Sioux Falls, SD, Washington High School daily student newspaper for Friday, Oct. 17. Football vs. Lincoln tonight, 7 p.m. at Howard Wood Field. Pink is the new Orange!
Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 Vol. 20 • No. 37 www.whsnow.com Happening NOW •First Quarter: Ends today •Author: Simone Elkeles presentation 2:15 p.m. today in auditorium •Oral Interp: Stars and Stripes Varsity Invita- tional 3:30 p.m. today-Saturday at Lincoln •Football: Varsity vs. Lincoln 7 p.m. tonight at Howard Wood Field •Marching Band: At Mid-Iowa Band Championship 5 p.m. in Ankeny, Iowa— WHS performance 9:20 p.m. •Volleyball: Heelan Volleyball Classic Saturday at Sioux City, Iowa, East—WHS first game 11:45 a.m. Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chicken tenders •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, beef and bean burrito, chef salad, sandwiches Group Meetings •Bowling: Team try-outs for the 2015 season will continue at 4 p.m. today at Eastway Bowl. •National Honor Society: Members who did not attend this morning’s meeting will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-211. •FCA: Members will meet at 6:45 p.m. Sunday at 1100 N. Vail Drive. •Young Democrats: Will meet at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday in A-122. Other Reminders •Attend: A “library after hours” event from 5:30-9 p.m. tonight at the Oak View Library. More information, sign-up sheets and permission forms are in the library. •Free Flu Shots: Will be given to WHS students 3-5 p.m. Wednesday— parental consent form required, avail- able in student services office. NOW Friday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lexus Paulson and Carson Herbert Assistant Editor: ....... Sydney Arrington Staff: Shemles Megosha, Megan Rose, Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli, Rachel Konrad, Natalie Meyer Editor-in-chief ........... Jack Nachtigal Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . Lizzie Spier Adviser ................... .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service Friday NOW is brought to you by: Today: Cloudy Cool, breezy High 53° Football Game Time: Calming winds Temp 50° Saturday: Slowly clearing High 56° Weather Pre-registered students to hear writer seventh period Popular author Simone Elkeles visits WHS today FOLLOW US, WARRIORS! Warrior Nation Events @whsPAC All WHS News @nowatwhs The University of South Dakota By Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli and Sydney Arrington Warrior varsity football players will be the home team for a big game with peren- nial rival Lincoln in the final game of the regular season at 7 p.m. tonight at Howard Wood Field. The game will determine post-season seeding for the 3-4 Warriors as they take on the undefeated Patriots. Head coach Chad Stadem said the team is ready for the challenge tonight. “I know our kids want to know where we stand after our progression, and we can find out this week,” Stadem said. “Lincoln has an amazing football team once again, and our kids are excited for the challenge.” The city rivalry between the teams will fuel the inten- sity on the field tonight for the game with the theme “Pink is the New Orange.” Senior center Tryg Andersen said he’s ready. “We’ve been working real- ly hard,” Andersen said. “It should be a fun game. Tonight we will need all the support and loud fans we can get.” A tailgate will begin at 5 p.m. tonight with T-shirt handout at 5:30 p.m. Gates will open at 6 p.m. with kick off at 7 p.m. By Carson Herbert P re-registered students will have the oppor- tunity to listen to New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of novels for teens Simone Elkeles during seventh period today in the WHS auditorium. Elkeles is the author of popular novels including books “Perfect Chemistry,” “Rules of Attraction,” “Leaving Paradise” and more. Librarian Kerri Smith, who organized the visit with the support of the WHS Booster Club, said this will be a rare opportunity for WHS students. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for stu- dents to learn about the writing process, how to publish books and how to make a living as a writer,” Smith said. “It’s Teen Read Week, and this is the perfect culminating event to the week.” Elkeles said she is pleased to be visiting the school today. “It’s been a long journey to get here, but it’s my fans I have to thank for this honor,” she said. “Thanks for enjoying my books so much that I have achieved every author’s dream of making the New York Times bestseller list.” Because of the event, the library will be closed sixth and seventh periods. Students with a sticker will be dismissed at 2 p.m. today to attend—see the library for details today. Pink is the new orange at game with Lincoln tonight Courtesy photo TEEN LIT—Simone Elkeles, author of the “Perfect Chemistry” series, one of the most popular in the WHS library.
