TigrHiLi e Dec. 10, 2008 Volume 49 Issue 11 1015 Division St. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613

Linden TerpstraStaff Writer

Six months have passed since the flood waters surged through the Cedar Valley, seizing and destroying homes, devasting many locals and leaving them homeless and without necessities.

The recovery trails what many residents con-sider the worst flood they can recall. Nearing the holiday season, many families are just returning to their lives after cleaning up or rebuilding their residence while continuing their frantic and busy lives.

Junior Alexis Richter is getting back on track after her home was undertaken by the June flood.

“My house’s basement was filled almost com-pletely. I have a 10-foot basement and the water got up to 9-feet 8-inches,” Richter said. “We also had water about waist high in our garage, with a little on to the main floor. We lost everything in our basement—memories from when my brother and I were practically born. Even my mom and dad’s stuff from when they were younger.”

The road to recovery, though a long one, is showing significant progress.

“We were able to save pictures but not a single one went undamaged. We also went about to finish our basement and had all the drywall and lighting down in the basement,” Richter said.

“Things around here are pretty much back to normal. My family all has new (used) cars. The drywall and everything in the garage is back to

normal. Now we just have a pretty empty base-ment.”

The Richter family plans to modernize this Christmas, spicing it up in their own way.

“My family is big into holiday decorating, and we lost all of that—Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentine’s Day—all of them gone. You never really realize all the things you have until,

well, until it’s gone,” she said. “We lost all of our cars and about the only thing we saved were our clothes, which my grandma washed and washed all of them like it was her job. And our Christmas tree topper. We just made all new homemade Christmas decorations, and I think it looks awe-some, especially with the saved tree topper.”

With many other families struggling through the holidays, the Student Senate is planning to assist with North Cedar Elementary in providing holiday gifts for the flood victims.

Faculty adviser Ryan Flaherty said he is pleased to be involved. “I think it’s a great thing. I am glad they decided to do it because the holi-days are a really hard time for the people who are struggling,” he said.

He is keyed up about the unity between area schools. I really like it when it’s all of the schools working together: elementary, junior high and high schools,” Flaherty said.

Looking passed what she has been through, Richter said she is grateful for the support from all the community.

“I know of a lot of people who suffered from this flood. But I also want to thank everyone that helped and continues to help people affected by it,” Richter said. “The way it changed my life the most was learning to appreciate all the little blessings I have in my life like hot showers, electricity, cars and the list goes on and on. All of those things that I know everyone takes for granted.”

Six months after waters recede,CF still coping with June’s flooding

Submitted PhotoWith the holiday season nearly here, many Cedar Falls students are still stuggling with the lingering effects of last summer’s flooding, like that in this shot from junior Alexis Richter. The Student Senate hopes to help with the recovery by providing holiday gifts for North Cedar Elementary students.

Andy McDermottStaff Writer

The CFHS athletics recently re-ceived the Mississippi Valley Confer-ence Fall Cliff Brees Sportsmanship Award from both their football and volleyball teams combined in the Val-ley Division.

This particular award consists of three different areas: the fans, the team and the coaches. From the volleyball perspective, Cedar Falls received a first in all three of the areas mentioned above.

For football, Cedar Falls did not receive a first place in all three areas but did get first for the coaches and the ways they work the players on and off

the field.The CFHS fall athletics has not

received this award since 2003. Just focused on the Valley Division, this is only the second time Cedar Falls has received the fall award. If focused on both the Mississippi and Valley divi-sions combined, Cedar Falls has re-ceived five fall sportsmanship awards, one winter sportsmanship award and six in the spring.

With the volleyball team finish-ing strong at districts and the football team finishing 2nd in state with a 12-2 record, the teams, fans and coaches never gave up on supporting the Tigers.

Activity Director Gary Koenen said, “I am very proud of the fact

that our teams do well on the field as well as having good sportsmanship. I believe that receiving this award is fantastic, and I am rather thrilled of how well it all turned out.”

