OCTOBER 2014• GUYER HIGH SCHOOL•VOLUME 10 ISSUE 1•7501 TEASLEY LANE•DENTON, TX 76210

Grading, Traffic Changes Receive Mixed Reception

New Grading System Tests Students’ Resolve

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Traffic comes to a standstill on Teasley to enter the building before school. The traffic flow was changed at the beginning of the year.

Photo by Bryce Babcock

As the lights flip on, the books crack open, and the pencils hit the paper, the tenth year of Guyer High school has begun, and for students and teachers across the school, new changes in policy have caused a time for adjustment. Changes in the grading policy, the new traf-fic flow, and the nine weeks grading period all have been altered. “I think one of the biggest changes is an exercise in semantics; students who do their homework will con-tinue to do their homework, and students who don’t will continue to not,” English Teacher Cassandra Ray said. The new grading system makes homework worth only 20 percent of a student’s overall grade, and tests worth 80 percent. Teachers now can’t take homework for a grade, it’s just expected of a

student that it’s done. Senior Victor Bin says he’s uncon-fident in the system. “I don’t like the new grad-ing system, 80 percent is too much weight on a test, and people are finding out that the 20 percent for homework grades is pretty much use-less,” Bin said. Teacher Donna Lowe said the system could help with things like the adjustment to the new nine weeks system, which makes the semesters split into 2 nine weeks instead of 3 six weeks. “The new grading system will help because the major grading assessments we’re required to give will make sure that the students are being tested over all the curriculum up to a certain point,” Lowe said. “If that’s one week or two weeks or maybe even a couple of days, so it’s going to require me to do some minor assessments to make sure they’re ready

Bryce BabcockEditor in Chief

Discussion began on the creation of a new grading policy centered on specifi-cally checking the students’ knowledge in 2012. The new grading policy will not be difficult for the cur-rent freshman says Freshman Counselor, Mrs. Dorton. “The main thing that we would like to take into ac-count is that for the freshman this will be second nature to them since this all that they will have known once com-ing to high school,” Dorton said. Mrs. Dorton says that teach-ers will have to adjust to the grading policy, too. “At first it will be hard for the teachers but they will

figure out how they like to teach given the new grading policies. “ The World Language De-partment chair and German teacher Stephen Shade says that the grading system is far overdue. “When we looked into other states you will see that they use homework simply as a practical method of application of the lessons you learn in class and that’s what students don’t get is that homework still exists,” he said. “It has to be done without a doubt. It is still a vital part of the students learning.” Shade also says that stu-dents must understand why homework and syllabi aren’t for a grade any longer.

Nolan VaughanStaff Writer

The Importance of Unimportant Clubs

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Celebrating Homecoming

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Tenth Year Anniversary

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Evan Glasser works on classwork to get ahead on grades. The New grading policy has many students having to adjust.

Photo By Nolan Vaughan

for the major assessment. That way it’s going to help.” Another change incorpo-rated this year has been the change of the traffic flow in the parking lot around Guy-er, which for some people has caused problems. “I don’t drive so I haven’t had a problem, but the first day of school I walked two miles and still beat all the people in cars getting here,” Bin said. Others think the traffic sys-tem will end up working out better, like biology teacher Stephanie Taylor-Whitlow. “For me it’s been hard to get to school in the morn-ing, but in the afternoon it hasn’t been that bad,” Taylor-Whitlow said. “It’s one of those things that will get better with time.” Ms. Ray said that over-all, the new changes won’t change the overall mission of the school and teachers, which is student learning.

“Really when you look at not only grading systems but any policy anywhere, at a school, at a business, or a country, if you look at the whole thing you’ll always see problems but in the middle of it, on the frontline, you have teachers who teach anyways, and you have good effective teachers who regardless of

the policy will do whatever they can to make sure their students do well,” Ray said. “Ultimately, there’s a lot of responsibility that comes back on the students. It’s their learning after all.”

