Paw Print Vol. 21 Issue 3

Fremont High School Silver WolvesVol. # 21 Issue # 3 March 2015

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Dallin Saunders crowned Mr. Fremont 2015.

By: Acee HepnerJournalist

Winter ball: Dancing under the spotlight

Photo: Jerra Fowers

Dallin Saunders: Mr. Fremont 2015

Students dancing at Winter Ball.

Pep band plays in final Louie Louie night

By: Brigham FlintEditor-In-Chief

On January 16, students re-jected the gloom of winter and arrived at the Fremont-Weber rivalry game decked out in Hawaiian shirts and sandals. The Friday night basketball game marked the 11th Louie Louie celebration for the pep band, where they spend the entire night playing the same exotic island tune over and over again.

The excitement began around 5:00, where the band kicked off the night selling hot dogs. As the game drew closer, the band began warming up. Following the national anthem

and tip-off, the band played only Louie Louie, an upbeat and steady, tropical rhythm.

Throughout the game, the band kept the team going, and with just under ten seconds to go, Fremont stole the ball, and tipped in a shot just before the buzzer to send the game into overtime. Weber ended up coming up with the win, but the band certainly made the game more exciting.

“Louie Louie night” was started by band director, Randy Qualls. During a home basket-ball game several years ago, he noticed that the student sec-tion had only 19 people, and he wanted to find a way to fix that. Getting inspiration from

a school he previously taught at, he decided to bring Louie Louie to Fremont, and it im-mediately caught on. Around 400 students came to the next game. Mr. Qualls has held this special event every year since.

“We wanted to get people out who weren’t coming to games,” Qualls said. “For me, what makes high school fun and enjoyable [are the] shared experiences.”

Apart from making the night a little more interesting, the music often begins to bother and distract the other team. This gives Fremont more of a home-court advantage.

This was the third time sax-ophonist Aaron Antunez has

played with the band on Louie Louie night.

“It’s kind of funny looking for people that are annoyed by it,” he said. Last year, he saw an older man on the other side of the gym plugging his ears just to keep from hearing the song again.

This Louie Louie night, which will be the final for Qualls at Fremont, as he will be leaving at the end of the year, the stands were packed, and the fans and band were as excited as ever.

“There was no room for more sound,” Qualls said. “And that is what we go for.”

Through the lunch activi-ties, early breakfast, assembly, and all the smiles in between, it might be surprising to some that planning and participating in Mr. Fremont Week can also be stressful. Many don’t know the work the National Honor Society officers and the boys put into the week making sure it’s fun for everyone.

“The hardest part to coor-dinate were the materials each boy needed,” said Augie Wit-kowski, President of National Honor Society.

For several years, Mr.

Fremont has been put together by the NHS club. What made it even more stressful this year is that NHS had all new advisors and officers with no experience planning anything this big.

“The assembly was defi-nitely hard,” said Witkowski. “I had no previous experience with assemblies and what the stage crew needs.”

While the assembly did receive great feedback and people seemed to enjoy them-selves, everyone did notice a new method: voting. In the past, judges would score each boy depending on their perfor-mances and whoever had the

highest score would win. This year, it was up to the student body to decide. Students could text in their votes as many times as they wanted to crown the winner.

“Since the competition is labeled “Mr. Fremont,” it only makes sense that the students got to choose the winner,” said Witkowski.

While everyone was calmly voting, backstage was a little chaotic. Nobody knew if the system could handle all the votes coming in at one time. Once they were in however, Dallin Saunders was crowned Mr. Fremont. 2nd Runner Up was Taylor Kirby, 1st Runner

Up was Pake Hadley, and Paxton Merrill was Mr. Con-geniality.

“I think the students got it right,” said Pake Hadley. “I’m glad Dallin won. He deserved it.”

Despite all the fun, Hadley agreed that there were stressful times during the whole week.

“I didn’t like being woken up so early for breakfast on Tuesday,” said Hadley, smiling. “But the worst part had to be all the screaming fans.”

Despite all the stress, the officers and guys pulled off a great time for everyone.

The pep band dressed up in Hawaiian shirts and sandals to play at Fremont’s 11th “Louie Louie” night.

Photo: Brigham Flint

Bright lights, tall buildings, fancy ball gowns, Fremont's commons became a place where some students were put in the spotlight for the night. Winter Ball was one for the books and definitely represented “A Night In New York.” From the bright lights to the tall buildings in the background, the commons was decorated to perfection.

Dances gives students op-portunities to have a night of fame, from having the chance to sing for the student body, to being crowned Winter Ball King and Queen.

The theme song - 100 years by Five For Fighting, was sang by Sydnee Peterson.

“It was an adrenaline rush,” said Peterson “My date was trying out, so in the spur of the moment, I was like why not? I got on the stage

that morning, and all of the screams from the audience gave me so much courage, because before I was so fright-ened and my mind went blank. And some voice, like Celine Dion or something came out of my mouth! I was so proud, and now I can cross it off my bucket list,” she said.

Our Winter Ball Queen and King were voted in and announced during the night. They were Erik Dickamore and Tess Newey.

“I was really surprised,” said Erik Dickamore “I knew that Tess was going to make it, but when they announced that I had made it, I was very surprised.”

“I did not think I would win,” said Tess Newey “All the other girls that were nominated I thought were a lot cooler than me, and when I won I couldn’t believe it.”

By: Jerra FowersEditor

Photo: Acee Hepner

Sports Student Life A & E Editorial News

Sports The Paw Print

While many students may focus on their muscles, the wrestling team is a lot more than toned bodies. Friendship, support, and safety pins are all components that make the team more than just boys in spandex.

“We’re definitely like a fami-ly,” said Danny Razo, a wrestler for two years. “We cheer each other on and everything. We’re pretty much just a bunch of brothers.”

“We’ve eliminated a lot of the cliques,” said Coach Storey, acknowledging that the team hasn’t always been close but is getting better.

Obviously, with family comes tradition. If anyone has noticed safety pins on wrestler’s backpacks or jackets, that’s one of their traditions. Three years ago, after a wres-tler suggested it, Coach Storey started giving wrestlers a safety pin to signify an opponent they actually pinned in a match.

“It just caught fire after we started it,” said Coach Storey, referring to the pin tradition. “It rewards them for the ulti-mate win in wrestling - a pin.”

Before getting a pin, the

Fresh snow spraying aside, flying down the hill, then the rumbling begins. On average, five people die from avalanch-es every year, every year in Utah alone.

“The majority of people killed are experts that trigger their own avalanches,” said Mr. Erisoty. “They’re looking for the fresh powder.”

To learn about avalanche safety, Fremont’s Ski and Snowboarding club went to Powder Mountain on February 5.

There are three basic things to avalanche training. First, Avoid one. Second, what to look for so one is not trig-gered. Third, What to do if someone is buried.

Most skiers check the avalanche forecast that is up every morning at 6am. There is a team that goes out every morning and checks the moun-tains.

Skiers check for flagging trees, trees on an angle of 30 to 40 degrees, before heading down the mountain.

Skiing down the mountain one at a time can save lives.

However, If a person ends up in an avalanche, there are three things to remember. Beacon, pole, and shovels. The avalanche beacons, internation-al frequencies, will be used to locate the missing person.

“I think the most useful

thing was learning how to use the beacon,” said Chance Zun-del, club president. “[It was] a neat experience to learn skills [to use] in an avalanche.”

After the beacons locate the person, the poles are pulled out to see how far down that

person is buried. Finally, shov-elers will dig the person out.

Trained professionals purposely check high caution areas for safety of board-ers and skiers. To check out more avalanche safety, go to utahavalanchecenter.org.

Rumbling down the mountain

From the beautiful make-up, to the matching outfits and hair styled in the exact same way, inside and out, the drill team is an amazing group of girls. Their performance at Region on Wednesday, Febru-ary 10th, was an unforgettable moment for Fremont this year.

These amazing girls danced their hearts out at Weber High. They took first in all three of their events- kicking, dance, and military.

All thirty of these girls are not just a team, but a family. They have to rely on each

Silverline: Kicking the competition

Photo: Evelyn Lees

By: Samantha SmithEditor

Fremont cheerleaders showing off one of their routines during a basketball game. They recently competed at the region and state level, and will head to California in March to compete at nationals.

