CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 48, Issue 3 December 19, 2013 EDITOR IN CHIEF: DEVIN RAMEY CHS ASSISTANT EDITOR: EMILY LUNDQUIST FLIGHT Boys basketball starts season on a roll SPORTS PAGE 7 ARTS PAGE 4 New club raises awareness for others in need in Africa Devin Ramey EDITOR IN CHIEF ONLINE EDITOR: TYLER YORK APES students earn major grant for biofuel project Anthony Olvera STAFF WRITER Students make magic at Festival The Invisible Children club is making great strides towards its goals of aiding others that are being affected in central Africa by the Lord’s Resistance Army, and dismantling the army from the inside out by helping people escape from it. The group focuses in on the LRA because the army, led by infamous Joseph Kony, kidnaps children and either forc- es them to child soldiers or into the sex trade. The army is primar- ily found in the Demo- cratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Uganda. The war against the LRA has lasted 27 years. Invisible Children hopes to help the region rebuild the many com- munities that have be decimated throughout the course of the war by educating, counsel- ing, giving job training and teaching people lit- eracy. President of the school’s group is senior Emily Ip, the Vice Pres- ident senior Schuyler Mickelson, and Dane Pence is the advisor. There are roughly 25 members in the club, according to Ip. Ip said, “I went to this leadership confer- ence this summer that Invisible Children put on, and just got really excited and motivated to get people from my school involved for this cause, because its really important to me and I want to educate people about it.” Ip said that the club has raised a little more than $1500 so far this year. They raise money by having bake sales with items between 50 cents and $1, sell- ing bracelets made by women in Uganda who are affected by the LRA for $5 , sending letters and emails, making phone calls, spreading the word of the issue on social media sites, and generally raising aware- ness. Ip said her favorite things about being in the club are “[That] I have my own represen- tative that I call every week. The significance of every single person is so huge, the importance of every person, and the support I have from the other people in it.” PHOTO BY ALYSSA IP On Oct. 31, AP Envi- ronmental Science teacher Aaron Butler received a grant from Capital Educators Cred- it Union for $750.00 for the algae bio-fuel project that his 4 th and 5 th period classes had begun. The goal was to grow and harvest algae to turn into biofuel to power a car. There was a gap between the ini- tiation and the actual beginning of the project but when they received the grant, the students quickly got to work. “I was skeptical about the project because it seemed to take forev- er to get the grant but when we started, I got really excited,” junior Brodie Raistrick said. In the gap of time between the writing and the receiving of the grant, the class collected used plastic water bot- tles from all around the school and their homes. After they got the grant, the students split into groups to accomplish as much as possible, as fast as possible. “One group of stu- dents would rinse and clean up the used water bottles while others poked holes in the cap for the tubes to go into, and a third group con- structed the shelf and equipment that was necessary to begin the project,” junior Daniel Segura said. The goal of the proj- ect is to harvest the algae that grow in the water bottles and turn it into an environmen- tally friendly alternative source of diesel fuel. “If it all goes as planned, we hope to put enough fuel in a car to drive it down to the Capitol building and maybe get on the news,” Butler said. The production of the equipment was success- ful and they are ready to take the next step, which is to grow the algae in the water bot- tles. Butler ordered live algae and he intends to wait until it produces oxygen through photo- synthesis to begin the process of turning it into a bio-fuel. “This is crazy to think about. I never thought that we could create an alternative source of fuel. We could be shaping the future right here in this classroom,” junior Ashley Toone said. PHOTO BY DAYNE PRETTYMAN PHOTO BY DAYNE PRETTYMAN Top: Senior Franklin Brien caulks tubing with water bottles for the APES biofuel project. Left: Senior Chase Pearl checks on water bottles containing the algae for biofuel. Above: Principal Jon Ruzicka and science teacher Aaron Butler (in costume) are presented a grant check from CapEd represen- tative Lisa Hamilton in the video studio on Halloween, Oct. 31. Senior Emily Ip participates in the Invisible Children Pie Throw, celebration of reaching their fund rasing goals, on Nov 22. Senior Corrin Seidemen and advisor Dane Pence also took part in the event. School pulls together to feed others this winter through food drive Selma Kovac SPORTS WRITER Capital had it’s annual canned food drive that has been conducted for over ten years from Nov. 4 to Dec. 13. Each year one person from Capital’s Student Council is designated to take charge of the canned food drive and contacts Idaho National Food Bank and devel- ops the drive. This year, junior Nathan- iel Weissinger was put in charge of starting the canned food drive. Senior Peter Huang said, “Capital is a school that has a close relationship with the community, and Capi- tal would like to con- tinue to strengthen that connection.” In past years, about half of the cans that are collected by Capi- tal High School are distributed to Idaho’s National Food Bank storage and then are sent out to families that are hungry and in need. However, the other half stays in Capital High School’s own food pan- try for our own families in need. Capital hopes to do the same this year. Capital was down this year by one bin com- pared to last years. We amounted to having nine full bins of canned foods that were sent out to the food bank storage. Senior Jake Mitchell said, “We motivate stu- dents to donate by set- ting up prizes such as Dutch Bro’s buy one get one half off cou- pons and pizza parties for the winning class.” This year, every third period class had a shot at one of the winning priz- es but Jami Marturello’s third period and Mat- thew Jacobsen’s third period class were the winning classes with over 100-collected cans each. Both classes got Dutch Bro’s coupons as their winning prize. HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM TALON MEDIA GROUP!