“People who truly think it’s unfair that they don’t get a free quiz grade just by turning in a permission slip or claiming they read a short story that they probably didn’t,” he said. “For those people I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever. You are here to learn and express your learning not perform mindless assignments and get grades to pass classes.” Scott Dean, Math Depart-ment chair, says he believes that math classes can imple-ment the new policy very easily. “Math is very simple. It’s like playing a piano. It just takes practice. Do the home-work and the concert will be a breeze,” Dean said. Dean says what students

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don’t realize is the new stu-dent policy system is a lot closer to college as well. “If I had to say which is more like college I would have no choice but to claim that it’s the newer one.” Shade says that most people are simply unfamiliar with

the new grading system and this will change. “My last comment is this ‘Aller Anfang ist Schwer’ which roughly translates to ‘beginnings are always hard.’”

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A strange, but rather frequent complaint is how many clubs there are that have no educational or athletic benefits. These clubs include the Media Tech Club and Chess Team. Many question the existence of these clubs. They argue that they’re pointless and have no value to students and their studies. What these critics fail to acknowledge is the social and psychological effect these clubs have on a student. High school is stressful for most students. They have to balance

several classes and maybe even a sport or fine art like Theatre or Choir. These busy students sometimes need breaks from their busy schedules to relax. Sometimes these breaks consist of sitting around watching televi-sion at home. While this alterna-tive isn’t awful, it unfortunately lacks a social element. The stu-dent is just watching TV alone and isn’t making any new friends or discovering anything new. More than likely they’re just sit-ting alone being unproductive.

The Japanese Culture and Art Appreciation Club looks to include all students with similar interests. Photo by Devin Horton

However, take that same relax-ation and add a social element to it like a club provides and that stu-dent is now being productive as they are now forming friendships with people with similar interests. In these clubs there are a few students who have a hard time forming friendships. This doesn’t just pertain to those with busy schedules but to the socially inept. While antisocial students are rare, they are still out there and clubs are a potential place to form some of their first true friendships. The founder of the JCAAC, Ju-bei Del Rosario Vinales has stated that he founded the club for that same reason. Many of these clubs are based around subcultures like the anime subculture, which has a cult following in the United States so if someone is a huge anime fan they’re not going to have as easy of a time finding fellow fans as they would for something more popular like football. Aside from the social element, clubs just keep students busy. For every student with a cluttered schedule, there are several with way too much free time. Those stu-

dents are likely to get in trouble out of boredom or to become procras-tinators because they feel they have so much free time that they can just do everything later, which they don’t. People with busier schedules prioritize and focus on their work. Ultimately, these clubs have many benefits to students both socially and psychologically, and even aca-demically. Instead of criticizing these seemingly frivolous clubs, just let them be or maybe even start your own club based around some random thing you enjoy.

by Bryce BabcockEditor-in-Chief

Speeding Up the Fastball

It’s been a big year for baseball fans. There have been entertaining games all across the sport, from Clayton Kershaw whipping the ball across the plate, striking out batter after help-less batter, to Mike Trout making pitchers feel the same way. Derek Jeter said goodbye to the league in a showy farewell tour of the entire league. Eleven year old Mo’ne Davis entertained everyone with her per-formance in the Little League World Series, and the All-Black Jackie Rob-inson team surprised everyone and making it all the way to the Little League World Finals. Yet despite all of the great things happening in baseball, fans’ hands have been up in the air at the game, not because of a lack of players to watch, or even half of them being on steroids. They’ve been declar-ing something much more simple, a trend that’s been overlooked by the MLB and all of Baseball several years now. The games are simply too long.

It might sound odd at first, but it, describes a trend that’s been slowly creeping up on baseball for years. In 1981 the average time of a nine-inning game in the MLB was two hours, 33 minutes. This year, a game on average took a MLB record three hours, two minutes. Anyone who’s ever watched a baseball game can cer-tainly relate, a pitch is thrown, the batter adjusts every piece of his

