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Drama department held their semi-annual dodgeball tourna-ment in September.

Students share their opinions on assemblies so far this year.

Kaitlin Vickers shares her thoughts on the Infrastructure plan.

Check out the CTE classes offered in the Peoria School District.

Freshmen make it onto varsity football.

Juniors Andrew Benavidez and Alex Curtis participated in Battle of the Bands.

Needles, nurses and blood – oh my!

The annual blood drive sponsored by Health Oc-cupation Students of America (HOSA) is com-ing up Wednesday, Nov. 3, to offer students the opportunity to donate.

Senior Samantha Call, president of HOSA, be-lieves that everyone eli-gible should give blood.

“[Students can] save three lives, which is al-ways really good,” Call said. “I just think it’s a good experience to reach out to the community and help with everybody.”

High school students’ donations impact hospi-tals’ blood supply.

“Our representative for the American Blood Drive people came, and she said that when high

schools aren’t in session and aren’t giving blood, like during Christmas and summer, blood supply in hospitals is actually less,” Call said. “High schools actually give a lot.”

Many students see the benefits but shy away from giving blood. Call hopes people will move past their fears.

“[Everyone] should definitely do it because even if you’re afraid of needles, it’s not that bad,” Call said. “It’s just a quick little pinch in your arm, and then you don’t have to look at the needle. It only takes about ten minutes to actually give blood and then you’re done: you’ve saved three lives.”

Nurse Sharon Gillam also believes students should give blood.

“Consider the opportu-nity to help many others

with less effort and cost to oneself,” Gillam said. “Consider the fact that you or your loved ones may one day be a recipi-ent.”

Recipients are not rare.

“There’s actually a ju-nior at our school [Kellie Miner] who got 131 blood transfusions because she had leukemia,” Call said. “She’s helping out with advertising and stuff, so it’s really cool.”

Some students will not be able to give blood be-cause of health concerns.

“If you’re a girl and you’re under five foot six [inches], you have to meet a certain weight require-ment,” Call said.

If you plan to give, you should prepare before to prevent problems.

“You want to drink at least a bottle of water 30

minutes before you give blood and that you have a good amount of iron in your blood,” Call said.

HOSA hopes athletes will give blood in the morning so after school practice is possible.

“[In] four to six hours, your blood’s totally re-plenished, so you can do sports and everything just fine,” Call said.

Even if a person fears needles, Gillam believes they should try to give blood.

“Each donation helps multiple people,” Gillam said. “A single donation allows the donor to help more than one individu-al.”

Personal satisfaction is not the only thing gained from donating blood.

“You get cookies and juice after, so it’s good,” Call said with a smile.

Sunrise to hold annual blood driveKellie ReynoldsOnline Supervisor

Time of our livesEver read a book and

loved it so much you could not wait to tell ev-eryone about it? Or may-be you hated it and could not stop telling everyone you knew never to read it? Whichever the case, the Mustang Read-In is the place for you to express all these thoughts.

The semi-annual Read-In will be held Wednes-day, November 17, from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. This will be the third time that the Read-In is held.

“A friend of mine at Ironwood did this,” said this year’s coordinator Leslie Hunter. “He told us about it and...we thought we should do it here.”

The event has experi-enced great success for the past year, with 166 students participating first semester and 187 the second semester.

Teachers leading dis-cussions this year include English teacher Aman-da Richard and ceram-ics teacher Frank Eager. Richard will be leading a discussion on Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and Eager has selected The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell.

“I like that it’s a night about reading being fun,” said Richard. “It’s not at-tached to a grade...it’s just, let’s read this book and talk about it.”

Eager believes that reading these books can help students to get more out of their high school careers.

“[My book is] histori-cal fiction, so it’s based off stuff they’ve covered in school a little bit,” said Eager.

Whether students are interested in history or science fiction, they are sure to find something to appeal to them. Possible selections include The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Many teachers are looking forward to the enthusiasm generated by the Read-In.

“[Students] just like talking to other kids about the book,” Hunter said. “It’s very informal, but I think it’s just a fun way for kids to interact.”

Extra, extra, talk all about it at Read-in Chelsey SchmidStaff Reporter

Photo by Natasha Hossain

Photo by Kellie Reynolds

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Clockwise from top left: Seniors, students council and football players compete in a screaming contest to try to win the spirt stick. The senior class ended up winning the spirit stick once again. / Junior Olivia Gibson attempts to melt a block of ice by sitting on it. The juniors won the contest and were ‘The hottest kids at school.’ / Varsity cheer put on a performance during the Homecoming assembly. Dance, band and the COOP kids also performed. / Sophomore Robert Gieger shows off his dance moves at the Home-coming dance. The dance took place in the gym at SMHS.

November 2, 2010

theDispatch02Requirements for obtaining AIMS scholarship toughenNatasha HossainManaging Editor

In the past, students could rely on the AIMS scholarship as a source of money to get into college. While the scholarship is still available, the requirements to get the scholarship are much tougher.

“Many students relied on this schol-arship to help pay for college tuition,” Career Specialist Cindy Fair said. “With the new tighter guidelines, very few will receive it.”

The major changes are:• Students have one opportunity to

exceed on AIMS Reading, Writing and Mathematics during their sophomore year.

• Students must score an ACT score of 28-36 or SAT1 score of 1300-1600.

• Reduce the scholarship amount to 25% of tuition.

The criteria for GPA, competency courses and class rank will remain the same as previous years. These new changes will not go into effect until the class of 2013, current high school sopho-mores.

The Arizona Board of Regents vot-ed 9-1 in favor of these changes to the scholarship criteria and award amount on September 23 due to the financial problems of the colleges.

“Changing the scholarship require-ments helps the three state universities financially because the cost to send so many to college is expensive,” Fair said.

With the amount of the scholarship changing and the chances of getting this scholarship decreasing, students should start thinking about other ways to re-ceive tuition.

“One of the best ways to receive a university scholarship is to work hard for the best grades possible,” Fair said. “Many 4-year colleges give scholarships based on a high G.P.A. and involvement in school/community service/leader-ship/ACT or SAT scores.”

If you ever have the desire to see the Virgin Mary take a dodgeball to the face, thrown by Danny Zuko from Grease, there is only one place to go. That place is the Peoria Drama Dodge Ball Tourna-ment. Where every competing team is required to dress as a play or TV show character, you can bet things got very theatrical.

Sunrise Drama Club hosted this years Drama Dodgeball Tournament on Sep-tember 31 in hopes to bond all the dis-tricts drama clubs in a competition.

Sunrise was well represented at the tournament. SMHS Drama Club had three teams participate, the Damn Yan-kees, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Outsiders.

Drama Club President Lexi Collins said, “(We picked the Damn Yankees) because our team wanted to pick an ath-

ONE, TWO, THREE BREAK: Seniors Nicole Hale, Tanner Buckler and Marshal Vosler get together to strategize their game plan. The Damn Yan-kees worked together and won for Sunrise in the end.

Chelsey SchmidStaff Reporter

“We are pleased to in-form you that you have been accepted at Hog-warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the Sun-rise Mountain campus…” Thus begins the welcome letter of the SMHS Harry Potter Club.

The student organiza-tion was founded last year by senior Shelbie Staley, junior Toni Miller, sopho-more Kellie Reynolds and 2010 graduate Julie Mat-sen.

“I’ve always been a fan of the books and thought that it would be nice to get everyone together with something they love,” said Miller.

Staley also had other motives. She wanted to head off other potential

pop culture clubs. “I [had heard about] a

possible Twilight club,” Staley said. “Something had to be done about that.”

The club is devoted en-tirely to the Harry Potter series of books and mov-ies. Members are orga-nized into the four houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin) with a Head of House for each one except Gryf-findor. (Matsen, the for-mer Head, graduated last year.)

