Senior Salute 2013

May 21, 2013

4THE SENIOR

LH STAFFSenior LH staffers reveal

their future plans and favorite newslab memories, as they

prepare to leave the familiar lab behind.

SENIOR THOUGHTS& PERSPECTIVES

Seniors offer opinions and re-flections of their time during

high school, their future plans, and anything else they’ve ob-

served along the way.

OH, THE PLACESYOU’LL GO!

Whether travelling across the country or staying closer to home, all seniors are going

somewhere. Here is a lost of future destinations.

PHOTOS OF THE YEARTake a look at the best photos of the year, featuring

seniors participating in City High events.

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SUPERLATIVESFrom most likely to become president to best smile, se-

niors have received a number of “superlatives” determined

by their classmates.

TRANSFORMATIONTUESDAY

High school is a time of change and growth. Here is a look at some dramatically contrasting freshman-senior

portraits.

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Senior Salute 2013

Issue By Jason Arnold, Nora Holman, Cassie Wassink, Renata Stewart, Sabrina Rodgers, and Emma Gier

3May 21, 2013 SENIOR SALUTE

NAT ALDER JASON ARNOLD GABE BASILE EMMA BAXTER

Future Plans:Colombia College Chicago,

Film

Favorite Newspaper Memory: I loved those work nights.

Staying up late with my peers, eating junk food, flirting with

Nora, being Jack Rogers’ interim father, maybe do a little work, it was all too much fun. One of my favorite specific

moments was when Max, Jon, Jake, Gabe and I went to visit

the Hawkeye Carver arena and Rogers took us around the en-trance four times, claiming the entrance we were supposed to be at was “somewhere in here”. We climbed up(and fell down) a mud hill trying to get through a

locked emergency exit.

Future Plans:New York University,

Theatre Production & Design

Favorite Newspaper Memory:Working on the Little Hawk staff can really suck sometimes. Oh wait... this is supposed to be a GOOD memory? Ok. Well, my favorite memory is from junior

year, when we used to sit in the classroom together to come

up with ideas for next issue. It would start out with so much

optimism, and eventually lead to everyone screaming at each other over their ideas. It always showed how much people care about this little thing called The Little Hawk. We’re such a dys-functional family... and I love it!

Future Plans:Gap year to find himself

Favorite Newspaper Memory:My favorite memory from work-ing on The Little Hawk is siding with both Jason and Kieran in

the endless music debates. On one hand, there’s Kieran play-ing some awesome wub-wubs, but on the other, I get to yell at Kieran. There’s also the Min-neapolis trip with Jake, John,

Nat, and Max last year when we met another group of girls that we eventually sabotaged, and

the Seattle trip with Jake, John, Nat (and Max in spirit), where Rogers demanded we rent out the duck bus. Because every-

one wants to ride in a bus with a giant cartoon duck on it.

Future Plans:Olberlin University,

Undecided

Favorite Newspaper Memory:Working with such and

amazing team of writers and designers has been the

highlight of my experience on the little hawk staff. Being a features wrinter opened my

eyes to new ways of thinking because I was able to meet so many new people I otherwise

wouldn’t have had the privilege to meet. While that was fun

and all, I think we can all agree that my FAVORITE memory

has nothing to do with writing. My one true love is food and I have eaten a lot in room 2109.

Especially chicken.

Co- Online Editor Designer Reporter Co-Features Editor

SENIORS OFTHE LITTLE HAWK

A lot goes on behind the scenes in room 2109. The senior Little Hawk Staff has endured alot during the past four years. While their accomplishments can be seen in the many awards they have won, take a look at some of

their favorite memories and their future plans after City High.

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KIEREN GREEN NORA HOLMAN LILY HOWARD WILL LUBAROFF

Future Plans:Tufts University,

International RelationsFavorite Newspaper Memory:Some of my favorite newslab memories have actually been the arguments that I’ve had with my fellow editors. A lot of lasting friendships have come out of those “discus-

sions” (Ren, Cassie, Jason, I’m looking at you guys). Strange as it is to say it, I’m glad that we don’t always get along. It

made for a better paper, and a deeper sense of camaraderie.

