First responders save Grove after pacemaker failure PHOTO COURTESY OF PHILIP WOOD | ROSEVILLE PRESS TRIBUNE BY ROBBIE SHORT robbie.short@eyeoſthetigernews.com The crowd at the Sep. 6 varsity football game against the Rio Linda Knights looks on as retired medic Terry Zahniser climbs through the press box window to help administer CPR to history teacher Ron Grove. Grove’s heart stopped beating after a wire in his pacemaker shorted while he was announcing the end of the game. Zanhiser and others eventually revived him, and he expects to return to school today and will make a full recovery. It was just like any other Friday night. Students, parents, teachers and alumni gathered in the bleachers of Roseville High School’s Hanson Field to cheer the Tigers on to a vic- tory against the Rio Linda Knights during the varsity football game on Sept. 6. As the end of the fourth quarter neared, the Tigers were up 16-14. Then, with just seconds remaining in the game, the Knights prepared for a field goal that would decide the outcome of the contest. Suddenly, a commotion broke out in the stands as game attendees heard calls for a medic coming from the press box. History teacher Ron Grove, long-time announcer of the home football games, had fainted while at the microphone during the game’s final seconds. “We were just talking, having fun, laughing about things,” said teacher Ron Volk, who runs the scoreboard during the games. “We work kind of as a team up there, telling where the ball is, how much yardage, that kind of stuff, so we were all in the middle of doing what we do and having a good time and he just collapsed.” A wire from Grove’s pacemaker shorted and caused his heart to stop beating, rendering Grove without a pulse. “When somebody collapses like that, there’s gotta be something seriously wrong,” Volk said. “Some- times there’ll be a seizure situation or something like that that doesn’t last very long, but we knew right away that he was non-responsive when he went down.” Though Volk initially radioed the paramedics staffing the on- site American Medical Response (AMR) ambulance parked in the field’s end zone, his calls for help into the radio carried through the open window of the press box, caus- ing several game attendees to come to Grove’s aid. Greg James, RHS Class of 1984 and the father of current RHS junior Bradley James, was one of the first people to respond to the situation. “I was probably three or four rows down from the press box, right below the window, when I kind of heard the commotion,” James said. “I basically just ran up the bleachers and dove through the window of the press box, and Ron was right there on the ground, right below where he’d been announcing the game.” James has served as a fire captain for the Roseville Fire Department GROVE | PAGE 4 PHOTO BY MADISON MACHA Technology coordinator Marie Criste shows students in her AP European History class how to use the school’s newly purchased Google Chromebooks. The tech department bought 210 Chromebooks for use primarily in Title I-beneficiary classes, including English Language Development and AVID courses, but other students will be able to use them as well. Teachers incorporate Google technology BY ANNA PORRETTA anna.porretta@eyeoſthetigernews.com Using Title I funding, Roseville High School purchased over 200 Google Chromebooks, which teach- ers are now integrating into their curriculum. Along with the new laptops, the school created Google accounts for everyone on campus. Less than a seventh of an inch thick and weighing less than three pounds, the Samsung Chromebook has an 11.6” display and a Samsung Exynos Dual Processor. As the Chromebook has no internal hard drive, the users save their work to the Google accounts. Each user has 100 gigabytes of storage on Google Drive. Students save everything on- line and can access their documents from any computer. In addition, the Chromebook boots up in less than 10 seconds and is impervious to viruses and malware. With their Google accounts, students are able to share their docu- ments with their friends and teachers and can comment, edit and collabo- rate on projects. The software saves all changes to documents every five seconds, so there is little chance of losing any work. Another feature of the Chrome- books is the multitude of applica- tions available to users both online and offline. There is everything from a word processor to a webcam, and there are applications specially designed for use in the classroom. As of right now, RHS has seven carts of 30 Chromebooks each. Only three teachers are currently using them for their classes: Marie Criste’s AVID and AP Euro classes, Heather Gregory’s ELD class and Susan Sharif’s ELD class. Teachers and students are beginning to get a feel for the technology now at their disposal. In Sharif’s ELD class, the stu- dents are using the Chromebooks to type essays and collaborate on each other’s work alongside Sharif and student interns. The English Learners are starting out very slowly on the Chromebooks, as they are learning to get accustomed to Google Documents and Google Slides, an app similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. “[The Chromebooks] elevate the level of collaborative work students can do and mimic the twenty-first- century workplace,” Sharif said. “It is a great training tool for them to get exposure to how academia and careers work beyond the class- room.” Criste, head of the technology department, also has been slowly integrating the Chromebooks and Google accounts into her curricu- lum. Criste liked the Chromebooks because, unlike an iPad, they have a keyboard. This allows for students to practice typing in class in prepa- ration for future employment. Criste is using the Chrome- books to work together with her GOOGLE | PAGE 2 Due to the possibility of increased flexibility in its budget, Roseville High School may soon be able to afford classroom renovations and have greater funding for certain classes. This greater control of funds would come if RHS is able to iden- tify as a Title I school, rather than its current designation as a Title I-assisted school. If this change occurs, RHS ad- ministration would be able to use Title I funds in any way that they felt best serves students. Currently, Title I funds can only be used to as- sist specific students and programs on campus – such as students who qualify for free-and-reduced lunch and the English Language Develop- ment program. In order to qualify, 40 percent of RHS students must qualify for free-and-reduced lunch. Last year, 35 percent qualified. To try to reach this benchmark, the school had second period teachers hand free- and-reduced-lunch applications to each of their homeroom students. Administration encouraged teach- ers to attach grades to the applica- tions in an effort to receive more completed forms and try to reach the needed 40 percent benchmark. “I don’t think a hungry kid will be as successful as they could be in their education, and our free-and- reduced lunch program meets our student’s basic needs so they can be successful,” said assistant principal Judi Daniels. As a Title I school, Roseville would be able to use the funding for all students, not just those classified as socioeconomically at-risk. The school will also be able to apply for grants that are only available for Title I schools. “Title I gives us the freedom to enhance all of the classes,” principal Brad Basham said. “The key phrase here is to supplement, not supplant – we can channel the funds to support [the students].” Increasing the percentage of students qualifying for the free-and- reduced lunch program is not the only way that RHS could qualify as a Title I school. The English Language Development classes, as well as the AVID classes, increase the possibility of the school receiv- ing additional funding. “Classes such as AVID are con- sidered underrepresented because often the student in the class is the first within their family to go to col- lege,” Basham said. The RHS administration would spend the money received from a new Title I status on any improve- ments necessary for the school, such as classroom renovations and fund- ing for classes that have previously experienced budget cuts. Some of these funds could also be used to upgrade the school’s technology. According to Basham, the admin- istration is currently unaware when or if the school will qualify for the more comprehensive Title I status. RHS seeks greater flexibility for Title I funds BY KATELYN ROLEN katelyn.rolen@eyeoſthetigernews.com Students at Roseville High School, and across the state, may not be taking the Standardized Test- ing and Reporting (STAR) exam this spring – or ever again for that matter. Last Friday, the state as- sembly followed the senate’s lead by ratifying Bill AB 484, which would discontinue the use of most K-12 standardized testing. “[It] would end STAR testing as we know it,” RHS principal Brad Basham said. Governor Jerry Brown also said he supports the bill and that he will sign it into law. Common Core has been adopted instead of STAR in 44 states. Common Core is a set of testing standards that emphasizes critical- thinking skills rather than pure memorization. According to assistant principal Judi Daniels, however, the transition from STAR could be difficult. “It would not surprise me to see some challenges,” Daniels said. “It’s going to take some time to transition.” Common Core offers a new set of curriculum standards that focus on problem-solving, communica- tion and critical thinking. This, combined with its relatively low overhead costs and the design of the testing allowing students opportuni- ties for retakes, convinced many states to make the switch. Common Core is designed to help students apply their knowledge in real-world situations. Basham considers this an improvement over STAR, which focuses solely on the facts a student knows. “The information that I get from these assessments will give me much more valuable feedback,” Basham said. 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First responders save Grove after pacemaker failure
PHOTO COURTESY OF PHILIP WOOD | ROSEVILLE PRESS TRIBUNE
The crowd at the Sep. 6 varsity football game against the Rio Linda Knights looks on as retired medic Terry Zahniser climbs through the press box window to help administer CPR to history teacher Ron Grove. Grove’s heart stopped beating after a wire in his pacemaker shorted while he was announcing the end of the game. Zanhiser and others eventually revived him, and he expects to return to school today and will make a full recovery.
It was just like any other Friday night. Students, parents, teachers and alumni gathered in the bleachers of Roseville High School’s Hanson Field to cheer the Tigers on to a vic-tory against the Rio Linda Knights during the varsity football game on Sept. 6. As the end of the fourth quarter neared, the Tigers were up 16-14. Then, with just seconds remaining in the game, the Knights prepared for a field goal that would decide the outcome of the contest. Suddenly, a commotion broke out in the stands as game attendees heard calls for a medic coming from the press box. History teacher Ron Grove, long-time announcer of the home football games, had fainted while at the microphone during the game’s final seconds. “We were just talking, having fun, laughing about things,” said teacher Ron Volk, who runs the scoreboard during the games. “We work kind of as a team up there, telling where the ball is, how much yardage, that kind of stuff, so we were all in the middle of doing what we do and having a good time and he just collapsed.” A wire from Grove’s pacemaker
shorted and caused his heart to stop beating, rendering Grove without a pulse. “When somebody collapses like that, there’s gotta be something seriously wrong,” Volk said. “Some-times there’ll be a seizure situation or something like that that doesn’t last very long, but we knew right away that he was non-responsive when he went down.” Though Volk initially radioed the paramedics staffing the on-site American Medical Response (AMR) ambulance parked in the field’s end zone, his calls for help into the radio carried through the open window of the press box, caus-ing several game attendees to come to Grove’s aid. Greg James, RHS Class of 1984 and the father of current RHS junior Bradley James, was one of the first people to respond to the situation. “I was probably three or four rows down from the press box, right below the window, when I kind of heard the commotion,” James said. “I basically just ran up the bleachers and dove through the window of the press box, and Ron was right there on the ground, right below where he’d been announcing the game.” James has served as a fire captain for the Roseville Fire Department GROVE | PAGE 4
PHOTO BY MADISON MACHATechnology coordinator Marie Criste shows students in her AP European History class how to use the school’s newly purchased Google Chromebooks. The tech department bought 210 Chromebooks for use primarily in Title I-beneficiary classes, including English Language Development and AVID courses, but other students will be able to use them as well.
Teachers incorporate Google technologyBY ANNA PORRETTA [email protected]
Using Title I funding, Roseville High School purchased over 200 Google Chromebooks, which teach-ers are now integrating into their curriculum. Along with the new laptops, the school created Google accounts for everyone on campus. Less than a seventh of an inch thick and weighing less than three pounds, the Samsung Chromebook has an 11.6” display and a Samsung Exynos Dual Processor. As the Chromebook has no internal hard drive, the users save their work to the Google accounts. Each user has 100 gigabytes of storage on Google Drive. Students save everything on-line and can access their documents from any computer. In addition, the Chromebook boots up in less than 10 seconds and is impervious to viruses and malware. With their Google accounts, students are able to share their docu-
ments with their friends and teachers and can comment, edit and collabo-rate on projects. The software saves all changes to documents every five seconds, so there is little chance of losing any work. Another feature of the Chrome-books is the multitude of applica-tions available to users both online and offline. There is everything from a word processor to a webcam, and there are applications specially designed for use in the classroom. As of right now, RHS has seven carts of 30 Chromebooks each. Only three teachers are currently using them for their classes: Marie Criste’s AVID and AP Euro classes, Heather Gregory’s ELD class and Susan Sharif’s ELD class. Teachers and students are beginning to get a feel for the technology now at their disposal. In Sharif’s ELD class, the stu-dents are using the Chromebooks to type essays and collaborate on each other’s work alongside Sharif
and student interns. The English Learners are starting out very slowly on the Chromebooks, as they are learning to get accustomed to Google Documents and Google Slides, an app similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. “[The Chromebooks] elevate the level of collaborative work students can do and mimic the twenty-first-century workplace,” Sharif said. “It is a great training tool for them to get exposure to how academia and careers work beyond the class-room.” Criste, head of the technology department, also has been slowly integrating the Chromebooks and Google accounts into her curricu-lum. Criste liked the Chromebooks because, unlike an iPad, they have a keyboard. This allows for students to practice typing in class in prepa-ration for future employment. Criste is using the Chrome-books to work together with her GOOGLE | PAGE 2
Due to the possibility of increased flexibility in its budget, Roseville High School may soon be able to afford classroom renovations and have greater funding for certain classes. This greater control of funds would come if RHS is able to iden-tify as a Title I school, rather than its current designation as a Title I-assisted school. If this change occurs, RHS ad-ministration would be able to use Title I funds in any way that they felt best serves students. Currently,
Title I funds can only be used to as-sist specific students and programs on campus – such as students who qualify for free-and-reduced lunch and the English Language Develop-ment program. In order to qualify, 40 percent of RHS students must qualify for free-and-reduced lunch. Last year, 35 percent qualified. To try to reach this benchmark, the school had second period teachers hand free-and-reduced-lunch applications to each of their homeroom students. Administration encouraged teach-ers to attach grades to the applica-tions in an effort to receive more
completed forms and try to reach the needed 40 percent benchmark. “I don’t think a hungry kid will be as successful as they could be in their education, and our free-and-reduced lunch program meets our student’s basic needs so they can be successful,” said assistant principal Judi Daniels. As a Title I school, Roseville would be able to use the funding for all students, not just those classified as socioeconomically at-risk. The school will also be able to apply for grants that are only available for Title I schools. “Title I gives us the freedom to enhance all of the classes,” principal Brad Basham said. “The key phrase here is to supplement, not supplant – we can channel the funds to support [the students].” Increasing the percentage of students qualifying for the free-and-reduced lunch program is not the
only way that RHS could qualify as a Title I school. The English Language Development classes, as well as the AVID classes, increase the possibility of the school receiv-ing additional funding. “Classes such as AVID are con-sidered underrepresented because often the student in the class is the first within their family to go to col-lege,” Basham said. The RHS administration would spend the money received from a new Title I status on any improve-ments necessary for the school, such as classroom renovations and fund-ing for classes that have previously experienced budget cuts. Some of these funds could also be used to upgrade the school’s technology. According to Basham, the admin-istration is currently unaware when or if the school will qualify for the more comprehensive Title I status.
