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Healthy Living

College TuitionStudents weigh-in on rising college tuitions/page 3

On to StateWomen’s Swimming plunges through Regionals to State/page 12

Life of a VeganVegan opens up about their transfor-mation to their new lifestyle/page 8

How are students at Cedar Falls High School staying healthy?

What are their eating habits?

How can I become healthier over the winter months?

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IN THISISSUE

•OUR VIEWPage #3

•TUITION PRICESPage #3

•CANDIDATES INCONSISTENCY

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HI-LIGHT NEWS SPORTS

ENTERTAINMENT

FEATURES

•FOOD DRIVEPage #4

•BENEFITS OF FAMILY EATING

Page #4•POLITICAL ISSUES

Page #5•DIGITAL BOOKS

Page #5•NATIONAL MERIT

SEMI-FINALISTPage #5

•FOODIES HEALTH OPTIONS

Page #4

•BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

Page #12•WOMEN’S SWIMMING

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•MICHAEL JENIPage #10

•CONRAD’S ARTPage #10

•BEST FALL SONGSPage #11

•PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

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•HALLOWEEN TREATSPage #6

•ZOMBIES IN PARKPage #6

•VEGANISMPage #8

•LISA BOELMANPage #9

AMJADIEditor-in-Chief Maya

CUNHA Staff Writer Ana

DAVIS Entertainment Editor Lindsey

HALLOnline Editor Martha

HARWOODStaff Writer Amanda

HOOFNAGLE Entertainment Editor Linn

HYLTON Sports Editor Jared

IZER Staff Writer Karley

JENSEN Staff Writer Alyssa

KEMP Staff Writer Maddie

MAYHEW Editor Katherine

NICKERSONStaff Writer Lauren

OMARI-BOATENGFeature Editor Sandra

STABENOWStaff Writer Quinn

TATEStaff Writer Liam

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Opinion3Some would argue that

politicians have to lie, but how much is too much? Through-out the campaign, to demo-crats, presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign has seemed glaringly inconsistent on most of the issues. Even worse, the Romney campaign denies anything that they may have said that doesn’t go with what Romney is saying in any given moment.

For example, Romney’s stance on abortion has flip-flopped for many years accord-ing to PolitiFacts.com. In fact, in 1994, he was pro-choice. “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this coun-try,” Romney said. Years later, in 2002, he stood by with what he said during his campaign for governor. “I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, it should be sustained and supported. And I sustain and support that law and support the right of a woman to make that choice,” Romney said. Despite taking a pro-choice stance for years, in 2008 Romney shared some-thing else with Fox News. “I never called myself pro-choice. I never allowed myself to use the word pro-choice because I didn’t feel I was pro-choice,” Romney said. Most recently, Romney commented on his abortion to the Des Moines Register editorial board in early October 2012. “There’s no leg-islation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” Romney said. However, when he was talking to reporters in Ohio the very next day Rom-ney, yet again, had something else to say.”I think I’ve said time

a n d again that I’m a pro-life can-didate and I’ll be a pro-life president,” Romney said. “The actions I’ll take immediately is to remove funding for Planned Parenthood. It will not be part of my budget. And also I’ve indicated that I will reverse the Mexico City position of the president. I will reinstate the Mexico City policy which keeps us from using foreign aid for abortions overseas.”

Besides abortion, Obama pointed out himself some of Romney’s inconsistencies on foreign policy. “Governor Romney, I’m glad that you recognize that al-Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida,” Obama said. Not only is it unclear where Romney’s priorities lie as far as who the United States should be defending the coun-try against, Obama also point-ed out during the debate that Romney flipped flopped on his Iraq stance within the past few weeks. “You say that you’re not interested in duplicating what’s happened in Iraq. But just a few weeks ago, you said you think we should have more troops in Iraq right now,” Obama said.

Our View Unstable Platform?Candidate Romney is inconsistant with stance on issues

HARWOOD By Staff Writer Amanda

Not only has Romney clearly been inconsistent throughout his political career and the presidential race, he claimed to the New Hamp-shire Editorial Board that he was ever inconsistent, de-spite the facts. “I’ve been as consistent as human beings can be,” Romney said. “I can-not state every single issue in

exactly the same words every single time, and so there are some folks who, obviously, for various political and campaign purposes will try and find some change and draw great atten-tion to something which looks like a change which in fact is entirely consistent.”

Yeah, that makes sense, nice try Romney. Personally, I look for honest qualities in a leader. To me, consistency and honesty go hand and hand. How can you have faith in a candidate as a president if be-fore they even make it to office they can’t even have a con-sistent plan during the elec-tion process? I know people strongly feel that Romney has good ideas, but how can they be implemented if he can’t even make a definitive deci-sion on where he stands during the race? Without a strong and consistent platform, four years of Mitt Romney would look like, well, four years of indecision.

Barack Obama summed it up best the day after the last debate at a rally for supporters. “Trust matters,” Obama said. “You want the person who’s applying to be president and commander-in-chief to be trust-worthy, that he means what he says, that he’s not making stuff up depending on whether it’s convenient or not.”

Since we were kids, we’ve been asked what we wanted to be when we grow up. Typi-cal answers were firefighters, doctors, the President of the United States, but how are we supposed to fulfill our dreams with an average of $30,000 owed in student loans?

According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Iowa ranks third in the nation for student loan debt. University and col-lege costs keep rising, leaving prospective college students

questioning whether they will ever make it to college.

The Iowa Regents Board is asking for $40 million to fund a new financial aid project for college students. If the mea-sure is passed by Gov. Terry Branstad, the $40 million will freeze rising costs for colleges for the 2013-14 school year.

If the Iowa Regents Board really wants us to succeed in college, they should have a

plan to actually lower costs. Very few students would be able to pay for college without financial aid, yet it is an educa-

tion we are expected to have if we want to thrive in the work-ing world. The board members are generally wealthy and don’t understand the struggle of pay-ing for college firsthand. If a college student’s opinion was added to the Board of Regents, they would have a much need-ed voice to explain the effects of their choices on attending and prospective college stu-dents.

