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OCCUPIEDAn anti-corporate movement that has been sweeping the nation has come to town in the

form of “Occupy Iowa City.”By Kieran Green

On a balmy October afternoon, the nor-mally quiet College Green is flooded with protesters. A few cluster in small groups scat-tered across the premisis, their voices barely audible over the faint sound of an acoustic guitar playing on the far side of the park. The largest group sits in a large semi circle around a flat sheet of cardboard dubbed the “soapbox.” Unlike the other circles, this group is loud, erupting periodically into applause and cheers. Individuals speak one after the other, railing against everything from government policies, to corporations, to wealth disparity and the tax code.

“The great thing about [the Occupy pro-tests] is that it draws attention to to the fact that one percent of the population gobbles up most of the wealth. This is a majority movement within society, not just a traditional working class movement” Tom Louis, a lecturer who led a seminar at the park, said.

The assembled crowd is a diverse one. Tie-dye and checked scarves intermingle with but-ton down shirts and slacks, and close-cropped grey hair is just as common as the free-flowing mops of the college students. But despite these differences, the crowd is united in sentiment.

“A lot of people here just feel like they’d rather get pissed off than pissed on.” David Ellinger, one of the many occupiers currently residing in the park, said.

It was a sentiment that was echoed by many of the protesters there, as evidenced by the many slogans drawn on the sidewalk with phrases like “Be your own Robin Hood,” “Money isn’t speech,” and “End the Fed.”

“It’s a matter of truth. Efforts like this go to prove that sovereign nations need to take care of their own people.” Michael Tibbets, an Iowa City native taking part of the protests, said.

The protesters are referring to their move-ment as “Occupy Iowa City,” in solidarity with the the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, which started in September of last year. Sister protests have cropped up in over two thousand cities in every continent except Antarctica. Mirror-ing many of the other movements that have occurred this year, social networking played a major roll in helping to organize the protests in Iowa City.

“I found out about the Occupy protests through Facebook.” Alison Clark, one of the protest organizers, said. “I was upset that it hadn’t been covered much by the media.”

The organization that helped to put the protests together appears to have helped main-tain them as well. Negotiations with the City Council have granted the protesters the right to install portable toilets on the premises. The

protesters have managed to avoid confronta-tion with law enforcement so far. No demon-strators have been incarcerated at this point, though thirty protesters were arrested in Des Moines after setting up an encampment in front of the State Legislature building.

“[The police] have been very cooperative.” Clark said. “We’re granted access to the park so long as we don’t do any damage and don’t disturb the neighbors.”

To avoid damaging the park, protesters have taken over maintenance of the park, mov-ing tents every three days to avoid killing the grass, and picking up trash.

Tibbets described a typical day at College Green. “Everybody gathers in the morning to clean up everything. Then we have informa-tional meetings throughout the day. In the eve-ning, everybody makes dinner together, with donations that we’ve been given. By the time the day is over, we’re all full and happy, and there’s a feeling that this is how it’s supposed to be.”

Many protesters cite economic concerns as the driving motivation behind their occupa-tion

“While we have political equality, we do not have economic equality, and economic equal-ity is a precondition to democracy” said Louis.

The demonstrators have also taken steps to get students to take an interest, through social media and more conventional means, such as plastering City High’s trees and announcement boards with posters encouraging students to attend rallies. Many students have taken an ac-tive interest the occupation.

“Though I’m not really affected by many of the issues, I sympathize. I think its good. The government and corporations need a wake up call every now and then” Christian Kennedy (‘14) said.

Demonstrators intend to continue occu-pying the park, as plans have been drawn up to keep encampments over the winter. The protesters are currently in negotiations with the city to obtain a long-term permit from the city. There are also plans to bring in an arctic tent and to winterize existing structures, along with setting up propane heating throughout the park.

“I think more and more people will come to the protests especially as more they begin to understand and become educated” Clark said.

In contrast with earlier protests, many “oc-cupiers” as they have come to be known, are trying to incorporate as much of the popula-tion as possible into the movement.

“Most of the people, most of the time, are not revolutionaries. But circumstances move people, and I think that that’s a large part of whats going on here” Louis said.

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“I’m gonna tell you, every time I get out here I get a little fire up my butt!”Coach Sabers at the opening spirit as-sembly explaining his love for the football team

“I’m all for dictatorships. Some of the best mous-taches come from them!”Mr. Burkle explaining different political systems and leaders

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“Teenagers and senior citizens are a lot alike. You know, in terms of driving and sex.”Mrs. Redlinger explains the secret life of senior citizens

“Bribes are always good motivators.”Mr. Wilson gives an explanation to his students’ unusually high test scores

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Education Reform

On Homecoming night, City High students were charged with Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age both on and off school grounds.

Students receive PAULAs at Homecoming afterparties

by Max Friedman

On Homecoming night this year, several stu-dents were caught with possession of alcohol around City High and are now facing the con-sequences.

“I was in the school parking lot when the cops showed up. I remember being really angry,” John Roberts* said. “I was also disappointed that my parents would have to be upset at me again because I’ve been in significant trouble with them before.”

Jim Johnson*, a fellow student had a similar experience.

“By the time I got to the party I wasn’t even thinking of the police,” Johnson said. “When the cops showed up I didn’t really know what was going on. No one tried to run and no one tried to hide- we all knew we were in trouble.”

The charge for an underage drinker caught with alcohol is known as Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age, or PAULA. The conse-quences for this offense include a $330 fine, and the offense goes on the criminal record of the offender. However, there are alternate options in most cases.

“I just learned that if I go to Mecca classes I don’t have to pay the fine and it doesn’t go on my

record,” Roberts said. Mecca is a non-profit organization that of-

fers substance abuse and health services to the public, including substance abuse prevention services to students. Mecca’s mission statement is: “Dedicated to the possibilities of change and committed to enhancing quality of life through accessible behavioral health services.” Mecca also places importance on values like integrity, respect, diversity and confidentiality. Roberts plans to exercise more caution in the future.

“I’m trying to be a lot more careful about drinking, and I definitely have to rebuild some trust with my parents,” Roberts said.

New education blueprint fuels comments and criticism from Iowa students and educators. The plan was presented at a recent forum hosted at West High.

City High considers going IB

by Cassie Wassink

In a liberal university town, many people have strong opinions about the “right” way to edu-cate. Now, with a new education reform blue-print laid out by the current administration, controversy is greater than ever.

Core features of this plan, introduced on Oc-tober 3, 2011, include a new four-tier teacher structure, increased amounts of standard-ized testing, and a greater spirit of innovation throughout the state.

While supportive of some aspects of the plan, Principal John Bacon expressed concern with one particular aspect.

“I don’t want to see teachers feel limited or constricted.” Bacon said, discussing specifically the possible addition of required end-of course exams. “It’s about breadth vs. depth. I want teachers to have freedom and flexibility.”

Many educators in Iowa are thinking along similar lines, and questioning numerous aspects of this plan, including a move towards greater standardization, a lack of student motivation, and shortsighted modeling and communica-

tion.At a recent forum hosted by West High on

October 16, Iowa City students, parents, and educators had an opportunity to further express to the Iowa Department of Education officials these concerns.

“We’re not all like cookie-cutter pieces,” Ve-niesa Dillon ‘13 said at the forum. One part of the plan suggests the addition of a personality test as a prerequisite for teachers. “We all need different things.” Dillon said. “I’m a person, she’s a person, he’s a person. We all need separate teachers, and that’s what I’m arguing for right now.”

Government teacher Jeanine Redlinger ad-dressed the issue of student motivation.

“My concern is the plan carries with it no mo-tivation for students,” Redlinger said. “The last time I checked, students weren’t motivated by tests, so I wonder what you’re planning on do-ing to help with that.”

According to the blueprint, additions to stan-dardized testing would include a third grade literacy test, based off of a similar existing test in Florida. The new spirit of innovation would

hope to incorporate measures from schools around the world.

English teacher Colleen Davis addressed this aspect, suggesting that perhaps drafters of the plan should incorporate input from their own educators rather than from schools around the world.

“So my issue is I don’t know that you’ve ac-tually listened to us,” Davis said, addressing the representatives. “And I really hope that you have, but based on your answers you have talked the talk, and you have your talking points and they sound really good unless you know the in-formation.”

Davis went further to suggest that the admin-istration recognize the value of schools in Iowa, rather than start again from ground zero.

“... and perhaps that’s why I get defensive,” Da-vis said. “Because I feel like you’re trying to fix us and there’s nothing wrong with us, and if you are trying to fix other school districts in IA, use us as your model because we do fine stuff here and I don’t want what I do to be ruined because you have this grand vision that’s overlooking what we’re already doing well.”

by Lily Howard

On October 25, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Principal John Bacon and a selected group of administrators attended a conference on the International Baccalaureate program for high schools.

“It’s just an idea phase. It’s a good idea as the principal of a school to have a sharp focus on what we are currently doing and being the absolute best that we can be,” Ba-con said. “The I.B. program is most like AP. There are similarities and differences; it’s a set of expectations a school can adopt.”

There are many possible advantages of be-coming an I.B. school.

“There are aspects that appeal. There is always breadth vs. depth and I.B. goes more in depth than AP. Creativity and critical thinking are encouraged. You would rarely find a multiple-choice test in an I.B. class. It provides both internal and external assess-ment, which makes for a course with a lot more rigor,” Bacon said. “We already have a growing and thriving AP program but it’s an intriguing opportunity.”

Bacon stressed that attending this confer-ence is strictly to learn more about the grow-ing international education program.

“It definitely is not imminent,” Bacon said. “We are in step one in the idea phase.”

A new year of Young Life

by Sarah Lange

Pulling up to the big red barn off Linder Road on a Wednesday night you hear music blaring, see leaders dressed in funny cos-tumes, and 50+ students lined outside col-lecting tickets to win a prize. The only place you could be is at Young Life. Director of Iowa City Young Life Ellie Alberhasky works full-time along with leaders to build lifelong relationships and help students live out their faith.

“We get that high school can be filled with all kinds of garbage like loneliness, pressure, and expectations from everyone around you to measure up,” Alberhasky said. “It’s hard to even consider that God fits into that any-where. Young Life is a place where we start the conversation of that possibility.”

Iowa City Young Life was established in the 60s.

“It’s a place where you can belong no mat-ter what you believe.” Alberhasky said.

Young Life isn’t just a club located in a hay filled barn or in a student’s house, but a fam-ily.

“It’s a place where I can be me, whether it’s me being super goofy and loud at club or me talking about personal things to campaign-ers on Sunday nights. It’s a sort of security blanket. I don’t feel judged. It’s not a cult. It’s not an exclusive club. It’s a family!” Amel Ali said.

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Edinburgh, Scotland. Melbourne, Austra-lia. Dublin, Ireland. Reykjavik, Iceland. Iowa City, Iowa. Not remote outposts, but major station stops on the world’s literary map. This surprising combination of divergent cities and towns comprises the list of UNESCO Cities of Literature; a title given to important centers in the world’s literary network.

To add to its list of lettered distinction, Iowa City was recently named one of the “Top 10 Cities for Book Lovers” by Livability.com. Much of this credit is due to the illustrious independent bookstore; Prairie Lights. The local haven for book connoisseurs has garnered much credit since its founding in 1978 by Jim Harris. As the website gives reasons for its decision, it states that “cities with successful independent bookstores tend to have an en-trepreneurial spirit that carries over into other industries.”

“[Praire Lights] started out so small and re-ally humble,” Rose Persaud, a 16 year employee

and City High parent said. “It became so loved for its atmosphere, and really became a little institution.”

All of this rich literary culture in Iowa City finds its way down into our school system and influences our youth. The scholarly influence in the upper tiers of the town undoubtedly trickle down into the school system.

“I think that Iowa City’s recent credentials make people more aware of the reading com-munity,” Monica Hemingway ‘12, president of City High’s book club “City Reads”, said.

“You can definitely see differences in kids who have grown up in Iowa City their whole lives,” Greg Vraspier said.

