the Issue 6, Volume 48 May 2013 www.jcpatriot.com News ...................................2 Lifestyles ...............................4 A&E.....................................7 In-Depth...............................8 Opinion...............................11 Sports ................................14 703 E Churchville Rd Bel Air, MD 21014 The John Carroll School Index Sports managers share their experiences of managing sports teams and give insight into their work for athletics. The Patriot tallies up which golf courses in Harford, Cecil, and Baltimore Counties score a hole-in- one and which courses fall below par. Between dog races and dart throwing, the class of ’13 thinks outside the box to meet their Senior Project requirements. A&E 7 Sports 15 Lifestyles 4 The Patriot investigates the array of religious, racial and other types of diversity throughout the JC community and beyond, discovering that students may need a helping hand from the administration to overcome their differences. The Spectrum of Diversity See News, In-Depth, and Opinion for more
Sports managers share their experiences of managing sports teams and give insight into their work for athletics.
The Patriot tallies up which golf courses in Harford, Cecil, and Baltimore Counties score a hole-in-one and which courses fall below par.
Between dog races and dart throwing, the class of ’13 thinks outside the box to meet their Senior Project requirements.
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The Patriot investigates the array of religious, racial and other types of diversity throughout the JC community and beyond, discovering that students may need a helping hand from the administration to overcome their differences.
The Spectrum of Diversity
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With the International Student Program in its second year, 36 African American students among what used to be an all-white popula-tion in 1964, and other changes to JC’s demo-graphics, Vice Principal for Academics Gary Scholl believes the school has “come a long way.”
The administration has set a target for the International Student Program to make up 8 to 10 percent of the student population.
The administration has publicly stated its goal is to better educate the student body on acceptance of all forms of diversity.
Despite having what Scholl considers a “diverse” student body, he thinks that “there is still a need to develop recruiting plans for maintaining a diverse student body. There are no specifics in place right now.”
As for what will be done exactly in the fu-ture, the plans are still “in the process” of be-ing made, according to Scholl.
“JC is a community of human beings. They aren’t perfect, but the majority of all ethnici-ties are tolerant and accepting and understand-ing of cultural, ethnic differences … There are students who aren’t as open, but it’s our job to address that through our academic programs and extracurricular activities to create harmo-ny and understanding,” Scholl said.
“The expectation is there, simply to keep diversity in the mix, rather than the ‘goal.’ I challenge our students to truly embrace the
students from other countries and cultures. They will be better people for doing so,” Dean of Students Thomas Vierheller said.
Junior William Du, a Chinese student said, “Sometimes I hang out with different races. I think it’s hard to find racists at JC.”
Scholl recognizes that there is segregation in the cafeteria between some of the ethnici-ties, but he doesn’t think it is “a whole lot dif-ferent than in other schools.”
“I sit with multiple kids of different races. However, most of the different races have their own table and the students pretty much sit wherever,” sophomore Matt Frey, a white student, said.
According to Scholl, “we are looking at other aspects of the school for teacher training in areas to make JC more welcoming to the students of all ethnicities.”
Senior Kiana Wright, an African American
student, believes that JC has done a “great job at getting diversity, especially compared to other Catholic schools.”
“I don’t have proof of this, but it seems we’ve reached a level of African Americans that makes JC a safe place,” Scholl said.
“Whenever I experience racism it is from a friend or acquaintance who is trying to be funny, but it’s actually ignorant. It’s never a direct attack, just an indirect rude comment,” Wright said.
“The key to any kind of diversity is respect-ing other people, educating others, and appre-ciating the fact that everyone brings some-thing to the table, not just one person. If we don’t have all of it, we are lacking,” Director of Guidance Carol Heflin said.
In Scholl’s opinion, the community “has come a long way in the acceptance of differ-ences, cultural and ethnic differences.”
JCINSIDERPsychology fair explores the mindMeredith HaggertyIn-Depth Editor
New bus route offered next yearBrianna GlaseOnline Chief
JC AIMS for successKaley TracyCopy Chief
The Psychology Fair was held Monday, April 22 in the Brown Room from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. For the second semester project of the AP Psychology class, each student had to pick a topic about anything related to psychology and create a trifold for the fair.
“The point of the Psych Fair is to show students, teachers, and visitors the fun and interesting things about certain psychology topics,” senior Erin Munchel said.
Psychology teacher Paul Lazor said, “We had a lot of interesting topics we haven’t had before or haven’t had very much. It’s al-ways cool when we have presen-tations of something people don’t know about.”
Next school year, a separate bus route will be added to the route JC currently has. Accord-ing to Director of Admissions Kim Brueggemann, the new bus route will go “north to Perryville and stop outside of Havre de Grace” before ending at JC. The one route that JC offers now trav-els the opposite direction, south into Baltimore County.
In addition to a new bus route for students who live in the north, the buses will also run later than 3 p.m., their usual departure time, to accommodate students with afterschool activities. According to Brueggemann, “the transporta-tion will be available to kids after sports practices.”
Representatives from the Asso-ciation of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS) evalu-ated JC from April 15 to 17, to determine if JC earned its school accreditation, a process that oc-curs every 10 years.
Earning an accreditation re-quires schools to reflect and ana-lyze their programs and mission.
Representatives sat in on teachers’ classes and talked to students throughout the course of the three days.
World Languages Chair Dani-ca Attanasio, who co-chaired the AIMS visit with Vice Principal Gary Scholl, agrees that the visit was positive.
“I’m sure we’ll get our ac-creditation,” Principal Madelyn Ball said.
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Rather than wearing the tradi-tional concert black during the Spring Concert on April 26, the music department wore an array of colors to represent their theme of colors.
Last year, music director Marc Bolden ordered the music for “Blue Shades,” by Frank Ticheli, which is “an advanced college piece” about 10 minutes long, ac-cording to Bolden.
Afterwards, he found other songs that also had different col-ors in their titles.
Inspired by all the colors, Bold-en decided to make the theme of this year’s Spring Concert colors. “I asked the students for their own input, and they loved my idea,” Bolden said.
“I’ve never done a concert that wasn’t standard dress before,” first chair second violin player ju-nior Megan Greig said. “The col-ors definitely identified that this was a spring concert. My family said they thought it should be like that every year. It was also kind of unifying between the different sections.”
Third chair first violin senior Rebecca Kotula agreed that the idea was creative, but was wor-
ried prior to the concert that the appearance of the members of the music department may seem di-sheveled.
“I think it’s a really fun idea. I liked that all the song titles had a color in them, but I think that maybe the dress code for the con-cert was not strict enough,” Kot-ula said.
After the concert, Kotula said, “I think they looked pretty good, it looked better than I thought it would.”
After everyone had agreed on the theme, Bolden made a list of every color in the song titles, so each section could choose its own color to represent.
In chorus, the soprano sec-tion was violet, the alto section was gold, the tenor section was orange, and the bass section was red.
In orchestra, the violin one sec-tion was pink, violin two was or-ange, the viola section was black, the cello section was white, and the bass section was indigo.
In band, the flute players were violet, the clarinet players were red, the saxophonists were green, the trumpeters were gold, the low brass players were yellow, and the percussion players were blue.
The jazz band performed first and was followed by Director of
Enrollment Kim Brueggemann’s Dance for Fitness class, Belle Voce, band, chorus, orchestra, and full orchestra.
Band performed “Blue Shades,” the song that inspired the theme. “I am personally at-tached to ‘Blue Shades,’ because it sparked the idea and I also played it in college,” Bolden said.
Compared to other years, the Music Department played a
“greater caliber of music that is much more difficult,” according to Bolden. “I always try to give them advanced songs, but this year I really wanted to challenge them with college-level songs,” he said.
Kotula’s favorite part of the concert was “probably singing ‘True Colors’ at the end.” “It was a really fun song to end with and was a little emotional even, be-
cause it was my last song at JC,” she said.
“When we were coming up on the end of ‘True Colors,’ the last song we did, I felt a huge sense of unity with the entire music depart-ment. The chorus was swaying, the orchestra was clapping, and Mr. Bolden just looked so proud. I can’t really describe how it felt past saying I knew right then that we were a family,” Greig said.
Music dept. shows true colors at Spring ConcertSydney SetreeManaging Editor
Columbia Scholastic Press Association awards The Patriot Silver Crown
The Patriot received several awards for both the entire news-paper and individuals over the last year. The Columbia Scho-lastic Press Association (CSPA) Silver Crown Award was given to the paper on March 22 for the print and digital paper combined.
