start- and student interactions first part of the year. Af- dent interest continues to solvable, the problem of become more sexual- ter the failure of club- and wane. The news came as low attendance is a more ized, those who are not class-organized events, no surprise to freshmen troubling issue. Low at- engaging in such activi- Liz Paige and the Student and sophomores; we had tendance is in itself a vi- ties feel more and more Council decided to only all realized that very few cious cycle—the reputa- uncomfortable. Grinding have school-organized people were planning tion of being a dance that and PDA at stomps may stomps, which would on attending the dance. no one goes to will ulti- serve as a reason some be better organized and However, the 30 of us mately mean that fewer students choose not to at- more publicized. who had already bought and fewer people attend tend dances. An increase However much the tickets were disappoint- in the future. Though this The sad end of Spring in teacher supervision Student Council works ed that the disinterest of year’s Spring Fling com- Fling. -- Photo by Jessie may be what we need to increase attendance, the other students would mittee thought of count- Barker to increase attendance though, it is ultimately prevent the rest of us less ways to increase at- among students who are up to the student body from enjoying ourselves. tendance, including a troubled by inappropri- to go to these events to As far as we know, the raffle for Jazz tickets, a ing from club- and grade- ate behavior. ensure that our Student cancellation of an already “Birth of Rome” skit at organized stomps, such Of course, there will Council’s efforts are not scheduled dance due to morning meeting, and a as the Rainbow Stomp never be a way to guar- in vain. So, for all of you lack of attendance has drawing for a free cou- and the junior-class-or- antee 100% attendance who are reading this arti- never happened before ple’s ticket, it was ulti- ganized February Stomp, at school events, social cle, make it a goal to go to at Rowland Hall. Could mately the students’ lack attendance has begun to or otherwise, but there more stomps and dances the student disinterest in of action that caused the go down. The Battle of are actions the Student next year—high school school-sponsored social dance’s downfall. the Classes Stomp was Council and the student only lasts so long and events be becoming more For the first few danc- ended early due to low body can take to increase these events will never widespread? es of this year, attendance attendance, although this our school spirit and at- happen again after these When interviewed, was actually up from pre- may have been due to tendance to social events. four years. 6 May 14, 2012 Technology [email protected] Rowland Hall Gazette Make Your Computer Run Faster. For Free =) Carlyn Ausbeck in the past month? No, you plication is using at any given to control the fan speed on your Staff Writer haven’t; if you have it on, turn it time. Most of them you won’t laptop. The hotter your lap- off. Same goes for Universal Ac- want to touch because they help top is, the slower it runs. Our I have been hearing com- cess, Speech your com- laptops were designed to con- plaints, mainly from seniors, Recogni- puter run, serve power and always use the about their computers. The most tion and but watch minimum required power to do common ones are “argh, this is I n t e r n e t for appli- what is needed. So, unless you so slow” and “I wish I had a bet- S h a r i n g . cations that have five applications open and ter laptop.” I know that laptops All of these require a are watching a video, your fan will never be as fast as people things use lot of CPU. speed is never as high as it could want them to be, but the Mac- up RAM on K e e p i n g be. Now, what does this mean? It Books that are required by the your lap- track of this means that your computer could school are not especially slow. If top, even if will help run faster if you downloaded you treat your laptop with care, you never you decide this free application to speed then it will last a long time and use them. w h e t h e r up your fan. Of course, the only run faster. The amazing thing Yes, Speech you should problem that comes with the ap- about Macs is that they convert Recogni- have calen- plication is that your computer’s their hard drives to processing tion is fun dar open fan is really loud when spinning power, so the more hard drive to mess all the as fast as possible. You can ad- space you have, the faster your a r o u n d time. (Hint: just the speed of your fan to suit laptop is. Also, did you know with, but the answer your needs. I would highly rec- that it is faster to close a pro- do you re- is no.) It ommend this item, which is def- gram that you were using but ally use it? might not initely well worth your time. won’t use for a bit, open another Look at