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See 3 page See page 2 See page 5 See page 6 Rose Hill High School HE OCK- T EWS Volume 13 IssueT 7 710 S RoseR Hill Road, Rose Hill, KS I67133 NDecember 6, 2013 2013 Snoball royalty announced dilli. Kristin Donaldson King said, “!ank you for voting for me, Photography Editor you’re awesome!” “To the people who voted for me I !is years’ 2013 Snoball King and would like to say ‘!ank you! I appreciate Queen candidates are Paige Decker, Kayli it.’” said Haydock. Helton, Emily Terrell, Jaden Campidilli, Helton said, “I would like to give a big Harrison Haydock, and Christian Bou- thanks to the people who voted for me, dreaux with the senior class. you all make me smile. I love you all to the Our prince and princess candidates moon and back.” are Kayla King, Madison Fuller, Brooke Campidilli is of the belief that he is Wheeler, Brady Mounts, Greg Tinkler, going to be the one to win King. Haydock and Jaden Nussbaum with the junior class. said, “I think I have a good chance of win- Getting nominated is a huge deal! ning. I’m going to try to win it this year as Helton said, “I feel really honored and it king.” makes me more excited for the dance. Plus Fuller said, I don’t think I’m going to I get in the dance for free!” win but getting nominated was good “It’s really cool being nominated for enough.” Snoball candidate. It’s the #rst time I’ve King said, “It is an honor to just be been nominated for something like this!” elected even if I don’t win. !ere is a lot of said Tinkler. !e Snoball candidates, seniors Christian Boudreaux, Emily Terrell, great people who are elected for princess Haydock said, “I was prince last year. It Jaden Campidilli, Paige Decker, Harrison Haydock, and Kayli Helton; and I think they deserve it more. So no, I feels great to be voted again for Snoball along with juniors Brady Mounts, Kayla King, Greg Tinkler, Brooke don’t think I will win.” candidate.” Wheeler, Jaden Nussbaum, and Madison Fuller, pose for a royal portait. !e students will get to vote for who “To the people who voted for me I’d like !e candidates, voted on by the student body, are all honored to be chosen they would like to see win this year, during to say, ‘go big or go home!’” said Campi- as royalty. Photo by Kristin Donaldson. the Snoball dance on December 7. Karbach heads home Rocket blood flows Nadia Khalidi through Boese Asst. Feature Editor Foreign Exchange Gabby Farris Senior Karla Karbach, from a suburb Student Asst. Layout Editor about an hour outside of Frankfurt, is the Karla only German foreign exchange student Karbach is Ray Boese II has been teaching at Rose among six at RHHS. visiting Rose Hill High School for the past 16 years. Although the 15-year-old is only stay- Hill for a He taught for eight years at Wichita West ing for the fall semester, Karbach is enjoy- semester. She High; afterwards, RHHS. Boese grew ing every moment here in the U.S. though will be up in Wichita, Kansas graduating from she will not have the chance to experience leaving Wichita South High in 1982. prom, graduation, and other American during !is is the #rst year Boese is serving as high school experiences in the states. Does Christmas the head coach for RHHS football team. she regret choosing to stay for just one break. Photo He also coaches softball and basketball, al- semester? “At some points, yes, and other by Kristin Math teacher Ray Boese II has though this year Boese will not be coach- times no,” said Karbach. While being here, Donaldson. been teaching at Rose Hill for 16 ing basketball. years. Photo by Adam Henwood. See Karbach on page 3 See Boese on page 3 What in the world is going on? Nathaniel Gregg UK are also partnering up to send food, been a real prosperous country, and have intensity in the middle of nowhere, and by Asst. Social Media Mgr. and temporary housing units into the always relied on their rice industry. !at the time they reach a land, have gone back Philippines. !e estimated cost for a full rice industry was completely wiped out down to a dissolving tropical storm. Hai- Typhoon Haiyan hit the city of Taclo- recovery would be around 6 billion dollars for this season, and perhaps many more yan chose to hit peak intensity at the same ban in the Philippines on November 8, according to BBC news. by the giant tsunami wave that wiped time it hit Tacloban. According to several killing over 5,000 people at last count. !e storm itself was the strongest to out nearly the entire