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Duringthiselection, many easyopportunitiesto the electionistogivethem to getyoungpeoplevotingin involved aswell.” voting itmakesthemwanttoget role-models on TV encouraging Tweedt, “Whentheyseetheir involved,” saidseniorKatherine they mightnototherwisebe because alotofkidswatch,and MTV topublicizevoting register andvote. programming hasthechanceto eligible voterthatwatchesit’s lengths tomakesureevery station. MTVhasgonetogreat entertainment cabletelevision MTV, thepopularmusic to getyoungpeoplevoteis a Tuesday thatdon’t include have manyotherthingstodoon precincts. Sinceyoungvoters than actuallyvotingatthe absentee votingismuchsimpler headquarters explainedthat the IowaDemocratic ballot. A representativefrom option tofilloutanabsentee Iowa teenswastooffer themthe trying tomakevotingeasierfor political campaignshavebeen registration, oneotherway it hereatschool.” It wasreallyconvenientdoing easy, andittooktwominutes. 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The flu ask.” countryisn’t toomuchto the of help decideasignificantpart that matters.Fiveminutesto they’re votingon,that’s all have oneopinionandthat’s all Gulden, “Evenifpeopleonly lucky,” saidseniorDaniel vote onthiselectionare seniors whogetthechanceto Voting isaprivilege,andthose because ittakesfiveminutes. honored togetthechance. to vote,thosewhocanshouldbe many youngpeoplearen’t able shouldn’t beignored.Because it anamazingopportunitythat responsibility, butmanyconsider Hargis. by voting,”saidseniorJessica and todosomethingaboutthem thoughts towardsthegovernment responsibility tovoicemy Day. casting theirballotonElection duty tomakeadifference by voting, andtheyconsiderittheir understand theimportanceof share thesame old, eligiblevotershereatLC senior EmilyShanks. government decisions,”said never complainabout should keeptheirmouthshutand formally voicetheiropinion,they the littleeffort that’s neededto get theiropinionsheard. who dotakethetimetovoteand nonchalant attitudeupsetsthose as American citizens. That advantage oftherighttheyhold those whowillchoosenottotake comes tovoting,therearestill a varietyofoptionswhenit successful inoffering newvoters has beentremendously aimed atrallyingyoungpeople hassle free.” have toworryaboutitandis Brian Warren, “ThiswayIdon’t working thatday,” saidsenior absentee ballotincaseI’mbusy at precincts. having tojumpthroughthehoops their voicesbeheardwithout voting givesthemachancetolet waiting inlonglines,absentee Even thoughpeoplewhodo Most peoplewhogettheflu For healthypeoplebetween and mouth.Inaddition, “It’s stupidnottovote Not onlyisvotinga “I thinkit’s my Most eighteenyear “If peopledon’t take Though thismovement “I filledoutan -page 3 opinion. They the fluby Public -page 2 all ofthepeopleinworld,but There maybeenoughroomtohold that resourcesarerunningout. issue. The coreoftheproblemis born, butthat’s onlypartofthe that toomanypeoplearebeing think thatoverpopulationmeans share oftheresources.Mostpeople who areusingfarmorethanour of overpopulation,wearetheones seem tobecontributingtheissue than anyothernation. that wedo,andmaybemoreso population growth,butthetruthis to dowiththenegativeeffects of that theUnitedStates hasnothing earth’s resources. You maythink people puttingstrainsonthe of theincreasingnumbers issue intheworldtodaybecause number ofkidstemptedtotry which hashadaneffect onthe is beingspentonanti-drugads, tremendous numbers.$150million anything totrystopthese the governmenthasn’t done reverse thissadtale. Someone shouldbesteppingupto does itsayabout America? this alittlebitfrightening. What makes upmarijuanausers.Ifind 2003? 8.2%ofthepopulation used illegaldrugsregularlyin Americans overtheageoftwelve know thatnearlytwentymillion drug abusein America. Didyou and shoutingofthecampaignsis been focusedoninallthebashing will rideintoavillage,destroythe people’s livesruined.Janjaweed Darfur. Families aretornapart, anything todowiththeregionof commonplace foranyonewhohas some timenow. Violence is any warsthathaveoccurredfrom ceasefires thatwerecalled. some timenow, eventhrough fighting hasbeengoingonfor equipment andvehicles. The been seenusingmilitary members oftheJanjaweedhave financing theJanjaweed,but horsemen.’ The armydenies Janjaweed, meaning‘armed country’s armyandagroupcalled Arabs, inturn,fightwiththe The (SLA). Liberation Army formed agroupcalledtheSudan and black Africans. the pastdecadesbetween Arabs that inequalitieswereevidentin government becausetheythought Africans rebellingagainstthe This civilwarstartedwithblack tensions betweenthetwogroups. occurred becauseoftheethnic is thesecondcivilwarthathas This Africans. and between Arabs situation. 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Sometimes Iwishitwasn’t issues thatthreatenourworld one hascoveredalltheimportant you shouldconsiderthatneither or definitelybehindKerry, maybe before yousayyou’reallforBush ones havebeenoverlooked.So, race forpresident,afewmajor of issueshavebeencoveredinthe Although itseemsasifthousands American people? on thishorrifyingissuetothe Kerry goingtomentiontheirviews happen? And whenareBushand Afghanistan, howisthisgoingto troops stretchedthininIraqand or religion,fromoccurring. With belonging toacertainethnicgroup tremendous amountofpeople genocide, thekillingofa has promisedtotryandstop doing anythingaboutit. The U.S. is takingplace. wanting toreturnthehorrorthat refugees fleethecountry, never ethnic cleansing. Thousands of has beenclaimedtobeaplanfor men, andrapethewomen,which homes ofthevillagers,kill campaigns? mentioned inthepresidential world, whyhasn’t itbeen problem thataffects theentire And sincethisobviouslyisahuge going tobeenoughgoaround? other countriestofollow, isthere set anexamplesuchasthisfor everyday? support thethousandsbeingborn are thereenoughresourcesto While thecandidatesare So, thereyouhaveit. The worstpartisnoon If wecontinuethistrendand isn’t Page 2 October 2004 OpinionOpinion Not Until Marriage Wait, I’m Still Why waiting is worth it... Not Ready! Dan Hall No birth control method is 100% doesn’t give much opportunity to the going to be there when you wake up Reporter effective. Not only does this death child considering once he or she is the next morning? affect the child but the mother as old enough they will need to get a Another reason why all of this Slowly over time premarital sex well. Abortion can leave feelings of job to help pay the bills. Getting a happens is because society says has slipped into an acceptable part emptiness and can lead to deep job to keep up with the bills has the premarital sex is ok or a good thing. of our American society. depression, regret, and sorrow. potential to knock the kid’s grades It’s often said that sex sells. Many Everywhere you look there’s down and possibly repeat this cycle. companies try to use sex to sell their someone or something promoting Another issue is that the parents Even if the father doesn’t leave product. Whether its clothes, sex. It’s on movies, TV, the Internet, decide to have the baby. A child can the result won’t be much different. cigarettes, cosmetics, or alcohol magazines, and billboards all across be a strain on young parents, By having a kid at a young age you good-looking scantly clad women the country, and it has gotten way especially parents that are still in are doing disservice the child, to are put in commercials and ads so out of control. Things that were high school. Often, adolescent your partner, and yourself. Abortion that people will buy their products. unheard of 50 years ago are now a You also see and hear it in movies, normal and everyday part of life. It’s TV, and music. I’m not one for now ok to go out and have a one going back to the 50’s, but there has night fling, or its natural to hear that to be a set limit at which advertisers, Working hard to make the grade, senior Josh Trosen high school kids are having sexual artists, and actors must control how relationships. Whatever happened to much sexual content they use and studies for college abstinence? Sex is a gift shared how they use it. For example I can Megan Longmeyer treatment, no after-hours teacher between two people, saved until after understand a good looking woman Editor-in-cheif time… if you need help you get a marriage. This kind of behavior is advertising a product, but having to tutor or you start studying. We’re not tearing our country apart. These lack have women that are almost naked The concept of high school is constantly being helped as we are in of morals show no respect for to sell a product shows that people coming to learn and grow into the high school, and in this way we’re women or men and are certainly not aren’t buying products for their level person that you’re one day going to being crippled by our high school setting an example for younger of quality but for what it is be. Moving to harder areas of study, programs. We need to start relying generations to follow. Nobody promoting. Pop culture extremely more homework, more on ourselves to find our own knows when enough is enough influences kids and teenagers, so responsibilities… it’s all part of this answers, because once we hit anymore. There are no more they need to set higher standards to life we’re now engrossed in. But college, that’s all we’re going to boundaries to cross. People don’t follow. I know everyone isn’t while high school might be a step up have to help us out. see the consequences before they act. perfect (especially myself) but from our elementary days, it lacks Even as academically involved Premarital sex does not come people have to make an effort. in some areas for the extreme as I am, I’m sometimes shocked at without consequences. There can be Worst of all parents and schools educational jump of college. These the lack of homework, even with unwanted pregnancy, STDs, and are a big problem in promoting days are meant to prepare us for the three college credit classes and as most of all our society is teaching premarital sex. Parents and schools next four, gruesome years to come, co-editor of the newspaper. As a kids that this behavior is acceptable. tell kids just make sure they’re safe. but, dare I say, how “well-prepared” result, this might be a big problem Most often when a man and a Wear a condom. They say it is ok as are we? Like I said, it’s an extreme for me once I start college. The woman have premarital sex the two long as you don’t get pregnant or get jump, and unfortunately, many high amount of work some college are not trying to conceive a child. a STD while having casual sex. It schools just aren’t making the students do astounds me; my sister, The couple might try using isn’t. Many religions and cultures photo by Andrea Larison a freshmen at UNO, studies for contraceptives, the “rhythm condemn casual and premarital sex. distance. In this fast paced world, teens now are feeling the pressures of growing There are a lot more demands about four hours a night!?! That method,” or a variety of other far to soon. Our schools need to too. They need methods to try to prevent pregnancy. to teach the curriculum in the same on students in college, such as seems a little much, but she insists Although some of these methods can fathers do not want any claim to the is not the way out, so the best way manner like teaching about drugs. homework. High school students that that’s what it takes. If so, prove to be highly effective none of child, leaving the mother to raise the to avoid this kind of ordeal is not to Inform about it, but emphasize on the consistently don’t do their work but shouldn’t the high school be curbing them are one 100% effective, and the baby on her own. This can cause put yourself in this position in the negative aspects. still get decent grades. Seem a little these types of practices right now? two can still end up with an great strain on the mom especially first place. Abstinence is the key. All in all, in the end premarital unfair? I think so. However, once I certainly don’t feel like I’ve unwanted child. What happens when if she has no financial support from There is no more effective method. sex is just not worth the hassle. you’re in college, you don’t have the learned how to study, and I’m the couple gets that unexpected her guardian(s). Having no money Another risk of having There are so many things that can option of slacking. If you don’t do dreading it. Also, college is full surprise? means she has to get a job, allowing premarital is sex is the fact that you go wrong and screw up your life. the work, you don’t get the grade, of essays. Unless you’ve enrolled Lets start with the first little or no time for school. This can acquire a sexually transmitted Premarital sex doesn’t happen and a late assignment is a zero. Tests in English Composition, I have consequence for the unborn child: leads to falling grades and disease from your “partner.” There without consequences. Couples can are also mandatory; you can’t make the feeling that your writing is death. It is ridiculous to think that potentially dropping out of high are a wide variety of STDs and most still be romantic without having sex. them up later at your convenience. going to be squished in college. We’ve abortion is anything murder. Women school. The mother doesn’t have a of them are dangerous, or even life You can still be in love without sex. All of these procedures are taken to written essays before, but those were say it’s their body; it’s their choice. chance at higher education, and she threatening. Is it really worth it It’s