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June 2012, volume 21, issue 8

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A few months ago, Mike Camp-bell made the announcement that he would retire. He later told everyone that he would be accepted a new posi-tion in Huntsville, Alabama.

Mr. Campbell has the reputation for bringing this community together when he moved from Westfield to Centreville six years ago. He has not only improved our community but has implemented a powerful new phi-losophy to learning. During his tenure, Centreville has been ranked in the top five percent of schools nationwide, and was second in the state last year.

Mr. Campbell started in Fairfax County in 1983 at Marshall High School where he eventually became the athletic director. He also coached football, basketball, and softball. Coaching is always something he has

participated in, whether it was SYA baseball or basketball teams to help the community.

He was later hired at Centreville as a sub-school principal and then left to be the assis-tant principal at West-field. A few years later, he became the principal at Westfield, then re-turned to Centreville to take on his dream job. He has been here since, and in this short amount of time has some wonder-ful recollectons. “There are many fond memo-ries of Centreville High School. I cannot begin to list them all. Every grad-uation, every award ceremony, every

c o n c e r t , e v e r y s h o w /p r o d u c -tion, ev-ery athlet-ic contest and many, m a n y more fond m e m o -ries,” said Campbell.

He has c h a n g e d Centrev-ille for the bet-ter with c h a n g e s and addi-tions. One

addition is CATS time which some stu-

dents believe to be counterproductive; however, many students do need the extra time to finish up homework or study for upcoming tests. Mr. Camp-bell also would never try to make a change for the worse.

He is always thinking of the stu-dents and what may affect them. Dur-ing his long career in the school system he is most proud of “The students and their many accomplishments and the success they experienced during their high school career.” He has always put students first.

Looking back on his teaching ca-reer he will always remember his time at Centreville. When asked on what he will miss the most, Campbell said “Definitely the students and teachers. Centreville is the best; they are all tre-mendous.” He has enjoyed his time at Centreville and always loved showing up to work for six years.

“Bully”: The Movie That Became a MovementBy Elaine Edwards

By Ryan Henson

Farewell, Mr. Campbell!

Mr. Campbell poses with school wildcat. (Photo Credit/fcps.edu/CentrevilleHS)

It’s one of the many tropes often portrayed in films about high school - the big, scary school bully marching down the hallway, knocking books out of hands and stealing lunch money as he trudges along to the next victim.

Like any cliché, it has its roots in the truth: bullies exist, and with the ad-vent of social networking and texting, they’ve become a frightening common-place. Bully is a documentary striving to stop that. And it needs your help.

Following the stories of five families who have been impacted by bullying, Bully demonstrates on a personal level what happens when a child is repeat-edly abused by their peers.

It provides a unique perspective that encourages both self-examination and that of the world around us, be-cause, we are truly the only ones who can stop it.

Parent Kirk Smalley, who lost his son to bullying, stated, “If we all [stand] together, we will change the world. It starts right here, right now.”

The most poignant theme is that di-versity is something to be celebrated.

From sexual orientation and religious affiliation to miniscule differences be-tween hair and the shapes of noses and eyes, people are an evolutionary mar-vel of variety and distinction; however, we are all still human.

And no one deserves to be treated as anything less, as all of the children whose lives are filmed have experi-enced - often to the point of such heart-breaking scenes as a parent’s tearful recollection of the suicide of one teen who just couldn’t bear the constant pain anymore; or the footage of one child’s daily beatings at the hands of his bus mates.

Seeing children suffering is a pow-erful appeal, though there’s a reason it tugs at the heartstrings. People, least of all kids who have not yet seen the best of life, should not have to suffer any longer in silence.

This is not an easy movie to watch, for all of the reasons described above and more. One would recall the battles with the MPAA to approve a PG-13 rating rather than an R. As a result, the film’s message is not a light burden, because this is not something that can be watched passively - it requires ac-tion. It requires you.

Recently, Centreville celebrated Ethics Week, encouraging students to speak out against bullying. In light of Bully’s release, it would be no small feat to re-evaluate what more can be done - has that call to action been an-swered, or will people continue to, out of fear and ignorance, reject what they do not make an effort to understand?

“Prevention of bullying starts with a change in culture,” said Steven Yu (11). “If you want to make a difference, it starts with building a culture of ac-ceptance and exploration of different points of view.” Melissa Millis (11) agreed, adding, “When I see people getting verbally abused I’ll stick up for them, especially because I’ve been through it myself.”

The change starts here. Bully is a powerful movie in and of itself, but it is more powerful for what it inspires. STOP BULLYING, as the film says, and SPEAK UP!

This is a movie that needs to be seen, and a message that needs to be shared, especially when you are in a position in life to do something about it. Don’t let this film, or what it stands for, go to waste.

Rest in Peace Bhavish Zinzuwadia.

