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Trojan TorchDyersburg High School125 Hwy. 51 By-PassDyersburg, TN 38024

Trojan

CONTENTS

NEWS3 New teachers 4 All-state,

Gas prices5 New Life Choices,

School ratings

EDITORIAL6 School shootings7 Respect in school8 ACT, Piracy

FEATURES10 Vampires

12 Personality quiz13 Make-up

SPORTS15 Baseball16 Sport shorts,

Track

ENTERTAINMENT18 Falling Up,

Twilight

As the school year comes to a close, the ad-ministration starts planning the staff andcurriculum for the next school year. One

priority is the number of new teachers needed toreplace the ones [teachers] who will be leavingwhen this year is over.

According to the Dyersburg High School stafflist for the ‘08-‘09 year, there are approximatlyfourteen new teachers. Some teach in the Dyers-burg City School System now, and some arebrand new. The two new Mandarin teachers whowill be here are from halfway across the world.Three of the new teachers even graduated fromhere.

“When looking for new teachers to hire, themajor aspect that is looked at is if they are li-censed in their field of study and if they can pro-vide good classroom management. Sometimesthey will call us and ask if there is a teachingopening, or we will call different universities andgo through their educational department,” prin-cipal Mickey Mahon said.

Some of the teachers will be brand new faceswhile some will be familiar. Students may havehad some of these teachers in the past.

“This is my first year teaching and I will beteaching English. I am the new head volleyballcoach, and I am extremely excited to begin work-ing with the girls. I was actually planning onteaching closer to Martin upon my graduation.However, when I visited DHS with my 8th gradeclass from DMS, I was so overwhelmed by the va-riety of classes and extracurriculars, faculty andadministration that I immediately put in an ap-plication at DHS. I honestly think I am more ex-cited about starting the school year than I am myown college graduation,” Sarah Morris said.

“I am back, so, kids, get your Cornell notesready. I’ve taught five years at the middle schooland when I felt the opportunity to come to thehigh school came my way, now was a good timefor me to take advantage of it. My understandingis I will be teaching in the English department,”Patsy Peckenpaugh said.

“I am very excited about being a part of Dyers-burg High School. I am the new defensive coor-dinator for the football team. I was a part of thecoaching staff at Union City High School. I willbe teaching wellness and also, of course, coachingfootball. My main goal while being here on thestaff is to win football games,” Tony Butler said.

“I have taught in the Dyersburg City SchoolSystem for 22 years. I will be teaching art, and Iam hoping to get the students at DHS excitedabout the art program. I am looking forward toteaching some of the students I had when theywere in the Primary School art class,” DeAnn Mc-Dowell said.

“I like to teach this age group. I have taught atDHS before, and I will be teaching geometryagain,” Grady Andrews said.

There are many drastic changes that will takeplace next year such as many new faculty mem-bers, a new dress code and the big curriculumchange.

New teachers’ departments of teaching havebeen determined but no one knows what exactclass they will be teaching yet.

“The coming of the new teachers will add moreexcitement to our school. Students will not knowwhom to expect to be their teacher for the nextschool year,” Mahon said.

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New teachers for 2008-2009

Cutting paper: DeAnn McDowell shows her art studentshow to create colorful projects.

Pointing at the map: PatsyPeckenpaugh teaches her students about the Civil War.

Going over aproblem:Grady Andrewshelps a studentwith a mathquestion.

Glancing at thenew schedule:Sarah Morris discusses nextseasons list ofvolleyball games.

Photo by Anna Claire Bradshaw

Photo by Anna Claire Bradshaw

Photo by Anna Claire Bradshaw

Photo by Anna Claire Bradshaw

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Students are familiar withrecognitions given inmany school sports and

organizations, but one impor-tant department is often over-looked--the music department.Every spring, select musiciansare chosen to represent WestTennessee in all-state choir andband.

This year, All-State was April16 through 19 in Nashville,and the band and choir havedifferent auditions that areheld different places.

“Two hundred forty peopleare chosen from many schoolsaround the state (for choir),”senior Erick Cunninghamsaid.

“The band is 80 students allchosen from about 3,000 audi-tions all over the state,” banddirector Tim Graham said.

Students from all over thestate who made the highestscores in their regional audi-tion were selected for the fewspots available. One tries outfor his or her section and is ei-ther given a chair number, analternate number or he or shedoes not make it.

