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Rewind 10 years to Nov. 16, 2001 when millions of kids around the world wear their best black polo blouses and appro-priately colored house ties. Boys draw their best lightning scar on the right side of their fore-head while girls try their best to look like 11-year-old Hermione Granger.

Kids of all ages drag their parents to the nearest theatre to watch the worldwide phenom-enon of “Harry Pot-ter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

Fast forward to July 15, 2011 when teenag-ers drive to C i n e m a r k Vista Ridge or AMC Grapevine Mills !eatre to wait o u t s i d e for more t h a n two hours for the end of the movie series.

Students sit through the movie in costumes similar to those from 10 years ago, and before they know it, tears are streaming down their faces as they realize the story that they grew up with has come to an end.

“I believe that I was 8 years old when I read the "rst book, I remember this be-cause on my 11th birthday, I checked the skies for owls car-rying Hogwarts acceptance

letters,” CHS 2010 graduate Elisa Farrell said. “It wasn’t until a#er I caught up with all the books that had been published that I realized how much I was looking forward to the rest.”

!e series has had its ups and downs; from critics of Rowl-ing’s work saying it was a book of witchcra# in the form of a child novel to its receiving multiple awards including the British Book Award and Lifetime Achievement Award.

“!ere are a lot of characters

that you can relate to; like I know where Luna comes from, I know how it feels to be a Hermione,” senior Christina Wagner said, “!ey were such great characters and there were elements in all of them that anyone could relate to.”

Harry Potter and the Sorcer-er’s Stone was "rst on shelves in 1997 when many students at CHS were between the ages of 1 and 5. J.K Rowling invented another universe that children all over the world wanted to enter. No matter how many times kids tried to run through Platform 9 $, the world of Hogwarts could only be en-tered through reading the words on the page.

“[!e Harry Potter series] means a lot to me because it’s a great story, and I have a connec-tion with the characters,” sopho-more Lauren Lason said. “I feel

Coppell High School 185 Parkway Blvd. Coppell, TX 75019 October 2011www.coppellstudentmedia.com

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!is year, Mike Jasso will demonstrate his policies and ideas%for Coppell High School.

As he "nds a way to "ll for-mer principal Brad Hunt’s size 13 shoes, he is also searching for cre-ative ways to make CHS his own.

Jasso began his%time%as CHS principal this year a#er serving as principal in Birdville ISD at the middle school and high school levels, where he is said to have made a positive impact.

“He brought a positive ‘can do’ attitude to both Watauga Middle School and Haltom High School,” Birdville ISD Commu-nications O&cer Mark !om-as%said. “He is well organized and a good campus leader. BISD was sad to lose him as a leader and a friend. BISD’s loss is Coppell’s gain.”

As the new Assistant Super-intendent, Hunt is excited for the new principal and is encouraging him to continue some of the pro-grams already installed at CHS.

Jasso looks to ‘make it happen’ in return to CHS

Jasso became the new principal of CHS when former Principal Brad Hunt got the job as Assistant Superintendent for Coppell ISD.

All is well for Harry Potter fans

With the release of the !nal Harry Potter !lm, the Harry Potter era has come to an end.

Photo by Brian Hwu

To see more go to Coppellstudentmedia.com

Ben CowlishawSta! Writer

From Haltom Bu!alo to Coppell Cowboy

Tolu SolakoSta! Writer

“I checked the skies for owls carrying Hogwarts

acceptance letters.”-Elisa Farrell, CHS

graduate

see Harry Potter on pg. 16

see Jasso on pg. 2

Photo by Brian Hwu

For the past couple of years, the Coppell Cowboys football team has been a major force within the North Texas football community. Already three games into the season, the Cowboys have been able to uphold that reputation with new starters, including a new quarterback.

Senior Jake Larson started his quarterback career as far back as 8-year-old peewee foot-ball and has been gaining expe-rience ever since. Now, Larson has adopted the position as our starting quarterback a#er be-ing placed as last years back up

behind CHS 2011 graduate Joe Minden.

“Jake knows all the same stu' as Joe did he just didn’t get as many reps,” head football coach Joe McBride said. “He still has to grow and gain expe-rience like any other quarter-back has to.”

McBride and Larson agree the quarterback transition has been extremely smooth. With Larson’s experience in a few of the games during last years sea-son and having the chance to watch the past quarterbacks in games and practice, has given Larson the con"dence he needs to perform well this season.

see Larson on pg. 21

Senior Jake Larson assumes the position of quarterback for the Cowboys’ 2011 football season.

Photo by Jodie Woodward

Larson kicks o! season as new quarterback

Chase PorterSta! Writer

Spending in CoppellFeatures pg. 11

Fall previewSports pg. 22

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In-Depth pg. 12-13

newspage 2 october 2011

“I obviously have a strong personal connection with the high school, but I am really looking for-ward to seeing what Mr. Jasso does,” Hunt said.

While Jasso intends to con-tinue many traditions that Hunt oversaw, such as the SPUR mentor-ing program and the “I Rock CHS” shirts, he is also actively exploring possible new programs and ideas for the school.

One of Jasso’s largest focuses is the immense diversity in our school. Our students and teach-ers represent several nationalities, ethnicities and creeds, one of CHS’ proudest qualities. !e integration and appreciation of all cultures can prove to be a challenge, but is one that Jasso has accepted”

“We need to "nd new ways to expose our students to all of the many cultures we have at Coppell High School,” Jasso said. “I feel it is very important that students understand others’ backgrounds. Everyone comes from a di#erent home.”

Junior Ragho Chamkura agrees that exploring our school’s ethnic diversity is an important fo-cus.

“With all of the di#erent na-tionalities represented here, it’d be great if we could learn more about one other,” Chamkura said.

Hunt is supportive and en-couraging of Jasso’s direction of focus.

“!e exploring of our stu-dents’ diversity is extremely impor-tant. It’s a subject I’ll be focusing on even at the district-wide level,” Hunt said.

Although Birdville ISD and Coppell ISD are di#erent in a num-ber of ways, Jasso is con"dent that the transition between the two will be fast and easy.

“Haltom High School is very di#erent in that the students come from mostly low socioeconomic backgrounds,” Jasso said. “Here in Coppell, where we serve a majority of middle upper-middle class, we have a large percentage of graduates going to major universities.”

!e many di#erent academic options students have play a large part in what makes CHS unique to some other area high schools.

“We also have di#erent ac-celeration programs such as the academies and the [International Baccalaureate] program that allow students to develop their interests and goals for their futures early,” Jasso said.

Jasso is also turning his atten-tion to "nding new ways to reward students who excel in the di#erent programs at the high school. In ad-dition, he is looking into ways to make CHS have a more welcoming atmosphere.

continued from pg. 1 “As part of my larger goal of establishing relationships with the students at a personal level, stu-dents need to feel more welcome in

the school, which will also go hand in hand with our focus on students’ cultural diversity,” Jasso said. “Stu-dents also respond well to reward

and being made to feel good about what they have accomplished.”

Assistant Principal Jeremy Varnell sees this focus in Jasso as a large part of his approach to CHS.

“Although Mr. Jasso isn’t as gregarious as Mr. Hunt, he is really interested in making a positive dif-ference in students’ lives,” Varnell said.

Before Hunt’s departure, a major focus of his was on trying to turn the current seven-period day into a block, A/B, or similar kind of class schedule. Jasso also believes that while it is something to look into, the implementation of a block schedule is not likely in the near fu-ture.

“If it comes to the table, I would de"nitely be open to chang-ing the schedule, but in my "rst few years as principal, it is not likely to happen,” Jasso said. “At this time, it "nancially isn’t an option for the district, but it will potentially be a focus later down the road.”

Jasso is very optimistic and enthusiastic about taking the role as principal of CHS.

“Coppell is great place. It’s un-like any other place I’ve ever been, and I’m blown away by how wel-coming people are,” Jasso said. “I’ve got large shoes to "ll. Mr. Hunt was a great principal, and I believe that if I am given a chance, students and teachers will learn to appreciate my style of doing things.”

New administration adapts to old traditions

Mike Jasso has previously served as a CHS assistant principal and has now taken on the role of Principal. Photo by Brian Hwu

Q&awith Principal Mike JassoQ: What’s your favorite animal?

A: My favorite animal would probably be a dog. I have two dogs and they are great companions for me.

Q: What’s your favorite food?

A: Favorite food would probably be a combination of pizza and burgers.

Q: What’s your guilty pleasure?

A: Probably to eat greasy, unhealthy food, but I have to watch what I eat. Other is just sports, anything that’s around me, especially CHS stu!.

Q: Childhood cartoon?

A: Super friends. (Justice League) - I wanted to be the Flash.

Q: Coke or Pepsi?

A: Diet Coke.

Q: What is something most people don’t know about you?

A: Most people do not know that I’m quite passionate. Passionate about the people around me and I’m very sentimental, it kind of relates to that passion.

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Coppell Independent School District elementary schools are seeing some new fac-es this year with the help of open enrollment.

Open enrollment, imple-mented by the board of direc-tors to increase enrollment in Cottonwood Creek and Town Center elementary schools, al-lows students who do not live within district boundaries to at-tend Coppell schools. !e o"er is open to all elementary school students who live in the City of Coppell, and 68 students have already taken advantage of this decision since it was made in the spring of 2011.

“[!is plan] allows students in the K-#$h grade that live in the City of Coppell, but outside of CISD, the opportunity to at-tend our schools,” Assistant Su-

perintendent Brad Hunt said. “O$en these children play sports, attend church and other commu-nity activities with our students. So this gives them the opportuni-ty to attend school with the same students they know from other community activities.”

!e district also made this plan in an e"ort to keep teachers, as some would have been let go if all of the spots for students were not #lled.

“Open enrollment was proposed by our Business As-sistant Superintendent,” Open Enrollment Administrator Kim Graham said. “And he did it to increase e%ciency … and maxi-mize the enrollment capacity of the [elementary schools], and because the gross neighborhood capacity had slowed down and … the number of elementary school children in the neighborhood has decreased from past years.”

Some rumors have been circulating that the new students’

families will have to pay tuition for their children to go to school in CISD, but according to the As-sistant Superintendent for Busi-ness Sid Grant, this is not true.

“Our additional revenue comes from the state of Texas. We receive money throughout the year from the state,” Grant said via email. “Approximately $400,000 [is expected] per year.”

As for the 68 new students, they will be allowed to attend CISD schools throughout middle school and high school if they wish, which means that in a few years CHS will be seeing new fac-

es that might not otherwise have attended this school. But the 68 free spots that the district needed to #ll will also be available for the middle and high school level as well.

!ere are a few other re-quirements that must be met, besides living in the city, for a child to be considered eligible. !ese include having proof of a 95 percent attendance rate for the previous semester, passing all classes for the previous semester and currently, having passed all parts of the latest state test and having no more than one infrac-tion on their disciplinary record.

For parents who are won-dering, open enrollment may not be o"ered next year; it depend-ing on the number of spots avail-able in the elementary schools.

“!e board will re-evaluate toward the end of this school year,” Hunt said. “To determine if we will continue to accept new students.”

Of course summer reading lists are always going to change here and there. But we are taking our leap into the 21st century. It’s time to read about it.

&As summer vacation came around, most juniors, as well as students from other grade levels, returned to the CHS website to take a look at the summer read-ing lists. One book in particular looked interesting. Required by both the AP and AP GT English III classes, the teachers wanted the book to play a prominent role in student’s lives as they reached the upcoming school year.&

& Since the early 90s, the school systems have become in-creasingly complex with large-

scale curriculums and GPA scales, pushing us into creat-ing our 21st& century American “Overachievers.” !e book fo-cuses thoroughly on the aca-demic pressure for students all over the country. Author Alex-andra Robbins shadows students of all types; the perfectionist, the superstar, the popular girl, the workhorse, the slacker and many other characters students or their peers can identify&with. &

& “!ere’s somewhat of a struggle with #nding non#c-tion books for the students,” AP English III teacher Tracy Henson said. “We always need to #nd something that is relevant and interesting to high school stu-dents. So much of it just is not, like biographies of people or events that they just do not care

about.& When something like the ‘!e Overachievers’ comes along, it is their life.”&

& Henson, having viewed the stressed of students hoped to enlighten them with complex ar-guments and heavy topics, high-lighted the importance of non#c-tion books for junior year.&

& “I did not put the book into my curriculum expecting it to change anything,” Henson said.& “!rough all of the books we chose, we want to prepare the students as juniors for the real world, speaking about heavy top-ics and really learning to think.”&

& It is “!e Overachievers” in particular that have caught the district’s as well as the students’ eyes.

& Head librarian Lex Anne Seifert had helped create the

summer reading lists. But ulti-mately this was a decision for the teachers to make.

“At the junior level, you focus on non#ction,” Seifert said. “You are looking at per-suasive writing; you are learn-ing how to argue. !at is the importance of these books and the curriculum.”&

& CHS junior Nikki Dab-ney was de#nitely persuaded by the required reading; in fact, she was inspired.&

& “I loved the book,” Dab-ney said. “Personally, I feel like I balance my life, but I could de#nitely relate to Audrey, the perfectionist. !at’s me. I have never read a book that tells a story but was informative. It just really opened my eyes to everything.”

Kelly Stewart Opinions Editor

“[This plan] allows stu-dents in the K-!fth grade

that live in the City of Coppell, but outside of

CISD, the opportunity to attend our schools.”

-Brad Hunt, Assistant Superintendent

Graphic by Brian Hwu

1. Live in the City of Coppell

2. Have proof of a 95% attendance rate for the previous semester

3. Be passing all classes for the previous and cur-rent semester

4. Have passed all parts of the latest state test

5. Have no more than one infraction on their disci-plinary record

To qualify for open enrollment, the child must:

Summer reading puts the classics on the shelfErica RhodeSta! Writer

Administrators implement plan for open enrollment

newspage 4 october 2011New scoreboard builds exciting atmosphere for season

Kristen ShepardSta! Writer

Home of tradition and countless memories, Buddy Echols Field is more than just a stadium to the thousands of par-ents, students and faculty that at-tend home games. !is football season, there is more than a typi-cal scoreboard on the "eld.#

As the result of the $600,000 bond project proposed four years ago, the cutting edge technology that makes up the new board is undoubtedly an upgrade from the old scoreboard. With dated tech-nology, the old board required constant updates and expensive adjustments, making it a nuisance to both the athletic department and frustrated fans and players.

Other than the obvious im-proved appearance of the board, it has several features placing it among the best among area high school venues. With an integrated LED screen, optimized for live HD video, the scoreboard has similar qualities of the jumbo-tron recently installed in Cow-boy’s Stadium. In addition to the board, CISD installed a state-of-the-art control room,# containing the latest technology for running the system.#

Many CHS extra-curricular programs are already anticipat-ing opportunities the new board provides.#

“Other than the football team,# I am con"dent the fans in

the bleachers and our support groups: the drill team, band and their parents will really appreciate all the new scoreboard has to of-fer,”#CISD Athletics Director John Crawford said.#

Outside Coppell’s athletic programs, the expanded capa-bilities of the new board provide numerous opportunities for the Coppell student media programs.

With a program run almost completely by students, KCBY junior sports director  Davis De-Loach experiences the technology "rst hand. A$er attending a camp provided by electronics manufac-turer Daktronics, DeLoach ac-cepted an o%cial CISD employ-ment position.