Baseball’s Pace of Play Committee looks to shorten game time, which could even affect the Wildcat team this season. Photo by Bryce Babcock

uniform, and the pitcher stares down the batter for 30 seconds before finally throwing a pitch. That’s not fun to watch. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig put together a commit-tee to investigate and estab-lish rules that will cut the time down just a little. There is al-ready a rule that states a pitch-er must throw another pitch 12 seconds after receiving the

ball if there’s no one on base, but that rule is rarely enforced. Currently, the committee is testing different rules, like a pitch clock which forces pitch-ers to throw within 20 seconds for any pitch, or one that says a batter can’t leave the batter’s box after ev-ery pitch. These new rules, if implemented, wouldn’t just mean a change in the MLB, this would affect all levels of baseball, all the way down to the Wildcats here. Coaches will have to teach their players to speed it up if they want to ever have a shot at play-ing in the big leagues. For now though, the most impor-tant thing to do is support baseball. Keep being baseball fans, but en-courage the league by continuing to support all levels of the sport. Fans have proven as of late that their voice can have a great effect on policies in professional sports. Show those in charge that fans still care, and it will influence them to help make the sport better. After all, it is “America’s Pas-time.”

by Devin HortonAssistant Editor

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Bianca Ramirez Staff Writer

After ten years of educating, the school is celebrating as shown by this year’s homecoming festivities. As usual, the school held a carnival the day prior to the homecoming game, but this year’s carnival featured local food trucks, more student activities, and, of course, decorations relating to this homecoming’s theme, The Wizard of Oz. Adam Scott won homecoming king this year, and as a senior and varsity football player, he said this homecoming began his final high school year better than expected. “It was exciting, especially knowing that this is my last homecoming,” Scott said. “The crowd is packed, there was a lot of energy and emotion and I feel like it drove us to play better. ” Scott also said that he felt the extra emphasis on the tenth year anniversary af-fected him and his fellow teammates. “I think it made us want to play better and keep the tradition going,” Scott said. For those uninvolved in creating the homecoming activities, the week can be an exciting time filled with school spirit and pride. Freshman Julia Shovlin said she saw that for the first time this year. “I went to the homecoming game last year when I was in eighth grade and I had fun,” Shovlin said. “But I think now that I’m actually a student at Guyer, it means more to me.” However, for the people who made these festivities happen, it was not all fun and games. World History teacher and student council sponsor Stephanie Guadagnoli said it was a very stressful week for both her and the students involved. “I think it was crazy but it was really exciting with it being the tenth year anni-versary, so there was a whole other layer of excitement and challenges there,” Guad-agnoli said. “Student council kids worked really hard on it, and I’m really proud of them.” Student council wasn’t the only organi-zation that felt the extra pressure of this year’s homecoming. Silverado Halie Ar-

reaga, junior, said that the Silverado’s have felt the stress as well. “This week has definitely been a lot,” Ar-reaga said. “With the pep rally, the game, and just trying to get the dances down, it was hard but definitely worth it.” Varsity football played against the Keller Indians, and finished with a score of 40-33, respectively. Although Keller failed to per-form well for a majority of the game, they returned in the fourth quarter and managed to end the game one touchdown away from tying it. Shawn Robinson, sophomore and start-ing quarterback, said he believes the game could have been handled better. “We started off well but we just let off the gas and started making little mistakes,” Robinson said. “We just didn’t end the game as well as we should have.” Scott says the outcome could have been different. Nevertheless, the team succeed-ed in winning the game. “Keller was a pretty good opponent,” Scott said. “I think we should have han-dled our business better, but overall it was a good game.”

Coming Home to a WinTenth Homecoming Capped off with Victory

The Varsity football team prepares to take the field and defend home turf on Homcoming night. Photo by Bianca Ramirez

Seniors Adam Scott and Bailey Avanzo accept Homecoming King and Queen Coronation at halftime. Photo by Bianca Ramirez

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Loving to Win, Acing the Season

by Bianca RamirezEditor-in-Chief

Due to the division change up this year, the academic and athletic teams are faced with the challenge of com-peting against better and larger teams. Guyer’s tennis team, however, fails to allow this to discourage them in the upcoming season. Head tennis coach Ron Rogers said he’s excited for the tougher competi-tion this year, and the higher expecta-tion that will be place upon the stu-dents. “We want to push our kids to be the best,” Rogers said. “So we’ve always played the tougher opponents but instead of playing them in preseason, now we’re playing them all through-out the year.” With the current standings of 5-3 and 6-2 in favor of Guyer for varsity and junior varsity, respectively, the teams have held strong and plan to continue to do so for the remaining season. “They’re seeing how tough it is to play some of the good 6A schools,” Rogers said. “And they recognize that and they’re putting in the extra effort to get better.”