The Patriot also received in-dividual awards from the CSPA. Lifestyles Editor senior Ashley Beyer received a Certificate of Merit in the category Non-Fiction Interview for “I cut myself” and Second Place in the category First Person Experience for “Junior learns valuable lessons through Friend-to-Friend program.”
Copy Editor senior Rebecca Driver received a Certificate of
Merit in Personal Opinion, Off Campus for “9/11 should be re-vered as a day of service.”
The CSPA also recognized achievements in graphics. Car-toonist junior Brynly Wilson won Third Place for Art/Illustra-tion for her “Pro v. Con” cartoon. Multimedia Editor senior Shan-non Vinton won Third Place for the “Sports Photograph” category for a soccer photo.
Staff editorials received First Place and Third Place for “Ad-ministrative spending downsized by small problems” and “Summer reading day riddled with imper-fections,” respectively.
During the Quill and Scroll In-ternational Honorary Society for High School Journalists induction ceremony on April 26, The Patri-
ot Moderator, Mark Ionescu, gave out awards from the 2013 Interna-tional Writing and Photo Contest from Quill and Scroll.
Multimedia Chief senior Mar-tha Schick was a National Winner in Infographics for her “Wrap-ping Up Sports Injuries” on the back page of issue three. She was also declared a National Winner in the News Writing category for “Administration alters lock-down,” and a Sweepstakes Win-ner in Photo Illustration for “The Shadow of Tragedy” front page of issue three.
In-Depth Editors juniors Lau-ren Fabiszak, Meredith Haggerty, and Hope Kelly were declared National Winners in the In-Depth category for “Bullying effects,” the in-depth story in issue one.
Martha SchickMultimedia Chief
On Apr. 21, friends and fam-ily gathered at the Richland Ball-room to celebrate the first annual Xavia Pirozzi Bull Roast.
The event was intended to raise money for the new Xavia Pirozzi scholarship, which was established in memory of Xavia Pirozzi who died from lymphoma cancer in March 2012. At the bull roast, there was food, desserts, beverages, music, prize wheels, a raffle, and a silent auction. A pic-ture slideshow of Xavia through-out her life was playing to the song “Who You’d Be Today” by Kenny Chesney.
According to Campus Minister Patti Murphy Dohn, “we are com-mitted to keeping Xavia’s mem-ory alive in the heart of JC. This
scholarship fund will benefit our students in the years to come and will be a wonderful tribute to Xa-via and her legacy.”
Amy Meyerl, mother of sopho-more Emily Meyerl, was in charge of organizing the bull roast. Mey-
erl also chaired the bone marrow screening in December 2011 for Pirozzi. “Over 900 people came to the [bone marrow screening] at St. Joseph’s parish center in Ful-lerton,” Murphy Dohn said.
During the bull roast, Xavia’s
family addressed the crowd to thank them for their attendance. Xavia’s grandmother, Joanna Pirozzi, offered up a prayer be-fore handing the microphone to Xavia’s mother, Nicci Pirozzi. “We think about her every day,” Nicci said with eyes full of tears.
Among the JC guests were Principal Madelyn Ball, Fine Arts teacher Mike Shupe, Russian teacher Edward Miller, and Presi-dent Richard O’ Hara. “It made me feel good that so many people were there [at the bull roast] for her and her family,” Shupe said. “I miss Xavia’s wit and smile. She was very quiet but she knew what was going on. She wasn’t very active [due to her health], but she had a passion for photog-raphy. She was a sweetheart.”
The bull roast started at 2 p.m. and ended around 5:30 p.m. right
after the silent auction finished. The items awarded included a stay at the Gramercy mansion, artwork, a Pandora bracelet, Ra-vens and Orioles packages, and a pair of Justin Bieber concert tickets.
According to bull roast guest Maureen McGillick, “the love in the room is my favorite thing here today.”
Guest Patrick Beall didn’t per-sonally know Pirozzi, but still came and supported her legacy. “I didn’t know her, but I had a sister that died from cancer so this was special for me.”
In total, the bull roast made over $8,000 and the volunteers are planning on continuing this event for many years down the road. Xavia’s three younger sib-lings will be attending JC next year as freshmen.
The family of Xavia Pirozzi poses for a picture at the first annual Xavia Pirozzi Bullroast. The event raised over $8,000.
Photo by Haley Kyger
(From left to right) Senior Malia Williamson, fresman Megan Piercy, senior Iris Kim, and freshman Seho Kim play their instruments at the Spring Concert. This year’s theme was colors, and all participants wore colors to represent their section.
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(From left to right) Principal Madelyn Ball awards The Patriot chiefs seniors Martha Schick, Brianna Glase, and Emily Clarke with the CSPA Silver Crown Award. According to the CSPA website, the Silver Crown is one of the most prestigious awards given by the CSPA.
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Junior Julie Kraus walked through Johns Hopkins Hospi-tal with her boyfriend, cancer patient senior Don Linardi. As they strolled through the hospital, they saw a girl laughing with her mother, celebrating the daugh-ter’s release from leukemia quar-antine after three months. Kraus knew that she needed to give back and put smiles on more can-cer patients’ faces.
Kraus, now a senior, has brought those smiles to life with paint-filled balloons and darts. On April 26, Kraus set up six can-vases with cancer awareness rib-bon outlines duct taped on them.
Attached to the canvases were the balloons, which students
threw darts at for $1. “I think the day went better than I ever could’ve imagined. We raised about $420,” Kraus said. The fi-nal product paintings will be do-nated to Johns Hopkins, JC, or auctioned off.
Senior Mackenzie Rayburn participated in Kraus’s project. “I really enjoyed Julie’s Senior Project because it was unique and a fun way to raise money,” Ray-burn said.
“Seeing [the daughter] and re-alizing that Johns Hopkins and the people there are the ones who gave her the opportunity to be able to sing and laugh and smile after being quarantined for three months, as well as [Linardi’s] life, was such an eye opener and made me appreciate what those nurses and doctors do,” Kraus said.
Senior Daniel Kelble stands on the field and looks up toward the bleach-ers. As he uses his hand to keep the sun out of his eyes, he sees what he’s really looking for: the JC press box.
Kelble is helping design and build a new press box for the football and lacrosse field as his Senior Project. According to him, the current one has become old and rundown.
In addition, as Kelble is “trying to do engineering in college,” he felt that the project would help him get some real life experience. He hopes the new press box will “help the next genera-tion of football and lacrosse players.”
With the help of his father, who is
an engineer, he started by working on a design for the press box, which cur-rently includes two stairwells and three sections inside the press box.
Due to regulations on building struc-tures, he had to send his original design to be perfected by a professional engi-neer. Once it was approved, he received a permit so he could begin his work.
As far as paying for the project, Kel-ble did not have to worry. He is only using $4,000 of the $10,000 JC offered.
Kelble hopes to begin construction May 4, but still needs volunteers. This is further complicated by the fact that volunteers must be over 18 years old in order to operate power tools.
Kelble hopes that “the structure will first off stand, and then fit the need of the football and lacrosse teams.”
On your mark. Get set. Go. The run-ners, walkers, and dogs rush past the starting line.
Senior Hunter Kothenbeutel orga-nized the Ma and Paw 5K race com-bined with a one mile walk to benefit the Humane Society on April 21. Run-ners could race solo or race with their pets.
“I see so many out of shape and obese dogs ... and it can be easily rem-edied if the owner understands what to do,” Kothenbeutel said.
Twenty-seven runners and, accord-ing to Kothenbeutel, 10-12 dogs at-tended the race.
According to him, “for a small club
race, the turnout was spectacular and far larger than I had anticipated.”
Kothenbeutel awarded prizes spon-sored by the Humane Society. He also gave handouts about canine health to the participants and quizzed partici-pants on the information. “That was the whole idea behind my project, education and awareness for the com-munity,” he said.
Another goal of Kothenbeutel’s was to raise money for the Humane Soci-ety. “I was ecstatic that the Humane Society was able to raise over $300 [in donations],” Kothebeutel said.
Overall, Kothenbeutel believes that his project was a success. “I helped people realize that running and just walking with their dogs can be fun and enjoyable for both parties involved.”
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Senior Daniel Kelble studies the pressbox for his Senior Project. Kelble is building a new pressbox and will begin the construction in early May.
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Senior Hunter Kothenbeutel and his father Scott Kothenbeutel explain the race route to the runners at the Ma & Paw 5K. A total of 27 runners attended the race on April 21.
Senior Julie Kraus hands out darts to Athletic Trainer Erik Fabriziani and his freshman gym class. The darts were thrown at paint filled ballons attached to canvases, and two of the canvases were donated to John’s Hopkins Hospital.