Next, educators across Iowa should not push all students

into attending college. Don’t get me wrong, I believe that college is essential to most young adults. However, some students are simply not cut out for college. If high school stu-dents not ready for college are pushed into a path they don’t want to take, they will end up using financial aid and eventu-ally dropping out. That financial aid could be used for students who intend to work hard and genuinely want the opportunity to learn in a new environment.

Hall By Staff Writer Martha

Price of education coming at higher cost

Long gone are the days where students can buy a pop at school for lunch. These sugary drinks have been replaced with beverages like water and Gatorade. It's not very of-ten anymore that you see Coke or Mountain Dews being sipped during lunch. Instead, more and more students are choosing milk or water. This is a beautiful sight.

Undoubtedly, the main reason many students aren't drinking soda at lunch is because these drinks are simply not offered anymore. Yet, this act should become more widespread. It's com-mon knowledge nowadays that carbonated soft drinks are not healthy. They offer no nutritional value. They deteriorate bones, destroy teeth and generally do no good for your body. Out-side of school, students should be choosing healthy alternatives to the danger-ous sodas. Pepsi may tickle your taste buds, but they also shrivel up your bone. Don't get us wrong, a pop here and there is no harm done. But making it habitu-al is beyond troubling. Caf-feine is a sort of drug, and it can become highly addic-tive. Once your body starts desiring caffeine everyday,

you know you've got a prob-lem on your hands.

Milk is tasty. It helps build up bone. Water is necessary for life, and it is the number one quenching drink. Teas even offer lots of goodies for your body. Here at the Hi-Line, we encourage stu-dents to consider the many healthy alternatives to soft drinks. There are a multitude of tasty drinks that your body will thank you for drinking. It's a new day and age. Ditch the soda.

Pitch the PopIn these days of healthy diets,making the switch from popto alternative drinks is worth it


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Senior Anna Love pumped up her third hour class by in-viting them to stand outside Hy-Vee with her to collect cans and money for the high school food drive. Throughout the three times they have volun-teered their time, they have collected about $370 and over 300 cans of food.

Love learned of this idea from students from previous years. During the volunteer work, she met people who have made a lasting impact on her. “There was a man who said ‘I’ve been hungry before, so I know what it’s like,’ as he donated. That impacted me because the people I was help-ing by being there were origi-nally faceless. I would never see them and most likely never see any change because of what I was doing, but by him saying that, it opened my eyes to the fact that I come in con-tact with people who are strug-gling to put food on the table every day, I just don’t know it,” Love said.

There was another person Love met while volunteering that made her think about what people spend their money on. “There was another woman who said as she donated ‘I always feel bad walking by something like this and then buying a lottery ticket.’ People spend so much on things that don’t matter when they could be using that money for good. [But they spend it on] excess clothes, the latest iPhone, vid-

eo games, drugs/alcohol and cosmetics. I’m just as guilty as the next person,” Love said.

Love went to Haiti last year with her church and saw hunger up close. “There were kids with skinny arms and big stomachs. In extreme cases I saw kids whose hair had turned from the normal black to a rusty-red because their bodies didn’t have the support to pig-ment their hair. At the nutrition centers that my group did, we gave them peanut butter sand-wiches. Most of the kids would only eat half and then stick the rest in their back pocket. They never knew when they would get food again. Seeing all of this in Haiti makes me want to help people [here] with the same problem,” Love said. “The rich should help the poor, the strong should help the weak. If you can’t donate mon-ey, donate time. If you can’t do-nate time, then donate money. Hunger is such an overlooked problem in our community. Ev-ery human life is equal in God’s eyes, so don’t overlook 1/8th of the Iowan population.”

Love’s classmates from col-lege physics have so far kept a consistent set-up every time they stand outside Hy-Vee to collect donations. After check-ing to make sure the time of day isn’t already reserved, the students gather at the front of the store. They get a shop-ping cart and attach a sign Love made that reads “Fight Hunger, support CFHS food

drive.” They also drape a Tiger jersey over the side of the cart with the handle bar. They have handed out flyers explaining the cause and including a few statistics about hunger in Iowa.

Senior Sophie Perez was one student who joined Love in her efforts. “I wanted to [help] because it was a good way for the community to get involved in giving, and it was good to get cans for our third hour (since I’m competitive by nature and really want to win),” Perez said.

The girls’ set-up also in-cluded a balloon pump and balloons. Love has been mak-ing balloon animals since the fifth grade when she taught herself and has since been hired at countless birthday par-ties and community events. “It definitely helped having animal balloons as a kid’s attraction. It brought the kids over to us, and even if their parents hadn’t bought cans or thought about donating money, this way they felt a sort of obligation to give in return for Anna’s services,” Perez said.

Perez had a good experi-ence volunteering. “Definitely want to do it again. Not only am I helping the community, but the feeling of service I got from collecting [cans and money] was amazing, espe-cially knowing that I’m helping feed people right where I live,” Perez said.

Students collect cans, money for food drive

Can Collecting Calendar Oct.29-Nov.2

Change Wars begin--Monday Oct. 29In an effort to raise money for the food

drive, a collection bucket will be in every classroom. To put your class in front of oth-ers, dump pennies in other classes buckets. The goal is to have the least amount of pen-nies and the most money raised.

Trick or Treat for food--Wednesday, Oct. 31Halloween is the perfect time to door

knock for cans of food. Everyone’s porch lights will be on already, excitedly anticipat-ing the trick-or-treaters. Surprise your neigh-bors by showing up and aking for a canned food iteam to spport the school food drive.

Track meet featuring teachers and students--Thursday, Nov. 1The cost is either $2 or four cans to attend

a first time event in which teachers will race around the track in the 4x200m, 100m dash and 8x200m. Students will also compete in a 4x100m event, 400m dash and 4x400m. There will also be 1600m relays that stu-dents can sign up for. For third hours look-ing to compete, there will be a third hour relay 4x200m race. Each team must donate 10 cans to be eligible. THe winning team will receive all of the cans. The event is schedled to start at 7 at the high school track.

Many people are going out of their ways to eat healthy, but it’s harder to find more organic types of foods in one place.

