by Marie PrevostReporter

Indianapolis, and more importantly Per-ry Township, has been her home base for 23 years. Ms. Thresia Richardson works as a custodian and has been the head custodi-an for almost 20 years. Originally, she worked at Homecroft Elemen-

tary but she transferred to Southport with the head custodian position in mind. Now, just 23 years later Richardson is retiring and moving her home base to Florida, to the house that she owns there. With an almost finished pool and sunny days, rather than stormy nights, Richardson is taking off with her husband af-ter this school year to take a much needed break.

When July 31 comes Richardson says she’ll be happy and jumping into her pool in Florida. Along with sunbathing and relax-ing, Richardson and her husband are going to learn how to sell, attempting to sell boats in their free time.

Leaving a head position can be bitter-sweet, and not only is Richardson leaving behind a granddaughter entering her senior year of high school but she’s leaving behind people used to looking to her for advice. When asked for her last words of advice to the custodial staff Richardson said, “Contin-ue doing what you’re doing and remember what I taught you.”

by Jessica De La CruzNews Editor

Twenty-seven years of walking through the halls of Southport High School made up Ms. Shirley Dunn’s life. She now retires this year from being in charge of ISS to a relaxing life, hopefully filled with a lot of traveling.

Dunn first started to work at Southport 27 years ago as a secretary to the former deans, in the very same room where she would spend the rest of her career. Dunn recalls having eight “big books” with all of the students in the schools’ names. In these books, Dunn would record by hand the daily attendance and conduct reports.

“When I first came here I ran the whole dean’s office by myself, without a computer,” Dunn said.

Even though it was a lot of work, Dunn fig-ured out a system that worked for her. A few years later Dunn was put in charge of the ISS room. Dunn was able to achieve her greatest ac-complishment here at Southport.

“My greatest accomplishment is when later down the line students come back and tell me, ‘Ms. Dunn if you hadn’t stayed on me constantly, I wouldn’t have graduated’,” Dunn said. “Those are the happiest days of my life.”

Once retired Dunn plans to stay at home for a while and perhaps travel. If not, she may find herself back at Southport as a sub or in ISS.

JOURNAL May 11, 2012 Issue 14, Volume XC Southport High School 971 East Banta Road Indianapolis, IN 46227

{newsBRIEFS}Local: Teen charged with stabbing

A 14 year-old girl has been charged with the stab-bing of a four year old at the Beachwood Garden Apart-ments at 28th Street and North Graham Avenue. The 14 year old’s name has remained withheld from the press. She was charged with the stabbing of her cousin, Leon Thomas III.

Thomas underwent an autopsy on Monday, May 7, to determine the exact cause of death. There was a hearing the following Wednesday to determine whether the 14 year old will be charged as an adult or juvenile.

Neighbors said the area is very friendly and there’s always children running around. They were surprised and dumbfounded that the stabbing occurred.

Information from www.latimes.com

In an interview on “Meet the Press,” Vice President Joe Biden declined to answer whether or not President Barack Obama will back same-sex marriage in a second term. Biden himself said he isn’t opposed to same-sex marriage. Although President Obama had already been supporting Civil Unions, he may begin supporting same-sex marriage.

In fact, Obama’s new speech even reminds his listeners that he ended the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prevent-ed militants from being openly gay. Obama has said that his views on gay marriage have been evolving.

Biden’s speech included him saying that he was per-fectly comfortable with same sex marriage and thought they are entitled to the same civil rights and liberties as a marriage between a man and a woman.

Information from www.indystar.com

A 70 year old American development worker, Mr. War-ren Weinstein, was kidnapped from his home in Lahore, Pakistan nearly a year ago. He was recently shown in an Al-Qaeda video saying that if President Barack Obama does not meet their demands, then he will be killed. In De-cember, Al-Qaeda leader Mr. Ayman Zawahiri appeared in a video which he stated to have possession of Weinstein.

Pakistani officials believe Weinstein is being held somewhere along the Afghan border where Al-Qaeda militants have a stronghold. The two minute and 40 second long video consisted of Weinstein urging Obama to meet the demands. In the December video, Zawahiri demanded an end to all U.S. air strikes as well as releas-ing all Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

News Briefs by Rachael Samm

Global: Al-Qaeda airs another videoNational: Same-sex marriage speculation

Take a look at this year’s best photos. Pages 6 and 7the Read about a freshman’s ability in tennis. Page 12

Information from www.latimes.com

Mr. Chew,Math teacher

Saying ‘goodbye’ to retiring staff members

Theater teacher recipient of teacher of the year awardby Cody FosterReporter

“The bejesus was scared out me. The night of Coffee House, Brouwer called my cellphone and said, ‘you need to get to my office immedi-ately,’” theater teacher Ms. Barbara Whitlock said, “and I almost died.”

After reviewing several qualified appli-cants, the 2011-2012 Teacher of the Year award recipient was finally chosen by the committee of past year’s winners. Whitlock was chosen based on her extensive work with the drama department, as well as many other redeeming qualities, according to Principal

Ms. Barbara Brouwer.“We have so many great teachers here

at Southport. I think what sets her apart is that she is a kid magnet. Kids love her,” Brouwer said.

According to Whitlock, she got into teach-ing because of all the bad teachers she expe-rienced in high school. Teaching for the past 19 years, Whitlock came to Southport about five and half years ago. From there she floated around a few departments, teaching English and speech before settling down in the The-ater/Drama department.

According to Brouwer, everyone agrees that her presence in the Drama department has transformed it into a class students want to take.

“Ms. Whitlock has grown the drama de-partment. There are kids who don’t normally connect with school, and through her they

have made a connection,” Brouwer said. “It’s evident through all her productions and cof-fee houses [how qualified she is to be teacher of the year].”

This decision was not based solely on her work with the Drama department. According to last year’s Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Mary Jungemann, Whitlock brings an energy to the classroom that is unparalleled.

“The energy she brings to her job, she’s a wonderful role model for her kids, she in-spires them. She has a role that’s drawn so many kids to her program,”Jungemann said. “I think that’s the epitome of a good teacher.”

This year’s race for Teacher of the Year was a close one, but Brouwer and other nomina-tors are confident they made the right deci-sion. Whitlock also wanted to say that she is very humbled and honored to win this award, even if she thinks she didn’t deserve it.

Ms. Barbara Whitlock honored with recognition from fellow colleagues

Ms. Dunn,Bus monitor-aide

Mr. Lewis,Science teacher

Ms. Richardson,Head of Maintenance

by Marie PrevostReporter

Pre-Algebra, Alge-bra, Geometry, Alge-bra 2, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Discrete Math, and Statistics. All are math classes offered at Southport and all are classes that have been taught by long-time teacher Mr. Glenn Chew. Although he didn’t start his career off at Southport, Chew has been a member of the Perry Town-ship School System since grade school. He at-tended Perry Meridian, went to the University of Indianapolis and was recruited straight to Perry Meridian to teach. Now after 37 years, Chew is retiring to pursue other things, such as selling property. He’s sticking with teach-ing students how to drive over the summer, and he’s keeping his normal hobbies, he’s just cutting out the autonomous setting of a “seven a.m. to three p.m. school day.” Licensed to sell mortgages and manage property, Chew will be able to keep himself busy after his retirement.

“I don’t think I’ll notice when (July 31) comes around,” Chew said. “I’ll have things to keep me busy.”