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I try not to lose academics, but I am artistic and when I pick my clothes I can pick crazy clothes because I am an artist.”
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By Ashley BeyerAs the sun starts to heat up
the beaches and the frozen yo-gurt stores open for business, the dreaded swim suit season begins.
This season can drive people to extreme dieting and excessive exercising. However, there are much better ways to achieve a healthy body and ultimately to be happier.
Different exercises, foods, and even stress levels can greatly af-fect how much fat your body los-es and muscle it gains.
Many exercises can strengthen your muscles as long as you do the exercises correctly. Those looking to lose weight need to ex-ercise on a daily basis.
According to Women’s Health, it is better to do the same exercise every other day, so the certain muscles being used have a day to recover and rebuild strength.
Foods can help burn fat and re-duce cravings as well. According to Women’s Health, berries and nuts reduce cravings and dairy products, eggs, and peanut but-ter all help burn fat. To build up muscles, try to eat lean meats like turkey and green vegetables.
Stress can add unwanted weight as well. When one be-comes stressed, hormones react in the body, storing as much fat in the body as possible, according to Women’s Health.
One mistake I have made in the past is obsessing over weight loss. Obsessing over reaching a certain weight or being a certain size will only end in disappoint-ment, because you will want in-stant gratification, which is not possible when it comes to losing weight.
Setting realistic goals for yourself is a major part of losing weight successfully and keeping the weight off.
Instead of taking all unhealthy foods out of your diet and exercis-ing excessively every day, slowly phase out the unhealthy foods you wish to avoid and gradually intensify your exercise regimen.
Slowly phasing out junk foods is better than quitting eating them cold turkey because your body will not crave the food as much if it’s a gradual change rather than a sudden one.
Slowly intensifying your ex-ercise regimen helps muscles by giving them a chance to recover and rebuild, while also slightly challenging them.
While having an attractive and healthy body can make you feel more confident during swim suit season, losing weight should not be your main goal.
Living a healthier and happier lifestyle will ultimately result in losing weight mentally and physi-cally.
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After six long hours of hiking seven miles up the incredibly steep mountain, social stud-ies teacher James Fendryk and his family finally reached the end of their annual hike up Old Rag Mountain.
Even though they were incredibly exhausted, they have been enjoying this hike since Fendryk was young.
Fendryk first discovered his love for the out-doors when he was a child. His parents were “re-ally into the outdoor scene.”
Due to this, Fendryk “grew up spending week-ends in the woods,” camping, hiking, and surfing at the beach.
Each year, Fendryk and his family take a trip to Shenandoah National Park, where they spend the weekend camping and hiking together. The family goes every year to celebrate his parents’ anniversary because it is where his parents got engaged.
Their favorite hike is the trek up Old Rag Mountain. Even though it is “a pretty intense trek from the bottom to the top of the mountain,” his parents still enjoy the hike because they get to spend time together as a family, according to Fendryk.
Along with his annual family trip to Shenan-doah National Park, Fendryk has taken a few lengthy trips on the Appalachian Trail. “The lon-gest I did was a 10-day trip where we were aver-
aging about 14 miles covered each day,” Fendryk said.
Fendryk’s favorite part about camping and hiking is “getting to spend time with the people that matter most to me.” He also enjoys hiking with his family because “it reminds me of when I was young.”
Social studies teacher James Fendryk holds his son James on their family camping trip. Fendryk enjoys hiking and camping with his family.
Even knowing that it was only the forces of velocity and accel-eration at work, senior Morgan Jones couldn’t help but scream as she zoomed down the Kingda Ka rollercoaster.
On April 27, students were able to combine their knowledge of physics and their love of roller coasters at Six Flags Amusement Park in New Jersey, which host-ed a Physics, Math, and Science Day.
All physics classes were invit-ed to go on this field trip. While this type of event was not the first time this event has been held at Six Flags, it is the first time JC has organized physics students to attend.
Physics teacher Jorge Piquer was the first to suggest the trip. He also organized the trip and chaperoned.
Piquer wanted students to en-joy the rides in addition to com-pleting a worksheet supplied by the park.
“The park gives an assign-ment, but [physics teacher Chris-topher Yeung] and I [made] some changes,” Piquer said.
As AP, honors, and regular
students attended, the worksheets had to be adjusted according to the level of the student.
Although it was not during normal school hours, the field trip was mandatory for Piquer’s hon-ors classes.
According to Piquer, the field trip was intended to be a fun way to review. If students were unable to attend, they had to complete an alternate assignment.
While students generally agree that the field trip was fun, reac-tions about its effectiveness were mixed.
Although Sullivan did have fun at the park, “I didn’t do any work,” he said.
Jones didn’t do much work ei-ther. According to Jones, “it was a good experience, but not a lot of work was accomplished.”
According to Sullivan, the suc-
cess of the field trip relies on its intent. If it was intended to be fun for the students, then it achieved that. However, “if it was to teach us physics, then it was not a very effective field trip.”
Jones, however, believes that she did learn from the trip.
“It was really interesting to see the parts of the rollercoaster that I wouldn’t normally pay attention to.”
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(From left to right) Seniors Brian Cadden, Thomas Sullivan, and Zak Flair ride a thrill ride at Six Flags in NJ. AP Physics, Honors Physics, and Physics classes went to Six Flags for the Physics, Math, and Science Day.
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Elkton Golf and Batting Center misses the tee when it comes to mini golf.
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a few people would be there be-cause it was such a nice day. It turns out that we were the only customers on the premises.
The course itself was 18 holes, but it looked as if it could only be nine holes in size. Unlike most mini golf courses, there were no windmills, no water hazards, and as a matter of fact, nothing fun at all. The course offered only a few dips and bumps in the greens and a few wooden obstacles.
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one dip that was extremely easy to avoid. There was, however, one hazard on the course that was somewhat exciting. On the elev-enth hole there was a giant anchor that you had to avoid hitting. Be-sides that, the course was lacking in creativity. There was no theme to the golf course either unlike a fish or pirate theme often seen at mini golf courses.
I’m no Tiger Woods when it comes to golf, but this course was way too easy. The par for every
hole was three, yet I got either a hole-in-one or a two on each one. My little brother, who was not amused with the course at all, and quite frankly disappointed that I’d brought him to an “unfun” golf course, was able to get four holes-in-one.
Despite the unenjoyable course, the prices were reason-able. For an adult the cost was $5, and for a child, $4.
Although the mini golf course was not exciting, Elkton Golf and Batting Center had other activi-ties to offer. They had a driving range which seemed to be fairly decent. My dad has gone to it a few times and he said that it’s average. They also had batting cages, which seemed to be popu-lar, as they were packed and even had a line.
Elkton Golf and Batting seems to me that it was a driving range and batting center, and the owners decided to add a mini golf course in hopes of attracting more busi-ness. Needless to say, my experi-ence at Elkton Golf and Batting Center was not a fun one, and I don’t plan on going back.
The Patriot takes a swing at finding which mini golf courses ace it in Maryland
Editor Emily Cassidy’s younger brother, Frankie, putts on the seventeenth hole at Elkton Golf. Frankie described the course as “unfun.”
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The dangling bowling pins are one of the many fun obstacles on the Original Course at Churchville Golf Driving Range. Batting cages, golf lessons, and an arcade are some other attractions offered at Churchville Golf.
Perry Hall Mini Golf has po-tential, but is currently too run-down to be recommended.
Without even getting out of the car, it’s obvious that the golf course is small and unimpressive. There’s not much landscaping besides the decorative rock struc-ture in the middle of the course.
After paying the low price of $5, which is convenient for a high school student’s budget, we head-ed to the practice green. This ad-dition was a lifesaver because our mini golf skills were rusty.
Unfortunately, the first hole was too easy, very much like the others. There were not many ob-stacles, as each hole usually only had a rock or two, if that. The eleventh hole, featuring a drain and a narrow bridge, was the only challenging one.
Many holes did have water hazards, which consisted of three dirty ponds. These ponds were brown and devoid of any flora whatsoever. Rather than fish, the ponds contained trash, and the pipes on the bottom were visible.
Besides the ponds, some of the holes were shabby and missing the starting patch. The worst part, however, was that several holes lacked signs. We didn’t know where to go and once we started golfing on the wrong hole.
Perry Hall Mini Golf makes up for its course flaws in its friendly employees. The manager gave us a 50 percent discount on two deli-cious snowballs.