For over a decade, Cedar Falls citizens have had one store exclusively focusing on bringing them healthy and organically grown produce, Roots Market. When Roots Market first opened its doors, it was one of the only places in town that sold natural, lo-cal and organic products. First opening in 2001, and changing ownership once, their doors

closed to the public in mid-August this summer. After that, a question on their customers’ minds was, “Where do I get my organic food now?”

“I’m actually very sad that [Roots Market] closed. I’m a vegetarian, so I got a lot of supplements and food from there,” senior Alex DeMartino said.

While the whole “health craze” was starting its early stages, other competition started popping up. While there were always farmer’s mar-

kets that happened every sum-mer that gave people access to locally grown organic foods, others started catching on to the trend. Hy-Vee’s health food market section has done really well in becoming a main place to get organic foods. Wal-Mart and many other commercial stores have also added health food sections, so it’s not very hard to find most of the organic foods people are looking for.

“I shop in the Hy-Vee health food section now that Roots Market closed; it’s not the same

brands but essentially the same products,” DeMartino said.

Other than just providing customers with organic food, Roots Market also bought lo-cally grown produce in sup-port of local businesses. In an e-mail Rob Pruitt, the former owner of the store, sent out, he wrote that Roots Market purchased over one million dollars worth of products from local producers in the past nine years. They also supported the Grassroots Cafe, which is a type of school lunch program

at the now closed lab school that had healthier meals for students. They also employed over 40 people from the Cedar Falls area and were committed to having 100 percent organic produce.

“It’s a little disappointing that they closed because I support local businesses, and that was a successful place for people to buy organic produce and groceries,” senior Nicole Jeffery said.

Roots closed its doors, leaving foodies searching to buy fresh, local options

AMJADI By Editor-in-Chief Maya

OMARI-BOATENG By Feature Editor Sandra


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News5As high school students, it’s

not very often that we get to speak face-to-face with sena-tors and government represen-tatives. Political Issues Club was formed with the goal of getting students interested in current issues seen as controversial. Typical activities involve debat-ing issues, forming resolutions, and listening to various politi-cal speakers, like senators and representatives.

Although attendance de-pending on the topic being de-bated, the club boasts around 15 frequent members. The issue being discussed brings in many interested students. Topics debated so far include traffic cameras, gay rights, and tax policy.

“People should join be-cause it is an overall great experience. You get to learn about various topics and learn the opinions of your fellow classmates,” said the club’s leader, junior Jacob Pence.

Acting as “speaker of the house”, Pence leads the mock legislature. “ I cannot vote or debate on issues; I just moder-ate the debates,” said Pence.

He started the club after being in Mr. Dyvig’s class last year and enjoying the mock debates. “Students got to debate, and express their opinions on con-troversial issues in the nation. I talked with my friend, [junior] Justin King, and we decided to create the club,” said Pence.

Social studies teachers Mr. Dyvig and Mr. Schmidt attend meetings and recommend so-lutions or supply background information, even though they cannot vote in the debates.

A typical meeting has three phases: proposal phase, forma-

tion/amendment phase, and lastly, the voting phase. During the proposal phase, students form their opinions during de-bate. Brainstorming problems, the members take sides on the issue and vote. Secretary Justin King records everything and creates it into a singular bill. After further debate, it will be amended if needed with a 2 to 3 vote. After the vote, a new

With cellular phones, laptops iPads and iPods, technology is everything. And along with all these electronic de-vices comes something that will soon be engraved in possibly every classroom: digital books.

“Using a digital book can be acces-sible if you have a device. And if you do, then digital books tend to be more immediate than if you have a regular book,” librarian Kim Traw said.

“Digital books also have a dictionary and a web search if you just click on a word you don’t know or want to know more about. It’s easy for struggling readers,” Matt Klemesrud, an English teacher who has been using digital books in his classroom, said.

Though digital books do have their

perks, they also have a downside to them.

“When Kindles break, they’re done for good. But when you rip a page on a book, you can just tape that page up and continue reading. Along with this, publishers are not exactly thrilled with selling books on E-books rather than in bookstores,” Traw said.

“There can be loss of Internet ac-cess, batteries running out and they’re breakable, so there are a few disadvan-tages to using a digital book,” Klemes-rud said.

Though both digital and non-digital books have their perks and downsides, it is still debatable whether or not class-rooms in schools will use them in the future.

“Right now, non-digital books are more used, but as people get devises in schools, then digital books will probably become more prominent,” Traw said.

“Technology is constantly evolving, so there will soon be far more electronic users. However, it is possible that there will always be those people who will prefer non-digital books,” Klemesrud said.

Digital Debate:

“People should join because it is an overall great expe-rience. You get to learn about various topics and learn the opinions of your fel-low classmates.”

—Jacob Penceclub leader

topic will be created for the next meeting.

Political Issues Club meets Friday mornings at 7:15 a.m in Mr. Dyvig’s room (259) or Mr. Schmidt’s room (256). Anyone is welcome to attend.

Political issues club debates controversial topicsNational Merit Scholarship Corporation announces SemifinalistsSemifinalistsHannah MallaroAnne OreGreg Power

Commended StudentsMary KhanKatelyn McClintockLauren Sims

Semifinalists and Com-mended Students for the 2013 National Merit Schol-arship were chosen based on their PSAT scores and other requirements.

Semifinalists will ad-vance in the National Merit Scholarship compe-tition while commended students are being recog-nized for their outstanding performance on the PSAT, but will not proceed in the competition.

Jensen By Staff Writer Alyssa

Hall By Online editor Martha

Nickerson And Staff Writer Lauren

Reading off a Kindle in Matt Klemesrud’s English class is senior Brandi Vodochodsky last year. “When we are reading a book, we got to use the Kindles every day. So far we’ve read two books on the Kindles, and as as they are, I still prefer reading a hard copy book,” Vodochodsky said.