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CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 48, Issue 3December 19, 2013
EDITOR IN CHIEF: DEVIN RAMEY
CHS
ASSISTANT EDITOR: EMILY LUNDQUIST
FLIGHTBoys basketball
starts season on a roll
SPORTS PAGE 7 ARTS PAGE 4
New club raises awareness for others
in need in Africa
Devin RameyEDITOR IN CHIEF
ONLINE EDITOR: TYLER YORK
APES students earn major grant for biofuel project
Anthony OlveraSTAFF WRITER
Students make magic at Festival
The Invisible Children club is making great strides towards its goals of aiding others that are being affected in central Africa by the Lord’s Resistance Army, and dismantling the army from the inside out by helping people escape from it. The group focuses in on the LRA because the army, led by infamous Joseph Kony, kidnaps children and either forc-es them to child soldiers or into the sex trade. The army is primar-ily found in the Demo-cratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Uganda. The war against the LRA has lasted 27 years. Invisible Children hopes to help the region rebuild the many com-munities that have be decimated throughout the course of the war by educating, counsel-ing, giving job training and teaching people lit-eracy. President of the school’s group is senior Emily Ip, the Vice Pres-ident senior Schuyler Mickelson, and Dane
Pence is the advisor. There are roughly 25 members in the club, according to Ip. Ip said, “I went to this leadership confer-ence this summer that Invisible Children put on, and just got really excited and motivated to get people from my school involved for this cause, because its really important to me and I want to educate people about it.” Ip said that the club has raised a little more than $1500 so far this year. They raise money by having bake sales with items between 50 cents and $1, sell-ing bracelets made by women in Uganda who are affected by the LRA for $5 , sending letters and emails, making phone calls, spreading the word of the issue on social media sites, and generally raising aware-ness. Ip said her favorite things about being in the club are “[That] I have my own represen-tative that I call every week. The significance of every single person is so huge, the importance of every person, and the support I have from the other people in it.”
PHOTO BY ALYSSA IP
On Oct. 31, AP Envi-ronmental Science teacher Aaron Butler received a grant from Capital Educators Cred-it Union for $750.00 for the algae bio-fuel project that his 4th and 5th period classes had begun. The goal was to grow and harvest algae to turn into biofuel to power a car. There was a gap between the ini-tiation and the actual beginning of the project but when they received the grant, the students
quickly got to work.“I was skeptical about the project because it seemed to take forev-er to get the grant but when we started, I got really excited,” junior Brodie Raistrick said. In the gap of time between the writing and the receiving of the grant, the class collected used plastic water bot-tles from all around the school and their homes. After they got the grant, the students split into groups to accomplish as much as possible, as fast as possible. “One group of stu-dents would rinse and clean up the used water
bottles while others poked holes in the cap for the tubes to go into, and a third group con-structed the shelf and equipment that was necessary to begin the project,” junior Daniel Segura said. The goal of the proj-ect is to harvest the algae that grow in the water bottles and turn it into an environmen-tally friendly alternative source of diesel fuel. “If it all goes as planned, we hope to put enough fuel in a car to drive it down to the Capitol building and maybe get on the news,” Butler said.
The production of the equipment was success-ful and they are ready to take the next step, which is to grow the algae in the water bot-tles. Butler ordered live algae and he intends to wait until it produces oxygen through photo-synthesis to begin the process of turning it into a bio-fuel. “This is crazy to think about. I never thought that we could create an alternative source of fuel. We could be shaping the future right here in this classroom,” junior Ashley Toone said.
PHOTO BY DAYNE PRETTYMAN
PHOTO BY DAYNE PRETTYMAN
Top: Senior Franklin Brien caulks tubing with water bottles for the APES biofuel project. Left: Senior Chase Pearl checks on water bottles containing the algae for biofuel. Above: Principal Jon Ruzicka and science teacher Aaron Butler (in costume) are presented a grant check from CapEd represen-tative Lisa Hamilton in the video studio on Halloween, Oct. 31.
Senior Emily Ip participates in the Invisible Children Pie Throw, celebration of reaching their fund rasing goals, on Nov 22. Senior Corrin Seidemen and advisor Dane Pence also took part in the event.
School pulls together to feed others this winter through food driveSelma KovacSPORTS WRITER
Capital had it’s annual canned food drive that has been conducted for over ten years from Nov. 4 to Dec. 13. Each year one person from Capital’s Student Council is designated
to take charge of the canned food drive and contacts Idaho National Food Bank and devel-ops the drive. This year, junior Nathan-iel Weissinger was put in charge of starting the canned food drive. Senior Peter Huang said, “Capital is a school that has a close relationship with the
community, and Capi-tal would like to con-tinue to strengthen that connection.” In past years, about half of the cans that are collected by Capi-tal High School are distributed to Idaho’s National Food Bank storage and then are sent out to families that are hungry and in need.
However, the other half stays in Capital High School’s own food pan-try for our own families in need. Capital hopes to do the same this year. Capital was down this year by one bin com-pared to last years. We amounted to having nine full bins of canned foods that were sent out to the food bank storage.
Senior Jake Mitchell said, “We motivate stu-dents to donate by set-ting up prizes such as Dutch Bro’s buy one get one half off cou-pons and pizza parties for the winning class.” This year, every third period class had a shot at one of the winning priz-es but Jami Marturello’s third period and Mat-
thew Jacobsen’s third period class were the winning classes with over 100-collected cans each. Both classes got Dutch Bro’s coupons as their winning prize.