Overall, it’s obvious that the facilities need restoring, decora-tive landscaping, and more ob-stacles. Despite the second-rate course, we still had a lot of fun.
As I stepped up to the first hole at Churchville Golf Driving Range and took a swing, I thought it would be an easy game to win. However, as I moved through the challenging obstacle course, I re-alized that was far from the truth.
Churchville Golf Driving Range has two mini golf courses: the Original Course and the Chal-lenge Course. Both courses are priced at $4.50 for children under the age of 12 and $5.00 for adults.
Out of the two courses, we de-cided to try the Original Course, which seemed like more fun than the Challenge Course based on looks. The Original Course of-fers wacky obstacles that are fun for kids, teenagers, and adults. Some of the best obstacles were a spinning windmill, a ramp onto a pirate ship, a castle, and bowl-ing pins.
The first hole was an introduc-tion to the course. Providing al-most no challenge, the golfer has to hit the ball over one tiny hill before it descends into the hole. Hole Two, however, quickly sub-
merges the golfer into the chal-lenge of the course, requiring the golfer to hit the ball through a windmill to get to the hole.
The next few holes were me-diocre, requiring the golfer to only aim through slightly narrow spaces or figure out just the right amount of “oomph” when hitting the ball.
The course got challenging again with Hole 10. The hole was short but required the golfer to try to hit the ball through one of three narrow openings in a metal castle. This hole was the death of me. It took me three hits to get the ball through the castle, four if you count me having to get the ball from being stuck inside the castle.
The course ended with a bonus hole that required the golfer to hit the ball up a narrow ramp encased by a small house to try to get the
ball in the hole. On either side of the ramp was empty space where most golfers’ balls plummet, end-ing their round of golf on the Original Course. For those cho-sen few who hit their ball into the bonus hole, they win a free game of mini golf.
Despite the fun aspect pro-vided by the obstacles, the course could have used a nice paint job and cleanup crew. The obstacles, although interesting, looked old because most had chipping paint. The entire course looked like it should get a giant washcloth to run over it.
The water that provided a chal-lenge at multiple holes was a murky brown and definitely could have been purified. However, the greens were smooth and undam-aged at most holes.
The Challenge Course was
more age appropriate for adults. The course featured lots of wa-ter challenges between pools and waterfalls. This incorporated na-ture as its theme instead of the wacky obstacles seen in the Orig-inal Course.
Churchville Golf also has a driving range, which is open all year. Prices for buckets of golf balls for the driving range go from $4 to $12 depending on the size of the bucket.
Other amenities include an ar-cade, batting cages, golf lessons, a pro shop, and a snowball stand. Arctic Circle, a local ice cream shop, is also right next to the mini golf courses, just outside the brown fence surrounding them.
Overall, Churchville Golf pro-vided fun yet challenging mini golf courses. I will definitely go back again.
Sophomore Elizabeth Driver lines up to putt at Perry Hall Mini Golf. A round of mini golf costs $5.
Photo by Rebecca Driver
in-depth 8 in-depth9thepatriot May 2013 thepatriot May 2013
“You play basketball, right?” Senior Daylin Armstead, an African American
student, just shrugs, as he has heard this miscon-ception many times before.
“At times, diversity isn’t really embraced. New people that I meet think I play basketball or I am a fast runner because of the color of my dark skin. I’m sometimes offended, but other times I just laugh it off,” Armstead said.
Of the 688 students at JC, there are 43 Asians, 36 African Americans, four Hispanics, four multi-racial, and 463 Caucasians. According to the school Registrar Sue Cathell, the other 138 stu-dents are unclassified.
These 688 students can further be divided by gender to a total of 312 male students and 376 female students. In addition, a survey from The Patriot showed that 75 percent of students are in-volved in athletics, 23.2 percent in music, 21.9 percent in theater, 21 percent in art, 49.1 percent in clubs, and 43.8 percent in Honors Societies. The survey has a +/- 4 percent margin of error.
JC’s mission statement says that “we cultivate in each student a love of learning, a respect for self, and a sensitivity to others ... and prepares them to serve responsibly in shaping a more just and compassionate global society.”
Diversity encompasses everything from racial diversity to diversity
in talents, interests, and gender.
According to Vice Principal for Academics Gary Scholl, “diversity is so important that it is embedded in our mission statement.” Although the school’s mission statement doesn’t use the word “diversity,” it does use language like “sensitivity to others” and “preparing students for a global so-ciety.”
Because of this, JC tries to promote all kinds of diversity. Through programs like Rachel’s Chal-lenge, the summer reading books like “The Hate List” and “Persepolis,” and guest speakers, the school tries to encourage acceptance of everyone, school unity, and diversity.
“Mrs. Redfern does the Culture Shock club, which is very active in promoting diversity,” Col-lege Counselor Carrie Siemsen said.
“There are some accommodations that have been made to help the international students, such as Mrs. Seiler’s EIS [English for International Stu-dents] class, and Mr. Hollin’s U.S. History for In-ternational Students class as well,” Siemsen said.
One of the largest efforts to promote diversity at JC is the International Student Program. The Inter-national Student Program brings students from all around the world to attend school at JC.
Coordinator of International Student Programs Sandi Seiler believes nothing but positive things can come from diversity.
“I think it’s super important because we have to mirror what the real world is like. The world has become such a small place, so I feel that this is the best way to show students what the real world will be like,” Seiler said.
In the beginning of the school year, the school
had 41 international students and they now have 39. Over the last two or three years, Seiler said that “we have tried to recruit students, but as far as I can rember we have always had [international students].”
As far as JC’s diverse enviorment, “we are on the right track, but there are definitely more things to improve …With all the kids from the interna-tional [student] program, I wish we had the op-portunity to learn about their backgrounds and culture. We have taken the right steps, but there is room for improvement there as well,” she said.
Social Studies Department Chair Jake Hollin teaches both American and foreign students and also thinks “positively” about the variety of eth-nicities at JC.
Diversity at JC affects all races positively, ac-cording to Seiler.
“I think both the Americans and foreign stu-dents equally benefit from the diversity, just in slightly different ways. For the exchange students, they learn more about family life and the language of the United States, but on the Americans’ side, there is so much to learn from [international stu-dents] if they are open to it,” Seiler said.
According to Holllin, “most students are grate-
ful for the strides we have made as a community in becoming more diverse. There have been a number of times where I have seen American stu-dents learning from international students and vice versa. I think having a variety of cultures at JC allows a greater appreciation for a student’s own culture as well.”
However, former German exchange student
sophomore Philip Schubart thinks that JC can im-prove its tolerance of diversity.
“I don’t feel diversity at JC. I do get made fun of, but I am a person who can laugh about himself so it’s sometimes funny,” he said.
In The Patriot survey, 56.2 percent of students say they occasionally work on school assignments with another race, but 48 percent of students never or only eat with a student of another race a few times a month.
Non-minority student sophomore Selena Ran-ney said she accepts students from all over the world.
“I see people as they are instead of where they are from anyway,” she said.
Moderator of Culture Shock Tiana Redfern feels students don’t respect the diversity of JC. “Unfortunately, I do not think our student body re-acts positively to the diverse environment and this is something I believe we should seek to change. The reaction to people of different races, religions, or cultures is far from positive on many occasions. The comments made around this building would be shocking in many other environments,” Red-fern said.
Although Redfern believes the environment at JC is not welcoming towards diversity, she has be-gun to see some change.
“I see far more students who are interested in embracing and understanding diversity than I did when I arrived six years ago. We are definitely heading in the right direction, but still have a long way to go,” Redfern said.
South Korean exchange student junior Kelly Seo’s outlook is optimistic: “We look different, but we are all the same, because God made us.”
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Diversity: The Heart of JC
The International Student Program
Teachers and Students Reflect on Diversity
The Patriot sheds light on the quality of diversity at JC, how the International Student Program impacts diversity, and how students and faculty react to each other’s differences.
The Patriot conducted an online survey of the student body on April 24,
The margin of error for this survey is +/- 4 percent.
of students think that JC does a good job
of making itself a culturally diverse school42.5%
Bringing focus of students regularly interact with international students24.6%
Lauren FabiszakIn-Depth Editor
A&E 10thepatriot May 2013
Cu p c ake s w i t h C as s id yEmily CassidyA&E Editor
With the heat of the summer already beating down, no one wants a rich, decadent dessert. These raspberry lemonade cupcakes, made with lemonade and topped with fresh raspberries, provide a light and refreshing twist to the classic cupcake for spring and summer.
