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Hello! Thank you for picking up our first issue of Uncut- or if you’re reading this from online, we’re happy to have you! We are so excited to embark on the journey that will be this year. While the world right now is bringing up many unknowns, we hope Uncut is a place of escape for you. Our team has nearly doubled in size this year, and we can’t wait to see the work our new (and old) members do. If you have suggestions or an article you wrote that you want to see published in an issue of Uncut, please email either of us! We want the newspaper to be a creative outlet for all Legacy students. Lastly, we hope the most difficult thing this year is the name confusion between the two of us. So grab a snack, sit back, and dig into the first issue of Uncut for the 2020 school year.

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A Letter From the Editors

LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL | SPETEMBER 2020| ISSUE 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pg. 6-7: Prom Goes On Written by: Micah Schlittenhardt Juniors and Seniors making the most out of the pandemic.

Pg. 8-9: 2020 Graduation Written by: Katie Baumiller The 2020 Graduation at the Bismarck Community Bowl.

Pg. 10-11: COVID Updates Medical Reports Written by: Casey WalterStudent Opinion Written by: Eden Boone Teacher Opinion Written by: Nick Meyers What’s happening with COVID and how does our school feel about it?

Pg. 12: Connor’s Corner Written by: Connor Bloom The Two Party system only serves to divide Americans and prevents change.

Pg. 13: Mulan Review Written by: Brynn Miller Comparing the remake to the original and stating an opinion.

Pg. 14-15: Soccer Written by: Derek Schlittenhardt For the first time in program history, the varsity squad is ranked the top seed.

Pg. 16: Pumpkin Cookie Recipe


Hello! Thank you for picking up our first issue of Uncut- or if you’re reading this from online, we’re happy to have you! We are so excited to embark on the journey that will be this year. While the world right now is bringing up many unknowns, we hope Uncut is a place of escape for you. Our team has nearly doubled in size this year, and we can’t wait to see the work our new (and old) members do. If you have suggestions or an article you wrote that you want to see published in an issue of Uncut, please email either of us! We want the newspaper to be a creative outlet for all Legacy students. Lastly, we hope the most difficult thing this year is the name confusion between the two of us. So grab a snack, sit back, and dig into the first issue of Uncut for the 2020 school year.

Enjoy!

Amber and EmberCoeditors

[email protected]@bpsapps.org

A Letter From the Editors


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pg. 6-7: Prom Goes On Written by: Micah Schlittenhardt Juniors and Seniors making the most out of the pandemic.

Pg. 8-9: 2020 Graduation Written by: Katie Baumiller The 2020 Graduation at the Bismarck Community Bowl.

Pg. 10-11: COVID Updates Medical Reports Written by: Casey WalterStudent Opinion Written by: Eden Boone Teacher Opinion Written by: Nick Meyers What’s happening with COVID and how does our school feel about it?

Pg. 12: Connor’s Corner Written by: Connor Bloom The Two Party system only serves to divide Americans and prevents change.

Pg. 13: Mulan Review Written by: Brynn Miller Comparing the remake to the original and stating an opinion.

Pg. 14-15: Soccer Written by: Derek Schlittenhardt For the first time in program history, the varsity squad is ranked the top seed.

Pg. 16: Pumpkin Cookie Recipe


Brynn MillerLifestyle, Review

Casey Waltar Informative

Connor BloomDesign, Opinion

Ember Beitelspacher Co-Editor

Ainsley SabooHead of Design


Brynn MillerLifestyle, Review

Casey Waltar Informative

Connor BloomDesign, Opinion

Ember Beitelspacher Co-Editor

Ainsley SabooHead of Design


Eden BooneStudent Life

Amber Kaiser Co-Editor

Micah Schlittenhardt Community

Nick Meyers Sociology

Derek Schlittenhardt Sports

Katie BaumillerSecretary, Lifestyle


One of the many things ripped away from this spring, up-perclassmen were disappointed to have prom erased from their calendars. However, some students kept the spirit alive by holding their own “backyard proms”. From string-ing Christmas lights across the garage to doing hair and makeup in the comfort of their own homes, these juniors and seniors got creative in order to recreate the magic of the prom there never was.

At their backyard prom in early August, Faith Stelter and her friends had a prom experience unlike any other. The group dressed in full attire and trekked out to rural Bis-marck for a country prom, complete with line dancing in a carefully decorated garage. “It was nice because you didn’t have to stick to one thing. We had dancing, a basketball game going, tons of food, and even our own playlist” said Faith. “Our playlist was better than an actual DJ’s, any-ways.”

