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Halloween / 09 chophouse / 22 girls’ cross country / 25 Israel vs Palestine / 29

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06 Tribal talentThe annual talent show on Oct. 12 gave students the opportunities to display their talents, with The Beast Crew taking first place.

13 An eye for an eyeTake an in-depth look at crime, tragedy and the po-lice response in Mount Pleasant in this issue’s special section.

23 Girl got golfShowing leadership and skill, senior Katie Coey-man helps her team reach the state golf tournament. Read more on page 23.

by the numbers: Halloween that’s what you said...

What do you do Halloween night?

36 million the estimated number of trick-or-treaters nationwide in 2009

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Haunted houses, pumpkin carving and trick-or-treat-ing have long been associated with Halloween. Have you ever wondered why we celebrate this spooky holiday?

32 A school unitedThe varsity football team beat Beaufort 43-21 for a Homecoming victory on Oct. 7. See pictures and read more on page 32.

22 ChophouseWarrior fans lead a new age of school spirit for foot-ball games, but administrators warn students not to take things too far.

29 The silent warPalestine and Israel have been struggling over the issue of land for years. Now Palestine wants to be recognized by the United Nations.

931 million pounds of pumpkins grown by major pumpkin producing states in 2009

1,814 number of costume rental stores nationwide in 2008

24.3 pounds of candy consumed per capita by Ameri-cans in 2009

What is your favorite Halloween candy out of these choices?

-All statistics courtesy of halloweenstats.com

Reese’s Cups

Snickers

Hershey Bars

Skittles

Double Bubble Bubblegum

Go trick-or-treating

Pass out candy

Take a younger sibling trick-or-treating

Go to a party

Other

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5. Dis-play your pump-kin.Light a candle, place the top, and enjoy.

link to whstribe.com to view additional pic-tures of sports events, performances and school activites. Also see additional stories, sports and reviews. A database of the year’s TribeTalks and Tribal Tribunes are on the whstribe.com as well.PHONE

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Morgan Blake

Getting to knowfreshman How to...

carve a pumpkinby caitie armstrong

Tribal Tribune staffer Caitie Armstrong, along with Anna Rogerson and Nathan Glyder, helps demostrate the best way to carve the perfect pumpkin.

Tribal Tribune: What’s your favorite thing about Wando?Morgan Blake: I like the vend-ing machines. They’re conve-niently located.

TT: If a genie granted you three wishes, what would they be?MB: Oh, that’s a tough one. Can I do more wishes? And then new clothes. World peace?

TT: What’s your favorite sub-ject?MB: I like AP Human Geogra-phy.

TT: What do you want to be when you grow up?MB: A doctor? Missionary? Not sure.

TT: Do you play any sports?MB: Yes, I play soccer. Just for club right now, but I’ll try out for Wando in the spring.

TT: Are you good?MB: Hopefully. [smiles]

2. Clean out the pumpkin.You’re going to get your hands messy. And your elbows. Scrape and scoop until all guts are out. Be sure to get the seeds and any loose innards. They will cause problems later if not removed.

3. Begin punch-ing.Pin each corner of your design to the pumpkin folding around the edges to fit a flat surface to a round one. Then begin punching along the lines. Don’t waste time by making punches too close together.

4. Saw.Take the saw and cut along your punched lines. You may use the hand-held electric saws for longer pieces. Be sure to cut pieces in the middle FIRST. After sawing the edge of the piece, push it into the pumpkin. If it does not fall in, resaw the edges.

1. Pick a pump-kin and a design.Make sure the pumpkin is big enough to fit the design, and that the design is appropriate for your skill level. More intricate designs are

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4-4 School Board vote putsbuilding plans on hold

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Middle College split right down the middle

For two years, Principal Lucy Beckham has spent hours working with architects perfecting the blueprints for the Middle College. Plans spread across the oversized conference table in her office -- a book of blueprints an inch thick lays among a scatter of 11 more sheets.

But after a surprise Charleston County School Board move on Oct. 10, all the time and the plans may be put aside.

The School Board was expected to approve the con-tract continuing the Middle College’s design, but the vote failed at 4-4. Board member Ann Oplinger was absent; be-cause of the tie, the Board agreed to re-vote on the issue at the Nov. 14 meeting.

Until then, Beckham said she will continue her work on the Middle College, which is set to be completed in 2014.

“If we don’t continue the work and we stop, and then it is funded, then it’s not going to be able to open in time because we didn’t get this part done. So we’ll just keep marching and hope,” Beckham said.

The $49.7 million Middle College option – featuring a 108,000 square foot building offering vocational majors and new course pathways from cosmetology to biomedi-cal science as well as more space for AP and dual credit courses – already has funding from a public vote in 2010 that slated a one-cent sales tax in the county to go towards school building improvements.

“The committee who was charged with making the decision recommended that the Middle College be built immediately and that a second high school be put on the horizon for as soon as possible after that,” Beckham said.

The vote temporarily halting the plans was a surprise, Beckham said. Kate Darby, Wando’s Chairman of the School Improvement Council, said she also was shocked at the failure to pass.

“I don’t think that it should be an issue,” Darby said. Moffly, a Charleston County School Board member,

is opposed to the Middle College. She said she believes Mount Pleasant needs a second high school rather than a middle college.

“I am in support of transforming all high schools in their existing facilities to implement programs that are geared towards dual credit, which is what a middle college does,” Moffly said. “That’s what I’m for. It doesn’t require a new building. You can do it in your existing building.”

Beckham said the Middle College, however, would serve not only as a Career and Technology Center, but it would relieve the overcrowding at Wando until a second high school could be built.

“The negative that was mentioned [during the Oct. 10 School Board meeting] was that it was going to put even more people in this area – more cars, more traffic. Some of

the students in the Middle College will be students who are leaving the trailers that are already here. So it’s not neces-sarily going to add 600 more students or cars here,” Beck-ham said.

“However, the location was chosen because when we looked at other places in South Carolina and the East – places we visited – the ones that seemed to work the best and were the most utilized by the students were next to the largest high school in the district. It’s logical to put it next to the school that will be the greatest user of the service. The land was free. It was donated by the developer of Caro-lina Park, and the logic was it was closer to walk to that building than to many of our current trailers,” she added.

Moffly said the Middle College is not an advantage to students. “I think it’s so unfair for our students — for you guys, what’s in your best interests,” she said. “Why would you not want a second high school? The second high school would not be in the league that Wando is in by any means sports-wise because I would never promote build-ing a school that large.”

Darby disagrees.“I don’t think anyone objects to a second high school.

I think most people agree that a second high school should be built, hopefully on that property on Mathis Ferry,” Dar-by said. “But before that happens, we need more opportu-nities and we need more seats. Pretty soon ya’ll are going to have trailers all over the Wando campus and that doesn’t make any sense.”

According to Beckham, Wando’s size is its advantage and the Middle College will just improve Wando.

“I think everybody needs to become aware of what the process was because there was some misinformation given out at the board meeting by some board members who I think perhaps just didn’t know,” she said. “There had been a huge amount of community involvement and the community had made this decision. It was a community decision – it wasn’t a three or four people in a back room decision. I think we have to respect the fact that there are people in Mount Pleasant who really do wish there was an-other high school, and if this was its own school district, I

have no doubt that probably both would be happening. “But the careers center will serve the other high

school,” she continued. “It’s kind of like everybody who went to school thinks they have the idea of what school should be like, but they are limited to the experiences of their own life. That’s kind of what I figured out over time.”

Darby also thinks the Middle College will improve the whole community and hopes parents and students will endorse it as well.

“I’m going to encourage as many people as possible to go to those meetings and put pressure on the School Board to think about what’s best for the community first, and in this particular case, it’s what’s best for the East Cooper community but it’s also what’s best for the coun-ty,” she said. “The whole idea of the Middle College is to be at Wando, centrally located so that kids from Lincoln can take advantage, and then eventually kids at the sec-ond high school at Wando South.

“It is a win-win and they’re not going to be able to build a high school with the money that’s there. I had parents who were there at the meeting tell me that they were shocked – that they couldn’t believe it [that the vote did not pass]. They couldn’t believe that that action was taken,” Darby added.

The Charleston County school board will re-vote on Nov. 14, and until then, the hopes are high for supporters of the Middle College.

“I feel like a lot of research has been done on this and moving forward with the Middle College and then a second high school will serve everybody’s needs,” Darby said.

“I’m very concerned that if we don’t move forward – if we throw the Middle College out, we wasted money and ya’ll are going to be crowded at Wando – we’re not doing what’s best for our children. I think that’s what we always prided ourselves on in Mount Pleasant,” she con-tinued. “We work hard for our children and our schools because we want the best opportunities we can give them, and that includes a Middle College and then a second high school.”

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Principal Lucy Beckham and Assistant Principal William Outlaw look at the blueprints for the Middle College Oct. 18.

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Hunt Club center of censorship challenge at School Board level

co-writing editor

The controversy rolls on

Censorship. To many in the literary world -- or any community -- it’s a dirty word, symbolizing creative oppression and the absence of free will. To others, it is more about responsibility and protect-ing innocence.

For the past year, the question of cen-sorship of local author Brett Lott’s book The Hunt Club has been prominent, as me-dia specialist Emilie Woody and Lott have been fighting to keep his novel on the list of recommended summer reading mate-rial for juniors.

“At first I thought it was kind of funny. I wasn’t sure if it was for real,” Lott said, who is a College of Charleston English pro-fessor and the author of 13 books, includ-ing Jewel, which was chosen to be a part of Oprah’s book club. “I thought that it was kind of a joke. I didn’t think of it as being as malevolent as it was being portrayed, so at first I just didn’t really believe it.”

The Hunt Club has been on the Wando list of summer reading material for seven years, but it was not until the 2010-2011 school year that Woody heard a complaint.

“I was surprised, I mean I had read the book. I just didn’t see it that way at all, it’s not that I didn’t notice the language,” Woody said. “I clearly understood it in the context, but I was willing to go back and that’s why we put the committee together at Wando even though we didn’t have to.”

After receiving the complaint, Woody

-- with other teachers and administrators -- reread the novel and decided not to remove it from the list.

“The parents didn’t feel like that was enough because we’re not willing to remove it from the reading list, which is what they wanted to have happen,” Woody said.

Based in the Lowcountry, The Hunt Club, Lott said, is not meant as a young adult novel and does contain some graphic language and violent scenes that the par-ents objected to.

“It’s not a young adult novel. When I wrote it, I wasn’t thinking high school read-ers. I was thinking this is about a kid, he’s 15 years old, he’s trying to figure out who he is,” Lott said. “Who am I on the face of the earth? That was the thing that I was writing. That was the most important ele-ment of the book.”

According to the complaint, the par-ents’ believed there were multiple themes that were not suitable for young adults: “We object to the profanity, racial slurs and degradation of women and motherhood. The book displays violence and introduced marijuana, as well as drinking alcohol. The book brings no literary value, and offers nothing toward their literary growth, and has no high moral value.”

Woody and Lott find several of these complaints difficult to understand.

“The foul language, absolutely, there is,” Woody said. “The book’s theme is good versus evil, and the way that the author clearly portrays for the reader who the good characters are and who the bad char-acters are, language is one of those things. That’s what happens in literature.”

Lott believes the language used is nec-essary in differentiating between the good and bad characters, and argues that the

book is meant to display a positive message. “The main character used bad lan-

guage and he’s reprimanded by his uncle for it,” he said. “When the bad people speak badly, I am never going to write a sentence in which a bad guy says ‘gee willikers’ and we all tremble.”

Since Woody’s first recommendation to have the novel remain in schools, anoth-er committee, at the district level, came to the same conclusion.

“That committee gave their recom-mendation to Dr. [Nancy] McGinley, and Dr. McGinley sent the ruling saying that’s what we’re going to do,” Woody said. “It can stay with disclaimer statements. The parents are not ok with that; the parents are now taking it to the School Board.”

The School Board will take the final vote on whether to remove the book from reading lists across the county.

Lott finds the idea of attempting to censor a book difficult.

“I can’t say unequivocally that books should be banned. No, I don’t think so. I think there are books that nobody needs to read,” he said. “There’s no reason for me to say because I don’t think anyone should read this book that you can’t read it. You can do what you want; it’s called free will.”

Working with books everyday, Woody also finds the concept difficult to under-stand. “As a librarian, I would be very much against censorship,” she said. “You’re reduc-ing access to information for somebody else, so where’s the stopping point?”

Both Lott and Woody said they under-stand the reasons for why a parent might want to censor a book.

