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DECEMBER 13, 2012, volume 22, issue 4

Around this time of the year we stop to give thanks to the people we are grateful for and reward them for their friend-ship and companionship.

A few things to appreci-ate are a warm house, family and friends that love you, and food on the table. However, some families in the Fairfax, Centreville, and Westfield ar-eas don’t enjoy these luxuries and the holiday season proves to be the most difficult time of the year.

Anyone willing to volun-teer for a few hours can help out the needy people of our neighborhoods. You have the ability to make an array of kids happy on Christmas Day.

Our Neighbors Child (ONC) is a non-profit, com-munity-based organization, which began in 1992. The or-ganization began with just a few friends helping a dozen or so children receive Christ-mas gifts. The organization has exploded over the past few years into a volunteer group 400-strong. Providing holi-day gifts for children in low income families in western Fairfax County, ONC looks to

provide not only the gifts for Christmas Day, but also the es-sentials such as wrapping pa-per and cookies.

In 2011 alone, ONC provid-ed for over 2100 low income families and children. This year the organization will be celebrating its 21st Anniver-sary. The mission of ONC is to unite schools, local churches, local businesses, and individu-als in order to strengthen the bond between service and ful-fillment.

“This will be my first year participating in the Our Neigh-bors Child Christmas event but I am very excited to help out in my community as much as I can,” said Sahil Grover (11).

ONC has grown as schools from across Fairfax County and mainly the Concorde Dis-trict have been a huge help over the past few years. SGA teacher Demby Banbury has been involved in this program for five years now and hopes to continue her involvement throughout years to come.

Members of the school’s SGA class are encouraged to bring in gifts for the needy children and each receive the criteria for what each family seeks. The students must go

out, buy the gifts and bring them back to school so that the gifts can be transported to the ONC site. Each gift then gets put into a separate bag for each family in need.

All money donated to the foundation goes directly to a fund dedicated to the pur-chase of gifts for low income families. The housing, orga-nization, public relations, and administrative expenses are paid for by the ONC Funding Board.

Students receive service hours from this event and love participating so much that they always wish to participate the following year. The organiza-tion has a website (ourneigh-borschild.org) where you can locate all volunteer needs and upcoming events for yourself and the whole family.

The Centreville High School community stresses giving and caring in each and every day, and events like this show how much our school truly cares for those in need.

Come out and represent your school at the ONC give-away on Sunday, December 16, and volunteer online now.

A Season of Giving: Centreville Helps with the Holidays BY: KATIE BLUMER

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Teachers can do more than just recite lessons; they have full, exciting lives outside of the humdrum environment of school. Kathleen Kinsolving is an accomplished and critically acclaimed writer who has managed to take two books to print, and teach English classes at Centreville High School. Students might know her as Mrs. Willmann.

Willmann is the daughter of Lester Kinsolving, a staple of the political commentary community and of the White House Press Room. Mr. Kinsolving is famous, or perhaps infamous, for asking pointed questions and getting to the bottom of things in spite of the status quo. He instilled Willmann with a solid, hardball approach intent on getting to the issues without fluff. Willmann followed her father

into the field of journalism and political involvement through her book writing and her 6-year tenure as Journalism Teacher/Newspaper Adviser for the “Centerville Sentinel.”

“She really encouraged me to participate in the Writer’s Conference and to write for the school newspaper,” Sentinel writer Brenda Nguonly (11) said. “She explained how journalism is not just a job, but a lifestyle choice. She really emphasized honesty and ethics,” Nguonly added.

Willman wrote her first book, Gadfly, on her father’s prestigious career while keeping up with her English and Journalism classes.

She decided to lighten the load the second time around. Wilmann passed on the Journalism advisorship to fellow English teacher Chris Kervina this fall to free up time for finishing her recently released book, Dogs of War.

Willmann’s new book looks into the roles family dogs played in the lives of leaders President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General George S. Patton, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The depth of detail and background

information throughout the book is breathtaking, giving an inside look into the soft spots of the men you thought were made of iron.

The premise is an interesting one, one that has sparked interest and support from many who have had the fortune to read the book.

“The enthusiasm the book has been met with isn’t something I expected, people are really enthused by the idea,” said Willmann.

The people of the public are not the only ones interested in Willman’s book. The Cleveland and Phoenix Public Library Systems have already purchased copies to stock on their shelves beside her first book. The Fairfax County Library System is in the process of procuring copies.

Alongside the growing number of organizations carrying her book, news outlets and radio talk shows have taken interest in it, scheduling interviews both over the phone and in person. Willmann has already done dozens, averaging 2-4 a day.