According to Koenen, just know-ing that our school has the most sportsmanship in the conference is an accomplishment itself, and Cedar Falls will continue to show how much sportsmanship it really has the rest of the year, from the winter to the spring sports.

Fall sports earn top sportsmanship honors

Senior Sam Jones and the rest of the Tiger backers were tops in the MVC for sportsmanship in fall sports according to the Cliff Brees Sports-manship Award recently bestowed on the school.

Katie Hunt photo

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Monica ClarkStaff Writer

As the holiday season approaches, the music department is working hard on perfecting and performing their music for the upcoming December concerts.

The symphonic band conducted by Kyle Engelhardt performed “For the New Day Arisen” by Barton, “A Christmas Festival” by Reed, “Of Dark Lords and Ancient Kings” by Barrett and “Heartbeat Five” by Gil-roy at a concert on Monday.

“[Our student teacher] Mr. Lins is making his conducting debut. He’ll be doing ‘Heartbeat Five,’” Engelhardt said prior to the concert.

“Heartbeat Five” is ridden with per-cussion sections: 28 percussion instru-ments are used in the composition.

“I think the audience will really enjoy “A Christmas Festival”. It’s a

medley of holiday favorites,” Engle-hardt said before Monday’s concert.

The wind symphony directed by Gerald Ramsey also performed “Sym-phonic Prelude” by Camphouse and “Tarentella” by Smith among other songs on Monday.

The orchestra will perform its winter concert on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 7:30.

The orchestra will be performing “Christmas Memories” by Chase, “Sleigh Ride” by Anderson, “Faran-dole” by Bizet and “Brandenburgis-ches Konzert Number 3” by Bach. The chamber orchestra will also be performing “Concerto Grosso Opus 6 Number VIII” at the concert.

The choir will perform its concert on Monday, Dec. 15 with the treble clef choir performing “Carol of the Dance” by Goemanne, “Terly Terlow” by Morrissey as well as other songs.

The bass clef choir and the concert

Jordyn CariasStaff Writer

The CFHS dance team turned in top notch performances at the State Dance Competition Friday, Dec. 5. One hundred eighty teams performed original dances over separate divi-sions. The CFHS dance team com-peted in pom, co-ed and hip-hop.

The team placed 3rd in pom. They achieved class one along with 11 other teams also in division 12. The CFHS dance team has never placed top five in this category.

The team also was rewarded with 2nd in hip-hop. The team placed 5th in this category last year.

“The teams in our division are all very good, so to place is such an accomplishment. All the teams in our pom division received division one ratings, which means their average score from the judges was within 10 points of perfect. It is very difficult to predict who will place. All we can do is hope the judges and crowd like what we have put together. Our goal was to place top five in at least one dance;

so to place top three in two dances is amazing,” competition coach Jodi Mehmen said.

The Pom dance contained songs like “Pumpin’ Up The Party” by Han-nah Montana and “Move It Like This (Shake It Like That)” by Baha Men.

“I was really proud of all the girls and most importantly thought we worked together as a team to perform our best. I had a good feeling we would place after our performance, but definitely not before,” senior dance team member Mackensie Smith said.

Three hours later the team com-peted for co-ed. Senior dance team member Sam Jones said, “I was really nervous, butterflies in the stomach and everything. All of the guys were feeling the same because we had never done this before.”

The dance included M.C. Ham-mer’s “Can’t Touch This” and “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by CC Music Factory.

“I am always a little nervous before the girls perform. We just wanted them leave the dance floor without regret. We told them to dance like they do at

practice; as a family,” Mehmen said. Hip-Hop included songs like “Hey

Baby” by Bow Wow, Missy Elliot’s “Chingaling” and “Move Shake Drop” by Pitbull ft. DJ Laz.

Sophomore dance team member Casey Robins said, “We were pretty stoked for the girls. They all wanted to win, and it was important for them, es-pecially for the seniors. They did a lot better than they thought they would.”

