CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 50, Issue 3November 20, 2014

EDITOR IN CHIEF: SELMA KOVAC

CHS

ASSISTANT EDITOR: FATUMA MNONGERWA

FLIGHTDrama Club

presents “The Outsiders”

NEWS PAGE 3 SPORTS PAGE 4

Capital beats Make-A-Wish Goal

ONLINE EDITOR: BRANDON GARBER

Cross Country runners

dominate State

Every year DECA stu-dents sponsor a Make-A-Wish child in the Homecoming Assem-bly. Make-A-Wish is an organization dedicated to helping kids with life threatening medi-cal conditions, making their wish come true. Senior Kylie Kowits said, “Make-A-Wish is important to me be-cause I think that it is an amazing thing our school does and we are the only school that does the Make-A-Wish program.” On Oct. 9 CHS was introduced to Abella, a seven year old, bat-tling lung damage and digestive issues that are caused by CF (Cystic Fibrosis). Abella wishes to go see Anna and Elsa in Disney World. Senior Denise Hoang said, “My favorite part of Make A Wish is that

the fact that we are able to help a child and make their wishes come true. Also, I believe it makes our school become clos-er and come together as one.” During Homecom-ing Week DECA stu-dents sold $1 stars to see which grade would buy the most stars. Sophomores sold $262, juniors sold $192, and seniors sold the most at $290. During the “Miracle Minute” at the assem-bly, the football players collected change from the crowd. Sophomores made $263, juniors made $247, and seniors $1, 544. There were donations from other schools. Pierce Park Elementary School donated $143 and Valley View Ele-mentary School donated $67. During the Home-coming football game against Centennial, where CHS won, $300 was collected. The grand total of all

the donations was $3, 408, which was $264 more than $3,144 last year. Senior DECA stu-dent Tia Dudgeon said, “My most memorable Homecoming Assembly was this year’s because I was the one that was in charge of it, planned all of the activities, and how the assembly went. It was so great getting to help out Mrs. Murin/ Wold with something she is so passionate about.” Sophomore Noah Fisher said, “Being part of Make-A-Wish shows how doing something amazing for a person can help change and make someone have an awesome memory. Being able to help a little girl and giving her something she can always hold onto and remember is something fantastic and I can’t wait to do that again next year.”

Homecoming Week was a success thanks to Student Council’s hard work to make October 7-12 one the greatest weeks of the year. Student Council ad-visor Tracy Fuller said she was impressed with “the students’ behav-ior and their participa-tion at the dance. I feel the turnout was good and everyone who was involved had a good time.” After-school Tuesday, Messy Wars took place behind the baseball fields. Students entered by running into the water slide, followed by getting each other messy with shaving cream and various col-ors of powder paint to top it off. On Wednesday, the Powder Puff game took place with underclass-men beating the seniors

Student Council pulls off successful Homecomingby 20 points, and cel-ebrating afterwards by going to Taco Bell. Thursday’s after-school event included a bonfire and a band performance. The tail-gate and football game against Centennial High School were on Friday, with a victory of 49-7. Buff Puff, otherwise known as boys’ volley-ball, was a new lunch event throughout the week and the final game was in the Homecoming Assembly. Student Council also planned themed dress up days for the week. Monday was Denim Day, Tuesday; Twin Day, Wednesday; West-ern Day, Thursday; Throwback to the 80’s and Friday was Spirit Day. The dance took place at the Boise State Stu-dent Union building on Saturday, October 11, from 8-11 pm. The theme for the dance was “50 years of Capital

High School”. Homecoming King and Queen were chosen differently this year; dif-ferent clubs nominated a senior representative, and then students voted on a top 30 list which then narrowed down to the top 10 boys and top 10 girls. The top 10 boys were seniors Thomas Ideota, Colby Larsen, Samuel Ward, Tallon Endicott, Collin Noble, Con-ner Poulson, Brandon Vanslochteren, Drew Shultz, Noah Seward and Derrick White. The top 10 girls were seniors Selma Kovac, Madison Hymas, Ra-chel Pishl, Audrey Er-ickson, Nicole White, Denise Hoang, Lexi Cole, Brooklyn Grange, Kallie Booth, Lauren Thowless, Emilie Eck-hart and Mariah Han-sen. The student body then had a final vote. The nominated King and Queen were seniors

