Ti rHiLi eMay 5, 2009 Volume 49 Issue 23 1015 Division St. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613

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To raise money for special projects in the resource class, the resource students—including senior Tyler Nelson, sophomore Alex Graber and junior Morgan Hen-riksen—have been busily preparing many green items for their annual plant sale, which will run from Thursday, May 7 at 3 p.m.-5 p.m. and Friday May 8 at 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Items include geraniums, daisies, coleus, spikes and more. Costs range from 10 cents to $6. Student-created greeting cards will also be available for Mother’s Day, graduation and more.

Diane FlahertyGold Star Teacher

English teacher receives annual Gold Star award

Seed Money

Jillian DallyBusiness Manager

English teacher Diane Flaherty was one of the 10 recently chosen as a Gold Star Teacher from over 900 applicants in Black Hawk County.

“I was totally shocked. I know my face turned six shades of red, and I teared up. My 7th period had no idea what was going hap-pening. I was very humbled by the honor, considering how many wonderful teachers we have here and in the county,” Flaherty said.

Flaherty had no idea that she had won the award. Students and teachers alike believe she is a very deserving recipient.

“She puts so much time and effort into everything she does whether it’s involvement in the food drive, the numerous senior leader-ship activities or church. She always puts her whole heart and soul into everything she does. I know I can always go to Mrs. Flaherty if I ever need anything. I don’t think there is a teacher who deserves this award more,” senior Alice Miller said.

Flaherty’s involvement proves to be just another facet of her life that has helped her to bond with students and ultimately win the Gold Star award.

“Diane Flaherty is one of the best teachers I have ever seen. Diane cares about students, sets high expectations and really goes the extra mile for every single student. Her work with Senior Leadership just highlights her incredible work ethic and her commitment to students. Having hundreds of papers to grade on a weekly basis gives her plenty to do, but Diane volunteers her time to spend with senior leadership planning activities and developing strong relationships with each of the members. Some teachers are extremely intelligent and know their subject matter better than anyone. Some teachers are hard working and put in lots of additional hours. Some teachers form strong bonds with

students and really connect with kids on a personal level. And then there is Diane Flaherty, she is all of those things wrapped up into an unforgettable laugh and rosy red cheeks. I am honored to work with her and proud to be her nephew,” counselor Ryan Flaherty said.

Administration believed there was no better teacher to win this award and were very honored to be working with Flaherty.

“Mrs. Flaherty has a huge heart and cares about helping oth-ers before herself. She is the first

person to step forward for a new challenge or opportunity in our professional develop-ment process. She always leads by example and inspires those around her with her posi-tive attitude and work ethic,” principal Dr. Rich Powers said.

The Gold Star Award finds quiet role models among the crowd. The award aims to find teachers who make an impact on their student’s learning process and on their lives. They look for teachers who are committed to their students, their school and their teach-ing. They find teachers who love their job and can go to work everyday knowing they are making a difference.

“I still love teaching. What other voca-tion can you do something different each and every day? When I see a student who has been struggling suddenly understand, that is like no other feeling in the world. Each day is a new challenge, and I have learned so much about myself from my students and other teachers,” Flaherty said.

Flaherty said she teared up when she found out and was honored.

“Mrs. Flaherty does not teach because she has to teach. Mrs. Flaherty teaches because it is in her heart to do so, a heart that beats with vigor, enthusiasm and grace. She truly is one of those rare people you will find on this earth that gives everything and asks for nothing,” English teacher Troy Slater said.

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Editor-In-Chief

Nine Cedar Falls High School DECA participants traveled to Anaheim, Califor-nia last week with faculty advisor Matthew Flaherty for the National DECA competition. Participants were required to have placed 1st or 2nd at state, be president of State DECA, or be chosen leaders of State DECA in order to participate.

Senior Mike Bangston, senior Tyler Brewer, junior Lizzy Christopherson, senior Dylan Deery, junior Alex Entz, senior Matt Hart, junior Alexis Rokes and junior Linden Terpstra all fulfilled these requirements. Senior Mack-ensie Smith also was eligible to participate with her 1st place at state in Food Marketing Services.