District sees ups, downs to electronic books


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FEATURE6Spooky treats offer mouthwatering delight

Spidey Cookies

What You Will Need1.Halloween Oreos

2. Shoestring Licorice3 . Red Hots

4. Frosting

Step One-Cut the shoestring licorice into 1 inch

piecesStep Two

-Put four pieces of licorice on each side of the Halloween Oreo

Step Three-Use a little bit of frosting as glue and stick

the red hots on for eyes

Witches Hat’s

What You Will Need1. Fudge stripe cookies

2. Chocolate Kisses3. Yellow frosting

4. Honey5. Decorating pipe

Step One-Place cookie bottom side up and put

some honey on the bottom of the KissStep Two

-Put the Kiss in the middle of the cookie covering up the hole

Step Three-Use the decorating pipe to create the

buckle on the hat

Strawberry Ghosts

What You Will Need1. Strawberries

2. White chocolate3. Brown frosting

4. Decorating pipe

Step One-Melt the white chocolate and dip the

strawberries to cover them

Step Two-After chocolate dries, make the eyes and

a mouth using the decorating pipe

By Staff Writer KarlyIzer

Agatha Fenech Photo

Christina Brammer Photos

Top left; a makeup artist transforms Richie Korneisel. Bottom left; Allie Harris shows off her best demonized

face. Above, Jessica Ubben helps out fellow clown Katy Salmon. At top right, Carrsan Morrissey prepares

to scare customers. At bottom right, Allie Armstrong glares her bloody chomps.

Scholarly students turn ghoulish for Zombies in the Park


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Cedar Falls High School, along with the rest of America is going crazy over healthy eating. One of the things the government is doing to encourage healthier lifestyles and decrease obesity rates is requiring schools to provide healthier lunches. While it may be a good idea in theory, Cedar Falls High School students are resistant to the change.

Junior Mallory Val-lentine packs her own lunch. “The food is un-appealing, and there

are hardly any choices now compared to other years. I bring my own lunch be-cause I can choose things I actually want to eat, and I know the food will actually fill me up,” Vallentine said.

She has a negative opinion about school food. “I dislike school food be-cause it doesn’t look good and doesn’t taste that good. They serve the exact same things every week, and a lot of times the food isn’t fresh,” Vallentine said.

While Vallentine doesn’t like school food as it is, she does have ideas about how it could be better. “I think they could add some dishes to the menu to vary it up a little. It would be nice if they would allow us to have more condi-ments. Instead of serving us frozen food all the time, the lunch staff could try to get fresh food more. Basically, things along those lines should change,” Val-lentine said.

Despite being un-satisfied with the food, some students contin-ue to buy school lunch.

Senior Zach Souhrada-Rogers buys school lunch on a regular basis. “It’s easier to just get lunch at school then spend the time trying to figure out what to bring, how and where to store it, and all that stuff,” Souhrada-Rogers said.

Souhrada-Rogers enjoys some of the changes made to school lunches this year, but he does have some criti-cisms. “I like some of the new things that they’ve added. They’ve started throwing in a lot more veggie options that are pretty good,” Souhrada-Rogers said. “Their problem is with portions, especially in regards to condiments. For example, they have the huge salad bowls which qualify as three to four servings of vegetables, but only give one packet of dressing, which isn’t pro-portional at all and leaves you with a bland, tasteless salad.”

Besides the salads, Souhrada-Rog-ers found a way of dealing with other frustrations related to school lunches. “[T]he limitations on condiment pack-ets has been rather inconvenient, so to beat the system, I bought a box of 1,000 ketchup packets and bring bag-gies of packets each day for lunch,” Souhrada-Rogers said.

Souhrada-Rogers has other ideas that would improve the taste of school lunches with the Healthy Kids Act. “I think the best thing they could do is take away the condiment restriction. It would resolve a lot of complaints around the school and probably encourage more people to actually eat the vegetables. I get the side salad every day it’s avail-able because it means I can get the ranch packet. It’s not like we’re putting five ketchup packets on everything we can. We just need enough to enjoy our food, and one packet just doesn’t cut it,” Souhrada-Rogers said.

Food Service and Nutrition Specialist Vicky Ecker has the facts on the changes in the program. “The Nu-

trition standards are the foundation of federal school nutrition programs and have recently been updated to reflect the current Dietary Guidelines for Amer-icans. The Standards were established for menu planning by studying the nu-tritional needs of groups of children at different ages. Nutrition standards con-sists of the required food components, levels of calories, and the key nutrients to meet the nutrition goals for specific age or grade groups of children for breakfast and lunch over the course of one week,” Ecker said.

While students have their own set of complaints about the changes, the new regulations cause some challenges for the food staff, despite the good ideas behind the changes. “These changes have some good points especially as part of an effort to curb childhood obe-sity. However, these changes are too abrupt and stringent. The USDA is mak-ing the major changes in school meals to help ensure a healthier generation of children. These changes are intended to benefit the long-term well-being and success of today’s students,” Ecker said.

With healthier eating comes health-ier options, this year, some of the most popular items on the menu are fresh fruits and vegetables, according to Ecker. “We have included a variety of freshly made salads every day which could be sold as an a la carte as a reim-bursable meal.”

In addition to these fresh foods, Eck-er admits if it weren’t for such a large student population, she would like to see other changes. “I would really like to see our meals prepared from scratch but our kitchens’ are not fully equipped with the pieces of equipment designed for quantity food production,” Ecker said.

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Students, specialist suggest school lunch improvements

For a variety of reasons and in a number of studies, dining as a fam-ily tends to be far more healthy for kids than for those who do not. The ideals of family dining together run so deeply in American culture that it has become part of our society.

Perhaps it is the bond that it creates. When families sit around the table, talking about their days, talking about the positives and negatives, complementing each other and even fighting, it crafts a reliable, sturdy atmosphere that all families crave.

“Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eat-ing disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use,” Times magazine recently reported.

Though sometimes families do eat together, it is likely to include a trip out to eat at a restaurant or fast food place.

“Indeed, over 40 percent of the typical American food budget is spent on eating out, with fam-ily meals often being relegated to holidays and special occasions,” Science Daily reported.

Not only does this affect the family budget, but it also affects the health of the kids, as eating at restaurants makes an unhealthy diet. Not only can eating together around the dinner table solve the family budget issue and create a reliable atmosphere, but it also can deter eating disorders.

“Studies have shown that when family meals are prioritized, struc-tured and positive in atmosphere, fewer weight control problems and disordered eating patterns were observed,” NYU Child Study Cen-ter reported.