“I’m Head of Sly-therin,” said Reynolds. “It’s kind of not expected of me because people say I’m the nicest person they’ve met… [but] I think everyone secretly wants to be the villain.”

The club will be en-

gaging in many activi-ties throughout the year, including seeing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” together.

“We get to see the Harry Potter movie early, before it comes out,” said Miller, excited by the prospect.

Members were offered tickets to view the movie at Harkins Arrowhead the evening before it will pre-miere.

In addition to seeing the film, club members will be playing games (in-cluding a mock dragon egg hunt), competing for a House Cup, and going to see a Quidditch game at Arizona State University.

The college hosts a Quidditch team along with many other schools across the country, includ-ing the University of Ari-

Potter club starts activities, Muggles welcome

Brittany BadeJunior Reporter

Peoria schools add some drama to dodgeballletic play so we could dress athletically.”

Ironwood’s Drama Club President Nathanial Vogel’s team, Grease, took second in the tournament. Despite the loss, he was happy just to get everyone together.

“Seeing everyone coming together, having a great time, and seeing all my friends from different schools, it’s a real-ly great time,” Vogel said “The competi-tion was fun, but the togetherness made it memorable.”

It was an unanimous decision be-tween the five schools at the tournament that the most intimidating teams were Sunrise’s Damn Yankees and Ironwood’s Grease. So it was no surprise that these two teams found themselves facing off in the championship match.

“Since the beginning we really want-ed to beat Ironwood, because (former drama teacher Michael) Billar moved there,” Collins said. “But we’ve also done things in the past with them so we all

know each other.”On Ironwoods side, Vogel had similar

feelings before the match.“We just wanted to beat a Sunrise

team.” Vogel said. “We can take (the Yankees), and I think we can win.”

Unfortunately for Ironwood’s Grease team, Sunrise’s Damn Yankees came away with the title of champion.

In the championship game, there was a huge comeback made by senior Tanner Buckler. Without Buckler’s en-durance, Ironwood would have taken the win.

There are no hard feelings between any of the competing teams. In fact, no one can wait to participate again.

“It may be bi-annual. It will be at the school who won,” Collins said.

You can count on another set of the-atrical games sometime again next se-mester, and until then, potential par-ticipants will be thinking about some outlandish costumes.

zona, Harvard University and Middlebury College, where the Intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup has been held since 2007.

“It’s intense,” said Beth Joice, the Harry Potter Club sponsor. “[For] all those things that [the players do] on brooms, they’re running.”

New members are look-ing forward to being a part of the club and spending time with other Harry Potter fans.

“[I like] being around fun people who share an inter-est in the book[s],” said junior Emma Worlton.

The leaders can hardly wait to get all Harry Potter fans as involved as possible.

Photo by Morgan Brewster

WELCOME TO HOGWARTS: Junior Toni Miller places the “sorting wig” on junior Rachel Passer’s head. The students were sorted and enjoyed a feast with their newfound “houses.”

Photo by Daniel Allen

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Chelsey SchmidStaff Reporter

This Labor Day, President Barack Obama announced a plan for a $50 billion

infrastructure program to devel-op roads, railways, runways and other infrastructure elements.

His plans were outlined in a speech to members of the AFL-CIO, a prominent union organiza-tion, during the annual Laborfest celebration in Milwaukee. Amid cheers from union workers, he mapped out a proposal to spend huge amounts of tax dollars on construction and engineering projects throughout the country.

The plan is designed to up-grade “our outdated and ineffi-cient national infrastructure”, ac-cording to President Obama, and to give unemployed construction workers jobs.

This proposal, creatively dubbed “Plan to Renew and Ex-pand America’s Roads, Railways, and Runways”, comes at a time when it is not necessarily needed. Sunrise students may recall the roads that have been torn up in the area in the past year, many of them in perfectly acceptable con-dition, only to be repaved. There was also the recent “Liberty High School Pedestrian Median Refuge Island”, a concrete median lo-cated on Deer Valley Road, which cost upwards of $100,000.

Local governments have found themselves with a larger infra-structure budget than they know what to do with, but the funds come on a “use it or lose it” basis. If an agency is under budget one year, they can expect to have their funding cut the next. As a result, officials will usually find ways to spend the money they are given.

White House officials claim that this plan will be fully paid for, but are unable to say exactly how, citing only vague hopes of closing tax loopholes for oil and gas com-panies. While such a move may be politically popular with those who want to “get the big oil compa-nies”, it will have a negative effect on many American taxpayers.

When you buy a gallon of regu-lar gasoline, about 15 percent of

Planes, trains, automobiles: impact of infrastructure plan on U.S.

the plan Calls for:• 150,000 miles of roads to be built and or repaired• 4,000 miles of railways to be constructed and repaired, including high-speed rail lines• 150 miles of runways to be rebuilt or createdUpdates to the air traffic control system• Bridge and dam con-struction• National “Infrastructure Bank” to “leverage federal dollars” • Smart Electric Grid• “Expanded Broadband Access”

what you are paying goes to state and federal taxes; this number is already high enough. If tax loop-holes are closed for companies, they will most likely only pass those costs along to the consumer (you or your parents) in the form of higher prices. So, in the end, who is actually paying the $50 billion tab?

Furthermore, do government officials truly realize how much money $50 billion is? Remem-ber when a billion dollars was big money? Now, however, because of the astronomical rate of spending and governmental waste, it has become small change in the grand scheme of things that makes up the mess of the federal budget.

Ridiculous spending has con-sequences, a fact that many seem to disregard. Let’s do some sim-ple math. The U.S. national debt is over $13.5 trillion, and the in-terest payment on that for 2010 alone is over $300 billion, making it the fourth largest budget item for the federal government. That adds up to a great deal of taxpay-er money that is essentially being thrown away because the govern-ment cannot keep itself within the limits of its budget.

The last thing this country needs is more wasteful spending to heap debts and interest pay-ments upon the taxpayers of the future: today’s youth.

One of the largest flaws with the President’s plan is the fact that it calls for an Infrastructure Bank “to leverage federal dollars and focus on the smartest invest-ments,” as Obama said in his La-bor Day speech.

This Bank will be governed by a five-member Board of Direc-tors, all appointed by the Presi-dent. This means that officials who have not even been elected by the people will have the power to make decisions about the way funds are distributed.

This is a blatant expansion of the huge and inefficient bureau-cracy of petty officials that Amer-ica already has to deal with every day. The last thing this country needs is more administration, more incompetent officials and more red tape. When the bu-reaucrats hold the reins, it is the American people that suffer.

Public officials need to realize that enough is enough. Spending is already exorbitant, with mil-lions upon millions of dollars be-ing wasted through inefficiency

and ineptitude. Any smart con-sumer will manage their budget and pay their debts. The time has come for the government of this country to do the same.

Comic by Kaitlin Vickers

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After someone calls in a bomb threat, panic and chaos ensues as the school tries to assure student

safety.It’s hard to understand what makes

fake bomb threats so interesting. They are not like fire alarms, where you get out of class for a few short minutes. Bombs are serious business. It isn’t that they are stupid, but the whole bomb threat thing is just not smart. People who pull such pranks need a reality check if they think bomb threats are anything to joke about.

It is understood that people think that the intelligence rate in America is drop-ping. Teens pulling stunts such as fake bomb threats at their school do not do much to prove anyone wrong. Teenag-

ers and young adults are usually pinned as rebellious, ignorant kids. You can say that for some teens but only because that is how they act. But for the majority of teens that is not true. But all the re-cent bomb threats in the district are not helping the teenage reputation. In fact, it is kind of ruining it.

Peoria and Centennial high schools have both experienced bomb threats during this school year. Over 2000 peo-ple, including students, faculty members and pre-school children, were evacuated from the schools for the administration and police to investigate these treats. Did some students pull bomb threats to get out of a test? Or were they just so bored with class that they just decide to spice things up a bit? Whatever the case, people should refrain from pulling stunts like these because they cause massive panic and put thousands at risk.

