Volume 51Issue 1November 3, 20106001 Cassia St. Boise, ID 83709borahsenator.com

The Borah

Senator

“The staff doesn’t, nor do I, want to dictate what the students wear. But it is our responsibility to help students know proper attire.” Page 6

Seen zombies around town? Read about the Zombie Walk.

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Find more photos from Cover Artist Korey Combs.

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Go behind the scenes of Footloose.Page 12

Letters to the Editor2 The Borah Senator November 3, 2010

I was just browsing through the websites, reading the stories that interest me, and I kept noticing how awesome the pictures are in each article, especially the sports photos. You guys are doing an awesome job. I wish more people noticed this page. I will definitely be coming back more often now.

Student’s reaction to Borah’s newspaper website is enthusiastic

Senator StaffEditor in Chief: Megan MizutaAssociate Editor: Megan Harrigfeld Tech Support: Troy RobinsonEditorial Cartoonists: Chris Lawson, Roxanne Lewers, Aubrey Willis Print Photo Editor: Katie Helm Assistant: Ali ClapierWeb Photo Editor: Ashley RiceStaff Photographers: Kristin Bracewell, Ali Clapier, Katie Helm, Jamie Jones, Megan Mizuta, Ashley RiceGraphic Designer: Adam ThompsonText Editors: Megan Harrigfeld, Megan Mizuta, Samantha Neslon, Jake SchiessAdvertising Manager: Kristin BracewellPage EditorsFront Cover: Megan MizutaLetters to the Editor: Ali ClapierArtist Bio: Ali ClapierNews: Matthew Bray, Grace GibneyOpinion: Samantha Nelson, Haylie PeltonLife: Jamie Jones Spread: Megan HarrigfeldA&E: Felicia Arnold, Justin KirkhamQ&A: Kristin Bracewell Assistant: Jessica PowellPeople: Samantha WhittakerSports: Brandie CichyJV Sports: Tyler AlbretsenPhoto Essay: Megan MizutaFun & Games: Adam ThompsonIntern Writers: Ari Anchustegui, Matthew Bray, Mechelle Conner, Grace Gibney, Brittni Hanrahan, Savannah Harrelson, Shelby Hinkle, Haylie Pelton, Jacob Schiess, Nic Schweitzer, Howard Sharp, Adam Thompson, Sage Unsworth Adviser: Michelle Harmon

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the first issue of the new Borah Senator.

This is a significant year for the Senator—we have undergone major structural shifts as our journalism and newspaper production classes were combined and as we work to establish an online presence through our website, borahsenator.com.

The time was ripe for change in the Senator, and we are exited to de-but new features of our newspaper, both in print and online.

The revamped print version of the Senator contains a page dedi-

cated solely to JV sports, a page for photo essays, and expanded cover-age in Life, A&E, and our Artist’s Biography section.

We have channeled our time thus far into overhauling borahsenator.com, which now contains photo galleries, reviews, daily announce-ments, as well as news and feature articles, among other things. I hope you will look to borahsenator.com to keep informed about Borah news in-between our printed issues.

Enacting change, both in our ef-forts to take the Senator online and in regard to our newly combined classes, has not come without some growing pains, and we are still a work in progress. Producing the Senator is always a challenge, but it is a challenge I think the 2010-2011 Senator staff is ready to meet.

I encourage you to take an active role in the Senator by writing a Let-ter to the Editor, whether in response to an item in the Senator, or simply to give voice to your opinions.

Sincerely,Megan MizutaEditor in Chief

Photo by Katie Helm

Letter from the Editor

Sophomore Alexus Gillies -- Letter received October 18, 2010

Artist BioThe Borah Senator November 3, 2010 3

By Sam Nelson

Junior Korey Combs is renowned among his peers for his photography, but as he explains his art and preferences, he is the epitome of modesty.

Shutterbug:Prior to moving to Boise, Combs made his home

in several countries around the world, including Germany and England. In addition to living in these places, he’s also visited a great many, rattling off Scotland, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Austria as some of the many countries.

“I started taking photos when I first moved here,” he said. “My parents gave me this really old digital camera. I would just go around taking pic-tures with it.”

His travels around the world have given him a range of knowledge and musical tastes, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean pop.

When it comes to photography, Combs is will-ing to photograph a number of subjects, but work-ing with models is his favorite. “I do a bit of every-thing,” he said.

“But I have more fun with people; it leaves more room for creativity. I guess right now I’m kind of a photographer for hire.”

At the moment, Combs is offering senior picture photo shoots at a negotiable price range. As for oth-er art forms, he said, “I draw, too, occasionally. But I’m not very good at it,” he admitted.

Aside from artistic endeavors, Combs is on the

Japanese Club’s board, as leader of the Dinner Par-ty Committee, which is in charge of organizing din-ner parties and food for various events.

“His photography is beautiful in its own way,” said junior Patty Bowen. “He’s able to capture the simplest moments in a way we can all relate to, and see their glamor.”

Photo by Ashley Rice

More work by cover artist Korey Combs

Student photographer reveals hidden talents

News4 The Borah Senator November 3, 2010

“Look to Learn” program becoming more commonBy Megan Mizuta

Clipboards in hand, 11 new data collectors in the Look 2 Learning program have begun conduct-ing classroom walkthroughs at Borah.

Look 2 Learning, which made its debut across the Boise School District (BSD) last November, places teachers and administrators in the role of data collectors who make brief classroom walk-throughs, also called “looks.” During “looks”, the data collectors observe aspects of the classroom like the level of student engagement, the type of activity students are doing, and briefly interview randomly chosen students.

As newly trained data collector and Borah art teacher Pat Rose put it, the pieces of data from the “looks” act as “pixels in a photograph” and help provide a better idea of what students are learning

in the classroom. In addition to Borah’s previously trained data

collectors, who include teachers Pam Atkins, Sa-mantha Mora, Ben Ott, Assistant Principals Kelly Fossceco, Bill McKitrick, and Principal Bonita Hammer, 10 more teachers and one counselor re-ceived training for Look 2 Learning walkthroughs.

The 11 new data collectors -- Becky Brown, Ste-fan de Vries, Pam Dietz, Bill Donaldson, Amy Ever-son, Wes McAllaster, Chuck McHenry, Heather Prinzing, Pat Rose, Andy Woodbridge, and Dawn Tolan -- were chosen because they represent a vari-ety of academic sectors, according to Fossceco. The 11 have already completed two days of training, the first in late September at Riverglen Jr. High.

On Nov. 1, approximately 30 teachers and ad-ministrators from secondary schools across the BSD came to Borah for an additional day of train-

ing. The 30 data collectors in training conducted practice “looks” throughout the school. Fossceco said eventually the BSD’s “goal is to have all teach-ers trained.”

When asked how many “looks” the original data collectors amassed last year, Fossceco gave a rough estimate of 120.

The long-term objective of Look 2 Learning is to use data collected to set learning goals. Fossceco stated that there are currently no specific goals set for Borah, but added that Look 2 learning is some-thing that “will take a while to build” and that there were “not enough ‘looks’ right now.”

Fossceco also stated that the larger number of data collectors at Borah would significantly increase the number of “looks” preformed.

The first round of classroom “looks” at Borah began Oct. 15.

By Jamie Jones

On Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Albertson’s head-quarters Gay Straight Alliance will host their an-nual Youth Night.

At least 100 people are expected to show up for a night filled with games, ice-breaking activities, so-cializing, and educational programs.

“It’s lots of getting to know people,” said senior

Kat Davis, president of Borah GSA. “The people that go definitely want to be there.”

The committee of about 40 students that helped coordinate the event planned the experience around what will be most beneficial to the students present. They hoped to exceed last year’s numbers of about 60 attendees. They also anticipated more participa-tion and more enthusiasm among the crowd.