“The thing for me is that I think young adult literature and adult literature are starting to blur. We have young adults in our building who are dealing with some really tough things,” Woody said. “That’s their reality. For us to say that’s not valid or it doesn’t belong, well what does that say about them?”

Lott, though disagreeing that the book should be censored, commends the parents for having an active role in their child’s life.

“I don’t have any problem at all with these people saying no, we don’t want our son to read this book. That is absolutely correct, and it shows that these people are parents who actually have an active role in their children’s lives, and that’s a good thing,” he said. “But to resolve it in a way that extracts the book so that no one can read the book is censorship, and that’s wrong.”

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Color Purple by Alice Walker Ulysses by James Joyce Beloved by Toni Morrison The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 1984 by George Orwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell/Justin Richardson The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Crank by Ellen Hopkins The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Lush by Natasha Friend What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Revolutionary Voices by Amy Sonnie Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

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The sociology classes taught by Christopher Poston and Darrell Hedrick are partnering with St. James Santee Elementary School in McClellanville. Wando students will act as student mentors and stress the importance of staying in school and overcoming obstacles in life.

“Books and bed time stories were important to us as children, but unfortunately kids at St. James Santee did not have that luxury” said junior Krista Stanton, head of media for the project.

There are two raffles going on at the moment, one of which is for the freshman -- a ticket is awarded to each individual who turns in three books, which could then lead to a prize. The other raffle is available to students that can drive -- each ticket costs a dollar and grants an equal opportunity to win a parking space. All the money earned from the parking space raffle will go to the school and the books will go to the children.

Junior El-loit Bacon (Front) and Junior Uly Vannavong (Back) per-form their first place routine.

Notable achievements

Freshman Rika Win made the All-Region Orchestra on the violin. “I worked re-ally hard for it. When I started playing I assumed I didn’t get in,” Win said. “Then I looked on the website and saw I got first violin.”

The hidden crafts of the student body were put on display Oct. 12 to the delight of many, with juniors Uly Vannavong and Elliot Bacon taking top prize in the annual competition.

The final contender managed to steal the show and place in first -- The Beast Crew, a duo of two dancers. They won the judges over with their renditions of breakdancing and choreography.

“I got into dancing around sixth grade, and everybody around me was doing it,” Vannavong said. “And that was it.”

What makes it such a passionate part of his life, he said, is that “it’s a way to express and entertain people.”

Bacon stumbled upon dancing in a different manner. “I started skating a lot and then once I got off my

skates, I started dancing. I’ve always been dancing since about three,” he said. “It’s just…I like the way my body feels with the music. The music and my body are one. Mind, body, spirit.”

First runner up was Becca Sobieszczyk for her techno-colored hoop dancing to Miley Cyrus’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”

“My mom actually got started with [hoop dancing]

Bacon, Vannavong win annual school talent show

Sophomore Madison Fields made the All- Region Orchestra on the bass. “I was really excited because I get an opportunity to play with all these awesome people,” Fields said. Orchestra teacher Derek Deakins said it’s the first time the program has had six members at once make All-Region.

Over half of the Yearbook staff members walked in the Race for the Cure Oct. 15. English teacher and Legend adviser Jeannie Fox, who formed the team last year, has done several breast cancer walks.

“It’s something I just decided I would do” Fox said. “It’s a good bonding experience for us all outside of the classroom -- to kick back and get to know one another while supporting a really good cause.”

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through some of her friends,” she said. “They took a class through KC Douglas who owns the business Home Spun Hoops, and they did it as an exercise type deal. And then one night...I was really upset, so she told me to come so that I wouldn’t be sad anymore.”

After she went to the class, a new passion was found-ed.

“I was just sitting there and just watching them do it, and then KC came over -- she’s the owner and she’s really cool,” Sobieszczyk added. “She was like, ‘You can’t sit there; you have to do it!’ And I was like, ‘Fine, whatever’ and I picked up a hula hoop and I was just doing it... she’s really good at it, so she was just teaching me all kinds of new tricks. Then I just fell in love with it.”

Placing in third was John Butler for his performance of his original song “If You Let Me Down.”

“I owe it to a really bad breakup,” said Butler, who won first place in the 2010 talent show. “It was just kind of a song about the pain of it, and also looking forward to somebody new, and just asking them not to do the same thing really.”

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Junior Irving Chao made the All-Region Orchestra on the viola. “Hard work pays off. you really get re-warded for it,” Chao said.

Freshman James Meyers made All Region Orches-tra on the cello. “I felt so happy because it was my first time getting in there. I didn’t think I’d get in because I messed up a few times. But I did pretty good; either you get the scales or you don’t, and I got them. I nailed that,” Meyers said.

Sophomore David Hall made the All- Region Orchestra on the vio-lin. “I’m glad I made it. I was suprised and relieved,” Hall said.

Sophomore Casey Wells made the All-Region Orchestra on the viola. “I couldn’t believe it. I worked really hard on it,” Wells said. “I didn’t know I would make it because I was with all the high schoolers. Hard work paid off.”

The Wando High School Band will be competing in the Bands of America (BOA) competition in Atlanta Oct. 28-29. This year’s show is “Daedalus and Icarus: A Metamorphoses,” featuring music by Dmitri Shosta-kovich, Jay Bocook and James Newton Howard. “Our show’s going to be really amazing…we’ll just have to put all of what we have into it,” said drum major Claire Bogdan.

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Honors and CP classes are often thought of as being completely separate and unique. Now that is changing; budget cuts are forcing schools to either cut or combine classes.

“I didn’t know what to expect, I knew it would be different, but I didn’t know how it would influence the class,” said se-nior and honors anatomy and physiology student David Leggett.

The combined classes were put into effect as a solution to under-sized classes that were not big enough on their own for a teacher. This has been implemented for the Chemistry II and Anatomy and Phys-iology classes.

“The option is either put up with [combined classes] or not get the course, and I think [the latter] weighs more heav-ily than not getting it,” Director of Guid-ance Sheila Sparks said.

“There is no difference [from a nor-mal class] as far as the student is con-cerned,” Anatomy and Physiology teacher Deana Herring said. “They’re still doing all of the work that an honors student

would do in an honors class and CP stu-dents are doing what CP students would do.”

Occasionally, there can be confusion between the honors and CP halves of the class.

“Occasionally there are some logistical issues of people knowing what work they have to do and who has to do what project and what they’re expected to do,” Leggett said.

While combining classes may not be ideal, Herring said that it can break down barriers and introduce CP students to hon-ors classes.

“ I think that we should m o v e away from s e p a r a t -ing our s t u d e n t s into applied, CP and honors,” Herring said. “Each student could be pushed to do more if they were in combined ed courses, rather than being stuck with the exact same people all the time, doing the exact same thing.”

At the same time, having combined classes has shown the contrast between honors and CP, according to Science De-partment Chair Ruth Truluck.

“It [has] made teachers really examine what the difference is between honors and CP,” Truluck said. “It [has] probably made them better teachers and have a better grip on that difference rather than a teacher that teaches some honors and some CP classes.”

Having combined honors and CP classes has been a tough sell for parents, ac-cording to Herring.

“[Parents] want to make sure that their honors students are getting honors rigor and CP parents want to make sure that their students aren’t getting poor grades because they’re in a class that has honors students,” Herring said.

W h e n having to choose be-tween cut-ting classes or combin-ing them, the combi-

nation classes allow for a workable, if im-perfect, solution according to Sparks.

“Ms. [Principal Lucy] Beckham has been very, very creative and she under-stands master scheduling that she’s been able to make these things work, to make them possible,” Sparks said. “Until the bud-get issue changes, I think it’s here to stay. It comes to the bottom line, it’s either that or nothing at all.”

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Because of numbers, classes are pushed together

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Honors, CPclasses offered at Wando

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3 AP5 Honors 4 College Prep6 Electives

3 AP 5 Honors 5 College Prep

7 AP5 Honors Social Studies9 College Prep6 Electives

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New student’s moving to Wando prompts formation of club to welcome newcomers

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‘Come together, right now’

Sophomore Miranda Godfrey’s first day at Wando wasn’t the easiest.

“[Wando] is kind of overwhelming because there are a lot of people, and the first week of school I had to sit at lunch by myself. It was kind of depressing,” Godfrey said, who moved to Mt. Pleasant from Indianapolis during the summer 2011.

Getting rid of this feeling and getting accustomed to a new school, as a new student, has always been a fumbling to find a student’s place. To ease the transition, junior Mi-chael O’Brien is helping new students by starting up the Newcomer’s Club.

The club is a way for new students to get to know the school and South Carolina with the support of stu-dents who know how it feels to be new. “All of the leaders moved here previous years ago, so they help you find out what to do,” Godfrey said.

“It’s amazing how different it can be just moving somewhere that’s even in the same country and it feels like

you’re going to a different continent,” said O’ Brien, who moved to Mt. Pleasant from New York the summer before his sophomore year. His personal experiences inspired him to start the club. “I had no family here, no friends, I didn’t even have siblings that were in the high school, so I just wanted a way for [new students] to meet people faster than what I had because that was really difficult,” he said.

Godfrey had similar troubles when she moved from Indianapolis for her dad’s job, but the Newcomers’ club helped.

“My parents went to the new people’s meeting before school started and then I started going once school start-ed,” Godfrey said.

Since a club needs beginnings, it took not only O’Brien’s dedication to the concept, but an administra-tor’s stamp of approval. “It started last year when I went to [Assistant Principal Bryan] Hearn with the idea, and then over the summer I set it up with [former Assistant Principal Bill] Smyth, and we planned a bunch of events, like a barbeque,” O’Brien said. “We set up an orientation for before when school started to show [the new students] around the school and let them know what the club was about.”

O’Brien’s previous teachers, Erin Lowry and Jared Ty-ler, became the sponsors of the club. “They’re extremely nice, and they don’t even seem like teachers to me any-more,” O’Brien said.

Lowry said she feels strongly about students, especial-

ly ones new to the school, having a place where they can attach roots and grow. “I thought it was very essential for kids to feel like they have somewhere to go,” she said, “and have somewhere they are comfortable.”

The meetings provide a place where new students can connect, Godfrey said. “There are a lot of people who’ve moved from the same place as you, and you can have stuff in common with a lot of other people,” she said. “If you’re scared, you can find out who has your lunch.”

The club has 30 members, but current members have lofty aspirations, O’Brien said. “We are hoping to get ev-erybody involved, and next year we’re definitely going to start off with more events so we can get kids involved right away, because that’s when we need it the most,” he said.

“I hope that it grows where it’s not the same people coming every single time,” Lowry said. “I want those peo-ple to meet other people. I basically want it to be a place where we can help facilitate friendships, people getting comfortable here getting involved in clubs, getting in-volved in sports, anything like that.”

The club is not only for new students. “If they really like it and they got a lot of friends in it then they can stay next year,” O’Brien said. “I think that would be great; I ac-tually hope that they would do that.”

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Famed author lives on in the Charleston area

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Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, Sullivan’s Island -- an eerie combi-nation that lives on.

“The Balloon Hoax,” “The Oblong Box” and “The Gold Bug”: Poetry and tales of voodoo magic, pirates, treasure hunting, superstitions and the marsh-ridden South Carolina Coast.

It all lives on in more ways than on paper however. Poe is still very much alive.

Located on Ión Avenue, the Edgar Allan Poe Library at any other time of the year may seem like your typical quaint, small town library. However, take a trip down there around Jan. 19, Poe’s birthday, and you’ll find an en-tire window display done up in his honor. You may even catch a glimpse of “The Raven” or “Annabel Lee” wan-dering around the front desk, as the employees are often known to dress as characters from his more preeminent pieces.

Once you’ve had your fill of literature springing to life — literally, and you’re ready to get your grub on, just down Middle Street lays Poes’ Tavern. The atmosphere is very fitting for your journey back to the 1800s, with portraits of Poe hung all around.

Maybe you’ll even decide to take a treasure hunt of your own. All you need is a golden scarab and a hunger for adventure — so it’s probably best to wait after all your food digests from Poes’ Tavern.

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Soundgarden, Snoop Dog, My Chemi-cal Romance, Blink 182, Girl Talk

Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, Crystal Castles, TV on the Radio, The Antlers, Chromeo, Flying Lotus, and more.

Spoon, Ra Ra Riot, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Diplo, Flying Lotus, The Joy Formidable and more.

Located in Downtown Charleston, this tour is filled with many stories of the past from old streets and al-leyways to churches and cemeteries, in addition to the historical pre-Revolutionary War Provost Dungeon.

Tours last for 90 minutes and run Tuesday through Saturday. Prices vary.

Boone Hall Fright Night is perhaps one of the most anticipated haunted attractions, holding some of the most terrifying attractions in the area, from Nightmare Manor to Terror Trail Hayride to Psycho Clowns in 3D.