Chew has been a major contributor to the Southport math world for 18 years. His last words of advice to the math staff are, “Hang in there,” and his last words of advice to students are, “Just do what you’re supposed to do and you’ll pass the class.”

by Marie PrevostReporter

Science teacher Mr. Terry Lewis is the head of the sci-ence department and currently teaches Biology 2. He is also teaching AP Biology 2 for Mrs. Amanda Schnepp while she is on maternity leave. However, come May 25, Lewis is officially retiring from South-port to pursue other life adventures. When the summer begins Lewis, his wife and one of his grandsons will be driving in a camper to Florida and possibly Busch Gardens.

Instead of teaching Monday through Fri-day for seven hours a day, Lewis will be using his time to fix up parts of his house, tend to his garden, and all the other little things he hasn’t been able to maintain while keeping up with his teaching job. He’s fulfilling the ste-reotypical idea of a retired man and is spend-ing some of his free time fishing and vacation-ing in Florida.

Lewis is leaving the position for the head of the science department and his fellow teach-ers behind. The thing Lewis will miss the most is the students. He enjoys presenting infor-mation and teaching students new informa-tion. His final words of advice for his fellow colleagues are “continue to teach science, to teach what you love. Science is an important subject. Remember to always treat it as such.”

1. Teacher of the Year, Ms. Barbara Whit-lock, talks with a student in her seventh period technical theater class. Photo by Becca Tapp. 2. Whitlock teaches her fourth period special topics class. Photo by Kaitlin Fallowfield. 3. Whitlock teaches her seventh period tech class. Photo by Becca Tapp. 4. Whitlock converses with her special topics class. Photo by Becca Tapp.

Ms. Barbara Whitlock teaches her fourth period special topics class. Photo by Becca Tapp.

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May 11, 20122 News/Foreign Language

Former Southport coach, teacher lives on in others

by Andie ReinhartFeatures editor

He was a teacher, a coach, a marathon runner, a mentor and a life-changer. His name was Tom Hathaway, but those who were close to him just called him Coach. During his lifetime, he coached multiple state championship track and cross coun-try teams, ran a marathon in each of the 50 states, taught a class for those who wished to learn how to run marathons and taught biology at Southport. Coach passed away af-ter having a stroke on Sunday, April 22, but not without leaving behind a legacy and a lasting impression upon those that he knew.

Former students and runners from South-port remember Coach for his many qualities and lessons that he taught to them. Three of these former students and runners, Mr. Anthony Schoettle, Dr. Erhard Bell and Mr. Gary Romesser, recall what it was like to know Coach, the impact that he had upon their lives and the lessons that they take with them to this day.

“He had a fiery competitive side, but also a very compassionate human side,” Schoet-tle said about Coach’s personality.

According to Schoettle, Coach was a man who never lost his excitement for what he did in life. As a biology teacher, Coach never lost interest in his profession. In his biology class, Schoettle remembers dissecting chicken em-bryos. When Coach would hold up the em-bryo to show the class, he looked at it with the “wonderment of a child,” as if it was the first time he had seen it before.

As a coach, he stressed teamwork and perseverance, and Schoettle remembers that this was always a lesson that he took with him after high school.

“The most important thing he taught was that if you persevere you can do difficult things, really seemingly impossible things,” Schoettle said. “If you work as a team, you can achieve much greater excellence than you can by yourself.”

As for Bell, he recalls Coach’s power in believing in someone.

“He believed in people when they didn’t believe in themselves yet,” Bell said.

Bell remembers being a very slow and un-motivated runner in high school, yet Coach took an interest in him because he saw the potential that Bell couldn’t see in himself just yet. Coach would walk up to Bell in class and tell him how great of a runner he could be, and eventually Coach convinced him to believe in himself and reach his potential as a runner.

Bell also remembers Coach’s personality. He remembers Coach as being a man with a dry sense of humor, who was able to make people laugh. He was also a man with a seri-ous side though, according to Bell. He was never afraid to raise his voice if it was nec-essary to motivate his runners.

Bell, now a cross country coach at Carmel High School, uses the techniques that Coach used during his high school career to moti-vate his runners at Carmel.

“All of the things he taught me, I use with my kids now,” Bell said.

Overall, Bell believes that Coach touched a great many people who will never forget him for the many inspiring things he did for them.

“(Coach’s) legacy will live on in all of us,” Bell said. “The things that he did for us, I think we do that for other people. We feel obligated to do the very same thing.”

Romesser, now a five-time mini marathon winner, remembers the many lessons that Coach instilled within him. Some of these lessons were goal setting, believing in one-self and enjoying a passion.

Goal setting, Romesser believes, was a large reason for his success in running and in life. To this day, people have told Romess-er that they have never met anyone with so many goals as he has, and he credits that to the influence of having a coach who always set many goals for himself. Romesser took that aspect of Coach’s personality and used it in his life as well.

As for believing in oneself, he believes much the same as Bell does. Romesser be-

lieves that Coach had a special way of see-ing the potential in someone long before they saw it within themselves.

Romesser did not run until late in his high school career. He joined the cross country team his junior year, with urging from Coach and his brothers. After joining, Coach took an interest in him, and the team went on to win third in the state. Romesser went from the number one reserve spot to the one varsity spot, and the team only got beat by two teams all year.

“He had that intuitive way of knowing people. He could see what their potential was,” Romesser said.

According to Romesser, Coach had an excitement for life and a passion for every-thing that he did. Romesser recalls that peo-ple who would only meet him once seemed to be drawn into him from the moment they met due to his passion and excitement, and that even his students could feel his excite-ment. He remembers how all of the students would stay in class before and after the pe-riod was over because they just wanted to sit and talk to Coach.

Romesser recalls how his excitement and passion was apparent in his voice and his actions. He also remembers how great that passion was, and how it translated in all as-pects of his life.

“He always had that passion both for life and running,” Romesser said.

And as for knowing him personally as a friend, Romesser remembers how he was able to blend in with the kids, but also be a voice of wisdom. Romesser recalls that Coach didn’t try to act superior. He was able to be one of the kids, but he was also the mature one to guide them through life when it was needed.

“He was the most influential person in my life,” Romesser said.

All three of these former students have memories of Coach that will live on long af-ter he is gone. Schoettle will take away the importance of perseverance and teamwork. Bell will remember the belief that Coach had in his abilities and his potential. Romesser will never forget his passion for life. Though these three all take away different lessons, each of them were inspired by knowing Coach and will remember his legacy for as long as they live.

Former Southport students recall life lessons taught to them by Coach Hathaway

Mr. Tom Hathaway coaches some runners in downtown Indianapolis in 2007. Photo contributed by The Indianapolis Star. Photo by Matt Detrich.

Q: High school ah na ngaichih bik mi?

A: Volley team in ka chuak mi hi a si. Tang hra ka si lio ah a si i a dih tiang ka rak zul lo.

Q: High school na ngaih peng lai mi?

A: Journalism class le mah journal khan i ka hawi le te pawl ka ngai peng hna lai.

Q: Siangngakchia sin ah bia cah na duh mi?

A: Ca na zuam lo ruang ah le na thiam lo ruang ah saya/sayamah mawhchiat hna hlah. Na mark (grade) that nak ding cu nangmah rian a si.

Rosy Liantu,Sianghleiruun: IUPUIMajor: Biology

Q: Southport high school na ngaih lai ding mi?A: Cafeteria i hawi le he raw ei ti hi ka ngai bik te lai. Q: High school ah na ngaichih bik mi?A: Lentecelh (sport) ah ka tel lo mi.Q: Siangngakchia sin ah bia cah na duh mi?

A: A Kum a luan le a can a dih ah cun high school cu kai na duh tuk zong ah na kai kho ti lai lo. A caan na ngei lio te ah lung sit e in le ngai chih lo te in kai i zuam u.