The Class of 2012 will forever miss you

“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

--Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Bully movie poster. Photo Cred-it/http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/04/02/congresswoman-believes-movie-bully-will-help-pass-laws)

DIVERSIONS2 June 7, 2012

International Night Arises InterestsBY Nashmin Behrouzi

This year, International Night began a little early selling tickets in the mid-dle of March. Interests arose quickly with a staggering sale of over 100 tick-ets. The night began with dinner. Some people brought in a cultural dish to add onto the multicultural buffet, and everyone tried a little bit of everything. Some students brought family mem-bers, some brought their friends from other schools and others brought their siblings. After the dinner everyone en-tered the auditorium to view the fash-ion show. Students walked out in pairs of two, representing clothing from dif-ferent countries such as India, Turkey, Ghana, Japan, Bolivia and more.

This was only a preview to the show that followed it. Performances varied from traditional Indian dances, Japa-nese fan dance, Korean and English singing, Bolivian and Spanish dances, drum playing and many more.

The world’s greatest super heroes assembled in the action-packed and hilarious “The Avengers” this past May. Marvel Studios delivered the ultimate comic-book film, which tied together characters such as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruf-falo), and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) for a big-screen team like no other. Tak-ing center stage this time was Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), leader of the peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fury, along with former Russian spy Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), re-cruited a super team to combat Thor’s ever-deceptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) after he brainwashed ace archer Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), meanwhile stealing a cosmic cube, the Tesseract, from an underground base. His plan? Rule the planet every antag-onist seems to want: Earth.

Thus the heroes must learn to work together alongside outlaw scientist Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), who can track down the artifact’s gamma sig-nals when he’s not hulking out into a giant green monster. Despite each su-per hero’s individuality and different

“The Avengers” AssembleBY erin Shin

personalities, they learned, or perhaps barely managed, to come together as the Avengers.

Fans and viewers are able to get even more up close and intimate with these renowned super heroes in “The Avengers.” Viewers get to learn even more about each hero through their interaction with other different he-roes. With over two hours of action-packed and timely humor, fans can’t get enough of it.

The sheer amounts of positive re-sponses to this movie was staggering and at the same time nothing less than the expected, with 93% (rottentoma-toes.com) of critics giving it a thumbs up.

“The Avengers” brings justice to its overwhelming hype. “Perfect blend of humor and action,” one student stated. “It was so awesome to see all these super heroes together in a movie. I’ve been waiting for this for awhile now,” another student said. The Avengers sky-rocketed to the top of the box office with over a billion dollars. It was one out of only eleven movies in history that made the one billion mark.

While it may be the whole package for the comic-book fan boys, it is defi-nitely a great watch for any viewers

There’s an endless pit of self-pro-claimed artists on YouTube. Genuine Soundz just happens to be another one. There’s a big difference in him and the other artists: he’s good. Really good. Gurpreet Singh Sidhu, better known as Genuine Soundz is a 23-year -old Punjabi/Candian/British musician from Canada who’s making it big on YouTube.

Music is something everyone can relate to. “Music has always been something that is vital to my day to day actions,” Sidhu said. Although I’m about to tell you I began music with selfish intentions, there are stronger more sentimental ties that lie under-neath. I initially started music about 5 years ago, as a way to network and as a way to find some hald hearted flings. It sounds cheap in retrospect, but I be-lieve in honesty. Once I started seeing success come my way, in the form of positive feedback, increased expo-sure, the initial goals changed drasti-cally, and it legitimately become about chasing a dream that I hadn’t known would be possible.”

Behind everyones’ dreams, there is

always something inspiring them to move forward. “Honestly, I couldn’t bring inspiration down to (just) one person. I find bits and pieces of inspi-ration in a lot of people around me,” said Sidhu. His parents are one of his inspirations, “They’re first generation immigrants, they’ve started a life and a family in a foreign country, educated my brother and I and now allow us to chase our passion.”

Being raised in an Indian household where career choices since birth are doctor, lawyer, or engineer, I had to ask: What do your parents think about your career choice? “When I began mu-sic, my parents thought it was a phase. Then they saw me really dedicate my-self to it, which was a cause of concern considering I was still in University at the time. They ended up making a deal with me; as long as I got my degree, they’d give me a year to prove my-self. To prove to them that this could be a viable future. Everything went as planned and here I am. I’d just like to add that I’m truly blessed to have parents that see the light at the end of the tunnel and I couldn’t ask for much more,” Sidhu said.