not impossible. Remember that make sure that students are willing relatively short and not necessarily well- This is true. They made the choice can’t get a better paying job that when you don’t know what the other there are always consequences that to work. A student’s freshmen year written; how can we raise the bar on the moment they stepped into bed. requires a college education. This person is carrying, or if they are come with premarital sex. is usually the hardest because ourselves if we haven’t even met it in colleges are weeding out students high school? I don’t know for sure, but who are lacking a work ethic. This we have a lot of work to do for college, might seem harsh, but success means and it’s pretty evident that we need to work, period. That is why allowance get to it. of late work is not helping us. We’re I hate to down our school about Drunk In Public not trying as hard, and in turn aren’t lacking educationally, but the fact of the adequately preparing ourselves for matter is that some of our practices Jennifer Ettinger excuse to get drunk. “If I have a the way out of the middle school but it might mean something what lies ahead. really aren’t helping anyone. We need Reporter couple beers, I won’t realize we’re parking lot. The streets outside of when you’re behind bars along At almost any college, there’s to be consistently working hard, and losing,” doesn’t cut it anymore. You the school are pretty crazy anyway with your buddies. So don’t going to be a large staff and an even learning how to learn on our own. Football games are one of the know why? We’re not losing! So after a particularly exciting game; continue or get pressured into one larger student capacity. This equates Some of us have already developed highlights of high school life. You stop with the alcohol! adding a group of intoxicated drivers of the most dangerous habits out to less one-on-one time with your these skills, but I think that the school get to hang out with friends, cheer It scares me that it’s come to this. to the mix is a recipe for disaster. there. professors. During high school, we still needs to give a little more effort in on your team, stuff yourself with Teenagers going to football games, or I’m sure you’re tired of hearing I’ve stated the problem, many have large discussions and we can order to help the less motivated delicious cookies and pop, and anywhere at that, to get drunk was me preach by now, because you’ve times in fact, but I don’t want to come in after or before school for students. We’re working hard, but more scream your head off without anyone unheard of a few years ago, and now heard all this a million times before. be the person that just complains help, things like that. We’re demands need to be made, because asking you if you forgot to take your it’s far from shocking. What’s Sorry to say, but it’s not going to stop and never does anything or constantly interacting with our once we’re out on our own, we won’t medicine. In fact, is there anything happened to our society that makes it anytime soon. It seems some people suggests anything to fix the teachers, but once you hit college, know what to do with everything that’s about football games that isn’t acceptable for underage drinking to just don’t get the message. Maybe problem. I suggest that perhaps you’re basically on your own. Sure, going to be put on our shoulders. It’s enjoyable? Oh yeah, the few people occur? And even if the rest of the it will all make sense when you some teachers or administrators you might get a few questions in a tough world out there, and unless who ruin it for everyone by getting world says it’s okay, I thought more imagine this: You’re hanging out stand at the entrance to the during a class, but with bigger class we’re ready, we’re going to fall drunk. of our school and our attending with friends at a Friday night game, football field or check the stands sizes and more students, you’re short, so lets raise the bar. It’s our I don’t know about you people, students than to think they’d all be having a grand old time, until some every so often for drunk students. expected to learn the curriculum on future we’re talking about here… but I’m tired of it. You go to a sloshed at a school activity. loser spills his “soda” all over you. It’s pretty easy to tell who’s under your own. There’s no special lets make sure that we can handle it. football game and all you see is If I only paid attention to the It makes me want to puke. Oh wait, the influence and who’s not; you people drunk left and right. I mean, few groups of plastered students at they’ve already done that. Does can tell by their breath if nothing really, this is a high school football games, I’d be downright ashamed to anyone else see this as a problem? else. I’ve even seen people Congratulations game! There should be excited go to Lewis Central. I go to the Okay, so we’ve established with beer in the stands, so I cheers for the running back streaking Homecoming game to cheer on our that drinking is a disgusting habit, think we really need to crack toward the end-zone, not drunken team and all I can smell is beer. Not but what a lot of people don’t realize down on something that’s to everyone that made cheers for the hottest cheerleader or temporary hair coloring spray from all is that it’s also unfair to the players. bound to get everyone in the cutest player in tight pants. There the fans decking out with blue, not Our football team is working their trouble. All-State Choir and Band should be questions like, “Who’s popcorn and cookies from the butts off to make us proud, and I’m sure I’m not the only winning?” not “Where’s the beer?” refreshments stand, not sweaty football instead of students coming to the one who feels this way, so all Get over it, people. Go get drunk players…beer! It’s ridiculous. I game to root them on, they’re you drinkers out there, get your somewhere else. We’ve got enough shouldn’t have to plug my nose when coming to the game to get smashed. act together and show some Good Luck school spirit here; we don’t need someone screams a particularly It’s disrespectful, not to mention respect for the football team and your kind of “spirits.” obnoxious cheer. incredibly selfish. It may be their the students around you. You to Hillary Sadler at the Speaking of school spirit, Not only is drinking idea of a good time, but I think represent our school wherever you there’s quite a reason for it this undesirable, it’s not safe, for anyone. the Titans have other ideas of fun. go, so don’t let anyone think we’re State Cross Country season. Has anyone else noticed that When students are drunk at games, Lastly and most importantly, a bunch of teens who have had too our football team is so much better they’ll be drunk on the way home, underage drinking is illegal. I much to drink. It’s for the good of this year? Last year was a downer, too. I don’t want to have to worry know that may not mean a thing everyone to show some good old- Meet but now people don’t even have an about being hit by a drunk driver on to some of the drinkers out there, fashioned school spirit now and then. Corrections Editorial Policy We are sorry that we overlooked these mistakes in the September 2004 issue: Where We Stand -Page 3- The volleyball photo was mistakenly labeled as Sara Gundlach. Editors-In-Chief...Dani Mescher and Megan Longmeyer The Wire is the official Lewis Central student newspaper and is distributed Assistant Editor...... Amber Johnson This photo was actually of Jessica Hansen and Mallory Husz free of cost to students. The opinions expressed in this publication reflect those -Page 3- The NBA phot was mistakenly labeled as Tracy McGrady, it Design Editor...... Molly Lich of the student writers and not Lewis Central administration, faculty, or its advisor. was actually Tim Duncan. The Wire is published seven times throughout the school year by the Suburban Times Photography Editor...... Andrea Larison in Papillion, Nebraska. Ads Editor...... Ashley Richter The purpose of The Wire is to: * inform students of current and relevant events Copy Editors...... Becca Sheppard and Jennifer Ettinger * interpret and analyze complex events and issues that affect students Design...... Maggie Fields, *serve as a forum for discussion of controversial issues Letters to the Editor: The Wire staff strongly encourages responses to articles appearing in the Reporters...... Heidi Behrens, newspaper. Letters may be submitted to room 401 or e-mailed to Lindsey Behrens, Vicki Burnett, [email protected]. The letters must be signed, legible, and concise. The staff reserves the right to edit letters for length, grammar, and punctuation. These letters Kellie Doffin, Dan Hall, Kehly Hansen, Vote2004! should also be free of profanity, vulgarity, or words with undesirable meanings. Advertising: Joe Krzemien, Bridgette Mucha, Alyssa Ranney, Advertising will be sold at $25 for a 2 x 2.5 space or $50 for 4.5 x 4 space. Information can be obtained by calling 366-8220. Ask for Mary Langille. Or Thomas Webering by e-mail: [email protected] Page 3 October 2004 SportsSports Lauren Time Out!!! Splashing To Victory Sports Talk with LC Girls Swimmers Go for the Gold Joe Krzemien swimming together for a long time, placing high in all three relays at Lindsey Behrens so we’re all good friends,” said state. The school record-holding Reporter Samantha Stivers, a freshman from 200 yd. medley relay of Tessa “The Curse of the Bambino” The goal for every high school Glenwood High School. “It is kind Edwards, Lindsey Behrens, Hannah swimmer is to be able to participate of weird cheering for Lewis Central, Sebek, and Shanna Delfs has broken is Almost Over!!! in the state meet at the end of the but I don’t mind it. I’m just happy I the pool records at both Kirn and to that question, which is why this is Joe Krzemien year. After months of practice and get to swim.” Lewis Central this year. The 200 yd. looking more and more like the year Photo By Andrea Larison Reporter hard work, competing with the In order to achieve the goal of freestyle relay, swam by Abbey of the Sox. state’s fastest swimmers is the making it to state, these athletes Evans, Samantha Stivers, Delfs, and Millions of people across the Of course, there is the outside Thomas ultimate reward. Lewis Central practice hard six days a week, swim Sebek, is only two seconds away country and beyond have waited chance that history will repeat itself Name: Lauren Thomas sends girls to the state swim meet meet or not. from being third in the state. The almost a decade for what finally took and the Red Sox will lose a Year: Senior almost every year. However, this “We swim at least five thousand 400 yd. freestyle relay of Kelsey place at 12:07 AM Eastern time on heartbreaking game seven and once Sport: Swimming year the Titans’ chances are looking yards a day,” said sophomore Kelsey Schomburg, Stivers, Sebek, and Thursday, October 21, 2004. No, again leave the field, heads hung better than ever. Level: Varsity Schomburg. “Practice is hard, but I Behrens broke the pool record at NASA did not land on Mars, and no, low. However, the Red Sox will be The Lewis Central girls swim How Long Have You Been Doing guess it has to be if we want to get Kirn, and has a chance of medaling we did not declare world peace. What going into this World Series with the team includes twenty-six girls, and This? : On and off since I was 10. better.” at state. happened, however, will go down in highest regular season batting almost all of them have had previous Why Do You Do It? : Because it’s a By putting in hours at the pool, Most of the girls in these relays history. It is what seems like the end average in the majors, incredible experience swimming on club teams team sport but there are individual the Lewis Central girls swim team should also qualify for state in of the greatest dynasty in sports momentum, having just won four in the winter and summer. With events. can again achieve the goal of sending individual events, and there are even history, the conquering of the mighty swimmers specializing in every straight games against New York, Main Goal: To get under one minute girls to state. However, getting to girls outside of the relays expected New York Yankees by the Boston Red event, the Titans have tremendous and the greatest comradery of any in the hundred-meter freestyle at state is only the first step. After that, to qualify as well. However, the one Sox. The win is the Red Sox’s ticket team. districts. depth. The depth of the team really the Titans must prove themselves event Lewis Central won’t be showed earlier this season when The Red Sox played the What separates this season from all against the fastest swimmers in the participating in is diving. Yankees 20 times this year and the others? : Our team is a lot better Lewis Central, who is ranked eighth state of Iowa. “We are currently about 100 in the state of Iowa, won the Vally won 11 of those games, and each this year. Its more competitive to get “Since there isn’t really a points behind the first ranked team was as exhilarating as the one into good relays. Invitational. Des Moines Valley, dominant team this year, several in the state,” said coach Schomburg. who is ranked first in the state, had before. There was the game in Most Memorable Moment: Districts teams have a chance of winning “If we had good divers, we could June when Yankee third baseman last year. not lost that meet in over twenty state,” said coach Schomburg. “Last make up those 100 points easily and