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Rachel Beach Sta! Writer

From !rst-time dancers to peo-ple who have been mastering the seemingly endless number of steps for years, Manhattan’s square dancing club, The Lone Wranglers, are offering classes for everyone.

Classes are held every Tuesday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. At the senior center at 301 N. 4th Street and are $5 per lesson.

“We would love to see more high schoolers out here,“ caller-in-train-ing Tom Hollinberger said.

With its rhythm at 128 beats per minute, square dancing is not a spectator’s sport. The caller, Dana Schirmer, is often hired to call for parties for people of all ages. Schnier tries to incorporate music that has a more modern appeal to a younger crowd. Music ranges throughout the lesson from Lady Gaga to Turkey in the Straw. The Lone Wranglers travel to places like Salina and Topeka to join with other clubs and dance.

“There are no strangers in square dancing,” Schirmer said. “Once you’ve taken each other’s hand, started dancing, and have a

good time, you’re all friends.”Square dancing is a great place

to meet new people in a fun en-vironment. There are 68 calls taught in basic lessons, but even if you are a master there are always more to learn. Partners are not required and square dancing is considered a health and wellness opportunity.

One might think “The senior center?” But do not be fooled. The club has dancers from age nine to age 90. Schirmer has been calling for 36 years and can teach any-one. The lesson is over two hours long, but it is not required to stay for the whole time.

Tonight The Lone Wranglers will have a guest caller who will call for a more advanced group af-ter the lesson. The caller, Randy Dougherty, is a full-time traveling caller. The club is excited to have him and encourages people to stay and watch after the lesson.

“We’ve got good food, good music and good people,” Hollin-berger said.

The Lone Wrangles have a web-site at www.SquareDanceMHK.org that can answer further ques-tions.

Members of Manhattan’s square dancing club, the Lone Wranglers, dance at their weekly class. Classes are open to anyone and are held every Tuesday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the senior center.

Photos by Rachel Beach, photographer.

MManhattan High School Volume 101 Issue 4 Sept. 17, 2013 page 2 page 5 page 4

Retta Lazaris Staff Writer

Last Tuesday, Sept. 10, was World Suicide Preven-tion Day, a day dedicated to bringing awareness to the harm that suicide in"icts on family, friends, and those who have considered it. It is also a day to remember those who were lost too soon to suicide. This years theme was “Stigma: A Major Bar-rier in Suicide Prevention.”

“I think it’s good for peo-ple to be aware,” personal/social counselor Erin Spreer said.

According to The Centers for Disease and Control Pre-vention, suicide between the

ages of 10 and 24 is the third leading cause of death for young people today. Around 4600 children, teenagers, and young adults are lost by a successful suicide attempt every year in America.

Spreer’s job is to counsel Manhattan High students who are going through rough times, some of which may be having suicidal thoughts or know someone with suicidal thoughts.

“Even if one kid feels that way, that’s one kid too many,” Spreer said. “Don’t make promises [to friends] to ‘keep it a secret.’ Ask for help; it takes a lot of strength to express that you're having a hard time. Go to a teach-

er, or a counselor, or even SRO, or some other trusted adult.”

“I think that suicide is a sad and preventable thing, and that we need to make ev-ery effort to help teens and adults feel like they have oth-er options other than leaving the earth,” Gigi Cohen, MHS social worker, said.

Cohen !nds out about students who need her help through various sources -- other students, teachers, friends, family members or the teen themselves. Her job then is to refer the students to screenings, evaluations or possible hospitalization that can help.

“I make sure to get in

touch with the people who love and care about them, so that they can make the appropriate appointments to keep the kid safe,” Cohen said.

Often that means counsel-ing.

“I always recommend outside counseling to many, many, many students, be-cause it’s so helpful,” Cohen said. “When it seems appro-priate, I make that referral, and all cases where a student is expressing that they can be suicidal, in every case, I try to contact the family, and try get them to take their child for a screen, so that they can

Warning signs:Talking about self harm or killing oneselfResearching ways to harm oneselfExpressing feelings that life is hope-less and that there is no point in liv-ing anymoreFeeling trapped or caged in painAbusing drugs or alcoholActing withdrawn or isolated from their normal social groups or fam-ily

Food drive provides meals for students in needMaddie RossNews Editor

Hunger is a problem rec-ognized by many, and efforts to end it spread to all ends of the world. Often times, the big picture is so large we for-get about the smaller picture closer to home.

This week social worker Gigi Cohen began her !ght against hunger at Manhat-tan High School. The idea is to provide food for over the weekend to students who wouldn’t have meals other-wise.

This program is derived from another program called BackSnack. It provides back-packs of food to low-income children to combat weekend hunger. The problem is Back-Snack is only available to

grades kindergarten through sixth, while high school stu-dents are not eligible.

BackSnack is an active program in USD 383’s ele-mentary schools, but Cohen wanted it to expand to high school student population.

“It’s to provide students with food for the weekends that they wouldn’t otherwise have,” Cohen said. Every week new food is gathered from the breadbasket and distributed on Fridays.

“I go to the Breadbasket every week, and I shop for free,” Cohen said. “I pick out yummy foods that I feel ado-lescents will like.”

In previous years Back-Snack provided the back-packs and food, and the school simply had to distrib-

ute them. “I think the way we do it

now where I go to the bread-basket and hand-select the food is better,” Cohen said, “because I am able to choose nutritious food, that most en-joy.”

Little by little MHS is do-ing its part to tackle this issue that affects many.

“Hunger exists and I don’t want kids to be hungry on the weekends,” Cohen said.

In the end all the hard work and preparation pays off.