Future Plans:Iowa State University,

Industrial DesignFavorite Newspaper Memory:Being a part of The Little Hawk staff was an experience I will

never forget. The thing I’ll remember most is transform-

ing a dinky 16-page tabloid into the 50-page award winning

beast The LH is today. I love my amazing, dysfunctional family more than Emma Baxter loves

chicken! Aslo, roller-blading through the halls at midnight

was super fun too...but don’t tell Mr.Bacon ;)

Future Plans:University of Virginia,

UndecidedFavorite Newspaper Memory:My favorite Little Hawk Newspa-per memory? You want to hear about my favorite memory? The time that will warm my heart in years to come? Let me get this straight, you want to hear about

my favorite newspaper memory? Well... it was a dark and stormy night... Mr. Rogers was pacing the floor, pages were flying off

the printing press in the corner... I’m totally kidding I can’t think of one. I guess I kinda liked hang-

ing out with all my fwends...

Future Plans:University of Northern Iowa,

MusicFavorite Newspaper Memory:

My favorite part of newslab was the various work nights that were spent eating pizza

and generally not doing work. I had a lot of fun driving to Little

Caesar’s with Mikiel Curtis, a car ride full of screaming, swearing and making fun of

Nora’s car. Though my time on the Little Hawk staff was short, I really feel like I became part

of a team.

Opinion Editor Designer Copy Editor Reporter

MIKIEL CURTIS MALIN CRAIG MAX FRIEDMAN EMMA GIER


Marketing & Public RelationsFavorite Newspaper Memory:

I’ve never done much work. Writing articles and stories was too stressful. Designing was too difficult. But selling ads was just

right. All I ever had to do was make a few phone calls, send a few emails, and place a few on pages here and there.I must ad-mit that this newslab has been a

lot more than a boring class-room to me. It’s been a locker, a hangout, and even a second home....... or a cheap mediocre

apartment. But all sappiness aside, I’m gonna miss it.

Future Plans:University of Northern Iowa,

UndecidedFavorite Newspaper Memory:My newspaper career was brief, but enjoyable. I had fun learning

how to really write something that an audience will read. The satisfaction of writing a piece for the paper is a much bet-

ter feeling than getting a good grade on an essay. My favorite memory about newspaper was writing the Michael Jordan and

LeBron James article. It was fun to research and was a topic that was interesting for me. The best part about newspaper is writing

something for an audience.

Future Plans:Universoty of Texas at Austin,

EnglishFavorite Newspaper Memory:I loved wandering through Min-neapolis with Nat, Gabe, Jon

and Jake last year. Also, when we went to Kansas City sopho-more year Ellen Kealey dyed her hair orange in the bathtub

at our hotel, so that was a thing. The pumpkin-carving

contest sophomore year was also great, just chillin with Carl Sessions and Mikey Hunter in general. I’ve had some great times neglecting work in the

newslab over the years.

Future Plans:DePaul University,

Elementary EducationFavorite Newspaper Memory:

My favorite memory on staff would definitely be junior year in general. We had so many awesome moments on our

work nights and on our trip to Minneapolis. Although there’s been ups and downs, we’ve created something incredible

together and I couldn’t be more proud of everyone and am so excited to see where everyone

goes in the future.

Ads Manager Reporter Co-Online Editor Designer


ALEX PEREZ RENATA STEWART CASSIE WASSINK RYAN YOUNG

Future Plans:University of Iowa,

Theatre & Journalism

Favorite Newspaper Memory:Working with Emma was definitely my favorite part,

especially on work nights when we would draw on each others faces to keep each other moti-vated and working or when we decided to cover ourselves with Rugrats tattoos and they didn’t come off for a long time. Also, when we bought the chicken and ate it. All the drama and

arguments the staff had were all worth it, I’m so proud to have

been part of such a great group of people.

Future Plans:Georgetown University,International Relations

Favorite Newspaper Memory:Being Co-Executive editor of The Little Hawk for two years

has been a very rewarding ex-perience. My favorite memory has to be at the San Antonio

national conference where we won the Pacemaker and Best of Show. Aside from the joy of watching Cassie’s face turn purple, it really made all the

long, sometimes painful work-nights worth it. I’m really going

to miss room 2109. LOVE YOU BOO BOOS!