How many fake bomb threats are people going to pull before they realize

Imagine feeling com-pletely alone and isolat-ed. Picture yourself cut off from everyone else and ridiculed at every

turn. You are harassed, bullied and hat-ed. You are verbally assaulted, physical-ly harmed and emotionally broken. You are different. That is your only crime.

Hate crimes are defined as crimes that are motivated by a target’s place in a certain group. These groups include gender, race, religion and sexual ori-entation. When a crime is committed against someone specifically because of an inclusion in one of these groups, the perpetrator is subject to being charged with a hate crime.

In a society that is extremely diverse, it should be almost common sense that people will be different and that those differences should be celebrated. While prejudices are able to be controlled or stamped out altogether, it is our choice if we let that prejudice evolve into a hate that can cause physical harm to another person.

Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rut-

gers University student, recently took his own life after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, filmed him without permission while Tyler was in an encounter with an-other male student. Ravi posted an up-date on his Twitter account his followers to join a video chat to view the encoun-ter, sufficiently outing Tyler who had not officially come out as gay, according to People Magazine.

Tyler’s suicide was a direct result of his roommate’s hateful invasion of pri-vacy and lack of respect for Tyler’s dif-ferences. Ravi and his accomplice Molly Wei are both being charged with inva-sion of privacy, which could carry a sen-tence of five years, but prosecutors are pushing to add hate crime to the charg-es, which would increase the jail time to ten years, according to People.

There are many vocal protests against the charge that has been leveled against Ravi and Wei. The defense of the two students is that they were merely play-ing a prank on their roommate, and that no prejudice or hate was involved at all. Whether this is true or not, the fact still stands that Tyler is no longer with us. He was pushed to the point of taking his own life, at a mere 18 years old, by this hateful invasion of privacy by his two

Teens should respect differences, work to stamp out hate crimes

Big Bang Theory: Juvenile stunts draw fear in studentsJessica O’CheltreeStaff Reporter

Alex KorsickStaff Reporter

classmates. The question that arises is would Ravi have filmed Tyler if he had been with a female student? Somehow, it is hard to believe he would have. Be-cause Tyler was gay, his relationship was seen as a novelty item and something able to be exploited.

High-profile cases like Tyler’s tend to bring the issue of hate to the forefront of society’s mind. The issue of discrimina-tion and hate must be addressed before it results in more deaths like Tyler’s, and people who commit these crimes should be held to higher charges. Hatred is not a feeling that should be taken lightly, or merely brushed off as if expected. With-out the understanding of people’s dif-ferences, tragedies like Tyler’s will only become more commonplace.

People, especially students must un-derstand the effect their words and ac-tions have on other people. While they may seem funny or harmless, there is no telling what effect they could have on a person. It could be a blow to their self-esteem or the final straw in a con-stant struggle against animosity, there is no way of knowing. Instead of treating differences like a modern version of the plague, we must, as a society, learn to re-spect them and the people behind them.

Hate crimes happen every day in the United States. It could be against Afri-can Americans, Hispanics, Asians, ho-mosexuals, and even whites.

Hate crime statistics from 2008: Incidents Victims Anti-AfricanAmerican 2,876 3,596

Anti-Jewish 1,013 1,145

Anit-Homosexual Male- 776 981 Female- 154 198

Anti-White 716 829

Anti-Hispanics 561 792

Anti-Asians 137 170

Anti-Islam 105 130

Anti-Catholic 75 89

Anti-Native American 54 63

it is not even close to worth it? Students will end up getting caught and either suspended or expelled.

High school is about fun times and creating memories. It’s hard to believe that anyone would want their memories of high school to be of someone threat-ening to blow them up. Don’t pull bomb threats. All they do is ruin everyone’s time.

The kids who pull this stunt are just like Epimetheus or “Afterthought”, the twin brother of Prometheus (“Fore-thought”), from the Ancient Greek leg-end. One thought before he acted the other didn’t. It seems these people usu-ally think after the fact and not before. If more people stopped to think about their actions, maybe bomb threats would be less common or stopped all together.

It would be nice to see bomb threats not happen at schools. Nor anywhere for that matter, because they are only a dis-traction and a very dangerous one.

Dear Mustang Express editors,

I just wanted to congratulate you guys on your first newspaper of the 2010-2011 school year! One thing I really liked about the newspaper was the abundant information that was given to me through the stories -- es-pecially the information about ASU. I also really liked the review of the TV show “Keeping up with the Kar-dashians” and of the Katy Perry CD. The whole staff is doing great and I always read the newspaper!

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Arizona officials crack down on immigration laws

Source: FBI

Morgan Brewster Multi Media Editor

Immigration in Amer-ica has defined our coun-

try since it was founded in 1776. Every founding family’s ancestors emigrated to America to find a new home and free-dom. Today a controversy has emerged as to what rights illegal immigrants have.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) there are an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants residing in Arizona alone. The new Senate Bill 1070 establishes stricter punishments and makes hiring or knowingly aiding an illegal alien a Class One Misdemeanor, which can be

punishable by up to 12 months in prison or a fine of $2,500 or both.

SB 1070 has taken the handcuffs off of police officers when it comes to enforcing immigration laws. Millions of people liv-ing in the United States are illegal immi-grants from all around the world; most are not paying taxes, paying for hospital visits or their children’s education. This law will give illegal immigration higher consequences and stiffer penalties.

The Pew Hispanic Center used Cen-sus Bureau information to estimate that 850,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the United States each year since 2000. Since Arizona shares a border with Mexico the number of illegal im-migrants is higher than most. The FAIR data also states that in 2005 the state government spent an estimated $1.29 billion on the cost of illegal aliens.

The 1982 Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, determined that states are pro-hibited from denying K-12 education to children of illegal immigrants. An-other FAIR estimate shows that Arizona spends an annual $312 million on K-12 education for children of illegal immi-grants. The country’s economics is in a recession and the funds could be put to-ward important government programs such as higher education for those who want to attend college.

In many circumstances people come to America for the chance at a better life with more opportunities and to find fi-nancial stability. Because of the value of the American dream, immigration will always be a part of America’s reality and it needs to be done in an organized way. We must understand that finding the right balance for this organization is a

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difficult task, but one that the American people can not ignore. This bill is a first step in that direction.

Arizona is the first state to imple-ment an immigration bill of this degree, though 20 other states are already look-ing to put a bill like it into place in their own state.

Earlier this year a federal judge blocked part of this controversial law, and it is still under scrutiny by the courts.

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The new breast cancer bracelets are a great way to raise money for breast can-cer, but the phrase on the bracelets, “I love boobies,” has sparked a controversy amongst many.

Although the bracelets have triggered a trend throughout many schools na-tionwide, the problem is whether or not the bracelet is a good way to support the cause.

“We’re assuming that the students know the importance behind these bracelets,” Assistant Principal Donna Short said.

In creating the “Keep a Breast” brace-lets, campaigners were attempting to reach out to the younger generation so that they could expose ways to prevent, detect, and support breast cancer.

It seemed as though the only way to get through was to put a saying on the bracelet that really turned heads.

“We’re not thrilled with it, but it’s al-lowed. It’s a national campaign,” Assis-tant Principal Clay Carpenter said.

Not only is the administration a little wary about the topic, but some students feel the same way about the bracelets.

“I thought the bracelets were stupid in the first place,” junior Alexis Reategui said. “I probably wouldn’t have gotten it if I wasn’t running the race.” (Reategui received the bracelet as a gift when she decided to run the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.)

Sophomore Mallory Dreiling stated that she thought the bracelets were “over worn” and that “other students, like boys, are misusing them.” Dreiling does not own a bracelet because every-one else has one.

Despite the mixed feelings on the bracelets, other students such as fresh-man Nick Haleman and senior Derrick Slebodnik think otherwise.

“No, I don’t think it’s inappropriate,” Haleman said. “It’s supporting breast cancer.”