years. Alex Rodriguez fought with Sox year, we finished twelfth. This year, be right up there.” catcher Jason Varitek. Also, in “I was confident we had a I think we can be one of the top six Even though the Titans don’t chance to win the Valley Invitational, early summer, Yankee shortstop, teams in the state.” have divers, coach Schomburg still Derek Jeter, dove into the stands but I just wanted the girls to have a Because relays are worth more has high expectations for the team good meet,” said coach Bruce to catch a fly ball for the third out points than individual events, they at state. of the inning. So, with all of the Schomburg. “When we won, I was are a crucial part of winning a swim “I think we can get more girls so excited I tried not to jump up and Photo from http://www.chronc.com anticipation of this ALCS, what meet. Luckily for Lewis Central, the into state this year and finish higher Gazing at the American flag, would make this series any down. This meet really showed how team has a very good chance of than we ever have before.” competitive the team could be.” Babe Ruth stands for the different? The Yankees swept The Titan swimmers also National Athem games 1-3 and appeared to be showed they could be competitive at to the World Series, where they will clearly dominating the Sox, but the Cedar Falls Invitational. All face the St. Louis Cardinals. Boston never gave up faith. Game twelve teams invited to the swim The Red Sox/Yankees rivalry is four lasted over four hours and th meet were in the top twenty-five in considered the greatest in sports and ended with a 12 inning home run the state, and Lewis Central finished is by far the longest standing. Since by David Ortiz. In game five, Ortiz was the hero again. In a Photo By Megan Longmeyer second to Cedar Falls, who won state baseball became a professional sport game that lasted over five hours Looking defiantly ahead of her, last year. in the early 1900’s, the Red Sox and and 14 innings, Ortiz hit a single senior Lauren Thomas gets ready Because some smaller schools Yankees have been intensely that knocked in the game-winning for a big splash. don’t have swim teams, the Lewis competing with one another for the Central pool is filled with students championship. The Red Sox won the run. Game six was a pitcher’s from all over southwest Iowa. Girls World Series in 1918, the year that dual; Curt Schilling pitched one A from Glenwood, Malvern, Hamburg, George Herman Ruth (Babe Ruth) of the most impressive games of and Red Oak travel to Council Bluffs led the league in shutouts pitched his career. At 38 years old, every day to practice and compete as Photo By Megan Longmeyer and despite having batted only 95 at- Schilling pitched seven innings T a part of the Lewis Central swim team. Taking a break to fix their goggles and swim caps, the girls swim team bats; he led the league in home runs. giving up only four hits and “Most of us have been consistantly works hard during each practice. The next year, Babe Ruth was traded allowing no runs. There was, to the Yankees in what is widely however, an unlikely hero in Sox H of known as the worst trade in baseball second baseman Mark Bellhorn. history. The Yankees, on the other Bellhorn hit a three-run blast to hand, have won 26 championships. put the Sox ahead 4-0. Game L The trade of Babe Ruth is often seven was a blowout. The Red the A Hard-Hitting Open credited with the Red Sox’s failure, Sox won 10-3 with a surprisingly in what is called, “The curse of the impressive pitching performance though and win her first major, as E In a genius performance that Bambino.” by Derek Lowe, who has been Thomas Webering she defeated another Russian, No. issue puts him amongst the all-time greats Sure the Sox have looked like a unreliable all year for the Sox. Reporter 6 seed Elena Dementieva, 6-3, 7-5, of Pete Sampras, Patrick Rafter, and potential championship team in the Johnny Damon, who had been Another year, another US Open to capture the 2004 US Open T Michael Chang. Federer past, but something has always gone batting .083 in the series, also takes place, and another champion Women’s Singles Championship. overwhelmed Hewitt from every horribly wrong, whether it was Bucky surprised Sox fans by crushing a is crowned. This year was no Many students chose to take part in angle of the court, crushing his Dent hitting a walk-off homerun for grand slam to give the Red Sox the different than any other year. The these tennis festivities. E forehand, volleying beautifully and the Yankees in the 1978 American lead that would win the game. hard-hitting tennis players exploded “ Watching the finals, out-fighting the once toughest man League Championship Series during this tournament showing each definitely gets me pumped up for in tennis, in fast physical rallies. (ALCS), or in 1948, being one pitch other who is really the best. Top seed next season,” said senior Kim S Since Federer is now 4-0 in Grand away from clinching the World Series Roger Federer captured the first US McFerrin Slam finals, he joins Andre Agassi against the Mets, four times. The play open title of his career, defeating This year proved to be an as the only active players to win three still fresh in every baseball fan’s Brad 2001 champion and No. 4 seed different majors at any point in their exciting tournament for all ages of mind, though, is that of the 2003 Lleyton Hewitt, 6-0, 7-6, 6-0, to tennis lovers. Even for people who careers. Not only were there huge ALCS, when Pedro Martinez left the become the first man to win three don’t watch very much tennis, it’s matches in the men’s bracket, the mound with a three-run lead in the Grand Slam titles in one year since easy to get into the US Open women’s bracket proved much of the seventh. The score was the same in Mats Wilander in 1988. because, like every other, the US same. the eighth, but New York fought back “ To win three grand slam titles players are always in the top No. 9 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova to tie the game. It was the bottom of is almost unheard of. It was standings among the best in the followed Anastasia Myskina and the eleventh inning when Boston fans awesome to watch him accomplish Maria Sharapova, champions at the world. This year the Americans were devastated by a walk-off home Photo from www.msnbc.com that,” said junior Austin Strohbehn French Open and Wimbledon, failed to make it into any of the run by Aaron Boone. Booting a routine slow roller, who was #4 on the varsity team last respectively, to become the third finals and only managed two semi- This year, millions of baseball Billy Buckner lost game six of the year. consecutive Russian woman to break finalists before being eliminated. Photo By Andrea Larison fans are hoping, for the Red Sox’s 1986 World Series agains theNew sake, that they win the series. It does York Mets. not take a Bostonian to love the Red Stageman Sox. People all over the world want The Red Sox winning the World LC Cross Country Series would be the most significant Name: Brad Stageman to see them win, just because of their event in sports history. This can be Year: Senior It’s more than just running your mouth past misfortunes. A Red Sox win in the World Series could be the best proven by the recently aired Sport: Football varsity runners Dan Hall, Heath thing to happen to Major League MasterCard commercial, in which Level: Varsity Alyssa Ranney Epperson, Brad Bogardus, Cory Baseball since Mickey Mantle and Bostonians are asked what they would Position: middle linebacker Reporter Jasek, Craig Hendrix, and Ben Roger Maris raced to break the give for tickets to see the Red Sox in a How Long Have You Been Doing It may be a tough gig, but for Mescher also broke old personal single season home run record of 60, World Series. Responses include a This? : Since I was nine. these athletes, running isn’t just bests and set new personal records. set by none other than Babe Ruth. girlfriend, $1000, and “Anything.” Why Do You Do It? : It’s always fun; it’s competition. “It seems like we have worked Dozens of signs appear in the However, many people consider the been my favorite sport. I’ve always A majority of cross country harder each year,” commented bleachers of ballparks, saying, curse already broken. The ALCS was wanted to be good at it. runners have run their personal best senior Eric Evans, who has been out “Reverse the curse,” or inquiring, thrilling, but it is not over yet. The Major Accomplishment: Either (personal record) this season. Girls for cross country since he was a “Why not us?” There is no answer Sox still have to beat the Cardinals. preseason all state or captain. varsity runners such as Hilary freshman. “We have younger What separates this season from all Saddler, Jenny Hall, Shelby runners. Before we heavily relied the others? : We have a different feel Ellison, Alyssa Ranney, and on seniors. We have a lot of to us this season. This year we go Rosalie Warner have achieved sophomores and freshmen, it’s good Want to catch up on into games expecting to win instead running their personal best. Boys because when we’ll build up and of hoping to win. then those guys are seniors, we will the latest school events? Most Memorable Moment: have a really strong team. Returning an interception for a Among these young runners is touchdown against Glenwood this freshman Hillary Saddler. Hillary year during homecoming. broke the fifteen-year record for girls cross country by almost a Photo By John Petri minute. At the district meet in Bringing a Titan flag, members Carroll, Iowa, Hillary placed third. of the El Si Locos come out to Runners who place in the top ten at support the cross country team. Want to see pictures districts are guaranteed a chance to team placed sixth at districts. run at the state meet, regardless of Although the cross country teams from the latest activites? how their team does. As a result, did not score high enough to make Hillary will be competing at the it to state, Hillary Saddler will be state meet on October 30th in Fort running at state as an individual Dodge, Iowa. runner. WWW.LC.SPORTSFAN.COM “I thought we had a really, “I think we’ll be good next really good season. It’s been a while year,” predicts cross country coach, since we had that good of a season Joe Ankenbauer. “We’re losing two Is the place to go!! for both the boys and girls teams at boys off our varsity and one girl, Photo By John Petri Photo By John Petri the same time,” said cross country but everybody else will be back. Working hard on defense, senior Running his heart out, senior Dan coach, Joe Ankenbauer. I’m already looking forward to next Brad Stageman holds his own as DeVoss (left) pushes his way At districts, the boy’s varsity year and we have barely finished the Titans play St. Albert. toward the finish line. team placed fifth. The girl’s varsity this year’s [season].” Page 4 October 2004 FeatureFeature True Life: I Was Molested by my Father Disclaimer: This True Life may not be suitable for all audiences due to the graphic nature of the story. Story contains sexual content and may provoke an emotional response from some readers. If you have an emotional reaction please read the box following the story entitled “What to do…” True Life Stories are stories meant to tell about realistic events in many teenagers’ lives, and provide help on such issues. These articles are a part of a series, but may be another person’s story and not my own, although written as told to me. Note: The following events described in this piece did not take place at Lewis Central. If you would like to be featured in True Life, submit a short description of your story and contact to [email protected] Amber Johnson in the pool, but the truth is… I threat that I might get in trouble, me… waiting. Other times he would I were dead as I screamed and passed I tried to forget what had Assistant Editor jumped in. I remember standing hanging in the air. He let me go get into bed with me. It was like the out. And then… it was over. happened to me. I put that little girl, there by the pool thinking that I and I darted for the bathroom light turned off and the world went When I finally woke up, I the one that had been hurt so badly, Someone once told me that wanted to die. That need was so vomiting. I brushed my teeth and gray. remembered feeling numb, like I was inside a dark box inside myself. I trying to take something back is like strong and the water was calling my washed my mouth out more then I I begged him not to touch me, standing outside of myself. I got into let the box lie helpless on my bed as trying to squeeze toothpaste back name, so I jumped in headfirst. The can remember. That’s when I saw a but he only got angry. When he got the shower and turned the water on as Daddy took my sexuality, my youth, into the tube. Nearly impossible. water was cold but I didn’t care. I bottle of rubbing alcohol on the shelf angry, he liked to hit. So I learned hot as I could stand it. I felt dirty… and my happiness at the tender age And though you can try, the sinks just wanted it to be over with. I don’t and reached for it, not really aware to let him do what he wanted… that guilty… ashamed. I tried to wash the of thirteen. I let the box hide under already a mess and the tube’s already know how long the cold rushed of what I was doing. I opened it and way it would be over sooner. It was feelings away but the more I tried, the the blankets during the hottest day empty…hollowed…bent. M y around me before my grandmother took