I’m just one of the many fans Sidhu has on YouTube and FaceBook, but even he admits it, the best part out of all of this: the support and feedback from these people.“

The best part out of all of this is defi-nitely the support and feedback. I don’t make music for myself, I’m not the type that goes around playing his own stuff. Although it’s a great outlet of emotion and a great way for me to express opin-ions, music is made for the people who care to listen. The highlight of making an awesome track is waiting to hear the feedback from people. There’s nothing more humbling then receiving kind

By Pallavi Saini words from around the world.” There you have it folks, my last ar-

ticle as a senior at Centreville High School, and I’m so happy that I got to write it about a man who truly cares for his music and wants to make his lis-tener’s happy. Now make him happy by subscribing to his YouTube chan-nel: youtube.com/AGenuineSound, follow him on Twitter: twitter.com/GenuineSoundz, and like his FaceBook page: facebook.com/GenuineSoundz. There’s honestly nothing better than an artist that cares.

Genuine Soundz: A YouTube SensationStudents walk for the fashion show in their cultural clothing.

(Photo credit/Nashmin Behrouzi)

“The night was pretty successful in my opinion because we had a lot of people show up and everyone seemed to have a great time, it’s also a great way for us to get to understand each other’s culture better” said Viivek Shankar, vice president of the Interna-tional Club.

Some performers had practiced their talent routines for months before the night but some only until a few weeks before because they have per-formed international night the previ-ous years. “I dance all year round so I took parts of my other routines and sort of combined it, I did not practice too long” said Sonal Vijayanagar (12).

International Club members will be voting on the clubs president and vice president for next year and will be planning for International Night again. “This is my last year being in the Inter-national Club and I’m very glad I got to be a part of it, I hope next year’s In-ternational Night is just as successful” said Shankar (12).

News/OP-EDJune 7, 2012

you happy equivalent to serotonin in mass amounts. This feels great to the users; however, it inhibits the brain’s natural ability to continue producing serotonin at a high rate.

There are more and more reports of Molly being used by high school students as time goes on and one of the main problems is that many peo-ple who use it don’t have the faintest clue as to what they may be putting into their bodies. With such a collo-quial, non-threatening sounding name as “Molly,” who could really blame them? However, the problem is there nonetheless. “I’ve never heard of Mol-ly until this year but all of a sudden I’ve heard of a bunch of people doing it,” Cailey Powell (12) said.

That alone proves that it’s becom-ing a problem, as students talk to each other and say how cool the drug may have been while not knowing any long -term, potentially lethal side effects which are caused directly by the use of MDMA.

“Molly” is the popular slang term for pure crystalline MDMA which is the core molecule of this popular mind-altering substance. It is also the main component of Ecstasy; however, Molly usually refers to a much more pure form that hasn’t been diluted with many of the additives that are used to cut ecstasy. At first glance it sounds enticing: causing euphoria, reduced anxiety, and a closer sense of intimacy with others; however, the age old man-tra proves – if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

In addition to all the euphoria Molly users can expect a few negative symp-toms as well such as anxiety, paranoia, depression, fatigue, dizziness, insom-nia, diarrhea, exhaustion, and jaw soreness of which are likely to become chronic conditions. What happens in more basic terms is that Molly causes your brain to release some of the chem-icals which are responsible for making

It’s one of the worst days of the year for AP students: Exam day. Students spend countless hours pour-ing over review books, old material, and practice AP tests.

Finally test day arrives, and they’re subjected to a grueling, four-hour long test. There are two start times for AP tests: 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. Some students take two AP tests in one day, some-thing that is extremely unfair.

Teachers constantly stress to get a good night’s sleep the night before the AP exam to be prepared for the test. The problem with the test that starts at

Students here are able to achieve “academic success “without really learning and understanding much content at all. Sure we can memorize some information and regurgitate it for the test, but is there really all that much value in that?

A system set up for everybody to pass may seem awesome to the major-ity of kids; the ones who want to go to college but do as little work as pos-sible. (Kids like me)

But is it really so awesome? Is hav-ing a system where kids can pass with-out understanding material really a good thing?

It works great on a small scale. The student doesn’t t have to do

hardly any learning, he or she just needs to turn in every homework as-

about 12 p.m. (the second AP test of the day for some) is that this is some of the students’ second AP test of the day.

Those that take the second one im-mediately after taking the first one are going to be at a huge disadvantage to those that take only one.

Remember the teachers lecturing students to be mentally prepared for the test? That is pretty much pointless, since it is nearly impossible to not be drained after taking a four-hour test.

Molly Madness Makes Mayhem

College Board Gives Unfair Edge

AP Courses Counterproductive

by Jesse McCormack

by Joe dell

Staff Writers:

Nashmin Behrouzi, Courtney Burke, Mac Cassells, Philip Chris-

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Editor-In-Chief:Mac Cassells

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“Molly” is generally a powder that is inhaled, however there have been reports of people “main lining” or shooting the drug into the bloodstream. Pictured above is pure MDMA, however because the drug is often cut, not all “Molly” is pure white as shown above. (Photo Credit/marinij.com)

“I know that it’s really hard to take one AP test so I really don’t know how people take two in one day. It’s so long that taking two in one day would seem

impossible,” Evan Fuller (12) said.