Tha Bawi Ce,Sianghleiruun: IUPUIMajor: A Fiang Rih Lo

Q: Southport high school na ngaih lai ding mi?A: Ka soccer team pawl le ka coach pawl.Q: High school ah na ngaichih bik mi? A: “A” a si lo le “B” honor roll ah ka tel peng mi hi.Q: Siangngakchia sin ah bia cah na duh mi?A: Tangkua nan kai

ka in i zuam cang uh. Cun AP khan le Honor khan tampi in lak khawh ding i zuam uh. Cu lawng si rih lo in Academic Honor in high school dih(graduate) kho ding in i zuam uh.

Jackson Sang Hlun,Sianghleiruun: IUPUIMajor: Computer Programming

Senior siangngakchia pawl he i ton nak

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Piscina Perry Park, es un lugar donde la fa-milia entera puede ir a disfrutar de un día de diversión. Hay muchas actividades que la fa-milia puede hacer. Todos juntos o individuos. Perry Park también tiene clases de natación y otros programas. Cada piscina contiene tres líneas, piscina olímpica de 25 metros, y dos gran resbaladeros de agua. También dispone de un vaporizador de agua, una concesión de comida, un oso polar pequeño para los niños y sillas con cobertizos.

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Es un parque del estado durante muchas temporadas y razones. Durante el verano es la época perfecta para un viaje en canoa por el Salto Creek. Días soleados donde los ciudadanos puedan ver los colores de los arboles empezando a cambiar.

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Fort Harrison Parque del Estado

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El verano es lo mejor en la Oficina de Seguros Agrícolas césped en el Parque Rio Blanco del Estado. Fue nombrado uno de los mejores 100 ligares para con-ciertos al aire libre por el encuestador re-vista durante cuatro años consecutivos. Ofrece conciertos de primera calidad en un hermoso escenario al aire libre. Dos de los eventos que se están sucediendo pronto son X 103.3 FM presenta Rise Against y A Day to Remember, y Title Fight Friday, May 4th @ 7:00 PM y WZPL 99.5 FM Uncle Sam Jam featuring Demi Lovato Hot Chelle Rae Tuesday, July 3rd @ 7:00 PM.

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El césped en el Parque Río Blanco del Estado

Horario depende en los eventos

El campo de Victory Field en un lugar favorito para el verano. Campo Victory el hogar de los Indianapolis Indians, el triple de un afiliado de los Piratas de Pittsburgh. Situado en la esquina del west y calle Mary-land en el centro de Indianápolis. El campo Victory ofrece una vista espectacular de la línea del horizonte de Indianapolis.

501 W. Maryland Indianapolis, IN 46225(317) 269-3545

Victory Field

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Shorts by Paola Padilla.

Biahaltu: Biak Chin Par.

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Bawi Rum Mang Thang,Sianghleiruun: IUPUIMajor: Tech Engineering

Q: Southport high school na ngaih lai ding mi?A: Study hall ah ka hawi le he kan um ti mi.Q: High school ah na ngaichih bik mi?A: Earth Science khan ka drop out mi hi ka ngaichih bik. Mah ruang ah hin ka GPA vialte an tla dih. Q: Zei dah high

school ah na uanthlar bik(proud) mi a si?A: Mr. Ducan khan ah “B” ka ngah tawn mi second semester ah “A” ka ngah khawh mi hi a si.

The Journal’s English Learner Project is officially one school year old. The idea that was thought of just last summer has actual-ly made an impact in the lives of the English Learner students here at Southport, which is a great accomplishment. I have had the pleasure of heading up the project this year, and I am very proud of all the work we have completed during this school year.

The Journal has covered the English Learner Project in various issues during the year, including the issue you are cur-rently reading. In Issue Three of the Jour-nal, the E.L. Project was introduced as a civic journalism project that was designed to help the English Learner students in their transition into life at Southport. The plans included tutoring with the E.L. stu-dents and also donations that will be given to families, but the Journal really had no idea what all would become of it.

During the first semester, student volun-teers and Journal staffers were paired up with English Learner students and met with them during their study halls. The volunteers helped the E.L. students with homework and studying for tests on a weekly basis.

Ms. Barbara Whitlock’s Special Topics class also paired with E.L. students. The stu-dents not only helped with homework but also played games like Just Dance with the E.L. students. This was a great example of volunteers taking initiative in order to help the efforts of this project.

The donation drive at the end of the first semester was covered in Issue Seven, and then in Issue 10, we found out where the donations went. Various people around Southport donated things such as coats and gloves for the E.L. families. The Chin Center received the donations from English Learner teacher Mrs. Amy Peddie.

During the second semester, more vol-unteers were paired with E.L. students. Also, Journal staffers helped E.L. students with scheduling during scheduling week. Before the students met with their counsel-ors, they got to meet with a Journal staffer to make sure they understood the process of making their schedule.

ECA Prep was the most recent effort of the E.L. Project. About 10 staffers from the Journal helped about twice that amount of E.L. students to prepare for the English 10 portion of the End-of-Course Assessment. These students included first-time testers and also re-testers that needed to pass the test in order to graduate in a couple of weeks. ECA Prep was probably my favorite effort that was part of this project. This was the perfect finale to what has been a pretty successful project.

This was a rewarding experience be-cause I actually learned what the English Learner students needed help with from them, and then organized the people who wanted to help. I was behind the scenes or-ganizing the detials, while all of the volun-teers worked hard to make a difference. The Journal staffers that volunteered and the other student volunteers really helped a lot, and I appreciate it so much because with-out them, none of this would’ve happened. I loved seeing the students interact with each other because they wanted to do it.

Now at the end of the year, I wish we had more time. I wish we had more time to make an impact on these great students. I have learned a lot in this last year, and I hope the Journal does something similar in the future.

May 11, 2012 3Features

THE Journal’s

ProjectEnglish Learner

by Ali DeHartManaging Editor of Content

“That’s why her hair is so big, it’s full of secrets.”

by Emma HoskinsReporter

Tests such as the ECA may pose a chal-lenge for students who are just beginning to learn English. Passing scores on the ECAs are re-quired to gradu-ate. For this rea-son, measures have been taken to make sure English Learner students are prepared to pass these tests.

New students must take the Al-gebra ECA, regard-less of their arrival time in America, and are required to take the English 10 ECA a year after they have arrived. E.L. students are al-lowed an approved bilingual dictionary to help translate foreign words and are often limited, with extra informa-tion and English translations being prohibited. Idioms and slang words are also not allowed in the testing-approved dictionaries.

In order to pass, E.L. students must reach the same cut score as general, na-tive English-speaking students. They are allowed double the time for each ECA, but this is not necessarily an advantage accord-

ing to E.L. teacher Mrs. Amy Peddie. “The students are trying to read, under-

stand and write in a language that they have just started learning,” Peddie wrote in a correspondence with the Journal. “If they do not know the vocabulary, then they can-not answer the question. They spend a lot of time looking up vocabulary words and rereading the passages several times.”

To help prepare E.L. students for the tests, the Township has sponsored an ECA tutoring program at the Chin Center twice

a week for most of the year, with two teachers from each high school and one aide be-ing provided for instruction. ECA strategies are re-viewed through-out the year in the ENL classes, and the students are encouraged to stay after for tutoring. According to Ped-die, the students are as prepared as they can be, given the circum-stances-- it’s usu-ally the level four English-speaking students that end up passing, with a few level threes making the grade.

“It takes 5-7 years to learn academic lan-guage,” Peddie

wrote. “This is only if a student was on or close to grade level in their homeland. If a student has had interrupted schooling it takes even longer.”

Mr. Kevin Sitzman, E.L. teacher, agrees with the presence of a lot of pressure being put on E.L. students to learn quickly enough

to pass the ECAs. According to Sitzman, each individual E.L. student is at their own level in terms of their language acquisition, and the student’s ESL level and passing ECA are generally related to each other.