Local libraries have a large in the city’s book network. Programs such as the inter-library loans in Iowa City and Coralville and the constant collaboration between the schools’ li-braries and the city’s illustrate the tightly woven web of literary cords that bind the town.

“All of these things show that there is a strong understanding in our community about the important role of the library in a town,” Vraspier said, “there is a lot of interconnected-

ness between our school districts and local libraries.”

The important role of libraries is evident. In fact, Iowa City, while being only the 6th largest town in the state, has the 3rd highest library check-out rate (behind only the larger metro-politan areas of Des Moines and Cedar Rapids).

At City High, the book club takes advantage of being part of book-centered community, taking part in the Community Reads program.

“Just recently, some of our members read “Zeitoun” because it was one of the books that the city recommended,” said Monica Heming-way. In addition to the programs, the mix of students and programs that Iowa City harbors effects its overall scholarly atmosphere.

“I’m really grateful that I live in a college town because of the diversity you can find in the public and university libraries,” said Hemingway, third cousin of legendary author Ernest Hemingway. “I have so many friends who live in really small towns who don’t get the opportunity to read a recently translated to English text which was originally printed in Mandarin or Italian.”

by Annika Wasson

Francesca Crutchfield-Stoker ‘12 first got in-volved in Best Buddies when she was a sopho-more. Now, as club president, she is excited for the upcoming year.

“I just hope to get the word out and to have more people join and be aware of Best Bud-dies,” Crutchfield-Stoker said. “It would be awesome to win chapter of the year, but being part of it is just really fun,”

This year the club has grown to 160 mem-bers, which is a large increase from previous years. Crutchfield-Stoker says Best Buddies is a good way to bring together the whole school.

“You see members from all different groups, so it’s kind of like one group that everybody is in,” Crutchfield-Stoker said. “It’s a really diverse group and it’s very cool.”

Principal John Bacon agrees, saying that Best

Buddies has changed the entire culture of City High.

“Best Buddies has made the school a more accepting, inclusive, positive culture,” Bacon said. “I am so impressed by the accepting, tolerant attitudes of our students for not only students with disabilities, but with students from all sorts of different backgrounds,” Bacon said.

Best Buddies has already had an active year, riding for the first time with Iowa’s Best Bud-dies chapter in the University of Iowa’s home-coming parade, on Friday October 21.

Best Buddies is looking forwards to their an-nual Halloween and Costume party on Friday October 28. Later in the year, Best Buddies will host a Thanksgiving and homecoming dance, their annual Holiday Party, and a trip to a high ropes course.

This year’s Best Buddies theme is “Super Buddies.” Special Education Advisor

According to Tom Braverman, this year’s group is truly “Super.”

“I believe that all of our members are super for committing themselves to this worth-while organization and its mission to improving the lives of students with intellectual disabilities,” Braverman said.

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LEFT: Books stock the shelves at Praire Lights, a nationally acclaimed local bookstore. RIGHT: An employee works behind the counter on a Tuesday

Iowa City earns recognition for its literary presenceRecently ranked among the “Top 10 Cities for Book Lovers” by Livability.com, Iowa City is internationally renowned for its love of literature.

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Best buddies members gathered to paint a banner for the parade.photo by CAITLIN FLANNIGAN ‘12

Debaters earn new titles

by Nat Alder

The City High Debate team has contin-ued to win awards at recent competitions.

Varsity policy debater Ava Vargason ‘13 earned a “Third Speaker” award at the UNI competition. The “Speaker” awards were given to those that earned the top three highest scores. The speakers were judged on how well they spoke and acted during each debate.

“I really didn’t expect to win, but I’m really happy that I did and I think it’s really cool that it happened,” Vargason said.

Drew Gartner ‘15 had his first competi-tion at Indianola.

“I was scared, but after the first round I became more confident,” Gartner said.

This year the debate team has compe-titions in Minneapolis, Michigan, and Chicago, and next year the team plans to expand to potential locations of Texas and New York.

The debate team will continue to practice and compete for the remainder of the school year.

Vargason stressed the positive experienc-es possible in debate. “More people should learn about and join debate, because it’s a fantastic experience and it’s all around a good time.” Vargason said.

Debate has proven an enriching experi-ence for its newer members as well.

“Debate’s really nice, and I’m happy to be on the team,” Gartner said.

Schools gather around hardships

by Alex Perez

Splattered throughout the City High seas of red and white are bursts of orange and blue, honoring the loss of Caroline Found. Caroline Found was killed in a moped accident on August 11th, 2011 following her death was classmate Raymone Bryant who was killed in a fire in his home on September 4th.

“I was at the skate park both times when I heard about it,” Eli Shepard ‘14 sai. “My friends knew them, one of my friends drove by right when the ambulance showed up.”

Others knew Found and Bryant better.“I went to church with Caroline,” B.J.

Sullivan ‘15 said. “I found out about both deaths on facebook.”

No matter if you knew personally or hadn’t known them at all, their deaths have impacted everyone in the community.

“It brings everyone closer together,” Shepard said. “The lines were blurred be-tween the schools, everyone set their pride aside to honor the ones we lost. People now seem more conscience and thoughtful, they realize it can all end in a second.”

Best Buddies starts off strongBest Buddies’ year full of activities has already begun. This year’s theme is Super Buddies and the annual Halloween party will occur on October 28.

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Debit Left, Credit Right

“Debits on the left, credits on the right...” The song from business teacher AJ Leman’s Accounting class has been playing through the minds of not only City High students and staff, but thousands of others as well. “My accounting class was studying deb-its and credits so I looked online to see if I could find any catchy songs or videos on the subject,” said Mr. Leman. “The stu-dents really got into it. They told me they wanted to make their own music video.” The class didn’t waste any time. They took one day to plan the video, and one day to shoot it. Students chimed in with ideas for the vid-eo as they recorded, revising and adjusting the video until it was ready to be uploaded. “We posted it on YouTube first,” said Mr. Leman. “Then it ended up on Face-book and eveutually KCRG got ahold of it and came in to interview me about it.” Before long, the video was appearing on social networking websites, sent via text message, and talked about everywhere; racking up over 4,000 views. The class had no idea the project would have such a viral effect, but the video did more than adver-tise Mr. Leman’s City High accounting class. “I was just trying to get them interested in the subject,” said Mr. Leman. “but the project not only got the class working together and lik-ing each other, it really bonded us as a class.”

IC Bagels Lost to FireOn the morning of September 24, the downtown Bruegger’s Bagels was damaged by fire. Damage was in the

millions in cost, and the neighborborng Historic Van Pattern house received significant damage as well.

by Tess Wisdom

Molly Galemo woke up to the sound of her smoke alarm. She called 911 and got her neighbors out of the building, saving them from the fire downstairs in Bruegger’s Bagels.

That morning, September 24th, at 2:17 A.M., the fire department arrived. They searched the three apartments upstairs, and then forced the doors to Bruegger’s, causing a smoke explosion.

“We spent a lot of time determin-ing the cause,” Lead Fire Investigator John Grier said. “It was a significant amount of damage, in the millions in cost.”

The fire damaged the Bruegger’s Bagels building, as well as the neigh-boring historic Van Patten house. Six apartments were destroyed, but luckily the occupants found alternate living arrangements. Two cats were found in the Van Patten house: one alive and one dead.

“Bruegger’s Bagels is not required to have fire alarms by law,” Grier said. “It was only because there were apartments with smoke alarms that they got out.”

68 Years of The Little HawkThe City High Little Hawk has been a student-made, student-produced news-

paper for close to 68 years and is looking back over the past few years. by Max Friedman

Racism, stereotypes, sex and marijuana have all filled the pages of The Little Hawk over the past few years, creating controversy and in-spiring thought. As The Little Hawk celebrates its 68th year, past editors and advisors reflect on the paper.

“Being on paper gave me the ability to ask questions,” 2010-11 Editor Carl Sessions said. “Young people asking questions is so impor-tant, the single light in the alley of darkness.”

“It gave me a lot of confidence and my writ-ing improved because I wrote so often,” 2008-2009 Editor Ian Stewart said.

“I owe everything to The Little Hawk- it got me a full ride to the University of Iowa, and showed me that journalism was some-thing I wanted to pursue,” Adam B Sullivan, 2007-2008 editor said. Throughout the years, The Little Hawk has won several awards and qualifiers including 1st place in the 2011 Iowa High School Press Association contest for Web Design.

“I felt the most accomplished when every story in the paper was worthwhile, the staff was coming up with good ideas- people were on board,” Stewart said.

“The website really picked up when I was editor and we just had a really great staff,” Ses-sions said.

“When we published the story on racism at CHS it was on National Public Radio and the news,” Sullivan said. “It got a lot of attention on our paper, and got more people to read it,”

The 2007 story on racism was very contro-versial for The Little Hawk, and many more

ground-breaking stories have been published in the past few years.

“We tried to publish a story about stereo-types when I was editor, but people got upset so we had to pull it,” Stewart said.

“We did a 2-page spread about marijuana with a personal narrative from someone who used it,” Sessions said. “However the student’s mother was strongly against it, so we had to remove the student’s name from the story at the last second.”

Bringing up topics such as these seems to be a tradition through the years, and an important aspect in a high school paper.

“A student paper provides an avenue for students to learn critical skills, and it’s one of the best activites you can do at school,” Ses-sions said.

“On the paper, students really are calling the shots,” Sullivan said. “Everything is planned in high school but in newspaper the students truly are in charge.”

“The paper both informs people and exposes things that need to be talked about. It’s a fun-damental part of a democracy,” Stewart said. “It gives students an opportunity to practice something that’s important in the real world.”

by Ethan Zierke

These front covers from 1975, 1992, and 2011 show how much The Little Hawk has changed over the years.

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New drum circle

English 9 students to earn honors credit

by Oli Peters

City High’s classes are divided into two dis-tinct groups: honors and regular. This split is especially prevalent in English classes where students are given the opportunity to take an Honors class their sophomore year. However, next year freshman students will have English 9 Honors Distinction within their regular English classes.

“The specific requirements are still being hammered out but by picking Honors level books to read, choosing the most difficult as-signments and possibly creating a portfolio of your work you’ll get an H on your transcript,” Jonathan Rogers, English 9 teacher, said. “Basi-

cally by doing more difficult work in the class, students get rewarded with an honors credit.”

The main differences between Honors and regular English classes are the pacing, the amount of work, and the amount of writing that the students are asked to do.

“All teachers, Honors or regular, have the same curriculum when it comes to English classes within the same grade level,” English 9 and English 10 Honors teacher Ali Borger-Ger-mann said. “We all have different approaches, but the same goals: improving our students’ writing and reading skills, and comparing texts at a higher level. So really the only reason why a student would take an Honors English class is because they’re willing to take on a big work-load and learning things at a faster pace.”

Borger-Germann admits that having the op-tion to take honors classes can be bittersweet.

“I’m glad that there’s a place for gifted stu-dents to run with what we’re teaching them,” Borger-Germann said. “However, I worry that by segregating our classes into regular and Hon-ors, the people taking regular classes miss out on the sparkle that honors kids bring to class.”

In an effort to avoid this separation, English teachers have come up with Honors Distinction.

“I was against a separate English 9 Honors class, as were most if not all English teachers at City because we already have a good curriculum and want to keep it,” Rogers said. “The English 9 Distinction is a good way to give students who choose the more difficult path the credit they deserve.”

Next year, freshman students will have the option to earn Honors credits within their regular English classes, with the new Honors Distinction.

by Ethan ZierkeThe rhythms of improvisational drum-

ming can be heard echoing through the halls after school on Mondays. Each play-ing to their own pattern, the drummers of the City High Drum Circle are responsible for this weekly music.

“Mr. Bacon came up with the idea for the drum circle,” James Thompson, City High Drum Circle sponsor, said. “Over the sum-mer he came to me with the plan and asked me if I’d be interested in sponsoring it.”

Thompson accepted the offer and has been the solo leader of the group since the circle began meeting regularly.

