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Issue 2December 2012

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from the desk of the editor2012 has been a year that won’t be easily forgot-

ten. Being a senior has really made me think about what I spend my time doing and what I want to do with my life after Davis High. This year I am part of Dart Staff (the magazine) and Senior Committee at the school. I am also in AP Literature/Language and AP Art History. These four things have consumed my life for the past four months, but it feels like it has been an eternity.

Taking on the job of Editor-in-Chief most of my time, energy and thought. The staff that I work with has made this so worth it, and all of the lessons I have learned from my advisor Terri Hall has turned this into a “real life” class, meaning this class has taught me more about post-high scho. Making the decision to take that very first Intro to Journalism class is some-thing I wouldn’t change for the world.

Being involved with Senior Committee is some-thing that has made me become more involved with the school in another way. Helping plan/put on

My AP classes are what make my more exciting. I look forward to walking into Mrs. Cross’s class every A day, not knowing what I am going to learn about or what silly things she is going to say to make the class erupt in laughter. I look forward to coming back to the school after lunch to listen to the great lectures of Mr. Oram. I wouldn’t take back choosing to take these classes either.

I would take back all the Friday nights I went to bed early instead of going and playing. I can sleep when I’m dead. I would take back all the time I have spent on Pinterest. Pinning is what you do when you are bored. I would take back all the grudges I held on to for too long, because life is too short to be anything but happy. This 2013 year, I am going to try to live with no regrets, because it’s a great day to be a Dart.

EditorsAmmon Harris~ D-TV Content ManagerBrian Milligan--Business ManagerCatherine Watson--D-TV ProducerDan Harvey--Newscast EditorDanielle Hardy--Editor-in-ChiefDrue Harvey--Content EditorHannah Scharton--Layout and Design EditorJeremiah Jones--Broadcast EditorKennedy Spendlove--Managing EditorKori Bartleson--Photo and Graphics Editor

ReportersAlex OrchardAlyssa ThompsonEric LancasterHailee SmithHillary BrownJosh OlsenJessica RoakeLexi ChristensenKhloe TebbsKortland HatchMcKenna EatonNate FergusonSarah Tibbitts

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Last year, Davis High was fined for selling soda. Due to the lack of nutritional value, the vending ma-chines were shut down. With soda banned from the vending machines, some of Davis High’s students have started up their own business adven-ture.

Juniors Cameron Bettolo, Zack Longson and Justin Olsen, founders of Friend’s Soda, have been selling a variety of drinks since last year out-side the east doors near the track and football field. “We just started with with Cameron’s cooler and financed diffused sodas and eventually we got enough to buy our own cooler and our own stuff,” said Olsen.

With selections ranging from five different flavors of Mountain Dew to Coca Cola and lemonade, Friend’s Soda is available every day during lunch. Their slogan, “Friend’s Soda: we will catch hypothermia and the flu and still get our soda to you,”

shows that the three friends are will-ing to sit through any kind of weath-er to serve their customers.

Because the group has made a profit on their new business, they need to stock up. Harmons in Farm-ington has been willing to save cas-es of Mountain Dew because it is currently the most popular in stores. “We buy them with the money that we make,” said Longson,“with the price it’s the same they’re selling them for. They just order extra.” Friend’s Soda has spent $40-$100 keeping up with customers.

Ethan Wright, a regular custom-er, has been satisfied with Friend’s Soda and buys from Friend’s Soda at least once a week. “It’s a good way to regenerate myself from all of my other classes,” Wright said.

Jayden Tau’a, a first-time buyer, was “very happy” with the bargain of two sodas for a dollar. Tau’a said that “my friends and I sat right there by the window [in the cafeteria] and we saw people coming right here and

written by Alyssa Thompson picking up sodas and leaving. So I kinda just decided, ‘hey, I’m going to pick up a soda.”

Officer Tim Barlow of the Kaysville Police Department said that there was a federal program to increase nutrition among teen-agers and “[the Davis High] caf-eteria is very open and kids are eating throughout the school. Having access to soda pop was apparently a big violation, so that’s kind of what got us.” Barlow said that Friend’s Soda is legal because they’re not actually selling inside of the school, which “could be con-strued that the school is support-ing them. Them being off-campus [makes it] just kind of their own little business and their own little enterprise. The administration’s really not concerned about them being where they are even though it’s technically on school property. If it was a big deal we would just kick them out on the road, which is public property.”

Juniors Cameron Bettolo, Zack Longson and Justion Olsen excercise their marketing skills by selling banned beverages during lunch.

Selling CokeThe entrepreneurial spirit is alive at Davis High School Photo by Alyssa Thompson

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Lend a helping handThe roads are skinny, and

roundabouts are everywhere. Men are armed Arnold Schwarzenegger-style at the doors of grocery stores with machine guns; stores close promptly at six. Along a rural road to the orphanage, there are barbed-wire fences with glass shards along the top, but whether to keep people in or out, senior Rebecca Hess didn’t know.