In a doubles match against the Northwest Texans, Junior Carson Cullum (left) and Junior Sam Lock-hart (right) match on September 4. Photo by Bianca Ramirez.

Tennis Looks to Make Run into Playoffs

As the season begins, the players remain optimistic about the matches ahead. Sophomore and varsity player, Raegan Pyle said the division change has caused a new level of expectation for the team. “I think it’s very stressful,” Pyle said. “But it’s a lot of fun because we get more competition.” Catalina Aloman, junior and team cap-tain, said she believes that it will be good for the team to compete against these new schools, despite challenges. “It’s pretty tough because we have to work a lot harder to even get close to beating these schools,” Aloman said. “But I think we’re going to get a lot better because of it.” Team captain and current number one player on the team, senior Cole O’Neill understands the new level of stress the players feel, but said he’s excited for what is to come. “I think if we put in the work and do the right things on and off the court, our hard work will be rewarded,” O’Neill said.

Sophomore Quarterback Shawn Robinson tries to evade Keller Defenders in the Homecoming Game, leading Guyer to a 40-33 victory. (Photo By Bianca Ramirez)

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Faculty, Alumni Celebrate Tenth Year

Ten years ago the school first opened its doors, the doors of opportunity. Today, the school is hailed as many things: becoming state champi-ons, excelling in school aca-demics, and succeeding in the fine arts. Assistant Principal Regena Little says that the population has gone through a drastic change. “We have had a little over 1000 students ten years ago,” Little said. “Now, we have over 2409.” Throughout the last ten years, including the current 2409, almost 8000 students have walked through the halls. Including this year’s staff, 355 different staff members have or are currently working.Little says that some things other than the population have changed over the years. “The building has changed, when we first opened up, we didn’t have the A Hall, the H Hall, or the barn,” Little said. “That was Phase 2. After we opened and the students were in our building, the other parts were still being built and then they were finished sometime at

the end of that first year.” Little says that the academics have come a long way. “When we first started off, our football team, our first year, we didn’t win not one game,” Little said. “Now, here we are. We can claim state cham-pions and hopefully we’ll be state champions again. For our fine arts area, that has grown tremendously. For academics, we are now competitors.” History teacher Andrea Kinzy says that the student body has also improved. “We’ve excelled just as a whole the student body com-ing together,” Kinzy said. “The Blue Crew, as the student spirit organization, has helped, so I think we’ve just steadily im-proved in all areas.” However, Kinzy says she isn’t pleased with all the new changes. “I didn’t like it when they changed the schedule on us (from 4 classes on A day and 4 classes on B day),” Kinzy said. “We had true A day B day schedule. The reason they did the change with the schedule was a staffing issue, and it changed to a schedule that was

more cost efficient.” Senior Katrina Krauss says that there was a tailgating activity at the Homecoming Football game. “There were old teachers and new teachers talking with each other,” Krauss said. “I saw a lot of old teachers who used to work at the school.” Kinzy says that the school will continue to get better.

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Student Council members, senior Darren Sim, and juniors Jane Igbeck and Sercy Sullivan serve refreshments for the current and previous faculty dur-ing halftime at the homecoming game. Photo by Christian DeBruin

“We are just going to con-tinue to get better in every area, we’re going to continue to grow, and I think we’re just go-ing to continue to get great kids who do great things,” Kinzy said.

In its tenth year, the school opens with more than 200 teachers. Fifty charter members still teach here since opening in 2005. Photo by Southern Exposure.