Choir members who made itthis year as alternates are jun-iors Patrick Heckethorn,Adam Golden, Holly Owensand Evan Jones and seniorTaurean Thompson. SeniorErick Cunningham made 3rdchair 2nd bass. Seniors MattMcGehee, 1st bass, and TomCross, 2nd bass, both made2nd chair in their sections. Sen-ior Joseph LeMay, 2nd tenor, isthe only Trojan to have made1st chair. Band members whomade it are juniors AdamFord, 4th chair trumpet, andEvan Digirolamo, alternate.

Because this band and choirare so selective, much practiceis required.

“(I practice) two hours a dayevery day all year round. Youhave to practice all year tohave the basics, tone and tech-nicality, in order to perform to

your highest ability to makeAll-State,” Ford said.

Not everyone practices allyear. Some just “cram” a fewweeks before the audition.

“Every night I listen throughmy audition CD,” Jones said.

“(I practice) around an hourto two hours a day for threeweeks (before the audition),”LeMay said.

All of the musicians unani-mously decided the audition isby far the worst part of theprocess.

“The audition process isnerve-wracking but rewardingin the end if you succeed. Itdefinitely gives you a rush toperform in the audition,” Fordsaid. Owens said that it is“hard to keep your voicesteady” while auditioning.

After the audition process,there is still learning to do.“The real pressure after mak-ing All-State is learning eightsongs: four English, one Latin,one German, one Bosnic andone African in six weeks, in-cluding Christmas break, intime for testing to see if youget to move up chairs or if youget kicked out because you didnot learn it,” Owens said.

All-State is full of auditions(for band members), practicesand a concert at the end.

“I did not know my chairuntil I auditioned on April16th,” Ford said.

Many of the delegates enjoythe weekend in Nashville formore than just the music. “(AtAll-State we) practice with ourchoir during the day and partyat night,” LeMay said.

“This is my first time going,so I did not know really (whatwe were going to do), but itwas very fun and exciting,”Cunningham said.

Dyersburg has been blessedwith talented musicians whohave the ability to performwith some of the best in thestate.

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The economy keeps falling as gas prices keep rising.With a projected price of over $4.00 per gallon thissummer, many people are rethinking their vacation

destinations.The prices right now are floating around an average of

$3.60 a gallon, and the global oil prices are above $120 a bar-rel. Many motorists are becoming angrier and angrier withthe large gas companies who are netting $123 billion in profit.

Some of these companies such as Shell, BP America andChevron are putting a considerable amount of money to-wards research for alternative resources. Exxon Mobil, onthe other hand, is not investing in that trend. When askedabout the high earnings of his company, Exxon Mobil’s sen-ior vice president said that the company’s earnings need tobe viewed in the context of the scale and cyclical, long-termnature of our industry as well as the huge investment re-quirements. Out of the $40 billion Exxon Mobil netted lastyear, it gave $100 million for research into climate change atStanford University (Associated Pressbabyboomeradvisorclub.wordpress.com).

The effects of the prices trickle down to other areas of theeconomy as well. It is beginning to be too expensive fortruckers to transport many necessities such as food, clothesand building supplies across the country. If they go on strike,these prices will rise and bring about an economic recessionsimilar to the one that began in the 70’s and went throughthe 80’s.

Yet, these high prices do have some beneficial qualities.People are now “forced” to make globally sound decisionsin order to cut down on their gas expenses. 466,875 hybridunits were sold in 2006, which was up from 289,984 units in2004. (newcarnews.com) People are also carpooling and mak-ing fewer useless trips. The world is on the verge of a revo-lution, a gas revolution.

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“Life Choices is a place where women shouldbe able to make choices they will feel goodabout in the long run,” executive director

of Life Choices Reni Bumpas said. The motto is “We offer hope and help to those facing

pregnancy-related dilemmas, empowering them withtruth and encouraging life-affirming choices.” How-ever, Life Choices wanted to become more than just aplace to counsel; it wanted to become a place that oper-ated under valid medical technology that women couldtrust.

“Women who come to Life Choices want answers toquestions like the following: Am I really pregnant? Isthe pregnancy viable? How far along am I? What do Ineed to know about abortion procedures? Is there any-body I can talk to who can help me sort through my op-tions and feelings? Girls want answers, and they wantto be able to trust the answer. Now with the medicalclinic, we can be viable,” Bumpas said.