a big swallow. It blistered my after that, that I finally told my more they sank into my skin, deeper of the summer, pretending to be first memory of being molested by pulled me mouth, took off all the skin, and mother. She didn’t say a word. She and deeper. asleep, age ten. I let the box go back him came back to me a few years out. Mother just yelled at me, telling made me vomit again. At least the just looked at me for a few minutes I remember going to the to the closet where Daddy taught me ago. It came to me in a flashback, me how stupid I had been for falling taste was gone. I then felt something and then told me to go to my room. medicine cabinet and taking pills at all sorts of games, just like the game and I was transported back into a in. wet on my face. Tears. I realized It was never mentioned again. I random. I went back to my room in the kitchen that we played when I time long ago. I was six at the time. I remember being eight. That that I had been crying the entire time, always guessed Daddy was right and I couldn’t bear getting back into was six, games that I could never win. I was in the kitchen and he came up was the first time Daddy taught me only I wasn’t making a sound. about me getting in trouble. that bed, so I got a blanket and lay on And I let the box drown in that pool of behind me and grabbed me, pulling a new game. He took me into the When I turned ten, Daddy I’ll never forget thirteen. the floor. I awoke a few hours later. I water… that pool of shame. The box me towards him. Daddy liked to closet. I remember it being dark started coming into my room late at Thirteen was the day he raped me. I couldn’t breathe. My heart felt like it was where I lived my life. play games. I thought he was in there. Real dark. Then, he night. At this time we lived in was sitting on my bed and he came was going to explode and I gagged on I guess in ways I did drown in that playing. But this game was forced me onto my knees. I was California. It was hot… but I used into my room. He said that he had a myself. I couldn’t move because my pool when I was seven, because in that different. This game involved a lot scared and said I didn’t want to to sleep under a ton of blankets even special surprise game for me, and I body felt frozen. I passed out, only to pool I was deprived… washed… of touching. play that game. That’s when he hit in the summertime. I used to press knew from the look in his eyes what awake again in my own pool of vomit. stripped of everything I thought a father I was scared. I didn’t me and grabbed my hair, jerking my back against the wall, pretending he meant. I began to back away from My mother cleaned me up, but never should be, and drenched in misery, pain, understand this game. Afterward, he my head backward. I thought he to be asleep, hoping… wishing… him, begging him not to do it. I told asked what was wrong. She knew the and a tube of emptiness that can never told me that it was our little secret. was going to break my neck. He that he would leave me alone. I him that I would play any game. Just answer. She just couldn’t face it. be filled and never taken back. He said that if I told I might get in said that I had to play the game to remember lying there, praying to not that one. Please not that one. I continued to live in that house Someone once told me that trying trouble, and he didn’t want that to win. God to kill him… or kill me. It I tried to fight him… but he until I turned 17. Then, I moved out. to take something back is like trying to happen…because he loved me. He He said not to tell, because didn’t matter which one, I just only got angry and started hitting me. Strangely, Daddy never touched me squeeze toothpaste back into the tube. must have loved me lots because we other people wouldn’t understand wanted the games to be over. I knew it was over. I gave up. I again after that day. He and mom Nearly impossible. For my past is played lots of games that year. the special relationship that we Most nights I slept with the always gave up. had too many problems; I figured already a mess, and my spirit Next, I remember being seven. had. Other people wouldn’t light on, but he would just come in I remember thinking of a field that had kept him busy. But remains empty… That was when I tried to drown understand his love for me and my and turn it off. Sometimes he would of pretty flowers… to try to take memories, pictures of that day, still hollowed… myself. My mother thinks I just fell love for him. He always left the just stand there in the dark watching away the pain. I remember wishing haunt me. bent.

What to do… Tell a teacher, parent, other family members, your clergy, the police, a friend, or the local family and children’s division Rape and Abuse hotline (1-800-CHILDREN). DOCUMENT! Keep track of events that happen. The more facts/info you have, the easier it will be to prove your case when it comes time. Go to the hospital or doctors office! Get the doctors and professionals on your side by having a rape testing done. This documentation cannot be disputed in court and gives medical proof. PREVENT! Put your safety first. Make all possible attempts to not be alone with someone you feel uncomfortable around. Don’t be afraid to say “no”. Believe it or not, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. REMEMBER! Your abuser is the criminal, your silence makes your abusers stronger, abuse is not the normal way of life, and YOU are not a bad person. A Westside Story New Expansions in Bridgette Mucha to access are pornography sites. “That way if a student is more Reporter Students are also prohibited from irresponsible than another they downloading their own software on won’t be punishing the responsible In an attempt to include laptops to the laptops to avoid problems that one.” the Health Industry

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2004. Every student has been name, grade level, and photo a no-interest loan from Apple in ○○○○○○○○○○ entrusted with this piece of attached to it. order to accomplish this. After fours Kellie Doffin any side effects from the testing. is always a way to use your talents equipment that cost roughly “We all have stickers with a years they will re-evaluate and Reporter There are usually no prerequisites for something you enjoy in the $1,000. copy of our student id’s, our decide whether or not to continue with for becoming a medical research medical field,” said senior Tara Westside High School is the homeroom number and teacher on the program. Will this program be Are you someone who likes to coordinator, but if you have a Schimmel. “Technology is advancing first public school in Nebraska to them,” said Dworak, “These successful and should other public be in a fast-paced working nursing degree—it’s a plus. so fast, it’s just so interesting!” provide wireless laptop computers stickers are attached to our schools in both Omaha and Council environment? Are you a hard “Being in the medical field, The field of radiology has to every one of its students. chargers, laptop, and laptop Bluffs adopt this idea? worker who strives to be better you must have a passion for what become so big that hospitals Schools in such states as Maine, protective cases, and so if we lose “I don’t feel that our school has at what you do? Do you adapt you do,” said Fullmer, “and I like now offer classes for Kansas, Virginia, and Illinois anything it all goes back to our the funding mechanism right well to change? Is talking to what I do. That’s what makes it Radiologists. Some hospitals provide laptops to their students for homerooms.” now, due to past years of making different people something you really important.” will even pay for you to take the schoolwork. There are no Each student will have access cuts in our school,” said Lewis like to do? Or are you the type One of the many popular class if the demand is high. The current public schools in Iowa to programs for creating his or her Central High School principal, of person who is really fields of medicine seems to be students, who then pass the that provide laptops for their own movies, composing and Dr. Doug Radtke, “I feel that it is interested in technology? If radiology. class, generally are guaranteed students. recording music, editing photos, not right to buy laptops instead you answered yes to one or “Radiology is a general term a spot in the hiring process from “We all went in for a listening to music, and wireless of teachers.” more of the previous questions, speaking of the study of the body using the hospital. meeting where they discussed surfing on the internet. Other Day after day, we hear that a vocation in health radiation technology,” said Troy Another up and the laptops and our homeroom features of the Apple iBook are “GroupWise” is down, which to careers could be for coming career in the teachers set up a time for us to word-processing, spreadsheet, and many students means nothing, but you. medical world is pick up our laptops.” said Alex presentation software. to the faculty this is a definite “The health neuroscience. Dworak a sophomore at “I feel the only way that downfall. It sets back the entire career industry is Neuroscience is the study Westside High School. Westside will be above us system and stalls the learning definitely a great of the brain and the Private schools across the academically is if they had a process by not allowing teachers place for a job, central nervous system. country have been doing this type better curriculum than us, which to accomplish common daily there’s always “I am a pain of thing for some time. Such I feel they do not have,” said functions that benefit the something to find out specialist that specializes schools in Omaha include Mrs. Gottsch, a teacher at Lewis students. and do,” said Nancy in spinal injections, Brownell-Talbot, Duchesne Central. “I don’t feel that the “I am not worried about Fullmer, R.N.*, and which is a form of Academy, and Gross Catholic High laptops will give them an edge laptops, I think that we need to head research neuroscience,” said Pat School who require students to buy over us.” work on our current computer coordinator at Chudomelka, M.D., laptops. It is believed that students The laptops will be returned problems and fix them before Nebraska Spine Ph.D Neurosciences***. will excel in their worrying about new Center Omaha. In order to be schoolwork if they things.” said “There is such a wide successful in the have access to their Gottsch. variety of different medical field, there own computer. This year with fields of medicine must be certain goals in “We do get additions to our available, it’s almost mind. Some examples offered laptops at technological staff, overwhelming.” of goals can be certain Gross but there are we expect our Some of the skill levels needed or guidelines you computer systems to varieties of the medical certain desires. must reach first, for improve. Students field include: radiology, “You must have the instance, you must and teachers will, anesthesiology, desire to help mankind, have a GPA of 3.8 or hopefully, not have neurology, histology, that must be the most higher and you must to deal with as many and other associated important driving force. also be willing to pay computer problems areas. The people who photo by Andrea Larison Other skills needed a small fee added as they did before. go into these fields can Good at what he does Troy Stockman is highly respected would include onto you tuition,” This will allow both have jobs ranging from by those in and out of his field intelligence, said Gross Catholic to be farther ahead doctors of medicine to medical Stockman, BSRT (N.R.), CNMT** organization, and diligence, High School than they every have researchers and scientists. The Operations Director of the Diagnostic which is secondary,” said sophomore Justina been before. photo by Andrea Larison medical industry is so extensive Center at Alegent Health, Mercy Chudolmelka, M.D., Ph.D Shaffer. Laptops, a portable Wanting to download programs, juniors Rachel Terry and Eric and vast, that there’s bound to be Hospital in Council Bluffs. Neuroscience. Westside version of all this Burmeister patiently wait for LC’s technology to catch up to this an interest for everyone “Radiology is a wBay doctors can The health fields are provides these technology could be century. somewhere in the field. Take see inside a person for diagnosis continuously offering laptops to each a wonderful addition Nancy’s job for instance, a using imaging.” opportunities for career choices, student at no cost. Parents of the at the end of the year by all of the that would allow Lewis Central medical research coordinator. Radiology is a rapidly because they are always Westside students insurance costs students. The student will have the students to go wireless. A medical research increasing field of medicine to get changing. With all the new $25 per school year, which covers same laptop returned to them each “I would love to see laptops coordinator basically does the into for many reasons: 1.) There advancements in technology, 70% of the cost of replacing the year after its’ memory is erased. If in our students hands if money research for a new type of surgical is less schooling involved, 2.) treatments, procedures, and $1000 computer if it is damaged the computer has any damage at the were not an issue,” said Radtke, procedure, or a new type of The demand for radiologists is socialization the health or stolen. end of the year, the student will be “ I love to see things