LEMON-FLAVORED CUPCAKE:
INGREDIENTS:1 box (18.25 ounces) white cake mix1 box (3 ounces) lemon Jell-O powder3 egg whites1/3 cup canola oil1 1/4 cup water
DIRECTIONS:First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Next, add the cake mix, Jell-O powder, egg whites,
Raspberry Lemonade
oil, and water in a mixing bowl. Beat for two min-utes until blended. Then fill the cupcake liners until they are half full with the mix and bake them for about 15 minutes or until golden brown. Allow them to cool completely before frosting.
RASPBERRY LEMONADE FROSTING:
INGREDIENTS:1 cup of softened butter7 cup powdered sugar1/2 cup frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate,
thawed2 drops red food coloring
DIRECTIONS:First, beat the butter, powdered sugar, raspberry
lemonade, and food coloring on high for five min-utes, until light and fluffy. Fill a decorator bag with the frosting and pipe it onto cooled cupcakes. Sprin-kle with sparkly coarse sugar and top with a fresh raspberry.
It’s getting
in hereHOT
Seven students brave the heat, feel the burn, and take the temperature of four fiendishly fiery sauces.
Reaching her limit, sophomore Selena Ranney downed her water to cool off the fire that started in her mouth. Ranney was one of the seven students who participated in a hot sauce taste test. The Patriot con-ducted a taste test, testing four types of hot sauces while gauging student reactions. Students who were willing to participate were asked to try the different types of hot sauces to see which ones proved the hot-test. Each sauce was placed in a small cup labeled one through four so that no one would unfairly choose the hottest by look-ing at a familiar brand.
The contestants’ faces were not as red as the hot sauces they tasted.
The four hot sauce brands were Tabas-co, Frank’s Red Hot, Louisiana, and Kik-koman Sriracha. Sophomores Grayce Mo-ran, Scott Walczyk, Ola Ekundayo, Selena Ranney, Susan Kim and Justin Hawkins, and senior Iris Kim completed the taste test. Moran, Susan Kim, Iris Kim, Ekun-dayo, and Hawkins believed Tabasco to be the hottest, while Walczyk and Ranney claimed Louisiana as the winner.
Each hot sauce contained the three stan-dard ingredients of aged peppers, vinegar and salt. Each hot sauce had additional ingredients to create their specific taste, like garlic. From the test results, the hot
sauces with fewer ingredients were hot-ter than those with multiple ingredients. “[The Kikkoman Sriracha] tastes like bar-becue sauce,” Walczyk said as he tasted the cup labeled hot sauce number four. “I have hot sauce all the time, so I’m used to it.” The Kikkoman Sriracha hot sauce contained 12 ingredients. The addition of water, natural flavors, xanthan gum, and sugar toned down the hot sauce.
Neither Susan nor Iris favored the Louisiana or the Frank’s Red Hot sauce. They expected Tabasco to be the hottest because of the small bottle it came in. Their expectations proved to be true.
The price of each hot sauce varies depending on size and brand popular-ity. Tabasco topped at $4.72 for a two ounce bottle. Kikkoman Sriracha cost $2.50 for a 10.6 ounce bot-tle, Frank’s Red Hot cost $3.62 for a 12 ounce bottle, and Loui-siana hot sauce cost $2.75 for a 12 ounce bottle. In addition to being one of the hottest, Loui-siana is the best buy at 22 cents per ounce.
According to the Chicago Tribune, hot sauce speeds up your metabolism by raising your temperature, which can be good for dieters. “Capsa-icin, the compound that gives red chili pepper its power-
ful kick, creates the largest bump in heat generation, which helps burn more calories immediately after a meal.”
“I’m really used to hot food … if you can’t handle it you have weak taste buds,” Ekundayo said.
When it comes to purchasing the hottest hot sauce, the tast-ers found Tabasco to be the best choice. Its few ingredients rate it the hottest in our book.
Sophomore Justin Hawkins is sweating and on the verge of
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Is summer schoolwork beneficial ?
Pro
Patriots Answer Do you think that summer school work is beneficial?
Con
Bryan DohertyOpinion Editor
Martha SchickMultimedia Chief
I’m up at 6:00 a.m., in the car by 7:00 a.m., and at work by 7:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, all summer long. I usually get home
around 6:30 p.m., unless there’s an event that requires me to drive into the city or to the shore. This is what my summer job requires of me, so when am I supposed to do math problems or read a book?
While I understand that teach-
ers want to get a head start on the school year during summer vaca-tion, students, particularly ones with summer jobs, cannot be ex-pected to fill all of their free time with extra work.
At this point, teachers are ask-ing students to give up their only free time of the summer to exert themselves further. For teachers who are afraid that their material will be forgotten, a review session at the beginning of the year would be better suited than a rushed as-signment during a busy summer. Algebra or Spanish will only get more difficult if a student tries to teach it to themselves without a teacher there to guide them.
For those not employed during
the summer, a vacation should still be a vacation. For those in higher level classes that typically require a lot of summer work, they’ve spent the school year poring over textbooks. Summer gives a chance to spend time with family and relax.
A college prep school is sup-posed to make students desirable to colleges. My job provided me with excellent letters of recom-mendation, work experience, and contacts with Maryland politi-cians and news agencies, helping me become more well-rounded and appealing to colleges. That experience is more valuable to my education than doing a packet of math problems.
The end of the school year marks the disappearance of stress, early mornings, and long days. The only thing left is that impending summer packet your teacher so rudely gave you on the last day before exams. Everyone hates doing them, but summer assignments are a great way to jumpstart the next school year.
Each year, weeks and weeks of class time are wasted as teach-ers review, and in many cases re-teach, material that was covered the previous year. Math classes especially struggle with this.
Students shouldn’t start learn-ing actual geometry during Oc-tober in their geometry class be-cause they spent all of September
reviewing algebra. Summer assignments don’t
need to be long or tedious. They shouldn’t burden students with hours and hours of homework to do on their summer vacation.
They should be just enough work to keep students thinking throughout the summer. They should be thorough enough to re-view material, but short enough that students aren’t plagued by them all summer long.
Another good summer assign-ment is summer reading. The school-wide books bring groups of students that read the same book together, giving a variety of students something in common and establishing a sense of unity from the first day back.
Reading non-fiction books and novels for English and social
studies classes is also a great way to introduce students to the types of books and materials that will be covered in the course.
Students shouldn’t be tested on these books, but they should be used as a tool to keep students thinking while they are away from the classroom.
Summer work can be a pain, but ultimately it will benefit stu-dents by preparing them to get back to school, even if they are put off to the last minute.
Summer work shouldn’t load students down with work on their well-earned time off, but they do keep students thinking.
When school work seeps into summertime, it pulls students from their time for relaxation and summer jobs.
Artwork by Brynly Wilson
Artwork by Christine Kim
Reasonable summer school work prepares students for classes in the fall so that class time is not wasted reviewing.
“No, I think we do enough work
during school. We don’t need
anymore during summer.”
“No, because the percentage
of kids that do it is low.”
“I think reading is, because it’s
fun.”
“Yes, you can’t just relax during
the summer or your brain won’t work when you
get back.”
Freshman Sophomore Junior SeniorTaylor Mezzatesta Christian Anderson Sarah Carson Maggie Huang
“Anything to just keep your brain
active is good. It’s like exercise.”
Associate Director of Enrollment
Ed Maynard
opinion 12thepatriot May 2013
By Bryan Doherty
Doherty’sDemocracy
When I turned on the news a few weeks ago, I was appalled to see the famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson apologizing for a horribly controversial and poor-ly considered comment that he made about gay marriage. It is extremely commendable that the majority of JC students have held themselves above the horrible ex-ample set for us, exemplified by Carson’s comments.
In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, Carson said, “It’s a well-established fun-damental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA [North American Man/Boy Love Association], be they people who believe in bes-tiality, it doesn’t matter what they are, they don’t get to change the definition [of marriage].”
These kind of comments come to light so frequently that it is al-most what we’ve come to expect from public figures. Saying that conception illegitimizes rape or 47 percent of Americans are lazy, is horrendous and shocking but has become all too commonplace in the political and public world.
There has been a breakdown in communication in our Ameri-can system. Only the extremes of political correctness seem to ex-ist. People either get offended at every negative or even indifferent comment, or they don’t filter any of their statements to make sure that it meets the standards of ba-sic human respect.
Not everyone needs to be per-fectly polite and politically cor-rect. When having intense de-bates and discussions, agreements about what is being said and how it is said are undoubtedly hard to come by.
