Update at Last Week’S Skills USA Competition, LHS Senior AL Lynn Took First Place Lose It in the Food and Beverage Service Category
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Lemont High School 800 Porter Street Lemont, IL 60439 April 20, 2011 Issue 28 IN THIS ISSUE Culinary P. 3 Mathletes Formulates Plans Competition for State p.4 Artists on the Verge by Brittany Baldwin p.8 Move It or News writer Update At last week’s Skills USA competition, LHS senior AL Lynn took first place Lose It in the Food and Beverage Service category. Lynn will represent Illinois as he competes against 46 other states and providences in the Food and Beverage p.9 New Band, category at the national competition being held in Overland Park, Kansas on New Fan June 20- 24. Senior Shawn Nienhouse also stood as a close contender in the Food and p.10 Out With Beverage Service category as he took second in this particular category. In the Culinary Arts category, Nienhouse took eighth. the Old- In With the New p.11 Books>Movies p.12 You are What You Eat? p.13 What if You Were Limitless? p.14 This Weeks in Sports... photos by Tony Hamilton and courtesy of Google photos by Tony Senior Shawn Nienhouse Senior AL Lynn TOM-TOM STAFF 3 News: Design Editor: Dylan Blaha Design Assistants: Rachel Hunter Brittany Baldwin Mary McKevitt Caroline Celis Alexis Caspers Morgan McPartland Haley Haase Editorials Editor: by Elizabeth Bernabe Erin O’Connor News writer Kelly Lyons Students stand at the white board in room S411, speaking the language of numbers and patterns. All of a Elizabeth Bernabe sudden, someone laughs, causing others at the board to follow. Mistakes are made and practice packets made Editorials: up of past tests are passed. Just another regular Mathletes practice on a Tuesday morning. On Saturday, April 30, LHS Mathletes will compete in the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics State Features: Kelly Lyons Journalism Advisor: Math Contest Finals at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Months of preparation have led up to Andrea Earnest the moment, with a number of practices scheduled for Tuesday mornings and Thursdays after school. Annie Lillwitz Sean Clark Currently the Mathletes rank 17th in state, a goal Mathletes head coach Erin Hitchcock hopes to improve Rene Tovar while Mathletes coach Ken Suslek declares his goal without hesitation is “to win state.” Maribeth Van Hecke Despite multiple sets of practices, the Mathletes still have various hurdles to overcome. Hitchcock revealed, Lindsay Simonetta “The spring is such a busy time and so many of our kids are involved in musical and in lots of spring sports.” Head Editor: Suslek, however, remains hopeful in believing that “They’re all great, smart kids.” Hitchcock readily notes Maddy George the same and said “Overall, I think that we still have some really strong students in Mathletes.” Features Editor: Dylan Blaha Hitchcock and Suslek both reveal that the journey will hardly be easy. Hichcock revealed, “We’re facing a Bridget Carr lot of tough schools.” Suslek doesn’t dispute her. He grimly replied, “[The] competition is going to be fierce.” Andrea Earnest Senior Arthur Laciak said,” I think we’re going to do pretty well in state, hopefully placing in the top ten.” Katelyn Bittke Even if the team does not win state, Mathletes members like Freshman Robert Rigler have an advantage. The Sports: team helps Rigler become a better student and apply his math skills in class. He said, “In class, I’m always Mallory Christine Sports Editor: thinking of past problems and whatnot.” Gregg Husa The strategy is simple. As Hitchcock said, “We’re just going to go in and do the best that we can.” Suslek Gregg Husa whole-heartedly agrees and added, “And have fun.” Photographers: Kyle Griffin Finally, the students at the board work together to solve the equation. Two students proudly pat themselves on the shoulder as the answer, circled by a green marker looms over their heads. Katelyn Bittke News Editor: Ryan Peraino Michael Gaytan Dylan Blaha Ian Stratta photos courtesy of Google 4 continued from page 4 that in the near future. However, Crutchfield. 