There are several different circumstances and competitions in which DECA students may participate. Troendle participated as the state president of Iowa’s DECA chapter, Deery and Bangston participated as a team in the Leader-

ship chapter, Terpstra and Brewer participated individually in Entrepreneurship Franchising Buisness, Rokes and Christopherson partici-pated individually in Entrepreneurship Written Team and Hart and Entz participated as a team in Marketing Research Project.

Rokes felt that her competition experience went well.

“I thought our Presentation went well in general and we got good feed back from our judge so that was really good,” Rokes said.

For the most part, DECA participants enjoyed meeting other DECA participants from around the country and the general experience of the competition.

“I feel like the meetings I attended were advantageous and interesting, I had a lot of fun sight seeing and speaking with officers from other states. The best part was probably hang-ing out with the people from the other Iowa chapters and other officers,” Troendle said

There were no participants from Cedar Falls High School who earned one of the ten places available.

Nine CFHS DECA participants travel to Nationals in California

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Monica Clark Staff Writer

Winner of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, sophomore Melina Gotera is absolutely thrilled at the honor of being chosen.

This was the first year she had entered, and all of her work paid off. Gotera entered three poems and a short story to the contest, and a few months later her Language Arts Enrichment teacher, Judy Timmins, received a letter saying that three of her poems won Reginal Gold Key Awards. Afterwards, her poems were sent to the national judging contest. Months later, she received another letter saying two of her three poems won National Silver Key Awards.

Every year, professionals in the visual and literary arts review works of teens 7-12 all across the nation looking for the most talented teens. More than 140,000 works of art and writing were submitted to regional programs of The Scholastic Awards.

Gotera is one out of 1,000 students to receive a national honor.

“That (means) that I (am) invited to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City this coming June. It also means that my writing might be published in ‘The Best Teen Writ-ing of 2009,’” Gotera said.

Her older siblings started the legacy by winning the award four years ago.

“My older sister Amanda won a National Gold Key Award and a $10,000 scholarship in the Scholastic Awards for her writing portfolio, which included short stories, essays and poetry. Her writing was then included in ‘The Best Teen Writ-ing of 2005,’ which is basically an anthology of winning writing that is put out by Scholastic,” Gotera said. “The following year, Amanda was asked to be the editor of that years’s ‘Best Teen Writing.’”

Not only has her older sister had an effect on her, but her family has

Sophomore wins National Silver Key Award

been role models and supporters.“Along with my dad being a

writer and my mother an artist, (it) really pushed me along and gave me

an interest in the awards,” Gotera said.

Along with Amanda being pub-lished, she was interviewed on NPR.

For Gotera, she feels this would be the best thing in the world if she got the opportunity.

“She read some of her poetry and even made her interviewer cry. For me, that’s what it’s all about. I want to give a voice to people, who don’t know how or which words to use. Everybody feels pain. Everybody feels love, but not everyone knows how to say it. I try to reach people because I want to be reached. I want to be met in the middle. When you can make someone cry, or laugh, or even perk up their ears with your words, then that’s the best it can get. When you can move someone, or help them say what they need to, simply with a bunch of circles and lines on paper, then that makes both of you not so alone,” Gotera said. “If I could read my poetry on NPR, well, that would be incredible. I guess you could say it’s a life in goal. In the long run, I just want to make a difference in my life, and hopefully I’m on they way now.”

My mother found me under our white bunk bed one summer,in the middle of a nightmare.My three-year old body shaking and writhing, raspy voice crying out into the darkness around me, swallowing my shape.

My short limbs were curled upand around my abdomen,(counting ribs like loaves of bread, I laid there)each tiny finger stretched akimboacross the musty blue carpet.

She remembersmy legs, the same as a just-born horse’s,shivering newbeneath my own weight.

My mother found me in the middle of the nightone summer when I was very small.She found me where tree branches scratch windows and things go bump in the night, where the gap between

a box spring and the floor is the safest place to be.

One night my mother found me,tossing and turning,curled like a seashell in the middle of the floor. And she plucked me out

and held me.(uncurling my fingers, untangling the white cotton of my nightgown, unmangling this mess of mine)

Then she wrapped her shape around mine and cradled me, shaking, in the palm of her hands.

Today I open the fridge and look over its contents,picking at the seam of my shirt.

Today I open up the cupboard, my palms laid across my ribcage, and I count loaves of bread.