Colby Larsen and Au-drey Erickson. “I am glad we were able to recognize all of the clubs and sports this

year,” Senior Denise Hoang said. As for the assembly, both Student Council and DECA worked to-

gether to make a memo-rable get-together for the whole school, as well as the Make-A-Wish child, Abella.

Selma KovacEDITOR IN CHIEF

TOP RIGHT: Seniors Colby Larsen and Audrey Erickson pose for a picture after being elected Homecoming King and Queen. BOTTOM RIGHT: Homecoming Court awaits final decision on Capital’s King and Queen. BOTTOM LEFT: Junior Braden Binder and sophomore Joshua Eden spray one an-other with shaving cream during Capital’s Homecoming week event Messy Wars.

PHOTOS BY SHAUN GOULD

FatumaMnongerwaSPORTS EDITOR

PHOTOS BY MICHEAL SERNATOP: English teacher Blas Telleria Junior announces Capital’s Make-A-Wish child during the Make-A-Wish assembly. BOTTOM: Abella and her sister Anna ride Capital’s carriage during the assembly.

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NewsThursday, November 20, 2014

Editors: Selma Kovac, Morgan Benton, Ray Navarro

ter class is $90 and an online class is $100. Senior Stefan Meeks is planning on purchas-ing a Cap and Gown, Class Ring, Year-book and Graduation Announcements. He is dealing with the cost of being a senior by plan-ning ahead. He is pay-ing for most of this but can receive help from his parents. Meeks said “It’s a lit-tle spendy, but it’s total-ly worth it!!!!” Meeks is not going to buy senior pictures. “Because its a lot cheaper to take my own and I get to wear

It can be expensive to be a senior because of all the things they can buy. A cap and gown is $39. Class rings can range from $164.99 to $919.99. Graduation announcements can run from $26.25 to $105. Senior pictures range from $40 to $249 or more. A yearbook was $50 by October 31 and will increase $5 each month until it hits $65. One night school semes- Josten’s provides Seniors with graduation supplies. You can find more infomation on jostens.com and call

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Drama Club presents first play “The Outsiders”

Popularity plays a big factor into student’s lives today. It is in our nature as people to want to be liked, so students will strive to be the most well known and most appreciated students in their schools. But does popularity have a posi-tive effect on students today? Well Capital’s drama club gives us an answer to that question in their newest produc-tion “The Outsiders”. Drama Club presented its first play of the year titled “The Outsiders” on October 21-24 in the Capital High Audito-rium after school. Originally written in 1967 as S.E. Hinton’s first and most famous novel, it has been adopt-ed into film as well as play and now has been

Seniors costs can add upMORGANBENTONNEWS EDITOR

SELMA KOVACEDITOR IN CHIEF

interpreted by Capital High’s own drama club and directed by drama advisor Tracy Fuller. The play consisted of two acts with 12 scenes. Fuller said, “We had a bigger turnout of people this year versus last year and the students did a great job capturing the feelings of the charac-ters in the play and most importantly the story.” The story of “The Outsiders” entails two types of people; a “soc,” where you’ve got mon-ey, cars, and a future or you’re a “greaser”, where you’re an out-sider with only your friends and a dream that someday you’ll finally belong to the world. Based on the novel, we see how it feels to be caught between child-hood’s innocence and adulthood’s disillusion-ment. While watching this

production I was very impressed with the stu-dents ability to portray these characters in such a lovely fashion. This play took the drama club six weeks to edit, rehearse and per-fect. Senior Kimbal Mur-ray, leading the show as the narrator Pony-boy Curtis, captured the insecurity and isolation needed to play this char-acter. Murray’s commit-ment to his character provided him with the opportunity to give a reserved performance that climaxed to a point of extreme vulnerabil-ity. “My passion has been drama since the eighth grade. Ever since I stepped foot on the first stage, I knew acting was the direction I wanted to go in life,” said Murray. Even though the play went very well with