Due to the intense and graphic material of the hor-rors, it is not recommended for anyone under 12 years of age to enter.

Passes can be bought for $25 which includes all four attractions. Fight Night is open on Fridays and Saturdays until midnight and on all other days from dark to 10 p.m.

Nature and the supernatural are mixed at Cypress Garden’s Halloween in the Swamp. There will be a lighted pumpkin trail, jump castles, storytelling with Mike Miller, a campfire and marshmallow roast.

It is recommended for the whole family. Halloween in the Swamp is on Oct. 20-22 from 7:30

p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

History seen from another angle; that is what you get this Halloween on the USS Yorktown. The event is based off of Blackbeard and his siege of Charleston.

There will tales of eerie haunting’s, tours held about the siege and Blackbeard’s pirates and tales of the skull from Blackbeard which happens to be on board the ship.

Tours will be held Oct. 28-31. The first will begin at 7 p.m. and the last will end at 11 pm. Ticket fees are $15 and the parking fee is $5.

Haunted houses in the Lowcountry

Ghost and Provost Dungeon

Cypress Garden’s Halloween in the Swamp

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- compiled by julie stoyerA view of the Haunted House at Boone Hall’s Fright Night located off of Highway 17.

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So what’s on your playlist? Every issue a Tribal Tribune staffer will share her taste in music, selecting the top four songs they thinks everyone should have on their playlist.

Listening to “Hobo Girl” makes me want to just get up and trek across the country on a whimsical adventure. The song just sounds so western and romantic with its upright piano. Old west romanticism, basically.

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend

““Walcott”

“East Harlem”

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Fruit Bats

“Hobo Girl”

The Rumi-nant Band

PICK: Free time

Picks & Peeveswith keanau ormsonassociate editor

“Check the Rhyme”

A Tribe Called QuestThe Low End Theory

With smooth beat and deli-cious rhymes, the voices of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg just flow together so well, letting us know that record company people are shady. “Check the Rhyme” is a classic song from one of the greatest rap duos ever.

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The only problem we could find with Kilwins was finding parking. With its location at 59 South Market Street in downtown Charleston, the area can get pretty congested. The streets, however, were not the only thing congested. Upon arriving at the candy shop, we realized just how busy it truly was.

The candy shop was packed and could easily become uncomfortably crowded, yet the service was great and prompt. Their pricing was a little high, advertised at nearly $5 a quarter pound. However, while the prices seemed high, the quality and taste were even higher. Kilwins was easily the favorite of the day.

Kilwins

Polo shirts, if they were audible, would sound like Vampire Weekend. “Walcott” is the classiest and happiest of all the Vampire Week-end songs. The fast paced piano and ringing guitars just scream Cape Cod.

“East Harlem” is one of the happiest songs I’ve ever heard. It calms me and throws me into some quaint local parade, drinking hot tea in the cold weather while dancing,.. in the sound.

PEEVE: No lead

PICK: USC football

PEEVE: Gym shorts

It’s halfway through the test and you find yourself on a roll. You are doing great. Snap. That final piece of lead snaps and you’re out of luck. You have a sixteen other mechanical pencils in your backpack but not a single one of them has lead. And then you must shamefully whisper to your neighbor for some lead, only to be yelled at by your teacher for all the wrong reasons.

Between work, school, newspaper and everything else, there is so little time to just sit back, play guitar and relax. It may be just a glimpse of the real world but I think that the stress I’m feeling is pretty real. It feels so good just to sit back and relax every now and then.

I have taken the constant battering. the attacks by all the Clemson fans who think that one game will make a difference come November. I have stood my ground and watched as Carolina has thrown their starting quarterback off of the team -- I won’t mention any names. Regardless, I’m proud of my boys this season.

A lot of people make fun of me because I seem to have only one outfit: gym shorts and a hoody. But honestly I couldn’t care less. I’m in school -- I’m not going to torture myself to get up and get ready in the morning. Nope. I’m going to roll out of bed and know I’m going to be really comfortable when I’m sitting in class.

Sweet Julep’sWhen we walked into Sweet Julep’s,

one thing struck us -- the atmosphere. It makes you feel relaxed, unlike our other choices which could be slightly intimidat-ing. Downtown can be far too chaotic, and Julep’s has an easy going vibe.

It is conveniently located just to the left of the movie theater in Towne Center, mak-

ing it a nice place to stop in and get a treat -- especially the chocolate fudge -- before catching a movie or shopping. It doesn’t pose the issue of getting yourself lost, and the prices are reasonable.

Style is also definitely on their side; all together Sweet Julep’s is a good pick for your fudge needs.

Market Street SweetsMarket Street Sweets is located on 100

N. Market St. in downtown Charleston. With their homemade candy and prime location, we decided to put their fudge to the test.

Walking into the store, you see a line pushing to get through. It’s the type of store you want to get in and get out of quickly.

The store has an antiquated and cozy feel. The store has an excellent variety of fudge that tastes fresh from the oven. This savory food is the perfect delicacy because it satis-fies the hunger but doesn’t wear you down. It’s on the expensive side but because of its location, it is worth the cost and is the crowning addition to a pleasant city day.

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If there is one movie that fits the requirement of needing to watch it alone on this list, it is The Blair Witch Project. It doesn’t rely on jump scares or gore, instead what earns Blair Witch a spot on this list is that all of the footage is recovered from a real incident. Many movies have used a similar “amateur footage” approach since.

Starring the more well-known Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, Halloween is the slasher film that defined the genre. Halloween popu-larized the female heroine, the masked villain, open endings to horror movies and more. But what Halloween didn’t have was an unbelievable and embarrassing set up. What is more frighten-ing then an escaped mental patient free in your town?

So The Shining may not terrify audiences today, but just like the Torrances and Overlook Hotel it is hard to escape the legacy the 1980 film has left. The film’s release met mixed reviews upon release, but with each viewing you appreciate the amount of perplexity director Stanley Ku-brick put in The Shining. The same critics that blasted the movie at first have come back to say that it is one of the best horror movies of all time. Oh, and two words : Here’s Johnny.

“Hello Clarice.” Silence of the Lambs, the ulti-mate mind thriller follows FBI officer Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) as she studies the famous Doctor Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) as she tries to find serial killer Buffalo Bill. Every-thing about the film is eerie as Clarice becomes closer and closer to finding Bill. The intense scenes will have you nervous and on your seat, but strangely wanting more.

Tribal Tribune’s most influential horror movies

-- tanner hoisington, emilee kutyla, amanda sharpley

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Top twosEver wonder what the top songs, movies and tv shows are for the month of October?

I would still argue that written news is of a higher quality, but trying to ci-pher through hundreds of thousands of words across various sources is a daunt-ing task. Available for IOS and Android, Pulse is an rss reader that displays pic-tures along with headlines as you scroll though the latest articles. The end result is like a mosaic and as the developer says it’s news that is “fun and engaging.”

Pulse

“Mistletoe” - Justin Bieber“Make Me Proud” - Drake

Real SteelFootloose“Two and a Half Men”“Two and a Half Men”“Modern Family”

The Help by Kathryn StockettShock Wave by John Sandford

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playlist?What are your fellow students listen-ing too? Check freshman Julie Watkins’ picks:

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SELLING SONGS

GROSSING MOVIE

MOST-WATCHED SHOWS

SELLING BOOKS

I go to the Wando plays every year. The first time I heard about Footloose was when it was announced as Wando’s 2008 musical. The play was an unrealistic com-edy about a town that had a law that pro-hibited dancing. The singing and dancing was a little bit too cheesy, and there wasn’t really a plot. Even though it was a lot of fun, I didn’t take too much from the play. However, watching the movie really im-proved my understanding of what makes Footloose special.

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When his mother dies of leukemia, Ren McCorack (Kenny Wormald), a northern boy from Boston, moves to a small southern town with his uncle Wes Warnicker (Ray Mckinnon). He imme-diately notices Rev. Shaw Moore’s (John Lithgow) daugh-ter Ariel Moore (Julianne Hough), who becomes a rebel child after the absurd law of not being able to dance in public is enforced. The law was caused by a crazy group of kids dying after a wreck driving home from a dance. Ren quickly befriends a redneck boy who cannot pass up a fight named Willard (Miles Teller). The rest of

the movie is about these characters rebel-ling against the laws that keep them from being teens. It’s full of dancing and amaz-ing music that makes the movie great.

I loved the movie Footloose as it took the original plot and evolved it into a full-

fledged story. The movie shows us that being a crazy teenager might lead to mistakes, but that is what growing up is all about. I loved the

diversity of the dancing and watching the characters have fun with life. Unlike the play, the movie really made the story easy to understand, having significance without sacrificing the exuberance of the musical.

jessica afrin

Radiates peace, love and sunshine

staff writer

Grouplove is perhaps the perfect band name for a group of people whose music radiates peace, love and sunshine. Never Trust a Happy Song, their first full length album, was released Sept. 13, practically the beginning of fall; the release date was a poor choice, as the tracks are perfect for summer, deserving to blasted from beach radios and car stereos. Luckily, this won’t hurt the band too much. Grouplove was been well-known by the indie community long before this, even before their debut EP Grouplove dropped at the beginning of 2011.

They gained their fans through extensive touring, and big names that sped up their rise in the music world included Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin (father of Grouplove drummer Ryan Rabin), The Joy Formidable (with whom Grouplove toured the U.S. in 2010) and Florence + The Machine (who handpicked Grouplove to open a number of their 2010 West Coast tour dates).

The quintet consists of Christian Zucconi (vocals, guitar), Hannah Hooper (keyboard, vocals), Andrew Wesser (guitar, vocals), Sean Gadd (bass, vocals) and Ryan Rabin (drums). The five members first met at an artists retreat before reuniting a year later -- 2009 -- to create music together.

I first heard of Grouplove the week Never Trust a Happy Song came out. iTunes was offering a single off of the album for free -- “Colours” -- and it quickly became one of my favorite songs. I then bought the rest of the album and basked in the sunny beach tunes that dominated the track listing.

The anthemic track “Itchin’ On a Photograph” kicks off the album with emphatic hand claps and a rousing bassline. It is a perfect companion to “Tongue Tied,” an upbeat, catchy dance tune with a pop/disco beat and synth sounds. “Lovely Cup” is a whimsical reggae/pop number that leads listeners nicely into the slower anthem “Colours” that is psychedelic yet exciting. Unfortunately, the album’s poor sequencing becomes evident as “Slow”

comes on, the title thoroughly describing the dark, phantasmal piece that plods along, breaking the mood and flow of the album. It would have been much better to have “Naked Kids” (the ultimate summer soundtrack) follow “Colours.”

Each song has a different personality, a good choice in a world where people get bored easily. “Spun” has a rock ‘n roll sound, “Betty’s a Bombshell” is a lilting

story song, and “Chloe” can be put in the rockabilly genre (a combination of country, rock and blues). “Love Will Save Your

Soul” is sadly bland and uninspired, composed entirely of clichés, but “Cruel and Beautiful World” uses clichés to an advantage, the simple chorus of the folk ballad surprisingly powerful. “Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten” perfectly demonstrates Grouplove’s community spirit, but lacks the life-affirming mood carried throughout the rest album.

Overall, Never Trust a Happy Song is a promising first effort at a full length album. The biggest problems (poor sequencing, and cliché-ridden songwriting) will most likely be solved by experience and time.

Kick off your Sunday shoes...again

Happy music for a fading season

- tanner hoisington

- Top Twos compiled from New York Times, iTunes and Rotten Tomatoes by devon barkley

Never Trust a Happy SongReleased Sept. 13$10

In theatres nowStarring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough

virginia gilliam

Original plot with an amazing storyline

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1.Rolling in the Deep - Adele2.Footloose - Kenny Loggins3.Hey Ya - Outkast4.How Great Thou Art - Carrie Underwood5. Steve Earle - Sugarland

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Law and disorderassaults per 100,000 people

in Mount Pleasantin the United States

34 robberies per 100,000 people

04 rapes per 100,000 people

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43rapes per 100,000 people

229assaults per 100,000 people

03murders per 100,000 people

71robberies per 100,000 people

Statistics were taken in 2010. Each number represents the total number of each violent crime committed out of 100,000 people. Source: areavibes.com

photo illistration by JOSIE MASZK

In a growing town of 67,000 people, conflicts are bound to arrise. The Tribal Tribune investigates how violent crime rates are affected by this changing population.

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He was known for his smile.He was David “DJ” Moultrie, age 20.His life was cut short.It was all over so quickly. In an instant, two lives were

altered.It began with an argument in the parking lot outside

of the Walmart Super Center in The Market at Oakland on Sept. 19.