My mother found me in the middle of the day, fifteen-year old fist shaking in the air, my foot arched above the pedal on our sewing machine. She watches as I struggle to unfurl, uncurl, to untangle. Unmangle the mess of threads wrapped inand around each other.

Today my little brother stretches his own tiny fingers akimbo,building skyscrapers on the living room carpet, the legs of his structures shiver to hold uptheir own weight.

I count oranges on a table andI remember a nightmare that happened twelve years ago in the middle of the night one summer.

The shape of my mother,the smell of blue carpet,the chattering of my teeth against my bottom lip,my three-year old lungs gasping for air.

“At Age Three”

“This poem won the Regional Gold Key Award and I wrote it about a time when I was three years old and had a nightmare that I could fly and that my wings were tangled because my night-gown was tangled around the shoulders. I was so upset that I crawled under the bed and curled up in a ball, where my mother found me. This memory is vivid and something I have carried with me the rest of my life. This is about being small and the relation-ship between my mom and me. It’s about security, growing up and the frustration of being too young to understand your world.”

- Melina Gotera

Sara Strever PhotoSophomore Melina Gotera writes poems during her free time. Her efforts and talent won her the National Silver Key Award.

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o vu eir w3May 5, 2009

Opi ioNT ig rHiLi e

With all the things that consume my time these days, one of the last things I’ve wanted sucking up my minutes is Facebook.

The popularity of Facebook is staggering: The Facebook applica-tion available for iPhone and iPod Touch is the most downloaded appli-cation of all available in the iTunes Application Store. In December of 2008, digital marketing research company, com-Score recorded Facebook having 220 million unique users.

The popularity is not understated;

when my journalism class discov-ered that there was a new filter blocking out Facebook, we im-mediately got to work locating a proxy that would let us access our beloved accounts. Evi-dently we care about Facebook a lot, perhaps too much if we waste our class time trying to check if anyone wrote on our walls in the past seven hours.

Lots of my peers confess to a Facebook

addiction of sorts, one that has them checking their page at least six times

a day if they have access to a com-puter. Most people can agree that even if we log in just to “check our notifications” we end up clicking on one link, which leads to another, and then another.

The justification of using Facebook is often that it is a tool of communication. Why then do we have e-mail? For me, Facebook poses too much of a distraction and is completely unnecessary for day-to-day communication via the Internet. When I write e-mails I find that I choose my wording a lot more carefully than in a message over Facebook.

I’ve logged in once since April 19, and I don’t have a single regret.

Monica ReidaStaff Writer

The Gold Star Award for Outstanding Teaching is an impressive honor because, as the name implies, it awards outstanding teaching. It is even more of an honor, though, because it is the students who nomi-nate the teachers to receive the award.

Thus, it is known to all that a recipient of a Gold Star Award is not only deemed an excellent teacher by colleagues and peers, but also by students.

The opinion of the students is truly the most important one, as they are the ones who experience the teaching. Given that students nominate teachers for a Gold Star Award, the magnitude of what it represents is well demonstrated.

It is with recognition for the importance of the Gold Star Award that we would like to congratulate this year’s recipient from Cedar Falls High School, English teacher Diane Flaherty.

In addition to her teaching activities, Flaherty is the faculty advisor for Senior Leadership. Although not all of us are affiliated with Senior Leadership, its reach extends to us all, and those involved can attest to the effort Flaherty puts into Senior Leadership projects such as the Stu-dent Food Drive, as well as the support that she provides. Her students may also attest to the similar effort she puts into her classes and the support she provides her students.

Receiving the Gold Star Award is not the only indicator that Fla-herty is a meaningful person to her students. She was also chosen by Erica Scullin as a teacher that has had a great impact on her life as a part of the Iowa High School Sports Association.

It is evident that Flaherty is a teacher well deserving of this award. Although she is humble about her impact on her students and Senior Leadership members, as well as Cedar Falls High School as a whole, she obviously need not be. In this respect Flaherty’s students have chosen to honor her.

We, too, honor and congratulate Diane Flaherty for receiving the Gold Star Award. We believe that the Gold Star Award is important not only because it honors deserving teachers such as Flaherty, but also because it shows the significance of teachers and teaching in general.

