Kindness has dif-ferent meanings from one person to the next. For Sama Kalaj, a junior at Oxnard High School, kindness is “a very broad term and it can range from so many deeds but in short, it is anything that makes someone feel happy or enlight-ened...just anything that spreads any good atmo-sphere.”

For some, the small-er gestures are more ap-preciated. “Simple acts of kindness means more to me because I know it comes directly from the heart. That’s not to say that more extravagant gestures are less appre-ciated, but I think people tend to forget to look into the love involved with the action, instead, they focus too much on materialistic items that had no thought or con-sideration given,” said Aimee Sosa, a resident in Ventura County.

Kindness can also be through someone’s behavior and actions. It does not necessarily mean it has to be pre-sented through gifts. “The kindest thing any-one has ever done for me would definitely be talking to me at gath-erings when I am very new to the environment

so if they come over and introduce me to their group I feel like that’s the kindest thing ever,” said Kalaj.

Nevertheless, more extravagant gestures of kindness can also be equally as important. “If they’re sincere and their actions are from the heart then that’s all that matters,” said Elizabeth Botello, an english teach-er at OHS.

Additionally, some people look for thought-

fulness even in bigger acts of kindness. “Extrav-agant gestures are really cool too for like Home-coming or something--if the guy really listens to you and if you like to read and he bought you your own book then it shows that he has been paying attention to you. I guess it all goes back to the simple things though,” said OHS junior, Tiffany Torres.

Sometimes, kind-ness can be passed from one person to another through gifts that have a deeper meaning. “I remember my grand-mother cashing her pension check to help me pay for my books in college. It was so kind that she thought about me and wanted to have an impact on my edu-cation because she was not able to do that for her daughter. My grand-mother cashing her pen-sion check and giving me it for my books even though I didn’t need it was more of a symbol to me, and it was her way of showing me she was being supportive,” said Crystal Murillo, who is also an english teacher at OHS.

Overall, kindness is given and perceived dif-ferently. “Showing kind-ness to another person is doing things that maybe another person doesn’t expect you to do and you’re doing it from the goodness of your own heart and not because you’re expecting some-thing in return and also being open-minded and accepting of who people are at their core rather than being judgemental,” said Murillo.

“This is one of the best ad-m i n i s t r a t i o n teams I’ve had since becoming principal,” said Oxnard High School princi-pal, Dr. Eric Rei-gert.

With the start of a new year, the OHS administration has already be-come the prod-uct of change in the form of incoming Asso-ciate Principal, Ms. Lisa Ven-able.

Having re-ceived her bachelor’s degree from Baylor Uni-versity and her Master’s Degree in Administration from Stephen F. Austin University in East Texas, Venable has proven to be a valuable asset to OHS.

She wishes to con-tinue her administrative career at OHS with past experiences working in several counties across California. “I spent time in Monterey County as Assistant Principal of Instruction... I was in Temecula Valley Unified School District at Chap-arral High School for fourteen years… I was dean of the math depart-ment, I was a Geometry teacher, and I was an Ad-ministrative Designee. I

wanted to be in Southern California so I noticed they had an opening here...and thought ‘Oh! That’d be a great place,’” said Ms. Venable.

So far, Ms. Venable has received immense support from her col-leagues and has already begun to develop close ties with the student body. “I’ve really felt a lot of warmth and kindness from the staff and I’m re-ally grateful for that, be-cause coming into a new position I think some-times some people ar-en’t accepting of you and that would make it really difficult. I greet [the stu-dents] in the morning by the gym as they come to school and never does

anyone ignore me. They always respond very enthusiastically ‘Have a great day too,’” said Ms. Venable.

When she is not in the office, Ms. Venable could be found scour-ing the globe. “I really like to trav-el. I’ve been to China, I’ve been to Italy, I’ve been to Greece, I’ve been to Spain, I’ve been to France, I’ve been to England. I love travel. That would definitely be my

biggest interest.”Especially with cur-

rent seniors stressing over which colleges they should apply to, Ms. Ven-able wishes to encourage students, as well as con-sole them. “...don’t think you have to go to a UC... set your goals high. Do what you want to do, fol-low your dreams.”

Ms. Venable advis-es all students at OHS to follow her words of wisdom, “Let kindness guide you. Always try to do your best...just really follow your dreams and don’t give up. Persevere. If there’s something you really want to do...don’t stop, don’t give up, don’t settle for less than what you want your life to be.”

