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HI-LINETiger Shadow of Separation

Children of divorced parents face need for coping/Page 3

Cheating has always had a very negative stigma around it. Whether somebody cheated in a game, cheated on their significant other or cheated in school, the first thing to come to most people’s minds is “bad.”

But today, cheating has become so common in school, sports and relation-ships that if somebody who had no idea how cheating was viewed, they may have a tough time deciphering whether it is good or bad.

And the motives are many: “Pres-sure from parents to get good grades, trying to be as smart as other class-mates and being too lazy to do the work,” senior Tyler Schmidt said.

Schmidt said he does an average of two and a half hours of homework every night. On top of that he is an ath-lete who is playing football at Minne-sota State, Mankato next year to add on to his large work load.

Senior Madeline Rohlf said she thinks the grueling task of nightly homework is overwhelming. Although she doesn’t participate in sports, she believes a social life is very important. “I try to make a balance, but it’s sim-ply not possible to get it all done,” she said. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, and homework can not be done in one

night.”Some students feel their only resort

in order to get everything done is to cheat. “I cheat because I want to get into college,” Rohlf said. “That sounds extreme, but there’s so much pressure to get adequate grades and get into the colleges you want, it starts to not even be about learning. At the end of the day, it’s all about those little num-bers that the teachers put into Infinite Campus, and how I arrived at those little numbers doesn’t matter as long as I’m not failing. Getting a good grade is the main goal, and the chance that you might learn something on the way is sadly just a bonus.”

Schmidt retains an impressive GPA and is often the one people look to in order to get answers. “It depends on the situation, but I like to try to help classmates understand material if there’s time to do it,” he said. “Other-wise, I let them copy, and that’s when I feel like I’m doing something wrong.”

Rohlf said there are some boundar-ies to her cheating. She feels it is impor-tant to do assignments in order to learn for the tests but she isn’t going to stop the help from her classmates anytime

Junior Ellie Burken’s talents have reached a new level — all of the way to the U.S. capital.

One of her art pieces had the honor to win first place at the Congressional Art Competi-tion. The painting, titled “Inno-cence,” depicts a small child in a tree house wearing a super-hero costume, with the background, made out of newspaper clip-pings reporting horrible things such as car accidents, house fires, Ebola and shootings.

To create it, Burken used a combination of acrylic paint, popsicle sticks, newspaper arti-cles, spray paint and glue to cre-ate the background. The paint-ing only took a couple of weeks to complete, but the most dif-ficult part for Burken was not painting, but completely devel-

oping the idea behind it. “My inspiration probably

came from all the superhero movies I had been watching lately,” Burken said. “I really love the idea of superpowers, and using old comic strips to make a project just seemed like a good idea.”

In addition to winning, the painting will be displayed in the halls of Congress along with paintings from every district in the United States.

“It feels amazing,” Burken said. “I love the fact that my painting will be seen by hun-dreds of people every day.”

Art teacher Emily Luesns-mann showed enthusiasm over Burken winning. “She had a really nice piece,” Luesnmann said. “I had a feeling that it was

going to win something when she first made it last semester, so I held onto it until I could ac-tually put it in for the contest.”

This is the second year in a row that CFHS artists have placed in the annual contest following CF alumni Alyx Brima-comb’s first runner-up placing at the contest last year.

Not only does she have the honor of recognition, but Burken also had the opportu-nity to meet Congressman Rod Blum and won two plane tickets to Washington, D.C. She will travel alongside her dad, and they plan to visit many of Wash-ington’s national museums dur-ing their trip.

Junior captures first placein Congressional Art Contest

Junior Elie Burken’s award-winning painting.

Grace Kivett Photo

Family FightMadison Wright Photo

When 2016 Republican presidential candidates Mike Hucka-bee and Rick Santorum arrived at Cedar Falls High School on Monday to speak in the school auditorium on behalf of The Family Leader and Cedar Valley Patriots for Christ groups, about 100 protesters, including dozens of CFHS students, were there to express their disagreement with the host groups’ and candidates’ views on the definition of family. The event was billed as The Family Leadership Summit, and San-torum said, “We are on the cusp of eradicating the long-held understanding that religious liberty is the foundation of all our liberties.” At one point in his speech, Huckabee noted that the protesters did not upset him, but rather made him proud to see citizens expressing their First Amendment rights.

Our Cheating HeartsStaff, students wrestle with changes in, movtivations for school cheating

OUR CHEATING HEARTSContinued on Page 4

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OPINIONOur View

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An undeniable infatuation with summer exists due in part to light-ened schedules and intoxicating sunrays. But it also exists thanks to a warm nostalgia that intertwines all the sights, scents and sounds of the season.