your Mac, now back to me, now A l s o , seem like Another free application for one you need to use, and then back to your Mac, now back to me. Sad- w i d g e t s ; much, but Macs is the Nvidia Cuda driver close it and reopen the first when ly, your Mac isn’t me, but if you do what are you the it is worth update. Since all of the MacBooks you are done than to keep the I say, it could run like me. -- Photo by type of per- your time are running on an Nvidia graph- first program open in the back- Carlyn Ausbeck son who to do these ics card, this update makes the ground the whole time? This puts ALL t h i n g s . graphics on the computers run is just one of the many ways to the widgets on the dashboard Come on, your computer is right without needing as much RAM. make your life easier by making because you can? If you are, take there; just do it. The driver update works best your computer faster. Here are them off. The widgets take pro- Another way to enhance your for gaming, but it will increase a few more ways to increase the cessing power to run even if the computer’s performance is to the overall performance of your performance of your computer. dashboard isn’t open. I don’t use download performance enhanc- Mac. This application is a free Every Mac comes with fea- widgets at all, but for those who ing applications. Most of the fol- upgrade, and who knows, you tures that would be useful for do, use only the ones you need. lowing applications cannot be might really want to play a game different people, but how many Also, you might have some pro- downloaded at school because sometime. For those people who of these features do you actually grams running on your Mac that of shareware downloading, so play games on their laptop, this use? Probably not as many as require a lot of processing pow- you should bring this newspa- is a must; don’t forget, it’s free, there are. For example, in your er. You can easily check what per home with you so you can so just get it. You can even get it system preferences there are a your computer has the hardest remember what you need. The at school. large number of icons, and al- time running with the Activity most basic of all applications For students who might not though most of them are neces- Monitor that comes with your for Macs should be SMC Fan go to the safest of sites, ClamX- sary, a few aren’t. One is Blue- laptop. The Activity Monitor Control. If you have not heard tooth; have you used Bluetooth COMPUTER continues on shows how much RAM any ap- of this application, it allows you page 7 Cyberbullying Is More Than Food Cookery Joe Narus ed. What’s more, it is required by law that and report the behavior. Staff Writer a school with computers have some sort of With this list, I hope to leave you with filter in place. a sense on how to potentially avoid being Cyberbullying is an issue at Rowland Seeing as we don’t have a class on help- bullied and also to not be a bully yourself. Hall. Many people don’t know about it, but ing us to avoid cyberbullying, here is a crash Remember, bullying is NEVER a good thing it’s a severe problem. This can be partly at- course on how to avoid it or get around it: and is incredibly harmful towards others. tributed to the fact that everyone owns a 1. Don’t respond. Your reaction is usu- Many bullies do not know the extent to laptop, and this alone greatly increases the ally exactly what the bully wants. which their actions harm others. Reflect on chances of cyberbullying. Meanwhile, are 2. Don’t retaliate. Getting back at the how your actions will affect others BEFORE we taught about avoiding cyberbullying in bully turns you into one. you act. Bullying would significantly de- an effective way in school, if at all? I don’t 3. Save the evidence. The only good crease if everyone were to do this. believe we are. Cyberbullying is a subject news about digital bullying is that mes- that people rarely talk about here. People sages can be saved. who are bullied rarely discuss their prob- 4. Block the bully. Do yourself a favor: lem and therefore make it an even less vis- Use preferences or privacy tools to block ible issue. Unfortunately, this just allows them. cyberbullying to continue. Due to bullying 5. Be civil. Research shows that gos- over the Internet at our school, Facebook siping about and trash talking others in- has been blocked once again. creases your risk of being bullied. Treat If this issue were to be addressed openly, people the way you want to be treated. and students used the Internet in a much 6. Don’t be the bully. more responsible way, would Facebook and 7. Be a friend, not a bystander. If you other sites be unblocked? I believe so, but Andrew Deneris’s artistic interpretation of can’t stop the bully, try to help the victim the blocks should never be completely lift- cyberbullying. -- Photo by Ben Smith [email protected] Tech & Sports May 14,7 2012 Rowland Hall Gazette