Students at Roseville High School, and across the state, may not be taking the Standardized Test-ing and Reporting (STAR) exam this spring – or ever again for that matter. Last Friday, the state as-sembly followed the senate’s lead by ratifying Bill AB 484, which would discontinue the use of most K-12 standardized testing. “[It] would end STAR testing as we know it,” RHS principal Brad Basham said. Governor Jerry Brown also said he supports the bill and that he will sign it into law. Common Core has been adopted instead of STAR in 44 states. Common Core is a set of testing standards that emphasizes critical-thinking skills rather than pure memorization. According to assistant principal
Judi Daniels, however, the transition from STAR could be difficult. “It would not surprise me to see some challenges,” Daniels said. “It’s going to take some time to transition.” Common Core offers a new set of curriculum standards that focus on problem-solving, communica-tion and critical thinking. This, combined with its relatively low overhead costs and the design of the testing allowing students opportuni-ties for retakes, convinced many states to make the switch. Common Core is designed to help students apply their knowledge in real-world situations. Basham considers this an improvement over STAR, which focuses solely on the facts a student knows. “The information that I get from these assessments will give me much more valuable feedback,” Basham said.
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During class meetings this year, student activity director Lindsey Parker introduced a new texting service, aimed to send reminders to students about upcoming activities at Roseville High School. The texting service, which is named Remind101, is a free re-minder tool that allows Parker to send texts to multiple students at once. The service sends a text to the students’ phones and does not allow a response. “I go to an activities director’s conference each year called CADA, or California Association of Direc-tors of Activities, and I went to a session that was talking about Re-mind101,” Parker said. “It’s a really safe way to send out text messages
and there’s no limit on how many kids can sign up.” To sign up for the texts, students send a unique code to a phone number. After that, they reply with their full name, and the program then puts them on a list as a recipient for future messages. “You reply with your name, but only because there’s a list of how many people are there and I never see it or look at it,” Parker said. “The rumors that it’s used to track students are totally not true at all.” Parker believes the texting service will help promote technology use in school. “It’s a good way to use technol-ogy in the classroom and I thought it would also be a good way to remind students about activities,”
Parker said. Chaundra Wood, a math teacher at RHS, also uses Remind101 for her students. “I send reminders about tests, quizzes and test studying,” Wood said. “I also send notices if, for some reason, I can’t make it to a tutor session – that way they’re not waiting for me.” Wood believes that the texting service helped students remember to turn their forms in on time. “In terms of little things, like remembering to get something signed, I think it’s helped,” Wood said. “I’ve had a lot more signature pages returned back to me quicker than I usually do.” Both teachers have no intent of overloading the students with con-stant reminders. Parker has only sent
students as a class, editing one docu-ment by sharing it with the entire class through Google Drive. “It’s very powerful to see students work together and share,” Criste said. “[The Chromebooks] allow for less note-taking and for more discussion.” Criste aims to use the Google Hangout feature, which allows for group video chatting, to host study sessions after school hours. She also wants to have her students col-laborate on bigger projects together through use of the Chromebooks, and possibly have them learn to create and produce a podcast. Roseville High School is the first school in the district to have this technology.
a few texts since the introduction at the class meetings. “I don’t want to bombard students with texts – that’s not the point of it,” Parker said. “I think I sent one out about voting for [the KCRA] Game of the Week, and also one say-ing we won and to go to the game.” Parker hopes that the texts will remind students about the various activities going on around school. “One of the reasons that we’re doing it is so that people remember the activities and get those constant reminders, because I know some people may not be able to see the posters or hear the bulletin, and not everyone checks the website,” Parker said. “Everyone has a phone, so it’s nice to get the reminders sent to you the day before or the morn-ing of.”
GOOGLE: Students to collaborate using DriveCONTINUED FROM FRONT
Student Government implements text reminders
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AP pass rates drop, enrollment up
Over the summer, several Ros-eville High School staff members designed a mobile component for the school’s website, rosevilletigers.org. Science teacher Mike Purvines and student services personnel Di-ane Taylor and Sarah Carstens each contributed to the development of the mobile site. Though Purvines was largely responsible for the overall structure of the website, he credits Taylor and Carstens with most of the actual data input. “I kind of gave the interface, and then they went through every ath-letic event and everything and hand-entered every single one of them for every event,” Purvines said. Purvines decided that a new mo-bile site would benefit RHS students as a way to stay up-to-date in the absence of the school planners.“We talked about the planners maybe disappearing, and so we
thought that we needed to be able to get information to students,” Purvines said. “It was just a need, and our web provider had a feature that allowed us to do it, so I kind of played with it over the summer and got it working.” According to assistant principal Matt Pipitone, the new mobile-friendly website offers several important features for students that were not available with the school’s previous website. “They can sign in as an actual user of the website and that will allow them to get updates for when things change,” Pipitone said. “Hope-fully it will help keep them more informed.” Senior Maram Daood believes the new site to be much easier to navigate. “It’s a lot faster to access the different features, like the bulletin and important dates,” Daood said. The new website can be accessed at the same web address as before.
During second lunch on Aug. 29 at Roseville High School, a branch fell from a tree in the area between the 500 and 600 buildings. When the branch fell, it nearly hit freshmen Austin Collins and Nik Croaro. The branch fell on the con-crete bench near Collins and Croaro. Croaro initially thought some-thing was in the tree, causing a few leaves to fall, until the branch fell next to them. “We got up and started freak-ing out, and people were shouting about how they almost sat there,” Collins said. Collins and Croaro said they were frightened because a day prior, a falling branch killed a student at Chico State University. Senior Megan Roberts witnessed the event. “I got up to throw something away and heard a cracking noise and an entire branch fell to the ground behind me,” said Roberts. “It was a
Roseville High School’s Student Government class changed the 2013 Homecoming theme name from ‘Golden California’ to ‘California Love.’ They changed the name primarily due to negative feedback they re-ceived and conflict with the colors. “It was changed because we wanted to stray away from the gold
Students and staff now have access to a mobile version of the school’s website, pictured above.
Website offers mobile version
pretty big branch.” Assistant principal Jon Coleman is not worried that this may happen again. “Sometimes a tree just decides to drop a branch,” said Coleman.
PHOTO BY MADISON MACHAAbove, the branch rests where it fell on Aug. 29.
Branch falls between 500s and 600s, nearly crushes students
that we had last year,” SG senior Kylie Frost said. Seniors Hannah Vicente and Ky-lie Frost are largely responsible for planning the Homecoming dance, but the entire Student Government class voted on the new name. “The whole theme is still the same, it’s just the name that changed,” Vicente said. With the name change, decora-tions are not limited to gold.
Homecoming dance theme changes to “California Love”
PHOTO BY EVELINA KISLYANKA
Last year, Roseville High School’s Advanced Placement enrollment saw an increase, while its pass rates dipped. The pass rates decreased from 57 percent the year prior to 52 per-cent. At the same time, enrollment increased from 916 students to 1009 students over the same period. “With AP, unfortunately, there’s an ebb and a flow sometimes,” AP test coordinator Jason Wilson said. “Sometimes we hit it right on the mark and other times the teacher or classes might not have gotten to cover some things as well as they had hoped.” The largest drop in individual AP course pass rates came in AP Phys-ics, which fell from 48 percent to 20 percent. “The amount of material that’s covered on the test is really, really wide,” AP Physics teacher CJ Add-ington said. “We have to sort of predict what they’re going to ask.” AP Physics will break into two courses next year, and Addington believes that scores will increase as a result. “You only have to teach half the material,” Addington said. “That’s going to make it a lot easier for students.” The second largest drop was in AP Statistics, the passing rate for which decreased from 52 percent to 36 percent. Halfway through the 2012-2013 year, former AP Sta-tistics teacher Scott McCullough resigned, leaving Chaundra Wood to teach in his place. “It definitely made it more chal-lenging because I had to try to figure out where students had gaps and they had to learn a new teaching [style] in the middle of everything,” Wood said. Never having taught an AP class before, Wood communicated with
other AP Statistics teachers from other schools and her husband, who teaches AP Statistics as well, in order to teach the course. “The hardest part [about teaching AP Statistics] was that every teacher has a different teacher style and so it was hard to take someone’s stuff and just do what they did, so I kind of had to re-do it in my own way,” Wood said. “I still had to re-prep everything, even though [McCol-lough] gave me his materials.” Wood believes that the decrease in the pass rate had to do with the switch of teachers and teaching styles in the middle of the year. “It didn’t help them in terms of making it easier to get good grades and stuff like that,” Wood said. Roseville High School graduate, Dariush Mortazavi, who took the class last year, was disappointed by the change in teachers. “I remember being very upset when I found out that Mr. Mc-Cullough was leaving and that we were going to have a new teacher with no experience in teaching sta-tistics,” Mortazavi said. “My class-mates and I knew that this transition would affect our [exam] scores, but we had no choice since it was too late to drop the class.” However, Mortazavi believes that Wood taught well given her circumstances. “Considering it was her first time teaching AP Statistics, and I believe first time teaching an AP course, she did a great job,” Mortazavi said. Mortazavi also believes the low pass rate may have been because of the test itself. “The AP Stats exam was a little odd because it consisted of lengthy writing questions, which seemed unusual for math,” Mortazavi said. “It was more about having common sense and knowing how to use your calculator, rather than doing math.” The AP European History pass rates fared better and jumped nearly 20 percent while adding two addi-
tional sections. Because so many students signed up for AP Euro/Honors English 10 block during the 2012-2013 school year, Carol Crabtree and Amy Shishido also had to begin teaching another block class together in ad-dition to teachers Marie Criste and Amy Mowrer. Criste is very proud of last year’s AP Euro performance. “When I saw my pass rate, it vali-dated everything I’ve been doing for a long time,” Criste said. Criste also believes that the lower class size last year contributed greatly to AP Euro’s scores. “For me as a teacher, that was a huge difference … to be able to get to [the students] one-on-one and provide them support they need,” Criste said. AP Human Geography pass rates suffered a 15-percent drop from 78 percent to 63 percent. AP Human Geography teacher, Cari Oberreuter cites increased student test attendance as the cause of the lower scores. “We had significantly more stu-dents taking the exam,” Oberreuter said. “When you provide more access to the tests, you’ll see the overall score drop.” Oberreuter claims that disag-gregating the data shows that the pass rate average increased when compared to previous years. “You’ve got to look at the data in a whole different way,” Ober-reuter said. In addition, Wilson gave credit to RHS students. “To continue and score with a 3 or higher on those exams is really, really demanding and [the students] should be proud to do that,” Wilson said. Principal Brad Basham summed up the rates. “Our pass rate stayed about the same, even though our AP program has grown,” Basham said. “That’s something to be very proud of.”