This brings up another point: admin-istering two

AP tests in one day discourages stu-dents from taking multiple AP classes, something most students should do to prepare themselves for college.

Take comparative government, for

example. Though this is a great class to prepare one’s self for college, stu-dents are discouraged to take the class because of the fact that students are forced to take two AP exams in one day.

Sai Thota (12), who is taking com-parative government stated, “I re-ally wanted to take comparative but I didn’t know if I wanted to with having two AP tests in one day. I ultimately took it, but I’m really not looking for-ward to that day.”

That is a sentiment that is shared among all people who have to take AP exams from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“I didn’t know if I wanted to deal with taking two tests in one day.”

-Sai Thota

signment and complete every piece of class work (doing the class work may actually require attention and under-standing, but many in-class assign-ments are essentially checked for ef-

fort). All these completion points will balance out even a failing grade on a test. In other words, you can pass with-out knowing enough to pass. You can get an A even though you never got an A on a test

This system works perfectly for the school board , which is happy because it’s not being constantly questioned by

parents as to why their kids aren’t do-ing well in school.

Parents are confident that their child is building a strong learning founda-tion for college. In many cases they are,

but also in many cases their child just copies all the home-work in all

the classes, bombs the tests (if there are tests) and ends up with a B.

Even students who want to work hard win. They can take a full load of APs, which will make their GPA look great and even earn them some col-lege credits. Depending on the course and teacher, they may even be forced to learn a few things. “Yeah classes like

AP Physics have hardly any comple-tion grades-you need to do well on the test to get a high grade,” said Matt Dar-ling. (12)

So if everybody is winning, than what’s the problem?

The problem is that this type of sys-tem reinforces the idea that you don’t have to work hard.

You can, and if you do you will be rewarded (Notice the types of schools many wildcats are attending in fall) but you don’t have to. Rather than be given an environment in which you are forced to learn or fail, you are ex-posed to one that essentially allows you to take the easy way out. You can put forth little effort (or just cheat) and still get what most would agree are pretty decent grades.

“How do you run a school where everybody passes?”

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June 7 & 8, 2012Tickets sold at the door:

Adults-$5.00General Students-$3.00

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Active MilitarySerena Yun-U.S. NavyJosh Dungo-U.S. Marine CorpsMatthew Lee-U.S. Marines ReserveOlgo Batsula-U.S. NavyJessica Gomez-U.S. Marine CorpsTyler Roy-U.S. Marines ReserveAlec Reano-U.S Navy

Appalachian StateKaitlin Neilson

Auburn UniversityAlex HamrickSean Mauk

Benedict CollegeKellie Matthew

Boston CollegeStephen Broussard

Bridgewater CollegeAli Mendenhall

Brigham Young UniversityJessica Moore

Brown UniversityDavid ChungAlaina Forte

Campbell UniversityAnthony Lamb

Case Western Reserve UniversityDeep Ghandi Philip Kang

Catholic University of AmericaJon-Paul KaczmarekCourtney Burke

Christopher Newport UniversityRyan Crane Philip Christophe

Clemson UniversityAli DyerOlivia Whitehurst

Coastal CarolinaAnna Spitzer

Coast Guard AcademyMark Behne

College of CharlestonMelanie LuckLexi Murdock

East Carolina University

“Do not follow where the path may lead.Hayley FroehlichJade Monterrosa

Franklin CollegeJessica Ayer

George Mason UniversityAbdlrahman AbdelhameedEsther ParkNashmin BehrouziBatel YonaRabia MomenLeila TaweelRiley ConwayStella KimJohanna Ibarra MathiasSehnghwan SongCrystal NguyenHugh TranSyed K. AliEsther OkDae Hyuk KiwonBobby JackstaJohn NewkirkColin MehaffeyMatt DeVeraAiyla ArifKelsey CiarroccaHosanna HoNic StroverDavid CheneveyNick MerinoJuan PrietoGino Rodriguez

George Washington UniversityMolly Donovan

Georgia TechAdam Beaton Sai Thota

Glenville State CollegeManny Smith

Guilford CollegeMitch Ferrick

Hampden-SydneyJake Harrell

Indiana University of PennsylvaniaSarah JohnsonIan Lindsey

James MadisonKaren OrozcoRebecca BlakeNimrata KocharCaliey PowellDavid ChungEthan Graham

Rachel HollenbeckDavid ParkAndy SuhJiwon KimMelissa BurnsAustin LuperBobby San MartinCaitlin TerryJohn YoonAllen YiGrace OhTaylor BogemannDiego JaureguiEmmie DohseMegan BellChase WalterDanny JacksonEmily DwornikJohn Bowden