Cedar Falls also received an award for community service.

Mehmen said, “I am such a believer in the Cedar Falls Dance Team. I was on the team in high school and love coaching next to my former coach Gayle Bruene and former teammate Afton Wilson. The three of us have such a passion for dance and this program. We are thankful to have sup-portive parents and very lucky to have such dedicated girls. They really know the definition of a team, and they con-sider their teammates their sisters. I think that is what separates them from the other teams. I am so proud of each girl and cannot believe how far they have come since we started in April.”

choir will also be performing at the concert.

The title of concert will be Midwin-ter’s Eve. The theme is about winter as a season, not as much a holiday. A flutist, Rene Veenstra from the Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, will be playing with the choir as they sing “Calm on a Listening Ear of Night” by David Dickau.

“It’s going to be one of best that we’ve ever done,” Wohlert said. “I think they’re singing so musically and more in tune. We worked really hard on tuning.”

Choir alumni will also be singing on the last song “Still, Still, Still.”

“That’s just kind of a neat thing we do each year,” Wohlert said.

Tickets for the orchestra and choir concerts are $3 for children and $4 for adults and activity passes are accepted. The concerts will be held in the CFHS auditorium.

All the Right MovesDance team places high in two categories at State

Music department delivers trio of holiday concerts

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Junior Chelsea Hilpipre, senior Livvi Delagardelle, senior Kensie Smith, junior Megan Pattee, sophomore Sarah Neil and senior Sarah Halloran practice a dance routine for the state competition.

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Sophomore Stefan Vallentine, senior Aaron Paquette, sophomore Mason Meyer and sophomore Eric Neil practice for the upcoming choir concert.

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Monica ClarkStaff Writer

Months of waiting, millions of dol-lars spent on merchandise, preordered midnight premiere tickets: all for the phenomenon of Twilight.

“It’s really exciting to have people waiting in line for something you have waited for for so long,” said sopho-more Emily Hurban about the recent midnight opening.

Fans have been spreading ideas around as the movie is viscously taken apart bit by bit. Some loved it, others hated it and others are still undecided.

“I would’ve changed the meadow scene. It was awful,” Hurban said. “I would’ve changed how they got to meadow. In the movie it’s very abrupt. I wish it had been more romantic.”

Fans agree that the romance was a little off.

“There just wasn’t much leading up to Edward falling in love with Bella.It was just ‘I hate you’ and then was ‘I love you,’” senior Melanie Adrian said.

Many Twilight lovers are angry that parts were either done so badly, or they were taken out completely, but like the Harry Potter movies, you can’t expect a 498-page book to be completely covered in two hours.

“I think it was the little things that they messed up. They got the big things like the prom scene. The actors tried their best to get it together,” sophomore Riley Hoffman said.

Others hated the movie’s songs.“I want them to just change all the

music. It was so bad,” sophomore Zoe Webb said.

There has been much controversy about the Twilight soundtrack. On the soundtrack, all of the songs are writ-ten by groups that the author listened to while writing the Twilight series. Arists such as Muse, Paramore, The Black Ghosts, Linkin Park, Mutemath, Perry Farrel, Collective Soul, Blue Foundation, Iron and Wine, and Carter Burwell are on the CD that was re-

aleased on Nov. 3. Rob Pattinson, who portrays Edward Cullen, wrote a song called “Never Think” that also made the cut for the CD.

In the book, Stephenie Meyer wrote about a song that Edward com-posed for Bella. Earlier in the book, Bella commented on the piece “Clair de Lune” by Debussy and about how much she liked it. “Bella’s Lullaby” corresponds with it.

But, with the movie having such a dark background, there was a surpris-ing amount of comedy in the movie.

“The bit where [Bella’s dad] snaps his gun and said, ‘Bring him in,’ that was hilarious,” sophomore Zoey Webb said.

Then there was the infamous fight scene toward the end of the movie. Many fans were pleased and satisfied with the content.

“I loved the ballet scene. The mir-rors were just amazing,” Hurban said.

