Ten-Year Anniversary of 9/11 Prompts Reflection from Students and Teachers
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GoinG clubbin’ dessert dilemma a different style of play after-school activities Give columnist shares possible field hockey team experiences students opportunity to solution to lack of bake a new season with a new coach, pg. 9 explore their passions, pG. 24 sales pG. 29 september 30, 2011 arlinGtonian • volume 75, issue 2 1650 ridGeview rd, UA, oh 43221 upper arlinGton hiGh school A New Horizon Ten-year anniversary of 9/11 prompts reflection from students and teachers www.arlingtonian.com SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 arlingtonian • Volume 75, issue 2 1650 ridgeView rd., UA, OH 43221 upper arlington high school coVer and contents design By eliZaBeth tZAGOURNIS and kate magill, coVer PHOTO By audrey hall, some content courtesy asne/ mct campus high school newspaper serVice A PHILOSOPHY OF GIVING: ABSENCE OF ASL: american sign language classes a fund benefitting UAHS students are canceled due to the lack of a teacher. several asl 5and families is rapidly diminishing 7students speak out on why they loved asl and how they TRENDING TOPICS: students give their are planning on continuing their asl education. opinions on news affecting UA NEWEST UA FALL INJURED ATHLETES: COACH TO SPORTS: sports-related injuries for UA 9JOIN UA: 10 photo 11 13 athletes is on the rise; junior field hockey wel- spread features ATHLETE INSIGHTS: cody pfister shares his experience with comes new coach UA bears playing captains tell of injury from england to win team successes and shortcomings TEN YEARS LATER: ZUZU’S NEWS members of the UA VIEW: HEAD 14community share memories 17Zuzu 19LINES of sept. 11, 2001 and why the legacy of ibraheem, former 9/12/01:the day the tragedy lives on in the hearts of us all iraqi citizen, shares after the tragedy, insights of 9/11 headlines that said it all FALL HARRY THE BEAR- FALL TV: POTTER: CLUBS BOOK: FASH- shows 22a letter 24OF UA: 26meet ION: 20 from dumbledore, 27 from the past three UA clubs student council what to wear. show up in new a hogwarts Quiz, are showcased, full presidents, al khat- what not to wear. forms this season the magic lives on list of UA clubs ib and hammel BAKE GAM- STAFF EDITORIAL: SALE ER’S importance of freedom of BLACK 29 VIEW: 30 31speech for students is argued 28 COSTLY CALCU- MARKET: colum- Guest columnist nist proposes solu- compares two LATORS: colum- YAY OR NAY: students vote for or tion for absence of popular video nist shares opinion against current topics bake sales games on costly tech 2 september 30, 2011 arlingtonian arlingtonian wo years ago, on a chilled november night, i visited ground Zero in new york 2011-2012 tcity. at the time, i could just make out the base of what is now the new world trade staff center nestled in the dark abyss beyond me. where the original world trade center once dominated the city skyline, there existed virtually EDITORS nothing. yet, the energy dwelling there on that Editor in Chief winter’s night was enough to fill ground Zero’s victoria slater gaping hole with a mixed ambiance of despair, Managing Editors angst, power, wonder and love. kate magill what occurred at that spot 10 years ago is elizabeth tzagournis beyond human comprehension it was destructive and despicable. it was also a complex demon- WRITING STAFF stration of how the actions of a small few can In Brief Editor affect so many. in retrospect, sept. 11 is a genuine cassie lowery portrayal of resilience: empowering a city, a nation, Sports Editor a world to grow and flourish from fire and ash. emma klebe Features Editor where death and destruction once shattered the abby Godard globe, the tallest building in america, one world Spotlight Editor trade center ‚, reigns in the sky. a waterfall flows. aly Gordon flags ripple in the breeze. and life— joyous, sad such a medium. and it was so powerful that it Last Word Editor and bittersweet — goes on. was in the dust of the wreckage.” olivia miltner death is inevitable. wars are relentless. what touched me most about niekamp’s Staff Writers evil is invincible. yet so also is life, love and virtue. story was her hope that the carpenters of the carly tovell sept. 11 is just another illustration of humanity’s new world trade center will harness human’s katie hosket ability to thrive in the face strength— not combative mattie stevens of adversity. strength, but innocent, in an interview con- natural strength— in their VISUALS STAFF ducted for the spotlight designs. Visual Communication story of this issue, english “that’s all we are on Editor teacher meridith niekamp this planet,” niekamp said. ceri turner reflected on her visit to “it’s not about buildings Photographers graphic By ceri turner ground Zero only a few and planes and bombs and Jacob forquer months after 9/11. she told us that, there, she money, it’s about people. that’s all we are.” audrey hall read the most poignant display of poetry she and our strength is our resilience: our capa- hannah harper had ever seen. bility to transform ash into poetry, evil into good christine Jones “people had been writing poetry with their and death into a willingness to live and move Graphic Artist fingers in the dust on the buildings,” niekamp forward each and every day. erin sankey said in the interview. “it was such a moving way to express your love for common man, leaving BUSINESS STAFF those messages of hope and love and grief in Business Editor abby newlon Advertisement Editor carrington tosino CONTRIBUTORS Adviser caroline hemmerly Arlingtonian is a student-produced newsmagazine published approxi- contains items of unprotected speech as defined by this policy. mately every four weeks by Journalism III-A students at Upper Arlington As a public forum, all letters and columns meeting the above criteria will Printing Representative High School. 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On August 26, Giant remember coming Between expensive school supplies, col- Eagle gave the incentive that the supermar- home and seeing the footage run on TV lege entrance exam fees, athletic fees and ket would take $5 off every student’s meal, over and over again. school lunches, the cost of sending a child and then would donate $5 to the school. it took a while for to high school can still be very expensive. “I thought that [deal] was unbelievably what had happened Because of this, UAHS principal Kip generous,” Greenhill said of the incentive. to hit me.” Greenhill has undertaken a “philosophy With the help of Giant Eagle and the Senior Colin Corna of giving” in order to help every stu- continued profit from the vending ma- dent in need, so that all may be able to chines and other donors, the money has “i remember coming home and my parents experience everything that high school started to come back into the fund.