The percussion instruments range from shakers, to congas, to African talking drums. The drums were purchased through an activities fund, and are used by music classes, groups, and now regularly by the official City High Drum Circle.

Drum Circle meets Mondays after school and plays with roughly 6 regular attenders. The group’s first performance was October 18, when they accompanied a choir piece put on by City High Singers.

“In the future we hope to play at pep as-semblies and participate in more indepen-dent performances,” Thompson said.

KEEP THE BEAT: Phillip Daniel helped to promote the new Drum Cirlce club in the main foyer. Drum Circle meets every monday afterschool.

photo by DELLA NUNO

Homework club

by Emma BaxterHomework Club has returned to City

High after a successful first year. Sponsors Emily Dvorak, Ann Schaefer, and Heidi Schmitt help students with their homework Monday through Wednesday, from 3:15 to 4:30 in the library.

“We realized that a lot of students have homework that they’re not able to complete at home,” Dvorak said. “Homework Club is a place where they can be efficient and get things done.”

Open to all students, Homework Club is also an option for serving detentions. Ac-cording to Dvorak, attendance ranges from 20 to 30 students on busy days.

“We don’t force kids to come,” Dvorak said. “But who wouldn’t come? The three coolest teachers at City High are running it.”

Homework Club also allows students to feel a stronger connection to their school and to their teachers.

“It makes for a longer day, but I never leave wishing I didn’t go,” Dvorak said. “I leave happy and I hope the students leave feeling that way too.”

1. Muammar el-Qaddafi, fascist dictator of Libya for 40 years, was killed on Oct. 20. His death was almost as violent as the life he lived: murdered on the streets of Surt, his hometown, Qaddafi is said to be responsible for the second most civilian deaths, second only to Osama Bin Laden. His death comes after a long Libyan revolu-tion.

2. In Greece, there has been an ongoing series of general strikes. The protestors are working against cutting public spending and raising taxes. The riots have been happening since May of 2010 and have turned violent in many places.

3. Swiss customs officials intercepted a man at a Zurich airport whose luggage contained hundreds of an endangered species of tarantula. They found 261 of the Mexian red-kneed tarantulas packed into plastic bags.

4. New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup on Sunday, beating France 8-7 to become the third country to win the title twice.

5. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey, Sunday, October 23. The amount of people killed is un-known but it is feared to be over 1,000.

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The students that leadBacon acts on the “one thing you should do as principal”, and organizes a leader-

ship retreat for underclassmen on the grounds of YMCA Camp Wapsie.

by Eli Shepherd

As the passengers boarded the famed cruise ship “The Wapsie”, a feeling of unease blended with excitement, for their survival depended upon the actions and abilities of all aboard. However, this wasn’t a real cruise ship, nor were there lives at stake.

This was a balancing exercise, where students had to arrange themselves on the ends of a large teeter-totter of sorts. This rather strange, yet effective, teeter-totter exercise was carried out at City High’s first annual Leadership Re-treat at Camp Wapsie.

“Everyone should be part of something spe-cial at City High,” Principal John Bacon said,

as a part of one of his motivational speeches given at the retreat. The retreat, inspired by Cedar Rapids Washington High School’s similar retreat, was an overnight event in which approximately 70 underclassmen traveled to Camp Wapsie to learn how to become leaders at the School that Leads.

Approximately 10 upperclassmen, 10 staff members, and Bacon, who organized the event, traveled with the underclassmen.

At the retreat, students participated in team building exercises and leadership development activities, as well creative endeavors and basic camp games and activities. The upperclassmen were selected by Bacon based upon their suc-cess and involvement at City High. They were all part of a panel that took questions from the

underclassmen and advised the underclassmen on how to be successful in academics, extracur-riculars, and life in general.

“I feel like kids fall into a routine and they don’t even notice,” Alex Perez ‘13 said “It’s easy to lose yourself and become overwhelmed , but when you get invoved with something, whether it be a sport, theatre, music or anything else. along the way you find your niche and your place at City High.”

“You won’t necessarily find an extracurricu-lar right away, but just try some out to see what you like. Once you find something you love, stick with it, because it’s worth it,” Emma Gier ‘13 said. “You may not be the best at the activ-ity, or the president of the club, but stay with it because it’s really fun, and really rewarding.”

by Cassie Wassink

Sometimes, writing is just about getting the words on the page.

It is with this idea in mind that Claire Jacobson and Holiday Bender plan to form a National Novel Writing Month (NaNoW-riMo) club.

“You get more encouragement,” Bender said, describing the experience of writing in a group rather than alone. “Everything is easier when you’re working with people.”

November is the NaNoWriMo, and is or-ganized by an online program that guides participants towards the ultimate comple-tion of a 50,000 word count by the end of November. This program operates with the idea of quantity over quality, of moving past hesitation and doubt and simply creating.

Jacobson and Bender will spend anywhere from one and a half to three hours per day crafting their novels, Each of them will have a specific word count to meet by the end of each day, depending upon the ultimate goal that they wish to achieve.

The NaNoWriMo club plans to meet week-ly on Monday afternoons imediately after school. At these meetings, the students will compare notes and offer motivation to one another.

“The motivation will be slightly more guilt-based,” Jacobson said, describing the specific benefits of working within the con-text of the group. “It’s more fun when you do stuff together.”

New club hopes to encourage young writers to

‘just get the words down’

National novel writing month

by Sonora Taffa

French and Spanish students will travel to Europe in a school organized trip this Spring break. Donna Grunstad will chaperone the France trip, and Bonnie Hall the Spain trip.

“They get a chance to be totally immersed in the language and culture,” Grunstad said. “Students learn that they can function and develop a sense of independence.”

Twenty-seven Spanish students will travel to Madrid, along with five other cities. Three French students will combine with ten West High French students to travel to Paris and throughout Southern France.

“It’ll be interesting to go to another coun-try and compare it to Iowa City,” Grant Lew-is’13 said. “My brother went two years ago and loved it. It really improved his Spanish. I’ve heard that the Spanish we learn in class helps, but once you get there you just learn so much more.”

Sophie Neems’12 went on the Spain trip last year as a senior and is now in AP Span-ish 5.

“I gained a broader view of the world by going somewhere where I was a minority,” Neems ’12 said. “I also certainly gained in-dependence. I was very nervous before the trip about spending two weeks away from home, but it was totally fine and fun once I got there.”

Both of the trips will take place March 8 through March 22nd. One week will be spent traveling, and the final week will be spent liv-ing with a host family.

“I learned so much about the culture and my French really improved,” Della Nuno’12 said. “It’s sometimes scary to leave your ele-ment, but once you do it, it’s just so reward-ing.”

Languages to travel abroad

ENJOYING NATURE AND LEARNING TO LEAD: Left: Mr. Bacon introduces the underclassmen and encourages them to be leaders. Above right: Students attempt to balance, learning how to work together in the process. Below right: Underclassmen and upperclassman chaperone Emma Gier’ 13 try to untie themselves after getting into a ‘human knot’.

Junior O’Malley attends No. 80 Beijing High School

*The following is an excerpt from Ryan’s summary of the beginning of

his time in China.

by Ryan O’MalleyForeign Correspondent

We must have arrived in Beijing, China on the worst possible day.

Thick smog lined the completely saturated air. After a 13-hour flight and very little sleep for the past few days, I instantly began to question why I decided to study this semester in China. We proceeded through customs; collected our bag-gage went to meet Xiu Lei, (other wise known as Ethan) who is in charge of foreign student af-fairs. He took us to a small bus and we boarded it for a half an hour ride to the school. We all looked in awe, as we approached the school. We had read blogs, talked to alumni and were told about the school at our orientation in Washing-ton D.C. Despite all this, many questions were still in the air about what exactly our lives would be like in Beijing.

Beijing #80 high school is set up sort of like a small college. It has two 6-floor dormitories (segregated by sex), two huge classroom build-ings, an athletic field with a track surrounding it, a cafeteria and a large auditorium. The school is gated. In order to leave school you must ob-tain a pass and be back by the curfew of 7 PM on

weeknights and 9 PM on the weekends.I was not impressed when I arrived at Beijing

#80 High School that gloomy day. The dormi-tory and the classroom buildings we visited did not impress me. The food I ate at the cafeteria, was horrendous, it must have been laced with MSG. After dinner I went back to my room and discovered that there is not working Internet in the dorms. I had enough for one day. I took a shower, and then went to sleep for about 10 hours.

Life slowly, but surely got better. The next day was a bright sunny day, just like we have back in Iowa. The smog that lined the air the day before seemed to magically disappear overnight. We were placed in our language class then had a break for lunch before going shopping.

We had lunch in the international student cafeteria, which is only open for lunch. The food was buffet style and although not great, was much better then what I had consumed the night before. We all went to the shopping center for the first time that day. It is a tall three story black building with many small stores, restau-rants and a huge 2-story department store with-in. I have pretty much gone to this place every single day since I have arrived here.

On Friday we started into the usual routine of school...

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by Cassie Wasink

Manuscripts and pencils covered the tables and low, excited voices discussed everything literature, from commas to characters to theme. Writers in Bloom(WIB), a group that was first implemented last year, returned for its second time around.

“It’s come together beautifully this year,” co-sponsor and English teacher Brad Hartwig said. “We have a lot of new students.”

Writers in Bloom, run by English teach-ers Brad Hartwig and Robin Fields, is a pro-gram that coordinates with students from the Writers Workshop in Iowa City to provide constructive feedback about students’ writ-ing. This year, the group will meet on an ev-ery other month rotation, allowing time for workshop students to read and comment on the students’ work.

Senior Annika Bergstrom, returning par-ticipant to the group, described the positive experience that she had last year working with University of Iowa Writers Workshop students.

“I really enjoy writing poetry,” Bergstrom said. “And this is a really good opportunity to learn more.”

Bergstrom also described the positive ex-perience that she had reading and reviewing other students’ work.

“It was really nice that we could share each other’s work.” Bergstrom said.

This year, four West High students will join City High’s Writers in Bloom, three of whom attended the first meeting. This was initiated by West High student Margaret Shultz.

Fields expressed her excitement about

bringing the two schools together through this group. “I am excited and anxious to work with West,” Fields said.

In an effort to improve communication this year, WIB will use EDMODO, a network similar to Facebook.

Students’ work for the next meeting will be distributed in November, and the up-

coming meeting will take place in December.

“The workshop students were really enthu-siastic,” Bergstrom said. “They really emulat-ed the workshop criticism experience.”

According to Fields, this program provides a unique opportunity to students at City High.

“Writers in Bloom is cool because it gives kids another outlet for belonging at City High.” Fields said. “The opportunity is amaz-ing.”

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Student writers flourishStudents meet in the LMC to correspond with Writers Workshop students

and discuss, critique and comment on one another’s work.

by Nat Alder

Most City High students are currently en-rolled in a foreign language course. A much smaller percentage, however, have gone beyond the requirement. Several students are studying multiple languages simultaneously.

Even though taking two language courses is potentially overwhelming, students describe it as manageable.

Nikki Schmelling ‘13 is currently taking Ger-man 2 and AP Spanish IV-V.

“I don’t find it very difficult to balance be-cause they’re two very different languages,” Sch-melling said. “Although sometimes in German

I find myself reverting back to Spanish when I draw a blank.”

Max Moloney ‘14 is enrolled in French 3 and Spanish 1. Due to the fact that both are lan-guages that derive from Latin, they have similar characteristics.

“Certain things are harder because sometimes I mix the two a little,” Moloney said. “Other times it’s helpful because I can understand a lot more about Spanish because I already know a lot of French and they’re so similar.”

For Maloney, managing both languages is feasible.

“It’s pretty easy,” Moloney said. “Not a lot of homework for either class.”

With only four years of foreign language re-quired, Schmelling offered her reasoning for the double-up.

“I started with Spanish,” Schmelling said. “It seemed practical, and my step-mom’s from Puerto Rico. I later signed up for German be-cause I had room on my schedule- I did it on impulse.”

Moloney has different reasoning. “I’m taking French because my mom and sis-

ters did it so it was more of a traditional thing,” Moloney said. “I really liked it and I decided I wanted to be a language teacher so I took Span-ish also.”