like this treatment. Periodically, they even high, 3.) The new technology industry will always change. “I bought the insurance for found responsible for paying for the benefit students.” do background research for past available for the career is “You never have to worry my son because I realize that damage. They can avoid having to The 2004 to 2005 school year treatment or therapy for disorders advancing quickly, and 4.) The about the career getting boring accidents happen and we must pay a large amount by purchasing is one-third of the way done and and health related problems. salary is agreeable. because it’s always changing,” said take precautions.” said Westside the laptop insurance. Lewis Central is waiting for the Medical researchers also conduct “I want to be a Radiologist, Fullmer, R.N. “One important parent Carol Dworak “I think that it is smart that technology to improve. Can patient follow-ups from because there are so many thing about change, however, is that Use logs track where students they return the same laptop to laptops improve a schools grades experiments, to see how the patient different opportunities just in that you must be willing to change along go online to ensure safety. The only students every year,” said Lewis and unity, and will Lewis Central is doing and to see if there have been field that I could go into—there with it.” websites that students are restricted Central sophomore Alyssa Chafe, High School ever get them? Page 5 Feature October 2004 “Did You Hear That?”: The Villisca Story Kehly Hansen community encountered an awful slept in their beds. Joe B. Moore, lamps had been discarded and the Reverend George Reporter awakening on the morning of his wife Sarah, their four wicks turned back. Kelly. However, June 10, 1912. What was once children, Herman, Katherine, Neighbors and law the case still Are you feeling the need to known as a community where Boyd, and Paul, and two guests, enforcement began to investigate remains unsolved test out your fears this everyone knew and trusted their Lena and Ina Stillinger, were the murders and soon created a as there is no Halloween season? Sure, Omaha neighbors changed that morning. found in those early morning list of suspects. Two prime proof on the is a great place to go for haunted The small community of hours of June 10. suspects were Frank Jones and identity of the houses this year, but what about Villisca, Iowa awoke to find that Within minutes of finding Reverend Lyn George Jacklin murderer. a real eight of their own had been the bodies of the Moore family Kelly. Joe Moore was said to Brave haunted and the Stillinger girls, rumors have worked for Frank Jones at explorers have house? A ran throughout the small the Jones store for several years gone and stayed haunted community of Villisca. The until he opened his own company at the Villisca house that rumors spread to many larger in 1908. According to Villisca house, reporting you’ll cities through the area and within residents, Jones was extremely all of the actually days became the headlines of upset that Moore had stopped paranormal Photo from Yahoo Keyword: Villisca axe murders remember? major newspapers throughout the working for him and started his activity they The murder of the Moore family members marked The nation. own company. Also, rumor encountered. Villisca as one of the most haunted places in the Villisca Axe The bloody effects of the spread that Moore had had an SomeU.S. to this day. Murder murders had covered the duration affair with Jones’ daughter-in- paranormal activity that has been notice the windows and doors are House in of the house, and the victims lay law, which upset him recently reported includes orb tightly closed and covered, and Villisca, covered with blankets and tremendously. activity, dark shadows, mists, a weather-beaten sign leaning Iowa has clothing. A long, black-handled As a traveling preacher, and unexplained lights in photos. against the front porch warns been known axe was left against the wall in Reverend Lyn George Jacklin The house also contains cold rather than welcomes visitors. as one of the the sewing room where Lena and Kelly seems like the least likely spots, strange odors, laughter, However, people continue to stay Ina lay silent. The particular person to have caused these most haunted Photo from Yahoo Keyword: Villisca. doors slamming, the sound of in the Villisca house to discover places in the killing of Lena and Ina had murders. However, his presence footsteps going up and down the the fears of those who have This house in Villisca, Iowa is where the Moore family United been so severe that they had to in Villisca on the night of the stairs, and an all-around uneasy previously stayed. So, still feel was brutally murdered. States. For be identified by their Bibles murders and his following feeling throughout the house. like testing out your real fears the Halloween season, Villisca is brutally murdered with an axe lying on the dresser in their departure in the early morning It is said that on a dark instead of those found in those once again offering lamplight during the middle of the night. It room. A bloody pan of water was hours of June 10 made him a evening in Villisca, the absence fake haunted houses? Book tours and overnight stays in the is believed that the murders took found in the kitchen and prime suspect in the case. There of lights and sounds are the first yourself a night at the Villisca Axe vacant house. place sometime between 12:00 kerosene lamps had been didn’t seem to be any past indication to visitors that this Murder House this Halloween at So, why is the house a.m. and 2:00 a.m. while the carefully placed at the foot of disagreements or arguments house is different from the other www.villiscaiowa.com; you’re in haunted? The Villisca family and two visiting children each bed. The chimneys of the between the Moore family and houses that surround it. You’ll for a rough night! On the Campaign The Race for Dominance Has the control in a parent and teen relationship flipped? Trail but he never does,” said Bridgette Mucha teen will take out their anger on the Reporter junior Bethany Riso. parent they live with. If a new special seats close to the stage. Children that person comes in to one of the Some even received tickets to “I think just about every witness violence in the parents’ lives this can cause pain to sit on the stage. My friend teenager in America wants control home are at a greater risk the teen and cause even more anger. Brenda Barrett and I were over their parents. I would of being abusive in their content with getting seats in If a teen feels separated from their absolutely love to have that teen years. Some of these parents they may act out abusively the third row. Edwards was control,” said sophomore Brianna teens or preteens may to receive attention. scheduled to arrive at 3:00 Delph. have been a victim of PM. Unfortunately, he “Children learn how to Teens’ controlling their physical, emotional, or manipulate their parents when they did not arrive until parents is a serious issue and can sexual abuse, which may are a product of a broken home. Heidi Behrens about 3:45. The topic eventually lead to parental abuse. have caused them to grow Parents with shared custody find Reporter for the event was healthcare. Parent abuse is any act of a child up with the understanding their children manipulating After an introduction from state that is intended to cause physical, Photo By Andrea Larison that it is okay to do these situations to pit one parent against So much has been written Senator Mike Gronstal, Edwards psychological, or financial damage In America today, teenagers are trying to take things. Many of the another to get the outcome they are about this election, it’s to the to gain power and control over a came on stage and was ready to control of their parents. adolescents that grow up seeking,” said Rita Million, mother point were I’m thinking of parent. There are many speak. He said almost verbatim “My sister would lie to with this power over their parents of four. petitioning our government into characteristics of an abusive teen. what John Kerry said in the my mom and scream and yell at her. become involved in crimes such as, There are some things that letting the vote be early so I don’t If a teen is physically Presidential debates in regards to She used to make her feel really bad, shoplifting, prostitution, or breaking a parent can do to stop this have to sit through another abusive they tend to carry out the healthcare. Edwards then talked then she moved out,” said and entering. unacceptable behavior. The first “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” acts of hitting, punching, shoving, about the Kerry/Edwards plan to sophomore Amanda Schieffer. “I think that it is true that thing that needs to be done is silence ad. One aspect of the election I’m breaking things, punching holes in make sure that every American Some teens have power most teens get involved in such needs to be broken. Parents of going to miss, however, is walls, throwing things, and has health insurance. over their parents’ finances. activity, because they see their abusive teens need to make their working on a political campaign. spitting. These teens are very I was sitting in an aisle Stealing money or parent’s parents as always being right they voices be heard. Talking about the I started volunteering dangerous to not only themselves seat, and at one point a Secret belongings is one thing they can do. want to be like them, so they do abuse is a good way to get a grasp for a campaign because I thought but their parents and siblings also. Service agent came up and knelt Selling possessions—theirs or their things like them,” says sophomore on the feelings that go with it. it would be a requirement for “My mom is a midget, so down next to me. He told me not parents, destroying the home or David Ebke. Counseling and therapy are a must government class, but it turned I can use my strength against her to move. I sat as a still as a parents’ belongings, and making Some of the reasons for for a parent who is being abused by out just to be a way to get extra to get my way, but my dad is statue. He fit almost every debts the parents must cover are teens controlling their parents can their teen. credit. My friends and I went to different, he is bigger than me and I stereotype of a Secret Service other things the can do. Also, they be any of the following. First, For years to come, we can volunteer. We thought we knew can’t scare him,” said freshman agent. Needless to say, I was a can demand parents to purchase parents can be so afraid that their expect teens to take an unbelievable where we were going, but we Lewis Woodward. bit frightened. However, all he things they don’t feel that they teen will not love them that they advantage of this power they have did not. According to John If teens are out to abuse did was talk into a microphone can afford. Saying things like, “I give them no structure to ensure that gained. Will this issue of power and Kerry’s website, the their parents in a more psychological and tell me thank you for not need this new computer for school their teen will always need them for violence get so out of hand parents headquarters were located at way they attempt to intimidate the moving. work otherwise I will fail all of my some trouble they get into. Next, will finally break? Or will parents 300 West Broadway, which is parent. They also make unrealistic After giving his speech, classes,” or “If I don’t get this t- some teens have a hard time with the take back what is rightfully theirs, the old downtown mall. We demands on the parents and guilt Edwards took questions from shirt for Newspaper like everyone rules that the parent lays down, and power over their teens? walked around the old mall trip them into doing them. Lying, the audience. Before I attended else, I will be a social outcast.” when the rules are enforced they ***All of the information trying to find the headquarters running away from home, staying this event, I had at least one “My boyfriend’s little become more abusive. provided in this article came from a to no avail. Finally, we saw a away all night, and making threats hundred questions; now that I brother, who’s in eighth grade, steals Changes in the family structure study by Barbara Cottrell for the woman walking around the mall. are all ways a teen may attempt to had an opportunity to ask them, his mother’s money that she saves, may cause a teen to act out. If Family Violence Prevention Unit of So we asked her if she knew control their parents. my mind was a blank. As a result, and she thinks he will pay her back, parents are separated or divorced, the Health in Canada. where the Kerry campaign I had to listen to other people ask headquarters was. She told us she their questions. thought it was on Pearl Street After the question-and- which it is not (President Bush’s answer segment, Edwards went Now Students Give the Grade re-election headquarters is on around shaking hands and Amber Johnson the website is going a little too far,” Hussey. “I thought that high school methods. Some students, however, Pearl Street). Anyway, when we talking to the common man. Assistant Editor said Dave Bergman, “but it’s not that and middle school teachers would feel that the site can be used as a finally got there, we were only Brenda and I rushed the stage offensive because teachers merely benefit from students’ opinions.” resource. an hour