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On Dec. 4, Student Council hosted a new mixer dance themed “Night at the North Pole” in the school caf-eteria. Senior student council member Hannah Kopp said she liked the fact that people didn’t need
a date to go, and “every-one was welcome with all of their friends.” The theme was new this year in hope to get the school in the Christmas spirit; with decorations like Christ-mas lights, fake snow, snowflakes, Christmas trees and blowup snow-men. “We had a lot of fun decorating with the winter theme, and
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Younger’s art class helped us paint winter pictures on the win-dows,” ASB President Peter Huang said. Along with the deco-rating, a lot of prepara-tion came along to make sure it all went smooth-ly. Stud. Co. organized to have Dutch Bros. serve coffee and hot chocolate for $2 as well, which was a big hit for the
people at the dance. Dance lights were ordered from Rocky Mountain Roll in Meridian, which put on a light show during the dance. There was an ugly sweater contest, which many students partici-pated in, showing off their extravagant Christ-mas sweaters. The win-ners received stockings full of candy and winter
accessories. Winners were seniors Hannah Kopp, Alex Waddel and junior Tucker Ahrens. CHS alumni DJ Chris-tian Caicedo played at the dance and he did an “amazing job, and used music of his own,” Huang said. Even though the turn-out for the dance wasn’t large, Huang said his expectations for the new dance was to make sure
“everyone that attended had fun, and I think we achieved that.” “There was good music, and we’ve never had a Christmas themed dance before,” Kopp said. “I was most excited for the DJ, Christan Caicedo, and having a great time with my friends,” Kopp said.
DECA is spreading Christmas cheer a little further by encouraging classes to “adopt” an unprivileged child and provide them with a few gifts to lift their spirits. The event runs through Dec. 18 and DECA delivers the gifts to the families on Dec. 19. By the end of this toy drive, DECA would have helped sponsor at least 50 different chil-dren, all from Valley View and Pierce Park Elementaries. Each class can either wrap the presents before, or they can send it to DECA and have them wrap it. Aaron Butler’s first period chemistry class adopted Ozzy. As of Dec.6 the class raised $30. “I think it is really
amazing what the stu-dents will do for those in need. I am very proud of my chemistry class and Mr. Butler for try-ing to make this little boy’s Christmas a little bit better,” junior Ellie Howard said. Paula Urirarte’s Eng-lish 101 class adopted Sheryl. The class has been raising money to buy her a Wii. Uriarte’s favorite part about this is, “That my students are so will-ing to give to someone else.” “My favorite part is when other classes get very excited about help-ing children out of the good of their heart,” DECA advisor Sandy Wold said. “It’s fun to see every-thing come in. It shows how much the school cares,” senior Micheal Edwards said. “I think that it’s a really good thing that we’re doing. It’s almost Christmas and we need
to help spread Christ-mas joy,” senior Rosseli Gurrero said. Senior Kayla Pollard said she likes, “That we do this so children who are less fortunate are able to wake up with gifts under the tree
and get that Christmas morning experience.” Uriarte said, “I feel like it’s an obligation to give back.”
Seniors Kavan Hess and Dylan Filkins Rake Up Boise for National Honor Society at a local duplex in the Capital area to help the community on Nov. 23. “Boise has a lot of leaves and we need to rake them up,” Hess said.
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On Nov. 23, ten National Honor Society members raked up three homes in the Capital area off of Edna Street. Due to snow, the event was postponed from its original date on Nov. 16 to the 23. Rake Up Boise is one of the many service projects that NHS will participate in through-out the year. Senior Alma Delic said, “It’s important because it helps people who can’t help them-selves and it helps cre-ate connections in the community.” Community service is not just for college applications, Cindy Currie NHS advisor said. “They [kids] need to do it to help the com-munity. Service proj-
ects help fill your own self worth as a volun-teer. It unites kids,” Currie said. Delic said, “It was a really positive experi-ence.” The students are required to do at least 24 hours of commu-nity service, or 12 per semester all outside of school. They are also required to do a chapter; a chapter is community service that takes place through Capital High School. They have to do at least one of these per semester. NHS also took part in another community ser-vice project, the Idaho Meth Project. On Nov. 29, NHS helped spread the word about the dangers of meth and educated peo-ple on how to help solve the problem. Currie said that peo-ple need to be educated
about the problem in our community. Senior Evan Nishi-hama said that the proj-ect is important because “People realize the dan-gers of meth. I feel the message is mandatory.” Junior Kayla Cocozzo said she felt that “we got our message was extremely successful.” On the 29, NHS had signs and walked up Emerald to Wal-Mart and back to the Human Bean. They also had a sign that said, “Honk if you hate meth.” Cocozzo said they counted about 200 honks throughout the night.
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NewsThursday, December 19, 2013
Editor: Taylor Anfinson and Andrew Sargent
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DECA fundraises for the futureAndrew SargentNEWS EDITOR
DECA is a growing organization that helps prepare leaders and entrepreneurs for their future careers and has been involved in many fundraisers this year. Marketing teaches business, hospitality, management, and lead-ership, and DECA helps apply those skills into the real world. DECA helps other organizations/compa-nies by being involved in fundraisers. For the past seven years DECA has vol-unteered to help with Make a Wish founda-tion, by hosting fund-raisers to grant a child’s wish. “It really warmed my
heart up watching Isaiah light up and to see him so happy,” said senior Michael Edwards. Currently DECA is involved with the Toy Drive. On Dec. 19 students and teachers sent toys to DECA so they can wrap them and send them off to families who can’t afford it themselves. DECA also sells Lit-tle Caesars Pizza kits, Krispy Kream Donut cards, and Coldstone ice cream cakes. DECA helps sell these so they cannot only help the business but also save enough money to go to State and Nation-als. In State/Nationals, DECA students compete against other DECA members from around the world. There are over 14,000 members at Nationals every year.