If you want a copy of Willman’s new book, it’s easy to get from a number of

Former Sentinel Advisor Pauses to Write New Book

BY: Michael bollman and Erin Shin

online booksellers including BooksAMillion and Amazon. Two copies of the book are in transit to Centreville High School’s own library. If you

want a signed copy it’s fairly easy to get one when the author is just around the corner in the B Hallway.

CVHS Teacher/Author’s Second Book Examines Men of Power, Their Beloved Pets Through Stories, Historical Photos

News/OP-ED2 December 13, 2012

With holiday shopping, snow, the much-needed break, and oth-er features, the winter season is by far the most wonderful time of the year for Centreville Students.

One such neat feature is plethora of winter concerts! Each section of the CVHS Music De-partment has toiled endlessly to prepare for these events, and each department’s concert brings something distinct and unique.

The CVHS band will perform their winter concert on Decem-ber 6 at 7 PM in the auditorium. The concert will feature three band ensembles: Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind En-semble.

Beyond the fantastic music, the band will also provide for a humanitarian cause. Bassoonist Bria Coleman (11) said, “While the concert itself is free, we will be taking donations for the victims

of Hurricane Sandy.” Flautist Linda Kim (12) added,

“We will also be working with the Centreville Red Cross Club to or-ganize the donation efforts.”

Also, band President Connor Crilly (12) and Red Cross Presi-dent Yoonah Kim (12) are collab-orating in this effort. Admission is free, so come over on December 6 to enjoy a great concert and pro-vide for a worthy cause!

The CVHS Orchestra will perform their winter concert on December 13 at 7 PM in the au-ditorium. The concert will feature three orchestra ensembles: Con-cert, Chamber, and Philharmonic.

Besides the usual great music, this Orchestra concert will offer some interesting twists. Violinist Ellen Shin (11) said, “We’re gonna have the Liberty Middle School Orchestra play with the Advanced Orchestra.”

Having the Liberty orchestra play with the Centreville orches-

tra gives the young middle school students a taste of the orchestra life at Centreville! Don’t miss this awesome event and like the band winter concert, the orchestra con-cert is free of charge!

The Choir Winter Concert will take place on December 19 at 7:30 PM in the auditorium. The concert will feature seven Cho-ral ensembles: Men’s, Women’s, Concert, Bella Voce, Symphonic, Contempo, and Madrigals.

With that many choral ensem-bles, there has to be an attraction for everyone, but a few highlights of the concert stand out.

For one, choir and Centreville Alumnus Emmie Dohse will be conducting a piece for the Sym-phonic Choir. Additionally, cur-rent choir tenor Danny Cabrejos (12) will also be conducting a piece for the Symphonic Choir. As with both the band and orchestra concerts, the choir concert is free-for students!

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Last but not least, the Gui-tar Department participates in a different type of concert. Guitar Teacher Mr. Burke said, “We do individual classroom concerts if the teacher specifically requests. This is the 11th year we’ve been doing these individual concerts, and it’s basically become a Guitar tradition.”

The Guitar Ensemble that per-forms in these classroom concerts is comprised of students from Guitar 2, 3 and 4. Moreover, on the last day before winter break, the Guitar Ensemble participates in the school-wide holiday assem-bly along with the Band, Choir, and Orchestra.

As plainly seen, each music department has something inter-esting to offer for their respective concerts. However, these pre-views barely scratch the surface, so come on down to each concert and experience the solace of the winter solstice!

by: nathanael kim

CENTREVILLE MUSIC DEPARTMENT WINTER CONCERT EXTRAVAGANZA!

In a time where our lives are filled with fluctuating hormones and teenage angst, it’s no surprise we get ticked off at least a hun-dred times a day. It just feels like there’s so much to be mad about. In a survey of one-hundred Cen-treville High School students, it’s clear that teenagers are bothered by the similar things.

1. Inconsiderate teenagers (we basically don’t like each other all that much).

2. An enormous homework load that also has to be quality.

3. When parents think our lives are so easy.

4. Bad hair days.5. Justin Bieber (sorry all you

Beliebers).Let’s start with the first one.

People just don’t like people. It makes sense since half the stuff we complain or gossip about involves our peers. Clearly, each of us thinks the other is inconsiderate.

What does that mean? It’s probably the little things, like not throwing away your trash when you leave lunch to deciding the person behind you is too far away for you to hold the door for.