Haleman believes that, “As high schoolers, we should be mature about it and wear it for the right reasons.”

As a senior, Slebodnik sets an exam-ple for others as he wears the bracelet proudly for his grandmother who was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I think it’s a good idea because kids like me would buy them if they knew the real meaning behind them,” Slebodnik said.

Many others at SMHS don this “cool” new bracelet in support of a family mem-ber or another person who has been di-agnosed with breast cancer.

Certain high schools such as Peoria, Liberty, Centennial and many others have already banned the bracelets be-cause it has gone against the school’s dress code.

This issue will continue to arise as many people still ponder whether the bracelets are an appropriate way to sup-port breast cancer.

Homecoming week: Students remember “Time of their Lives” at SMHS

Alexy ShinJunior Reporter

Photo By Lexie HansenCROWNING GLORY: Seniors Tony Troftgruben and Krista Lindner proudly pose after being crowned Homecoming King and Queen. The Mustang football team then went on to win the homecoming game against Copper Canyon, 52-7.

“Boobies” bracelets spark controversy

Homecoming- it is safe to say it is one of the biggest events of any high school’s year. It is a whole week dedicated to the biggest home football game of the sea-son. Students dress up for spirit week and attend the big game along with the much anticipated Homecoming dance that follows.

However, to make Homecoming as good as it is expected to be, a lot of plan-ning and hard work was required.

“We’ve been planning Homecoming since last year, and we started planning the dance as soon as school started,” said Brittany Bade, Senior Class President.

Bade hoped Homecoming this year was extra successful, considering that she is a senior, and she and student council had worked very hard on it.

Freshmen are new to the high school environment, so many of them were ex-cited to be a part of Homecoming.

“It seems like it’ll be an exciting expe-rience,” freshmen Caitlin Garcia said.

Sophomore Alexis Moore agrees with Garcia.

“Homecoming is a night to remem-ber; it’s never boring, always fun,” Moore said.

Senior Jordan Liles, however, re-mains slightly more cynical.

“Homecoming will be good if they play good music and people actually dance,” Liles said.

The Homecoming game on Friday left every Sunrise fan at the game in high spirits. The Copper Canyon Aztecs, how-ever, left in tragic defeat. The final score of the game was 52-7.

During halftime of the game, seniors Anthony Troftgruben and Krista Lind-ner were awarded Homecoming King and Queen. The other nominees were Marcos Lopez, Kyle Ziemer, Cameron Coleman, Phillip Nikola, Brittany Bade, Claire Yost, Kelsey Abbott, and Giavan-na Cancelli.

Saturday night was the night of the Homecoming dance. Many people danced and had a great time with friends and significant others. The dance was held in the cafeteria this year, and water, purse check, couples pictures, and seat-ing was located in the gymnasium. The cafeteria, however, heated up quickly. Aside from that, the music was fairly good and the strobe lights were unfor-gettable.

Homecoming 2010 proved to be memorable.

David GarciaJunior Reporter

Since the school year started, there has been an increase in girls of all grades being dress coded on a regular basis.

Over the past weeks, the staff has reminded students of specific dress code rules that have been broken. Almost every girl who has been sent to change was dress coded for spaghetti straps or shirts reveal-ing too much skin. The SMHS student handbook states that, “tops must be modest and non-reveal-ing.”

English teacher Aman-da Richard believes that modern fashion has made girls choose to dress the way they do at school. She also thinks that girls get dress coded more often than boys.

“I don’t dress code boys as much as girls because boys don’t wear spaghetti straps,” Richard said.

Richard thinks that girls want to get away with breaking dress code,

but freshman Kayla Cop-ley disagrees.

Copley was dress coded for her sports bra show-ing. She does not agree with the school dress code because she believes that her clothes were following the dress code, though the student handbook said otherwise.

“They told me to wear that T-shirt under my dress,” Copley said. “ [Do] you know how stupid I looked?”

Copley thinks girls should be allowed to show their bra straps and that the shirts the school loans out are too big and unfair. According to Copley, the fact that girls dress this way is not their fault.

“Do they expect us to wear turtlenecks?” Copley said.

Sophomore Sierra Mohr agrees with Copley.

Mohr has been dress

coded numerous times and received a referral. She thinks no one should be dress coded at all, and that she should be able to wear whatever she wants. Mohr, along with many girls, believes the dress code is useless.

“Their [administration] fingers are like my whole

hand,” Mohr said. “So how can my straps be two fingers?”

Disagreeing with Copley and Mohr, As-sistant Principal Clay

Carpenter said the rules are fair and girls should deal with it.

The dress code has been enforced all year and the rules have not changed. He explained that every year dress code problems occur. In Carpenter’s opinion, Sunrise is not as strict as other schools.

“Really, girls are get-ting a break,” Carpenter said. “At other schools the first time you get dress coded, it’s a referral.”

Battles over dress code will likely continue in the future.

Mercedes RogersJunior Reporter

Dress code draws complaints from students

“Do they expect us to wear turtlenecks?”

-Kayla Copley, 9

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the extra mile

ships from business and industry.”This year senior Nathan Macari is

President, senior David Kohn is Vice President and senior Anthony Tavilla is Secretary in the Fire Science club.

On campus there is also an Engineer-ing club that participates in the Skills USA program. In the past they have won

the state championship and were 13 in the nation.

“Last summer [we] compet-ed in nationals,” Steven Deck-er, Engineering club advisor said. “Doing Quizbol. Which is trivia knowledge.” The Quizbol

consists of current events, academics and pop culture knowledge.

Decker goes on to say the importance of SkillsUSA is not just to learn about leadership. When students go to nation-als they get national recognition and there are many different companies that offer scholarships.

Senior Ryan Gonzales, President of the club says he enjoys, “the responsibil-ity and ability to mentor other kids, and learning how much actually goes into

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Sunrise clubs participate in SkillsUSA competitions

SkillsUSA is an organization for clubs such as Media, Fire Science and Engi-neering. It is a program that focuses on leadership and promotes the Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes.

“Right now we have a President,” Bryce Budoff, Media club advisor said. “We have a Vice President and we have a secretary. There’s two po-sitions that haven’t been filled because their appoint-ed this year [Historian and Treasurer].”

Senior Krista Lindner takes on the role as President followed by senior Tim Powell as Vice President and senior Spencer Hord as Secretary.

“It’s really great,” Lindner said. “I go to SkillsUSA leadership seminars and learn what being a leader is all about.”

The competition is not easy. They compete against other media clubs in the state and, if they win, the club will go on to Nationals which are in Kansas

City, Missouri, this year.“They make us do either a thirty or

sixty second commercial,” Budoff said. “So we get there, we show up with our equipment and our cameras, and they give us a topic and then we have two days to do it. We have one day to film and then one day to edit.”

Media is not the only club involved in the program. The Fire Science club on campus has been making a title for themselves as champions.

“Sunrise Mountain High School has won the High School Fire Science Mus-ter the last four years,” Daniel Comella, the Fire Science club advisor said. “Over 35 teams participate each year.”

Comella goes on to say that the Skills USA program, “empowers students to learn real world job skills with partner-

being in a club.”This year the members include Ryan

Gonzales as President, senior Jacob Anderson as Vice President, junior Da-vid Kijewski as Secretary, senior Kevin Leung as Treasurer, senior Sheldon Muecke as Historian, and senior Marcus Roberts as Parliamentarian.

“SkillsUSA empowers students to learn real world job skills with partnerships from business and industry.”

-Daniel Comella, Fire Science club sponsor

While some students find jobs working at fast food joints or local super-markets, others choose to get a head start on their long-term career during high school.

Students in Sheri Lun-ski’s Patient Care Tech class are on the right track to furthering their careers in the medical field.

At the end of the se-mester long course, stu-dents will earn a Certified

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Nursing Assistant license, which is an opportunity most students find hard to pass up.

