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Happening NOW•Jostens: Representative will visit before and after school and during lunch periods today to take graduation cap and gown orders•Speech: Oral interp Orange and Black Tournament 2:30 p.m. today at WHS and at Rough Rider Tournament Saturday at Roosevelt; debate at Des Moines, Iowa, Roosevelt High School today and Saturday•Play: “The Emperor’s New Clothes” 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Saturday in auditorium•Cheer and Dance: State Meet 11 a.m. Saturday at Watertown Civic Arena•Cross Country: State Meet 3 p.m. Saturday at Broadland Creek Golf Course in Huron•Volleyball: JV and varsity vs. Rapid City Central and Stevens 3 p.m. Saturday at Stevens •Shortened School Day: 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday to accommodate teacher in-service at WHS

Lunch Time at WHS•Today’s lunch: Grilled cheese•À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and beef burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings•Young Democrats: Will meet at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday in A-122—new members welcome.

Other Reminders•School: Will begin at 7:30 a.m. and dismiss at 12:30 p.m. Monday at WHS due to teacher in-service. No NOW will be published.•ASVAB: Testing will be adminis-tered at 1:15 p.m. Monday in E-121 at WHS. Register today in the coun-soling center to take the free test.•Warrior Zone: Deal of the month is Warrior blankets for $29.99.

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and Carson HerbertAssistant Editor: . . . . . . . Sydney ArringtonStaff: Shemles Megosha, Megan Rose, Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli, Rachel Konrad, Natalie MeyerEditor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . Jack NachtigalManaging Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . Lizzie SpierAdviser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth

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By Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli and Rachel KonradCheer and Dance Warrior competition cheer and dance team members will be headed to the state meet Saturday at the Watertown Civic Arena.

In Class AA, all 16 schools will compete in both events.

Competition will begin at

11 a.m. on Saturday morning. Admission is $10 for adults and $6 for students.

The Warriors will first per-form at 11:51 a.m. in hip-hop dance, at 12:31 p.m. in cheer, 1:11 p.m. in jazz dance, and 2:57 p.m. in pom dance.

Fan buses will leave at 8:15 a.m. for pre-registered stu-dents. Register and pay $10 to ride today during lunch in the

commons, while limited seats remain.Cross Country

The state cross country meet will take place Saturday at Broadland Creek Golf Course in Huron.

The state meet begins at 1 p.m. in Class B. The girls AA Race begins at 3 p.m., and the boys AA Race at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Huron.

By Lizzie Spier

Throughout this week, 324 WHS students have been honored for their outstanding academic achievement.

Students with a 3.5 GPA and above during both first and second semester of the 2013-14 academic year were honored—seniors on Tuesday, juniors on Wednesday and sophomores on Thursday. Student speakers for each class were senior Jacob Noordermeer, junior Carter Huber and sophomore Skylar Moen. The spe-cial guest speaker for all three ceremonies was Tamara Jerke-Liesinger, a graduate from USD that has a career in human services who spoke about students’ future plans.

Below, see a list of honorees. Some students, whose parents checked school publication pri-vacy upon registration, are not listed.Seniors 4.0Madison Barthelman, Cole Benson, Taryn Burke, Danielle Conklin, Andrew Heck, Coryn Johnson, Elise Klarenbeek, John Larsen, Emily Lehan, Austin Lindeman, Marissa Monen, Blaine Nelson, Anna Nichols, Sarah Nolan, Jacob Noordermeer, Michael Norland, Enelda Peralta, Alyssa Pierson, Rochelle Ramharter, Samantha Schreck, Alex Schumacher, Haley Severson, Katherine Simko, Sam Sisavanh, Cassidy Skorczewski, Alexandra Stoltz, Cole Uithoven, Fedor Voznyuk and Taylor Wiley.Seniors 3.5-3.99Madison Aasen, Nathaniel Ackert, Ian Ailts, Kimberly Arevalo, Aveen Aware, Caitlin Beacom, Keilah Beck, Jordan Blades, Cayla Buckman, Jordan DeBoer, Carly DeSmet, Kim Duong, Hayley Durland, Megan Feerick, Jacob Fenner, Nicholas Gerdes, Jennifer Graves, April Hanisch, Jordan Hanisch, Kevin Hanson, Alyssa Hewitt, Trent Hunking, Rachel Konrad, John Kuehn, Autumn Lerew, Mariah Madsen, Ei Mar, Nicole Mashek, Isabelle Masloski, Hope Maunders, Deven Melillo, Kylie Minske, Radovan Mirkovic, Devotha Nabayaki, Zachary Needham, Jon Nguyen, Mataya Otten, Madisen Owan, Lexus Paulson, Jade Peterson, Karina Ramirez, Halle Randall, Kasey