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said. “As long as everyone is doing their job, we’ll be suc-cessful.”Junior Justin Taylor says that he likes the way she directs. “She’s awesome; she is just very hands on and cares about everyone,” Taylor said. This year, Marching Band’s theme is Prometheus. “The staff spends many months planning and brain-storming halftime show ideas,” Woody said. “We thought it would be very cool to show the mythical story of how fire came to humanity. Prometheus seemed like an appropriate name, so it stuck.” At every football game, they play a part of their show, add-ing on the next part with each game. “Prometheus is the best show we’ve ever had,” junior Travis Thomas said. Woody says that the theme shows what happened when the gods handed fire to man and what man did with fire from then on. “The music takes a while to learn, but as long as the students put forth the effort, I know they can do it,” Woody said. Marching Band is also com-peting in several competitions. “We are competing in Bands of America at UNT Stadium in

Band Engulfs Crowd with Fiery Theme

Students Use HOSA to Prepare for Careers

October,” Woody said. “We also have UIL in October. If we get a one, we will advance to area. If we’re the top band there, we’ll go to state.”

As fall takes its turn on the ce-lestial calendar, Marching Band starts up again with a near year and a new head band director. Amy Woody, the new head band director, says she became the new band director because it was an opportunity to keep the traditions that worked in the past and may-be start some new things. “I know all the students, I know the program really well,” Woody said. Before becoming the head band director, Woody was the associate band director. “I’ve been here for seven years; this is my eighth year and it seems like a natural progres-sion since I’ve been here for this long,” Woody said. As Woody became the new head band director, some changes have been made to the overall band. “We changed our morning practice to the afternoon, so the students don’t have to wake up at six in the morning,” Woody said. “We also got new uniforms and new drums. Basically, we’re changing little things here and there.” Woody says that the biggest thing is that the students need to feel valued. “As long as we are all aiming toward and striving for the same goal, everyone feels motivated at what needs to get done,” Woody

by Christian DeBruinStaff Writer

Health Occupation Students of America or HOSA is a na-tionally founded organization for UIL competition involving medicine, nursing, and health related topics. The organization has taken a community related approach as opposed to the general HOSA activities. Principles of Health Science teacher and HOSA sponsor Mrs. Felderhoff said, “The students of HOSA are very focused on their grades so very few of them would actually participate in this UIL due to the amount of practice it would take to study for the UIL events they would rather just participate in char-ity and community work on the

weekends.” Sophomore Regan Goodchild says that HOSA looks forward to the school clean up on Octo-ber 8. “I just enjoy meeting new people, helping people and the like I think it’s just really cool that we get to help people we may not even know, but we’ll do it anyway,” Goodchild. HOSA also plans to have a meeting at Beth Marie’s to hold a fund raiser for HOSA’s trip to Camp Summit on November 1. “At Beth Marie’s we plan to have our five officers work in order to raise money for the club,” Senior Club President Michael Tibet said,” Senior Club President Michael Tibet said.

Felderhoff says that Camp Sum-mit is a camp for children with physical disabilities to go and en-joy themselves. “The students involved in HOSA will be going in order to participate as volunteers in order to assist the kids at Camp Summit and multiply their enjoyment of the experience,” Felderhoff said. Tabet also says that Camp Sum-mit is a project that HOSA looks forward to working on. “We will be waiting until the first of November to participate in Camp Summit and from there looking forward to participating at Camp Summit as much as pos-sible,” Tabet said. Health is a field that all stu-dents in HOSA wish to pursue after high school and even after

college Felderhoff says. “All of my students truly do all share an interest in the medical field which I feel is the one thing that makes some of these students choose to be a part of HOSA as opposed to being a part of DOCS or even Key Club,” she said. Tabet says that in HOSA they have learned a huge amount of responsibility . “HOSA is a great club for the medical field and other similar occupations sue to the amount of work people put into HOSA as well as the amount of responsi-bility,” Tabet said. “I’ve learned and others have learned through being a part of HOSA.”

