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Baseball Comes up Short Against Monrovia 5-4

Senior Tim Kim braces for the coming pitch. The senior rightfielder was 3 for 4 on the day. Photo by Christophe LaBelle.

Spartan Staff

On Monday, May 10th, the La Cañada High baseball team took on Mon-rovia in a matchup of the cold(La Cañada) and in-sanely hot(Monrovia). The Wildcats(18-3 overall, 11-1 in league) came into the game on a five-game win-ning streak that included a 12-3 rout of the Spar-tans only five days earlier. The Spartans(11-9, 5-7), on the other hand, were on a three-game skid in which they had given up 34 runs to their opponents. Judging by La Ca-ñada’s performance, however, one would have thought the Spartans were the favorite. Se-nior first baseman Cole Kendall drew first blood for La Cañada with a sacrifice fly to bring in the runner, and through the first two innings, they jumped out to a 3-0 lead, forcing the Monro-via manager to pull freshman Chris Burkholder in favor of

senior pitcher Andrew Schluter. The move spelled doom for the Spartans, as they lost all offensive momentum. Over the next two innings, Schluter’s slow sidearm delivery con-founded the La Cañada batters on the way to six strikeouts. O n t h e m o u n d for the Spartans was soph-omore Mitch Russell, who

matched h i s t e a m m a t e s ’ o f f e n -s i v e p e r f o r m a n c e w i t h four strikeouts through the first four innings. The fifth in-ning, however, featured a turn around for the Wildcats, as the combined effect of junior Nick Bueno’s basestealing and the persistence of the Monrovia

By Christophe LaBelle

Valassidis Plays Pawns

Check. Check. Check. Check. Check-mate! Students of Mr. Valassidis’ classes are becoming increasingly aware of this steady rhythm as he has begun to demolish the student body in chess. The board is set up on his desk, inviting all challenges. This board is a little crooked, a little unbalanced, and a little tilted.

All these small things come into play when you are playing Mr. V, regardless of the result, it always seems like he wins because there is this mischievous smile and perhaps even a maniacal cackle that follows every one of his matches. Against my better judgment I decided to play Mr. V in two games that resulted in physi-cal and emotional trauma. It is truly amazing

By David “Brrro” MkrtchianSpartan Staff

Features

Adieu, Principal

AudraPittman!Bonjour

Dr. Luzak!

After one year of fire threats, mudslides, cheer drama, atten-

dance catastrophes, inconve-niences due to construction, and a record number of suspensions Principal Pittman is leaving. She has been offered a higher position as Secondary Instruc-tional Coordinator of San Mateo County in Northern California. “At this point in my life, it was not an opportunity I could pass up,” Pittman ex-plained.

Although she will miss working with students, she is looking forward to this professional advancement in her career. Principal Pittman will be replaced by current 7/8 Principal Dr. Jackie Luzak. At the time for pub-lication, Dr. Luzak was not available for comment. “She seemed like she was very caring and passion-ate,” commented Freshman Charlotte Swart. But due to her short stay at La Cañada, students, teachers and parents were not

given a true reflection of her abilities.

It will be interesting to see the state of the school next year as both current heads of authority, Principal Pittman and Assistant Principal Bu-chanan, will be leaving.

N e x t y e a r , t h e school’s leaders will be pio-neers of a new decade and a new era for our high school.

By Alicia Kim Editor-in-Chief

On May 1st, seniors across the na-tion finalized their Statement on Intent to Register, also known as SIR. Meaning, they knew what school they would be heading to in the upcoming fall. But college is still months away, and many students took time to look back to their college process to assess what they did right, or what they wish they had done. Juniors listen up for the advice that the 2010 Seniors want to leave be-hind, because they’ve been through it all! On Extracurriculars One issue that always comes up is: how many extracurricular activities should I have done? S e n i o r Wi l l e m S w a r t s a i d , “If you want to get into college, extracur-ricular are as important as your grades.” This is probably not new to you, but it’s important that you remember it when you fill out your college application. You want to look versa-tile and brilliant to your college admissions officer. After all, if you are planning to those top schools you’re competing against thousands of other students who are equally as brilliant. I’m not saying that the quantity of your vol-unteer work is important. It’s the quality that matters and how you convey all of the experi-ences you get into your personal statement.

Senior Jeff Kim wants to emphasize all of this and even more. He said, “College

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Principal Pittman expresses her gratitude for La Ca-ñada High School students with a smile during lunch time in front of the Cafeteria.

