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February 2012 Issue 6 Vol. 50 The Bulldog Lakeview High School 300 Hillman Drive Cortland, OH 44410 Bulletin (330)-637-4921 Administrators required to address cyber bullying consider their tweet or status BY KATIE LAMAR to be offensive, Herrholtz said, Reporter “Your rights end where another person’s begin.” With the expanding Students, parents, and power of social media, students’ even anonymous callers have right to freedom of speech reported accounts of bullying or comes under scrutiny. In the offensive social media posts to past, bullying seemed confined LHS administrators, he said. The Inside: to school grounds, escaped at administration has discussed home. However, with today’s posts with students, and, in technology, administrators most cases, has resolved the and law enforcement officers issues, said Herrholtz. Contrary 2 News are facing the difficult task of to popular rumors, Herrholtz School faces Study monitoring the harmful effects said while some teachers have Island issues. of bullying off school grounds. Students should be cautious of information posted to social educational accounts on social Modern bullying has media sites as it is viewed by the public. media sites, the Lakeview transformed from physical administration does not and attacks to a variety of verbal from the heartbreak of losing a administrators regarding their has never operated social media attacks via the internet, and, child or friend. tweets and statuses. accounts under false names to 3 People in some cases, no words are On Feb. 2, Governor John Assistant Principal monitor social media sites. needed, only photos. Jessica Kasich signed House Bill 116, Lawrence Herrholtz said, “What Ultimately, said A personality profile Logan, an eighteen-year-old, also known as the “Jessica happens in [students’] personal Herrholtz, the responsibility on Tony “Fabiano” took her life after her boyfriend Logan Act.” According to lives is [their] business; we to communicate peacefully [the administration] encourage Peters. sent a nude picture of her to the Buckeye Association of through social media falls on hundreds of students at their School Administrators, the act [students] to use social media the student. With the current Cincinnati high school and was further extends the definition that will sponsor educational legislation, the administration bullied consistently online. of bullying to include cyber growth or encourage [students] said it will enforce school Young people are bullying. It also requires school to find other social circles.” handbook rules as well as state responding to bullying in more districts to expand anti-bullying The Jessica Logan Act requires legislation when issues are extreme ways than ever before. policies and educate students school districts to address reported. 9 Features Many students have taken their on the dangers of bullying. This bullying problems regarding Foreign language lives after being bullied. Logan’s act affects Cortland, Ohio, as other students reported to family began an effort to save Lakeview High School students them. SOPA: teachers talk about other young adults and families have been approached by Even if students do not trips to foreign gov’t addresses countries. Lakeview to suffer loss of tax revenues rise in piracy 11 Entertainment BY MATTHEW BICKERTON Editor-in-chief BY PAIGE VOSMIK Red Tails releases Layout Editor in time for Black or a variety of reasons, F ith the rise in piracy and History Month. Lakeview Local Schools will W copyright infringement, the U.S. be losing a total of $750,000 government has taken action in revenues in the fiscal year to create stricter laws to stop 2013. The state government piracy and protect intellectual has removed reimbursements Sports property. The Stop Online Piracy 13 to school districts for lost Act, or SOPA, is the House of personal tangible tax revenue, Freshman basketball Representative’s response to taxes on business and industry. players outshine this problem, counterpart to the Additionally, the recent real additional Senate’s Protect IP Act, shortened an already estate reappraisal of taxable r e v e n u e , ” to PIPA. These acts have been impressive values and the ending of the including drilling Vosmik met with public uproar, outrage, Education Jobs Fund have Marcellus Shale, said varsity team. and protestation from both resulted in a greater loss of Wilson. Lakeview has not owners of various websites that money. negotiated for drilling the could potentially be affected and “The governor and legislators Marcellus Shale yet because users of these sites, culminating 15 Opinion want to shift more of the burden they want to sort out all in a massive protest on Jan. 18. of financing public education options, but Wilson said the Students debate Introduced in October by to the local districts,” Lakeview Marcellus Shale has exciting Texas