October 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010

Crimson TimesVolume 31Issue 1

Glencoe High School

Glencoe celebrates its 30th birthdayThe first year Glencoe opened with only 800 sopho-•mores and juniors, while the seniors spent their last year at Hilhi. Now there are 1,700 students crammed into its hallways.

By the end of the year former principal Stan Miller •could name every student

In 1980, pagers were the must-have electronic while •today cell phones and iPods are essential to a student’s daily life.

Then the school owned about 25 computers for its one •computer lab. Now the school has nearly 500 comput-ers in over nine computer labs

The dance team’s original name was the C-Swirls. •They are now known as the Tidettes.

Even without senior boys, the soccer team was still •just one game away from the playoffs in 1980.

Then there was a Future Physicians of America Club •and a Future Teachers of America Club

The NHS sponsored a lizard race in the gym in which •the Crimson Times’ lizard “Green Piece” took 1st place.

So many things have changed at Glencoe since it opened in 1980, such as the uniforms worn by the dance team. (see below) The styles and habits of students were very different thirty years ago, such as clothing choices (see right).

s graduation requirements rise, some students may fear that a high school diploma might be out of reach. This year’s juniors will have to pass the state OAKS reading test. In January

2007, the Oregon Department of Education decided that high school graduates needed to show proficien-cy in reading.

“It is not just in Hillsboro; it is a state initiative,” Linda Harrington, a teacher on Special Assignment, said. “They want students to be ready for post-high school education or a career.”

The new proficiency requirements are being implemented in steps. Current sophomores will ad-ditionally have to pass the state writing test. Fresh-man will need to show proficiency in math as well as reading and writing.

Colleges have observed that simply because a stu-dent has graduated from high school it does not mean he/she is ready for college. According to the Oregon Department of Education’s website, more than 40 percent of students who are attending a community college are taking pre-college courses, before going on to the classes required to obtain a college degree.

Glencoe has added new classes to help students who may struggle with the new requirements.

“We will work more intensely with those kids so they pass,” Mary Peterson, Vice Principal, said.

Juniors who did not pass the state reading test last spring are being required to take the newly added Reading Tutorial class this year.

“If they do not pass the test, we are establishing a class so that they can get the tools to pass,” Har-rington said.

The Reading Tutorial class is not a substitute for an English credit; it is classified as an elective. This year is the first year that Reading Tutorial will be a class in high schools, although it is not the first class of its kind.

“The classes have been implemented in elemen-tary and middle schools, and they have been very ef-fective. Unfortunately, those students are not in high school yet. So obviously we need to help those who will be graduating shortly, and that’s where Reading Tutorial comes in,” Harrington said.

This small class is taught by Denise Ready, also a junior English teacher.

“The classes are between 12 and 15 kids. The class teaches the skills necessary to pass the test, and it is required for those who did not pass it their sophomore year,” Ready said.

To further help students strengthen their skills Glencoe has also adopted the AVID program, Ad-vanced via Individual Determination. This class is offered to freshman and sophomores to help with study habits and to allow a smooth transition into high school. “We had the AVID program last year for freshman. Now we have it for 10th graders it’s all about helping student be the best they can be,” Peterson said.

If a student does not pass the OAKS reading test by the end of their sophomore year, the state will provide other methods for students to prove they have proficiency in the required areas. If a student receives an 18 or higher on the reading part of the ACT or a 440 or higher on the reading part of SAT then they have proved their proficiency.

If students do not meet the new requirements in the four years then they are at risk of not graduat-ing.

“The state is placing increased pressure on schools to make sure students meet requirements for graduating in the four years in which they enrolled,” Peterson said.

by HANNAH JOHNSTON

Students face harder diploma requirements

A“They want students to be ready for post-high school education or a career.”

Crimson Tide steps up to the 6A challenge

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Shakespeare comes to Glencoe

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Friday, October 22, 2010NewsCrimson Times page 2

Eric Crites, formerly of Evergreen, came to Glencoe to teach Sophomore English and coach Cross Country. He is most excited about being a part of the “Tide Pride.”

Crites was a finisher in the Portland Marathon this year.

“It’s a goal I’ve had for a long time,” he said.

Stacey Pelster, who graduated from Glencoe in 2002, has returned to teach Spanish. Pelster took two years of Spanish when she attended Glencoe, and further developed her lan-guage skills through foreign exchange and on her travels to Mexico and the Czech Republic.

She also enjoys ex-pressing her musical side.

“I sing and play piano at weddings and funer-als,” Pelster said.

An avid outdoorsman, Patrick Ackerman, the newest History teacher, en-joys climbing mountains and going on hiking trips. He once went backpack-ing in the Rockies for 35 days, without civilization or showers.

Ackerman is excited about meeting new people at Glencoe, and gaining his first experience of teaching high school.

Now teaching math and coaching wrest-ing, former Evergreen science and woodshop teacher Jason Harless said he likes the “great energy” present at Glen-coe.

Harless began teach-ing because he enjoyed working with kids while he was coaching.