The short time in which these things avail themselves is precious. It is fleeting. Summer is a universal source of motivation for students nine months out of the year. A duration of time long enough to devel-op a new human. Because of the long, drudging school year, we all seem to anticipate the arrival of summer like we belong in the “What Time Is It” scene in High School Musical 2 (cue chanting “summer summer summer”). It doesn’t matter that most of us haven’t made many plans beyond sleeping in and laying out; the promise of sun-shine and absence of studying are enough to make us incredibly zeal-ous.

As we enter the three most golden months of the year, we would do ourselves a disservice if we did not maximize this experience. First priority is your soundtrack.

Take what you like — whether it’s from this playlist, in your current library or in the library of your friends — and build a fresh foundation for summer.

You do not want to be handed the aux cord this summer and pro-vide anything less than straight fire. Find wistful tracks from summers past, and throw in with your new favorites creating a beautiful melting pot of sentimentality and anticipation (and possibly Fetty Wap).

Summer’s here, so embrace your soundtrack

By Staff Writer TaylorHYLTON

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Track I Wanna Go

How Did I Get HereG.R.I.N.D

The Wild LifePast Lives

Now and AgainHave Love Will Travel

BreathlessDunes

All I WantHigh School Lover

Dreaming90 Regina

Had 10 DollazDisciples

Be a BodyLifted Up (1985)On the Regular

Bye.Again

ArtistSummer HeartODESZAAsher RothVacationerBØRNSTor MillerThe Black KeysSmall BlackAlabama ShakesDawn GoldenCayucasSea PonyPsychic RealityCherry GlazerrTame ImpalaGrimesPassion PitShamirJ DillaFetty Wap

When Jon Ericson went to college, he wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

And why not? Despite the anticipated long hours and below-average pay, Ericson was passionate about journal-ism and telling stories in print, so he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Courier.

Fast forward a couple de-cades, and circumstances have forced Ericson’s hand. He’s has shifted to a different type of writing job.

“I loved it,” Ericson said. “I left because I wanted to work more consistent hours.”

Ericson couldn’t have known it at the time, but his choice of newspaper reporter would turn out to be one of the worst jobs in America, accord-ing to several surveys released in recent years.

According to the website for Bankrate, a consumer finan-cial services company, newspa-per reporters have the number one worst job in America.

The Street, an online pub-lication for American financial news and services, calls it the second worst job, coming up just behind a lumberjack.

Similarly, CareerCast, a job-seeking website, also names it as one of the worst jobs in America.

Ericson’s situation may not be much different than the one facing today’s high school seniors. The good news is that there is information that might help students when determin-ing a major or career path.

What makes a job bad or good?

A job that interests you has qualities that you like. A good job aligns with your goals, views, has acceptable pay, ap-propriate hours, OK insurance and benefits, a safe environ-ment, independence, interper-sonal relationships and engag-ing work.

AdviceIf you are set on one of the

jobs regarded as declining, think about jobs that are alike. Rather than being a journalist, be a creative writer for an orga-nization or company, University of Northern Iowa employment counselor Sarah Goblirsch said. There are always alterna-tives for each job you wish to pursue.

Best jobsAccording to US News, a

news site, the best job in 2015 is dentistry, with an average salary of $146,340 a year.

However, if a job is good or bad is up to you. Do the money and hours meet your require-ment for a job you appreciate?

A good job is the opposite of a bad job with flexibility, acceptable pay, appropriate hours, benefits, etc.

Make sure it is a job you will appreciate. Goblirsch said to “Make sure it’s a company you can grow with, that there are opportunities to grow with a work culture you enjoy. We en-courage students to do intern-ships and job shadows.”

Which jobs are increasing or decreasing?

“The ones we see increas-ing are the ones in the STEM careers,” Goblirsch said. “Those are going to be the ones we have more positions and students.”

However, according to Brookings, a nonprofit research organization, one job that is decreasing in size is emergency responders. The job decreased by a record-breaking 43.5 per-cent from 2009 to 2011.

In the past year, construc-tion opportunities have in-creased by 280,000 jobs. Jobs in warehousing and transporta-tion increased by 15,000.