“It’s exciting,” senior Brittney O’Connell said. “For free, you get to skip some of the college stuff and just get right into it.”

The class is two peri-ods long, and students get to work at the Sun City Health and Rehabilita-tion Center twice a week. Working at the clinic al-lows students to deal with real patients, as opposed

Patient care wraps students into future careersto classroom dummies.

“We actually have to talk to them,” senior Ally Kohlhase said. “We have to be patient with them and understand what they’re going through.”

Kohlhase is interested in becoming an Air Evac Nurse because she likes helping people.

“I can deal with blood all day,” Kohlhase said.

Kohlhase’s favorite part about the class is the one-on-one time with Lunski.

“This class only has six

Drug busts, undercover cops and murder detec-tives bending the rules to catch a killer are images that have been engraved into TV viewers minds since Law and Order was first introduced.

With all of the dramatic TV shows, many have be-come interested in careers in this field. Sunrise offers Criminal Justice to help students who will pursue a career in law.

Criminal Justice is a class taught by Richard Helton, whose career in law enforcement is exten-sive and includes Patrol Operations, S.W.A.T. Di-vision Canine Operations and Crisis Negotiations, Firearms Training Section and much more. Not only is his work experience extensive, his training in-cludes hundreds of hours of different law enforce-ment training.

The class gives each student a realistic and in-depth look into the justice system and is helpful for students who will pursue

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a career in law enforce-ment, law or the military.

“(The class) deals with courts, treatment, police, corrections, law-making [and] social policy,” Hel-ton said. “For students that are interested in the justice system, it gives in-sight to how the system works, realistically.”

The class involves a lot of information, as well as hands-on activities like mock trials and public policy debates.

“I like the mock trials,” junior Kristyn Raleigh, who wants to be a lawyer, said. “We pretend we’re in the actual court and play different parts.”

The system is complex and can be confusing, but sophomore Garrett Pe-tersen is easily able to un-derstand how it works.

“I like the way Mr. Hel-ton expresses things,” Pe-tersen said. “He uses dif-ferent ways to get things into your head.”

Criminal Justice can prepare students for pro-fessions such as lawyers, police officers, judges, military and more.

students and we learn so much,” Kohlhase said. “[Lunski is] a nurse, so she tells us everything about what we need to know.”

Overall, the class pro-vides real hands-on ex-perience that allows stu-dents to jump start their career.

“I feel like I have more of an advantage over peo-ple,” O’Connell said. “I’m still in high school, but I’m doing stuff that people in college are doing.”

Photo by Kaitlin VickersROLL OVER DUMMY: Seniors Heather Moy and Marlie Grover practice to enhance their training in becoming a professional in the Patient Care field. Patient Care offered an insider’s look into the Health Care profession.

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the extra mileCTE classes help students get a head start on the future

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Auto students get their hands dirty

Photo by Jessie O’CheltreeRIGHTY TIGHTY, LEFTY LOOSEY: Seniors Tyler Ferentheil, Tanner Cerney and Zachary Brishkey repair a truck in their Auto 4 class. This is one of many assignments the students completed this semester.

Visualize walking into a classroom that is complete-ly different than all the others. Imagine a place where you have the opportunity to create something new ev-ery day of class.

Now, walk into the Auto room on campus and expe-rience it for yourself.

Auto Tech is one of the many CTE classes offered at Sunrise. It helps many students prepare for their fu-ture careers in the mechanical field.

Auto teacher Dane Tom has been teaching for 20 years, beginning with teaching professionals and now high school students.

“[My favorite part is] the kids,” Tom said. “I just like to see them get it.”

Senior Patrick Horn is one Auto student who has an extreme passion for mechanics and for the class. He is currently enrolled in Auto 4.

“[I began Auto] because it was a passion I’ve had for a long time,” Horn said.

Senior Tanner Cerny got involved in Auto 4 to be able to be hands on. He shares a similar love of the class as Horn.

“I feel like I’ve been in [the class] since I walked into high school,” Cerny said. “It’s just cool working on cars.”

Students taking Auto have the privilege to experi-ence a hands-on approach to their learning. The Auto classroom, tucked away into the ‘H’ Building, does not

resemble a typical learning environment. The room is filled with old cars, car parts and sometimes the stu-dents’ own cars.

“There’s just that feeling when an engine is working perfectly,” Horn said. “It’s like, satisfaction.”

Some students have a broader interest in cars, pre-ferring a certain make or model.

“Working on the cars definitely [is my favorite],” Cerny said. “I really like old VW’s.”

Auto is a CTE class, which prepares students for fu-ture careers. Both Horn and Cerny plan to take their schooling and apply it to the real world job market.

“It’s a career I want to pursue,” Horn said.

Students walk the runway into Design & Merchandising

Along with learning the various in’s and out’s of au-tomobiles, Tom tries to instill a basic set of life skills that will benefit his students in every aspect of their lives.

“[I teach them] life skills,” Tom said. “How to talk to people, communication, listening skills, and just basic ethics.”

For students pursuing a future in mechanics, this class would be beneficial.

“If this is what someone wants to do, it’s very impor-tant,” Tom said. “I can apply what other teachers teach in their classrooms. When kids say ‘Well, why do I have to learn math,’ I can show them why.”

The world of fashion is a cutthroat environment.

Students who are tak-ing Sunrise’s Fashion and Merchandising class are learning not only about the fashion industry, but how to navigate it as well.

In this class, stu-dents learn how to design their own wardrobe as well as the history of fashion itself. They spend class time cre-ating their own designs and learning more about fashion.

Any student wanting to take this class can expect several creative projects that give the feel of actu-ally being part of the fash-ion industry.

“We play this game called ‘Project Runaway’,

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and you draw an outfit under a category that Mrs. Woolsey picks, then we all vote, and whoever wins gets their design posted on the bulletin board,” ju-nior Lauren Annis said.

Fashion and Merchan-dising is an outlet for any-one interested in creative aspects.

“Most of the students now are really interested in, you know, fashion or drawing or sewing, but if you’re a creative person it has a lot to offer you as well,” Design and Mer-chandising teacher Jenni-fer Woolsey said.

Fashion and Merchan-

“It’s fun to teach a class that people want to

take.”-Jennifer Woolsey, Design And

Merchandising

dising is not only just a fun way to design your own clothes, but a great stepping stone towards a career. This class exposes students to unknown ca-reer choices in the field.

“It gives them expo-sure to the fashion in-dustry and then lays out foundations,” Woolsey said. “If they get a job in retail, they know the terminology, they know

what it means to be a vi-sual merchandiser.”

Fashion and Merchan-dising is a fun and cre-ative way to learn about the fashion world, and to share one’s own love of fashion with others.

“My favorite part of the class is just being able to talk about fashion and styling with people who enjoy that,” Woolsey said. “It’s fun to teach a class that people want to take.”

Photo by Jamie WarrenGETTING CREATIVE: Junior Lauren Annis designs outfits for her Design and Merchandising class. Students learned all about the fashion industry during the semester long class.

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Student Council plans for even bigger, better assemblies

Dances. Assemblies. Themes. It all comes down to Student Council to plan these things. If schools did not have them, we would have bland and boring days.

Students and teachers are very happy with the turnout of Student Council.

“I think it’s a very strong group of both experienced members and new ones,” Student Council advisor Scott Hollabaugh said. “I hope that people are working hard and take the initiative. This year’s council is driven.”

“I think they’re really good. I think [the students] made good choices on who was picked,” freshman Julia Ma-rino said.

Assemblies are held usually once a month. People enjoy them because of the activities and the people participat-ing they said.

“Just having everyone involved and cheering and recognizing students who

aren’t in sports and other things is what is most exciting,” sophomore Cheyenne Adamonis said.

“Marcos [Lopez] has done a great job in the assemblies as an MC because I see him getting better and better,” Holla-baugh said.