“I had some big peo-ple in my life, coaches and teachers that guided me down the right path. I wanted to give back,” Harless said.

Returning to Glencoe after six years of teaching at Liberty, Drew Lanthrum is teaching chemistry.

“I enjoy chemistry because matter is all around us either being passive or reacting,” Lanthrum said.“It’s good to know why things behave as they do and to understand the workings of nature.”

Lanthrum has been teach-ing for 25 years, and says that of all the places he has taught, Glencoe is his favorite.

When not teaching, Lan-thrum enjoys camping, cook-ing, biking, and tinkering with electronics.

Rose Peterman, Glencoe’s resident AmeriCorps volun-teer, graduated from Reed College and is now tutoring in the math lab for this school year.

“I like working with kids and math,” Peterman said about her passion of teach-ing.

Apart from tutor-ing, Peterman likes the outdoors, spending time with her friends, and cooking. After finishing her stay at Glencoe, Peter-man plans to attend graduate school to prepare to teach high school or college math.

by RHYAN McLAURY

by CASEY DALEY, ALEC JEFFS AND ANDREW ROGERS

New Art 1 teacher Anne Debejak recently migrated from Denver, and says she is excited about teaching at Glen-coe.

“I absolutely love teaching here! The staff and students have been so welcoming and friendly,” Debejak said.

Debejak grew up near Cleveland, Ohio, where she graduated from Ohio University and majored in fine arts and art education.

“I can honestly say that [college] was the best time in my life. I hope everyone has the chance to experience it,” Debejak said.

Debejak works at Glencoe on B days, but is at Liberty on A days. On most morn-

ings, Richard Stan-ley can be seen roar-ing into the Glencoe parking lot on his motorcycle.

“[It is an] en-vironmental effort to pollute less,” he said. “And it’s more fun.”

He has ridden his motorcycle across Europe, Africa, and South America.

Stanley comes to Glencoe after two years of teaching night school and summer school in Northeast Portland. He said he is excited to be part of Glencoe’s postive energy and diversity.

Most high school students do not realize the dangers of using a cell phone while driving, or that Oregon passed a law banning it last January. The law, House Bill 2377, is meant to limit traffic fatalities caused by distract-ed drivers, and imposes fines on people caught talking or texting while on the road.

• Nearly 6,000 people died in 2008 in crashes involving a

distracted driver, and more than half a million were injured. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

• Fatal crashes caused by distracted driving increased from 8% to 11% in 2008. (Fatality Analysis Reporting System)• In terms of reaction time, using a cell phone while driv-

ing, even with a hands-free device, is the same as driving drunk. (University of Utah Study)

• Your chance of getting in an accident increases by 300% if you’re talking on your cell phone while driving. (NHTSA)

• 25% of all traffic accidents are a result of distracted drivers. (NHTSA)

Dangers of Distracted Driving

Melanie Peterson worked as a fitness trainer for 10 years before be-coming a P.E. teacher and assistant Cross Country coach. She decided to teach at Glencoe because she wanted to help stu-dents get fit. Peterson said she loves working at Glencoe because of “how positive everyone is, how involved people are, and how willing they are to help each other.”

Ezra Ereckson, also known as E-3, is not just the new graphic design and cartooning teacher. In his spare time he Deejays at Holocene and Branx, which are clubs in Portland.

“I like getting to hear the music I love really loud,” Ereck-son said, “[I like] sharing it with oth-

ers, performing in the booth.” Ereckson is starting a DJ club at Glencoe. “If you love music, I can show you the basics,

and you can take it as far as you want to go,” Ereckson said of his new club.

New Cell Phone Law - House Bill 2377• You can be pulled over for using a cell phone even if you are not violating any other traffic law.

• Under the new law, there is no legal difference between talk-ing and texting. It is the same penalty- a $142 fine

• Exceptions to the law include public service vehicles, farm operations, job-related communication, and emergency situa-tions.

Army of new educators storms Glencoe

Put down the phone... or cough up the dough

Photos by ALEXANDER OGLE and SIERRA DUNGAN

Friday, October 22, 2010 Feature Crimson Times page 3

Pick play- Drama teacher Lori Daliposon 1. reads 10-35 plays before making a choice. She chooses the play a year in advance.Design- Designing the set according to the 2. theme that is chosen.

Audition and casting- Auditions are held 3. early next fall. It takes three days to fully cast.First read- through- Cast sits down and 4. first reads the script together.Build set- Throughout the year, the tech 5. class works on building the set. Actors, tech crew and parents also help build the set on Saturdays.Block rehearsal- The actors are learning 6. where to move around onstage.Costume building- The costume director 7. creates costumes.Costume parade- The characters’ costumes 8. either get approved or tweaked.Dry tech- Tech crew comes in without the 9. actors and goes over timing, lighting, and other details.

Tech rehearsal- The actors rehearse with 10. the technical details added to the play.

Character breakfast or dinner- The cast 11. goes out to eat in character. It’s an acting exercise meant to teach them not to break character.

Production week- The week before the 12. opening consists of dress rehearsals lasting till 11pm.