Photo: Fremont High Cheer Team

In January, Fremont’s cheerleaders headed to the Region and State Cheer Cham-pionships to compete against several other elite teams. On January 24th, the team placed 3rd in region, and one week later, they finished 4th in state.

“We really pushed ourselves and stuck together,” said Maci Willie, a senior on the team.


Cheerleaders dance through region and state

Illustration: Acee Hepner

Earning a new pin is like getting a huge trophy to all the wrestlers.

PinnedWrestling tradition continues alongside the hope for more support


Photo: Krystel Boyce

The girls hold their region trophy with pride after winning all three of their events.


other in order to come out of a dance successfully. One little mistake could have ruined their chance of winning. But after all their hard work and dedication, they accomplished one of their goals- to take first at Region.

“We couldn't have made our [long fought for] dream come true without the support of our pack,” stated Tayler Saunders, a junior dancer.

Not only was the team on target, but so was Fremont’s crowd. The Silver Wolves took up a whole section of the bleachers.

“Nothing will ever beat the feeling of accomplishment, re-

spect, and pride we had in the pack [that] night!” said Kalli Boyce, junior on Fremont’s Silverline. “It was an unforget-table experience that I am so grateful for.”

The cheering alongside these dancers helped them perform to the best of their abilities. Silverline and their biggest fans made Fremont proud on February 10.

“All I can say about last night was that it was so fun to perform for our biggest supporters,” said Whitney Olson, senior. “It wasn't like Silverline winning first place. It was FREMONT winning first place!”

“We gave it all we could.”On February 7th, the cheer-

leaders took 2nd at a competi-tion at Weber State. They had a lot of support from Silverline, Danze Company, and others at Fremont, which helped them perform well. On February 21st, they went to the Utah Spirit Open where they placed 4 out of 7 teams.

“We’ve done really well in the past few competitions

in the sense that we had no penalties or deductions,” said Paige Hansen, the secretary on the cheer team.

In March, the cheerleaders will head to Anaheim, Califor-nia for the USA High School Spirit Nationals competition. While there, apart from com-peting, they will have the op-portunity to spend some time at Disneyland, LA Hollywood, and the beach.

Between now and then, the cheer team will be doing everything they can to prepare for nationals.

“We have been working really hard and changing the things we need to change,” said Alexus Velasquez, another member of the team.

These changes will no doubt result in exceptional performances in the upcoming competitions.

wrestlers have to practice, often after school for several hours. Since wrestling is such a physically demanding sport, it’s a huge deal when someone earns a new one.

“It makes me feel like I accomplished a huge task when I get a new pin to add to my collection,” said Razo. “I’d like to eventually have around 30 to 40.”

Supporting each other through good times and bad is also a wrestling tradition. They rarely have many fans at matches and if they do it’s mostly parents. So instead of fans cheering a wrestler on, it’s their “brothers” yelling behind him.

“I do want to get wrestling at our school to be popular,” said Coach Storey. “It’s really fun to watch. I think it’s mis-understood though.”

Coach Storey has done sev-eral things this past season to increase fans. Bringing in choir students to sing the national anthem and ice cream sand-wiches for the fans are two of his attempts at doing that. Next season he plans to invite the band and cheerleaders to come support at the home matches.

By: DeAnn Thorpe

Above: Members of Fremont’s snowboard and ski club using avalance beakers on a trip to Powder Mountain.Below: The North American avalanche danger scale.

Fremont’s ski and snowboard club learns safety on trip to Powder Mountain

Sports The Paw Print

Wreslters pin the season with successLeft to Right: Brandon Johnson, Austin Kirsch, Daltin Woods, Jeff Hardy, Kelton Brandley, Davian Hendrix, Tyler Paulsen, Daniel Razo, Kade Olsen, Mason Palmer, and Kaden Tarbet

Swim caps, tight suits, and rubber goggles, this may not seem like a beautiful sport to some, but for Olivia Mayer, she does it beautifully. Mayer is a sophomore here at Fremont, but she didn’t let the fact that she was a little younger than everyone else hold her back from swimming with the best of the best. Mayer has broken 5 school records individually, and two records along with her relay team.

Her talent for swimming didn’t start with swimming lessons or a special trainer, but

with her family at the nearby Layton Surf and Swim. Mayer’s older brother Greg, who is also a six time school record holder is what got her started swimming.

“I have been swimming since I was nine. I swam down at Layton Surf and Swim. My brother Greg actually he was also on the swim team, mostly his senior year, the coaches came to us and said that he needed to swim during the summer.” said Mayer. “My par-ents said ‘Greg is going down there at 7 AM so mine as well get all the kids going” and we all just went down with him.”

Because Mayer’s parents were already taking Greg, Mayer’s brother, up to swim practice they thought “why not take the rest of the kids”.

Some of Mayer’s inspira-tions included scripture verses about being humble, and that by becoming humble, we also become stronger. One of her favorites also includes that she can do all things with the strength she has been given. She writes these verses on her calf before her meets.

Mayer is not just a phenom-enal swimmer, she also is a triathlete, which is a sport that includes three events, running,

biking, and swimming and she will be competing in her next triathlon in May.

Mayer is also going a step farther than state.

“I actually just found out I have a zone’s cut, so swimmers have state, zones, sectionals, nationals, and so on. One out of forty swimmers go to state, and one out of twenty state swimmers goes to zones, so I am really happy.” said Mayer.

Mayer’s amazing talent has been recognized by many at the school. Her name will stay in the records for previous years as a reminder of her legacy.

Olyvia Mayer: Chlorine in her veins

Dallin Denton recently competed in his final state wrestling tournament of high school, wrapping up a successful career as a 2-year captain and Fremont’s all-time leader with 170 wins.

Dallin’s wrestling involve-ment started long before he entered high school. For years, he has been among the nation’s top wrestlers, and he is a seven-time All-American. All along, he has had his father, Fremont teacher Mr. Denton, as his helper, supporter, and coach.

This has been some-thing the star wrestler has particularly enjoyed. Among all of his accomplishments, Dallin says the the most rewarding aspect of it all has been“[strengthening the] relationship between me and my dad.”

Mr. Denton agreed.“It has been awesome

coaching Dallin,” he said. “I have gotten to spend more time with him than most

dads get to spend with their children. I would imagine that with the amount of time we spend together, often in heated competition, any father-son combination would have its issues, but it has been a great experience, filled with many highs and few lows. He has had a great career, and it has been an amazing oppor-tunity to coach him.”

They have been able to share many special moments through-out Dallin’s time at Fremont.

“One experience that stands out was when Dallin won the Divisional championship as a junior, beating a wrestler from Syracuse that had beaten us the season before,” Mr Denton remembered.

Of course, behind every great athlete, is countless hours

of hard work and sacrifice. “He has...had to exhibit

a tremendous amount of self-control to maintain his weight throughout the wres-tling season,” Mr. Denton said.

One of Dallin’s biggest struggles had been getting down to weight, and some days he has put on 3-4 layers of

clothes and run or biked several miles, or com-pleted other exercis-es, to be able to meet the require-

ments.“Dallin has trained very

hard the last 4 years, almost year round to reach the level he is at now,” said Coach Storey, who is the head coach of wrestling team. “He has had some very good training partners to work with in the room who helped push him

and motivate him. He is an extremely competitive person. He has also been very driven to success and has helped others around him motivate themselves to work hard and be great young men first, and then great wrestlers.”

This year, he wrestled in the 132-pound weight class. He finished as region cham-pion for the third time, and in state, he was runner-up for the second straight year. His achievements have been recognized, and in January, he won wrestleutah.com’s Athlete of the Week. Dallin has also maintained exceptional grades, and he received Academic All-State for the 5A classification.

During the off-season, Denton enjoys reading and of course, eating.

Following high school, he plans to serve an LDS mission and then pursue a career as an engineer at Utah State. Even-tually, Dallin hopes to coach wrestling at the high school level.

Dallin Denton: Desire, dedication, determination

Dallin’s holding his trophy following a successful tournament.

Photo: Shane Denton


Photo: Harrison Shoonm

aker

Alongside Olivia Mayer, Fremont swimmers show pride for their school.

Photo: Ashlyn Arrington


By: Ashlyn ArringtonJournalist

Wrestling is a sport that pushes you until you feel like

your body can’t take it anymore and pushes you mentally to the

point of giving up completely. Strength doesn’t come auto-

matically but has to be worked towards everyday. The strength

that wrestling requires is some-thing that is given 110% all the time and Fremont wres-tlers have shown dedication throughout the whole season.