Randall, Jacob Rost, Linara Safarova, Alyssa Schmidt, Walker Schmidt, Connor Schneider, Collin Sorensen, Heaven Stinger, Casandra Stoick, Olivia Torbert, Rebecca VandeBraak, Rachel VanSchaick, Cooper Voigt, Tanner Waddell, Savanna Walter, Jenna Warwick, Lynea White, Chelsea Wiese and Nicole Zirpel.Juniors 4.0 Jesse Belrose, Ashleigh Chov, Alex Derr, Logan Eckhoff, Solomon FastHorse, Carly Hannestad, Caryn Hazard, Isaac Hernandez-Garcia, Carter Huber, Bridger Irons, Haley Jahnke, Hannah Johnson, Alec Kray, Annalee Leggett, Colton Levitt, Kelsie Massman, Morgan Moe, Alex Nelson, Olivia Nieman, Hunter O’Connor, Savannah Poe, Cassidy Rodman, Nicholas Rovang, Isaac Smith, Madison Wiley and Brendan Wilson. Juniors 3.5-3.99 Angel Akurienne, Kate Anderson, Eden Bekele, Margaret Bowie, Ryan Christie, Caitlyn Christy, Hayley Cress, Samantha Curry, Alexsiy Davidyuk, Michael Deaver, Garrett Ellis, Matthew Farniok, Jared Fox, Abigail Freese, Gatnoor Gatnoor, Justin Glenn, Leah Glovich, Abigail Grinager, Diane Haiar, Jack Hammond, Dana Hein, Mackenzie Hellwig, Austin Hoflock, Inna Ignato, Allison Jensen, Aaron Johnson, Kaylee Johnson, Samantha Johnson, Gracelynn Jones, Kennedy Kampa, Selame Kassaye, Jamie Kayl, Colewyn Knoblich, Marshall Langley,

(Cont. on back—THREE EVENTS)

Cheer, dance, cross country state meets set for Saturday

Photo by Maddie WileyHONORED—Junior Logan Eckhoff receives his academic letter from guest speaker Tamara Jerke-Liesinger Wednesday in the commons.

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New York doctor has Ebola virus

By Tony PughMcClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT)

WASHINGTON — A New York City physician who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa has become the nation’s latest Ebola patient.

Dr. Craig Spencer 33, is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center, which is one of eight hospitals in New York state that were recently designated to treat Ebola patients.

Spencer was trans-ported to the hospital Thursday morning by a Hazardous Material Tactical Unit of the city fire department.

Three of Spencer’s friends, including his fiancee, will now be quarantined for 21 days—the incubation period for Ebola infec-tion—after being in contact with Spencer while he was potentially contagious.

In a Thursday evening news briefing, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the hospital staff was “battle tested” and well prepared for an Ebola patient.

He said the city had been preparing for months for a possible Ebola case and that New Yorkers “are not at all at risk” for catching the deadly virus.

Officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were already at the hospi-tal when Spencer arrived, said CDC Director Tom Frieden. They were inspecting the hospital’s newly constructed Ebola treatment unit, which is a self-contained space with a dedicated blood lab.

“They were prepared just for this moment,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who urged city residents not to panic because Ebola is a tough virus to contract, requiring direct contact with body fluids of an infected, contagious person.

Science Friday

WHS hosts oral interp contest todayBy Sydney Arrington

Novice oral interp team members competed in an after-school event Tuesday at Brandon Valley High School.

Junior Jazmin Sanchez placed first and second in two rounds and freshman Rue Tereda first in both

rounds of poetry. Team members will next

host an event here at WHS today, the Orange and Black Interp Festival.

“We are pretty excited to be hosting 17 schools, and we are all getting our sea-sons off and running,” coach Michelle McIntyre said.

SportsEditor’s note: The Warrior Q & A is a weekly profile of Warrior students with the goal of helping members of the WHS community come to know each other better. Subjects are chosen by the Student/Activity Leader of the Month Committee at WHS.

Assembled byJack Nachtigal

Q A&

Warrior

A profileof WHSstudents

BoBerke

Junior Studentof the Month

•What are your p lans/dreams for the future? I plan to finish

my schooling and then determine my own future as an entrepreneur.•What is your favorite class this semester? I enjoy American Studies, because it is such a great atmosphere and just awesome.•What is your message to the read-ers of the NOW? Don’t cheat, just work hard.•What inspires you? I am inspired by my family members, including my parents and my grandmother and grandfather.