Gabrielle Langer also hosted a friend prom at her home in mid-August. The lineup for the night included pictures at the capital, a fancy dinner complete with cheesecake and crème brûlée, a dance in the living room, and a fire after. “It was nice to be able to dance with friends in a no-pres-sure situation,” said Gabby.

Prom Goes OnMicah Schlittenhardt

LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL | SEPTEMBER 2020 | ISSUE 1


Though these weren’t typical high school proms, these upperclassmen were able to share the experience of fellowship with their friends, even in a nontraditional setting. “It was really fun”, said Gabby. “I would love to do it again in the future.” All around, it is evident these small settings created a bonding experience for these groups, unlike anything they had experienced before. Who knows? Maybe some will be substituting a tradi-tional prom setting for a smaller group prom even in a world post-pandemic. Regardless, these proms were a bonding event equally (if not more) memorable as “the real deal” that the classes of 2021 and 2022 wait at bated breath for this spring.

2020 GraduationKatie Baumiller

After a chaotic school year, the Senior Class of 2020 was permitted to have their graduationceremony at the Bismarck Community Bowl on May, 24th. Each graduate was seated six feet apart from another and was permitted two graduation tickets.

Fortunately, enough speeches were allowed to take place on graduation day. The speech made by the Class of 2020 President, Haiden Peterson (pictured left) began with her saying how honored she was to be representing such a bright class. Haiden then asked those in attendance to take a moment of remembrance for Jaide Tosseth who was in the 2020 class before she passed away her freshman year. She continued to say how kind and encourag-ing Jaide was, how both her friends and

family missed her dearly, and that she was sure that Jaide was with them on their graduation day.

Haiden went on to say how she was tempted to rewrite her speech to how the stopping of the school had changed their lives forever. Instead, she wrote, “That this one tragic event that led to the loss of an integral part of our high school experience, does not define our class.” Her voice was confident as she spoke again, “We leave Legacy High School not with a reputation of missing out but by reflecting that we made every moment that


2020 GraduationKatie Baumiller

After a chaotic school year, the Senior Class of 2020 was permitted to have their graduationceremony at the Bismarck Community Bowl on May, 24th. Each graduate was seated six feet apart from another and was permitted two graduation tickets.

Fortunately, enough speeches were allowed to take place on graduation day. The speech made by the Class of 2020 President, Haiden Peterson (pictured left) began with her saying how honored she was to be representing such a bright class. Haiden then asked those in attendance to take a moment of remembrance for Jaide Tosseth who was in the 2020 class before she passed away her freshman year. She continued to say how kind and encourag-ing Jaide was, how both her friends and

family missed her dearly, and that she was sure that Jaide was with them on their graduation day.

Haiden went on to say how she was tempted to rewrite her speech to how the stopping of the school had changed their lives forever. Instead, she wrote, “That this one tragic event that led to the loss of an integral part of our high school experience, does not define our class.” Her voice was confident as she spoke again, “We leave Legacy High School not with a reputation of missing out but by reflecting that we made every moment that


we had count”.

Once the speeches had concluded and all of the graduates had walked on stage, received their diplomas, and their tassels were switched from right to left the ceremony had ended. Due to the pandemic this year the graduates were not allowed to throw their graduation caps into the air, unlike every year before them. Like most times that there are rules, they were broken with most of the grad-uates tossing their caps high into the sky as a way of saying one final goodbye to high school, their childhood, and the person that they used to be.

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• Fever or chills• Cough• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing• Fatigue (Light headed, dizzy, or very tired)• Muscle or body aches• Headache These are just some of the symptoms. It is important to know that flu season is getting here, as well as a common cold, and fever. Covid-19 has similar symptoms to the flu and the common cold. If you are worried about it being Covid-19, stay home and get tested.

• Bismarck VA clinic• Sanford medical center• Sanford Seventh & broadway clinic

Above are places where you can get tested in Bismarck. If you have health insurance, the test is free and you don’t have to pay out of pocket. Need any more information? https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#cases_totalcasesThis link will take you to the CDC website to find out how you can stop the spread.

• New loss of taste or smell• Sore throat• Congestion or runny nose• Nausea or vomiting• Diarrhea

• Fort Yates Indian Health Service Hospital

• CHI St. Alexius Health Urgent Care• Linton Hospital

Symptoms of COVID-19

• Below is a graph displaying how some of Legacy’s students feel about hybrid scheduling. Some of these students also gave comments on their opinions!

• “Lunch is a mess, there is basically no social distancing.” - Anonymous

• “I feel that it is confusing with the A and B days on top of the normal schedule.” - Madison Schaefbauer

• “They are doing a good job under the circumstances that they have.” - Anonymous

Research by Eden Boone

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The Other Side: How Teachers Are Affected By This Great Switch and How to Help

By: Nick Meyers

The level of serendipity that has graced us for our return to school hasn’t failed

us as students but has been a tremendous twist for teachers. The stress and triple the workload that has been oh so graciously gifted upon all students and teachers this year may be the way things have to be for now. However, homework isn’t the main concern of the loop that this has thrown at teachers; the interaction is.