We should get it together guys, how are we supposed to inherit the country in the future if we don’t even like eachother? So next

time you see that person in the hall that you don’t really know, but have the urge to say hi to, skip the greeting and ask them how their family is or how school’s treating them. Actually, maybe don’t skip the hi, it may make things awk-ward. Point is teens, we should try to be a little nicer to each other, and maybe then we wouldn’t be so angry all the time.

Why does it sometimes seem like teachers get together and make plans to screw our whole weekends over?

For example, Teacher A sees Teacher B in the common lounge. Teacher A says “I’m giving out the biggest test ever tomorrow, it’ll be 150% of their quarter grade.”

Teacher B responds enthusi-astically, “That’s perfect! My 500 point annotations are due tomor-row too!”

Then they high-five for a job well done. So here we are, sitting at home, looking in dismay at the piles of papers that lay in front of us, wondering if it’s all some big coincidence.

What’s even worse about homework than the amount of it is the standards they’re held up to. Not only does all the homework have to be done, but it has to be quality. Who would’ve guessed? I didn’t. Probably took me until ninth grade to figure that one out.

Solution: we as a whole school community should reduce our standards to just having words on a page. I figure as long as there’s no white space, we’re learning.

Parents. They raised us and they know us the best. Except for the fact sometimes they have no idea what’s going on in our lives.

First off, as mentioned above, we have to turn in quality home-work. And there’s a lot of home-work. Then we have to study for tests, prep for presentations, col-laborate for group projects, and wake up quite early in the day to do these things. , but we do this all while balancing social lives

by: brenda nguonly and leaving plenty of extra time to check facebook and respond to tweets. There’s a lot more, but a list of all of them will look like we’re just bragging.

Bad hair days. What’s most annoying about them is they are days, as in the whole 24 hours. Dear hair, please get yourself to-gether. Solution: either piling on products or wearing a nice hat. Sadly, we’re a no-hat school, so the first one’s possibly more effec-tive.

Sorry Justin, I can’t help you. Maybe rethink your marketing strategies.

1. Other teenagers

2. Enormous homework loads

3. When parents think our lives are so easy

4. Bad hair days

5. Justin Bieber

Peeved Pupils: What Makes Our Student Body Tick

We are most bothered by:

• On Page 3 of Issue 3, there was a photo credit error for the story “Better Church Bells Than School Bells. One of the photos was incorrectly accredited to “Alison Foussekis” rather than Kate Foussekis.

• On Page 7 of Issue 3, there was a slight error in the article “We’re Not Just Playing Around; It’s Academic.” The article mentioned Seniors Ben Sando, Sabrine Ahmed-Iqbal and Joshua Lee. However, the piece incorrectly stated that Junaid Rehman (11) was a senior.

Sentinel Corrections:

The Sentinel is committed to correcting errors found in our publication. To contact the newspaper for that purpose, email CVHSnews@gmail.com or submit a signed letter via Mrs. Kervina’s mailbox in the main office.

FeatureDecember 13, 2012 3

Winter is quickly approach-ing. Even through the bitter cold, students find worthwhile things during the winter season, and such things make winter a favor-ite season.

Now that Thanksgiving is over, along with the many breaks Cen-treville High School enjoyed last month, students eagerly await the next break: winter break.

Students spend their winter break in a variety of ways.

Some take this time to avoid the cold, like Enzo Vargas (11) who is going to Disney World this December.

Some have returning family members to be excited about.

He’s one of the most humble guys in the school, a world-class athlete with a habit of hiding from the hype. He’s junior Mikhael Mantis, two-time silver medalist in the American Taekwondo Association’s World Championship.

An aspiring ninja as a young kid, Mikhael followed his ambitions and began taking Taekwondo classes at the age of 5. He quickly progressed through the ranks, achieving black belt status shortly after. Organized Taekwondo was fine for him for a while, but soon took his agile art outside the dojo to a new activity called, “tricking.”

Tricking is a form of acrobatics where practitioners focus mainly on linking together chains of acrobatic kicks, flips and twists in combinations, or combos.

YOUNG GRASSHOPPER? NO, PREYING MANTIS!

Pick Your Poison: SAT vs. ACTBy: Brenda Nguonly

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!”“My dad is coming back from

Afghanistan,” said Savera Meerza-man (11), “so we’re planning on going to New York for a couple of days.”

Others may be staying right at home, like Michael Zadeh (11) who has to stay in town for sur-gery.

Whatever the occasion, winter break not only means traveling and no school, but also means it’s time for the holidays. Christmas seems to be a common holiday celebrated by many students at CVHS in many different ways.