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Roseville High School now offers two new block classes. Freshmen can take the Pre-Advanced Placement English 9/College Prep Geography block and juniors can take the AP Language and Composi-tion/AP United States History block. The Pre-AP freshman block is a part of the freshman path-ways program at Roseville. Taking this set of classes prepares freshmen with the skills needed to take the other AP classes offered at RHS. Additionally, the curriculums of both classes have already aligned with the standards of Common Core. The yearlong block class-es feature alternating class schedules, in which students switch between their English and social science classes every day throughout both semesters. The freshman and sophomore block classes also have “collaboration days,” during which students go to
both classes, switching half-way through the period. This kind of class schedule, which differs from all the other non-block classes, has various ef-fects on the nature of the class. Pre-AP English teacher Amy Mowrer enjoys the con-nections she can build with students in yearlong classes. “It’s nice to have that time to build those relation-ships and really see a student change,” Mowrer said. “There are big changes that happen in the course of a school year, and you don’t get to see it all if [the students] are only there half the time.” The length of the block classes allows teachers to add more content to their curricu-lum and spend more time on certain concepts. Although she is still getting used to the more spread-out course schedule, AP United States History teacher Jessica Fork is putting more content into her lesson plans. “I can do some more things that I couldn’t traditionally do, because I have that ex-tended time,” Fork said. “I can do more primary source reading and I can go into a little bit more detail. It’s kind of a game for me because I’m not really sure of the pacing.” The students of these block classes also notice a differ-ence in the block schedules. Junior Sam Ronco, who is
taking AP Lang/APUSH as her first block class, appreci-ates the spread-out schedule. “I have more time to finish my homework,” Ronco said. “I never really get confused [about the alternating sched-ule], so that’s easy for me.” Freshman Chloe Anderson views the block schedule and the class’ collaboration days positively. “I like the switching,” Anderson said. “It gives you extra time to do each teacher’s work, [and] it makes classes feel really short [on collabora-tion days].” One of the key features of the block classes is that the pairs of teachers integrate their lessons with each other, creating a cross-contextual curriculum. Pre-AP English teacher Deborah Sidler col-laborates with CP Geography teacher Cari Oberreuter to relate their lesson plans, even creating common projects for their units. Sidler sees a great benefit in the classes’ cross-subject lessons. “I think it’s good for the students and the teacher,” Sidler said. “They’re seeing connections between my class and [Oberreuter’s class] the next day.” Junior Maddy Pilgrim enjoys the collaboration be-tween her block teachers. “It’s integrated, the cur-riculum,” Pilgrim said. “What
we’re doing right now totally relates to each other.” The block class curriculum is more rigorous and thorough than the other classes at RHS, and this has caused some stu-dents to drop out during the first weeks of school, particu-larly from the junior block. Fork believes that the nature of the course caused some of the drops from the class. “Some of them only wanted to take US history, but they had to take Lang,” Fork said. “It’s a balancing game, and you have to learn time man-agement. If you don’t have those skills, the first few weeks are really intense, and students don’t think they can handle it.”
However, Fork also notes that this trend has been a long tradition of AP classes, but the teachers are working to fix it. “It’s the name of the game; it always happens in AP classes,” Fork said. “The only problem is that some of the kids that were dropping weren’t talking with us. We just need to know what’s go-ing on. We have a plan now with the counselors for next year that will help some of that a little bit.” Oberreuter believes that the re-introduction of social science to the freshman core classes will help them greatly in their later courses. “This is a great opportu-nity for students, especially
from a social science stand-point,” Oberreuter said. “You don’t have that gap in social science…from your eighth-grade year to your tenth-grade year. So I think it’s a nice continuity, and it really helps those skills keep carrying on.” According to principal Brad Basham, the administration has discussed the idea of a senior block (AP Literature and Composition/AP Govern-ment). “We’ve kind of kicked it around a little a bit,” Basham said. “We want the relation-ship to be natural. We’ve got to see [in] AP Literature and AP Government, [whether] there are natural links there or not.”
Roseville High School students have used the dirt lot in front of the school as an alternative parking location ever since the lot was avail-able. At this year’s class ad-vising meetings, the assistant principals issued an additional notice to discourage parking on the dirt lot in front of the school. According to principal Brad Basham, the issue of parking on the dirt lot has been off-and-on. Assistant principal Jon Coleman feels that the ad-ministration’s warning against student parking in the lot is justified, simply because it does not own or control the land. “The dirt lot is not school property,” Coleman said. “The [Union Pacific] Railroad Company can choose to ticket or tow at any time.” Despite the risk, many cars still drive into the dirt lot every morning to park.
Senior Jake Evans was surprised to hear that the ad-ministration disapproves of parking in the dirt lot, but he continues to park there. “There aren’t any ‘No Park-ing’ signs [by the dirt lot],” Evans said. “I’m still parking there [and] I don’t have any parking problems.” On the other hand, the warning at class advising discouraged many other stu-dents, including senior Justin Bell. “I was worried about get-ting my car towed, especially at the beginning of the year,” Bell said. Because RHS does not have authority over the dirt lot, students cannot incur pen-alties issued from the school if they park there. However, Basham issued a general pre-caution about the dirt lot. “[Once Union Pacific] says, ‘We don’t want anyone parking there anymore,’ then there could be consequences if people continue to park there,” Basham said.
A sign prohibits students from parking in the Union Pacific lot across from the school. The administration warned students against parking there at the latest class advising meetings.
Union Pacific may tow student cars in dirt lot
The air conditioning unit in Roseville High School’s art wing is now in use after it broke in May of the 2012-2013 school year. This af-fected rooms 100-103. Assistant principal Jon Coleman said the AC unit had problems for a while before it broke. The component did not connect to the central plant, located near the construction room, unlike many other units in the school. This resulted in a longer, separate installation for the new system. According to Coleman, the problem was compounded by the overall age of the school and the various past mechani-cal systems. “They [had] to dig care-fully because so many things have been changed over the years,” Coleman said. “Pipes
may [have been] abandoned.” According to art and Ad-vanced Placement Art His-tory teacher Patricia Leong, administration said the unit would be able to operate by the time the new school year started. However, the system did not operate for three full weeks after school started. Her fourth period AP Art History class relocated to room 201as a result of the lack of air conditioning in her regular classroom, room 100. “None of my students [liked] to be in the heat,” Leong said. Senior Yeyun Seo was in Leong’s AP Art History class when it moved to nearby room 201 for the duration of the construction. “I’m happy that we have air conditioning because we can study and participate in class without having to worry about the temperature,” Seo said.
There has been a change in the school lunches offered at Roseville High School this year. The pizzas have taken on a circular shape rather than being served by the slice as seen last year. The new menu replaces potato wedg-es with fries and introduces a fiesta bowl that includes a tortilla with burrito filling. Sophomore Meredith Tracey appreciates the new lunch options. According to Tracey, the pizzas look much more appetizing than last year’s. Tracy also likes that there seems to be more variety
this year. “Lunch has become more of a pick-and-choose situa-tion,” Tracey said. Tracey thinks that the new lunches have more nutritional value, though she would like to see more fruits and vegetables incorporated into the meals. Senior Joseph McCray sees little improvement in the school lunches. He thinks the lunches are of the same, or worse, quality as last year’s lunches. Howev-er, he does like the modified aspect of the serving size with the new lunch menu. “They give you two peanut butter and jelly sand-wiches instead of one now,
so that’s pretty cool,” Mc-Cray said. The prices have not changed thus far, despite the various modifications to the meals. Senior Eric Ganzyuk believes the new fries are undercooked or soggy, but he greatly enjoys the fiesta bowls. “The new burrito bowls are bomb,” Ganzyuk said. When purchasing a fiesta bowl, students have the option of choosing two different types of beans or opting out of getting beans altogether. There is also an additional option of noodles, as opposed to solely rice, in the Asian food selection of the lunchroom.
Students work on art projects as a fan runs to try to keep them cool. Mainte-nance recently fixed the art wing’s air conditioning unit, which broke in May.
Art wing receives air conditioning fix
Cafeteria introduces new lunch options, pleases studentsBY NIKAYA [email protected]
Administration introduces new integrated block classes
PHOTO BY MADISON MACHA
Students in teacher Marie Criste’s AP European History class work together on a project using Google Chromebooks. AP Euro, part of the sophomore block with Honors English 10, was recently joined by freshman and junior block classes.
Freshmen, juniors now have option of yearlong courses on rotating schedule
PHOTO BY MADISON MACHAA student pays for pizza at one of the cafeteria windows. The pizza lunch, along with other meal options, was changed from last year.
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GROVE: Outcome could have been different since 1999 and has been a paramedic for almost 20 years. By the time James got into the press box, retired firefighter and CEO of CPR training company HeartStart Jeff Kim had arrived. The duo began to check Grove’s vital signs. James and Kim were unable to find a pulse and James began to administer hands-only CPR, the newest method of life-support taught by the American Heart Asso-ciation in which there is no mouth-to-mouth-type resuscitation, only “hard-and-fast” chest compressions designed to circulate oxygenated blood through the body. “At that point, I was just doing compressions and they were calling for the ambulance to get up there … with no automatic external defibril-lator on-scene, we’re only able to do CPR until advanced life measures arrive,” James said. James estimates that between five and six minutes elapsed between when he first started administering CPR to Grove and when the AMR medics arrived. At that point, the team assisting Grove set up for external defibrillation, a process in which the heart is shocked with a device called a defibrillator to try to restart the heart and return it to a stable “recognizable rhythm.” Though Grove’s heart started
to form a stable rhythm, there was no accompanying pulse, so the team, including long-time medic and current physician’s assistant Terry Zahniser, whose son Ben is a sophomore on the JV team, began to administer ventilation CPR, which includes chest compressions and the provision of additional oxygen through the use of a device like a bag valve mask. Medics from the Roseville Fire Department then arrived, and the medical team decided to attempt to restart Grove’s heart a second time after 8-10 minutes of it not beating on its own. After the second administration of defibrillation, Grove’s heart returned to a recognizable rhythm and he began to breathe on his own. James was able to feel a palpable pulse at his carotid artery, and instructed one of the medics to administer rhythm-stabilizing drugs through an intravenous (IV) drip. Several members of the medi-cal staff then lifted him onto a backboard and took him down the staircase leading up to the press box to a waiting ambulance crew, which drove him to Sutter Roseville Medi-cal Center, where he was treated and kept for observation and recovery until the following Monday. During his stay in the hospital, Grove underwent surgery to receive a new pacemaker and is currently on
the road to a full recovery. He hopes to return to school and coaching to-day, but will have to take it easy for about six weeks as his body adjusts to the new device. Volk was thankful for the quick response of people from the crowd after his calls for help. “What I was impressed with was the actions of the people around,” Volk said. “I have CPR training and all that kind of stuff, but it sure is rewarding to have experienced people with that, firefighters and nurses and stuff like that, and I’m obviously impressed with how quickly everyone responded.” According to James, if no one had responded to Grove’s emergency before the ambulance medics ar-rived in the press box, more than five minutes would have passed, and the outcome could have been very different. “If you hadn’t done anything in that [5-6-minute] time period, Ron Grove wouldn’t be here today,” James said. James, who actually competed on the swim team under Grove’s coaching during his senior year at RHS, believes that CPR train-ing is an essential component of a person’s social responsibility to the community. “I think that everybody has a responsibility to be a steward of the community,” James said. “If you
want to be a person who can affect people or affect change, you never know when you’re going to be in a situation like that.” After the announcement of Grove’s injury Friday night, the RHS student body responded with numerous gestures of support for one of its longtime teachers. The varsity girls volleyball team, for which Grove is the head coach, dedicated its participation in the next day’s tournament at Vista Del Lago High School to him and wore ribbons marked with “P for G” (“Play for Grove”) the following Tuesday, before their next game the following week. “We knew that no matter what had happened, Grove would have wanted us to play the next day, so we had planned all along to play,” said senior Lindsay Anderson, one of the team’s captains. “We just tried to stay updated, so we kind of came together as a team, talked about everything that we needed to do, not letting it get us down, using it as inspiration.” Teachers Darcee Durham and Cindy Simon worked together to fill in for Grove during his absence. Anderson, who has been coached by Grove since she was 12, said that the incident made her realize how much Grove means to her as a coach. “You don’t really realize how
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weird it is not having someone in your life and – knowing that poten-tially something much worse could have happened – and you don’t real-ize how important they are to you until you’re threatened with that,” Anderson said. The Tuesday after the game was also designated as an orange-and-black day, during which all students were encouraged to show support for Grove’s recovery by wearing the school’s colors. During his absence, Grove dedi-cated time to responding to emails, text messages and phone calls from students, teachers and staff mem-bers wishing him well. One of the first texts he sent out
came after he joked Friday night that his pacemaker malfunction had simply been a new way to “ice the kicker,” a strategy used by football coaches that generally involves taking a timeout right before the opposing team’s field goal attempt in order to psyche the kicker out. The game was stopped for about 15 minutes while Grove received medical attention in the press box, and upon hearing that the Tigers had won after blocking the kick and returning it for a touchdown, he sent out a text saying, “Hey, it worked!” According to James, that’s just the kind of person Grove is. “That would be Grove,” said James, chuckling.
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY GREG JAMES RHS alumni and Roseville Fire Department fire captain Greg James adminis-tered CPR to Grove for more than eight minutes after his heart stopped.
Roseville High School recently added another nationally recog-nized program. Junior State of America is a club that offers students a chance to participate in political discussions and debate amongst their peers. In March, senior Emma Carlson established the chapter after team-ing up with English teacher Paige Powell, who serves as the official club advisor. “I am very interested in all things political,” Powell said. “I knew I would be working with a great group of kids, so I thought it would be fun.” The program teaches members the political process of making bills and laws, as well as the elec-tion process. Members will learn skills relating to public speaking and debating. “Students will benefit by having awareness as to how our political system works,” Powell said. “They will also get to discuss current events and talk about debating strategies.” Throughout the course, students will also get the chance to become more aware of the political situ-ations taking place around them.