Happening NOW•First Quarter: Ends today•Author: Simone Elkeles presentation 2:15 p.m. today in auditorium•Oral Interp: Stars and Stripes Varsity Invita-tional 3:30 p.m. today-Saturday at Lincoln•Football: Varsity vs. Lincoln 7 p.m. tonight at Howard Wood Field•Marching Band: At Mid-Iowa Band Championship 5 p.m. in Ankeny, Iowa—WHS performance 9:20 p.m.•Volleyball: Heelan Volleyball Classic Saturday at Sioux City, Iowa, East—WHS first game 11:45 a.m.
Lunch Time at WHS•Today’s lunch: Chicken tenders•À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, beef and bean burrito, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings•Bowling: Team try-outs for the 2015 season will continue at 4 p.m. today at Eastway Bowl.•National Honor Society: Members who did not attend this morning’s meeting will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-211. •FCA: Members will meet at 6:45 p.m. Sunday at 1100 N. Vail Drive.•Young Democrats: Will meet at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday in A-122.
Other Reminders•Attend: A “library after hours” event from 5:30-9 p.m. tonight at the Oak View Library. More information, sign-up sheets and permission forms are in the library.•Free Flu Shots: Will be given to WHS students 3-5 p.m. Wednesday—parental consent form required, avail-able in student services office.
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By Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli and Sydney Arrington
Warrior varsity football players will be the home team for a big game with peren-nial rival Lincoln in the final game of the regular season at 7 p.m. tonight at Howard Wood Field.
The game will determine post-season seeding for the 3-4 Warriors as they take on the undefeated Patriots.
Head coach Chad Stadem said the team is ready for the challenge tonight.
“I know our kids want to know where we stand after our progression, and we can find out this week,” Stadem said. “Lincoln has an amazing football team once again, and our kids are excited for the challenge.”
The city rivalry between the teams will fuel the inten-sity on the field tonight for the
game with the theme “Pink is the New Orange.”
Senior center Tryg Andersen said he’s ready.
“We’ve been working real-ly hard,” Andersen said. “It should be a fun game. Tonight we will need all the support and loud fans we can get.”
A tailgate will begin at 5 p.m. tonight with T-shirt handout at 5:30 p.m. Gates will open at 6 p.m. with kick off at 7 p.m.
By Carson Herbert
Pre-registered students will have the oppor-tunity to listen to New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of novels
for teens Simone Elkeles during seventh period today in the WHS auditorium.
Elkeles is the author of popular novels including books “Perfect Chemistry,” “Rules of Attraction,” “Leaving Paradise” and more.
Librarian Kerri Smith, who organized the visit with the support of the WHS Booster Club, said this will be a rare opportunity for WHS students.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for stu-dents to learn about the writing process, how to publish books and how to make a living as a writer,” Smith said. “It’s Teen Read Week, and this is the perfect culminating event to the week.”
Elkeles said she is pleased to be visiting the school today.
“It’s been a long journey to get here, but it’s my fans I have to thank for this honor,” she said. “Thanks for enjoying my books so much that I have achieved every author’s dream of making the New York Times bestseller list.”
Because of the event, the library will be closed sixth and seventh periods. Students with a sticker will be dismissed at 2 p.m. today to attend—see the library for details today.
Pink is the new orange at game with Lincoln tonight
Courtesy photoTEEN LIT—Simone Elkeles, author of the “Perfect Chemistry” series, one of the most popular in the WHS library.
By Noam N. Levey and Michael MuskalTribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The federal government effectively began to restrict the care of Ebola patients to hospitals with special bio-containment units Thursday, and the Obama administration labored to reassure jittery Americans and increasingly skepti-cal lawmakers that public health authorities can pre-vent a widespread Ebola outbreak here.