“I would compare it to taking a test in one of our foreign language classes,” wrote Sitzman. “Take that test and multiply it by 25, and use words and topics that a student has never seen.”

Members of the Southport Journal have been working with E.L. students as a year-long project with the aim being to help them be prepared for tests such as this.

Senior and Journal staffer Marie Prevost has been working closely with E.L. student En Maung. Maung only failed her math ECA by three points last year, and Prevost feels that she is well prepared to pass this time.

“We were friends beforehand,” Prevost said. “So it was easy to work with her. She’s very intelligent.”

Muang has recently taken her test and feels good about the results. According to Muang, the E.L. project has not only helped her improve her test scores but has also helped her in everyday life with her speak-ing, listening and writing.

“What I’m learning here is improving my reading,” Muang said. “I was more able to understand passages and instructions on the test. I think working with Marie helped and I think I did much better than last time.”

Muang’s E.L. class with teacher Mr. Hoffmann-Longtin also helps her with grammatical and conversational skills. Ac-cording to fellow E.L. teacher Sitzman, the E.L. classes are not only geared to helping the students pass their ECA but to improve such English skills.

The staff and students of Southport, coming together to help the foreign stu-dents have all contributed in a collective effort to further their successes. E.L. class-es, tutoring sessions and the Journal’s English Learner Project have all helped to prepare E.L. students for not only their tests but the rest of their lives here in the United States.

Journal staffer sophomore Katie Hinh helps E.L. students study for the ECA like many other staffers of the Journal. Photo by Kaitlin Fallowfield.

by Donna KnightReporter

Southport High School has a huge popula-tion of E.L. students who are learning English and learning the same curriculum as English speaking students at the same time.

Seniors Sang Hlun and Mor Rent Thang did not speak English as a first language. They have bested the odds and have now been ac-cepted into college.

Hlun came to the United States in 2007, and Thang came in 2009. While struggling with learning a new language, they have both succeeded in completing the requirements to graduate. Hlun will be attending IUPUI and Thang will be attending Wabash College in the fall.

The hardest part for Hlun was that he didn’t speak the language, and he wasn’t from here. Because of this, he struggled to learn English.

“You have a relationship with the other country, you don’t really speak the language,” Hlun said.

No one in his family has attended college, and they cannot support him while he goes.

He did, however, receive the alumni scholar-ship, which will help him pay for college.

Hlun is currently a level three E.L. student. His favorite, and easiest, part about school is physical education, however he does not intend to study in that field. He will be studying computer program-ming as a major and has taken classes at Southport that will help him succeed.

Hlun noticed that his parents didn’t have the life that he would want and he knows that with an education he will be able to achieve his goals.

“My parents, they didn’t go to college. They have no education. When I saw them, they were very tired, and that made me want to go to college, and to not be like them,” Hlun said.

Just like Hlun has been inspired to go to college, so has Thang. His family also never had more education than high school, and he now really wants to attend college.

“No one in my family is actually educated.They probably went to high school, but they never got to go to college. My parents inspired me to go,” Thang said.

Thang will be attending Wabash College in the fall. The hardest part of high school for him was the communication. While other

students struggle to pass classes in their native language, Thang, along with all other E.L. students, had to learn English and the subject mat-ter at the same time.

“ C o m m u n i c a t -ing with people, that would be the hardest.

Reading and asking question,” Thang said.Thang, however, overcame this and will be

studying pre-medical chemistry at Wabash College. His purpose is to become a doctor after the proper education. He will also be working toward a minor in French.

Thang has been awarded scholarships and has some financial aid that will help him get through college, but he knows he wouldn’t be anywhere without the support of his parents.

Both Thang and Hlun have gone through a high school where the language taught and spoken was not their own. They were able to overcome this language barrier and still be able to be accepted into college by hard work, determination and support from their families.

College goals a reality for EL students

Passing ECA scores important for EL students

College-bound EL students look at future schooling prospects

Civic project comes to a close

Mrs. Amy Peddie teaches students in her E.L. class. She has worked closely with the project all year. Photo by Jesse Roller.

EL students and teachers work toward passing scores on ECA tests

{goingtoCOLLEGE}As of now, 16 EL students have applied and been accepted to college. Many more have ap-plied or are still looking to apply.

Jack White is a name synonymous with rock and roll, with his first explosion on to the rock scene with the dynamic duo “The White Stripes.” The partnership came to an end when Meg White, Jack’s ex-wife and the other half of “The White Stripes,” began having nervous breakdowns and was unable to perform. Even though the reason was not explicitly said to be because of Meg, the band parted way in a friendly manner in 2011, years after the duo had last performed together. White’s next project was the more boyish “The Raconteurs” that made the hit single “Steady As She Goes” and even vied for a Grammy. The third band that White created was “The Dead Weather” that featured “The Kills” front woman Alison Mosshart. However, achieving success with every project he touched he has finally decided to go solo with his album “Blunderbuss.”

The much-anticipated album lives up to all of the hype that it was surrounded by before its release. The styles of music are all over the map with each song ranging from rock to lighthearted piano with a little bit of everything including R&B thrown in there just for kicks. Not to forget White’s voice that has so many facets that it can make every musician ever jealous.

The first song on the album, “Missing Pieces” is an

introduction song with few words and mostly interesting guitar sounds. The next song “Sixteen Saltines” is when things begin to pick up. As someone familiar with “White Stripes,” this song instantly reminded me of them with a

hazy and grungy guitar that powers over White’s spoken/sung lyrics. This is one of my favorite songs on the album.

The album’s first single “Love Interruption,” is a complete change of pace from the songs that came before it. It’s country style feel with acoustic guitar and powerful backing vocals provided by a country sounding goddess- who with a little help from Google is the Nashville singer, Ruby Amanfu. However, as obscure as she was to me, Amanfu delivers with a raw and attractive voice.

What comes next on the album is the title track, “Blunderbuss” which begins with light acoustic guitar and violin. It’s a soft song to start with noise and emotion that keep building and telling the story of love that wasn’t supposed to be. What a blunderbuss is, thanks again to Google, actually is a type of musket with the origins in Dutch. The song lyrically covers the whole album really. Love, love that hurts us, love that isn’t supposed to happen and then a past love. It again stands apart from any song that preceded it.

The whole album can be pried apart song by song and sifted through to find distinctive flavors and genres of influence on each one. Each track is good individually but, when put together, make the puzzle that is Jack White. He’s a bit of mystery singing about love gained and love lost in a way that makes him exude rock and roll grungy hotness.

The next songs that really stuck out was the head bobbin’

“I’m Shakin” which White’s rock cover with a twist on the 1960s R&B song by Little Willie John. It’s something that fits perfectly with the album and is so catchy with female chorus style vocals to throw in some soul along with a guitar solo that you can feel to your core. It may be my favorite song on the whole album.

What is indisputable is that White has created an album full of every kind of rock music there is with some country, blues and R&B thrown in there for good measure. None of the tracks were a task to listen to, and my love for the rocker ensues. If you like music, I recommend to buy this album.

The movie “Bully” is a documentary made for the sole pur-pose of exposing the bullying problem in schools. Because of the controversial subject that is bullying, the movie struggled to keep its PG13 rating, earning it both notoriety and respect.

“Bully” starts off with a heart-crushing story from David Long, whose son had recently committed suicide because of in-tense bullying, leaving viewers on the edge of their seat.

But, instead of supplying more details, viewers are immedi-ately thrown into the life of Alex. Alex is an Iowa middle school student prone to being bullied. He’s an awkward looking boy, who is also socially inept and is probably one of the nicest kids in the world.