State starts in the middle of March and Nationals starts in the beginning of May. “It was fun meeting people from around the country,” said junior Emily Pinkney. DECA competes in Nationals for medals, scholarships, or even $1,000. They have to choose one of 25 dif-ferent report topics such as: reintroducing a product, starting a busi-ness, fashion plans, and advertising campaign. “DECA definitely taught me about the skills of becoming a successful business-man/woman, and just being successful in life,” said junior Carli Dekerchore.
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Working and learning about childrenTaylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR
Terra Hudson’s Child Development class is holding a pre-school for children in the valley or that are related to fac-ulty or staff members, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday starting on Dec. 6. The child development class focuses on chil-dren from birth to five year olds. This project, according to Hudson, teaches the kids about taking care of a young child. Sophomore Kylee Dilworth said that it’s important because it’s, “helping [for] the future if we ever have kids, or if this is the career path you want to go down.” Students had differ-ent reasons for joining Child Development.
Sophomore Mohamed Mkoma said, “I wanted to learn how to take care of kids so when I get my own.” Hudson said the pre-school is important because of “their [stu-dents] connection to the community and learn-ing responsibility.” Senior Ryan Gould said, “It teaches you responsibility and it teaches us that we aren’t ready to have our own children yet.” Ten children, rang-ing from five to six years old, supervised and taught by the Child Development students during fifth and sixth period. Most of the children are children or grandchildren of staff members and the gen-eral public. Throughout the day the children will rotate
through six different activities; story time, science/field trips, games/music, academic activity, snack time and arts/crafts. The children will be graduating on Jan. 17 from the pre-school program. The students will be getting extra credit for participating in the pre-school. “I really enjoy chil-dren and that we get to pick the lessons we get to do with the children,” said Gould. “Playing games with them [is my favorite part],” Mkoma said. Dilworth said her favorite part is, “Work-ing with the kids, help-ing the kids, teaching them and watching them grow.” Family and Consumer Science teacher Tera Hudson conducts the preschool “Christmas Chior”
on Dec. 16 for the Flight newspaper staff in room 202 while her students watch in the back-ground.
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Sophomore Jessica Morales reads to a pre-schooler at the pre-school held by Child Develop-ment on Dec. 6. “This is my first pre-school experience and I loved it because it gave me a chance to interact with them,” Morales said.
Bowl for charity
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Juniors Kassidy Neighbors and Ethan Rackham show bowls they made for the six-teenth annual Empty Bowls event, sponsored by The Idaho Food Bank. Through-out the year, the Foodbank collects handcrafted and hand-painted bowls from professional and amateur artisans, students, and studios. The funds raised by this event helps provide free food assistance to those badly in need this winter.
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Festival Of TreesTaylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR
Left: Senior Payton Rebholz, Art Club advisor Cathy Younger and junior Christopher Gallas decorate the tree at the Festival of Trees for competition on Nov. 24. “Par-ticipating in the Festival of Trees this year was fun and wonderful experience that I fully enjoyed this year. The making process of the decorations was creative and fun,” Rebholz said. Upper Right: Back Row senior Jessinicole Schnee, senior Micki West, senior Payton Rebholz. junior Christopher Gallas, junior Victoria Lantz, Front Row senior Emily Ip, Junior Kya-Xe’ Dudney, Art teacher Cathy Younger, sophomore Anjel-ica Lee, sophomore Hade Brink and sophomore Amber McLenna pose next to their tree at the Festival of Trees near the Grove Hotel for Art Club on Nov. 24. Middle and Lower Right: Paper mache animals, Festival of Trees, Nov. 23.
On Nov. 23, Cathy Younger’s art club won Best of Show for the twelfth year in a row at the annu-al Festival of Trees. “Their efforts were rewarded,” Younger said. Senior Emily Ip said, “It was pretty cool because we worked hard and put a lot of effort in it.” Younger and her classes made a tree resembling a snowman. She said she came up with the idea because she wanted, “Some-thing simple. I saw a Pinterest picture and it gave me the idea.” Its head is a balloon covered in paper mache, its eyes; buttons, the nose; made out of news-papers, its mouth; a stick that they found outside, the body; the tree, the buttons; ornaments that were painted black
with some black glitter put on them, and the arms are sticks that they found and on the ends of the arms they put red gloves. Also, around the neck is a red scarf. Right under the tree, animals, made out of newspapers, lay on the snow. These animals included a fawn, a rab-bit, a quail, a chipmunk, a fox and a bear cub. Within the tree they put multiple different decorations including paper snowflakes, paper mache snowballs, pine-cones that they found in the field at Capital and some glass orna-ments that they paint-ed faces of snowmen. Some woodwork went into this tree as well. The icicles that hung off the tree were carved out of wood and were painted. The tree also had a wooden bird-house with a red bird on it; all wooden piec-es were carved out by Payton Rebholz. “The originality was
the best part. Didn’t have a lot of stuff [on the tree] and [we] didn’t need it,” Younger said. Ip said, “Mak-ing the animals was the most fun part.” According to Younger, Art Club spent about 25 hours on the decora-tions, animals and the head of the snowman. Unfortunately, dur-ing the Festival they ran into some problems. During the competi-tion the tree had to have a custom, wooden base instead of the original base. The tree didn’t fit into the hole that was designated to hold up the tree. They kept drill-ing into the wood and hitting the metal, weak-ening it, allowing for the bottom to fall off. They had to wait for a new tree base before they could continue with the decorating. Younger said, “That was the hardest part of this whole thing.”