my own style of cloth-ing,” he said. Senior Jacob Stewart is planning on purchas-ing a Cap and Gown and a Yearbook. His parents are going to pay for it. Stewart said “I feel that the cost isn’t a big deal knowing it’s the last year of high school. Senior Cody Trompke is planning on purchas-ing a Cap and Gown and is going to night school. “My mother is covering all the cost, if not most of it.” Trompke said, “It’s fine.”

On October 15 sopho-mores and juniors in a public high school were required to take the PSAT. The PSAT is a pre-test that helps prepare stu-dents for the SAT test that they will take their senior year. Over 1.5 million students took the test in Idaho. It is not mandatory for sophomore admin-istrators of the PSAT/

PSAT prepares students for SATNMSQT to accept the test in their school, but it is highly encouraged for all schools to take the test. Virtual schools had the students take the test at their nearest possible high school. Unlike public school students, they took their test in the school’s home office, not in a classroom. State superintendent Tom Luna said, “There are advantages to hav-ing more students take the SAT. It can show

high school students where they need to improve, if they hope to pursue a postsecondary degree. It can also help other students see them-selves as college-ready, perhaps in their lives. I think it’s a great tool for kids to help motivate them.” Idaho has made a great commitment to expand-ing access to challeng-ing course work for stu-dents across the state, the College Board said in its report.

Senate Bill 1200 pro-vided the funds for the PSAT and spent about 1.6 billion dollars on schools across the coun-try. Nearly 82 percent of Idaho’s public high school sophomores took the PSAT and 38 per-cent nationally. Idaho’s average PSAT scores for critical read-ing, mathematics, and writing are 47.9, 48.1, and 46.7, in that order. To the College Board, Idaho’s results are not

great transitions from scene to scene the dra-ma team also did a very great job with costumes, lights and sounds creat-ing an atmosphere that made the story even more realistic. Murray said, “If we were allowed more time

and more publicity, I would have expected a bit bigger turnout of people to come, but I’m extremely satisfied with the way we all per-formed.” It was an amazing experience, family appropriate and quite

entertaining. We should be expect-ing many more shows in this upcoming winter from our talented drama team.

surprising. The percent-age of students hitting the benchmark tends to decrease with more stu-dents taking the SAT. If a student’s score is high enough they can get the National Merit Scholarship: an aca-demic competition for recognition and schol-arships that began in 1955. Out of the 1.5 mil-lions students who took the test only 34,000 of them were allowing in the competition for the

National Merit Scholar-ship; these students are known as Commended Students. Only 16,000 of these commended students moved on to the Semi-finals. Even if the Com-mended Students don’t continue in the National Merit Scholarship com-petition they can still get special scholarships that are supported by corporations and busi-nesses.

Fresh new faces in Capital’s halls

JacquiRogers

Charlene Gimlin-Wells

MarcLannon

Did you work any-where before Capital High School?I worked in the District Service Center for the last four years. I also worked as the special education administrator assistant.How are you enjoying your time at Capital High School so far?I love it. I can get to be with my son who goes to this school. I also enjoy the students and staff.

Did you work any-where before Capital High School?I worked as an AVID, health and physical education teacher at West and Riverglen.How are you enjoying your time at Capital High School?There is a spirit of team-work, helping others. I’ve especially enjoying seeing former students now attending Capital from both Riverglen and West!

Did you work any-where before Capital High School?I worked and coached football and wrestling at East Junior High for two years.How are you enjoying your time at Capital High School so far?I enjoy the family atmo-sphere at Capital. I look forward to teaching and coaching at Capital this year. GO EAGLES!

DarrinShindle

Did you work any-where before Capi-tal? I worked at Melba High School for the last 12 years, where I also coached basketball and football.