Johnson and Wales University, North MiamiChinnell Johnson

Lincoln University of PennsylvaniaKolin Demps

Lynchburg CollegeChaney Forbush

Marymount Manhattan CollegeAnthony IngargiolaLexi AcarMeg Larson

Marymount UniversityNandni KohliJennifer PerezKurt Michaels

McDaniel CollegeChris Jones

Millersville UniversityMegan McAuliffe

Mt. San Jacinto CollegeAngelika Sabile

New York UniversityGrace Bang

Norfolk StateTyra WhitneyKarim Barry

NOVAAngela VibasJessica GomezTyler RoyJoey WrenchSadruth MolguiTommy ReynoldsRicky TheresaJoseph BooneBelen HuaytaChris DiehlNathaniel ClemValerie DelgadoAdrian HurdleAshely GerenaChris HinesChinece WatsonJennifer ZelayaAmy ShinDarian BaumanEssra AraimMaaz AhmadNahom EndriasDiana KimScott FulmerAllan DavilaPablo TiendoJasmine MoranDaniel SimRamez MakhloufAyman EliabSam ZehrCarolyn FogleDesiree RichardsMark FlochNabil IbrahimAldrin EnriquezHae Sun JangBlair Young

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Northwestern UniversityBo Suh

Ohio State UniversityTasmia MouwiGarrett Leavitt

Oklahoma City UniversityJessie Peltier

Old Dominion UniversityMaggie HorohoJessica CillanAmanda VillanuevaPaul Kane

Pace UniversityHansol Lee

Palm Beach State CollegeMaria Morrison

Penn StateJeremy SwartzKatie Rouleau

Pomona CollegeKimberly Ona Ayala

Potomac State College of West Vir-giniaBrooke Wallace

Radford UniversitySean DyerNathon MiltonDanielle EvansJordan BrusickKathy BoomerMerrill HolmesCasey Nonemaker

Randolph CollegeEvan Fuller

Rose-HulmanKyle Burrell

Rutgers UniversityZack Sikora

School of Visual ArtsAshley Avila

June 7, senior destinations Go, instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shepherd UniversityMahta HarrinaChris SimpsonTravis Whitney

Simmons CollegeAshley Frongello

South Harmon Institute of Technol-ogyJoe Dell

Temple UniversityTexas Williams

The Art Institute of WashingtonGreg FieldsGisela DeConti

The Culinary Institute of AmericaAyana Teran

Transylvania UniversityLucy Figueiredo

UCLAJeewon Park

University of BuffaloHazel Arroyo

University of California BerkeleyRicha Namballa

University of Mary WashingtonJulia DiGaetaioWill SorberSun JunNaina PappanGeorgeanne Stuebner

University of Maryland Baltimore CountyKevin Lachance

University of MississippiMegan Easterday

University of North Carolina-Chapel HillBorahmie Chon

University of North Carolina-Wilm-ingtonErin Sanders

University of Northwestern OhioDavid Ferrufino

University of Notre DameKeegan Collins

University of OklahomaBailey Munson

University of PennsylvaniaVatsala GoyalMaria LeeGrace Jung

University of South CarolinaJuliana Mueller

University of South Carolina-AikenRyan Henson

University of TennesseeAshley Potts

University of VirginiaSapna RaoHayley AndersonKelly StrauchDaniel MolinaGabriel RushinEllen DraginisSiwon HwangCatherine FuArjun RaoMikael KimTrisha HajelaRameel AhmadDanica Hong

Jeong ChoChristopher BarkLora KimChristine KimErika HubbardPeter Bahng

University of Virginia at WiseMarcus Hillian

VCURachel LeeSung Kyoung KimJacob HongMatt StierTiffani SteelePaul ChungCarlos MorrobelDanny FunezCarisa RiveraJae Hyeun JooMorgan RandleMin SujuMrignayni VenkatesanPraveen MohahrajuKomal OthiCarlos VasquezFaby ArgandonaMichael HelmeLauren RodgersSonal VijayanagarJoo-Young KoJames ImJamie RondotPallavi SainiHyeongwoo JunJeremy Rombot

VCU ArtsEmily BerkleyMira KoSam ManeyTobin HorstKelly HicksCelina West

Virginia Military InstituteJoe Winkeler

Virginia TechSara HendrickGurkiran Sethi Melissa BabaJessie BerkleyConnor CulleitonElsi GodoljaDivya SharmaDanielle WilliamsAmit IshairzayJordan SmithPeter MaymanBret FiteJoon LeeBrett MartinValery LunaKayley ShomersMoiz NasirMatt SeabrookMichelle SinghKevin BrawnerMac CassellsKen EkanemKarina RiveraDaniel WeonOmar MalikBrian SuChristopher DarvishianAlex MayChrista GuhGrace YiBilly ErmlickBrian DinschelMark PiatkowskiKara LoveHoo la WonJosh KimKatherine KimAshima SekhawatTessie TranCarina KangRandy ChaingSara EmsleyTheresa Lu

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Virginia Union UniversityClaudia Arthur

Virginia Wesleyan CollegeJessica SeymourChloe LogsdonWest Minister CollegeMichael Chavez

William and MaryMontana SmithPrincess JohnsonMatt VlissidesEmily McLeniganInez PazChantelle TaitDavid KilpatrickJean-Paul AlemanCharles KellyMatt DarlingSydney BattleKatie Eichenberger

Winston-Salem StateJ.B. Mitchell

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Sentinel Seniors June 7, 2012

Name: Philip ChristopheFavorite Color: I’m red-green color

blind, so gray is my favorite colorCollege/Major: Christopher New-

portPosition on the paper: Sports and

Layout EditorFavorite Moment in High School:Running across the football field

during the homecoming game last year.