Opening night- The first time the cast gets 13. to perform to an audience.

Closing night and strike set- the last show 14. ends and the set is taken down.

Red Robin- After striking the set, the 15. whole cast and crew go to Red Robin and celebrate their successful production.

Drama teacher Lori Daliposon and senior Anthony Yousif ponder over design de-tails, such as a gigantic pair of glasses that will be hanging above the stage.

Junior Isaiah Bradley will be playing Joe E. Brown, whose character has to cross dress in the play.

15 steps to producing a play

lencoe’s stage has been mobbed by 1930s Hollywood stars, spouting lines from Shakespeare. However, the glamorous starlets and dashing lead-ing men are not here due to a school-

sponsored time warp; they are characters in this year’s production of Shakespeare in Hollywood, a fast-paced screwball comedy written about actual celebrities from the 1930’s, but with a twist.

The play opens as two of Shakespearians most mischievous characters, Oberon and Puck find themselves magically transported onto the set of a Warner Bros. production of A Midsum-mer Night’s Dream, where they cause a catas-trophe, get corrupted by wealth and fame, and fall in love.

Drama teacher Lori Daliposon says she is ex-cited for this year’s fall play. Her main focus is making the play as authentic as possible, keep-ing the dialogue, characterization, costumes and props as accurate as they can get.

“Shakespeare in Hollywood is going to be absolutely great. Ask any cast or crew member, and you will hear how funny the show is and how terrific the cast and crew are,” Daliposon said.

Because a new lighting system was installed this past summer, Glencoe’s productions will be enhanced with the new lighting board.

“We can program the cues for the show, so that we can do faster and more frequent light changes, and we can control one or 100 lights with the click of one button, Daliposon said.

“And we are just beginning to discover all the amazing things we can do now that our light-ing system is in the 21st century.”

With only four female roles in this play, ju-nior Miranda Leyson scored one, portraying Puck, a character who is actually male but is traditionally performed by a female.

“I was so excited when I found out I got the part. I actually screamed. It’s one of the greatest plays I’ve been a part of,” Leyson said.

Senior Arielle Ems, who is currently the stage manager, said Shakespeare in Hollywood is her favorite play in four years.

“[Shakespeare in Hollywood] is going to be a play everyone wants to see. It’s hysterical and the characters are very dynamic. I’m glad I get to end my senior year with it,” Ems said.

Shakespeare in Hollywood opens next Thurs-day at 7:30 p.m. and will run until Nov. 6, on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

It’s Show TimeGlencoe’s fall play mixes classic Shakespeare with modern Hollywood

by STEPHANY CHUM

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photo by ALEXANDER OGLE


photo by ALEXANDER OGLEAnni Reilly does double duty on painting the set.

Shivering in a hoodie, long pants, and tennis shoes, foreign exchange student Gabrielle Menali is not ac-customed to Oregon weather just yet. Menali is from Campinas, Brazil. Me-nali came to the United States to learn

more English, but she did not expect such a difference in the weather.

“It was very hot [in Brazil]; it is cold here,” Menali said.

Other than the drastic weather dif-ference, the food and school systems are also different for Menali. Campi-nas is a large modern city in Brazil, but the schools there are not as big as here. In addition, she only had school for five hours a day; she was done by 12:30 p.m.

In Menali’s hometown she spent much of her time hanging out with her friends at the mall, as well as talking on the Internet with her friends.

Since they are all going though the same experiences, Menali has found herself spending most of her free time hanging out with the other foreign ex-change students attending Glencoe.

“They are very nice,” Menali said.

With shopping, football, and eating at Subway as her good experiences, Portuguese 17-year-old Gaele Leal said she is optimistic to learn more about American culture during the rest

of the school year. “Some things like food,

school, and classes are different in Portugal,” Leal said.

With a diverse range of classes such as Spanish, Childs World, and Modern America, Leal said she is staying very busy. However while not in-volved in school, she likes to swim, go to movies, and be with her friends.

Leal’s goals are to gain an un-derstanding of the United States and improve her English.

“[I want to improve my] Eng-lish because it is essential to en-joy America,” Leal said.

After she finishes high school, Leal hopes to attend college in northern Portugal.

Having already traveled to four other countries, sophomore Felix Gabathuler is accustomed to adapt-ing to new environments. Gabathul-er is from Zurich, Switzerland and has traveled to Hungary, Canada, Italy, Tanzania, and now the United States. However, Gabathuler is not done traveling.

“[I would like to go] somewhere in Asia. I have never been there and would like to see the Asian way of life,” Gabathuler said.

Gabathuler arrived in the United States in late August.

“I expected a lot of fast food, and there is a lot of fast food,” Gabathul-er said. Another large difference he noticed is that nearly everybody has a car. In Switzerland, cars are less common.

In his home country, Gabathuler spent most of his time playing sports or being in the outdoors.

“In Switzerland I used to go to the lake for taking a bath, playing Frisbee and soccer.” Gabathuler said, who is playing on Glencoes JV 2 team, “[I also] used to play hand-ball. My team and I were very good and we won two times the Swiss championship.” Gabathuler said.