How are you enjoying Capital so far? I am really enjoying Capital, and getting to know the students. It’s nice to get back to a big school environment.

Chad Ritzer

Did you work any-where before Capital?. I taught middle school art at Sawtooth Middle School in Meridian for eight years. I saw that there was an opening for a Ceramics teacher at Capital I knew imme-diately that it would be an amazing change. How are you enjoying Capital so far? The students here are amaz-ing and I love working with them.

SECRETARY ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION CERAMICSELL TEACHER

Andrew SargentOPINION EDITOR

PHOTO BY SELMA KOVAC

PHOTO BY YANA RICE

Jenny Incelli

Did you work any-where before Capi-tal? I have worked at a number of schools before Capital, teach-ing Spanish to every level from kindergar-ten through 12th grade. Most recently I was at Fairmont Junior High.How are you enjoy-ing Capital so far? I’m especially enjoy-ing teaching this year; I have excellent students who are excited to learn Spanish.

SPANISH

Junior Taylor Renner, Senior Kimbal Murray, and Senior Carson Smith act out a scene in this year’s first theatrical production “The Outsiders”.

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Sports Thursday, November 20, 2014

Editor: Fatuma Mnongerwa

FatumaMnongerwa ASSISTANT EDITOR

Athlete of theMonth

Cross Country

Years Playing: 6

Loves the sport because:

You get out what you

put in

Favorite Opponent:

Matt Sewall

Difficulty Level:

8 One word to

describe sport:

Mental

Hours dedicated to sport each

week:

15

Senior Zach Wiberg

Selma KovacEDITOR IN CHIEF

XC Varsity boys place second in State

Boys’ Varsity and JV soccer is over, but both teams worked hard to improve their seasons. Varsity’s over-all record is 5-9-2. They won against Rocky Mountain High, Borah High , Merid-ian High, and Mountain View High schools. They lost against Rocky Mountain High, Eagle High, Mountain View High, Timberline High, Centennial High, Boise High, and Tim-berline High schools. They tied against Boi-se High, Vallivue High, and Rocky Mountain High schools. Junior Captain Brett Becia of the Varsity team is confidient about next year and said, “We’re going to win state next year!”

Capital Varsity soccer players seniors Lucas Garcia Ickes, Daniel Segura (9), Spencer Angst-man, juniors Jess Totorica, Samuel Blood, and senior Jesse Goodwin, celebrate a winning game against the Boise High braves.

PHOTOS BY FINISH LINE CAMERA/ GEORGE RAGAN

PHOTO BY LESLIE GARZA

JV Volleyball girls finish rough season

Brandon RamirezSPORTS EDITOR

Capital’s JV volley-ball made it to District Championship placing 2nd place. They were working hard with a record of 6-4 as of Oct. 27. JV Junior Lilly Bog-g0an said, “We made it to the District Cham-pionships and even though we lost we were happy we made it that far.” Boggan plays libe-ro and said, “I like defense. I like to serve and receive as well as digging hard hits.” My expectation is “that we

PHOTO BY LESLEIGH WATSON

On September 25, Varsiry fought Borah High School. Head Coach Zo Omercevic told his team that if they made a comeback then he would let them shave his head. They won against Borah High that day and they shaved Omer-cevic’s head. JV’s over-all record is 2-10. JV won against Valli-vue High and Mountain View High schools. They lost against Borah High, Timber-line High, Boise High, Rocky Mountain High, Meridian High, Eagle High, Boise High, and in District Tournament against Boise High schools. They also played Mountain View High School and Centennial High School. “Getting into Dis-

tricts was a shock, it was suprising,” Junior Tameen Jaffari said when he was asked about his team getting

do our best and make it as far as we can.” JV volleyball last year was undefeated for six games and then lost the last four. Boggan said that the head coach is “very passionate and energetic about volley-ball.” Capital’s Varsity vol-leyball has been fight-ing strong as well with a record of 7-9 as of Oct. 27. Their last game was against Centennial and it was a great way to end the season because the team worked well together. Varsity Senior Shayne LeDuc said, “We’re all

very close and we all care about each other. To play for each other and support one anoth-er.” “ I like my head coach, Gina Watson, she was friendly and really cared about us. Senior Night was the most memorable moment so far because all the seniors had to be escort-ed by our parents,” said LeDuc. Varsity Senior Nicole White said, “Finding my strengths, weak-nesses and making new friends were probably the most memorable moments about playing volleyball.” Capital Varsity Volleyball girls huddle at a home game against Borah High School on Wednes-

day, September 3.