COMPUTER continued from page 6 Taking Notes by Computer av is a free antivirus scanner available on the Joe Narus playing games or browsing tumblr during app store. It might take up a lot of RAM and Staff Writer class. Learning to battle this distraction is CPU when being used, but it is a great way an essential aspect of becoming more pro- to keep your computer safe from viruses that Our computers are incredibly useful ductive. Initially, students will likely be can infect computers. If your laptop seems to devices for taking notes. They keep notes unproductive during class and distracted be acting slower than your friends’ laptops, organized and make them much easier by their computers. Over time, they will then you might have some viruses leeching to find. Instead of rummaging through a grow tired of many of the distractions and your processing power in order to steal your notebook looking for specific notes, just ease into productivity; or they will real- personal information. This program is easy type a sentence into spotlight and voilà— ize that being productive requires them to to use; just start it up when you’re going to the document with the notes shows up as resist distractions. I have experienced this bed and check to see if it found any viruses a result. This feature alone makes comput- realization myself and have seen a differ- when you wake up. Of course, model Row- ers a much more valuable resource than a ence in many other students around me. I land Hall students won’t have any viruses on notebook for taking notes. played games my freshman year and was their expensive laptops, but it never hurts to Sadly, we’re often denied access to this easily distracted. Gradually, I started real- make sure. Definitely worth your time, even resource, as many teachers don’t allow stu- izing I needed to become more productive if you are positive you don’t have viruses. dents to use computers in class. The reason and stopped using my computer for a time. Even if you try all of these, they won’t many teachers ban computer use is to pre- I finally realized that computers are a vital make your laptop run Crysis 2 or anything. vent distraction. This concern is valid, and resource and can greatly increase produc- These are just quick and easy ways to make it I can see why teachers do this; however, tivity compared to just writing notes in a run smoothly. Maybe the transition between given that our survey indicates that 80% notebook. The time spent searching for my spaces will happen right when you ask it to. of students find that taking notes on the notes in a notebook could be spent study- Maybe you will be able to have one more computer is effective and 83% of students ing those same notes on the computer. application open before the computer slows report using their computers mostly for Taking notes on the computer offers down. These are the most basic ways to in- school-related purposes when at school, many advantages. It can be a lot easier to crease performance, but if you want to learn teachers should allow students to take keep up with a lecture by typing rather even more ways to increase performance, try notes on computers in class. It is, however, than writing. Typos on a computer aren’t googling it. There are a ton of really interest- acceptable to not allow computers to be that big of a deal, as they can be quickly ing ways to get your laptop to run just a little open during other class activities. fixed after the lecture. Computers are also bit faster. These things are in no way equal Patrick Godfrey, our director of technol- great for those who have poor handwrit- to buying a new computer, but they increase ogy, believes that banning computer use in ing. Taking notes is more about efficiency performance so that it runs as well as it did class does a disservice to the students. He than anything else. With better efficiency, when you first bought it, maybe even better claims that students must learn to battle students find better quality in their notes. if you have taken care of it. through their distractions, and by taking The opportunity to take more notes also I know a lot of you are going to be lazy computers away in class, teachers just re- presents itself. More notes means more to and not do anything recommended in this move the distraction rather than helping study from. More to study from equals po- story, but if you don’t, don’t go complaining students learn to push past it. It’s true that tentially higher grades on tests. Therefore about how slow your computer is. I hope you many students struggle with distractions taking notes on a computer is a win over- guys find this helpful. If you are confused on on their computers, especially in fresh- all. ^_^ anything, I am ready to help. man year. Many freshmen can be found An Update on Your Spring Sports Teams Jessie Barker Rahislic, Johnny Bebbington, and Coach Oftedal said, “the season Jena Glazier, and Rachel Snyder. Staff Writer Sam Nolan, led the team through was a huge success” overall. The Deseret News praised Jena Gla- a season unfortunately riddled The girls’ golf team is headed zier’s good attitude towards the Athletes on boys’ tennis, boys’ with injuries. to St. George for the state tourna- sport. It has been a great learning soccer, track, softball, and girls’ Track, with Coach Mark Oft- ment. They have had a great sea- experience for the girls who have golf have worked hard this sea- edal leading the way, had a great son so far and are second in the re- just joined the team this year, and son. Below are some highlights of season, with an astonishing roster gion. One player, Sara Mann, won we are looking forward to seeing their seasons. of almost fifty runners. Along with Academic All-State. Freshman how they do in St. George at state. The boys’ tennis team won the Coach Oftedal, Georgia Larsen Boys’ baseball had yet an- region championship. There was Rodney Kopish said, “The best other successful season, winning great participation on the team, and Megan part of the golf their second region champion- with three seniors, five juniors, Call coached team is getting ship in a row. Even though Will four sophomores, and two fresh- the track team to know the Badenhausen was on crutches, men. Scott Treiman said the season as well. The upperclassmen he came out and supported the was “really fun.” Aaron Friedman captains are and other play- team; he said, “I learned a lot said he enjoys “winning, which Parker Bush- ers on different about the coaches” while sitting the tennis team does a lot of.” nell and Charis teams.” there the whole time cheering on Boys’ soccer had a disappoint- Benjamin. Here Go girls’ his team. This is a great sign of his ing end to a great season. The JV are some exam- softball! An- commitment to the team. The se- team was undefeated in the re- ples of track ac- other season niors playing this year were Jake gion; the varsity team, however, complishments Sam Nolan boots the ball halfway of softball is Graves, Chris Fanning, Zach Mer- was a regional co-champion but this year: in the down the field, wearing his legend- wrapping up, rill, and Will Badenhausen. Their got knocked out in the first round ten events they ary headband. -- Photo by Jessie and again their experience helped the team make Barker of state in an overtime shootout participate in, fearless leaders, the most of the season and bring with the Beaver Beavers. Scott Emily Sun- Coaches Kathy home many victories. Scott Silver- Langone, the head coach, said he dquist, Ryan Westermann, Cari Howa and Kendra Tomsic, are in stein won Academic All-State, and was “happy with the performance Sanyer, Candice Nkoy, Lauren Ra- charge. There are three new play- we praise him for his ability to bal- of the players,” even though he sich, Eli Oftedal, Johnny Gilbert, ers, Becca Glazier, Noelani Blu- ance schoolwork with baseball. was disappointed with the short- Rainy Paul, Parker Bushnell, and eford, and Gaby Rosenada. The We hope you got out to sup- lived season. The captains, Emir Andy Gilbert all qualified for state. team captains are Hope DeLap, port these teams this spring! 8 May 14, 2012 Fun Page [email protected] Rowland Hall Gazette

HowSo we all imagine Well we know everythingDo aboutYOU everyone around Know here. But do you the know which Senior colleges the following Class? seniors are going to next year? (And don’t they look college ready?) Match the seniors with their respective colleges, but BE CAREFUL, as you can use each school more than once or not at all! 1. Columbia Univer- sity

2. Cornell University

3. University of Utah

4. Skidmore College

5. University of Wis- consin, Madison ______6. University of Colo- rado Boulder

7. Lewis & Clark Col- lege

8. Montana State Uni- versity, Bozeman

9. University of Southern California

10. The Evergreen ______State College

11. Wesleyan Univer- sity

12. University of New Hampshire

13. Babson College

14. Carleton College

15. University of San ______Diego

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