late. in an attempted to shake Americans love feedback. consider the source. If a kid doesn’t While teachers and “I think that it should be One of the jobs I had to Edward’s hand. We succeeded. They love to rate movies, music, like a teacher and is just posting students can benefit from the site, the allowed because it could tell other do frequently for the campaign However, we had to push our restaurants, football teams, and even negative comments on the site, site is flawed in the fact that many people what you think about a was making phone calls. I’ve way to the front of a crowd. A looks. But the newest fad has teachers viewing the site aren’t going of its ratings are based on evaluations teacher and how to get on their good noticed that people tend to get crowd that was full of very brought so much controversy to to care because they know that it’s posted by handfuls of students rather side or bad side,” said sophomore incredible agitated when pushy people. Brenda and I saw America’s high schools, that the just from a student that doesn’t then a broad sampling of the student Aaron Pedersen. Democrats call them on the Edward’s water bottle sitting on website has been banned from personally like them.” body. Because of this, student’s Sophomore Tedi Swanson, phone, but you get a lot of funny the floor and we contemplated hundreds of schools across the While this opinion seems opinions posted may not represent a student who has never been on responses. Another perk of stealing it, but someone beat us nation. American teens have now legitimate, the makers of the website the overall opinion/view towards a RateMyTeachers.com, thinks working on a campaign is you get to it. moved to grading… their graders. see it as more than just a place to teacher. differently. to attend special events. Volunteering on a Since August 2001, a take out harsh feelings. “Some teacher’s pet might “I think it’s okay that they When John Edwards Presidential campaign was one website called RateMyTeachers.com “They think that it’s a post 25 good comments and ¾, or (banned the site). Forcing the staff came to Council Bluffs, people of most fun things I have ever has been encouraging students to forum for students to bash their the majority of the class may hate to work in a place where their who volunteered for the done. I strongly encourage voice opinions about the quality of teachers, but that’s not the case,” said the teacher,” said senior Kaleb King. students are constantly watching Democratic Party received everyone to volunteer. their instructors. Michael Hussey, a former them and rating them would RateMyTeachers.com lets students substitute and Internet make the staff evaluate instructors on a scale from entrepreneur who came up uncomfortable.” 1 to 5, 5 being the highest, in terms with the idea of Although the Lewis Central of helpfulness, clarity, and easiness. RateMyTeachers.com. “It’s schools do reserve the right to Because “easiness” isn’t a factor that just an outlet for student censor any Internet sources determines how well a teacher opinion.” that may harm a student or Fellowship of teaches material, the site then But is student teacher, many feel that the site averages the helpfulness and clarity opinion relevant to a teacher? should be banned altogether. score into an overall quality score. Do teachers really care about But the fact of the matter Students can also indicate the their overall popularity remains, that Christian Athletes “coolness” of a teacher, but like the among their students? Or is RateMyTeachers.com is a easiness score, it is not averaged into RateMyTeachers.com just a legitimate and legal exchange the overall quality. place for students to hold of information and ideas Supports The purpose of grudges or subject teachers to Photo from Yahoo keyword: ratemyteachers.com through the Internet. After RateMyTeachers.com is to help form random or rude remarks? On the website ratemyteachers.com students can hitting the 6,000,000 (post Birthright positive change on the way parents, The owners of the rate the teachers at their school in terms of mark), RateMyTeachers.com students, and teachers look at the operators of this site say… helpfulness, clarity, easiness, and popularity. has proven its popularity and education system, to help give “No.” Interestingly, about 70% of Although Lewis Central given students a chance to express students and parents a place to have the ratings on the website are does allow students onto how well they are benefiting from their opinions validated, and to favorable. Based on the feedback RateMyTeachers.com despite the their educators. resource teachers who are open received, it is obvious that students controversy, many students “In the public discourse on enough to face opinions of their using the website have a keen elsewhere are blocked from the improving education, we believe the customers, and benefit from the interest in their education. website. Many schools feel that most important voices are often comments made. While the website “I remember that I had there is no use for a website that ignored,” said Michael Hussey. “For may seem to have all good valid opinions of my teachers in high instigates anonymous users to the first time in the history of public intentions, many feel that the school. I remember the evaluations degrade and exploit a teacher. Some schools, the student is being heard.” websites message is inaccurate and at the end of my college semester and schools feel that posting an opinion Log on to ineffective. I know the professors used to look online is an immature way to handle RateMyTeachers.com now to voice “Sure I think that banning at them and found them useful,” said not liking a teacher’s teaching your opinion. Page 6 October 2004 FeatureFeature FCA Has A New Way To Play McKayla Christiansen. Dani Mescher room for more to join. come together in one place and NHS One other main aspects of the Co-Editor-In-Chief “All anyone has to do is show celebrate their faith. up at a meeting.” said Campbell. “The Day of Champions is FCA that benefits many of its Tough On Trash The Fellowship of Christian “We try and have two meetings a where people from all different members is its very own ‘Being it only takes them about a half hour to Athletes is the largest school- month and we come pretty close schools come together and an Example’ scholarship fund. Lindsey Behrens pick up most of the trash around the based Christian organization in to doing that.” fellowship and worship together,” The FCA has given away twenty- Reporter school.” the US, and it’s challenging The leadership team said sophomore Amber Barr. “We five thousand dollars in Once a month for almost the This half hour of hard work is just coaches and athletes to use the responsible for getting meetings have good food and games, and scholarships to thirty-nine entire school year, Lewis Central a small part of the time NHS members influential arena of sports to organized, as well as organizing I’ll go back this year because it’s different students throughout the students come together for a common are required to do as volunteer service impact their world. Lewis some sort of major function each a lot of fun.” years. The scholarship recipients goal: picking up trash. These students in the community. Central’s own FCA members month is a group of eleven While the FCA likes were voted on by the club dedicate their time to clean and “Students in NHS must do at share that same mission, and they students who were appointed as spending time enjoying each members and by the staff at Lewis beautify the school grounds. They are least thirty hours of volunteer work strive to let their faith shine in the officers by Mr. Campbell. other’s company, they also invest Central. The money for the a part of the National Honor Society, during the school year,” said Jones. halls of Lewis Central. “Our officers spearhead a lot of their time helping their scholarships is raised by a variety an organization that gives students a “This may include up to ten hours “It’s about our young people different activities. Certain community. FCA members of fundraisers including the chance to help out in their community. of the volunteering students did over choosing to be positive influences individuals step up to get things volunteer many times throughout Football Jersey Auction, the band “This is the second year the the summer.” in the school, living their faith and rolling. We all wobk together, but the year at Bethany Lutheran craft fair, and the Free-Throw-A- National Honor Society has been While picking up trash around walking the walk,” said FCA the officers do the main Nursing Home doing various Thon, which is more “hands-on” for doing the trash cleanup around the high the school doesn’t sound like much sponsor Pat Campbell. organizing.” said Campbell. activities for residents such as the students. school,” said NHS coordinator Kim fun, it can sometimes be interesting. FCA students have been There are plenty of activities decorating the home for “We raise money for our Jones. “The officers last year came up “One time I found a really long, ‘walking the walk’ through the and events for every officer to Christmas, making Christmas cards, scholarship, and it’s a lot of fun. It’s with the idea, and I think it’s a great thick chunk of hair with a big wad halls of Lewis Central since the have his/her turn in the driver’s and offebing maf power at a BBQ. a good cause and it’s always fun to way to improve the appearance of the of gum in it,” said junior Sarah mid-80’s. Mr. Campbell came to seat. Year after year the FCA is “It’s fun to be able to go and shoot with your friends.” said senior school.” Starnes. “It was LC in 1984, and he immediately active and living in the school as help the elderly. They’re always so Justin Toole. “We shoot 1,000 free There is a specified really gross.” began the process of well as in the community. They happy to see us, and it makes their throws, and there are always snacks trash cleanup day Picking up implementing the club into the participate in events ranging from day when we’re just there talking for us so we can keep going and get once a month, trash is a dirty job, school. In 1985, the LC FCA volunteer work, to the Concert of to them,” said senior officer Sarah the job done.” except for in but someone has to chapter was officially sanctioned Praise to the nationally sponsored Kreger. Through all of the social some of the do it. Thanks to the and they took off strongly with a See You At The Pole event. Not only does the club help activities, volunteering, and winter months National Honor healthy number of members. “I thought See You At The the elderly, but they also go out fundraising, the FCA exists solely when it will be Society, the school “It was a really good thing. Pole was great this year. We had of their way to make life a little to give the students at Lewis Central too cold outside. is a cleaner, more The numbers were great and it was a lot of students there, and it really sweeter for the underprivileged a platform to come together to All National beautiful place. a really nice crowd back then,” was a great turn out.” said kids in Council Bluffs through honor God. The members bond as Honor Society “I think it’s said Campbell. sophomore officer Jaclyn their participation with the Angel friends and create a powerful members are important to keep This year there are around Erickson. “We came into a Tree Ministries. group throughout the school. required to pick the seventy students in grades 9-12 classroom and held hands and all “I love being able to get the “I think the greatest thing is up trash around Photo By Andrea Larison school grounds who are active members of the prayed together.” little kids gifts for Christmas. Just the unity among friends. We get the school two Sloppy students ignore NHS’ efforts .clean,” said junior FCA. While this is a rather large Now that SYATP is done, one imagining the smiles on their together and have a great time.” of the five times offered. Emily Cox. “By keeping number, it is the hope of all of the FCA’s biggest events is the faces because they know that we said junior Rachel Terry. “I split up the school them clean, people will see current members that the group ‘Day of Champions.’ This activity care for them, is an awesome “Everyone is together as one in grounds into six zones,” said Jones. that we care about our keeps growing. There is always invites surrounding FCA groups to thing,” said junior officer God, and it’s awesome.” “With two students assigned to a zone, school.” Sports Unlimited: What’s Holding LC Back? involved; in fact, the example, in publicity, so it stays in the minute halves in six to ten some things that Thomas Webering reason is because the sport coastal schools,” says senior feet of water without don’t Reporter these sports are of polo Lauren Thomas. a break. change. When going to school like football the One sport that many “ I think The in different regions of the and soccer in players wish would come to the playing water Midwest nation, the sports are the Midwest. on the Midwest is water polo. polo would be has slightly different. There These are teams are This sport is very really fun. It always are many sports that are sports that all on exhausting and would take been known offered to coastal schools they grew up horses requires elite extensive for its hard- rather than to those in the with. holding mallets, training to be conditioning and hitting sports, Midwest, such a s “ I think trying to move the ball down dominant. would keep you in such as football, lacrosse, water polo, lacrosse would be the field into opposing Many top shape,” and will continue to be polo, field awesome to play. It looks goals. This sport not people said senior known for these hockey, and to be a tough sport, and only requires a lot have tried Dale sports ice I’m a tough guy, so I think o f money, but also treading Larsen. until a hockey. I would really like it,” said at least three water for Even drastic Some senior Scooter Davis. horses because the fifteen though change think Not only are there horses tend to get hurt minutes in Lewis occurs. they different sports, the by the ball and the mallets. the deep end Central offer equipment used in “ Playing polo would be of the pool. doesn’t these these sports is fun, but in the Midwest, it Well, water have all t h e sports to costal schools radically really isn’t the social thing to polo players tread activities it wished it because of the money different. For do. It never really gets any had, there are just ‘ Our Town’ Meetswater for two forty-five Your Town