Future Plans:Northwestern University,

Chemistry & English

Favorite Newspaper Memory:One time I actually swore in the newslab and everyone freaked

out. I also really enjoyed the friendly bickering that occurred

during worknights, and the sense of camaraderie that

came out of it all. Co-editing with Renata was pretty great,

too, and having to take our pic-ture five times for every Letter From the Editors. And, being in San Antonio to receive the Pacemaker and Best in Show was an amazing experience!

I’m told I turned purple.


Business

Favorite Newspaper Memory:One of the best parts of working on The Little Hawk was those

long and tiring work nights. Even though they were not that long, since the sports team was ALWAYS done first. Being able

to go to City sporting events and being close to the action was a lot of fun too. The State Volley-ball Tournament and The Drake

Relays definitely stand out as some of my favorite times working for The Little Hawk. I learned a lot in my short time

on staff, and am so proud to be apart of it.

Co-Features Editor Co-Executive Editor Co-Executive Editor Sports Editor

It isn’t until someone sees you for who you truly are, that you can begin to be yourself. I was too concerned with other people’s opin-ions; some people thought I was a hopeless idiot, while some thought I was a con-ceited prick. It wasn’t until I found Nat Alder, or rather he found me, that I began to see who I really was.

There was an instant con-nection; we both had lus-cious jewish hair, a sense of humor, and thyroid-related glandular problems. (Okay he doesn’t have that last part but I do so don’t joke about it.) He invited me and some other friends to come see a movie, and soon after that we became best friends. We’d go get candy bars together and talk about our favorite movies.

We’d play Call of Duty online together and rave about the girls we liked through our headsets. We understood each other imme-

diately, which is some-thing that I’ve never really been able to achieve with another person. He helped me realize that the people who thought I was an idiot just didn’t un-derstand my sense of humor, and that people who thought I was ar-rogant just confused arrogance for self-confidence. Because of that understanding, we could tell each other anything. When I made

an awful mistake, he helped me through it, and never turned his back on me for a second.

Whenever I had to make an important deci-sion, he was happy to coach me through it. I love that guy for all those reasons, and I know that I wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun in high school as I did without him. My advice to all students would be this; find a best friend, someone that truly understands you and don’t screw it up. I honestly believe that Nat and I will continue to be friends forever, even though I’m moving 1000 miles away for col-lege. We may never be the same hockey team ever again, but that’s okay. I know that our friendship will never be as carefree and easy as it is now, but that it will remain in some shape or form. More importantly, that he and I will continue reaching out to people with the same warmth that led us to each other in the first place. If you can find a best friend like I did, someone that makes you want to sing -- I’ll stop the world and melt with Nat -- then I think that high school will be a breeze.

Usually these articles every year are about the same thing: a senior writes a story about their time as a K-12 student in Iowa City and/or attempts to give some “wise guy “ advice to the underclassmen. My column is slightly dif-ferent from the norm.

These days, I find myself simultaneously en-visioning the outside world and looking back at my time as a student at City High growing up in Iowa City. Then, I think back to the time when I had the opportunity to look in from the outside at my life as a City High student and see the world from a different perspective.

My junior year I was known as the kid that went to China for a semester. While in Beijing, China, I felt like an “outsider” to my own home. I noticed that my life in Beijing made me re-envision Iowa as a small part of the vast world rather than as the only home I ever knew. I could see time at home passing by from emails, Skype chats, and newspaper snippets my grand-father mailed me. I was missing normal classes with my friends, family activities, orchestra concerts, cross-country meets and other fall events. These things had been part of my life for the past several years; now they seemed like

part of a prior life I no longer lived. Weekly, I browsed the Iowa and American headlines; “Russia, China veto Iranian Sanctions”, “Oc-cupy Protests Take to the Streets”, “Steve Jobs Dead”, “Bruggers Downtown Burns Down.” Reading these felt weird be-cause I was residing outside of the Iowa City environment, disconnected from the stan-dard Iowa Cityan/American viewpoint.