During home games,# De-Loach, along with other selected students, will be operating the switchboard. In sync with the switchboard, three cameras o&er diverse angles of the "eld and are switched using a tri-caster.

“I’ll be able to gain a lot of experience from this# job# and it will be a great# addition to my resume,” DeLoach said. “!is is a step up from what I have done before and a great addition to our stadium and our already top-ranked 5A program.”

Unfortunately, UIL rules prevent live broadcasting of foot-ball games on the same day of the game, with the exception of a complete ticket sellout 48 hours prior to the game. Despite such restrictions, the cutting edge tech-

nology allows for improvements in the footage posted online.

While the recent update is surely a luxury, the scoreboard’s lo$y price tag proposes a slight controversy. Its installment poses the question: Can our district af-ford this upgrade?

Speci"cally, the scoreboard project was introduced as part of a district improvement plan pro-posed four years ago. A$er being voted upon by the school board, it was decided that the scoreboard was a worthwhile investment.#

While the cost may seem unnecessary, the old scoreboard was in need of replacement, and the project will return extra in-come through advertisements. Both poster and commercial-style advertising options provide op-portunities for local businesses and companies to gain publicity and support CISD.#

Assuming advertising fol-lows the predicted outcome, the board will generate enough rev-enue to reimburse the purchase within four to "ve years, leaving the years to come to generate ex-cess income for the district. So far, several verbal commitments have been made as loyal supporters of-fer to sponsor the program.#

“!e board that we had was getting to the point where it would soon become beyond re-pair,” Crawford said.

As for the other schools in the area, the new scoreboard compares fairly to neighboring

technology, like that of Southlake Carroll, Carrollton and Justin Northwest. Other schools have budgeted for similar upgrades as well.#

  Senior o&ensive lineman Jake Williams feels similarly about the board.  

“Even though you don’t

Photo by Rachel BushBuddy Echols Field now serves as a home to a brand new jumbotron exciting players and fans during the new season.

notice the scoreboard as much while you’re playing,# coming from the stands or the sidelines it’s a great addition and an improvement from the old scoreboard,” Williams said. “It will help us maintain the reputation as one of the top programs and teams in the area.”

License plates add opportunity for school spirit

  Recently, there has been some new fan gear added to sup-port the Coppell Cowboys collec-tion. !is is something very dif-ferent than the usual: not clothes, hats or yard signs.

!is will go everywhere. !is is the new Coppell Cowboys license plate.

“I am really excited about this new opportunity and can’t wait to showcase how big of a fan I am,” junior Chiaka Ogbogu said.

A$er Southlake Car-roll, Allen and other high schools started selling personalized li-cense plates for their schools, Coppell decided it was their turn to jump in on the action and start selling.

“A few of the Parent Teacher Organization parents asked the school district why we didn’t have any plates when other schools did and [Coppell Inde-pendent School District] took their advice and decided to create the license plates,” Coppell ISD Director of Communications and Public Relations Tamerah Ringo said.

A$er advertising in the spring, the plates are now o%-cially on sale with three options to choose from. !e cheapest option

is the design series option. !is includes the Coppell Cowboy’s design but instead of personal-izing the letters and numbers on the back of the plate it comes with a random set of letters and num-bers like a normal license plate. !is option is available for less than $30 per year.

!e second option is the custom series. !is option include the Coppell Cowboys design plus a three letter and two numbers message. You can receive thi op-tion for less than $33 a year.

!e last and most ex-pensive option, but also the op-tion with the most freedom for personalizing the license plate, is the Luxury series option. !is includes the Coppell Cowboys design and the ability to make a choice message with six letters and numbers. All of this is avail-able for less than $60 a year.

Some of the money will go to myplates.com but the rest is given to CISD to help support Coppell athletics and the district as a whole.

“When I get one I can’t wait to drive to di&erent places, it will show people where I’m from and that I support my home town team wherever I go,” sophomore Clay Kemp said.

More information is available at www.myplates.com/go/coppell.

Coleman ArmesSta! Writer

Graphic courtesy of www.myplates.com/go

License Pl8 Mania

opinions. .page 5october 2011

My four years in high school have taught me that the recipe for success in school is de!ned, sim-ple and one sided. X is given, the problem has been solved and it is easy to achieve if you can master one skill: communication.

Communication with teach-ers, with students, with adminis-tration, you name it - communica-tion is essential. "at being said, we can’t get picky about the way communicate.

Facebook, the social net-working website, has developed into a terri!c tool for !nding infor-mation, developing relationships and contacting various acquain-tances. In an age where everything is available at the literal click of a button, it doesn’t make sense for students and teachers not to take advantage of every communica-tion tool out there.

Opinions of this topic are mixed – opponents fear that in-nocent teachers will be branded as

sexual predators for chatting with students on online, while pro-ponents, such as myself, caution against overreacting to a powerful communication tool.

How many times have stu-dents and teachers run into con-#icts because they had no easy way to communicate outside of school? We have all heard the ‘I tried to email you, but you didn’t answer,’ or ‘when I got home, I re-alized something that prevented me from doing my project and had no way to contact you… so I just didn’t do it.’

And while most students aren’t provided with teachers’ per-sonal phone numbers, and teach-ers can’t be expected to check their email every 20 minutes until midnight, most cell phones come equipped with a Facebook feature that noti!es the user every time they are contacted. "is quick and easy way of communication has the potential to solve a plethora of

problems, and it is unreasonable to ask teachers and students to pre-tend that it doesn’t exist.

I do understand lines need to be drawn in the communica-tion of students and teachers over the Internet, but to say that teach-ers and students should never be friends on Facebook is overkill.

I don’t think people should be sharing overly personal in-formation on Facebook at all, let alone with people they interact with on a professional level, but saying ‘I haven’t seen you in a few days, and you have a big deadline coming up ‘ can save a lot of hassle in the long run.

Personally, I have used Face-book to communicate with teach-ers on multiple occasions. For example, when school began to rapidly approach and I didn’t know what I needed to do to prepare for my more ad-vanced classes, all that was needed was a simple ‘what

At one time or another, all of us are guilty of posting something that we regret later.

Whether it be something we post out of anger in the heat of the moment, or something that makes us cringe because of the amount of grammatical mistakes, all of us have wished that we had thought to remove the status or comment, or better yet never to hit “post” in the !rst place.

Now, imagine that really embarrassing post is thrust into the eyes of your favorite teacher. See how the awkward factor mul-tiplies?

It is not just college and high school students on Facebook any-more. "e collective Facebook addiction has spread to all mem-bers of society. Now students and teachers share the same social net-

work, and if they want to, they can interact with each other over said network to get information for as-signments and projects.

"e question is where to draw the line.

Primarily, Facebook has been a tool for friends to connect to each other and share photos, news from their lives and little tid-bits of wisdom. And while there is nothing wrong with teachers being on Facebook, “friending” current students is going a little too far.

If it’s not appropriate for stu-dents and teachers to share per-sonal details in real life, then it is probably not appropriate to share these things online. When you be-come friends on Facebook you are sharing all the things that you post, all the information about yourself that you put up and all the pictures

that you take – some of which does not need to be shared with a teacher.

Facebook is too informal for teachers to “friend” students.

While I realize that Face-book has some great opportunities for putting up messages about as-signments and projects, there are a lot of other sites out there that do the same thing.

"at does not mean that all contact should be cut o$ on Face-book. It would be !ne if a student needed to ask a quick question about a project or something, and Facebook was the only medium available to easily ask the ques-tion. Small questions and ex-changes of information are !ne, but the limit needs to be established somewhere, and “friending” is a good

place to do it.Some might argue that inap-

propriate things can happen any-way. But while it is impossible to keep it from happening, you can a least take precautions against it.

Facebook is a great site for everyone to use, but like every-thing in life, a few guidelines need to be established so that things can g o smoothly. Even though

Facebook is di$er-ent from real life, the consequences have a tendency to spill over, and that has to be avoided as

much as pos-sible.

PRO/CON:

is our summer reading?’ post on the wall of my English teacher. He quickly replied, and the interacted ended. It was easy and appropri-ate.

I know we have all read Facebook horror stories, but in reality, these instances are few and far between, and should be treat-ed as such. "ese rare stories can alarm parents, administrators and communities as a whole, but edu-cators shouldn’t be afraid to use social networking sites.

Facebook has the possibil-ity of becoming a great

resource for students and teachers if we take o$ the blinders and allow appropri-ate interaction to

take place.

Should students and teachers be friends on Facebook ?

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Features EditorMary Whit!ll

Opinions EditorKelly Stewart

Teachers are not constantly checking their email.

Facebook provides an easy way to ask teachers about assignments.

Facebook “horror” stories are very rare.

Sometimes we post things that we regret later.

It is not appropriate for students and teachers to share personal details online.

Facebook is too informal for teachers to “friend” students.

What do you think?“I think it’s a good way

for students to develop a greater relationship with

the teachers and other students.”

-Joe Han, junior

“With Facebook’s ability to limit what people can see, it is OK if responsible teachers

are doing it.”-Creighton Hulse, Spanish

teacher

“I don’t think teachers should ‘friend’ us on Facebook. It

would only be okay if they were no longer your teacher.”

-Amber Bouressa, sophomore

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!e following is the tran-script of a text conversation:

Friend: I hate Boehner. Even Republicans are fed up with their own party. What’s a good way to NOT get a Republican elected next year? Hah, forcing us to de-fault without the help of a single Democrat, that’s how!

Me: He’s probably a witch.*End*!is is just an excerpt from a

string of messages I have received and promptly countered with failed attempts at humor. Not to say that I didn’t laugh at the e"ec-tiveness of my comment; the con-versation quickly veered onto the subject of Harry Potter. Basically, by obfuscating and redirecting, I not-so-subtly hint at the fact that I, Michelle Pitcher, know nothing about politics.

For once, I admit my #aw without citing it as a generational problem. I listen as my friends ar-ticulate their (surprisingly strong) political views, but I never have anything of substance to add to the conversation. Family mem-bers ask me for my opinion on the goings-on of the government, and all I can say is, “you’ve got a good two years before you have to worry about my opinion.”

But, honestly, I’m worried now.

I don’t underestimate the importance of voting, nor is this a PSA about how kids these days are ignorant and unappreciative. I just can’t seem to really “get” poli-tics.

!e root of my problem lies in the way I was raised, or rather, the way I respond to my parents’ methods. Neither of my parents have ever tried to shove their views down my throat, politically, religiously – you name it; they’ve let me decide it. However bene$-cial this has been to my becom-ing an individual and all that, I have never had the in#uence of a strongly opinionated family.

I used to think that it was exactly this parenting tactic that put me at a disadvantage com-pared to my politically savvy peers. But now I realize (forgive the overwhelming cheese) the problem lies within me.

Rather than inheriting a strong political identity from my parents, I “inherited”, in a sense, freedom of choice. I could have taken this invaluable freedom and explored my possibilities; despite my age, I have had enough valu-able experiences in my life to at least come up with some sem-blance of a political stance. However, I let the opportunity slip.

I couldn’t even tell you if my parents are Democrats or Repub-licans, pro-life or pro-choice, hip-pies or patriots till the end.

I can hardly answer those questions about myself.

My parents are giving me the opportunity to build my own foundation, lest I teeter precari-ously atop someone else’s. With-out this foundation, however, it does not matter how many times I Google “2012 election for dum-mies” or which candidates I fol-low on Twitter; it means nothing to me until I $gure out where I stand.

My parents absolutely did right by me, letting me formulate my own unique perspective for the world. I’m just sorry I took advantage of this freedom up un-til now. Starting now, I will do my absolute best to seek out this po-litical information and see what aligns with my own views.

I’m glad my parents never tried to make me think a cer-tain way – I would have

never for-given them for it.

Freedom of choice can be costly

EditorialTexas: undeniably home to

the bigger and the better. In fact, its High schools embody the lone star state’s timeless stereotype ev-ery fall because fall is homecom-ing season, which in this state, is prepared for and anxiously awaited as if it were a traditional holiday.

If Coppell High School took the carefully cra%ed mums and garters made by the students for a grade, homecoming would be quite bene$cial to students’ report cards. However, teenage girls lose hours of sleep to make their garter on a social account rather than an extracurricular one. In Texas, kids uphold a tra-

dition that wouldn’t make sense to Midwesterners who would $nd the whole idea rather ob-noxious.

But still, we cannot help but join in the festivities. Simply complaining about the southern tradition would be too cynical for our taste - we happen to like homecoming. While handing a $100 bill to a cashier at ‘the mum shop’ nearly kills our conscienc-es, the mission to create a beauti-ful garter with a lifespan of seven hours perseveres.

Admit it - hearing about how awesome your mum or gar-ter is never fails to #atter. A%er all, you devoted bundles of cash,

burned your $ngers on hot glue and tediously picked at dozens of unwanted staples to construct that gaudy masterpiece, it had better be fantastic. And, it bet-ter get just as much praise as the next girl’s who didn’t break one single nail when she simply or-dered it, right?

Indeed, it’s the ladies in general who seem to value mums and garters more. While they interminably worry about their date’s garter and pray it hasn’t fallen apart yet, they is also strut down the hallway, analyzing ev-ery mum in sight and comparing it to the one they have on. !e thought of being a senior with

a rather humble mum standing next to a freshman with a talking teddy bear on hers is a dreaded possibility. It would be interest-ing to see a raise of hands of girls CHS who have ever felt person-ally victimized by a mum $t for the gods.

CHS has high standards and there are more than a handful of students who want to be the best. !e competition is silent but vio-lent; two girls may chat about how their date’s garter is coming along as if it were small talk, yet when they get home they use the gathered information to improve theirs even more. Sly comments such as “oh, you haven’t started

yet? Well, good luck with that!” are also a popular weapon.

Homecoming week is an important one. It is as stress-ful and chaotic as it is fun and memorable. In reality, mums and garters are more of a status symbol than an innocent cra%. But by the end of the week any minor drama is diminutive to the scheme of things. Just remem-ber ladies, there might be a year when you get a mum with peel-ing stickers, while your BFF has #ickering lights on hers. Either way, I can sincerely promise that it well be a memory that makes a Texan fall much more important than a season.

CHS homecoming traditions becoming grotesque

Graphic by Lauren Ussery

Comments from the web

“Fantastic story! I had no idea CHS had a bomb threat on that day. I can

only imagine the buzz in the hallways that day when all of the students be-gan hearing rumors about a terrorist

attack....”-Phillip

“Jack Brezette su"ered a compound break to his leg in that !nal play.

Almost all the Jesuit fans stayed for 45 minutes after the game while his teammate knelt around him until he

was put into the ambulance.”-Shannon

“Give up the wave? That is unAmerican!”-Sallie Loop

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Rangers’ fans wave goodbye to attempted ban

Editor-in-ChiefMichelle Pitcher

It is o!en said that in order to achieve success, all one needs is faith. A!er all, with great faith comes great strength. Strength is the key to a lasting love, regard-less of age.

A major part of growing up is "guring out who we are and what we want in life. Teens are considered naïve and unaware of what the world has to o#er be-cause “wisdom comes with age,” leaving us at a disadvantage due to the lack of years in our back pocket.

When teens claim to be in love, it is almost instinctive for adults to shun the possibility in

order to protect their child from something they likely don’t under-stand.