Operating under Dr. Ralph Reynolds, Life Choices haswitnessed amazing changes. For instance, in the entireyear of 2007, the center made 31 pregnancy tests ofwhich half were positive. By the end of this January,however, they had already made 29 pregnancy tests.

“We have grown in terms of the amount of clients wehave seen which really forced us to raise the bar andfocus on the family. We have also worked on giving ourbest care for the women, and making their health issuebe the only thing we focus on and look past their cul-ture, income or religion,” Bumpas said.

The plan did not unfold until recently. The pieces hadnot fallen together until a committee who was for thechange from the beginning, came together when theone problem holding Life Choices back was solved. Afacility was needed. Once the facility (their current lo-cation) was found, Leo Arnold, Reni Bumpas, NicoleCurtis, Kim Hampton, Bridgett Hopgood, Dr. Troy Ker-ber, Kristy Miles, Susan Saunders and Dr. RalphReynolds started the process of the medical conversion.

Life Choices did not want to drift away from the mainpurpose. The center still wanted to help women facepregnancy-related issues; it wanted to be a refuge. Nowthe center is more developed and safer than ever, notonly because of the new equipment that allows the staffto make accurate pregnancy tests, but also because nowthe equipment also allows the staff to take ultra-sounds.The center is constantly moving towards better things,such as varieties of counseling and ways of finding outif women have STD’s.

Life Choices is reaching out to women of all ages withany type of dilemma. The center is free and confiden-tial. It is here to help and is viable and safe. Studentscan check the center out at www.hope-at-lifechoices.com or www.lifechoicesdyersburg.com.

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Parents have been given avaluable tool in the educa-tion of their children. They

are now able to compare prospec-tive schools on the web. Informa-tive sites like GreatSchools.net,SchoolMatters.com andEducation.com make this possible.These sites evaluate not only differ-ent schools in an area but also theteachers at those schools.

“Informed parents are not alwaysgood,” junior Genaro Martinezsaid.

This concern has been raisedabout too much information beingavailable to parents. Teachers needfreedom to do their jobs.

School comparison sites compilestats and figures from governmentsurveys and reports and allowusers to compare prospectiveschools in a number of different cat-egories. The schools are judged onstudent to teacher ratio, district rev-enue, school size and AverageYearly Progress (AYP). Schools arecompared to other schools in thedistrict. Most of the information isonly on public or charter schoolsbecause private schools are not re-quired to release their information.

One of the valuable aspects on thesites is the parent, student andteacher comments about an indi-vidual school and the many mes-

sage boards and forums to answerparents’ questions. These allowsome real feedback on how theschool truly is and the problemsthat it has.

Several Dyersburg High Schoolstudents commented on how theythought their school compared toothers in the area.

“We are better educated,” juniorJesse McNeil said.

“We are a school of excellence,”senior Courtney Maben said.

According to Great Schools.net,however, Dyersburg was rated as aseven out of ten based on Gate-way/EOC test scores while DyerCounty received an eight out of ten.The site showed all of our school’sand district’s test scores, ethnicityand spending in easy-to-followcharts and pie graphs. The cityschool district received a six out often.

Other sites like ratemyteacher.comand ratemyprofessor.com allow stu-dents and parents to rate teachersand comment on their performancein the classroom. At rate-myteacher.com there have beenseveral posts for teachers at Dyers-burg High School. Teachers arerated on easiness, popularity, clarityand helpfulness.

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Recent events in several high schools and colleges across thenation have raised many eyebrows to the issue of schoolsecurity. Memphis City Schools have had three school

shootings this school year. Recently Northern Illinois Universityhas also had a tragic school shooting, leaving six students, includ-ing the gunman, dead and 16 injured. Thirty-two students at Vir-ginia Tech were killed in another school shooting on April 16,2007. School shootings are unfortunately becoming a trend, andschool administrators must act quickly to keep our schools safe.

Our community is no stranger to school violence. On September17, 2003, Harold Kilpatrick, Jr., took several students and a teacherhostage at Dyersburg State Community College. Thankfully, allthe hostages escaped with their lives.

Dyersburg High School has made some changes in order to keepthe student body safe.

Dyersburg has a School Resource Officer on campus duringschool hours. The school also locks all entrances to the school ex-cept the front entrance and has installed security doors at thefront door. The school also has a procedure if a shooting shouldoccur.

