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April 1Last day to purchase yearbooks; April Fools’ Day

April 2Senior Panoramic Picture

April 3Southern University Shreveport’s

All-Star Senior Day

April 5State Literary Rally;ROTC Adventure Challenge

April 9Due date for applications for 2014-2015 yearbook staff

April 12Prom DanceLSUS Ballroom8-11pm

April 18Good Friday;Due date for 2014-2015 Enterprise Applications

April 20Easter

April 22Earth Day

April 23 Mike Mark Assembly 10:15 Auditorium

April 24 Spring Band Concert 6pm Auditorium

April 25 JROTC Awards Assembly 10:15Auditorium

April 25-May 16EOC Testing

April 30Senior finals begin

April Calendar

Photos from the Gators for Good

Carnivalpage 8

Marijuana legaliza-tion debate reaches

Louisianapages 4 and 5

Carnival raises money for alumBy Aaliyah Watkins

Former Captain Shreve student Kellie Henley was this year’s recipient for the Gators for Good carnival. Henley is a class of 2010 graduate that has lived with cystic fibrosis since the age of three months. Henley is now 22 and has been under-going treatment throughout her entire life. It has been challenging dealing with treatment which requires Henley to avoid contact with people that are sick, or ba-bies and animals that have not had their shots. Cystic fibrosis calls for Henley to take a lot of medication, considering the fact that she no longer has an immune system. However, this did not stop her from going to school and living like a nor-mal teenager.

“I loved Shreve,” Henley said. “Most of the teachers worked with me and every-one was understanding.”

Although this dis-ease has been challenging

for Henley over the many years, she does not let this stop her from living a nor-mal life. In high school, Hen-ley would often get sick and spend two to three weeks in the hospital. When she was not in the hospital, Henley would go to football games and out to eat with friends.

“My parents are my biggest inspiration,” Henley said. “They are very support-ive.”

Throughout her condition, Henley has had and still has many people that are on her side. Along with her parents, Henley’s doctors have been there for her. Henley and her doctors have formed a strong bond and Henley can go to them about anything. Henley has also met another woman that went through the exact same thing she is currently going through. The woman is a little older than her and Henley considers her as a role model.

“When I heard that Shreve was going to be supporting me, I literally

cried,” Henley said. “I was so excited.”

With all the treatments and hospital visits Henley needs, the bills start to add up and can be very expen-

sive. The transplant that Henley needs is over one million dollars. Henley was very grateful and felt honored to be supported by Shreve.

“It is awesome that my high school is going to support me when I haven’t heard from them in years.” Henley said. The carnival raised $10,175.05.

Sophomore Allison Humphries paints a student’s face during the third annual Gators for Good Carnival./PHOTO BY CAMDEN CLARK

By Allison Maiden

Captain Shreve’s Quiz Bowl will be going to Rus-ton in April for a tourna-ment against many other schools where they are going to be quizzed about the subjects that they learn in school, such as Math, Science, and Lit-erature. Questions are a challenge to trivial and common knowledge.

“We compete in three or four tournaments throughout the year.” Sponsor Barbara Dough-ty said.

When Quiz Bowl com-petes in a district tourna-ment, the goal for them is to win and then compete with the winner at the re-gional level.

Quiz Bowl has compet-ed in one district tour-nament so far; they com-peted against C.E. Byrd and Caddo Magnet High school at 8:30am on Sat-urday, Feb. 15, at C.E. Byrd High School. They advanced to regionals at Northwestern.

“Byrd and Magnet are the main schools that we play against when we have a tournament.” Team Captain Senior Camden Clark said.

Quiz Bowl competes mostly against Caddo Parish schools, but often travels to Natchitoches, Minden, and other close cities to compete.

“We split our group into two teams,” Doughty said. “Other schools will usually have more than two, but for right now, we only have two.”

Each team has four members or more and out of those members, there is one student who is the team captain. At Captain Shreve, for team one, Se-nior Camden Clark is the captain and the captain for team two is Senior Dylan Davis.

“We’d love to have anybody join our club,” Doughty said. “We need as many people to join Quiz Bowl as we can.”

By Matthew Tilton Recently, administration announced that

from now students will be required to take the AP test in order to receive the AP desig-nation on their transcripts.

“I think that it is completely and utterly ridiculous. If we do the work for an AP class then we should get the credit for the class. All year we work harder than other classes of the same subject, if we are not going to get credit for this work then why would we put out the effort to complete it.” Senior Mikah Thomas said.