“It wasn’t scary, but it wasn’t safe,” said Hess. “In the capital, you could hear sirens and all these sounds.”

Hess, along with other students, such as Jameson Wright and Carly Falco, from Davis High and teens nationwide, had the opportunity last summer to participate in serving in a Third World country with the organization HEFY, Humanitarian Experience For Youth. In locations throughout South America, Central America and the Pacific Islands, teenagers ages 16 to 19 are challenged with communicating in a different

Students build schools and homes in third world countries written by Sarah Tibbitts language, travelling without anyone

they know, lower living standards and public safety far below that of the United States. These students chose to spend their summer in these risky conditions to build schools, libraries, and even provide care for children at orphanages.

Fiji is known to be tropical and full of beautiful beaches, but when senior Carly Falco arrived on the paradise island, she had an uneasy first impression. However, this feeling was erased throughout her service spent there for the people who have almost nothing.

Hess, who worked in an orphanage for special needs children, said, “I fell in love with those kids and the people who work there.” Falco said that the people were cheerful, and gave her “so much more than [she] could ever give back.” In Tonga, senior Jameson Wright felt the love and gratitude that the Tongans had for friends and family. The volunteers would bring them small gifts, like ties or small pictures. This was one way that the high school students would

give back to the people who sacrificed even their meals for volunteers.

For dinner, the volunteers in Ecuador would eat at a host’s home. Hess saw firsthand the sacrifice that was made of the people for the volunteers. At the home of a single mother, each girl that ate dinner received four plates of food, and was expected to eat all of it. In foreign countries a person is expected to eat all of the food received; it is extremely rude not to eat everything. Unknown to the volunteers, this single mother had given her ten children just one plate of food to share in a backroom of the apartment. “It really opened my eyes for the rest of the trip,” said Hess.

“Family has become priority, and friends are second.” said Falco, who went to Fiji. Material things were not valued by these people. Instead, they valued not what they get, but what they have, and their friends and family. These seniors and juniors experienced just how precious life is, and what is really important in life through trips of 16 or 18 days.

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Jacob Ferrell--Davis High senior by day, Phantom by night.

Ferrell portrayed the Phantom in the school’s musical, The Phantom of the Opera. He put countless hours into becoming the ideal Phantom. Even before he was cast, Ferrell had taken steps toward developing this character. Over the summer he watched the 25th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera, in which Ramin Karimloo was the man who played the Phantom. “Once I was cast, I tried to follow his every move and portray Phantom the exact same way that Karimloo did. It was very difficult, and I beat myself up for months about it.”

One of the hardest things for Ferrell was turning himself from the fun, light-hearted teenager into the dark, (another adjective) Phantom. “Finally Andra just told me that I wasn’t supposed to be another Phantom, but I needed to find my Phantom and be him,” he said. Once Ferrell took this advice to heart, he said it was much easier to portray this very difficult character.

“Jacob is the sweetest, kindest boy you will ever meet, and I think it was hard for him to portray such

Written by Danielle HardyPhoto by Meagan Larsen

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The Phantom

of theOperais thereinsideyour mind

a dark man. I also think it was hard for others to watch, because you watch him be one person on the stage and then be a completely different person at school,” said Productions member Ashlee Taylor.

Portraying such a well-known character may seem glamorous, but in reality it is a very “humbling” experience, according to Ferrell. By having the opportunity to become the Phantom, he had to rely on all of the time and effort that he put into growing into the character. to represent the excellence that Davis

High carries in its productions. “On a certain level, I can relate to Phantom,” said Ferrell. “I think that he is such a difficult figure to play because he is the epitome of so many different emotions that so many people have felt before, and I have to make it so that the audience can connect with the Phantom.”

Senior Mylie Johnson, Productions member, said that it was “fun to watch my best friend grow into this character.” Johnson says that it was hard to watch him struggle, but seeing him transform into the person he is today because of it was an amazing thing to witness.

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IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS I KNOW ITwritten by Hannah Scharton From the beginning of our collective societal memory, there has been one key prophecy that keeps popping up: we’re all going to die and it’s going to be big. While the how and when have been an amusing matter of disagreement and dispute, this simple phrase has been repeated through the halls of history, often accompanied by outrageously hysterical (in both senses of the word) sobbing and gnashing of teeth. The most recent prophecy, familiar to anyone not currently residing under a rock, involves a calendar, multiple wayward planets, and an ancient civilization. To avoid discriminating against those who do place their welcome mat in front of a monolithic slab of rubble, here’s a quick catch up: There was once a great Mesoamerican civilization called the Maya. To be fair, the Maya still exist today, but they aren’t as grand and prone to human sacrifice as they once were. The Maya measured the solar year with such accuracy that they put the European Gregorian calendar to shame. Long story short, December 21, 2012 is thought to be the end date of a 5,125 year-long cycle in a Long Count calendar (a type of calendar created in Mesoamerica during the Formative period), and so it is assumed that various phenomena, disasters and/or transformative events will occur. NASA noticed the

widespread concern over the whole impending doom situation and added an article to their Frequently Asked Questions section of their website stating that “The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.” When asked whether the Mayan calendar truly does end in December 2012, those dear, science-oriented realists over at

NASA replied with a much needed analogy. “Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.” If a person is having trouble deciding whether to believe in or mock the theories floating around, Charlie Mcdonnell, YouTube sensation and comedian, advised “Always deny the apocalypse because you’ll usually be right, and when you’re wrong there will be nobody around to say I told you so.”