On the bus the audience is shown clips of him being stabbed by pencils, punched repeatedly, sat on and strangled. Never re-ceiving any help.

The movie then quickly loses momentum, and goes into the confusing slur that is the rest of the film.

“Bully” goes quickly, never shedding enough light on each individual tale, making them easily forgettable.

I was also very confused by the motive behind the film. The producers never made it clear on how to stop bullying or what to do if you were being bullied in the film. The only advice we on how to handle bullying was from a boy named Devon, who insisted the only way to stop it was by physical violence.

During some interviews, we see people with half of their heads off screen, sometimes bobbing up enough to see their eyes. Whether this was some clever camera trick or a mistake by an amateur camera man, I can say I didn’t like it.

“Bully” had noble goals, but unfortunately it was plagued by bad story-telling and awkward camera angles. While the film isn’t all bad and certain parts are very interesting, it’s not something I would recommend. “Bully” tried too hard to make itself complex, when a little more simplicity would have made it memorable.

May 11, 20124 Reviews

by Cara HinhEntertainment Editor

Space. The final frontier and home to the unknown. In the year 2019, 50 years after the famous first walk on the moon, NASA decides that it wants to have its first major mission to the moon in decades. To gain publicity and funding, a lottery is held throughout the world to choose three teenagers who will get to go to the moon. This is the plot behind “172 Hours on the Moon,” the recently-translated-to-English book by Norwegian author Johan Harstad.

The first third, or half, or just general portion of the book is dedicated to setting up this plot and showing the backstories of the three teenagers who are eventually chosen to be the honor-ary astronauts. These three teenagers are revealed to be: a girl from Norway named Mia who wants to gain publicity for her punk band, a boy from France named Antoine who wants to get away from his ex-girlfriend and a girl from Japan named Midori who hopes that her time in the media’s light will help her one day move to New York City. Anticipation makes their stories seem so much longer than they really are and increase the desire to continue reading to get to the action. Once the sto-ries are told, they go through training and the trip to the moon, and then eventually learn that there is more to the mission than they’ve been told.

The beginning of this book starts right off by revealing to the reader that there is a hidden motive behind NASA send-ing astronauts back to the moon. However, the full reason is not revealed and the mystery becomes even more intriguing as the story goes along. I was dying of curiosity the whole time I was reading this book and even though I was constantly trying to guess what would happen, I was unsuccessful. Whether the characters seem annoying, likeable or just plain boring, the plot always stays interesting and unpredictable. I’m the type of per-son who can usually predict how a movie, book or TV show will end, so I think that “172 Hours on the Moon” is a nice change from the usual cliché books.

by Gabe Allen Reporter

by Michael Curran Reporter

by Stefanie Maier Reporter

‘Bully’

Lee Hirsch’s

‘Ridge Racer’ Namco’s Johan Harstad’s

In my opinion, racing games have never been good enough to justify a $60 starting price, but maybe one day I will find a racing game worth the money. Unfortunately, “Ridge Racer: Unbounded” is not that game.

“Ridge Racer: Unbounded” is an ode to the racers of the arcade era. The single-player mode of the game gives play-ers nine sets of tracks called districts, and players unlock new districts by completing events. Each district has seven events. Events are different types of competitions players engage in, with most of them being races in which you have to come in first, second or third place in order to pass. Other events include drifting competitions or racking up destruction points in a designated amount of time.

This game has an impressive amount of cars to choose from. Every car handles different than the last car. Car’s stats are organized by speed, acceleration, handling, strength and drifting. Each stat can have drastic changes to the way your races turn out.

When players jump into their first race, they will imme-diately pick up the controls of the game. The well-mapped controls do not make up for the fact that this game is dif-ficult, and it does not offer extra difficulty options.

“Ridge Racer: Unbounded” also offers a competitive mul-tiplayer mode and a track creator. The multiplayer is exactly what you would expect and nothing more, and the track cre-ator is pretty un-intuitive.

Overall, “Ridge Racer: Unbounded” is a solid racing game, but like most racing games it is a short ride. This game does not do anything to set itself apart from other games in the genre, and it is an example of why the rac-ing game genre takes a back seat to the other genres in the gaming industry. It’s a solid rent but not worth the starting price.

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by Clara Leslie

{nowPLAYING}White’s ‘Blunderbuss’ shoots off with a bang that resounds with all music fans

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Starring: Johnny Depp, Mi-chelle Pfeiffer & Eva Green

1SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN

Starring: Kristen Stew-art & Charlize Theron

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By: Michael Scott

May 11, 2012 5Entertainment

Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa are two young rappers and longtime pals that are relatively new to the mainstream scene. Since then, Mac and Wiz have reached radio sta-tus, both have gained a large following. After both re-leased albums Miller and Khalifa’s debuts respectively, “Blue Slide Park” and “Rolling Papers.”

Drake @ Kilpsch

Mac & Wiz @ KilpschLady Antebellum, country power trio, are the holders of the Grammy’s “Best Country Album” for two years in a row. The band first came onto the country scene with their single “Love Don’t Live Here” and won the Country Music Awards “New Artist of The Year” in 2008. They have con-tinued to draw fans with albums “Need You Now” and “Own the Night.”

Lady Antebellum @ Kilpsch

Drake is on tour in support of his album “Take Care.” Drake is part of Lil’ Wayne’s label and pos-se “Young Money.” The album was certified plati-num in the U.S. Also preforming on the tour are artists J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana. According to Drake the all-star roster is why the tour was dubbed “The Club Paradise.”

The 17th annual Van’s Warped Tour is making its return to Indy this summer. Over the course of the summer, the tour will feature over 100 bands and artists. The tour stops in Indy with dozens of popular bands, including Mayday Parade, All Time Low, We the Kings, Rise Against and You Me at Six, will perform at the Klipsch Music Cen-ter from 11am to 9pm.

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As the year progressed, events have brought students together in the sharing of school spir-it. From beating Perry Meridian in football to crowning the prom king and queen, The Jour-nal has been there covering it all and sharing the experience with the students of Southport. The Journal staff has compiled the best photos taken for the newspaper as a review of 2011-2012.

{photographer’sFAVORITE}The photographers of the Journal picked their favorite photo that they have taken for the

paper all year and explain why.

A Year in Review

Football team beats Perry

Meridian9/9/2011

SeniorMattLytle

photo byBecca Tapp.

Football game at Lucas Oil

9/17/2011

Music Man in the Southport

Theater11/18//2011-11/20/2011

Homecoming week

9/19/2011-9/23/2011

Junior Jake Hallyphoto by

Jesse Roller.

Basketball plays at Conceco

Fieldhouse11/23/2011

Capturing this photo was exciting, frightening and pretty lucky. The tiger was interested in the people standing outside the enclosure and started com-ing over to rub against the fence where I was standing. As it got closer, I wanted to back up. In order to catch the animal in action I had to wait and be a little too close for comfort with it. I snapped this photo right before jumping back away from the fence. It’s my favorite photo because of the way the fence creates a frame around the approaching tiger and the whole experience I had in taking it.

by Jackie SmithPhotographer

“It’s Avril Lavi-gne’s world, we’re just livin’ in it.”

One word comes to mind when I look back at this photo, and that word would be “obscure.” I was assigned last minute to cover the Dr. Who Crew’s Party after already covering another event that day. I didn’t know why the original photographer had a change of plans, and I didn’t know beforehand what the party would be like. I went anyway. Within the first ten minutes of my arrival, I found myself yodeling at the top of my lungs with my pinky in my left nostril. The beauty of this pic-ture is that it sums up the whole night with one obscure moment.