Both received mixed reactions from friends and family about the decision.

“My dad thought I was crazy,” Schmelling said. “My mom thought it was a waste of time. My friends were very encouraging though.”

Moloney was met with similar reactions.“People will say things like, ‘What? Why are

you doing that? That’s crazy!’” Moloney said. “They’re more understanding though when I tell them my reasoning.”

Schmelling and Moloney both hope to take two or more language courses through high school and on into college.

“I hope to take more than two languages in college. I really want to learn something chal-lenging, like Chinese,” Schmelling said.

French teacher Donna Grunstad offered her opinion.

“The more languages, the better,” Grunds-tad said. “Once you’ve learned one, the next is easier.”

Students take multiple languagesTo the surprise of their peers, several City High students go beyond the re-

quirement and beef up their resumes with multiple foreign language courses.

Students read and critique the pieces that they prepared for the first Writers in Bloom workshop of the year.photo by CASSIE WASSINK

ICCSDfarm to school month

by Oli Peters

October is National Farm to School month, a resolution that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last year. To raise aware-ness of locally grown foods in public schools this month, fresh apples and watermelon will be sold by public schools within the ICCSD school district.

“People are realizing that that fresh foods are the healthier alternative because of the locally grown foods we’re serving in schools this month,” Chairperson of the Iowa City Farm to School Program said.

The watermelon is from Roush Produce in Conesville, Iowa and the apples are from Wilson’s Orchard in Iowa City. Along with the locally grown foods, the Farm to School Program will have posters about the foods and pictures of where they’re from.

Fas Trac to a brand new beginning

by Jon Myers

FasTrac was founded in 2007 by former City High teacher and human rights activist Henri Harper. Not long after the club be-gan, Harper was laid off due to restructur-ing of his position. This caused the club to lose popularity, so with the new school year, FasTrac advisor and English teacher Mau-reen Hill hopes to rebuild and gain student support.

The goal of FasTrac is to get students more involved with the school, and more aware of their past.

“The program is designed to get kids con-nected with the school, and get them into college,” Hill said.

Working with advisors and tutors, the students get one on one help to improve grades, as well as advice. Outside of school, the members have a chance to travel across the country with the Historical and Civil Rights educational trips.

As well as existing at City High, FasTrac has now spread to Junior High and Elemen-tary Schools. FasTrac also runs an out of school program called Mayor’s Youth Em-powerment Program (MYEP). MYEP is a private non-profit organization that was founded in 1968 and helped FasTrac be-come what it is today.

FasTrac began with only six students and is now pushing 100, with room to grow. Any students interested in joining can contact student leaders Juwairiah Omar or Fatimah Omar.

Former leader Henri Harper has since been awarded with the Isabel Turner Award from the city of Iowa City. This award is presented to individuals who demonstrate interest in human rights and the environ-ment of Iowa City.

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City High musicians travel to All State

by Della Nuno

While many students were sound asleep Saturday morning, members of city high’s choir, orchestra and band were headed to Fairfield, Iowa for the south-east district all-state auditions.

“I got up at 5 o’clock in the morn-ing, had breakfast and then I practiced,” violinist Francesca Crutchfield ‘12 said. “Then I held my lucky baseball, took a nap, tried to put everything else out of my mind and then I practiced some more.”

Students from around the south-east district crowded into Fairfield High school’s gymnasium for a day of rehears-ing, and overall nervousness. Auditions ran from 9am through 6pm on Saturday October 22.

“This is my third year trying out and I think I was able to control my nerves,” Wesley Steffen ’12 said. “There were some moments where the note didn’t speak as soon as it should’ve, but I was able to make up for it.”

Anticipation for results and call-backs of those accepted into the festival was building. While some students be-came more nervous, others tried to re-main positive.

“I played Ultimate Frisbee and walked downtown to get food,” Crutch-field said. “I kind of freaked out, listened to some dub-step, and waited a lot.”

Then the results came out. This year city returns with 24 all state members and 3 alternates.

“I cried after the results,” vocalist Elena Foster ’14 said. “It was a happy cry though. I wasn’t expecting to get in this year because I thought I might have done badly but I’m happy with the results.”

Though many students did not make it into all-state there was one thing that the musicians unanimously agreed on.

“All-state makes everyone a better player, and just the experience is really awesome,” Crutchfield said. “I person-ally learned how to practice more me-ticulously, and I think everyone grows as a player.”

by Cassie Wassink

The ever fluid Opstad Auditorium trans-formed most recently into the pragmatic Darling Nursery, followed by the enthralling Neverland, as well as a myriad of pirate ships, forests and battle scenes in-between.

“This was a big leg up to City High,” Direc-tor Doug Lestina said. Lestina specifically de-scribed the way that the production brought together the Iowa City community.

“The seats were filled with people from the community who didn’t have anything to do with City High,” Lestina said.

The decision to perform Peter Pan was seen by some as controversial, based on the com-plicated nature of the performance. Lestina, however, felt that his students stepped up the challenge admirably.

“The students did wonderfully,” Lestina said. “Considering all the technical issues that were involved, it [Peter Pan] went very smoothly.”

According to Alannah Walterhouse, lead actress, the extremely large cast was a mixed blessing.

“We had a really great cast,” Walterhouse said. “But with the huge cast it was hard to have one on one time with the director.”

As well as requiring an extremely large cast, Peter Pan demanded extensive construction

projects. Troy Peters, set director for Peter Pan, compared the five major sets required for this production to previous, less demanding sets.

“This is the toughest one I’ve ever built,” Peters said. “It looked great, though. They did a great job with lighting and making it look good.”

It was not long after Peter Pan’s initial ap-pearance in the Darling Nursery before he had captivated all three Darling children with promises of aerial adventures. A trademark of Peter Pan that provided alike a great challenge and a highlight was the famous flying.

From Lestina’s standpoint, this made for a stressful final week of rehearsals. “The fly-ing didn’t come in until a week before [the performances],” Lestina said. According to Lestina, this presented problems with block-ing and caused the set to readjust stances and positions. “It was worth it in the end, though,” Lestina said.

Whatever the difficulties were, City High’s cast was determined to make a successful show of it. The character of the Darling Father, played by Michael Gloer ‘13, was held in ques-tion based on his treatment of Nana, the canine nurse, played by Julia Goldberg ‘15.

Gloer, however, refused to question the motivations of his character. “The dog was not obeying me so she deserved to be outside,” Gloer said.

Peter Pan works magic

photos by NAT ADLER Above: Jason Arnold ‘13, Sam Buatti ‘13, Alannah Walterhouse ‘12, and Sara Mildenstein ‘12 fly off to Neverland.

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Above: Ryan Forbes-Shellady ‘12, Jason Arnold ‘13, and Francesca Lubecki-Wilde ‘13.

Above: Miriam Thoe ‘12 works as Captain Hook’s apprentice on the pirate ship.Above: Jared Kilberger ‘15 and Hank Welter ‘14 play amongst the Lost Boys.

photo by DELLA NUNOBassist Omar Martinez ‘13 watches on as the results for String Bass All-staters were posted.

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by Gabriel Brasile

Last year, a large senior class graduated and left 4th Ave. Jazz Company. Now, the new and returning members will have to fill the gap the seniors left.

“We have a lot of new people this year,” 4th Ave. direc-tor Greg Grove said. “We lost a great senior class, but I’m excited to meet the newcomers.”

Grove hopes to broaden the dance team’s horizons by including a new boogie medley dance.

“I’m very excited for this year’s Disco Boogie dance,” Grove said. “It has never been done before and I’m excited to see how it turns out.”

In addition to the Disco Boogie, dancers will also don new costumes featuring tribal and modern variations. New

performers won’t be limited to eager freshmen this year, either. A plethora of performers from all grade levels will be joining 4th Ave. New member Mason Greer, ‘12, made a last minute decision to join the group.

“In a way I always wanted to try it but never thought I had time for it,” Greer said. “I didn’t actually decide to try out until the day of the try outs. I think it’s cool being a new senior because a lot of my friends have been trying to get me to do it since freshman year.”

4th Ave. will be participating in four different competi-tions in addition to their Works in Progress show on No-vember 2nd to demonstrate a rough draft of their perfor-mance.

“Adding singing to dancing creates new possibilities as well as difficulties,” Grove said. “I can never tell if they [the

students] will crawl into their shell or if they will perform until we’re at the show. You just can’t simulate a real crowd or claps or any audience reaction, which is why we have the Works in Progress show.”

The four competitions will take place in January and early February. Greer looks forward to being able to per-form in and out of competitions.

“I’m excited to preform the winter show and travel with my friends,” Greer said.

Director Dr. Grove shares Greer’s enthusiasm for the season.

“I love seeing the kids in a unique light and style,” Grove said. “We had a great season last year and it will be really really fun this year, too.”

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Veteran’s day concert

Drama department takes play to UNI for festival

4th Avenue Jazz Co. begins season

by Renata Stewart

Many City High students have just fin-ished working long hours to put on “Peter Pan”. Six of these actors, however, are no-where near done acting for the fall.

Seniors Sage Behr, Miriam Thoe, Ryan Shellady, juniors Christina Sullivan and Francesca Lubecki-Wilde, and sophomore Elijah Jones have recently started prepar-ing for their performance of “Crimes of the Heart” by Beth Henley, which they will be performing at the Iowa Thespian Festival on Nov. 12th.

“Crimes”, as it is lovingly called by the actors, tells the tale of three sisters: Babe (played by Behr), Lennie (Thoe), and Meg (Lubecki-Wilde).

“It’s a story of their time together and it tells all of their stories individually,” Behr said.

The play is being directed by Patrick Du-Laney, who is a Large Group Speech coach at City High, and an established actor him-self. He has high hopes for “Crimes”.

“It is going extremely well. We are in the middle of blocking the show currently,” Du-Laney said, “I call it ‘shopping mode’. We’re

trying new things. We’re succeeding, failing, and everything in between.”

The play will be performed at City High as well as at the Thespian Festival on the UNI campus. The cast and crew are work-ing together, looking forward to the perfor-mances, and acting as support systems for each other.

“There’s a real spirit of generosity with the actors,” DuLaney said. “This is impor-tant for any play, but especially this one. The show is very much about family.”

by Ethan Zierke

Members of the City High choirs will be taking part in the annual Veteran’s Day Concert Thursday, November 10th. The Veteran’s Day Concert has been a part of the choir performance tradition since 2005 and features songs of great American wars, the holocaust, as well as other past national hardships.

“We perform the Star Spangled Banner at the very beginning but not all songs are patriotic,” said Dr. Grove, City High choir director, “The pieces we sing have grown from hardship and struggle; songs of celebration and survival. The concert itself is a multi-media presentation-we show clips of war movies and read letters corresponding to the songs we sing.”

An important part of the Veteran’s Day performance is the exhibition of a patriotic closer, a chorus of songs honor-ing the various branches of the Armed Forces.

“It’s really emotional,” said Dr. Grove, “People in the audience stand to be recognized and honor their respective branches.”

Despite losing a large senior class, 4th Ave. is looking forward to another successful season.

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Pumpkin Pies of Iowa CityFOOD THOUGHTfor

Deluxe BakeryLocated off-campus, on Summit street, this bak-

ery serves out seasonal desserts with modern twists. Upon arriving at Deluxe we were greeted with friendly service and vintage ambiance.

Needless to say, though the bakery prides itself on morning treats, when it comes to cakes and pies they don’t mess around. The Little Hawk treated our-selves to fresh baked pumpkin pie dished with rich homemade whipped cream. Currently the pies are baked on a pre-order basis and are sold at $20 for a 10-piece pie.

The Bakery has made it a standard that every dessert is made with organic whole ingredients produced by local suppliers. So if you happen to be walking down Summit street, be sure to make a stop at Deluxe Bakery for a delectable fall treat.