In China, I was exposed to a more globalized environment and many other perspectives. I lived amongst and attended school with students from five different continents. During the weekends I lived with a host family, giving me a glimpse of typical Chinese life. These ex-periences interacting with these people made me see things differently than I had previously. In addition to gaining a new perspective, I was learning a new language and how to live in not only a new place, but a new culture for that se-mester. When I got home, I saw everything dif-

ferently. In reality, there is no need to go live abroad

or even leave Iowa City for our lives and per-spectives on the world to change. As myself along with the rest of the class of 2013 pre-

pares to leave City High, I am sure I am not the only one that ponders what my life will be like permanently outside of being a student at this school. Some of us including myself are leaving Iowa City, but even for the those that plan to stay close to home will still have their perspective of the world around them change be-cause our lives as students at City High will no longer be the centerpiece. Our

new varied experiences will shape us all. Last time, I was only away from City High for a brief four months. This time, it will not be just me, but the whole class of 2013 permanently leav-ing City High to go off into the outside world.

Seeing The World From Outside

These days, I find myself envisioning the outside world and looking back at my time as a student at City

High growing up in Iowa City.

I’ll Stop the World and Melt with Nat

I know that our friendship will never be as

carefree and easy as it is now, but

that it will remain in some shape or

form.


max friedman

ryan o’malley


Thoughts on TravelGetting to and from school was always dif-

ficult for me. Not the actual getting from place to place, but deciding which mode of transporta-tion I would use. I had many options, each with their pros and cons, and I’ve come to realize a lot of thought goes into choosing which path I actu-ally take. I’d like to share my thoughts with you, if you don’t mind.

First, getting to school:• Walking- I don’t walk

in the mornings. I roll out of bed and stagger out the house. If I had to walk, I would be 15 minutes late to school every day.

• Parents- This is my most common mode of transportation. My par-ents drive me to school on most days. It’s not too far out of their way, but I imagine it’s still a hassle to drive through the parking lots and drop me off. Since I’ve gotten my own car, I have a sneaking suspicion my parents want me to drive myself. They’re too nice to outright de-mand it, but to encourage me to drive myself, they have become fond of honking at me every morning after I get out of their car. (I’m not kid-ding.) Right after I close the door, my dad smiles at me and leans on the horn. People start turning their heads and I pretend I have no idea who the crazy people in the car are. I usually don’t look back, keep my head down, and scuttle into the school as fast as possible. I endure this treatment because it still beats…

• Driving myself- The first problem is the

cold. I have to park outside and in the winter it’s freezing every morning. I blast the heat as soon as I get into the car, but my dear old car only begins to warm up once I’m parked and ready to get out. The second problem is the walk to school itself. I’m not known for my punctual-ity so generally by the time I get to school, my

only option is the lower lot. Not only do I have to walk through all that parking lot, I must walk across this giant lawn (slightly uphill) every time. Pretty? Yes. Practical? Not so much. Who decided to put that there? (First world problems, I know.)

And then of course the matter of getting home:

• Being picked up (by par-ents) - I’ve thought about the energy efficiency of this quite a bit. To drive back and forth (from work to school to home to work again) is more than twice the distance I would

have to go driving my own car. However, since my parent’s car gets more than twice my Jeep’s impressive slightly-under-ten-miles-per-gallon, it all works out to about the same. The true problem is that it’s an inconvenience to every-one. I don’t want to make people come pick me up at such an awkward time (that changes every Thursday). Also, what if I have to do something after school?

• Driving- Driving myself is nice, but to be able to drive home, I had to drive myself in the first place. In the summer it gets really hot too. The AC button in my car is a lie. (My car is as old

as I am; something’s had to stop functioning.) The first time I tried turning on the AC, I turned the fan thing onto high. Air blasted out, but it wasn’t cold. I also got a face full of dried leaf bits, bug exoskeletons, and other wonderful things.

• Walking- well, the weather is always an is-sue. There are a couple other things I consider too. When I have a friend to walk with, it’s fun. I don’t mind it much at all. How much stuff I’m carrying also plays a key factor. Along with that, I consider how much work I have that day. I know the 15 minutes it takes me to get home isn’t much, but I can’t help but feel like I’m wast-ing time. Often if we have an English reading or something, I try to read that while I’m walking and avoid the judgmental stares I get from peo-ple. One last issue I have while walking is which path to take. I always want to take the short-est path home, which involves cutting through the fields behind the school. The hardest deci-sion comes when I get close to the track. I can go through it, or around. Clearly going through is shorter, but it almost seems like an insult to the track - something that was built to facilitate exercise, used as a shortcut. I usually don’t go through it if someone’s running on it to avoid ac-cusing glares. When I do cut through the track, it’s always awkward when I exit through that little gate on the other side. Raising my violin above my head and carefully twisting myself so that my backpack can fit through, and inevita-bly somehow hitting myself in the face with my lunchbox.