Fremont’s match against Northridge was intense as ever until Jeff Hardy took to the mat, then the intensity level skyrocketed. Hardy was able to pin his opponent, boost-ing Fremont’s win by twelve points. The whole crowd was cheering and could not take their eyes off of the dual.

Fremont’s JV and Varsity teams were both very suc-cessful that night which led both teams to the win against Northridge.

“I feel like people don’t realize how hard it is,”said Danny Razo, wrestler. “I usu-ally say if it’s so awkward why even acknowledge it, you just want to bash on a sport that you don’t even play why don’t you try it out and see if you still think that it’s awkward.”

Sometimes wrestling can get overlooked by other sports and not many people go to the matches to support their fellow Silver Wolves, but the wrestlers at Fremont know how to work their hardest in every match.

“It’s all about overcoming mental doubt and just taking care of business out on the mat,” said Kade Olsen, junior wrestler.

One great quality of Fremont wrestlers is that they never give up with or without people there to cheer them on. Ultimately bringing home the win for our Silver Wolves.

He has had some very good train-

ing partners to work with in the room who helped push him and moti-vate him”

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The Paw PrintStudent Life

Day in and day out, the beaming students of the Special Ed. department meet with their peer tutors, grab their carts and set off to do recycling. They diligently stop at every classroom and empty the bins, putting them back to be filled up again.

The paper they collect is taken out to the donated con-tainers found by the seminary building where it’s picked up and weighed. Then fifteen dollars for every ton of paper is awarded to Mrs. Welsh, the

Class can be quite the challenge, and that is only 90 minutes. But when on an international flight that can be eight or more hours, how is a person expected to survive? Here are some tips for those who have the opportunity to fly international.

One of the first things to be aware of is that internation-al flights can be an extensive amount of time sitting, so you should be prepared for the long flight ahead.

DaYe Song, senior, is an exchange student from Korea.

“My longest flight was 13 hours from South Korea to California,” said DaYe. “There was no way to get to Utah directly so I had to go to San Francisco first and it took 2 hours more to get to Utah from California. It took 15

hours total.” A Japanese exchange stu-

dent from last year, Tomoko Ishitsuka, also had a flight that lasted 13 hours from Japan to Mexico.

Be sure to bring things that you would like to get done. Bring homework, work assignments, or even a book you would like to read. It helps to get this work done on the airplane, giving you more time to enjoy your visit more.

Flights that long will pro-vide a small television screen for you to have throughout the flight. The small screen will typically include TV shows, movies, music, and even games for you to enjoy, making the long ride more bearable.

Be sure to stretch your legs every so often so your body doesn’t get sore.

DaYe suggests to bring a neck pillow while Tomoko sug-gests finding a seat with more

leg room. On a typical

international flight, they will bring around hot towels to wipe your face or hands with. In addition to hot towels, meals are provided for free in-flight, so you don’t have to worry about being hun-gry. Some meals are simple and include chicken, mashed potatoes, a side salad, bread roll, and a simple small dessert such as a brownie.

When flying internationally, en-joy your flight and sit back and relax while you’re on your way to your destination.

Getting the most out of international flights

Photo: Marissa Barnes

Baggage claim at the Salt Lake City international airport.

By: Marissa BarnesJournalist

Illustration: Alicia Anderson

After a year of hard work, Mrs. Welsh and her super powered students get ready for their end-of-year celebra-tion.

Super-powered recycling

By: Alicia AndersonJournalist

After high school, some students jump start into college, while others want to spend a little time relaxing and soaking up the new responsi-bilities of being an adult. Some seniors plan a senior excursion after they graduate.

“I’m going to Germany to visit the foreign exchange student who goes home at the end of this year,” senior Sydney Carpenter said.

Many students however, don’t have a lot of cash to spend on a senior trip. Food, travel, and hotel rooms are the 3 most important and expen-sive parts of any trip. How-ever, instead of spending too much money on a hotel room, visit websites like VRBO.com. On VRBO, people can rent a house to stay in for the dura-tion of their trip at a low price.

If staying in America for your senior trip isn’t good enough, plan a trip to back-pack across Europe or travel through Mexico.

“We are going to England,” an excited senior, Darcy Bodily said. “My sister goes to BYU and they have a sponsored trip

Senior journeys: Planning the big trip

By: Shyanne RitterJournalist

there and they said that you could bring family, so I get to go with her.”

While traveling, try staying in a hostel to get the full experience. A hostel is a dorm like setup where everyone gets their own room but the facili-ties are shared by everyone in the building. The hostels cost usually somewhere between $15 - $45 a night. With the prices being so cheap most people will stay in a different hostel every night as they travel.

Once decided on when and where to go, the next step is figuring out how to get there. Either flying to the destina-tion, or doing it the old-fash-ioned way and taking a road trip, both can be an adventure.

“I really want to go to somewhere with a beach,” senior Jaycie Smith said. “Since Utah doesn’t really have a beach with an ocean I would go anywhere with that option.”

The whole trip is planned now—except the activities. Try visiting the destination’s web-site or research the surround-ing area for help finding the perfect group activities.

Going somewhere trop-ical? Take a tour or a nature walk or swim with the fish

Photo: Shyanne Ritter

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.and discover a new underwa-ter ecosystem. Or maybe the trip is somewhere cold. Enjoy skiing or snowboarding? Find the closest resort and have some fun. Be on the search for the perfect cup of hot cocoa. Visit the nearest town and get a sample from every shop.

Finally, once everything is figured out, now comes the fun part. Graduation is in three months and after the caps have been thrown and the gowns returned, the trip that begins the future is not far away.


Puerto Vallarta.

severe unit teacher in charge of the paper recycling program at Fremont.

After collecting an average of 4 to 5 tons of paper includ-ing the boxes from the kitchen the students help unload and smash, she rewards the stu-dents that help recycle with a fun, end-of-year activity.

Julia Soleto is a student in the Special Ed. department. She says that emptying the re-cycling baskets is the best part of her day.

“It’s fun,” Soleto said with a grin at the mere mention of recycling.

Kalem Fields is also involved in the recycling program and he loves it. His favorite part of the process is “getting the recycling” and the end-of-year activity.

As the “Recycling Captain,” Fields pushes the cart and

wears his favorite color. “A green cape, a mask, and

shorts,” he said, with a big and proud smile.

Fields also believes that recycling is a super power.

Mrs. Welsh isn’t the only teacher that uses her “super power” to pay for activities. Welding teacher, Mr. Ellertson, recycles soda cans throughout the year to fund a party for his students.

The recycling program is growing rapidly. Last fall, Fremont had one recycling container and by January there were two. Another was added quickly after and yet another may be on its way.

“Once you realize how important it is, you become excited about doing it,” Welsh said.

Super students save the environment.

Student Life The Paw Print

Valentine’s Day is full of love, hearts, teddy bears, choc-olates and red roses. Many people dislike the holiday if they are single and don’t like celebrating or don’t know how to celebrate it. Fremont High School is getting into the cele-bration by giving the students an opportunity to give each other roses.

Mrs. Montierth and the SkillsUSA team is in charge of putting this whole project in motion. Their jobs are to order and make sure the roses are delivered to the correct person and put up all the signs. When students buy them, they can write anything they want to go with the rose. Students can leave your name or be sneaky and give it to them anony-mously.

“We get the long stemmed

Fremont gets rosy with roses

One of the posters that was hung up around Fremont to advertise their rose fundraiser.

Most teenagers want noth-ing to do with their parents. Most students use school as an escape from home. For some

Teaching the next generation


Students feel the pressure to be on time.

Clock is ticking: pressure to be on timeBy: Alicia Anderson

Journalist

The late bell rings and stu-dents speed walk to their class-room. Teachers stand outside the door and give disapproving looks and the occasional, friendly reminder to “get to class!” Then there is always the poor fellow that comes in with a slip after attendance was taken. “Tardy again,” they say.

Posters in the halls and an-nouncements remind students to be on time. According to

Photo: Dr. Belnap

Dr. Belnap celebrates with his son, Grant.


Photo: Ashlyn Arrington

By: Ashlyn ArringtonJournalist

students, the school is where they see their parents most. Teachers not only take care of multiple students in their class, but some also have sons and daughters that they get to be there for throughout their high school experience. Some of their children are even in their class.

Rory Pollard, a junior at Fremont, has both parents working at the school, Mr. and Mrs. Pollard.