Name: Mac CassellsFavorite Color: RedCollege/Major: Virginia TechPosition on the paper:Editor In

ChiefFavorite Moment in High School:When the football team beat West-

field Most Awkward Moment in High

School: Taking someone else’s phone to the sub-school.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Holding a good job.

Name: Joe DellFavorite Color: BlueCollege/Major: South Harmon In-

stitute of TechnologyPosition on the Paper: Op-Ed Edi-

torMost Awkward Moment in High

School: When that guy asked Nash-min to prom.

Where Do you See yourself in 10 years: Lobbying

Name: Jesse McCormackFavorite Color: GrayPosition on the Paper: Op-ed

writerFavorite Moment In High

School: Travi’s Midrange is gar-bage

Most Awkward Moment in High School: Evan’s Mr. Centrev-ille routine being awful

Name: Ryan HensonFavorite Color: BlueCollege/Major: University of South

Carolina-AikenPosition on the paper:News EditorFavorite Moment in High School:Playing high school baseball with

all my brothers for 4 years.Where do you see yourself in 10

years: Working somewhere I want to be.

Name: Matt DarlingFavorite Color: BluePosition on the Paper: Writer for

op-edFavorite Moment In High

School: Senior yearWhere do you see yourself in 10

years: In School

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Name: Nashmin BehrouziFavorite Color: RedCollege: George Mason Univer-

sityPosition on the paper: Editor of

DiversionsFavorite Moment in High School:Passing GeometryMost Awkward Moment in High

School: I make every moment awk-ward

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Living in Hawaii with my husband and kids.

Name: Pallavi SainiFavorite Color: Lime GreenCollege: Virginia Commonwealth

UniversityPosition on the paper: Entertain-

ment EditorFavorite Moment in High School:When I graduate...Most Awkward Moment in

High School:When I called Court-ney Chloe...that was pretty awkward Where do you see yourself in 10 years? A Pharmacist in the US Army!

Name: Courtney BurkeFavorite Color: BlueCollege: Catholic University of

AmericaPosition on the paper: Business

Manager and Feature EditorFavorite Moment in High School:Going to Florida with the Varsity

softball team freshman year.Where do you see yourself in 10

years? Hopefully working at a job I love

Name: Erika HubbardFavorite Color: GreenCollege: University of VirginiaPosition on the paper: Staff writer

for FeatureFavorite Moment in High School:Beating Westfield in the Northern

Region FinalsMost Awkward Moment in High

School: When Nashmin didn’t know what 10 + 18 equalled

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Possibly in medical school....or married with a bun in the oven.

Class of 2012

Feature/Sports June 7, 20128

Varsity Boys’ Lacrosse Sticking With ItThis year the Wildcats lacrosse pro-

gram took the county by storm. The junior varsity and varsity teams man-aged to win most of their in-district games and finish the season with win-ning records. The junior varsity team finished the season with a respectable record of 6-3-1, while Varsity finished at 8-2-1. The varsity team started off the season with a bang with a reassur-ing and very exciting streak of seven wins, before finally suffering a defeat at the hands of Oakton.

Out of district teams were no match for the lacrosse program this year; however, on both teams the major downfall was the Concorde contend-ers. This season proved a huge mo-mentum shift from previous years, which were wracked with disorder and a disappointing lack of victories.

It is incredibly difficult to win games within the Concorde district, as it is one of the most competitive districts in the country. In this regard Centreville has done well, beating both Chantilly and Herndon, but most importantly, Westfield. This year the boys’ varsity

By michael Bollman football team and the boys varsity lacrosse team both defeated their West-field counterparts on the Bulldogs’ home turf. This is an enormous change in direction, as the Wildcats continue to steam forward, anticipating many more wins against Westfield. One of the biggest reasons for this year’s la-crosse season success lies in the coach-ing staff. Energetic and youthful math teacher and varsity coach Jed Williams leads the boys with a vigor unseen in many professional coaches. Beside him in the assistant coach position is fellow math teacher Oliver Small who has coached junior varsity for several years before signing on the varsity team.