The band performs at halftime of the Homecoming game against Keller. Photo by Bianca Ramirez

by Nolan VaughanStaff Writer

The Drum Line practices for the Bands of America competition. Photo by Christian DeBruin

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Pictures of a smelly barn where you house your animal is what most people think of FFA, but the new agriculture teacher, Ken-drick Spencer, will teach more than just the stereotypical livestock management. “A great example is marketing. People think you have to have a business degree, but, no, you can have an agricultural com-munications degree, and we teach you the same things that business degree does,” Spencer said. Spencer is teaching other things for the FFA program such as photography, design, and photo editing. “The only difference is that we do it in an agricultural setting where it’s immediately applicable instead of just in theory. If we’re teaching you photography we’re going to go out, photograph an animal, come back to edit it, and we’re going to say ‘okay what’s the best way to market this animal to the most amount of people’,” Spencer said. Spencer wants to promote agriculture and FFA to the student body with several or-ganized events this the year. This includes National FFA Week that will be available to the entire student body.

by Kris Eckstorm

Staff Writer

Old School Industry Hires New Age Teacher

Three Students Race to the Finish Line

Soaring down the track at nearly 80 mph, many Go Kart racers are fighting desperately to get to the flag first. Tugging at their steering wheels, one of them turns at just the right moment to get that perfect straightaway giving them just enough speed to finish first. This is the world of Go Kart racing, an exciting and fast paced sport pitting several children, including three students, against each other to see who can be the fastest on the track. “I’ve had some really good battles with some really close friends,” Junior Kart Racer Dylan Towne said. As evidenced by the passion of the stu-dents involved and the popularity of NAS-CAR, Go Kart racing has the potential for a very wide and devoted following. However, despite this, there are only three students currently involved: Dylan Towne, Jacob Loomis, and Hannah Williams. Loomis has competed in Las Vegas along-side several international competitors. “It’s the biggest race of the year. You’re there with your friends and family just hav-ing a good time while going fast at a fun track,” Loomis said. Williams has been racing for eight years has raced alongside Loomis in Las Vegas and even wishes to race professionally. “I like going fast. I like the adrenaline. I

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“We’ll have food, barnyard Olympics, and it’s basically a time where we show every-thing that FFA does to everyone,” Spencer said. FFA officer Dixen Bray said that Spencer is a good teacher. “He encourages us to do more things, com-petitions, and to work harder. He expects more from us. Mostly that we’re actually doing competitions,” Bray said. The diversity of the competitions appeals to Bray. “In the spring, we’re thinking of doing a vet tech competition. Not sure how that works yet, but I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up so I’m really excited for that,” Bray said. Freshman Meghan Muse has already owned horses and is pleased with how Spen-cer shows how to treat animals. “He’s very realistic with it. He says you’re going to do work. A lot of people say ‘get it put it in the pasture it’s fine’, but he actually brings it into reality,” Muse said. Muse says Spencer’s changes have moti-vate her. “It makes me excited to go more into the year, but I wish he would just explain it a little better because I get a little confused some times,” Muse said.

Spencer is looking into the coming years hoping that more students will join FFA. “We have a lot of kids that think it’s purely livestock, and this year we’re rebuilding. Next year we’ll keep rebuilding. It’s just a matter of getting more students to become interested in what we’re doing outside of livestock.”

New AG teacher Kendrick Spencer speaks to sophomore Dixen Bray about the requirements for being a FFA of-ficer. Photo by Kris Eckstorm

know that once you put the helmet on it’s just you and the car,” Williams said. Despite its low number of students in-volved, joining is still an option for many. “The first step would be to go out to the local track and test out a kart we have there and see if they like it. If they really like it, they can find a cheap cart online and just go from there,” Loomis said. The local clubs are North Texas Kartway and North Texas Karters. Before joining a club, a newcomer needs to buy a kart. Carts sell for 1000 dollars or more. After joining a club, members can access re-stricted areas of club websites. For those anxious about joining, ac-

cidents are extremely rare because of the many safety precautions racers are required obey. “One thing that is really important that people don’t really understand is the safety level. It’s actually really safe and you wear special suits and shoes and a vest or a brace and you wear helmets that have to be ap-proved before every race and then you have gloves,” Williams said. Jacob has been racing for ten years. “I love going fast and I’ve always loved going fast since I was little,” Jacob said.

Junior Dylan Towne and sophomores Jacob Loomis and Hannah Williams participate in the adren-aline pumping world of Kart Racing. (Photo by Devin Horton)

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AQUARIUS: JANUARY 20-FEBRUARY 19Sometimes it’s okay to be scared. It keeps you human. Remember the mullet? That keeps us awake at night.