However, in my experience JC students accept this fact but never lose their sense of dignity or their respect for their peers. Interactions between students in class and elsewhere throughout the school are characterized with politeness and courtesy.
For example, in a senior AP Government and Politics class an official debate on gay marriage was held, and despite the deeply contrasting views, no one was called a bigot or a heathen. Each side was able to make their point without any personal attacks.
It’s terrible that JC students should be commended on being better than a lot of public figures. The example being set by those figures, people whom many re-gard as heroes or people to look up to, is not one that should be ex-emplified. I’m proud to be part of a community that sets itself above this. I look forward to seeing JC students setting the example, an example I know will be much bet-ter than that being set currently.
JC students rise above as example of respect
PERSPECTIVE School must expand academic curriculum and social activities to promote student diversity
For a school that boasts about its International Student Program (ISP), JC has a problem reflecting this diversity in its social struc-ture and curriculum. Steps should be taken to prepare students for the diversity that they are going to encounter when they leave these halls.
JC’s mission statement states that students will be prepared to shape “a more just and compas-sionate global society.” For this to happen, students have to be ex-posed to different types of people and different cultures.
The ISP may bring students of other cultures to JC, but it fails in mixing those students and the
domestic students in social situa-tions.
A way to integrate students from other countries with Ameri-can students is to set up a pro-gram like our current Friend-to-Friend program. This program would connect students across the language barriers that share common interests. Through the formation of international friend-ships, students can learn about another culture without even try-ing. Such education outside of the classroom would help JC live up to its mission statement.
JC can also instill diversity by changing the curriculum to pre-pare students for a globally di-
verse world. World Religions should be
made mandatory because, besides Anthropology, there are no cul-ture-related classes at JC.
JC needs only to look at almost any college’s course load. Almost all colleges offer classes, majors, or minors dedicated to the study of foreign cultures such as Hu-man Rights in Asia, Politics in Italy, and Modern Latin America.
JC should also offer AP World History, which could teach stu-dents about other cultures with-out the European colonization perspective.
Students who have a thorough understanding of different cul-
tures will be more inclined to be accepting of those other cultures.
English classes also offer a chance at diversifying the curric-ulum. Books such as “The Secret Life of Bees,” “Song Yet Sung,” “The Kite Runner,” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” are good of examples of books that are taught in the classroom which address the issue of racial tension in a manner in which students can effectively discuss them.
Diversity is not something that can be forced upon the student body. However, there are steps that can be taken to better prepare students to go out and fulfill JC’s mission statement.
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Pope Francis brings new hope to ChurchShannon Olsen Lifestyles Editor
Following the election of Pope Francis, I wondered what the newly elected Pope would do to make a positive change in the Catholic Church. Fortunately, I did not have to continue wonder-ing for very long.
He started out by asking peo-ple not to spend money on com-ing to his inauguration Mass but to instead give the money to the poor. It was in that moment that he began to show the world just a small glimpse of the changes he wanted to make. This was just the beginning.
Pope Francis has proved to be quite humble as he ditched the protective Pope Mobile to be able to interact with people. He also ditched his luxurious papal apart-ment to live where cardinals stay during the conclave.
These simple changes of walk-ing through the crowd instead of riding around in the Pope Mo-bile and living in a less luxurious home has given a new sense of hope to Catholics worldwide.
Internet sales tax threatens small online retailers
Chioma IheomaOpinion Editor
Buying the latest knick-knack off of Wane-lo may become a little more expensive soon. The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on legislature that would mandate the payment of sales tax on Internet purchases. This legislation hurts small online retailers and should be adjusted to promote small busi-ness growth.
Right now, if a Maryland consumer buys from an online retailer that doesn’t have a physical residence in the state, they don’t have to pay a sales tax on their purchase. Maryland does have a sale tax, so technically, the con-sumer should calculate that tax and pay it.
This legislation, called the Marketplace Fairness Act, would make paying this tax mandatory.
It is nonsensical to pay money to a state
where a retailer does not physically exist. Do-ing so would be as logical as a Marylander driving to Pennsylvania to buy something, and rather than paying Pennsylvania’s tax, this person would pay the tax to Maryland.
Businesses that make over $1,000,000 through Internet sales would have to collect the added tax from their customers and pay that to the states where purchases are made. Aside from forcing customers to pay another tax, this act would make transactions more complicated for small retailers because sales tax differs from state to state.
Only four percent of small businesses made over $1,000,000 in the past year, but the hefty taxes could stifle their growth. Large online retailers like Amazon have endorsed this act because it would weaken its smaller compe-tition and because it already has a physical presence in many states near metropolitan ar-eas which allow it to keep prices low.
The beauty of our capitalistic society is that competition drives the market. When big corporations feel threatened, it is both wrong for them to lobby for legislation to bring down their competitors and for legislators to give them any attention. In order to better accommodate smaller online retailers, Con-gress should pay attention to eBay’s pleas of increasing the exemption to retailers making under $10,000,000.
Pope Francis waves to the crowd during his inauguration mass at St Peter’s square on March 19, 2013 at the Vatican. World leaders flew in for the inauguration mass for Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square.
Pope Francis realizes that people connect more with a Pope who is more involved and under-standing of the people.
There has been anecdotal evi-dence collected by many sources,
including NBC news, that many lapsed Catholics have begun to go back to church due to Pope Francis’ influence.
All around the world, people have watched Pope Francis begin
to change the Church after only one month of being Pope. The positive effect that he’s made on the Church in this short span of time only can reflect what he will be doing in the future.
opinion13 thepatriot May 2013
By Martha Schick
Martha’sMusings
Tragedy reveals true character
Chioma IheomaOpinion Editor
May Report CardThe Patriot turns the tables by grading the school on today’s issues
Prom reels in excitementA
Attending Senior Prom in the Balti-more National Aquarium and following it up at Dave and Buster’s: $85. Being one of very few people who can say they had dolphins at their prom: Priceless.
JC has managed to turn our prom into something so unique that it can’t be du-plicated by other schools.
The only downfall was a delay on bus arrival which was forgotten after hours of games and fun held at Dave and Buster’s. If the five hour dance had been short-ened by an hour to make for more time at D&B’s then the Senior Prom would get an A+.
Commercials for the Rosetta Stone program feature customers raving over how great the product is. However, its implementation has fallen short of being productive.
In order for our state-of-the-art Lan-guage Lab to produce positive results, language classes should be making at-tendance more often than once every two weeks.
These biweekly visits aren’t very help-ful when the lessons being taught on Rosetta Stone do not coincide with the lessons that are being taught in the class-room.
D Rosetta Stone hits brick wall
The freshly-made cafeteria food can only be enhanced by having a more thor-ough “health guide.”
The current “health guide” shows the comparative health of foods based on whether they have red, green, or yel-low stickers. Red is unhealthy, green is healthy, and yellow signifies average health.
This system is nice to have for when students care about health. If this sys-tem was upgraded so that the actual nu-tritional values for salt, fat, and caloric content were provided, the cafeteria food would be perfect.
B Cafe needs fresh facts
Tragedies separate people into two groups. There are the people who try to improve upon a situa-tion and there are the people who take advantage of it. After the Boston Marathon bombing, we quickly saw our nation split into these two groups.
While most of the country was still reeling from the bomb-ing that had seriously injured and killed three people at the Bos-ton Marathon, there were people opening their homes to runners with nowhere to go. This may seem like a throw-away kindness, temporary and without commit-ment, but think about the mental-ity of Boston at that point.
Bombs have just gone off in your city at one of your most populated events of the year. The streets are covered in blood, and people are sure this is another ter-rorist attack. You have no idea who is behind this, and you have no idea if there will be any more explosions. Yet you still decide to let strangers stay in your home.
Within minutes of the bomb-ing, marathoners ran two ex-tra miles to the hopsital to give blood. Within hours, restaurant owners were giving people food and telling them to pay only if they could. Within days, there were people designing and selling t-shirts to raise money for the vic-tims’ families and the businesses destroyed by the bombs.
Then there was the other kind of people who used something as tragic as the loss of human life to immediately make their own po-litical and religious points.
The people I’m talking about were mostly found on social me-dia, accusing different religious groups of being behind the at-tacks when there was literally no evidence. This also applies to people talking about different policies in the government, as if this was some kind of “proof” that the government needs to make changes. Seeing people on Face-book talking about “those damn Arabs” before there was anything released on the identities of the suspects shows how hateful trag-edy can make some people.