“So it should concern ev-eryone that right now – all across America – tens of thou-

sands of teachers are getting laid off. Think about what that means for our country. When there are fewer teachers in our schools, class sizes start climb-ing up. Our students start fall-ing behind. And our economy takes a hit,” said President Obama in 2012 when in June 2009, 300,000 educational jobs were lost. According to TeachingCom, a website for and about teachers, from 2006 to 2016, there should be an in-crease of 12 percent more jobs for educators. They say that 4,433,000 jobs will be the end game in 2016 compared to the 3,954,000 jobs in 2006.

The future, apparently, is both bright and dark

The future for registered nurses from the years 2010 to 2020 will increase by 26 per-cent to 711,90 jobs accord-ing to Forbes, a highly trusted business and news site.

Machinists are expected to drop in demand by 5 percent, said Top 10 List.

The Bureau of Labor Sta-tistics said that between 2010 and 2020, postal service em-ployee positions will drop from 656,400 to 474,600.

Physician assistant job de-mand is expected to increase by 26 percent from 2006 to 2016 with 83,820 job positions, said Boston.com.

Before graduation, students should study career trends

Worst Jobs (according to CareerCast)

Newspaper Reporter $36,267Lumberjack $34,110

Enlisted Military Personnel $44,283Cook $42,208

Broadcaster $29,347Photo journalist $29,267

Corrections Officer $39,163Taxi Driver $23,118Firefighter $45,264

Mail Carrier $41,068

Best Jobs (according to US News)

Dentistry $146,340Nurse Practitioner $92,670

Software Developer $92,660Physician $186,850

Dental Hygienist $71,110Physical Therapist $81,030

Computer Systems Analyst $81,190 Information Security Analyst $88,590

Registered Nurse $66,220Physician Assistant $92,970

Friday, May 22, 2015HI-LINETiger

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OPINION 3

It is estimated that 50 per-cent of all American marriages end in divorce, and that 22 million children in the United States alone live without a father. My parents added to these numbers in 2002, when I was only 5 years old. My mother raised me solely. When I was young, I spent every other weekend traveling eight hours round trip to see my father, but for the past five years I’ve only seen him sparsely — maybe three or four times annually.

As a child it was, of course, upsetting — I wanted a daddy to come to my piano recitals and ballet performances like all the other girls — but the discontent only grew as I did. During the critical teen years of my life I felt the full effects of fa-therlessness. There were things I struggled with for months — anger issues and negative self-concept to name two — that my mother couldn’t help me with, but that my father could provide every answer to. Each parent plays a specific role in parenthood, and though differ-ent sets of spouses may hold different roles, the loss of any one of those roles can be det-rimental.

These aren’t the only ar-eas negatively impacted by divorce. John P. Hoffman, an advocate of the National Cen-ter for Fathering, said, “There is significantly more drug use among children who do not live with [both] their mother and fa-ther, and adolescents living in intact families are less likely to engage in delinquency than their peers living in non-intact families. [Also,] 71 percent of high school dropouts are fa-therless; fatherless children have more trouble academi-cally, scoring poorly on tests of reading, mathematics and thinking skills.”

Similarly, growing up in a

one-parent family has been shown to have negative effects on socioeconomic standing as well as physical and mental health, and it increases chances of teen pregnancy. Clearly, on average, being raised by both parents equally will reap its benefits.

Divorce for many can be a touchy subject, especially when we keep in mind that not all cases of divorce are the same. Those statistics are, of course, on average. It’s true that not every child with divorced par-ents looks on it as a curse, as I may. To some it may be a blessing. Alexis Johnson, from Planned Parenthood, said, “In some circumstances, divorce or separation can be extremely beneficial to a mother or child. In cases involving abuse, some-times separation can be the only answer.”

This rings true for one un-named individual I know in par-ticular. Her father, an alcoholic, was known for sleeping around with other women. When he did spend time at home, it was alone, secluded in the base-ment. Any attempts at conver-sation this individual made with her father went unanswered. Clearly in this case, disregard-ing the father from the picture completely was the best thing that could have happened.

We must, however, be wary when considering this mindset, especially when accompanied by the aforementioned statis-tics. These two combined can easily create a man-hating at-mosphere.

Only an awful man could willingly ignore his children or choose to leave them to a life of drugs, crime and academic failure, right? Wrong. My father is an amazing man, yet I’m just as likely to fall to such depths as other singly-parented chil-dren. Edward Kruk, Ph.D., in an

article published in Psychology Today, wrote, “[Often times], divorced fathers in particular are devalued, disparaged and forcefully disengaged from their children’s lives.” Fatherly neglect is not always the case. Sometimes divorce just turns out that way. The culprit is not always the father, but rather the divorce itself, as well as soci-ety’s view on it.