Boys’ Soccer finishes season with high hopes for next year

into the JV District Tournament. Jaffari said the JV team, “Had great team-work. At the beginning

of the year no one knew each other but by the end we were a family.”

On Nov. 1 senior Drew Schultz placed 1st and was crowned State Champion and Zach Wiberg placed 2nd at the 5A State Cross Country Meet at Eagle Island Park. Cap-ital boys placed first last year at State and this year they came in second. Schultz said, “ It feels awesome to be State Champion. Winning State was special to me because it made me be in the Wall of Fame next to my running role

models Cody Larson and David Steele.” Senior Corbin Wil-liams, junior Jacob Davis, Joe Mullener, sophomore Drake Den-Hartog, Tanner Hahn, and Kari Taylor all competed in the 5A State Cross Country Meet. In the boys’ race Davis placed 15th, and Wil-liams placed 44th out of 83 runners. Taylor was the only Capital girl in and she placed 19th. Davis said, “ My most memorable moment this season was get-ting under 16 minutes, which was my goal this year. I got a time of

15:59 and I was so hap-py after the 5A District Championship race.” On Oct. 23, XC team raced at the 5A District Champions at Eagle Island Park. Wiberg placed 1st with a PR of 15:19 and was crowned 2014 District Cham-pion. Overall the boys placed 5th and the girls placed 10th. In the boys’ race Shultz placed 4th with a PR 15:21, and Davis placed 14th. In the girls’ race Taylor placed 13th. On Oct. 16 the XC team raced at the Boise City Meet at Ann Morrison Park. Shultz placed 1st and was crowned 2014

City Champion, Wiberg placed 2nd, Davis 6th, Mullener 13th, and DenHartog placed 17th. In the girls’ race Taylor placed 6th with a PR of (19:01) and junior Oliv-ia Konecni placed 17th. Williams said, “ Cross Country is such a great sport if you want to meet new people that are pretty cool. My main goal this season was to find success at State which my team and I did.” On Oct. 1 XC team members raced at the Gary Ward Invitational at Lakeview Park and the rest of the team were taking a break for the

city race. In the boys’ race Mullener placed 12th and freshmen Braden Dayton placed 21st and had a PR of 17:27. In the girls’ race sophomore Kendell Johnson placed 8th and sophomore Makayla Lowe placed 28th. John Doherty said, “ We had a successful season. Both girls and boys teams had great performances this sea-son. The boys team qualified for State and Kari Taylor qualified as in individual.” On Sept. 27 the XC team went to Portland Meadows Race Track, Oregon to compete for

the Nike Pre Nationals. In the boys’ race Shultz placed 8th and Wiberg placed 12th and Davis placed 58 out of 170 runners. In the girls’ race soph-omore Taylor placed 6th and Konecni placed 27th out of 153 runners. Doherty said, “As a coach it is always spe-cial to work with kids who are motivated and who are willing to com-mit to a cause and make sacrifices to find out how good they can be. As a whole cross coun-try runners always dis-play these traits which make it special to work with them.”

Senior Drew Shultz (left) takes the first place finish and senior Zach Wiberg finishes second at the State Championship race. The last time two 5A boys went one and two was Centennial in 1994. The last Capital State Champion was Robin Card in 1985.

PHOTO BY REBEKAH SEVY

Second place Varsity State runners senior Corbin Williams, junior Jacob Davis, senior Drew Schultz, junior Joe Mullener, senior Zach Wiberg.