“It’s free and fun,” Davis added.

Gay Straight Alliance hosts Youth Night

Bus riders experience more crowdingBy Aubrey Willis

Borah school buses seem overcrowded. The three-to-a-seat rule is seemingly impossible for the average teenage rider to follow. The bus seats fit two with hardly any room left for a toddler to sit.

“The busses are like that every day,” said sopho-more Destin Arnold. “We’re shoved in there practi-cally cheek to cheek. It’s so uncomfortable.”

There are some safety hazards to riding a bus so compacted. Injured students whom ride the buses may be at risk of further injury. When the bus stops to let students off, witnesses have reported students either jumping over or shoving through to get off.

“With people shoving through like that, the guy may re-brake his leg,” Arnold added, referring to someone who rides his bus and has to navigate the crowded conditions while protecting a leg in a brace.

There’s a higher risk for illness. “Whenever you have so many people compacted together like that,

Photo by Ali ClapierStudents crowded together on way to and from school.

the risk for spreading illness is increased,” said Barb Thomas, School Nurse.

Approximately 25 percent of the Boise School District’s 27,000 students ride school buses each day, according to the Boise Schools website.

By Howard Sharp

Borah Bike Club is out of the starting gate and into their first meetings after being started by Gabrielle Baker, junior, and Haylie Pelton, senior. The founders said this is a club where people go to be surrounded by others interested in exercise and people who care about the planet’s health. They said their goal is to convey the message of walking or biking somewhere rather than driv-ing. They also will teach anyone how to fix a bike.

Members plan to volunteer at the Boise Bicy-cle Project (see related story on Life). They plan to help hand out water at stations and moderate traffic. A mass ride of their own, where they will invite all members and potential members on a big group ride, is also in the works.Meetings are held every Tuesday at lunch in English teacher Chuck McHenry’s room 106.

Cycle to Borah with support of new club

NewsThe Borah Senator November 3, 2010 5

Teachers slated to proctor own ISATSISATs used to be a break from class, for students

and teachers alike, but not this year. Due to more budget cuts, the ISATs will have to be proctored, or overseen, by the teachers themselves.

“As part of the cost-cutting measures this year in the district, the district will no longer be hiring proc-tors for the ISATs,” Career Center Counselor Kathi Lecertua said. “Thus it will be the responsibility of the teachers to proctor the tests for their classes.”

By Sam Nelson Rather than the previous overseers of the ISATs, teachers will be ensuring that students are logged on to the test, monitor them while they are taking it, and maintain order. Most teachers have been noti-fied about the change, and their responsibilities.

“I don’t mind,” English teacher Stefan deVries said. “Whatever money we can save, we need to, so funding can go to more valuable places, like the library.”

deVries feels that the biggest adjustment will be to the change in testing format. Teachers are used

to pen-and-paper tests that they can help their stu-dents with when help is needed. “We are used to helping our students when they ask questions, and I don’t think that’s allowed on the ISATs.” The out-side proctors had the advantage in that there wasn’t any sort of previous relationship between them and the students, making it easier to turn away from students requesting help.

“Overall, I think this a logical idea, given the current economic climate,” deVries said, “and I think everything will go just fine.”

New dress code takes affect this school yearBy Megan Harrigfeld

A new dress code has been put in place, effective this school year. At registra-tion, students were welcomed with a printed version before they entered the building. In-cluded were guidelines for hem length, and rules pro-hibiting loungewear and tops that expose cleavage.

The new rules were put into language last spring, during a Leadership Team meeting. “It’s not to control,” said Principal Bonita Hammer. “It’s to educate.” During the 2009-2010 school year, the rules were not specifically defined for students and faculty, so the expectations of how to abide by the dress code and how to enforce the dress code were less clear. Thirteen guidelines on both what to wear and what not to wear are listed

on page B of the agenda. The heading for the dress code is “Dress for Success at Borah High.” Hammer said that the main infrac-

tion that came up this fall was short shorts. “I don’t know if it was because we had a cold spring, but shorts have become very prevalent this year.” The new code specifies hem-lines to reach mid thigh.

Being that both feeder schools into Borah have uniforms, a dress code is nothing new to students. But some stu-dents still look at attire as a personal message. “Because school is very social,” said English teacher Chuck McHenry, “kids look at it as an extension of school.” Such a specific dress code is new for Borah, and is expected to still be here after this year, according to Hammer.

Senior receives DSA award for musical excellence

Halloween contumes allowed through AVID

By Grace Gibney

When senior Lindsey Rogien sits at the piano, here is one outcome: intrigue. Rogien’s talents have not only achieved musical excellence, but academic achievements, resulting in Rogien winning the Idaho Dairy Council’s Distin-guished Student Award.

“I actually hadn’t heard of the award before” said Rogien. “I heard about it when I got a call from the counselor’s office informing me that I had won.”

Borah received $100 towards anything the school is lacking financially. Ro-gien was acknowledged for her academic merits and a plaque has been hung in her honor. With a 4.15 GPA and ranked third in her class, Rogien’s future seems bright. She plans to major in Biology and minor in English.

“It’s not to control, it’s to educate.”

--Principal Bonita Hammer

By Brittni Hanrahan

Students were allowed to wear costumes at school for the first time in many years. The event is a fundraiser for AVID students so they are able to visit college campuses. AVID sold tickets that allowed students to wear Halloween costumes to school Oct. 29. Candy grams are also sold for $1 at Homecoming Carnival, and Oct. 18-28 at lunch, and delivered Oct. 29.

Students purchased a costume ticket to wear all day at school, they were asked to sign a waiver agreeing to abide by the district rules. The costumes had the following rules:

• The dress code still applies• No full face coverings or masks• No weapons (real or fake)• The costumes may not promote drugs or alcohol• No provocative or immodest costumes• Nothing that may be deemed as offensive to others

Graphic by Chris Lawson

Opinion6 The Borah Senator November 3, 2010

Senator Staff Opinion

The new dress code lan-guage in student agendas is revealing the struggle of en-forcing such guidelines.

Last spring, the Leader-ship Team, a group of Borah faculty and administrators, decided that new dress code language was needed in time for the 2010-2011 school year. But questionably clad stu-dents sneak though the halls and classrooms, knowing that some teachers really will not intervene.

Enforcement has been mild at best, with teachers adopting a range of enforce-ment methods.

As opposed to last year, an actual written dress code is printed in the agendas. This should make it more specific for teachers to identify an in-appropriately dressed student. However, the opposite seems to have happened. Although

When it comes to sports, Borah has no problem get-ting in the spirit of things, encouraging students to dress in extravagant Bo-rah gear and accessories. However, when it comes to Halloween, the enthusi-asm seems to die down a little. Wearing costumes to school on Halloween has been frowned upon in the

AVID’s costume ticket sales indicate that Borah could use some more Halloween spiritBy Sam Nelson

most of the teachers agree with the new rules, having to watch out for the dress code violations poses new grey ar-eas.

According to the dress code, an appropriately dressed girl would have her hemline no higher than mid thigh, and tops up to the hori-zontal line created from arm-pit to armpit.

“In order for everyone to be checked,” said Algebra 2 teacher Teresa Pauls, “they would have to stand up at the be-ginning of the period to get inspect-ed. I don’t want to have to do that. If we were really go-ing to have an enforced dress code, uniforms would be ap-propriate.”

Hammer said that the job

of enforcing the dress code would “probably fall on my shoulders.”

The new regulations cer-tainly raised some eyebrows, even with the administration. Hammer commented, “The staff doesn’t, nor do I, want to dictate what the students wear. But it is our responsi-bility to help students know proper attire.”