Darius Green, 18, allegedly stabbed Moultrie, who then stumbled into the store, near the food center, col-lapsed and died. According to the Post and Courier, Sept. 30, Green has been charged with murder.

Life wasn’t easy for Moultrie.School was a constant challenge, from both an aca-

demic and discipline perspective, but Moultrie was always respectful and accepting of help, according to Assistant Principal Sharon Randall.

He was put in English teacher Andrea Gallagher’s Se-nior Seminar class.

“He was the perfect fit for that class,” Gallagher said. “He understood the goal, he wanted to graduate, he worked hard, he accepted help, he asked for help when he needed it. You would have a hard time finding somebody who was more proud than he was of what he was able to

accomplish.”Moultrie was known for his smile, demeanor, sense of

humor and was well-liked, according to Gallagher.“[He had a] phenomenal smile, I think that he was al-

ways smiling, I’m not sure I can remember a time where you couldn’t get him to grin about something,” she said.

Moultrie was also able to help other students who were struggling in school to get on the right track.

“David connected me to a lot of people who weren’t sure how to navigate school,” Gallagher said. “His success made it easy to say ‘Hey, you’re not sure what to do right now, go here and she’ll talk to you,’ or ‘Let me introduce this teacher to you and she’ll help you out.’”

With hard work, perse-verance and leaving a posi-tive influence, Moultrie was able to graduate in the sum-mer of 2010 while working full time. He then began working at Walmart, where his father worked, and applied to Trident Tech to study auto repair.

“By the time he graduated he had his academics in or-der. He seemed to have a clue of what he wanted to do with his life,” Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn said. “He was a mature young man. I was proud to say that he had gradu-ated from Wando and had persevered.”

Moultrie had a bright future ahead of him.He was on the right path.“It’s just a profound sadness that one of the ones with

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such promise was cut short. I think so many people had bright pictures of his future,” Randall said. “It’s just a deep sadness that he wasn’t able to live that life and live those dreams.”

But he was able to overcome much in his 20 years.“He was doing all the right things. I hate it that we

live in world where you can do all the right things and still have something like this happen,” Gallagher said.

Moultrie isn’t the only person whose life has been changed forever. His family and his friends are changed -- as well as the person accused of committing the crime.

Randall said people have to make the right choices when faced with conflict.

“The first reac-tion is to pick up a gun or a knife, and it has such irreparable consequences that young people don’t think about the con-

sequences, they just act,” Randall said.If the 100-person vigil in front of Walmart on Oct. 4

was a sign, then Moultrie will not be forgotten.“My biggest wish is that his death was not in vain for

our students and that positive results will occur, that stu-dents will think twice about using weapons when they’re fighting,” Randall said.

“If something positive comes out of it, then David would be smiling.”

Alumnus’ young life is cut short

David Moult-rie graduated from Wando in 2010 while holding down a full time job.

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Mount Pleasant Chief of Police Harry Sewell is noth-ing like many would imagine -- nothing like the intimi-dating characters that have become the cliché for movies and television shows. In fact, he’s the exact opposite. Now in his 50s, Sewell smiles and jokes during his Oct. 7 inter-view, appearing to be completely relaxed as he describes how Mount Pleasant has changed since he joined the de-partment in 1990.

“I kind of fell in it; some people really know it their whole life,” Sewell said. “I was looking for a job and it worked out and I fell in love with it.”

A town native, Sewell has witnessed the growth of Mount Pleasant for almost five decades. Once a small, quiet community, Mount Pleasant is now the fourth larg-est in South Carolina, but along with this population growth comes an increased crime rate.

“Mount Pleasant has grown so much,” Sewell said. “We’re experiencing a lot more robberies, and guns are more prevalent than what they used to be.”

Recent high profile crimes such as the hold up at Mc-Donalds and stabbing at the Walmart in Oakland Market have left some in the community worried for their safety.

“We have had a spike in crime around here lately, but we’ve been here before,” Sewell said. “It’s not like it’s so unusual that we’ve never had this type of crime or even crime spurts before.”

But Sewell still has trouble under-standing the reasoning behind these acts. “There’s a big leap from taking a person that’s going to shoplift a pack of cigarettes to sticking a gun in somebody’s face,” he said. “I think they’re both wrong, but there’s a big leap and I don’t know what would trigger that. For the life of me, that doesn’t make sense to me.”

Some political figures have recently criticized the Mount Pleasant police department’s methods, but Sewell said he has learned to move past them.

“Some comments were made and I think that they’ve gotten blown way out of proportion. I’ll just say that,” Sewell said about recent articles in the Post and Courier. “I’m very proud of our Mount Pleasant police department, and the men and women of that, and I’m also proud of our town government as well.”

Sewell said he doesn’t deny there is room for improvement for the department. “One of our biggest improvements that I would like to see and one of my biggest visions is to continue to build on

the technology end of things,” he said, “because we need to be in mobile data and right now we don’t have that in our cars.”

Mobile data would allow information to be sent di-rectly to an officer through a computer. Information about recent calls and suspects would help bring the department to a safer and more modern level, according to Sewell.

“That’s where we need to be. It’s safer, but it’s also more efficient,” he said.

Sewell said he is proud of how the police department remains a constant part of the community, one example being the police presence on school campuses and football games. This presence may disappear, however, if a school board decision is made to remove SROs from schools.

“That would be a tremendous mistake, to get rid of them, because it’s so deep-rooted,” Sewell said. “It’s a con-nection in the community as far as it goes.”

Sewell said that school resource officers have played a role in school safety, and have been a way for students to let police officers know what is going on outside of school as well.

“If we have some major fight over the weekend that’s going on, our SRO can be in tap on that and try to quell it before some terrible crime happens,” Sewell said, “and I see it over and over again. I also find that it’s just a good com-munication link.”

Sewell recognizes that the rate of teen crime has changed over the past years.

“I think the drug world is getting very prevalent out there and I think that it’s getting actually scary as far as it goes,” he said. “I hear more talk of it, and I think that it’s

easier to get your hands on these days.”Besides an increase in drug use, car hopping (steal-

ing belongings out of unlocked cars) and robbery have increased for teens.

“I have also seen a big increase in car break-ins with high school students that are out here and they are going car hopping, and they don’t realize the significance of it,” Sewell said. “Usually with those groups they also go into unlocked garages and take beer and they aren’t realizing that this is a felony.”

Some teens don’t realize how seriously these types of crimes are taken, Sewell said, and how easily one wrong decision can affect their entire lives.

“You can get pushed into a felony and charged as an adult if you’re 16,” he said. “You’ll never be able to vote again and never be able to carry a firearm again. It’s very serious.”

Police can’t be the only ones to prevent crimes though. Sewell said it is also a community member’s duty to report suspicious activities.

“Who knows your school better than you do, or who knows your home, your neighborhood?” he said. “I know this sounds kind of weird, but you kind of do counter-sur-veillance. If something doesn’t look right, it’s not right.”

Sewell said he just wants to let the community and teens know every choice has its consequences.

“Everything you do makes a difference, whether you realize it or not. The choices you make right now is what is going to guide you on to things,” he said, “so my mes-sage to them is be careful. Really think through it; it’s got heavier implications than what you think.”

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Mount Pleasant police chief shares views on town’s growth, changes over time

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Pouring rain. It’s not the ideal con-ditions as Officer Emily Ruth sets out on her evening patrol. A Wando graduate of 2000, Ruth has been a member of the Mount Pleasant police department for seven years and always knew that it was something she wanted to do.

“I was always, I guess, interested in law, and I don’t think being a lawyer was my way to go because I couldn’t really see myself defending bad guys in a sense, but I also couldn’t see myself having a job to where I sat behind a desk for the rest of my life,” Ruth said. “This allows me to meets tons of people; good, bad and in between, so I think that has a lot to do with it. I think it’s a good balance for what I was looking for.”

Dressed in her black and blue uni-form with her hair in a tight bun, Ruth has the appearance of every other officer apart from the monogrammed ‘E’ ring that she wears. Such personal touches are also evident in her police cruiser. Devoid of the metal bars that have come to sym-bolize police vehicles, instead various ar-tifacts sit accumulated in the front com-partment. It looks like any other vehicle apart from the radio

everything else.”Before each shift, Ruth and her fellow

officers meet for role call, where they dis-cuss which areas require more patrolling than others.

“It’s basically like a synopsis, a brief-ing of stolen cars, what’s been going on in the town, what’s been going on in Charles-ton in general, as well as the state of South Carolina and up to including the 50 states,” Ruth said. “It’s just kind of what’s going on in our world before we get out there.”

Everyday, though, Ruth responds to a variety of calls from all over Mount Pleas-ant.

“We’re able to go w h e r e v e r we want right now. You patrol d i f f e r e n t neighbor-hoods ev-eryday, you go wherever you pretty much want,” she said. “It’s really nice. It’s kind of a sense of freedom, but you certainly at the same time are cognizant of where your other officers are.”

A few minutes after starting her pa-trol, Ruth responds to a call about suspi-cious activity near by.

“We go to people’s houses everyday. We’re in every type of house that you could probably ever imagine… where most peo-

A graduate of 2000, school resource officer Michael Reidenbach is never with-out a smile, even when dealing with seri-ous situations.

“He is a friendly, pleasant person who is thorough in his job, and he seems to en-joy what he does,” school resource officer Sean Weber said.

A major part of a SROs job is to help prevent fighting in schools, but some be-lieve having them on campus is unneces-sary.

“If you need them [the police], you can call them,” Charleston County School District Board member Elizabeth Moffly said in a telephone interview Oct. 7. “I’m not saying you exclude them; when you call them, they’ll come.”

Moffly has raised the issue of remov-ing SROs from the Charleston County schools; 32 SROs are currently in district schools, including four at Wando.

Mount Pleasant Chief of Police Harry Sewell does not believe removing SROs would be the best option.

“When you have 3,500 students in one place, every time something happens a police officer off the street would have to handle that,” he said, “and there’s a time delay, and then it would tax our resources on the outside as well.”

The 32 SROs in Charleston County District schools goals go far beyond pre-venting fights; they also help students form positive attitudes towards law en-forcement.

“Some people have never been ex-posed to a police officer at all and find out that it’s no different than any other job,” Sewell said. “I think you find out that it’s deeper, there’s somebody underneath that uniform.”

Currently, CCSD pays $681,000 for salary and benefits for the SROs, 27 per-cent of the $2.5 million it takes to fund the positions.

Some believe, however, this money could be put to better use.

“We could put the money wherever we wanted to put it,” Moffly said. “The whole argument that we’re only paying 27 percent of it, well I’ll tell you where the rest of it is coming from. The police depart-ment is applying for grants to offset rest of the cost. So the taxpayers are still paying.”

Even though taxpayers may still be paying fully, this partnership is essential to both the school district and the police department, according to Sewell.

“I don’t think we would be able to have the same staff we have now if they [CCSD] don’t help support that,” he said.

If the school district releases SROs, one idea is to put the extra money towards guidance counselors because they are able to connect with the students more. Howev-er, Fraser said, this won’t amount to much once divided throughout the district.

“On a first school basis it’s not very much money, so it wouldn’t go very far,” School Board member Chris Fraser said.

To Moffly, the money isn’t the biggest issue.

“The whole point of education, hon-estly, was [Thomas] Jefferson’s idea. The purpose was to have an educated constitu-ency so that you understood your rights under the constitution of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under govern-mental interference,” Moffly said. “Now we are locking you in and guarding you with the police because we’ve criminalized stu-dents, saying that they’re all bad when that is not the case.”

The state law “Disturbing Schools” law was first introduced on Jan. 27, 2009 as Bill 3315 in section 16-17-420. It pro-hibits boisterous and loud behavior after prior instruction to refrain from it, enter-ing upon schools without permission and for any non-student to disturb or interrupt schools.

This law provides SROs to keep out-side intruders from entering schools.

“We have taken this law and we have used it against students,” Moffly said. “We have growing numbers of crimi-nalizing juvenile behavior in the Department of Juvenile Justice. The majority of the students that are going to DJJ are coming from the school and being charged with disrupting schools. Those incarcerated are for non-violent offenses.

This has become a national epidemic.”Reidenbach disagreed that SROs are

criminalizing students.“One thing I guess people do not real-

ize is that a majority of incidences we get involved with do not end in any sort of law enforcement action. We don’t arrest every-one we come in contact with,” he said. “In fact, it is quite the opposite. Most people they have interactions with don’t end in arrests.”

Instead, Reidenbach said his and oth-er officers’ goal is to have as positive of an impact as possible.

