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PROM MANIA IHACA SENIOR pg. 4 RELAYS SUPPLEMENT pg. 16 pg. 9 CONSPIRACY THEORIES page 6 June 9, 2011 • Estd. 1892 • Vol. 119 • No.8• Published Monthly • www.ihstattler.com • Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY, 14850 • FREE NEW GYM SHOUT OUT TO THE IHS BOYS BUDGET CONSTRUCTION VARSITY LACROSSE TEAM FOR AN CUTS DÉJÀ UNDERWAY AMAZING SEASON ET S GO ITTLE ED By ARYEH ZAX . L ’ L R ! VU Based on the towering be- By SIENA SCHICKEL hemoth made of large concrete blocks, the loud noise and large Last year, the proposed signs of construction crews, budget cuts hit IHS hard, and the detours through the threatening to cut back on main IHS parking lots, all IHS PHOTO/PROVIDED pretty much everything: mu- students should know about sic, sports, and classes. No the new gym-building project. student would’ve escaped the The building, constructed on effects of the new proposed what was once Deebs Field, is budget, and nearly everyone projected to be finished dur- was upset about one thing or ing the fall. However, by the another. Most of the proposed looks of it, the building will cuts were saved because of most likely be completed dur- the financial help from frus- ing December of the upcom- trated parents. Many modi- ing school year. fied sports teams were cut, The gym will have three but luckily the Varsity teams main parts: a spacious, regular were spared. Music groups gym area (which will be a little like Jazz Band, Madrigals, smaller than the current gym), and Pit Orchestra were saved a five thousand square foot by generous donations. workout room, and an inter- This year, the budget has active section featuring such tiptoed around the music and continued on p. 5 sports programs, only threat- ening programs for smaller groups. Proposed cuts in- ISSISSIPPI LOOD REAKS AVOC clude combining jobs within M F W H the district to create a smaller number of them, utilizing By PAUL STOVER that melted from North Dakota and fects on the states it has hit, resulting technology and more efficient South Dakota has streamed down in billions of dollars needed to repair systems to have one or two Over the past month, Mississippi into the Mississippi River, adding to the damage. Due to farmland being people doing more than what has experienced some of the worst the floods. These effects have caused damaged the most, many crop prices, three or four people would’ve flooding in over a century. Two large five states to be affected by the flood: such as corn, have risen dramatical- done. Cuts also affect Eng- storms have poured massive amounts Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Il- ly. The flood has also left thousands lish for Speakers of Other of rain into the Mississippi River, linois and Louisiana. homeless; citizens had to leave their Languages (ESOL) teachers, causing extreme flooding. Snow The flood has had detrimental ef- homes to seek shelter in others areas librarians, and security staff, that were not affected by the flood. among others. It’s debatable Rural areas have received the whether or not transferring largest amount of damage because the cuts to areas where angry PHOTO/PROVIDED The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parents are less likely to send (USACE) believed rural areas would a barrage of emails is ethical, face less dramatic damages than cit- but nevertheless, this was the ies, like New Orleans. Consequently, strategy that has proven to the USACE has been controlling bring up fewer complaints. flooding in many rural areas by There has been far less pub- means of floodgates. Residents of licity about the budget cuts these rural areas were informed that this year compared to last their town would be flooded slight- year. ly, giving the residents time to pack Last year, middle school up their belongings and seek shelter and high school students elsewhere. attended one of the board In panic, some residents built meetings to protest the bud- a large ring of dirt around their get’s effects on the music pro- house so that their homes wouldn’t grams. It was so crowded in be flooded and destroyed. The resi- York Lecture Hall that many dents reasoned that the cost to build people were sitting on the the barrier around their house would floor or steps, and there were continued on p. 5 continued on p. 5 June 9, 2011 Editorial: US FAILS TO EMBRACE GREEN TECHNOLOGY Editor-in-Chief The energy policies of gimes in many parts of battles for their own inter- The Obama admin- Jade Fang ‘11 [email protected] Editor-in-Chief the United States under the world, such as Saudi ests and very few respond istration wasted a valu- Ingrid Sydenstricker the Obama administra- Arabia, and domestically to the larger changes oc- able opportunity, rather News Editor ‘12 tion remain very short promote the immoral di- curring worldwide. The than offering a bold ini- Larry Ge ‘11 [email