With that being said, the chances of marrying your high school sweetheart is getting slim-mer as the years go by. $e idea of divorce used to make housewives cover their mouth and gasp, but now it’s a trend that isn’t surpris-ing at all. $ese days, the word ‘re-lationship’ makes the phrase “easy come, easy go” come to mind.

Marriage statistics haunt teenagers who are living up to the high expectations regarding their future. According to the rule, teens are just too young to understand love. But if every young couple ac-cepted that mindset, there would never be an exception.

Somebody has to step up to the plate.

Secret to life #1: Love will be challenging whether you are 16 or 35. In fact, life in general is always going to be hard, but if two people want something badly enough, they can make it happen. Any teacher who tapes a “Reach for the stars” poster on their classroom wall should naturally agree, right?

Parents try to balance en-couraging children and sheltering them. A!er all, they want nothing more than to see their kids happy and satis"ed with life, so they do their best to pave the road that will lead to the child’s dream. If a mommy’s pride and joy wants nothing more than to be an artist, then the loving mother is going to feed that ambition. Well, what if

daddy’s little girl is in love with her best friend?

Just as she needs encour-agement when working hard in school, she needs guidance to keeping her relationship steady and grounded. Love shouldn’t be underestimated just because it was found early in life, it should be en-couraged in the right ways.

Secret to life #2: If you plan on being in love one day, don’t plan on walking into it when you’re supposed to fall. In other words, you can’t decide how old you will be when you "nd that special someone. Life is notorious for its unexpected change in direc-

tion, and it is up to you to keep up.Love is a great example of

how sudden life’s surprises can be. Chances are, you will not be per-fect when you enter a serious re-lationship, ever. Love is based on trust, which doesn’t come with age by default; it comes when someone learns its value. It is up to the per-son to decide when that may be.

Secret to life #3: A sudden taste of love is not only exciting but also enlightening. In other words, you cannot learn how to do it; it teaches you. It can be the reason people grow up to be who they want to be.

So, the philosophy behind the text is obviously not how we learn to love, but actually the idea that we don’t really learn how to do it at all. High school romance has the possibility to end just as any romance, but the only way it could be a guaranteed failure is if there is no con"dence in it. If someone has faith in something, then failure is automatically ri-valed with the chance of succeed-ing.

When love gets hard, it is the faithful people that

are strong enough to pull through in-stead of assuming there is no hope.

$ankfully, you are never too young to have faith in your-self.

Learning how to loveopinions. .

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$e smell of new school supplies, the con"dence coming with new clothes and the cool fall weather helping us forget the long, hot summer. $ere is excite-ment about the new school year.

But with all the good come lots of anxieties as well: new classes, new groups to grow accus-tomed to seeing every day and al-most 10 months of sleepless nights, early morning tutorials and lots and lots of work ahead.

You might think the reference is to students but it could just as well be about teachers. Yes, teachers are human too, and just like students, they face healthy excitement and stress about the launch of another school year. Excitement comes from the new curriculum devel-oped over the summer to prepare students for both state expectations and for their futures.

As for most people, anxiety comes from the unknown. Teach-ers ask: Which students will I have in class? How will I get to know them so they feel safe to take a risk when they don’t know the answers? How can I help them understand what we do in class today really matters for their dream job?

Why would teachers stress

about reaching students? $at’s a great question. So students, listen up. $ere is much more you do not know.

In education, the 3 R’s used to mean Reading, wRiting and aRith-metic. $at is the foundation of a basic skills education that was the focus in your early years of school. But in the quest to educate students (read: you) for college and career, now it’s all about Rigor, Relevance and Relationships.

How can students learn if they are not academically chal-lenged and engaged? How can they set and reach academic goals if they do not see the relevance of learning to their lives and to their future ca-reers? How can students meet high academic standards if they do not believe in their abilities?

Is there a healthy and posi-tive relationship between teacher and student fostering learning in an environment of trust? All students need academic rigor, and relevant curriculum is based on positive relationships between teachers and students.

If we look at the 3 R’s closer, we see all three require work on the part of both students and teachers. For rigor to be ef-

fective teachers must present chal-lenging lessons and students must participate in the learning process. Stay awake in class, complete as-signments, do the homework, learn the material.

In order to provide relevance in curriculum, teachers bring “real world” to the lessons. Students should be active learners in order to make connections between the classroom and the outside world they will soon be a part of in col-lege.

And, when you think the teacher doesn’t like you, think twice. Teachers know the impor-tance of a positive relationship. And, when that trust is built, the rigor and relevance will fall in place because you will care about your relationship with your teacher, your learning and your future.

So, you ask? Are teachers

stressed? You bet. We hold your future in our hands and that’s a big responsi-

bility.

Kennedy re!ects on teaching

$is year CHS has brought several changes, notably new ad-ministrators, adjustments to dress code, and the usual wave of in-coming freshman. I am beginning to not recognize the place that has been my home away from home for the last four years.

$e %owers outside the li-brary seem less colorful, the fresh-men seem more clueless and the workload seems less and less (and less) important to me than in pre-vious years.

But as I sit down and think about it, I realize that maybe this feeling doesn’t come from the new vending machines or the old carpet; maybe this feeling is something that has developed within me. Everyone constantly complains about ‘senioritis,’ but I have found myself a&icted with something slightly di#erent than the usual need to just get away.

Rather than developing an overwhelming feeling of claustro-phobia and an impatient desire to be done with the high school curriculum, the opposite idea has

struck me – the world is at my "n-gertips. $is is the time when I get to explore my interests, discover new ones and "nally learn what I want to learn.

I’m that person who could go to school forever and be per-fectly happy. I want to go to law school, but I don’t actually want to be a lawyer. I think medical school would be endlessly fascinating, but the thought of practicing medicine makes me sick to my stomach. I am happy to spend the rest of my life learning, but I want to be able to call the shots on what I learn.

While the CHS course guide lacks a class named ‘Why Rick Perry is a Complete Idiot,’ I have begun to realize that what my school has to o#er doesn’t have to be the line in the sand on what I actually learn. We live in an instan-taneous era, and for that reason, I have been able to pull myself out of the usual senior year rut.

Like most (all) high school students, I "nd 11 p.m. rolling around with-out a thought given to my

homework, but for reasons that are foreign to some of my classmates. Rather than spending hours tak-ing photos of myself on a webcam or posting tons of notes on Face-book about how bored I am, I have started to learn about things I ac-tually want to know about. I have read over half of the Federalist Pa-pers, I’ve trolled through the "rst seven chapters of Constitutional Law for a Changing America and, through all of it, I "nd myself actu-ally thrilled to be learning.

So as I sit in C231 and B112 memorizing patterns, rhetorical devices and irrelevant formulas, I "nd myself reaching further and further out and getting further and

further away from home. $is is my time to do

with what I please and I plan to change the world someday – but maybe not with

what I learned in high school.

A new kind of senioritis hits

Couples are easy to spot in the hallways of CHS, marked by their a!ection for one another. Photo by Jodie Woodward

Graphic by Arden Radford

Graphic by Brian Hwu

Features EditorMary Whit"ll

Sta! WriterJordan Thompson

KCBY AdviserIrma Kennedy

october 2011page 8

With the football season back, the Cowboys show o! our Coppell spirit. "e senior girls dazzle us with their elaborate and festive overalls that not only show their spirit and support of the team, but also gives the senior girls a chance to show o! their personality.

W i t h these colorful and creative overalls, it is easy to iden-tify that the girls with the overalls are this year’s seniors. However, the senior boys are not as easy to spot.

Many people remember the infamous “jorts” that a hand-ful of senior guys modeled last year. "e problem with the “jorts” however was that they were ex-tremely short, showing o! more of the guys’ legs than the rest of the student body wanted to see. "e senior boys do not have a tradition of their own, which is absurd considering they are just as important to the school as any-one else. Junior Hollis Muenster realizes this problem and is taking matters into his own hands.

Wanting to give the senior guys a fun and creative outlet just like the senior girls participate in, Muenster thought of the idea of having senior guys decorating cowboy hats.

"e idea of a cowboy hat

goes perfectly with the Cowboy theme of Coppell, making it a great choice for senior guys, so they don’t have to continue don-ning their “jorts” or any other form of overalls. With the cow-boy hats the senior guys can wear them through the halls to show their school spirit and those who

are more artis-tic can decorate them in any way they want.

To get the idea going, Muen-ster has already started to make a

cowboy hat of his own designed to #t his personality. Consisting of two mini pistols tied to the sides of the hat and the Coppell logo Muenster’s hat will be a reference to other guys who might want to wear a cowboy hat as well.

Along with decorating the hat Muenster has also made it a goal to really get this idea ap-proved and well known.

A$er talking to Principal Mike Jasso, who really likes the idea, he decided that he wanted to get the Red Jackets involved. Muenster is talking to the Silver Spurs who already have so much school spirit they are sure to be a big supporter of Muenster’s idea.

With so many people al-ready getting involved in the idea, Muenster has high hopes that this idea will catch on for future generations at Coppell. Person-

ally this idea seems like one that will stick, and more people will be able to partake in senior tradi-tions.

"e main point for all of this work is to show o! our school spirit. I know that I will be mak-ing overalls next year, and I am glad that my fellow male class-mates will also be able to partake in the celebration with some cow-boy hats.

Now the only thing to do is wait and spread the idea of cow-boy hats. "is is an awesome op-portunity for you to show your school spirit, and I hope they take up this o!er to be the #rst senior males to start this tradition and leave their mark on Coppell.

“I think it would be great to leave my mark on the school by giving male seniors something to do for generations to come,”

Muenster said. Junior Hollis Muenster sports his idea for a new senior tradition.

CISD budget to focus on athletics, Salako says

I remember the #rst day of school when I saw the huge new scoreboard at Buddy Echols Field. It was noticeably better than the previous board, and it was obvi-ous how expensive it was based on its high tech quality.

% As I walked around the school to start o! my second year of high school, I noticed that some things hadn’t changed. "e bug problem was still evident and so were the broken locks in bath-room stalls. Initially, I began to have mixed feelings on the idea of building new additions to the athletics depart-ment while these smaller aspects were still le$ un-touched.

How e v e r, a$er taking a closer look, I real-ized other factors could have been involved in the decision to replace the scoreboard.

"e city of Coppell district pays for school items, but taxpay-er money goes to the district and also through bond election and out of that money a large portion is spent on Coppell High School. "ough% it is evident that signi#-cant amount of money is spent on the athletics department, stu-

dents’ shouldn’t be angry%with the board for neglecting other stu-dent essentials and for focusing on the athletics department.

"e funds CHS gets from football brings in revenue for CISD. "e athletic funds% come from%bond dollars, and the%CISD board% bids on certain purchas-es such as the new scoreboard or% bleachers. Bond dollars are used for speci#c purposes, and the public is aware of what they willing to pay for when they cast their vote.

We are all aware of the econom-ic crisis, and CISD has tried to make the best deci-sion for% our

situation. However, textbooks are a vital essential for students to be successful in class. Unfortunately, CISD does not have the power to provide these because textbooks are funded by the state.

"e TEA has revamped how textbooks are being handled and they have been given allotments. CISD only has a certain amount of dollars to spend on textbooks and the district has to coordinate and get all the major players on

the board involved. %According to the Director

of Purchasing Denise Sullivan, there is nothing the district can do with the situation of textbooks, and unfortunately many Texas schools have been running into the same problems. % In addition,

...Students shouldn’t be angry with the board for neglect-

ing other student essentials and focusing on the athletics

department.

the #xes such as the bug problem and locks on the stalls are changes that could have been made years ago and unfortunately no one has requested a bond for these. It’s understandable how voters can overlook these small details.

Students have to be more

The idea of a cowboy hat goes perfectly with the

Cowboy theme of Coppell, making it a great choice for

senior guys.

positive about the situation that Coppell is in before blaming the board and automatically despis-ing the athletics department with their new additions.

Cowboy hats give new look to senior traditionsopinions. .

Graphic by Brian Hwu

Photo by Brian Hwu

Tolu SalakoSta! Writer

Corrina TaylorSta! Writer

Although there is an Andy Brown West and an Andy Brown Central, this is the largest and most popular park. !is park has a pavilion for parties, so"ball #elds, ponds for #shing, basketball courts, sand volleyball courts, a walking path and even a course for Frisbee golf. !is is also where large community events like Oktoberfest and the Fourth of July celebrations are held. !ese events feature live music, food and booths. “If you’re a nature guy like me, you may want to walk around Andy Brown East during the sunset to hear the birds chirping and sounds of cute children,” junior Luke Jenner said.

Not only is Starnucks a co$ee lover’s dream, but is also a fantastic place to do homework or have study groups with friends. It is a good place to just sit down, relax and talk with friends. !e best times to go are de#nitely early morning or late a"ernoon. Overall this might be the best place to relax in Coppell outside of the comforts of your own home.

Anamia’s is a fancier Tex-Mex restaurant than all the other restaurants listed, and it may be the most popular restaurant in Coppell. It serves great food and is a good place to go for a Sunday lunch with the family, to watch a game on one of their many TVs or just to go out to eat. Anamia’s always busy and the food will not let you down.

If you are ever bored on a Satur-day night, or just any night in general, Sonic is a great place to go. !ere will almost always be someone that is looking for someone to hang out with or talk to, and it is the self proclaimed “Ultimate Drink Stop.” So why not give at a try?

“We all know how active Coppell can get, so if you’re ever looking for a fun social event, Sonic at Denton Tap will prevail,” senior Teddy Cro" said.

!e Coppell Aquatic Center is

usually more active in the summer,

but unlike other popular workout

locations, it has much more than

a gym. !e Rec. center has a game

room, basketball and volleyball

courts, and an indoor and outdoor

pool. It is also currently in the pro-

cess of adding on to both the inside

and the outside facilities.

!e night before Whataburger opened last year, students could be seen camping out, waiting for the grand opening. !ere was much hype before it opened, and it has not gone away. It is a great place to go, especially a"er Friday night football games and other sporting events. Plus, it does not hurt that they have the best burgers in Coppell. “!ey have great burgers and the

drink sizes are huge. It always has a great atmosphere too,” sophomore Trent Arm-strong said.

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Ben CowlishawSta! Writer

Assistant principal Sean Bagley: the booming voice domi-nating the announcements, leader of pep rally chants, Silver Spur or-ganizer and now Outstanding As-sistant Principal of the Year.

Bagley, along with Cop-pell Middle School West assis-tant principal Je! Minn, were chosen to represent Region 10 in the Texas Association of Second-ary School Principals (TASSP) as Outstanding Assistant Principals of the Year.

Every year assistant prin-cipals are nominated by teachers and coworkers, and the submis-sions go to the TASSP Principal Image Committee who select "nalists based on performance and leadership in education. One middle school assistant princi-pal and one high school assistant principal are selected from each region, with both coming from CISD this year.

Region 10 is made up of 80 public school districts, with more than 650,000 students and 53,000 educators.

“I was nominated by [Assis-tant Superintendent and former CHS Principal] Brad Hunt, who, in addition to working with him,

has been a great friend for a long time,” Bagley said.

For Hunt, Bagley was a clear choice. “When I think of outstanding administrators, Mr. Bagley is at the top of my list,” Hunt said.

According to Hunt, Bagley’s character highlights the qualities that make him an e!ective educa-tive administrator.