rice-growing region. news sources, the death toll will probably !e death toll is still rising as rescue ever hit land in the world. !e strongest Many small #shing boats were demolished peak at 7,000, but there will probably al- forces attempt to sift through the wreck- hurricane, the same type of storm as a by Haiyan, which will also need to be ways be thousands of people missing. !e age. !ousands of people are still missing. typhoon, to hit the U.S. was Andrew, replaced for the sake of their economy. UK and the U.S. will continue to assist in !e United Kingdom is currently work- which had speeds of 165 miles per hour. !e Paci#c Ocean typically produces helping the Philippines anyway that they ing on relocating over 2,400 families to a Haiyan hit with speeds at around 195 one to two of these super powerful storms can. di"erent area. !e United States and the miles per hour. !e Philippines have never per year, but they almost always reach peak Page 2 Learn RtoOCKET right OPINION gooderDecember 6, 2013 It’s that time of year again! You’ve taught me so much about responsibility, Editor Colby Woods, senior. the chance to meet new people and write made your list, its been checked twice, writing, and deadlines. If I hadn’t joined Sports Editor sophomore Armando several articles over many di!erent top- and, at least for the good little girls and newspaper, I wouldn’t have realized just Mendez said, “"e newspaper sta! is just ics. It also teaches you responsibility and boys, your wish has been granted! It’s the how much I love to write. But my favorite a bunch of nice people and it teaches you organization.” highly anticipated winter schedule release! thing is being able to use my abilities to about responsibility.” “Newspaper is a great class to take if And the wonderful sta! of "e Rock-It produce something for the school,” said “I love this class. "e writing part of it you like to write. You get to report the News is here to give you some advice. senior Chandler Boese, editor-in-chief is wonderful of course, but the fact that we happenings of the school and write about Have you ever noticed how many activi- and layout editor. can all sit here and be involved with each them. "e class itself is really fun, you get ties our school caters to? If there’s any Junior Meredith Bartley, assistant edi- other is amazing. I wouldn’t trade this a lot of time in which to write your stories, class you’re good at, there’s a club for that. tor, feature editor, and copy editor, said, class for anything. It’s really been a great so due dates are rarely a problem,” said Math- and social studies-savvy students Assistant News Editor sophomore Kole can join Scholar’s Bowl and the science Wright. people #nd their place in Robotics. FACS “I would recommend newspaper to any- kids have FCCLA waiting for them and body who loves to write. It’s awesome for business-inclined kids will love FBLA. anyone who wants to go into journalism Of course, the students who spend all day or anything that needs writing experience in the gym will spend their evenings there or any related thing to writing. It gives you too, working hard at their sports. If you a chance to have interesting conversations love to act or help with plays, join Drama with some pretty cool people,” said junior Club. But there’s just one group left: the Nadia Khalidi, Assistant Feature Editor. English kids. Photographer and Reporter Adam Sure, we can join Scholar’s Bowl and Henwood, sophomore, said, “Newspaper answer questions about literature. But is a great opportunity to learn the skills how do we write? Well, you’re looking Sta! members Nathaniel Gregg, Meredith Bartley, Adam Henwood, Ar- of writing and editing. It teaches you dis- at it. If you like to write, join newspa- mando Mendez, Joe Nivison, Kole Wright, Gabby Farris, Kristin Donald- cipline and the art of meeting deadlines. per. If you want to be a better writer, join son, and Chandler Boese, senior, are part of the newspaper sta! and loving During it all you get the chance to meet newspaper. If you just want to be around every minute of it. Photo by Butch Gilbert. some really cool people and make friends.” some really cool people, join newspaper. If Assistant Social Media Manager you want to be in a class that’s more than “Newspaper gives you hands-on experi- experience,” said Joe Nivison, sophomore Nathaniel Gregg said, “I would recom- just homework, tests, and lectures, join ence in the writing world and teaches you and Sports Editor.