OliviaNieman

Junior Studentof the Month

•What activities are you involved in at WHS? I am involved in stu-

dent council, SALSA and newspaper. •What are your plans/dreams for the future? I currently want to finish high school and go to college at either the University of Nebraska-Lincoln or Kansas University.•What is your favorite class this semester? I like American Studies. The teachers make it fun and it com-bines my two favorite subjects—his-tory and English.•What is your message to the read-ers of the NOW? Get involved!

Three events this week salute academic excellence at WHS(Cont. from front)MacKenzie Lee, Tiana Leonard, Julia Maas, Madeline Maloney, Alexandar Meh, Mearah Miedema, Lauren Miller, Makayla Montecuollo, Shay Nackerud-Knutson, Taylor Nase, Stephanie Neumeister, Briton Nordmyer, Anna Odens, Spencer Olson, Ashley Paulson, Christopher Person, Cameron Peterson, Arati Rai, Seth Randall, Madison Rietz, Aalayha Robb, Mikaela Rustand, Patrick Saaleephiw, Addison Sannes, Jack Schelhaas, Jake Siewert, Jacob Skogstad, Carly Smith, Hannah Smith, Ty Smith, Peyton Stenzel, Megan Stoneall, Erin Thompson, MaKayla Uithoven, Brooke Weber, Molly Weberg, Joseph Wehrkamp and Lloyd Zhu.

Sophomores 4.0: Taylor Anderson, Alyssa Badger, Bailey Banwart, Kathryn Barker, Sarah Bell, Kylie Bertram, Jade Bolin, Taylor Bonestroo, Kaitlyn Bulick, Anthony Campbell, Skylar Close-Smith, Norman Englert, Kaitlyn Fischer, Joshua Garry, Isaac Goeman, Shayna Goens, Emera Gurath, Brendan Hansen, Natalie Johnson, Zechava Kreiselman, Lily Larsen, Erika Lehan, Jeffrey McKee, Ethan McKinney, Brenna Mullen, Scott Nguyen, Hailey Nold, Aaron Oakland, Amber Obenauer, Khina Parsai, Sydney Rodman, Allison Schenkel, Hailie Schock, Phavtha Sengchanch, Jenna Siganos, Surekch Siwakoti, Matthew Stoel, Bradley Struck,

Wasim Tadese, Duong Tran, Daria Turgeon, Emily VanBockern, Madison Warner, Lucas Wienk, Brandon Wilson and Grace Wylie.Sophomores 3.5-3.99:Owen Alvine, Feven Aregay, Alexander Barron, Nolan Behr, Calli Bordeaux, Landon Carda, Morgan Carl, Spencer DeLange, Rochelle Dempsey, Ariana Ellis, Annie Farmer, Chase Flickema, Jaren Fountain, Elliot Hartwig, Matthew Hedeen, Carson Herbert, Zachary Heupel, Sergey Ignato, Kadesia Jones, Lindsey Jones, Shelby Jones, Kelsi Kearney, Isabel Kinzer, Ryan Koch, Maxwell Larsen, Jakob Larson, Ryan Le, Kyle LeBon, Andrey Levisay, Abbygail Lint, Johnathon Loofe, Lyric Lott,

Trevor Lund, Kassandra Lynn, Ethan Masching, Sarah McMurphy, Skylar Moen, Leela Mongar, Ryan Morgans, Jonah Nelson, Krista Olson, Elizabeth Ortega, Cesar Palacios, Ethan Person, Jacob Peterson, Keanu Phumipraphat, Calvin Poderzay, Pratima Poudyal, Sydney Raabe, Akash Rai, Dhiraj Rai, Collin Rasmussen, Katie Rezac, RemiMae Rice, Breazia Richardson, Raquel Rivera, Quinton Robertson, Anna Roetman, Kadi Roozenboom, Wendy Rosales-Corado, Alexandra Rote, Liam Schneider, Lincoln Shafer, Maham Shah, Taylor Shimitz, Daithen Simonsen, Adam Stammer, Brooklyn Stekl, Virsaviya Strizheus, Joel Swenson, Jessica Taylor and Kimpong Ueng.

LeadershipTeacher Marc Murren (right) introduces U.S. Senator John Thune to government students Thursday in the Little Theatre.

Photo byConner Schneider