“His love for kids, his out-going personality and his great attitude make him the type of administrator you want around your children,” Hunt said. “It was a pleasure to be able to work alongside him for "ve years and an honor to call him a friend.# Mr. Bagley is most deserving of this prestigious award.”

$e news came as an excit-ing surprise to Bagley.

“I found out through email, and I’ve been receiving a lot of feedback from the administration and teachers that has been very congratulatory,” Bagley said.

Bagley believes his experi-ence in education, as well as being part of CISD, played a role in the award.

“I believe I was awarded be-cause of the reputation of CISD,” Bagley said. “We have a really ex-emplary district. Also, this is my 20th year in education, and my

seventh as an AP, so I’ve had the opportunity to be seen more.”

Minn, like Bagley, believes he was awarded based on the per-formance of his school and CISD.

“I’m surrounded by the most amazing and talented teach-ers, support sta! and administra-tors in the state of Texas,” Minn said. “$eir in%uence on me is immeasurable and was very in%u-ential in molding me as an educa-tional leader.”

His personal philosophy of putting others before himself also contributed to his award, accord-ing to Minn.

“I believe in being a servant leader,” Minn said. “I feel it is im-portant to serve others "rst and look at the needs of others, wheth-er it’s students, parents, teachers, or the campus as a whole.”

Minn and Bagley serve their schools both as administrative leaders as well as personal re-sources for students.

Bagley is known for the way he shows an extraordinary amount of school spirit, evident at pep rallies and showcased by the Silver Spurs, which he over-sees. Bagley’s recognition came as no surprise to students, as his charisma and attitude make him stand out as an AP.

“I’m not surprised Mr.

Bagley won the award. He’s ex-tremely spirited and loves what he does,” senior Silver Spur Chase Porter said. “He really connects well with the Silver Spurs, and the entire student body in general.”

He is also well-liked among students for his general perfor-mance as an assistant principal.

“He’s also a very helpful and supportive AP in general. He has

been my AP for four years, and has always been a huge help in anything I’ve needed,” Porter said.

Bagley’s in%uence on stu-dents as both a valuable resource and friendly face explains why he won the award.

“I have to thank everyone at the high school, and especially Mr. Hunt. $is wouldn’t have hap-pened without him,” Bagley said.

Coberly joined Cub Scouts when he was in "rst grade, and even then, he knew what he was working toward.

“When Spencer joined Cub Scouts at Mockingbird Elementary in 2001, he told us that he wanted to be an Eagle Scout,” Spencer’s mother, Janice Coberly, said.

In order to earn the Eagle Scout award, the boys must complete a service project that will have lasting e!ects on the community. Spencer’s Eagle Scout project was to construct “cubbies” for the Cop-pell Middle School East band hall to hold the students’ instruments. However deter-mined he was to achieve his goal, getting there was no easy task.

“It took me "ve or six months to plan it all out and get everything approved,” Spencer said. “$e actual construction was done in about two or three weeks. We met four or "ve times, we raised the money, and we did almost all the construction in one day.”

In order to set this project in motion, Spencer "rst had to go through the lengthy approval process. Not only did he have to meet with Jason Brents and Rusty Gray,

CMS East’s band directors, but he had to submit his idea to his scoutmaster, the troop committee and the Western Star District of Boy Scouts. A&er the initial approval of his project, Spencer was faced with the task of raising money under the strict guidelines of Boy Scouts of America.

“Once the project was approved, Spencer met with the manager of the Ace Hardware in Coppell and secured a date for a fundraiser,” Janice said. “He and a num-ber of Scouts grilled hot dogs at Ace [Hard-ware], and gave them to Ace customers – for donations only as they were not allowed to ‘sell’ them. He raised over $500 in two hours.”

While many things went according to plan, much of what Spencer did was try to work around problems that arose.

“It was not an easy journey for Spen-cer,” Janice said. “$ere were times where he could have quit – many of his peers did – or he could have decided to continue in the troop and not pursue Eagle; however, he was determined to be an Eagle Scout. We’re very proud of him for sticking with it and accomplishing this.”

While Coberly was addressing a need that was close to home, Akerly was focusing his e!orts on a di!erent sort of cause.

“I led a group of students and scouts in making 2,040 sandwiches for $e Soup-Mobile, which is an organization in Dallas that feeds the homeless,” Akerly said.

$is was not the "rst time he had given his time and e!orts to bene"t this organization - his church group regularly does projects for SoupMobile - but he saw an entirely dif-ferent side of the process as the event planner.

“About 90% of the project was planning, while 10% was execution and actual service work,” Akerly said. “Now that everything is planned, I could do this same project again in no time at all.”

Despite the seemingly interminable process of paperwork and approval, Akerly does not think this was the most di'cult aspect of becoming an Eagle Scout.

“$e hardest part of the project was trying to "t 200 loaves of bread into the back of my brother’s car, and then trying to drive that same car home while having bread blocking my vision,” Akerly said.

Akerly’s determination to achieve this award was fueled largely by the in%uence of his father and grandfather, both of who set an example of service and character. Both men attended Akerly’s Eagle Scout ceremo-

ny, expressing their pride in his accomplishments.

“My father was an Ea-gle scout, and my grandpa Was in the Air Force,” Aker-ly said. “I joined Cub Scouts thinking, ‘Why not?’”

Both boys had to complete all project re-quirements then go through a second approval process, this time in front of a Board

of Review. If this panel of judges deems the completed project worthy of the Eagle Scout honor, they send it o! to the National O'ce of the Boy Scouts of America for the "nal approval.

featurespage 10 october 2011

Coppell junior, senior soar to the rank of Eagle Scout

Photo by Jodie WoodwardOutstanding Assistant Principal of the Year, Sean Bagley, pumps up CHS students at the !rst outdoor pep rally of the year.

Bagley crowned Outstanding Assistant Principal

I lead a group of students and scouts in

making 2,040 sandwiches for The

Soup Mobile.-Grant Akerly, senior

Photo by Jodie Woodward

$ey pledged their duty to God, their country and to helping those in need. $ey went on countless scouting trips and earned numerous merit badges. And "nally, CHS junior Spencer Coberly and senior Grant Akerly received the honor of Eagle Scout.

According to the Boy Scouts of America, only about "ve percent of boys who enter Boy Scouts will go on to earn the Eagle Scout, the highest award a scout can receive. However, despite the slim odds, these two CHS students have proven that dedication can lead straight to achieving your goals.

Michelle Pitcher Editor-in-Chief

features page 11october 2011

Friday night lights are about to get a little more spectacular at Coppell High School football games. But at what price?

The new scoreboard is one of the many projects car-ried out with bond money the district received from local taxpayers. While this score-board, as well as many other district mandated changes, were intended to improve the facilities of various Coppell schools, some are questioning whether this money was put to the best use.

In 2009, CISD held a bond election that approved $50 million in bond money. This bond money was then allocated to different projects within the district.

“[The bond is] paying for renovations throughout the district,” CISD Assistant Su-perintendent for Business and Support Services Sid Grant said. “Like new air condition-ing systems, carpets, roofs, things that need to be done to our buildings just because they are getting older.”

The 2009 bond has also helped pay for technology, such as computers and the wireles networks within the district.

“Now you can go just about anywhere in the district and have wireless connectiv-ity,” Grant said.

Among the more fi-nancially taxing use of bond money was the new articial surface of Coppell Middle School West’s Leslie Field, and the new scoreboard for CHS’ Buddy Echols Field. Costing an even $600,000, the new scoreboard is well equipped to show instant replay in HD clarity and create a new friday night football experience for Coppell residents. It was also the most expensive of all the bond projects.

Some CHS students were shocked at the pricetag of the new scoreboard.

“It is totally not neces-sary to have a new scoreboard when we had one in the first place that worked perfectly fine,” senior Sam Fillingim said.

According to Grant how-ever, the previous scoreboard, despite its appearance, was ap-proaching a state of disrepair.

“It was just about to fall apart; it wasn’t working. We were afraid every time we turned it on, ‘Is it going to

work, is it going to come on, is the sound going to work, were the lights going to come on?” Grant said. “It was old and time to be replaced. We were just patching it together every-time we used it, in hopes that it would make it through a game.”

While the state of the scoreboard did call for a re-placement, the high price spent on another sports related facil-ity was puzzling to some.

“I think the scoreboard money should be put to better use, like hiring more teach-ers rather than creating a good football stadium, ”senior Ste-phen Arifin said.

The process of deciding how the bond money was spent was very methodical, and Grant stressed the involvement of the community when deciding on bond projects.

“We started in 2008,” Grant said. “We put together a commitee of about 30 diffferent community members, parents and tax payers from around the school district, and they actually went around to every school, talked to the principals, talked to some of the teachers, and then came up with a list. So Coppell ISD community members came up with a list of things they would like to see done in the schools.”

Grant and his committee assisted in the decision process by informing the community of the schools that were in need of certain necessities, such as new air conditioning systems. In this way, the district attempted to ensure that the bond money was used in the most beneficial way.

The commitee also con-sidered how they could ben-efit financially from the bond projects. The installment of the scoreboard, for example, was an attempt to bring in additional revenue.

“The money we are spend-ing we are going to recoup by selling advertising,” Grant said. “We are trying to get about $150,00 per year, thats what we’re targeting. This first year, at least $100,00, but somewhere between $100,00 and $150,000 per year.”

The scoreboard will be controlled from a room inside the press box. KCBY students will be responsible for film-ing the game, broadcasting in-stant replays, and controlling the scoreboard. In this way, the bond provided an opportunity for KCBY students to further their understanding of broad-cast journalism.

Many are enthusiastic

about the new scoreboard due to its allure and potential to bring an elevated atmosphere to game nights.

“I am so excited for the new [scoreboard] because its going to pump up the crowd an bring entusiasm to the stu-dents,” senior Alexis Meyer said.

The most publicized proj-ects of this most recent bond, many of which were completed this summer, seem to focus on the sports departments of Cop-pell ISD. However, this bond, as well as previ-ous bonds, have con-tributed many reno-vations to the district that are unrelated to sports. Among these are new bleachers and playground equipment at elementary schools, smart boards, and, from a bond voted on in 2006, New Tech High School.

“We took the old elementary school and during a summer ren-novated it into a high school,” Grant said.

“That was a challenging proj-ect, to completely rennovate an elementary school to a high school in ten weeks. That was the most exciting.”

With each bond the dis-trict receives, many hours are devoted to how the funds should be divided. Since these funds come from bonds that citizizens vote for, they direct-ly involve tax payers. Due to this, tax payers provide input into how they should be spent. If a large portion of funds are

For most high schools, the first week of school brings worries of homework, tests and where to sit at lunch, but the students at Coppell High School had different worries: dress code.

Rumors of a stricter dress code first started spreading around the halls of CHS last May when Mike Jasso was hired to replace former Principal Brad Hunt. Jasso credits his reputa-tion as a strict principal to the spread of dress code rumors.

“Having been here before, I think my re p u t at i o n is one of be-ing a strict d i s c i -plinar-ian, and people worried I would be overly strict,” Jasso said.

To elimi-nate any confusion or dispute r u m o r s of dress c o d e c h a n g e , assistant prin-cipals visited each fourth pe-riod classroom to discuss the student handbook and dress code policies.

One of the most discussed rumors regard-ing dress code was whether or not the school would be banning ath-letic shorts, women’s Nike shorts to be more specific. The ru-mors included everything from

whether or not Nike shorts meet dress code, to athletic shorts of all kinds being off limits. The truth: any athletic shorts can be worn by any student, as long as they meet the school’s fingertip length requirement.

“I was surprised to hear that Nike shorts were such a big issue; I understand now just see-ing how many girls wear Nike shorts,” Jasso said. “The only is-sue I ever had with Nike shorts was the length; it has to meet dress code just like every-thing else”.

Though the topic of athletic shorts seems like a minor detail to most, for many CHS students the concept of not wearing Nike shorts was one they could not come to terms with.

“When I heard the rumor that they were going to get rid of Nike shorts I was mad,” junior

Leah Yates said. “There are nights when you have

to stay up late and when you wake up you are too tired to get ready, so it is easier to just put on Nike shorts and a T-shirt.”

Another misguided rumor that spread said that students would no longer be able to wear flip-flops and sandals because of is-sues with safety. Accord-ing to Jasso, flip-flops were never discussed as

part of the changes being made the dress code and

are allowed.The only major

change to the dress code is the new “neck-to-shoulder rule.” The rule states that all

shirts and tank tops worn by students must cover all skin

from the neck to the shoulder, which is a signifi-

cant difference from the old rule that only required tank tops to

be three fingers in width.“My understanding was

that it was a needed change because there were so many is-sues with it last year, and it was something we needed to ad-dress,” Jasso said.

This change was enforced before school even started, and came as shock to many students when they were forced to change for their school pictures taken at schedule pick-up.

“When they told me I had to change

at schedule pick-up, I was mad be-cause I was wear-ing a shirt that had previously been in dress code and to me wasn’t i n appropr i at e ,” junior Lauren

Louis said.The ad-

ministrat ion u nd e rs t and s that many stu-dents make

tank tops as a form of school s p i r i t and are willing to

make excep-tions for special oc-casions including homecoming dress up week.

“For instance if the football team does well and we go far into the playoffs, there are any num-

ber of special occasions that we may alter or make excep-tions for,” Jasso said. “I don’t want to kill school spirit, but we have to have certain stan-dards.”

Any other rules regard-ing dress code can be found in the student handbook, where it explains in depth the offi-cial dress code.

set aside for a certain depart-ment over another, this may be because those questioned expressed interest in spend-ing the bonds this way, Grant explains.

The district can look for-ward to more improvements in the future, as the the rest of the bond money is spent on projects throughout the dis-trict. Meanwhile residents of Coppell can sit back and enjoy the benefits of yet another se-ries of bond projects.

Changes to dress code minorThe new scoreboard is programmed by a combination of sound and video sys-tems that are connected throughout the stadium.

Coppell questions justi!cation of bond applicationMadison FordEntertainment Editor

Sammy RobbenSports Editor

The new scoreboard’s audio system can be managed by sound equip-ment located in the control room.

Graphic by Haley Madigan

Photo by Brian Hwu.

Photo by Brian Hwu.

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By Julianne Cauley News Editor

September 11, 2001 was recorded in history as “the day that changed everything.” However, for Coppell citizens, the chaotic, confusing and frantic atmosphere

was not only a result of events oc-curring in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C., but at Cop-pell High School as well.Because the school day started roughly an hour before the !rst plane struck the North Tower, the day started normally without any sense of alarm. Parents had begun to venture to work as if it were a normal day; it was not until 8:46 a.m. that suspicions erupted.""

“I dropped [my son] o# at school, came in and got ready for the day; then I saw I had received an e-mail from another teacher saying that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center,” AP Calculus teacher Jan Bourg said.""

At this time everything was quite vague, and no one had a clear or de!nite idea of what was going on.""

“ N o t

many peo-ple had cell

phones,” Biology teacher Jennifer Mar-

tin said. “$at was part of the issue with commu-

nication, so a%er the !rst plane crashed, everybody thought it was an

However, these attacks would soon be noted as no accident. Seventeen minutes later, a plane crashed into the South Tower at 9:03 a.m."