Haley Moore (11) said, “I spend time with her family and go to Silver Diner for breakfast on Christmas Eve.”

Zadeh said, “I usually gather

with relatives and have a huge party.”

“Every year we go to my uncle’s house,” said Meerzaman.

Considering CVHS’s diverse community, there are students who celebrate holidays other than the well-known Christmas holi-day.

“I celebrate Christmas only be-cause my aunt is Christian but I also celebrate Eid,” Savera Meer-zaman said.

What is Eid, you ask?

“Well there are two Eids a year; one is for celebrating the end of Ramadan (which is the fasting month) and the other is where Muslims celebrate the prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice

his son to God before God inter-vened and made him sacrifice a lamb instead, and on those days kids get money. We have to go to the mosque and the family gets together just like any other holi-day,” Meerzaman explained.

Regardless of the holidays cel-ebrated, everyone has his or her reasons for loving winter.

Haley Moore’s (11) favorite part of winter is the colder weath-er and how it gets dark early.

“Trickers,” as they call themselves, train and can be found in many locations, including fields, Martial Arts dojos, Gymnastics gyms, and even public locales. Mikhael found an interest in the tricking scene after watching Youtube videos of average kids doing spectacular stunts with nothing but sneakers and fighting spirits.

Mikhael even managed to make a group activity of his individual interest. He originally taught his friends and got them interested in tricking, but now spends all of his time attempting to keep ahead of them due to their quick progress in the sport. They spend their time hanging out together after school, showing each other new tricks they’ve learned and constantly attempting to show each other up. Mikhael had a fun side activity, but later learned the extent to which he could ply his craft.

Eventually Mikhael found a way to merge his Taekwondo and his love of street tricking into the legitimate sport of ATA-league tricking. He trained with ATA-sponsored programs to perfect his skills, eventually proving himself enough to qualify for The American Taekwondo Association’s Top 10 world competition. He won second place in the world in 2008 for XMA weapons, and second again in 2009 for XMA forms, two different disciplines of tricking. In 2011 he returned to worlds to win bronze in both XMA forms and XMA weapons.

The antithesis of boastful; Mikhael shrugs off every attempt to complement his world-class accomplishments. A four-time decorated world championship athlete, the man certainly deserves to walk with his head up a little higher.

By: Erin Shin

By: Michael bollman

Structure ContentEnglish (75 questions, 45 minutes) Measures standard written English and rhetorical skillsMath (60 questions, 60 minutes) Measures math skills students acquired in courses up to beginning of

grade 12Reading (40 questions, 35 minutes) Measures reading comprehensionScience (40 questions, 35 minutes) Measures interpretation, analysis, evaluation, reasoning, and problem-

solving skills required in the natural sciencesOptional Writing Test (1prompt, 30

minutes)Measures writing skills emphasized in high school English classes and in entry-level college composition courses

Structure ContentWriting (60 minutes) Requires students to communicate ideas clearly and effectively, improve writ-

ing through revision and editing, recognize and identify sentence-level errors, understand grammatical elements and structures and how they relate to each other in a sentence, and improve coherence of ideas within and among para-graphs

Critical Reading (70 minutes) Assesses students’ ability to draw inferences, synthesize information, distin-guish between main and supporting ideas and understand vocabulary as it is used in context

Math (70 minutes) Requires students to apply mathematical concepts, solve problems and use data literacy skills in interpreting tables, charts and graphs

ACT

SATHow does the ACT compare to the SAT?

Carl Ehinger (12)“The science section was hard on the ACT but the rest was easy.”

John Clements (12)“I thought the ACT was only harder because the science made it tricky. Howeber, the reading and english was easier.”

Jen Zenko (12)“The science on the ACT makes it harder but I liked the ACT better be-cause they don’t take off points for wrong an-swers.”

Rachel Orlowsky (12)“I thought the ACT was easier except the tim-ing was more difficult and the science was also hard.”

News/OP-ED4 December 13, 2012

The American youth have been growing out of touch with the government. Sadly, over the past two elections, there has been a disappointing voting trend among America’s young people. From 2008 to 2010, polls showed a 60% decrease in voter turnout. While the 2012 Election results may show a promising increasing in youth voter turnout, it remains clear that the youth don’t involve themselves with the American Government. At Centreville High School, however, seniors enrolled in the Government classes draft numerous bills, and as such ac-tively participate within the po-litical process!