Friday October 22, 2010FeatureCrimson Times page 4

Exchange students experience United States

Felix Gabathuler

Gabrielle Menali Gaele Leal

illustration by MATTHEW LAWSON




by TINA ANDERSON

by TINA ANDERSONby ALEC JEFFS

Switzerland

Portugal

Brazil

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Senioritis sinking in? Check out these tipsSeniors, here we are,

on our last year of high school- the final frontier, the long stretch to home plate, the light at the end of the tunnel. Even though we have made it to our senior year, there is still work to be done.

• If you have not taken the ACT yet, here is your

chance to take it before college applications are due. Nov. 7 is the registration date for the up-coming Dec. 11 test day.

• It is the end of October and if you have not requested information from colleges you are interested in or visited them, it is important to contact the admissions office ASAP to get more information or schedule a time to tour the cam-pus. By visiting the campus, you will see if it is a place you could visualize yourself living in the near future.

• Start your scholarship and college appli-

cations and essays. After you draft your applica-tions, find someone to proofread them.

• Seeking advice from a teacher or strong academic student can really help, especially to scope out those silly grammatical errors we are all guilty of making. Getting an outsider’s per-spective will ensure there are no errors, such as using the wrong “there.” Is it “there,” “their,” or “they’re”?

• In November many schools have applica-tion deadlines. If you are interested in any Cali-fornia schools, many have their application dead-lines this month! You should be finding people to write your reference letters. Don’t wait! If you want a good letter of recommendation don’t give a teacher a tight deadline. When you ask some-one to write you a letter of reference give them a brag sheet, it will help them complete the letter and they will be happier to do it for you.

• Also, schedule your college interviews. In-terviews are a good way to get yourself remem-bered by the dean; generally more important for private schools.

• Apply for scholarships. You want to be sure that the college of your choice remembers you and that you make a great first impression. If you are having troubles finding scholarships ask our college and career counselor , Brooke Nova in the counseling center or go online to web-sites such as fastweb.com, and getcolleg-efunds.org.

• If you have not completed your job shadow yet, be sure you get your packet turned into Nova before first semester is over.

Don’t fret about senior year; it is sup-posed to be one of the best years of our lives. Just be sure you stay organized and plan ahead. Know all the deadlines for scholarship and college applica-tions. Most important, stay positive!

by KIRA TIEMAN

Friday, October 22, 2010 Feature Crimson Times page 5

Visiting Far Away

Lands

Football and fast food tacos were awaiting 16-year-old Carol-line Duarte as she arrived in The United States this September. Du-arte is from Minas Gerais, Brazil.

“The food, the people and the places [are all different],” Duarte said of cultural differences.

When it comes to inspirations, Duarte thinks of her mother back in Brazil.

“My mother [is] really my life,” Duarte said.

While not studying, Duarte likes to read, watch TV, talk and sing with her friends, and go out.

After receiving her diploma,

Duarte plans to go to public col-lege in Brazil and then become a judge.

by MATTHEW KISHLOCK

Carolline DuarteA simple recommendation from

the International Student Center com-pelled Senior Erika Toda to come to The United States.

“They told me America is good, and that the people are friendly,” Toda said.

Toda comes from Aichi, a city on the southern coast of Japan. Her fa-vorite activity was to visit the city’s castle. Toda also enjoys volleyball and hanging out with her friends and family.

She said she was surprised at how much bigger things are here. The meals are much larger than those she is used to eating.

“They eat too much food here,” Toda said.

Being away from her six family

members is hard for Toda, but she copes by calling them. She can talk to them for up to two hours a day. When she is not talking to her family at home, Toda finds herself playing with her host-sisters.

“[My host sisters] are nice, and it is really nice here,” Toda said.

Erika Toda

During her trip to the United Kingdom this sum-mer, Junior Aeryn Krusen experienced the fervor and the enthusiasm that people had for the World Cup. Due to people’s feelings on the United States team, she would often say she was rooting for Can-ada instead. One kindly old gentleman, after find-ing out she was from America, called her a Yank.

“I wasn’t sure whether to be insulted or just…confused,” Krusen said.

To Krusen, staying in hostels with her brother, sister and mother were one of the defining memo-ries of the trip. Staying in a hostel meant renting a bed instead of a room and sleeping in a room filled with 20 bunk beds. She described the hostels as clean, but also small. Sharing bathrooms with strangers was sometimes a little scary, yet it was also exciting and allowed her to meet new, interest-ing people.

Krusen spent her first week in Scotland, a coun-try that made a lasting impression on her. Despite spending only one week there, it seemed to catch Krusen’s attention more than the other places she has traveled.

“The Scottish highlands were beautiful…like hills with no trees and a lot of mist,” Krusen said, “It’s not like the city.”

Krusen said she feels lucky to have traveled as much as she has, also having been to Japan and Australia. It helps that the trip all paid for by her mother’s speaking roles at physical therapy confer-ences.