“It’s a lot of fun, to see the students happy when getting the food, and I feel happy giving it,” Cohen said. “It’s a wonderful thing to give them such a necessity that some of us take for granted.”

Allison Olsen Staff Writer

Have you ever wondered what opportunities Manhat-tan youth have to help around the community? There is a group of students who meet once a month called Youth Impacting Community here in Manhattan High School who do just that.

The group receives money from the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation to distribute to local businesses and organizations. In order to get the money, these busi-nesses and organizations are required to !ll out an applica-tion. The members of YIC go through the applications to make sure that these places !t the criteria to receive grants.

Youth impact the communityThe president of the

group, Christine Shiau, has been part of YIC since her sophomore year.

“We have a certain amount of money in our grant system,” Shiau said. “We give it to people in the community who need it.”

YIC participates in three main events during the year. They volunteer at the Flint Hills Breadbasket, host Youth Service Day in the spring and the grant process throughout the year. The grant this year is open, so the group gets to decide who is able to receive money.

“I like the grant process, how we go interview differ-ent companies, and I like the youth service days that we do,” Shiau said.

Senior Pilar Dritz is the

vice president of YIC. “The grant process is one of my favorite parts because we get to pick where the money goes,” she said.

YIC has many opportuni-ties to do community service throughout the year.

“We’re a really active community service group,” Dritz said. “We actually get to do community service ac-tivities.”

As president and vice president, Shiau and Dritz run the monthly meetings. They are also in charge of going to talk with the com-munity foundation about the distribution of money. YIC is looking for new sophomore and freshman members to join the group.

World Suicide Prevention Day brings awareness to cause

Tracy LeGraphic Designer

Special Olympic volley-ball is up and running and just completed their second practice on Sunday. The ath-letes began practice in pairs and then went to work on serves and continued into team practice.

“It’s a good chance for ev-erybody to get out and get active,” coach Jamie Schnee said. “We offer sports year-round for a lot of our stu-dents here and also people in the community that have special needs."

However, the Special Olympics aren’t just about playing sports. The organiza-tion’s main focus is present-ing the opportunity to meet new people while having a good time and improving team-building skills.

“I decided to join so I can be active and meet new peo-ple,” Kasey Morris said.

Each sport allow the ath-

letes to interact with new members in the community while building up their skills.

“When I !rst started I didn’t know anybody and then I met everybody here,” Jeremy Foster said. “It was fun.”

Schnee has been helping with the Special Olympics for as long as she can re-member. Her mother, Kim Schnee, has been a special ed teacher for more than 30 years so she has known a lot of the athletes for a long time.

“My favorite part of my job is building lasting rela-tionships with the students. I also love watching them grow and change. It's a good feeling to know you've made some sort of impact on a student's life, big or small,” Kim Schnee said. “I see the con!dence level soar in our students. We give them the tools to make themselves

Special Olympics begins

for local athletes

FFA ready for conventionAdelle Sloan Staff Writer

FFA is an organization meant to make a positive difference in the lives of stu-dents and expose them to premier leadership, person-al growth and career success through agricultural educa-tion. Many members in the group are there for the goal of taking an agricultural ca-reer in the future.

The chapter’s !rst meet-ing was last week. They have plans to meet again in the next few weeks. The chapter also takes part in the dairy cattle, horse, poultry and livestock judging events each year. Land and homesite in-specting is set for this week.

“My favorite part is travel-ing and meeting new people, and I’m looking forward to the leadership conference,” senior Anna Jackson said. Jackson is the president of this chapter. One of her re-sponsibilities is organizing the meetings.

On Sept. 28, the chapter

is headed to a leadership con-ference for American Royal. Another big events each year is the National FFA Conven-tion. The event starts Oct. 30 and ends Nov. 2.

“I’m looking forward to traveling to Kentucky and the workshops,” Jackson said.

Senior Natalie Dick is also looking forward to the na-tional trip. Her favorite part is “going to the competitions and judging events.”

“My favorite part is the Ag Days,” senior Darby Price said.

No date has been set for the Farm Bureau Ag Days. Price is not going to the con-vention but is looking for-ward.

“I like the lead school for judging,” sophomore Daw-son Beffa said. He went to the convention last year and is excited to be able to go again.

Another big event for the chapter is National FFA Week, which senior Megan

ACT scores exceed state,

national averageSarah ShiOpinions Editor

Manhattan High School’s 2012-2013 senior class ACT test average was 1.3 percent above the state’s average and 2.2 percent above the nation-al’s, an accomplishment that Principal Greg Hoyt said is due to multiple reasons, one being, “Manhattan has really smart kids.”

Last year’s MHS seniors had an average composite score of 23.1, a slight increase from the school’s 22.9 aver-age in 2012, and higher than both the state’s 21.8 average and the nation’s 20.9 aver-age.

“We live in a university community,” Hoyt said. “These students have the option to go through a tough curriculum, which is really important. I also think that we have a lot of test prep op-tions that the students can take. It’s really a combina-tion of all three.”

MHS Career Counselor

Katie Ball agrees that the high school’s rigorous cur-riculum of Advanced Place-ment classes can be attrib-uted to the increase in ACT scores. Ball added that the majority of the seniors are college-bound, a big push to do well on the test.

“I think as a whole the students who take the ACT are expected to be college-bound. That’s obviously why you would take it,” Ball said. “A lot of the students either do prep on their own or go to a tutor.”

This year, MHS is adver-tising three test prep options for students -- something that the school has not done until this year. The IQ Academy option offers an ACT Prep course through Study Island, a semester-long program that is advised to be taken in the !rst or second semester of junior year.