“We were simply trying to make sense of two planes crashing into buildings on the same day,” Bourg said. “Nothing like this had ever happened before – people did not say ‘Oh it is a terrorist attack’ - no one said that.”""

Ten years ago, the primary reason for the confusion about what was happening was a result of the lack of developed technology. ""

“Today if that happened [students] would know within sec-onds,” AP American History teach-er Kevin Casey said. “$e students 10 years ago weren’t aware. $ey

knew something had happened and [teachers] knew something had happened, but we did our best not to spend the whole day focus-ing on it.”"

$is e#ort was valiant, but as the day progressed, it was impossi-ble to continue treating September 11, 2001 as a normal school day.

“A lunch had just been re-leased when our school received a bomb threat,”" said Principal Mike Jasso, who was an assistant princi-pal at the time. “$e day became even more hectic and stressful in the blink of an eye.”

At the time, the school did not have a structured system to use during !re drills, or in this case, bomb threats.

“Everybody just scrambled and exited; they took this bomb threat more seriously than others, simply because of what was going on the rest of the United States at that time,” Jasso said.

Students &ooded the outside area of the school as they were led onto the football !eld, inside the turf room, lined down Town Cen-ter Drive and back towards Park-way.

“$e school was evacuated while I was gone taking my son lunch for his birthday, and they would not let me back on the high school campus a%er the bomb threat,” Bourg said. “I waited at the Walgreens o# Parkway with a ton of parents who were panicking; I stayed helping comfort parents there who could not reach their students.”

Because the school lacked a structured evacuation plan, parents were coming to pick up their kids, but they could not !nd them - sta# did not know where they were in the big mess of things.

“$e stress of the day contin-ued to build and build as students were not completely informed, par-ents were not comfortable with the safety of their children and teachers and administration were not sure of how to best handle the situation,” Jasso said.

$e day continued to be !lled with terror as two more planes crashed into the Pentagon in Wash-ington D.C. and another crashed into a !eld near Shanksville, Pa. At the time though, most people at Coppell High School remained un-informed.

“We were cut o# due to hav-ing to sit outside; we had no idea of what was going on in the world,” Martin said. “$ey were keeping us isolated as we waited outside for the bomb threat to end,”

A%er being outside for

around three hours, students and sta# were allowed back inside the school,

and the bomb threat was revealed to be not authentic.

Ten years later, the school had plans to commemorate “the day that changed everything”. Various activities inside and outside the school were put on to remember the day as well as those fallen.

“Monday September 12 was a red, white and blue day to honor America and those who fell during the attacks,” Jasso said. “$e school day was quite solemn and re&ective on that day while thinking about how the events of 10 years ago changed the world we now live in. CHS and the community as a whole were able to use this day for a teach-able moment and used this attack to reiterate the importance of patri-

otism a l o n g

with toler-ance.”

Coppell High School groups participated in the City

of Coppell 9/11 ceremony as well."""""""$e city of Coppell ceremony

was held on Monday September 12 at Town Center Plaza, behind City Hall. One special guest was U.S. Congressman, Kenny Marchant (R – TX).

Congressman Marchant dis-cussed what he was to read to Con-gress about how America will move forward from the events of Septem-ber 11.

“$e most important thing we did as a nation a%er September 11 was the response of the mili-tary, police and !re departments,” Marchant said. “$ey all used to operate on di#erent views and wavelengths and they are all now cooperating with one another and communicating with each other.”

To honor this, the Coppell Fire and Police Color Guards along with the Fire Dept were featured along with bagpipe and Drum Corps who performed homage to safety" agencies" and military men and women."

“In Coppell, and the na-tion as a whole, these public cer-emonies made the people more aware of what is around us and it has made us much more aware that not everybody is our friend, Marchant said. “We must never let our guard down again. As Congress, the most important thing we can do is work to prevent events and crises like 9/11 from ever happening again.”

$rough public recognition and emotional ceremonies, signif-icant amounts of work have been done to prevent attacks like this from ever disrupting the unity and safety of the country. Amer-ica is more ready and united than ever before.

Other important keynote speakers included Coppell Po-lice Chief, Mac Tristan, Coppell Fire Chief, Kevin Richardson and Deputy Chief of Police, Gary Nix.

“I think that we are much more cautious society. It destroyed our sense of safety and peace that we had,” Deputy Chief of Police, Gary Nix, said. “$is event has taught us as a society we need to be more cautious. Ceremonies like these unify a community and help all of us come together to strive towards a common goal.”

9/11TenLater

YearsRemembering !rough the eyes of a child

I was 4 years old when [Septem-ber 11, 2011] happened. I lived in West Orange, New Jersey

at the time and my window faced towards the twin towers. When I would get home from school I would just stare at them at night because I loved the way they lit up the New York City skyline. I told my mom that I wanted to work there when I was older because of the lights.

When my school had gotten word that a plane had been high-jacked, they sent us all home as soon as they could. When I got o# the bus, my mom was there to walk me home. Our teachers didn’t tell us what was going on because they didn’t want to scare us but I knew something was wrong because my mom was rushing me home.

When I got home my mom went and turned on the TV in the living room so I went upstairs to put my backpack in my room. $at was when I looked out my window to see the twin towers. $ey would greet me every day when I came home.

My mom rushed to see where I was. When she found out that I was OK she went into her room be-cause my dad was calling her.

$en the !rst plane came and devastated me. I was thinking to myself before the plane hit that it was &ying way too low. My mom used to be a &ight attendant so she used to tell me everything she knew about planes. Within !ve minutes I saw the plane going straight for the !rst tower.

When the plane hit I screamed and ran into my parents’ room with tears in my eyes. My mom asked what was wrong so I took her to my window where she put her hand over her mouth and a tear rolled down her face.

I will never forget that mo-ment because I have never seen my mom cry. She told my dad to take me into their room where I stayed with my brother Josh while my mom, dad and brothers, Adam and Chase, watched everything contin-ue to unravel.

When I went to bed that night I looked out of my window and saw the &ames that used to be twinkling lights. Every since then I always re-member 9/11 and the e#ect it had when I was so young and how it changed everyone’s life around me.

-Madison Pickett, freshman

Many citizens came to Coppell’s me-morial service bearing &ags and other symbols of patriotism to remember the attacks that occurred on 9/11.

During a period of the service reserved for prayer, !re!ghters bowed their heads in remembrance.

Police come forward to pray and remember fellow o'cers that died in 9/11.

$e service was ended with all those in attendance reciting the pledge of allegiance. Photos by Jack Ficklen

Graphics by Lauren Ussery

featurespage 14 october 2011

Over four million babies are born each year in the Unites States. Out of those children, one in every 691 will be diagnosed with Down Syndrome and one in every 150 will have some form of Autism.

For several stu-dents at CHS, intel-lectual disabilities are something they have lived with for the ma-jority of their lives. However, those who were personally diag-nosed with the disor-ders are not the only ones who deal with the e!ects. "eir sib-lings know #rsthand the impact the dis-abilities can have on one’s life living with a special needs child.

Coppell senior Austin Jennings used his sister Mackenzie as an inspira-tion to start a club at CHS called Club Connected. "is club is de-signed as an outlet for students who have disabled siblings. Its ob-jective is to allow students to speak openly about living with their sib-lings and is also a way to educate students about their siblings’ dis-abilities, as well as share their ex-periences.

“My sister struggles with speaking up outside of our house,

but at home she’s loud, talkative and has a great personality,” Jen-nings said. “She just has trouble sharing that with everybody else. "e club gives us a chance to just talk about that kind of stu!. We all want our siblings to have the

best high school experiences, we are trying to #nd ways to become more comfortable with this and to get people to realize it’s not a big deal and that they are the same as all of us.”

Anybody who has ever grown up with a sibling knows the many adventures it entails. It comes with the challenges and rewards that help develop that re-lationship and create an undeni-able bond. Senior Allie Norwood

has had her own set of experiences growing up with her Autistic sister, Caitlin Norwood, a student in the CHS special education program.

“She has taught me that things could be worse,” Allie said. “I realized that a lot lately. When

people get upset about random, small things I just think its silly to be upset over something small. If she can be happy when she has so much less than I do then I can be just as happy as her.”

However, it is not always easy living with a special needs sibling; it tests one’s patience and ability to care for another person uncondi-tionally. Just like all sibling rela-tionships, there will be #ghts and disagreements, but a unique set of

challenges arise when living with a disabled child.

“It’s di$cult not being able to communicate with her fully,” Allie said. “Some special needs kids can talk and somewhat communicate, but she has high severity autism, so she cant communicate at all. She can do a little bit of sign language but it’s di$cult sometimes not knowing what she wants.”

For Jennings, living with his sister has impacted his outlook on life and also shaped him into who he is today. It has driven him to help out with special needs chil-dren and to join organizations in order to help those with special needs.

“From her disability, I have gotten involved with Special Olympics,” Jennings said.

“I’m a uni#ed swimmer which means I swim with the ath-letes in a relay race. I’ve started my club, gotten involved with organi-

zations and stu! like that. Basically, she has

taught me to be more sincere with everybody and she has made me a better person all around.”

Living with disabled siblings has given students unique sets of sensitivities. One thing Norwood is very adamant about is the word “retarded” being used as slang. Ev-erybody has either heard this word or used it in everyday language as a way to call another stupid, and in Norwood’s eyes it is unnecessary and o!ensive.

“I cannot stand it,” Allie said. “In middle school, I would

Kara AdkinsSta! Writer

tell people to stop saying that, but nobody is going to stop saying it. It bothers me a lot.”

Peer tutor teacher Carol Jack-son works with special needs kids at Coppell and has seen sibling re-lationships as well as student rela-tionship %ourish with special needs students.

She has been in numerous sit-uations where the word “retarded” has been used as slang, and knows how it can hurt parents and siblings.

“It is a really sad way for peo-ple to describe others, it’s just slang for stupid,” Jackson said. “Legislature passed a law this summer that they don’t even use the term ‘mentally re-tarded’ as a diagnosis word it’s now ‘intellectual disability’.

I’ve seen parents at communi-ty outings hear people say ‘"at’s so retarded.’ "ey have kids that could be classi#ed that way. It’s a very hurt-ful term when somebody you love and care about has that classi#ca-tion.”

In both Norwood and Jen-nings’ cases, they realize that their relationship with their sibling might be di!erent from most sibling rela-tionships, but they could not imag-ine it any other way. "ey both agree that their siblings have taught them unforgettable lessons and molded them into a better person.

“It’s been monumental hav-ing her as a sister,” Jennings said. “It’s been amazing, she has taught me to accept everybody, and the biggest thing I would say is just how the little things make her so happy.”

Photo courtesy of Allie Norwood

Jennings, Norwood share special bond with siblings

Mary Whit"llFeatures Editor

City gears up for National Night Out celebrationAs& Coppell prepares for

the 20th& celebration of National Night Out (NNO) in October, the organization has begun to gear up for their participation in local events. From the St. Ann Carnival to the annual homecoming parade, NNO uses widely- attended events to spread the word about what they consider to be the best social event of the year.

“National Night Out is probably one of the most impor-tant events that the City annually hosts,” Coppell Community In-formation O$cer Sharon Logan said. “Coppell residents really care about each other and they care about their community.& "is event encourages and fosters that hometown feel by bringing neigh-

bors together for a&dual purpose, #ghting crime and looking out for one another.”

"e NNO aims to bring neighbors together, strengthen neighborhood spirit and gener-ate participation in anti-crime programs. Coppell’s NNO has grown from just a few block par-ties in 1991 to 49 parties in 2010. Since winning the “Rookie” award in 1991, the National Association of Town Watch has recognized Cop-pell with an ‘Outstanding Participa-tion Award’ every year. "irty-#ve block parties are already signed up to participate this year.

“We do an excellent job with National Night Out,” Coppell Police O$cer Richard Harr said. “With a city of our size, about 40,000, we have about 50 block parties a year. When you break that down, it’s about one block party for ev-

ery 800 people. "at’s incredible when you think about it.”

NNO Block Parties are described by the Coppell Po-lice Department as the “corner-stone” of National Night Out. Each participating neighborhood can compete for the “2011 Block Party Winner” street sign, which will remain on display within the neighborhood. "e Coppell Police Department, Fire Depart-ment, McGru! the crime dog, the NNO Knight, City Council members and Mayor Doug Stover will&visit the block parties from 6 – 8 p.m.

“It is important for people to get to know each other, because you can develop better relation-ships in your community,” CHS School Resource O$cer Ricky Jimenez said. “"is helps to deter crime, help others in need and to

have a better working relationship with community members.”

In addition to encouraging people to go out and meet their neighbors, CPD uses the block parties as a way to introduce neighborhood crime watch pro-grams.

“It’s about getting to know people, starting a crime watch and getting involved,” Harr said. “We want to get back to a time where everyone knew everyone, and peo-ple could tell us when things are slightly o!. When something hap-pens in a neighborhood, we want to be able to talk to neighbors, and we want them to know what’s go-ing on.”

Apart from the block par-ties, NNO is involved in many other community activities. "e NNO Knight and “Mr. P.C.” (the robotic car) was presented at St.

Ann Carnival Sept.& 9-11, the An-nual Homecoming Spirit Parade on Sept. 19&and at the Homecom-ing Football game against Sagi-naw on Sept. 23.

In addition, the National Night Out Golf Tournament was held on Sept. 17 at Bridlewood Golf Club in Flower Mound. Par-ticipation in the tournament is $80 per person, which includes lunch and the chance to will door prizes. Sponsorships are available for individuals and corporations.

“It brings communities and neighborhoods together,” Harr said. “If nothing else, you meet your neighbors. In today’s day and age things like this are vital. We have gotten lost in email and texting, and we need to get back to meeting and talking to people. In a social setting, people are more willing to connect.”

National Night Out is considered one of the most important events hosted each year in Coppell. It strives to connect the community through family-friendly events.

Special needs siblings in Coppell serve as the inspiration for Club Connected. Allie Norwood, senior, and sibling Caitlin Norwood are part of the program.

Photos courtesy of Richard Harr

While new students ten-tatively walk the halls of unfa-miliar schools and new policies are implemented into the in-terworking of administration, Pulitzer Prize winning public records website ProPublica re-leased a school search database allowing community members to compare their school to oth-ers in the area.

According to ProPublica, Coppell High School soars above local high schools in some areas, and falls below the bar in others.

Coppell High School is currently home to around 2,680 students, more than any of the four closest high schools in sur-rounding areas. The ProPublica search engine allows users to compare things such as the percentage of Inexperienced Teachers, number of AP cours-es offered, and the percentages of students who take at least one AP course or who are en-rolled in Advanced Math.

“I take advanced classes because it’s what is expected of me,” senior Jahnavi Udiakumar said. “My parents expect me

to study, colleges expect me to take difficult classes, and my teachers expect me to do well.

When compared to Lew-isville High School, Creekview High School, Newman Smith High School and Ranchview High School, the percentage of students who take advanced math reach high above the rest at 18 percent.

“Advanced classes are im-portant because they truly do give kids the rigor they will face in higher education,” CHS AP campus facilitator Kimberly Pearce said. “Students have the opportunities to ‘practice’ and learn valuable skills and con-cepts in the safe environment of the high school. Every student can benefit from an advanced course.”

This puts the school even with the district average, and eight percentage points above the state average.

