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Knight w shield v0_11-3-13 PMS 201c Volume 56, Issue 3 THE LANCE La Follette High School, Madison, WI The Student Voice of LHS Inside LHS Farewell to Officer Johnson: What Defined the Decade? SRO departing La Follette to become a Madison Ten years of solidarity, mayhem, devastation and revival detective. pg. 2 STEM Academy: A Lancer's review of this early college opportunity. Apply today! pg. 4 Feature La Follette alumni: A spotlight on LHS grads and their lives after high school. pgs. 10 and 11 2019-20 bush fire in Queensland, Australia Photo credit: Wikimedia commons Power to the people: The social movements that Sept. 2010 President Barack Obama visited defined the decade. pg. 12 La Follette and gave the football team a pep talk. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza BrainTeasers What Grinds Your Gears. Don't believe a thing that your horoscope says. pg. 7 Social Media changes and be- comes a cultural Opinion addiction. Microaggressions: We must end this hurtful way of thinking and acting. pg. 15 News Garver Feed Mill opens: A new place to enjoy food, drinks, and events in the March 14, 2018 March for our Lives at Madison Capitol. neighborhood! pg. 8 The Star Wars saga continues through- out the decade. Image: en. Wikipedia Photo credit: Tziah McNair WINTER ISSUE 2020 ARTISTS OF THE TERM THE LANCE WEBSITE WINTER DANCE Congratulating Sophia Carlson For more stories check out Come on January 25th to party on the and Facundo Ortiz-Santana. our website at https://www. La Follette dance floor! pg. 4 pg. 8 thelancenewspaper.com/ Inside LHS The Lance Officer Johnson Leaving LHS 2014-152019-20 Lance Staff La Follette’s SRO to embark before that, will have prepared him for this kind of work. He already does many Editor-in-Chief: on a new journey as a follow-ups on things occurring in the Editor-in-Chief:Zella Milfred Madison Detective. community, and knows how to com- Andy Porter Assistant Editor: municate information with victims of By Zella Milfred difficult situations. “It prepared me and AssistantTziah McNair Editor: Kaylee Hinze I am always looking for a challenge and Online Editor: Alex Wehrli Roderick Johnson has been La Follette’s something different, I don’t ever want to Elijah Rader school resource officer (SRO) for three stay stagnant,” Johnson said. SportsCopy Editor: years now. On Friday, February 7th he There have been some rocky times in the MichaelRachel HellroodRottier will be departing as he begins his new past three years at La Follette, including Aaron Lucius job as a Madison detective. This will be a a couple of gun incidents near the school. Copy Editors: AvaVisual Kaminski Arts/Photography: huge transition for the LHS community, As school safety continues to change, Jessica Rieder because Johnson has been here for as long Johnson has seen a shift in more students as most of our current students. reporting things when they see them hap- Section Editors: “The best part of the job is getting to pen. “Students are having more ownership Aaron Lucius - Inside LHS work with such wonderful kids on a daily in the school and they want a safe environ- Christina Peterson - Arts & Entertainment basis, not knowing what to expect when ment to learn in. I think their involvement Diamond Washington/Tevin Sago - Sports RebekahStaff Members: Smith - News you come in for work, and being able to and their willingness to share information MelodyTylor Brackett Krishnan - Feature watch young children grow into young that they get is vital to that school safety,” Camryn Chasas ChristianMitchell MouraCefalu - Brain Teasers adults. Obviously the worst part of the job Johnson said. BrigidMartina Mullen Seignarack/Rachel Hellrood - is when I have to use my police creden- SROs have been in Madison high schools AllisonOpinion/Editorial Rau tials if something goes awry,” Johnson since the mid 1990’s in hopes of improving Annabelle Reynolds explained. school safety and creating better relation- Cecilia Ridgeway KelseyAdviser: Swingen Even though he is leaving La Follette, he ships between police officers and members AlisaDonna Vargas Kennedy will never lose sight of his Lancer pride. of the community. In more recent years, Seeing this pride grow in students as they some have critiqued the police presence Consultant: begin to take responsibility at the school is because of the disproportionate number of TimAdviser: Stanton, Images Plus Donna Kennedy very impactful for him. students of color being cited and arrested. “He is always the type of person to not The Madison School Board considered Printer: ImagesConsultant: Plus, Madison, WI only be there as a security guard or police taking SROs out of the high schools, but Tim Stanton, Images Plus officer, but also as a mentor and leader,” ultimately voted to keep