For the past 6 years, the Cen-treville Government classes have participated in this bill project. However, how does this bill proj-ect actually work? Well, students find issues within the state of

Virginia and carefully draft bills based on issues they feel are im-portant to Virginia. Out of the hundreds of bills drafted by our very own seniors, the govern-ment teachers then select five to send to Virginia Senator George Barker. Senator Barker then se-lects one bill to send to the Senate subcommittee. The students who composed the bill then travel to Richmond to discuss the merits of the bill before the Senate sub-committee.

It raises the question: which student composed bills in the past have actually been sent to the Senate subcommittee for debate? The five bills selected called for school recycling documentation, required minors under 16 to wear bike helmets, made texting while driving a primary offense, put reflector strips on traffic signs, and required that passengers un-der the age of 18 had to wear seat

belts in the back seats. Out of all of these carefully developed bill ideas, only one was passed into full legislation. The Senate sub-committee passed the bill that re-quired minors to wear seatbelts in the backseat of a car. The fact that one of the five bills was passed is an incredible feat for Centreville. The seniors truly actively partici-pated in the American political process and were well awarded.

The 2012-2013 senior class has already submitted the bills in, and the Government Teach-ers selected five bills to send to Senator Barker on November 30. Of the many bills taken into consideration, few stand out. Se-niors Josh Rimer and James Kim drafted an interesting bill. Rimer said, “Our bill proposed to make teenage drivers place red decals on their license plates. Doing so would help identify teen drivers who break curfews and passenger restrictions.”

Government teachers Terri Ritchey and Cathy Ruffing shared

An interesting movement has begun at Centreville, an encour-aging one that breeds hope for the future of America. Two political clubs have recently been founded, the Young Conservatives Coali-tion and the Young Democrats, both intent on making a name for their respective organizations while informing and influencing the student population. This de-velopment has a lot of potential; potential for incredibly produc-tive inter-party cooperation, and for conflict. With both clubs rush-ing to swing a common audience to their sides, there is certain to be clenched smiles between them at some point.

As of November 29, both clubs are official, licensed, and fully staffed: ready for action. The clubs have held regular meetings over the last two months, the Demo-crats meeting weekly on Thurs-days and the Conservatives bi-weekly on Tuesdays. Both clubs create daily agendas to discuss a wide variety of political and lo-cally pertinent topics, the officers of both clubs assembling Power-points and writing speeches on topics relevant to students and general current events.

Presentations thus far have been on topics from Obamacare and health care reform to social affairs such as civil rights and racial prejudice in legislature. These presentations are meant to

expand and inform the minds of attendees as well as provoke intel-lectual discussion.

The Young Conservatives Co-alition and The Young Democrats are led by Michael Marrow (9) and Cedric Tan (11) respectively. Speeches were given by candi-dates running for each position in the two clubs, followed by elec-tions. Flyers, stickers, signs, sweat, and blood were put into the elec-tions; both President-elects fully having earned their places at the heads of their organizations.

A major point discussed in the creation and running of both groups was the intent of coopera-tion between groups. It has been highlighted as a large concern by both groups of students that adult candidates and supporters are so often incapable of effec-tively cooperating with members of the opposite party. This issue has led to the proposed solution of debates and other cooperative activites by those students who are on track to becoming political figures. In the Inter-club, debates are being scheduled where mem-bers of both clubs will be able to debate and discuss pre-selected issues, probably with a few tan-gential arguments thrown in. The groups will more than likely man-age to maintain their composures, but regardless, the discussions and the interactions between the groups throughout the year are sure to be worth watching.

It’s Going to be a Party

“I think that it makes students find real problems and solutions in Virginia, so they make real differences. This is truly a unique opportunity, and we are very appreciative to Senator Barker.”

BY: MICHAEL BOLLMAN

BY: NATHANAEL KIM

their own sentiments on the bill project and why Centreville start-ed this tradition in the first place. Ritchey said, “The Government seemed so far removed from the students. I wanted to give them a real voice in the political process. I also just love seeing the stu-dents come up with so many great ideas.”

Ruffing said, “I think that it makes students find real prob-lems and solutions in Virginia, so they make real differences. This is truly a unique opportunity, and

we are very appreciative to Sena-tor Barker.”

Centreville High School has really offered seniors with an ex-traordinary chance to have their own say in the Government. With this bill project, students are truly able to communicate what they feel are important issues that need to be resolved in the state of Vir-ginia. With the stark number of youth lacking any involvement with the American political pro-cess, it is wonderful that Centrev-ille gives seniors such a chance.

Samantha Zazzero (11) signs up for the Young Conservatives Coalition at the November 12 meeting.