Flaherty truly a golden teacher

Ben SadkowskiStaff Writer

Obsession with social network overrated

Twitter trumps Facebook for utility of possibilities

OMG! Did you hear that Ashton Kutcher and Oprah are on Twitter now?

Actually, I did. The large LCD Billboard near First and Tremont Streets has a large sign proclaiming “Follow Ashton Kutcher on Twitter.”

And, of course, I would want to know all about the latest show he’s developing that will probably bomb.

In the meantime, most people are dismissing it as nothing more than a Facebook rip off, which is unfortunate because un-like Facebook, Twitter has numerous practical applications.

Without searching too hard, you can find that several news sources “tweet”—the proper term for the writing of something on Twit-ter. KCRG, KGAN, KWWL, the Waterloo Courier, Cedar Rapids Gazette and Des Moines Register all have accounts on Twitter. With this, a news story can have a link put up and maybe the title to entice people to read the article. It’s like a break-ing news alert online. In addition, the three news stations I mentioned

above all have Twitter accounts for their weather teams, which can be used to put tomorrow’s fore-cast up or a sudden weather alert.

Not only can news sources use Twitter to get information out there immediately and maybe find out readers’ opinions, but the government can

use Twitter to inform people of news. For example, the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention is using the website to keep people informed about swine flu develop-ments.

One of the great advantages of the website is that people can have their accounts set up to send updates from certain users to their phones via text messaging. For example, every time the CDC updates its feed with developments about the swine flu outbreak, I receive a text message on my phone with the message.

With this capacity, think of the good school districts could do with it. During the winter, they could update their feed to have that school

has been cancelled or delayed. If parents are “following” the school district’s Twitter account, they can have it set up to receive the delays and cancellations on their cell phones.

I’d like to see Facebook do that.With the demise of Facebook,

Twitter will probably flap its little wings to glory. People claim that Twitter is a ripoff of Facebook, when in fact the tawdry social networking website has been trying to imitate Twitter.

But I fail to see how Facebook could ever be like Twitter. There are news organizations on Facebook, but they don’t update their pages as much as they update their Twitter feeds. One journalist recently com-mented on his Twitter account that more people followed his feed than were “friends” of him on Facebook.

Facebook is a place to sit around and go “OMG! LOL! LOOK AT THIS TWILIGHT RELATED THING!” It is silly, slight and simply there for fun. I’m sure people could use Twitter for this, but the professional aspects of it seem to overshadow the lighthearted uses.

Try tweeting and maybe see how nice it is to have news updates and find out about real things.

May 5, 2009

Tig rHiLi eF at rE4 The College Survival Guide

Jillian DallyBusiness Manager

Freshman year at college can be a scary place, but what is it really like when you’re a thousand miles from home and you have to depend on your-self to make your own way? Brown University freshman and 2008 Cedar Falls graduate Briana McGeough shared how she is handling college life away from her hometown.

“I’ll confess, I was especially homesick at the beginning of the year. It was hard to be thrown into an entire-ly new environment where I had never met anyone before. I actually flew home during an extended weekend, which helped me to recharge a bit,” McGeough said.

She said hanging out with your friends, getting into contact with rela-tives and exploring your campus are all ways that you can keep your home-sick emotions in check when you’re stepping out of your comfort zone.

“Facebook is very convenient for a quick message or update. Additionally, Skype (a free webcam service) is nice because you can both talk with and see the other person, making it a bit more personal,” McGeough said.

However, homesickness is just one of the issues college freshmen may

face. Money managing skills are a must-have when you are away at col-lege. With all the newfound freedom it is easy to be influenced by the lure of credit cards and overspending.

“I make a valiant effort to not go shopping, and that helps me to keep my expenses limited to basically toiletries, which aren’t so pricy,” Mc-Geough said.

Having a meal plan helps keep spending down, but with all the food choices and buffets, packing on the dreaded “freshman 15” gets easier.

“Honestly, I don’t weigh myself, so I have no idea. I think I have avoided it. I must confess, though, that the all-you-can-eat buffet style dining makes overeating a pretty easy thing to do,” McGeough said.

Managing your weight lacks impor-tance when looking at the large scale of college life. There are many groups you can join, activities to be involved in and class to attend making it easier to get involved.