If you find yourself short on cash, or you would like to make your own pumpkin delicacy, here’s how you can do so:

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by Della Nuno

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Alternative rockpioneers arrive at Englert

by Gabriel Brasile

Iowa City’s Englert Theatre hosts several perfor-mances every year, with performers ranging from musicians and instrumentalists to comedians and actors every year, but this year’s most notable ap-pearance has to be the alternative rock duo from Massachusetts, They Might Be Giants.

They Might Be Giants started back in 1982, with John Flansburgh on guitar and John Linnell play-ing the accordion and the saxophone. They were ac-companied only by a drum machine, or at times a pre-recorded cassette tape. Their live performances at this time were also filled with comical stage props such as over-sized fezzes and cutouts of newspa-per editor William Allen White’s head. These props would later return in some of the group’s first music videos.

Now, the two Johns are joined by drummer Mar-ty Beller, guitarist Dan Miller, and composer Danny

Weinkauf. The group is now regarded as a pioneer of alternative music because of their unconventional and experimental style. Using instruments like the accordion and saxophone undoubtedly helped them get noticed and reach their current level of fame and change the alternative music scene drastically.

On July 19, the group released Join Us, their first non-children’s album since 2007’s The Else. Featur-ing 18 original tracks, the album received wide-spread acclaim and peaked at position 32 in the U.S. Billboard 200. In addition, the album received eighth position in both the U.S. Billboard best rock albums and best alternative albums. In addition to its critical acclaim, Join Us brought adults back to the group’s experimental alternative style.

Their current tour brings the band over the bor-der to Canada and all across the United States as well. They Might be Giants’ Iowa performance will be on October 30 at 7:00 P.M.

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littlehawkHOROSCROPES

Leo[July 23-Aug 22]Winter in on its way, so remember to buy some Gogurt™!

Virgo [Aug 23-Sept 22]Restock the fallout shelter. You already have one, right?

Libra[Sept 23-Oct 22]Did you know that Foster the People’s song Pumped Up Kicks is about a man who ate too many hot dogs in one day? Scary stuff.

Scorpio*[Oct 23-Nov21]Whatever you do, don’t go Trick-or-Treating. You’ll under-stand when you’re older.

Sagittarius[Nov 22-Dec 21]So apparently someone used a #1 pencil on the Iowa As-sessments. I’ve never seen so much blood.

Capricorn [Dec 22-Jan 19]Take part in the “Occupy” pro-tests. Occupy your house and stay home for a couple days.

Aquarius [Jan 20-Feb 18]Some days you just can’t seem to yodel right. Try practicing the piccolo.

Pisces[Feb 19-March 20]Don’t fear the reaper, baby. However, if he/she is right in front of you, I would suggest running. Fast.

Aries [March 21-April 19]Your ≠ you’re! Learn how to spell alredy.

Taurus [April 20-May 18]If you go into the woods tonight, be prepared for a big surprise. Hint: It’s a bear.

Gemini [May 21-June 20]Try listening to a new type of music. Look up “bar-mittzvah disco.”

Cancer [June 21-July 22]Your garden gnomes will come for you. Unless you leave a cake in room 2109 anytime during the school day.

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by Sarah Lange

Soda-junkie Savanna Pardekooper ‘13 stands in front the fully stocked refrigerator, change in her back pocket, glancing at the prettily packaged cans of all flavors and caloric values. What does Savanna choose: diet or regular? Reading the nutrition facts on the perspiring can causes questions to flutter through her brain. With percentages and serving sizes making it hard to determine whether the product is healthy or not, Savanna doesn’t know what to choose.

“Many times I don’t know what to choose because I hear different things about diet soda,” said Pardekooper. “I’ve heard that diet soda is healthier and more nutritious. I’ve heard diet soda causes cancer because of the artificial sweeteners: I just don’t know what to believe anymore.”

“Diet soda” refers to any number of sodas that have no calories added to them. Soda companies achieve this by adding artificial sweeteners to the soda instead of sugar. An artificial sweetener is a sugar-like substance that tricks the body into thinking that it is eating sugar, but actually doesn’t contain any calories. The popularity of artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes is on the rise as consumers seek lower calorie alternatives to regular white sugar without sacrificing the sweetness. Just last year, consumers spent 21 billion dollars on low-calorie beverages. This left the manufacturers scrambling to keep up.

These substances, however, have recently received heavy criticism. A 2007 study from Boston University found that both regular and diet drinks boost the risk factors that increase health problems like heart disease, diabetes and stroke.

However, many nutritionists fully support the use of sweeteners.

“I do know that the artificial sweeteners that they use in soft drinks and other drinks alike are probably the most researched substances on earth, just because of the cancer concern,”

Cathy Gehris a Hy-Vee dietary nutritionist said. “Saccharin was one of the first (studies) to come out, there was some concern after in was in use that it caused cancer in humans. They have redone the studies, re-looked at it and as far we can tell scientifically at this point in time, it is safe. The amount a person would have to consume for it to be harmful would be so astronomical a person could not physically intake that amount of sugar.”

With a multitude of studies being conducted on soft drink products, it can be hard to pick out the real information. Some artificial sweeteners

currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are Aspartames (Equal, NutraSweet), Neotames, Saccharins (Sweet’N Low) and Sucralose (Spelenda). Like the FDA, Gehris encourages the consumption of diet soda over the regular.

“I would definitely not encourage them to get the regular soda,” Gehris said. Gheris instead advises drinking soda in moderation.

“We are all going to have cravings now and then. What I don’t want to see kids doing is drinking soda at the expense of some of the other nutrient rich beverages. That doesn’t necessarily mean that a person has to drink milk, but they need have that calcium source somewhere. So if teenagers are replacing milk with soda that is concerning because then not getting the nutrients needed to develop properly,” Gehris said. She recommends that the average teenager should be limited to 1 or 2 soft drinks a day, assuming that the rest of their diet is healthy.

City High is making sure that kids stay away from drinking soda by making it less accessible. The vending machine located in schools are not filled with any type of soft drink, but rather water and 100% juice pouches.

“[Schools] are wanting the kids to make the healthier choices first,” Gehris said. “The kids are going to be at school during breakfast and lunch time and if kids are replacing nutrient rich foods with soda or candy, this can cause bad eating habits. There is a time for snacking but it isn’t during the school day.”

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Si t - ting empty and almost forgot-ten, among gnarled

trees and twisting vines, is an abandoned two story house. Unremarkable from the outside, this house holds over a century of history. The

area on which the house sits was originally called But-ler’s Landing, this is because

the builder and first inhabitant of the house was Iowa’s first state senator, John But-

ler. “Butler originally build the house some time in the 1840s. He ran a business ferrying pas-

sengers across the Iowa river before the Butler Bridge was built,” Jim Glasgow,

whose father once owned the Butler house and surrounding prop-

erty said. “It’s just a simple square house with a big center hallway and a big kitchen and bedrooms upstairs. They used to have the ferry passen-gers spend the night in the house, sort of like a bed and breakfast.”

After John Butler died a large family with 10 children bought the house. “The kids would all run around wild,” Glasgow said, “They were what you would call poor now. There was often a big

HALLOWEENfilled with fright...

Rocky Horror Picture ShowAll Iowa City Transylvanians get

two chances to do the Time Warp this October. The Englert Theatre downtown is putting on its annual midnight showing of the classic 1975 movie, about a newly engaged couple who get stranded at a mysterious castle filled with strange and unusual characters. In addition to that, City Circle is performing a concert ver-sion of the play, complete with audi-ence participation.

The Rocky Horror Show will per-form on Friday, October 28th, at 7:30 PM in the Performing Arts Centre in Coralville. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is showing at the Englert The-atre in downtown Iowa City at mid-night on Saturday, October 29th.

A bag of objects typically thrown during the movie will be provided at both showings. Also, at the live show there will be a costume contest and auditions for the audience.

“If they’re good, they get to take over one of the songs in the show,” Chris Okiishi, director and producer of the show, said.

Not that the Picture Show won’t have its share of fun. It’s been a tra-dition that audience members dress up as the characters and shout at the screen since 1975. The movie flopped when it was originally released as a normal film, and audience members started jeering and calling out insults and jokes at the characters. Later, it was released as a midnight movie,

and the yelling was encouraged. The play version also expects people to yell at the actors.

One of City High’s own, Ryan Shelladay ‘11, is involved in the show, too. He is playing the titular role of Rocky, the monster.

“Rocky is Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s creation. He’s got blonde hair and a tan, and he’s supposed to be the stud of the show,” Shelladay said.

The movie is rated R, for sexual content including dialogue, violence, and language.

“Our goal is that the show is fun, naughty, and, above all else, playful!” Okiishi said.

by Tess Wisdom

pile of raccoon carcasses in the yard, I think that’s

what they ate.” In 1969, Glasgow’s father bought the house and land

from that family. “They either left or he made them leave,” Glasgow

said, “either way they were gone.” Glasgow remembers hanging around

the uninhabited house in his youth. “The basement was full of hundreds of Ma-son jars and all the furniture and junk was still in the house.” Glasgow said, “My dad always said the two trees out in front of the house, one on the left and one on the right were called the mama and papa tree. He said that in the old days they would place a gold coin at the base of each tree, so we would always try to dig them up.”

When Glasgow’s father sold the land to the city, a woman in town learned of the house’s historic na-ture and pushed for it to become a landmark. “The city didn’t have enough money at the time so they decided to preserve the house until they could really make it into some-thing.” Someday soon the public will be able to see it and learn about the history that surrounds this apparently haunted house.of the house’s historic nature and pushed for it to become a landmark. “The city didn’t have enough money at the time so they decided to pre-

serve the house until they could really make it into something.” Someday soon the public

will be able to see it and learn about the history that surrounds this apparently haunted house.

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by Emma Baxter

Eating disorders are so common among teenagers that three out of 100 students struggle with one every year. That only ac-counts for the teenagers who are diagnosed; many other teens walk among City High’s hallways who suffer these dreadful disorders in silence.

“I knew what I was doing was wrong. I frightened myself. I was a starved, carnivo-rous animal.” Katie*, who suffered from an eating disorder for two years, said.

According to the National Eating Disorder Association, anorexia is characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. Bulimia is defined as self-induced vomiting, to com-pensate for the effects of binge eating. A sim-ple diet can spiral out of control and turn into a disfiguring disease. Arising out of a variety of social, physical, and mental issues, anyone is susceptible to this nightmare.

For Katie, it began in 6th grade, but did not become severe until 8th grade, when the dis-order became so serious that Katie was hospi-talized. Unlike the stereotypical anorexic, Ka-tie didn’t feel outside pressure to be thinner; she simply wanted to be healthier.

“I started focusing on healthier foods.” Ka-tie said. “I began working out a lot. I didn’t start this behavior to please anyone other than myself.”

Working out and eating healthier turned into a battle with anorexia. When people told her that what she was doing was wrong, she thought they were lying. Hiding behind closed doors, she did calisthenics and moni-tored what she ate very closely.

“I had this idea that I had to work out.” Ka-tie said. “I couldn’t go a day without it. That’s all I thought about.”

She was burning more calories than she was consuming, which led to her lowest weight of 79 pounds. This not only affected Katie’s weight, but also her behavior towards people.

“I saw changes in my mental state. I was short tempered and always angry.” Katie said.

When her parents took her to a doctor and placed her in a psych ward, she was “pissed off ” and didn’t understand why.

“When I first got there, I growled at peo-ple.” Katie said. “I didn’t know where it came from.”

Two and a half years later, Katie still has nightmares. Although her two month stay in the psych ward was the “worst experience” of her life, it gave Katie the chance to realize the abuse that she was putting her body through.

“I was scared, if I did that behavior again I would be put back in the ward. I thought it was better to eat food out here than in the ward.” Katie said.

After she left the ward, Katie was watched closely to make sure she didn’t revert to any old anorexic habits. She was put on antide-pressants for anxiety, and dietary supple-ments, which helped her to feel optimistic about her situation.

“My mind cleared, I understood what I was doing was wrong.” Katie said.

Eating disorders are often viewed as an ex-lusively female issue, but the truth is that they affect males as well. There are one million re-corded male eating disorders a year.