PISCES: FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 20 Talking like a normal human being is boring. Whenever you get the chance be melodramatic, do it. Did you leave your homework at home? Monologue. Score a touchdown? Monologue. Ghost of your father return to tell you to seek revenge on your uncle who murdered him? Now that’s the time to talk like a normal human being.

ARIES: MARCH 21-APRIL 20 Lebron left Cleveland for 4 years and when he returned, was wel-comed home. You, however, are not Lebron. Don’t go back to Mid-dle School.

TAURUS: APRIL 21-MAY 21Are you trying to get your crush to notice you? Well, if you want that cutie to really pay attention to you, try sitting at the front of the class, raising your hand more, and dance like an idiot in the middle of class.

GEMINI: MAY 22 - JUNE 22You are the main character in your own video game. This means you’re either in a boring life simulation, the savior of the universe, or you’re going to go through a soul crushingly personal self-journey. Whichever it is, one thing is for certain, you’re going to have a few Game Overs.

CANCER: JUNE 23-JULY 23Ebola, ISIS, and all the other horrible things that are affecting Amer-ica could definitely bring us all into a state of fear, but, hey, at least you got an A on a test.

LEO: JULY 24- AUGUST 23When you’re down walking through the rain, stop, dance, and make a good time out of it. When you are called a jock break out your cal-culator and show them all your algebraic game. When you’re wear-ing white, be a little dirty. Take stereotypes and make them wrong by making your own standards.

VIRGO: AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 23 Remember the most famous men in human history did crazy things. George Washington led a group of farmers against professionally trained soldiers with the best weapons yet crafted. Marco Polo de-cided to become bros with the Mongols. So next time you’re in lunch

be crazy, order a salad and eat it WITHOUT DRESSING!

LIBRA: SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 23Life happens. short and sweet. like this horoscope. which isn’t so

short anymore. ok then. irony happens.

SCORPIO: OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 22Live your day the doughnut way. That’s what all the cops say.

SAGITTARIUS: NOVEMBER 23-DECEMBER 22Are you trying to get a good test grade? Well, instead of reading your test review go bake a cake and try your luck at bribing your

teacher.

CAPRICORN: DECEMBER 23-JANUARY 19Today you’re going to be tempted to do a thing. Do the thing. Just be prepared for the things that follow that thing because things are always connected to other things. Sometimes they’re good things, other things are bad things.

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S U D O K U

1. Paranormal Activity – Blair Witch Project: Blair Witch was the first found footage style horror film.2. The Lego Movie – Toy Story: Toy Story popularized Computer Gen-erated films and was the first film completely staring toys.3. The Fault in Our Stars – The Breakfast Club: The Breakfast Club was an extremely popular teen film, even if it is cheesier than TFioS.4. Maleficent – Snow White: Maleficent is just a reimaging of Snow White from The villain’s point of view5. How to Train your Dragon 2 – Shrek: Shrek was DreamWorks’ first CG hit and is also in a fantasy setting.6. God’s Not Dead – The Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments is still the most popular Christian film ever made.7. Guardians of the Galaxy – Superman: Superman created the superhero film genre.8. Expendables 3 – First Blood: First Blood is the most iconic 80’s ac-tion film; a style Expendables is a tribute to.9. The Hunger Games - Battle Royale: They’re the same concept except Battle Royale came first and they’re in slightly different settings.10. Annabelle – The Exorcist: The Exorcist is the most iconic and beloved exorcism and ghost movie ever made.

Staff Picks: Moviesby Devin HortonAssistant Editor

Going to school you meet your ___ friend that you met two years ago at ___. The friend takes you to your first class where you find a ___ that thinks you are ___. Your teacher sees you and the ___ ___ each other and decides to ___ you. The teacher takes you out to the hallway where she ___ at you. You’ve never seen anyone ___, but you know that it isn’t good. When you go back into class, the ___ and your friend are staring at you. The whole class there is tension, but you hold it in. Just before the bell, you scream ________________ at the top of your lungs. This time the teacher can’t even ___. You leave the class with the friend almost ___. The ___ comes up to you and your friend. The ___ tells you ________________. You’re so ___ that you ___ and your friend has to calm you down. What happened in this class will always be with you as the ___ class ever.

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