“It’s interesting, the good thing is that I can keep all my food in my dad’s fridge, but the bad thing is that my dad is in charge of attendance credit and sometimes I am late to class,” said Rory. “I had my dad three times last semester and twice this semester and my dad thinks it’s really funny to bug me in class. Also if he

doesn’t want to do something he always makes me go do it.”

High school is a different lifestyle for these students. Where most kids are driving to school, they will ride with their parents. Life stories of the student’s childhood might leak out during one of their parents lessons. But there are some positives to having your parents as teachers, including extra help with homework, getting disclosures signed, and always having them there when they are needed.

Sarah Kap is a junior at Fremont and her dad is health teacher, Mr. Kap.

“Having my dad as a teacher where I go to school is great!" said Sarah "There’s really nothing bad about it!”

Dr. Belnap, there are practical and figurative reasons for the increase in pressure to be on time.

“[Tardiness] disrupts teach-ing and it costs,” Dr. Belnap said. “You have to pay to make up attendance credit, and it can be up to $90. We also want to teach students life skills.”

Incentives were made to encourage students to get to class on time. Students with no attendance credit loss have their names put in a random drawing for prizes. These

include front row parking passes. Maverick gift cards are also awarded when avaliable. Students can also make sugges-tions for incentives.

“There will also be an end of year drawing including all of the past winners for a grand prize,” said Dr. Paskett, engi-neering teacher. “But that’s still in the works.”

The number of tardies among juniors and seniors is decreasing. Sophomores’ numbers are staying the same, possibly a result of not under-

roses from a lot of different florists locally,” said Montierth. “ We usually buy 200 roses and almost all of them get sold every year.”

“It’s a cute idea I think but I don’t really like the idea at the same time because not everyone gets a rose. I feel like the same girl gets a ton of roses,” said Savannah Truman, a junior at Fremont. “I can’t remember the number exactly but I saw one girl getting prob-ably five or six roses.”

Students will give roses to other students, teachers will give roses to their spouses, and parents will sometimes order roses to give to their kids while they are at school. Seems like a lot of people get into the love-filled holiday thanks to SkillsUSA.

“I like the idea with the ros-es because we can send them to our friends and crushes without them knowing,” junior Maddy Macari said. “We can brighten the day of someone who might need it.”

standing the consequences of being late.

Though incentives are mak-ing a difference, some students still struggle to be on time.

“I don’t care enough,” said Caleb Hunt, senior.

However, even students that find it difficult to be on time agree that there are bene-fits to simply being on time.

“It is a demonstration of respect,” Dr. Belnap said. “Instruction starts the moment the bell rings, and students that come in late risk missing that.”

Stereotypes. Everyone faces them, especially in high school. Whether or not stereotypes are a good thing, not everyone fits their stereotype. The Paw Print asked students to express a stereotype they feel like they person-ify. The photo above is one of the many stereo-types FHS students defy. To see a full gallery of the #ImNotYourStereotype experiment, head over to packnews.wsd.net/stereo-type

#ImNotYourStereotypeBy: KayDee Nelson

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Just last March, Ellen Degeneres posted a selfie from the Oscars that became a hit overnight. But Ellen could have fit even more celebrities into her popular selfie, if she had the selfie stick.

The monopod or “selfie stick,” is a single rod device that can be extended to make it as small or short as needed. The section where the phone is held, is typically padded and adjusts as needed to fit to any phone size.

To take a picture with the selfie stick, the user simply needs to enable the Bluetooth connection on their phone with the stick making it easier for them when they push the button on the stick to capture the moment.

The Paw Print went out to ask students what they think of the latest gadget. Many students have heard about the selfie stick through the buzz about it on social media.

Some students don’t enjoy selfies as much as others.

“I don’t take selfies,” said sophomore Kaden Argyle. “I

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On February 4th at Bon-neville High School, Honor Orchestra performed their annual recital and their hard work, practice, and coopera-tion made for a great perfor-mance.

“Once we started play-ing everything went great,” said concertmaster, Christian Phomsouvanh.

Honor Orchestra is like any other ensemble but features students from all of the high schools in the district. To join, students are given an audition piece which consists of basic minor and major scales. Those that make it onto Honor Orchestra are expected to learn the performance music on their own with the exception of some help on rehearsal days beginning in December.

This year, Honor Orches-tra performed three different pieces, including “Playful

Pizzicato” which was played by plucking their instruments. The performance lasted about an hour and a half, featuring Gabriel Gordon as the guest conductor.

“I remember [Gordon] kept making a reference of “break a bow hair” just like how theater would say “break a leg”,” said Phomsouvanh, referring to Gordon. “I can definitely say that I broke a bow hair or two during the performance.”

All but one of the section leaders were from Fremont. Nevele Varble was the second violin section leader, Jaquell Taylor was the cello section leader, and Mariah Richins was the bass section leader.

“It was a little stressful when they weren’t following the rest of the sections,” said Jaquell Taylor. “But I really liked being the cello section leader.”

Despite their dedication and great performance, parents were the only ones that seemed to come support the group. Everyone, including students, were invited to attend.

“I think it would be nice if students came to support,” said Phomsouvanh. “I think a lot of performing arts go un-recognized for all of the hard work they put in.”

The Honor Orchestra will be performing again next year around February.

Breaking bow hairs

Students in Honor Orchestra learned three different pieces this year - "Jig," "Playful Pizzicato," and a movement from "Serenade.

Photo Credit: - Acee Hepner


In a post-apocalyptic world, where betrayal is around every corner, the dead are alive and the living are dying, and the unknown is all they have to hold on to.

The Walking Dead is called the “Best show on television,” according to AMC. Many students who watched the new episode have many differ-ent opinions. The episode is named “What happened and what’s going on” for a reason. Watchers are left wondering exactly what they just wit-nessed.

“It was really intense!” sophomore Zoie Greenwood said. “I was almost in tears I couldn’t handle it. I think a lot of people are going to die like Beth and Tyrese, like who’s next? The best part of the show is the story. It really shows what would happen in a real apocalypse.”

“I did not want to have emotions while watching the

new episode,” sophomore Boddie Harlow said. “A lot has been happening to them so I hope they have a break for a little bit.”

During the February 8 episode, many students were instantly captured and full of anxiety. The group is suffering from new deaths, cannibalism, starvation, and obvious zombie problems. They are falling apart and broken hearted and it just keeps getting worse.

It leaves watchers wonder-ing why they are still running and what they have to gain, while questioning if they could keep going in the show.

“Everyone might die! If I was in it I would definitely die,”Harlow said.

The Dead are walking back

The Walking Dead poster.

By: Alissa NealJournalist

Fremont produced a Musi-cal called The Drowsy Chap-erone a few months back. The set was then sold to Syracuse High School's theater depart-ment for two thousand dollars. After purchasing the set, for Beauty and the Beast, the only thing left to do was get the set out of Fremont’s doors, and into theirs.

Lifting a five thousand pound stage was difficult,to say the least. With an estimated 24 students helping take apart, lift, and load parts and pieces into the moving truck, it took three hours after school to complete.

"I was a little nervous at first because I didn't know if it was going to work," said senior Madison Bradford. "But then I was super proud that we're able to move such a giant set with just us. Talk about teamwork!"

The bond between these two schools was noticeable. These students are both driv-en, excited, and dedicated to

Theater and The-ater Tech. Spend-ing hours before and after school, time at home, and sacrificing their personal lives for the passion behind the curtain.

“I feel that if you love to do something, then it becomes your pas-sion," said junior Blakely Rheese. "Most people pre-tended to be some-one or something else when they were kids. Theater is similar, but you do it in more complex way for the purpose of entertaining others.”

Theater encourages self confidence and communica-tion.

Combining two schools for the three hours really brought Fremont and Syracuse closer as friends. Before Syracuse’s departure, the students were exchanging Instagram, Face-

book, and Twitter accounts. While saying goodbye, every-one gave themselves a pat on the back.

“For me this was great at showing what I love most about theater," said Bradford. "The teamwork, and enjoy-ment we have when we all come together on a project to make it work, makes it worth-while."

Different districts; same passion

Jessi Spencer, Noah Vernon, Emma Ray, Lynd-sey Brophy, Bracken Gossett, Kollin Wasserlein, Tanner Sasel, Logan Kelley, Tatyana Goodwin, Brennen Keller, Hayden Clark, Conner Bippes, Jd Shuman, Dylan Rice, and Madi Bradford helping load the set.

