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Lawrence North N ORTH S TAR NORTH STAR www.lnnorthstar.org Issue 5 Volume 34 November 4, 2011 LN to host open house for incoming freshmen Allen Laman REPORTER North Star evaluates sandwich shops PAGE 9 All families in Lawrence Township who have eight graders or even some younger students, are encouraged to attend the an- nual LN open house on Monday, Nov. 7 from 6:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. Freshman principal and open house coor- dinator Rocky Valadez explained actually what the community open house is. “During the open house students and families can come in to see teachers, coaches, club sponsors, per- forming arts program- ming and much more,” Valadez said. There are school and community members involved. There will be information booths for specific departments, classes, clubs, athletic teams, special pro- grams such as AVID, AP/IB/ACP and some others. According to assistant principal Eric Floyd, the open house is a productive way to show local families the opportunities that LN can offer its students. This open house is a little bit different from some of the open houses in the past,” Floyd said. “The education is becoming more competitive so what we want to do we want to put our best foot forward and compete very well, to show the public that this is a great school.” Valadez notes that the open house not only the students, but LN as well. “The open house is a night to allow cur- rent, future and possible students and fami- lies the opportunity to see everything that LN has to offer” Valadez said. According to Floyd, students and teachers will be showcasing what is done in their re- spective classes, whether it be for a perform- ing arts program or for Cat’s Eye. “We are hoping to be working with Cat’s Eye.,” Floyd said. “Some students are putting together some information about past alum- ni that may not necessarily be on our alumni wall.” The main goal of this annual open house is to bring new students to LN and show what it has to offer. Seth Beiswenger, Daja House REPORTERS Township votes against modified school for 2012-2013 year Switching to a modified schedule has been a huge discussion for a lit- tle over a year now among not only LN but other schools as well. Right now, the decision on the modified schedule has been tabled, meaning that it hasn’t been turned down or accepted but has been put off until there is more information for a deci- sion to be made. “It’s been tabled until we can further investigate,” Principal Brett Crousore said. “We just don’t have enough information yet.” The schedule that was proposed would start school two weeks ear- lier than usual. After the first nine weeks there would be a one week break. Then another one week break for Thanksgiving. Winter and spring break would be two weeks long. “It’s literally just starting school two weeks earlier. That’s all it is,” Crousore said. Lawrence Township is not the only township reviewing the idea of a modified scheduling though. Warren has been on a modified schedule for quite some time al- ready. Ben Davis and Wayne Town- ship are definitely going to a modi- fied schedule next year. Washington Township is review- ing it right now as well as Decatur, Franklin, and Pike. According to Crousore, Warren Central’s biggest problem with the modified schedul- ing is that their break takes place over the PSAT, so students can’t take the test. This could be a problem for LN as well. Col- lege Board doesn’t use corresponding dates meaning that the dates for certain things, like the PSATs, are different each year. According to Crousore the rea- son why this new schedule has been brought up is because the current one does not work anymore. “The [current] school calendar was created around the farming schedule. We need to create a sched- ule that’s better for students,” Crou- sore said. According to Crousore the sched- ule would have some pros and cons. “I think the idea of 45 days; stop, evaluate what we’re doing and hav- ing a more energized staff and student body for the second nine weeks,” Crousore said. “The con of the balanced cal- endar is that most struggling stu- dents can’t afford two weeks off. They can’t afford the model we’re currently in either. The 10 week break over the summer is too long.” In the two weeks, one week is for remediation. The second week is for everyone to have school off. This improves teachers’ rate of absence since they won’t take as much time off with that schedule, according to Crousore. “The current schedule isn’t work- ing. The modified schedule might not work; we need a hybrid sched- ule. The most struggling learners need a more intense intervention to meet their educational needs,” Crousore said. “I think [the modified schedule] would be better because we get lon- ger breaks and it’s not a long pe- riod of time in between lessons we learn,” sophomore Nakidra Taylor said. Math teacher Donna McCord has a somewhat different opinion. “I like it but I would like it bet- ter if we could use those breaks a resource time for students,” McCord said. If Lawrence Township