In high school, many stu-

dents use clothes as a way to express themselves, to make known who they are and what they believe in, but an expres-sion of individuality through pajama bottoms and belly

shirts doesn’t warrant any re-spect. We need to dress with tact if we expect to be treated like young adults. “(Students) think more ‘what am I wearing to-day,’” said English teacher Chuck McHenry, “instead of ‘did I do my homework last night?’” However, if a teacher has to stop mid-lesson to point out short shorts on a student that seem to reveal the pelvic

bone, it is a distraction for everyone.

“If [teachers] have to stop teaching, everyone los-es some learning time,” said Hammer.

What good does a dress code do if the only teacher that comments on sagging pants is in sixth period?

The law doesn’t apply to some; it applies to all. The en-forcement should be for all of the student body, not just for the select few with a teacher that cares.

J.K. Rowling hints at two more possible Harry Pot-ter books.

Mark Twain’s autobiog-raphy is released after 100 years.

Oprah announces final season of show and premiere of new televi-sion network.

Mark Wahlberg contem-plates remake of ‘The Crow’.

Russian army creates inflatable tanks as de-coys.

New dress code difficult to enforceStaff Editorial

past, but this year, it was a possibility -- as long as students purchased tick-ets. Why should a widely-known holiday such as Halloween be any less fes-tive than a football game? As long as the school dress code is followed, there should be absolutely no problem with a little festiv-ity around October 31.

Illustration by Chris Lawson

The Borah Senator’s staff shares their opinion

on current topics.

“The staff doesn’t, nor do I, want to dictate what the

students wear.” -- Principal Bonita Hammer

Teachers have different perspectives on appropriate clothing

OpinionThe Borah Senator November 3, 2010 7

Do you know where your parent’s graduation mer-chandise is? Didn’t think so. Knowing your parents, it’s probably sitting up in the attic in a box labeled “graduation stuff.”

Many seniors are buying memorabilia to remember how great their final year of high school is. But the real question is: Is it really worth it? Answer: Most definitely not.

“ I think that memorabilia is a waste of money because most of it you can make or customize something yourself cheaper,“ said senior Melissa Cockerum.

Graduation goods worth every pennyone of the largest accomplish-ments a person can achieve.

Jostens currently offers a number of items for pro-claiming the big day, from announcements to formal let-ters. And the best part is it’s all customizable. Announce-ments can be made to look like a movie ticket, or a wed-ding invitation, or one can, and cheaply, make a unique graduation announcement.

But announcements aren’t the only option available to seniors.

Customizable tassels, key chains, and sweatshirts, is just about anything a senior could want, is all available.

One of the biggest reasons to buy memorabilia can fit on your finger: the class ring. The class ring is one of the best ways to show off, with pride, the accomplishment that is graduation. The design possibilities are endless. The

Con:letting it sit after you’re done with your final year of high school.

“I can customize a solid colored sweater or jacket to say Senior 2011 or some-thing,” said Cockerum.

Students are so concerned about the whole “senior im-age” they aren’t really looking at the big picture: how much they are actually spending.

An average amount that a senior spends on memorabilia is anywhere between $109 to about $2,000 according to the Jostens website. The prices can put quite a shock on the parental units.

“Many students don’t want to spend that much

on Senior Apparel. I don’t think it’s worth the time and money,” said senior Brittany Lewis.

Students could be spend-ing their money on more valuable things that won’t be put up in a box in a couple of years.

Sure, they bring back memories, but you would never think to look through the box without accidentally tipping it over or your future children coming up to you asking: “what’s a ‘gradua-tion’?”

“I think seniors have and urge to spend their money on memorabilia because it’s a so-cial norm and a way to spend

Not only are students spending too much money on things they will never wear after senior year, but also they’re wasting their time on deciding what to actually buy.

“I can make my own an-nouncements however I want, and I can customize a solid-colored sweater,” stated Cockerum.

When Jostens comes into the Little Theatre and pres-ents how much money you can save this year, you’re constantly thinking, “Why so much on a couple of items?

The answer is quite sim-ple, you don’t need to waste your money on such pointless things if you are planning on

money, plus, it’s less work for them,” said Cockerum.

Preparing for your gradu-ation can become stressful, but when you add on the cost of expenses into everything, you might feel like your brain is going to explode.

“I don’t think having a class ring is important be-cause it doesn’t really have any significance to anything,” said Lewis.

Class rings are another thing that seniors are frantic to get their hands on mainly because when you graduate you can talk up yourself and how “amazing” you were “back in your high school days.”

Before senior year, no one had much choice about at-tending school. You just went. You didn’t have much of a say in it. What better way to show that now one has the choice, than by declaring with a gold ring, or a sweatshirt, necklace, or even just a different tassel on the graduation cap, that the goal was accomplished. The race has been won. It’s simply the best way possible.

Make it Last. Not only is it the slogan for Jostens push for senior items this year, it’s a phrase many students are living by. But many are also wondering, why bother spending large sums of mon-ey on something that will only be relevant for only one night.

While it’s true that gradu-ation will only last one day re-ally, there are always memo-ries. No matter what a person decides to do, be it buy senior

memorabilia or no, there will always be the memories of the senior year, the last year of high school.

“Why do we buy each other gifts on holidays and birthdays? It adds flavor and meaning to life,” stated Garth Quigly, Jostens Representa-tive to Borah High, “If there is a feeling of accomplishment for the effort and time spent learning with your classmates for 13 years that moves you to commemorate graduation, then you should celebrate that feeling with people you care about. It can be done in many ways. If a sweatshirt or extra tassel help a senior to do that, then that is great, but the ceremony and celebration go much deeper than gowns, tassels, and graduation an-nouncements.”

One of the biggest reasons to buy senior memorabilia is to announce, loud and proud,

ring is so customizable, that each one is unique to the per-son. No two are alike.

What if it is too expensive?Simple. It’s possible to pay

in installments over time. Al-though the ring isn’t sent until it’s paid for, one can still say, “I’ve got mine coming.”

Even if the rings are too much, the jewelry is great. From classy, Ivy League wor-thy necklaces, to simple dog

tags, any number of ways can be used to show off one’s pride, and show just how much went into accomplish-ing that ultimate goal: com-pleting school.

So whether one has the funds for a class ring, or just enough for a keychain, there’s no better way to say, “I’m a senior, and I’m graduating,” than with a bit of bling to show for it.

By Adam Thompson

By Felicia Arnold

Illustration by Aubrey Willis

Pro:

Wares waste cash

Life 8 The Borah Senator November 3, 2010

Homecoming festivites span three weeks

Japanese Club hunts for flags during lunchBy Matt Bray

The walking undead crave arms, legs, and on Oct. 25-29, they were hunting something else: flags.

For the first time ever, the Japanese club hosted a game of Zombie Cap-ture the Flag.

“It’s a spin-off of ‘Zombies vs. Humans,’” senior co-coordinator Laura Gray said. “It’s a popular college game.” Gray mentioned that the idea for the game came from Borah 2010 graduate

it to become an event open to anyone,” Gray added, prior to the event.

Senior Sam Nelson described the game as, “Fun, as long as the rules are followed.” Her number one concern was that the game could have easily lead to violent behavior and over-enthusiastic participants.

Since this will be the first undertaking of Zombie Capture the Flag, the game is expected to have a few possible errors and disorganization, but mem-bers hope for overall success.

Junior event coordinator Patty Bowen said zom-bies were chosen “in the spirit of Halloween, and zombies have become big in pop culture.”

Bowen described the zombie game as, “a lot of running around and having fun.” She added, “You have to be ninja-ish.”