The lacrosse coaches’ combined wisdom and expertise allows them to manipulate and design the goings on out on the turf, responding deftly to changes in the environment and strate-gically breaking down the other team. The coaches are supplemented by as-sistant coaches Hall and Sikora, along with many parents familiar with the game and willing to lend a helping hand and a few words of advice. The coaches are the ones who really made this year happen.

Although the coaches were very important to the success of the team, it is important to speak of how the team made itself perform so successfully. The mainstay of the team this year was Zack Sikora (12), a freakishly good midfielder with a habit of making the defense look stupid. Sikora (12) racked up a whopping 44 goals this year, along with 50 assists, in only 15 games. Sikora’s play is an inspiration to his team and to the specta-tors, a sight to behold while weaving through traffic and sending the ball to the back of the net as if the goalie wasn’t there.

Despite Zack Sikora’s prowess on the field, a team cannot be run by one player.

Fellow scorers Andy Balberde (11) and

Nathan Marks (11) moved the ball up and down the field consistently, burn-ing defenders like hellfire. Balberde and Marks both scored respectable amounts of goals, as well as com-pleting assists to attackmen Danny Meador (10) and Tyler Vennergrund (11). Although there were some rough spots in this year’s season, there were many parts which give hope for the fu-ture of the program.

Only a handful of seniors are grad-uating this year, meaning the team will be mostly the same, having more time

to build team chemistry and learn to fix the mistakes made during the sea-son. Promising junior varsity students will fill in the ranks, and the cycle will begin anew.

The season is over now, but the suc-cess of the Wildcats is hugely attrib-uted to off season league participation by most of the players from the team. Another year of hard training and fo-cus leaves every door open. This year, the Wildcats lacrosse program has be-gun something that is bound to make the school proud in the years to come.

As the Washington D.C. area buzzes with excitement over the signing of quarterback Robert Griffin III, Centreville art teacher Troy Hayes may be garnering in-spiration for a new three-dimen-sional painting of what might be the Redskins’ only hope for a suc-cessful season. Large action shots of famous athletes are not an uncommon subject for Hayes; in fact, he has painted many pieces commissioned by Adrian Peter-son, Emmitt Smith, and Reggie Bush, to name a few.

Hayes teaches Art 1 and Com-puter Graphics in his eighth year here at Centreville. He began studying computer graphics in college but changed majors and graduated from Virginia Com-monwealth University with a degree in Art Education. “I come from a family of teachers,” said Hayes. “I like being able to teach young students and still get to do what I enjoy.” Hayes previously taught at Fairfax Villa Elementary School and Vienna Elementary, for a total of 11 years teaching.

The 3-D paintings Hayes cre-ates are his pride and joy. “I’m doing what I want to now,” said Hayes. “The

three-dimensional portraits are more realistic, and I only want to improve

my work.” Hayes sets up his paintings at sports memorabilia shows with his

Teacher Todd Hayes: Artsy Over Athletesby Erika Hubbard partner—and that’s how he gets re-

quests from athletes. “They see my dis-

play and then contact me,” said Hayes.His work isn’t limited to just foot-

Hayes adds detail to his most recent work. (Photo Credit/ Erika Hubbard)

ball, however. Hayes has done paint-ings of Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant,

and is currently working on one of Alexander Ovechkin. “The 3-D ones sometimes take over 100 hours,” said Hayes. “There is so much detail included. I use real football equipment and jer-seys for it to pop out.”

Aside from athletes, Hayes’ other subjects include portraits of pets and children, particular-ly for special occasions such as Mother’s Day. He uses a variety of media including oil pastels, pencils, three-dimensional ele-ments in sculpture, and paint.

“Mr. Hayes’ style is very unique,” said Carlos Morrobel (12). “He takes art to a whole new level and perspective, and puts a lot of time and detail into each piece. Sometimes it’s hard to focus in my computer graph-ics class while he works on some-thing.”

Hayes says he plans to con-tinue imporoving his 3-D paint-ings. Smaller, two-dimensional versions are available for the regular customer.”They’re more affordable and take less time,” said Hayes. He does the smaller paintings for friends, family,

and who knows, maybe even for Cent-reville students.

Sean Doyle (11) gets ready to block Herndon’s offense. (Photo Credit/O’Connor/Picasa Web)

Zack Sikora(12) prepares to shoot. (Photo Credit/ O’Connor/Picasa Web)

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Centreville girl's varsity lacrosse fin-ished first in the Concorde district for the first time since 2000, finishing the regular season with a record of 11-1.

The team has many new excellent additions such as the freshmen and the new coach, along with the new players from the previous JV squad. The team has excellent bonding and uses this as a tactic to work together and play well. “We all get along really well. We’re all crazy, weird, and unique in our own ways,” said Carly Sane (11).

The team has used the opportunity to get to know each other and play to-gether better during their trip down to Florida. They played three games and ended their record 2-1 with a loss to Marshall High. This game was a big wake up call to the players as they took on the previous season champs the Oakton Cougars on April 13th.