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By: Ronni BairdEditor

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Dallin Saunders is a senior who has his eyes on the future. Just recently, Dallin was Mr. Whiteside, the lead role in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Fremont’s latest play.

“I was really super sur-prised. I didn’t expect that at all,” said Dallin. “I’ve always got some minor parts. I was really scared because I knew it had a lot of lines but the director had faith that I could do it.”

Dallin set a goal for him-self-if he got the part of Mr. Whiteside, he would earn a standing ovation at least one of the nights to show he did the part justice. Every night he received a partial standing ovation, and one night he did reach his goal of a complete standing ovation.

Mr. Whiteside slips on ice at a hosts house while recover-ing from his injury, Whiteside

and his hosts encounter some shenanigans of Whiteside’s friends. For the majority of the play, Dallin was seated in a wheelchair either having to be pushed or push himself around.

“It was kind of hard because half your body is cut off so you can’t use all of your motion while acting,” said Saunders. “So you have to use

a lot of motion on just your upper torso. It was hard getting around the slippery stage.”

One of Saunders’ favorite things about being in a play is simply the cast.

“In every show it’s the cast,” said Dallin. “It’s getting to work with 20 people on this project and then coming together and bringing joy to hundreds.”


Photo Credit: Marissa Barnes

Mckenna Newman who acted as Lorranie, prepares to lay down in a mummy sarcophagus

Bianca and her two best friends are like any other normal highschoolers. That

changes when Bianca’s neigh-bor, Wesley, calls her the Duff; the designated ugly fat friend. Hung up on the fact, Bianca will stop at nothing to change how she is seen by her peers. Changing her clothes, hair and, personality Bianca slowly changes her life… or so she thinks. Madison, a ruthless popular girl, can’t have Bianca changing the high school system. Doing everything in her power, she plans to make Bianca stay the ‘Duff ’.

The movie is portrayed differently than the book and the author Kody Kiplinger accepted that.

"The book is a little more

The designated ugly fat friend

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The cover of the movie ‘The Duff’.

By: Samantha SmithEditor

In a world full of different shades of grey and crime fight-ing sponges, the movie Jupiter Ascending has been shoved to the background. This space action movie stars Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis as the lead characters.

Despite bad reviews sur-rounding it, I decided to give this movie a chance. To my surprise, it wasn’t as awful as the other reviews made it out to be.

The movie follows Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who was born as a genetically identical reincarnation of a dead queen. While her genetics say she is destined for greatness, Jupiter is employed as a maid and hates her life. When a geneti-cally engineered hunter named Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) comes to Earth to find her, Jupiter’s world is drastically changed. Her genes put her next in line for an incredible inheritance, but she must fight others to claim what is right-fully hers.

Overall, the movie was good and doesn’t deserve the bad reputation that critics are giving it. It was not the best movie I’ve ever seen and prob-ably wouldn’t make my top ten list of favorites, but I would still recommend seeing it, especially to anyone who likes

space action films. The charac-ters were decently developed and I fell in love with Caine Wise, not because he was played by an attractive actor, but because of his backstory and how it was told.

Jupiter Ascending has scenes all audiences would enjoy. The dresses and high fashion clothing are stunning as well as the explosions and fight scenes. My theory as to why other critics aren’t feeling the same as I do about this movie is that it was released at the wrong time. With other movies, like the hugely popular and controversial American Sniper, out at the same time, a good movie like Jupiter As-cending doesn’t stand a chance at being noticed.

Ascending out of this world


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The movie poster for Jupiter Ascending features stunning graphics with Jupiter (Kunis) and Caine (Tatum).

“I think it’s stupid, you don’t necessarily need a date to have fun experience.”

-Amanda Leavitt

Speak!

“I don’t feel like it’s very fair because if people want to go to prom but don’t get asked I think they still should be able to go.”

-Becca Sheridan

“I don’t really care because I am not going stag but I feel like the rule is fair.”

-Mason Palmer

“I think that’s how it should be, I do feel awful about those people who don’t go to prom because boys don’t want to ask but it is set up to be a formal and date dance.”

-Taylor Williams

“I think that boys should not be able to go stag but I think that girls should go stag especially because girls aren’t being asked.”

-Maddy Macari

What is your opinion on the rule about going stag to prom?

Honor Orchestra performed despite broken bow parts, little fans

R-rated," said Keplinger. "While I'm happy the way the book turned out, if was adapt-ed as is for the screen it would have be R-rated, and wouldn't be able to reach all the people you wanted to reach with the message.”

I thought this movie was humorous and well done. There were points that anyone could relate to and it showed her confidence build up even with the drama of a teenagers life. A rising concern is that the film may have created another label that will be used among high school students in every-day life. I have already heard this new term used by multiple students at Fremont and have watched it increase over the last week.

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As an editorial staff, we would like to thank the Weber’s student body officers for com-ing out to judge and support Fremont during the talent assembly. Judging a talent show isn't an easy thing to do, and listening to booing didn’t make the process any easier.

During the talent assembly on Friday, February 20, Weber High officers stood up as they were introduced to the student body. As these officers stood, some students decided to “boo.” This is not only an classless act towards the Weber High student body officers, but a disrespect to their school.

Even though we are rivals, the Weber SBOs didn't deserve that disrespect. They took time out of their school day to come help Fremont, and as a student body, we should be grateful for that time. We are more classy than that, and we hope that our student body

will give any visiting schools more respect than what a few of us failed to give them. Fortunately, they didn't take it personally, but a school rivalry

isn't any excuse to boo at someone.

Stay Classy Silverwolves, and be the bigger person like we are all taught to be. Respect

others, and remember how we would like to be treated as well. For the next event when another rival school steps into Fremont’s door, lets have an

open hand, and a good attitude because we are all in the same place in life, going through high school, having fun, and making memories. The only

thing holding us apart are different mascots and different hallways to walk in.

Paw Print Editorial Staff

Missing Miss Fremont

By: Alissa NealJournalist


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In a world severely lacking in male swimsuit competitions; talent shows, dancing and more, Mr. Fremont Week came to the rescue. Mr. Fremont is a competition between senior boys to determine who best defines Fremont. This year Dallin Saunders was honorably crowned “Mr. Fremont.”

Fremont does not have a females best dressed, women’s talent show, or, to say the least, a Miss Fremont.

“I think there should defi-nitely be a Miss Fremont.” said sophomore Eian Vrooman, “Girls like doing stuff like that. Plus it isn’t really fair that the guys get to and the girls don’t.”

While some like Vrooman believe there should be a Miss Fremont, others like Angel Hedelius, disagree.

“There shouldn’t be a Miss Fremont.” said sophomore, Angel Hedelius, “Girls flaunt too much. It would be mean.”

Acee Hepner, NHS officer said, “I don’t know why there isn’t [a girls competition] but the girls get a lot of publicity, they get royalty at all the danc-es. I don’t think there will ever be a Miss Fremont.”

There are many different opinions about having a girls competition.

“Girls win enough things what with prom queen and homecoming queen. The guys need more recognition,” said counselor Brook Bosgieter. Giggling she added, “Plus, girls are mean.”

Mr. Fremont is an annual competition, it will continue on for years to come. The mystery is: whether or not the king of the school will ever have a queen.

The typical high school student usually leaves their school as soon as the bell rings through their ears. They snatch their car keys from their backpack, and drive away from what’s held them hostage in their seats for the past 8 hours.

But we aren’t your average high school students, we are a different breed.

We are the ones with water bottles in hand as we walk in the school each day. We wear KT tape under our clothes, because we don’t want to have to reapply it the next day. We make Nike clothing a fashion statement. We are the kids who beg their teachers for the hall pass because we drank too much water. The ones who wait for the bell to ring, because we’re one step closer to lacing up our shoes.

We are the high school cross country team.

At first glance from other varsity sports teams, we are looked at as “the crazy bunch”. The ones who find enjoyment in running multiple miles, when running is the punish-ment for most. But we look at it differently.

We believe that the time

your foot strikes the ground for the first time, we are em-barking a new adventure. We are blazing through a new trail, finding different paths that take us to beautiful destina-tions. We are the risk takers, adventure seekers, and hard workers. We push past our pain to PR by ten seconds.We are becoming the next generation of runners.

We accept that blisters may appear after removing our shoes. That chaffing is second nature. We realize that getting up the stairs the day after a workout can be a true struggle.