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As fall fades away we move into a season of festive clothing, gifts and attitudes. From crispy colored leaves to Christmas stockings and snow, the styles inside change just as much as the weather outside. While the basics stay the same with boots and cardigans or heavy jackets for men, with the alteration in holiday and temperature just a few more layers are added and designs may slightly alter. Something that easily transfers from fall to winter and still stays in trend would be beauti-ful scarves Junior Roma Aatifi said, “Scarves are my favorite and I don’t
PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTSenior Kylan Porter wears a grey waist cinching jacket.
PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTJunior Rachel Pishl wears a grey and white winter knit sweater.
PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTSenior Kylan Porter wears brown knee high buckle boots.
PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTJunior Roma Aatifi wears tan Bearclaw brand boots.
PHOTO BY NICOLETTE GRANTJunior Roma Aatifi wears black/white knit scarf and Nike windbreaker
Winter color pallet:Colors that won’t clash!
Selma KovacSPORTS EDITOR
er its pretty pine tree greens or the tints of a warm crackling fire, these colors will be sure to make a statement no matter what you decide to wear. Blushy pinks mixed with a warm sug-
ferent? Try a horse head mask or a mini ping-pong set. Look for off-the-wall stuff at Fuego, or online at ThinkGeek.com. In addition, many stores have sections dedicated to inex-pensive gifts, and it’s easy to find a board on Pinterest with fun ideas. Be thrifty and don’t stress yourself this holiday season!
THRIFTY SEASON GIFTS~Affordable and Adorable~
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home button stickers, skins, headphones; the possibilities are endless! Online shops offer a wide variety of options for a low price. 3. Fancy Treats- Gourmet cupcakes or Godiva hot choco-late won’t elicit any complaints from the receiver; try See’s Candies or Powell’s. 4. Stocking Stuffer- Want to be a little dif-
1. Restaurant Gift Cer-tificate- Who doesn’t love a warm coffee in the morning, or a few free fast-food lunches? You can’t go wrong with a gift card! Pick them up at the restau-rant itself, or any conve-nience store. 2. Phone Acces-sories- Phone cases,
ar plum purple is sure to have you looking fes-tive and fashionable. These colors will bring out the holiday spirit and show the world that you know whats in style.
Santa Suit Red
Sleigh Bells Silver
Blanket Blue
Buckle Gold
Pine Tree Green
Mint Green
Sugar Plum Purple
Blush Pink
PHOTO BY EMILY LUNDQUISTA Frozen Yogurt, Victoria Secret and a Dutch Bros. Coffee gift card.
think I will ever get over them.” It can be hard to want to stay up with the new-est trends without fall-ing out of style. For example it’s easy to bring your fall boots into a winter style, all you have to do is add some leg warmers. Sophomore Ariana Mathis said, “Crew necks, leggings, combat boots, a lot of maroon and sweaters, I see this stuff all over the school.” There’re so many dif-ferent winter trends that one can be attracted to but really it depends on your own true style. “The knitted stuff, the boots and sweaters are my favorite,” Aatifi said. “I love that you can stay warm but look super cute,” Mathis said.
PHOTOS BY NICOLETTE GRANTA silver and gold owl iPhone 4/4s case, Rostica colored Skullcandy headphones.
With winter rolling in it is time to switch up your wardrobe and with that the colors you choose to wear. Wheth-
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Sports Thursday, December 19, 2013
Editor: Selma Kovac
Athletes of theMonth
Sport: Basketball
Years playing: 8
Loves the sport because:
It’s a lot of fun
Favorite opponent: Mountain View
Difficulty level:6
One word to describe sport:
Intense
Hours dedicated to sport each week:
12
Senior Delaney Sauer
Taylor Anfinson NEWS EDITOR
Andrew Sargent STAFF WRITER
Victoria HomlesARTS EDITOR
PHOTO BY REBEKAH SEVY
fast that was just a bonus!”
PHOTO BY SABRINA WINTER Senior Blake Collins pins a Vallivue High wrestler at Capital High to win his match Dec. 5. “I got a tech fall, the mercy rule,” Collins said. This meant they stopped the match because Collins was in the lead by 15 points.
PHOTO BY AUTUMN BROWN
Fatuma Mnogerwa STAFF WRITER
Wrestlers excited for season
JV girls basketball shoot towards victory
Varsity girl’s basket-ball team has started its season off strong with a record of 4-3. Lady Eagles started their season on Nov. 16 with a win against Kuna High School 65-47, Mountain Home High School 51-18 on Nov. 19, Meridian High School 63-37 on Nov. 22 and Boise High School 43-41 on Nov. 23. They lost to Centen-nial High School 49-58 on Nov. 26, Timberline High School on Dec. 5 44-47 and Eagle High School 33-36 on Dec.
Varsity girls start season strong11. Last year the varsity girls won Districts, but lost during the semi-finals. “Last year we were District winners and lost in the final four at state. I hope we have the same opportunities and hopefully win State,” Head Coach Blas Tel-leria said. Senior Natalie Cacchi-llo said her expectations are to, “Stay undefeated at home, win State and Districts and play hard no matter what.” Telleria said that they have high expectations for not only the season, but for the whole year.