“Our district and the teachers at CHS have created a culture that encourages stu-dents to take a rigorous course of study knowing that the re-wards are better preparation for life beyond high school,” Assis-tant Superintendent for Curric-ulum and Instruction Marilyn

Denison said. “I think our stu-dents understand that the hard work they invest today will pay significant dividends for their future.”

This places Coppell well above other schools in the area, where only half of them meet the state average.

“Coppell students are driven and they are pushed by not only parents but them-selves,” assistant principal Jer-emy Varnell said. “They set a standard and the teachers here set a standard, and then they push themselves beyond even that.”

In addition to the number of students taking advanced math, 36 percent of students take at least one AP course. Teachers attribute this large number of students to a drive among students and a general desire to be advanced.

“AP classes are simply more challenging,” AP GT English IV teacher Matthew Bowden said. “My experience is that each issue or topic is stud-ied and dissected on a depth and breadth unlike that of on-level or survey course. This nat-urally attracts students who are driven and looking to prepare

themselves for college course work.”

Another category in which CHS shows consider-able advancement among lo-cal public schools is the per-cent of inexperienced teachers present. Only three percent of Coppell High School’s teach-ers have been teaching for less than three years, while as many as 10 percent of Lewisville High Schools teachers fall within the category of ‘inexperienced.’”

Teacher experience is an important factor in teacher quality, which, according to ProPublica, experts believe has a direct impact on student aca-demic achievement.

“Experience has been in-valuable as a teacher,” Bowden said. “The key is experience, both bad and good, and learn-ing from both. You have to learn which battles are worth fighting and which to let go, and to always remember that you are there for kids. Have fun and build relationships.”

In addition, a Dallas Morning News report shows that out of 34 ‘low poverty’ Dallas area schools, Coppell High School ranks third in the number of students that come

out of the school ready for col-lege. Texas defines college –ready graduates as those who scored high enough on the SAT or ACT college entrance exams, or on the 11th grade TAKS tests.

“I think I’m very pre-pared for college because of the amount of work I’ve don’t in high school,” Udiakumar said. “I’ve passed all my AP tests and I’ve done all the work I can. CHS has been great for that, I’ve never taken an AP test and felt like I was unpre-pared.”

Falling only behind High-land Park High School and North Hills Preparatory, DMN reports that about 85 percent of CHS students are ‘college ready.’

“CISD does an outstand-ing job preparing students for college,” Denison said. “We design our curriculum to pre-pare students for college. Our teachers do an outstanding job providing learning experiences for students to build their aca-demic capacity and stamina, and the results of that inten-tionality are graduates who are prepared to transition into col-lege and succeed.”

features page 15october 2011CHS academics shine above other local high schools

Mary Whit!llFeatures Editor

Graphics by Kimberly Del Angel

Statistics courtesy of ProPublica.org

Emerging onto the enter-tainment scene, three former CHS students are combining their skills in music, photography, and video to form what is now known as Motion Entertainment Company (Motion).

Motion is a combination of services including profession-ally integrated photography, au-dio and video production, and graphic design. Motion features select artists such as Jay Fresh, Cherisse, and soon-to-be-signed Will Jet’son. Perhaps the most intriguing as-pect of the group is that it brought three Coppell High School graduates together with their de-sires of !nding a path within the entertain-ment industry.

Jordan Michael Johnson, known by his stage name, “Jay Fresh,” founded Motion in 2008 when he began to con-sider his career opportuni-ties in the music industry. “At !rst Motion was just a clothing company designed for skateboarders, but as my dreams of being a rapper quickly started to take o", I decided to turn Mo-tion into a full blown entertain-ment company,” said Johnson.

A#er quickly becoming a hit with songs like “How I Roll,” “$e Story,” and most recently a remix of Jay Z’s, “Otis,” Johnson’s inter-ests soon shi#ed from managing his entertainment company to solely utilizing his skills in music.

Johnson’s music has been featured throughout many Dal-las venues, including Trees, Rio Room, and Ghostbar. Growing as one of the top indie, modern, hip-hop artists in the area, Johnson expanded his operation, bringing his cousin, Tony Mosely, on board last year.

Mosely, a 2011 CHS gradu-ate, manages and assists the com-pany with audio production and advertisement. His role in the company is greatly in%uenced by his willpower and determina-tion. Mosely, who attends LSU, describes his role at Motion as

“having the responsibilities of managing and producing music with Will Jet’son, and taking care of anything related to Motion.”

Plastered on the Facebook walls of many CHS students are various lyrically captivating tracks from Will Jet’son. $e art-ist promotes most of his music on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. “We do most of our adver-

tising on social media sites be-cause that’s where our audience connects and the fastest way to promote new tracks,” said Mosely. “We also released a music video for Will Jet’son that will hopefully create more of a fan base, and give the public a little taste of what he possesses as a rapper.”

Malcolm Wilburn, aka Will Jet’son is also a 2011 CHS gradu-ate, and has been writing music since his early teens. Along with his music video, Wilburn has been turning tracks like his life depended on it, and in reality, he says it does.

“Music is my life, and it’s the best connection I have with myself,” said Wilburn. “Everybody has something they use to get away from the rest of the world, and mine is writing and making mu-sic that highlights the moments of my life,” he elaborated. “With-out it I’d just be a regular lost soul trying to !nd what suits me best,” said Wilburn.

Although running an entertainment business can be frantic, admits Mosely, the “hard work” doesn’t really seem so hard at all.

“In reality there are no real sacri!ces; when you’re doing what you love it is all fun and worthwhile,” said Mosely.

Motion has also imple-mented a “street team” to help with the promotion of the company. $e team consists of

mainly CHS students and fans that support Motion and its

a&liated artists. “As more and

more people jump on board to what we o"er as musicians, we decided to orga-nize a team of fans to help keep others updated,” Mosely said.

In a close-knit community l i k e C o p p e l l ,

c r i t i c i s m will always

be presents and unfortunately musi-cians can’t always please everyone. For Wilburn music has always been some-thing that comes

from the heart and soul, and to him that’s enough to get credit from anybody.

Like Wilburn, Mosely also feels that it’s his “haters” that fuel himself to keep striving for perfection.

“For me the inspiration was those who said I couldn’t do it,” said Mosely. “My friends and family have without a doubt supported me, but the real rea-son why I do it is because of the people who simply say no.”

Coppell is a small town, and Motion o"ers three huge dreams and hardly enough room to contain them. With the world as their player ground, the trio is merely just getting started.

To get the latest updates on Motion and it’s artists, Will Jet’son and Jay Fresh, be sure to check out their Facebook fan pages and to also follow to them on twitter @thejayfresco, @will-bejetting, and @motionent.

I’ve been with them for so long because I know everything about them.”

Along with the Harry Potter novels and hit movies, fans have always had an interest-ing way to honor the release of the next book or movie. Since the end has !nally come, all the crazy Harry Potter costumes and par-ties are part of students’ collection of cherished memories.

“For the premiere of ‘Harry Potter & the Deathly Hal-lows: Part 1’, I convinced my boyfriend to arrive three hours early to get the best seats possible and there were so many amaz-

ing costumes walking through lobby, such as Hedwig, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Rita Skeeter,” Far-rell said. “It was like a party, with people who we had never met before, trading favorite quotes, making friends and bonding over our shared love of all things Harry Potter.”

$e Harry Potter franchise has made over $7 billion in the last 10 years while the last movie alone made more than 1 billion dollars increasing pro!ts of the-atres around the world.

“[$e Harry Potter fran-chise] was a record setting movie for sure.” Director of Public Re-lations of AMC $eatres Ryan Noonan said, “$ere’s no way to

speculate what will happen down the road with Harry Potter out of theatres. Harry Potter has been very successful and we are sorry to see it come to an end.”

$e story of Harry Pot-ter will probably be read for years to come because of the relatable aspects with the wizard world and “muggle” world. $e story con-tains many morals including the idea of overcoming adversity that make it possible to be read for many generations to come.

“Obviously [Hogwarts] is a wizarding school, so it’s not ex-actly the same; but some of the day to day issues of seeing my stu-dents deal with peer pressure and people who see things di"erently

are similar,” Chemistry teacher Emily Blake said.

Students must say their goodbyes to the story that they have grown up with and appreci-ate the cherished memories of the books, movies, playground games relating to the books and costume contests.

However there are ways to relive the life of Harry Potter by taking a visit to Harry Potter World in Orlando, Fla. or regis-tering for Pottermore, a website o"ering new background material of the world of Harry Potter and where for the !rst time being, e-books will be available. $e story of Harry Potter will never die.

With the release of the !nal Harry Potter !lm, the Harry Potter phenomenon has come to a close. Photos by Brian Hwu

CHS grad’s business set in Motion

Final Harry Potter film marks the end of an era

Graphic by Haley Madigan

Tolu SalakoSta! Writer

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“I was sad that [Harry Potter] ended because it was a part of my childhood. I am going to miss it.”-Vignesh Krishnamoorthy, junior

“I really enjoyed the series but it was kind of depressing to see it end.”-Jack Parker, sophomore

“At !rst I thought that the series wasn’t going to be any good, but when I started watching the movies I knew I was going to be depressed when it was over.”-Sunjna Kohli, sophomore

Dyer WhittSta! Writer

“Since the end has !nally come, all the crazy Harry Potter costumes and parties are part of students’ collection of cherished memories.”

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“No” is always the hardest word

to hear. !is past year, CHS soph-omore Gena Greenia tried out for “!e X Factor.” She did not advance on to live auditions, but that one “no” that stopped her is now the motivation pushing her to get better.

“!e X Factor” is Simon Cow-ell’s new reality singing competi-tion show. Contestants audition and compete for the grand prize of a $5 million recording contract with Cowell’s record label Syco Music. Greenia’s mother saw a commercial for the show on TV and sent in an audition tape of Gena singing the song “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele.

She was picked in the top 20 contestants of her area and ad-vanced to the next round of try-outs, which were to be held at Grapevine Mills mall. Greenia sang the same song again for the judges and was picked in the Top Four. !is earned her a special pass to be one of the "rst to au-dition in the third round, which would be the ticket to the live au-ditions. !ere was a week of prep-aration between the second round and third round. !e auditions were held at the Reunion Arena.

A#er she sang for the judge she was told that she wouldn’t be go-ing on to live auditions.

“It wasn’t my best perfor-mance,” Greenia said. “I knew it could have been a lot better. I was

bummed at "rst, but I "gured this was just God’s way of saying it’s not my time yet. I walked out of there with my mom thinking ‘It’s going to be okay’. I will get anoth-er chance.”

In fact, Greenia is already pre-paring to audition for the next season of “!e Voice,” NBC’s real-ity singing competition.

“I’ve started picking the songs that I want to sing, and I’ve been preparing myself. I started sing-ing lessons in July,” Greenia said.

Gena was not one of those girls that always sang into a hairbrush. In fact, she was one of the boys. But she just always had that love of music.

“Gena’s been singing ever since she was little, but it wasn’t until she was in middle school when my mom realized that she actually can hold a pitch and she’s actually really good,” Gena’s older sister Haley Greenia said.

It came as a shock to Gena’s parents when they "rst heard her sing.

“!e family was watching ‘American Idol’ and the song ‘When the Moon Goes Blue’ came on, and Gena began sing-ing along to it,” Gena’s mom Carol Greenia said. “My husband and I just looked at each other and I re-member thinking ‘Wow! She’s re-ally good!’ It was just this moment of realization.”

Greenia is also an aspiring songwriter, and she has written a few songs already. She has also done collaborations with other

G r e e n i a h a s t h e X Fa c t o rGosling ‘drives’ it home

How can anyone say less than 150 words in a single "lm and still have their character completely understood and the audience be rooting for them? Apparently only Ryan Gosling can do it, as he shines in the new "lm Drive.

Drive follows the story of “!e Driver” (Gosling) who by day is a stunt car driver, $ipping cop cars for Hol-lywood produc-tions. By night, he avoids the police as a get-away driver for robberies, as he does in the "lm’s beautiful opening sequence.

He has no identity other than “him” or “the kid”. He sim-ply exists, moving from job to job in a wordless fashion. !is "lm and everything about it is the de"nition of “cool”. Gosling, the beautiful Los Ange-les backdrop and the soundtrack are all factors that make the "lm just so downright awesome. In hindsight, Drive is more slick and cool than John Travolta in Grease, which should say a lot. But understand this, Drive is not a movie about driv-ing. Yes, it has a couple car chase scenes here and there, but it’s about so much more than that. It’s about what drives people to do certain things. !e choices and actions driving people to and from other people is what this "lm is about. !e "lm feels like a dream as you spin through its never-ending hypnotic phase of elegance. Drive is also ac-cented with quick jumps to fast, realistic action sequences.

Annie WenSta! Writer

Wren CulpWebmaster

Sophomore Gena Greenia sang “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele in her audition and brought back a X-Factor T-shirt as a souvenir to always remember her experience.

Nicolas Winding Refn, right, and Ryan Gosling pose for portrait at the Winners Photocall of the 64th Cannes International Film Festival, at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, southern France on May 22, 2011.

!e action in the "lm varies from getaways in Mustangs, to beating someone’s head in while in an elevator, and everything in between. All the action sequences are cra#ed together beautifully, combining dolly shots and slow motion that make it so enjoyable. !e cast is relatively small, but they all give wonder-ful performances. Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan both did fantastic jobs as well as Bryan

Cranston (Little Miss Sunshine) and Albert Brooks (Finding Nemo). !e "lm is di-rected by Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising, Bronson), who does a fantastic

job of representing characters and their emotions with more than just words. Refn combines extravagant music and impressive visuals to convey emotions that can’t be conveyed with words. !e music is so special and so important to this "lm. !e songs are dreamlike and add a cer-tain “rough classiness” to the "lm. All in all, the songs are perfect for "t for the style of this "lm. !e cinematography by Newton !omas Sigel is outstanding as he does something very special with each shot: they all move. !ere is not one still shot of anybody in the entire movie, which gave the "lm more life. Drive to me is a real com-plete "lm. It is very a well-rounded "lm encompassing a great amount of drama mixed with a great yet subtle amount of violence. Rating: A

musicians“Gena is a very hard worker.

She has so much natural talent and that goes hand in hand with passion,” sophomore Mikki Ho%-man, another aspiring musician, said. “When she creates her own songs, that’s when you really hear her, and she really knows what di-rection she wants for the song to go.”

Gena has been o%ered to do some studio work already, and as she continues down this road her family and friend are behind her 100 percent.

“I’ve known Gena my whole life,” sophomore Rosemary Brin-egar said. “She’s still the same girl that she’s always been, but she’s re-ally matured as a singer. Her voice has gotten so much stronger and I think she has the determination to do whatever she wants.”

Greenia has been preparing for “!e Voice.” She has already picked out songs, and she has her sights set on making the big time.

“I really think Gena could make a career out of singing,” Haley said. She’s that good. But even if she doesn’t it will always be an important part of her life.”

Gena has already "gured out her path in life, and as each day goes by, she is bettering herself for the future.

“I love music. I want to make it my career,” Greenia said. “And this experience made me realize that it’s possible. Even if you don’t think so, I can tell you: anything is possible.”

Photo by Rowan Khazendar

                                Ollivier-Calo-MF/Abaca Press/MCT

This !lm and every-thing about it is the de!-nition of “cool”. Gosling, the beautiful Los Angeles backdrop... make the !lm just so downright awe-some.