Already fans are awaiting the next movie New Moon since Twilight has been such a good sell-out.

Some expect that Kristen Stew-art will be a good portrayal of Bella because she certainly has the totured look down, and Jacob will look better because he’ll be without the wig.

But others are not looking forward to the large absence of Edward that takes up most of the book and poten-tially the movie

“They need to make sure it’s inter-esting while Edward is gone,” Hurban said. “They’re going to have to skip over her depression months and get to the point.”

Others are just not looking forward to it at all.

“It’s just not going to be good with Edward not there. He’s the main part of the book,” sophomore Magee Glenn-Burns said.

But with the premier over, the ar-rival of the DVD is next to come.“I’m going to have to get it the day it comes out and then talk through the whole thing and ruin it for everyone watching it with me,” Hurban said.

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Sara StreverNews Editor

Due to the huge shift of journalism publishing content online rather than newspapers, the Tiger Hi-Line has been challenged to add a new twist to the whole class. With this development, there have been both positive and negative consequences that have pushed the staff to make some changes in order to meet their obligation to report high school news.

Journalism teacher Brian Winkel offered the Hi-Line edi-tors a few options: they could print the paper with a different printing company and distribute throughout the Cedar Valley; they could print the Hi-Line with a different newspaper; they could move all the creative work to their existing website; or they could sell advertising space, stick with the Courier, and pay $600 per issue.

“We were really fortunate in the past, and we are really fortunate that the Courier is still willing to work with us. We were always very independent. They never said no to the actual content of the paper,” editor-in-chief Kellie Peterson said.

To accommodate the new challenge of advertising, two new business manager posi-

tions were added to the staff. Juniors Alex Entz and Jillian Dally stepped up to the job with only Entz having one busi-ness class under his belt.

“In the way of business experience, I’ve been learn-ing on the fly. I am involved with DECA, which has helped. Even so, nothing could have prepared me for this experi-ence,” Entz said.

Their job consists of con-tacting businesses that might be interested in advertising with the Hi-Line, attending meet-ings with potential clients and designing advertisements. Entz and Dally are responsible for advertisers to cover the weekly $600 bill.

“It’s been rough. Every time you miss a payment, you feel personally responsible. You think, ‘Maybe if I hadn’t goofed off that day, we would have been printing this week.’ The worst was when we had two big deals—including one where we had a substantial check in our hands—cancel on us on the last minute. It’s tough, but that’s the real world,” Entz said.

Going into debt will occur if the Hi-Line does not con-tinue to have enough advertise-ments. The Hi-Line plans to have 28 issues throughout the

2008-2009 school year. This is $16,800 for the entire year.

“It’s intimidating, but I think that we will overcome this immense challenge and come out much stronger and better prepared for our lives ahead because of it,” Editor-in-Chief Ellen Wrede said.

In the past, the Hi-Line had been a four-page paper; this year it has been upgraded to eight pages.

“With the limited space of four pages, students were al-ready fighting to get their space in the paper, but because I have a lot of student writers, I didn’t want them to have to fight not only with each other but with advertising space as well,” Winkel said.

Editors of the journalism class are not the only ones who thought it was important to have a student newspaper. English teacher Teresa Martin said she believes that the Hi-Line helps students to further their education by applying what they learn to authentic situations.

“Journalism is one of those classes where real world experience is happening every day in the class. Students write from real student and world happenings for a real audi-ence—our community. From

researching stories to inter-viewing to writing to editing to meeting deadlines, it’s hands on all the way; education doesn’t get any better,” Martin said.

English teacher Judy Tim-mins said she also believes that journalism can help students with their education.

“Journalism students have a wonderful opportunity for a real-world work experience with up-to-date technology. Journalism offers unique skill building activities—research-ing, interviewing, writing, photography, layout, weekly deadlines for a community pub-lication, web publication, etc.,” Timmins said.