Other students have quite the opposite opinion.

“I think that if you don’t take the AP test then you should not get credit for the [class]. We work all year in a class preparing for the AP test, if we don’t take the test then we are

all just wasting our own time.” Senior Zach Davis said.

The respective AP tests cover material taught throughout the year. Each test is $89. The College Board scores each test from 1-5, with one being the worst. Depending on the school, AP tests with a score of 3 and above earned, colleges will award students with college hours.

“AP is figured into our school performance score,” Counselor Megan Mills said.

Captain Shreve is awarded 100 points for each attempt and 150 points for each score of 3 or above. Administration encourages all stu-dents to take the AP tests available to them.

“That helps us stay competitive in a higher performing and higher achieving school,” Mills said.

Students who enrolled will begin testing after the final deadline for payment, May 1.

AP to be taken off student transcripts Quiz Bowl to compete at regional level

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Editorial BoardWindy Steele.....................Editor-in-ChiefEmily Hughes...................Opinion EditorAllison Maiden................In-Depth EditorAshley Rogers.................In-Depth EditorCarson Mullins.....................News EditorAaliyah Watkins...Entertainment EditorMatthew Tilton...................Sports EditorCamden Clark......................Photo EditorAlexis Spano.............Contributing Editor

Editorial PolicyThe Enterprise is the official newspaper of Captain

Shreve High School. It is produced entirely by the student newspaper staff and has been in continuous publication since the school opened in 1967.

The Enterprise has been established as a desig-nated public forum for student editors to inform and educate their readers as well as for the discussion of issues of concern to their audience. It will not be reviewed or restrained by school officials prior to publication or distribution. The content of The Enterprise is determined by and only reflects the views of the student staff and not school officials or the school itself.

ARTWORK BY NICK BRYANT

EDITORIALThis speech was delivered at the Caddo

Parish School Board meeting on Monday, March 17, by the Editor-In-Chief, Windy Steele, in response to the One Board/One Voice policy. The policy passed into action with seven yeas, 4 nays and one absence.

Hello School Board members and Dr. Goree.

My name is Windy Steele. I am current-ly a senior at Captain Shreve High School and I proudly serve as the Editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Enterprise. I come to you today with no political agen-da, but as a young adult in the school sys-tem with intent to carry out my civic duty in regard to the recent policy proposal, One Board/One Voice.

Censorship is the suppression of rights related to speech or other public communi-cation. This is directly prohibited through the constitution, disallowing the govern-ment to censor through the First Amend-ment. The very essence from which this policy stems is censorship in its truest form. I would like to remind you all that you are not only employees of a school sys-tem. You are the vessels through which education flows, the governmental, demo-cratic entity that delegates the operating system of knowledge. Therefore, uphold-ing the democratic voice is your duty as a citizen of America. I would like to direct your attention to item two in the proposed policy. It states:

All actions of the board regardless to whether a board member voted for the item or not, is an official action of the board and should not be attacked by indi-vidual members of the board.

You have an individual voice to make change in our school systems and argue or defend your ideas in order to make our schools more effective. Your voice is not intended to create a better image. If there is an issue with the image of the school board, work to change it together instead

of rerouting comments to a spokesman. Why create “One Voice” when America’s governmental system was founded on all voices? Ironically, the week of March 16th is deemed “Sunshine Week”. It is a week devoted to promoting open government. In keeping with the sunshine week purpose, I want to tell you that the policy you will vote on violates the First Amendment. By voting in favor of this policy, you are vot-ing away your voice. And, in effect, voting away the voices of your constituents. You are voting away our voices when it is your right to speak negatively about a vote. It is your right to disagree with the govern-ment, and it is your right to speak freely about your views.

I understand that as representatives for your respective districts, you are un-der pressure for your opinions and votes. However, I encourage you to avoid hiding behind One Voice, and be proud and ex-pressive in your beliefs when making com-ments on new and existing policies by vot-ing down this proposal.

If One Voice is passed, it will silence the minority. If a policy is passed on a close vote, the minority will be unable to public-ly voice their opinions to voters. Instead, they must rely upon two spokesmen cen-soring their comments. This ill-informed and autocratic method will inhibit con-stituents from holding our school board members accountable to their actions due to a lack of communication with the people who are vital to the success of our schools: its voters.