He also said that their 4-3 record allows them to work on things. Senior Khadija Neu-meyer said she likes playing basketball because, “The aspect of being on a team, how everyone contrib-utes to a win.” “I enjoy coaching because I was an ath-lete and I enjoy the competitive side,” Tel-laria said. Cacchillo said she enjoys playing basket-ball because, “It takes my mind off of other things. It’s a stress reliever, it’s fun and I like being with my teammates.”
Junior Alexis Biermann shoots for a basket at Capital against Mountain Home on Nov. 19. “Our season is going really well. Everyone plays a really big part in our success,” Biermann said.
The girls’ JV basket-ball team currently has a record of 5-1 as of Dec. 10. They have won against Kuna High; 50-37, Mountain Home High; 59-9, Meridian High; 38-28, Centennial High; 55-39, and Timberline High; 39-32. They have lost against Boise High; 27-39. “We’re really talented in all areas, we mesh really well out on the court. Like our coach says, we seem to have a weird telepathic con-nection,” junior Alexis Biermann said. Junior Brooklyn
Grange said: “I think that we all expect to improve a lot this sea-son.” Head Coach Harry Angelos has had expe-rience coaching girls’ basketball before. He has coached at Eagle High School for 6 years, Boise High School for 15 years, and coached various sports at North Junior High. This is his fourth year at Capital. “Our amazing coach never has a dull moment,” Biermann said. “He’s cool, makes a lot of jokes,” junior Ari-ana Soliz said. “All the coaches are awesome. They expect
us to do well, but are patient when we make mistakes,” Grange said. Soliz said, “My team mates are amazing and super funny, we are a family.” “I have awesome relationships. I was friends with some before the season, but I met new girls and they are just so nice and fun to be around,” sopho-more Macy Altorfer said. The team is looking forward to this season and to see their team-work get stronger, more connected, and to improve their own skills.
After successful season runners go to Nike Regionals
Wrestlers started off their season ready to place when Capital went to the Nyssa Invi-tational in Oregon Dec. 6-7, where JV placed third as a team out of 20 spots and Varsity placed fifth as a team out of 20 spots. The Bucks Bags tour-nament took place Dec. 13 and 14. The wres-tlers took ninth place out of 32 teams. Senior Jeff Neil said that the tournament went well, “Going 5-1 for the first time in for-ever,” with the only loss against Bonneville dur-ing Bucks Bags tourna-ment. “Last year we were
not very good but we had a lot of kids place at state,” said Fields.“I’m looking forward to taking first at state [this year].” Neil said, “The match-es at districts were alright we had a lot place, JV’s doing pretty good.” Senior Jacob Fields said to be a wrestler it takes “a lot like dedi-cation, hard work, and will power.” “Good Cardio, atten-tion to detail and hard work” Skills needed to become a wrestler said Neil. Junior Cole Velasquez said, “Dedication, toler-ance for pain, and being 100% about the sport is what you need to be a wrestler otherwise you
won’t have a successful or fun time.” “ I’m looking forward to getting some varsity
After a hard work-ing season ten athletes on the cross-country team headed over to Eagle Island to race at the Nike Regionals on Nov. 16. Sophomore Joe Mul-lenur said, “It was a good race and some of the boys varsity run-ners planned to race at this meet to see how we would do after the season was over and we ended up doing pretty well”. There were five Capital boys: Mul-lenur, sophomore Jacob Davis, senior Grayson
Lowe, senior Graham Zickefoose, Tanner Eastep, and junior Drew Schultz. Eastep said, “The race didn’t count for any-thing, I just did it for fun with my friends”. Though the Nike Reigionals was not a team race, there were a number of individu-al runners. Mullenur, Davis, Schultz, Lowe, and Eastep ran the championship race and the boys placed 22nd as a team. Zickefoose ran the Junior Varsity race. Schultz said, “ I didn’t like the course because it was the same as Bob Firman and I didn’t enjoy the race. I am
glad that I experienced it this year even though it was cold and wet. I am planning on running the same race next year after state.” There were four Capi-tal girls that ran the var-sity race: senior Katie Ackerman, junior Kalyn Lopez, freshman Harley Goul, and sophomore Olivia Konecni who placed sixth place in the race. Ackerman said, “The race was so much fun! They have several differ-ent races, the elite race being that which quali-fies you for the National race in Portland. I ran the varsity race but not elite race. I did it because
it was my last Cross Country race. I went
PHOTO BY AUTUMN BROWN
there with the goal to have fun, and if I ran
matches for this season since I’m only on JV,” said Velasquez. “ Joby Webb is a
good coach and coach Jones is a fresh coach as well,” said Velasquez.
Hunter YoungSeniorSport:
Basketball
Senior Graham Zickefoose runs in the Nike Regional Cross Country Invitational at Eagle Island on Nov. 16.
Senior Kylie Centers dribbles the ball down the court while seniors Khadija Neumeyer, Delaney Sauer and junior Emilie Eckhart follow with opposing Kuna High players during their game on Nov. 16.