Now that this article is longer than my Eng-lish essay, I will go finish that. (And by “finish” I mean begin.)

juju wang

One Saturday, way back in ‘02, my mom had the idea to go to the City High spring musical, “South Pacific.” Because I always wanted to be like my sporty older brothers, a musical was the last thing I wanted to do. I would much rather be watching ESPN or the World Cup or whatever sporty people watch. Despite our objections, my mom conquered (as all moms do) and our fam-ily was on our way to see some grand ol’ musical theatre! Having never seen City High before, I was in awe at how the school kind of looked like a castle and the lady in the front circle looked like the Statue of Liberty (later on, I’d learn it’s actually a replica). And then the show started.

I don’t remember much of my early years (other than being the most adorable kid in the world, of course) but I remember most of those

two and half hours. I remember our seats right in front of the tech booth, hearing the huge or-chestra in the pit, the scenery flying in and out, and the big love scene in Act II. Something in my brain clicked while sitting there. From then on, I didn’t want to play soccer or baseball any-more. I wanted to make musicals... and I still want to. I never realized back then that I’d spend about 90% of my high school life in that very same theatre (the other 10% would be spent in the newslab). I never realized that I probably walked past my future mentor Doug Lestina in the lobby after the show. And I never realized that one day I’d get to sit in the tech booth and light up the stage.

It goes without saying that I got pretty lucky. My brain clicked at a young age, and ever since

then, I’ve known exactly what I want to do with my life. But that never would have happened if my mom hadn’t insisted on taking me to watch something other than a sporting event. My one word of life advice (which I totally shouldn’t be qualified to give), is to keep an open mind. You never know what might make your brain click. If you’re an underclassman, be sure to take advan-tage of everything City High has to offer. Leave high school as a better person than when you started. If you’re a senior and still have no idea what you’re going to do, be open to new experi-ences and you’ll find it. Who knows, maybe if I hadn’t surrendered to seeing “South Pacific,” I’d end up as a professional hockey player... and all that sweaty padding seems pretty gross.

“Some Enchanted Evening”

One last issue I have while walk-

ing is which path to take. I always want to take the short-

est path home, which involves cut-

ting through the fields behind the

school.

jason arnold

I almost didn’t have fun in high school. I could’ve had a bad four years. I could’ve pulled a Leo and succumbed to a crack addiction, but thankfully, something went right(I don’t do crack). I arrived to Iowa in February of 2010, a freshman who crashed the party two trimesters late. I spent a whole year and two months of liv-ing vicariously through being a loner, having great nights of hardcore TV watching and Skyp-ing old friends I couldn’t let go of(who are all models now, for some reason).

Somewhere down the road, during Sopho-more year, I got forced into an English group with four douchebags: Max Friedman, Gabe Basile, Will Lubaroff and Boris Perkhounkov. Max was the free-spirit, forward thinking hip-ster, long shaggy hair, big aspirations. Gabe was the funny, weird redhead, smart kid with a heart of gold and an affinity for video games.

Will was the real funny one of the group, a truly beautiful soul, a kind human being who shared with me an adoration of fried foods. Boris was of course the brains of the quartet, a genuine good guy who also had big aspirations. These four were the foundation of the many friendships(and few enemies) I had with people at City High.

It was this group, and the subsequent inter-action, that lead to us deciding to go to the mov-ies together, which snowballed into a cavalcade of fun: from us planning double dates together, to us throwing failed rainbow parties together, and eventually to us graduating together. Max and I became best friends, and I’m glad. He made me a better person, and taught me the vir-

tues of things like how to use a comb. We had beautiful times together. We made gloriously trashy film fest movies(“SPY”, unfortunately funding for “SPY 2” fell through after a certain foreign power who shall not be named *cough cough Canada cough cough* got cold feet), and we even taught each other how to eat healthily and maintain a good workout regimen become better at the things we loved, writing and film.