Choose Your Own Adventure

DEATH• Solar flares• Alignment of planets• Earth colliding with Niribu and/or

Planet X• Milky Way colliding with another

galaxy

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IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS I KNOW IT When a calendar runs out any other year, it is simply thrown away, but as the apparent “End of the World” draws near, other people are questioning why this belief is based on the end of a calendar. The ancient Mayan calendar created thousands of years ago ends this year on December 21st. Some people believe that this is a sign that the world is coming to an end. In fact, some movies, including “2012” and “2012, Doomsday,” both depict natural disasters that ultimately destroy the world. There are numerous websites with several suggestions of why people believe the world will end in 2012. The so-lar-storm theory includes spiked sun activity and heavy sun-storms, activity peaking in 2012. The super-volcano theory is the eruption of a supervolcano, almost triple the size of an average volcano whose explosion will send debris and lava as far as 1,000 cubic kilometers, that will erupt in Yellowstone National Park blotting out the sun with ash and creating a winter that could last thousands of years. Scientists and geo-logical experts quoted on many government websites believe this will happen because pressure has been building steadily in the volcano and it is overdue for an explosion they now believe will occur in 2012. There’s no telling whether December 21st will be an A day or a D-day. But,whether the world ends or not, it probably isn’t a good idea to put off that essay that’s due after Winter Break.

written by Josh Olsen

(And we feel fine?)

DEATH

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Twinkies:a history ofs u g a r

1933 - Twinkies were introduced by The Continental Baking Company in Indianapolis, which also made “Wonder Bread” and had a snack line you’re probably familiar with called Hostess. One of their bakers named James A. Dewar got the idea for the “Twinkie” while he delivered one of their products, cream filled strawberry shortcake. The machines to make these sat idle when the strawberry season was over so he came up with an idea to use them to make a snack cake filled with a banana filling, and only charge a nickel for a package of 2. It was good idea as money was tight for people during the great depression.

1940’s - Just like the song went “Yes We Have No Banana’s” popular during the WWII because bananas were rationed, Hostess had to come up with a different fill-ing. They switched to vanilla creme and it was popular so they never changed back.

1950 - The Twinkie rose to popularity in the ‘50’s in great part due to Hostess sponsoring the Howdy Doody show, featuring the Twinkie. 1960’s - When there were huge

fears of a nuclear attack, many bomb shel-ters were built. Twinkies were one of the most popular items to have because it was said that they “stay fresh forever”. It has become an American Icon, even president Clinton put one in a time capsule. They re-main as Hostess bestselling snack cake pro-ducing half a billion a year.2012 – Now, the continental baking

company is shutting down they’re hostess line, but USA Today says “There’s no need to pan-ic, another snack company will likely buy the profitable Twinkie brand”. So what happens to Twinkies now lies in the future and only time will tell.

written by Brady Webb

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Twinkies: Dear Editor-in-Chief,

I read the article. It was astounding! I’m really glad that they switched from a newspa-per to magazine. I don’t think that if it were still a newspaper I would read it, but because it was a magazine, I think I have more of a motive to read it because it’s smaller than a newspaper, and cool people read magazines. I can’t imagine how difficult this would be with all of the publishing and finding things to write about. I’m not sure I could do it, but I’m not sure I could do it, but I’m glad that this is working out. My favorite article is, “Dare to be a Dart.” I don’t really know why I like it but I thought it was a great article and that it was written well. I also really like the page about the “new pledge law intro-duced.” The picture above the article is great because my best friend Morgan Graham is in the photo! I also think it’s interesting that the pledge is supposed to be said every day. This magazine was so great and I’m really glad that I read it! Thanks so much for writing this article! I’m really excited for the new edition to come out and I am really excit-ed to read it!

Sincerely,

Tyler Beardall

Dear Tyler,

Thank you so much for reading this issue! It has been very interesting to change from running this program like a newspaper to running it like a magazine, and I’m glad it is more ap-pealing to you. I really liked the “Dare to be a Dart” article as well. It was written very thourough-ly, and I’m glad you liked it enough to include it in your

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letter to me. I am hoping that we can get a wider variety of pictures of other people in the magazines to come. It is always fun to see somebody you know in the magazine. If you have any sug-gestions, you can put them on our website www.davishigh-news.com.

Sincerely,Danielle HardyEditor-in-Chief

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