Some points made may have been valid at another time, but they are immediately seen as in-sensitive propaganda so soon af-ter an attack on an American city. Yes, the country needs to change its views on certain issues when attacks like this happen, but sen-sitivity should be the most impor-tant thing. Starting a discussion about gun laws or immigration based on this tragedy is fine, but wait until the blood has been cleaned from the streets first.
Everyone has a choice when reacting to a tragedy. Some will use everything they can to help those affected by the disaster. Others will muddy the waters.
Yellow banners are hanging, arranged along the foyer’s ceil-ing. The ring fingers of juniors and seniors are decorated with black and gold rings. These things are JC.
JC isn’t the building that you’re in or the uniform you wear every day. It’s the traditions we keep, the people we meet, and the teachers we learn from.
If nothing else, four years at JC has taught me that the teachers at this school make it what it is. Everyday teachers are here doing their best so that we, in turn, can do our best.
School should explore dual enrollment opportunities
With college tuition increasing every day, it is essential to accu-mulate as many college credits as possible before leaving high school. AP classes are JC’s cur-rent method for achieving this, but those high-level courses aren’t for everyone. JC should adopt dual enrollment, but with reservations.
Dual enrollment is a program in which a high school and a local college work together to create a college course for high school students that is taught at the high school. Students taking this course receive both high school and college credit from the col-lege involved, as long as a speci-fied grade is attained.
If dual enrollment was adopt-ed, administrators would utilize courses from Harford Commu-nity College (HCC).
Because of HCC’s involve-ment, students would pay college rates for the class. At HCC, the rate in the fall of 2013 for stu-dents living in Harford County is $92 per credit hour. Each class is usually three to four credits.
One of the advocates for dual
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enrollment is Spanish teacher Su-san Garcia who has worked with such programs in Knetucky and Arizona.
“John Carroll has to go to dual enrollment because of the cost of college education,” Garcia said.
One of the benefits of dual en-rollment is that it is available to students who do not want to take AP classes, but an AP curriculum
can still exist at JC if the dual en-rollment program is added.
AP courses operate on a higher level, and many students take ad-vantage of the benefits. The AP test, which determines if one gets college credit, this year is $89.
Dual enrollment is more ex-pensive but getting credit is en-sured.
JC should adopt dual en-
rollment courses, but make them more rigorous than other schools’. Since dual enrollment classes are generally easier than AP classes, a B average should be maintained, rather than a C.
If JC adopted the program it would be the first school in Har-ford County to do so, increasing the school’s prestige and attrac-tiveness to potential students.
From the editorTeachers and administrators
this year have been extremely successful in their reactions to horrendous events.
When the school received a bomb threat, the administra-tion took decisive measures to ensure student safety. When the Newtown shooting occurred and schools across the country tight-ened their security, JC made sure it had a new lockdown drill in place.
JC responded appropriately and with zeal. We all heard Vice Principal of Academics Gary Scholl tell us at the Quarter Three
Honors Assembly that it is not how we start a challenge but how we finish it. Why not finish the year out strong by actively plan-ning for the next year?
Go out and be proactive. If fu-ture classes want a Variety Show, make plans now. Talk to students now. Come up with solid skits and scripts now. Work with teach-ers who are on your side now.
Want to actually do something about increasing school spirit? Look into the past for old ideas and apply them to the future. JC has tons of old traditions that slowly faded away.
Work on updating those tradi-tions to make them work again. Old yearbooks have pictures of Spirit Weeks that were filled with boy cheerleaders, homecoming floats, and crazy competitions with teachers. Bring back things that were fun and exciting, but not rule-breaking.
Changes do not come from sit-ting back and waiting to react to the next big event.
Seek new ideas and new hori-zons that force people to see JC as the example to be followed. Bring about that change your-selves.
Print Chief Emily Clarke reflects on what sets JC apart
sports 14thepatriot May 2013
It’s easy to forget that teach-ers were in high school once, that they were teenagers once upon a time. They went to football games and homecoming. They were in the school musicals and played sports.
English teacher Matthew Blair played varsity lacrosse for two years at Dundalk High School.
“[Lacrosse] was a lot of fun. I made many new friends and a lot of good memories,” Blair said. “My most memorable experience was definitely my last game in my senior year of high school when my team had a fight with Randall-stown.”
Health teacher, physical educa-tion teacher, and badminton coach Tess Gauthier played field hockey and lacrosse for four years at JC.
During her freshman and sophomore years, she was on JV for both sports, but moved onto varsity junior and senior year for both sports.
One of Gauthier’s memories is of the grueling practices the players had to go through. When she was a part of the JV lacrosse team, the varsity team lost its game and the members had to run 600 meters around the track.
From her years of playing high school sports, playing the actual sport isn’t what Gauthier remem-bers most. “I remember being a
part of a team,” she said.Gauthier believes that being
an athlete in high school and col-lege has helped her to be a bet-ter coach. “I was able to look at the positives and negatives of my coaches and fine tune them while also bringing my own personal-ity,” she said.
Being an athlete has helped her in more ways than one. “I think being a competitor makes you tough at all the things in your life, [like] financing, health, whatever things you need strength to over-come,” Gauthier said.
For social studies teacher Brian Powell, playing a sport has taught him “dedication to anything, whether it’s art or music or sports. I think there’s an element in per-formance in everything we do.”
During Powell’s freshman and sophomore years at Joppatowne High School, he played varsity soccer both years. After transfer-ring to Calvert Hall College High School, he continued his soccer career by playing on the varsity team for both junior and senior year, where he was a starter.
His team won MIAA champi-onships during his junior and se-nior years. “Back-to-back cham-pionships in the MIAA, it was not unheard of, but really difficult to be champions twice in a row,” Powell said.
Along with his memories of MIAA championships was play-
ing against Curley High School at University of Maryland Balti-more County.
“My greatest soccer memory is playing in my junior champi-onship under the lights against Curley at UMBC. There were thousands of people there. There were more people at my high school championship my junior year than any game I ever played in at college,” he said. “Playing in front of the Curley and CHC fans, it felt like I was playing in front of all of the Baltimore soccer [com-munity]. It was awesome.”
In high school at JC, Associate Director of Enrollment Ed May-nard played varsity soccer for all four years, JV lacrosse during his sophomore year, and varsity swimming and diving during his sophomore and junior year.
“[Being an athlete] has taught me the importance of achieving a goal as a team along with the im-portance of hard work and prepa-ration,” Maynard said.
Along with the other teaches, Vice Principal Gary Scholl also pursued an athletic career during high school. For all four years, Scholl wrestled for varsity and played varsity tennis at Bel Air High School.
“I was captain of wrestling and tennis. We had great teams,” he said.
“In wrestling, I wrestled a fel-low from Brooklyn Park High
School, Lloyd Keyser. He even-tually went onto the Naval Acad-emy and wrestled there. He be-came a world champion. I beat that kid in high school,” Scholl said.
With his hard work, Scholl learned about the importance of discipline. “Wrestling especially
teaches a tremendous amount of discipline. It takes hours and hours of practice,” he said.
“For me, wrestling became a part of my career. I coached wres-tling for 16 years,” Scholl said. “I learned to stay in good cardio-vascular shape and how to stay strong.”
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Teachers look back on high school sports
Three minutes are on the clock, and senior Caroline Haggerty has the ball.
Her team sprints through the eight meter arc, leaving a lane for her to go to the goal. She fakes left, goes right, and has a one-on- one situation with the goalie. She sees the fear in the goalie’s eyes as she accurately shoots the ball into the back of the net. The players go wild, and the college coaches start writing her name down.
It is Haggerty’s last summer tournament in Richmond, Va. This is her last time to shine be-fore college coaches start email-ing her expressing interest on Sept.1.
Six months after this tourna-ment, Haggerty verbally commit-ted to play lacrosse at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).
Haggerty and 16 others se-niors have signed to play sports in Division I, II, and III colleges throughout the country in la-crosse, swimming, basketball,
track and field, and wrestling. “The recruiting process was
fun but hectic at the same time. It was great knowing that I was wanted at multiple schools. It was hard choosing between schools,” senior Rodney Elliot said. El-liot will be playing basketball at UMBC.
According to Kiana Wright, who will be running track at Le-high next year, “The [recruiting] experience was very good be-cause my coach didn’t look at me as an object based on how good I am now, or how much recogni-tion I’ll get the team.”
Although these seniors have signed and received scholarships to play a sport in college, many of them feel as if they are mentally and physically unprepared.
“I feel completely unprepared. I never ran on a serious track team, and never had to be super serious about the sport. I never had very difficult track practices where I’ve felt pressured to push myself,” Wright said.