Zach* began his unnatural eating behav-

iors freshman year. He didn’t have a positive body image and he didn’t like how he saw himself when he looked in the mirror. This lead to his desire to lose weight.

“I was teased and bullied. People called me fat.” Zach said. “Even my friends would say ‘I love hanging out with big people.’ They didn’t know it was actually hurting my feelings.”

Along with millions of others, Zach’s eating disorder arose from his desire to have the perfect body and lose weight.

“I wanted to change the way I looked.” Zach said. “I did this for three months. It took too long; I wasn’t seeing changes.”

Unhappy with the results, Zach took drastic measures to change his body. He became anorexic, restrict-ing himself to 300 calories a day.

“There was an emptiness in my stomach at first.” Zach said. “But then it became natural. I would get sick and fatigued all the time, and I was easily irritated.”

In the 10th grade, Zach’s anorexic behavior turned into bulimia. Instead of starving himself he began binge eating. After eating a large amount of food, he would feel bad about it and, to compensate, would make himself throw up.

“I was all of a sudden overwhelmingly hungry.” Zach said. “I had to eat every-thing in my path. I hated throwing up, but the food had to come up one way or another.”

Zach continued this for four months. Then he began not eating on top of purging. He was losing more than he was gaining. In two months of doing this he lost 35 pounds. He saw significant changes in his body, but he wasn’t worried.

“My waist line had gotten smaller. I was really happy.” Zach said. “People would com-plement me, so I thought I was doing something right.”

Realization of the disease came when Zach was swimming with his friends and they com-mented on his weight. Zach went from 237 pounds to 133 pounds in one year. His parents took him to a doctor, who diagnosed him with an eating disorder.

“I was put on antidepressants, it made me feel more calm about things.” Zach said. “I didn’t feel the need to starve and purge myself anymore.”

Zach still watches his weight by keeping a food journal to document what he eats, as well as seeing a therapist every month.

At first, Katie and Zach didn’t realize that what they were doing was wrong. They were oblivious to the fact that the eating disorder had taken over their lives.

“I didn’t realize how skinny I had gotten, that’s what was really terrifying about it.” Ka-tie said. “I’m lucky I didn’t die. Some of the other girls in the ward were so much worse than me.”

Almost half of all Americans personally know someone who has suffered from an eating disorder. Many students at City High suffer in silence, hiding the truth from themselves and their classmates.

*Names have been changed to ensure privacy photo by DELLA NUNO

Filled with sporting events and spirit, parties and pep rallies, adults commonly tell young people that the teenage years are the best years of our lives. This, however, is only part of the picture. Alongside the excitement inevitably comes the

stress. With the large amounts of homework, college prep, part time jobs, sports and extracurriculars it seems as if the workload never ends.

“I get up at 6:45 every morning.” Erin Danielson ‘13 said. “I go to school, I go to cross country practice, I go to allstate practice, then I go home and do homework until at least eleven.”

Danielson is one of many students involved in a wide array of extracurriculars at City High. Danielson is a varsity member of the cross country, soccer, track and basketball team. She is also in marching band, choir, Select Women’s Ensemble, Jazz Choir and is enrolled in multiple honors classes.

“Tuesdays and Thursdays are always my busiest days of the week.” Danielson said. “I don’t get to leave school until at least nine and there are always those random things that come up and make me even busier.”

With the many hours spent on extracurriculars, the large amount of school work can be pushed aside. Studies show that

62% of high school students spend at least an hour or more on homework.

“It’s difficult sometimes to find a balance.” Danielson said. “It’s an essential part of high school to become involved but that also makes it even more difficult to stay on top of school work.”

Statistics show that 75% of City High students are involved in at least one extracurricular within the school.

“I get overly stressed out all the time.” Danielson said. “I have breakdowns often, usually on Sundays, when I think to myself, ‘crap, I have to start over again tomorrow and I’m already exhausted.’”

Everyone has times in their lives when they are overwhelmed by stress. A recent study found that most stress found in teenagers is caused from school work, parents, relationships, friends and siblings. According to the study, over 25% of teenagers refuse to deal with their stress, which can lead to other problems such as depression, anxiety issues and other stress disorders.

“My grades suffer sometimes from being so busy.” Danielson said. “But I could never give up any of my activities, it would be way too difficult to choose, each one is very different from the other and each has defined my high school experience.”

A fully-stocked schedule calls for a dedicated work-ethic. “There’s no time for laziness,” Danielson said “All in all, it’s

about finding the balance between school and activities without getting too in over your head.”

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overloadedWith activities such as sports, choir, band, orchestra, debate, acting and others, students are finding life difficult to balance.

by Alex Perez

-Listen to Music-Talk to a Friend

-Laugh-Talk yourself through it

-Have a good cry-Go on a run-Take a nap

-Write reassuring notes to yourself

8 Ways to relieve Stress

art by LILY HOWARD

Over the past year or so, education within the United States has incurred some pretty harsh criti-

cism. From the dismantling of the teachers unions in Wisconsin to the efforts of governor Terry Branstad here in Iowa, education increasingly finds itself under attack. Needless to say, these attacks have been accom-panied by attempts to reform an ed-ucation system that is “broken.” The most recent of these is a plan that was unveiled by the Jason Glass, the director of Iowa’s department of education, earlier this year. The plan would entail forcing all gradu-ating students to take an “exit exam” in order to obtain their diploma, as well as radically altering the way that teacher pay is dispensed.

Needless to say, both actions are unprecedented in the history of education of Iowa, and represent a destructive departure from the poli-cies that have made Iowa’s education system the premier in the nation. Thus, the staff of the Little Hawk stands opposed to the Governor’s planned reorganization of the edu-cation program.

In theory, the exit exams would ensure that students would have the necessary skills that they needed to graduate. While on the face of it this would seem to make a lot of sense, in practice it would mean a con-tinuation of the failed Republican education policies of the past ten years (a la “No Child Left Behind”). Though it is important that students possess the skills they will need to graduate, more testing is simply the wrong way to go about it.

The past ten years have dem-onstrated, without a shadow of a doubt, the utter and complete failure of the implementation of a “national standard” with which to measure the success of our education system. It would be a mistake to think that such a standard could be applied on the state level. Furthermore, it has been amply demonstrated that test-ing students to make sure that they are adequately educated often has the opposite affect. We’ve all heard the horror stories; instead of giving students the skills they need, more exams would only lead to more teaching to the test, more meaning-less busywork, and less applicable education. Instead of attempting to micromanage every aspect of the

way education is taught, we should allow teachers more leeway to teach their students in the way that they seem fit.

It isn’t only the students, how-ever, that would be affected. The new plan would also institute radi-cal changes in the way that teacher pay operates, doing away with the teacher tenure in favor of a “tiered system,” as well as increased sup-port for charter schools. And this is where one begins to see the extent to which the plan is flawed. To start, the stated goal of the new pay sys-tem is to get rid of teachers who the district views as being ineffectual, as well as creating a system wherein pay would be entirely divorced from

a teachers seniority. In theory, this would allow the district to “keep the most qualified teachers,” but in prac-tice one could easily see teachers being laid off as they become more expensive. An even more disturbing facet is the fact that the expansion of charter schools would further weaken the public education system. And this makes sense, from a certain perspective. The GOP establishment has a vested interest in dismantling the public education system, which has a history of supporting the Democratic Party, and other pro-gressive political figures. Add to this the massive political payoffs that are available for being seen as trimming “big government,” and getting rid of

public education seems like a win-ning proposal. However, the fact that this plan is motivated by politi-cal calculations should send alarm bells off in the head of any rational voter. The decade is littered with examples of policies that were en-acted with the sole purpose of gain-ing popularity. The Bush tax cuts, the War in Iraq, refusal to regulate banks, each was implemented with the hope of bringing in votes and each was more destructive than the last.

Disregarding the specifics of the tiered system, and any accom-panying political calculations, it is simply galling that the governor and congressional republicans would presume to have any sort of knowl-edge about how education works. Most politicians have never worked as teachers. Indeed, the overwhelm-ing majority of them have worked in the private sector for their entire lives. To think that just because they attain positions of power that they then have the right to overtone over a century’s worth of education prec-edent is, to say the least, presumptu-ous.

Republicans have talked in-decently about the importance of “small government;” it is time for them to practice what they preach. Teachers, not bureaucrats and poli-ticians, should have jurisdiction over their classrooms. Besides, given the fact that Iowa consistent-ly ranks near the top of the nation in terms test scores, one becomes tempted to invoke the old colloqui-alism “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Education in Iowa may have room to improve, but a massive overhaul in education is not the way to go about that.

To truly help Iowa schools, there needs to be a change in pub-lic discourse surrounding education reform. Instead of blaming teachers for lack of progress within schools we need to be looking to see how we can aid them in educating students. Instead of punishing public employ-ees we should be helping them, and rewarding them for the excellent work that they have done. In doing so, we will not only create an exem-plary, sustainable education system, but also enable ourselves to come together as Iowans and Americans, and fix the problems that we cur-rently face as a country.

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Revolting RefoRms

Opinion October 28, 2011 www.thelittlehawk.com Edited by Sonora Taffa & Kieran Green

Public education has become the institutional punching bag for politicians and private institutions alike. But despite its flaws, the recent plans to reform and “improve” Iowa’s education system are look-

ing more and more like they will have the opposite effect.

Photo Graphic by Della Nuno

THE PAINS OF EARLY BIRD P.E.We all know the

drill: goof off with friends, pass a shuffle off as a

jog, play some speedball, and you’ve completed a PE class. City High only requires three trimesters of this simple process in order to meet graduation requirements. Seems like a pretty fair deal, right? Well, lately I haven’t been thinking so.

I am one of many City High students that plays sports. I run cross country in the fall, play soccer in the spring, and attend six practices a week for both. It’s my own choice to do these sports and while they are a lot of fun, they’re also a lot of work. I’m getting more than enough physical activity, and taking an extra hour of PE every day does nothing to help me. So why am I, and many other athletes at City, taking a PE class that isn’t benefiting us at all?

Wasting an hour a day on an un-eccessary class is bad enough, but bigger problems arise when sched-uling comes into play. I have a full schedule, and I know that my situ-ation is far from uncommon. Some students can give up an open hour or an art class to fit PE into their school

day, but many others can’t afford to do so. That’s why, if you walk into the gym at 7:10 on any given morning, you’ll find a class of sleep deprived kids doing half-hearted lunges. This is early Bird PE in all its glory.

I had to take Early Bird PE last year and often times find myself remniscing about it like an old war veteran. Too bad I’m not done with it forever. Come second trimester my Early Bird days will resume. I am not okay with this. I don’t want to come in an hour early to play games like pickleball after staying up late to finish homework! It’s impor-tant to understand that kids in Early Bird are already overloaded with a full seven classes, and often times multiple sports. We’re the kids with twitchy eyes, full backpacks, and one sock on. Yet our reward for working hard is the removal of another hour of sleep? It’s ridiculous I tell you!

To be clear, I don’t to discredit the importance of physical educa-tion. I actually believe that PE classes are a valubale and vital aspect of our public school system. Obesity rates are rising in America every year, and the fact that schools require students to remain physically ac-

tive is great. However, when a stu-dent already plays a sport every day after school, PE just isn’t necessary.

I believe that two major changes need to be made to our school. First, an alternate PE course, other than Early-Bird, should be available to students with full schedules. The lo-cal high schools in my former home of St. Louis, Missouri offered a two week summer PE program, catering to students who couldn’t fit PE into their normal school day. Both of my older siblings got their PE credits out of the way in the summer. They were free to take a full seven classes with-out the additional stress of Early Bird. In short, I would love to see a similar program introduced to City. Next, sports waivers should be offered to students on sports teams. City High athletes are already working hard in practice every day. This is a perfectly adequate subsitute for a PE class.

It may be a stretch, but I’m still hoping that these changes might be considered in the reason-ably near future. But until then I guess we’ll all just have to suck it up and play some badminton.

