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After an incredibly long day at Decorah High School, Cedar Falls High School’s speech team man-aged to reach success after finding out that two of their groups were nominated for All-State.

On Feb. 7, the 14 speech team groups that re-ceived a Division I rating at Districts got on board the bus early in the morning once again, but this time they headed to the state contest at Decorah. Like Districts, the students in speech team spent the majority of their Saturday either in the hosting school’s gym preparing their performances or traveling around the building to see other performances done by different schools.

How State differs from Districts is that instead of one judge who rates the performance, there are three. This makes the rating process much more challenging since there needs to be at least two of the judges that give a I rating in order to achieve it overall. The results ended up with nine groups receiving a Division I rating and five groups receiving a Division II rating.

Receiving an All-State nomination is very difficult to achieve at State, but the two groups from Cedar Falls that came through were Readers Theater - “I Don’t Want To Talk about It” and Group Mime - “Friendship & Freedom.” However, only Group Mime will be per-forming in Ames while the Readers Theatre group will just be invited to attend.

Head speech coach Alyssa Unertl said she is sat-isfied with how the groups did at State. “I think ev-erybody did a great job at getting ready, and I think overall you can look at the ratings and you can see that everybody had a great day.”

Junior Tori King is one of the four members in “Friendship & Freedom” who will represent Cedar Falls at All-State at Ames. “It’s very exciting. I’m very proud of our group because it’s a pretty big deal.” King said. “It’s not often that people make it to All-

State, and I think we did really well.” One of the primary reasons why King thinks her

group did so well was due to the group’s coach giving them a lot of pointers. “He’s very good at constructing a good mime,” King said. Despite the results, Unertl added that the judges ratings don’t define the group as a whole. “All-State really is just judges’ opinions,

and they just pick who they think did a great job on that day. Unertl said, “I think those two groups where they all worked really hard and they worked together as group. They were really committed to what they were doing.”

Taking the lead in a practice after school on Wednesday, Jan. 18, is Olivia Mickey, sur-rounded by the other members of the All State-winning Readers Theater: Bekah Bass, Emily Bruss, Sydney Coloff, Emily Fishel, Taya Herum, Val Komen, Emma Redington, Mallorie Sckerl, Katarina Walther and Emily Wikner. The Group Mime team “Price of Freedom” with members Alexa Balong, Tori King, Katie Klaver and Redington also earned an All State rank-ing at the state contest in Decorah on Feb. 7.

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Two speech teams earn All State

Leah Forsblom PhotoStringsationalAt the orchestra pops concert at the high school on Thursday, Feb. 12, junior Olivia Martin and senior Adrian Amjadi got their grunge on with Nivana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The orchestra also played Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” from Despicable Me, which featured a dance from Andrew Nurse, Nathan Hall, Hiram Marquez, Ethan Smith and Drew Sannes.

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DANIELSEN By Staff Writer Sommer

Since October of last year, CFHS students Aditi Rao and Agatha Fenech have been working tirelessly to craft and perfect bills which they will present to subcommittees as pieces of potential legisla-tion. Both students have the privilege of being selected as part of the executive commit-tee on the State of Iowa Youth Advisory Council (SIYAC). Fenech is serving her second year on the council, and Rao is serving her first.

As vice chair of SIYAC, senior Agatha Fenech helps make decisions, agendas and schedules; determines changes to projects and provides support for the 19 other members of SIYAC. As a member of the Human Rights Committee, Fenech is currently working on a bill known as, “Yes Means Yes” in partnership with SIYAC’s sis-ter organization, Iowa Youth Congress. Recently passed in California, this bill requires

college campuses to adopt a policy regarding sexual as-sault. .

In this policy, both parties must give affirmative consent before engaging in sexual ac-tivity. If affirmative consent is not given, the policy guaran-tees an investigation and pro-tection for the victim. The bill also recognizes that a person cannot give consent if they are asleep or not responsive as a result of drug or alcohol use. Essentially, this bill takes the blame off of the victim; the accused rapist or assault-er cannot justify his or her actions on the basis that the victim did not say no.