“We would have a lockdown in a safe place and call in morepolice personnel,” School Resource Officer Deanne Mosley said.

Last year, parts of Dyersburg’s emergency procedures were putto the test when the school received a bomb threat. The planworked perfectly, and all students were evacuated in a timelymanner.

There are, however, several areas the school needs to improveon. The school is supposed to lock all doors around the school,making the front office the only point of entry. In spite of this,many doors around school are left unlocked every day and sim-ply knocking can gain a stranger entry through the locked ones.The solution to this is to simply enforce school rules and lock alldoors.

Students also are easily able to conceal a firearm or knife andsneak it into school. A dress code, unpopular as it may be, willhelp increase security by making it more difficult to conceal aweapon. A more costly method would be the addition of metaldetectors at the school entrances.

Despite the increased quantity of school shootings around thenation, many students feel safe at Dyersburg High School.

“Compared to other schools, I feel safe here,” sophomore AvyStansbury said.

“The only way I’d feel safer is if my momma came to schoolwith me,” said sophomore Caleb Burton.

With the number of school shootings increasing each year, Dy-ersburg High School will have to make adjustments to keep itsstudent body safe in a dangerous world.

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In memory: Graves are lined up in

remembrance of the Virginia Tech victims.

A light to remember: Family and friends unite

at a candlelight vigil for the Virginia Tech

massacre victims.

Phtot courtesy of Wikipedia.com

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Honor and respect thy mother and father. Re-spect your elders. Do unto others as youwould have them do unto you. Today these

famous sayings do not mean anything to theyounger generation. Where do you draw the linewith people lacking respect?

It happens in the lines at the grocery store, onyour ride home from school, walking to your

classes and in classes in general. Respect has slowlylost its true meaning over the years. Some students

completely cross the line in the way they act. Whateverhappened to being nice to someone you do not know?When did slapping a girl on the butt become ok?

Not only is respect nonexistent between the students,but respect is at an all time low when it comes to re-

specting those older than you. Teachers are in aconstant struggle to maintain order in the class-room. While it is fun at times, how are the teach-ers going to be able to do their jobs? As a studentbody we need to become more aware of how we

act and how we treat others. However, this does not only apply to the students.

Teachers also need to respect the students. When ateacher does not give the student respect, why should heor she expect to get respect in return? The whole school,

faculty included, need to remember what it trulymeans to be respectful. Students, in order to re-

ceive respect you must earn respect. Faculty, re-member that students have feelings, and theywill shut down when they are not respected.

Your actions go further than you think. Even-tually, if we completely lose sight of what it

means to respect others, our world will be lostwith no authority at all. What would the point be of

putting someone in charge if no one is going to be re-spectful?

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Future house. Futurewife. Future job. Fu-ture life. All of these

are mistakenly determinedby one little test. The ACT.

One test, the ACT, shouldnot affect a student's entirefuture for a myriad of rea-sons. Some really strongstudents are not good testtakers and buckle underpressure. For example, anintelligent student strivingto go to an Ivy League col-lege or other prestigiousuniversity might succeed inthe classroom and have a4.0 GPA but just cannotseem to score any higherthan a twenty-three on theACT. Just because of thattwenty-three on the ACT,that student will not be ac-cepted into the school ofhis/her choice.

On the other hand, someaverage student might getlucky and do well on theACT. This student couldslack off in school and be apoor worker, but because ofone high test score, he orshe will receive many morescholarships than a deserv-ing student.

The ACT has problems of

bias and inaccuracy andshould not be required forcollege admission. In addi-tion, a student's social classgives unfair advantages. Itis proven that students withwealthier parents are goingto score higher on the test.

ACT scores are not goodpredictors of college per-formance. Grades are amuch more accurate predic-tion of college performance.Chicago State Universityhas proved this idea to becorrect. The university'sstudy showed that the testexplains only 3.6 percent ofthe differences in cumula-tive college GPAs. Also, thegraduating class of 1992from Chicago State Univer-sity had the highest averageACT score among classes inthe study but the lowest av-erage GPA. For more infor-mation, go tohttp://www.fairtest.org/facts/act.html.

For these reasons the ACTis not an accurate reading ofa student's intelligence andshould not be factored intocollege admissions.

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When studentsdownload music,videos, software

or games from Internet sites,such as Limewire, few knowthey could actually be break-ing the law! Internet piracyhas become an epidemic,with the entertainment in-dustry losing millions as a re-sult. If this growing trendcontinues, then it will pro-duce harmful side effects forconsumers.