High school is a place of finding yourself, taking what you love and running with it. For some this may be art, others it will be football. As young distance runners, we all have something in common. Running is a teenage dream that never expires. While our paths may change when our diplomas touch our hands, but we will always have running close in our hearts.

We will never rid of the countless number of race bibs, and we will keep our shoes where we can find them.

Because we are a different breed, and we were born to run.

Weber SBOs get a cold reception at talent assembly

Mr. Fremont com-petition sparks question about fairness

Take what you love and run with it


Photo: KayDee Nelson

The Paw Print

FACES OF FREMONTBased on the popular blog, “Humans of New York,” Faces of Fremont is a way for the student

body to meet the student body. This segment contains brief day-in-the-life profiles and gives stu-dents the opportunity to share their insights. Faces of Fremont is also done in an effort to unite the student body.

Visit packnews.wsd.net for more faces.

FarCry 4: Building a warrior

At the beginning of this game, the main character Ajay is attempting to lay his mother's ashes to rest in Kyrat, India. While traveling, the graphics surrounding the mountains are absolute-ly breathtaking. The players senses connect with the game, as the crisp, pine mountain air can almost be smelled.

Ajay’s bus is soon stopped by a convoy of military men, and Ajay has to escape from the bus, avoiding an over-whelming shower of bullets flying through the air. A man by the name of Pagan Min

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Destinie Comeau is a junior with a busy schedule. She takes two AP classes, is a member of Play Productions, and a yearbook staff member. In addition to juggling her high school life, Comeau is also writing a book in hopes of being published.

When Comeau was in elementary school, she loved the Harry Potter series. After reading the books, she liked the fantasy and the style of J.K. Rowling. This inspired her to write her own series, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

Being in the process of publishing a book isn’t always a settling feeling.

“The fear of rejection is probably the hardest thing to deal with,” said Comeau. “It’s one of the reasons I still hesi-tate in the publishing process.”

However, Comeau isn’t completely discouraged about her book and the hopes of get-ting it published.

“Watching your creation take root is something that only creators can understand,”

said Comeau. “There’s just something about joining the characters that I have made and developed on their journey through the worst that life can throw at them. And when they overcome an obstacle, it is like I am there with them, feeling the same triumph and the same misery when they fail.”

Right now, Comeau is speaking to a mentor about her books. Her mentor loves the publisher she has, and Comeau

someday hopes to have the same relationship with her publisher.

Comeau has already done the hardest part of the publishing process and has finished her manuscript. She is now on the lookout for a pub-lisher to help her book become a big hit.

“My story is a piece of my-self and without it, I wouldn’t be me,” said Comeau.

Writing her way through high school


Destinie Comeau with the manuscript of her book, Ancient Magic.

Photo: Marissa Barnes

Caden Christensen, like most students, enjoys listen-ing to music. But his love for music doesn’t stop there. Four years ago, a friend of his dad taught Christensen how to play the drums, and he has loved it ever since. He joined the marching band this year as a junior. Christensen and a few of his friends started their own band, the Infinite xyst, and even though the group has yet to perform, they look forward to doing it soon.

Christensen says that play-ing drums is a part of his life, not unlike his most appropriate

pseudonym, Beard. “Yeah, that’s my nick-

name,” Christensen said with a chuckle.

Caden ChristensenBy: Alicia Anderson

Journalist

will inform Ajay that there is a civil war arising and he has two choices- his team or death.

The rest of the game is full of high action quests ranging from simple to heart-pound-ing, missions that will keep you hooked on this game until the end. Far Cry 4 has a storyline that keeps the player guessing what's going to happen next, while the characters don't give much of an explanation either.

The 15 hour main mission and side quests never stop developing .These side quests help Ajay become a power-ful warrior and as the game goes on, he will become more skilled, which makes the game more challenging.

Throughout the game, traveling around the map is not only adventurous, but most of the time, dangerous. It’s full of hidden secrets and graphics that seem real. From ziplining over ancient ruins to climbing the mountains in search of animals, this game never has a dull moment nor will the player ever get “bored.”

This game has been on the shelves for about 3 months. However, since Far Cry 4 is a new game it started flying off the shelves. Far Cry 4 is such a popular game, when it was released the game cost was a whopping $80. It has since been reduced to a much better price of $60.

A recurring question that travels through the minds of parents, teachers and students is involving the difference between Silverline and Danze Company. A lot of people will wonder if there even is a difference. There in fact is one, and there is a lot of great qual-ities regarding each team.

“The main differences between Silverline and Danze Company are the regulations that are required when com-peting,” said DeAnn Thorpe, the coach of Danze Company.

Miranda Hardman, the captain of Danze Company,

thinks that the team is going to do very well and has the potential of getting a score of excellence on their dances at their adjudication, where the team is judged, but receives a rating instead of placing.

“Danze Company is a very hard working team,” Hardman said. “We encourage each other to succeed. We strive to be the best we can be and we are unit-ed as one,” Hardman said.

Silverline has categories like Kick, Military, and Dance. They also have moves that have to be involved in a dance and moves that they aren’t allowed to do. Danze Company has categories like Modern, Lyrical and Hip Hop. Their type of dancing is more

Photo:DeAnn Thorpe

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Above: Dance Company poses as a team.

Silverline poses as a team.

By Ashlyn ArrigtonJournalist

Danze Company & Silverline: mutual respect

Photo: Alicia Anderson

focused on the Fine Arts side of dance and works towards trying to tell a story through dance.

“I think that Silverline is really good at getting the job done,” said Jaycee Spader, captain of the drill team. “We always work together to ac-complish a common goal. We always give our all to finish the job and we don’t do anything halfway.”

Silverline has recently proved their dedication to the sport of dance with the team taking first in every catego-ry in Region. The team also shows their dedication through practices. They practice every B day and on Saturdays. Both dance teams have an incredible

amount of po-tential and both have strengths that benefit their team.

“There isn’t really a differ-ence between the two teams, we are all just a bunch of girls doing what we love,” Spader concluded re-garding Silver-line and Danze Company.

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Price of regular gas.

Extravagent gas price decline

Gas prices have never been a fun topic to talk about. Until now. With prices dropping everyday, it truly is a teenager’s dream. The gas prices have fell from $3.27 to $1.87 in a little over a year.

“ I don't stress as much anymore when it comes to making sure I have money for gas," said Taylor Seamons a senior. " It's nice being able to spend your money on other things!"

In the 1920’s, gas was only 25 cents a gallon, but the average American only made $10.00 an hour. With the income people received back then, paying $3.00 to fill up their cars was completely outrageous. However, in a constantly changing econo-my, prices shot up and now anybody would be more than willing to pay that price.

“The gas prices are definite-ly amazing right now, especially because I live farther away from the school,” said Kenna Phillips, a junior at Fremont.

Students who live outside of the boundaries of school, or simply farther away, spend more gas money getting to and

from school than a student who lives down the road. So even though everyone is loving these beautiful gas prices, students from West Haven, Hooper, and close to Roy are enjoying it even more.

Gas prices are now not only extremely convenient, but ac-cording to CNN, 81 percent of Americans have started driving more, and during the holiday

season, 92 percent of people traveled further distances across the country.

Gas prices have stabilized at a current $1.87 and haven’t moved for about a month. Maybe these beautiful gas prices won't end any time in the near future.


Photo: Man on the street

Jason, Holly, Taylor, Cayden & Hannah Williams standing in front of the Century Link field in Seattle, Wash-ington.

Touchdown at the Superbowl


Bring out hot wings, chip dips, soda, and bleed colors of the favorite team, because this is the Super Bowl.

The 2015 Super Bowl was held in Arizona, at Sun Devil Stadium.

February first was game day, and the two teams were heated up. This was a game no one could have predicted.

“My entire family was rooting for the Seahawks,”

said junior Autumn Morphin. “The game had us on the edge of our seats the whole time. We didn’t even eat a lot of our Super Bowl snacks because we were so focused.”

Before the game started, in an NBC interview Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll, shared his advice with his team to prepare them for the Super Bowl game.

“We are going to play the same football we always play,” said Carroll. “Play tough and smart. Trust in yourself.”

The game was close, but

Patriots won by 4 points in last Quarter, filling New England fans with excitement and shocking the 12th man, Sea-hawks fans in the stands.