“We try to make as positive contact as possible to change their behaviors, so it won’t lead to arrests in the future,” he said. “However when the situations do occur that we respond to such as a fight, or a drug or alcohol offense, if we feel that the school can adequately address the behavior with consequences, then we allow the school to do that.”

If the SROs feel that the criminal justice system, such as the family or youth court, can provide some additional help, then they will use that to correct any be-havior that may shape the student’s future according to SRO Reidenbach.

“For example if a student is arrested for drug or alcohol offense, court offers you counseling, drug and alcohol educa-tion, and community service opportuni-ties that are meant to develop them and build their confidences and skills,” he added.

For school resource officers Weber and Reidenbach, forming relationships is the most important goal.

“Building those relationships with the faculty, students and staff is one of our primary goals of being here,” Reidenbach said. “We want our interaction with the students and everyone in the school to be a positive thing.”

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ple feel safe enough to talk to you,” she said. Though the activity turned out to be

not quite so suspicious, Ruth follows each call with the same amount of intensity and caution because you never know when a situation might turn towards the worst. Early on in her career, Ruth along with two other officers responded to a call where a man was threatening two individuals with a knife, but once arriving on the scene, the man appeared to be pointing a gun.

“It was so split second that you thought ‘Oh my God, this guy has a gun.’ Just how your brain reacts so quickly and ‘oh my God this is bad, somebody is getting ready

to get shot b e c a u s e this guy has pulled a gun,’” she said. “Just how i ns t ant ly things can

change and you think of the other people who are there with you and what it could have meant for them had they been on the losing end of that battle, and yourself.”

Luckily, the man did not have a gun, but Ruth remembers the fear and sense of dread that she felt before realizing this.

“Literally, from the top of your head and the tips of your toes kind of go just numb and it’s slow motion,” she said.

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set where an arm rest should be and hand cuffs hanging by the window. As we set out on our ride along, Ruth describes her car as more of an office than anything else and finds it strange having to welcome some-one into the car.

“I think it’s where we’re so use to being by ourselves, this is our office, that when somebody comes and sits in it all day, for a brief second you’re like ‘well I hope this person’s a nice person,’” she said.

According to Ruth, an officer will be alone while on patrol 98 percent of the time for their ten hour shift.

“We work what’s called a rotating shift, so we’ll work for say two days on two days off. We don’t ever work like a Monday through Friday schedule,” Ruth said, “and this way, with the schedule that we have, it allows for each precinct to have at least a weekend off.”

Every six weeks, an officer will switch shifts. Ruth finds the time change to be the most difficult thing to become accustomed to.

“Your body, after a while, becomes acclimated to that shift that you’re work-ing, so when you switch, we’ll say from first shift, which is from six in the morn-ing until four in the afternoon, and then you switch to evening shift, which will

be three in the afternoon until one in the morning,” she said, “and

then you’ve got night shift, which is from nine at

night until seven in the morning, and each shift, while it’s got its positive and negatives on all of them, I guess the biggest thing that you’ve got to kind of try and get your-self prepared for is making that tran-sition of sleep and

Officer Emily Ruth patroles Mount Pleasant on Oct. 18.

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FightingFighting among teenshas repercussions that can last a lifetimelauren fraser

staff writerHe just went there to see a friend

fight. He wasn’t expecting to get involved. But things got out of hand. Although he said he was beginning to walk away, the next thing he knew, someone turned him around and got in his face. A fist soared towards John’s* head and suddenly he was in the middle of an all-out brawl.

Fifty people throwing punches and cheering. How did he get here? Why were people fighting in the first place? When his blood seeped into the grass, John couldn’t remember why it happened.

“I had people trying to pull me away. I got hit in the back of the head. We finally all got broken up,” John said. “I honestly had no idea who [the kid he was fighting] was until then. I had never seen him in my life.”

Fighting between teens isn’t a new oc-currence, but it is something that has seri-ous repercussions. According to John, the fights are usually over something small. It starts with angry words between two peo-ple and then the next day they are calling each other up and planning a fight.

“I guess guys have so much masculine energy and, yeah, they kind of take it out on the spot to start d r a m a , ” said Peter*, who said he has been to numerous fights. “Honestly, the main problem is alcohol. Once you’re drunk, everyone is just kind of crazy.”

For some teenagers, fighting is what you do on the weekend. For others, it is their first fight.

“I don’t think it is normal for most. Several definitely have confrontations, but there is only one or two that fight pretty regularly,” John said.

With these fights come only two un-spoken rules: No weapons and no jumping in. However, when anger builds up and 50 people are there watching their friends get mauled, rules are broken.

“No one’s supposed to jump in but that happens sometimes. They join to back up their friends,” Peter said. “It’s bad; it’s just a bunch of kids brawling.”

Most of the teenagers just go to watch and don’t plan on getting involved, John said.

“You want to be there just in case something does happen, so no one gets hurt – for your friend. Most guys, I guess, though, just like to watch a fight,” he said. “The fight I was in was really bad. It was ba-sically an all-out brawl at one point. If one of them is getting destroyed, you go and pull them off but no swinging. Like you’re not supposed to go and gang anybody.”

According to John, once the fights be-gin, it is easy for things to get out of hand.

“One of the kids at this fight I was at got his nose destroyed. Like he was knocked out and had to go to the hospital,” he said.

Fighting between two boys can lead to trouble later on. Weeks after his fight, John said he received threatening phone calls and tip-offs from friends about planned at-tacks.

At this point, parents and the police may enter the picture.

Students also can get called into the p r i n c i -pal’s office to work t h r o u g h problems if parents or the po-lice get involved,

according to Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn.

“If it causes a disruption during the school day or people feel disturbed because of what’s going on outside of school, then we’ll step in and handle it,” he said.

According to Hearn, if any of the is-sues from out-of-school fights do spill over into the schools, all of the kids involved would be punished. And there are reper-cussions from this that can affect students

for the rest of your lives.“The basic charge would be disorderly

conduct. If there is alcohol, which a lot of times there is, they would get charged with underage possession or public intoxica-tion,” Hearn said. “It can affect your abil-ity to get a federally-funded scholarship or even state-funded scholarship. It can defi-nitely affect your ability to do that.”

So why do some students choose to fight?

“Foreign toxins in your body make you do things you wouldn’t normally do, such as fighting,” Guidance Counselor Lau-ren Hatley said. “I don’t get it. It’s a shame because I see a lot of kids going down the

path of destruction with no return.”Looking back on it, John regrets his

involvement in fighting.“It was pretty stupid and it had a lot of

bad consequences,” he said. “It was a pain because the cops got involved. You can ac-tually get arrested for being at a fight.”

Hearn doesn’t understand why stu-dents choose to fight.

“I don’t think a lot of them are doing it because they have problems. They’re just doing it as a pastime,” he said. “It’s very un-fortunate what some people are finding to do with their free time. It’s very unsettling.”*Names changed

Off-campus fights can get out of hand, and repercussions can spill over into school intervention as well as legal problems.

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Those moments when anger takes over. Those moments when violence seems like the only option. Those moments when hitting something – or someone – might make everything better. Those moments are human – natural instinct – but contrary to that state of mind, violence is not the best option and acting on that anger can lead to many regrets. Controlling anger can be difficult, but it is necessary in order to prevent aggressive behavior.

According to Beth Keyserling, a licensed marriage and family therapist, violence is a result of stress, frustration and depression, as well as a lack of self control.

“I think the violence only stems from other stuff,” she said. “I think a lot of the violence is compulsiveness in a lot of kids.”

Guidance counselor Fronde Stille also attributes violence to not knowing how to express anger

in alternative ways.“I think it has a lot to do

with not having good coping skills

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knowing how to handle anger or disappointment or emotions that they know how to deal with appropriately,” Stille said.

Lack of coping skills has an impact on people’s violence, but the media’s portrayal of fighting seems to have made aggressive behavior acceptable as well.

“I think that Youtube, TV [and] videos have had a huge impact on the way people feel like they should handle situations,” Stille said. “It’s obviously much more prevalent that you can watch somebody beat up somebody else, so therefore it kind of makes it more the norm.”

Keyserling agrees.“I think one of the problems is that kids and people in

general have become desensitized to violence and that they play violent video games and watch violent crime movies,” she said. “I think that that’s one of the problems. I think that many people, they don’t see a lot of consequences.”

According to Stille, boys are more prone to be aggressive.

“I think again because that’s more the expectation,” she said. “I hear from a lot of students that you can’t look bad if someone confronts you. You can’t walk away because you’re seen to be the punk or seen to be weak, and I think that happens more with boys than girls definitely.”

Dealing with anger and aggressiveness can be difficult for some, but there are many ways to deal with anger and violent emotions.

“I think again, seeking sports – sports that are very physically active – verbalizing it, talking to someone about it,” Keyserling said, “is the biggest way to get some of that anger out of their bodies in a way that’s not going to hurt them.”

According to both Keyserling and Stille, recognizing that there is a problem is one of the first steps to getting help to deal with aggressiveness.

“A big part is recognizing that anger and having someone help them by talking to someone,” Keyserling said. “[It] helps them recognize it if they aren’t doing so – they can do something to help.”

But learning to deal with aggressive behavior may not come easy.

“It takes time. It’s like anything,” Stille said. “You get in a habit of reacting a certain way to anything, whether it be good or bad, and you have to get into a different habit of doing that.”

Overall, both agree that having the skills necessary for dealing with anger and violent behavior is important.

“It’s just a matter of learning skills,” Stille said. “The people have to be willing to do that. They have to be willing to say this is an issue for me and I need to seek help for it.”

Like Stille points out, seeking help is a big part of dealing with violent behavior.

“I think that if people would recognize that they’re feeling angry or depressed or angry...or lonely, or any of those feelings that can contribute to losing control or being violent,” Keyserling said, “if they could go to some adult they trust to try to get some help, because there is help out there.”

Tips to prevent violence

Sports and exercise is a great way to get out your aggression and anger. It releases endorphins to calm you down and make you feel better.

When angry, it can be hard to control your emotions, but before getting aggressive, try these tips to help you cool down.

1) Excercise

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By writing down your emotions in a journal, you get them out in a non-violent way.

2) Write down emotions

Listening to music can calm you down and refocus your thoughts on something else other than the anger.

3) Listen to music

Just taking a moment to close your eyes and counting to 10 can help prevent you from making impulsive decisions that you might regret.

4) Count to 10

When in a heated situation, it can be easy to lose control and start acting violent. Removing yourself from the situation and finding a quiet place can keep you from doing something you might regret.

5) Get out of situation

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Have you ever taken part in a prearranged fight?

Yes10% 90%

If you get in a fight at school, should you automatically be suspended?

If you are arrested off of campus, should you be suspended from school?Yes, automatically.11% Yes, depending on the

severity of the crime.57% No, under no circumstances.32%

Consequences

- 149 polled

assault & battery:Unlawfully injuring another person or offering/attempting to injure another person with the present ability to do so.

Have you ever been to a prearranged fight off school grounds?

Yes28% No72%

NoYes20% 80%

3rd Degree -

2nd Degree - moderate bodily injury

a fine up to $2500

up to 3 years in jail

a fine up to $500

up to 30 days in jail

if you fight in school:

injure/attempt to injure another

Worst offencesbringing a weapon

premeditative violence

lynching*

Consequences3 days of OSS

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Fighting in school can result in more than just verbal lashing from your administrators.

*lynching - any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and from which death does not result

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Sports Starting to ‘sink in’Q &A

with boys’ cross country coach...

Ian Banker

QWhat were your preseason goals?

AStarting off to go out and win Regions, obviously we want to be competitive in the State meet. Going throughout and developing the younger run-ners’ talent.

QWhat is the teams cur-rent rank in the state?

A Fourth. Lexngton is way out front, but it’s a dog fight between Mauldin, Stratford, us and Dutch Fork. Who ever comes into the next two weeks, the strongest will come out on top of those four teams.

QHave you met any of these goals?

AWe will find out about Region and State meet in the next two weeks. In terms of kids running certain times, we have met our goal of 10 kids breaking 18 minuets. And hopefully we can have a few more jump in there.

AQ How would you rate the

season?It’s been going really well. I think we’ve had a lot of team unity. The team is coming together and working their butts off. There is a lot of good leadership coming from the seniors that is filtering down to the younger kids.

A mere five points stood between them and their victory. For many members of the team, the win is something of a fleet-ing moment, a dream.

“When they first said it, we all freaked out. We were all really happy, but for the majority of us it hasn’t been able to sink in,” Lierley said. “We were down by so much and towards the end, didn’t really think we had a shot. When we heard we won, we re-ally just couldn’t believe it. Afterwards we felt so achieved. It was a good feeling.”