Many people have forgot-ten what constitutes stealing.On the Internet, wheremusic, software and otheritems are just a click away, itis easy to fall under the falseimpression that if somethingis available for downloadthen it is not technically steal-ing. However, the reality isthat taking something with-out paying for it is stealing,whether on the Internet or ina store.

Many Internet pirates hidebehind file-sharing sites.These sites, such asLimewire, provide havensfor illegal music and videodownloading. This is becausethe website is not liable forwhat is downloaded onto itssystem. However, download-ing or posting illegal music,even on Limewire, is techni-cally against the law.

What causes people to takeadvantage of artists and en-tertainers by illegally down-loading their material?People sometimes justify ille-gally downloading items be-cause of the cost. This canseem plausible, especially foravid listeners who wish topurchase dozens or hun-dreds of songs. However,these people must not forgetthat this is stealing, and ifthey want to listen to moremusic than they can afford,

then they should listen to theradio or televised music. An-other leading cause of Inter-net piracy is the loss of guilt.It is much easier to click amouse than to walk out of astore with a CD. Withoutguilt to hold them back,many succumb to temptationand steal music, contributingto the epidemic.

If stealing over the Internetis such an obvious problem,why is something not beingdone to remedy the situa-tion? In 2004, only 2,591 ar-rests/indictments were maderegarding Internet piracy.That figure, however, palesin comparison to the numberof thieves who get away withit each year. One’s chances ofgetting caught by the feds arejust about the same as one’schance of being killed by afalling coconut. Law enforce-ment agencies need to find amore effective way of enforc-ing piracy laws, such as pos-sibly outlawing anyfile-sharing sites that deal inthe distribution of illegallydownloaded music.

Internet piracy is also hurt-ing consumers. Music priceshave risen as artists attemptto balance the budget afterlosses from illegally down-loaded music. It also hurtsthe newly-formed or youngartists who are just beginningto make a name for them-selves. Without much-needed sales money, theseartists could be forced out ofthe business, depriving hon-est listeners of new music.

With the Internet piracyepidemic growing each year,don’t be surprised if new,stricter laws are introducedto help punish consumerswho break the law and topromote greater security forthe artists.

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Few creatures through-out history, folklore andmythology have been regardedwith such fear and fascination.From their origins in the folkstories of central Europe, aswell as influences from theMiddle East and even China, toclassic British literature andfilm to Anne Rice and Twilight,the tales of immortal creaturesthat feed on human blood havesurvived for thousands of years.Vampires have more history be-hind them than perhaps anyother monster in the popularculture. Stories range from thehorrific to the epic, from thebizarre to the beautiful, andvary as widely as the culturesfrom which they come.

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Since ancient times, the act of feeding on human blood has beentraditionally associated with taking an enemy’s strength or

power and absorbing it. Ritual blood drinking occurred in many an-cient cultures, from Europe to the Americas.

Vampires.

Perhaps the most common and well-known beliefs of vampiric folklore werepopular in Europe during the Middle Ages. The story went that people who

were wicked in life, or died under unusual or unjust circumstances, wouldwake up after burial and come out of their graves at night to drink the blood ofthe living. These revenant dead were usually peasants, people who had beenof little importance in life. The bodies of those suspected of vampirism wereoften unburied and ceremonially “killed” by driving a crucifix or a woodenstake into their hearts or by ripping up the body and burning the pieces.

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Vampires through the ages...

The real revolution in the story ofvampires in the world’s culture

through the ages came when BramStoker wrote his acclaimed epic horror

novel, Dracula, in 1897. His version of the vampire quickly be-came one of the most well-known and feared monsters in mod-ern literature, rivaled only by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

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Of all recent appearances of vampiresin America’s popular culture, the

series of books called Twilight, byStephanie Meyer, is by far the most pop-ular. Bella Swan’s epic story has attractedmore than 5.3 million readers in the USalone, drawing a recent comparison withJ.K. Rowling by Time magazine.

See related article on page 18

During the twentieth century, vampires were assimilated intothe American popular culture. Marking the beginning of

this change was an acclaimed 1931 film adaptation of Dracula,directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the leg-endary undead aristocrat. The movie inspired several sequelsand remakes and is responsible for singlehandedly defining theway vampires are perceived in the western culture.