Study shows benefits for families that eat together

How many times in a week do you eat with your family?

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Soph: 1 3 5 3 6 6 6 12Junior:3 5 3 5 4 6 6 8 Senior:9 2 3 4 3 3 7 9

Soph: 10 21 7 2 Junior:15 19 6 Senior:14 21 4 1

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By Staff Writer Amanda


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FEATURE8 A new lifestyle is becom-

ing more popular in America. More people have started to reduce their consumption of meat in their daily meals or have started a plant-based diet. Since 1997, the vegan population in the United States grew from one percent to about 10 percent. What many people don’t know is that there is a wide variety of preferences among those who eat most plants. Three common catego-ries are veganism, vegetarian-ism and flexitarianism.

Flexitarian is a word cre-ated to describe people whose diet is almost vegetarian, but sometimes includes meat, mostly fish or poultry. In 2003 the American Dialect Society voted this term the year’s most useful word. Vegetarians are people who do not eat or do not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals such as eggs or cheese. In-stead, vegetarians subsist on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc. And vegans are a variation of vegetarians who omit all animal products from the diet, without exceptions.

Some people hesitate about having a plant-based diet because they worry about don’t getting all the necessary nutrients and vitamins — like B12, iron, protein, calcium and zinc — that are found in ani-mal products. But the truth is

that having a balanced vegan diet can be h e a l t h i e r than hav-ing a meat-based diet, and it is easier to get the neces-sary amount of each es-sential nu-trient the body needs because of the big va-riety of food a vegan has to eat.

As veg-ans don’t eat animal p ro d u c t s , the chances of having heart dis-ease and d i a b e t e s are few since they don’t eat bad cholesterol and saturated fat and have lower blood pres-sure. Another benefit is less risk of colon cancer since fiber normalizes the intestine, drasti-cally decreasing its prevalence among vegans. This is also one reason they accumulate less calories and are skinnier, but it doesn’t mean they eat less

or are hungry all the time. Fi-ber has high nutritional value. It makes the digestive system work better and improves me-tabolism. It is also important to eat a lot of small meals during the whole day, and not few big meals. Another benefit for veg-etarians is the fast and healthy loss of weight.

Omitting all animal prod-

ucts from the diet without a nutritionist and a balanced diet can be dangerous, though. Vegetarians worry more about the lifestyle they have, so they usually keep themselves healthy by not eating a lot of fried food or sweets, otherwise their metabolisms would still be slow and some nutrients would be missing. It’s important to be aware of the nutrients a body

Q: What made you want to have this kind of diet?

A: I’ve always tried to be healthy with my food choices, but, just recently, my dad had cancer and I watched him slowly and painfully die in the hospital. I feel that he made the choice to put himself at risk for it because he didn’t have a healthy lifestyle at all. On the trip back home, my brother gave me a DVD of a movie called Forks Over Knifes in which the ba-sic premise is that if you eat a plant-based diet your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other ailments that appear with age goes way down. And I already was leaning that way.

Q: What are the benefits for you al-ready?

A: I think it is a cheaper way to go in the long run because emergency procedures aren’t as likely for me. In addition to colon cancer, heart disease runs in my family. My grandfather died in his fifties when I was just a small boy. I want to try to make food my medi-cine. My mother, some aunts and uncles, take a dosage of pills, and I want to be pill free. I dropped 10 pounds really fast when switched to this plant-based diet. It is really amazing, and you feel like you’re lighter on your feet. Also, I have always really liked healthy plant-based food better and felt like I had to com-promise my preferences when I was in the company of others. Now I have simple satisfy-ing excuse to pass on those foods.

Q: It is not only about the food, but more like a lifestyle. How do you recommend it?

A: When I hear every day about what the govern-ment should be doing to make people healthier and what to do with our obesity and cancer problems, I think that a plant-based diet is a really cheap way that could offer a huge transformation in our country and in the world. Obesity would go down, diabetes too, and de-pression as well. People would have a better self image and wouldn’t have to be spending a lot of money with medical care after they’ve already led themselves into tough spots. Ultimately, I’m convinced if more Ameri-cans would emphasize plants in their diets, the costs to all of us with government health care would ease. I lean more to the Left politically, but when I hear Republicans saying that you have to take personal responsibility for your life, I think that it is a great philosophy for health instead of looking to pills and government assistance to solve it all. I’m pretty sure that I’m going to follow this path for the rest of my life, and I’m confident that my life will be healthier and more active because of it.

No meat, No problemHealthier lifestyle becoming more popular

An insider’s look at veganism from teacher Brian Winkel

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needs before embarking on a new diet, however. Those who simply quit eating animal pro-tein without replacing the nutri-ents can be at risk for anemia, loss of hair and muscles, weak nails and apathy, so be sure to have a professional’s oppinion.

Beginning a vegetarian diet means to have a new life-style, so the sooner one starts it, the better it will be and the less one will suffer from some health risks later in life. For people who are used to eating meat for a long time, it may be harder to stop, and they may lose weight faster because their metabolism is used to di-gesting more fat than fiber, so the body will feel the impacts fast and will start to answer to them differently.

Vegetarian habits are not only good for the body, but also help to minimize the im-pacts in the environment. One pound of beef, for example, needs 2,500 gallons of water and beef farms are also re-sponsible for the a large part of the carbon in the atmosphere. Reducing the consumption of meat would decrease the greenhouse effect, reduce global warming, preserve more water and save more space for local nature.


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New York City is a city for big dreamers. Some of the biggest names in fashion made their start there, so Lisa Boelman, who graduated two years ago from Cedar Falls High School, went to the city out of high school to pursue her passion for fashion.

Boelman has been in love with fashion for many years. “I knew I wanted to go into fash-ion when I was 13. I then took Fashion 1, Fashion 2 and an in-dependent study for fashion in high school,” Boelman said.

Moving to New York City wasn’t her original plan for af-ter high school. “My original plan was to move to San Fran-cisco, Calif., and go to FIDM out there. Long story short, it was way too much money, they didn’t have dorms and I would be in a lot of debt. All of this happened April of my senior year,” Boelman said.