During Halloween, there are two things that go through people’s minds: costumes and candy.

With candy being among

the more iconic images of Hal-loween, many people often debate whether they would like to get fun-sized or nor-mal sized candies. Oxnard

High School senior, Easten Simpson, said, “I wouldn’t turn down a fun-sized candy [over the normal sized.]”

“I can sample a lot of different candies with fun-sized,” said culinary teach-er Ms. Vogt.

A variety of candy can come in both sizes, giving one the opportunity to try and experiment to find their favorite.

On the contrary, sometimes people prefer regular sized candies over their fun-sized counter-parts. “Normal sized can-dy is just better,” said OHS senior Jesse Villalobos.

Similarly, Daniel San-chez, a junior at OHS, said, “When you eat a reg-

ular sized candy you expect to be full, but when you eat a fun sized you have to want more.” Some people are set on their

choice of normal sized over fun sized candies.

Some people would pre-fer a handful of Jolly Ranchers over a Milky Way or Kit Kat. For the latter, a Crunch bar triumphs over some M&M’s.”I just like free things” said Simp-son.

That’s what some people forward to when this time of the year comes around, free candy and spooky decorations.

Others are just picky when their sweet treats are certain sizes. OHS senior Alec Salinas said, “I’d rather have a fun-sized Kit-Kat than a regular sized one.”

Most people can agree on, however, whether it be a king sized Hershey’s, a share sized pack of Skittles, a regular To-blerone, or a just some good old fashioned Kisses, that Hal-loween is a holiday to enjoy with friends.

Doing things like trad-

ing candy and telling stories about their trick-or-treating experiences is what makes Halloween special to groups of friends.

Maybe recalling an embar-rassing moment at a haunt-ed house or telling the story of how your group of friends threw toilet paper on some-one’s house for refusing to give you candy.

Whether funny or sad, happy or gloomy, halloween can give one a variety of emo-tions.

The wide variety of candy, ranging from pieces to bars to full on bars, should give every-one- from the normal sweets lover to a hardcore sour ex-pert- a little something from each region of the candy spec-trum.

This makes Halloween a holiday people can enjoy, whether they wear a costume or not.

October 30, 2015 Volume 9 Issue 1OXNARD HIGH SCHOOL, 3400 W. GONZALES ROAD, OXNARD, CA. 93036

Editorial:Size MattersDo people really care about the size of their candy?By Devin Lohse and Alexis Negrete

Photo by Mateo JuarezNew assistant principal Ms. Lisa Venable.

Project Kindness Part OneA series to encourage people to be kind to one anotherBy Stephanie Quero

Venable the DependableNew assistant principal discusses her life in and out of schoolBy Mateo Juarez and Mark Ramos

“Simple acts of kindness means more to me because I know it comes directly from the heart. That’s not to say that more ex-travagant gestures are less appreciated. ”

-Aimee Sosa

Photo by Devin LohseA delightful Twix bar shared amongst friends.

“Our generation sucks, and people are extreme-ly lazy and unaccepting,” said OHS senior Ashley McElvey,”even if you’re try-ing to express yourself peo-ple find it so hard to accept others.” Some people have a negative perspective on Generation Z and the fu-ture.

Members of Generation Z are people born in 1995-2009 who are “almost ex-clusively the children of Generation X, and they are truly the 21st Century gen-eration, with the whole of their formative years lived in this century,” according to education.qld.gov.

On the contrary, some people still have hope for a bright future. “If we just start recognizing the good in what people do and ap-preciate it, we will learn more about ourselves and

about others, and we will learn and grow from that,” said OHS senior, Russell Partee.

“I’ve now had the op-portunity to meet lots of Gen Zers...they tend to be independent,” said Alex-andra Levit from The New York Times.

The amount of tech-nology Generation Z uses is perceived as both positive and negative. “The aver-age teenager spends about 50 hours a week looking at a screen” according to ScienceDaily and has an impact on Generation Z. OHS’s junior Alyssa Queza-da said, “I rely on the inter-net when I have questions involving homework or any-thing school related that I do not understand.”

Advancements in tech-nology such as smartphones allow people to communi-

cate with each other easily. “I spend almost every hour I’m not sleeping on my phone over the summer,” said Quezada, “Although I see this as a nega-tive aspect of technology, I know I am not the only teen alone on this one.”