“I am excited to learn more about everything that’s going on in Placer County and the world,” junior Sa-mantha Ronco said. Guest speakers with established political careers will be speaking to the chapter later in the year. “I am also excited to hear from the guest speakers we are going to have,” Ronco said. Although it is a politically driven program, Powell said students require no previous experience to join. “Any students who are interested in talking about current political is-
sues, who see themselves involved in politics or like to debate would be interested in joining,” Powell said. Members have the opportunity to attend conventions and discuss politics with other chapters from different high schools. “I joined because I wanted to meet more students like me across the state of California and the na-tion,” senior Graeson Leach said. Students who are interested and did not have the opportunity to sign up Sept. 9 at Club Rush still have the chance to join by contacting Powell or Carlson.
PHOTO BY EVELINA KISLYANKAAbove, junior Netzy Ortega works the Junior State of America booth on Campo Street during the Club Rush event. JSA offers students a chance to participate in policital discussions and learn about public speaking and debate.
Nationally recognized chapter comes to Roseville
Junior State of America facilitates political debate
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Coming back from summer break, I expected a lot of things to change. Teachers, students, classrooms. Even the cafeteria food had changed since I left this past May. Just the thought of knowing I may not have to choose between greasy pizza and boring salads made me more than excited. However, things were not how I had pictured them at all. I have had a problem with the food offered in the cafeteria since my freshman year. Although there were many options available, I found that they were designed around the diet of just one type of student. As a vegetarian, the only meal I am able to eat is cheese pizza. This makes my life extremely hard. One of the main reasons I made the choice to be vegetarian is to be healthy, and a huge, greasy slice of pizza isn’t something I would want to eat even on a monthly basis. As a result of this, I am forced to pack my own lunch every single day. There are currently over seven million vegetarians in the U.S. Whether they make the choice for ethical or religious reasons, I feel
Lack of vegetarian lunch options creates ultimatum for students
Closing of 900 buildings during lunch only affects rule-following students
that there is not enough emphasis on vegetarian meal plans, and vegetar-ians should not have to bring their own lunch every day because of a lack of options. Excluding all meat from your diet has many benefits that I think would make a big change on our campus. Eating a diet rich in antioxidants and fiber would make it easier for students as well as teachers to ward off disease. Our school could have fewer absences, and students would be able to stay on task and perform better, as they would not have missed any lessons. There also seems to be a correla-tion between a meat-free diet and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Research shows that vegetarians had a 24-percent lower chance of mortality from the disease even if they had chosen to eat dairy and eggs. Vegetarians tend to have diets rich in fiber, which leads to lower cholesterol levels, the prevalence of obesity and blood pressure levels. All of these would make our campus healthier overall, which I believe is necessary in order for students to perform well and to form habits that they will take with them into adulthood. If the scientific approach isn’t enough, there are also ethical rea-sons that I believe will help con-vince skeptics. Many of the animals slaughtered for meat do not live a peaceful life. Cows are branded from a very young age and have their horns cut or burned off with-
On Aug. 21, the Roseville High School daily bulletin announced, “Due to the mess that has been left, the 900 buildings are now OFF-LIMITS during lunch.” Since then, RHS staff members have been ushering students out of the 900 buildings during both lunches. Three times during the first two weeks of this school year, a student smeared peanut butter and jelly all over the walls and the staircase of one of the 900 buildings, which helped lead to the ban. Teachers have also been complaining about students being noisy during lunch. Though these are important con-cerns, RHS staff should not punish students who are not at fault. There
are more effective ways to deal with these issues. It seems as if students have recently become obsessed with vandalizing the campus with condi-ments (cough, cough, senior wall), but why punish a large number of students because of the immaturity of a few? From my few years of experience sitting in the 900 build-ings, the regular lunch crowd has been well-behaved. Personally, I am shocked that no one caught this mystery PB&J vandal in the act. This happened three times, and no one witnessed it, or was even mature enough to report it? Instead of banning all students from the 900s, RHS staff should have stuck around a while longer to try to catch the kid behind this, or at least wait for him or her to get bored of acting like a toddler. I am also very surprised that teachers have been complaining about noise during lunch. I hardly remember anyone being obnox-iously loud. During all of my classes near or in the 900s, I very rarely hear sounds from the lunch crowd,
despite the loud conversations that I know occur every day. Are the walls of the downstairs 900 classrooms thinner than the rest of the school’s walls? Even if our normal lunchtime conversations really were unbear-ably loud, the school staff should have warned us before taking away our privileges. If teachers or office staff would simply tell students when they are being too loud, they could solve the noise issue without unnecessarily punishing those who are not at fault. The 900 buildings not only provide a quiet alternative to the cafeteria, but also serve as a refuge from Roseville’s miserable winter weather. I’m dreading this year’s winter already. Will we have to squeeze into the noisy cafeteria, filled to the brim with shivering stu-dents? Will we be lucky enough to find a seat under an outdoor ledge? Will students fill every bench, forcing others to eat their lunches standing up in the rain? Who knows what fun surprises this winter has in store for us?
out any kind of painkillers. Female cows are forcibly separated from their calves, which has caused many cows to cry out for them because of their strong maternal bond. From there, the female cows are repeatedly impregnated for years, while male cows are either hung by one leg, have their throats cut or are shot in the head. If any man or woman was killed in such an inhumane way, we would not settle until justice prevailed. This isn’t even all of what hap-pens to these animals. There are numerous types of animals used in the food industry. Seven billion chickens are killed every year, as they are not protected from abuse by federal law. The forms of abuse the animals endure are extensive. I can understand people thinking that it is our right as human beings to kill these animals because we’re physically capable of doing so, and because there aren’t supermarkets and meat alternatives available everywhere. Despite that, I feel we should educate the students on this campus to feel empathy for other human beings as well as animals, as it is a valuable lesson that is almost never taught. Offering vegetarian options would give students a choice and hopefully allow them to realize that it can be just as tasty. I strongly believe that we will all benefit from this change, both physically and emotionally, in the long term, which should be the goal for all schools.
“Stop Online Piracy Act” is a cause of concern for the public
The 2013-2014 National Football League season has finally kicked off. With a new season comes a new set of rules for players. The majority of the new rules re-gard players’ safety. There has been an increase in injuries in the NFL, particularly concussions. The new rules are intended to protect players from head injuries and concussions, such as the issue of hitting with the crown of a helmet. The new rule states that both runners and tacklers are prohibited from initiating contact with the crown of their helmet outside of the tackle box. An illegal hit would consist of a player lining up his opponent and lowering his head, and the player
must deliver a forcible blow with his crown to any part of the oppos-ing players. I completely agree that players’ heads need to be protected more than anything, but this rule will develop problems with players, coaches and fans. No matter what, there is going to be helmet-to-helmet contact on the majority of tackles. This rule should be more towards defenseless players. When a player cannot defend themselves in any situation, an opposing player should never use their helmet to make a tackle or big hit. Another injury becoming more common is knee injuries resulting from players not wearing kneepads and peel back blocks. Not wearing kneepads is self-explanatory, but a peel back block is when a player is aligned in the tackle box when the ball is snapped, then moves to a position outside the box and initiates contact on the side and below the waist against an opponent. A peel back block is almost never necessary considering how danger-ous it is. It is very effective but there are other ways of making a block other than taking a player legs out
from underneath them. I am all for protection of the players, but some of the new rules are going to change the game for the wrong reasons. Another addition to the football season is that referees are going to emphasize calling more penalties on taunting. Taunting is something that excites fan and players. After a big play a player’s natural reaction at any level is to get excited and let everyone know that they made that play. Referees are also going to auto-matically charge a timeout to a team if a challenge flag is thrown, if the play is in question of being a scor-ing play, a turnover, a play inside two minutes and a half, or during overtime. This rule is unnecessary and will definitely cost teams games this year. I am all for the rules of protect-ing the players, but some of the new rules are unnecessary and just make the NFL look bad. The game should be played as it has been for more than half a century. I hope football commissioners realize some of the new rules aren’t needed and the players continue to play the game they love the way they should.
Movement of “Tiger Cage” is not fair to the spirited student fans
SOPA is back. Key elements of the contro-versial “Stop Online Piracy Act” proposed in 2011 have returned in a report released by the Depart-ment of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force. The proposal would allow the government to charge those who stream copyrighted materials as felons. In 2012, the whole world fought against it. Major sites like
Wikipedia and Google blacked out in Jan. to demonstrate what the In-ternet would look like if it passed. The Obama administration’s new pass at the bill has gained at-tention and over 100,000 signa-tures on a petition protesting its revival. SOPA, while fine in theory, gives the government and power-ful companies too much control over the Internet. The problem lies in the fact that SOPA offers little description of boundaries. Without clear boundaries, the bill gives the government the power to shut down sites like YouTube, Tumblr and Facebook for hosting streamed material. It is Internet censorship and an in-fringement on freedom of speech. The bill will destroy creativ-ity. Everything from creating fan art to covers of songs on YouTube
would become a criminal act. As-piring artists would lose a creative outlet and platforms to become recognized – artists that the companies supporting SOPA could have contracted in the future. In reality, passing SOPA hurts com-panies more than it protects. If SOPA intended to protect the artists they represent, perhaps opinions on the bill would be dif-ferent. But as it stands, SOPA only means to censor and protect the pockets of the higher-ups. The bill was only proposed for the government to exercise control and for big corporations to make more money. While piracy can be harmful, it is not as though the money that the companies endorsing SOPA lose from streamed content does not go back into the economy; it just doesn’t go back to the fat cats in the major media companies.
For as long as I have attended Roseville High School, the “Tiger Cage” has remained in the portable stands on the home side. However, there were many disadvantages to the location; like how it is not as close to the fifty yard line as most people would like it to be, and that it is too small to fit all of us spirited Tigers. The idea of moving the Tiger Cage
every right to be mad, the students deserve to have the best view of the game, just like every other school in our district. The students should not all have to be inconvenienced because of the complaints of only-some. The first time they moved the student section, most students were pleased by the fact that they finally get to be in the center of the action. But once they moved it again, we became completely isolated from the game. It was much easier to see and feel like a part of the action after just the first move of the Tiger Cage. As it is now, I believe we could solve the issue by switching the Tiger Cage and the band section. I don’t want to spend my senior year switching locations every home game.
closer to the center of the field this year was kick-started by several student government members, and given the final “okay” by assistant principal Jason Wilson. The Tiger Cage was now closer to the center of the action, as opposed to the thirty-five yard line near the snack bar. Many students seemed to think that the football team would feed off of our spirit. However, after complaints filed from at least one parent, the Tiger Cage had to move once again, this time by the far end of the stadium, the opposite side, around the thirty-five yard line. There were also complaints from parents about handicap concerns. Possibly fearing a lawsuit, Roseville High School administration had to adapt. Although these parents had
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Seniors have every right to be mad Juniors’ prank ultimately harmless
Before the Roseville High School 2013-2014 school year even began, there was a grudge building between the junior and senior classes. Having a strong rivalry between upperclassmen is common at many high schools around the country, but the rift be-tween the classes is at an extreme this year at RHS. The hostility between juniors and seniors is because the juniors do not want “senior supremacy”;
Art class sufferings are a cause for concern, deserve better environment
From the start of this school year, Roseville High School has experi-enced a lot of rivalry between the senior and junior classes. Although each year expects competition between the upper classes, the ri-valry is especially vicious this year. The enmity started when a group of juniors vandalized the senior parking lot after the seniors painted it. It has been an unspoken tradition for the seniors to paint the lot before
the beginning of each school year. The juniors’ vandalism has taken a rite of passage from the senior class. As seniors, we both found the blatant disrespect by the juniors very infuriating. This is our year to be on top – we have already been here for three years. If it was their senior year, we doubt that the juniors would find the slandering of their senior traditions very funny. Although the group of juniors may have intended the vandalism as a harmless prank, it reflects poorly on the junior class and causes problems with the senior class. It has always been tradition for seniors to paint the parking lot; every year the new senior class can mark the school in their own way. The juniors have no right to disrupt a senior tradition. Though only a small group of juniors committed the vandalism, it seemed to have the support of the majority of the class at the first rally. During the rally,
the juniors responded to our “senior power” chant with their own mantra of “parking lot” in an attempt to provoke the senior class. The juniors’ “parking lot” chant was shocking in that it revealed the class’ support of the vandal-ism. This incident enraged the seniors further, widening the rift between the two classes. We may see more competition in Homecoming float building this year. The juniors were allot-ted San Francisco as their float theme, while the seniors received Los Angeles. There is potential for both classes to do a phenomenal job, but there is also potential for the rivalry to further progress. Of course, there is always competition between classes when it comes to building the best Home-coming float. Perhaps the parking lot incident will inspire the senior class to try their best to beat the juniors.
we don’t want seniors to run the campus. However, as juniors, it is our job to not let them have ulti-mate control of the campus. Such is democracy. The grudge took a drastic step when the juniors painted over the senior parking lot with their own class color. A handful of juniors went into the parking lot, a few hours after the seniors finished painting, and painted over the blue senior color. The seniors were aggravated when they first saw the legendary purple paint over their bright blue class of 2014 painting. Many students feel that the graffiti ruined the beautiful artwork in the senior parking lot. The reason for this incident was that some juniors thought the parking lot should not just be exclusive to the seniors. Many of the seniors were livid
at the sight of the massacre. They expressed many of their thoughts through Twitter and other social networking sites. However, as the junior class, we believed it to be a very creative prank. Who would have thought that the juniors would make a huge leap of courage and pull through with this blow to the seniors? Rumors went around that at the first rally that the seniors were going to throw different projectiles across the gym in hope to get back at the juniors, which ended up not being true. At the time, the juniors felt that tagging the senior lot was just for fun, but it ended up turning into a bad situation. However, because of the tension between the two upper classes, rallies and events have been a lot more interesting.