Fenech said she realizes the size of the issue she is try-ing to tackle; however, with this bill and future legislation on the subject, Fenech hopes the amount of sexual assault cases at colleges in Iowa will plummet. “Sexual assault is a big problem, and it won’t be entirely fixed with a single

piece of legislation. However, this is a really good first step to dealing with sexual assault on college campuses. This “Yes Means Yes” legislation is groundbreaking because it not only addresses the prob-lem, but also the way we see sexual assault. That’s why I chose to work on this bill, be-cause it really turns around the perspective most people have.” Yes Means Yes is cur-rently Senate File 79, wait-ing for a subcommittee date. Three sponsors have also filed a concurrent bill in the house.

“This is my second year on SIYAC, and I am so grateful I have been given this oppor-tunity to lead and work with such motivated youth from all over the state. The formal, of-ficial side of SIYAC has shown me that I really want to pursue political science and law in my post-secondary education, and the informal side has in-troduced me to some of the most inspiring young people

I have had the pleasure of working with,” Fenech said.

Junior Aditi Rao is part of SIYAC’s executive commit-tee as public relations chair, where she plans events and fundraisers to rally support for the group, and promotes their current projects. Rao is currently working on a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors in Iowa.

The goal of conversion therapy is to change a pa-tient’s sexual orientation or the gender that they iden-tify with using an array of techniques, extending as far as procedures like shock therapy.This pseudoscience is based on the belief that a person learns homosexual or transgender behavior. Con-version therapy holds no proof of efficacy, but what it does hold is evidence of psy-chological harm to patients. With no scientific support for the practice, it has been dis-credited by nearly all major

psychological associations. This bill has taken its first

step in the drafting process and was presented to a sub-committee on Tuesday, Feb. 17. The bill advanced with senators voting 2-1, and it will be presented to a committee of the senate. If the bill ad-vances from the committee, it will be presented to the senate floor, where a decision can be made to adopt the bill as Iowa law.

Regarding why she chose this bill, Rao said it was an emotional calling. “It’s human rights abuse. The fact that we’re allowing this to happen tells youth that it’s not OK to be gay, that you must con-form to society’s standards.”

This is just the beginning for Rao, as she plans to pur-sue a career as a lawyer in the future.

Students working to pass laws

The room is half empty before senior Josie Leeper begins to sing. Seconds after her voice fills the Orchard Hill Church gym, the people liter-ally come running in. Individu-als in the crowd of BigHouse, a high school church gathering, look at each other in amaze-ment as they soak in her voice. The spotlight is solely on her as she sings, but she soon gives it up to her role model, Bradley Rees, who has been the Big-House worship director for the last four years and is currently a senior at UNI.

Rees grew up in Davenport before coming to UNI where he is now studying to become a music teacher. His story re-volves around a bump on his shoulder that he had noticed in high school, but he didn’t think anything of it. His then girl-friend (now wife) Alex, whom he had been dating since his freshman year in high school, made him finally see a doctor

Baking BenefitsThe bake sale on Thursday, Feb. 12 contributed to the final $750 CFHS dona-tion to the Travis Vaughn Memorial for veterans in Marshalltown. This Friday is another bake sale for the Dance Marathon.

Capital Contributions

Soul MatesTwo members of BigHouse worship team lean on faith, each other to pull through

about it. There at the doctor he was told by everyone he had seen that he had a sebaceous cyst, and once he had it re-moved, it would not longer be a problem.

The doctors removed the cyst, but trouble ensued on Rees’s followup. He had Ew-ing’s Sarcoma, a rare and ag-gressive bone cancer that at-taches to a bone and spreads. It often leads to amputation and has a 10 percent survival rate. “Hearing a doctor tell you that you have cancer is the most surreal experience,” Rees said. “The world just stopped, and it felt like I got punched in the stomach.”