1. Sophomore Billy Cross jumps when hitting the tennis ball at practice on Monday, April 16. Along with being a girls tennis manager in the spring, Cross is on the boys tennis team in the fall. Photo by Jesse Roller. Issue 13. 2. The group learns part of the line dance at the beginning of RDM. Photo by Jackie Smith. Issue 12. 3. The class sings to the teacher in “This is a Test.” “This is a Test” is a show about a boy named Alan with test anxiety who goes through a series of challenges during his midterm test. Issue 8. 4. Sophomore Shaunte’ Russell warms up by do-ing a backflip before the girls basketball game against Mooresville on Thursday, Feb. 2. Photo by Kaitlin Fallowfield. Issue 9.

5. Senior George Blankenbaker, sophomore Alex Myers and senior Wes-tin Faulkner speak with senior Leigh Bowles about her cousin, the Czar of Russia, at the performance of “You Can’t Take it With You” on Sunday, March 11. Photo by Kaitlin Fallowfield. Issue 11. 6. Sophomore Gideon Lianpuia wrestles at a meet on Saturday, Jan. 14. Photo by Jesse Roller. Issue 9. 7. Senior Tonino Arapi lands after punting the ball during the game on Friday. At the end of the first half, the score was 35-0. Photos by Becca Tapp. Issue 1. 8. Freshman Troy Bridges plays the trumpet at prac-tice on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Bridges was the only male trumpet player in marching band. Photo by Jesse Roller. Issue 8. 9. Seniors Nolan Fenwick, Van Vu, Peter Thyssen and Emma Hughes dance during the last line dance to the Celine Dion song “My Heart Will Go On.” Photo by Becca Tapp. Issue 12.

First dayback from

winter break

1/5/2012

OneActs

1/12/2012

Last dayof

school5/23/2012

Datenight

2/9/2012

Photo byJesse Roller.

Let me just start by saying this: I love this picture. The moment I got this shot I knew I wanted it to be the dominant photo on that issue’s photo page. The fact that the subjects are not straight in the center makes the photo more visually appealing. It adds something to the photo other than it being of just two people kissing behind a hat. While there were other pictures that I took that I liked throughout the year, this one is my favorite. The luck of getting a shot like this one in the theater (where we are not allowed to use flash) makes this photo all the more better to me.

by Becca TappPhoto editor

“I’m a photogra-pher, I’m sup-posed to be be-hind the camera!”

Candid moments truly capture the meaning of that moment if caught at the right moment. That may be confusing but it’s what photography revolves around. I enjoy taking pictures of football in the fall, especially when they kick off the game by bursting through the banner. They meet behind the banner and give each other a pep talk, like any team would. Then, the players use all of their energy to burst through it and show the other team their aggression. From the moment they charge through the banner, its all about winning and every face shows it.

by Kaitlin FallowfieldPhotographer

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by Jesse RollerPhotographer

“Meh.”

First dayof

school8/16/2011

NHS roses handed

out2/17/2012

Promat the Indy

Rooftop Ball-room

4/14/2012

RDM in the Field-

house3/24/2012

Winterdance

2/25/2012

Thespianinduction5/6/2012

This is it, the finale. The curtain comes to a close. The final issue of the Southport High School Journal of 2011-2012 and this is my last piece of writing that will be published here at this school. To be as cliché as possible, it saddening yet, exhilarating.

Instead of writing all about how I will miss this place so much, I would like to rather sift through my mind to figure out what made me come to really ap-preciate high school and why I won’t look back with just tears and thoughts of “these were some of the best years.” Instead I want to look back with mo-ments of actual and true learning, but not only in the book sense but in the real world sense. These years were the ones that begin to shape young people but don’t have to define them entirely. That all

can come later. Well, that’s what they tell me. I came into high school with the usual

mind set of a creature called the “freshman” and was thankfully called out by my very first English teacher, Mrs. Kay Watson. If I hadn’t at that point detested her so much, I would have thoroughly loved each moment of her wonderful class. However, fate did not seem to think it so and instead I wound up mixed up in the theater with some thanks due to her. Because of the extraordinary patience, wisdom and virtually every positive adjec-tive of Ms. Barb Whitlock, theatre grew into something that changed me and changed the world around me. It became the thing I loved in my high school career the most of all my experiences. It taught me to try to achieve anything because anything is possible.

Fake wounds and blood, late nights and fast food runs. Memorizing lines, singing in front of an audience for the first time and watching the curtain close for the last time surrounded by some of the best people I

have found in my high school career.

These are cliche and true life lessons and memories that I take with me. Because if things weren’t a little sappy, they wouldn’t be true. To call refer-ence the last spring show, “You Can’t Take

It With You,” in the end you can’t take all of the money, all of the objects in your life with you. In the end, all that you have is the hap-

piness and memories that you have made for yourself. All of the lost scholarships, the “not so great” class rank, the National Honor Soci-ety. They’re all things that were great while they were there. I think that in reality though, they didn’t teach you anything other than someone has given you a number based off of numbers.

For some it’s a sport. Others it’s a club or a student government organization. For some it’s even a publication.

It’s these programs, and the amazing, tal-ented, extraordinary, and caring people be-hind them that make high school a time to remember and honor but not dwell in. After all, once you graduate you’re allowed to at least send friend requests to the teachers that you liked.

To get back to the point, underclassmen, don’t get caught up in trying to make these, “THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES” or even in trying to make school into the “best G.P.A.” contest because in the end that isn’t what matters.

What matters is that you take the actual knowledge and life lessons you gathered and apply and remember them for later on in life. What matters is that you become a part of one of many great student activities and organizations available to you and to not let your spark of talent, something that is within every one burn out.

What matters is that you don’t get hung up in the small things and that you remember what my grandma always tells me, “This too shall pass.”

May 11, 20128 Opinion

Nowadays it seems that high school sports are plagued with some athletes who only care about getting a scholarship for athletics. When in reality, there is an extremely slim chance that will happen, especially if they play a sport that doesn’t give out a lot of scholarships.

Now, I’m not saying that it is impossible for an athlete to get a scholarship based on his performance in their respective sport. But I am saying that most schools can’t afford to take chances on a student that is great at what they do but can’t get done what needs to be in the classroom.

You have to look at the facts. A Division l university can only offer a total of 100 scholarships in the three big sports: baseball, football and basketball. Even though that sounds like a high number, it really isn’t. You as an athlete have to think about the fact that you are competing against other athletes from all over the country for a small number of allotted scholarships for each sport.

However, you can get a leg up on all those other athletes if you just do your job and better yourself as not only an athlete, but as a student as well. Collegescholarship.org conducted a lot of research and put together a basic guide about how you can get scholarships and extra money by doing your work in the classroom. It also highlights other key issues that are important to incoming college athletes like compensation of players and Title IX.

For those athletes that argue about the time constraints that come with being involved in a high school sport, I have only one thing to say to you, get over it. There a r e

going to be tough times in your life and the fact that you might have AP homework on the same day as a game is probably not one of the most catastrophic things that will happen to you in your life. I mean, yes, you will end up staying up late and then you won’t be as alert the next day but most, if not all, athletes love adverse situations, whether it be in games or in life. They thrive off of them. This is a prime example of one of those situations. If anything, this will actually make you a better student. It forces you to stay awake so that you won’t get in trouble and have to run at practice for sleeping in class. Also, it would teach you that you go to school to learn, not

just so that you are allowed to practice. Ultimately, it boils down to how

much work you want to put into not only your sport but also your schoolwork. One is just as important

as the other. This is why it would make sense if every coach had their

own guidelines for those athletes with bad grades. Such as, any athlete with an F is not allowed to play or practice until the grade is brought

up. Also any student with a D should be required to attend a weekly tutoring session in that subject so that they can bring their grade up. But it shouldn’t just be restricted to the kids with already poor grades. Coaches are there to better their players. So, they should better them not only

on the field, but in the classroom as well. Now, I know it sounds like a strict policy but nothing in life comes easy and if you set high standards for yourself then there really is nowhere to go but up.