There are few things worth getting up for in the morning on a school day. Coffee is one of them. Art class is another. Art gets me through the day. It isn’t just because I’d rather be in an elective class (though a break from Algebra does help). It is because I actually aspire to become an artist. It is something I am passionate about, and at times means more to my future than any academic class.
So it breaks my heart to see it struck time and time again by budget cuts. Of course, all programs have been ravaged by cuts. However, I feel Art has it worst. We are the kings and queens of the back burner – literally – now that we are encroaching on half a year of air conditioning depriva-tion. Now budget cuts are tak-ing away the rest of our sweaty classroom. We can’t afford frames for our pieces, even for the art shows, and our class set of art supplies is falling apart. We also have broken pencils, MIA sharpeners, pastels with too many colors and water-colors with more water than color. Not only do we have to share dilapidated tools amongst each
Now that school is back in full swing, some of you have probably noticed that something has a little bit different this year: the strict enforcement of the dress code. During this first month of school, campus monitors have been bust-ing girls left and right for their “inappropriate clothing.” According to Nancy Rash, a campus monitor, within the first few weeks of school there have been more instances of dress coding than during spring term of last year. On top of that, a few instances have occurred where dress coding has been taken to the extreme, including some serious disciplinary action. On the second day of school, a
girl was suspended in a situation stemmed from a dress code viola-tion. After being told to change, she didn’t realize that she had to stay in the office until she obtained “school appropriate” attire. This resulted in her suspension. Harsh. In the past, campus monitors have made rude comments and caused some students, myself included, to feel uncomfortable. One dress code “offender” said that a campus monitor told her that her outfit was too “distract-ing.” The funny thing is, while I was chatting with this girl, a guy walked by dressed in a muscle T-shirt with the sides cut all the way down to his waist. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t distracted. It seems that, in general, guys are getting away with far more violations than us girls are. Fe-males are not only more likely to get dress coded, but are made to change clothes. When girls’ shirts or skirts ride up, or when the neckline of our tank top droops, we aren’t allowed to adjust our clothing and go on
Phone alerts prove to be a very resourceful form of notification
The new Wireless Emergency Alert System is definitely worth the annoyance. Although the loud alerting sound may startle or ir-ritate some, it is for the greater good. The system was included as part of a mobile update in June 2013, but many people do not real-ize that the new system is installed until the alarm goes off. The jar-ring noise and vibrations distinc-tively separate it from the regular sounds of a cell phone so people know that the alert is not just their phone ringing or receiving a text. When I heard it for the first time, I was in a car with my fam-ily. When the sound went off,
everyone in the car was frightened and had no idea what was going on. After I realized that the noise was coming from my iPhone, I looked and saw it was notifying me of an active flood warning. Even though the sound fright-ened me when it went off, I found the notification helpful because it provided me with useful informa-tion that I would not have known otherwise. Considering that the alert comes instantly to newer model cell phones, something that most Americans have, it is very useful. Because most people have their phones constantly on hand, the system is even more productive. Not only does the system cover flood warnings, it also cov-ers other storms. In Oklahoma, the system helped make citizens aware that there were tornado warnings in progress. WEAS also covers Amber alerts. On Aug. 4, the alert gave a description of Hannah Anderson, a teenage girl who was kidnapped
in her hometown, San Diego. It also provided information that the kidnapper was driving a blue Nissan, and that the vehicle was possibly headed north. This noti-fied all those who received the message to keep an eye out for the car and any suspicious activity that may involve the girl. Since the program began, I have personally received two Amber alerts. If I had not seen the Amber alerts on my phone, I most likely would not have known of the missing persons. Considering the number of people who own smartphones that have the system, the possibility of finding future kidnapping victims dramatically increases. Although bearing an expen-sive price tag of over 100 million dollars, this government-run emer-gency alert system is worth the abrupt interruption it brings, and pays for itself in that it serves as protection for citizens and keeps people aware of the situations go-ing on around them.
This year is already welcoming Roseville High School’s Homecom-ing. The theme this year is Califor-nia Love. As many of the students know, the name used to be Golden California. I found Golden California to be much more of a fitting name. Now, I may be the only one who actually believes that Golden California is a better concept than California Love. I have heard many things about the Golden California name change just by walking down the school hallway. I have heard things such as “What? Golden California sounds like a breakfast omelet.” However, there is not a lot you can do with
California Love, but there are cer-tainly many more possibilities for Golden California. It would make much more sense to keep it as Golden California. Homecoming floats made by students, as well as decorations and theme signs, would be easier to create. However, I do enjoy the Califor-nia theme. One of the main benefits of having a great Homecoming theme is getting together with your class and building something you can call your own – the class floats. The class floats this year seem to be easy and fun to create. The seniors have the task of repre-senting Los Angeles. Their float has the potential to be cool, being able to throw in aspects of Hollywood. The juniors have received prob-ably the easiest city to recreate, San Francisco. There are so many differ-ent icons of San Francisco, such as the Golden Gate Bridge. The sophomores get the pleasure of recreating Santa Cruz. One thing comes to mind – the Santa Cruz
Every year at Roseville High, it’s tradition for the senior class to paint the wall in Senior Square with a design displaying their class color and year of graduation. This wall is known as “Senior Wall.”
The 2014 Senior Wall design is the most unique that I have seen in my past four years at RHS. The left half of the wall really isn’t anything special. It is just a plain, blue wall saying “Class Of” in a generic font. The crown on the “C” is definitely a nice touch, though. The left wall isn’t bad, there’s just nothing to it. The part that really makes this year’s wall stand out is the creative design on the right half. Instead of
being simple and writing out “2014” in numbers, like what has been done in past years, the class officers and artists decided to visually represent the numbers using hand signs with fingers. The idea of using hands to display the numbers is a great idea. When seniors decide to take the stereo-typical pictures in front of the wall, flashing hand signs of the year they graduate, they won’t look as lame with that genius wall behind them.
other, but now we have to share classes too. Art 2 is currently shar-ing a class with Art 3. In theory, it doesn’t sound so bad and there are silver linings – Art 3 can help and better prepare Art 2 for their future classes. In practice, however, it can be outright annoying. Students from different classes confuse projects and assignments with the other. Sometimes the lighting needs to be minimal for one class and optimal for the other. Art 2 has to receive instruc-tion before the Art 3class can be prompted, at which point there is barely any time for starting any major pieces. And the saddest part is that the teacher has to bounce across the room helping tie to-gether the chaos. Something must be done.
Homecoming name change is stifling a “golden” opportunity
Beach Boardwalk! Finally, the freshmen have the honor of modeling their float after the city of Roseville! However, to many kids, it may seem dull to build a float after the RHS hometown. However, it can be very easy. There may not be very many iconic places around Roseville, but there are cer-tainly enough places that teenagers find enjoyable. Now to connect these float meanings with the Homecoming theme – California Love. I would rather see students ready to shower the float in different shades of gold. Unfortunately, no one will get the pleasure of seeing this as the name has changed and it wouldn’t make much sense to center around gold. Connecting any one of these floats to the theme can either be very difficult or extremely easy and only time will tell. The changing of the name has probably not made any-thing easier for any of the students or faculty, making it virtually point-less, at least in my opinion.
Dress code enforcement causes controversy on school campus
our merry way. Instead, we’re made to go sit in the office and wait for a parent to come to our rescue with a frumpy T-shirt. On the other hand, when guys are dress coded, flipping their shirt inside out or pulling up their draw-ers is sufficient. But what’s to stop them from turning the corner and continuing to sag? I understand that we have to abide by the rules, but can’t the campus monitors be nicer about the whole thing? I’d be pretty embarrassed being confronted in the first place about my violation, without further ridicule or being reduced to “a distraction.” I’d be more likely to deal with the incident quietly if they were more understanding. My only other complaint is that the girls are be-ing treated more harshly. I understand that making sure us Tigers uphold the dress code is in the campus monitors’ job de-scription, but it would be wonder-ful if they could be empathetic and treat the ladies and gentlemen on campus equally and fairly.
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What are you wearing right now?I am wearing a plain black tank top, some white shorts and a flowery kimono-type top I got at a thrift store.What about shopping at thrift stores do you like?You can find something that no one else has and make your own style out of it.How much do your clothes usu-ally cost?They aren’t expensive at all [because] I don’t usually go for brand names. Just basic clothing staples.How would you describe your style?I would say that I dress very laid-back. Not basic, but I like to take simple things and layer them to make something different. Who inspires your style?I’ve always looked up to Vanessa Hudgens. I love how she layers everything. It can be mismatched, but together it’s perfect.What do you think of fashion around campus?I think it’s really cool. I admire people who aren’t afraid to dress differently, like Alyssa Wall. Her style is amazing.What do you think of the trends around campus?I feel like trends are set for people unafraid to step out of their comfort zone. I’m not very into them.Have you ever taken risks with your fashion?Yeah. Before, I would never wear crop shirts [because] I thought they were too revealing. You can wear anything. It just has to fit your body type and personality, as long as you have confidence in it.What advice do you have for people trying to be more confi-dent fashion-wise?Just go for it. I mean, it’s high school. It is not going to mat-ter in however many years. You are going to want to be able to say you were who you were in high school and didn’t care what anyone said.Do you have any gender-specif-ic advice?
Junior Ashleigh Malonza loves layering her clothes
A professional yo-yo player at Roseville High School might be yo-yoing her way to Europe for a competition. Freshman Juliette Oliver decided to buy a yo-yo in the seventh grade after watching the workers at Learning Express in Westfield’s Galleria mall. She later developed more interest in the hobby. Shortly after buying a yo-yo, Oliver met her current sponsor, Chico Yo-Yo Company, through a competition. Since receiving a sponsor, Oliver has been to multiple local competitions in Sacramento, San Francisco and Chico. She placed second and third in the smaller competitions and ranked 29 out of the 110 players in the international competitions. “I get free products, yo-yos and my sponsor sends me to competitions,” Oliver said. If Oliver’s sponsor ends up sending her across the world, the company will take care of all the financial responsibilities. “If I go to Europe, [my sponsor] will pay for my airfare and hotel,” Oliver said. If Oliver is able to participate in the competition, she and the other players will be graded on
their yo-yo capabilities, as well as choreography. “When you start out, you do trappies: tricks like ‘walking the dog,’” Oliver said. “But in competitions, every trick made is your own.” Players also receive grades on how many times the strings touch, how much they move on stage while doing the tricks and how they incorporate their body into their performance. “If it goes around my head or under my arm I get more points,” Oliver said. However, though the participants are graded on their yo-yoing skills, many people have diverse styles. “It’s an art form,” Oliver said.
“Different people have different styles. I’ve gone against people from Greenland… and [the] Japanese have twirly technical tricks they call ‘American style.’” Music is also incorporated into the technique to compliment the skills of yo-yoing. “Dubstep is really good,” Oliver said. “But I play ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin Thicke and ‘Treasure’ by Bruno Mars. They’re slower and fit my style.” If Oliver ends up winning the Europe competition, EYYC, she will be the youngest to place and will receive a cash prize, as well as possibly getting the opportunity to name her own yo-yo. “[The yo-yo will] be called
the Juliette Oliver or something,” Oliver said. “They’ll give me a few bucks out of every thousand. It’ll be great advertising.” She hopes to achieve this goal possibly this year or next and is very confident about her chances of placing. “In Europe, competitions are two minutes,” Oliver said. “I score higher [in one minute] than they do in [two].” Besides competing, Oliver also enjoys yo-yoing on campus and plans on continuing her hobby until she gets older or loses interest – which she does not think will happen. It’s something I do for fun to impress people,” Oliver said. “It interests them.”
Boys, pull your pants up. Girls, just be modest. You can be modest and fashionable at the same time.
Above, Oliver shows off some tricks of her own that she taught herself. She has been yo-yoing ever since the seventh grade and since has been sponsored and participated in multiple local competitons, where she normally performs well.