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SportsThursday, November 20, 2014

Editor: Brandon Ramirez

Morgan BentonSTAFF WRITER

JV Football dominates the field

Capitals Varsity Foot-ball is ending with a remarkable season The Varsity football team has a record of 9-2 as of Nov. 4. The team went to playoffs against Skyline High School on Oct. 31. Eagles won over Sky-line by 45 to 28. Senior Tallon Endi-cott said, “This season I’m really looking for-ward to seeing how far we, as a team, can push ourselves.” On Oct. 25 the team played Rocky High School at a home game

at Dona Larson. Unfor-tunately the Eagles lost 34 to 54 against Rocky. Senior Brandon VanSloteren said, “ My most memorable moment this season was when we lost to Eagle because I was hoping that we could beat them this year but didn’t and it was one of those games that sticks with you.” On Oct. 17 the team played Nampa High School at an away game. Eagles took the victory against the Bull-dogs 49-7. Junior Ben Vering said, “ As a team our expec-tations are to trust each other and do as we are told, not to let anything

especially games effect our relationships.” On Oct. 10 Capital played Centennial High School at the Home-coming Game. Eagles beat Centennial and won by 49-7. VanSloteren said, “ My toughest opponent is Timberline because they have a very talent-ed physical defense.” Senior Tomas Idoeta said, “ We have the best head coach in the state. He prepares us every week and motivates us to play our best week in and week out.” The next varsity game is on Nov. 14 and it’s the second to last game and it’s the State Semi-Finals.

JV Football dominates the field As of Nov. 6 the JV football team had a record of 7-2. They won against Madi-son on Aug. 30, Moun-tain View on Sep. 10, Canyon Ridge on Sep. 18, Borah High on Sep. 25, lost against Eagle on Sep. 4, won against Timberline on Oct. 2, Centennial on Oct. 9 and lost to Rocky on Oct. 23. As the season comes to a close, sophomore Drew Korf said, “I’m looking forward to prac-ticing with varsity and traveling with the team throughout the state

playoffs.” Korf’s hero in football is Braxton Miller. Korf said “Calaycay is a great coach and I learned a lot from him throughout the year.” Korf plays quarterback, “Because it is fun.” Junior running back Mathew Pont, he said, “I love running the ball and it is also the posi-tion that I have played my entire football career. It takes stamina strength and speed to be a running back.” Pont’s heros in foot-ball are LaDainian Tom-linson and Reggie Bush. Pont said, “When I was in Optimist, I modeled my running style after them.” Pont interested because in the sport,

“When I was around three, I started watching football and basketball on TV. Watching the pros caused me to want to play football.” Pont expects his team to leave it all on the field and to constantly get better everyday. Pont is looking forward to getting better in the off season and weight lifting. Pont said, “Coach Calaycay is a great coach. He is really good at developing players and helping them get better.” Sophomore Micah Hagler played running back and is looking for-ward to getting bigger faster and stronger for the next season.

Sophmores Conner Sweeney, Cameron Godney and Junior Shaun Gould hike the ball against Borah High School on September 25.

PHOTO BY SABRINA WINTER

Fatuma MnongerwaASSISTANT EDITOR

Varsity Football makes it to Playoffs

Frustrating records close seasonAndrew SargentOPINION EDITOR

The girls Varsity and JV soccer teams are finished with the sea-son and both finished with a record of 1-11-5 for Varsity and JV with 0-10-1. Varsity head coach Jon Ruiz and assistant coach Liz Ruiz are both admired by their team. “He is nice, helps you when you need help,” Varsity sophomore Maria Rodriguez said about her coach. “He helps you learn new techniques and become a better player,” Varsity senior Madeline Woodard said.

Even though some of the Varsity players are graduating this year younger players are making plans for next year’s soccer team.“I expect us to pre-vent the enemy team from scoring more next year,” Varsity sopho-more Casey Compton said. “The team will be fine next year even though the goal keeper will be gone,” Varsity senior April Miklos said. JV coach Katie John-son helps improve her team’s soccer skills for future games/years. JV sophomore Jadie Muchow said, “I love my coach. She’s really patient with us but isn’t afraid to make us run.