Krusen sees her travel as extensive, but not as in depth as she would like. She wishes she could have soaked up the culture over a longer period of time. But out of everything, she knows she would like to return to the United Kingdom. later in her life, but next time, perhaps avoid being called a Yank.

Aeryn Krusen, United Kingdom

Since the age of two, Junior Andreas Mattwan-del has been to Germany 11 times. Travel is im-portant to his family, as it is one of the few ways they can keep in touch with their relatives abroad.

“That’s the reason why we go, because my family has such a strong connection with them,” Mattwandel said.

Over the past few years, the focus of these trips has been on Mattwandel’s 101-year-old grand-mother in Berlin. She speaks very little English, so it can sometimes be difficult to communicate, but the Mattwandels’ visit to keep her company. Despite the language barrier, his family is close to their relatives abroad.

Along with the family visits, the vacation was

leisurely, accompanied by cultural sights and sce-nic routes all over Europe. In Norway, Mattwan-del gently floated through the water of the fjords, towering cliffs on either side.

“[It’s] windy. And it’s up North, so it’s really cold,” Mattwandel said, describing the fjords. “It’s also really pretty, really green. It almost reminded me of Oregon. There are these rolling cliffs, and the water looks like glass.”

One thing he can always look forward to is the food, especially the bread.

“Europeans eat a lot of bread,” Mattwandel said. “In Berlin there are bakeries everywhere, and you can just go in and get bread or delicious pastries.”

Mattwandel said he would like to keep travel-ing in the future, as it has always been a huge part of his life. In fact, his family is already planning a Route 66 trip to see the rest of their own country.

Andreas Mattwandel, Germany

The air is sticky with humidity, the sun is beat-ing down on her, and Junior Jenny Luo has not eaten anything in 15 hours, due to a dislike of airline food, since she got on her original flight from Portland.

Luo has been flying to China every other summer since 2004. She spends 4-6 weeks at her grandmother’s house in Nanjing visiting family and experiencing some of the native Chinese culture. Although she rarely goes outside due to the heat, China is never boring, Luo explains. She compared China to Las Vegas; it never really sleeps.

“You walk down the street and a drunk man [stumbles past you],” Luo said, describing some of the things that are common in China. “You walk down the block and a tree falls down. I’ve almost been crushed by a tree in China.”

One thing she always looks forward to though is the food.

“Chinese food is amaz-ing,” Luo said. “Especially bread; [it’s] so much better than American bread.”

The food was so differ-ent, in fact, that upon re-turning, Luo and her family were unable to finish a meal at Red Lobsters.

“We couldn’t finish it,” Luo explained, even the oil was different. “In China they don’t have such rich [food].”

Jenny Luo, China

Brazil

Japan

Jenny Luo takes the opportunity while in China to get her hair cut. From her experience, the hair cuts are both cheaper and higher quality.

“I’ve almost been crushed by a tree in China. ”

“I wasn’t sure whether to be insulted or just confused. ”

“It’s also really pretty, really green. It almost reminded me of Oregon.”

by ALEXANDER OGLE

by TINA ANDERSONby ALEC JEFFS

Foreign Exchange continued


Andreas Mattwandel (left) and his younger brother (right) went to Amsterdam, Belgium and France

along with the rest of their family.

Aeryn Krusen (left) poses with her older sister on the Isle of Skyeof the coast of Scotland.

Friday, October 22, 2010FEATURE Crimson Times page 6

I wasn’t green at all last year. Probably like some of you, I didn’t care, didn’t think about it, and didn’t think it mattered. But here I am now, president of Green Club, learning the ropes of being green. Want to join me? It’s really not that hard to start, it just takes a few simple steps. Here’s how I began:

Near the end of last year, I started to think, “Why not?” and consciously re-

alized the impact of my daily choices. Instead of only recycling paper when it was convenient, I started trying to always recycle or reuse paper. I also started packing my lunch in reusable plastic containers instead of us-ing plastic baggies.

It became a fun per-sonal challenge to recy-cle. I now keep a paper

grocery bag in my bed-room in which I can throw old papers. When it is full, I take it to the recycling bin. I discovered it was an easy way to see the difference recycling makes. It isn’t any harder than taking out the trash. As the bag fills up, so does my satisfaction for being green; and I’m not even doing any extra work.

At first, my family wasn’t on board. My mom complained about having the extra dishes, and my sister made fun of me for being “a granola head.” When I made a big deal about someone throwing a cereal box away instead of recycling it, my mom-- who never gets mad-- got a

little upset that I was forc-ing my inconvenient opin-ions on them.

Last month I was as-signed to write a story about something “green.” I decided to find out if Glencoe was environmen-tally friendly. I hoped this would give me the chance to get involved in Glen-coe’s green efforts, but I didn’t realize how little we recycled. The custodians do their best to recycle, but it’s an easy thing to cross off their to-do list when time runs out. To improve the consistency of recycling, I became Green Club presi-dent. I didn’t want the time commitment, but I knew it needed to be done. “See a need, fill a need,” from Disney’s Robots popped in my head.