In the midst of high spirits, clamor and exhilaration, the team held one unwavering emotion as a whole: accomplishment.

“There was a lot of screaming right af-ter the fact. We went and took a big picture on the podium. But afterwards, we just got on the bus and hung out,” Leggett said. “We felt like we were a good team and we man-aged to pull something together. We were just enjoying the moment.”

The girls’ fourth place finish also was exciting, senior Sandy Bell said. “In the very end we didn’t quite pull through, but we still felt accomplished,” she said. “We swam against AAAA swimmers; they were the best of the best. The fact that we're still top five is very impressive, and I’m so proud

of all the girls.” The girls missed third place by five and

a half points. “It’s a true testament of how much effort and determination and energy that they've put into training,” said Coach Allyson Brown, whose teams logged 7000 yards a day during practice.

“It showed that we weren’t going to let anything get in our way. We had so much stuff put in front of us, but we wouldn’t let it get to us mentally. We knew we still had a shot. It showed how resilient we were,” Lierley said.

Bell said state meet is especially im-portant -- the one team to represent your-self and the school.

“It’s a chance to swim faster. You’re pumped up because you don’t have an-other chance to do this. You’ll never have a meet like this again, so you might as well make the best of it and do the best you can,” she said. “We have a lot to live up to. Boys have won the championship multiple times; girls have won in the past. We know we can do it.

““...I can’t even imagine how the team's going to be next year,” she contin-ued. “I truly believe girls will get podium next year.”

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Riverside: Second. One sentence, two words. The only school yet to be called. Process of elimination. That was all the Wando swimmers needed to know. That simple combination of letters set the Co-lumbia Natatorium into an eruption of cheers and ebullient screams.

The boys swim team won the state championship Oct. 8, the team’s second in four years.

“It was insanity. There’s not a feeling like it in the world,” senior David Leggett said. “We all just went crazy. There was a certain amount of, ‘I can’t believe I’m hear-ing this. I don’t know if this is true’.”

While the boys captured first, the girls’ team took fourth place in the annual event.

The boys knew they had a shot at first. Throughout the meet, there were ups and downs. But then the meet was almost over -- the team was behind Riverside High. Their hope, though not absent, began to dwindle, Leggett said.

“We knew it would be close. Going in we were pre-scored 34 points behind, but we knew that was a margin we could make up,” he said. “We knew it would be really, really close, though. It was a feeling of wanting to win, but knowing we had to do something special.”

For the last event, the 400-free style relay, swimmers knew it was imperative to do well. Sophomores Travis Morrin, Ben Hildenbrand and Dirk Bell, as well as ju-nior Zach Lierley, made up the 400-free style relay team.

“It was an event that a bunch of us re-ally cared about,” Lierley said. “It was our goal to win it the entire season, so when we actually came down and won it, it was pretty exciting. All the other events really helped us too, but it was the thing that re-ally pushed us over against Riverside. We were just relieved that we won and we did the best we could. We barely beat Spring Valley in that relay.”

Head swimming coaches Nick Reece and Allyson Brown hoist the State Championship trophy after the boys’ team swam to a state championship Oct. 8.

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The new Tribe leader

A new meaning to school spirit

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Bringin’ on the spirit: (Left)The Chophouse tosses baby powder and shoots silly string into the air during the signature “I Believe” chant. (Top right): (From left to right): Sophomores Basil Gaspar, CJ Anderson and Jordan Baudria painted themselves for the Homecoming game against Beaufort. (Bottom right): (From left to right) Seniors Connor Nelson, Lander Smith and Kyle Kennedy cheer on the Warriors at home.

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Student section gets loud this season

associate editorI believe. I believe that. I believe that we

will. I believe that we will win. I believe that will win.

It’s the chant that has been roaring up and down one specific section of the Wan-do crowd.

The Warrior’s student section, the Chophouse.

Since the end of the 2011 basketball season, the Chophouse can be heard at every home game. The Warriors Varsity football team has pushed through to a 5-3 record overall, and each game the Chop-house only gets louder.

The “president” of the Chophouse, senior Logan Windham, created

the Chophouse in the 2010-2011 basketball season as

a way to bring the stu-dents together in one big section.

“It was my junior year and [the Chophouse]

really started when basketball season came around and the football team kind of had a bad season,” Windham said. “The students kind of got out of the spirit, so I thought of an idea to come up with a student section and called it the Chophouse and that got everyone together.”

Since it’s been established, the mem-bers of the Chophouse have attended each of the home games of the varsity football

and basketball teams. “Now that we have some good pro-

grams, I think all of the students are start-ing to come together,” Windham said.

And since its creation, the Chophouse exists at full force. Senior linebacker Dez-mon Venning said the Chophouse is one of the key factors to the Warriors’ success.

“The Chophouse has had a huge effect on the team,” Venning said. “When they start the chants, it gets the team all hyped up and you gotta do what you gotta do to please the fans.”

Venning, who has gone through all four of his high school years on the football team, has seen the ups and downs of being a varsity football player. Venning said he is proud to be a Warrior football player be-cause of how much effort the student sec-tion is putting in to push the team.

“The crowd this year changed my opinion because last year they’d chant and [the team would] get excited for a little bit,” Venning said, “but this year it’s all about getting everybody psyched up. The louder they get, the harder we go.”

Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn has attended the majority of the varsity football games and has seen the Chophouse grown since it was created. Standing in front of the student section each game, he hears ev-ery chant and every yell of the Chophouse.

“It’s loud,” Hearn said. “It’s a home field advantage for sure. Most high school crowds aren’t that loud, it’s more on a col-lege level at Wando.”

Yet among the baby powder and screams that the Chophouse uses to cheer

on the teams, there are those that believe the student section seems to take it too far. Hearn believes that the issue with the Chophouse is not an issue with the section itself, but an issue with safety.

“I have no problem with the Chop-house,” Hearn said, “I do, however, have a problem with underage drinking.”

Hearn has had to intervene several times over the course of the football sea-son, he said, mainly for student safety.

“I was in the Chophouse [during the Beaufort game] trying to take baby pow-der, not that baby powder is a safety issue,” Hearn said, “but there are a lot of kids who come and have no desire to leave covered in baby powder. It’s really just more of a patrol issue.”

But, obviously not every student is involved. Hearn directed his attention to those students who show up to the games late and begin to get too rough.

“I know it’s not more than four or five percent of kids who come to the games late,” Hearn said, “they show up to the game at the start of the second quarter, around 8:10, and they’ve been at their house or a friend’s house drinking, and when you put alcohol in a 16 or 17-year-old’s body, you’re going to have problems.”

All negative things aside, Hearn be-lieves the Chophouse has started some-thing big for the Warriors’ fans and hopes future classes will keep it going.

“I would like to see it continue,” Hearn said, “I’d like to see the large contingency of fans come out, not just for football but for basketball and all other things too.”

When senior Logan Windham heard the senior class of 2011 was leav-ing a mascot suit as its final gift, he was thrilled.

“I always wanted the school to have one,” he said, “and I knew I was the guy.”

Assistant Principal Bryan Hearn and media specialist Emilie Woody agreed -- Windham was the best candidate.

“After looking at potential students, we had one in mind,” Woody said, “and that was Logan [Windham].”

Windham is the mascot through football season and potentially for other sports this school year.

Chief Rotunda -- the mascot -- first appeared during the Homecoming pep rally on Oct. 7.

Windham said the opportunity to act as Wando’s mascot is “a dream come true.” When he is dressed in the mascot uniform running around at pep rallies or football games, he feels like an “eagle cir-cling its prey.”

But because of the heat that the uni-form holds, he also feels like an “egg fry-ing on an Arizona highway.”

Before the start of basketball season, an official mascot tryout will be held, Hearn said. Because of the commitment this position requires, more than one

student may be chosen to act as the mascot.

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Senior Logan Windham debuted as Chief Rotunda during the Homecom-ing Pep Rally.

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Games to watch...

“It’s the biggest meet of the season. We have a re-ally good chance of being state champs.”

“The first round is a big game. We are trying our hardest to win a state championship. We need everyone’s support.”

“We haven’t beaten them in a long time. It’s a very important game. It will be huge if we can beat them.”

Boys and girls cross country

Varsity football at home

Varsity volleyball at home

- Junior Sophie Gawrych

-Senior William Lee

- Senior Anna Fairey

Nov 5: Cross country State Meet

Oct 25: First round of State Tournatment

Oct 21: Wando vs. Goose Creek

Speaking of SportS

“Clemson because Carolina doesn’t have Garcia and Clemson has better receivers and they are faster.”

“Clemson. They have been more consistent

this season.”

“USC. They want to prove that they are

just as good as Clem-son. They are the

underdogs.”

“Clemson because Sammy Watkins is a

boss.”

“Carolina. They have better players than Clemson, and they are an overall better

team.”

FreshmanBrian Gore

SophomoreEvan Royer

Spanish teacher Gerald Rice

JuniorJessica Lawson

SeniorWalter Smalls

Who is going to win the Clemson vs. Carolina football game this year?

Coeyman’s swing comes naturally

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Senior golfer qualifies for State along with teammates

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Since she was barely able to walk, the five-year veteran and captain of the girls golf team Katie Coeyman has been playing golf.

The senior said her dad got both her and her brothers into the sport when they were young, and she has played on and off since then.

“It just kinda comes to me naturally,” Coeyman said.

When she was younger, she played in the US Kids’ Golf Association. The winner of the association gets the privilege of par-ticipating in the World Masters Junior Golf Tournament. There are two side events that take place at the tournament; the par three and long drive contests. At the age of eight Coeyman finished first in her age division in the league. She was then eligible to pa-riticiapte in the World Masters of Junior Golf Tournament. At the tournament she participated in the long drive contest and won.

Five years ago, Coeyman was in the eighth grade. It was the first year Wando had a girls’ golf team.

“My Dad signed me up and I came out [for the team],” said Coeyman, who not only made the team but went all the way

to the Lower State Tournament that year -- the first of five times Coeyman has made the trip.

This past year she was elected to team captain by her peers and coach.

“She is very outgoing; she is not afraid to tell someone that that they need to work harder or get focused or anything like that,” girls golf coach Jennifer Houston said. “She’s very strong academically, and on the

golf course she’s very well-rounded, so that’s important to the younger girls.”

Coeyman and four other teammates travelled to the Charwood Country Club Oct. 14 to participate in the Lower State Qualifiers. Coeyman placed 12th, shoot-ing an 86.

Based on their finishing position, the girls golf team qualified for the State Championship Oct. 24-25.

Senior Katie Coeyman perfects her swing during a golf practice Oct. 14.

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Rushed for 118 yards and one touchdown in the 43-21 win vs. Beaufort Oct. 7.

Junior Cameron rouse

Was named to the 75th Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas Dec. 17, at Gibbs Stadium in Spar-tanburg.

senior Gimel President

Won the Wendy’s Female Hesiman Award for the school and the Bojangles Athlete Award.

senior tinsley Hallman

Won the 200-yard individual medley (1:52:93) and the 100 yard breast-stroke (59:11) at the state swim meet at the USC Natatorium Oct. 8.

Junior ZaCHary lierley

Was the first place finisher in the Sandhills Invita-tional junior varsity cross country race Oct. 8.

FIELDFACES ON THE

soPHomore emily Pitts

Undefeated. The girls’ varsity volley-ball team was on the fast track to becoming just that, but a devastating loss to Ashley Hall on Sept. 28th changed it all. The team, however, did not let their loss become a trend. Instead, it has made them more de-termined to win the rest of their games.

“It’s really making us work harder for the rest of the season, and I guess a goal for the end of the season is to beat Ashley Hall,” junior Brenna Lauer said.

The team has lost no steam going into the second half of their season.

Senior night took place on Oct. 10 and is a celebration for everyone on the team. “We honor our six senior volleyball play-ers, and our one senior manager Ben, and then truly we play the rest of the year away,” Coach Alexis Glover said.

The night is a night of tears and fare-wells to the senior players. “Senior night was really emotional,” senior Katy Weaver said. “I feel like as a senior there wasn’t as many tears as there was when I was a junior when the other seniors left, but just when you see the other juniors, and see how

much they care for you, it becomes a very emotional experience.”

The season isn’t over after senior night, though. The team still has the latter half of their season and state playoffs. The team just hosted the Wando Invitational Vol-leyball Tournament Oct. 14-15, where the team came in third. Seniors Tinsley Hall-man and Weaver were named to the All Tournament.

One challenge the team has to over-come is a second half of the season loaded with away games.