does go to the modified schedule it will most likely be for the year 2013-2014. Katie Roche REPORTER A fter ten years with the St. Vincent Sports Performance pro- gram (SVSP), the Lawrence Township school board has de- cided to change providers and begin hiring its staff from Community Health Network (CHN). “Change is always difficult, particularly when relationships are involved,” LN athletic director Grant Nesbit said. “It’s disappointing to potentially lose those relationships, but change happens, and you make the best of it.” In the past year, the network has begun employing nurses for all Lawrence Township schools and has launched an employee health and wellness center that is readily available to all MSDLT employees and their covered dependents. Effective next year, the positions of the athletic training staff and weightlifting coaches district-wide will be filled by employees work- ing through CHN. “[CHN] is going to try and mirror what St. Vincent did,” Nesbit said. “It’s possible that we could still have the same people working in our building if they would leave St. Vincent and work for Com- munity.” This is one job switch that LN athletic trainer Sherry Manzelli would never consider, she said. “It’s the program. It’s like comparing the Colts to a bunch of guys that just started a team,” Manzelli said. “They don’t have the facility, they don’t have the trained positions, and the salaries would only be taken by someone that just graduated college, not someone that has twenty years of experience.” Manzelli has worked at SVSP for 16 years, and at LN specifically for ten. According to Manzelli, there is no comparison between the level of expertise and precision at SVSP and CHN. “Athletes come from all over the country to be seen at St. Vin- cent,” Manzelli said. “Why would I leave for Community that doesn’t even have a Sports Medicine program?” Nesbit, however, is confident that this will not be an issue. “[CHN] has assured us that they will get people that have a mini- mum of five years of experience in training,” Nesbit said. “We will have highly-qualified trainers serving our students.” Still relatively new to LN, strength and conditioning coach Car- ol Happ believes that the presence SVSP holds at LN thrives off of something much more complicated and rooted than simply training students. “[SVSP employees] know the system, they know the contacts, they know the parents, they have the connections,” Happ said. “Even though I work for St. Vincent, I am 100% invested here.” Despite knowing her ultimate fate, Happ is doing everything but giving up on the future, she said. “When a door closes, a window will always open,” Happ said. “There was a reason I was here, and I was truly blessed by it.” Manzelli shares this optimism and positive outlook for the future, but she also feels that her work over the past ten years has gone much further than the physicality of her position. “Within a week I felt like this is what I was put on this earth to do. To be here and be with the kids here,” Manzelli said. “I felt like I made a difference to them. It wasn’t just about being the athletic trainer; it was being a mentor, a mother figure, someone they could come to when they needed a hug, a smile.” Manzelli composed one final parting statement to every student at the school: “I have loved [the students] as if they were my own children, and I always will,” Manzelli said. TREATING THE ATHLETES: Athlec trainer Vinny Nioli tapes up junior Stephan Jones. According to Nesbit, Nioli will be moved to a different school next fall aſter working for LN through St. Vincent for 10 years. A HEALING HAND: New mother and head athlec trainer Sherry Manzelli treats sophomore Marcus Avery, who has an ankle injury. “I have loved [the students] as if they were my own children, and I always will,” Manzelli said. INSTRUCTION: Strength and condion- ing coach Carol Happ reviews liſting footage with sophomore Anton Peaches to improve his technique. “When a door closes, a window will always open,” Happ said. “There was a reason I was here, and I was truly blessed by it.” Rocky Valadez, Assistant Principal chrisan summi/photos luke shumaker/graphic LT school board to hire Community Health Network staff in place of current St. Vincent Health employees ben majercak/graphic A MAJOR SHIFT LN Open House Monday, Nov. 7 6:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. Summer Spring Winter Fall Labor Day Teacher Day Thanksgiving MLK Day Presidents’ Day Memorial Day Lawrence North (Normal Schedule) Warren Central (Modified Schedule) Holiday Break School Break School Regular vs. Modified School Schedule ONLINE COVERAGE: Scenes from intramural dodgeball tournament
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Lawrence NorthNORTH STARNORTH STARwww.lnnorthstar.org
Issue 5Volume 34 November 4, 2011
LN to host open house for incoming freshmen
Allen LamanREPORTER
North Star evaluates
sandwich shopsPAGE 9
All families in Lawrence Township who have eight graders or even some younger students, are encouraged to attend the an-nual LN open house on Monday, Nov. 7 from 6:30p.m. to 8:30p.m.