Rees soon found out his cancer was different from the norm. His cancer never at-tached to the bone and stayed beneath the surface of his skin for three years without mov-

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ving or spreading. He went up to Mayo Clinic where the doctors told him that there was no cancer. The scanners were unable to see on a mi-crobial level, meaning that the doctors couldn’t guarantee he was entirely cancer free because they couldn’t see everywhere, so they recommended he do chemotherapy just to be safe.

It was a tough decision, but Rees decided to undergo chemotherapy. This caused him to be consistently sick, lack any energy and become dependent on narcotic drugs. People would come ask him how he was do-ing and say he was fortunate for get-ting to spend so much time with the lord with all of his newly acquired free time. He would lie and say he was do-ing well, and of his now available God time, he thought “Yeah it’s great. In our last conversation, I was begging him to kill me.”

Rees finally had enough and decid-ed to take his chances and stop che-motherapy. He has since been three years cancer free and is a year past the free and clear stage given to him by his doctors.

After Rees finishes telling his story, he urges the audience to think of a burden they’re carrying and let it go as Leeper stands in the same place and sings. As Rees walks off stage and to the side, without looking at each other, the two extend their arms in worship at nearly the exact same time. But their similarities run deeper than just sharing the same stage as Leeper is also a cancer survivor.

The journey that wound up chang-ing Leeper’s life began five years ago in seventh grade in a doctor’s office where her mother was worried she might have mono. “I had just heard how awful mono was. That’s the worst thing ever. I hope she doesn’t have mono,” Leeper’s mother Jenny re-membered thinking before they went to the doctor.

The doctor felt Leeper’s stomach to be firm. A couple days later, her family drove down to Des Moines where it was determined she had a tu-mor on her ovary. “It was the longest car ride to Des Moines I’ve ever had. It was the longest 12 hours her dad and I have ever had,” her mom said. “You always think it’s those other people.”

The process all happened in about a week, and Leeper was forced to miss around three months of school as she recovered from her own bout of che-motherapy. “There was never really a time that I thought I’m not gonna recover from this or this is not some-thing I can come back from,” Leeper said. “I think I just set it aside almost and just went through everything and didn’t think about it too much.”

She decided to tell her friends at a school dance and ended up hav-ing to console them more than they consoled her. “I hadn’t really compre-hended it yet, so just telling people

was a much bigger deal than getting told [myself],” Leeper said.

While she was still growing her hair back after the chemotherapy, she wore a wig that was very similar to her own hair but soon thought her hair was “super long” and no longer needed the wig. “I had a completely different perception of what it actually looked like. I was just thinking my hair was long enough to look normal and nobody would even notice,” Leeper said. “Looking back now, I had less hair than my dad.”

There were positives that came out of this situation, such as raising around $10,000 for the UNI Relay for Life. In seventh grade, Leeper and her team were able to raise the most money of any team that participated.

As time progressed and Leeper’s

hair continued to grow back, life seemed to return to normal. “It was good to have her act like a teenager again and to have times when you are mad at her because she was driv-ing you crazy. As much as things can drive you crazy, you’re actually kind of thankful for them,” Jenny Leeper said.

After beating cancer, Leeper was on a high note in her life, but, unfor-tunately, that didn’t last. In the spring of her sophomore year, she really got down on herself and struggled with body image and self harming issues. “I got to a point where really nothing mattered at all,” she said.

She started getting into drinking and smoking and would look forward to those things often in attempt to get away from things. “I really just hated my life,” Leeper said.

Things got to the point where she conceived a plan to run away from home. She bought a bus ticket to New York and was planning on just disap-pearing. She didn’t have a job and therefore didn’t have money. “I didn’t really have a plan other than get-ting away from everything,” she said. “Looking back now, it’s scary that I was in such a low place that I was go-ing to do that.”

Two of her friends knew of her plans to go to New York and tried to stop her, but she was at such a low point that she wouldn’t listen to any-one. “That year was one of the bigger struggles that I think of, even bigger than cancer.”

School got out for the summer, but the struggles continued until she went on Caravan, a trip through her church. “I just felt a joy that I had never felt before,” Leeper said. “I was just kind of blown away with how happy I was. I got home from Caravan and just never looked back.”