At their home-based tournament, “We don’t have a whole lot of competition in Charleston. So, we depend on tournaments for our big competition,” said Glover. It fea-tured some of the Lady Warriors’ best com-petition: Hillcrest, Aiken, Bishop England, Ashley Hall, Porter Gaud, Lexington, Bluff-ton and East Side.

The team’s third place finish, Courte-nay said, is “really good because that’s the best we’ve done in a long time. We beat Ashley Hall who is a major opponent of ours.”

The team’s advancement was cut off by a loss to Aiken in the semifinals.

The last two games of the regular sea-son are scheduled for Oct. 18 and 19.

“This year it’s all of September at home, and all of October away,” Glover said.

Away games provide many trials for the players, according to senior Erin Cour-tenay, “We have to take the team bus so it takes longer to get [to the game] and lon-

ger to get back; so we get in really late, and we have homework to do, and we’re really exhausted,” she said. “The next game it af-fects how we play because we’re tired and sleepy.”

This experience was amplified when the team had four away games in one week during the month of October.

The team had another tribulation this season, Glover said.

“The flu bug bit us, we had seven hit us one Monday, and then we had another three to four out the next day, and that was last week when we played Ashley Hall,” she said. “I’m contributing a little bit of that loss to the flu bug.”

Coming up next are the state playoffs. “We are really serious this year about go-ing to the playoffs,” Weaver said. “The last past years we’ve wanted to do well, but weren’t really serious about making it far in the playoffs and state or anything.”

The girls are working hard to prepare for state.

“We practice every day we’re not play-ing,” Glover said. “We bring breakfast and practice and eat and kind of have a good time.” The players are dedicated to their practice playing all summer before official practice started July 29th.

With all this hard work, the team loves the support from their fans. “Don’t count us out because we’re not a big sport like football,” Courtney said. “We need fans, it really helps us do better.”

madison ivey

Varsity volleyball team dedicates more than just time to the game they love

staff writer

The girls on the varsity volleyball team unite hands in a cheer before playing a match Sept. 28.

‘Don’t count us out’BRADFORD ALLEN/staff photographer

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Eighteen minutes and 59 seconds. The time she knew she would need to beat in order

for her to break the girls’ 5K record. Junior Georgia Compton -- a member of the cross

country team since 2008 -- achieved her goal by setting a new 5K record with a time of 18:45.

Compton broke the record at the Wendy’s Invitation-al meet on Oct. 1, where she intended to break the 19:00 barrier.

“I knew that I had broken 19 [minutes] but I wasn’t sure exactly what my time was,” Compton said. “But then I got through and everyone was like ‘you broke it, you broke it.’”

Girls cross country Coach Marie Domin is glad to see Compton set a record.

“I felt like I might cry,” Domin said. “I felt like ‘finally’ because she has had some ups and downs.”

Last season Compton was injured, forcing her to take time off from running.

“We thought she probably would have run this time [under 19:00] last season, but then she got hurt and she only ended up racing three times last year, so I think it

was a relief to see that she finally got past it [the injury],” Domin said.“Not just for the fact that it’s the time, but mentally, to help her feel confident.”

The confidence stuck.With rigorous workouts throughout the summer,

Compton was able to re-devote herself to running this fall.“If you work hard, you’re always going to get better.

It’s not one of those things where you don’t improve over time,” she said.

Although healed from injury, Compton does not take running lightly. With endless hours spent running and training, the workouts take a toll.

“It’s painful. Usually during runs, I’ll pray or think about God, and He usually keeps me strong and gets me through it,” she said.

Another way Compton gets through running is by turning to her sister, freshman Rosa Marie Compton, for support.

“She definitely pushes everyone because no one wants a freshman to beat them, or their little sister,” Compton said.

Although this is Rosa Marie’s first year running for Wando, her times indicate that she is already one of the fastest on the team.

“If I wasn’t running [at the Wendy’s Invitational meet], she would have tied the old record,” Compton said.

Prior to breaking the record, Compton practiced rep-etition to assure herself and her coach that she was capable of running the desired time of 19:00.

“Sometimes we use workouts as a guide to see, like if you can hit this time, then you can probably run this 5K. She [Georgia] and Rosa Marie hit the times last week that

told me that they can break 19 [minutes],” Domin said. “We go sometimes and do mile repeats on some grass mixed with hill and they still hit the time, so that told me that it [breaking the record] was probably going to come soon.”

As for Rosa Marie, Domin believes that she will soon be breaking records of her own.

“She’s only a freshman, so she’s probably going to kick some tail,” she said.

“I hope to [break a record], but I don’t know,” Rosa Marie said. “Georgia is getting really good, too.”

With the season’s end on November 5th, the girls and their coach are hoping to outshine their State Champion-ship win in 2009.

haley brimmer

Junior Compton sets recordwith support from her sibling

staff writer

Sole sisters

At the Citadel Run on Sept. 24, junior Georgia Compton (1702) and her sister freshman Rosa Marie (1703) compete against each other for the winning stride.

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In popping color

haley brimmer

Graduate pursues a unique career in pop-up books

staff writerHis fascination began during child-

hood. Always sketching in notebooks and gathering ideas from toy collections, 1990 graduate Matthew Reinhart never planned on having the career he has today.

Although Reinhart majored in biology in college, he had a change of heart in grad school and decided to study industrial de-sign, which landed him his current job as a children’s book writer and illustrator.

“I’ve always been interested [in art] since I was a young boy. I’ve always drawn and I don’t remember a time when I didn’t draw, paint, or build things,” Reinhart said. “I did not know [that I wanted to do this job]; I had no plans for the future.”

Although always interested in art, Re-inhart was not always interested in read-ing.

“I wasn’t a big reader as a child and I would have been drawn into these kinds of books and been more interested in books,” Reinhart said. “And I hope that I can do the same for other reluctant readers.”

Reinhart started off assisting someone he knew who was working on a pop-up book and ended up liking it.

“I just became very good at it, so I kept doing the work and I got better and better,” Reinhart said. “I was able to do more books and it just kind of worked out that way.”

Reinhart has been making pop-up books for 12 years, and has created over 20 books, all of which have three-dimensional characteristics.

“I think that people are interested in them [pop-up books] because they interact fully. They’re different, they’re fun, and they can be collector’s items,” Reinhart said.

Reinhart’s books are all very different, with topics ranging from Star Wars to pre-historic dinosaurs.

“I really don’t have a favorite [topic to illustrate] -- I like to illustrate all kinds of things because it’s a challenge to go outside of my usual norm,” Reinhart said.

“I do like drawing monsters and crea-tures a lot,” he added. “Also princesses.”

Reinhart is fortunate enough to have had a couple of his books on the New York Times Bestseller List. One of his most pop-ular books, entitled Star Wars: A Pop Up Guide to the Galaxy, spent 11 weeks on the Bestseller list.

“There’s another book called Encyclo-pedia Prehistorica that has been translated into 25 languages around the world,” Re-inhart said. “Both have done well and I’m very pleased with them.”

Although many of his books feature mythical and fantasy creatures, Reinhart

actually gets his inspiration from the things that surround him.

“There are all kinds of things around me that get me thinking about mechanisms or story lines,” he said. “I can walk down the street in New York City and see something that’s really cool and it will inspire me.”

Inspiration is not all that is needed to complete a book, though. There are many steps involved in making a pop-up book, starting with developing a basic concept.

“From there, you write a manuscript, which is the story. After the manuscript is written, I start to conceptualize what the pop-ups might be,” Reinhart said. “At that point, I just start sculpting on paper -- cut-ting and folding paper and seeing what works -- and trying new mechanisms.”

After the idea for the pop-ups is formed, Reinhart spends time making the pop-ups and doing the engineering -- mak-ing sure everything works and making sure

it can be duplicated. The process this far takes about 2 months.

“At that point, the frosting on the cake is basically the colored artwork and I use cut paper collage and water colors,” Re-inhart said. “Then, the graphic designers have to lay out the text and the manufac-turers are able to produce the book on a mass scale.”

From the time Reinhart finishes his job in the studio, it takes about a year be-fore the finished books hit the shelves.

Although his job requires him to spend around 60 hours a week working, Reinhart does find the job rewarding.

“I’m able to tell stories in the way that I choose and I’m able to work with char-acters in stories that grew up loving,” Re-inhart said. “I’m able to be my own boss, which is incredible, and I’m able to leave a legacy to the world about the work that I do.”

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Family and guests frequently made comments about the squeaks of the stairs at night, as if someone were walking up and down them.

89 Beaufain Street is one of 44 privately owned homes in America on the National Trust for both its architecture and history. It was featured as the Charleston Symphony designer house for 2011.

My family moved in to the house in 1982, even though it had been converted into six apartments. My father -- who grew up in Charleston -- had wanted the house since he was five years-old, and my parents bought it the day it went on the market.

That’s when the “fun” started. My mother was told by many Charlestonians that

the house was one of the most haunted in the Holy City. The day we moved in, my mother stood in the hallway and yelled, “I don’t know if there are any ghosts in this home, but I promise I will restore this home to its former glory unless I see you, smell you or think you’re watching us. If so, we move out and you go back to six apartments.”

Mom never saw or smelled anything, but that’s not to say many others didn’t.

Two of my brothers, Court and Scott, were sleeping on the fourth floor. Court awoke to see the silhouette of a women in a hooped dress reflected in the TV of the attic room. He shut his eyes, saying to himself that it was not real, then opened his eyes and saw the figure walking towards him. This time he shut his eyes hoping that whatever she was she couldn’t see him. When he opened them again, she had turned away and floated into the storage room doors.

That’s not the only time that we saw unusual things. My grandparents were visiting from Atlanta; while she was sleeping, my grandmother felt a cold embrace, looked up and saw a gentleman in a Confederate soldier uniform standing over her. Her screams woke everyone up. She and my grandfather left for a hotel that night.

In 1986 my mom was attending a reception where she met a famous psychic. After introductions were made, the psychic said to my mom, “You live in an old house in downtown Charleston, don’t you?”

“Yes,” my mother said, thinking of what a safe guess she had made. The psychic proceeded to tell her that she saw two ghosts --an older woman in an Antebellum dress and a young woman in a 1920s flapper outfit. She said they were good ghosts who didn’t leave the house because they loved it so much and wanted to protect it.

Mom didn’t give it a second thought. Probably because she didn’t want to.

A few years later while hosting a pool party, one of the guests needed to use the second floor bathroom. This guest had written a couple of books on ghosts in Charleston. When she rejoined the party, she sought my mother out: “Do you realize that you have ghosts in your house? I saw two women leaning over the balustrade to the third floor, one was an older women in an Antebellum dress and the other was a young flapper.”

Mom realized then the psychic knew her stuff. That’s when she called the psychic and asked her to

come visit. The first thing the psychic said was that the house was full of love, and there was no bad energy.

However, on the third floor, in my oldest sister’s bedroom, she sensed a woman sitting in an antebellum dress and a man in a Confederate uniform smoking a cigar in the corner. The woman was crying in earnest over a child. Interestingly, my sister frequently smelled cigar smoke and lavender in her room, and felt like somebody would sit down on her bed when there was never anyone else there.

But family members were not the only ones who had “visits.”

Friends from San Diego, Calif., stayed in the same room where my grandmother saw the soldier. The wife reported each morning that when she would wake up, she would see a Confederate soldier standing in the corner. They knew nothing of the history of past sightings. It didn’t scare her -- instead, she was excited by the sighting.

There were many other encounters throughout the years. Often, things would be missing, later turning up in bizarre places. While I never saw any ghosts that I can

COLUMN BYkatherine king, staff writer

Centuries-old Charleston house frightens family with troubled souls

remember -- I lived there from birth until I was 7 -- there are three more interesting things that I can report.

The first was the night my sister Ashley and my mom went to say goodbye to the empty house after moving out. They walked through recalling memories, laughing and crying over all the grand experiences our home had given them. They decided to walk in the back yard, past the pool to the area where the garage had stood prior to Hurricane Hugo. They turned to look at the house and in the back window of my nursery saw the gauzy silhouette of a woman waving her hand as if in good-bye.

Ashley still hasn’t forgiven my mother for beating her in the race to get off the property.

My Aunt Jenny researched the history of our family to make a scrapbook for my grandfather. What she found shocked us all. My father’s family was originally from McCllenvile and at the turn of the century, in 1900, my father’s great-great uncle, William King, moved to Charleston. He bought 89 Beaufain Street and moved in with his family. Our family didn’t know until that time that a former family member had owned and lived there. Uncle William died of pellagra in the house. He had a daughter named Sarah, who was a flapper. Sarah died in her 20s in the house, of spinal meningitis.