After all of this fell through, she heard about FIT (The Fash-ion Institute of Technology) in New York. “I didn’t have a

backup plan but remembered hearing about a gal that had her own T-shirt line from Iowa. I emailed her, found out about FIT in New York (where she went), decided I would move to NYC, get New York resi-dency and apply to school with the hopes I would get in and not have to pay out of state,” Boelman said.

Boelman is very busy right now with work and being a student. “Right now I work as a nanny one day a week and at Anthropologie clothing store in Soho along with being a full time student. I love both my jobs so much,” she said.

It’s safe to say that life in New York City is much different from life here in Cedar Falls, Iowa. “My relationship with New York City is a love/hate one. I would say I love it about 80 percent. I love how there is always something to do, places to go, food to try and how it re-ally is the city that never sleeps. I don’t love how long it takes to get places. To get to school

takes 45 minutes, my job takes an hour and sometimes you spend even longer on the train because of delays, but for the most part I really do love it here but I’m still so thankful I have Iowa to call my home,” Boelman said.

School has kept Boelman busy every week with projects, classes and more. “School is a lot of hard work. I have class-es Tuesday through Friday. Wednesday and Thursday I am at school from 9 in the morning till 9 at night. My classes are great. I have sewing, draping, three art classes, pattern de-sign and then taking two of my liberal classes. I am normally at school all day on Saturday working on projects and home-work,” Boelman said.

It’s a whole new atmo-sphere at FIT. “This is one of the top fashion schools in the country, so you have a lot of talented people. You have to remind yourself you are not go-ing to be the best at everything anymore and that you are really

going to have to push yourself. Also, the teachers expect a lot from you. No missing classes, homework on time and neat looking. Also they will be criti-cal of your work. You have to learn to not take it personal and remind yourself they are doing it to help you become the best designer you can be,” Boelman said.

FIT has so far has been a crazy and amazing experience for Boelman. She started FIT this fall term and already has grown so much as a young designer. “I have improved so much. Just in my drawing alone I have made huge im-provements. I am also learning how to drape for the first time and make patterns. Each week I learn so much and the time is flying by,” Boelman said.

Since New York City is filled with celebrities, Boelman has already encountered some fame. “I have actually gotten the chance to help dress at a fashion show during Fashion Week. Such an amazing oppor-

tunity! I also helped Jane Lynch from Glee at Anthropologie once,” Boelman said.

To those wanting to pursue a future in fashion, Boelman has some suggestions she has learned from experience. “My advice to anyone who wants to go into fashion would be to keep sewing, sketching and soak up fashion in any way you can. Read any magazine you can get your hands on, watch fashion shows online, etc. Go-ing into fashion is not for the faint hearted. It’s a lot of hard work, but if its what you love then go for it,” Boelman said.

Boelman is studying to get her two year associate degree in fashion design. It’s a lot of hard work, but she knows it will be worth it in the end. Her plans for the future are big; she be-lieves one day she will design a red carpet gown. With all the perseverance she has put into fashion, she just might.

NICKERSONStaff Writer Lauren

DesigningHer Dreams

2011 CFHS grad follows her passion for fashionto education, experiences in New York City

After taking as many CFHS fashion classes as she could, 2011 graduate Lisa Boelman enrolled in a fashion design program in New York City.


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MOVIES

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•TAYLOR SWIFTRed on Oct. 23•BAT FOR LASHESThe Haunted Man on Oct. 23•ANDREW BIRDHands of Glory on Oct. 30•CEE-LO GREENCee-Lo’s Magic Momenton Oct. 30•TOBY KEITHHope on the Rocks on Oct. 30•NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSEPsychedelic Pillon Oct. 30•AEROSMITHMusic from Another Dimensionon Nov. 6

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10) “Below My Feet” - Mumford and SonsStraight off of the brand

new Mumford and Sons album, Babel (just in time for autumn, might I add) comes this strik-ingly sweet, happy-sad song. It’s for you dancing-in-the-rain types. This song is also most reminiscent of their first album, so think banjo breakdowns that make you want to jump into the biggest puddle you could possibly find and piano melo-dies for walking through a park on a drizzly, gray day.

9) “Milo” - FredrikThis is a slow, blue, ambi-

ent song dominated by finger-picking and breathy lyrics. The quick, sudden, scattered notes almost sound like rain falling on the street, drop by drop. It’s a good thinking song, as the lyr-ics are poetic and the tune re-peats. It’s a great song for pon-dering life’s many questions in the midst of a downpour.

8) “Wasteland” - WoodkidThis song has a bit of a dif-

ferent sound from the rest of this artist’s songs. Though it may sound like a melancholy one at first, a close listen to the lyrics reveals that it’s actu-

ally very joyful and inspired. It’s kind of jazzy and upbeat, but still slow enough to be appro-priate for watching the clouds crawl across the sky. It’s an an-them for the contented enjoy-ment of a hot beverage on a windy, foggy morning.

7) “Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes” - Modest MouseBeing one of Modest

Mouse’s less in-your-face, un-usual songs, it’s my favorite driving song. It’s catchy and punchy, and the lyrics are ap-propriately rebellious. It’s a great jam for a long drive through a heavy rain.

6) “Falling In Love With Glaciers” - ListenerListener is an experimental

spoken word band from Ar-kansas. This song builds from gentle lyrics to spitting out de-scriptive rhymes to an unusual beat. Trumpet starts the song off and paves the path to the breakdown. You see the cumu-lonimbus clouds building on the horizon, you feel the thun-der and you see the lightning, and the storm passes.

5) “Apologetic Shoulder Blades” - BathsBaths is an unusual experi-

mental electronic band that often uses spoken soundbites

to build the chorus or tune. In this song, a scattered beat reminiscent of a rainstick enters towards the beginning. The whole time, an angelic, ethe-real singing voice is clipped and scattered behind the beat, multiplying and blending as the song progresses. Suddenly, the song fades away, like a sun shower, gone as soon as it ap-peared.

4) “Burying Davy” - The Decemberists This song is mysterious and

sends chills up and down your spine. The lyrics are mournful and melancholy, and the song slowly builds and tells the story of burying a deceased friend, the trek through the mud to the foggy graveyard as the cold wind raises the hair on your arms. The breakdown is loud and slow and carries through to the end, where it leaves you without a pause.