Student Council works to make their assemblies more enjoyable each time.

“We try to change it up,” Hollabaugh said. “I think that since we aren’t the only ones planning the assemblies… We go to different people and ask if they want to be in the assemblies. Most decline not wanting to put themselves out there.”

Students agree that more activities and interactions need to be added.

“I think we should add more games and have more teachers and students that aren’t usually recognized and people can connect to them,” Adamonis said.

“We need more student involvement and different people,” Student Council president Claire Yost said.

“Let more people get involved in the games,” Marino said.

The students try to come up with the most creative themes, with approval from the administration.

“They’re relatively creative. What I mean by that is when we make decisions; we have to have the administration in mind. They don’t want to encourage un-acceptable wear. We don’t try to alienate students,” Hollabaugh said.

Student Council members love the themes they create.

“Definitely,” Adamonis said. “I can’t believe how much we’ve improved from last year. Things are running smoother and we have terrific teamwork.”

At the end of each year the students Student Council ends, but when asked the question if they’ll go out with a bang this year Yost and Hollabaugh replied,

“Yes. A big bang. We have a lot of stuff planned and are excited,” Yost said.

“I think the people on Student Council are memorable,” Hollabaugh said. “I feel like last year we lost great members. We do a lot of good things for people. That’s something that kids look back on.

Kaylah KermodeJunior Reporter

Nathan Macari: Hot shot-in-training

Everybody has a dream, but only a se-lect few make their dreams reality.

While growing up, Nathan Macari wanted to protect his country by being a soldier in the United States Air Force.

Now as a senior in high school, Maca-ri’s dream changed from protecting lives into saving them by becoming a Forestry Technician and/or an Emergency Medi-cal Technician (EMT).

Macari started preparing himself for this line of work by taking Captain Daniel Comella’s Introduction into Fire Suppression class as a junior. Macari continued training by joining Comella’s senior Introduction to Fire Service Se-lection class.

“The senior class prepares you for your job when you’re going on inter-views,” Macari said. “We still practice everything we learned junior year, but this class prepares you to get hired and to get our portfolios ready.”

Macari also takes an EMT class at Glendale Community College North. The class spent two days learning CPR, a month on first responders and then spends the rest of the class on in-depth EMT training.

“We got to ride in the ambulance the other day and take vitals while the in-structor drove around like a mad man,” Macari said. “It’s really hard to take the blood pressure like that.”

If Macari does achieve his goal, he would like to work as a ‘Hot Shot’ in the Fire Technician field. As a Hot Shot, Macari will be jumping into forest fires and trying to limit how much a fire will destroy while he and his team try to ex-tinguish the fire.

“My uncle was a Hot Shot,” Macari said. “I saw what he got to do and where he got to go and I wanted to be a part of it. When I talked to him about it, I got really excited and was like, ‘Let’s do it!’”

Macari’s uncle was not the only fam-ily member who helped influence him. Justin Macari, Nathan’s older brother an SMHS alum, attended the Fire Acad-emy. With Justin attending classes and pursuing his career, Nathan got to see everything incorporated in becoming a fireman.

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YOU GOTSTA BE A MUSTANG: Students shout the school chant to win the highly anticipated class competition. Seniors won back the Spirit stick after losing to the COOP kids at the last assembly. Faust, Rizer and Marcos Lopez worked as emcees for the assembly.

Imagine traveling alone to a different country, away from friends and family. You are exposed to new surroundings, culture, and adventures.

Every year foreign exchange students at Sunrise Mountain get to do just that: experience life as an American.

Senior Fredyrika Falandysz came all

But there are also many differences, especially when it comes to cafeteria food.

“[At school in Finland], we eat pizza like once a month,” Metsola said. “Here it’s like an everyday thing.”

In order to meet new people and stay busy, Falandysz joined cross country and made it onto the Poderpuff team this year.

“That’s the thing about the exchange,” Falandysz said. “If you don’t want to be homesick, you have to do something different. Just not stay at home on the computer [or on] Skype.”

Metsola has made many new friends and has especially become close with her host sister Paige.

“Paige is coming with me next sum-mer [to Finland],” Metsola said. “So it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Metsola and Falandysz both hope that their time spent in the U.S. will be posi-tive and allow them to learn new things.

“I just want to enjoy the experience as much as I can,” Metsola said.

Jamie WarrenStaff Reporter

Foreign exchange students explore cultural difference at SMHSthe way from Poland and is in the United States for her first time.

“It’s actually a tradition in my family,” Falandysz said. “Because [my two sis-ters] and brother all went on exchanges in the United States. That’s why it’s my turn now.”

Along with attending high school at SMHS, Falandysz enjoys getting to know her American host family.

“They’re like my real family,” Falan-dysz said. “It’s awesome. I mean it’s so different and that’s why I’m here be-cause everything is so different.”

Senior Jenna Metsola is an exchange student from Finland and lives with se-nior Paige Fransen’s family.

“I wanted [to go on the exchange] since I was in elementary school,” Met-sola said. “I just wanted to learn the lan-guage and [have] the experience.”

Falandysz and Metsola agree there are many similarities between their homelands and the U.S.

“In Poland we watch your shows; we listen to your music,” Falandysz said.

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Photo by Jamie WarrenBURN BABY BURN: Senior Nathan Macari and fellow student practice a series of drills in Fire-Suppression class.

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Sunrise students perform with big name bands

Whether their fingers are raw from the guitar strings, or their voices sore from singing, the only thing that matters is playing the music and having a blast while doing it.

Andrew Benavidez and Alex Curtis, juniors, are members of the band Irreantum, which recently reached the spotlight. Irreantum was given the oppor-tunity to play at The Rock in Tucson after winning a contest.

Irreantum began years ago with Julio Copelly, 17. Copelly held many auditions, before finally settling on the current members of the band.

“We met, I tried out, and it started from there,” Benavidez said.

In the band, Curtis plays the guitar and Benavidez plays the bass. Irreantum other band members, who do not go to Sunrise, includes Joel Lopez, 17, on the guitar, Rene Zacari, 17, on vocals, Copelly on the key-board and James Hyatt, 18, on the drums. The mem-bers of the band are all good friends and have a lot of fun playing together.

After the band officially formed they chose the name Irreantum. According to the band members, the name Irreantum has no meaning to them, other than sound-ing cool.

Unlike the band’s name, their songs draw on inspi-ration from the members’ lives as well as being ran-dom.

“When we write, it’s about experiences we’ve had,” Curtis said.

One example of the band’s music is the song “Heart and Eyes like Yours,” which is Benavidez’s favorite song. The sad song is about a broken heart.

On the other hand “Killer Whale” is Curtis’ favorite song. According to him the song has no real meaning.

Whether the songs have a meaning or not, they all fall into the genre of hardcore metal. Hardcore, an up-rising sub-genre of metal, is a fusion of hardcore punk with metal.

The band has been able to play a few gigs one of which was the Battle of the Bands contest in Tempe.

At the contest they won the opportunity to play at The Rock, a venue that features big-name bands.

The concert, which took place Friday, Oct. 1, fea-tured the bands For the Fallen Dreams, As Blood Runs Black, Stick to Your Guns and Attila, as well as Irrean-tum.

The members thought it was great to play with na-tionally recognized bands.

“Playing on stage with For the Fallen, my favorite band, was amazing,” Benavidez said.

Irreantum finds support in the band members’ friends, as well as those who just enjoy the music.

“They have a lot of energy and seem to have a lot of fun (while playing),” Madison Esh, junior and friend of the band, said.

Both Benavidez and Curtis wish to pursue careers in music and this recent concert is a great step in that direction.

If you want to learn more about the band, visit their Myspace or Facebook at www.myspace.com/irrean-tumaz or www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Ir-reantum/139748119379106

Becca WoodJunior Reporter

ROCK ON: Juniors Andrew Benavidez and Alex Curtis perform at the Nile Theatre in Mesa. They performed with The Word Alive on August 28, 2010 to a large crowd.