“I thought the Super Bowl was great!” “I am glad that the Patriots Won,” said senior Ka-tie Fowers. “I don't think the deflated footballs had anything to do with helping them win. The last interception made the game fun.”

World & Local

Derailing new technology

No deaths in fiery wreck thanks to advances in safety technology


A produce truck caused the derailment of 4 trains in Oxnard, California on Tuesday, February 24. 30 people were injured, 4 critically.

Before sunrise, the driver turned onto the tracks, mistak-ing them for a road. Disorient-ed, he left the scene and was found about a mile out.

According to BBC News, 54-year-old Jose Alejandro

A Metrolink train similar to the one involved in the accident

Photo: Justin N., distributed under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Sanchez Ramirez “has been detained and hospitalized for observation.”Ramirez’s truck was stopped on the tracks and burst into flames as the train, going about 50 miles an hour, hit the vehicle head on. According to CNN News, “...Collision energy management technology [was] implement-ed after a 2008 Chatsworth, California, crash between a freight train and a Metrolink commuter train that left 25

people dead.”Collapsible bumpers that

allow force of the collision to spread throughout the train and additional crash absorption technology helped lessen the impact as well.This accident could have been fatal if not for these recent advanc-es in technology. CNN News reported that Jeff Lustgarten, spokesman of Metrolink, said “We can safely say that the technology worked.”

Students are affected by gas price decline

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On February 5, members of the DECA program headed to Weber State University for the annual region competition.

Upon arrival, the stu-dents went to the ballroom for instruction and took the Marketing Cluster exam. After the exam, they participated in two role plays,where competi-tors were given ten minutes to prepare a presentation for the judges. Students then took a hospitality test, and those that made finals competed in two additional role plays before final awards were given.

“I thought [the region competition] was unortho-

dox and not professional at all whatsoever,” said Jessica Ursem. “There was no secrecy or privacy about our answers. I think if it was private I would have done better.”

Finalists were Kaycee Okerlund, Morgan Pales, Dal-len Howes, John Mills, Faith Perkins, Sam Hadley, Jessica Ursem,Ryan Boden, Erik Dickamore, Gerrett Burton, Miki Hadley, Hunter Sorensen, Noah Morey, Stone Lambert, Hannah Koford and Austin Towns.

Bailey Gard, junior, said, “[The region competition] is pretty much just practice be-cause everyone goes to State.”

State DECA competition was February 26 and 27 at the

Davis Convention Center. First place was awarded to Miki Hadley, Heidi Miller, Hannah Koford, Gerrett Burton, Dallin Fisher, and Taylor Williams. Second place was awarded to Kaycee Okerlund, Hunter Sorensen, Rory Pollard, Austin Towns, Morgan Pales, Mitch-ell Despain, Bailey Gard, and Jessica Ursem. Third place was awarded to Jon Mills, Trevor Allen, Cameron Chugg, Jaden Loftus, Stone Lambert, Emilee McFarland, Braden Bingham, and Payton Hall.

These students look for-ward to competing in Nation-als at Orlando, Florida.


Photo: Dale Pollard

Students who placed at state for DECA. They will be going to Florida for the national DECA competition.

DECA prepares for nationals

Photo: Ronni Baird

Marybai Huking.

Marybai Huking, accepts Excellence in Achievement award

Fremont’s finest, Mary-bai Huking, accepted Weber School District’s Excellence in Achievement award on January 7th, 2015.

Principals nominate their students to receive this award through the district. This Jan-uary, Fremont was chosen and Dr. Belnap nominated Huking to accept this award.

The Excellence in Achieve-ment award recognizes students for standing on top. Huking was selected for aca-demics and athletic achieve-ments in light of her disability.

“You can’t say that you have a disability unless you recog-nize it as such,” Huking said. “You can't see it as something to hold you back. I see my blindness that as something that can push me forward.”

Huking is academically driv-en and Weber School District has noticed that.

“[Academic success is] something that has pushed me to be more motivated and to show others that I don't define myself as someone that is disabled,” said Huking.

She also was in the spotlight for her outstanding athletic ability. Huking is a part of the paralympic sport, blindfold

goalball. She is on the US na-tional women's team, traveling all over the globe to play and compete.

I’ve seen the change that sports can have on a person and how they see themselves,” Huking said. “I guess that goes

with not seeing blindness as a disability.”

What is next for Huking shows her ambition. In 2016, she travels to Rio as a perspec-tive paralympian. Then shortly after graduation, she will go to Portland State University.


School Spirit is something that Fremont definitely has not been lacking in lately. Spirit week was a way to dress up and show some school pride.

“School spirit is important,” said Hannah Philpot, sopho-more. “Coming from junior high it was definitely cool to see so much school spirit and see the school working together.”

Tuesday was College Day. Students filled the halls wearing their favorite college apparel. This dress obviously started the oldest argument of which school is better- BYU or U of U. Nevertheless, this helped the pride of the school to reach astounding levels.

Wednesday was Jersey Day. Instead of battling for the better college team, it was time to move to the pros. Students walked through the halls wear-ing their sports apparel with pride, showing each other

which team they rooted for and making new friends from common team appreciation.

Thursday was the perfect day for an Instagram post. It was TBT (throw back thurs-day) to Junior High Day. Fremont students wore their favorite hoodies, sweats and T-shirts from the good old days. Wahlquist and Rocky col-ors showered the halls, from bright yellow to maroon.

“My favorite day was junior high day,” said sophomore Baylee Seamons. “It almost felt normal because I was just there last year.”

Friday was the day to go all out for Fremont. The school shined with blue pack power shirts and hoodies. Students really had fun with this day and some even had blue hair and face paint. Fremont is defi-nitely the school to attend if looking for some school spirit.

Shyanne RitterJournalist

Celebrating school spirit week

Photo: Alex Willie

Alex Willie taking a selfie with sudents learning how to dance during spirit week.

To Jen Bricker, the problem with not having legs, is not having a problem with it.

“Being born without legs, being put up for adoption, was the best thing that ever hap-pened to me,” said Bricker.

Nothing has held Bricker back. Being a gymnast, dance performer, and public speaker; the only difference between her and most people is that she was born with no legs.

“She is one of those unique individuals that does not see any of the obstacles,” said Dr. Belnap.

She wasn’t always a Bricker, she was born a Moceanu. Sha-ron and Gerald Bricker, having never fostered or adopted be-fore, beat out over 300 couples on the waiting list to adopt Jen.

As Bricker grew older, she wasn’t different from anyone else—peers, teachers, and coaches were all supportive.

“I think people forget how important their peers are,” said Bricker. “[We’re at] each other’s level, we’re the same. And my peers were amazing. I will nev-er ever, ever, in my entire life, forget how they touched me.”

When Bricker turned 16, she pressured her parents into revealing her birth name.

Dominique Moceanu, an Olympic gold medalist, was the girl Bricker watched her entire childhood, the one she said she looked like, her Idol-was now her sister.

“Oh my gosh, she’s Ro-manian too. Oh my gosh, I’m Romanian. She’s tiny and spicy and I’m tiny and spicy,” said Bricker.

Knowing this, Bricker want-ed to meet her biological fam-ily so she contacted her uncle, a private investigator. Bricker automatically assumed that her biological parents would deny giving her up or even having her, but she was wrong. After her biological father admitted that they gave her up, there was no more contact made.

Bricker was sure that her new two sisters didn’t know that she existed. After three times of hanging up, she finally left a message that said that it was an urgent matter. Soon she realized that she was going to have to take a different route.

Bricker joined Dominique’s blog, Facebook, and found other ways to keep track of her sisters.

“So that’s what I’d look like with legs,” said Bricker when she found a picture of her two sisters. “I belong right in the middle. I belong right in between you guys.”

Within a couple of weeks, Bricker found out that Dom-inique would be competing close by. Bricker planned on meeting her sister, but two weeks before the competition, Dominique dropped out due to an injury.

After the failed attempt, Bricker moved to Florida to live life on her own. However, it wasn’t long until her life was

consumed by the desire to meet her biological family.

This would be her third and final shot. Bricker collected all of her copied adoption papers, put pictures with them, and sent them off.

“It was the longest two weeks of my entire life,” said Bricker.

After a while, she figured that Dominique wasn’t going to answer her back.

Bricker said, “At least I tried. At least I know, at the end of the day, I gave it my all.”