5 they do have an EP out called Existence and it can be purchased Not-so-local Success by Morgan McPartland at one of the band’s shows or on While TCHTS is a band News writer iTunes. The band’s original songs comprised of six guys in their early are usually “a collaboration of all 20s, with the exception of Kulasik, In recent years, the music scene has really expanded in the Chicago area. In fact, bands such the members” according to Kulasik, believe it or not there are even as Rise Against, Plain White T’s, Fall Out Boy and and they do throw in the occasional younger bands succeeding in the even Kanye West all started their careers in the cover. music industry today. Modern day busy city of Chicago. While it’s common for many “We don’t have a set way to write Kids, commonly called MdK by teenagers to listen to pop or mainstream music on a song,” explained Crutchfield. “It’s California teenagers, is a group of the radio, alternative/indie bands are truly on the different every time, which I think four high school students just trying rise. is really beneficial to our sound to live out their dreams. because it’s well rounded and there Singer Tyler Stimpson, guitarist Local Success is a lot from each of us in every Nick Hays, bassist Mathew Originating from the suburbs of Chicago, The song.” Salavitch and drummer Keller Captain Hates the Sea is a band of six friends who Right now, they’re in the O’Rourke formed MdK a little are simply passionate about music. They combine recording studio with their over a year ago in hopes of creating hardcore breakdowns with interesting dance beats producer/manager and good friend some fun, light-hearted music. Little to form a unique genre of music that doesn’t Travis Brown working on a new did they know, MdK would soon always get the recognition it deserves. song and a cover of Britney Spears’ become a serious chance at a music The band consists of six young musicians: singer “Hold It Against Me.” “It’s going career. Alex Rodriguez, LHS senior Danny Kulasik on to be pretty ridiculous,” said All four members of MdK live guitar and vocals, Joe Crutchfield on guitar, Mark Crutchfield. in San Ramon, CA where they Moravek on synths, JP Zigmant on drums and Also, they try to keep shows/ create music and promote MdK, Mike Thomas on bass. “[Before TCHTS], we concerts on a consistent monthly all while attending high school and basis when they’re not recording. living the life of a normal teenage were just sort of waiting for an outlet like this,” movie the Three Stooges were in, titled The Captain Hates the Sea. explained Kulasik. “Many of us have been playing Over the summer, Crutchfield boy. Stimpson and Salavitch are Although they were debating another name, the band decided the revealed that TCHTS plans to have only sophomores at California in bands for a long time, myself included, but not movie title would be better as the title of the opening song on their quite like this before.” a show every few weeks. High School, Hays is a junior and EP. You can find TCHTS at most O’Rourke is a senior. “At school, TCHTS formed a little over a year ago, but “Half the battle of starting a band is getting people who are going Kulasik believes they should have started it long local rock venues, such as Live 59, we’re not treated a whole lot to be committed, but with this group of guys that is not a problem at The Lighthouse, The Korova and differently,” said Salavitch. ago. “We’ve all known of each other, we’ve all all,” said Kulasik. been playing music so long and we all have such many others. They’ve even been Hays, Salavitch and O’Rourke Of course, it’s also hard for bands to gain fans when they first form, offered a spot at this year’s Festivus met in their Jazz band class at similar interests that it just made sense to,” he said. but TCHTS started out with a supportive group of friends to attend Besides Thomas, all of the members of TCHTS at Congress Theater with Emmure, school and formed the band in every show. Kulasik believes that in terms of their fan base, things Iwrestledabearonce, Born of Osiris September 2009. One day at school, attended LHS and knew of each other before really started to pick up in during fall of last year and they’ve been actually forming the band. and Chelsea Grin. Hays glanced at his history book, enjoying more and more crowd energy at shows. “After [Mark and I] came up titled Modern Day History, and Why The Captain Hates the Sea? with the idea and formed the band, replaced the word “history” with What They’re Doing Now everything fell into place and “kids.” Moravek, Kulasik and Rodriguez were browsing TCHTS is currently unsigned, but the guys would love to change the internet one day when they stumbled upon a we haven’t stopped since,” said The other members agreed on the continued on page 5 continued on page 6 6continued from page 5 name Modern day Kids and six months later, continued from page 6 7 Salavitch asked his long-time friend Stimpson to all about our social media right now,” said Stimpson. At Battle of the join MdK. With that, the band was on its way to local shows, an impressive amount of fans come out to the becoming a huge success.