More recently, the wildly popular television series Buffy theVampire Slayer carried vampires into a new millenium. Based ona 1992 movie of the same name, the series chronicled the adven-tures of highschooler Buffy Summers as she battled vampiresand other supernatural creatures.

Anne Rice’s many novels, including Interview with the Vampire,have also influenced the vampire scene in American culture.

All photos courtesy of Wikipedia except Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight, which are the property of their respective owners.

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Can you color your personality?Ever think about why there are so many colors to choose from—whether it be cars, shoes or blouses? Could the color of painton the walls reflect your mood? Psychologists and marketing researchers study why colors appeal to particular people. Takethis quiz to reveal what your color preferences say about you.

1. What is your favorite season?A. SpringB. SummerC. FallD. Winter

2.Which pastime do you most enjoy?A. Taking a walk in the parkB. Socializing with friendsC. Talking with your boyfriend/girlfriend on the phoneD. Spending a refreshing day atthe swimming pool3. Which story is most likely to attract your

attention?A. National Geographic’s article on IrelandB. A magazine article on the topten most exciting things to do on the weekendC. A romantic novel based on the lives of two famous loversD. A short news report on howa dog saved his family

4. Where can you be found on the weekends?A. Hanging out outdoorsB. At an awesome partyC. On a date: dinner and a movieD. Chilling at Java Café with one or two close friends

5. What describes you best?A. Calm, levelheaded, peaceful B. Energetic, fun-loving, outgoingC. Passionate, devoted, enthusiasticD. Caring, loving, dependable

6. Where would you prefer to visit?A. Montana, it is great for biking and hiking!B. Spain, late nights and festivals!C. Paris, the aura of beauty and love.D. Hawaii, the beach and ocean: what moredo you need?

7. Which style describes you best?A. Boho casual wear that is environmentally friendlyB. Trendy and up-to-date, you know what is in style!C. Elegant and classy, you love to dressup!D. T-shirt and jeans, maybe you will spring a nice shirt once in a while

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Mostly A’sGREEN- You know how to keep your cool in sticky situa-tions. People are drawn to you because of your peacefulmindset. You enjoy spending time in nature, relaxing andgoing with the flow. Confrontation is not your cup of tea.

Mostly B’sYELLOW- You tend to be the optimistic, happy one at thecenter of attention. People are intrigued by your light-hearted spirit and energy. You are known for your creativethoughts and fun times.

Mostly C’sRED- You are the confident, passionate one who tends tobe drawn to romance. You have determination and driveto accomplish every task handed to you. Friends enjoyyour compassionate thoughts and hard-working mental-ity. You are bold and not afraid to speak your mind.

Mostly D’sBLUE- You are the dependable, trustworthy and commit-ted one. People see you as a loyal friend and comforter.You have wonderful listening abilities and are alwaysthere for a friend in need. You are nurturing and enjoyspending your time helping others.

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Audrey Hepburn, MarilynMonroe and Jennifer Anis-ton. All have one thing in

common: great style and an iconicmake-up look. Here are some waysto bring out your inner movie starand create a classic Hollywoodmake-up look of your own. Getready to walk the red carpet!

Audrey Hepburn’s style in Break-fast at Tiffany’s was simple, chic andgirly. With her signature boyishbrows and voluptuous lashes, sheis easily one of the most stylishwomen of all time.

To create Hepburn’s look, startwith a base of liquid foundationand set with powder. Then applyan off-white eye shadow over yourentire eyelid and line your top eye-lid with a black pencil eyeliner.Next, add a skin-colored brownshadow to your brow bone and thecrease of your eyelid to add defini-tion. Smudge the eyeliner into yourlashes with a q-tip so the line is nottoo harsh.

Audrey Hepburn always worefalse eyelashes, but if they are notyour thing, curl your lashes andadd two coats of black mascara.Then add a creamy, baby pinkblush to the apple of your cheeks.Try Maybelline New York DreamMousse Blush in Whipped Straw-berries. Finally, line your lips with a nude

brown liner and fill in with a mattelight pink lipstick.