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Winter TrendsBy: Erin Shin

Centreville Students Show Off Their Style and Give AdviceQ: Where do you shop? A: PacSun, H&M.

Q: What’s your favorite clothing article to shop for? A: Sweaters.

Q: What’s your favorite thing in your closet right now? A: Calvin Klein coat.

Q: Do you follow trends? A: No, I like having my own.

Q: How much time do you spend dressing up every morning? A: 10 minutes.

Q: How would you describe your style? A: Preppy.

Q: Do you have any advice on how to dress nicely but also warmly for the winter? A: Wear comfortable and warm clothes.

Q: Where do you shop? A: Urban Outfitters, Free People, Brandy Melville.

Q: What’s your favorite clothing article to shop for? A: Sweaters.

Q: What’s your favorite thing in your closet right now? A: Printed Free People pants.

Q: Do you follow trends? A: To a certain point, but I like to do my own style.

Q: How much time do you spend dressing up every morning? A: 2o minutes.

Q: How would you describe your style? A: Urban, comfy, and with a twist.

Q: Do you have any advice on how to dress nicely but also warmly for the winter? A: Wear layers, scarves, mittens, leg warmers, and beanies.

Q: Where do you shop? A: Forever 21, PacSun, Urban Outfitters, Free People, Anthro-pologie.

Q: What’s your favorite clothing article to shop for? A: Scarves.

Q: What’s your favorite thing in your closet right now? A: Lilac colored jeans.

Q: Do you follow trends? A: I look on Pinterest for ideas.

Q: How much time do you spend dressing up every morning? A: 45min to 1 hour.

Q: How would you describe your style? A: It all depends on how I’m feel-ing.

Q: Do you have any advice on how to dress nicely but also warmly for the winter? A: Wear big sweaters, put your hair up, and wear tights, jeans, boots, and nice jackets.

Q: Where do you shop? A: Thrift stores, Urban Outfitters.

Q: What’s your favorite clothing article to shop for? A: Pants, skirts.

Q: What’s your favorite thing in your closet right now? A: Sequenced top.

Q: Do you follow trends? A: I stick to what I like.

Q: How much time do you spend dressing up every morning? A: 1 hour.

Q: How would you describe your style? A: Spunky, with a lot of black.

Q: Do you have any advice on how to dress nicely but also warmly for the winter? A: Layering. I love layering clothes.

The cold winter season is for jackets, sweaters, scarves, mittens, and boots! It can be a challenge to still look nice with the over-whelmingly big and puffy winter jackets we so desperately need in the bitter cold. How does one stay warm during the winter but also fashion conscious? Layering is definitely a favorite for many students, which eliminates the need for those ridiculous winter jackets. Scarves and sweaters are also great for the winter. Here are a few CVHS students who have managed, or perhaps mastered, in finding ways to dress nicely but still stay warm!

Alexa Bueno (11)

Lexi Reid (11)

Bobby Dunn (10) Jennifer Zenko (12)

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News/OP-ED6 december 13, 2012

Wearing a long sleeved T-shirt with writing concealed under-neath, writing notes on the slate-like science tables, Alpha 2nd on the TI-84 calculator, and flipping over your ink covered hand to find important answers. These are just a few of the ways high school students have began to cheat on everything from everyday home-work assignments to the midterm exam.

High school cheating has in-creased over the years and many students are improving on their deceitful ways. More and more

grades are becoming fraudulent.According to a study in 2004,

recognized expert on cheating Eric Anderman, found some reasoning behind the cheaters motives. He found that cheating tends to increase when students make the transition from elemen-tary school to middle school, and then again from middle school to high school. This evidence makes people realize that the transition of higher level schooling not only induces social changes, but also educational and cognitive chang-es.

These shifted ideas about hon-est work can easily lead many

Are students at Centreville High making the right choice in school lunches? Is the school? Schools are always making the effort to provide a healthy lunch, but it’s the taste and look of the school food that makes it appeal-ing enough for students to buy it rather than give into pizza and French fries or decide to buy a few snacks from the vending ma-chine.

Five days a week students walk in the school to learn, hear lectures, take tests, or work on projects and rush out of school to do more work including home-work and extracurricular activi-ties. How these students are able to manage their work and sleep the hours needed for a healthy is an important topic to take into account. Nevertheless, no mat-ter how many times they are ad-vised to sleep a minimum of eight hours, most of the students are not willing to take the risk in fall-ing behind and continue to man-age their fatigue in school to keep up with their classes.