Caravan inspired her to try out for the BigHouse worship band, which is how she and Rees became con-nected. “She walked in, and her per-sonality was chill and it was real and it was authentic,” Rees said. “Then she opened her mouth and she sang, and it was just a pure tone, and it was ex-actly the kind of thing we would look for in a worship leader. Josie was the whole package, and she already had her voice. She knew who she was as a musician.”

After Rees battled back, he felt that he was extremely blessed. A final sur-gery that was supposed to take a few months, took a few weeks and didn’t require the use of the pain meds he had been previously addicted to. Soon after, he was accepted into a government program that wiped clean every medical bill because of his age and rarity of his condition. He was allowed to keep all of the scholarships he had previously earned despite not having enough credit hours, and he was actually was accepted into a grant program that gave him $10,000 to put towards school. Most importantly, he got married to his former girlfriend of six years.

Leeper and Rees combined to bring the audience to tears with her singing and his story one after the other. “You could just feel [the emo-tion] more so than see it,” said Leep-er, who cried the first time she heard Rees’ story.

Now as Leeper begins a new song up on stage, her final of the night, she messes up the first line of the song, a small hiccup in the big picture. With the help of the other band members, she puts it behind her and gets back on track as her smile lights up and she laughs it off and mesmerizes her audi-ence once again.

After facing a number of personal trials, senior Josie Leeper has used the faith she shows on stage at BigHouse to rise above.

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students begin to anticipate it as early as February, making preparations far in advance. Every element, from the dress to the date to the final details of prom night itself, seems to be planned earlier and earlier every year. What’s the rush all about anyway? The

Hi-Line set out to discover in a three-part, three-week series. We’ve already discussed the dress and the date,

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of prom’s details now. It will guarantee a stress-free prom night.

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A guide to prom night

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Brian Williams had one of the most important jobs in the country. As the lead anchor for the most watched news program in America, NBC Nightly News, it was his duty to inform the people of current events taking place all over the world. To do so, he needed to have the trust of his viewers, and he did. In a 2009 poll conducted by TIME Magazine, Williams ranked as the second most trusted newsman in America, narrowly after Jon Stewart. As a news anchor, his job is to tell nothing but the truth to millions of viewers every night, and as recent investigations have confirmed, he has failed in this mission.

During the War on Terror in 2003, in one of his reports, Williams said that the helicopter in front of the one he was in was shot by a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), and both were forced to land.

Later, in a 2007 retelling of the event, Williams said, “I looked down the tube of an RPG that had been fired at us, and it hit the chopper in front of us.”

After that, in 2013, Williams changed his story while on the Late Show with David Letterman. “Two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire, including the one I was in, RPG and AK47,” he told Letterman. “We figure out how to land safely, we landed very quickly and hard.”

And finally, just a few weeks ago, Williams recanted his story on NBC Nightly News. He said that a helicopter that he was travelling with was forced to land after being hit by an RPG, and that his was not hit. However, the pilot of Williams’s helicopter said his was in a different company altogether.

In light of his helicopter story, investigations have shed light on more of his inconsistencies.

Williams reported that Seal Team 6, the Seal Team that killed Osama Bin-Laden, let him fly with them in Baghdad at the start of the war. However, a special operations command spokesperson said that letting journalists fly with a counter-terrorism operation is against regulation.

Another of Williams’ inconsistencies was regarding the fall of the Berlin Wall. He said that he was in Berlin the night the wall came down, but according to CNN, he arrived the night after.

As a journalist, it was Williams’s duty to tell his viewers the truth and nothing but the truth. Millions of people relied on him every day to get educated about world events, and he betrayed that trust re-peatedly.

Williams told some lies, and his punishment is fitting, but the pub-lic outrage has to calm down. Williams has reported on a great deal of other stories, and did so while telling the whole truth. He was one of the leading voices through all of the recent tragedies, including the Sandy Hook shooting, the Boston bombing and Hurricane Sandy. His whole career should not be defined by these wrongdoings.