The ACT/SAT Prep On-line is run by the ACT and

See Special Olympics page 5 See FFA page 5 See ACT page 5

Local square dancers begin lessons

See Suicide Prevention page 5

Junior Chris Martin strides toward the end zone with 3:15

left on the clock Friday night against Mill Valley. He scored the only touchdown of the game and put the Indians ahead for good. Martin’s 50 yards rushing came off 7 car-ries, making him the Indians’ leading rusher for the game.

The Indians came out on top of this matchup with a !nal score of 6-3 for their !rst win.

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Football wins defensive battle over EmporiaChris KlugBlue M Sports Editor

Most people would prefer watching a high-scoring game rather than a low-scoring grudge match. However, the Manhattan High varsity foot-ball game against Emporia Friday night was a defensive battle. In a game that ended with a total of nine points, nobody on either offense put up any gaudy numbers. The Indians offense was able to !nd the end zone late in the fourth quarter to top the Spartans 6-3.

Limiting Emporia’s of-fense to three points was no easy task. The Spartans dismantled the Shawnee Heights defense in a 44-0 beatdown in their opener last week. The Indians de-fensive line proved to be a

Senior Bret Fehr looks for a pass during Friday’s game agianst Emporia. The Indians won 6-3 after a go-ahead touchdown by junior Chris Martin with 3 minutes left.

Conner Bliss, photographer

Volleyball defeats Seaman

An MHS J.V. player blocks a Seaman player’s shot at their home meet last week. They lost to Seaman in three sets but defeated Junction City.

Kesha Johnson, photographer

Kennedy FeliceCopy Editor

The Lady Indians vol-leyball team faced hard play last week with J.V. at home playing in a triangular against Junction City and Seaman, while Varsity trav-eled to Shawnee Heights for their !rst quad against Silver Lake, Seaman and Shawnee Heights.

“The girls have been prac-ticing hard and working to-ward improvement,” head coach Lisa Kinderknecht said. “We have a ways to go but we’re getting there.”

J.V. held their own against Junction City but fell to Sea-man in all three sets.

“The girls pushed them-selves but we de!nitely need to focus more and !nd a way to make our commu-nication more effective,” Kinderknecht said.

Varsity ended their quad 1-2, having lost to Silver Lake and Shawnee Heights.

“We played well, but the other schools just had that edge last week,” senior Jes-sie Kujawa said. “We are going to hit practice harder because we are de!nitely capable of winning over the

Golf takes first in Salina

Athlete of the Week

difference maker, plugging the middle and keeping the big plays to a minimum.

The !rst quarter began with both teams exchanging punts. With both defenses strong, neither team was able to score until the second quarter. The Spartans got on the board !rst, connecting on a 30-yard !eld goal with 4:44 left in the half.

Neither team was able to !nd any offense until the Indians found themselves in good !eld position in the fourth quarter. Facing a fourth down deep in oppo-nent territory, the Indians tried a trick play in hopes to get on the scoreboard. Quarterback Kellen Myers attempted a backwards pass to wide receiver Bret Fehr on what looked to be a wide re-ceiver screen. Fehr then at-

tempted a pass back to quar-terback Myers down !eld to catch the defense off guard. Myers made the catch and nearly reached the goal line before being dragged down. The play was called back, however, after Myers back-wards pass to Fehr was ruled a forward pass, thus making Fehr’s pass back to Myers an illegal forward pass. The rul-ing led to a loss of down and a turnover on downs, giving the ball back to Emporia.

After another punt by Em-poria, the Indians had one more chance to either tie the game up or to take the lead. Junior running back Chris Martin led the way reaching the end zone from 20 yards out. The Indians point-after attempt was blocked, keep-ing the score at 6-3. The Indians defense remained strong, and sealed the victo-ry after a long Emporia !eld goal was missed with less than a minute in the game.

“It wasn’t pretty, but give credit to the kids. The put to-gether a drive when they had to,” head coach Joe Schartz said.

The Indians rushing at-tack was led by Martin who !nished the game with 50 yards on seven carries. My-ers !nished 5-8 passing with 44 yards through the air, and Fehr led all receivers with three receptions for 30 yards.

The Indians look to con-tinue their success this Fri-day as they travel to Seaman High school.

Chris Martin

schools we played.”Manhattan was able to

hold off Shawnee heights in the !rst set but fell in their last two. The team was able to beat Seaman in all three matches, earning the Lady Indians their !rst League vic-tory.

“A win is a win, and I am de!nitely glad the girls !nished it out against Sea-man. We want to work more, though, so that win-ning isn’t even a question,” Kinderknecht said.

With their season well underway the team looks toward furthering their abili-ties.

“We have a great group of girls. There is a lot of talent. With some more work and the girls’ continued dedica-tion we will de!nitely win more,” Kindeknecht said.

Tonight the Varsity team will play in their !rst home triangular against Rossville and Clay Center while J.V. will travel to Riley on Thurs-day.

“These girls want to win and they know how to,” Kinderknecht said. “So now we have to put everything they know together and !n-ish.”

Nick BandySports Editor

Nine holes was not enough to decide the champion when the Manhattan High girls golf traveled to the Salina Cen-tral Invitational on Sept. 16. Junior Kylie McCarthy and senior Hannah Devane ended up in a three-way tie with an opponent from an-other school after the regu-lar round. The three of them headed into a playoff.

“I was a little nervous but

Soccer uses off week to improveMichael MelgaresAssistant Sports Editor

Returning from a 10-day break from game play on the soccer pitch, the Indi-ans travel to Topeka tonight to face Shawnee Heights. While a break from the high intensity, pre-game jitters and physical demands that go hand-in-hand with games play may sound nice, the last thing the past week has been for the team is relaxing. For coaches Frank Alonso and Michael Lopez, a week free of games has been an op-portunity to work out some kinks as well as increase the team’s overall !tness.