In closing I would like to leave you with one last question. Are you voting in fa-vor of One Voice because you genuinely believe you are helping to create a better school system, or are you voting in favor because it is more convenient to reroute complaints to a spokesperson instead of answering to the people you represent?

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This is the One Board/One Voice policy as passed by the Caddo Parish School Board on March 17, 2014. BOARD AND STAFF COMMUNICATIONSThe Caddo Parish School Board is committed to the concept of One Board/ One Voice in order to advance the ideals of a quality education system in the Parish of Caddo. The intent is to provide appropriate comments to the public regard-ing matters of interest involving the Caddo Parish School System. The only way the concept of One Board /One Voice will be successful is if the board and staff utilizes a system of communication that builds confidence in the school board as well as staff. This concept is premised on the fact that no single board member has authority to act on behalf of the board and cannot bind the Caddo Parish School Board. Fur-thermore no individual employee may make a comment on behalf of the school system without appropriate authority. Accordingly the following guidelines are being established to help accomplish the mission of the Caddo Parish School Board.As to Board matters:1. The Board President and/or designee is the official spokesperson regarding actions of the board and all requests for comments are to be referred to the President of the board;2. All actions of the board regardless to whether a board member voted for the item or not, is an official action of the board and should not be attacked by individual mem-bers of the board;3. Board members are expected to use appropriate de-corum before, during and after board meetings since actions of individual board members may portray a negative image to the public which would be considered detrimental to the school board as a whole; 4. Whenever in doubt as to whether comment should or should not be made contact the Board President and/or the Superintendent who may or may not refer the matter to the communications department; and5. This policy is not intended to prohibit board mem-bers from making individual comments regarding matters of interest to the public; however, individual board member comments are not to be considered comments of the board.As to Staff requests for comments:1. The Superintendent and the Communications department are the appropriate spokespersons for school system related matters and staff is expected to follow the appropriate chain of command for comment.2. If a request for comment is made to a school or other administrative site, the site administrator will contact the appropriate director prior to comment; the director shall contact the Communications department and/or the Su-perintendent prior to an official comment being made. The Superintendent has final authority as to the comment and as to whether or not comment will be made.

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By Emily Hughes

The Science Olympiad Competition was on March 15 2014 at Bossier Parish Community College and started at 7 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m.

Science Olympiad is a 6-12 grade team competition. Stu-dents compete in events with different sciences like earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

“Science Olympiad is based of 23 challenges of many sci-ences,” science teacher Pen-ny Pate said. “Mrs. Plate and I brought 13 students for the competition.”

It requires preparation, commitment, coaching and practice throughout the year. Each school-based team is al-lowed to bring 15 students.

“I think we did fairly well,” Pate said. “If we did well then we go to the next step and if we do well there we would go to nationals at the Whitehouse.”

One particular science, Physics, interested some students and it encouraged them to want to participate.

“When Mrs. Pate showed me this thing called the scrambler I thought it was the bomb-dig,” Junior Phillip Kelly said. “The scrambler is a machine that pushes an egg to a certain point; it’s ac-tually pretty hard to do.”

There are different divi-sions for placing at the com-petition and some winners get scholarships and money awards once up to nationals.

“I think I got first place hands down,” Kelly said.

By Carson Mullins

Captain Shreve left Literary Rally at North-western State University on February 22nd with 15 finalists as well as the entire TPT drama team headed to the State level to compete against other finalists.

The 15 finalists are: Madeline Williford for Al-gebra I, Carson Mullins for Calculus, Francisco Guzman for Civics, Tyran Jackson for English I, Peyton Greer for Fami-ly & Consumer Science, Windy Steele for Fine Arts Survey, Rosie Kel-ly for IBCA, Lucy Rauth for Journalism I, Katie Matkins for Nutrition & Food, Nicole Shaw for Parenthood Ed, Matthew Tilton for Physics, Krys-ta Benson for Sociology, Bryan Chauppetta for Spanish II, Daniel Rovell for World Geography, and Stephanie Durr for World History.

The Captain Shreve TPT Drama team were the first students to re-ceive recognition for win-ning at the District level. “I’m really excited. If I was any more excited, I’d be REALLY excited,” ju-

nior Chase Farmer said, a member of the TPT dra-ma team.

The TPT Drama team performed their play at an assembly for all of the Lit-erary Rally participants which addressed the se-rious subject of school shootings and bullying.