Photo courtesy of Andrea Benavidez

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Artists such as Drake,

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These artists’ voices flow well with Lil Wayne’s style of music and make his songs even better than they already were.

Brandon Flowers, the lead singer of the Kill-ers, released his first solo album Flamingo on Sep-tember 14, 2010.

Flowers and the other Killers decided to take a break and during that

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time, Flowers decided to release his own album.

Flowers’ voice is very beautiful, much like his looks. He sings about beauty, love, courage and friendship. His songs have a nice indie-Midwest tune

to them. They are beau-tiful songs, and sound somewhat like The Killers music.

Overall, Flamingo is a good album that has well written lyrics with very fitting melodies.

Neon Trees’ CD, Hab-its, is a genius blend of classic rock and modern pop. It is timeless and can appeal to all ages.

Although some of the lyrics may be “border line appropriate,” the beat is

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Students turn old fashions into modern styleJessie O’CheltreeStaff Reporter

Unique colors, peace signs, tie-dye, neon, leg-gings, and rock band t-shirts; these are some of the styles that made up wardrobes from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The styles that once were the fads of past de-cade have hit the 2000s and are now the everyday styles of many teens.

Many teenagers are wearing clothes from the ‘60s. Some well known items are peace sign ac-cessories or shirts with The Beatles on them. The ‘60s were a time of peace and love along with some strange leather outfits.

Teens have taken the so called “hippie” look to a whole new level and made it more fashionable than outlandish. Tie-dye is also becoming an even more popular trend with stu-dents making these shirts for clubs or just school spirit.

As for the ‘70s, this time period had the roll-er disco and bell bottom pants. Bell bottom jeans are making their come-back, but the other kinds of bell bottoms will prob-ably not reappear anytime soon.

‘70s fads didn’t just come back with clothes; the “big hair” styles have been taking on a style of their own. Students may not be doing the beehive look anymore but they are teasing their hair and using a ton of hairspray equaling some pretty out-rageously large hair.

The ‘80s are all neon all the time along with leggings and shoulder pads. Students have cre-ated their own spin on the original 1980s style by wearing neon shirts or sophies along with a pair of leggings. Students may not wear shoulder pads or copy the crazy hair styles but the clothes are some-what similar.

The off-the-shoulder with leggings look was de-rived from the ‘80s and it is becoming popular once again. Also, knee high socks are coming back and have been for quite some time.

Being dressed like the daughters from Full House was a common style for the ‘90s. There were overalls, band shirts, a little neon left over from the ‘80s, and denim jack-ets. The 1990s were full of different styles but at the same time it was a fashion all its own. The kids from then are teens now and most would remember be-ing outside with friends, playing with jump ropes and Skip-its, and watch-ing Looney Tunes, Blue’s Clues, Tom and Jerry or The Flintstones.

Even though the de-cades have passed, the styles are still going strong. Depending on the teens who wear them they may or may not survive

the test of time. For now, the fashion sense of some teens may be unoriginal but it has been made bet-ter and more modern with every passing year.

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November 2, 2010

PlayiNg Field10Freshman football’s winning streak continuesVictoria PayneJunior Reporter

Cleats? Check. Shin guards? Check. Water bottle? Check. The winter sports season is fast approaching, and that means girls’ varsity soccer hopefuls are getting ready for tryouts, which will take place during the first week or two of No-vember.

Usually 40 to 60 girls come out for 30 to 36 spots on JV and varsity, so the competition can be tough. This means that those wanting to make the team should start preparing now.

“You need to start running now…you need to start hydrating now…you need to start making sure that you’re eat-ing properly,” said Varsity Head Coach Shauna Johnson. “[Otherwise you] come out on that first day and you’re just wiped out.”

During tryouts players run, work with ball skills, practice shooting and work in game situations. The first day, everyone typically does a two-mile run and then sprints.

“It’s a lot of running and you’re very sore. But it’s worth it,” said senior Mad-die Pado, who will be returning for her fourth year on the varsity team.

The team graduated seven seniors last year, which means that they have eight possible returners, leading to open spots on varsity.

“I’m hoping we have a lot of freshmen try out,” said returning senior and four time varsity player Tierney Coats.

Those planning on going out for the team can pick up additional information outside of room D109.

Players advise new girls trying out to give it their best and to not give up.

“Stay positive,” said Pado. “It’s rough, but we’ll get through it together!”

Holding the key to your team’s vic-tory cradled in your arms, the other freshman team desperately trying to tackle you. The crowd goes wild and a rush of relief passes through your body as you reach the end zone, making the last touchdown of the game.

The other team sighs in disappoint-ment, but your teammate runs to each other and congratulate one an other on the triumph.

You’ve won the game… again.This is what Sunrise Mountain High

School’s freshman football team feels every Wednesday night.

Without a lost game yet, Eldar Bo-rovac, right tackle, thinks that his team will contribute to our school’s hope for a better football reputation.

“Yes [my team can help the school’s reputation] because this is the first win-ning season in a long time,” Borovac said.

But what has caused this winning streak? Maybe it’s because Coach Brian Greene decided to change his coaching style after ten seasons.

“I used to be one of those yellers, and I’ve toned that down a lot,” Greene said. “I love the game of football and I think there are a lot of life lessons to be learned in athletics.”

Or maybe the winning streak is be-cause of all of the training and bonding that happened over summer at football camps.

That’s the reason they are going to help the school, according to Tyler Bade, right tackle on the freshman team.

“We’ve worked together so much we’ve become a family,” Bade said. “[Our team is] very good because we work well together and we’ve formed a bond over summer.”

Even after summer camp, speed training and conditioning, the freshman football team continued with a vigorous practice schedule. Mondays and Thurs-

Many sports teams have different forms of warm-up exercises every day to better themselves for the main event.

The warm-ups work out various mus-cle groups throughout the body and pro-vide better movement for a player.

Cross Country Coach Torin Lattie made it mandatory to do warm-ups on his team. If a person comes in late they have to run a lap before starting the main portion of the training.

“[We do] a lap and a half and a light jog for three minutes,” Lattie said. “We start with our leg muscles and work our way up.”

Lattie said the cross country warm ups also include calf stretches and other

Girls’ soccer gear up for tryoutsChelsey SchmidStaff Reporter

days they practiced for two hours and on Tuesdays and Fridays for one and a half hours with Wednesday left for game day.

Perhaps part of the reason that the freshman football team does so well is because they know that the junior var-sity and varsity football teams support them, along with fans, parents and older siblings.

Senior Karissa Haleman goes to ev-ery one of her brother, quarterback Nick Haleman’s, games.

“Yeah [I enjoy cheering on my broth-er] because I want him to know I’m there to support him,” Haleman said.

Sophomore Thomas Raia, wide re-ceiver and defensive back on the JV football team, has supported the fresh-man team at two games so far.

“They are one of the best fresh-man teams we’ve had,” Raia said. “[I’m friends with] about half [of the team]. They always say they want to play us,” Raia jokes.

leg muscle exercises.“[Doing the warm ups] improves [the]

range of motion to get muscles stretched out, and it helps prevent injuries,” Lattie said.

The Girls Cross Country Coach Loni Sipes also has her team warm up.

“We mostly concentrate on the lower part of the body,” Sipes said.

Sipes has her team jog a lap and do various exercises involving the legs for warm ups.

“[If I could choose one warm up I would] probably [choose] the light jog as it will imitate what they do later,” Sipes said.

“The players work skill drills once a week,” Eric Gardner, the Boys golf coach said. “They practice around the greens,

hitting shots out of the sand bunker and hitting short iron pith shots at greens.”

Gardner has the players warm up on the driving range and has them hit 10-15 shots. After that they go to the putting greens to practice various length putts to get ready to play nine holes for practice.