And then again, divorce, just like all other forms of change, isn’t a totally bad thing. For example, if my parents were never divorced, I’d most likely be living in a different state, wouldn’t have the best friends, boyfriend or step-family that I do, and most importantly, my half sisters wouldn’t even exist.

Fifty percent, though, is still a large number. And Hoffman’s statistics are based in truth. De-spite all the exceptions, there is no denying that for the most part, divorce has aversive ef-fects on the children whose parents are split. How can such a high divorce rate be lowered?

It is said that pre-marital counseling is very beneficial in creating long lasting marriages.

Martha and Richard Ko-rneisel have been marriage mentors for three years through both Blessed Sacrament Catho-lic Church and Nazareth Luther-an Church. Together they guide engaged couples through con-

flict scenarios and future-plan-ning discussions, stressing con-cepts such as communication, patience and understanding. The church views marriage as a permanent bond of uncondi-tional love, so much so that the Bible even speaks of man and woman becoming one body when they are united in mar-riage.

Korneisel said, “We’ve seen others experience divorce, and at the time didn’t feel like we did enough to prevent it. Now, we mentor to give the couples a way to deal with any issues that might arise, to prevent any further divorces. We bring up scenarios and talk about them with them — giving them ex-ample of things we’ve seen or how we’ve gone about resolv-ing similar issues.”

The crux of their work is communication and under-standing. Truly listening to and talking with one’s spouse is vital in a successful marriage. With this can come a deeper under-standing of where the other is coming from. How each spouse is raised will dramatically affect the way they’ll desire to raise their child, and often those desires are different. Differing home traditions, for example, can quite easily conflict with one another, causing discon-tent in one spouse. For this reason, it is essential communi-

Children of divorced parents face increasingly common needs for coping

cation and deep understanding are mastered.

Korneisel also stressed the importance of faith and prayer: “In a Christian relationship, it is imperative that God be in-volved. Ecclesiastes 4: 7-12 says it better than I can: A three ply cord is not easily broken. Involving God in a marital re-lationship only strengthens it.”

Various statistics show that the original 50 percent divorce rate drops rapidly when hus-band and wife attend church regularly together, to as low as 3.3 percent. It drops to an even lower 0.3 percent when couples often pray together.

Divorce has had a major impact on my life, as well as the lives of many others in this world today, and everyone’s story is different, and though it may not always have been for the best, there are ways in which we can ease the pain of divorce and weaken its nega-tive effects on children. Either employing marriage improving techniques to prevent it in the first place or finding mother or father-like figures to fill the role of any missing parent are plau-sible solutions to the seemingly never-ending, ever-broadening problem.

Senior Mikaela Mallin and her dad, with whom she has had limited contact after her parents divorced when she was 5 years old.

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“Divorce has had a major impact on my life, as well as the lives of many others in this world today, and every-one’s story is different ...”

MALLINBy Staff Writer Mikaela

Friday, May 22, 2015 HI-LINETiger

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ANDERSON By Editor-in-Chief Austin

TigersActionin

Women’s TrackMay 21-23 state meet @

Drake StadiumMen’s Track

May 21-23 state meet @ Drake StadiumWomen’s Soccer

May 27 vs. Iowa City High5 p.m.

Men’s SoccerMay 26, 28, 30

SubstateWomen’s Golf

May 26Regional Meet

Women’s TennisMay 23

Regional MeetMen’s Tennis

May 23 Substate

TrapshootingJune 6,7

SCTP High School Trap Championship

BaseballMay 25, 9 a.m.

Invitational at homeSoftball

May 26, 5:30 p.m.@ home vs.

Iowa City High

“The key to staying committed to working out is having an end goal and a motivating support system around you to push you even further than you thought you could go.”

—Megan BradfordCommitted to off-season training

STARBECK By Staff Writer Skylar

OUR CHEATING HEARTSContinued from Page 1

Being an athlete is more than just knowing how to play a sport. It’s more than just being good during the season.

Being an athlete means using certain tactics in the off-season.

Off-season training is one area where athletes can get a tremendous bang for their buck. In the off-season, ath-letes tend to focus on improv-ing foundational movement patterns and general strength and conditioning.

Football coach Brad Rem-mert said, “Most work should be done in the off-season to build up strength and intensity coming into the season better than before. Athletes use the off-season to get work done that can not be focused on during the season as much be-cause of games and practices.”

Most off-seasons allow ath-letes to compete at a high lev-el of training to stay in shape. The improvement of general strength creates the potential to sprint faster, jump higher and throw harder during the competitive season.