“I was very fortunate to find a group of friends very early on in my college experience. Interestingly, nearly all of us are from the Midwest. We try to eat dinner together each night, and we plan to live together on campus next year.

“I’m involved with Brown’s

equivalent to a Gay-Straight Alliance. I am a chairperson for the Model United Nations conference that Brown puts on for high school students. This means I prepare information about a debate topic for them, and I facilitate debate during the conference.

“I also am a member of an organi-zation called the Sexual Assault Peer Education Program. We give presenta-tions around campus to various student groups about the importance of bystander intervention and provide tips for preventing vio-lence. I also mentor a couple of high school students.

“It is good to get actively involved to meet a lot of people. However, it is easy to get overwhelmed. I suggest two or three activities to round out your life on campus,” McGeough said.

With all the activities that go on during college, finding time to study isn’t as hard as one would think. An average student in college spends 12 to 18 hours in class, whereas in high

school people put in roughly 40 hours.“Time management is not as dif-

ficult as I had expected. I actually have a lot more free time. I try to allocate all of the 8 a.m.-5 p.m. time block to class and studying (with some extra studying thrown into the evenings), and I concentrate my extracurricular

activities and social commitments in the evenings,” McGeough said.

McGeough does not recommend last minute cram sessions. With all the free time that you have, there should always be significant time to study.

“I typically try to clear my schedule the five days before an exam, so I have plenty of opportunity to study. The day before the exam, I do have a tendency to go into hermit mode and sustain myself on oatmeal, peanut butter and

Don’t get behind in your classes. Do the readings. Go to class. Ask questions. Go to your professor’s office hours.

Get involved. Find activities you like and do them! It is a great way to meet people and a nice break from the pres-sure of school.

Take time for fun. You are in a new environment—explore it! Make friends! Learn new things. Step out of your com-fort zone. Think about the things you will regret not having done in college when you are 50, and do them!

Graduate shows challenges of college lifegranola bars, which is certainly not the most balanced diet, but it allows me to eat in my room, so I can focus on studying,” McGeough said.

According to her, when people go away to college, it is good not to leave home without their comfort items, but when they get to college the best thing they can acquire are friends.

“No matter how intense academics can get, no college student should live without friends. Forging relationships on campus is one of the most neces-sary and rewarding aspects of college life. I always make sure to spend a little time with friends during the school week,” McGeough said.

Whether planning to go to college just up the road at UNI or going off on a cross country adventure, McGeough said to always remember to keep in mind what one learned in high school.

“Truthfully, I had excellent prepa-ration for college in nearly all of my high school classes. Cedar Falls High School has many incredible teachers and offers many extraordinary, chal-lenging and fascinating classes. The four most valuable classes were A.P. Psychology, ALPHA Autonomous, Composition and Rhetoric, A.P. and journalism,” McGeough said.

She said if you are wavering on a class and aren’t sure whether or not to

“Brown has a very liberal student body that was abso-lutely ecstatic on election night. As soon as Obama’s victory was announced, literally thousands of students ran out of various buildings screaming and cheering. We all congregated in the Main Green, a big, grassy area on campus. The marching band started an impromptu con-cert, fireworks were set off and a parade commenced. We sang patriotic music and walked to the Rhode Island State Capitol Building. Around 2 a.m. the Providence mayor delivered a speech to us. A lot of us had worked for the Obama campaign, so it was truly a magical ex-perience filled with a lot of passion and enthusiasm. It was also inspiring to see so many young people with

such intense enthusiasm for politics.”

No matter how intense academ-ics can get, no college student should live without friends. Forging relationships on cam-

pus is one of the most necessary and rewarding aspects of college

life.—Briana McGeough, CF Grad

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Words of Wisdom Brown University freshman Briana McGeough shares her

history making story, one she will most likely never forget:

May 5, 2009 5Fat rETig rHiLi e Seniors, Take Notes.

Graduate shows challenges of college lifetake it. Take it. You never know what classes you are going to regret not tak-ing in high school when it’s free.

“I made two course selection mis-takes. I didn’t take any biology, and I didn’t take pre-calculus. Base knowl-edge in both of those areas would be very helpful in some of my current courses,” McGeough said.