It’s a spin-off of ‘Zombies vs. Humans’”

-senior Laura Gray

Key Club President Jessi Brown, senior, flaunts her cos-tume on Pirate Day during Spirit Week.

Maryanne Bowen at Whitman College.The game began with a buffet of human players

and one zombie. The zombie’s goal was to pull flags that human participants wore on their arms, turn-ing them into zombies.

This event was played during passing periods, lunch, and break, so every-one was a part of this in-school apocalypse.

The zombie mayhem in-cluded only members of the Japanese club. “We want it to reach that point [open to the public], but this year

we’re only including Japanese club members as a trial,” said Gray. “If things run smoothly, we expect

Senator Staff

In a break from usual practice, Homecoming festivities spanned three weeks, beginning Oct. 11 and finishing Oct. 27.

The first week of Homecoming revelry held the bulk of the activities, including the Homecoming carnival, pageant, caravan, and football game. Key Club coordinated the lion’s share of the festivities, with Student Council pitching in with the carnival.

Spirit Week launched the Homecoming celebra-tions with five days of dress up during which stu-dents wore outfits ranging from capes for Superhero Day to corsets on Pirate Day.

The Homecoming pageant was held Oct. 11, during which senior contestants nominated by Bo-rah clubs and organizations competed onstage with a two-minute prepared response to the prompt “Describe the three attributes that an individual need to display in order to help ‘restore the roar’ at Borah High School.” The six finalists, Breanna Wong, Holly Purcell, Natalie Fuller, Joelle Martin, Cassie King, and Michaela Mehas, were selected by a panel of three judges, who included KTVB an-chor Carolyn Holly, Miss Idaho Kylie Kofoed, and Nancy Dunbar. The next day, Oct. 12, the student body voted for Homecoming queen.

The Oct. 15 Homecoming carnival featured a car smash, dunk tank, and clubs playing the role of vendors as they sold everything from French Club crepes to Bike Club raffle tickets for a bicy-cle. Among other organizations, math club offered

the chance to pie-a-nerd-in-the-face, and the Row-dies brought out the Twinkie slingshot.

Following the carnival, the annual caravan start-ed in Ann Morrison Park where groups and indi-viduals gathered to decorate cars, trucks, and flat-beds in preparation for the ride to BSU stadium for the football game. Complete with police escort, the caravan, which included the Homecoming Court riding in Corvettes, was comprised of several choir and rowdies floats, among others.

The Homecoming game was played against Mountain View, during which Borah lost 24-14. At halftime, the Homecoming Court took the field for the announcement and crowning of the queen, band nominee Cassie King.

In a break with tradition, the Homecoming dance was held not the Saturday following the football game, but instead one week later, on Oct. 23, due to scheduling conflicts with the marching band’s District III competition. The theme of the dance was “Journey Around the World” and was held in the Old Gym.

The final component of Homecoming was the senior vs. junior powder puff game. Each powder puff team was coached by senior or junior members of the football team.

On the day of the powder puff game, Borah was put on assembly schedule and the game played out in the 2-3 p.m. timeslot. In the Oct. 27 match up, the seniors came out on top with a 6-0 win, in which quarterback Emily Russell scored the win-ning touchdown.Photo by Ashley Rice

LifeThe Borah Senator November 3, 2010 9

By Sage Unsworth

Peddles under feet, hands gripped firmly on handle bars, and a heart beating to a different exciting tune, riding a bike is as routine in adolescence as dirty shirts and grass stains.

The Boise Bicycle Project (BBP) knows this and that’s why they are committed to providing bicycles to children who can’t af-ford them. BBP is a non-profit bicycle coop-erative who resurrect donated beaters into functional pieces of art.

In 2007 co-founders Brian Anderson and Jimmy Hallyburton started in an apartment no larger than the average living room, and quickly earned recognition from the public. Now they are located at 1027 Lusk St. in a new fully functional shop.

“It’s a really cool shop,” said Borah ju-nior Gabby Baker, “a lot of people go there just to hangout.”

Aside from donating bikes, BBP has many programs that better Boise’s community. There’s B.A.S.H. (Bicycle Skills and Safety Hour), a free class that meets on the second Saturday of every month at 10:30 a.m. at BBP. Friday Night Bikes is another: every Friday night the shop is open to members, and workshops are held on bicycle mainte-nance and repair.

An annual fee of $50 and attendance of a free membership orientation is required to become a member. Members receive dis-counts on all products in the BBP shop, free weekly classes during member hours (6 p.m. to 8 p.m. everyday), and use of shop tools and work areas during regular and member hours.

Walking dead ignite city’sHalloween mood

Local non-profit bicycle co-op gives back to city

By Jamie Jones

Downtown Boise was thriving on the eve of Oct. 23, as if hosted an invasion of zombies, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and by many spectators. Boise hosted the annual Zombie Walk and the second an-nual Thrill The World, an international reenactment of the Thriller dance in Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit music video in the Centre on the Grove.

Thrill the World is vol-unteer run, in cities all around the world, and originally celebrated in 2006.

“ [The event is put on] in hopes of connect-ing people worldwide through dance,” said Janelle Wilson, the Boise area director of the production. “Anyone is welcome to participate in this event re-gardless of age or experience.”

Beginning in the Boise Centre on the Grove,

many “zombies,” wearing everything from ripped up shirts and face paint to fake blood, joined the walk of the living dead around the blocks of down-town, igniting a scary Halloween mood.

“I think both events, put on the same night to-gether, really helped spread the spirit throughout our town,” said sophomore Ashley Cox, a partici-

pant in both produc-tions. “Being able to dance as a zombie, then walk around and scare people as one was a treat as well.”

Even though most gave back positive feed-

back to the events, some had different opinions.“Honestly, [the walk] was horrible. Fifteen min-

utes into it, it was over. It was a huge disappoint-ment compared to last year,” sophomore Raegyn Hawkins said. “Last year, our local Boise people seemed more into it and it lasted a lot longer; the zombies stuck together longer.

Photo by Ali ClapierA group of locals transformed into dancing and walking zombies on the night of Oct. 23 to bring out the spooky spirit in downtown Boise.

““[It] really helped spread the spirit throughout

our town.”--sophomore Ashley Cox

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10 The Borah Senator Volume 51 Issue I November 3, 2010 Circle the GlobeTaste the world during lunch An honor society

of Spanish cultureBy Haylie Pelton

¡Hola amigos!This is a phrase that many

recognize, but those in Spanish National Honor Society (Span-ish NHS) do even more so.

Spanish NHS is a club de-signed for students who have taken at lest three years of Spanish, have at least a 3.0 grade point average and hold an A in their current Spanish classes. According to senior Tyler Albretsen, president, members are required to vol-unteer at least 20 hours.

Five of these hours must be related to Spanish culture, ad-viser Samantha Mora said.

Both Albretsen and Mora mentioned that the club is the only Spanish NHS in Idaho. They also pointed out that the club was created to “raise awareness” and “incorporate Spanish culture” into society.

Borah’s International Night is an activity in which Spanish NHS will participate this year.

This is a night when all of the language clubs at Borah come together and prepare foods from the country their club represents.

Spanish NHS will also hold fundraisers to help raise money for the club.

The club meets every other Tuesday in room 204 at lunch.

By Jamie Jones

Tucked in-between small local businesses and the mas-sive Fred Meyer on the corner of Franklin and Orchard, ex-ists a quaint Vietnamese eat-ery. The Baguette Deli, has been family owned and oper-ated for the past 10 years.

Entering through the glass doors, the smell of fresh veg-etables and fried, buttery crois-sants permeates the air of the small deli.

Even though the interior doesn’t exactly reflect Viet-namese culture, the sandwich-es, made on French-styled ba-guette bread which vary from grilled pork loaf to egg salad and tuna, definitely do.