One afternoon, Bricker received a letter from Domi-nique. She wasn’t sure if it was going to be positive or nega-tive, so she was scared to open it. In the letter, Dominique told Bricker that she was about to be an aunt.

Bricker then realized that she had forgotten to tell Dom-

inique that she didn’t have legs. When Bricker gave her the

news, “[Dominique] pretend-ed that she wasn’t taken back by it,” said Bricker. “But she totally was.”

Bricker was able to fly to meet her two sisters for the first time, and later, her moth-er. Although she was unable to meet her father, Bricker forgives him.

Changing difficulties into ones that make Bricker smile has given her the opportunity to be who she is today. Bricker gives credit to her family and friends for the positive impact in her life and she shares that with everyone she meets.

“I just want you to real-ize the importance you have and you have in each others lives,” said Bricker. “I can tell you, from experience, that my peers, teachers and coaches all touched me.”

Jen Bricker: Born without legs

By: Samantha SmitihEditor

Photo: Samantha Smith

Jen Bricker speaking to Fremont in an assembly.

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Taylor Seamons dances her way to outstanding awards

By: KayDee NelsonJr. Editor-In-Chief

Saturday, February 28 was a big day for Danze Company, and an even bigger day for its awarded “Outstanding Danc-er” Taylor Seamons. The team attended adjudications at We-ber State and later performed at Ogden High School in front of a series of judges. Award winning Danze Company ath-lete Taylor Seamons humbly received the award and shared the win with her teammates.

“I actually didn’t even know the award existed,” Seamon’s said. “It was really exciting for me because I didn’t really expect it at all, and neither did the team, but they were all happy for me.”

Seamons was chosen by judges as Fremont’s “Out-standing Dancer” award recipient and received an abun-dance of support and praise from her parents, teammates and choreographer, DeAnn Thorpe.

“She deserved it.” Thorpe remarks. “If I could describe

Taylor in one word, the first of many I would use is ‘happy disposition’. I’m definitely a proud coach, how could you not be proud when you have a team of 16 girls who work re-ally hard, just to do their best? And thats all I ask—for them to walk off of that stage and scream because they knew they tried their hardest and only

cared about what they needed to do to make their school proud.”

Whether it was dancing through injuries or helping strengthen her team, Taylor definitely proved herself wor-thy of the prestigious award and certainly made her team and her school proud to have her as part of the pack.

Indie games, are projects that take years to make and usually have a smaller amount of people working with low-er-grade equipment, yet are the games that are innovative, meaning they expand and try new things that can reach any audience. Mainstream games, are projects that have huge development teams with huge budgets that take around a year to produce the next game in their lineup, and tend to keep the same formula to reach the same audience.

Innovation has caused peo-ple who are less likely to play video games to have an interest because new games and new playing styles have come out, yet innovation doesn’t seem to be what gamers really want.

Call of Duty is one of the most popular games that people who like innovation use as an example of the biggest lack of imagination, but then when gamers get their hands on it, they can’t stop playing it. Call of Duty costs about $60 a game, and has now collected a smooth $10 billion since the

first game that came out in 2003.

Half Life 2 is a very popu-lar indie game which has sold over 12 million copies since its release in 2004. The original Half Life is selling over one million copies a year, since 1998. These games do well, but over time, while mainstream games do well from the day they are released. The creators of the Half Life games, which costs about $20 each, have

made about $800 million.Many articles have been

written about how the lack of innovation will kill the video game industry. If held true, games that had the innovation gamers are claiming to want wouldn’t be doing as badly as they are. The reality is that gamers don't know what they want. Gamers claim to want innovation, but every time they get it, they don't like it.

Gamers don’t want innovationBy: Roze Jensen

Journalist

Photo Illustration: Roze Jensen

The posters of Half-life and Call of Duty.

After four weeks of six hour days, Ballet West’s pro-duction of the classic Swan Lake, was ready for center stage in the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake. There are dress rehears-als before any opening night, but none are as special as Ballet West’s.

Ballet West holds an event called First Look, a program where teen ballet students are allowed to attend the dress rehearsal of the current show.

First Look for Swan Lake was held on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 4. Dancers from several schools settled in as veter-an Ballet West dancers and directors of the ballet spoke of their times and shared an in-depth analysis of the story.

Then the rehearsal began

and the story of swans, an evil sorcerer, a prince and a beautiful girl, came to life. Christiana Bennett, Rex Tilton, Beau Pearson, Barbara Barrington-Jones, and Adrian Fry, were all lead dancers in the production.

“I thought it was so cool to see the professionals do it and see how easy they made every-thing look,” said Olivia Perry, a dancer that attended the rehearsal. “It made me want to work harder and really push myself in class so that I could one day be as good as them.”

The performance wasn’t the only thing that was breath taking. Janet Quinney Law-son Capitol Theatre, has red carpet, high arched ceilings, crystal chandeliers and intricate detailing in the walls and stair railings.

“The theater was very pret-ty,” Addison Garside, junior

at Fremont, said. “I loved the costumes, the good acoustics from the orchestra...and the glitter.”

Ballet West makes another on ‘pointe' production

A portion of the lobby at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.


Photo by Alicia Anderson

On Monday, January 26, supporters of the baseball program filled the commons for the annual banquet.

The dinner and silent auction were in the works for about three months. To get support and donations, mem-bers of the team went to local businesses that were more than willing to help them out. The team also sold dinner tickets for $10 a few weeks prior to the event.

In addition to getting sup-port and donations, members of the baseball team helped

Baseball banquet hits a home run

Photo: Alicia Anderson

Donated baskets from several local businesses.


According to Bingham, the money received will go towards purchasing new uniforms, covering any additional costs of the new field, equipment, and anything else the team may need.

Parents and other members of the Fremont community enjoyed their time at the dinner and silent auction.

Bryce Clark, father of Tyler Clark, sophomore on the swim and baseball team, was incred-ibly happy with the banquet and what it means for the boys.

“It’s awesome,” he said. “The food was great, the boys all helped and it was a good, a great turn out.”

make the banquet a success by serving food, taking tickets and cleaning tables.

The food and all of the baskets were donated. The baskets were purchased or bid on and varied in price and content from $12 for a Dunkin’ Donuts mug to $550 worth of concrete labor or welding supplies, with all of the proceeds going towards the baseball program.

“We raised about $7000 last year, and I think it was pretty good,” said Braden Bingham, senior and member of the team. “We did a couple of tournaments in St. George and it helped pay for that.”

It’s not every day that an individual is injured, resulting in the use of a wheelchair or crutches. Students are familiar with and often take for granted the ability to move freely without assistance. So what happens when that individu-al is you? Curious about the impact on social interaction and academic success that a temporary injury brings, I conducted a social experiment to see how the public would treat someone who depended on a wheelchair. The results were not what I expected. With the permission of the administration, for four days, I strictly used a wheelchair to commute through school. As far as my peers and teachers knew, I had fractured my leg in an accident and had to use a wheelchair to reduce the chance of further injury. At the beginning of the exper-iment, the first thing that I noticed was that not everyone was too welcoming or willing to help someone dependant on a wheelchair for transpor-tation. Many times while I was commuting from class to class, I asked individuals for assis-tance, and was surprised when many ignored my request or gave me looks of disapproval. Reactions like this had a large impact on my self-esteem and made me less likely to ask for help again throughout the week.Other times, peers would see me struggling to retrieve supplies from my backpack or maneuver around a desk and willingly helped me reach my materials and move freely to speak to my

teachers. I was also surprised by the rude remarks made by those around me, both to my face and behind my back. As a student who attends classes that require physical activity, the stress of having to sit on the side lines unbearable and not to mention, made me be-hind in my work. The support I received from friends, and even those I didnt know was also a pleasant surprise. People at times would give me hugs or ask if I needed any favors to make my injury more bearable and meant a lot to me when I felt discouraged. Getting around in the halls was defi-nitely the most difficult part,

and had the most impact on how I felt about from class to class. Due to the crowds in the hallway, navigating my wheel-chair was not the easiest task, and I constantly felt that I was in everyone’s way or a major obstacle for those around me. Getting from one class to the other took double the time it normally would, while making my arms extremely tired and sore. The overall experience, while extremely unpleasant, and not what I expected at all, taught me the importance of helping others in need, and also gave me a better outlook on those who have to go through this obstacle everyday.

Social experiment: Four days disabled

By: KayDee NelsonJr. Editor-In-Chief


Rolling down the hallways.


Taylor seamons holding her award.

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