Students involved in the journalism class are not the only ones that are affected by the Hi-Line. According to a recent poll of 450 students, 63 percent of the CFHS student body reads the Hi-Line.

“It is a good communication piece between the school and the community. It is a way for the school to show the good (and sometimes controversial) things going on in the school,” librarian Kim Traw said.

Though meeting new ex-penses has been tough, Winkel has emphasized that students cannot rely on donations.

“I think it gives us a really

good learning opportunity to be self-sufficient. There’s a sense of pride in knowing that we have created this paper all on our own, and it brings us to a new level of appreciation for the work we all do,” entertain-ment editor Torie Jochims said.

English teacher Doug Wilkinson said he believes it’s important to have a school paper and to not give up on the Hi-Line.

“If CF lost the Hi-Line, it’d be losing a piece of who we are. We’re not all the same, and not everybody could ever pos-sibly make it into the Hi-Line, but see the big picture here. The paper is part of our CF school community. Step up and support it,” Wilkinson said.

If businesses are interested in advertising and supporting the Hi-Line, they can contact the journalism room at 319-553-2509 or email tigerhiline@gmail.com.

“This year, we’ve faced some tough times, but each challenge we’re presented with, we come together and get through it as a team. The Hi-Line has discovered strengths we didn’t realize we had through these hardships,” Jochims said. “We’ve really stepped it up this year in both the content and quality.”

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Jordyn CariasStaff Writer

For those looking to expand their understanding of media, technology and the world around them, broadcast journalism is a class that prepares stu-dents for the rapidly expanding world of electronic communication.

Broadcast journalism is an elective class. Students in the class put out two forms of media: podcasts and video stories. These can be accessed on the school’s website, http://www.cedar-falls.k12.ia.us/buildings/cfhs/journal-ism/podcasts/podcast.html.

Video stories (a.k.a. vodcasts) are stories that are kept “fresh.” A new vodcast is published on the school website every day.

Unlike vodcasts, podcasts are themed. Every student in the class re-ceives a theme and every other week, a new podcast is published relating to that theme.

“It’s like Rachel Ray always does a cooking show. Students stick to their themes. Examples are underground sports, students with unique hobbies or politics,” journalism teacher Brian Winkel said.

Broadcast journalism has been around for two years now and has in-cluded hard working students. Journal-ism has proven to be a commitment.

“You have to stay on task. It’s a tough class. If you want a challenge, take it. If you want to learn about news and sweet computers, take the class,” sophomore Casey Robbins said.

The consensus is that broadcast is tough, and not a class to take for easy points.

Broadcast student Jarek Bakken

said, “Just starting off on a computer probably wouldn’t work [for a student wanting to be in journalism.] You learn to make podcasts. It’s on really nice programs on the computers. You should be familiar with Mac computers. If you’re interested in it, go for it.”

The work seems to be paying off, and fellow students are reacting posi-tively to the podcasts.

In reaction to Bakken’s podcast that dealt with senior Michael Rogers’ involvement in Big House, the weekly gathering of students for church pur-poses, sophomore Mariah Andersen said, “It was good because it’s over a really interesting topic that people do care about. I know a lot of people that go to Big House.”

While the world is rapidly grow-ing and adapting more to technology, broadcast journalism is ready to get the news to the people faster.

“It’s where journalism is going. Broadcasting is the focus of the future. Even if you take a photojournal-ism class in college, you learn how to operate video cameras. It’s like a one-person news team. It has to be multimedia,” Winkel said.

And while you might not be look-ing for a career as a journalist, this course has been described as a class that will prepare you for the future, no matter what it holds.

“I wanted to do something with journalism. When the teacher came in to our classroom last year and showed us podcasts, it really showed me that you could have a lot of freedom to do what you want. There’s nothing stop-ping you as long as you get your story in on time. It makes me wonder if it could lead to a career,” Robbins said.

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Columns and letters do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Hi-Line or Cedar Falls Schools. The Hi-Line editorial staff view is presented weekly in the editorial labeled as Our View.