When I inquired with a handful of teachers, I asked the question: “How do you feel about the distance/hybrid shift and how has that affected your teaching style/methodology?” The main response I received was the fact that it’s a tough gamble to get to know a student that is fully distanced or when you hardly get to see those students. Let alone get them to see your whole student body. Some teachers have said that their greatest loss has been conversation.

The one thing that we’ve been granted is the loss of the human aspect, though that screen is a burden that our teachers must put the content of which they’ve dele-gated themselves to teach as the priority and save our more vital interactions for face to face. Those who are distanced will never get the same experience, they’ll never get that privilege that we do. There are, of course, pros to being in the distanced field, the main pro is: having pretty much full control over your tasks, which may be a greater privilege. However soon we’ll all be able to bridge that gap further and get more con-versation that doesn’t particularly match our content, which really allows us to bond as people. Teachers are aware of this, they crave that greater interaction.

Today’s ‘Get to know you’ activities have become far more important, dare to say pertinent, to all classroom cultures than they used to be. We saw them as monotonous in the first weeks of school throughout our years. Truth is: this is where we as students should dump our passion into these things and get a better definition of who you are as a person so that our proctors, teachers, and maybe mentors, soon to be, can truly get to know you. Better yet, help you. It’s bound to personal determination, sincerity, persistence, but most importantly patience. That’s the line we must cross within each of us. Hindsight is vibrant, but human interaction is integral to become vibrant within and out of life.

The main takeaway is this: “How can we all help each other?” This is how we get acquitted from the struggles we may face in the times where it’s tough to get a hold of teachers and everyone has their own objective. The more we can help one another as students and relieve our teachers to some stress, to begin using the student body to help the student body in a means to help the teachers, is to start truly asking each other the question:

How can I help?


Connor’s CornerPolitical Parties are Stupid

With election season in full swing, the two candidates from their respec-tive parties will duel it out until November to see who will lead our na-tion for the next four years. But it seems like something has gone terribly wrong, as both candidates have near-record disapproval ratings among Americans, is it finally time to re-evaluate the two-party system? The two-party system is an unwritten rule, the same two parties have been nearly unopposed on the ballots since the 1850s, with the most recent exception being John Hospers in 1972 from the Libertarian Party, but that was due to a faithless elector, not because he had any significant number of votes. If you want to see an actual third party success, you have to go back to 1968 when notorious racist George Wallace won 5 states in the Deep South and got 46 electoral votes. This doesn’t seem like a huge problem, but it basically forces us to choose between two terrible candidates, and usually, they’re the most extreme candidates from their respective parties. People with different views are either forced to vote for a party that will have no effect and effectively be wasted or vote for the party they despise but agree with the most. With the two-party system, people aren’t truly represented. Even George Washington saw this coming, warning against this by saying “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.” In conclusion, the two-party system completely destroys the point of having a republic in the first place, people aren’t accurately represented in a fair manner. But of course, in the end, this is my opinion. I encour-age you to look at the third parties and see which one you agree with the most. Hopefully, in the future, we can have a more perfect union with more representation of different beliefs in the United States


Connor’s CornerPolitical Parties are Stupid

With election season in full swing, the two candidates from their respec-tive parties will duel it out until November to see who will lead our na-tion for the next four years. But it seems like something has gone terribly wrong, as both candidates have near-record disapproval ratings among Americans, is it finally time to re-evaluate the two-party system? The two-party system is an unwritten rule, the same two parties have been nearly unopposed on the ballots since the 1850s, with the most recent exception being John Hospers in 1972 from the Libertarian Party, but that was due to a faithless elector, not because he had any significant number of votes. If you want to see an actual third party success, you have to go back to 1968 when notorious racist George Wallace won 5 states in the Deep South and got 46 electoral votes. This doesn’t seem like a huge problem, but it basically forces us to choose between two terrible candidates, and usually, they’re the most extreme candidates from their respective parties. People with different views are either forced to vote for a party that will have no effect and effectively be wasted or vote for the party they despise but agree with the most. With the two-party system, people aren’t truly represented. Even George Washington saw this coming, warning against this by saying “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.” In conclusion, the two-party system completely destroys the point of having a republic in the first place, people aren’t accurately represented in a fair manner. But of course, in the end, this is my opinion. I encour-age you to look at the third parties and see which one you agree with the most. Hopefully, in the future, we can have a more perfect union with more representation of different beliefs in the United States