The menu is diverse. Smoothies, filled with bobas

(small tapioca balls that have little taste) of flavors differ-ing from simple strawberry to ex-otic avocado.

They also have other side dishes. Shrimp and turkey filled lettuce wraps along with grilled pork loaf rolls and egg rolls are freshly baked as well.

It can be a bit pricey for a high school student, especially when adding up a sandwich, boba smoothie and a delicious dessert croissant. Sandwiches range from $3.75- $5.75 while the smoothies and croissants

are around $2 each. The Baguette Deli is in a

convenient location for Borah students to venture to during the long lunches. With a casual atmosphere and delectable, homemade meals, this eatery is one to check out on one of these Wednesdays.

English learners have place in classroomsBy Megan Harrigfeld

Set in a melting pot for culture, Borah is home to students who speak 18 languages from more than 20

countries. These students from around the world are placed in the care of the English Language Learn-ers (ELL) program, which helps them integrate into

mainstream education though classrooms that cater to their diverse needs.

The ELL program includes classes for every core subject, taught by the regular core teachers.

“It’s one label,” said ELL English teacher Ste-fan deVries, “but there are so many different situations within [the program].”

deVries has been an ELL teacher since he be-gan teaching at Borah, and got his accreditation for being an instructor for the program in Cali-fornia.

Being a part of the program himself when

he was in school, he understands how difficult it is for these students. “I went to second grade not speaking any English.”

There are 197 students in ELL, but of those, 85 speak limited English, which qualifies them for the classes. The goal of the classes is to make the experi-ence authentic. ELL students are put into as many mainstream classes as possible.

Sophomore Doaa Mahdi speaks English and Arabic, and believes that the ELL course that she is taking, English, really helped her school experience. “When I get to ELL, I feel more comfortable because they’ve been through what I’ve been through.”

Before entering the ELL program, the students are placed in the Boise Language Academy to learn the language. Normally, after two years, students are pro-moted to their grade level with other students.

“It’s important because these kids need and de-serve an education,” said District Consultant Stacey Roth. “If they didn’t learn like this, I don’t know how they would learn and be successful.”

Roth along with other district representatives Mol-ly Jo de Fuentealba both supervise Borah and Tim-berline High School, while Jolene Lincoln supervises Borah on a small scale, with her major program su-pervision is at Capital and Boise High School.

Photo by Ashley RiceEnglish teacher Stefan deVries works with his ELL students, sophomores Eduardo Morales and Mohammed Mohiadin reading “Crazy Horse Electric Game.”

Photo by Jamie JonesSenior Logan Nye enjoed a Pesto Turkey sandwich.

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Water balloons unite language clubsBy Brittni Hanrahan

Borah United Nations (BUN) is a way for all Borah language clubs to join forces.

BUN started with French, German and Spanish clubs, but Japanese and Latin club are now a part of it.

Eighty-five students participate in BUN. It was invented in the middle of September of 2010, the idea for the or-ganization rooting from Spanish club.

The leaders from each of the lan-guage clubs plan events such as a reen-actment of WWII using water balloons to fight that took place in September.

They will also organize Winter Olympics, an event with a variety of competitive games and races.

“When we do activities, they are group events,” commented senior Spencer Nelson.

The clubs last year competed via cu-linary arts at the International Dinner, where Latin, Spanish, German, and

French cooked native foods to out do each other.

This United Nations is a way to end the madness of the language wars that happen amongst the language clubs.

“The United Nations is a way of unifying all the language clubs togeth-er,” said senior Debarah Jackson, cre-ator and president of BUN.

The most recent activity that Unit-ed Nations had was a picnic at Philippi Park, where they did the World War II Reenactment water balloon fight.

The French, Spanish, German, and Japanese clubs fought, pelting each oth-er with the water filled balloons.

“The water balloon fight was over in like two minutes,” commented Spanish teacher Juan Amigo.

Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan: Eden Taylor, senior, spent 10 days experiencing Japan. She enjoyed trying exotic foods as well as Kendo, a Japanese rec-reational sport

Photo by Megan MizutaSenior Latin club members Jessica Arroyo, Nate Apiva, Korrey Gambill, and Trevor Hopkins all participated in Latin club’s Homecoming caravan.

Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium: Margaux Leu-riaux, junior, likes a variety of activi-ties at Borah such as Homecoming Carnival. She loves America’s variety in food, especially donuts.

O k i n a w a , Japan: Hana To-baru, junior, plays volleyball and en-joys hanging out at lunchtime. She likes picking her own classes with mixed ages in them.

Quito and Rio Bamba, Ecuador: Erica Albertson, junior, spent three weeks bungee jump-ing, zip lining, and playing and caring for Ecuador’s chil-dren in nearby com-munities.

F r a n k f u r t , Germany: Max Reinecke, junior, is a soccer fan and enjoys playing the sport in his spare time. He appreciates how friendly Ameri-ca treats everyone.

International experiences brought to

Borah

Hangzhou, China: Lei Li, junior, enjoys different kinds of music and plays the oboe. He enjoys American foods such as steak, hamburgers, and French fries

Photos by Katie Helm Interviews By Grace Gibney

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Marching band showcases hard work in DIIIThe District III Marching Band Festival took

place on Oct. 16 at Bronco Stadium, bringing to-gether Treasure Valley schools, including Borah, to compete in this annual event.

The trumpets roared and the symbols clashed as New Plymouth High School kicked off the compe-tition at 2 p.m.

Following Meridian High School, Borah marched onto the football field at 6:45 p.m. to play it’s songs. They were accompanied by the color guard.

Borah placed fourth in the 5A Small auxiliary category, and fourth overall in the Small division, which includes Boise, Eagle, Timberline and Rocky Mountain high schools.

“It’s really competitive,” said junior band mem-ber Joe Wineke, “We look forward to it, and it’s what we work on all year. It’s the biggest thing we do.”

“We really just hope to do well; it’s a good way to showcase the band and it’s fun as well,” he added.

Borah competed with 25 schools, which were categorized in different divisions.

This event displays school marching bands on the blue turf, and a finale from Boise State Univer-sity’s Blue Thunder Marching Band.

“I like seeing all the different bands coming to-gether in such a friendly competition and displaying all of the talent and potential that these young adults have,” said a parent of a sophomore band member. “It’s a fun event to attend, and the kids have heart.

People can tell that they really work hard to be the best that they can be.”

This 50-year tradition combines all participating bands from the valley and Eastern Idaho. Some of the farthest travelers were from Cambridge, Weiser, and Payette.

The entry fee for students and seniors was $6, and $8 for adults. The competition concluded with a presentation of trophies, awarding the top bands from the festival.

By Savannah Harrelson

Kevin Smith, famous american screen-writer, film producer, director and now comic book writer has taken an interesting spin on how Batman is portrayed in Gotham City.

With the combination of writing by Smith and artwork by Walt Flanagan, the series has a dark and twisted kind of artistic quality that blends into the humor of the intense dialogue. The mini series Batman: Cacophony begins when Deadshot, a professional hired assassin, who breaks into Arkham Asylum and attempts to kill the famous Joker. But the unknown villain Ono-matopoeia, who only speaks in sounds, comes and stops the entire assassination process completely.

A feud arises when Joker discovers Maxie Zeus, a deranged maniac who believes he is the Greek god Zeus, has transformed his toxic venom into a designer drug known as “Giggles.”

The clever battle scenes in the comic so in-volved in the action to the point where one liter-ally starts yelling at Batman to kick the bad guy’s butt into an oblivion.

By Felicia Arnold

New outlook on Gotham City

Photo by Ali ClapierThe Borah Marching band performs at BSU stadium during the District III competition.