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Business Managers: Jill Dally and Alex EntzNews Editors: Arlene Freudenberg and Sara Strever

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As of last week, there are no longer any editorial cartoons on the front page of a major circulating newspaper on a routine basis. This may seem insignificant to some, but to Brian Duffy (the Des Moines Register cartoon-ist whose lay-off due to budget cuts created this statistic), the people who enjoyed his cartoons and anyone involved in the newspaper industry, it is incredibly significant.

Why exactly is it so significant? Because it heralds a change to the newspaper industry that includes far more than editorial cartoons. True, this change was not brought about by the loss of Duffy’s cartoons, but the recent development clearly shows the magnitude of the situation. Especially when it occurred so close to home. Obviously, we are saddened by the loss of Duffy’s cartoons and by what it means for newspapers. More so, we are saddened, and at times worried, by the changes the newspaper industry is experiencing. Even before the current economic crisis, newspapers were facing hard times as the number of people getting their news from TV or the Internet increases. However, the state of the economy has truly been what has made it so difficult for newspapers as many people can understandably no longer afford to keep their newspaper subscriptions, and many news-papers can no longer afford to keep all of their employees. In spite of all these changes, we believe that newspapers will make it through these tough times, and that the country will as well.

Although the changes newspapers have experienced may be perma-nent, we in no way feel that they will lead to their downfall. The field of print journalism was obviously changing before the economic recession, and newspapers most greatly exemplified these changes. It is just that the economic recession greatly magnified the changes, and in some cases made them more than newspapers could bear, as they were unable to adapt as they otherwise would. We hope this will allow Brian Duffy, as well as countless other newspaper employees, to get their jobs back. We continue to remain positive that newspapers will continue to exist in the future. Just maybe in less numerous, smaller versions.

Republican party needs reform

Mike DrosteStaff Writer

Ben OlsonStaff Writer

With the dust barely settling on the election of 2008, the Republican party has already set their sights on 2012. The party itself faces an identity crisis—the last standard-bearer of the party, George W. Bush, has become something of a political taboo. Caught unprepared by their opponent’s strat-egy of pinning Bush’s name to their entire party, the Republicans lost not only the presi-dency for the first time in eight years, but lost several senate seats, giving the Democratic party a comfortable majority.

The Republican party has become a party of the south; unable to win over independents, newly registered voters or young voters, three demographics that certainly don’t bode well to the future of a party. The party that proud-ly declares itself the party of Reagan has, ironically, become something else

entirely. Gone is the progressive era of the Republican Party—the party that could win over Democrats in numbers

unheard of before and could sweep 49 states in a presiden-tial election.

“We have got to clean up, reform and rebuild the Republi-can Party before we can ask Americans to trust us again,” Jim DeMint (R, South Carolina) said.

Even in such dire straits, the Republi-cans have chances

for a quick revival. Tim Pawlenty, governor of Minnesota, could bring the north back into play for the party and would represent a fresh start from the Bush era of Republican politics.

Bobby Jindal, governor of Loui-siana, has been outspoken about this election and will almost certainly make an attempt at the presidency in

the next few decades. While extremely conservative both economically and socially, he’s a gifted speaker and could lure young voters.

Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, has also become an icon in the party. His social views range from moderate to conservative, and he’s a staunch economic conservative. His charisma has been showcased on late-night television appearances on programs such as The Daily Show, and like Jindal and Pawlenty, Crist has no ties to the Bush administration.

Regardless of their candidate in the future, the Republicans need an ideological shift.

A socially moderate, economically conservative candidate has a lot more appeal to the youth of America than a social conservative with the same credentials does.

The direction the party is headed in, while appealing to traditional Republicans, cannot win the hearts of independents, and without the inde-pendent appeal, the GOP will find any race they run to be a short one.