Sonora Taffa

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?

While Affirmative Ac-tion scores political points for “promot-ing equality”, the

truth is that it promotes inequality. Affirmative Action is a fundamental-ly flawed policy because it creates a stereotyped mindset towards its ben-eficiaries and is unable to help those who truly need the help.

When scholarships are open only to a certain group, they are designed to assist an inherently disadvantaged group. While it may seem at first that a given group is inherently disadvan-taged, looking at ge-neric statistics do not give the whole story. For example, 27.4% of African Ameri-cans live in poverty, compared to 9.9% of whites. A proponent of Affirmative Action would say that this proves that African Americans need an additional “boost” to compete with whites. Such a solution is ineffective for two main reasons. First, the prob-lem is the poverty rate itself, not the poverty rate of African Americans. Helping all people in poverty would lower poverty rates proportionally for African Americans. The second, and more important issue, is that helping African Americans as a group is ineffective at helping impov-erished African Americans. Say there is a scholarship that gives a certain

amount of money to every Aferican Americanstudent in America. While the scholarship would help the im-poverished, it would also give money to people who don’t need it. If there is a scholarship that gives a certain amount of money to impoverished African American students only, then it ignores the very real issue of white poverty. The issue, at its heart, is poverty itself.

The more pressing issue, however, is the subliminal message that Affir-mative Action sends. The message is

that minor-ity students are unable to succeed on their own, and need the help of others to get any-where in life. By making scholarships for minorities only, we as-sume that be-cause a larger proportion of

minorities are disadvantaged, all of them are. We also assume that mi-norities are unable to truly compete in scholarships that involve whites. Such assumptions are extremely dan-gerous.

Throughout history, groups viewed as inherently inferior were the targets of racism and genocide. Affirmative Action is nothing more than a “benevolent racism” that can easily turn sour.

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“You do not take a person who has been hobbled by chains, liberate

him, bring him up to the starting line, and then tell him that he’s free to race against all the others and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” These words, immortalized by President Lyndon B. Johnson in a speech supporting affirmative action, are nearly as rel-evant today as they were when he spoke them in 1965.

It would be unfair to remove a program like affirmative action, which has benefited so many peo-ple-- people who might not have otherwise gotten a chance to com-pete at the highest level. From the enslavement and torture of mil-lions of African-Americans, to the wage oppression and discrimina-tion towards Asian-Americans, to the genocide of the Native people of this country, the United States has a long history of denying entire groups of people equality and basic human rights precisely on basis of their ethnicity. Affirmative action was put in place as a way to level the playing field between the for-mer oppressors and the formerly oppressed.

I am in no way arguing for af-firmative action to advance myself in future endeavors. As an upper middle-class white female, I would (and should, for that matter) be just about the last person to gain any advantage from the program (now that affirmative action has made it

possible for me to be a firefighter, an air force pilot, or a CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation). I simply believe that we must give formerly perse-cuted groups some leverage in their access to the world of work and education working world. It isn’t that we continue to oppress these people, but their growth in society has been stunted by our ancestors’ injustice. Obviously, sweeping gen-eralizations are sometimes being m a d e on both s i d e s of the conver-s at i on , but how c o u l d this be avoided w h e n address-ing en-tire rac-es in our c o u n -t r y ? H o w -ever, it is ex-tremely hard to deny that groups such as African-Americans and Native Americans have lesser stan-dards of living, education, and ca-reer opportunities.

Affirmative action is not a blind sorting machine, distinguishing be-tween whites and colored without taking into consideration anything but that. The ethnicity of a person

does not automatically get them into an Ivy League school, or award them a high-paying job. Affirmative action is a legal tool given to institu-tions to correct what is empirically or statistically demonstrated as in-equality. As importantly, affirma-tive action rules are often revised and cease to exist once the group of people benefiting has risen to the high standards our country holds. Asian-Americans, for example once

were beneficiaries of affirmative ac-tion programs. Now, however, they have reached (and even surpassed) the status quo for our country,. And, accordingly, col-leges and universi-ties have stopped giving them the extra leverage. This is NOT reverse discrimination; it is simply our soci-ety accepting the fact that a group of people, once so unfairly treated,

has climbed the cultural steps and is now on equal playing field.

There are unequal standards in our society, and we should reward those who have gone above and beyond their own expectations: expectations which have been set in place the injustices of the past, which we are only now seeking to rectify.

We assume that because a

larger proportion of minorities are disadvantaged, all of them are.

There are unequal standards in our society, and we must reward the people who have gone above and beyond their own tacit epectations.

Shecharya Flatte

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a contemporary adolescence

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All are familiar with teenage behaviors, particularly the dismissal of teenage habits as “acting up” , or the negative stereotypes labeling

teens as an anxiety-ridden and lazy people. The teenage years are known for exhibiting early morning zombies, late night tantrums, rebellious decisions, and the laborious maneuvering of hormone-induced obstacle courses. These clichés may hold true, and I’m certainly not the one to say that they don’t, but there is evidence suggesting legitimate reasoning behind these teenage tendencies.

A recent article titled “Beautiful Minds”

written by David Dobbs, was published in the October issue of National Geographic Magazine. The story features an article displaying in-depth research on the mind of teens and what their behavior’s mean for the rest of their lives. Reading the article encouraged me to do a little bit of introspective thinking on my own part, being a teenager and all. I tied the statistics in the article into my own life...one in three teenage deaths is caused by a car accident (drug-induced or not), the United States throws down millions of dollars to educate us about what not to do, the biggest risk-takers are between ages 14 and 17...the facts go on and on. They’re all things we could have accurately

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A parasite, small and almost harmless, infected the Federal government many years ago. Today that one parasite has mutated to become an epidemic,

threatening Americans economic prosperity and security, impairing their pursuit of happiness, and leaving millions without education, money, work, or even a home. This parasite is the corruption within our government and the richest one per-cent of our nation. Now, the other ninety-nine percent are making our voices clear that we will no longer stand for the damage done to so many of us. Occupy protests started in New York City a few short weeks ago to educate Americans on the current situation and object the so-called in-evitability of our financial position. They have now spread to over 1500 cities across the nation. These protests give us hope that there may just be a cure to our deadly disease - and that cure is us.

During a speech at Occupy Wall Street, philoso-pher Slavoj Zizek said “They tell you we are dream-ers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are the awakening from a dream that is turning into a nightmare.” Today, the wealthi-

est one percent of the nation alone owns about 42.7% of Americas financial wealth and, altogeth-er, the top 20 percent controls about 93% of the wealth. Meanwhile, the other 80% of us struggle with the remaining 7%. This is not a system that the American people should accept. In a nation of “equality” and “opportunity”, we are routinely ripped off and shut down by our government.

The problem today is NOT Republicans. The problem today is NOT Democrats. The problem today is a denial of a problem itself by every mem-ber of the House, Senate and President Obama himself. In the future, we need a leader willing to not only face the problems at hand, but also change them. President Obama was elected in 2008 with the promise of “change”, but he has continued or expanded many Bush-era imperialistic programs, such as the Patriot Act, the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. He also has increased lethal drone attacks in Yemen and expanded them into Somalia.

This problem will not solve itself. Politicians will always turn their backs on the atrocities they commit until we force them to turn around and face them. This is what we should do, for this has worked in the past. A modern day revolu-

tion needs to be fought against the government.It is time for the American people to take back

our government. The first step is demanding a buffet line tax system, one where the rich are taxed their fair share. Since 1987, the total income con-trol of the top one percent grew 67%, but their taxes have only grown a total of 17%. This means that in the past 20 plus years, the income share of the rich has grown five times faster than their share of taxes. Increasing taxes on the rich can help hold together our economy for a short while. But this is only one step in many that needs to be taken to fill the hole that our government has dug for us. And this is why our generation needs to pay attention to the current catastrophe. For our generation will be making the decisions to come. This is why we need to be educated. We need to stand up for what is right and what will work. What has been proven to us by the past is that the only thing we can rely on our government to do now is to create problems we will fix in the future. This corrupted disease in our government can have a cure. However, like the black death sweeping its way across Europe, it will consume all of us if we refuse to speak out against the wrong-doings of our government.

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guessed were true just by taking a look at the daily newspaper, scanning the hallways at school, or carrying on a conversation with your science partner. The big questions that stood out in my mind when I digested those facts weren’t when or how. The answers to those questions were readily available. I wanted to know why. Why do we do stupid things? Why do we so desperately seek a thrill even if it means breaking laws or risking our lives? Why does the reward always outweigh the consequence?

According to David Dobbs, it’s all part of one big developmental process; a growth spurt of the brain. The way we act as adolescents directly affects how we will function as adults. In the words of Mr. Dobbs, “...if we smartened up sooner, we’d end up dumber.”

This is particularly hard for parents to hear, especially when their kid gets pulled over for driving 113 mph. The even harder part is learning how to deal with this little dilemma without inhibiting the developing mind of their teen-all the while ensuring that they aren’t the next statistic in tomorrow’s newspaper.

In parents’ tough situation, I think I’d have to agree with David Dobbs. The parents of the most successful teenagers are the ones who stay in touch with their kids, without stripping them of their need for independence. As for us teens, I think it’s safe to say that we are well aware of the opportunities available to us every day, both positive and negative. It’s up to us to make the most of our natural state of risky business while avoiding doing anything that will negatively affect our lives later on.

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Six dancers from the City High were awarded with the

All-American title at camp in Cedar Falls, Iowa at the UNI

campus this summer..

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team

by Ellen Kealey

On Thanksgiving Day, All-American dancers Emma Hanson ’12 and Erin Helm ‘12 will be in the Macy’s pa-rade.

“Erin Helm and I applied to go to New York to be one of the dancers in the pa-rade. We get to tour the city, see shows and meet the NBC people,” Hanson said. “Ev-eryone should watch it!”

Earning this invitation to dance in New york took 14 years of prepration.

This summer six dancers from the CHS dance team were awarded All american titles.

“Five of us got chosen to make the All-American dance team. Once you make the team there are certain things you can do such as, go to Orlando, Europe or New York.” Hanson said.

Besides the All-American title, the girls also have the chance to make the All-Iowa team.

“All-Iowa is when over 500 girls from all over go to Ames and audition to make the All-Iowa team, which performs at half time at the girls state basketball championship in March,” Hanson said. “Only 275 make it. Caitlin Daniel-son, Kelsie Stoddard, Natalie Jones, Karlie Stoddard and I all made it.”

Hanson is also part of the City High dance team. Other accomplishments of the team

include first place for Lyrical and second place for jazz at Prairie last year. This sum-mer they also won first place for most events at camp.

“Our biggest accomplish-ments are dominating at Prairie last year, winning second place at state solos last year, making it on the all Iowa dance team twice, being awarded top All-American at camp and being invited by the Iowa dance team to per-form at “Cream of The Crop,” Captain, Caitlin Danielson ‘12 said. “For the first time since I’ve been on the dance team, we killed at camp! We won first place in most spir-ited, best technique and the leadership award, and six of us received the all American award.”

With practices every day, the team works hard towards State Solos in November.

“Practices are sometimes easier than others but in the summer and when we are close to state, it’s a full two hours of cleaning and run-ning dances. It’s tiring, but worth it,” Hanson said. “This year we have three competi-tions- maybe four. We have state solo, prairie and state. We might be going to an-other, but we don’t know yet. State is the best for sure.”

photo by DELLA NUNO

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playmakerPROFILE

Aliyah Gustafson ‘13

SPORT: Volleyball

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What do you individually work on during a typical practice? I work on hitting drills a lot and I really need to work on blocking. My blocking is not what I want it to be quite yet, and I hope to improve state match.

How would you describe your team chemistry?

I think our team chemistry is really good. There are no problems on the team at all. We all work together and help each other to improve.

What team poses the greatest challenge?

We need to beat West High and if I guess correctly it will be us two in the state final. And that is when we definite-ly need to beat them. There are no excuses.

What does the term win-ning mean to you?

Winning means dominating over the other team. We can win against a team but if we barely win, that’s not winning. We should be pounding the ball in their faces.