A positive to be taken from this situation is the knowledge of what people can do. The public outcry and thorough investigations done on Williams are an example of what can happen if a prominent public figure lies. The same public outcry and investigations must happen when any other prominent figure tells a lie, and the world will be a much better place.

Williams strays from his job to present news truthfully

MUSONIBy Staff Writer Malcolm

About 1.6 billion of the world’s population is made up of Muslims, but that hasn’t stopped those who believe in Allah (their name for “God”) from being the most perse-cuted religion.

Just a month ago a ter-rorist attack on a French sat-ire cartoon resulted in fresh examples of Islamophobia. Islamophobia is not an ideol-ogy or a fictitious term made up to ridicule those for having an opinion. Islamophobia is a term for the fear, hatred and prejudice of the Islam faith. The term gained popularity after the 2001 Sept. 11 at-tacks when many Americans started to vocalize their fear based on ignorance toward Muslims and this is now grow-ing faster than ever.

Junior Sara Ashar knows firsthand about Islamophobia. As a minority in a high school where her classmates are pre-dominantly caucasian and Christian, she has had to in-evitably prepare herself for at-tacks on her beliefs every day. She said, “It’s kind of hard sitting in a class and having a teacher bring up what they had been taught about Islam and sharing it with the rest of the class. I’ve heard some comments from teachers and students, but nothing that has made a dramatic effect or anything.” Ignoring and avoiding comments attacking your beliefs is easier said than done.

Looking at Sara one would not know that she is Muslim. There is no set look or charac-teristic that can help you iden-tify a Muslim. That entire mo-tif is based on essentialism. Sara herself, has opted to not wear the hijab headdress that many Muslim women wear.

The biggest misconcep-tion of the Muslim religion ac-cording to Sara are the rules regarding women. She said women wearing a hijab is 100 percent optional and is be-tween the woman and her re-lationship with Allah himself. Secondly, women are indeed allowed to have jobs outside the house, but rules formed under radical Islamic leaders

have prevented many Muslim woman in the region from do-ing so. Sara explained, say-ing, “My own aunt in Pakistan owns an independent busi-ness and is at times more suc-cessful than her husband my uncle.”

Many of the misconcep-tions that are held about Is-lam are formed from what we see in the media. James Eagan Holmes, the shooter who perpetuated the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater in 2012, was a Catho-lic. By all definitions he is a terrorist committing an at-tack of domestic terrorism, but the media didn’t call him a “radical Catholic” or ad-dress his faith at all when they covered the mass killing. He was labeled a sick, caucasian, impressionable man, and this coverage is opposed to what they would have done if Holmes had been a Muslim man doing the same crime. The media reports noting the religious views of criminals when it comes to crimes by Muslim people fuels Islamo-phobia.

Sara has spent the major-ity of her summer in the Mid-dle East visiting her extended family. She spoke of the dif-ference between the real-ity and the media portrayal. “I’ve personally traveled to war-torn countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and it is so different from what CNN or Fox portray it to be. Yes, there are attacks and violence within the countries like any country, but they are beauti-ful, peaceful countries that I have enjoyed my time visit-ing.”

Contrary to popular be-lief, the Islamic faith is a very

peaceful religion. The basis of the religion like Christianity is about love and believing in a higher power. There’s a verse in the Quran (the Muslim equivalent of the Bible) that says, “Whoever kills an inno-cent human being it shall be as if he has killed all mankind. And whosoever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the live of all mankind.” That entire passage disman-tles the myth of a violence-based Islam and proves that the basis of the religion is like any modern religion of our time.

Just this week Didier Fran-çois, a Frenchman who had been kept captive by ISIS, the media dubbed “radical islamic” terrorist group, broke new ground stating that dur-ing his 10 months of captivity his captives didn’t have even have a Quran. He went on to state that their motives were political, not religious and the Quran had nothing to do with their violent ideologies. It just happened to be that they were Muslim.

Sara, like many of the 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, is disappointed by the portrayal of her faith but is determined to not let the ignorance falter her faith. She said, “It’s disappointing to know that the rest of the world blames the wrongdo-ings of one upon an entire religion. I will never condone these atrocious acts, and I can guarantee neither would any other Muslim.”