“We need to slow it down everyone’s [always] on their phones” said OHS senior Ashley McElvy.

However, others believe that advancement in tech-nology can be used for a greater purpose. “Thanks to social media, they are ac-customed to engaging with friends all over the world,

so they are well prepared for a global business envi-ronment,” said Levit from The New York Times. The midst of a new technologic and political era will form Generation Z. According to education.qld.gov, “by the end of the decade [Gener-ation Z] will comprise 12 percent of the workforce.”

The Billiwhack Dairy, now known as the ‘Scary Dairy,’ which is an old aban-doned Camarillo State Hos-pital, has been recognized for its daunting appearance and eerier history.

According to The Ad-venture Collector, “The ‘Scary Dairy’, founded in 1932, was first built as a slaughterhouse, and the patients of Camarillo State Hospital were forced to

work in the fields, as well as tend the livestock.”

“Although the dairy was built solely for ad-ditional income, as well as developing work skills amongst the institution, Camarillo State Mental Hospital was already con-sidered the ‘miracle hospi-tal,’” added The Adventure Collector.

They had already been claimed to find new tech-niques to heal cases of schizophrenia and even autism.

On the other hand, the practitioners in the hospital were accused of their malpractice on their patients, as well as taking

in a “great number of vio-lent cases, ” according to The Adventure Collector.

Before the Scary Dairy was burned down, “A men-tal patient had gone in [the hospital] and killed people

who worked at the dairy.” said Oxnard High School junior, Destiny Maury.

According to csuci.edu, the California State Univer-sity’s Board of Trustees was granted authority on September 1997 to have control over the property in which the Camarillo State Hospital once was.

Now known as Cali-fornia State University of Channel Islands, people visit the area to get a thrill. “It’s scary when you go in the middle of the night,” says Christian Quiroz, “The closer we got to the house, the more we heard noises, and footsteps.”

Neve r t he l e s s , “ It seems that whoever comes to the space uses it as a refuge, and you can tell that it is loved. Loved in its own little juvenile de-linquent way,” said The Ad-venture Collector.

“Nothing beats learn-ing from a teacher,” said Spanish teacher, Ms. María Lobo. Some Spanish teach-ers disapprove of the use of computers for students to

educate them-selves.

T a k i n g Spanish on-line is an in-d e p e n d e n t study process where the students just work with-out lectures or clarifying explanations. Students who took Spanish both online and with a teacher com-pared the dif-

ferences between the two. They believe that stu-

dents don’t get immediate feedback as they do with a teacher in a classroom. “You learn a language

through daily work,” said Ms. Lobo.

However, students may have trouble filling in Span-ish courses for the school year.

Junior Brianna Ramos said, “I don’t have room for [Spanish class] in my schedule and also I thought it’d be kind of harder right now in class than [if I took] it over the summer.”

Teachers help students to speak a foreign language correctly and use the cor-rect form of grammar. This allows student to become better at speaking the lan-guage.

Yet, some students would still rather to take the class online to save time while earning the credits.

“Even though [having a

teacher] is a little bit bet-ter,” said Ramos, “I can do it myself.”

Another Spanish teacher, Ms. Cynthia En-gland, said, “It will be hard-er for them because the curriculum isn’t aligned.”

OHS student Zoe Bara-za took Spanish online at Opportunities for Learn-ing as an incoming junior. Baraza took Spanish with a teacher both her freshman and sophomore year.

Between independent online courses and in-class courses, Baraza said, “In person you can ask specific questions and get specific answers back and hear how it sounds, but online…if you have a question, then you just have to figure it out yourself.”

Editors-In-Chief Stephanie QueroTatyana Sharpe

Managing Editor

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Leslie Espinosa Carlos Gonzalez Ileana Gonzalez

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Devin LohseRuby Lyn Lucin

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Alexis NegreteRena Okayama

Peyton QuintanaMark Henry Salupen

Cienna SaucedoJonathan Viveros

Jesus Zapien

Faculty Advisor Mr. David Page

The Buzz Staff

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Is taking a Spanish Course online easier than having a Spanish Teacher?

How technology has influenced Generation Z.

By Ruby Lyn Lucin

By Cedric Lim

By Kaylie Hollub and Cienna Saucedo

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Photo By Cedric Lim Independent work by com-puter without guidance.

Photo by Ruby Lyn LucinOne way to spend a Friday night (or not).