“We’ve worked and worked on this, and it just feels so great to not only work with all these phe-nomenal people, but we get to open people’s eyes to a really serious mat-ter,” junior Bailey White said.

Those competing in the State and District level literary rallies who demonstrated an out-standing understanding of the subject matter of their test are offered sti-pends and scholarships to attend Northwestern State University. Only se-nior winners at the North-west District or any Loui-siana district high school rally or the Louisiana State Rally are eligible. Only students with a high school GPA of at least 3.0 are considered.

The State level liter-ary rally competition will take place on April 5th in Baton Rouge.

15 Shreve finalists to attend State Rally

Science Olympiad participants take a picture with their medals won. From left to right: Alysia Cannon (10th), Samantha Hilburn (10th), Kyle Rachal (11th), Nick Zagzoug (12th), Courtney Shows (9th). Not pictured: Will Cooper (9th), Max Guzman (11th), and Carson Mullins (12th)./PHOTO COURTESY OF SCIENCE OLYMPIAD TEAM

Science Olympiad competes in all-day tournament

Couples Tickets ----------- $25Singles Tickets ------------- $15

BELLES &BEAUS

PROM NIGHT

APRIL 128PM - 11PM

LSUS BallroomFormal attire is required. Dates from other schools

must be registered and approved by Mr. Silvie

BEFORE THE DANCE

By Aaliyah Watkins

Unlike the previous years, the graduation class of 2014 will be grad-uating on a Friday, May 16 at 7:30 at night. Nor-mally the graduation cere-monies held for Shreve are on a Saturday at noon. The date change was a de-cision made by the previ-ous administration of the Central Office.

This date change does not affect Shreve in a ma-jor way. Senior counselor Mrs. Day, will just have to make sure that she has everything ready for grad-uation by the time she leaves school that Friday evening. Also, this means

that all seniors will have to have their debt fees paid by three o’clock that afternoon.

For graduation there is a specific dress code. It will be similar to the school dress code, but girls will be expected to wear dresses and dark shoes and guys will be expected to wear white dress shirts with collars, and a dark tie.

This year’s grad-uating class consists of about 330 to 350 students.

Seniors can visit with the senior counselor, Mrs. Day, if there are any questions and to make sure that they are in good standing for graduation.

Graduation to be held in the evening

With the recent legalization of marijuana by Colorado, many people across the coun-try have begun to consider the possibility of legalization.

Legalization of marijuana would allow for more regulation. Therefore, the drug would become safer to use. According to the cen-ter for Substance Abuse Research, reports of marijuana tainted with chemicals such as PCP and formaldehyde are rare, but use of it could lead to severe hallucinations or death.

Marijuana could also generate a lot of tax reve-nue. According to the Huff-ington Post, marijuana sales in Colorado neared almost $5 million during its first week of legalization. In California, sales in 2013 neared $1 billion according to LA Weekly.

All of the money gained from the sale of marijuana is taxable. In Colorado tax-es can be as high as 38.5 percent.

In addition to raising tax money, the le-galization of marijuana could lower law en-forcement costs. Law enforcement efforts to prohibit marijuana (arrests, court, housing and food for inmates, disposal of substanc-es) cost nearly $7.7 billion per year.

While it is nearly impossible to die from a marijuana overdose, around 88,000 people die from direct effects of alcohol every year according to the CDC.

A beneficial use of marijuana is that it ef-fectively mitigates many of the symptoms

of illnesses such as AIDS, cancer and glau-coma.

The THC in marijuana has been shown to relieve pain, control nausea and vomiting, and stimulate appetite in cancer and AIDS patients.

THC also decreases pressure in the eyes, which may help reduce the severity of glau-coma according to the American Cancer Society. Marijuana is also considered to be less addictive than tobacco when used re-

sponsibly and in moderation. According to Psychology Today,

32 percent of tobacco users will develop dependence, 15 percent of alcohol users will develop depen-dence, and only 9 percent of mar-ijuana users develop dependence.

Another positive effect of the le-galization of marijuana is that the court system would have fewer trivial crimes to review, allowing more serious crimes to be sorted out quickly and accurately.

According to the ACLU, in 2010, 52 percent of all drug-relat-

ed arrests were for the possession of small amounts of marijuana. In addition, many people consider the prohibition of marijua-na to be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into everyday life.

No matter how hard law enforcement agencies try to criminalize marijuana and marijuana users, prohibition will never make marijuana go away, and the end result will just be more, otherwise innocent people being punished for a victimless crime.