Now, I still feel like a baby swimming when it comes to all this “green” talk. I still have questions about what you can and cannot recycle, whether or not it is worth the gas those big trucks use to pick it up every week, and whether or not it is energy efficient to turn in all my plastic

bags, but I’m learning. I’m excited about Green Club because it will give me the opportunity to learn from others that have already passed this phase of the green journey.

Green Club’s goal is to encourage students to recycle by making it easy for them. Hopefully, with baby steps, students will learn how gratifying and helpful recycling and reus-ing are. But, we have to be prepared that no one will care. Honestly, I’m okay with that. If they don’t care now, at least we are planting seeds of recycling knowledge.

Do you remember that my sister made fun of me earlier this year for pack-ing my lunch in reusable containers? Well, she watched me do it for long enough that now she’s do-ing it, too. The first time I realized this, it made my day. I’m hoping that lead-ing by example this year will spark other students to think about the impact they can make by a living a greener lifestyle, too.

Imagine showing up to class on the first day of school and your teacher is wearing a rainbow shirt, jeans, cowboy boots, and a mask. The class door is locked and the teacher refuses to speak. This is how S.E.A.L teacher Mark Ferris introduced his students to the first day; he likes to give a unique expe-rience that forces students to think.

“What I’m trying to do in S.E.A.L. is create a different first day,” Ferris said. To him, S.E.A.L.

is a class unlike any other; it is a class with a message.

Every year Ferris changes his costume and activities for the first day of school to keep an element of surprise and suspense for his new students. He has been teaching for 32 years and S.E.A.L. was just an-other challenge for him.

“I originally did it to see if I could pull it off,” said Ferris who found his silent activities a test and experiment.

Last year, wearing a white tux-edo and a black and white sack on his head, Ferris led his students silently through mind-bending ac-tivities meant to challenge the wit and thinking skills of the students. For one activity, he only used body language to communicate what he wanted them to do.

One year, Ferris wore his Air

Force uniform and marched his new students around the school. There is more to just making the first day interesting for his students. He tries to get them to think more deeply about their world and how they can affect it.

“On the first day Ferris im-mersed us in the S.E.A.L. culture and what the class is about right off the bat,”last year S.E.A.L. student Jennifer Jennings said.

Ferris teaches his students to think and analyze their surround-ings through music, activities, tests, interviews and stories throughout the year. S.E.A.L. is more than so-cial economics.

“It’s a self examination of who you are and it’s an experiential pro-cess of dealing with other people,” he said.

Ferris fights first-day stereotypes

by ZACH HAVELIND

It’s actually easy to become green

by BETHANY PAVLIK

From not caring about recycling to becoming the Pres-ident of the Green Club, senior Beth-any Pavlik invites others to a greener lifestyle

S.E.A.L 1 teacher Mark Ferris creates a unique first-day-of-school experience that forces stu-dents to think “outside the box.”

The first day of school can be predictable, from syallabus read-ings to getting assigned a seat. But not when you are in S.E.A.L.

Although there are hundreds of web-sites devoted to green topics, here are a few to try first:

1) www.thinkgreen.com has a treasure box of recycling tips and re-sources, as well as fun trivia about recycling.

2) www.earth911.com/ provides “green” news and suggestions to im-prove your lifestyle.

3) www.metro-region.org/ contains all of the information you need about recycling in the Portland Metro area and gives tips about how to have a green lifestyle locally.

Do you wonder how to recycle some of the odd ball items? Are you able to give advice to green newbies? Give us your comments, questions, or suggestions and we’ll try to include them in future issues of The Crimson Times.

If you would like to join Green Club, meetings are every other Thursday in Room 165. The next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 4.

Letters to the Editor: The Crimson Times welcomes Letters the the Editor. If you have news or an opinion you would like to share with the student body, deliver your letter to the box in the main office or the library.Guidelines for letters

Student’s name, signature and grade level• Legible, relevant to the student body, 250 words or less • Letters must not contain personal attacks, libel or obscenity•

The staff reserves the right to adjust for length and minor grammatical errors. Writers must accept full responsibility for statements in their letters.

photo by SIERRA DUNGAN

Guide to eco-friendly living

Join the “green” expedition

VolleyballRecord: 6-9*Next Game: 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at Forest Grove.Coach’s Corner with Whitney Sahlfeld: “The improvement from the beginning of the season has been in leaps and bounds. It’s great when people see us play well. Our improvement has been tremendous, and it’s fun.” According to Coach Sahlfeld, highlights for the team have been beating Tualatin, Forest Grove, and Hilhi twice by taking the first three sets to get the win.Seniors Players: Jordan Kreiger, Heidi St. Clair, Kayla Swayze, Behinia Tapely, Katie Thornborrow

Friday, October 22, 2010 Sports Crimson Times page 7

Spectators stormed the football field on Sept. 3, filled with pride after watching the Tide’s electrifying 41-14 victory over the Southridge

Skyhawks. Played under the bright lights of Hare Field and the gaze of dozens of specta-tors, the Southridge game was the first time Glencoe played football as a 6A school.