Dance welcomes two new coaches The Roseville High School dance team has a new coach, fill-ing the spot of last year’s coach Sally Cofield. Cofield stepped down as she wanted to place a higher priority on her classroom teaching. “I needed my focus to be on my daily classroom so I can give the best to my students,” Cofield said. Dance veteran Danielle Andre and former RHS assistant coach Jynece Avery will be the dance team coaches for this year. Andre was a member of her high school dance team for four years and was team captain her senior year. She has been coaching her dance team as well as other teams in Washington for the last seven years. Andre has won multiple state and national titles for her chore-ography. Andre originally heard about the position from Cofield.The two met when at a Seattle based dance company, TEAM Dance, where Cofield mentioned that current coach Avery might be looking for a coaching partner. Avery was the assistant coach, alongside Cofield last year, before
Senior aspires to open up nonprofit bakery
RHS suffers loss of long time staffer Roseville High School suffered a great loss of a beloved staff member. Mary Eib, better known as Mrs. Mary at RHS, passed away on July 6, 2013. Eib grew up in the Roseville area and attended Placer High School and Sierra College Those who knew Eib remember her for her gentle soul and kind personality. “Mary is going to be remembered for her really kind heart and the way that she saw the goodness in every day and every person,” RHS Librarian Lauren Zdybel said. “She was always
sweet, funny and considerate.” Zdybel also remembers Eib for her thoughtfulness. “Before every holiday, she would put together bags of treats and gifts,” Zdybel said. “They weren’t expensive, but they were her way of saying ‘I’m thinking about you.’” Eib enjoyed life with her loving husband, Jerry, and son, Matthew. She also had the support of her six grandchildren and her great-granddaughter.
“She was very close to her family,” administration assistant Diana Stockton said. “She loved them very much.” Eib worked at Roseville High school for 31 years until retiring in 2012. Much of her
time was spent maintaining
the computer lab. “She was the computer lab technician,” Zdybel said. “She kept the schedule and welcomed classes to the lab.”
Eib dedicated much of her time to assisting students in as many ways as she possible could. Whether it was providing them with resources or talking to them one-on-one, she always found a way into students’ hearts. “She was always very sweet and helpful,” said senior Paula Eschen. Perhaps one of the things she was most known for at Roseville High school was her favorite goodbye phrase, “Have a rainbow day.” “Whenever Mrs. Mary said, ‘Have a rainbow day,’ it made me feel special,” said senior Ashley Little. “It always brightened my day.”
A senior at Roseville High School plans to open up a non-profit bakery. Danielle Moreno will use a large portion of the revenue from the Bakery to help build a safe house for girls who are victims of sex trafficking in a country such as Cambodia, Thai-land or Indonesia. Moreno has experienced rescuing and taking care of girls who were sex-trafficked through volunteering with missionaries that went to Cambodia. She wants to continue helping victims of sex trafficking by building a safe house. “I wanted to be able to help girls [who are victims of sex trafficking],” Moreno said. “You shouldn’t be doing anything if you aren’t helping others.” She was also inspired by The Causes Café, an organization at
Bayside church. The Causes Café is very similar to Moreno’s plan, except that outside sources such as American River College, Bella Bru Cafe or church volunteers bake the pastries in separate loca-tions while Moreno wants to bake all of her own pastries inside of her shop. “It’s pretty much exactly the same as what I’m planning to do,” Moreno said. “It’s non-profit and they take all the money that they earn and give it to girls that are sex-trafficked.” Safe houses overseas need a minimum of $10,000 a year to run – that figure includes the cost of building, medical expenses, food and clothing. Moreno would also need to pay for workers to aid and counsel the victims, as well as the costs for their schooling. “Some of these girls are as young as four to 22 years old, so the house [would] be providing not only shelter but a chance for them to better themselves,” Moreno said. “I’m probably going to part-ner with organizations like AIM or House of Courage to enable work-ers overseas.” The Causes Café coordinator, Debbie Carapiet, has been men-
toring Moreno on the basics of starting a non-profit organization. Carapiet has taught Moreno about gaining benefactors and keeping a successful bakery. “She basically started the cafe, “Moreno said. “ [It] then grew enough to make a profit. She uses that profit to send to different causes. Last month’s causes made a profit of $3,000, so $1,000 went [each] to AIM, the Salvation Army and Operation Blessing.” Along with putting together her plan with the help of Carapiet, Moreno is also experiencing the business side of having a shop by working with the Causes Café and having a job at Panera Bread. Moreno plans to graduate from RHS in December and hopes to begin opening up her shop and building the safe house after re-ceiving her baking and pastry arts degree. “I think it’s a fabulous idea,” said Moreno’s counselor, Philo-mena Crone said. “Danielle is a hard-working student that loves culinary and cooking. She should continue working and networking, telling people what she is inter-ested in.” Moreno wants to give back to
the world through culinary arts, whether it is by feeding those who need help or donating the proceeds she earns to a greater cause. “I put myself into the food I make, and when I give away my food, I see it as a beautiful thing,” Moreno said. “I’m giving something of myself to nourish someone else.”
becoming the current coach. Avery graduated from RHS in 2009 and was involved in dance all four years. Cofield is enthusiastic about the dance team and its new coach-ing staff. “I think they are fantastic,” said Cofield, “Their personalities are a good complement to each other.” Along with Andre becoming the new co-coach to Avery, the dance team members also pur-chased new uniforms that the team liked as whole for their competi-tions. The dance team will be par-ticipating in two regional competi-tions and one Northern California State Classic competition this year. “We have an awesome group of girls,” Andre said. “We have worked really hard to create a positive team dynamic.” The dance team will be com-peting in the military, hip-hop and jazz portions of the competitions, with some involving contempo-rary. Andre hopes that the dance team bond as sisters on the dance floor and that they never forget their teammates. “I love the camaraderie that exists on a high school dance team,” Andre said. “You become sisters.”
British boy band One Direction performs at the Minneapolis Target Center in Minneapolis during their tour across America.PHOTO BY MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/MCT
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The biggest boy band in the world has once again taken the world by storm, this time in three-dimension. The 3D concert film premiered worldwide on Aug. 29, making its debut a day later in the United States and Canada. The film entitled One Direction: This Is Us, directed by Morgan Spurlock, follows band members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson on their Take Me Home tour. The 90-minute film featured 30 minutes of concert footage and an hour of backstage material in which movie-goers get to see the members in their everyday personal lives. One Direction: This Is Us had great 3D dynamics, which was surprising as concert movies usually have a lack of con-nectivity to movie-goers. I was surprised by the amount of 3D in the film, as most movies about musicians are only made in 3D for increased income from the film, rather than quality. The film was a basic break-down of concerts and dialect between the band members and the other people in their lives. The concert footage for the film was well chosen, as the songs were the most popular and correlating with the storyline and theme. Adding to the concert footage, Spurlock demonstrated his talent as a director as the movie was able to transition back and forth between the on-stage and off-stage footage smoothly. The film took fans behind the
scenes of One Direction, showing them what the band does before they go on stage, while traveling and in the humble relationship that is prominent in this group. One thing that was very enjoyable about this movie was the mention of the fans and the journey they have taken with these five people. From auditioning on the X-Factor television show, to performing at Madison Square Garden, to selling out their Take Me Home worldwide arena tour in only a few minutes, the boys of One Direction have come a very long way, taking every step with the fans. Throughout the movie, the boys continued to show their gratitude by praising the fans and vocalizing how appreciative they were for them. They wanted to have more of an opportunity to reach out on a more personal level, seeing as social media websites that they are on can only take them so far. One of the main aspects of the movie was seeing the parents’ reactions to the success that has found their children. Being able to see the boys interact with their families and friends, along with their families’ reactions to their success, created compassion and admiration for how their parents handle everything. It was not only emotional, but displayed the downfalls that come along with the success that they have so suddenly received. However, though the movie acknowledged the personal relationship the boys have with their family members, I couldn’t help craving more. I was hoping for more depth on their personal
feelings of success, as it was only briefly touched upon. The film portrayed the strong friendship between the five mem-bers immensely well, as they are five young-adults who are “living the dream.” It was great to see that the rela-tionship between the boys has not changed over the course of these past three years, but only contin-ues to grow stronger and more brotherly every day. Overall, the film was very sweet, funny, emotional and genuine to see how much the world around the band has changed, but their hearts remain the same. I highly recommend that you see this movie. If you are already a fan, this movie will make you love One Direction even more than you already do (if that’s even possible), and if you are not a fan – prepare to be one after seeing One Direction: This Is Us.
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Watching classic movies widens your cinematic literacy and allows you to enjoy stories and visuals that you might otherwise overlook. “Dust Off the Reel,” recommends classics that Kevin Chappelle or Anna Porretta enjoy, and that you will too. Every respectable horror movie repertoire includes The Shining. Of course, the movie has its flaws, but it presents one of the vagu-est, most thrilling and intriguing stories of all time. It’s also a cult classic and the originator of many famous scenes and cinematic devices. Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson), a writer and recover-ing alcoholic, takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the sinister Overlook Hotel to work on his writing. His son Danny (played by Danny Lloyd) has psychic abili-ties, occasionally seeing into the past or the future. Jack spends most of the day writing in a spacious lounge, iso-lated from his family. Not before long, Jack’s timid, enabling wife Wendy (played by Shelley Duvall) starts to observe strange, aggres-sive behavior from Jack. Danny experiences haunting visions, channeled through his alter ego “Tony,” eventually resulting in a mysterious injury. Jack visits the supposedly vacant hotel bar and sees his own visions of the past. Finally, Wendy discovers the true nature of Jack and his writing, and Danny’s premonitions steadily materialize. The Shining makes great use of naturalistic dialogue, particu-larly in the first part of the film, which really helps establish good characters from the start. All the actors truly convey the shock and dread that their parts require. Admittedly, Jack Nicholson’s per-formance is somewhat overdone – reminiscent of his role as the Joker in the 1989 movie Batman – yet it seems strangely appropriate for a character whose mental decay is the main part of the plot. One of the ways that The Shining excels is in its ambiguity. The three “protagonists” of the film are considerably unreliable and the members of the Torrance family experience seemingly arbitrary visions throughout the movie. The final shot of the film presents another equivocal twist as well. The movie escapes from the unfortunate crowd of static, mediocre horror movies to the less-inclusive group of merited classics. In addition to being a well-done movie at its fundamen-tals, The Shining actually has sub-stantial “scare value.” Not to say that this movie will necessarily scare you but it will, at least, make you feel uneasy. Uncomfortable, gripping shots dominate most scenes, like the infamous scenes with Danny pedaling his tricycle down threatening stretches of hallways. Brief surreal visions experienced by the Torrance fam-ily often interrupt these lengthy shots, making the entire movie somewhat disconcerting in general. The Shining is a thrilling classic, a true must-see. While it doesn’t rely on jump-scares to deliver its horror, it masterfully builds tension and discomfort, leading up to the terrifying climax.
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One Direction releases new movieThis is Us follows 1D’s rise to fame and their worldwide tour
Following the trend that Arctic Monkeys set since their album Humbug, the band once again tries outs a new sound in their latest album AM. It resembles their previous album Suck it and See more than any other work they have put out before, but it still deviates from the 80s sound that that album introduced. AM carries a slick, dark tone through-out every song in the album. In fact, the band seems to have found a sound that they enjoy playing and writing so much that the album may seem to lack diversity. This is not necessarily a bad thing, however. The sound works well for them. The slightly dis-torted rock guitar, grooving bass lines, Alex Turner’s deep, alluring voice and Nick O’Malley’s now signature backup vocals keep the smooth sound that identifies the band. But where the diversity is found is in varying tempos, drum-beats, vocal lines and the addition of different instruments. “Do I Wanna Know” is the first song off the album, and arguably the best. It was the second single off the album that was released, and by that time Arctic Monkeys fans had an idea of what AM would sound like. By using a twelve-string guitar accompanied with a driving drum beat and a bass line that follows the guitar riff, the slick sound that was to come. Turner’s voice was smooth-er than ever and O’Malley’s higher-pitched backups
complimented it very well. “R U Mine” was the first single released off the new album. As one of the more upbeat songs from the album, this song easily gets the listener pumped up. A strong
guitar riff, solid drumbeat and fast paced vocals make this one of the catchiest songs off the album. This and “Do I Wanna Know” were the perfect precursors to show off the new tone that AM boasts. “No. 1 Party Anthem” is the song that seems to take inspira-tion from John Lennon by us-ing a piano and
guitar tones similar to what is used many of Lennon’s songs. It keeps a steady and simple drumbeat throughout most of the song. The slow pace is carried well by Turn-er’s voice, and the falsetto that is usually provided by O’Malley is much less frequent and much less notable in this song. This keeps the song clean and beautiful. “I Wanna Be Yours” is another deep and slow song, Turner’s ab-stract yet poetic lyrics are very ap-parent in this song. For example, the song leads off with, “I wanna be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust.” It’s a nice end to a very remarkable album. AM is most impressive in its ability to keep a very distinct, dark and smooth sound while also providing diversity throughout the whole album. With each listen, more subtleties in the songs are found, and I am looking forward to finding more and more of Turner’s poeticism in his lyrics.