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Medicinal and recreational uses of mar-ijuana both have their risks. Legalization does not entail that the drug will be avail-able for sale or distribution to minors, and regulation will undoubtedly be beneficial for the government in the form of tax mon-ey. However, the risks and abuse of the drug – if legalized – might outweigh the benefits.

The legalization of marijuana would al-low teens and young adults to abuse the drug via adults selling to minors, similar to the situation with tobacco and alcohol abuse. Also, legalization would put marijuana into the hands of more teens due to more open access, as shown by the situation with tobacco and alcohol.

The taxation of mari-juana would benefit the government for the time being. However, our youth would suffer from the effects of legalization. The cost for the prohibition of marijuana is well worth keeping the drug out of the hands of innocent children and teens.

The legalization of marijuana would cause an increase in gang related activity due to drug lords competing with govern-ment pricing.

Marijuana use causes diminished psy-chomotor performance for the duration of the high, which may lead to a higher num-ber of wrecks and cases of driving under the

influence. The permanent risks involved in the inhalation of marijuana smoke, such as tar and carcinogens, outweigh marijuana’s temporary pain-masking or pain-reducing effects. Inhaled marijuana smoke contains carcinogens and can still damage the lungs with extensive use.

Marijuana is a psychoactive substance that can cause mental dependency similar to caffeine addiction. Withdrawal symp-toms can occur with chronic use.

People are not put in pris-on for small-time marijuana possession as often as they used to be. According to a BJS Special Report survey on state-level prisoners, 0.7 per-cent of all state inmates were in for marijuana possession

only.The serious criminals

who export marijuana and other various drugs will not be eliminated when weed is legalized and regulated.

They will only have easier access and hid-ing potential due to more marijuana fields and growing facilities. The actual criminals will blend in with the innocent.

Many people consider the prohibition of drugs in general to be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into everyday life, but marijuana should not be given a higher position just because more people use it illegally.

By Aaliyah Watkins

Samantha Hilburn, a sophomore member of Youth and Government who attended the 2014 Youth Legislation held in Baton Rouge, created a bill legalizing marijuana in Louisiana.

The conference is sponsored by the YMCA to encourage youth to engage in mock government debate and democratic processes. Hilburn’s bill was debated in the mock Senate in an informal meeting.

Hilburn presented her bill and received positive feedback. Members of the Senate and the Senate committee voted for her bill and agreed to legalize it. Her bill highlighted the increasing discussions that are taking place across the country regarding marijuana legalization.

On January 21 Louisiana’s House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice met to discuss the possibility of legalizing marijuana for medical use.

Hilburn chose this subject on marijuana because it has been in

the news recently and has become a trending topic. Other states have begun to legalize marijuana, so Hilburn decided to share her opinion on it.

“I feel like the legalization of marijuana could make more money for our state and create economical benefits,” Hilburn said.

In her bill, Hilburn stated how legalizing marijuana could bring in billions of state revenue each

year. The bill explains how the government could use the money for beneficial purposes such as education, welfare and environmental purposes.

By legalizing a limited amount of marijuana,

the state would also save money by having fewer inmates spending taxpayer dollars in jails and prisons.

Police in the United States arrest someone every 42 seconds for marijuana and 87 percent of those arrests are for possession.

Marijuana is still not legalized in the state of Louisiana. That matter may or may not be subject to change in the future.

Sophomore James Payne co-sponsored the bill.

Pros of Marijuana Legalization Cons of Marijuana Legalization

Student Proposes Marijuana Bill

High Timesor Low Times?

750,000People arrested for marijuana each yearDrugpolicy.org

20Number of states that allow the med-ical use of marijuanaDrugpolicy.org

$5 millionCost of marijuana sales in Colorado during the first week of legalizationHuffington Post

$7.7 billionLaw enforcement efforts to prohibit marijuana use per yearHuffington Post

9%Number of marijuana users who develop dependencePsychology Today

52%Drug related arrests for a small possession of marijuana in 2010ACLU

Column By Carson MullinsColumn By

Matthew Tilton

Samantha Hilburn

States across the country debate the legalization of marijuana

Louisiana LawLouisiana Rev. Stat. 40:966: Possesion Any person who knowingly or intentionally possesses 28-200 grams of a drug, shall be sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment at hard labor of not less than five years, nor more than thirty years, and to pay a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars, nor more than one hun-dred fifty thousand dollars.