“We’re trying to up the !t-ness level a little bit,” Lopez said. “We’ve also tried to work on position-speci!cs.”

Lopez had the J.V. team

running through a drill in which he would toss a ball in front of two players and an outside back would have to chase down a center back, whose side the ball was thrown to, and prevent them from scoring. Lopez’s J.V. team will be taking the !eld tonight against Shawnee Heights coming off a 17-day break.

On the other side of the !eld, Coach Alonso split var-sity into two teams and held a scrimmage, after which the losing team was required to do a certain amount of sprints more than the win-ners.

Kickoff for the Indians is tonight at 4:30 p.m. for J.V., followed by the Varsity game at 6:30 p.m.

Cross Country headed to JoplinGage BenneStaff Writer

It was just last week the boys Varsity cross country team swept the Manhat-tan Invitational. The meet at Warner could be viewed as the peak of the Varsity crew’s season. However the boys still have a lot to show when it comes to running.

“Fast” describes senior Chris Melgares, who !n-ished seconds short of break-ing 16 minutes in his 5k race. All varsity members ran fast enough to make it in the awards ceremony at the end of the meet. Five of the boys, including freshmen Jackson Schroeder, made it in the top 10 with times all under 17 minutes. The varsity boys placed !rst as a team.

The girls varsity team,

lead by team captain senior Alaina Schroeder, placed third overall. Schroeder placed !rst, almost 30 sec-onds ahead of the next run-ner. Sophomore Megan Ochoa and freshman Cara Melgares also !nished in the top 10.

Next up the runners who ran at least 240 miles (180 for the freshmen) over the summer will compete in Joplin, Mo., this Saturday. Seniors Chris Melgares and Nick Bandy were recognized for their high achievement of running over 700 miles this summer. The top !ve Var-sity runners -- although most achieved the required miles -- will also be able to compete at the meet. In total, 12 boys and 12 girls will travel to Jop-lin to represent MHS Cross Country team.

Tennis scores 10 points to take firstMatt BandyStaff Writer

Varsity tennis headed to tennis at Kossover in To-peka last Tuesday while J.V. hosted the Manhattan Invita-tional at home.

The Varsity team that played the same day scored 10 points, placing !rst out of four teams by one point. Sophomore Kathy Lei played as the number one singles players and won all three of her matches. Junior Kris-ten Fraley, the number two singles player, also won all three of her matches.

“We were very happy,” head coach Joyce Allen said. “Last year we tied with To-peka High.”

The number one doubles team consisted of Bianca Pe-drozo and Caroline Sager, while the number two was Tracy Le and Pajsoua Lo. Both of the doubles teams went 2-1.

The J.V. girls team placed !fth out of six teams. “We could have done a little bet-ter in certain categories,” J.V. coach Bob Kelly said.

The J.V. team also played a quad at Topeka on Thurs-day and tied for third out of !ve teams.

In order to run a tourna-ment six players have to play Freshman Younjin Song prepares to serve at the J.V. home meet last Tuesday. The J.V.

team placed !fth out of the six teams.Shaley Fisher, photographer

excited at the same time. It was my !rst playoff and it was nice having a teammate there,” Devane said.

On the !rst hole of the sud-den-death playoff, McCarthy chipped the ball six inches from the hole and putted it in to take !rst. Devane and the other opponent tied on the !rst hole and on two more holes after that. Finally on the fourth hole of the playoff, the stalemate was broken.

See Golf page 5See Tennis page 5

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Split on SyriaThe following is a compilation from a discussion held by the Editorial board.

Regarding how much the U.S. should get involved in foreign affairs, there has always been a dichotomy between exerting our leader-ship through military power or showing it through hu-manitarian efforts. The Syria situation is no different.

Since President Barack Obama expressed his disapproval of send-ing ground troops for a possibly imminent se-ries of limited military strikes to the Middle Eastern country, people are discussing whether the U.S. should indeed send troops to placate Syria’s brutal civil war or whether it’s even the U.S.’s responsibility to take action.

Violence erupted from Syria in April 2011 after earlier revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia inspired Syrians to challenge their dictator, President Bashar Assad -- an action not taken well by the government. At !rst, the

government’s security forces killed activist in secret, and then moved on to kidnap-ping and torturing their fam-ily members, including chil-dren. The Syrian troops took the next step and started shooting civilians during pro-tests. Eventually, they began !ghting back and a civil war began.

The majority of The Men-tor’s editorial staff sided with not sending U.S. troops

to Syria and instead limit the U.S.’s help to only shipping over aid and setting up refu-gee camps. In essence, Syria needs to sort out its own problems. We acknowledge as a world leader the U.S. has some responsibility to help a country torn in a civil

war. However, as a general

consensus, it was thought the general public, especially high school students, were not taking the issue of Syria seriously, a common behav-ior of a society that has been desensitized. Even though we may not be directly im-pacted by the violence from Syria’s civil war, high school-ers need to understand the severity of the situation and

how a simple turn of events can lead into a war. Furthermore, many of us have not considered how a pos-sible war might affect families right here in Manhattan. A town based around the mili-tary base Fort Riley is bound to feel the impact of military drafts. It’s always better to fully

understand the situation and its possible outcomes be-cause one never knows how quickly the tides can change and suddenly the U.S. is in the midst of yet another war with the Middle East.

Songs with violent or of-fensive lyrics aren’t uncom-mon. However, songs of that nature aren’t usually ranked at number one for 12 con-secutive weeks, like “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke was. (It only dropped to number two this past week).