Photo by Cienna SaucedoGenaration Z’ers at a game.

“In person you can ask specific questions and get specific an-swers back and hear how it sounds, but online…. If you have a question, then you just have to figure it out yourself.”

-Zoe Baraza

“Well there is no certain age limit for trick-or-treating, it’s just whenever you stop feeling like a kid again,” said Oxnard High School senior, Se-arra Cardenas.

No matter the age, going out and trick-or-treating all de-pends on how you are feeling towards Halloween.

“Even when I’m an old man, I would still go out and trick-or-treat because who doesn’t want to obtain free candy? Free candy on Hal-loween was the most exciting feeling I got because I didn’t have to pay,” said alumni of the Oxnard Union High School District, Steven Kimbrough.

Adults are often seen trick-or-treating because they don’t

want to leave behind their in-ner childhood or do not want to let go of their best memo-ries.

Trick-Or-Treating is not only a time where an individual can get candy, but also a time where you can go out and en-joy the scares that await you with your friends. “My favorite Halloween memory is when me and my friends pretended to be dead people on our lawn and scared the little kids that walked by,” said OHS junior Mason Johnson.

As people grow up, they make the decision of whether to be the ‘treater’ or become the ‘trickster.’ OHS senior Seth Hill said, “A few years ago me and my friends threw eggs out

of our car window at a house who did not give us candy.The only reason we threw the eggs is because we saw them giving candy to the kids, and as soon as we walked up, we were told they ran out.”

Age is just a number.There are people of all different kinds of ages out on Halloween night.“There should not be an age limit just to go out and get free candy. Free candy is the best type of candy you can get,” said OHS junior, Darien Reyes.

Regardless of age, it is one’s own decision whether they want to stay inside or if they want to spend their Hal-loween night out trick-or-treat-ing.

“I was drugged on Hallow-een with ‘candy’,” said Oxnard High School senior Breaux.

There have been multiple r e po r t i n g s of incidents like this ev-ery year on H a l l o w e e n night.

After a long night of trick or treat-ing kids go back home with a big bag of can-dy ready to be eaten. “I started see-ing things like pink skies

and purple hills.” said Breaux. He goes on to say how import-

ant it is to check your candy before eating it.

“Personally I always check my grandchildren’s can-dy once they come back from trick or treating,” said Ms. Ma-ria Gutierrez, a math teacher at Oxnard High School.She explained how checking a kid’s candy is important. “I would go through all of their candy they collected that night be-fore they start eating it. You can’t really trust people with candy now.”

From parents, teachers and students, there are mul-tiple people with stories on what they experienced one Halloween night.

One of the most common incident on Halloween night

are items being taken away by others. In 2013, three kids from Morrisville were robbed at gunpoint. The attacker made off with “three full candy bags,a ‘Notre Dame’ book bag, and an iPod.”

”The best thing I would advise to do is to go in a group, with friends or guardians. I re-call one year, one of the kids in my neighborhood had got-ten his candy bag stolen,” ex-plained Mr. Creech. His tip to be safe on Halloween was “to only trick or treat in neighbor-hoods you are familiar with.” Most of the reports that we re-ceived who claimed that their items were stolen was when they were in an area that they were not familiar with. Another

thing to watch out for is traffic. There has been reports

of hit and run accidents on Halloween. In 2014 an arti-cle from LA Times by Emily Foxhall reported on a case in Santa Ana of a man who killed three girls in a hit and run inci-dent. Have a flashlight on you or have something reflective and make sure you’re able to safely cross the street.

Do you hear of this in-cident happening very of-ten? People being robbed or drugged? You may not think of these incidents when Hal-loween comes around but they can all happen to any-one, anytime and any where. Always be conscious of what’s happening at the moment.

Oxnard High School senior and straight-A stu-dent Robert Mummery has achieved a perfect score of 36 on the Amer-ican College Testing Pro-gram (ACT).

Surprisingly, Mum-mery did very little to prepare for the test. “I did take a practice test...honestly, that is what I did and I did not do as well on that,” said Mum-mery.

His score of 36 plac-es him in the top 0.05% percent in the nation, ac-

cording to PrepScholar.Mummery is not only

known for his achieve-ments in academics, but also for his time outside the classroom.

He participates in Cross Country, Mock Tri-al, Knowledge Bowl, the California Scholarship Foundation, and the Na-tional Honors Society.