Louisiana Rev. Stat. 40:1046: Medical UsesA physician licensed in this state and who is also registered to pre-scribe substances with the Drug Enforcement Administration may prescribe marijuana, for therapeutic use by patients clinically di-agnosed as suffering from glaucoma, symptoms resulting from the administration of chemotherapy cancer treatment, and spastic quad-riplegia in accordance with rules and regulations by the secretary of health and hospitals and in accordance with FDA and DEA adminis-trative guidelines for procurement of the controlled substance from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.**This law does not list protection in the event of prosecution for pos-sesion of drugs for the doctor or the patient.

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Man on the Street

What was the craziest thing you have done on a spring break?

"There isn't a routine I do,but one time I went sky diving and it was really fun"Charly Upchurch, freshman

"I normally travel with my friends, this year we're going to New Orleans to see August Alsina."Jevannica Williams, senior

"Go to a Kendrick Lamar concert."Justice Williams, senior

"I went zip lining one year. I don't have anything planned yet, but hopefully it will be just as fun."Tiffany Willis, freshman

Military ball hosted for JROTC

By Ashley Rogers This year for the senior spring break trip teachers Amy Ujke, Lee Simms, and Maureen Barclay took a group of seniors to Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and Swit-zerland. The students will be visiting key cities such as Dachau, Munich, Venice, and Stras-bourg within 13 days. About 15 students will engage in an array of activities such as visiting a WWII Nazi concentration camp built in 1933 in Dachau. The group of students will take a tour of Heidelberg, Lucerne, and even see the Ger-man Alps. The German Alps were a model for the princess castle in Disneyland.

Barclay said the students will also do an “extension” of the trip visiting Paris and the Palace of Versailles. Here, the treaty of Versailles was birthed and many other important events and meet-ings in history. In past trips, the students have been to Spain, Rome, Milan, Pompeii, Greece, and France. Mr. Simms has also taken the students to England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The group left on the Thursday before spring break and will return on Wednesday, April 1. Current juniors who are interest-ed in attending the 2015 spring break trip should see Mrs. Barclay, Mrs. Ujke or Mr. Simms.

By Emily Hughes

Military ball was held at the Barksdale Air force Base on Feb. 8 at 8 p.m.

Officers and military ball court was rec-ognized at the beginning of the dance with a walk through the arch of steel presented by the Saber Guard.

“Walking under the sabers was kind of cool, but also awkward knowing everyone had their eyes on me,” Cadet Major Taylor Andrews said.

“Being an officer, it’s nice to have the privi-lege to walk through them at the ball.”

The theme was Mardi Grass; King Cake was also served with the other food and bev-erages.

“The food was really good,” Cadet Com-mand sergeant major N’Dric Clark said. “We ran out of food in the first hour and a half and the music was really good.”

The dance floor was filled with cadets and guests through out the dance.

“I really enjoyed the music and the danc-ing,” Cadet Sergeant Lyle Hoff said.

The dance is for the cadets and students cadets invite. The night is all about them. The cost of each ticket was 16 dollars.

“I liked the ball more this year because I got queen,” Cadet Major Shamarie’ McCall said.

“Every Military ball I went to was really fun.”

Seniors view the world for Spring Break

The 2014 Europe trip traveled to Germany, Italy. Switzerland, Austria, and France./PHO-TO COURTESY OF MEGAN BUNDRICK

By Windy Steele

Thank You for Flush-ing my head in the Toilet was absolutely stuning. The Theatre Perfor-mance Team knocked its audiences off their feet with emotion and clever rhythms intermingled throughout the one act.

Their regional award earned at the Literary Rally at Northwestern State University was well earned.

On April 5, the team will give their perfor-mance once again, hope-fully to take state in the drama competition.

This one performance is only a small testa-ment to the waves that TPT has been making in the swamp. Sponsor Heather Hooper came to Shreve 4 years ago armed with her wit and theatre know-how. To-day, she has a team of over 30 students and a growing fan base. Hoop-er teaches upper level drama and English.

The TPT team has not only performed the normal fall play, Shake-speare’s Taming of the Shrewe, but also other

works. These included The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged, a fast paced look at a good chunk of the Bard’s works all packed into a challenging, yet comi-cal play, including a rap and a cooking show. The catch? It is performed by only 3 people, plus they interact with the audi-ence. TPT members and seniors Mikah Thomas, Liam McIntyre, and ju-nior Jacob Gallman took the play and ran with it. The result? An amazing performance and incred-ible bragging rights.