Footloose: Behind the curtain

The cluster of students participating in the fall musical Footloose don’t utter a single complaint when told to go over their lines for what may seem like the millionth time.

Sophomore Valerie Terry who is a piano player for the musical said, “I think it’s going to be a lot of fun to watch. We’ve all been putting a lot of work into it, so I’m hoping it will turn out like we want it to.”

The cast rehearses every Tuesday and Thursday night long past their bedtimes. Their instructor Beth Summers advises and directs student rehearsals.

Senior Seth Taylor, who plays the character Chuck and also sings in the chorus stated: “It’s go-ing to be awesome, and entertaining. It’s a show about high school kids so it will be really fun, and really relatable.”

Rehearsing in front of an empty auditorium has created anticipation for the day it will be filled with an audience of family and friends.

Sophomore Alexia Neal, who is also a member of the chorus and a first-time performer, said enthu-

By Ari Anchustegui

Photo by Katie HelmSeniors Cristina Warner, sophmores Hannah Hyde and Sarah Hart, and juniors Sandy Walker and Paige Moren rehearse their moves for Footloose.

siastically, “I am pretty excited to perform in front of people so they can see how hard we have all been working. I think it’s going to turn out wonderfully. Everyone has been working as hard as they can.”

The musical will premiere on Nov. 18 in the Bo-rah Auditorium. It will also play an additional two times on Nov. 19 and 20 .

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Harry Potter:By Brandie Cichy

As the latest Harry Potter film comes out in No-vember, people are wondering how good it’s going to be. By looking at the differences between the books and movies it might be possible to see how the latest film will turn out.

One of the first concerns fans of the books who have seen the movies notice is the lack of plot and detail in the films. Savannah Tjaden, junior and esteemed Harry Potter fan, remarked, “It is com-pletely unacceptable.”

There is also the issue of the lack of Quidditch in the movies, something with which many fans take offense. There is no Quidditch however, because actress Zoë Wanamaker, who appeared as Madam Hooch in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, demanded higher pay. Heidi Blake of Telegraph.co.uk stated, “The actress declined a deal to appear in three Harry Potter films because of the ‘terrible’ pay.”

Another detail fans have noticed is that some of the characters are portrayed differently in the mov-ies than what fans first imagined from reading about them in the books.

“Some characters are perfect,” explained Tjaden, “but as some fans see it, the characters are not what they expected.” Tjaden commented, “It really shines a sort of different, new light on these characters after seeing the movies.”

Other issues people have seen are the obvious change in plot. The first book changes the order of events a bit starting with the delivery of Harry when he was a baby and leaving out the introduc-tion to Dursley’s life.In the third movie, the direc-tor omitted the second Quidditch match in which Malfoy and company dress up like dementors and get caught by Professor McGonagall, a scene fans

Photo by Ali Clapier

Public libraries offer innovative activities for teensBy Brandie Cichy

Very few teens go to the library on their own ac-cord. They’d rather be doing anything else than be-ing stuck in a library where you have to whisper or you’ll get nasty glares. However, contrary to popu-lar belief, libraries are trying to appeal to teens. All

of the book found quite amusing. Who gives Harry the gillyweed is changed in

the fourth movie. Hermione set up a club to help house elves and make buttons is left out. The but-tons instead are much like the ones in the movie that people wore with Harry’s face on them. Those spun and called him names when the school thought he had tricked the goblet into putting his name in it for attention.

In the sixth movie, the death of Professor Dumb-ledore is not quite accurate. In the book, he falls off a building, unlike the film’s portrayal.

However, the seventh book, which is split into two movies, looks promising. The previews seem to have Harry Potter fans optimistic.

across the Treasure Valley there are tons of activi-ties waiting for teens. Various libraries hold activi-ties that help teens do better in writing and reading.

Tammy Hawley-House, librarian from the main library in Boise, commented, “We have authors vis-iting to help teen writers with plot and character de-velopment. We also have book read week in which we read different books and then have discussions about it.”

Many other libraries hold activities geared to-wards teens as well. The library on Collister holds activities geared towards manga lovers. During these meetings Japanese is taught as well as discus-sions on purely Manga.

Writer’s corner:Sarah Ash

Photo by Katie Helm

By Justin Kirkham

Whether it involves a trek in the rainforest or adventures within dreams, junior Sarah Ash has it eloquently penned in one of her stories. Regarding her writing, Ash said, “It’s my thing. It’s what I do.”

Ash primarily enjoys writing fiction pieces. “If it happened,” she explained, “then I’m not as interested in writing it because I can’t put my own spin on it.” Ash enjoys mixing things up in her story ideas, especially when they are fictitious. “It’s not as fun to play with it if it’s real,” she com-mented.

Because she is an avid writer, Ash is also a de-voted reader. “I read pretty much anything I can get my hands on,” she said.

Senior Markaila Wayne, a fellow creative writ-ing student, said, “The way she makes it flow seems to work really well.”

Ash writes more than what is required for creative writing class, English, and her other aca-demic requirements. Ash, who is often busy with other obligations, said, “I mostly write at night because it is the only time I really get to do so.”

Ash’s favorite piece of writing in her repetoire is her short story, “Dreams,” a tale of a woman who works through a death in her dreams. Read her short story on the creative fiction page at borahsenator.com.

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Q&A 14 The Borah Senator November 3, 2010

If you could visit any country where would it be and why?“I would love to visit Austra-lia. I am fascinated by the lan-guage and culture. I also really want to see a koala bear and go to the zoo where Steve Irwin worked at.” ~ Senior Jeff Flaherty

“I would visit Africa, and learn the culture, and meet the new people. When I fin-ish college, I’m going to be a doctor, and I would really love to go do work in Africa. I think it would be a life changing experience and would make me a better person.”

~ Sophomore Ilona Tsema

“I’m not sure I am able to answer this question with just one country. My dream is to travel all over and explore as much as I possibly can. Though, if I must choose where I would like to go most right now, I would have to say South Korea, China, and Japan because I love the contrast between the culture and language of the three. I love their music and their food, they have my favorite celebrities, and the culture intrigues me.” ~ Junior Crysania Skinner

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“I would visit Palestine... to spend time with my sister and indulge myself in culture that is out of the grace of Idaho. To be somewhere and understand something outside of...here...” ~ Junior Angel Zayed

“Germany, because I think it would be really fascinating to tour a few of the concentration camps from WWII. I’d also like to learn more about their modern day schooling, which has 13 grades!” ~ Sophomore Britini Smith

“Italy! I like-a-da spicy meat-balls!” ~ Senior Matt Hart

“New Zealand. I would walk the path to Mordor and enjoy the scenery.” ~ Junior Aurora Ostolasa

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Decorated with an array of student artwork, wired and dotted with computers for typing and research, and filled from top to bottom with volume after volume, the Bo-rah library is home to various improvements that have ac-cumulated over time. Jenni-fer Boyd, librarian at Borah, has made some impacting changes that make the library

somewhere that every student wants to be.

Boyd’s contribution to the library includes the addi-tion of lab space for classes, a collection of new books and shelving, and a lounge that Boyd says is “a more comfort-able and easy to use place.”

She believes that these changes have increased the amount of student involve-ment with the library. “More

By Justin Kirkham

Now a media center

Rue passing on passion of politics

have visited the library and book circulations have in-creased,” Boyd remarked.

“I love the library,” said ju-nior Misty Van Hout.

“It’s a great place to hang out, study, and read. They made it very comfortable.”

But there is more in store for the library. “We’re never done,” said Boyd. “There will be more changes as money becomes available.”

Lively. Spirited. Perky. Fun. Teacher. These words all ring true when used to describe senior American Government teacher Korrin Rue.