Last Tuesday, Apple announced the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Both are variations of the original iPhone 5 and run iOS 7, Apple’s newest mobile operating system. The update rolls out to exist-ing iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPod touch (5th generation), iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad (fourth generation) and iPad mini models on Sept. 18. Apple announced iOS 7 as a beta back on June 10, where it surprised us with its striking and fresh design. The new design is a significant departure from Apple’s previous design traditions, which consisted of virtual gloss and skeuomorphism, when interface designs resemble real-world ones in order to guide the user (I’m looking at you, green-felt covered GameCenter app). iOS 7 no longer mimics book-shelves and compasses, and in-stead trades it for a much simpler and flatter design. And, as Apple Senior Vice President of Design, Jony Ive, philosophically puts it, “True simplicity is derived from so much more than the absence of clutter … it’s about bringing order to complexity.” Ive’s philosophy’s influence is very apparent in iOS 7. Slide anywhere on the lock screen to unlock your device, and you are immediately stricken by the polarizing, vibrant and wholly redesigned icons on the home screen. All of iOS 7’s icons appear flattened and slightly more round, making them seem a tad bit larger. Some of the icons, like the clock, messaging or weather icons, are
refined. But others, like the set-tings, stocks or reminders icons, appear as though little time had been put into creating and refining their design. Along with Ive’s redesign also comes new functionality. A new feature, called Control Center, enables you to access quick settings with a swipe up from the bottom of the screen. At first, I thought the menu was out of place. I thought that different settings all jumbled together was somewhat disorganized, but the functional value and convenience of Control Center far outweighs its awkward implementation. The multitasking menus in iOS 7 also receive a revamp, and adopt iOS’s now system-wide theme of flat, white translucency. When you double-tap the home button, a small tray of four icons no longer pops up from the bottom of the screen. Instead, you will be brought to a slick, full-screen menu with live previews of several of the most recent apps you have opened. To close them, you have to swipe upwards. All of iOS 7 looks different, but it also moves differently. Apple remodeled animations from the ground up, and on newer iOS devices, like the iPhone 5, 5c or iPad (fourth generation), these animations would look super smooth. Otherwise, on a device like the iPod touch (5th generation) or iPhone 4, you might find that animations lag more often due to their weaker hardware. The Camera app now lets you take a photo formatted in a square (even with Instagram-like filters),
so you don’t have to crop or even apply filters before you post. Apple offers a music service integrated into iOS 7: iTunes Radio. iTunes Radio is an ad-supported service. I personally prefer using an alternative digital music service, Spotify Premium, on a mobile device compared to iTunes Radio. However, iTunes Radio is free, so that adds value to the service. The music service is essentially Pandora, but more integrated into iOS. Of course, our favorite spunky and sassy digital assistant, Siri, is back and better than ever. On iPhone 4s and later devices, Siri can use a male voice instead of her original female one, and both voices sound the tiniest bit more human than previous versions. Siri now has greater capability. The digital assistant can adjust to quicker settings, search Wikipe-dia without launching Safari and generally knows more informa-tion, among other features. Not to mention, Siri’s new interface is stunning in its execution and design. As unlikely as it sounds, iOS 7 does seem to stride on a fine line between simplicity and complex-ity in detail. And while, at first, I found iOS 7 to be really overdone (or underdone, depending on how you look at it), the refreshing design and increased functionality have outweighed minute details, allow-ing the operating system to really grow on me. If your Apple device supports iOS 7, upgrade it as soon as pos-sible because iOS 7 improves on iOS 6 in more ways than not.
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SportS page 9september 16, 2013
Sports Shorts
Volleyball works hard with absence of Grove
Cross country team partners with Fleet FeetBY NICK SAPP AND NICK [email protected]@eyeofthetigernews.com
Gutierrez steps down after 36 years of coaching boys soccer BY DEAN [email protected]
Softball team to have new coach for the coming spring seasonBY BRYCE [email protected]
The Roseville High School softball team will have a new coach this season. Former head coach Jennifer Birch will not return for the 2014 campaign. Last year, Birch’s team finished 21-9-1 overall and the Lady Tigers advanced to the play-offs. There is no current time table for naming the new coach.
Soccer collects wins, but loses Tanner KraftBY JORDAN [email protected]
Fukuman eyes SFL title for girls golf team BY MADISON [email protected]
PHOTO BY MADISON MACHAAbby Jensen (#4) and teammate Leslie Pease (#11) attempt to block an op-ponent’s kill.
Errecart looking forward to upcoming girls basketball season.
The Roseville High School var-sity girls’ volleyball team is excited about the season after a couple of strong showings against their first two teams. “I think that we have done really well so far, just working as a team,” senior Lindsay Anderson said. “I think our chemistry is a lot better than last year which is helping us win more games.” Senior captain Jayme Lee is also happy with the team’s start, but knows that they must continue to improve as they prepare for league play. “I think that we have done really well as a team so far,” Lee said. “I think we have a little bit more work to do before league starts.” The team’s first tournament was in Reno on Aug. 31. At the tourna-ment, Roseville High’s biggest competition was Saint Frances, who is traditionally one of the top teams in the Sacramento area. Roseville ended up beating Saint Frances, taking three out of 36 teams that day. “We ended up beating Saint Frances in our first tournament,” assistant coach Cindy Simon said.
“This was a huge victory for us.” On Sept. 7, the team had their second tournament. Roseville’s varsity team did not have their head coach, Ron Grove, with them at that tournament. He had suffered from a heart attack the night before at Ros-eville High’s varsity football game against Rio Linda. Simon, the old JV coach, took over as head coach for that tournament. “I felt confident coaching them,” Simon said. “I have coached all of them before.” They ended up placing first and made it to the quarterfinals. They were defeated by Christian Broth-ers, and finished overall in eighth place. “We could have done better,” Anderson said. “But considering the series of events that happened over the weekend, it definitely mixed us up a little bit.” Grove hoped to be back Sept. 12 to watch his team play. Darcee Durham lead the team in their games and practices in the interim. “I am super proud of the girls,” said Simon. “I think they have done such a good job being strong for Grove and coming together as a team.”
This year, Roseville High School has a new varsity girls basketball coach who hopes to lead them to a successful season. Josh Errecart, who was the JV girls’ basketball coach last year, has replaced last year’s coach, Ron Volk, who coached for five years. In the summer season, the team won 13 games and they are going to start a fall season league in October to prepare them for the stacked Sierra Foothill League (SFL). According to Errecart, the main transition from coaching JV to varsi-ty is that there will be a higher level of competitiveness and commitment required from him and the girls this year. Errecart said that the players will need to work hard and have a lot of dedication for the amount of games, practices and conditioning that need their participation. “It requires a lot of commitment, but they’ve done an outstanding job with it and they’ve been work-ing really hard,” said Errecart. The team has about eight or nine returning varsity players this year and a handful of returning JV play-ers, leaving room for a few new girls as well. Conditioning started Sept.
12 to get ready for the fall season. According to returning var-sity player, senior Lindsay An-derson, team chemistry and defense is their main focus. “Errecart is doing a lot to turn the program around and is work-ing really hard,” said Anderson. The Lady Tigers are scheduled to go to Los Angeles in Dec. to play. Un-til then, they are working hard with the fall league, SFL and practices. “I’m just really excited to keep working hard and get started with the official season,” Errecart said.
PHOTO BY MADISON MACHA
Roseville High School’s JV boys’ soccer team has a record of 3-1-1. They have played Rio Americano, Oakmont, Casa Roble, Bella Vista and Del Campo so far. They lost to Rio Americano 3-1, beat Oakmont 4-1, beat Casa Roble 13-1, tied Bella Vista 1-1 and beat Del Campo 3-1. When the Tigers beat Del Campo 3-1, all three of their goals were in a time span of four minutes. Thirty-five minutes into the first half, they scored their first goal and before the half was over, they were able to finish with two more. Sophomore Lucas Alcala and freshman Matthew Valdez both scored in the game. Alcala scored two goals and Valdez scored one. In their blowout victory against Casa Roble, coach Paul Stewart had the team stop taking shots on goal and told them to only possess the ball for the last 20 minutes.The consequence for any of the boys that shot or tried to score was to be pulled out of the game. “If they shot, I took them out, because it was really embarrassing for the other team and it wasn’t necessary to keep scoring on them,” Stewart said. Roseville ended up playing down to only eight players. Casa Roble has many holes and ditches everywhere throughout the field. One of Roseville’s players, Zac-arias Mancha, went for a breakaway and fell because of a hole he could not see, and his chance of a one-on-one with the keeper was gone just like that. At halftime, Roseville was in the lead 4-1, and in the second half they kept taking shots and ended up coming out with a 13-1 win. “We are just too good,” said Stewart. “And it was a really good game.” This year, the team consists mostly of freshmen, with the excep-tion of four sophomores. According to Roseville’s sweeper, freshman Sean Granucci, they are doing very well defensively, but tend to break down sometimes. “I think we will be pretty good this year, but I don’t expect us to win every game,” said Granucci. “I just plan for us to get better and use this to prepare for varsity next year.”
The Roseville High School wrestling team has a new coach this year. Doug Ash was named head coach after the previous coach of four years, Jeremiah Miller, stepped down from the head position. Miller will now be an assistant coach at RHS. Ash has many years of coach-ing experience in wrestling, both at middle school and high school levels. Ash spent six years as an as-sistant coach at RHS, but this will be his first year as the head coach. This is also Ash’s first year as an algebra teacher at RHS. “I had to get the math job first in order to get the head coaching job,” Ash said. Senior wrestler Robert Ferry is looking forward to wrestling his last season with his former coach. “I have years of experience being coached by and with Ash,” Ferry said. “I know he is an excel-lent coach and our team can do great things with him at the head position.” Ash is also pleased with some of the talent on his team this season. “We are stacked as a team in the lower weights, but we are looking for big guys to fill up some of the higher weight class varsity spots,”
Cross country recently started their season with multiple races on the weekends. So far, Roseville’s cross country team has participated in three meets for their pre-season. They also participated in a Fleet Feet trial sponsored by Nike on Aug. 31. Fleet Feet is a franchise that allows people to test out dif-ferent types of shoes to determine which gives them the best fit and support.
The team had a promising start with multiple strong finishes for their top runners.
According to junior Matt San-gria, the team is fresh and ready to go for the great season ahead of them. Sangria believes that the team is strong enough to do well in the SFL meet.
“We are going to state this year,” Sangria said.
The cross country runners test-ed out items like racing flats, spikes, training shoes and socks. Not all of the students used the shoes offered because they believed they already had the best of the best.
“It was nice being able to try out the flats because there were a lot of kids who had not been able to try out flats before,” senior Austin Torgerson said.
Fleet Feet representatives of-ten appear at many cross country meets to display a variety of cross country-specific shoes from Nike.
“They came to our last meet and we were able to use the shoes during our race,” Torgerson said.
According to Torgerson, the shoes were not the best quality and did not offer ideal support. San-gria did not test any of the shoes because he was satisfied with the racing flats he already owned.
RHS girls tennis is officially underway this year at Roseville High School. Donny Nush coaches the girls tennis team and there are 16 girls on the team this year. The tennis team had one pre-season match so far this year. The
match was at Pioneer High School against the Pioneer Patriots. The girls came up short with a close 3-5 loss to the Patriots. During the first weekend in Aug., the tennis team went to Fresno to participate in the California High School Girls Tennis Classic. Over 100 teams from all over California participated in the tournament. This was an opportunity for the girls ten-nis team to test their skills against other high schools in the state. “I feel really good about the girls tennis team this year,” junior Kelechi Ukaegbu said. According to Ukaegbu, some players to watch are seniors Emma Carlson, Janet Rowe and junior Nicole Trezza. “All of our number ones are working really hard,” Ukaegbu said. Ukaegbu said the tennis team has high expectations for their upcom-ing season this year. “We are all trying really hard at practice, and we take our practices very seriously,” Ukaegbu said. The tennis team will have their season opener on Sept. 24 at Granite Bay against the Granite Bay Griz-zlies.
The Roseville varsity boys soc-cer team opened up their pre-season with a win over Del Campo. It was a close game down to the end. Se-nior Tanner Kraft broke a 1-1 tie in the closing minutes by scoring the winning goal to lead the Tigers to a 2-1 victory. The following game, the Tigers fell to Bella Vista, the defending section title champions. According to senior Omar Ruelas, the Tigers played tough, but had some missed opportunities. “We had six or seven good shots, but we just couldn’t get any to go through,” Ruelas said. In that game, the Tigers suffered more than just a loss in the record book. Kraft collided with the oppos-ing goalie and suffered a hairline fracture to his fibula in two places. Kraft is out for six weeks, but can-not wait to get back to help his team. “It’s tough not being able to play,
For the first time in Roseville High School’s history, there will be a new varsity girls soccer coach.
Coach Pablo Gutierrez has been the varsity soccer coach for both girls and boys since the soccer program started 36 years ago. Last year was his final season coaching the varsity girls soccer team before he decided to retire. Although he is retiring from coaching the girls, he is still coaching boys for a little while longer.
With Gutierrez stepping down from the position, it now leaves a spot available for a new var-sity girls soccer coach. Assistant principal Jason Wilson and athletic director Jaime Bunch are respon-sible for hiring for the position.