The Theatre Perfor-mance team has certain-ly brought theatre back to the swamp in the most traditional sense. In the 80’s Shreve was known for its drama depart-ment, and it seems that Shreve has gained mo-mentum in popularity. From Comedy of Errors to Thank You for Flush-ing, The TPT surely has something phenomenal up their sleeves to sur-prise us all.

If you are interested in joining TPT, see Mrs. Hooper for more details.

TPT reminiscent of theatrical HeydayBy Windy Steele

Divergent, the most recent teenage book series that has gripped the literary world since its publishing in 2011, was released to theaters on March 21.

The movie was action packed with a side of romance between the protagonist, Tris, and Four. The movie is similar is style to The Hunger Games but ultimately holds its own in terms of CG effects and dystopian awe-someness.

The plot divides its characters into one of five “factions”. This sets up the story for Tris, who was not sorted into a faction. Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) bring the audience on an adventure packed with abandoning society that rivals Katniss and Peeta’s Hunger Gams.

While the story follows the fad of dystopi-

an societies, author Veronica Roth and Lim-itless director Neil Burger pull the story into something intriguing and different for their audiences.

Tris is a relatable 16 year old who does typical teenager things, such as training for bloody battles and facing the heat of her world.

Overall, the movie does a good job of de-ciphering and translating the invented dys-topian Chicago to the big screen, but hopes for a large fan base like Harry Potter or the Hunger Games trilogy are far behind. This could be due to the messy plot laid by Roth, or the lack emotional support given to char-acters seamlessly killed in the series. But no matter what it may be, Divergent stands well on its own as a novel, and transcribes well to the screen. Perhaps its sequel will be better. The audience is waiting!

‘Divergent’ movie hype overrated

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April2014

By Ashley RogersNew batting cages are

being constructed for the softball team. The cages are still in progress, and there is no official time yet when they will be finished.

“When they dry and the foundation is laid the cag-es will be ready”, said soft-ball coach Tim Smith.

The contractors also have to come and “stabi-lize the poles and add con-crete,” Smith said.

Funding for the cages was conducted solely by softball.

Title IX is a piece of leg-

islation that states boys and girls sports must le-gally be equal. However, title IX has not made an appearance in this case. In the past, schools have garnered financial support by using title IX funds to construct various projects.

“The Caddo Parish School Board does not give us one dime,” Smith said. “All the money that we raised, we’re using for our cages right now.”

Title IX is equity, not only for female athletes. We’re getting cages be-cause we need cages.”

by Carson Mullins

Danceline hosted a Spring Show that was based off of Romeo and Juliet which brought in at least 50 people.

“About 30 to 50 people came to see,” Freshman Alexis Taylor said.

Freshman Danceline members participated and thought of it as a fun oppor-tunity.

“Since I’m a freshman, I

think it was pretty cool be-cause I’ve never done some-thing like this,” freshman Shatorey Coleman said.

Rosie Kelly, the Captain of Danceline, performed the part of Romeo and had good things to say about the per-formance.

“This was one of the bet-ter years and it was orga-nized a little better,” Kelly said.

“Although I liked the throwback to the ‘80s and

the ‘90s theme better.”Danceline hosts a spring

show every year with a different theme picked by the members and sponsor, Carrie Lombardino. All costumes are accumulated or are handmade.

The event raises mon-ey for costumes and other danceline needs. Students are encouraged by dance-line members to attend any shows they can.

Danceline hosts annual spring show

Softball raises money for new batting cages

Construction of the new batting cages have already begun./PHOTO BY CAMDEN CLARK

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Savings Card

08 April2014 Photo Essay

The EnterpriseVol. 47 No. 4

Gators for Good Carnival

By Camden Clark

3rd Annual

to benefit Kelly Henley

Students take advantage of the pie in the face booth as they pie Mrs. Mathews.

Kelly Henley and her sister posing for a picture before buying concessions.

Junior Lexi Salinas works at the The-atre Performance Team booth spray

painting a fellow student’s hair.

Drama members perform selections from their upcoming play Zombie Prom.

Senior Paityn Glass prepares to be dunked again by her fellow classmates.

Freshman Peyton Greer paints a fellow students face at the face painting booth sponsored by Art Club.

Senior Jesssie McWright participates in the free throw shot competition for a chance to win a Cane’s gift card.