It was through Max that I met many great people: Michael Gloer and Matt Lee, my high school heroes, brilliant and inspiring comedic geniuses; Emma Baxter and Liliana Coelho, hi-lariously amazing wom-en who were tremen-dous combatants to my early shyness, and one of whom was asked out by yours truly. There was Kara Hartley, Amanda Gerard, and Alex Perez, three women that were rich in wisdom as well as happiness; and of course there was Ava Vargason, a shining light in my life, a truly radiant woman to whom I am for-ever indebted for being lovely and teaching me a thing or two about simple human generosity. These people(and many, many more) have made my life better. They made me happy. They made school worth it. I love them. Having a friend like Max made me realize that no matter what,

there will always be someone there for you. If you suppose that you have no friends, do not give up. You will find somebody, or somebody will find you(not in a serial killer kind of way). If you are a freshman, or even a sophomore read-ing this and thinking that you have no friends and high school is terrible, I just have to tell you that it most certainly will get better. I know it sounds tacky and cliche, but it’s the truth.

You may not pull a “Perks of Being a Wall-flower” and befriend a bunch of seniors and then have a ner-vous breakdown, that’s stupid, and you’re name sure isn’t Percy Jackson, but you will certainly find solace in some-thing in your high school career, wheth-er or not it’s a close friend, a sport, an anti-abortion rally, Korean club, etc.

I just thank Max and the others for

being my friends when they had the accessibil-ity not to be, and the fact that, because of them, I had fun in high school. Because of Max and company, I can freely say that I had an amazing four years.

I found loving, brilliant people that I am honored to call my friends, and so high school did not suck for me. The ride’s been great.


High School Didn’t Suck For Me nat alder

Bittersweet is what describes the last few days of high school. The last dance, last home-room, last yearbook. Senior year in high school is a long series of farewells. And as unsettling as it may be to leave our 13-year jobs as students, one of our most wrenching farewells is usually our goodbyes to friends. Whether you’re leaving home for college, the workplace or the military, you know you can always return home to recon-nect with family. But those treasured friends who shared their lives and knew you best might never be seen again. And although we swear to each other that we will stay in touch, the mere possibility that this is a final farewell is almost too much to bear. Just understand that your friends may have different ways of saying so long. There are many ways to say goodbye.

Some people may choose a more drastic route in which they push their closest friends away in an effort to make the separation easier.

Some may start hanging out with another group of people to reassure themselves that they’ll be able to make friends in college. These are the people who don’t see the good in goodbyes. Then there are those who’ll want to complete a bucket list of some sort with their friends or maybe go on a road trip. These are the people who want to savor every last moment of freedom.

Every last moment of ignorant bliss. You should want to spend time with you’re friends this summer whether they’re going to the same college or not. Because as much as you may not want to believe it. College changes people. The person you know this summer may be a com-pletely new person next summer. And that’s what we all hate isn’t it? Change. The human race naturally hates change. It scares us to think of something interfering with our daily lives. But change is all around us. Change happens all the time, whether good or bad. All we can do is

learn to cope. Don’t fret about making friends in college. You’ll make tons. And the ones from High school that truly mattered will always re-main close to you. Just remember that a phone works both ways.

Plus with social networking at its peak, there’s no excuse not to stay in touch. The whole phase of ending high school is very melodramatic. You’re forced not only to look towards the future but also to look back at the past. Look at how much you’ve accomplished. Look at how much you’ve changed. Time will at instances look like your hero and savior. But for most high school seniors, time is the villain now. It’s collapsing in on us. Tuesday is the last day of classes. Gradu-ation is a week from today. How can this be? It was just yesterday that senior year was begin-ning, that all of high school was beginning. Yet here we are at the home stretch. And you know what? We’ve made it.

Farewells and Goodbyes mikiel curtis

We are all simultane-ously releasing every-thing we have known

and sc rambling to hold the pieces closest to our

hearts even closer.

SENIOR SALUTE May 21, 2013

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There are some things about high school that I might forget. I want to remember them- it’s just that someday these past four years will naturally fade away. I might not remember my very first day at City High, when I wan-dered around the halls pretending like I knew where I was going, but actually freaking out because I couldn’t find the cafeteria. Regret-fully, I might forget just how beautiful City High looked in the early morning, sitting atop its hill- and how out of breath speed walking up that hill made me the days I was late. Luckily, I might forget those days when I was so stressed about my workload that even looking at my pencil made me burst into tears,

knowing that the second I picked it up, I would be doing homework until midnight. Hopefully,

I might forget how stupid I acted around cute boys and how my shyness led me to say things I would later re-gret. And I might for-get the feeling I’ve had for the past month: the feeling that the end of high school is in sight, and right there next to it is my future, waiting for me to just reach out and grab it.