Over the course of the fall, amidst all the campaign ads, there were other ads running showing an older gentle-man talking about wind energy. You, like many other people, were prob-ably confused being that it wasn’t McCain or Obama. In fact, it was a billionaire by the name of T. Boone Pickens, who has a plan to break the United State’s depen-dence on foreign oil from the Middle East, and in my opinion, it is a plan to be taken seriously.

First off, Pickens is the founder and Chair-man of BP Capital Management, a successful energy organization.

One might be skeptical of an old billionaire coming up with an energy plan, but Pickens isn’t trying to cash in.

“I’m 80 years old and have more money than I will ever need,” Pickens said.

The plan calls for building new wind generation facilities that will

produce 20 percent of America’s elec-tricity and will allow the use natural gas as a transportation fuel.

Pickens says the combination of those energy sources can replace over

30 percent of foreign oil imports, and it can all be done in ten years.

A main driv-ing factor behind Picken’s plan is that our dependence on foreign oil involves our three current most important is-sues: the economy, national security and the environment.

It’s shocking that we currently import 70 percent of our fuel, given that the U.S. houses potentially some of the greatest energy globally.

“The United States is the Saudi Arabia of wind power,” Pickens said.

Studies the world over have found that the Midwest states have the great-est wind energy potential in the world. A Department of Energy study found that 20 percent of America’s electric-

ity can come from wind, and North Dakota by itself can provide a quarter of our country with energy.

The other part of the plan, calling for natural gas vehicles, will have a positive impact on the environment.

Natural gas is one of the cleanest and safest forms of energy and is the U.S.’s second largest energy resource.

Finally, wind energy is a huge investment for the rural states. In addition to creating new jobs in construction and maintenance, many people will be employed to manufac-ture turbines, which pays on a scale comparable to the aerospace industry according to Pickens.

All in all, this plan could be our answer to current economic, environ-mental, and foreign problems. Being that the wind energy and natural gas is so predominant in our country, there would be less tension in the Middle East; Natural gas is abundant and one of the cleanest forms of energy in the world, making it a perfect fit to fuel our transportation; and the Pickens plan as a whole will provide thousands of high paying jobs. While it may take more than ten years, it seems that hope is finally on the way.

Pickens plan answer to multiple problems

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ActionMen’s Basketball (1-0)Beat Ballard-Huxley 59-47Next: Dubuque Wahlert 12/12(6 p.m. @ CFHS) Women’s Basketball (1-3)Lost to Linn-Mar 72-33Next: Dubuque Wahlert 12/12(6 p.m. @ Dubuque Wahlert)Men’s BowlingVarsity beat Iowa City WestNext: Dubuque Wahlert 12/12(3:45 p.m. @ Valley Park Lanes) Women’s BowlingVasity lost to Iowa City WestNext: Dubuque Wahlert 12/12(3:45 @ Valley Park Lanes)Men’s Swimming Placed 2nd at Ames InvitationalNext: Marcussen Invitational 12/13(11:30 a.m. @ Holmes JH Pool)WrestlingPlaced 10th at Keith Young InviteNext: CR Prairie 12/11(6:15 p.m. @ CFHS)

Linden TerpstraStaff Writer

Though many are lining up for inoculations against winter ills, senior Tyler Hare has willingly given in to infection from an annual autumn malady that he’s contracted every year since he was 12: buck fever.

“Buck fever is my favor-ite part about hunting,” Hare said. “All hunters get it no matter who you are, and you will never lose it no matter how long you hunt. It’s basi-cally when you see a buck, no matter how big it is, you start to get really hot and breath really heavy and start to shake, so if you’re going to shoot the deer, it makes it really hard to aim.”

Hare knows all too well how debilitating that ner-vous anticipation can be.

“It was the very first morning of my very first time going hunting and actually trying to kill a deer. I was 12 years old, and it was youth season, so my dad went with me. We got up re-ally early that morning and headed to the spot that we were hunting,” Hare said. “We got into the spot we were sitting, and about 45 minutes into the

hunt, two average-sized bucks came walking through. I knew for sure they were going to walk by me, so my dad told me to get my gun up and ready,

so when they got into range I could take a shot at the biggest one. When they got to where I could take a shot, I was shaking and really nervous but took the shot at the bigger of the two. They both ran away, and we couldn’t find any blood.”