Couldn’t ask for a better one.” “She knows her soc-cer, she helps all the girls improve, and helps us feel like a team,” JV junior Katie Nielson said about her coach. “She’s great; she is a great coach and friends,” said JV sopho-more Baily Ball. Even though JV didn’t win their season the athletes still had a great time being on the team. Ball said, “Overall, even though we didn’t win a single game, we all tried our very best and made good friends.” Nielson said, “Join the team next year; we always need players. We all worked hard and did our best.”

Senior Varsity goalie Emilie Eckhart kicks the soccer ball on Oct. 6 at a home game against Borah High School.

PHOTO BY BAILEY GARNER

PHOTOS BY BRYNN DITTMAN

Boy Varsity Soccer

Years Playing: 12

Loves the sport because:

“Toolin’ kids

is rad”

Favorite Opponent:

Boarh

Difficulty Level:

Legendary One word to

describe sport:

Boss

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

8.5

Athlete Of theMonth

Senior

Brett Becia

TOP RIGHT: Senior Thomas Idoeta runs the ball against Rcoky Mountain on Oct. 25. BOTTOM LEFT: Seniors Colby Larsen and Kyle McCullough tackle a Rocky Mountain player at the Pink Out game on Oct. 25. BOTTOM RIGHT: Senior Tarik Littlejohn tackles a Mountain View player on Sep. 11.

Opinion Thursday, November 20, 2014

PAGE 6 Editor: Andrew Sargent

“People working min-imum wage type jobs shouldn’t expect to suddenly make more money for a job that re-quires no mental/phys-ical effort. If someone doesn’t want minimum wage, don’t have mini-mum skills. It’s unnec-essary and will do more harm than good.”

On October 15 the administration enforced sophomores and juniors to take the PSAT (Pre-liminary Scholastic As-sessment) for the first four periods of the day. The PSAT is a test that assesses high school students in math, read-ing and writing skills to take to see if they are eligible for any schol-arship opportunities for colleges of their choice. It can also show stu-dents how well they know each core subject in their school. PSAT scores are sent to the National Merit Scholarship program, which are then reviewed by colleges. Taking the PSAT can prepare your test taking skills when the SAT rolls around your senior year. The PSAT is mandatory for students to take, but many decided to skip school that morning or even the whole day.

These students may have thought that prac-ticing the PSAT was just a waste of time or just didn’t see why they needed to practice tak-ing the test at all. Normally, the PSAT costs $15 butthis year students didn’t have to pay anything because the adminis-tration funded it. High school students who want to take the PSAT, but can’t afford it, can now take it. Keeping the PSAT free for sophomores and juniors can lead more students to getting a scholarship opportunity because they will be prepared for their SAT during their senior year. I believe practicing the PSAT your sophomore and junior year can pre-pare you more than not practicing at all. By pre-paring beforehand and taking the practice test they will figure out what core subjects they aren’t doing so well in which will lead to improve-ments and by senior year they will accom-plish each subject. Also by doing this, it’s proven they will get a higher score on the SAT because they’ll already be familiar with the di-rections in taking it and each section of the test, which is presented.

On October 15 soph-omores and juniors had to spend four periods to take the PSAT while seniors slept in at home. The PSAT is a practice exam that helps train students to get better scores on their future SAT test they must take their senior year. Stu-dents that take the PSAT don’t get penalized for doing good or bad but they can possibly get a scholarship if their scores are high enough. The Idaho Depart-ment of Education states, “The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires states to define challenging academic standards and adminis-ter high-quality assess-ments so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can mea-sure progress against shared expectations for student achievement.” It is mandatory to take

the SAT’s and to pass it to graduate high school. College’s also look at your SAT score to de-termine whether or not you’re qualified enough to join their school. The PSAT helps us get an above average score on our SAT’s which only really helps us if we’re going to college. They assume that the best choice for every student is to go to col-lege after high school and that’s not true. Some of us can’t han-dle the college system and are better off if we go straight to a career. Some of us want to join the army, some want to go to college, some want to get a job and start fresh, and some want to take a break from it all. We’re already going to take the SAT and that will take most of a school day when it ar-rives. So why should we spend another for just practicing for it? Teachers always say to study before tests to get the higher school and not flunk it. The same thing should go for the SAT. We have to take responsibility of preparing for the upcoming SAT’s if we want a good grade in it. We shouldn’t waste class periods that have nothing to do with the SAT’s.