When you get to college, Mc-Geough recommends taking a social psychology class. Even as a freshman, she said you encounter some profes-sors that think you are not as com-petent as older students, but bearing down and asking questions is a good way to show that you are interested and intelligent.

“The fact that they don’t think you have as solid of an understand-ing provides an excuse to go to their office hours, time when professors are guaranteed to be available to talk to students, and ask extra questions. This allows you to get extra help and actu-ally learn more, and it allows you to express interest in their class, which, honestly, can pay dividends in terms of your grade,” McGeough said.

Overall, McGeough suggests to stay safe, have fun, get involved, go to class, get extra help and study. Making it in college will give you that edge you need to succeed.

“Brown has a very liberal student body that was abso-lutely ecstatic on election night. As soon as Obama’s victory was announced, literally thousands of students ran out of various buildings screaming and cheering. We all congregated in the Main Green, a big, grassy area on campus. The marching band started an impromptu con-cert, fireworks were set off and a parade commenced. We sang patriotic music and walked to the Rhode Island State Capitol Building. Around 2 a.m. the Providence mayor delivered a speech to us. A lot of us had worked for the Obama campaign, so it was truly a magical ex-perience filled with a lot of passion and enthusiasm. It was also inspiring to see so many young people with

such intense enthusiasm for politics.”

G a y l e B r u e n e1. Eat nutritious foods—a diet of junk food and beer won’t feed

your brain.2. Get enough sleep—all night parties before a test don’t make

for good grades3. Learn to manage your time and make good choices

4. Learn to budget your money—it doesn’t grow on trees.5. Learn to do your own laundry—having enough clothes for a se-

mester and taking it all home to Mom may not be appreciated.

K i m T r a w 1. As college students, you will be required to write research papers for many of your classes. Many of your professors will

tell you that you cannot use all (or any) internet sources. You must learn to use your college’s library. Large college librar-ies can be very intimidating, so find out what kind of instruc-tion your college offers on using the library and take advantage of it. Some colleges offer a one credit 4-week course on using the library; some offer a 3 hour workshop; some may just offer tours. If you need help finding information, ask a reference

librarian. That’s what they’re paid to do—to help. Becoming com-fortable using the library will help you succeed in many of your

college classes.

S u z a n n e G e t t m a n1. Find out resources through the college and/or community as

to where you can go when you are not feeling well and need physi-cian evaluation-know the hours they are open and whether or not they are covered by your insurance plan. Check into this before

you are actually sick and need to be seen.2. Make sure you have a copy of your health insurance/dental

insurance/vision insurance cards with you when you go to college.3. Pack a small first aid kit with gloves, bandages, tweezers, antibiotic ointment, tape, scissors as well as general medica-

tions such as Tylenol/Ibuprofen, Benadryl, Calamine lotion, cough drops etc.

4. Hygiene is a must—wash your hands, cover your cough, don’t share drinking/eating utensils—those things you learned in kin-

dergarten really apply now!5. Make good choices—moderation is everything is an important thing to remember- Keep this in mind with regards to your daily

practices of eating, exercise, socializing etc.

Brown University freshman Briana McGeough shares her history making story, one she will most likely never forget:

CFHS Staff Share Their Tips For Making It Through College With Flying Colors:

N eW saR eel se

Music:•CiaraFantasy Ride•Ziggy MarleyFamily Time•Conor OberstOuter South•Elliot YaminFight For Love•New York DollsCuz I Sez So•The Dangerous SummerReach For The Sun

Movies:•Star Trek•Next Day Air

Political Scoopwith host

Tony WrightEvery other week, I will check in

with the latest developments in the world of politics and offer my own

thoughts about what I find.April 24/ Episode 14

There have been some interesting twists in both state and national

politics in the last couple weeks, and I’ll pick up a few these threads.

aP cod stThis week’s feature podcast as well as eight others that are updated ev-ery other week can be found on The Tiger Hi-Line Online (http://www.cedar-falls.k12.ia.us/buildings/cfhs/journalism/index.html) by following the podcast links. Internet Explorer does not work for viewing this site.

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Ent r inm nTtMay 5, 2009

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Much-anticipated Wolverine movie entertains fans, movie-goers alike

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“It’s a very very simple poem with a cute meaning. It’s a perfect rainy day poem.”