Marilyn Monroe’s make-up wasalways classic, polished and glam.To create this blonde bombshell’slook, start again with a liquid foun-dation base and set with powder.Marilyn Monroe was known forher perfectly groomed, high-archedeyebrows. Fill in your eyebrowswith a light brown eye pencil and

sweep on clear mascara so that thecolor and shape are locked in.Apply a shimmery bright-whiteeye shadow over your entire eyelidand a medium brown shade toyour lid and crease. Try SoniaKashuk in Sandy Brown andRevlon Color Stay 12 Hour Eye-shadow in White Whisper.

Next, apply a thick line of liquideyeliner to your top eyelid andcarry it out past the end of youreyelashes. Finish by curling yourlashes and adding two coats of jetblack mascara. This will create theretro cat eye that Marilyn Monroeloved. Finally, add a coat of Mari-lyn’s signature cherry-red lipstick.Try Tropez Moisturizing Lipstick inBeri Beri Red.

For a more modern day Holly-wood look, search no further thanmovie star Jennifer Aniston. Hernatural girl-next door appeal is partof what has made her so famous.Aniston’s make-up style is perfectfor the girl who does not like towear too much make-up. It is aquick way to be effortlessly glam-orous.

Start with a liquid foundation anddust with bronzer for Jennifer’ssun-kissed appearance. Next, add ashimmery cream eyeshadow toyour entire eyelid. Try Cover GirlProfessional Eye-Enhancers inFrench Vanilla. Line your top andbottom eyelids with a chocolatebrown eye pencil and add twocoats of brown mascara to yourlashes. Complete this look with apeachy blush and clear lip gloss.

With inspiration from AudreyHepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Jen-nifer Aniston, you can create yourown classic make-up look.

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Iconic make-up looks flatter all

“My look is attainable.Women can look likeAudrey Hepburn by

flipping out their hair,buying the large

sunglasses and thelittle sleeveless

dresses.”-Audrey Hepburn

“I love the confidence thatmake-up gives

me.” -Tyra Banks

“The best thingis to look

natural, but ittakes

make-up to look natural.”

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Baseball season, the majestic pastime ofrosin bags, metal bats and hot dogs, ishere.

"We started conditioning in October andconcentrated on arms and shoulders," base-ball coach Tom Mathis said.

As of April 29, the baseball team hasworked hard for a record of 25-9.

"We have a great group of freshmen andone of the most successful J.V. teams wehave ever had," Mathis said.

"Our teams, both J.V. and varsity, arestacked with great players," sophomoreUriel Hawkins said.

One of the biggest strengths the baseballteam possesses is senior leadership.

"Our strengths are we play as a team, notan individual, and go out there and havefun. We always keep each other from gettingdown on ourselves," Hawkins said.

"Our team’s biggest strength is our of-fense," junior Jesse McNeil said.

Mathis hopes that the baseball playershave complete determination in playinghard and successfully.

"I want them to show their appreciationof the gift that God has given them," Mathissaid.

Competition is becoming a challenge forthe team inside and outside of their district.

"The baseball team's biggest competitorsare Germantown and Christian BrothersHigh School," Mathis said.

Tom Mathis, Steve Wilder and Paul Deckerare dedicated coaches who are leading thebaseball team to victory.

"My favorite part of coaching is watchingthe young men develop into great athletesfrom their freshman year to senior year andalso watching them succeed after leavinghigh school," Mathis said.

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Running through the competition, the girls’ trackteam is in first place.

“We’ve done really good so far,” senior CourtneyBeckley said.

“I think we are pretty solid. The girls really run welltogether,” freshman Savannah Johnson said.

The team has had a challenging year because of thecold, rainy weather. Although the weather has been ahuge issue for them, the girls have worked evenharder.

“The girls are doing very well. The weather is not co-operating as we are having to cancel meets,” CoachAmy Beckley said.

Consisting of mostly underclassmen, the team isquick and on their toes.

“We only have three seniors: Courtney Beckley, Whit-ney Carter and Victoria McLin. Otherwise we are veryyoung, but the young ones are very talented,” Beckleysaid.

Each team has its own goals and obstacles to over-come. The goals for this year’s girls’ track team are forthe girls to win their third straight region champi-onship. The obstacles so far have been the weather andinjuries.

“I like cold weather least about track,” junior AshleyStorey said.

“This year is kind of aggravating because of theweather. Regionals are going to creep up on us,” Beck-ley said.

“The team is doing good! They are better at somethings over the last years, but not as strong as others.It seems to balance out,” Beckley said.

In order to keep the girls winning all their trackmeets, they have to practice. The girls practice everyday after school until five unless they have trackmeets.