As people grooved to the generic pop, but ‘70s-esque, tune, it made its way up to the top, beating records held by music greats such as Elvis Presley and Destiny’s Child. It’s a title the song, and its maker, do not deserve.

The song is loved by many because of its ‘catchy’ tune and style, but people should

take time to listen to the lyr-ics. The fact that a song with such a sexist and rape-laced message could make it that far before being noticed is a sad awakening for our soci-ety.

The portrayal of women within this song and music video is demeaning, offen-sive and promotes rape. It depicts women as nothing more than sex objects, say-ing things like “Just let me liberate you,” which implies that Thicke has ‘power’ over women and sees them as nothing more than posses-sions. His smug, often-re-peated, “I know you want it,” doesn’t help his case.

The song just gets more vulgar as it goes on, as Thicke assumes that the subject of this song “wants it,” because, obviously, he is irresistible. The entire song is based on “blurred lines” of consent and Thicke’s dislike of them.

When the song goes on to say, “Can’t get it past me...I

hate these blurred lines, I know you want it...Must wanna get nasty, go ahead get at me,” the message of taking control of a woman’s body becomes more evident. It speci!cally shows the sub-ject’s lack of consent, or in-ability to give consent, and Thicke’s complete disregard for it. That mentality of ‘no means yes’ and ‘doing’ what-ever you want is exactly what leads to rape.

The video adds insult to injury as Thicke and his crew (ahem, T. I. and Pharell,) ‘check women out,’ hit on them and predatorily prance around these almost naked women, all while smoking and drinking. It gives a mes-sage that if a woman is scant-ily dressed, she automati-cally ‘wants’ it. This ideal is not only wrong, but unfair. If women have to watch how they dress in order to compensate for the lack of self-discipline of men, the man is the problem. Thicke

“Blurred Lines” condones rapegets more assertive with his moves as the video goes on, blowing smoke in their fac-es, grabbing them, all while pouring another drink.

Many people will !ght for the song, saying that there are tons of songs that are just as offensive as this one. How-ever, those are blatantly of-fensive and come with warn-ing labels. They get bleeped on the radio, if even allowed to play there to begin with. Their tone is one of violence, as opposed to one of rape and sexism.

It needs to be addressed when a song has a message of this type, not just when a song drops the ‘f bomb.’ In-appropriateness has grown to be so much more than bad words and violence. If our society doesn’t realize this, cases of everything from murder to rape will become more and more common, more and more socially ac-cepted, and our society will reach an all time low.

Madeline Marshall

Mainstream artists deserve some cred

In today’s world, music is one of the most powerful modes of expression. Music is universal, and anyone can be moved by it in some way. In fact, I’d be a little worried if some form of music didn’t mean something to you or help you express your emo-tions and personality; there’s literally some kind of music out there for everyone. Be-tween everything played on the radio -- pop, hip-hop, rock, country, even classical and ethnic music -- and every-thing out there you may not even have heard yet, there’s some type of music out there you enjoy, something that moves you and expresses who you are.

And no one has the right to insult who you are.

No one should be judged by the music they listen to. It sounds irrelevant, but, really, it’s part of every day because music is such a big part of our culture. No type of music should be labeled in-ferior to another. No person should be labeled inferior because of the kind of music he or she enjoys, because of what moves them.

Just like you can’t judge a

book by its cover, you can’t judge someone by their mu-sic. You can’t de!ne someone as uncultured because they just listen to what’s on the radio, or like you can’t de!ne someone as boring because the listen to classical music.

Before you write someone off for listening to something you don’t !nd so cool, like, say, Taylor Swift, or One Direction, or (dare I say it) Justin Bieber, think about how your world differs from theirs. Think about how the music you enjoy reaches you. Consider the fact that it’s possible, though you might not !nd the same kind of music lyrically intelligent, musically brilliant or even just good, that the song you hate, the one that makes you cringe, might make someone else insanely happy.

Give a little credit to those “mainstream” artists. Yeah, their music might be typical, but it’s typical because it’s popular.

But it’s not just this pop music that takes the heat. A lot of times, considering where we live, there are tons of con"ict between those who listen to country music and everyone else. The same thing applies to country music as it does to the pop -- people enjoy it, whether you do or not. The same thing applies to every kind of mu-sic -- hip-hop, rock, country, classical -- everything.

Everyone is entitled to their own forms of expres-sion.

Danielle Cook

...one never knows how quickly the tides can change and suddenly the U.S. is in the midst of yet another war with the Middle East.

Question of the Week:

What is your biggest fear?

Next edition: Is it worth it to buy the new iPhone 5S or 5C? Why? Submit answers to mhsmentor.com

“Not being able to think of my greatest fear for this question.” - sophomore Greg Woods

“CHAPS.” - sophomore Muhammed Ciftci

“89.9%” - sophomore Soichero Hiromasa

“I know it sounds like I’m jok-ing, but quesadillas. There’s something about them that just weirds me out.” - junior Nick Clark

“Crickets. Not kidding.” - sophomore Israel Wheatley

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Sarah Shi, Opinions/Content EditorDheepthi Perumal, Entertainment Editor

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Danielle Cook; Kennedy Felice, Copy EditorsAlan Brown, Multimedia Editor

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Arctic Monkey’s “AM” proves entertaining all times of the day

Californianization. It hap-pens to Brits, too.

In their new album, “AM,” lead singer Alex Turner and the Arctic Monkeys have ventured into new territory. They’ve shifted away from their signature sound, indie rock in!uenced by British

nightlife, instead choosing to experiment with elements from classic rock ‘n’ roll to hip hop. The album proves to not only be consistent from start to "nish, but its fresh style is pleasing as well.