“It has an excel-lent message! It has a positive, hopeful message.”

“I don’t know. I just like it. [Poe] is out-of-the-ordinary.”

“It’s beautifully written and power-ful.”

Will ZeyStaff Writer

X-Men Origins: Wolverine begins in 1845. It tells the story of how James Howlett (Hugh Jack-man) first found out that he was a mutant. It then goes on to show him and his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) fighting in the Civil war, WWI, WWII and the Vietnam war. They then join a group with other mutants.

These mutants include Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand) who is super-strong and invulnerable, Jon Wraith (will.i.am) who can teleport, Chris Bradley (Dominic Monaghan) can control machines, Agent Zero (Daniel Henney) who is and expert marksmen and Wade Wilson (Ryan Renolds) who is a mercenary. To-gether they go through so much, but after an incident where there were too many senseless murders, James realizes that this is wrong and quits

the team. This movie fills in a lot of the

gaps that were in the other movies. It explains on how Wolverine comes

to have the adamantum in his bones. It also tells you why the rivalry be-tween Wolverine and Sabertooth ex-ists. The movie also introduces some

of the mutants that will be shown in the other movies. An example of this would be Scott Summers “Cyclops.”

The rivalry between Wolver-ine and Sabertooth has not always been there. They are brothers, and they have taken care of each other through many times. Sabertooth has always tried to be the best, always tried to be like Wolverine. After Wolverine sees that Sabertooth is becoming a ruthless murderer, he disowns him as a brother. This is where the conflict really starts, and it is explained in the movie.

The film has made around $87 million in its first weekend, and around $35 million of that was from the first day.

Overall, this movie is really great. It does a great job bringing all the loose ends together, and the spe-cial effects are really great. I would recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan of the X-Men series, or anyone who likes action/si-fi movies.

photo from nerdles.comIn the new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, viewers learn more about the iconic Wolverine’s mysterious past.

“Dejeuner du Matin” Jaques Prevert

“Dreams” Emily Dickinson

“Funeral Blues”W. H. Auden

“The Raven”Edgar Allen Poe

Anna Danforth Judy Timmins Marquerite DeMoss

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Men’s Track2nd at the Big 8 Classic Next: Divisionals 5/8 (5 p.m. @ Waterloo East)Women’s Track Won the Big 8 Classic Next: MVC Divisional 5/8(5 p.m. @ Linn-Mar)Men’s SoccerBeat Dubuque HempsteadBeat Dubuque SeniorNext: Iowa City High(4:15 p.m. @ Away)Women’s SoccerBeat Dubuque HempsteadLost to Dubuque SeniorNext: Waterloo East 5/12(4:15 p.m. @ Waterloo East)Men’s TennisLost to CR PrairieNext: Waterloo West 4/5(4:30 pm @ Waterloo West)Women’s GolfNext: MVC Super Meet 5/4(9:30 a.m. @ CR Prairie)

1. What do you enjoy most about golf?I love the girls in my team and the girls I play with.2. How do you prepare before meets?Warming up with the team and a little pep talk prayer.3. Who do you look up to? Who and why?My dad because he does everything a hundred percent.5. Do you have any memorable memories in golf? State is always fun especially when we are on our way to meets the whole team sings in the van.

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Stepping stones lead to fitness, healthJacqueline Jordan

Sports Editor

With warmer weather, the ex-cuses for avoiding a healthy lifestyle are fading each day, and, according to CFHS fitness fans, success isn’t rocket science.

Assistant principal Troy Becker is also the head coach for girls track and field and the boys cross country team. To get back into the fitness groove, he suggested, “This depends on how out of shape they are and how overweight they are. In general, I recommend that they start easy and build up to where they want to go. That way they don’t end up get-ting too discouraged. And, they need to decide what type of exercise they want to do. And most important, they need to have a set time in the day that they exercise. It needs to be treated like a job that absolutely can’t be missed.”

Knowing that having a well-bal-anced diet is also important in order to lose weight, exercising is usually forgotten in the midst. There are so many diets out there that guarantee weight loss, but one misconception is focusing more on having a healthy diet than exercising regularly.

“I like people and athletes to think about exercising other than just eating right. Eating the basics like fruits and veggies. In other words, just a well-rounded diet is important. Athletes who do endurance events longer than one hour should think about more carbs, but, for most of us, it is just a matter of having a well-balanced diet without a bunch of junk,” Becker said.