them in. Printer: Kiesha Duncan (11) said. Duncan was one Officer Johnson acknowledges that being Images Plus, Madison, WI of the two students who helped with the an officer on the streets is very different process of hiring a new SRO, who will than being on officer in a school, and has Editorial Policy: begin training at the school with Johnson some advice for the up and coming SRO “The Lance” welcomes letters to the editor. All letters later this month. His name is Justin Cum- as to how to make a positive impact at our Editorialmust be signed, Policy: but may be printed anonymously at the ley and he has experience being a Madison school. “Be you. Whoever you are when author’s request and/or the discretion of the editors and police officer and an SRO in the West you’re at home and not being a police “Theadviser. Lance” Editor(s) welcomes reserve letters the to right the editor. to disallow All letters printing must beof signed,any or butall submitted may be printed items anonymously without written at the or author’s verbal Bend School District. officer, be that person first. Most of the notice.request and/or the discretion of the editors and adviser. Editor(s) reserve the right to disallow printing of any or all As Cumley begins at La Follette, Johnson time you have to wear many hats in this Allsubmitted submissions items withoutare reviewed written by staffor verbal prior notice. to publication All sub- will be starting his career as a detective. He building. Understand that you are here andmissions may arebe editedreviewed without by staff written prior to notice. publication and may be edited without written notice. will be working downtown with sensitive for the kids, that you are here to protect Articles maymay be be edited edited to meetto meet space spacerequirements. requirements. Submit suggestions,Submit suggestions, ideas or comments ideas or tocomments a “Lance” tostaff a member,“Lance” crimes and general assignments. After be- them first and foremost, and that you tostaff Donna member, Kennedy to orDonna to the addressKennedy below. or to the address below. ing assigned a case, he will investigate the are here to watch them go from being “The Lance” situation given the details and information freshmen, to seniors, to whatever they do La “TheFollette Lance” High School provided. “It’s like doing a puzzle and after high school. You have to help them La Follette702 Pflaum High Road School Madison,702 Pflaum WI Road53716 trying to get all of the puzzle pieces to fit. navigate through that path and when there Email:Madison, [email protected] WI 53716 My job will be to put the puzzle together,” are rough patches you have to let them Views expressed in this paper are the viewsviews ofof individualindividual he said. know,” he said. authors, oror in thethe casecase ofof thethe staffstaff editorials,editorials, thethe editorialeditorial board. They do not represent the views of all Lance staff It will be different for him to not work Johnson thanks La Follette students for members,board. They administration do not represent or any the other views MMSD of all employee Lance staff or with kids and get daily interaction with everything he has learned from them, and boardmembers, member. administration or any other MMSD employee orAdvertising board member. in the Lance is encouraged by community part- students. In other ways though, he feels promises to visit. He is confident that ners and local businesses as support for our student voice. If Submitinterested story in advertising, suggestions/opinions please contact the to:adviser or a staff that his time being an SRO, and work- Cumley will do well at La Follette, and is member for more information. [email protected] ing on the police department’s gang unit happy with his selection. 2 The Lance Winter 2019-20 Inside LHS Get Ready to Bring your Opinion to the Polls Make sure you prepare your- Court Judge, Dane County Judges, voting this in conjunction with March For Our District Supervisors and MMSD School Lives WI, we have t-shirts to hand out for self for election day! Board members. These elections will help students who register to vote. This year determine who will make the decisions we’ll also have Bernie Sanders stickers and By Ava Kaminski that will impact us the most. buttons for students who pledge to vote In order to vote, everyone needs a valid for him,” Grace Jensen (12) said. Eighteen is that magical number when you government issued source of identifica- In Wisconsin, you can register to vote become an “adult”. More importantly, you tion, such as a driver’s license. There are when you are 17, so if you’re 17, that is get to cast a ballot in order to give input many ways to register yourself to vote in something you might want to consider.

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