Freshman principal and open house coor-dinator Rocky Valadez explained actually what the community open house is.
“During the open house students and families can come in to see teachers, coaches, club sponsors, per-forming arts program-ming and much more,” Valadez said.
There are school and community members involved. There will be information booths for specific departments, classes, clubs, athletic teams, special pro-grams such as AVID, AP/IB/ACP and some others. According to assistant principal Eric Floyd, the open house is a productive way to show local families the opportunities that LN can offer its students.
This open house is a little bit different from some of the open houses in the past,” Floyd said. “The education is becoming more competitive so what we want to do we want to put our best foot forward and compete very well, to show the public that this is a great school.”
Valadez notes that the open house not only the students, but LN as well.
“The open house is a night to allow cur-rent, future and possible students and fami-lies the opportunity to see everything that LN has to offer” Valadez said.
According to Floyd, students and teachers will be showcasing what is done in their re-spective classes, whether it be for a perform-ing arts program or for Cat’s Eye.
“We are hoping to be working with Cat’s Eye.,” Floyd said. “Some students are putting together some information about past alum-ni that may not necessarily be on our alumni wall.”
The main goal of this annual open house is to bring new students to LN and show what it has to offer.
Seth Beiswenger, Daja HouseREPORTERS
Township votes against modi� ed school for 2012-2013 yearSwitching to a modified schedule
has been a huge discussion for a lit-tle over a year now among not only LN but other schools as well. Right now, the decision on the modified schedule has been tabled, meaning that it hasn’t been turned down or accepted but has been put off until there is more information for a deci-sion to be made.
“It’s been tabled until we can further investigate,” Principal Brett Crousore said. “We just don’t have enough information yet.”
The schedule that was proposed would start school two weeks ear-lier than usual. After the first nine weeks there would be a one week break. Then another one week break for Thanksgiving. Winter and spring break would be two weeks long.
“It’s literally just starting school two weeks earlier. That’s all it is,” Crousore said.
Lawrence Township is not the only township reviewing the idea of a modified scheduling though.
Warren has been on a modified schedule for quite some time al-ready. Ben Davis and Wayne Town-ship are definitely going to a modi-fied schedule next year. Washington Township is review-ing it right now as well as Decatur, Franklin, and Pike.
According to Crousore, Warren Central’s biggest problem with the modified schedul-ing is that their break takes place over the PSAT, so students can’t take the test. This could be a problem for LN as well. Col-lege Board doesn’t use corresponding dates meaning that
the dates for certain things, like the PSATs, are different each year.
According to Crousore the rea-son why this new schedule has been brought up is because the current one does not work anymore.
“The [current] school calendar was created around the farming
schedule. We need to create a sched-ule that’s better for students,” Crou-sore said.
According to Crousore the sched-ule would have some pros and cons.
“I think the idea of 45 days; stop, evaluate what we’re doing and hav-ing a more energized staff and
student body for the second nine weeks,” Crousore said. “The con of the balanced cal-endar is that most struggling stu-dents can’t afford two weeks off. They can’t afford the model we’re currently in either. The 10 week break over the summer is too long.”
In the two weeks, one week is for remediation. The second week is
for everyone to have school off. This improves teachers’ rate of absence since they won’t take as much time off with that schedule, according to Crousore.
“The current schedule isn’t work-ing. The modified schedule might not work; we need a hybrid sched-ule. The most struggling learners need a more intense intervention to meet their educational needs,” Crousore said.
“I think [the modified schedule] would be better because we get lon-ger breaks and it’s not a long pe-riod of time in between lessons we learn,” sophomore Nakidra Taylor said.
Math teacher Donna McCord has a somewhat different opinion.
“I like it but I would like it bet-ter if we could use those breaks a resource time for students,” McCord said.
If Lawrence Township does go to the modified schedule it will most likely be for the year 2013-2014.