Schools can’t force students to sleep. However they can make sure students get enough ener-gy to get through the rest of the school day and one way is through their stomachs. Most of the time students view their lunch period as thirty minutes of freedom to chat, text, and relax. Schools on the other hand are focused on what’s important that’s whether students are using the time to re-charge by eating a healthy, well balanced meal.

Centreville made a good call in introducing a salad bar in the cafeteria since the line for the salad bar is crowded enough to have lunch ladies refill them halfway through a lunch period. What makes it so popular would be because of the abundance and variety of ingredients that can be added into a bowl more than half the size of a lunch tray. Still the additional prices on extra dress-ings and proteins are slightly ir-ritating to some students includ-ing seniors, Thomas Lee and who don’t like to consider cheese as an extra protein on their salad. For others its losing the chance to spend there time at the library. Some students are saying that the students quick enough to grab a lunch pass are usually students who come to the library to just sit here and eat their lunch like they would at the cafeteria, so it’s un-fair to the ones who do want to use the resources in the resource room, but are unable to get to the cafeteria before all the passes are gone.

“Well, if students are here to do work, then they are going to ar-range to get there quickly I would hope. If they’re not then they can always go to the computer lab and sign in during their lunch, if they’re not planning to eat. I think one of the benefits of hav-ing the resource room available is because students can eat and also use the resources. If they are going to skip lunch and do their work, then they can go to the computer lab without worrying about grab-bing a library lunch pass.”

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“I don’t think it’s good but people need to because school is so hard sometimes.”-Lexi Reid (11)

“I think it’s a good way to get slackers through high school so they can have a chance at having a future.”-Colin Reynolds (11)

“I’m going to be completely honest I’ve never really cheated on a test before. I’m perfect.”-Andrew Belloli (12)

“I think it’s wrong. I think cheating should be frowned upon.” -Will Fulton (12)

CVHS Student Thoughts: Is Cheating a Bad or a Good Thing?

Lunch Lacks BY: STEPHANIE WIGGINS

kids to convince themselves that cheating isn’t bad. They tend to believe that what they are do-ing isn’t something that should be disciplined. This idea has been getting worse all across the country over the last twenty years. According to research by the Education Program at Ohio State University in 2007, 21 % of enrolled high school students ad-mitted to cheating and continue to engage in it after their first time.

How does Fairfax County rank against schools nationwide for cheating? In 2009, studies from University of Virginia education-

al experts found that 61 % of all Fairfax County high schools stu-dents admit that cheating is easier than studying and don’t see it as a bad thing. According to an Ethics survey that the school system em-ployed in 2009, this trend is also seen in the number of students ly-ing to their parents.

“Lying becomes easier as you get older and I guess some of that just seems to transfer to your school work,” said Ashley Forbes (11).

A poll of 200 Centreville High school students from all grade levels shows what could be shock-ing to some. Of the 200 students

surveyed, 198 girls and boys ad-mitted to cheating on a test or quiz. Only one girl and one boy admitted to never having cheated in high school thus far. Relatively speaking, a mere 1% of students at CVHS haven’t cheated on a test or quiz before.

Some will read this and say “Well of course, all kids cheat,” and then some will say “What? That can’t be right.” The sad truth is that the ability to cheat is easy.

Cheating is easy for students now due to the wide range of available methods, so it’ll be a hard epidemic to fix.

“I think cheating is bad because you’re not doing your own work.” -Tara Fanning (10)

“Cheating is bad because you aren’t learning anything yourself.”-Drew Lucas (10)

“Cheating is very bad. You aren’t even learning anything.”-Nastassia Tiangco (9)

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Football Team Steps Up, But Falls ShortThe Centreville varsity foot-

ball team finished their season off with a record of 8-4. The team has worked very hard this sea-

The team took on West Po-tomac on November 9 for the region quarter-finals. Centreville previously lost to West Potomac during the regular season, 20-27

BY: Soo Lim Centreville defeated West Po-tomac 28-11. Xavier Nickens-Yzer (10) led the team to victory with a 99 yard kickoff return, 120 rushing yards, and a rushing

Wakefield (12) led the team with a fumble recovery and blocked punt. Though, the team also made some mistakes including a blocked point, a fumble, and in-

Captains of Oakton and Centreville meet at the center of the field and shake hands before the coin toss.

on September 7. However, this time, the team came out with great energy, ready to play.

“I felt ready to execute because we were given a second chance to prove ourselves. Everyone knew their responsibilities,” said Gus Simpao (12).

With the support of friends, family, and the coaching staff,

touchdown. AJ Turner (10) also assisted the team with 119 rush-ing yards and one touchdown along with David Liddle (10) with 15 yards and one touchdown re-ception.