Representative Lamar the administration’s Superintendent Robert Wilson possibilities. Smith, SOPA would require ability to punish said. “We don’t want to alienate internet service providers “We have to pass levies or cut our community. We need to students for posts to prevent access to foreign back on staff and programs,” be very careful before making annual loss of $94,000. on social websites with illegally hosted Treasurer Milton Williams said. a decision” so as to benefit “Governor Kasich has not media content through altering networking sites. The money issue will not reach taxpayers and students, Wilson been a friend or ally of public their DNS servers (theverge.com). a critical point for approximately said. education,” Wilson said. “The DNS or Domain Name System three years. “This isn’t an urgent decision. governor and legislators are FUN FACT: servers are, according to World “We run a very efficient We’ve got some time to explore aligning themselves more with Book Online, computers that The term “rule of thumb school,” Wilson said. “Ninety- our options,” he said. the charter schools.” match a site’s domain name to comes from England four percent of the districts in Due to the phasing out of “We lose money when a the IP address where the site is this state spend more money the lost personal tangible tax student chooses to go to a when men could not stored. The Act would also force per pupil than Lakeview does.” revenue, Lakeview lost $300,000 private school,” Williams said. beat their wives with search engines to block results Wilson said the point when the in fiscal year 2012 and will lose “The charter schools in this linking to those certain foreign anything wider than state would come in and help $300,000 in fiscal year 2013. The state are doing an abysmal job sites and also compel online their thumb balance the budget is a long way ending of the Education Jobs with education, but they’re payment sites such as PayPal to off. Fund will cause Lakeview to making a lot of money,” Wilson close down the accounts of those To recover from the losses, lose $356,000 in fiscal year 2013. said. “We’re not in the business foreign host sites (theverge.com). Lakeview is “entertaining any The real estate reappraisal of to make money.” Cont. on page 2 option that would provide taxable values will cause an THE BULLDOG BULLETIN 2 News Students compromise Study Island BY MATT BLACK When so many Reporter abnormally high results appeared Study Island, an online on Study Island educational tool purchased assignments, to help Lakeview students recently a improve scores in all scholastic red flag was areas, was recently the victim of raised. inappropriate cyber behavior by “It is a small group of students for the statistically intent of cheating, according to i m p o s s i b l e Lakeview High School Assistant for that many Principal Lawrence Herrholtz. students to He said “I consider the matter be getting a closed.” perfect score Study Island is a new in such a short innovative instrument that amount of time exposes which subject area each [as was spent on student is “ T h e weak in, relationship between the grade designed “A short gain of cheating is level and administration must t o be mended now. Students Cont. from page 1 SOPA privatize a long-term loss.” are only hurting themselves. learning so --Lakeview Assistant Principal, A short gain of cheating is a “teachers Lawrence Herrholtz long-term loss,” he said. These measures extend the current U.S. copyright laws further, will know Students should be aware pushing the boundaries; current U.S. law – known as the Digital and design Study Island is fixing the Millennium Copyright Act – requires sites to remove content when student-specific work,” said task],” said Herrholtz. “Maybe problem immediately and notified by the copyright holder that it is infringing on a copyright Herrholtz. The site is unique to one student will get lucky anyone caught cheating will (theverge.com). Under SOPA, a five-day time limit is set to block the the educational system because once, but not like the multitude be punished strictly according offending account, after which the company could pursue court it can personally assist young we encountered.” When the to the Student Handbook, said action. learners independently. administration discovered the Herrholtz. Much of the public seems to agree that SOPA’s measures could Students are supposed to inappropriate website activities, drastically alter the internet as it currently exists. Its Senate approach Study Island with a all sophomores were addressed counterpart, PIPA, has garnered somewhat less concern only Environment “desire to help themselves,” in the announcement: “All because of its more focused target of DNS providers, financial said Herrholtz not see the tool sophomores report to the companies, and advertising networks (news.cnet.com). 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