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SportsThursday, December 19, 2013
Editor: Emily Lundquist
Boys Varsity basketball beats rival, continues undefeated
Emily LundquistASSISTANT EDITOR
5A All-Idaho
First Team
SeniorSam Ball
The varsity boys’ bas-ketball team has been undefeated as of Dec. 10 with a record of 3-0. The team played Borah High on Dec. 10, and after a five year losing streak against them, the Eagles fought for a close victory and beat them 55-58. Scoring leaders were juniors Keegan Han-sen with 17 points, Derrick White with 13 points and senior Hunter Young with 14 points. Junior Con-nor Poulsen had the
Varsity Football made it to the playoffs as the number one team in the western division with a 9-1 win-loss record. They played Idaho Falls on Nov. 8 in the quar-terfinals and defeated them 70-40, advancing them to the semifinals in Coeur d’Alene. Two years previ-ously, they faced Coeur d’Alene in the semi-finals. That year, they took a bus up on the morning of game day and played in the eve-ning in pouring snow and harsh winds and temperatures. This year, they faced similar conditions but planned ahead and raised money by themselves to pay to stay in a hotel in Coeur d’Alene on the night before the game so
most rebounds with 6. Head Coach Paul Rush has been coach-ing the team for four years, and said he hopes that “We get more out of every practice than any oth-er team in the state and that we become a great defensive team because of how hard we play for each oth-er.” Last year’s varsity team had an overall record of 19-12. Rush said, “We should be better defensively than last season and should do a bet-ter job taking care
of the basketball on offense. We should be more aggressive both on defense and offense and take advantage of our speed and athleti-cism.” Two year veteran Nick Dow said he hopes to make it to State playoffs and win the whole tourna-ment. In order to do this, Dow said his team needs to improve on their “Chemistry and learn to be un-selfish.” Dow scored 7 points at the game against Borah High, whom he said is his favorite opponent.
“They are our rival and it’s always fun play-ing against a team that has the same skill set as you,” Dow said. Junior point guard Derrick White hopes to earn the State title as well, and said they will do that if they “com-municate better on the court.” White also wanted to beat Borah, because “They are one of the best teams in the state.” White helped the team win by being one of the highest scorers in the game, with 13 points.
Varsity Football
Anthony OlveraSTAFF WRITER
they were well rested and ready for the game in time. Despite their efforts, they lost their final game 42-14. In the games they won, the Varsity Foot-ball team outscored their opponents by an average of 29.1 points, the biggest shutout victory being against Borah High with a final score of 77-27 and the closest game being at Centennial with a final score of 38-35. The total point difference was 219 points for the regular season. The only season loss they had was against Eagle High, whom they haven’t beaten in five years and this time around it was extremely close. They lost 31-28 at Dona Larsen Park. “They fought all the way to the end but came up short,” senior Reece Ruzicka said.
Left: The Varsity Football team performs warm-up drills to prepare for the semifinal game in Coeur d’Alene on Nov. 15. Right: Junior starting quarterback Conner Poulson shakes the defenders to gain precious yards.
PHOTO BY ANTHONY OLVERA
Junior Conner Poulson receives the snap to hand off to junior Tarik Littlejohn against Coeur d’Alene on Nov. 15.
PHOTO BY ANTHONY OLVERA
PHOTO BY ANTHONY OLVERA
Strong season stops at snowy semifinals
Victory over rival Borah High after 5-year losing streak kicks season into high gear
Junior point guard Derrick White keeps the ball away from an opposing Borah player during their game on Dec. 10. The Eagles won a close game, 58-55.
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Shoots for District Championship with undefeated record
Fatuma MnongerwaSTAFF WRITER
Emily LundquistASSISTANT EDITOR
PHOTO BY RYAN PHIPPS
Sophomore Sam Brixey defends the ball while an opposing Borah player has possession during their game on Dec. 10.
The JV boys’ basket-ball team is starting off their season with an undefeated record of 3-0 as of Dec. 10. The team has won against Emmet High, Bishop Kelley High and Borah High. Junior Elijah Lewis said, “The season is starting off pretty well and I’m loving it. I’m
looking forward to get-ting really close to the team and becoming really good.” There are 12 boys on the JV basketball team. Sophomore Sam Brix-ey said, “I am really looking forward to get-ting close to the team and going to champion-ship. Our coach gets on us but he makes good decisions.” Sophomore wing and post Cameron Daron said, “Last year we were tied for second going into the tournament, but
lost in the first round.” Daron said he hopes this season is success-ful and that it will give them the first place Dis-trict Championship. To do that, Daron said, “We have set our goals high for this year.” Junior Bowen Grange also wants to go far this season and said they will “come together and being the very best we can be.”
Boys JV basketball
Looks to improve from last year to “be the very best we can be”
The Eagles set a school record for points scored on their way to appear-ance in the state semi-finals, and coach Todd Simis credits the 6-3, 265 pound senior with help-ing make that happen. “Sam became a physi-cal force to be reckoned with his senior year to go along with the technical side of line play,” Simis
said.
Tarik LittlejohnJunior
A starter since his fresh-man year, the 6-2, 185 pound junior caught 54 passes for 860 yards and 10 TDs with 10 carries for 83 yards and another score to help the Eagles advance to the State semifinals. “Deceiv-ing speed,” Centennial coach Lee Neumann said. “He has the ability
to change a game.”
Idaho Statesman
Idaho Statesman
Opinion Thursday, December 19, 2013
PAGE 8 Editors: Devin Ramey and Molly Freeney
Taylor AnfinsonNEWS EDITOR
Does the NSA infringe on privacy
rights?
Devin RameyEDITOR IN CHIEF
Molly FreeneyOPINION EDITOR
What do you think about the school district restricting access
to social media sites over the campus-wide WiFi and computers?