3) “Heart’s A Mess” - GotyeBrought to you by the

“Somebody That I Used To Know” guy, the album that of-ten is overlooked, Like Drawing Blood, contains this little, un-appreciated number. The beat is slightly tribal, and sad strings drive you into the pleading HOOFNAGLE

Staff Writer Linne

lyrics. The song builds to the final, climactic chorus, and dis-appears over the horizon.

2) “Teardrop” - Massive AttackYou might recognize this

song as the main theme to the popular medical TV show “House.” The song builds into elusive lyrics. Slowly, different beats and melodies jump into the song, some so quiet you barely notice them. The song then diminishes back down to the repeating beat and simple piano before it ends.

1) “Hoppipolla” - Sigur RosTranslating from Icelandic to

“jumping into puddles,” you’ve probably heard this song in a trailer for one romantic comedy or another. The lyrics explore the childish joy associated with “jumping into puddles with no boots on.” The piano melody is simple and the multiple sing-ing voices drives the song into a multi-faceted frenzy with so much going on, I don’t blame you if you want to spin around and catch raindrops on your tongue.

Songs for the SeasonLet these 10 tunes lead you into Autumn

Rap groups have come and gone at CFHS, but one musician has the drive to keep going. Senior Michael Jeni describes himself as a young producer. Working with R&B and hip-hop beats, he has been producing and mixing since he was 13.

Influenced by Chris Brown, Drake, and Lil Wayne, he finds a mix of R&B and rap that works. “Often, it’s not really the artist, but the producer. I usually look for a sound of a certain song and think, ‘This is the sound I’m going for’,” Jeni said.

Jeni has taught himself the ins and outs of producing. He started messing around with mixing software. “At first it was it was really, really hard. I start-ed messing with the keyboards and it just sounded right. Out of nowhere I just made some-thing, and it was really nice, so I kept doing it and doing it over and it grew to something I love to do,” Jeni said.

Jeni has created over 24 songs and shared them on the web. He can be found on mu-

sic sharing sites like DatPiff and Hot New Hip Hop, alongside famous mixtapes. “Bascially, any artist can use them. They just upload their mixtape there and people can go check it out and send it out to other peo-ple,” he said. He’s harnessed the power of social media by promoting his work on Face-book, Twitter and Youtube in hopes of being discovered.

Jeni mainly works with him-self, except on occasions when he creates beats for others. “There’s a couple students at CF that ask for a beat to rap on, so I make it and they can do whatever they want with it,” he said.

Using Mixcraft and FL Stu-dios to record beats, he incor-porates a beat maker. “It’s a lot

easier than using a standard keyboard,” he said. Besides mixing beats, he also plays violin, participating in CFHS orchestra. He’s incorporated that talent into a couple hip hop songs. “There’s a couple hip hop songs that have a vio-lin part at the beginning or the end. I listen to it and go play it back on violin. If I heart it, I can play it on the violin,” Jeni said.

The toughest part of pro-ducing is coming up melodies to work off of. “I don’t really play the piano, I just play by ear, so I’ll be sitting at home

trying to think of something, so I might go on Youtube tutorials playing piano and I’ll work off of that,” he said.

The future looks bright for the young producer, no mat-ter what field he chooses to go into. He wants to go to col-lege, even if it’s not for music producing. “I’ll just have that as something I do for fun or as a hobby,” Jeni said. Side proj-ect or not, Michael Jeni has got a lot going for him.

Senior uses tech tools to create big beats

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So the leaves are falling, the frost is barely tinging the edges of the grass white and it’s getting pretty chilly outside. Sounds like the perfect time for a hot drink. Before reach-ing for your packaged instant hot chocolate, consider two healthy (and delicious) alterna-tives; coffee and tea.

First, coffee. What is it? Cof-fee is a brewed beverage pre-pared from the roasted beans of the coffea plant. It’s pre-pared through different meth-ods of boiling or steaming in water to extract the flavor.

Despite whatever you’ve heard about the “dangers of coffee consumption,” the benefits far outweigh the risks. Firstly, frequent drinkers of cof-fee are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Coffee is full of antioxidants, which prevent tissue damage by dangerous molecules called oxygen-free radicals. Chemicals in coffee also assist the body in using insulin, which controls blood glucose levels.

Coffee has been proven to lower one’s risk for heart at-tacks and strokes. It cuts down chances of developing type 2 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes

makes heart disease and stroke more likely. Among other things, coffee decreases one’s chance of liver cancer and Al-zheimer’s disease.

And all of that’s not even including the smaller facts, like one cup of black coffee contains only 7 calories, and caffeine makes you more ener-getic and focused.

“I do drink [hot drinks] for health,” said Senior Margarita Meza, who reported drinking one to two cups of coffee daily. “Hot drinks help keep your stomach full, so I eat less... [caf-feine] effects my mood [and] stress levels.”

Of course, everything in moderation. Over consump-tion of caffeine can cause in-somnia, difficulty concentrat-ing, irritability, and even slight addiction. “I have a high toler-ance for caffeine, so I have to consume a lot of it. I get head-aches without it, so I guess I am addicted,” Meza said. Another senior, Shirley Speckerman, could relate. Speckerman re-ported drinking around four cups of coffee a day. Both she and Margarita Meza started drinking coffee when they began high school to fight

fatigue and haven’t stopped since.”Whenever I feel myself crashing, I [have another cof-fee,]” she said.

Caffeine in large doses may also cause a greater risk of mis-carriage in pregnant women. Caffeine is a diuretic as well, causing your metabolism to speed up. Regular consump-tion of large amounts of a di-uretic can cause dehydration, so exercise caution.

Cozy up with this fragrant brewed beverage every now and then with the proud knowl-edge that you are doing your heart, liver and brain a favor.

Now, what is tea? It’s one of the most frequently consumed beverage in the world, second only to water. It’s prepared by steaming or steeping crushed, cured, or fermented plant leaves.

Due to the fact that there are many types of tea, I’ll cover some of the most popular.