The tacit shift in policy came amid growing concerns about mistakes at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where two nurses who treated Thomas Eric Duncan of Liberia have since come down with the disease.
One of the nurses is being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and the other was being transferred to a specialized treatment center at the National Institutes of Health near Washington.
On Capitol Hill, law-makers demanded answers from the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas Frieden, who has acknowledged his agency’s lapses in respond-ing to the disease, including allowing one of the nurses to board a commercial flight after she treated Duncan.
Frieden strenuously defended the CDC’s efforts.
“CDC works 24/7 to protect Americans. There are no shortcuts,” he said. “We have a team of 20 of some of the world’s top disease detectives in Texas now. We were there. We left the first day (Duncan) was diagnosed.”
Despite repeated assur-ances from Frieden and other top health officials that the risk of a widespread outbreak is extremely low, fear of the deadly disease has led to school closings and a suggested ban on travel from the U.S. to and from West Africa—which President Barack Obama said Thursday evening that he might consider in the future.
Science Friday
Mid-Iowa Championship Saturday for Warrior Band By Megan Rose and Shemles Megosha
The Warrior Marching Band will face their final competition of the season Saturday at the Mid-Iowa Band Championship in Ankeny, Iowa.
WHS will be one of four bands in the 4A division at the contest, performing at 9:20 p.m. at the high school. Competition will
begin at 5 p.m. in the 2A division.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for stu-dents.
Senior drum major Blaine Nelson said he is excited for Saturday.
“I think we will do an awesome job, and sadly this is my last time performing with the WHS band. I will really miss these people.”
SportsEditor’s note: The Warrior Q & A is a weekly profile of Warrior students with the goal of helping members of the WHS community come to know each other better. Subjects are chosen by the Student/Activity Leader of the Month Committee at WHS.
Assembled byJack Nachtigal
Q A&
Warrior
A profileof WHSstudents
TaraOren
Freshman Studentof the Month
•What activities are you involved in at WHS? I am involved in soft-
ball, basketball and FCA. •What are your plans/dreams for the future? I would like to play soft-ball in college, then study medicine and become a pediatrician.•What is your favorite class this semester? My favorite class is acceler-ated geometry. It challenges me to work hard.•What is your message to the read-ers of the NOW? I would like to tell them to always be hard working and to never give up!
SamTorbert
Freshman Studentof the Month
•What activities are you involved in at WHS? I am involved in golf,
book club, SALSA, choir, the A Cafellas and the Renaissance Committee. •What are your plans/dreams for the future? I hope to become a computer software engineer.•What is your favorite class this semester? I enjoy Programming with Java. This class is challenging and fun and is a class that will help me achieve my dream job.•What is your message to the read-ers of the NOW? Keep trying hard and stay involved in school.
Senior offers tips to make application process easyI have learned over the past couple of months that apply-
ing to college is not an easy process or an easy decision, so I am here to give seniors that are in the same situation a few
tips about how to make the college application pro-cess a little easier.
First, don’t wait! Do not p r o c r a s t i n a t e until the week or
night before an application is due. Applications take a while to fill out and ask for a lot of information you may not know right off hand. The application may also ask for an essay, so have fun coming up with that in a night.
Many schools even offer an early application. I recom-mend it. It may seem like a lot of work, but you find out if you are admitted earlier and you will have less stress.
Next, do not be modest. Getting into college is com-petitive, so make sure when you are filling out your appli-cation that you include everything you are involved in, and all of your accomplishments and honors—no matter how big or small.
It is also very important to always have a backup plan, just in case you don’t get into the college of your choice. Taking a college visit or two is a perfect way to see if a col-lege is the right fit for you.
With these tips, applying to college could be a breeze, so learn from my mistakes.
Senior Lexus Paulson is hoping to be a Tar Heel next year.
Lexus Paulson
Hear me. . .
Varsity oral interp team opens seasonBy Jack Nachtigal
The varsity oral interp team will open their sea-son this afternoon and Saturday at the Stars and Stripes event at Lincoln
High School. The novice team will also participate.
“We’re excited to see how things go in the first (varsity) meet,” coach Michelle McIntyre said.