Rue is a towering personality. As she puts it, “I’m not afraid to meet strangers. Meeting new people is not a problem for me.” She seemingly teaches for hours without losing her charisma.

So what made Rue choose to teach American Government? “It’s always been my passion. I just wanted to influence kids, and pass that passion on.” One could say that sharing her passion with kids has become Rue’s niche; her knowledge of politics has carried over into Student Council, for which she is the adviser.

“[Student Council] is like a wonderful mini lo-calized government. We’re our own little family there,” she said.

There’s more to this teacher than meets the eye. When Rue isn’t dishing out plates of details on the Constitution, she’s serving delicious meals to her family, because cooking is one of her hobbies.

Rue also loves to camp and read books when she has the time. She is the proud mother of her eight-and-a-half month old son, Alexander, and the wife of whom she referred to only as “Mr. Rue.”

Her son Alexander (whom I originally called Alex which was quickly returned with a short “His name is Alexander”) was adopted from right here, where he was born, in Boise. It was sort of a revela-tion for me, because I was adopted as well. Rue and her husband plan to adopt another child when the time’s right.

So what’s the craziest thing that Rue has ever done? “Becoming a teacher,” she said. “I had quit

Over time, library evolves

my job on a Tuesday and signed up for my master’s on a Wednesday.”

Rue’s favorite song and band is, she immediately answered, “Love or Lay Down by the Dave Mat-thews Band.”

It is no surprise that teaching is on Rue’s list of favorite things, although when coaxed, she admitted that teaching “sometimes” pulled her last nerve.

If she had the chance to explore another field of knowledge, Rue said she would become an expert in forensics.

If given the chance to meet anyone from history,

By Matt Bray

Photo by Katie Helm

Photo by Kristin Bracewell

American Government teacher Korrin Rue seems at home in front of all her U.S. Constitution memorabilia.

she said she’d like to talk to James Madison. “[Mad-ison] wrote the most cherished document. He was the sole author of the Constitution and I would just like to know how he came up with something that is just second nature to us all, but was so radical to them.”

In addition to her being a Bronco fan, she has a few other obsessions, such as Coke.

“Yes, it is true, but make sure that says Coca-Co-la. I have an addiction to Coca-Cola,” she asserted.According to Rue, one of her most prominent, and influential obsessions, is politics.

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Homecoming:

By: Brandie Cichy

The football team seemed confident going into its home-coming game against Moun-tain View despite coming off a tough loss to Capitol the week before. Borah lost al-though fans didn’t seem too disappointed as everyone was in high spirits and cheering. well.” Senior Kristian Walker stated, “We gave our best ef-forts and it counted in our minds.”

Mountain View was 3-3 before entering the game al-

though its 24-14 win over Bo-rah made them 4-3.

Senior Kevin Shepard stated, “We were confident we were going to win; it just didn’t work out.”

Quarterback Braden Cor-pus, junior, stated, “Borah de-fense did very well, and the of-fense drove the ball pretty

Corpus expressed, “One of the big problems in the games is the amount of turn-overs and the defense not coming through on the really big plays.”

Shepard added, “We were

inconsistent. We couldn’t take care of the ball. We just didn’t seem to be able to go.”

“We do need to work on some things and I think one of our weaknesses is that we had bad angles during the game

Soccer team becomes state champsteam that had given them the most trouble during the season, Boise. The Lions had only tied or lost against Boise High during the regu-lar season this year. Borah had also struggled against Centennial before beating them 3-2 in the champion-ship game.

Despite their tourna-ment-opening opponent, the team was very optimis-tic leading up to their first game. “Our rank didn’t fairly or accurately represent the team’s skills and ability to win,” senior keeper Dil-lon Snyder said, “we always had a really good chance of winning state.”

Boys varsity soccer was presented with the perfect

chance to redeem themselves from the recent year’s short-comings and win state. Sny-der said, “if we play to po-tential, don’t allow ourselves to make mental errors, and out-work the other team, we can beat anybody.”

By: Sage Unsworth

The state soccer tourna-ment was held in Idaho Falls Oct. 21 and wrapped up on Oct. 23. The (15-3-2) state Champion Lions were a top seed, and ranked third in the state behind Coeur d’Alene and rivals Boise High.

Adapting to a new coach is difficult, an obstacle that many teams couldn’t have overcome. However, the var-sity soccer team adjusted well to Tony McKnight, its new coach. The team accepted his coaching philosophies.

“He’s laid back until we lost focus,” said Senior Jon-athan Arcos. “If the team started slipping, he would crack down.” Arcos also

mentioned the strong unity the team shared this year. “Everyone worked for the team.” He added. “There

weren’t any individuals work-ing only for themselves.”

Borah opened the tour-nament with a win over the

“Everyone worked for the

team.There weren’t any individuals

working only for themselves.”

-- Senior Jonathan Arcos

Players put 100 percent effort in and are rewarded with the best

Photo by Megan MizutaSophmore and outside midfielder Tyler Gilworth competes with another outside midfielder from Capital.

Tight-end Quinn Moore, senior, attempts a catch during the Home-coming game against Mountain View in BSU stadium.

Photo by Megan Mizuta

New coach for Borah hockey, Ian Bond, arrived.

Bond moved out to Boise two years ago.The coach attended high school at Bourne High School in Massachusetts. He then went to Elon University in North Carolina. Bond has played Hockey and Tennis throughout high school and college.

After majoring in Busi-ness management with concentration in computer information systems and management information systems Bond became an employee at IBM.

Now he is a business sales representative for AT&T. He has spent some time helping with many clinics for youth and high school hockey.

Played in high spirits despite loss“We were confident we were going

to win; it just didn’t work out.”--Senior Kevin Shepard

and we missed assignments as well,” said Walker. “However, I think that even though we lost, the team gave 100 percent the whole way and didn’t give up at all. I’m really proud of how we did in that standpoint.”

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Borah does have a rugby team. John Hayfield, junior, said practice starts after wrestling season is over. Last year, the team played Capital, Merid-ian, and a combination team of Timberline and Boise.

Borah’s rugby team combines with Bishop Kelly’s; the team name is the Mongooses. Senior Chase McConnell stated that practices were held on Tuesdays and Thursdays last year and said most of the team and he were trying to keep it the same days for this year.

Rugby is a sport of endurance and strength; the goal is to score on the opposing team after. Rugby was formed after an intense game of football Rugby School. It’s a version of football played at most English public schools during the 19th century. Players are not allowed to run with the ball towards the opposition’s goal.

By Matthew Bergman

“Entertaining, fun, memorable.” That is what juniors Jade Gray and Hannah Schleis said about this year’s volleyball season. The 2 - 8 season record showed that even with that kind of record, they still showed that they have a lot of heart. “We showed that we could compete, we just needed some unity,” exclaimed sophomore Brooke Wimer.

One season highlight that Wimer and Gray liked was the Wood River Tournament. There was one thing that Wimer, Schleis, and Gray could all agree on: their favorite game, which was against the Bish-op Kelly Knights. When asked how they competed as a team Gray said, “We tried to have fun.” When asked how the team competed individually, Schleis said, “Not as good as last year.” Wimer said they each had, “a whole lot of individual talent.”

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Junior Brock Holubetz runs in the Oct. 14 Boise City Meet at Ann Morrison Park. The Borah boys and girls teams both finished in fifth place overall.

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Soccer ends with memorable season

Volleyball player spotlighted

By Tyler Albretsen

Can you imagine playing under a vibrantly lit soccer field, fighting against the roar of the crowd as you try and beat your opponent? For the junior varsity boys and girls soccer team, playing under the lights of Wigle Field is not the only thing they will cher-ish about their season.