protected] sighted and are ineffi- version of food into bio- implementation of green tiative to convert the US [email protected] cient in responding to fuel at a time when there energy technology is now to green energy in a few News Editor the major changes taking is hunger worldwide. The occurring much faster in years and promote the Features Editor Mansi Vohra ‘13 place in the world. The US has been unable to places such as Germany economy through em- Rehan Dadi ‘11 [email protected] US promotes outdated build efficient mass transit and China. It seems that ployment. When Obama [email protected] energy practices that pro- such as bullet trains. The the center of green tech was elected, Americans Features Editor duce pollution and cause government has failed to may no longer be the US; were eager for a change Centerspread Editor Medeea Poperscu ‘13 Ingrid Sydenstricker [email protected] global warming. It sup- dramatically improve en- China leads the world in from the Bush adminis- ‘12 ports dangerous offshore ergy efficiency in homes, the inexpensive produc- tration’s oil friendly and [email protected] Centerspread Editor oil drilling that led to the offices, and vehicles. tion of solar and other warlike policies. For the Kelsey Shang ‘12 BP disaster last year, and Its recycling programs, green technologies, while first time in its recent Arts & Entertainment Editor [email protected] unsafe technologies such which save energy, lag far Germany is rapidly con- history, the US is lagging Kyle Rothman ‘11 as nuclear power, which behind Japan’s and those verting its strong and ad- behind other nations in [email protected] Arts & Entertainment Editor could lead to major disas- of other countries. vanced economy to green adopting a major new Leo Winters ‘13 ters. Due to America’s oil The politicians in power. These nations will technology. This was the Sports Editor [email protected] addiction, we continue Washington are locked in lead the world in the em- time for a bold move and Geoff Preston ‘11 to support unsavory re- various inconsequential brace of these new tools. Obama missed it. [email protected] Sports Editor Siena Schickel ‘13 Penultimate and [email protected] Back Page Editor THE 9-11 MYSTERY Kelsey Shang ‘12 Penultimate and [email protected] Back Page Editor By BEN KOMOR Neither did the planes compro- the United States,” complete with Aryeh Zax ‘14 mise the structure of the Towers. anti-aircraft weapons on the roof Copy Editor [email protected] Many of us saw the incident on The WTC construction manager, and an air base two minutes away. Annelise Raymond ‘12 TV: a jet airliner flying low over a as well as the leading engineer, But, somehow, it was hit 80 min- [email protected] Copy Editor city and crashing into a skyscraper both designed the towers with the utes into the foray, in the most Annelise Raymond ‘12 in spectacular fashion. The image impact of a commercial jet-liner vacant area of the Pentagon. This Photography Editors [email protected] was at once horrifying and hysteri- in mind. The former can be seen was the only part of the complex Medeea Popescu ‘13 cal, made all the more poignant by on YouTube saying that it would that had a sprinkler system and Mansi Vohra ‘13 Photography Editors [email protected] Maddie Brown ‘12 the fact that this spectacle wasn’t a be “like a pencil poking holes in a had recently been upgraded to be Emma Preston ‘13 TV show: Americans were dying, mosquito net” (not seriously com- especially bomb-resistant. Layout Editor [email protected] and many more would brutally promising the skeleton). The pilot of the plane targeting Anna Gill ‘11 die by the end of the day. Other questions surround the the Pentagon, Hani Honjour, was a [email protected] Layout Editor We had been attacked, but by collapse. For instance, Nano-ther- notoriously bad pilot (he failed all Caroline Estill ‘12 whom and why? Our government mite, a mix of thermite particles his Arizona flight school courses). Webpage Editor [email protected] tells us that 19 Al-Qaeda members that the military uses for bombs, Yet he managed to execute a ma- Yuqi Yang ‘11 hijacked four commercial airlin- was conclusively found in the neuver that even the best fighter [email protected] Webpage Editor ers and attempted to fly them into wreckage - akin to finding dyna- pilots would find potentially im- Sunny Joo ‘12 four American landmarks: World mite at Ground Zero. It would possible to perform: a 320-degree Fact Checker and [email protected] Trade Center Tower One, World explain the hundreds of witnesses turn while descending several Fundraiser Chair Trade Center Tower Two, The who heard multiple explosions thousand feet (in a giant commer- Julie Stover ‘11 Fundraiser Chair [email protected] Khalid Vrede ‘13 Pentagon, and The White House; and saw flashes of light as the tow- cial plane) and then flying inches [email protected] all but the last were successful.