So remember, be a great, if not better, student than athlete. It really

will help you in the long run. Besides, it’s already supposed to be that

way. The title isn’t athlete-student, its student-athlete. Just always keep in mind your

future after sports.

Academics should be higher priority than athletics

by Cara HinhReporter

“Taylor DeHart is my boo.”

by Nick HollandReporter

Throughout everyone’s childhood, the idea of doing well in school is always stressed. Education is a necessity to perform well in today’s society, but education and physical fitness go hand in hand. Unfortunately, physical fitness is something that is not seen as being as important as it used to be.

Education is only half of a healthy person’s life style. The brain is just like any other muscle, because it requires exercise to perform at its best. School exercises the brain by confronting it with various obstacles to maneuver through, but what people lack to understand is that the body is a singular unit comprised of various parts. In order

to excel in every aspect of life ,every part of the body needs to b e pushed to its limits in order to function as a balanced whole.

When a person exercises, they aren’t only working out their visible muscles. Any kind of physical activity increases, heart rate, and as heart rate increases the blood in the body begins to flow faster and faster. This increased blood flow stimulates the brain and allows it to recreate its cells, in turn healing it of any previous damage. It also gives the brain the ability to expand in certain areas.

According to the NY Times, children who commonly exercise have larger basal ganglia than children who do not exercise. The basal ganglia are the part of the brain in charge of maintaining attention

,and easily changing thoughts into actions. This extra concentration that kids receive from physical activity can help them power through notes and achieve better grades on tests. By working out and being involved in a physical activity the body will be benefited in an innumerable amount of ways.

When it comes to fitness, one healthy activity leads to another. Studies done by Harvard University have proven that people that exercise an increased sensitivity to the physiological signs of fullness and are more sensitive to overeating. By simply putting 30 minutes into fitness, the body can heal, grow and adapt to healthy lifestyles. After working out, the healthy foods that active

people will eat provide the correct nutrients needed to perform at ones

very best, both in school and society in general. You

have to feed your body the healthy foods

needed to develop, and working out makes this shift from junk foods easier.

If education is as important

as everyone hypes it up to be, then physical activity

should be just as important. Every aspect of physical activity positively affects the brain and allows it to achieve its full potential.

Physical fitness is the first domino amidst a chain known as a healthy lifestyle. Along with its ability to enhance physique and mental capabilities, exercise strengthens the morals of everyone who commits themselves to it. Making a change from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one is difficult, but the struggles confronted along the way are what makes a person stronger. Working out teaches people that nothing in life comes easy, but if you fight for what you believe in anything is possible.

Physical fitness equally as important as academics

{headSCRATCHER} What is going to be the highlightof your summer?

“Having my 17th birth-day party.”

Strong relationships last longer than grades

Isiah Hatcher,Freshman

Julieta Tello,Sophomore

Justin Anderson,Junior

Nikki Mabry,Senior

“Playing Football.”

“Life-guarding at Bethel Park.”

“Going to Florida.”

by Derrick GrayReporter

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What matters is that you take the actual knowledge and life lessons you gath-ered.

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Let it all Out: Journal Staff Edition

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{theTIMEofyourLIFE} These rectangles represent the amount of time in your life these aspects are a top priority.

by Ali DeHartManaging Editor-of-Content

Recently, print newspaper has been declining as the media of choice for people around the world.

There has been a conflict between online and print newspapers ever since online newspapers were accessible to the public. Reading news stories on the internet versus reading stories that are printed on 29 by 23 inch paper gives two very different experiences, and DeHart of the matter is that print newspapers provide a better one.

The world is now moving at an all-time fast pace. Everything is instant. No one wants to wait for information for more than a couple seconds. Get on the internet and two seconds later—boom. There are more than a million Google search results at the click of a computer mouse.

There is just something different about reading a hard copy of the information rather than something on a computer or an iPad. Yes, I do understand that the world is moving at more of a fast-paced style, but why? It is not required to find out news information on the internet. In the world today, it’s expected to have a cell phone so people can get ahold of you at all times or maybe to have a computer at your house to type essays on, but I think that getting news and information about things going on from print newspapers is the best way to go.

I know that online journalists on a professional paper also usually publish their work in a print newspaper, but I don’t think it’s an argument which is better.

From my own experience, on the days the Journal comes out, everyone in school is reading it. There is a buzz around school that doesn’t exist for other news media.

A common argument against print newspapers is that they cannot stay up with the current information like online or broadcast media can because it simply takes longer to print and distribute. An online newspaper can be updated at any time during the day. However, newspapers have the ability to go more in-depth with the news because they have an entire day to get together what they are going to print, and that’s what I like about it.

Even though the Journal does not come out every day, most newspapers do. According to News Link, around 55 newspapers print every day in Indiana, while only 15 do not. Because newspapers are printed daily, they can keep up with current information just as online newspapers can.

In a paper titled “Medium Matters: Newsreaders’ Recall and Engagement with Online and Print Newspapers” by three doctoral candidates from the University of Oregon, Arthur D. Santana, Randall Livingstone and Yoon Cho, the authors explore the thought that print news is better for the

reader than online newspapers. This paper was presented at the meeting

for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Newspaper Edition in 2011.

This paper suggests that readers recall more from

print newspapers than they do from online newspapers.

The research also suggested that online

news stories still lack the impressionable style of print news stories.

This style that print news stories have is what

makes it so memorable. Santana, Livingstone and Cho bring up an amazing point in their paper: if a reader forgets what they read, what was the point anyway? When people read their stories online, which is what most people are doing

nowadays, they are not only recalling less information but also

reading less stories and finding them less credible than before.

As a student journalist, I want my readers to remember and enjoy what I am reading. I don’t want my readers to read halfway through

my articles and then forget them totally two hours later. I write for my readers. Although I’m sure that strictly online journalists don’t write for all the wrong reasons, I have

proof that print newspapers are being read for the right reasons.

When the bell rings and the passing period begins, it’s not unusual to see our principal, Ms. Barbara Brouwer, in the hallway interacting with students. We are incredibly lucky to have a principal who will take time out of her busy day to see for herself that everything is running smoothly at Southport. Our luck doesn’t end there, though. Southport is a great school with an even greater group of administrators, teachers, and other employees.

From the top of Southport, Brouwer makes it apparent that she cares about her students. As students, it’s nice to see our principal almost every day. It allows her to “get on our level” and be a person, not just some name that makes important decisions relating to the students. The same is true for the assistant principals and deans, who are also familiar faces. Going to the main office isn’t the only time we see our administration because they interact with students outside of their offices. This shows that they care.

The rest of the hard workers of the main office, the athletic office, and guidance also deserve the same praise. They are always finding ways to improve our experience at Southport and beyond. Take the scholarship wall, for example. Secretary Mrs. Kim Bova updates the scholarship wall in guidance almost daily with opportunities that allows students to help further their education. She is one example of how valuable the faculty is. From senior unassigned to the various student awards, they are constantly working to better serve the students.

Teachers at Southport are obviously important in the learning environment too. As students, we are so fortunate to be taught by teachers who strive to do their best and create personal connections with us. Most of the students in this school can admit to having a bond with at least one teacher. Over the past four years, I have seen so many teachers listen and give advice to students outside of the

realm of education. That’s important because our teachers don’t just push us to get good grades, but they also challenge us to become better people in our personal lives. I wonder just how many other high schools can say that they have that?