- Green tea is made with steamed tea leaves. Green tea is abundant in antioxidants, fighting off cancers such as breast, lung, stomach, bladder and pancreatic cancers. It also prevents clogging of the ar-teries and counteracts certain

stressors on the brain.- Black tea is made with

fermented tea leaves and has a high caffeine content. Stud-ies have indicated that black tea may defend lungs from the negative effects of cigarette smoke.

- White tea is completely uncured and unfermented. This tea has the strongest link to anticancer properties.

- Chamomile tea is made from the chamomile flower. It contains certain antioxidants that help with diabetes, loss of vision and nerve and kid-ney damage. It also appears to stunt the growth of cancer cells.

“I drink tea more often,” Meza said. “Tea relaxes me... I can’t tell you that I love one more than the other. It’s like music, it depends on my mood or environment. I do prefer loose tea or flower teas, but the tea bags are convenient and I can’t just bring my teapot to brew anywhere!”

Both Speckerman and Meza reported cultural flour-ishes in their tea consumption, as well. Margarita feels the ties to her family and culture.”I have [been drinking] tea ever

since I was a little girl. It’s a cul-tural thing in Chile. After every meal, you must have tea and a small sweet with it.” Specker-man discovered facets of cul-ture revolving around tea on her trip to Kenya this Summer. “”I like nothing better than the chai of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya,” she said.”In Kenya, [despite] how much money you have... every guest [in your house] gets a mug of chai tea. I [visited many houses] while I was there... and I was always given a cup of chai.”

A few warnings for the as-piring tea drinker; firstly, avoid instant tea. Instant tea often contains artificial sweeteners, an abundance of sugar, preser-vatives, or other undesirable ingredients. Secondly, watch out for comfrey, ephedra, wil-low bark, germander, lobelia, or chaparral teas. The FDA warns against these and other “dieting” teas.

Skip the sugary instant co-coas and mochas in these cold seasons. Brew yourself some coffee or tea and enjoy the taste and the abundant health benefits.

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Sophomore Martee Grain-er helped the 400 freestyle relay which placed first at Re-gionals.

What are you most look-ing forward to at State?

We want to win [State] but I’m hoping for personal re-cords for everyone.

What are you hoping to accomplish at State?

Right now I’m 18th, so I’m hoping to finish higher than I’m coming in.

Has the team bonded together?

Yeah, we have a lot of team meals. It’s hard not to bond when you have food with you.

How have the upper-classmen positively influ-enced you?

Just knowing they have a lot more experience and they’ve been through it all helps. They set a great ex-ample, they’re easy to look up to.

TigersActionin

Volleyball (28-10)Beat Mason City 3-0

Next up: Johnston on Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at the

Roundhouse in Marshalltown Women’s Swimming

Next up: Regionalson Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. at home

Athletes raise awareness about breast cancer

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Or-ganizations across the nation devote time and talent towards fundraising for the cause and locally, many CFHS athletes participate in raising aware-ness.

At the Oct. 16 volleyball home game, all members of the team wore pink socks and pink ribbons. They also went

above and beyond and sold breast cancer awareness shirts glaring the phrase “Killin’ it for cancer”. All the proceeds went towards the breast cancer cause. The game was played with a pink and black ball.

“The night was suc-cessful because everyone wore pink and even the student sec-tion supported by having a pink-out,” said senior volleyball

player Hannah Berregaard. For some people, the breast

cancer awareness night hit on a personal level.

“My grandma had breast cancer so I was happy to have the pink night. I think it is a great cause to support and I love doing what I can to raise awareness,” said senior Court-ney Ronan.

At the District meet on Oct.

18, the women’s cross country did their part by wearing pink headbands and pink shoelac-es, racing to a 2nd place fin-ish. Some football players even join in by sporting pink gloves, socks or wraps.

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Women’s swimming and diving team competed at Re-gionals over the three-day weekend. The Tigers managed to rack up 465.5 points, finishing in first place, while the second place team, Dubuque Senior, followed behind by over 100 points. With the help of key swimmers and div-ers, the Tigers achieved the first place finish.

Impressive dives by junior Hannah Brummel on Thursday Oct. 25, qualified her for the state meet. Brummel’s finish-ing score was 394.35, a first place finish. Placing first was a goal of Brum-mel’s that she surely achieved on Thursday night. Getting ready for a dive can be nerve rack-ing, but Brummel stayed calm and thought about each dive. “I think of all the things I need to do well while doing the dive and try to just get it in the water as clean as I can,” she said. Now Brummel can focus on preparing herself for State where she is planning to attempt a reverse somersault pike with a half twist.

The women’s swimmers also did an outstanding job on Saturday, Oct. 27. Sophomore Martee Grainger contributed to the Tiger’s win by placing second in the 50 Freestyle, along with a first place finish in the 400 Freestyle relay, which

included Grainger, junior Cath-erine Sell, senior Aftin Phyfe and sophomore Brittany Mof-fatt.

When in the middle of a race, Grainger said she doesn’t have time to think, since all of her events are shorter dis-tances. “You don’t think. My coach tells me to be a dumb sprinter and that’s because I do the short stuff, so I can’t re-ally think that much, otherwise I mess up.”

Not thinking also comes to play while jumping off the

blocks for Grainger, even if a start doesn’t go as planned. “You really can’t think about it, but, of course, you do, so you

gotta just try to make it up is what I think. Make it up with a turn or a kick.”

Getting ready for an event most likely means Grainger gets to act like “hot stuff,” giv-ing her a boost of confidence. “You have to go up there act-ing like you’re going to own it, so that’s what I do. I just go up there, and I act all cocky and

look like a brat. ‘Here I am,’ helps me.”

Now the women’s swim-ming and diving team will start to prepare for State, which is

Nov. 2 and 3 and will be held at Marshalltown. State qualifiers include Phyfe, Brummel, Sell, Grainger, sophomore Natalie Shimp, sophomore Jade Ja-cobs, sophomore Brittany Mof-fatt, freshman Madison Hall, freshman Charlie Langer and freshman Meghan Hackett.

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Junior Catherine Sell takes first in the 400 meter freestyle relay at Holmes Pool.

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