Katie RocheREPORTER
After ten years with the St. Vincent Sports Performance pro-gram (SVSP), the Lawrence Township school board has de-cided to change providers and begin hiring its staff from Community Health Network (CHN).
“Change is always difficult, particularly when relationships are involved,” LN athletic director Grant Nesbit said. “It’s disappointing to potentially lose those relationships, but change happens, and you make the best of it.”
In the past year, the network has begun employing nurses for all Lawrence Township schools and has launched an employee health and wellness center that is readily available to all MSDLT employees and their covered dependents.
Effective next year, the positions of the athletic training staff and weightlifting coaches district-wide will be filled by employees work-ing through CHN.
“[CHN] is going to try and mirror what St. Vincent did,” Nesbit said. “It’s possible that we could still have the same people working in our building if they would leave St. Vincent and work for Com-munity.”
This is one job switch that LN athletic trainer Sherry Manzelli would never consider, she said.
“It’s the program. It’s like comparing the Colts to a bunch of guys that just started a team,” Manzelli said. “They don’t have the facility, they don’t have the trained positions, and the salaries would only be taken by someone that just graduated college, not someone that has twenty years of experience.”
Manzelli has worked at SVSP for 16 years, and at LN specifically for ten. According to Manzelli, there is no comparison between the
level of expertise and precision at SVSP and CHN.“Athletes come from all over the country to be seen at St. Vin-
cent,” Manzelli said. “Why would I leave for Community that doesn’t even have a Sports Medicine program?”
Nesbit, however, is confident that this will not be an issue.“[CHN] has assured us that they will get people that have a mini-
mum of five years of experience in training,” Nesbit said. “We will have highly-qualified trainers serving our students.”
Still relatively new to LN, strength and conditioning coach Car-ol Happ believes that the presence SVSP holds at LN thrives off of something much more complicated and rooted than simply training students.
“[SVSP employees] know the system, they know the contacts, they know the parents, they have the connections,” Happ said. “Even though I work for St. Vincent, I am 100% invested here.”
Despite knowing her ultimate fate, Happ is doing everything but giving up on the future, she said.
“When a door closes, a window will always open,” Happ said. “There was a reason I was here, and I was truly blessed by it.”
Manzelli shares this optimism and positive outlook for the future, but she also feels that her work over the past ten years has gone much further than the physicality of her position.
“Within a week I felt like this is what I was put on this earth to do. To be here and be with the kids here,” Manzelli said. “I felt like I made a difference to them. It wasn’t just about being the athletic trainer; it was being a mentor, a mother figure, someone they could come to when they needed a hug, a smile.”
Manzelli composed one final parting statement to every student at the school: “I have loved [the students] as if they were my own children, and I always will,” Manzelli said.
TREATING THE ATHLETES: Athleti c trainer Vinny Nitt oli tapes up junior Stephan Jones. According to Nesbit, Nitt oli will be moved to a diff erent school next fall aft er working for LN through St. Vincent for 10 years.
A HEALING HAND: New mother and head athleti c trainer Sherry Manzelli treats sophomore Marcus Avery, who has an ankle injury. “I have loved [the students] as if they were my own children, and I always will,” Manzelli said.
INSTRUCTION: Strength and conditi on-ing coach Carol Happ reviews lift ing footage with sophomore Anton Peaches to improve his technique. “When a door closes, a window will always open,” Happ said. “There was a reason I was here, and I was truly blessed by it.”
Rocky Valadez, Assistant Principal
christi an summitt /photos
luke shumaker/graphic
LT school board to hire Community Health Network staff in place of current St. Vincent Health employees
LT CURRENT CALENDAR WARREN MODIFIED CALENDAR
ben majercak/graphic
A MAJOR SHIFT
LN Open House
Monday, Nov. 76:30p.m. to
8:30p.m.
SummerSpring
WinterFall
Labor Day
Teacher Day
Thanksgiving
MLK Day
Presidents’ Day
Memorial Day
Lawrence North(Normal Schedule)
Warren Central(Modified Schedule)
Holiday
Break
School
Break
School
Regular vs. Modifi ed School Schedule
ONLINE COVERAGE:Scenes from intramural dodgeball tournament