Athletes simply cannot build these qualities in the mid-dle of a competitive season. Instead, they must build these qualities in the off-season so they can be expressed during the competitive season.

Senior ice hockey player Beau Cook spends most of his time at Key West Fitness on the off-season. He said, “I usually lift a lot to build more muscle and increase my strength. It is important to stay in shape in order to be successful next season. I like to improve my hockey skills by shooting and stickhandling pucks in my basement as well.”

In the off-season, recover-ing physically and mentally is a huge factor. To prevent injuries, most athletes take care of their bodies by not over lifting and by eating right. Having an im-portant diet is key to staying in shape and setting the balance to a healthy lifestyle. Sticking to a routine workout and diet could help the body’s process of developing muscle mass.

Many college coaches pro-vide their athletes with pre-sea-son workouts in order to come into the season prepared and in shape. A senior on his way to play Division 1 collegiate football, Rayce Willett, has al-

ready started preparing for his next season. “I have been to camps where I am able to de-velop skills over fundamentals by coaches that are very expe-rienced. Staying in shape is es-pecially important. In my junior year I was not in shape at all, but then I started training more and losing weight in order to come into my senior season in shape.”

When taking time to train in the off-season, it is not only about lifting and getting stron-ger, it is also the mental as-pect of training. Junior Megan Bradford trains for a purpose, not only for the physical as-pect, but for the mental drive as well. “I don’t work out only to stay in shape. I work out to mentally feel better and to start my day off in the right way. The key to staying committed to working out is having an end goal and a motivating support system around you to push you even further than you thought you could go,” she said.

Athletes commit to off-seasons

soon. “I don’t cheat on every-thing, but I will continue to cheat as long as it’s possible, and whenever I have to because for some of us, it’s the only way to get through it,” she said.

English teacher Diane Fla-herty said CFHS cheating is “absolutely” a problem but isn’t quick to judge. “I really try to understand the motive of why somebody cheated. Is it lazi-ness? Do they feel like they can’t fail? Do they feel like they just ran out of time? I think it’s usually one of those three. Or is there some pressure coming from out-side? If I can figure out which of those four things it is, then I try to deal with that,” she said.

With texting, the Internet and the newly added Chrome-Books, cheating in 2015 isn’t a challenge. “As if cheating wasn’t easy before, the school literally handed us the greatest cheating tool of all time: The Chrome-Book. Fast, efficient, glorious cheating. As if having the Inter-net, which holds every answer to every test and assignment somewhere within it, wasn’t enough, we have these things called Google Docs. Google Docs are truly a gift from God, made especially for students

who need to cheat,” Rohlf said.Schmidt isn’t always open to

letting people cheat off of him, especially on assignments that take more effort. Once in awhile he says, “No.”

“Most of the time, people act like it’s expected for you to give them your homework,” he said.

Although cheating is appar-ent, Flaherty doesn’t actively search for it. “I am always in the mode where I just don’t think people would cheat,” Flaherty said. “I know they cheat, but I just don’t think they would.”

The stress of wanting to get good grades gets to everyone from the 4.0 students to anyone below, according to Schmidt. “I don’t think cheating makes you a bad person. I think it’s just the way our education system is so heavily based on grades that makes kids extremely stressed.”

Many, like Schmidt, will point to the education system being the problem making students more interested in getting an “A” than learning the material.

In Flaherty’s English classes, she preaches that it’s not about the points to her, but she isn’t sure how the world views the debate between getting a good

grade and learning something beneficial.

“I think there are so many people out there, like in the me-dia, that get by with things with cheating that nobody sees that it’s wrong anymore,” Flaherty said.

University of Iowa freshman Danny Watters, who graduated from CFHS last year, has gotten a first hand look at cheating at the next level.

“In college, I’d say there isn’t as much cheating on as-signments because they aren’t worth as much of your grade. However, I think it does still go on to a certain extent,” he said. “Due to the fact that exams are worth much more of your grade, people often times take Adder-all or Vyvanse without prescrip-tion to help their focus.”

Iowa State University fresh-man Sam Ahrenholz said stu-dents who cheat consistently in high school should be worried when they get to college. “First semester will be tougher on them than it will be for students who have already developed good study habits,” he said.

Rohlf hears Ahrenholz clear-ly. “ Unfortunately,” she said. “College will probably kick my ass.”

Pre-season PolishingSeniors Trey Bronner and Danielle Deviney work on the last details before their seasons start next week.

Logan Cole Photos