Glencoe’s population has spiked in recent years, a situation obvious to anyone attending assemblies or pep rallies. With 1,628 students enrolled at the beginning of this school year, Glencoe was deemed big enough to leave the 5A Northwest Oregon Conference for the 6A Pacific Conference.

“We have 6A numbers, so we play 6A,” said Casey Waletich, Hillsboro School District ath-letics coordinator. “[In a 6A league] there will certainly be more competition. The way you look at 6A is, the more kids to choose from, the better the team.”

The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) places high schools in leagues based on size and geography, allowing teams to com-pete against schools of similar size and skill level with minimal travel time. Schools with

fewer than 105 students, usually rural or pri-vate religious schools, play at a 1A level.

With the move up to 6A, the largest popula-tion bracket, Glencoe will play next to the larg-est and most competitive teams in the state.

For most of its 30-year history, Glencoe athletes have played in leagues with the larg-est schools in Oregon, due to the school’s tra-ditionally high enrollment. After it opened in 1980, Glencoe entered the Mid-Willamette Conference, a 3A league and the most competi-tive division available. Two years later Glen-coe joined the newly-created 4A Metro league, where it stayed until 2006.

In 2006, 300 students were diverted from each high school in the Hillsboro School Dis-trict to attend newly-opened Liberty, causing student populations at each school to drop substantially. That same year, the OSAA in-troduced two new population designations, 5A and 6A. The Hillsboro schools did not have the required populations to play at 6A level, and Century, Liberty, Glencoe and Hilhi were transferred into the 5A Northwest Oregon Con-ference one year later.

Tide moves up to 6A

In the first game of the season against Southridge, Senior Joseph Duvall (14) tack-les an opposing player as seniors Morgan Kellow (44) and Matt Teeter (55) run for the ball in a defensive play. Glencoe won the game with a final score of 41-14.

by NICOLE KULICK

FootballRecord: 4-3*Next Game: 7 p.m. tonight at Hare Field vs. Century.Coach’s Corner with Tim Duvall:According to Duvall, the switch to 6A was a big change, but the team has established a strong position in the middle of the pack. In the 41-14 win against Southridge, the Tide’s victory generated a lot of excitement and a sense of showing people the team was out to play at the 6A level. “They kind of said ‘we can do this.’” Duvall said.Senior Players: Bryan Alvarez, Perry Anderson, Derek Baxter, Connor Callahan, Alex Cole, Jeremy Cronk, Joseph Duvall, Tyler Funk, Zach Huber, Morgan Kellow, Trevin Kellow, Kory Kirwan, Brady Larson, Troy McKenzie, Ryan O’Rourke, Hunter Peoples, Hayden Plinke, Alex Roth, Dillon Taylor, Matt Teeter, Jake Trimble, Mark Trujillo, Christian Wasilk, Hayden Yeager

Cross CountryRecord: 1-4*Next Meet: 2 p.m. Thursday at Clackamas Community CollegeCoach’s Corner with Eric Crites: “As a team we’re getting faster and faster. I think what I see is runners focusing on PR (personal records). People are getting excited for each other. The nice thing about cross country is it’s a team thing and a personal thing.” Ac-cording to Crites, the team has a lot of new varsity runners this year, but they’ve risen to the occasion.Seniors Players: Nick Aerne, Eva Geneé Brown, Han-nah Fishback, Emma Hamel, Hillary Harris, Tyler Lantz, Bethany Pavlik, Trent Toney

Fall Sports Updateby RHYAN McLAURY


Glencoe’s Leagues over the Years1980: Glencoe opens and begins play in the 3A Willamette Valley Conference, the most competitive league of play available at the time.1982: Glencoe moves up to the newly-created 4A Metro League. 1983: Boys Basketball team wins State Championships.1986: Football team wins State Championships.1989: Boys Track team wins State Championships.1990: Girls Basketball wins State Championships.1994: Football team wins State Championships again.2006: After 300 students are diverted to attend newly-opened Liberty High School, the enrollments of all four Hillsboro school district high schools drop below the level required to compete in newly created 6A league. Century, Hilhi, Liberty, and Glen-coe move up to play in the 5A Northwest Oregon Conference. This is the first year in Glencoe’s history that it has not played in a top league.2007: Boys Soccer become State Champions one year after joining NWOC.2010: Glencoe Softballteam brings home State Championship. Hillsboro School Dis-trict enrollment explodes, making Glencoe eligible to play in the Pacific Conference. In-district rivals Century and Hillsboro High Schools are also set to move up to 6A, though Liberty will remain in NWOC. 2010: Glencoe begins first year of play as a 6A school.