When the news broke that the British band was planning to record in Los An-geles, suspicion grew that they were up to something new. The city, which Turn-er once described as being “built on rock ‘n’ roll,” has certainly made its mark upon the band. Throughout the album, in!uences from past and current American musicians are present. The track “Arabella,” for exam-ple, features rock riffs with similarities from bands The White Stripes and The Black

Keys. The band has also ad-mitted that hip hop star Dr. Dre, a na- tive to Califor-n i a ,

had a major impact on the al-bum as well. Similarities are most prevalent in “Why’d

Alan Brown

You Only Call Me When You’re High.”

“Do I Wanna Know?” the lead single for “AM,” opens the album in

typical Arctic Monkeys fash-

ion. It’s the spooky mid-

night beat that drives the song forward, and Turner’s intense vocals that pilot it. “R U Mine?,” “Arabella,” and “I

Want It All” feature the band !exing their rock ‘n’ roll muscles, and they are some of their most hard rocking tunes to date. For the rest of the album, however, the tempo takes an abrupt turn and the songs become more tranquil. The soothing !ow of “Party Anthem” and “Mad

Sounds” is quite re-laxing. “One for The Road” and “I Wanna

Be Yours” are other key tracks. “AM” should be consid-

ered one of the top rock albums of 2013. Turner

continues to use his uncon-ventional lyrics successfully. The band’s instrumentals have been taken to another level, combining elements from multiple aspects of mu-

sic into their melting pot. Turner’s originally harsh Northern English accented vocals has transformed into a much calmer, clearer voice, providing a pleasant comple-ment to the album’s steady beats. It doesn’t hurt to have strong backing vocals, too, as fellow band mates occa-sionally take center stage and provide a nice change of pace.

Overall, the album is noth-ing short of a piece of genius. For a fanbase that suspected the band were on the decline since the turn of the decade, “AM” should serve as a sign that brighter days are indeed ahead. They can thank the California sunshine for that.

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Dheepthi PerumalEntertainment Editor

Petting zoos, turkey legs and crafts have been part of the Kansas State Fair for 100 years. But for Manhat-tan High students it was also a place for singing, reporting and 4-H competition.

Members of Pops and Varsity Choirs traveled to Hutchinson on the opening day, Sept. 6. Pops performed six pieces and Varsity per-formed four pieces. Although Pops has been going for de-cades, this was Var-sity’s second year.

“It was strange be-cause our calendar for this year fell on the opening day for the fair,” MHS Choir Director Chad Pape said. “So we didn’t have a big audience, but they still do good.”

The fair was the "rst real community performance they have done. They had to learn all the music over the summer because they didn’t have to practice to perform.

“It was very dif"cult be-cause I had to learn my parts all on my own,” junior Alex Stenberg said. “But it taught us responsibility and when we came back from summer break we expected everyone to have learned their parts.”

Pape was also in choir as a student at MHS. In the fall of 1991 and 1992, Pape went to the performed in Pops.

“It was weird because I performed on the same stage, and same out"t as the boys this year,” Pape said. “Although, now the girls per-form in better out"ts than when I performed.”

“I think it’s really cool, be-cause he understands what we go through because he did it when he was in high school,” Stenberg said. “It creates a circle with the stu-dent becoming a teacher.”

Five seniors from the

Blue M yearbook staff also traveled to the Kansas State Fair early on Sept. 11. The students competed in the Scholastic Press Corps pro-gram, which was developed to provide high school stu-dents with an opportunity to further their skills in journal-ism and video production. The students competed with other schools to create a four-page newsletter cover-ing that day’s activities. They students had a deadline of 6 p.m. to complete all stories, photos and design.

“It was a very stressful day,” senior Kelsey Craw-ford said.

“The experience was very unique. It felt like a real pro-duction day,” Crawford said.

“I would recommend it to the underclassmen and people who are on produc-tion staffs,” senior Christian Gulker said.

In mid-October the stu-dents who competed will attend a banquet where the results will be announced.

“I was happy with the end result,” Crawford said. “And the experience was great be-

cause I got to talk to a lot of people who have been part of the fair for many years.”

Even with groups from MHS going to the state fair, there were students who at-tended individu-ally. Seniors Anna

Jackson and Emily Kelley were part of the fair this year. Jackson competed in multiple 4-H events includ-ing Home Environment and Photography. Jackson also quali"ed to judge events at the fair such as Family and Consumer Science and Fash-ion. Kelley also helped judge FACS.

The complete results from the fair will not be announced for a couple months, but Jackson did receive a red, or average rating, in home environment and in photog-raphy she received a purple, which is the highest award possible.

MHS competes, performs at State Fair

Above: Students part of “Blue M” at MHS layout pictures on their publication at the Kansas State Fair. The results have not been announced yet for the competi-tion. Right: Members of Pops Choir perform at the Kansas State Fair. Pops choir along with Varsity choir sang a total of 10 pieces on the opening day.

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“And the experience was great be-cause I got to talk to a lot of people who have been part of the fair for many years.”

-Crawford

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Michael MelgaresAssistant Sports Editor

Ever get on your sibling’s nerves? Do they get on yours? When you’re around them for too long do they start to annoy you?

While this may be true for some sib-lings, brothers J.T., Matt and Ben Turn-ley, who are all members of the soccer team this year, have made it work.

This trio of brothers has joined forc-es together on the same sports team this year for only the second time ever in their brotherhood. The !rst time was in an indoor soccer tournament when they were younger.