Mummery is also a well-known student for making logical points and asking many valued questions. “[He] always had lots of questions to

ask...he re-ally gets the ball rolling,” said Advanced P l a c e m e n t United States History teacher, Mr. Christopher Conte.

The bright student has achieved four years of aca-demic success and plans on going to a pri-vate university after graduat-ing high school. “I’m looking at smaller, private

institutions because I think that will give me a greater chance of having a more personal relation-ship with my fellow stu-dents and with my pro-fessors,” said Mummery.

No matter where Mummery chooses to attends college, he will continue to be successful in any subject he choos-es.

“Whenever he sets his mind to it, he’s going to be top at whatever subject he wants to do,” said Mr. Vance Claycamp, the Advanced Placement Statistics teacher.

Mummery plans on making a career out of either sports or econom-ics. He said, “I like the idea of looking at how people spend their mon-ey and hopefully [try to] benefit all people.”

Out of Mummery’s many accomplishments throughout high school, he believes that challeng-ing himself is his greatest achievement.

He said, “My biggest accomplishment [in high school] is being able to truly challenge myself every day.”

“Since finger painting in kindergarten to getting a diploma in high school, we have been told that college is the way to go after high school,” said Crystal Garcia, a student at Ventura College.

Some students, throughout their educa-tional career, believe that they have been manipu-lated to think that with-out any college degree, they will not become suc-cessful.

Some may argue that the method of learning at a university is equiva-lent to one on an online course. “What is the dif-ference of sitting in an auditorium in NYU (New York University) with bil-lions of other people and sitting in front of your screen?,” said Gerald Celente, a politician, and member of the Nation-al Inflation Association (N.I.A).

“Going to college may necessarily not al-ways be the answer, but it opens a lot of doors...”, said Oxnard High School’s Advanced Placement psychology and social science teacher, Mr. Mat-

thew Creech. In recent studies

done by CareerBuilder, students who go to col-lege have more job op-portunities than a student with a high school diploma. “Col-lege can be very important because there are a lot of doors you can’t go through without a di-ploma”, added Mr.Creech.

Getting a job is not the only problem when going through the ed-ucation process, but there is also the expense of it. According to the N.I.A, the average college tuition five years ago was $21,235. Today the average college tui-tion is $27,293.00, which shows an increase of 29% within the last five years.

“I thought I wasn’t able to pay for college...but I found out ways. For instance,

I worked 2 to 4 jobs, played full-time sports and paid for my classes… Although it was hard, it made me appreciate

what I have achieved to-day.”Mr.Creech said, “Stu-dents should be strategic and think before going to college, about what they want to accomplish and the steps they need to take to achieve that and ask themselves: is it worth it, and am I go-ing to be able to pay this off?”

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Will Age Stop You From Getting Free Candy?

Dangers of Halloween

“El Bobby” Why go to college?

Students give their perspective on an age limit for Halloween.

Studenst discuss the dangers of halloween

Robert Mummery discusses his accomplishments throughout school Students discuss the proccess of going to college

By Aaron Lee and Jordan Kimbrough

By Jaime Barron and Jesus Zapien

By Rhiannon Enriquez & Nicholas Robles By Carlos Gonzalez and Jonathan Viveros

Photo By Rhiannon EnriquezRobert Mummery smiling for a profile picture.

Photo by Carlos Gonzalez Student studying for test.

Photo by Aaron LeeJack-o-Lanterns light the streets at night.

Photo by Jesus ZapienDangerous items can be found in candy.

“I feel like Coach Mack [and] a lot of the new coach-es have done a good job at turning around our program. We had some troubles in the beginning, going from such a simple scheme to what we’re doing now, it’s much more complex but I think that we’ve got it down, for the most part,” said Oxnard High School se-nior and Varsity football player Ricardo Telles. With the start of a new season and a new coaching staff, OHS’s football team has already experienced dramatic changes in the way they play and practice.

“We’re starting to get more in depth into each posi-

tion -- we have position coach-es. Last year we would all be in one group together so we wouldn’t really work on the positions that we’re in,” said OHS junior and Varsity football player Simon Hernandez.

“There [has] been a lot of change: brand new weight room, we bought a whole computer system where we can watch film, we run the program like a college pro-gram--so there’s been a lot of change -- a lot of adjustment,” said Head Football Coach John Mack.