The JV boys team had a regular season record of 8-2-1 (wins-losses-ties), but it ended with a loss in the first round of districts to Caldwell.

Junior Chanse Ward, one of the team captains, said, “Overall, the season went very well.”

The boys team had a lot of new players this year, but expectations were still high. Ward added, “We only had four returning players this sea-son, but we all got along and played well together.” Despite the loss in the first round of

districts, the boys stepped up to the challenge this season, and gave it their all. The JV boys were led by head coach, Steve Jones.

The JV girls shared a similar story. First year head coach, Aaron Bernstein, said, “We had high expectations for the girls since we began

summer conditioning in July.”The girls regular season

record was 9-3-3. Bernstein added, “The girls played ex-cellent soccer. We had quality wins over Boise High as well as first place Mt. View High School.”

Junior Kelli Chiles, one of the team leaders, said, “The

season went very well and we had a lot of fun.” Chiles also added, “Overall I think we did very well, but we always can improve.”

Over the course of the season, the JV girls outscored their opponents 41-13 and all but one of the team’s losses were by one goal.

The girls went seeded as the number two team in Dis-tricts, but lost 3-0 to the sev-enth seeded, Boise Braves, in the first round of Districts.

Bernstein said, “While we may not have won the district title like we wanted, I feel like the girls more then fulfilled my expectations this season.”

By Tyler Albretsen

Sophomore Megan Whit-lock, who is on the junior varsity volleyball team, has played at Borah since she was a freshman.

Q: When did you begin playing volleyball?

A: “I began playing vol-leyball when I was about 10 years old or so.”

Q: What do you find most interesting about volleyball?

A: “All the different teams you get paired up with over the years and all the bonds you make with other people.”

Q: Do you have any goals as a volleyball play-er?

A: “I try to get better as the season progresses and I do my best every time I’m out there on the court.”

Q: Besides playing vol-leyball, what else do you like to do?

A: “I love playing tennis, playing the piano, and hang-ing out with friends and fam-ily.”

Q: Are you going to continue on with volley-ball after high school?

A: “I may play intramural volleyball in college.”

Q: How do you feel about the way your sea-son went this year?

A: “Our team started off strong-- but as the season went on it kind of died down,

but overall we tried our best every night.”

Q: What things did you accomplish during the season and what things do you wish you could have done better?

A: “Overall we had a great season. I was injured most of the season, but I learned to cheer my heart out from the bench without playing.”

Q: Do you feel as if there was enough sup-port at your volleyball games?

A: “Personally, I think our team is well supported be-cause our family and friends come watch the games.”

Q: Do you think JV sports get enough recog-

nition at Borah? A: “I think for volleyball

yes, because JV volleyball is just as important as varsity. As far as other sports, I’m not sure, but JV contributes just as much as varsity does.”

Q: Do you think that varsity sports undermine JV sports?

A: “I don’t think they do. “We often scrimmage the var-sity team and it helps both of our teams improve.”

Photo by Ali ClapierWhitlock has enjoyed her experience of playing volleyball for Borah.

Photos by Katie HelmJunior Morgan Urie looks to score in the final regular season match against Centennial High School.

The JV boys sprint up the field, setting up to score in the final regular season match against Centennial High. Borah went on to win.

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Students don costumes in show of spirit

Pirate Day inspired sopho-more David Ramsey to don this alluring getup. “I wore that dress to the Renaissance Fair in ninth grade and my friend asked me to wear it for Spirit Week,” he said, adding, “and I looked pretty cute in it I think.”

Spirit Week was a blast

Senior Seth Taylor dressed as a pizza on the first Homecoming Spirit Day, Oct. 11. Mon-day was fruit day, but Seth decided to be a little different and express his love for pizza. “I chose pizza because fruit sucks and pizza is the shiz. Plus, it was the only food costume I had in my garage.”

Homecoming Spirit Week draws out leg warmers, eye patches, superhero capes

from the past on Oct.13 which was the day to cel-ebrate the 80’s at Borah. se-nior Olivia Perry shows off her attitude. “How fun it was to be goofy and outlandish and wear crazy costumes.” In fact, Perry said that, “people looked at you weird if you didn’t dress up.”

Homecoming Spirit Week brought out a bevy of odd outfits to the halls of Bo-rah.

Spirit Week, organized by Key Club, started with dress as your favorite fruit day. The most notable food out-fits included a banana suit and pizza slice. Fruit Day was followed by Pirate Day,

which found students sport-ing eye patches, and in some cases, fake parrots. 80’s Day brought out legwarmers and slouchy sweaters en masse. Thursday’s superhero theme had Spiderman suits on some Borah students. Spirit Week concluded with its usual Spirit Day, as many students be-decked themselves with green and gold.

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Fun & Games 20 The Borah Senator November 3, 2010

Directions: Each row, column and block must havenumbers from 1 to 9 in them. No number can appear more than once in any row, column, or block. When the entire puzzle is filled, with all the rules above, then the puzzle is solved. Level: Medium

SudokuHalo: Reach

HORIZONTAL1. Maize3. Pilgrims sailed on this4. Month5. Day of the week10. Filling13. Orange vegetable used in pie

VERTICAL2. Red berry6. Plenty7. Turkey alternative8. Thanksgiving bird9. Pilgrim landing rock11. Sport commonly watched12. Shared feast with the Pilgrims

Thanksgiving Crossword

By Nic Schweitzer

Halo: Reach is like finding pink fuzzy handcuffs at your grandmoth-er’s house. It’s a thoroughly disturb-ing experience. And you may be con-flicted. Are these hers, are they not? Should I call the cops? And you’re conflicted, since you know what the fuzzy handcuffs are generally for, but, well… it’s grandma!

This is the dilemma in Halo: Reach. You remember it for what it is, a great game, but then Bungie, the games developer, puts in their fuzzy handcuffs: power ups. On some occa-sions you need them (Re: One level, for about, what, 12 seconds?). But generally throughout the single play-er campaign, you will never use these generally multiplayer-based power ups, such as invisibility, temporary invincibility, sprinting and jetpacks. Now, the novice may use these a lot, being that they’re new to the game, but veterans who have played almost nine years of Halo games without them will never use powerups in sin-gle player.

And speaking of single player, the game’s other great mystery is the single player campaign/story. Halo: Reach is like listening to a friend who can’t remember what happened at last night’s party. He wants to know what he did, not how when Dave threw up it looked like it was glow-in-the-dark. So what really happened?

Well, as the veteran knows, the whole series is about the “Fall of Reach”, a war-triggering event that shook up the universe in a humans-vs.-aliens war. And they fail. So you know how the game ends. It ends with you losing. You can’t win. It’s im-possible. And that’s not a spoiler, by the way. You literally start the game knowing Master Chiefs’ home planet (Reach) explodes in Halo: Combat Evolved back in 2002! Its basic knowl-edge essential to the series!

So, why buy it? Multiplayer, ok? Play the campaign just once so you enjoy it for what it is, then go into Ha-los’ Multiplayer. Bungie has mastered the art of multiplayer, and it shows in the franchises swan song. There is Slayer (kill everyone), Oddball (kill ev-eryone and hold a skull for a certain period of time), Capture the Flag (kill everyone and get a flag back to your base for points), King of the Hill (kill everyone and capture a certain point on the map for a certain amount of time for points) and newcomer Head-Hunter (uh… you really need to expe-rience it to get it).

Halo: Reach is an amazing game with weak single player, and that’s it. If you have extra controllers, play multiplayer until you find grandma’s handcuffs. Then call the police. Or seek therapy. But, until then...

Halo: Reach gets a 4 out of 5.

New powerups a plus or pushover?

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