Is Mulan Worth Watching?Brynn Miller

Mulan (2020) is the recreation of the 1998 original. It is about a young woman who disguises herself as a male and goes off to war in place of her father. On September 4, the live-action adaptation of Mulan came out. It was originally supposed to be released March 27, but got delayed. Instead, it’s not being released theatrically and went on Disney+. Howev-er, there is a $30 access fee to watch the movie. As decent as it was, I don’t think it’s worth spending that much over. Mulan will come out for free on Disney+ on December 4. This movie featured incredible fight scenes and beautiful land-scapes, but many changes were made from the original. Characters were removed and added, songs from the original were excluded, and changes to the plotline were also present. For example, Mulan’s sidekick Mushu was taken out. This was due to storytelling purposes as well as because Mushu did not accurately portray what the dragon represents in Chinese culture. With taking him out though, a lot of the humor also disappeared. Laughs aren’t everything though, because Disney did an okay job on other parts. For instance, the acting was pretty good and all of the people who were cast did a commendable job with their roles. Disney actually featured an all-Asian cast. However, while Disney did do a respectable job with representation in the cast a lot of the off-screen film crew is white. This is not appropriate. While this is already enough for me to not want to like the movie Mulan, I will say that the scenery was aesthetically pleasing. The fight scenes were also great. The controversy for Mulan. though, doesn’t end at representation. Parts of the film were shot in Xinjiang, China. This is where Muslims are being held in internment camps and are being subjected to human rights abuses. One of the overseers of many internment camps was thanked by Disney in the credits. Yikes. Another reason to avoid watching Mulan is because Liu Yifei, who plays Mulan, expressed support of the Hong Kong police system in 2019. With all of the controversy surrounding Mulan as well as it just being a mid-tier movie, I do not recommend watching it.

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Saber Soccer on TopBy Derek Schlittenhardt

For the first time in program history, the varsity squad is ranked the top seed. Sitting at a respectable 4-0-2 record at the conclusion of the first half of the season, the Sabers are tied for top dogs in the WDA. With Century alongside us, and Minot right behind, we’re in for a competitive and interesting second half to the season. The Saber’s captain, TJ Seidel, has been on a massive hot streak from the start of the season. He’s hungry for the state title, alongside Coach Tom Marcis, and the rest of the varsity squad. We interviewed him for an update on the remainder of the season, how you can support, and how we’re adapting to injury and COVID. Starting with the elephant in the room, I asked, “How has the team adapted to losing players over COVID and injuries?” TJ responded, “We’re going to overcome this, we will beat teams without Gabe, and we’re going to show resilience throughout these next few weeks.” Next, I ask, “Being short on players, do you think we’ll still have a shot at making it to state?” He replied, “One-hundred percent. Rightnow, we’re sitting at the top of the tables, so state’s in reach.”TJ being a senior, along with 10 other varsity players graduating, I asked, “Are you excited and hopeful for the future of the program?” He answered, “Definitely, the program’s heading in the right direc-tion. We’ve been winning games, and we got a great group of younger players coming up.” Lastly, I asked, “In what ways can our school support the team until state?” He responded, “Just come out and be at the games. That’s about the best you can do.” Senior captions Lucas Weigel, TJ Seidel, and Nick Burgess are a testament to the program they have helped build. With team community stronger than ever before, it’s clear their charisma and positive outlooks have a lasting impact on their teammates.


With Gabe Saah out for two weeks relating to COVID, I shot him a quick interview on how the team will have to adjust to win the next few games without him. My first question to him, “How will the team have to adapt by los-ing you for 2 weeks?” He answered, “I believe we have a lot of talented and hardworking kids who can step up and fill the cap. It takes a lot of courage as freshman or JV players to fill in the role, but these kids have what it takes to play at the varsity level. It’s unfortunate to be out for 2 weeks, but I trust in my team and my coaches. I know the boys can get the job done without me.” Next, I ask him, “How will this affect our team? How can we move forward from here and continue to play our game?” His reply is, “My absence will affect the team in the midfield, because my style of play has helped the team keep a perfect balance between the midfield and defense. My role is to both defend and attack and if I’m not on the field I feel it’ll affect the team’s ability to score and defend. Yes, we can move forward from this and still be successful. We just need to focus on what’s in front of us, which is the remainder of the season.” And finally, my last question was answered by Dylan Ellingson, “Do you have a message for any of our future opponents?” His response, “We’re going to beat you.” With more games to come, we’re in for an exciting finish to the soccer season. A lot can happen in 3 weeks, from a complete change in rankings, to the entire season canceling due to COVID cases. One thing is certain though, the Sabers are prepared. We’re hungry and ready for what-ever comes in our way to get our first state title.

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