In January 2014, Pres-ident Barack Obama gave his State of Union address, which reports the condition of the na-tion but also allows the presidents to outline their legislative agen-das and national prior-ities. The increase of

minimum wage, being a rising question in the United States, was ad-dressed. President Obama pro-posed his idea and goal of raising minimum wage to $10.10, stat-ing “Tom Harkin and George Miller have a bill to fix the federal minimum wage by lift-ing it to $10.10. This will help families. It will give businesses custom-ers with more money to spend. It doesn’t involve any new bureaucratic program. So join the rest of the country. Say yes. Give America a raise.” Since his State of Union address,

Obama’s efforts in raising minimum wage have been unsuccess-ful. Although, his push on business owners and congressmen has been very successful due to the evident financial rises in their businesses. I believe minimum wage should be in-creased to $10.10 be-cause no one who works hard in America should have to raise their family in poverty, but the federal minimum wage hasn’t kept pace with the rising costs of basic necessities for working families. Many studies also show that increasing the minimum wage

Kayanna GuntherJUNIOR

“A higher minimum wage means more money for your work-ers. Higher minimum wage means price on product rises. Which means more money for the company, more money to improve stores or even products. Bettering products or stores brings in more income.”

“If minimum wage is raised the business owners will lay off em-ployers and prices will be inflated for every-thing more than they already are. It will also motivate people to work harder and make them want to work more be-cause they can build up their wage.”

“The potential benefits of increasing the mini-mum wage are, among others; increased buy-ing power of the lower class, heightened stan-dard of living, the po-tential for decreased involvement of “entitle-ment programs, whereas that negative aspects are mostly speculative, in that there is no con-crete evidence backing them.”

“Raising the minimum wage would benefit the population because cur-rently, 7.25 per hour is just not enough to survive in today’s soci-ety. I believe that as the cost of living goes up, so should the minimum wage. It only makes sense to make the mini-mum wage high enough for people of America to survive.”

“What happens when America isn’t satisfied with the new minimum wage? Say we raise it to 10 dollars an hour, what then? A couple years down the road we will be in the exact same situation because Amer-icans are never satisfied. Cost and living will rise and so will the rate of struggling families in America.”

“I don’t think mini-mum wage should be raised because it will raise the cost of living. Also if you’re that upset about how much you make, go to school and get a degree! You can’t complain about low in-come if you didn’t do anything about it in the first place.”

“Raising the minimum wage only raises the cost of living, maybe not immediately, but it will happen. Raising it only harms the econ-omy.”

“If America raises the minimum wage ev-erything will be fine, at first. But the prices would soon rise and ev-erything would be the same as it is now. Over-all, it would be a waste of resources and time.”

Brandon RamirezSPORTS EDITOR

The PSAT’s are im-portant for every stu-dent to take.

Pro and Con: PSAT Testing

Andrew SargentOPINION EDITOR

Con: The PSAT’s waste time for some-thing that doesn’t apply to everyone.

What are the harms and/or benefits of increasing America’s minimum wage?

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Selma KovacEDITOR IN CHIEF

would create and boost growth in the economy and would nearly lift a million people out of poverty. The passing of this bill will also help Amer-icans who receive fed-eral assistance from the government by pump-ing money into the economy and save bil-lions of taxpayer dollars by reducing the number of workers with low pay. President Barack Obama says he’ll press Congress to raise the minimum wage in the same way he courted his wife — “never taking no for an answer.”

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“America deserves a raise”