I might not re-member the things that happened to me at City High, but I will never forget the people that I’ve been lucky enough

to meet. I will never forget the wonderful teach-ers I’ve had the opportunity to learn from. The thing about City High teachers is that they really

care: they care about us as their students, and our successes are their successes. I will absolute-ly never forget Mr. Bacon and his great support for me, as well as all of the students at City High. I’ll never forget his enthusiasm, his warmth, and his ability to make City High the outstanding school it is. And of course, I will never forget my amazing friends: the ones I’ve grown up with, as well as the friends I’ve recently made- the friends that will be standing with me at gradu-ation.

With the short amount of time I have left at City High- and ultimately in Iowa City- I’ve been wondering: how will people remember me? While everyone hopes that they leave be-hind positive memories, it is time for us to stop thinking about the past, and grab our futures. It is time for the Class of 2013 to leave behind our beloved City High, but to never forget the what mattered to us. Memory is a funny thing: some-times, we have the choice to remember things, or to forget them. Now, it is time for each one of us to ask ourselves the question: what do I want to remember?


I’ll Never Forget...

The thing about City High teach-ers is that they really care: they care about us as

their students, and our successes are

their successes.

jordan mendoza

As a little twelve-year-old, all I could think about was being popular going into seventh grade. My mom told me to “be nice and be yourself and people will like you”. Contrary to her wishes, however, I conformed into the equivalent of a beige wall. Just a year before, I had demanded that I be a light bulb for Hal-loween, showered only once per week, and wore oversized sweatshirts daily. Now, I wore shirts that said Hollister and Aeropostale for the sole reason that they said Hollister and Aeropostale. The jump between elementary school and junior high was enormous.

But once my time at South East had come to a close, another transition began. My freshman year, I started Harry Potter club and joined the Model United Nations team. I also took a de-bate class and (with some not-so-gentle persua-sions from Graham Klemme and Kieran Green) I joined the debate team. I think that’s when I started to become “a nerd”. Sitting in my room reading critical feminist literature and studying up on the sovereignty politics of the South China Sea, debate turned my perception of “cool” on its head. Instead of spending my weekends at home and my Fridays trapped in the prison-like walls of school, I was travelling the country, from Michigan to Texas, Minnesota to Illinois. My research doubled as English assignments, which

tripled as college essays. As an added benefit, debate opened me up to a group of people that could teach me the inner-workings of Dungeons and Dragons and (before it became financially disadvantageous) beat me at Magic: The Gathering.

If I could go back to 2007 to tell my twelve-year-old self to join the debate team and partner with Kieran Green, I know preppy, seventh-grade-Ava would cringe, flip her hair, and walk away. Ki-eran and I didn’t exactly get along back then and I would think that this plan was the epitome of “un-cool”. I wouldn’t dare mention Magic or D&D, for fear of snide comments and sassy remarks (an ex-planation of what, exactly, Magic and D&D are would be a prerequisite to either of these). Oddly enough, however, I don’t regret how I acted in junior high because I don’t think I’d fully appreciate how awesome it is to embrace the meaning of nerd girl without my former

outlook on popularity. I realize now that debate made me cooler than any Hollister t-shirt ever could. I also realize this column’s quickly turn-ing into a giant cliché, but that’s perfectly fine

by me. My experi-ence in high school gave me an op-portunity to excel at something that I love and allowed me (to my mother’s great approval) to just be myself. So if I could give one piece of advice to those of you con-tinuing on your journey through high school, it’d be this: join the debate team. And if debate isn’t your thing, do something that makes you feel in-cluded, intrigued,

and inspired. That’s what it means to be your-self, even if discovering who you are has to come first.

From Conformist to Cool

Sitting in my room reading critical femi-nist literature and studying up on the sovereignty politics of the South China Sea, debate turned my perception of

“cool” on its head.

ava vargeson

Senior year is defined for me as a year of reflection. Finally waiting at the edge of the threshold, prepared to leave my front door swinging behind me and stride into the real world, I have spent a lot of time examin-ing the person I am. In the process I have come to a conclusion that has lodged itself in my hip pocket for-ever: If a person can emerge from adoles-cence knowing their convictions and be-ing proud of the per-son they’ve become, a special place in their hearts must always be made for the parents and the high school that made them that way.