On November 16, the team advanced to the region semi-fi-nals, where they faced the Oak-ton Cougars once again. Logan

terception. Centreville was up 13-7 in the

fourth quarter, but Oakton was able to get the ball and score a touchdown in the last three sec-onds of the game.

Centreville previously defeat-ed Oakton 49-28 on November 2, but was unable to pull out the win in the playoffs, losing with a very

son, practicing three hours each day, four days a week. Despite the team’s hard work, the Wildcats did not make it to the regional game for a chance to face Westfield for the second consecutive year.

“I am proud of them. Eighteen starters graduated last year so we had a lot of question marks but a lot of kids stepped up,” said Coach Haddock.

ning streak, losing 17-41 against L.C Bird.

Despite the loss against Oak-ton, the team has come a long way and improved incredibly over the past few years.

“It was definitely a game that we should have won, but ultimate-ly, I hope that we use this game as motivation for years to come.

close score of 13-14. Oakton later advanced onto

the regional finals where they de-feated Westfield 24-16. Oakton was unable continue their win-

“Ultimately, I hope that we use this game as motivation

for years to come.”

Andrew Ridenour (11) takes a field goal kick as John Clements (12) blocks Oakton player.

Rivals on the Field, Not the Floor: Centreville, Westfield Gymnastics Work Together

Though rivals on the foot-ball field, the Centreville and Westfield gymnastics teams have worked together for the past six years.

“It is nothing like the football rivalry, we all cheer each other on during competition,” said Caro-line Campbell (11).

During joint practices, the two teams have created bonds.

“They have great friendships even though they are rivals,” said

BY: Soo Lim Coach Richbourg. Holly Richbourg, head of both

Centreville’s and Westfield’s gym-nastics team is assisted by two new coaches, Kerri Giffuni and Emily Wetzel.

“Coach Richbourg is great. She makes sure we get things done so we are successful,” said Caroline Campbell (11).

This year, a total of 30 girls practice together, 15 girls from Centreville and another 15 from Westfield. They practice very hard, 3 times a week, and com-

petes at one meet each week.“Practices are fine to manage,

but it is a little more challenging at meets because both teams are competing at the same time,” said Coach Richbourg.

There are four main events gymnasts compete in: floor, beam, vault, and bars. The floor shows off one’s skill in tumbling and dancing, the beam demonstrates one’s balance, agility, and jumps, the vault presents one’s skill in tumbling, and the bars display a gymnast’s upper body strength through a series of flips and twists on a set of high and lows bars.

“I’d say the beam is the hardest event because the beam is really small and you get really nervous,” said Ciara Hoernke (10).

On November 29, the two teams competed in their first meet at Robinson. Centreville’s opponents included Wakefield, Washington Lee, Westfield, and Robinson. Overall, the Centrev-ille team placed third in this meet with the best scores on beams. Ciara Hoernke (10) had an out-standing performance and scored a 9.5/10 on beams and an 8.85/10 on bars. Hoernke took home first place on beams and another sec-ond place on bars.

The Centreville/Westfield gymnastics team has had a few members qualifying for regionals and states. Last season, Centrev-ille students Adrian Hurdle (class of 2012) and Ariella Nelson (12) qualified for regionals.

This year, the team hopes to accomplish even more from last season’s records. “We hope to

Varsity Football Student Section Wrap Up

What do you think of this year’s student section?

Tyler Gambone (9)“I like the ideas. We were loud but n\not as loud as last year. I liked the themes.”

Griffin Winter (10)“Compared to last year, it was definitely not as good. We were not as loud and I thought that taking away the baby powder took away a lot of ideas.”

Avery Rocke (11)“They were enthusiastic and creative with their themes.”

Amanda Linthicum. (12)“I thought it was a good turn-out. Everyone got really in-volved with the themes and everyone was yelling to get louder.”

Top row left to right: Cassidy Gaito, Ciara Hoernke, Marrisa Nikel, Mckenna Howel, Victoria Angel, Emma Lindsay, Bella Zazera, Uyen Troung, Paige Es-posito. Middle row left to right: Neha Rao, Mikayla Sonnenfeld, Marie Brit-tain, Sandy Ciappa, Sarah Ashwal, Caroline Campbell, Myra Gonzalez, Mol-ly Parrish, Vanessa Hayes. Front row left to right: Veronika Aurora, Regina Weiss, Kristen Pistell.

Ciara Hoernke (10) warms up prior to her peformance on Saturday evening.

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