Then there’s the people who are behind the scenes—the custodial staff, lunch ladies and the others who we often overlook. Without them, though, our school would not be able to function. They do their jobs very well with smiles on their faces.

Whether it is Brouwer in the hallway asking a student about his or her day, or the beloved Homer greeting students as they pass by, Southport has an amazing staff who makes it obvious that they are working hard for us—the students. As students who are given so many opportunities and reap the many benefits of these wonderful people, we should all take the time to thank them for the extra effort they put forth for us.

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May 11, 2012 Sports12

The rivalry is there year in and year out. We do not like them, and they do not like us. “Friends don’t let friends wear blue.” Our inter-township rival, Perry Meridian, is not liked here at Southport, and we are not liked at Perry Meridian. So, why do we have to share athletic facilities with our arch-enemies?

Money. That is the answer. The township does not have enough money to pay for anoth-er football, baseball and

soccer field. Kind of ridiculous, don’t you think? But from what I found, if the proper action would have been taken the day Perry Meridian High School came to be in 1974, we could both have our own facilities.

Perry Meridian was built because South-port was overcrowded. They built a school, but built very few “varsity” athletic fields on site. Now, the student-athletes are feel-ing the effects of a decision that was made nearly 40 years ago. It does not make much sense to me why you would build a 4A- sized high school with very few athletic fields.

Take Lawrence Township for example. They split up in 1976 after 34 years of be-ing one high school. When they split, they split entirely. They do not share any ath-letic fields. Same goes with Columbus High School and Bloomington High School when they split. Now, they do not share anything. They are entirely separate schools that just happen to be in the same township.

All of these schools split up in the 70s and all but one school made separate athletic fa-

cilities for their schools. And that was South-port and Perry Meridian. The approximated stats that back this up relate directly to Perry Meridian because of the amount of bussing costs. We, the Southport baseball team, save the money and trips by carpooling in our personal cars over to Holder Field (where home games are played at Mary Bryan El-ementary) and by walking right over to the football stadium.

Over the past five years, between soft-ball and baseball, Perry Meridian has made around 111 trips to Holder Field on a bus. Say the prices have stayed the same over the past five years... The cost of a bus driver today is $35 per hour and gas is $2 per mile. Perry Meridian has spent $16,281 while traveling to Holder in the past five years. And with the trips to Perry Township Stadium for their “home” football games, they have totaled $19,186 over the past five years.

The thing is, they have JV fields on their campus. I think Perry Meridian should be required to play their varsity baseball, foot-

ball and softball games on their “JV” fields for a few years. They could save the money that would have been spent on bussing, and upgrade considerably after a few years.

“Realistically, when we travel on a bus to our facility, it does not really feel like a home game,” said Perry Meridian’s athletic director Mr. Mike Sipe. “It is the reality we must face, but it really causes a lot of confusion. When we load our equipment on a bus and travel to our home site, it is not a home game.”

As a Southport baseball player, I think that Holder seems like our home because we do not bus over there. It would be a different story if we had to do the same routine to go to our home site that we do when we travel to other schools. But we don’t.

I do believe that Perry Meridian should be required to play on the fields at their school. This would help stop a lot of confusion, and in the end it would save a lot of money for the township. Not only that, it would end the on-going argument of whose “house” it really is.

1st and 10 with Taylor DeHart

Freshman shows high potential

by Nick HollandReporterOneperson.Twoteamswaitingfortheend.

Threesets.Fourhours.That summarizes freshman Danielle Kee-

ler’s high school career. So far this year shehas had twomatches that have reached thefourhourmarkandwasabletowinboth.Eachcircumstancealmost identical,afirst set lossandthenarally towinthe last twosetsandtakethematch.Butifyouaskherabouteachmatch she feels that she didn’t do anythingspecial, she was just doing what she’s sup-posedtodo,win.“Thelongmatcheswereintense,butIjust

kept tellingmyself that I had towin for theteam,”Keelersaid.“ThemoreItoldmyselfthatthebetter Idid. I felt reallygoodduring thematch,andtheencouragementfrommyteam-matesandcoacheshelpedmealottoo.”Keelerplaysvarsitysinglesasthenumber

threeplayer.Ohyeah,andshe’sonlyafresh-man. Her head coachMr. Harry Schwartz isverypleasedwithhowKeelerhasdevelopedovertheseason.“She really has improved her game a lot

sincejustthebeginningoftheyear,”Schwartzsaid. “I really think that she canonly goupfromhere.ShereallyhasbeendoingwellforusandIknowthatwillcontinue.”Keelerhasembracedplayingonthevarsity

squadas a freshmenbecauseof thenumer-ouschallengesthatcomewithit.Mostnota-blyshesaysisthefactthatamajorityofthegirlsshecompeteswithareonetothreeyearsolderthanherandhavebeenplayingtennisformuchlongerthanher.Shenotonlynotesthedifficultyofthesportatthevarsity levelbutalsothefactthathermatchescountas20percentof the team’s totalwinsor losses. Ifshewins,thenitismuchmoresubstantialtoateamthanifajuniorvarsityplayerwon.Thesamethinggoeswithlossesaswell.DespitethesuccessthatKeelerhashadso

farthisseason,shebelievesthatshecanstillimproveinvariousareasofhergame.“Ifeellikemycrosscourtshotsarestrong,”

Keelersaid.“Ibelievethatthishelpsmekeepthe ball in play for a pretty decent amountof time.Thisreallyhelpsmetocompete forpointsbetterthansomeotherplayers.“However, my serves aren’t very good

andIdoublefaultoccasionally.Doingthisre-ally setsme back during somematches andI sometimeshave to digmyself out of someprettydeepholesinordertocomebackandwinsomematches.ButIfeelthatifIcontinuetoimprovethewaythatIwanttothatbythetimeIamaseniorthenIwillbetheplayerthat

Ihavealwayshopedtobe.”DespiteKeeler’sshortseasonshehasman-

aged to win more than 75 percent of hermatchesso far thisyear,beating the likesofrival Perry Meridian and Franklin Central.Schwartzhopes that shecancontinue to im-proveandalsocontinuetomakeanimpactontheteam.

“Ihavefaithin(Keeler’s)skillsandIknowthatshewillgetbetter,”Schwartzsaid.“Ithinksheiscapableofbecomingoneofthebestten-nisplayersinthestate.”Keelerisworkingeverydaytoconstant-

ly get better and she hopes that one dayshe can be that one person thatwins thestatetournament.

Freshman Danielle Keeler displays promising ability at a young age

Lack of facilities should have been avoided

Senior athletes say goodbye Spring senior athletes not only say goodbye to Southport, but also to their spring sports

by Taylor DeHartReporter

Tyler Wampler

Collin Lewis

Matt LytleKris Kuehr

Brian BoucherCasey Domek

Tyler Carr

Taylor LockwoodSarah Owens

Tyler Paschall

Rachel Vidito

Nolan FenwickBrooke Gagliola

Gena ClaytonDustin Baker

Juanesha Byrd

Madia Bannie

Girls tennis

Softball

Boys golf

Baseball Girls track

Boys track

Freshman Danielle Keeler warms up before a match against Decatur Central on Monday, May 7. Southport won with a score of 4-1. Photo by Jesse Roller.

Front Row: Cameron Ellis, Dillon Webb. Back Row (from left to right): Tonino Arapi, Ethan Hawes, Caleb Cantwell, Cameron Turner, Gavin Krueger, KeWan Davis, Stephen Morris. Very Back: Dustin Donovan

Photos by Jesse Roller and Becca Tapp.