On an athlete’s point of view, sophomore Cassie Crotty said, “I try to eat everything in moderation, but I try to get some kind of protein every meal, so I don’t get to the point where I eat more than I need to.”

She also points out that drinking pop is bad for anyone. “I believe that pop is one of the worst things that anyone can drink — even if you’re not an athlete,” Crotty said.

Another thing Crotty said is “eating heavy at night” can be another problem people have try-ing to lose weight, because people aren’t usually ac-tive late at night.

Exercising is the key factor to losing weight Becker said. “All the research I’ve seen recom-mends at least 20 minutes of cardio at least three times a week. That’s the minimum. Obvi-ously, if you want to be in the best shape, you need to commit at least five to six days a week with different types of work-outs represented to target what event you’re going for. An example would be a runner needing at least one long run each week and some intervals to go with their normal running.”

Some runners like Crotty triy to stay in shape by cross training in sports such as cross country in the summer and basketball in the winter for when track season starts up in the spring.

According to Becker, another thing that people have misunder-stood to get back in shape is calorie

intake. It’s good to eat the right things, but constantly counting calories and not eating small snacks throughout the day will not help lose weight any faster.

“Being obsessed about counting calories is the biggest problem I see. If you simply eat proper portions of food and exercise, your body will go to its most natural state of health,” Becker said.

He also said, “If you want to lose weight, you have to burn more calo-ries than you put in your body. To lose weight properly in a way that it will stay off, you should do this slowly over time. Once you get close

to your ideal weight, you can simply focus on a well-balanced diet and let exercise help your body go to where it is most natural for it to be.”

Another thing people try to do is stay away from unhealthy foods altogether for specific reasons.

Some foods that Becker tries to stay away from are, “candy, chips, cakes and any drinks that have high fructose corn syrup in them.”

Ingredients like high fructose corn syrup are hard to stay away from or spot most of the time because they are in most food and drinks that people consume on a regular basis.

Things like pop most likely have this ingredient in them, but things like cereal bars and chips are not so apparent.

Popular food items like granola bars, cereal, chips, muffins and pop tarts may seem harmless, but when looking at the ingredients, high fructose corn syrup usually is one of them.

But, that doesn’t mean that one has to be driven away from food items such as granola bars altogether. There are healthy substitutes like searching for granola bars that are organic and making sure to look for other empty calories.

“Eating right and working out go hand in hand. If you don’t eat right, workouts are harder,” Crotty said.

She also added, “I don’t eat many sweets or eat things like potato chips or drink pop. The only thing that tends to be my weakness most times is chocolate. Eating chocolate in moderation is what I focus more on than not eating it at all.”

So cutting out unhealthy food al-together isn’t necessary, but focusing more on how much unhealthy food one eats and maintaining a consistent exercise routine is key to losing the weight one wants to lose to get back to being healthy and fit.

Eileen Crotty photo

Sophomore Cassie Crotty enjoys a day at the Drake Relays in Des Moines. She was the lead off leg in the 4x100 meter relay for the Tigers.

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T ig rHiLi eA Night on the Pier

“Three words: Jay Brummel dancing.

There is nothing like it.”

—Blake Ruane (’09)

"being with every-one & taking pic-

tures. It was also neat to see all of

my friends & their dates."

—Haley Voss (’10)

"my ‘favorite’ memory is probably my zip-per splitting open,

me running to the bathroom holding up my dress, & Cara

Strike's mom saving the day & fixing it." —Alyssa Beckman

(’09)

Seniors Eleanor Poe, Amanda Hosper &

Natalie Severson look pretty with Nat’s kitty.

"being in the arms of my date during a slow song

& singing that song on the top of our lungs

with some of the people around us."

—Alex Dally (’09)

Ali Stoddard (’09) keeps her lovely locks in place in preparation for the big night.

Looking like a prin-cess, Sydney Good gives date Shane

Fuller a kiss.

Looking gorgeous as ever, Ashli Schultz (’09) & Alissa Llewellyn partake in prom festivities.

(Left) French

manicures & sweet shades

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have at this year’s

prom.

Highlights from the Elegant Affair