The last thing I have is strictly rumor, but I heard through the grapevine that the construction workers found a human skeleton buried in the back yard where Mom and Ashley had said their last good-byes.

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People think that creating a Palestin-ian state would solve the problem between Palestinians and Israelis.

Those people are wrong.The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has

been a prominent world issue since before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. There is no doubt that peace in the Middle East will not come easily and that peace just between Israel and the Arabs is almost unrealistic.

But let’s think back to when Israel was created. Let’s think back to why Israel was created. It was 1948. Six million Jews had just been killed in a Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were in the process of being kicked out of their homes throughout the Middle East. Even more were left homeless throughout Europe. They were a people with nowhere to go.

Yes, the way Israel was created was not the best. Yes, there was originally supposed to be a state of Palestine. The problem was that the Palestinians

decided to back out of the agreement. They decided that Israel should not exist. The Arabs -- Palestinians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Saudi Arabians, Jordanians and more -- attacked Israel on the day it declared independence. Because of this, a Palestinian state was not created. The Palestinians sabotaged themselves because the Israelis won the war.

Now, the situation of a Palestinian state has been brought up again. The Pal-estinians have gained the support of many countries -- not only in the Middle East, but around the world. But what these sup-porters fail to realize is that the creation of a Palestinian state would cause more problems than it would solve.

Israel is the only real democratic state in the Middle East. Do you think a Palestinian state would become a demo-cratic republic? Based on the other Arab countries in the Middle East, it would most likely become another state ruled by a central supreme government and have no form of democracy.

A problem also arises of what to do with the Jews that currently live in the West Bank and the Palestinians that cur-rently live in Israel. Any notion of kicking Palestinians out of the state of Israel and forcing them to move to Palestine would

be preposterous on the Israelis’ behalf according to the Palestin-ians, but I’m sure they would have

no problem kicking out the Jews from their new state.

In the wars between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Israelis have fought and won the land they now own. It is theirs. Why do the Palestinians feel the need to retake Israeli land, especially when it is only a tiny fraction of the Middle East? It is because they cannot accept Israel’s existence. And that is precisely what a Palestinian state would encourage – the destruction of the state of Israel.

Only through the acceptance of the state of Israel can a Palestinian nation be formed whose ultimate goal is not the destruction of the Jewish state.

I am convinced that while Palestine may not necessarily have the strongest claim to land in the Middle East, and while the surrounding Arab nations did cede the land to Israel in the wake of the Six-Day War, the quickest and most im-mediate solution to the violence at hand remains to recognize Palestine as a sover-eign state and allow them into the United Nations. In doing so, the UN would be granting Palestine what they want, and, furthermore, they would be able to coerce Palestine into opening negotiations with Israel to reach peace.

Opponents of a Palestinian state argue that acknowledging their sover-eignty would only give them hope that they could eventually throw Israel out of power, but that is both a fallacious and weak argument. It is fallacious because it draws conclusions based solely on past behavior that does not translate to the potential situation, and it is weak be-cause it does not account for the fact that making such a move has serious potential to be beneficial for both nations. Some-times, compromises must be reached, and in this case Israel must give up some of their land in order to stop the atrocities on both sides.

But the argument for a Palestinian state hardly hinges solely on the argument against it being wrong – that, too, would be fallacious. Rather, the Palestinians also

have a claim to the land, as it waspromised to them in the United Na-tions Partition Plan for Palestine.

On top of that, while Israelis may cite instance after instance of persecu-tion, it would be folly to presume that Israel has not done anything moral- ly reprehensible itself. The blockade of the Gaza Strip, in which Israel cut off most foreign supplies of necessary goods to Palestinian settlements, offers the most striking example of such a situation. This is frequently cited by Palestinians as the main reason for their current discontent with the status quo.

And therein lies the heart of the issue: what we have now is not working. Clearly some sort of change is necessary.

Anyone who says the current system is working is delusional. This may be the change we need, and we can only see if

it works by trying it. There’s little chance it could make things worse.

I am not suggesting that the actions by Palestine have been justified, nor am I saying that Israel has been entirely unjusti-fied in its past history of swift and violent military responses. Regardless of who has committed the worst of the crimes, for the good of citizens of both Israel and Palestine, peace must be reached, and that simply cannot occur outside of a two state solution in which both nations trade, negotiate, and, above all, cooperate with one another.

- 149 polled

Do you think Palestine should be recognized as a state by the United Nations?

elizabeth levico-writing editor

Palestine statehood would be a mistake

jack meagherwebmaster

The status quo must be changed

Against

Yes, it should.23% Don’t know enough to formulate an opinion. 57%

To be a state, or not to be a state

No, it should not.20%

State plannot plausible

The violence must end

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We see them every day, blue shirts neatly pressed, walkie-talkies constantly crackling, standing in the corner of the hallway. We walk right by them without so much as a nod or a smile, taking their presence for granted. We know that if something -- anything -- happens, they’ll be there: our Student Resource Officers.

But some people want to change that.

In order to save money, some mem-

bers of the Charleston County School Board are considereding taking SROs out of Wando and other schools. While most board members are in favor of keep-ing SROs in schools, a few argue that the school-based officers create a police state, which creates resentment toward police and authority figures in students.

If this were true, it would be a cause for concern; but it simply isn’t. A study of SRO effectiveness showed that students feel safer

Time to stand up for the police

at school and coming to and from school when SROs are present. And it’s undeni-able that they are effective -- schools in the United Kingdom that have on-site officers report lower rates of bullying and absences.

SROs are also valuable as friends and mentors to students. While our guidance counselors are wonderful, it takes time to get an appointment with them. SROs are usually in the hallways, able and willing to talk with students. And male students may feel more comfortable talking about their problems with one of the male SROs than a female guidance counselor.

Of course, there is the issue of mon-ey. Tough times require painful budget

It would be really whack, because say someone comes in this school with a gun, we’re in trouble. – Sophomore

I’d be nervous because then we would have more drama and lots of fights.– Senior Courtney

I feel like there would be a lot more problems and it would take longer to fix them.- Junior Mackenzie Horne

cuts, and it costs $2.5 million to keep the county’s 32 officers in schools. To some, it seems like cutting SROs is a necessary evil. But in reality, the district only has to pay for 27 percent of that $2.5 million – not a small amount, but hardly enough to make a huge impact on the budget.

As a school and as a school district, we need people in many different jobs to keep everything running smoothly, and Student Resource Officers have an ab-solutely vital job. Between keeping our school safe and helping students with per-sonal issues, SROs are people that Wando can’t do without.

I would feel unpro-tected because if there was ever a fight there would be no one to stop it.-Freshman Kenton Holden

What would be your reaction if the SROs were taken out of schools?

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Dear editors of the Tribal Tribune:Greetings. My daughter brought the

current edition of the Tribal Tribune home this week and I read the article about internet site blocking at Wando High School, “Let’s free the Internet.” I enjoyed the piece because it was well written, bal-anced and contained good research. My field is computer science and computer science education, where I too work hard to get information to people who need it to achieve their educational goals. As I was reading the article, empathy filled me as I too have been a victim to the blocking of educational content at Wando HS by the school district. As a parent volunteer at Wando HS, I have been stymied when trying to deliver a professional talk, only to find out that my references to Google Docs, YouTube and blogs were blocked because of the media form, not because of the actual content. Additionally, and for an extended period of time, I could not get an Apple computer connected to the school WIFI because all Apple devices were blocked because of a shortage of IP addresses.

Blocking media types (images and videos) and forms of expression (such as blogs and social sites) for a high school is certainly one way to ensure that inap-propriate content does not enter. Blocking all content would achieve the same result. But I now see both as draconian because there are better ways to make educational content more accessible at Wando High

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Pre-gamin’ not fun and games

School and indeed other schools in the county for the benefit of teachers and students alike. Filter systems that can offer to teachers ways to open up access to the internet on a restricted basis characterize this class of solutions. A teacher may, for example, log into the system and open up YouTube access for a specific time period, such as their class periods, and do so only on that teacher’s computer. After that time period has expired, YouTube access would be removed for that computer. Systems like this are designed around trust-and-verify, not blanket exclusion of media types regardless of the useful content contained therein.

What I fear is that stu-dents, graduat-ing from high schools that limit internet access to an extreme, will be under prepared for success at the uni-versity level where access to content (such as blogs) and services (such as Google Apps for Education) is the norm, not the exception. There is some indication that this problem has been faced by other school districts, as you might imagine. Fortunately the prob-lem has solutions. Just today, the head of the Computer Science Teachers Associa-tion, Chris Stephenson, who I know from a project at Google (Mountain View),

posted a note to all K12 teachers in the association regarding new and innovative content accessible through Google ser-vices. Her post described a new YouTube feature recommended to K12 teachers: http://www.youtube.com/teachers Last week (and how timely), the subject of opening up internet access in high schools was also addressed in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/education/29banned.html

You may not be able to access these URLs at Wando. You literally may have to wait until you are home to learn more.

I feel your pain and join with you in encouraging CCSD to consider a better technical solution that can continue to protect students from inappropriate con-

tent and preserve E-Rate fund-ing, but not so severely limit

access by teachers and students to legiti-mate content and services delivered over the internet in support of high quality education.

Wando is among the finest public high schools in the nation. I am proud that my family is a part of this stellar school and want to do what I can as a parent to continue to see it thrive. Best regards, Chris Starr, Parent

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Letter to the editor

6:30 p.m. You are at a party with al-cohol. You drink, you laugh and you have fun. 7:30 p.m. You get into a car, you blast the music and pull into a parking lot. 8 p.m. You walk into the stadium, you laugh and you get ready for a night of excite-ment and mingling. 9 p.m. You start to feel lightheaded, you laugh but you mean to cry and then you get sick. 10 p.m. You are drunk.

Football games are perhaps one of the bigger social events of the fall, especially for those in high school. We all want to enjoy the atmosphere and have the time of our lives. But when people begin to drink, it changes the field. While it may be exciting and thrilling, underage drinking is impractical. And while there are those who do not engage in this and who have

no intention to do so, it is still a problem that needs to be addressed.

Too many people bring water and Gatorade in with them to games and spike it with alcohol or bring in alcohol itself, hiding this in their purses and bags. Obvi-

ously people have found a loop-hole for not bringing in your own drinks to the games. This needs

to change. Some drink to the point that they cause a scene and alarm bystanders. It’s sad that people feel they must resort to such frolics that danger others and more importantly themselves. When people act inapporpriately, they either need to own up to their actions or the school needs to enforce rules.

If people are not supposed to bring their own drinks in but find a way to carry them in, the school should establish the

rule of searching bags and purses before anyone enters the stadium. Then if some-one has anything with them -- water or a sports drink -- it will be confiscated.

With that said, it is fair to also consid-er that some people would feel their per-sonal space is being violated. But is a little discomfort now and then too much to ask when people’s safety is at stake? Standard practice at college games is to search bags being brought into games. Opened drinks are automatically throw away.

There is a time and place for every-thing, and a high school football game is not the place for drinking. It is a time to support our school and a time for mer-riment. By thinking clearly and finding other ways to enjoy the experience of the games, we can become a better school and become better individuals.

“. . . There are better ways to make content more accessible at Wando High School.”

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Senior Hunter Watson leads the judging of fellow seniors’ Generation Day costumes during third lunch. “It’s my last year to do anything like this, and I don’t think I’ll ever have a chance to dress like a senior citizen again,” senior Layne Walker said.

The Warrior football team beat Beaufort 43-21 Oct. 7, rounding out a week of resounding school spirit with high levels of participation in student dress up days, including Nerd Day, Neon Day, Twin Day and Genera-tional Day.

The Homecoming court for king included winner Logan Windham, first-runner up Christian Brumme, second-runner up Dezmon Venning, Michael Golino, Tanner Hoisington, Tyler Fox, Alex Hairfield and George Fowler. The Homecoming court for queen included win-ner Bonnie McGoogan, first-runner up Danielle Wood, second-runner up Lyndsey Cross, Hannah Sloger, Katie Nelson, Cierra Grant, Rachel Maggy, Rachel Reed and Victoria Robinson.

Senior Logan Windham accepts his crown and sash during halftime at the Homecoming game. Windham’s Homecoming commercial directing traffic in the West Lot was a crowd favorite.

Senior Bonnie McGoogan is crowned Homecoming Queen by senior Sarah Norman, a Student Council representative. “I was so excited. It made me so happy,” McGoogan said.

Football players “bernie” to the fight song during the pep rally Oct. 7 to celebrate Homecoming.

It was a good week of practice, and then everyone executed the game plan.

Assistant Coach Michael Donnalley

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