“Me and Ben have always played on the same team but this is really one of the !rst times we’ve played with all three of us,” sophomore Matt Turnley said.

Ben and Matt, both sophomores, have been playing on the same city traveling team, the Manhattan Fury, together ever since they were little.

Their older brother, J.T., says this helps to generate good chemistry between his younger siblings on the soccer pitch.

“Since they [Matt and Ben] played on the same team since they were really little, I think they have good chemistry together,” he said.

And as for how he !ts in with his younger brothers’ chemistry on the !eld, J.T. is able to adjust to his siblings’ playing style.

“I’ve seen them play; it takes a little bit of getting used to actually playing on the !eld and getting that chemistry down,” he said.

Although they play well together on the !eld, they do, as any siblings would, get competitive with each other at times. However, this competitive-ness between brothers does not result in nuggies and wet-willies in the middle of practice; rather it pushes them to bet-ter themselves and each other.

“It’s a team sport,” J.T. said. “Some-times you’re working with them against other people, it’s a little bit different but

I think we get a little bit competitive.”J.T.’s younger brothers agree.“It’s like you always have a competi-

tor and you are always trying to beat him,” Ben said.

“I think so,” Matt said, “especially with J.T. being older than us you see all the stuff that he’s done and you kind of have to try to match up with that and live up to that.”

Playing on the same team for the Turnleys is reassuring. However, knowing that they have each got each other’s backs at all times.

“He’s always been there,” Ben saidWith the oldest of the three, J.T.,

graduating next year, the brothers are not taking for granted their rare oppor-tunity to play together this year.

“It’s pretty cool that with J.T. going to college next year that we’re all play-ing on the same team for one of the last times,” Matt said.

Liz LogbackEditor-in-Chief

In the land of purple, she shines in orange.

Senior Madi Fellers has wanted to go to Oklahoma State for as long as she can remember. Her father and uncle both graduated from the university, allowing her dream to become that much more real. Growing up, she attended all of the OSU events and “dreamed of be-ing apart of homecoming one day.”

“I have a lot of family down there, so I’ve grown up there [Stillwater, Okla.] just as much as I have here [Man-hattan],” Fellers said.

Fellers has lived in Man-hattan since she was three. And she has heard just about every joke in the book for her OSU fandom.

“Everyone always gives me a hard time and when I go to stuff in Stillwater they're like ‘What? Don't you live in Manhattan?’ It’s funny the reactions people give me.”

Still, Fellers stands proud

in her orange.“On the day of the !rst K-

State football game this year everyone had purple on and I wore my OSU football dress. I was like ‘OSU plays on Sat-urday.’”

Although Fellers sports her orange, she recognizes the fact that Manhattan is her home, and it has even put a little purple pride in her. The Fellers family are K-State season ticket holders and attend just about every game they can.

“I’ll cheer for K-State, but whenever OSU and K-State play each other, I cheer for my team. But K-State will always be in my heart,” she said. “This is my home and where I have grown up. It’s nice knowing it will always be here and I’ll probably miss going to K-State games.”

Fellers even expects she’ll post a Powercat in her dorm room at OSU.

“Some people give me grief for going to another Big 12 school, but OSU is as close to me as KSU is to everyone here.”

When it was time to start applying to colleges, Fell-ers tried to keep an open mind. She visited K-State and looked at some other

Siblings team up one final time

Madi Fellers shows her excitement after being accepted to Oklahoma State University.

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Heart set on OSUKristen BatsonStaff Writer

With two parents who are biologists, Stian Clem has always been involved in sci-ence.

“I became interested in [science] because both my parents are biology profes-sors so I was just brought up with it,” Clem said.

Clem has taken most of the advanced science classes at Manhattan High, includ-ing AP physics, AP chemis-try, genetics and anatomy. He has also done extensive research on his own, which earned him a national award this summer.

Clem earned honorable mention on his poster titled “Characterization of the Role of Baculovirus Sulfhydryl Oxidases in Virion Morpho-genesis” at the meeting of the Society of Invertebrate in Pittsburgh on August 14. Only !ve other people out of 24 were recognized.

“I was in shock for the most part,” Clem said of his award. “It was really surpris-ing. I was just really happy to have gotten anything.”

He began conducting re-search in January 2013 at Kansas State University, where both of his parents are biology professors. In his research he mutated a virus and switched genes from another virus to see how it would react. Throughout the months he was research-ing he went in a few times a week after school, usually for a couple hours.

Ironically, Clem doesn’t plan on going into science. Instead, he wants to major in mathematics.

“After college I don’t have any solid plans, I’ll just play it by ear,” Clem said. “I’m interested in science as well, but i just wanted the experi-ence of working in a lab and it taught me a lot about the scienti!c method and pro-cess.”

schools, but none of them felt right.

“I got something in the mail from OSU one day and I started crying. I told my

mom ‘I just want to go to OSU!’ and my mom was like ‘That right there shows that’s where you need to be,’” Fellers said.

“And then I went and visited, I've been there 100 times, but when I looked at it like ‘Are you going to college here?’ it just felt right. I didn't have that with K-State.”

The Turnley brothers huddle after soccer practice. The three brothers play together on the MHS soccer team.

Michael Melgares, Photographer

Clem excels at Society of

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keep them safe.” Screenings help detect

warning signs that a person may be dangerous to them-selves. Though these risks do not always result in suicide, there are several signs that a person may be at risk of com-mitting suicide, such as feel-ings of being trapped by phys-iological pain, researching or talking about self-harm, or expressing thoughts that life is hopeless. Drug and al-cohol abuse can also be a red "ag for someone who may be thinking about suicide.