The girls practiced very hard and were focused to win the big game. All their hard work paid off as they fin-ished the game off with a win, 14-13. Haley Anderson (12) was the leading scorer for the team with seven goals,

Carly Sane (11) with three goals, and Caroline Wakefield (9) with two goals. Reagan Newell (9) led the team to vic-tory with five assists along with Mag-

gie Dulkerian with two assists. “As a senior, it was really exciting to beat

Oakton because ever since our fresh-men year, it’s been a goal of ours to defeat them and it felt really good to finally win,” said Maggie Dulkerian

(12).On Wednesday, April 25, Centrev-

ille also faced a big challenge against the Robinson Rams at home. Robinson had a quick start to the game and was up in the beginning but the girls came back and the team managed to get a 16-14 win.

Sane (11) led the team with four goals, one assist, and three draw con-trols. Anderson (12) and Newell (9) both had three goals along with two assists. Danielle Smith (11) held the Rams offense back and pushed the Centreville offense up with one draw control, three ground balls, and one caused turnover.

On May 2 (Senior Night), the team played their last game at home and defeated our rivals, the Westfield Bull-dogs, 12-9. Sane (11) was the leading scorer with 5 goals, Newell (9) with three goals, Wakefield with two goals, and Katherine Zempolich (10) and An-derson (12) each with one goal.

The team hopes to advance far in the playoffs and win the states this year. “I think if we keep working hard, we can make it as far as we want to in the play-offs,” said Sane (11).

The team fell to Langley in the Northern Region semi-finals.

Girl’s Lacrosse Finishes Great SeasonBy soo lim

Reagan Newell (9) passes the Centreville defense during practice. (Photo Credit/ Shamus Ian Fatzinger/Fairfax County Times)

At the conclusion of a historic football season, the Centreville ad-ministration announced that two turf fields would be installed and would be ready for use by next year.

This dream is quickly becom-ing a reality as the school has raised $1.15 million to construct the fields. The main field will re-place the current grass field that the football, soccer, and lacrosse teams play on. The second field will replace the current practice field that is adjacent to the junior parking lot. Many funds that were raised has come from the Centrev-ille/Clifton communities who have graciously donated to support the effort. One idea the activities office had in order to raise money was to construct a brick wall inside the football stadium in which families could have a message personally engraved on the brick itself.

These memories will last a life-time for families and students who will come back to Centreville and see their names on the wall after

they have left the school. The activi-ties department has also made agreements with local business such as Fanfare Eatery and Valvoline to raise money raise money. There was also a Cats Casino Night event held to raise more funds. “Our community really stepped up to help our school,”said football coach and assistant director of student ac-tivities Chris Haddock.

All of our sports teams, band, and PE department will benefit from the turf fields,” said Had-dock. Haddock also added that “the turf fields will allow us to practice outside regardless of the weather. It also provides a safe surface for all of our ath-letes at all times.” Centreville will join Herndon, Westfield and Robinson as teams that have turf fields in the Concorde district, meaning that four out of the six teams in the district will now have turf fields. In fact, according to Haddock, nine out of the ten football games Cen-treville plays next year will be on turf surfaces.

Centreville Anticipates Addition of Turf FieldsBy Mac Cassells

The current 2011-2012 Centreville field will be transformed into a turf field next year. (Photo Credit/ Mac Cassells)

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Sports June 7, 2012

David CheneveyWrestling

George Mason University

Ryan Henson (left) Baseball

University of South Carolina-Aiken

Mark Behne(right)Baseball and football

Coast Guard Academy

Commemoration Corner-Remembering athletes playing in college next year-

Evan FullerBasketball

Randolph College

Mitch Ferrick Football

Guilford College

Courtney BurkeSoftball

Catholic University of America

Connor Coward Soccer

James Madison University

Ken EkanemFootball

Virginia Tech

Chaney For-bush

Basketball Lynchburg

Kevin LachanceBaseballUMBC

Philip Christophe Track and Field

Christopher Newport University

Marcus HillianFootball

University of Virginia at Wise

Chris JonesTrack and Field

McDaniel College

SportsJune. 7, 2012

Lexi MurdockSoftball

College of Charleston

Carisa RiveraCheerleading

VCU

Bobby San MartinBaseball

James Madison University

Chris SimpsonBaseball

Sheperd University

Ryan SepulvedaWrestling

Shippensburgh University

Matt VlissedesFootball

William and Mary

Chase WalterFootball

James Madison University

Travis WhitneyFootball

Sheperd University

Texas Williams Baseball

Temple University

Kurt MichaelsSoccer

Marymount University

Jared RondeauFootball

Emory and Henry

Zack SikoraLacrosse

Rutgers University

Manny SmithFootball

Glenville College

June 7, 2012