Boys SoccerRecord: 5-2-3*Next Game: 7 p.m. Monday at Century.Coach’s Corner with Tom Stephens: A highlight for the team was the Oct. 12 game against Tigard where they scored with three minutes left to win the game. According to Stephens, despite losing two all-state players to graduation, the team has still done well. Boys soccer is very close to gaining the top seat in conference.Seniors Players: Dylan Costigan, Graham Dunn, Diego Gonzales, Jacob Kohn, David Lazare , Anthony Pernisco, Dillon Vanaken

Girls SoccerRecord: 5-5*Next Game: 7 p.m Monday at Hare Field vs. Century.Coach’s Corner with Deanna Joyner: “These girls have heart, passion, desire, a want to play and a great attitude. They’re great to coach.”Seniors Players: Riley Brown, Edith Contreras, Jordan Hill, Rachel Meyer, Katie Sheppard, Cindy Shepard, Sofie Webster

*Records as of October 17

Ingredients:1 ¾ cups flour

1 t. baking soda1 t. cinnamon

½ t. salt½ t. nutmeg½ t. ground

cloves½ cup butter

1 cup sugar 2 eggs

¾ cup canned pumpkin

¾ cup chocolate chips3/4 cup chopped

walnutsMakes 1½ dozen

Directions:1) Preheat oven to 375.

2) Combine flour, soda, salt, and spices.

3) Cream butter.4) Add sugar and cream until fluffy.5) Add eggs.

6) At low speed, add dry ingredi-

ents and pumpkin.7) Mix in walnuts.8) Fill lined muffin

tins about half full.9) Bake for 15-20

minutes.

Friday, October 22, 2010EntertainmentCrimson Times page 8

Oreo TrufflesIngredients:1 package Oreo cookies6 ounces cream cheese, softened8 oz. dark chocolate, melted

Directions:1) Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with aluminum foil and spraying the foil with nonstick cooking spray. 2) Set aside 6 Oreo cookies, and finely crush the rest of the cookies .3) If using a food processor, add the cream cheese in large chunks and pulse a few times until the candy is the consistency of dough. If you don’t have a food processor, stir together the softened cream cheese and crumbs until the candy is well-mixed.4) Place the candy in the refrigerator for about one hour, to firm.5) Using a teaspoon or candy scoop, form 1-inch balls and roll between your hands until they are round. 6) Place the candies on the prepared baking sheet. 7) Refrigerate them while you prepare the dipping chocolate and cookie topping.8) Place the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave until melted, stirring after every minute. Allow the chocolate to cool slightly, but do not let it harden. 6) Coarsely chop the reserved cookies, creating cookie chunks approximately 1/2” in size.7) Dip the candy balls in the melted chocolate and place on the foil-lined baking sheet.8) While the chocolate is still wet, top each with a sliver of cookie. 9) Repeat with remaining truffles, and refrigerate for 1 hour or until chocolate hardens.

Try these treatsHalloween and Thanksgiving are around the corner. Both of these holidays center on treats and sweets. Pumpkin muffins and chocolatey Oreos will pro-vide you with something new to add after your meals

The cartoon corner illustration by DANIELLE HIMES

Movie and Book Reviews

Many of today’s horror films give the thrill of terror that audiences are looking for, but few can emulate the genuine creepiness that Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho provides.

The film turned 50 this summer, but it still feels fresh.

The characters are still original, each adding their own personal flavor. The acting is great, with every performance being incred-ibly convincing. The motel

owner is played with such eeriness that you’ll never want to visit a motel again.

While black and white films are often seen as a turn-off by today’s modern movie-goers, Psycho should definitely not be ignored. The lack of color only adds to the haunting nature of the film and gives the film a dark tone that simply could not happen with color.

For a film that is mostly silent, the music is especially noteworthy. Screeching violins and ominous orchestral compositions add more fright to already chilling scenes. Additionally, the film remains scary without relying too much on disturbing scenes or gore.

Overall, Psycho is a film that gets everything right. Ev-ery line, every actor, every sound is masterfully important to the film’s structure, and it truly lives up to its hype as one of the best films of the horror genre.

NOTE: It is a now considered a Halloween tradition to re-release Psycho into theaters. Here’s a list of theaters in the area that will be screening the film:Living Room Theaters, Portland (starts Oct 29, various showtimes)Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland (with Oregon Symphony accompaniment, one-night only, Oct 31, 4 p.m.)

Groundbreaking film still unmatched

by ANDREW ROGERS

Picture yourself on a real-ity TV show with your Eng-lish class. You have no idea where you are and the only way you are getting home is to kill your classmates be-fore they kill you. Welcome to the Hunger Games!

With a storyline so unique, it is easy to become addicted to the breath-taking battles, suspenseful twists and the fake love stories. Author Suzanne Collins creates a vision of the post-apocalyptic world. Violence litters the pages as each

character tries to stay alive.The story follows Katniss who lives in a dreadful area

of poverty. Excellent with a bow and arrow, Katniss nobly volunteers to go in place of her 12-year-old sister, Prim, and fight to death against the other kids. Collins makes it impossible not to cheer for Katniss throughout her battles with Katniss’ fiery personality and deep compassion for her family and friends.

Although the author’s writing is simplistic, she manages to keep the readers guessing with rule changes, sudden deaths and hidden talents around every corner. Hunger Games provides a little something for everyone: violence, love and suspense. Overall, this book is a great choice.

‘Hunger’ Killsby CRYSTAL HILL

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Harvest Muffins

“I survived the Glencoe crowd!”

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