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Lizzie McGuire is pregnant and Louis Stevens !ghts Trans-formers.

While in reality it is the actors who played these child-hood icons, Hilary Du" and Shia Labeouf, respectively, who are now expecting a child or star-ing in summer blockbusters, the transformation of youthful idols can cause some to re#ect on the entertainment o their childhood.

As the stars of childhood entertainment have evolved, so

has the industry itself. Shows once focusing on the everyday lives of children and young adults now expose the struggles of jug-gling fame and normalcy. $e excitement over a release of a col-ored Gameboy has been replaced for apprehension over the latest iTouch upgrade.

“Honestly I think it’s di"er-ent today mostly because, I look at my sister, Maya, and she has an iTouch, and she’s about to be 9,” senior Keaton Ozymy said. “And for me at that time, whenever I was her age, I had the original Gameboy. Or old fashioned style

and read books. And I think that was, honestly the only entertain-ment for us as kids.”

$is shi% in interests may be attributed to our developing soci-ety. As technology advances, so does the way children entertain themselves.

“I notice that with all the technology today, they are re-ally incorporating that with all the cartoons they are coming out with,” senior Lizzie Herrera said. “I have three younger sisters and they watch cartoon network like no other. And literally, all the car-toon shows [are] adding graphics

with real time 3-D and 4-D ani-mations. $ey’re just so di"erent now than from ‘Tom and Jerry’ which was out like 20 or 30 years ago. It’s really just keeping up with the times.”

It is not only the technol-ogy evolving childhood enter-tainment, but the content as well. Some students reminisce on how relatable their childhood shows were.

“When I was little I loved watching Disney Channel shows, like ‘Lizzie McGuire’ and stu", be-cause I felt like that was the little typical life of a little girl,” senior Brittany Cox said. “Now, shows I watch are not really realistic. $ey’re reality shows, but shows like ‘Jersey Shore’ aren’t as realis-tic. When we were little we had that kind of stu" to look up to and now, it’s bad stu" to look up to.”

$is reality television craze, which did not have a large pres-ence in children’s television 10

years ago, has led to the develop-ment of shows on children’s net-works that make references to reality television and pop culture icons.

“I know there’s a show called ‘Mad’ [on Cartoon Network] where they literally incorporate every of aspect of what’s going on with reality TV and pop media,

like pop culture,” Herrera said. “$ey make spoofs about ‘Jer-sey Shore’ and they make spoofs about CNN. And not every par-ent is going to be watching what their 7-year-old watches and if the 7-year-old hears JWoww say-ing something, they’re going to mimic it. Some of it can be inap-propriate but it’s all about what you let your kids watch.”

Senior Lexus Deloach thinks children shows today don’t provide the same intellectual stimulation they did for her gen-eration.

“[Children shows are] dumber now,” Deloach said. “$ey’ve dumbed them down.”

Students recall the oppor-tunities television shows of their past gave them to explore their imagination.

”Spongebob gives you the imagination,” senior Alexis Pente-cost said. “You know like you had when you were a kid. $at was you dreaming.”

While the world of child-hood entertainment has evolved during the past 10 years, and continues to do so, students still smile when they remember shows such as “Dragon Tales”, “Lizzie McGuire,” “Out of the Box” and “Rocket Power” or re#ect on the colored Gameboys that were the pinnacle of personal gaming and reality television was watching someone get “slimed” on “Slime Time Live”.

Both the stars and the view-ers of shows gone by have started to move on, but the imprint they have le% will stay with teenagers as they begin a life of adulthood.

Gears of War 3

“I notice that with all the technology today, they are really incor-porating that with all the cartoons they are

coming out with.”-Lizzie Herrera, senior

Madison FordEntertainment Editor

Television shows make way for new generation

Epic is the only word de-scribing Gears of War 3, the !nal installment in the Gears of War trilogy. $e third person shooter trilogy was released on Sept. 20 but went out with a bang.

In 2006, Epic games began production on the sci-!, third person shooter, the original Gears of War and it immediately became an instant favorite. A%er the game was released in 2007 the franchise became one of the major shooters on the Xbox 360 platform along with the Call of Duty and Halo franchises.

“I’m a fan of the Call of Duty games but I think I’m going to buy Gears of War 3 because its something di"erent and every-one says it’s a lot of fun,” senior Matthew Ainsworth said.

Epic games ended this

much-loved trilogy with the best game out of the three. $e game incorporates everything long time fans and just all around gamers love; a ton of action, great story line and some corny jokes thrown in here and there.

$e !nal chapter once again follows the actions of Marcus Fe-nix, the main character, and the rest of Delta squad in their war against the Locusts. $rough-out the campaign mode all the loose ends are tied up from the past games with a bunch of little surprises along the way and the classic corny jokes that is Gears

of War’s trademark. Also, the desperate and dire

feel to all of the characters makes for a great story mode that won’t leave long time fans disappoint-ed.

“I always thought Gears of War was fun because it’s dif-ferent from most games,” senior Ethan Evans said. “Also, the game is really fun to play with friends whether your playing campaign or online against other people.”

Not only is the story well put together, but also the land-scape is incredible. $roughout the campaign and the multi-player mode the games graphics are extremely polished and with the incorporation of the di"erent lighting and billowing smoke in the distance, the intensity of the game is incomparable.

Something that Gears of War is known for is the combina-tion of sound e"ects and music,

which gives the player a sense of urgency during the heat of the battles. Also, the games in-corporation of music into the game play makes the game feel that much more macho while at the same time keeping it fun and memorable.

“I usually like to play sports games like Fifa [soccer] and Madden [football] but Gears of War has always been fun because it’s not as repetitive as some of the other shooters games can be,” senior Michael Fix said.

Epic Games also includes new game modes including beast 2.0, allowing you to play as the locust against delta squad. $ey also revamped the classic horde mode which will keep players en-tertained into he holiday season. Not only are the game modes new and improved but the designers also added a few new weapons that are sure to entertain players.

Gears of War 3 isn’t just a great game because of the e"ects and the game modes but it stands out because of the smoothness of how the game plays. No mat-ter what you are doing whether you’re sprinting, shooting from cover, or jumping over obsta-cles the game reacts swi%ly and smoothly to action on the con-troller unlike the previous two games.

Not matter if your just a recreational player or a hardcore gamer, Gears of War 3 is a clas-sic Xbox 360 game. Overall, the game is very entertaining and long time fans of the series will be blown away by the surprises in the games story and the re-worked graph-ics that really set the game apart from others in the same genre.

Gears of War trilogy ends with a bang, Porter saysChase PorterSta! Writer

graphic by Brian Hwu

“I’m going to buy Gears of War 3 be-

cause it’s something di!erent and everyone

says it’s a lot of fun.”-Matthew Ainsworth,

senior

Graphic courtesy MCT Campus

entertainment page 19october 2011

O!entimes underclassmen "nd themselves in the shadows of juniors and seniors within teams and organizations. But with CHS #eater’s upcoming production of “Beauty and the Beast,” many of the sophomores and freshmen are stepping into the spotlight.

#e drama department of Coppell High School has started its preparations for the fall mu-sical, which will premier in No-vember. #is is no small under-taking, as it is one of the biggest productions CHS has ever put on.

“We are really trying to out-do ourselves this year,” sopho-more and Drama Club Secretary Mary Claire Phillips said. “It is really a group e$ort, and seeing the "nal product in November will be ful"lling.”

“Beauty and the Beast” is a musical where the supporting roles are just as important as the leads. With many scenes where nearly all the cast is present, the production will require the cast to pull together and produce an acceptable performance.

“#e students are playing a massive role in creative process this time,” Phillips said. “We have three student choreographers and even a set designer.”

As the musical does have several large dance numbers, director Lisa Tabor enlisted the help of several students to serve as assistant choreographers,

one of who is s o p h o m o r e Kristin Schulz along with juniors Katie Kunkle and Sarah Bauer.

Many freshmen have also been eager to contribute to the play, whether through backstage work or acting. A workshop was held in early August, giv-ing hopeful students a chance to prepare for the auditions. It also showed many of the veteran performers that the new group of students had an immense amount of talent.

“#is year we don’t have very many upperclassmen; it’s kind of their job to step up and they’re doing really well,” senior and President of the Drama Club Erika #rasher said. “Even one of the girls that was called back for Belle was a freshman.”

Junior Maddie Migis is also impressed by the amount of sophomores and freshmen who have been receiving the bigger roles.

“When I was a freshman, this would have never happened just because the seniors we had were so good,” Migis said.

But luckily for sophomore Emily McIntyre, who landed the role of Belle, receiving the lead female role was a huge accom-plishment for her.

“I never thought that this would ever happen to me, and it is the coolest thing in the world,” McIntyre said. “I get so excited when I read the script that I get to play Belle.”

According to McIntyre, It was a very intense audition pro-cess, as many people wanted the role.

“For the other parts I au-ditioned for, it wasn’t as scary as going out for Belle. But when I went to audition for Belle, I had it in my head that I really wanted this more than anything in the world,” McIntyre said. “But it was really scary going up against all the seniors that have been there for awhile.”

#is fear, however, did not stop McIntyre from perusing her goal. When the cast list was post-ed McIntyre saw her name on the list and was ecstatic to have earned the role.

“I am just so excited for this. It is de"nitely going to be one of the best plays that CHS has seen in a long time,” McIntyre said.

“I am extremely honored to receive this role, and there were so many other people in-terested in the role that were just as worthy,” McIntyre said. “To be given this role is a huge accom-plishment for me, and I hope that I preform the role well. I am very excited for this play and can not wait for the "rst performance.”

Tabor is also extremely ex-

cited to be putting on “Beauty and the Beast”. Last year’s pro-duction, “Into the Woods” did not bring as much pro"t as planned due to the fact that the World Series was the same week-end as the performance. #is year Tabor hopes that “Beauty and the Beast” will generate more money for the Drama department.

“I knew it would draw a very big audience, and we are still trying to build up funds from the past couple of years,” Tabor said. “So this year I wanted to do something that everyone would like, and it has a big cast also so many people would be able to be involved in it.”

However, Tabor’s main goal is to showcase Coppell’s best tal-ent in the musical. With many veteran actors and actresses participating and even the new freshmen participating, everyone is extremely excited for the next few months as rehearsals begin. “Beauty and the Beast” will begin in November.

Underclassmen step into the withBeauty and the Beast

Caroline Carter Sta! Writer

Director of the production, Lisa Tabor, explains how the audition process will go and provides information that will be useful if the students receive a role.

Photo by Jodie Woodward

Photo by Jodie Woodward

“I never thought that this would ever happen to me, and it is the coolest thing in

the world.” -Emily McIntyre,

sophomore

Showtimes:!ursdayNov. 3, 7:30 p.m.

FridayNov. 4, 7:30 p.m.

SaturdayNov. 5, 2:30 p.m.

SundayNov. 6, 2:30 p.m.

TuesdayNov. 8, 7:30 p.m.

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Jordan taking kicking talent to University of TexasChase PorterSta! Writer

For about as long as the school has existed, the Univer-sity of Texas has been a leader in college football. Now one of our own Coppell players, senior Nick Jordan, will be joining this presti-gious program in 2012.

Before becoming the Cow-boys starting kicker, Jordan was playing peewee football as a safe-ty and receiver. As he progressed within the Coppell football pro-grams, he started focusing pri-marily on kicking. During his sophomore year Jordan got the oppurtunity to kick at the varsity level.

“I’ve wanted to play Divi-sion I football ever since I became

a varsity starter and realized my potential,” Jordan said.

Since Jordan’s !rst start sophomore year, he has practiced and improved to get where he is now. Jordan even made the deci-

sion a"er sophomore year to quit the lacrosse team and focus pri-marily on kicking to achieve his goal of D-I recruitment.

“Nick has not only grown in size and strength but also in

con!dence and experience on the !eld,” football coach Joe McBride said. “His practice and work ethic while practicing is also a major part of how good he is.”

Now a senior, Rivals.com has ranked Jordan the sixth best kicker in the country. His abil-ity to kick the ball out of the end zone and hit long !eld goals with ease under pressure has made him a top-kicking recruit for the class of 2012.

“I believe that he’s the best kicker in the state and de!nitely one of the top kickers in the na-tion,” McBride said.

During the recruiting pro-cess Iowa State, OU, Illinois, Texas Tech and UT contacted Jordan. Not only did Jordan contact the coaches but McBride also had a

important role in Jordan’s recruit-ing process.

“I had a lot of communica-tion with the coaches contacting Nick just trying to promote him as a player,” McBride said, “I just try to educate the players about the recruiting process and the teams they are being recruited by and then its up to the player to preform and choose a school.”

Nick chose UT while on an o#cial visit in Austin. He was told to contact the UT football coach Mack Brown a"er the tour and was told he would be informed about his stance on the team. When Jordan called Brown he was informed that the Longhorns could use his kicking talents.

“I was extremely excited when I was told to call the coach,

but I was speechless when he of-fered me a spot on the team for next year,” Jordan said.

Jordan will begin his col-lege-kicking career next fall, but for now Jordan and the rest of the team needs to focus on the season at hand.

“$is season will be good for Nick because he can get some more experience kicking under pressure before he goes and plays at the next level,” McBride said.

Jordan’s fellow teammates are also ready for the rest of the season and anxious to see how Jordan plays during his !nal sea-son as a Cowboy.

“I think he will be consistent as always and will be there if we need him in close games,” senior linebacker Matthew Ainsworth said.

Robben steps up to the plateA"er being named the

sports editor of the 2011-2012 Sidekick at the end of my sopho-more year, the reality of the chal-lenges I would be facing quickly set in. Not only was I now respon-sible for the coverage of the im-mense number of sporting events that dominate Coppell High School, but also as the !rst ever-female sports editor I had a whole new set of obstacles coming my way.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I love my position as sports editor and ev-erything that comes with it, but sometimes being a girl in a guy’s world can have its drawbacks.

One of the most chal-lenging aspects of my position is having to write about a sport I have no experience with: football. I have played every sport from soccer and swimming, to volley-ball and track, but the one sport I have not and will never play is football. Having a lack of football experience might sound like a minor setback, but when you are trying to !ll the shoes of former sports editors who knew every-thing about football, it can get a little overwhelming.

I am following a long line

of very talented sports editors, who seemed to cover every game %awlessly, showing little stress or worry that it would get done or done well. When watching those before me, I never saw how much stress and planning goes in every week to make sure there is always someone at every game or event. It takes an immense amount of patience, %exibility and a willing-ness to give up time that I was not expecting and that many people do not understand.

Another challenge I have begun to face, is more of a frustra-tion than anything else. It is a lack of respect. Many of !e Sidekick sports writers, a majority of which are guys, see me as just some girl who edits their stories and should not be telling them what to do. As a result, most of the things I tell them or ask them to do goes in on ear and out the other.

$ough these challenges can be hard to deal with, being the !rst female sports editor has given me the exciting opportunity to change the sports section into something di&erent than it has ever been before.

Sports sections have no problem drawing in readers, but

they have a tendency to be plain and boring. I have the chance to bring a more creative and fun ele-ment to the section. I get to bring the section to life with stories that are more than just statistics and game scores.

