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The daily Cardinal. Valentines Day 2015 Junior Royalty Sophomore Royalty The Glendale Cardinal boys have goals were scored by the former JV player been on a roll! This year they did such an Boys Soccer’s Marco Denogean and the last goal was amazing job; in fact, they made it into the Impressive Post Season scored by Selemani leaving the score 4-1 state tournament! By Erika Valadez with Glendale taking the win! This past The team finished the season win- weekend they played against Campo ning some tough matches, and taking con- Paradise Valley and the Apollo Hawks. Verde. Marcos Denogean, Marcos Medina trol over their own destiny. In their final Because the track is being updated and Selemani Baruani each scored a goal three games they beat Shadow Mountain, around the soccer field, the teams has had leaving the score to be 3-2 and taking the to play their home games at neighboring boys varsity team to the State Semi-finals. “sister” school like Cortez and Independ- The game went into overtime tied at 2 all, ence. but early in the first overtime period the On Feb. 5th 2015 they had their first team scored and held on to the lead. state game at Cortez High School at 5 pm. The game was incredibly exciting! Three dale to see what she thought about Glendale’s Super winning the Super Bowl. In the first half Flu Season Update this year’s flu season. When asked, the Patriots seemed to dominate, but the “Have you seen more cases of the flu Bowl Success scrappy Seahawks ended the half with a By: Maria Gallegos this year than last year, here at By Jose Arellanes scoring drive that tied the score at 14-14. GHS?” she answered, “No.” We also Both teams came back to the 3rd quar- The season nobody likes… asked, “When students come to you, All you football fans had been wait- ter determined to finish each other. The The Flu Season. This flu season has Is it due to the flu, just a cold or other ing for a year for last week’s game. That’s Seahawks had the quick lead early on, but hit harder than any other flu seasons reasons?” she replied, “They come in right we are talking about Super Bowl in the 4th quarter the New England Patriot here in Arizona. According to AzCen- more because of cold like symptoms, XLIX. It was a tough season for all the came up to win the game and became the tral.com more than 1,500 cases of the but not necessarily the flu.” From her teams, they all fought good including the 2015 Super Bowl champions. This hap- flu have been reported since late Sep- point of view this season’s flu has Arizona Cardinals, but at they didn't have pened in the final seconds of the game with tember. Health officials have said that been just like any other. We also the players necessary to keep advancing in a Patriot’s interception of Russell Wilson. the current flu strain is so strong its questioned her thoughts about the the season. With the win, the New Patriots earned their made the vaccine effectiveness, and she said Both the Seahawks and the Patriots fourth Super Bowl Championship with vaccine less she thought the vaccine was mostly trained hard for the Super Bowl and clearly Coach Belichick and QB Tom Brady. effective. effective but that there might be a dif- came here to Glendale with their goal of While other ferent kind of flu going around that the years the flu vaccine isn’t stopping. vaccine has been up to Want to stay flu-free? Take these 70% effec- three easy tips: tive, this year 1. When you need to cough, the vaccine do it into your sleeve. was said to 2. Wash your hands frequent- be only 30% ly. effective. 3. And stay home when sick. We took the time to interview our nurse here at Glen- In this Issue... CampusNEWS Life CAMPUSSports LIFE SPORTSNews Entertainment CAMPUS LIFE Anti-Valentines Day You Thought AIMS Was Bad? By: Tabbitha O’Neal By: Shemaiah Avent Valentines Day is the day where students come to school As you have heard the class of 2016 was last to take AIMS their carrying their big teddy bears and a box of chocolates and some sophomore year. The new, replacement test, the AZMerit, is a more may even get roses. Well, what about all the lonely people on modernized and designed to test all areas of your high school experi- Valentines Day? The people whose boyfriends/girlfriends that ence including math, history, science, and English. And as if students don't come to the same school as them? How about the people didn’t have enough test anxiety, sources say this test is definitely harder than AIMS. that don’t even get asked to be a Valentine? I dont understand This past November the Arizona Department of Education adopt- why nobody cares about the people who don't get asked. I per- ed the AZMerit, to replace the common core’s PARCC exam. The mate- sonally don't like Valentines Day for personal reasons. rial on this test has a higher reading level compared to AIMS which, on a I honestly think that Valentines is just a day where stores scale, had a significantly lower reading level. The two part questions that can get money. Valentines Day should not even be a holiday. I are based on the reading have become more difficult. Say you’re an- don’t there should be one day that someone's boyfriend/girlfriend swering part A, and then for part B it’s basically all or nothing; that’s be- should show them that they love them. They should show and tell cause if you get part A wrong you’re explaining the wrong thing in part B. each other everyday. Most girls are always going crazy about AZMerit is scheduled to begin this year for Freshmen, Sopho- what to get their boyfriends and what if their boyfriends don’t like mores, and Juniors. The score from this test is applied to the final per- it. centage of your four core classes. How can the school be sure a test will be successful when it’s On the other hand, some people look forward to the day never been tested before? Well a class of Juniors were taken to a lab after Valentines day, February 15th. I know quite a few people last year and did a practice run. The test scores and other data were who look forward to all the chocolate and teddy bears to be on shown to the teachers to give them some sort of idea on how overall test sale to go buy. I personally think that Valentines Day is a waste of scores will turn out. a holiday. I'm one of those people who look forward to the after The best way to prepare yourself for this test is to read as much the holiday sales. I believe that most single people hate Valen- as you can in your spare time. Other than that, what teachers are doing tines day because it reminds them that they are alone. Most of inside the classroom should be preparation enough if you listen. This the single people are gift- exam will begin on April 14th. less and have to deal with all kinds of people carrying their balloons and big teddy bears and maybe even ros- es. What is different about this holiday this year is that its on a Saturday. This is going to mean that many couples will be carrying their stuff around on the 13th of February. This also means that it’s a Friday the 13th. I think this will be a very inter- esting holiday this year and for kids around school wide. Red Carpet Talent Doors in the Boy’s Bathroom? By: Aaliyah Abdur-Rashiid By: Alejandro Valadez This year’s Talent Show was on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. The Freshman boys may be asking why there aren’t stalls in most of show had the theme of Red Carpet Talent. This year the Daily Car- the boys bathroom at Glendale? In my perspective, when I first arrived as dinal went and the show was amazing!!!! Dozens of talented kids a freshman, I thought Glendale wasn't able to afford them. I never went to showed up ready and wanting to be discovered. a school where there weren't any doors on the bathroom stalls. I won- There were all sorts of talented acts this year like, singing, dered if it was the same in the girls bathroom? I asked some of the juniors and seniors girls I knew, and they told dancing, and rapping. There was even a violin duet. So make sure me that yes, in fact the girls’ room does have bathroom doors on the you give them an applause when you see your classmates walk by. stalls. They then explained that there aren't any doors on the men’s bath- The winner was Lionel Rufyiri who performed a dance to the room stalls because maybe people would do drugs, fight in there , or oth- song “Today” by Kirk Franklin. He received $100 for winning. 2nd ers would just kicked the stall doors until the fell off. place was Mario Ayala, Carlos Hernandez, Fredi Cezena who sung Whatever was the case was before, in my opinion, I think that and played the Spanish Se Va Muriendo Mi Alma.