As seniors, we have all lived enough life to start to pick and choose the memories we have that truly define us. They’re the memories that

play across our eyes before we go to sleep, the ones that greet us when we are nervous or alone, or the ones we find ourselves talking

about without realiz-ing it. For the rest of our lives, we will filter movies and literature, opinions and new knowledge, and op-portunities and disap-pointments through the memories we’ve made in high school. My own memories are so inextricably en-twined with the faces of countless City High students, with Op-stadt, with the smell

of a hundred stringed instruments, and with the gentle rustle of a page turning in English class, that I am sure that City High School has molded the person I am more than I will ever be able to understand.

Therefore, some thank yous are in order. Thank you, Mr. Bacon, for bringing a con-tagious school pride to halls of our school. Thank you to the staff and teachers who wel-comed me into City as a freshman and showed me that City High is a family. Thank you Mr. Lestina, Mr. Peters, and Patrick for helping me discover the theatre and realize I never want to leave. Thank you, Mrs. Davis, for showing me my voice and teaching me how to use it. Finally, thank you to my friends for making me laugh uncontrollably, for bringing me cookie dough when I cried, and for being in so many of my happiest memories.

The end of the beginning is a daunting place to be. We are all simultaneously releas-ing everything we have known and scrambling to hold the pieces closest to our hearts even closer. However, with the shifting of a tassel we will soon be at the beginning again, the be-ginning of the future of our whole lives. I have high hopes that this is a glorious place to be.

The End of the Beginning

We are all simulta-neously releasing

everything we have known and scrambling

to hold the pieces closest to our hearts

even closer.

francesca lubecki-wilde


I’d contemplated breaking with tradition and keeping this short, but at this point it doesn’t seem seem like it will work out. Anyway, here we are, graduating at last. It all seems a bit surreal, doesn’t it? Come to think of it “surreal” seems like a pretty accurate way to describe our time here at City High School. As freshman, when we received our introductory address from Mark Hansen, he made a point of saying that “[our high school years] will be some of the important in our lives.” This was true, of course, but what he failed to mention, though, was how weirdly eclectic those four years will be. Put simply, a lot my most treasured friendships, experiences, and memories from high school are the result of ran-dom phenomena. Which is basically a convolut-ed way of saying that a lot of strange sh*t goes down in high school and we usually no idea how it will impact our lives until after it has occurred.

The funny thing is, though, a lot of those weird goings-on are only tangentially related to high school itself. However, these small things balloon to enormous proportions, eventually encompassing huge parts of our lives. Take me, for example. As a freshman, I had a conversa-tion with one of the other members of the de-

bate team who mentioned that he was applying to Tufts University. My curiosity was piqued and so I began to look into Tufts as a prospective school.

Flash forward three and a half years and I’m heading to Boston as part of the Tufts class of 2017. That conversa-tion had nothing to do with high school or high school related things, but I can say with some degree of certainty that I might never have con-sidered applying to Tufts had I not shown up to debate practice that day. As much as it is a cliche to say it, it’s little things like that that make City High unique. It pro-vides an environment in which those little things can maybe affect our lives in ways that aren’t so little. That’s kind of how I’m going to look back on my experience here at City High. It wasn’t a monolithic force that dictated my development

as an adult. Rather, it was a melting pot that al-lowed my primordial little adult self to emerge and start to flower and bloom (if you’ll forgive me for mixing metaphors).

On a related note, I’d initially thought about giving shout-outs to all the mentors that helped

me discover my own “little big moments.” However, I realized that in order to do that properly I would probably have to fill up another page or so with writing (and even that wouldn’t fully do the project justice). Since the magazine designers are fascists and won’t let me have a page to myself, I’m going to have to be content

with saying this: thank you to everybody who got me to this point. You know who you are. Thank you, sincerely and from the bottom of my heart. I couldn’t have done it without you.

High School and Chaos Theory

Since the magazine designers are fascists and won’t let me have a page to myself, I’m going to have to be

content with saying this: thank you to every-

body who got me to this point.

kieran green

A YEAR TO



REMEMBER

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

The Great Gatsby

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