Grover’s Corners. He helps us In ‘Our Town,’ Frank Gibbs smallest events in our daily actually act without the extra “As humans, we always take Kellie Doffin learn more about the characters in is the town doctor and Charles life.’ pieces.” life for granted, but it’s important Reporter Grover’s Corners and helps us Webb is the editor of the town’s “I believe that Thornton As it is with every play at Lewis to make the best of everyday,” said Lewis Central has had a examine our own lives and put into local newspaper. Julia Gibbs and Wilder wanted no set, so the Central, there is an underlying senior Sarah Kreger, who plays tradition of excellence in it’s drama perspective of what is really important Myrtle Webb are homemakers that audience will focus more on what message for the audience to take Emily. program throughout the years with in life. keep the houses in order; they the actors are saying and doing from the show. In this play the Besides acting, a lot more goes shows including Fiddler on The Many of the people in Grover’s both take care of the children, make instead of focusing so much on message is very clear, life is too on behind the scenes of ‘Our Town.’ Roof, Once Upon a Mattress, You’re Corners live relatively simple meals, and do chores. Rebecca props,” said Heckman. precious to take advantage of it. During the past month the entire a Good Man Charlie Brown, lives; not a whole lot is going on. and Wally are the little Since the use of props is Throughout the play, there are three cast has been working feveriously You Can’t Take it With It’s a calm, quiet town where brother and sister that very limited, actors have to acts that represent the three every Saturday with tech days You, and the award everyone knows each everyone has, and they are mime their stage activities. major parts of life: Daily and nigh rehearsals to winning The Sound other. The main relatively close in age. The two Some actors find it quite a Life, Love and prepare themselves for of Music. All these families that the individuals that the help the play change from their normal Marriage, and Act the show, while shows have been play centers move along are George and routine of having III. Daily life is welcoming a new extraordinary around are the Emily. Through these two an object to simply the way cast member. and this year’s Gibbs and the characters show us the interact we live our The new fall play is no Webbs. changes that everything with. lives from additions’ exception. experiences in life. day to day; name is “I love the Danny Lich, idea of the play a seventh for this fall, it’s grader from such a great Lewis Central American Middle School. classic,” said co- “I think the director Thomas play is coming along Heckman. great! Everyone is The choice for nice and it’s a lot of the fall of 2004 is a fun,” said seventh play called ‘Our Town’. grader Danny Lich. The infamous man from Figuratively the theatrical world who speaking, ‘Our wrote this play is named Town’ is a play that Thornton Wilder. The play is a must see for all was produced in 1937 and is set kinds of individuals. in the early 1900s. The setting It teaches us the of the play is in a town called In the Gibbs many different, “Grover’s Corners, New household there is important parts of Hampshire—just across the Frank (played by life and how we don’t Massachusetts line: latitude forty- Zach Yakel), Julia ever take the time to two degrees, forty minutes; (Allison Jacoby), really look at and longitude seventy degrees, thirty- George (Brian appreciate things for seven minutes.” Henderson), and what they are. Maybe A person who stands out in the Rebecca (Jennifer Ettinger). One irregular, perhaps even “It feels kind of out of the love and marriage is what it says, it’s Thornton Wilder had a bigger plan crowd of people from Grover’s Likewise in the Webb strange, perspective of the play is that ordinary,” said junior Bethany about love and its many for his play than what we realize. Corners is a character who is household there is Charles there is very little set. It was an idea Riso, who plays Mrs. wonders. The last act is about Perhaps by just taking a look at referred to as the Stage Manager (played by Brett Epperson), of Thornton Wilder to use as few Soames. “The stage feels what happens after our lives and the most important things in life, (played by Nick Somers). The Myrtle (Molly Lich), Emily props and pieces of furniture like it is naked, but at the how as humans, we don’t realize we can take a whole new look at Stage Manager’s job is to lead (Sarah Kreger), and Wally possible in an attempt ‘to find a value same time it’s a neat feeling to what we have in our life until it’s life and the many things that it has everyone through the story of (David Ebke). above all price for the know that we actors can gone. to offer. Photo By Kellie Doffin Page 7 October 2004 EntertainmentEntertainment Movies That Make You “Forgotten” is Worth Remembering

Want to Stay Tuned Megan Longmeyer through this struggle until one day Co-Editor-In-Chief she is hit by the “truth.” She is told Heidi Behrens from Hayden Christiansen, Peter that she fabricated Sam’s whole Reporter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevingy, and Steve Walking into the movie theater existence herself as a result of a Zahn. The film also contains a with my friend Erin, I wasn’t quite miscarriage; all of the pictures are Hello Wire readers. I’m back brilliant debut from director Billy sure what to expect. We arrived now gone, the videos are blank, and with another fantastic list for you. Ray. barely on time, but ended up walking no one has any memory of Sam or This time I’m not knocking any in during the previews because we the crash except Telli. Refusing to movies. I’m telling you which mov- couldn’t agree on snacks and we believe this, Telli enlists the help of ies I think are worthy of your time were, of course, chatting. I guess it Ash Correll (played by Dominic and money. Before I go into my list, just wasn’t one of those “must be on West), whose daughter, Lauren, was I would just like to say that I haven’t time” movies, one because the on the same flight as her son. Telli seen any of the “Lord of the Rings” previews were so vague and two helps Ash remember the daughter movies, so LOTRs fans, please don’t because it was a Thursday night. So, he’d also forgotten, and together go crazy when you don’t see them we wandered in, found some seats, they start off on a wild chase to find the truth about their children, a truth on this list. and proceeded to pay attention. At first I didn’t know what to full of theories, adrenaline, suspense, Photo obtained from http://www.movie-fever.com/gallery/album11/ think, whether it would be a scary and an ending that is going to leave TF_014_DF_01198 you a little more than skeptical than movie or a movie you really have to Telli Paretta (Junianne Moore) searches for memories of her belated son. follow or just some crazy science- when you entered the theater. fiction show. Like I said, the The overall affect of this movie suspenseful yet dynamically to us? This movie gives people who previews were not a dead give-away would not have been possible believable. The screenplay was well- believe in life beyond our world a to a happy ending, or any ending in without the all-star acting written, keeping people entertained valid point for believing these particular. They were very performances. Julianne Moore never and informed, but not dragging on theories. What if we couldn’t misleading and gave little to no ceases to amaze me on how well she either. There was a lot of chasing all remember them ever being description, but most importantly forms into her character. In the at once in this movie which is around… how would we know they are here or not? This movie gives “Butch Cassidy and the they were captivating and alluring. beginning scenes where she is something I wasn’t too fond of, but skeptics lots of things to think about, Sundance Kid” Butch Cassidy and If you see someone flying out of a reliving the life of her son through these scenes were well-recorded, so and this, in my opinion, boosts the the Sundance Kid were outlaws in house for no apparent reason, you’re the pictures and videos, you can it was little easier to not get bored. credibility of this movie higher than the late 1800’s. This movie tells their going to be interested. As we actually capture her intense Two such scenes were at the any other feature. story with humor and brilliant acting continued to watch the movie, I connection with this boy and feel beginning when she first escapes Several hours and days after I by Paul Newman and Robert realized that this story wasn’t that her calling out to him from seeing from the federal agents, and later on saw the movie, the possibilities of it Redford, as well as excellent writing scary, or that “out there.” None of such intense emotion. Dominic West when she’s in the warehouse. Both those things are what made this stays consistently rounded in his scenes are small “time fillers,” but still weighed on my mind. There from screenwriter William Goldman. character throughout the movie, such they worked well with the story was so much to think about, so “The Graduate” Young movie watch-able… it was the fact as his macho attitude and heavy through good camera work and much to ponder, and that‚s the Benjamin Braddock is fresh out of that there was no grand solution, no drinking habits. He seems to have a plausible acting. Also, in scenes part that made it worth seeing. college and has no idea what he’s definite ending, and how that left the good ability in showing intense were people randomly disappear, it I, at first, had no idea what to going to do with his life. Mrs. audience with the biggest question emotion as he remembers his Lauren seems very unrealistic for something expect, and now, after watching Robinson, the wife of Ben’s father’s of all. once more, but he lacked the screen like that to happen, but they make it it, I still scarcely know what to business partner, is a lonely, The movie starts off with the time to effectively develop his more believable than I expected they think. It’s a challenge to sort out depressed, alcoholic housewife. Ben sad story of Telli Paretta (played by character. Gary Sinise, although could. All-in-all, the making of this in your mind what a movie is and Mrs. Robinson start getting to Julianne Moore), who’s still given a small part, holds his own movie was good but doesn’t quite hit trying to say and how it makes you know each other on a more intimate struggling with the death of her son, well, as in any movie that he does, the bar of some of the “sci-fi” movies feel, but for movies like The level. As the affair is heating up, Sam, who died some 14 months ago and gives us his best performance preceding it. Forgotten, it’s a separation of what Ben’s life starts to spiral out of when his plane disappeared over an possible. The most important thing I’d is real and the possibilities of the control. Then, all heck breaks loose. ocean. Since then, she regularly goes The directing and like to point out about this movie is universe and beyond. If this movie Ben is forced by his parents to date through his room, looking at old cinematography for this movie was its believability factor. In terms of was as intriguing to others as it was Elaine, Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, picture and videos, struggling to sufficient. Director Joseph Ruben the “beyond,” we really don’t know to me, then I’m sure that you’ll be and they fall in love. Unfortunately, resume her life as best she can. Her picked an excellent set of actors for what’s out there, so how would we thinking about this movie for quite Mrs. Robinson informs Elaine that therapist, Dr. Jack Munce (played by this film and kept the movie know when the unknown is so close awhile she and Ben had been getting rather Gary Sinise), continues to help her close over the past year. Now Ben “X-Men” The movie “X-Men” will do anything to win Elaine back. has two factors that make it great a Words cannot describe how very powerful message about the wonderful this movie is, and I’ve You Named Your lasting affects of hatred, and its high- seen it too many times to count. It is quality entertainment for the whole beautifully acted and as is Dustin ...She Did it family. Hoffman’s screen debut. Again Baby What!?!?