CARTOON BY ARIELLE SARGENT
Social media policy is overreaching and limits students
NSA may be con-troversial, but it is necessary for our security
The NSA crosses the line with personal privacy through lies
In the aftermath of 9/11, the American government fearfully passed the Patriot Act, which gave the gov-ernment the power to conduct massive elec-tronic surveillances, in-cluding text messages, phone calls and emails on American citizens and citizens of foreign countries. With the passage of this Act, the National Security Agency, bet-ter known as the NSA, was born. This agency has basically limitless power and reach, in-fringing on the Con-stitutional given rights of citizens. Under the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights it is stated that a warrant and probable cause is required for search and seizures, but the NSA jumps around this and tracks almost every-thing on the Internet and cell phones. The NSA does this under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which al-lows the agency to col-lect “tangible things” to protect the nation from terrorist activities. This is done on a massive scale, in order to protect the country. And under Section 1881a of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the U.S is allowed to target citizens outside
the country to get “for-eign intelligence infor-mation” by any means. I firmly believe that this is completely un-constitutional, and the entire NSA needs to disband and cease all operations. National security should be a priority, but not at price of domes-tic spying and tapping phones of the leaders of foreign superpowers. It is bad enough that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency installs coup d’etats across the globe, with no reprimands for it. But with the addition of an agency that tracks everything people do on the Internet and every-thing else, that is cross-ing a red line. We live in a world where everything is connected to the Inter-net along with every-thing we do, but that does not give the Fed-eral government the right to spy on us in such a manner. Yet, there is no back-lash to all of this? The public seems emotion-less to these facts. For me, this is the case be-cause the Obama ad-ministration ploys nu-merous fallacies and twists words. Obama claims that his administration is the most transparent one in history, but how can this be the case when the government spies on us without probable cause or warrants? The American people, along with the whole world, needs to wake up, smell the coffee, and realize that everything the NSA does is uncon-stitutional and violates their rights. We the peo-ple must finally take a firm stance against this hideous monster and try to take it down.
The National Security Agency, also known simply as the NSA, was created in order to protect United States of America interests abroad and at home. The NSA works around the world and
in the U.S. to locate, track and stop possible national security threats against the sovereignty of the U.S. and for the safety of its people. Without this agency the risk of another large-scale terrorist at-tack, much like 9/11, would be far greater than what it would be. They are watching for possible persons that could compromise our nation’s security. With-out them, terrorist or-ganizations could much more easily come into our country and cause mass chaos, death and devastation on our soil. After 9/11 the NSA gained a lot of power to investigate persons of interest, with the Patriot Act, in order to gain
valuable information to prevent a terrorist attack from happening again. But, there has been a lot of talk lately that the NSA is doing a lot more than just “defending the U.S.”. This agency has been accused of invad-ing our rights to pri-vacy many times. This agency has also been accused of spying on our allies, which crit-ics say goes far beyond legitimate boundaries
of proper use of their power. With a government that takes an oath to up-hold our Constitution, a document of our liber-ties, they should keep that oath. There is a line where the NSA goes too far. Spying on its own citizens and such is completely absurd and a violation of their powers. Even with that, with-out them, though, our
country would be sus-ceptible to terrorist at-tacks constantly. They protect us and keep us, and our Constitution safe. You can’t maintain a world super power without some form of government agency cre-ated for the sole purpose of collecting, working through and using the data they collect to en-sure a safe America for all of us to live in, with-out fear of another 9/11.
Our country is safer with the NSA, some may say they overstep their bounds but they have done a lot more good than harm con-trary to popular belief of many concerned cit-izens. The agency plays a vi-tal role in the defense of the nation. Getting rid of it would be a tragedy that could lead to a lot more things than a sim-ple loss of an agency.
Recently, sites such as Instagram, tumblr., Facebook, and Pandora have been restricted by
the school filter. I do not agree with these restrictions, to an extent. When attempting to access Pandora or Grooveshark, the filter blocks it on the basis that it is “Internet Ra-dio”. Many students elect to not purchase music, and rely on Inter-net radio entirely. Lis-tening to music online is the same experience as listening to downloaded music, so why block it? Another problem with these restrictions is how they limit teach-ers. If a math instructor
wants to show his class a video explaining the day’s lesson, it can be difficult to access You-Tube unless using a specific computer. If said teacher can remove these blocks, a student wishing to do further research at school can run into the same prob-lems, this time, with no resolution. Any website hosted through BlogSpot, or any other blogging site, is blocked as well. These sites specifically can be extremely use-ful- webpages created by chemists, entirely
dedicated to chemistry; native Spanish-speak-ers providing ways to help a Spanish 2 student learn reflexive verbs. Although I can respect the school’s decision to restrict students’ ac-cess to social media, I do think they should reconsider the criteria they use when deciding which sites to block. The Internet is a very useful tool, especially in this ever-advancing, technologically-based society. We should be teaching students how to make the most of the world wide web.
Pat WalkerTEACHER
Anthony TaylorSENIOR
Marisa CasellaJUNIOR
Nejra NakicSOPHOMORE
“Initially, your ques-tion may as well have been in Espanol. How-ever, I have clarified the technological de-tails with my first period class, and I believe that students should have fairly unfettered access between classes and lunch. During class, all bets are off.”
“I think the restriction is not needed. I feel we can use these sites occa-sionally to learn in ways that are helpful to stu-dents and teachers. This will limit negative use of the sites at school and will help not affect the crappy computers.”
“Personally, I don’t think that it’s a big deal. We don’t need to be in constant connection with these sites, espe-cially when dealing with the school’s computer web filters, but I think should at least be able to access them through our phones.”
“Having social media sites blocked on Wi-Fi and on the computers is kind of understandable sometimes, but I be-lieve that it shouldn’t be blocked because some-times you finish your work early and have nothing to do.”