“The most important thing for golfers to do is spend a lot of time on the driving range and putting and chipping,” Gard-ner said. “Golf takes a lot of independent work for each player.

Girls Golf Coach Jason Stutenroth had a different story to say about warm ups.

“I’ll be honest with you, other than stretching of the back, the only warm-up exercises we do is swinging of the club,” Stutenroth said.

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM: Natasha Hossain and Maddie Pado get ready for the upcoming varsity soccer season by practicing drills before tryouts. / GOTTA KICK IT UP: Pado, Hossain, and Amber Hamad practice passing the soccer ball to prepare for the season. Tryouts started Nov. 1.

Coaches explain warm-up techniques for atheletesPaul StewardJunior Reporter

1. SCOPING OUT THE COMPETITION: Freshmen Hayden Pate and Casey Lee get ready for the next play. The freshman team played Verrado High School September 15. 2. GAME PLAN: Quarterback Nick Haleman talks to his team. His sister, senior Karissa Haleman, has been to every one of his games. 3. RUN, FORREST, RUN: Haleman runs with the ball, backed up by freshman teammate Daniel Ezeagwu. Sunrise won the game and continued their winning season.

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To get injured or not to get injured, that is the question.

The number of athletes that get in-jured on the field versus the number of athletes injured off the field is “about split” according to Girls Cross Country Coach Loni Sipes.

There isn’t much an athlete can do to avoid injuries on the field, but knowing physical limits can help prevent them.

“We try to make sure that players are matched with players that have the same capabilities,” Offensive/Defensive line-man Coach Paul Hansen said. “We try to make sure our drills are challenging but safe.”

One tip to avoid and injury would be don’t try to tackle a guy that looks like

Another tip is to drink plenty of water. Unfortunately carbonated water isn’t a good substitute, so lay off the Pepsi.

Warming up right is also of great im-portance when it comes to injury pre-vention.

“I stress proper mechanics, good form, and if you feel pain then stop,” Sipes said.

The only time it’s right to work through pain is if your muscles are tired or if you have an insignificant injury such as a bruise.

“We [coaching staff] tell our players that there is a difference between inju-ries and just being ‘banged up’. Football is a violent game and throughout the year football players will play with ‘ow-ies’,” Hansen said. “They have to.”

‘Owies’ are common among contact sports, but are normally an easy fix and

Brody KilgoreJunior Reporter

Sports for dummies: diet, exercise reduce sports injuries for athletes

Chosen ones: Three freshmen make it onto varsityDanae KingJunior Reporter

The bright lights, the roar of the crowd, the yellow field goal posts, and that smell of the football players after the game; that’s Friday night football.

Here at Sunrise there are three fresh-men playing under the Friday night lights with varsity this season: Elijah Castro, Hayden Pate and Daniel Ezeagwu.

“I feel like it’s an honor [to be on var-sity],” Pate said.

“It’s pretty cool [being on varsity],” Ezeagwu said.

These freshmen are sought after by the coaches and are ready to be chal-lenged by the older and more experi-enced guys.

Freshman Football Coach Brian

Greene stated that the three players have “sure talent” are good athletes that can contribute to varsity.

When asked if he had any concerns for his freshmen on the field with varsity he said, “Yes, injury is a concern because of the size of the competition.”

For a freshman, competing for play-ing time and respect against a seasoned varsity team can be intimidating… un-less you have your older brother cheer-ing you on.

Castro is a freshman who joins his brother, senior Josh Castro, on the field every game.

“It’s awesome [playing with Josh]. He is encouraging,” Castro said.

The “three musketeers” have a lot of work ahead of them to gain precious playing time. Those varsity games are

bigger, stronger and faster than any-thing they have experienced before.

Varsity quarterback Max Shepherd has a great deal of respect for the young players and says “they are some of the best freshmen out there.”

“We treat them like our own,” Shep-herd said. “They are very mature and able to play on the varsity level. This should be a very good season.”

The freshmen feel that same vibe as well.

“They treat me like a normal kid. Like a senior,” Castro stated.

The varsity players are very encour-aging to the freshmen.

“[The varsity players say] you’ll be great someday or you’ll make it to the NFL,” Ezeagwu said.

Sunrise football has a very intense

he ate three of you for a snack before he went to the gym and benched three more of you.

Many athletes are uncertain about benching or squatting. Several players get injured during these exercises.

“Squatting and benching are very good exercises,” Sipes said. “Every ath-lete should train and address these exer-cises properly.”

Another piece of advice is don’t show off. You may look good squatting 400, but you won’t look good with a cast on the bench. Athletes can continue to get better by doing reps, not maxing out.

Living in Arizona, often times dehy-dration is a problem for athletes who work hard.

“Players need to be kept hydrated during practice and throughout the day,” Hansen said.

can be played through.A healthy diet is also a very important

factor when preparing for game day.“We keep it simple,” Sipes said. “Ath-

letes are encouraged to limit fat, eat nu-tritious carbohydrates like fruits, veg-etables, and whole grains, and lean meat is recommended for protein.”

Eating like a pig will make you play like a pig, unless you’re a wrestler that wants to be slippery like one.

That doesn’t mean starve yourself ei-ther, because food is energy and energy is needed to excel.

“Football practice is hard work and if you haven’t eaten you will fall short,” Hansen said.

No matter what practice or game or meet or match you participate in, all of these points should be followed in order to prevent getting injured.

conditioning program. Pate, who as-pires to play on varsity from here on out, said “We do a lot more wind sprints than usual.”

Pate worked hard over the summer and caught the eyes of the coaches. The coaches saw that he had real potential.

Varsity coach James Carter inspired them to work hard and both Pate and Castro commented on the level of re-spect they have for him.

“I like him a lot. He makes us more of a team,” Pate said.

“He is great and teaches me a lot,” Castro echoed.

The SMHS varsity football team has started out strongly so far this season and with these newest additions, they can hope for continued growth in the future.

Top left: Varsity football players tackle two opposing team members in an effort to stop the ball. The homecoming game took place October 15 against the Copper Canyon Aztecs. /Top right: Varsity football and Copper Canyon players break from a tackle and get ready for the next quarter. /Bottom: The varsity quarterback gets ready to throw the ball, hopeful for a touchdown. Sunrise won the game with a final score of 53-7.

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Classic Movies to Rent

Set in the twenties, the plot revolves around the transition of silent film into sound. As Don Lockwood, the dashing silent movie hero, attempts to save the studio’s movie from his co-star Lina Lamount’s awful voice.

A film about the intertwin-ing life of a crime family. The youngest son, Michael Corleone, is suddenly thrown into the fam-ily business. He tries to live a normal life with his non-Italian fiancé, Kay. Yet, once his father Don Vito is targeted by another gang, Michael has to choose be-tween seeking revenge or giving up his life with Kay.

George Bailey has always had plans for the future, but they keep getting pushed aside as new circumstances arrive. He is forced to take on his father’s failing loan office that prevents him from the dreams he once had. George’s guardian angel saves his life by showing him how his life has affected the people around him.

The story of a love triangle set in WWII, stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick the café owner who still thinks constantly of his past lover, Ilsa. When she walks in to his shabby café with her resistance fighter husband, Victor Lazlo, Rick realizes he’s never gotten over Ilsa. As Nazi’s invade, Rick has to choose between Ilsa or he-roics.

The film takes place at Saturday detention where an athlete, a princess, a criminal, a brain and a basket case are forced by a tyrannical princi-pal to sit in the library. They harass one another at first, but they finally realize they have more in common than they originally thought.

SHAKE THAT THANG: COOP kids Mark Gintz and Alyssa Forelli dance their traditional performance at the Homcoming assembly on October 15. They shook their bottoms, they threw money in the air and they put their “stunna” shades on; all to impress the crowd. They danced to songs “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry, “Ms. New Booty” by Bubba Sparxxx and “Tell Me When to Go” by E-40.

Photo by Natasha Hossain

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