“So far the girls have won all meets,” Beckley said.“Most of our meets have been at home. We had one

at USJ. We have competed against Dyer County, JCS,USJ, Trinity and a few other schools,” Johnson said.

“We have proven ourselves once again as being agood team. We are undefeated once again this year,”senior Whitney Carter said.

“Of the freshmen, we have had one already break aschool record, Arielle Haynes in the 300 meter hurdles.Bria Taylor is just on the verge of breaking two schoolrecords, 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. Thereare several freshman that are very good!” Beckleysaid.

The team has practiced long, hard hours, which haspaid off thus far.

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Track meet at home: Coach Beckley, her husband Jeff Beckleyand one of their daughters, Heather, oversee seniors CourtneyBeckley and Lavar Walker, freshman Iesha Turner and junior JohnHenderson as they prepare for their individual events.

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Recent years have seen a phe-nomenal growth of the vam-pire sub-genre in popular

literature, and perhaps the best andmost well-known of these is the Twi-light series by Stephanie Meyer.

Consisting of three books, with afourth and final volume due in earlyAugust of this year, the series followsBella Swan as she moves to one of therainiest towns in the US, Forks, Wash-ington, and meets a mysterious familyof vampiresnamed theCullens. TheCullens havetaken up whatthey refer to asa “vegetarian”lifestyle, re-fraining fromd r i n k i n ghuman bloodso they areable to live andfunction in so-ciety almostnormally. Bellabecomes hope-lessly entan-gled in theiraffairs afterE d w a r dCullen, a boyof Bella’s age,saves her life. Later adventures in-clude encounters with hostile vam-pires, werewolves, and Bella’s ownknack for finding mortal danger ineveryday circumstances.

But what makes Twilight any betterthan its rivals? For one thing, it’s aneasy and addictive read. There isenough suspense to keep the plotmoving but not enough to be annoy-ing or overt. For another, the writingstyle itself is at once eloquent and sim-ple. The characters are also shockinglywell-developed. Meyer herself men-tioned once that her goal was to havecharacters so real and human that im-possible situations were made life-like.

It works. One would expect anybook containing both vampires andwerewolves, especially one written sorecently, to come off as cliche or for-mulaic. But on the contrary, Twilight(especially the second and third booksin the series, New Moon and Eclipse)contains surprising insight into the na-ture of love, hate, fear and the instinctfor survival.

The series also has some interestingthematic elements. The familiar “mon-

ster andmaiden” lovestory found inThe Phantom ofthe Opera, TheHunchback ofNotre Dame,Beauty and theBeast and otherclassic tales isalso apparentin Twilight, butwith a twist:here, the vam-pires are beau-tiful andimmortal. Inmany waysthey are supe-rior to humans,so the story isnot of a womanwho pities a

wretched beast but of a godlike super-human who falls helplessly for aclumsy, average girl. The contrast be-tween the archetypes is played uponthroughout the series.

As a whole, Twilight is a rare gem inthe pile of gravel that is popular liter-ature. It doesn’t compare to its nine-teenth century counterparts in mattersof epic plots and unforgettable charac-ters, but it makes up for all that withfluidly descriptive writing. For some-thing so recent, it’s definitely worth aread.

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Falling Up returns withtheir third and latestalbum, Captiva.

Falling Up is a contempo-rary Christian group withcreative lyrics. Instead oftheir usual guitar rock,Falling Up has added moreof a piano-pop sound totheir track. Captiva is an up-beat album with inspiringmusic about not being heldcaptive but breaking loose.

One of Falling Up’s morepopular songs, “HotelAquarium,” is one of theirlatest hits. The lyrics speakof letting go of the dark pastthat is dwelled on and hold-ing onto Christ. It is impor-tant to know that beingalive is all because of Christfilling that God-shaped holein the heart. Although thefeeling of being alone oc-

curs, God can remove thatloneliness.

Captiva might not befound in the dictionary, buttrack four explains themeaning further. It de-scribes how sometimes peo-ple get so caught up in theeveryday life of the worldthat they become captive.Coming to the realizationthat there does not have tobe a meaning for everythingcan allow anyone to seepast the fog and see thelight.

Looking to buy a new CD?Falling Up has a vast arrayof songs with their poeticlyrics and distinct musicstyle. Captiva, being theirnewest album, is by fartheir best work yet.

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