Senior Jordan Clarke has a dif-ferent opinion. “The John Carroll women’s lacrosse team is one of the nation’s top, if not the tough-
est, conferences of competition. I definitely feel that the pro-gram here at JC has both men-tally and physically prepared me
to compete at the highest level of competition in college, at Di-vision I competition,” she said. “The coaching staff and players
throughout my years here have been tough, but they have helped shape me into the strong player that I am today.”
Sydney SetreeManaging Editor
Associate Director of Enrollment Ed Maynard takes a free kick while on the 1992 JC varsity soccer team. Maynard was a goalie on the team.
Photo courtesy Pacificus
Senior Jordan Clarke (middle) works to get the ball back in a game against St. Paul’s School for Girls. Clarke will be playing Division I lacrosse at Towson next year.
Photo courtesy Athletic Office
sports15 thepatriot May 2013
Athlete Spotlight:
Alice CumpstonStatsGrade: Freshman
Featured Sport: Women’s varsity lacrosse
Position: Midfielder
Goals:
To bring her team to the championship, win, and to become a bigger leader to the team in the future
Years played:
8 years Freshman Alice Cumpston chases after a ground ball after a faceoff in a game against St. Paul’s School for Girls on April 23. Cumpston also plays on the NEMS lacrosse club.
She is a hard working player.
I know it’s hard being the only freshman on varsity, but she
manages it well.Junior Alyssa Lazaro
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My favorite thing about lacrosse is just
being able to play with a bunch of my friends. It’s just fun to do because my
teammates and I can play successfully.
Freshman Alice Cumpston
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Photo by Cole Alban
Students get involved by managing sportsCole Alban
Managing Editor
Sophomore Rawlison Zhang (top) records statistics at a women’s lacrosse game against St. Paul’s School for Girls. Zhang has been working with the women’s team since he was a freshman and has been doing it ever since. Senior Ben Ey (bottom) sets up lacrosse balls around the field before the men’s game. Ey does many other things to help the team out like giving speeches, keeping track of players, and recording statistics.
Photos by Cole Alban
Senior Ben Ey walks onto the field with his team, preparing to start the game. As the team hud-dles up, Ey gets in the middle to give his pre-game speech, one of the ways Ey helps out the lacrosse team as the men’s varsity lacrosse manager.
Lacrosse is not the only team with a manager. According to Athletic Director Larry Dukes, lacrosse, football, field hockey, basketball, wrestling, and swim-ming all have managers.
“Managers are hugely impor-tant,” Dukes said. “Most teams are budgeted for only two coach-es and it’s tough for a coach to do all the jobs during competition.”
“Very few teams have manag-ers, but we’d love to have more,” Dukes said. “One reason there aren’t many managers is because 72 percent of our student body plays sports,” Dukes said.
This does not leave many extra students to be managers. Dukes said that most of the managers come in the winter, since that season has the least number of sports.
“We are trying to make [sports managing] more attractive to stu-dents,” Dukes said. “You get a varsity letter and at one point we tried to give service hours, but that never happened. Coaches are asking kids in their classes to help and players are asking friends.”
Ey began managing the la-crosse team midway into this season, after about three or four games. The team needed some-one to record statistics and Ey stepped up to the job.
Ey does more than just record stats. “I give the team motivation-al speeches to get [the players] fired up,” Ey said. “I don’t go to
the practices but I do go to every game, home and away.”
“[Managing] is a good thing because if [it didn’t happen] the coach would have to keep statis-tics and manage all the players alone,” Ey said. “I love doing it [managing]. The boys are great to work with and it is a lot of fun. If you enjoy lacrosse and under-stand the game, then definitely do it.”
Ey said managing the team is not too tough. “[Managing] is pretty easy to keep up with. I miss something once in a while but not too often,” Ey said.
Sophomore Rawlison Zhang manages the women’s varsity la-crosse team. “I started because I enjoyed watching lacrosse and wanted something to do in the spring, since I did not play any spring sports,” Zhang said.
“I enjoy getting out of class early and it is a pretty fun thing to do.” He said the hardest part is keeping stats accurate and help-ing coaches.
He believes that the team can use more help as far as managers go. “I definitely need help. The team is really nice and they are all awesome. Definitely do it,” Zhang said.
Some teams have more than one manager. Junior Alex Kane manages the wrestling team in the winter, along with sophomore Merina Novak. Basketball also has multiple managers.
“I began freshman year be-cause coach Watson told me I had to be either a wrestler or a man-ager,” Kane said.
“I keep the book for all the matches, run the clock, and help keep the wrestlers in line,” said Kane. She goes to every meet and also says the job is not too hard to perform. “I love it [managing the team].”
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Mild dehydration is likely to
cause:
Dry, sticky mouthThirst
The Patriot dives into JC athletics to see how the problem of dehydration affects students, where the true causes lie, and what is the best way to avoid dehydration.
Cramps convulsed through senior Ryan Noone’s legs, arms, feet, and hands. It had been an extremely hot and humid day at soccer tryouts, and his body didn’t have enough liquid to keep up with the sweat that he was pouring out. The pains contin-ued for three hours until he was admitted to the hospital for three days due to extreme dehydration.
Although this occurred during men’s varsity soccer tryouts, JC doesn’t “have a big problem with [dehydration],” accord-ing to Athletic Trainer Eric Fabriziani.
Katie Bond of Maryland SportsCare and Rehab said dehydration occurs when “we lose more water and electrolytes than what we replenish.”
In warmer weather “constant sports,” where athletes are subbed in and out quick-ly and don’t get to “replenish” themselves, dehydration is more likely to occur, ac-cording to Fabriziani.
“Usually it’s that first real jump in the temperature [when dehydration occurs] and everybody’s bodies aren’t used to it,” Fabriziani said.
It was in one of these warmer weather sports, football, that freshman Matt Stoots became dehydrated last year.
“I felt really lightheaded and very thirsty. My mouth was really dry, and it felt like it was coated in sand,” he said.
Although it is more probable for dehy-dration to occur in warmer weather, it is not always temperature-driven. It can oc-cur in indoor sports like basketball as well, as dehydration is “related to how much liquid you have consumed,” according to Fabriziani.
Fabriziani advises athletes to drink wa-ter throughout the day, voicing that “that’s the best medicine for avoiding [dehydra-tion], just staying hydrated . . . If you go through the day without drinking and then drink at practice, you aren’t going to magi-cally become hydrated.”
Sophomore Samiah Miller follows this advice after she became dehydrated at a la-crosse tournament a few years ago.
“I had gotten very dizzy and then all of a sudden, my body collapsed. Now I make sure that I drink up to at least four bottles of water a day and, if I have a game the next day, I drink up to eight bottles,” she said.
Bringing water to class will help stu-dents stay hydrated, aside from drinking liquids only at lunch.
“As it gets warmer, students are apt to get dehydrated, but they can actually carry water to class in the cooler months,” Dean of Students Thomas Vierheller said.
Other liquids such as coffee, iced tea, and soda are diuretics, which make you go to the bathroom and take liquid out of you rather than replenishing your body, accord-ing to Fabriziani.
Bond stresses that these drinks and car-bonated energy drinks will “intensify the dehydration process.”
Instead of consuming diuretics, Fabriz-iani suggests drinking water throughout the day, practices, and games, and “replen-ishing” afterwards with Gatorade.
“[Drinking] sports drinks is a good post- game activity,” Fabriziani said.
Bond agrees sports drinks are helpful following a workout.
“Sports drinks are formulated after what we lose from sweating. Basically, Gato-rade and Powerade are flavored sweat,” Bond said.
Along with drinking Gatorade, which “helps a lot, especially for cramps,” Noone
makes sure he “eats the right foods,” after being dehydrated “many times.”
He also drinks water “to ensure that [getting dehydrated] won’t happen again … Now I take vitamins with potassium and protein for extra protection,” he said.
Eating foods high in potassium will also help “to prevent muscle cramping brought on by dehydration,” Fabriziani said.
Although athletes may not have de-hydration experiences that compare to Noone’s, Fabriziani emphasizes that stu-dents need to know their own bodies, as everyone’s bodies are different.
The extent of dehydration varies due to the fact that bodies are different, according to Fabriziani.
Athletes can become dehydrated and be unaware of it, but they can also experience cramping as Noone did.
“It takes time to feel the cramping really get bad,” Fabriziani said.
“[Dehydration] is a gradual process and it only gets worse if I ignore it,” Noone said.
Transitioning from the spring season into summer, Fabriziani reminds the ath-letes that, “as far as drinks go, water is the best.”