Wilson and Bunch wanted to get the school year started before looking at applicants for girls’ soccer coach, considering it is a spring sport. As of right now, the only two known applicants are
Erin Granucci and Paul Stewart. Both applicants have a back-
ground with soccer at RHS. Granucci played soccer as
a college student at American River College and Sonoma State University and traveled to Europe to represent USA. She had a baby and was not able to pursue her career in soccer.
“I grew up playing soccer since I was four,” said Granucci. “I would love to be the varsity coach and get back into coaching at a higher level.”
Stewart also has been very in-volved in Roseville High School’s soccer program. He has been the assistant coach for varsity and head coach for JV for nine years.
“Any time Roseville needs a coach for a sport I always step in and volunteer,” Stewart said. “Soccer needed a coach, and I stepped in to coach JV and assist varsity.”
Wilson and Bunch need to look at the applications, interview each applicant and make their final decision about the position.
“Gutierrez has much to be recognized for and he has put so much time and effort into this program,” said Wilson. “And now it is time to fill his place with someone who fits the job best.”
but I know our team will still do great,” Kraft said. Roseville competed against a struggling Casa Roble team for its third game this year. The Tigers took the victory 10-0 in a blowout win. The Tigers took the momentum from a strong win to their next game against Oakmont, where they beat the Vikings 4-1. “We played really good and everyone was playing together like a team,” said senior Bailey Jensen. Roseville has five games in the books and has a record of 3-2.
Over the summer, members of the Roseville High School girls golf team spent time preparing for the upcoming season. “This year, we are looking to compete for the SFL Championship as well as move on to the CIF Division I tournament as a team,” head coach Corey Fukuman said. “Only the top two teams from the league move on to qualify for the Division I tournament.” Fukuman enjoys coaching players that are willing to work hard. “All of the girls have a great work ethic and are very teachable,” Fukuman said. According to Fukuman, the team and the players both look forward to participating in the league championship. “If all of the girls can improve by two to three strokes before the end of the season, we will be a great team and could challenge for the league championship,” Fukuman said. The first game was against Oak Ridge and the second was against Cosumes Oaks. They defeated Oak Ridge, but lost to Cosumnes Oaks. This year, they get to participate in the Lady Minor Eighteen-Hole Fall Classic on Tuesday at Alta Sierra Country Club. The team is hoping to get similar scores or better. The league games begin on Sept. 10 vs. Granite Bay at Sierra View CC. This year, the team has member Vi rg ie Velazquez , who has committed to playing golf next year at UC Davis. She has also been selected to play in the Champions Tee Tour first open in Pebble Beach Sept. 27-29.
SportSpage 10 september 16, 2013
Tigers open 2-0 at home, lose at FolsomTeam starts season with tough schedule, facing three ranked opponents BY WILL [email protected]
Athlete Atmosphere
The fall season is underway and that means the football season is about to begin all over the country. On Aug. 30 the Roseville High School Varsity football team started the 2013-2014 season with their home opener against Cosumnes Oaks High School. This game had a lot of hype com-ing in as it was the KCRA Game of the week. RHS students constantly voted for three weeks trying to beat three other games that were nomi-nated for other schools, the Tigers ended up winning by a very close amount. “We need to shut down their of-fense and score points efficiently,” senior running back/strong safety Matt Razzano said. The Tigers faced an opponent that went 9-3 last year and ranked 11 coming into the game. “We got to come out hitting and play Roseville football the whole game,” senior middle linebacker Jordan Kunaszyk said. With the lights bright and the stadium packed, all eyes were on the Tigers. After a long strenuous game. the Tiger prevailed beating Cosumnes Oaks 23-7. “It was a great game,” senior
quarterback Kyle Downie said. “Everyone played well and fought like a team.” Downie came to play. He rushed for a touchdown and also threw a touchdown which was caught by senior Gabe Lira. The mobility of Downie re-ally stood out against Cosumnes. Downie had multiple plays and gained big yardage off run plays. Kunaszyk also came to play this game defensively, racking up 13 tackles and being the focal point of this defense. The Tigers were able to score on both sides of the ball; Razzano caught an interception and ran it back for a touchdown, which put them up 14-7 at half-time. Tigers were able to get into field goal range and kicker Max Fereira nailed a 45-yard field goal to give the Tigers a 17-7 lead. “I was really nervous coming into the kick but then I calmed down and as soon as I kicked it I knew it was going in,” Fereira said. “I was very happy with myself.” With the Tigers in control the rest of the half, the Tigers scored one last touchdown to seal the deal. This football season is new in all aspects: the football field, the uniforms and now a new Defensive
Coordinator. The new year has also attracted the fans. The student section for Roseville known as “The Tiger Cage” was relocated and switched from the left side of the bleachers to the middle. Sept. 6 marked the day that the Tigers faced off against Rio Linda High School. After a stellar game last week for the Tigers, they were looking to carry the momentum into this one. This would be the season-opener for the Knights, and they had a long drive from Sacramento to Roseville. After an intense and hard-fought game, the Tigers beat the Knights
22-14. The game ended very uniquely; the Knights had a chance to win on a field goal but with an array of timeouts and penalties plus a medical situation with one of the announcers stopped the game for about five minutes. When they came back on the field to kick the field goal, the kick was blocked by RB/SS Razzano and then was ran for a touchdown by RB/FS Jake Vaughn. “I felt that we didn’t play to our full potential,” senior wide receiver Jonathan Lopez said. “We didn’t have as good of a practice as we wanted to, but we got the win so
I’m happy,” Lopez had a fairly efficient game, catching three passes for 76 yards and one touchdown. Another good performance came from junior Bryce Crouch, who had 120 all-purpose yards, 100 of them coming on the receiving end. Isaac Carrel scored on a goal line run play. Also, Fereira made a 43-yard field goal. On the defensive end, Kunaszyk ended up with 12 tackles, and as a team they forced numerous turnovers. Downie proved yet again that he cable of taking over games pass-ing for 280 yards and throwing one touchdown. His performance
against Rio Linda nominated him for “Player of the Week” for KCRA 3 News. “We played worse than expect-ed,” Downie said. “Our preparation wasn’t very good, but we put points on the board an pulled out a win.” Last Friday, the Tigers visted naitonally-ranked Folsom High School for their first away game of the year. In the end, the Folsom High Bulldogs came away with a 56-23 win. One highlight for the Tigers, however, was a strong performance from senior wide reciever Jonathan Lopez, who had over 100 yards receiving.
Every issue of Eye of the Tiger, the sports department will fea-ture a male and female athlete from a variety of different sports.
This past Thursday, the Roseville freshman team defeated a strong Folsom team 22-21. According to assistant coach Ron Volk, the team started out strong and played the best football they have all year. “The team played great and we played very fundamental and we gave up zero turnovers,” said tight end Jimmy Jaggers. Jaggers had two receptions for 30 yards. Jay Razzano led the Tigers by rushing for 150 yards and scored one touchdown. He also had 90 return yards. Razzano broke out for a 45-yard touchdown run. Roseville received a penalty after the touchdown run, backing the team up and causing the team to go for a two-point conver-sion. They scored on the two-point try giving Roseville a one-point lead. “The offensive line blocked great and opened many holes making it
a lot easier to run,” said Razzano. Quarterback Nick Martig con-nected to receiver James Jones to give Roseville more of a lead. Full back Brendan McMann also scored on a touchdown on the goal line contributing to the lead. With only four minutes left in the game, Folsom began to put together their final drive. However, safety Hayden Simpson picked the ball off and returned it back into Folsom ter-ritory, which put Roseville in field position to ice the game. On Thursday Sept. 5, the Roseville High School freshman team squared off against the Rio Linda Knights and dominated the entire game, winning 48-14. The team started off by taking an easy 34-0 lead in the first half. The majority of the starters came out during the second quarter, giving the entire team more reps throughout the depth chart. Razzano led the way with four carries for 72 yards and two touchdowns in only 11 plays from scrimmage, giving
Roseville a comfortable lead. “The team played great, and we are looking forward to a bigger chal-lenge against Folsom next week,” said Razzano. On the defensive side, Jaggers forced two fumbles and helped hold Rio Linda to 0 points in the first half. Jaggers also had a 17-yard reception from quarterback Jason Russel in the short time the starters were on the field. Strong safety Hayden Simpson had a 40-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown. The coaching staff was impressed with the performance and is pre-pared for next week. “They played extremely well, showed a lot of discipline, and we came out with no injuries,” said coach Ron Volk. “Next week against Folsom will be a real test and I be-lieve we will come out with a win.” The team captains of the season are Jimmy Jaggers and Brendan McMin and the game captain was Jay Razzano.
Freshman football starts season 2-0, have dramatic win over the Bulldogs
PHOTO BY WWW.CECILMORRISPHOTOGRAPHY.COMVarsity football team gathers and celebrates after a 22-14 victorious and exciting finish against Rio Linda.
The first Athlete Atmosphere for the boys is senior quarterback Kyle Downie. He stands at 5’10” and 170 pounds. While this is not exactly a standard high school quarterback’s height and weight, it is not one to be overlooked. Downie is also a lefty, and has been playing football since middle school. As a second-year starter on the varsity team, Downie is off to an insanely good start. KCRA 3 seems to agree, as they made him Player of the Week for their sports segment. In the season’s first two games, he has completed 25/36 of his passes, 417 yards and two touchdowns with a jaw dropping QB rating of 125. Those are great numbers to get the job done as well as for a fantasy football owner. What teams under-estimate about Downie is his ability to escape the pocket and scramble for extra yards. Just on the ground during the first two games, he has
rushed 24 times for 103 yards and a touchdown. Downie is also a baseball player. That is probably where he gets his cannon of an arm, but also his superstition. Every Friday before each game, Downie visits the fancy, exquisite restaurant of McDonalds. At Mickey D’s, he enjoys a 20-piece chicken nugget order with a side of barbeque sauce. He then goes home and rests. He pumps himself up, but doesn’t act crazy. This is almost exactly as he portrays himself on the field: calm, cool and collected. Although just 17, Downie loves the pressure of being a quarterback. He likes the adrenaline and the leadership responsibility he accepts on the field. Downie has benefited from the parental support he has received. Mr. and Mrs. Downie have always supported him in whatever he has done. He is extremely thankful for this, and has a good relationship with his parents.
The first female Athlete Atmo-sphere of the year goes to senior Courtney Davis. She is a captain on the varsity girls water polo team and is one of the top players on the squad. Davis has played water polo each of her four years at Roseville High School. Davis is always in the water. She is a water polo player in the fall and a swimmer during the spring. The time that she has put in the water is paying off greatly. Davis is one of the stronger swimmers on the team and doesn’t fall short of her competition. She has had a successful career in the water in both of her sports, making a name for herself. Davis is looked upon by her teammates as a great contributor
in the water, but also a great person on dry land. Davis prepares herself before each game by hanging around her team and talking about the upcom-ing competition. She also strategizes with the game plan and determines key players on the other team to watch out for. While in the water, and expending a lot of energy, she sticks with drinking Powerade as her pre-game consumption. Davis loves nothing more than be-ing in the water and she even spends time on the weekend participating in swimming activities to better her skills where it counts. Davis has not decided if she wants to play water polo in college or not, but is interested in attending the University of Nevada, Reno. From there, she would like to start to enter the nursing field.
On Aug. 30, the Roseville Tigers JV football team played against a tough opponent, Cosumnes Oaks Wolf Pack of Elk Grove. It was Roseville’s first home game, and the JV team was looking to come out of the game with a win on their home turf. The Tigers struggled through the first half and trailed the Wolf Pack 0-28. The Tigers’ defense couldn’t stop the Wolf Pack offense, and ev-erything was working for the Pack both offensively and defensively. Coming out in the second half, the Tigers kept fighting and didn’t give up. Runing back Ben Zanhizer found the end zone for the team’s first touchdown. However, the Wolf Pack left this game winning 35-7. “This game wasn’t good and our defense needs improvement,”
quarterback Blake Rayback said. “Cosumnes Oaks was a very good team.” On Sept. 6, the Roseville JV football team played against an-other good opponent – the Rio Linda Knights of Sacramento. “The game plan for Rio Linda was to make sure we had a good four days of practice,” head coach Tim McDowell said. “Our scrim-mages were very up-tempo and all the players competed very hard. We had to cut our scrimmage time a little short because the kids were practicing so hard, and our hitting was almost game-like.” The Tigers came out firing and scored their first drive of the game. At the end of the first quarter, the score was 21-0 with RHS in the lead. At the end of the first half, the score was 38-0 in favor of Roseville. The Tigers were dominating
every aspect of the game and rack-ing up points on the scoreboard. Coming into the second half, they wanted to keep the tempo up and keep scoring. The final score was 48-7 for Roseville. On Sept. 13, the Tigers crossed the tracks over into Folsom against the Bulldogs. It is the Tigers’ first away game on the new blue turf at Folsom High School. McDowell was eager for the team to face a tough test in Folsom. “We’re working very hard to defend their spread offense,” Mc-Dowell said. “They have a couple of explosive revivers and a good quarterback. Defensively, Folsom is aggressive, but we feel we can take advantage of their aggressiveness. This game is going to be a great challenge. Folsom is an outstanding football program and I’m excited to see how the kids respond.”
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