Also, in years past, !e Sidekick sports section has been largely built on boys sports, such as football, soccer, and basketball, leaving girls sports behind. I am aware of a variety of the sports here at Coppell High School, girls’ and boys’, I will be able to make a more well rounded sports section and give recognition to sports that might not always get it.

$ough my year as sports editor will bring more challenges, I am looking forward to ful!llng my job and changing the sports section for the better.

I believe that he’s the best kicker in the state and de!nitely one of the top kickers in the

nation - Coach, Joe McBride

Coppell High School senior Nick Jordan recently committed to the University of Texas starting in fall of 2012, after playing as the Cowboys starting kicker for the past three years.

Photos by Ivy Hess.

Sammy RobbenSports Editor

and still has the majority of the season to play.

“I want to make sure that I prove myself as a player and make sure that my performance speaks for itself,” Larson said.

In practice, Larson is try-

ing to lead by ex-

a m p l e a n d vocal-ly to p r o -m ot e t h e b e s t

team the Cowboys possibly can. “I try to lead and prepare

the team by making sure that we are going fast on every single play that we run in practice,” Larson said. “I try and make sure that we are going fast on every single drill so that we stay ready for the games to come physically and mentally.”

Larson not only brings leadership and experience to the team from playing on the varsity level last year, but he also brings a dedication to the game. He has been playing football since he was eight and made a commitment to be the best he can be.

“Jakes biggest attribute that he brings to this team is his dedi-cation to the game and that’s what real football players are all about,”

McBride said. Not only has Larson

had to step up to the start-ing quarterback spot, but many other seniors have had to make the big transition from ju-nior varsity to the “Fri-day night lights” team. Many players are also

trying to put their mark on the team and high school football by trying to prove themselves not only to the Cowboys but the college scouts.

“A bunch of the guys are trying to get scholarships to the next level because they love playing the sport and getting a scholarship for some of these guys is how they are going to get into some of these better col-leges,” senior inside linebacker

Ethan Evans said. For Larson, being the start-

ing quarterback for the Cow-boys has given him exposure to colleges looking for another quarterback. He has received

college looks from many schools with top 25 rank-ings in the nation for college football including, Missouri, Baylor, Texas Tech, Nevada, UCLA and potentially many more if he can keep up his winning record.

“There are a lot of schools already looking at him from before this season because of recruiting camps and things like that,“ Mc-Bride said. “This season is his time to earn that scholar-ship.”

For now, Larson is try-ing to focus on his senior year and this season more than anything else.

“I try to keep my mind off of recruiting so I can fo-cus on the season,” Larson said.

Only three games into the season Larson has been playing very well for a quar-terback who had spent last year in the shadows. The Cowboys are hoping they can come together and continue their current winning streak.

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Larson poised to lead Cowboys to football title“I have been working all

my life for the privilege to be the starting quarterback, and the transition that the team has had to make from last year to this has been made a lot easier by having a great team and a great o!ensive line,” Larson said.

Only three games into the season Larson has been performing well for his "rst season at starting quarterback. Already 586 passing yards with an almost 70 percent com-pletion percentage he has already be-gun prov-i n g him-s e l f

< Senior Jake Larson assumes the position of quar-terback for the Cowboys’ 2011 football season. Photo by Jodie Woodward

“I try and make sure that we are going fast on every single drill so that we stay ready for the games to come physically and mentally.”-Jake Larson, senior

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Dream  carBugatti

Dream  place  to  liveCalifornia or Hawaii

Favorite  movieBlood Diamond

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Until the !nal second of the !nal game, last year’s Coppell Cowboys football season was a glorious one. Characterized by colossal victories and a District 7-5A title, last season cemented Coppell’s place as one of the elite football programs in the state.

Saying that there is pres-sure for this year’s team to suc-ceed would be a massive under-statement.

“"e expectations are really high since the guys from last year really put us on the map,” sopho-more defensive back Troy Parker said. “So everyone’s really look-ing up to that for us to keep our record up.”

But this year’s team is not the same as its predecessors. "e Cowboys lost many starters and key players on both sides of the ball. As a result, this season’s team will by and large be a young and inexperienced one.

One could even go as far as to say that it is a rebuilding year for Coppell.

However, the Cowboys and their coaches are con!dent they have what it takes to achieve great things, and maybe even win a coveted state title, despite

the relative inexperience. “We do recognize that we

lost seven starters on defense to graduation, so we’re pretty young on defense,” defensive coordinator Mike DeWitt said. “But we still have high expecta-tions for the kids that have !lled in and obviously we still want to win and get better every week.”

Although familiar faces such as Cam McDaniel [Notre Dame] and Bennett Okotcha

[Oklahoma] have gone on to big-ger and better things, the Cow-boys are still loaded with play-makers, and new leaders have stepped up to the mantle.

"e team captains are Sam Rice, David Busby, Austin Buss, Jake Williams and Jake Larson. "ese seniors will play a pivotal role in guiding this young Cow-boys team to the postseason.

Perhaps the most signi!-cant new playmaker is starting quarterback Jake Larson. With impressive running capabilities

and a height of 6-4, Larson is an intimidating !gure at quarter-back.

“[Larson] is a kid that’s been very eager for it to be his time,” head coach Joe McBride said. “He’s very committed to being a good quarterback and I know he interacts with the kids well. He just needs the experi-ence, and should get better game to game.”

While certain players will carry the torch, the coaches have stressed that the key to success will be their ability to play as a team and have each player carry their own weight.

“We try to emphasize that it’s a team e#ort,” DeWitt said. “You have to have 11 guys on the !eld playing together, not just 10. We try to sell that to the kids that it takes all 11, not one guy that’s more or less important.”

One thing is for sure: the Cowboys’ ability to play as a team will be tested this season. Coppell has returned to District 7-5A, which is considered by many to be the most di$cult dis-trict in the state.

Every team in the district has the potential to make a great run, but the Cowboys are con!-dent they can handle any oppo-sition they face, even Coppell’s

infamous rivals – Southlake Car-roll being the most prominent.

“Southlake and Denton Guyer are tough but besides that, we feel like we can just dominate anybody we play,” senior Line-backer Patrick Hemphill said. “"e mentality is to be savage, we play with no remorse.”

A%er securing victories over Mesquite Horn, Arlington and Jesuit in their !rst three games, the Cowboys appear ev-ery bit as dedicated to winning as they did last season. However, it takes more to win than that sheer passion for winning. Fortunately for Coppell, the Cowboys have much more going for them than that.

"ey are ripe with weapons on the o#ensive side of the ball. Larson aside, juniors Jacob Lo-gan and Luke Jenner have raised eyebrows with impressive per-formances early in the season, as has the promising young receiver corp.

But according to players and coaches that were spoken to, the Cowboys’ biggest advantages are with the big men on the line. As the old saying goes, the game is won in the trenches.

“"e thing we have going for us is that we have a solid de-fensive line and a solid o#ensive

line,” DeWitt said. “If you can be really great up front on both sides, then I think you’ve got a good chance.”

Despite all the promising aspects of this blossoming Cow-boys squad, there are areas that need signi!cant improvement – and McBride readily acknowl-edged it when asked whether Coppell is good enough to win a state title.

“Not [good enough] right now, but we’re an un!nished product,” McBride said. “I want to improve consistency all over from every position. I hope that weeks from now we’ll be a lot better and play at a very high level. And hopefully, by then we will be [good enough].”

In the meantime, the Cow-boys are working diligently to ensure that this improvement takes place. Every day the team practices together in the gruel-ing Texas heat to achieve the height of their potential. And for an outstanding program of tra-dition like Coppell, the skies are the limit.

“What makes this team special is the heart that we show,” Hemphill said. “We have a lot of young players, but we’ve all stepped up and shown that we’re ready to go.”

FOOTBALL PREVIEWCOWBOYS GEAR UP FOR DISTRICT PLAY

Thomas HairSta! Writer

“The mentality is to be savage, we play with no

remorse.”-Patrick Hemphill, senior linebacker

Photos by Rachel Bush and Rowan Khazendar

sports page 23october 2011

Junior Chiaka Ogbogu em-bodies the de!nition of the word “determination.” A raw athlete with God-given ability, Ogbogu has re!ned her skills and devel-oped her talent.

Having played on the sev-enth grade C team and eighth grade B team at Middle School North, Ogbogu has escalated up the ladder of volleyball success, now a second-year varsity star.

"e strange thing is, so few people in the area have any idea of just how good Ogbogu is at volleyball. If the secret was not already out, it is now.

Although there has been little recognition of Ogbogu’s accomplishments, the attention from the volleyball world has been abundant. She has accumu-lated an extensive list of accolades and accomplish-ments.

During the summer, Ogbogu was voted a mem-ber of the AAU A l l - A m e r i c a n team. In addi-tion, Ogbogu was voted the Most Valuable Player of the Allen tournament, and in the Duncanville tournament Ogbogu was !rst-team all tournament. Most recently, Ogbogu won the Lone Star Player of the Week award for the entire state of Texas.

Ogbogu cites dedication, individual work and a passion for the game as reasons for her dras-tic improvement and immense recent success.

“"rough playing volley-ball, I’ve learned that you’ve got

to work hard in order to get where you want to go,” Ogbogu said.

She exhibits all the neces-sary traits of an ideal high school volleyball player. Her work ethic, attitude and commitment are well-known by teammates and coaches.

“I couldn’t imagine not play-ing. I have a passion for volley-ball, and when you have a passion for something, you desire to suc-ceed at it,” Ogbogu said. “Hon-estly though, none of this about me matters until we get our state championship ring.”

Her teammates have the same mindset and also recognize her signi!cance on and o# the court.

“She’s really reliable and has such a consistently positive at-titude,” junior teammate Cassidy Pickrell said.

“Chiaka is very humble – it is rare that she will get excited

about her own play, but she celebrates loudly for her teammates,” coach Julie Green said.

H e r e m p h a s i s on charac-ter traits and

respect from those around her shows she has more going for her than simply sheer athleticism on the court.

Of course, any athlete per-forming at this level requires an enormous amount of athletic prowess and innate gi$edness. Standing tall at 6-1, Ogbogu pos-sesses physical qualities envied by opponents and coveted by coach-es.

“Chiaka is the most athletic person I’ve ever met,” Pickrell

Since she was in sixth grade, freshman Kylie Pickrell has had a dream of playing varsity volley-ball with her sister Cassidy, and with the start of 2011 season, she

will get to just that.Although the sisters have

never competed together, they are looking forward to the next two years of playing alongside each other, but they are not the only ones excited for future matches. Coaches and fans are also look-ing forward to watching the sis-

ters connect even further. Both sisters bring an in-

tense aspect to the court and even play similar positions, Ky-lie being a right side hitter and Cassidy being a hitter who can move and play anywhere on the court. Similarities don’t stop on the court, however. Cassidy is

said. “She jumps out of the gym.In all honesty, Chiaka could

!nish her career at Coppell as the most decorated volleyball play-

the current record hold-er on the varsity track team for high jump with an impressive jump of 5’4. This upcoming track season, Kylie plans to participate in the tri-ple jump and high jump events, much like her older sister.

For now, Kylie’s focus will be purely vol-leyball, and luckily, her adjustment to varsity volleyball has gone very smoothly.

“I’ve known a lot of the players because they’re Cassidy’s friends or have played on the same club team as her for the longest time,” Kylie said.

In fact, Kylie sees the Cowgirls more as a family than a volleyball team.

“"ey treat me like their little sister; I’m the

baby of the group.” Kylie said.

Although she is the “baby” of the group, Cassidy commented that Kylie has been able to keep up with the older girls.

“You can’t even tell that she’s a freshman, she hits just as hard as we do. I de!nitely think she holds her own out there,” Cassidy said.

Head volleyball coach

Julie Green also notices Kylie’s level of play and said if Kylie was not as skilled as she is, she would not be on varsity.

“"is is just my second time to put a freshman on varsity, and it’s a unique situation to !nd an athlete that is that mature at that age,” Green said.

"is is not Green’s !rst time to coach sisters. Green coached twins at one of her !rst coaching jobs at Azle High School, so she has experienced what it is like to see sisters play together.

“"ey share a unique com-munication that I think is just go-ing to be natural.” Green said.

Fellow Cowgirls have done a very good job at taking Kylie in and treating her as an equal on the court, making responsible plays and not forcing the ball to, or away from the youngest mem-ber of the team. Players and fans alike are looking forward to the !rst district game of the year, and seeing how Kylie reacts to the dis-trict atmosphere should be inter-esting.

Green sees a lot of talent within the group and has high hopes for the remainder of the 2011-2012 season as well as the seasons to come.

“"is is a once in a lifetime chance and I think it’s awesome that I get to play with her for two years now; I’m excited,” Cassidy said.

Ogbogu quickly gains recognition in volleyball

Sister act takes court with Cowgirls volleyball

er in a very long time from our school.”

Her athleticism and tal-ent has attracted the attention of

numerous Division I universi-ties including the University of Texas, Florida State, Penn State and TCU. "ese schools

contacted her and had her visit their campuses to get a feel for her college intentions. "ree weeks a$er visit-ing, Ogbogu called the head coach of the University of California Berkley saying that she had elected to play vol-leyball there.

“Chi is de!-nitely a game changer - a di#er-ence maker,” Green said. “She has the ability to make these incredibly athletic plays in a critical moment, causing the mo-mentum to shi$ in our favor and giving our team a much-needed push. She is one of the players I want to have the ball at the end of the game - she plays well un-der pressure. She refuses to quit.”

A true com-petitor like her does indeed “re-fuse to quit”. With nearly two more years here at Cop-pell, everyone knows that the best of Chiaka Ogbogu is still to come.

“I couldn’t imagine not playing. I have a pas-sion for volleyball, and when you have a pas-sion for something, you desire to succeed at it.”-Chiaka Ogbogu, junior

Seth SloverSta! Writer

Tanner McCordSta! Writer

Junior Cassidy Pickrell and freshman Kylie Pickrell are looking forward to playing together on the varsity volleyball team.

Junior Chiaka Ogbogu is receiving attention from Division I volleyball recruiters.

Photo by Ivy Hess

Photo by Rachel Bush

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Crossword Look at the clues and !ll in the blanks with the best word. Sudoku

Fill up the grid with the numbers 1-9. Numbers can only be used once in a row, column, and box.

Boggle your brain

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September 2Vivacé! performs the National Anthem at the !rst pep rally of the year. Photo by Brian Hwu.

September 11Coppell kids enjoy a good time on one of the many kiddy rides at the St. Ann carnival. Photo by Rachel Bush.

September 6The girls celebrate a good play and travel to form a quick huddle at the volleyball game against Marcus. Photo by Jodie Woodward

September 232010 Homecoming Queen Violet Coker returns to crown senior Sarah Pye as 2011 Homecoming Queen.Photo by Brian Hwu

September 24Senior Vern Zhang is voted 2011 Home-coming King after an attention-grabbing campaign by members of the senior class.Photo by Brian Hwu

ACROSS1. Girls who keep the crowd pumped3. Who the Cowboys are going to slay on Oct. 146. 6 points8. When the Coppell Cowboys enter the home of the Dallas Cowboys9. When the crowd stays longer than they had planned

DOWN1. What the Cowboys are aiming for2. High kicking halftime entertain-ment4. If you pay $2.00 for something that only costs $1.75, you’ll get your ________ _______.5. Those guys on the !eld7. Band time Find the answers on coppellstudentmedia.com