Dani Mescher Becca Sheppard Spears married or not? It all boiled Co-Editor-In-Chief Copy Editor down to yes, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline did indeed have the Oops, she did it again! Pop- wedding, but the did not, in fact, file Celeb Name Baby Name princess Britney Spears is more a marriage license. In this case, the famous for her marriages than she two were not legally married. When Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin….Apple is for her singing career, it seems. interrogated by anxious reporters, John Travolta & Kelly Preston……Ella Bleu After an “accidental,” 55-hour union Spears admitted that she and through a Vegas wedding (and dare Federline had not yet filed their Reese Witherspoon & Ryan Phillippe…Deacon I say, that’s a little white trash?) with marriage license, but they were Brandy…………………………Sy’Rai childhood friend Jason “Star Wars” Now when I say Courteney Cox & David Arquette….Coco Alexander, Spears began a new “Star Wars,” I mean the real original “All the President’s Men” I drama to occupy the media with Matt LeBlanc………………………Marina “Star Wars,” not the cruddy special must admit I’m probably partial to back-up dancer (and perhaps editions, and especially not the Andre Agassi………………………Jaz this movie because it’s about two back-up husband?) Kevin recent prequels. The original 1977 reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Federline. On June 27, 2004, Helen Hunt……………Makena’ Lei Carnahan version of “Star Wars” is pure Bernstein. Woodward and Bernstein Britney announced her Rob Morrow…………………Tu’ Morrow genius. It revolutionized the way are two rookie reports working for engagement to the back-up movies are made, and without it we Jason Lee……….Pilot Inspektor Riesgraf the Washington Post who are dancer. Originally, the wedding would still have movies with bad assigned to write a story about a was supposedly planned for Rachel Griffiths…………...Banjo Patrick special effects like “Clash of the burglary at the Watergate Complex. sometime in October. The Ving Rhames………………………Rainbow Titans.” Little do they know they’ve just couple actually got married on Shannyn Sossamon…………Audio Science stumbled upon one of the greatest September 18th, most likely to political stories of our time, The avoid a public media storm. Kate Hudson………………….Ryder Watergate Scandal. I think this Good move. The wedding was Don Johnson……………….Jasper movie is sheer perfection. However, said to be pretty uptown. It is, there are some things people might after all, Britney Spears. I Ethan Embry……………Cogeian not like about it. The movie is 138 mean, she is estimated to be Sylvester Stallone…………Sistine minutes long and based off of worth at least $32,000,000. history, so if you aren’t into history, Impressive? I guess so. I don’t recommend picking it up. The ceremony was held in Studio City, California. Attending the ceremony were 20 immediate family members. The Photo obtained from Yahoo Search: ring was a 5 karat, $40,000 diamond. Britney Kevin Must be nice. It’s reported that the Newlyweds Spears and Federline people attending wore sweat pants cherish each other after thier first after the ceremony. Odd maybe? moments of marriage. Who are we to judge, I guess. The Congratulations! “American Beauty” Lester men wore track suits that said going to get to it within the next Burnham has a miserable life. His “Pimps” on them. Tacky? That might week. LC Wire 03-04 Assistant Editor wife and daughter hate him for all be cool for Dave Chapelle, but for “I know we’re not extensive purposes, and he hates his Britney Spears and Calvin Klein/ completely legal until we file the Samantha Tsuji on being winner of the job. Finally, Lester decides that he’s underwear model-typed Federline? license, which we’ll do next going to do what he wants with his Not so much. week,” Spears told People Wrigly Fresh Films Competition. life no matter what. Unfortunately, So Spears says, “I do.” Or Magazine. “But in a real sense, a Lester’s new-found sense of self does she? After the wedding was spiritual sense, we’re married. Check out her film at: worsens his relationships with his reportedly held, rumors began to We’re just following our lawyer’s family, and turns their lives upside- arise suggesting Spears and advice.” Legally, she has 10 days Winterfresh.com/films down. “American Beauty” is a very Federline never officially got after the actual wedding to file “Shattered Glass” “Shattered dark comedy that can make you want married at all. Apparently, Matt the license. Better get on that, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Glass” tells the story of disgraced to laugh and then cry two seconds Britney. Drudge from The Drudge Report *Breakfast Lewis Central High School *Pizza* journalist Stephen Glass. Glass was later. Kevin Spacey won an Oscar for made claims that Britney and She claims that the delay snacks* a reporter for the New Republic his performance, and Annette Bening Federline faked the wedding. was caused because the couple Day of Champions *FCA *Pop* Magazine in Washington, D.C. and was nominated. Headlines read “Media Tricked moved up the wedding date. Oh, the T-Shirt* over the course of his career, he After reading this list, I hope Again: Brit Faked Wedding.” The drama. After much controversy Saturday October 30, 2004 fabricated almost all of his stories. your Blockbuster card will be getting controversy caught a lot of media and gossip, it turns out that Registration 8:00-8:30 A.M. “Shattered Glass” tells his story from a lot of good use. I expect to see a attention, which is possibly what Britney Spears is officially Mrs. fame to disgrace beautifully, and jump in their stock in the upcoming Spears wanted, seeing as her Britney Federline (she recently *Join fellow LC students and area FCA’ers for a time contains wonderful performances days. popularity isn’t what it used to be. I announced that she wants her of fun, food, and fellowship All movie posters obtained from Yahoo Search: Keyword The Graduate, suppose if enthusiasm from the rest name to be legally accepted as All the Presidents Men, Shattered Glass movie poster, Butch Cassidy of the world about her career is Federline, not Spears), so the *College students from Faith Baptist Bible College in and the Sundance Kid, X-Men movie poster, Star Wars movie poster, drying up, she has to do something world can sleep in peace. Ankeny, Iowa will lead the days activites American Beauty. to get peoples’ attention. So, is It’s not easy being famous. 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Fear: What Scares You? While Jane is standing are more concerned with the the information is clearly Hahaha. Pretty much ge- Can this even be beat? Vicki Burnett outside the drama room door, psychological impact an event nius. I wish I was an Oscar Reporter processed and the actual her stomach is in knots, might have on them. amount of danger is Meyer Weiner still, though. Suddenly, the crazed goosebumps cover her arms, Fear is not the only evaluated, the appropriate murderer flew through the and her mouth is dry. She emotion that gives people the reaction is realized. cellar door, pulled out a loves acting, but she is impulse to run away. Anxiety, Even though fear seems knife, and, as it glittered in terrified that she will not panic, worry, and shyness like a weakness, it has its the moonlight, flung it across make the school play. So she can let your mind play tricks purpose. Controlled the room missing his victim by hurriedly leaves the doorway on you in the same way fear correctly, fears help us to a fraction of an inch... and avoids this possiblility of does. avoid possible dangers and This victim’s initial frustration entirely. This is All of these fears start keep us safer in the process. emotion is fear. How this frustrating because failing with a stimulus. Something If fear is not controlled, person would act because of would be a disappointment potentially dangerous is decisions are rash and foolish his fear is based on his that could stop her from seen, heard or felt (a with destructive actions and background and past taking any future risks at all. stimulus), and that consequences. Creative, to say the least. I’m not impressed. Look experiences. Humans are not Now imagine your heart information is sent to a One way to solve these I’d do it. at the chicken jockey afraid of immediate danger, racing, palms sweating, and center of the brain known as fears is to keep a journal. for heaven’s sake. but rather we base our fears muscles tensing as you walk the sensory thalamus. From Within the journal list on a nonexistent past or on to the entrance of Mystery there, the rough information specific fears, how real they an imagined future. Manor. When you get in line is quickly sent to the are to you, their affect on Three main reasons that you feel like you are being amygdala, the section of the your daily life, and how they people experience fear are watched; you turn around and brain that stores fearful hold you back. After writing feeling the possibility of not you are face to face with a emotional memories, and an about those topics, think of surviving, being frustrated, demonic-looking clown named emotional response is sent to behaviors that could help and assuming harm. In the Bobo that says, “Hey, how are the heart, lungs, and legs you overcome those fears. example above, the you?” You could be afraid telling them whether to fight Being afraid is normal. possibility of not surviving that he might harm you. So you or flee. At the same time the Fear has its purposes and was the basic source of the start wondering if you should information is sent to the there are many different victim’s fear. Because there run away or stay and ‘fight’ sensory cortex, the region of fears shared among humans. was a threat of potentially your fear. 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