Do you have any secret moves or play you use during a game?

My ‘L’s or slides and behind sets are pretty good. That is definitely what I use to score. I will run one of those because they usually don’t see it coming.

Do you have any pre-game rituals?

We dance the reebok, which is where everyone makes their own funny dance moves. It helps the team get pumped up for the game.

Little Hawks wrap up at 7-2

The 2011 season included the MVC record regular win streak being broken at 33 games and Thompson breaking the single game rushing record with 362 yards against West.

City High kicks off against Cedar Rapids Prairie on Senior Night. The Little Hawks came away with a 44-14 victory.

by Jake Binggeli

The Little Hawks wrap up a season filled with more blood and tears shed than in years past.

Coming off a win at home against Prairie, City High finished off the regular season with a record of 7-2.

Typical smash-mouth City High football helped the Little Hawks through their first few games. Senior running-back Ronald Thomp-son ran past opponents left and right, but mostly right up the middle. Thompson broke a school record, rushing for 362 yards over cross-town rival West High to keep the boot safe at home.

Stellar defense from players like Steve Fe-rentz ’12, Cortez Barfield ’12, and Amos Lavela ’13 helped lift the Little Hawks over Cedar Rapids Xavier in Week 5.

Through player reported racial slurs and unseen physical altercations from the opposing teams, City High still demolished Xavier with a score of 52-24.

“It felt good knowing all the stuff they tried doing to us, (winning the game) was worth it because we ran all over one of the best defenses at the time,” Cortez Barfield said.

After Xavier, a very tough schedule gave the team problems mid-way through the sea-son.

City High lost the homecoming game to Cedar Rapids Washington when the Warriors drove down the field in the final minutes and stunned The Little Hawks on a diving touch-down catch. This loss snapped a record long, 33-game conference winning streak.

“It was sad, but the coaches admitted it was their fault. We know we played as hard as we could,” Barfield said.

After the loss they bounced back against Dubuque Wahlert, but then lost to Linn-Mar 17-12. Because of that loss they are not, for the first time since 2007, MVC champions. The West High Trojans took the championship after beating the previously undefeated Cedar Falls Tigers in the final game of the season.

PLAYOFFSCity High heads into the opening rounds

of playoffs in the Eastern Bracket. The Little Hawks match up against Cedar Rapids Ken-nedy to play the winner of the Cedar Falls vs. Muscatine game.

“If we wind up playing Cedar Falls, it shouldn’t be a problem. They never play any-one good during the regular season and their

first big test was against West. We all saw how that turned out,” Washington said.

The Little Hawks are no strangers to the postseason. Over the past four years, City High has a record of 10-3 in the playoffs. Coaches and players are asking for student support.

Senior Kody Dailey is a Waterloo native and has been to many games at the UNI-Dome.

“For the past two years, it’s been dishearten-ing to see two-thirds of the stands in the dome be cheering for the other teams,” Dailey said.

The second round game will be at the UNI Dome on Monday, October 31st. Tickets will be able to be purchased in the City High office.

RECRUITINGSenior quarterback Jasper Washington had

two very big pairs of cleats to fill; Former City High quarterbacks, now NCAA Division I players, AJ Derby ’10 (Iowa) and Andrew Mc-Nulty ’11 (North Texas). Washington tries not to let that get into his head come game time. “I really don’t even think about it,” Washington said, “I just try and do me,”.

The University of Iowa has shown inter-est in Washington and Barfield. Washington would not play quarterback though, he wishes to play receiver in college and Barfield is being recruited for the defensive line.

Peter Krumm ‘12 leaps to block Cedar Rapids Washington.

photos by DELLA NUNO

Jeremy Johnson ‘12 runs in for a touchdown.

by Ellen Kealy

Senior Meg Richardson has been running at the varsity level all four years of her high school career. She is training hard for state, which will be her last chance to represent City High Cross Country.

“Racing is really hard but exciting,” Richard-son said. “The whole time you have to push

yourself but at the end it’s great because you have all of your teammates there to support you.”

On October 29th seven of our top va rsity runners will head to Fort Dodge to compete at the state meet. Runners include Meg Richard-son, Courtney Bruns, Harper Beasley, Lindsey Bruns, Allison Siglin, Erin Danielson and Ellen Carmen. The alternates are Terra Perez, Katie Langenfeld and Katherine Arch. The girls’ race

begins at eleven A.M.“Were going to run our hearts out,” Richard-

son said. “It has been a great season and every-one has done an awesome job.”

The girls’ cross country team has placed in the top three at state since 1989. The girls are ranked third this season.

“We definitely want to keep the streak going,” Richardson said. “Everyone needs to come to-gether as a team and get the job done. Our goal is to finish first or second.”

While the season ended weeks ago for the non-varsity runners, those who made it to state continue to run hard work outs.

“It’s a lot different without the rest of the team,” alternate, Terra Perez ’13 said. “Our workouts are a lot harder. I miss running with the big team.”

While the girls persevere towards their goals, Coach Tom Mittman thinks of running strate-gies for the state competition.

“We’re going to try to go out at a controlled pace and stay with certain people, then with one mile left were going to go really fast,” Richard-son said. “Tom really cares about everyone; he wants us to be happy, healthy and fast. He’s a really good coach.”

During the season, Tom is supportive of his runners. He goes out of his way to make sure everyone is doing well.

“Tom has been a great coach this year,” Perez said. “He takes care of all our runners; I can’t imagine cross country without him.”

During divisionals, the varsity team placed second to Linn Mar.

“Overall it’s been a pretty good season,” Perez said. “We’ve had some tough losses but I think we will pull through at state. We would like to beat Dowling and Linn Mar.”

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by Annika Wasson

The volleyball team has a successful regular season finishing No. 2 in the state. The Little Hawks had an overall record of 36-3. While they had some tough losses, the team has a lot to be proud of.

“We came together as a team this season,” Mi-chaela Nelson ‘14 said, “We were able to play as a team more than as individuals.”

The team had several matches in which they showed their ability to work as a team and play until the end. Erin Muir ‘12 says beating An-keny 2-1 at their Bettendorf tournament and beating Kennedy 3-2 in 5 close sets were major highlights of the season.

Two of the team’s three losses came against cross-town rival West High. In their first match City lost 1-3, with the scores of 25-27, 25-21, 16-25, and 19-25.

The two teams played next at the MVC tour-nament. City lost 14-25 18-25. If both teams continue winning, it is likely they will play each other in the state finals. Should the two teams meet again in the tournament, the Little Hawks will be ready.

“We need to learn from our mistakes. We played not to lose in both meetings, instead we have to be aggressive and play to win,” head coach Craig Pitcher said.

The team is now playing in the regional tour-nament and their goal is to make improvements throughout the matches. Muir is looking for-ward to the team’s post-season.

“I’m really excited to get a chance to go to the state tournament,” she said. “Also it’s really hard to beat a team three times, so good luck West.”

Pitcher also believes his team has what it takes to be successful in the tournament.

“We have all the pieces, now we just need to put them in the right order,” Pitcher said.

Volleyball on the path to State

Liz Hubing ‘13 strikes fear into her opponents.

by Ethan Zeirke

This weekend, the City High girls’ swim team will be heading out to Cedar Rapids Washington High School to compete in the regionals state qualifying meet.

“I think we’re going to swim a lot faster than other years,” said Ava Vargason ‘13, “He’s [Girls’ Swim Coach Ivan Sanchez] been working us harder than in the past.”

The regionals meet is the only girls state qualifying meet. Depending on how well the girls preform for regionals, some will go on to compete at the state level on November 4th and 5th in Marshalltown.

“West High is always a big rivalry--a lot of their swimmers started at a really young age.” said Claire Rowden ‘13, “We always try to have our best race and treat every meet the same.”

In order to prepare for the regional and state meets, the team tapers, or cuts down on rigorous training, reducing yardage in the pool and cutting back morning practices to only Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

“On the last week of taper, our yardage is cut way down.” said Claire, “Our work-outs get easier and we’re encouraged to eat healthy and get plenty of sleep leading up to the meet.”

The girls try to make time to keep up team morale and motivation throughout their demanding season and weeks leading up to Regionals.

“We all goof around in the locker room, especially after practice and before meets,” said Claire. “The captains give cheesy moti-vational speeches and we do a lot of yelling and screaming.”

Whether it’s tossing medicine balls back and forth, swimming endless yardage in the pool, or giving a hearty football cheer in the locker room, the City High Girls Swim Team has a meaningful next couple of weeks ahead of them.

Girl’s swimming wraps up the season

Cross Country girls strive for first state title since 2006

Sarah Baker ‘12 makes her way past a Cedar Rapids Kennedy competitor in one of their last races of the season.

photo by Oli Peters

photo by ANNIKA WASSONAbby Saehler ‘13 goes in for the kill against Linn-Mar.

Boys golf ties for ninth in the state

by Jon Myers

After a long season, filled with ups and downs, the Boys Golf team placed well at

districts, with all six varsity members quali-fying for state.

“The whole team came together for dis-tricts, we were all really proud.” Senior and Captain Ryan Duncan said.

Going into state the team hoped to place pretty high, with a home course advantage. City High ended placing 9th in the state among the twelve teams that qualified. City High had a total of 323 strokes the first day and followed with 330 the second, for a total of 653.

“I was hoping we would place a little high-er, but overall City did really well.” Duncan said.

Individual leader on the team was Cap-tain Grant Simpson 13’, with a total on 160 strokes.

photo by ANNIKA WASSON

THE LITTLE HAWK’S GUIDE TO A PAULA-FREE WEEKEND

24 TGIF October 28, 2011 www.thelittlehawk.com

Rent a Movie!With Halloween on Monday, it is only appropriate to get in the spooky mood

by watching these classic and creepy flicks that are sure to make you scream

What’s HOT on TVPan Am - Every Sunday at 9:00pm on ABC.

Once upon a time - Every Sunday at 7:00 pm on ABC

American Horror Story- Every Wednesday at 9:00 on FX

The Ringer - Every Tuesday at 8:00pm on The CW

The Office - Thursdays at 8:00pm on NBC

Modern Family - Wednesday at 7:00pm on ABC

30 Rock - Thursdays at 9:30pm on NBC

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Make orange jello?

Go spend time with your grandmother?

Get a job?!?! Watch all 11 of the Friday the 13th movies? In a row?

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Halloween This ironically titled horror film is a classic scare for all thrill seekers. The movie revolves around a psychotic killer

who escapes a mental hospital and stalks a babysitter on Halloween night. Aside from Jump starting scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis’s movie career; Halloween spawned seven sequels and two remakes.

Nightmare on Elm StreetWho does not love a scary movie featuring a burned man wearing a striped sweater with razors on his fingers.

Nightmare on Elm Street is about a bunch of hormonal teenagers being murdered in their nightmares. This is one of those horror films that will make you laugh and jump out of your seats.

Friday the 13thYou will never look at hockey mask’s the same after viewing this classic horror film. While it depends on whether you

watch the 1980 original movie or the 2009 remake , this film about a machete wielding maniac exacting revenge on camp counselors will leave you shivering with fear.

ScreamNow here’s a benchmark slasher film that broke all the rules. Scream is a wildly fun slasher that became enormously

successful, spawning 3 sequels. Never before has a slasher series made you second guess every hypothesis you made about who the killer is-which makes the payoff all the more satisfying.

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● Field of Screams October 28th and 29th from 7:30 to 11:30 PM. Cost is 7.00 Unless you have a coupon, if you do, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

●● The Black Angel

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● If you kiss the angel on Halloween night, rumor has it your heart will stop.

●● Noblesville Barn of

Terror ● 19807 Hague Road, Noblesville,

Iowa-28th through the 31st of October. Price is 5.00

●● Panic Park ● 5932 North Union Road- Cedar

Falls, Iowa. From October 20th to 31st. Tickets are 10.00 dollars.

●● The Subway

restaurant by the Waterfront Hyvee

● Sandwiches cost around 3.00. Open 24 hours. Just don’t go.

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