But the fever still racked Hare, so he wouldn’t give up without another go.

“So I went home kind of disappoint-ed, but I hoped that I would get another shot another. Sure enough, we hunted hard all week, and that next weekend I shot a doe at about 40 yards, so even though it wasn’t a buck, I still was re-ally happy because it was my first deer I ever shot. Basically, if you

are looking for a lesson that I learned from all this is don’t look over the bar-rel of the gun, and even if you miss a deer don’t let it get you down because

chances are you will get another shot at another deer later in the season,” Hare said.

Hare isn’t the only one roaming about in the wilderness, however. Junior Alex Clopton has also been fix-ated to get a deer.

Clopton, who also hunts turkey, pheasants, squirrels and rabbits, voy-ages out into the backwoods often. Having been hunting more seriously in the last three years, he stalked a flock of turkeys last year and hauled one in to eat for Thanksgiving dinner.

“It’s fun to be out in the wilder-ness. It was cool to be next to all those turkeys when they didn’t know I was there,” Clopton said.

Differing from Hare and Clopton, senior Aidan Brock can be caught car-rying a fishing pole while exploring a variety of waters in northern Iowa.

“I usually fish at least two to three times a week,” Brock said. “Fishing is just a way for me to relax and think about things.”

Brock has plenty of fishing stories to match his fondness of the wilder-ness.

“This summer some friends and I went to the northern part of the Iowa, around Bluffton, and I dominated everyone and caught the biggest fish, a 26-inch rainbow trout,” he said.

Whether hunting or fishing, the wilderness pulls together countless outdoorsmen to shoot, hook and maybe even eat all year round.

Turkey hunting is just one of junior Alex Clopton’s outdoor interests. He and other students took to the woods last weekend on the opening of shotgun season for deer.

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Senior Jay Brummel and the Tiger wrestling team placed 10th at the Keith Young Invite on Saturday, Dec. 6.

1.What do you like best about basketball?I really like the team chemisrty this year and how everyone gets along. It’s a lot of fun stepping onto the court knowing that I have my team’s support.2. How do you prepare for games?I basically stay to myself and listen to my iPod. I try to think about things I need to do during the game as well.3. Who is someone that you look up to and why?I’d probably say that I look up to my dad. He didn’t really have much fun growing up and worked hard to get where he is. He shows me that you have to work hard to get what you want and to never give up and to never be satisfied.4.What goals do you have for the team?Have a winning season and move it back to State. Overall however, would be to come closer together as a team.

Billie LuensmannStaff Writer

’Tis that time of year again when we deck the halls and sing our favorite team’s fight song. I’m talking about bowling season, the accumulation of the BCS football season.

In the Rose Bowl, the Big Ten champ Penn State will play the Pac-10’s USC. The Trojans will take this one because their defense is playing at another level since the loss to Oregon State. In the last six games they have held opponents under 10 points per game, so chalk up one for the Pac-10.

In the Fiesta Bowl, Big Ten-power Ohio State will play the Texas. I’m going with the Longhorns. Texas gets it’s revenge and shows why it should have been playing for the title.

In the Orange Bowl, Virginia Tech will represent the ACC while Cincin-nati will represent the Big East. The Hokies are going to win because QB Tyrod Taylor will lead the way with his hands and his feet.

In the Sugar Bowl, the Rolling Tide will play against the BCS buster Utah. You have to go with the obvious pick of ’Bama just because they play in a power conference and have the best freshman wide receiver in Julio Jones, so chalk one up for ’Bama.

In the BCS title game it’s Florida playing Oklahoma.

When Tim Tebow matches up with Sam Bradford, I’m inclined to go with Tebow. If the Gators come out strong with their explosive offense, they should come away victorious, just like they did over Alabama.

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