Despite having a rough start, the changes in their practices have given the team

a positive out-look on how the season is going to play out. “We could be doing better, we could have won last week -- we just have to keep getting better and better -- 3 [wins] and 2 [losses] doesn’t really describe how our season is going. I think we can go far if we just stay focused and do what we got to

do,” said OHS sophomore and Varsity player Adrien Vasquez.

“The kids have been great, admin-istration has been great, the parents and fac-ulty have been very supportive, you can’t ask for more. We’re very optimistic we had some u n f o r t u n a t e i n ju r i e s . . . bu t we’re doing real

well. Once we get everyone healthy and playing right we’ll qualify for the playoffs and hopefully make a run at this thing,” said Coach Mack.

There are also some who are confident in the team’s abilities and believe that the overall bond they share will be a determining factor as to how they play this season. “I feel like for a new play book we have come a long way and the first game was a test to see how well we took in every-thing over the summer and as the season has gone on we’ve just gotten better and better,” said OHS senior and Varsity player Blake Kilgore.

“The togetherness of our team and the family feeling that we have, I feel like we work together very well and we pick each other up when we’re down. So far we’ve handled Varsity very well even if we’re down by two touchdowns we play as hard as we can from the first whistle to the last -- til the time runs out,” said Telles.

As Coach Mack said, “We’re very optimistic, we had some unfortunate injuries last week, but we’re doing real well...once we get everyone healthy and playing right we’ll qualify for the playoffs and hopefully make a run at this thing.”

“It’s different because people look at you differently,” said Oxnard High School junior Serena Sanchez, “‘oh, you’re a girl wrestler, they automati-cally assume she’s badass, oh she’s tough, just like the guy’s.’ Though many feel this way, it is not always true.” To hear the words, “lady wrestlers” is not very common because wres-tling is known to be a male dominant sport.

Although having a small team, some still perceive them as strong lady wrestlers. Elias Cervantes said, “Right now, [the girls] look solid. A lot more

solid than last year.” With nine wrestlers, the team continues to grow one by one, wheth-er by the encouragement of friends, teachers, or the pure sense of curiosity.

Once on the team, these young ladies prove themselves

capable of the challenges of competing. On and off the season, the girls stay in shape by conditioning and sparring with the boys wrestling team. “Guys will make you work harder. Guys are going to be stronger [...], so you just have to work on your capability or quickness [as well as] strate-gy,” said senior Nancy Melen-dez.

Junior, Tai Soldo’s first time wrestling the opposite gender was uncomfortable. She said, “It was awkward because they [boys] have different parts.” If the girls go to a co-ed tour-

nament, and there is a boy in the same weight class they are ex-pected to wrestle with each other.

On the other hand, senior, Ken-jann Fajardo said, “If you both know

your purpose, know why you are in there,

then nothing really feels awk-ward.” One enters the ring to compete and win -- not worry whether the opponent is com-fortable with the situation or not. In the process of becom-ing more experienced in the sport, both girls and boys be-

come used to wrestling each other.

The Lady Jackets are held to the same expectations when it comes to their weight classes. Some wrestlers are losing or gaining weight to stay in the same weight class or move up or down. OHS ju-nior, Noelle Tristan, said, “The girls team doesn’t have many people, so we are doing our best to fill the class closest to our natural.” Since there are not many lady wrestlers, it is difficult for the team to even-ly divide the girls into weight divisions.

In case the wrestlers’ main weight class is filled, they will have to move up or down a class, to compete in the next match.

Whether it be one or two pounds, some girls can be re-quired to lose between ten to thirty pounds. Soldo said, “We don’t eat that much before or that whole week for the tour-nament.”

Even though the lady wrestlers are competitive, they are also a group of sup-portive individuals.

In the weight room, the girls can be seen helping each other out, whether with a new wrestler or learning a new technique for the veterans.

Some of the girls have been wrestling together for over three years and have gotten to know one another.

Tristan said, “There are few people who know about us and few who stay in the class

for long -- the people who do stay become really good friends.”

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“We Have Come a Long Way”The Oxnard High School football team gives insight on this year’s seasonBy Peyton Quintana and Mark Ramos

Breaking the BarrierWrestlers discuss the requirements of being a female wrestlerBy Sarah Anaya

Photo by Nicholas RoblesOxnard High School’s football team facing a rival team.

Photo by Mark RamosOxnard High School’s football team in action.

Photo by Sarah AnayaAfter a hard workout, the OHS girl wrestlers unite as family.