“I think that as a young per-son, the best thing you can do is let a caring adult know. Be encouraging, sweet, and kind of course, but to make sure that you let a caring adult know, so that student gets the help they really need,” Cohen said. “When in doubt, ask for help.”

Suicidal thoughts, or self-harming actions have never been ‘just a phase’ in some young peoples lives. Suicide is preventable, and students at MHS (schools everywhere for that matter) should know that keeping these feelings a secret will never make them going away.

As Manhattan school counselors have said, tell someone that you’re feeling this way. Don’t write yourself off as a nobody who wouldn’t be missed. There are people who are always willing to lis-ten to you, and who will help you !ght your battle, but you need to trust them.

It is important that any-one feeling this way, or any-one who suspects that some-one feels this way contacts a trusted adult. If you are hav-ing suicidal or self harming thoughts, there is also a line, open 24 hours everyday, that you can call. The number for the National Suicide preven-tion lifeline is 800-273-8255.

Make the call, at the very least, and talk with someone. Everyday you have a chance to do something wonderful. Seize this day, and give the world your wonders.

better athletes. They take what they've

learned and what they've seen in themselves and the other athletes and really make Special Olympics a fun and positive thing.”

Teammates help each other improve their game and urge each other on with encouraging words and sup-portive claps.

"It's nice watching people with different personalities play,” Tracy Schoonover said.

“Oh trust me,” Josh Medi-cinebird said. “It’s a lot of fun.”

Lundin likes best. “I’m look-ing forward to the conven-tion, especially since I went last year,” she said. Lundin likes the judging competi-tions and FFA activities.

Currently, the chapter is taking orders for new FFA jackets with the deadline to be announced. Its annual fruit sales fundraiser kicks off in a few weeks.

SAT corporation and charge fees. The third option, ZAPS Learning Company ACT Prep Seminar, will be offered at MHS Sept. 23 and 24, and Oct. 5.

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“I had a good drive but then I just loafed my iron shot to the left and she hit hers onto the green,” Dev-ane said.

Devane lost by one stroke on that hole to !nish third. The team !nished !rst with a score of 178, led by Kylie McCarthy and Devane, who each shot 40, not including the playoff. Following them was junior Kelsey McCarthy who took eighth after shoot-ing 46 and senior Cassidy Harper who shot 52.

“Cassidy’s score helped. It’s the !rst time she’s con-tributed to the team score so that’s good even though I know she’s capable of getting even better than that,” head coach Chris George said.

The team showed im-provement from its !rst meet after they spent the week of practice working on their short shots and making good decisions on the course.

“We worked on taking shots we know will better our score instead of taking risky shots,” Devane said. “Just playing smart.”

The team plans to work on their consistency by not having bad holes that hurt their score. They will travel to Lawrence for their next tournament on Tuesday.

“It’s one of the bigger tour-naments we go to and it’s a tougher course. It’s always a challenge to play there but if we focus and play well then we can compete with a lot of the schools that are there,” Devane said.

for each school. Due to grass allergies one of the Manhattan players was un-able to compete, which left the team in a bind. They eventually had to borrow a player from Topeka High.

Both teams head to tour-naments today. The J.V. will play at Salina Central and the varsity will play here.

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Connor BlissFeatures Editor

You have been using iOS since the birth of iPhones and iPod touches, and it hasn’t changed much since it’s conception. It’s al-ways been a nice warm 73 degrees and there has always been a sun!ower.

But now, stuff is really changing, and it’s not just some new re-quired apps. Apple is moving away from their tactile design of the green felt and real world objects to !at design.

Junior Bryan Poyser has been using the beta of iOS 7 for around four months.

“I don’t miss anything,” Poyser said about the old operating sys-tem. “My favorite thing is the ability to do everything by swiping up.”

By swiping, almost all necessity settings are available: airplane mode, wi", portrait lock, do not disturb, volume, brightness clock and camera. Poyer also said he feels too used to the new system to go back. iOS 7 will be available to the public on the 18.

While Apple might be revolutionizing the software side of things, it is also making strides in the hardware side. Last Tuesday Apple announced not one but two iPhones: the iPhone 5c and 5s. While the 5s is innovating the 5c is only a colorful plastic iPhone 5 aimed at the Chinese market. The iPhone 5s is moving forward with a "nger scanner and camera with two !ashes one warm and one cool for white balance.

This presents a buyers dilemma: which do you get, the cheap, colorful plastic one or the expensive one with all the new fea-tures?

This page represents all things iPhone from the new features to what you actually think about the new and the old products.

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The finger scanner is an inventive way to lock and unlock the phone. It will also al-lows the user to pay bills or make online purchases.

Parallax is a new feature that gives the sense of the apps moving as the user moves the phone back and forth and up and down.

The back camera has bigger pixels along with a warm and cool flash for a sharper image. The camera has the capability of taking 120 frames of video per second.

The first phone to have a 64 bit pro-cesser that is able to run applications that require higher RAM.

When the user swipes their finger upward, they will be able to acess all of the phone’s settings.

The music app has a built in radio set-ting, that is similar to Pandora or Spotify.

Presenting the 5s

The 5c or 5s?

98 MHS students were surveyed on their phone preferences and current phone status. The following displays the different types of phones students in

Manhattan High have.

What type of phone do you have?

Apple announced that on Sept. 21, they will release two new products; the iPhone 5c and 5s. The 5c is very simi-lar to the current iPhone 5, but the 5s has a lot of new features and upgrades. Some of the new perks to the phone are shown below.

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5c fans 98 MHS students were surveyed about their new iPhone preferences.

Apple annouced this past week that their new products, the 5c and 5s, will be released on Sept. 21.