It’s time to let ignorance based fear falter and let edu-cation prevail.

To combat Islamophobia, we must address ignorance

Misguided Messages

“Whoever kills an innocent human being it shall be as if he has killed all mankind. And whosoever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the live of all mankind.”

—from the Quran

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Best Picture

Oscar Nominations

Best Leading Actor

Participants

Best Leading Actress

Music (Original Song)

Who/What you WANT to win

Who/What you THINK will win

Addison Long

Dylan Peterson

Mr. Frenna

Josie Speltz

Addison Long

Dylan Peterson

Mr. Frenna

Josie Speltz

Addison Long

Dylan Peterson

Mr. Frenna

Josie Speltz

Addison Long

Dylan Peterson

Mr. Frenna

Josie Speltz

The Theory Of Everything

Grand Budapest Hotel

Birdman

American Sniper

Bradley Cooper

Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton

Bradley Cooper

Rosemund Pike

Julianne Moore

Marion Cotillard

Reese Witherspoon

“Glory” from Selma

No Comment

No Comment “Grateful” from Beyond The Lights

The Imitation Game

Boyhood

Birdman

Boyhood

Eddie Reymayne

Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton

Rosemund Pike

Julianne Moore

Marion Cotillard

Rosamund Pike

“Glory” from Selma

No Comment

No Comment

“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell

OScar Nominations guessing Poll

Senior Addison Long“I based my nominations off of the wins from the Golden Globes.”

Junior Dylan Peterson“Filmed over 12 years, Boyhood is a great achievement in film making. Everyone around our age should watch it as it is a very realistic depiction of growing up during the early 2000s.”

English Teacher Joe Frenna“I would like to see Birdman with the Oscar because it is such a unique and powerful expres-sion. This film doesn’t look or sound like any other film. The camera-work, honest dialog and quirky use of music really set it

apart.”

Senior Josie Speltz“In American Sniper, Bradley Coo-per did an amazing job at showing emotion and really played the part well. He even gained 40 pounds of muscle for the part. That is why I think he deserves to win.”

Are you

going to be watching the Oscars?

32% Yes 68% No

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Junior Alicia Harrington has been a varsity track member since her freshman year. She comes from a highly regarded track family where her two brothers have been successful while running for Cedar Falls.

How do you feel like you improved since your freshman year?

I think I improved a lot because the transition from junior high to varsity track is huge. It was hard at first, but the people on the team and the coaches helped me im-prove a lot.

How competetive are you and your family?

I’m mostly competetive with myself, and I think I get that a lot from my family. A lot of times peo-ple think track is all about winnning and getting medals and stuff, but I come from a family where I was brought up on the morals where you have got to make yourself proud before you make others proud. Winning matters, but for me, it’s more about doing better for myslef and improving for my-self.

Why do you love track? I love track because it’s such a

hard sport, and it’s all about doing better for yourself, so you kind of dictate how well you do to a cer-tain extent. It’s not about rules and regulations and stuff. You just go out and run and have fun and have your teammates cheering you on, and you get through it together. What goals do you have for the season?

This season I’m hoping to be state champion for the 200 be-cause I was runner up last year and also break the school record.

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WrestlingNext up: Feb. 19-21State Tournament

BowlingNext up: Feb. 25State Tournament

Men’s Basketball Next up: Feb. 23vs Waterloo East

Women’s BasketballNext up: Feb. 21

vs Dubuque Hempstead

Center Court Madison Wright Photos

The CFHS men’s basketball team’s regular season is coming to a close. Next Monday they face off against Waterloo East with the chance to play Cedar Rapids Kennedy on the line. If they come out victorious, the Tigers will have one more game to win in order to qualify for the state tournament.The women’s team battles Dubuque Hempstead on Saturday at home. If they beat Dubuque Hempstead, they have one more game to win in order to qualify for State. These pics are from the game the men lost vs. Xavier at home on Tues-day, Feb. 17.