By Terese Rutkowski and Katherine PropperOpinion Editors

Advice to Juniors

Drum Line are Champions! Interview with a Renas-saince Man at LCHS

Taking another look at Cheating

News 2 Sports 11 Opinion 4

Simulated Car Crash Shocks LCHS Students Every 15 Minutes program assembles a staged car crash to demonstrate to students the reality and gravity of accidents.

Continued on page 6

By David Belcher and Michael BelcherSpartan Staff

At exactly 9:20am on May 25, an announcement came over the loudspeaker. A terrified man was on the phone with a 911 operator, reporting a car accident. Students were then led to the scene of the accident.

The site was horrific. Two cars were wrecked, and a mangled body lay in plain sight. Inside the cars were three more people who were injured in the crash. In the following minutes, emergency medi-cal personnel and police arrived on scene.

A narrator talked the students through what was going on as paramedics rescued the crash victims. The police determined that one of the driv-ers was intoxicated, and subsequently arrested her.

This horrific display was part of the “Every Fifteen Minutes” program. The program is a bi-annual activity at the high school, which shows students a live

simulation of an alcohol-related accident. As part of the program, a number

of students were pulled from their class-room by the Grim Reaper. After that, a po-lice officer read a eulogy for the students.

T h i s e m o t i o n a l d i s p l a y w a s aimed to discourage students from drink-ing and driving or from getting into a car with someone who has been drinking. The program was widely successfu l .

“That demo really scared me,” stated sophomore Bill Lee “I wouldn’t drink and drive anyways, but if I was go-ing to, now I’ll definitely think twice.”

According to Ms. Pittman, Every Fifteen Minutes is “A wonderful program meant to show students the dangers of drinking and driving.”

The program cost an estimated $10,000 to put on, according to Ms. Pittman.

“The program worked.” said soph-more James Toomarian. “It sure scared me.”

Senior Jamie Dick was one of the victims in the scene who faced fatal injuries from the staged accident. Photo by Paul Lee

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News

On Friday April 20, the La Cañada High School Symphony

Orchestra held the annual Concerto Concert at Lanterman Auditorium. Six soloists, Stephen Tran, Meera Gudipati, Jessie Cho, Bernard Kim, Tim Joo, and Justin Yew, were featured in this concert. The La Cañada High School Orchestra accompanied each soloist.

The concert was conducted by Music Director Jason Stone, Kyle Smith and Connie Kupka Speltz. The audience was sparse but the auditorium was filled with wonderful music. The music line up was very diverse. Stephen Tran played “Carmen Fantasie” (themes from the Opera by George Bitzet); Meera Gudipati, “Poem for Flute and Orchestra”; Jessie Cho, “Violin Concerto No. 5 A minor Op. 27 Le Gretry”; Bernard Kim, “Scaramouche”;

Tim Joo,“Tzigane”; and, Justin Yew, “Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# minor, 1st movement. S a l l y S p a n g l e r, LCHS College Counselor, who attended the event said, “I think it was by far the best performance I’ve seen from the orchestra. And, of course, the soloists were amazing.” This year’s Concerto Concert was overall a success. If you did not attend this year, make sure you check out next year ’s Concerto C o n c e r t a t L a n t e r m a n .

2010 Concerto Concert

By Alicia Kim Editor In Chief

Six soloists were showcased in this year’s Concerto Concert where they performed pieces

that astonished the crowd.

On Thursday May 19, ASB held its last cafeteria dance in which students dressed up as ninjas and pirates. The dance was a fundraiser and raised over $1,500 for secret exciting features at prom. Mike Faro

and DJ Chubz (a.k.a. Lil Phil) performed at the dance and provided the music. J u n i o r P r o m Commissioner Cami Lopez commented, “The dance was really crazy. A lot of people of went so it was a success. The music was good (Lil Phil) and the strobe lights allowed for a cool atmosphere.” Junior Jose Dizon, when asked about how the dance went, responded, “It was a nice way to close out the year’s dances.” Although the dance was an ultimate success, minor conflicts occurred as some students ended

the dance with suspensions. Yet, students seem to enjoy their cafeteria dances and regard them as an escape from the busy school week.

Ninjas and Pirates DanceBy Katherine PropperOpinion Editor

In the early hours of Thursday May 13, 22-year-old UCLA student Nancy Salas was reported missing by family after

failing to return from her usual morning run in the Chevy Chase/Glendale Canyon. The police spent many hours seaching the Canyon and looking for evidence. When Salas turned up that afternoon in Merced, 300 miles from her home in Glendale, police began to question whether she had really been abducted or not. It turns out that Salas had been misleading friends and family about her attending UCLA, when in fact she hadn’t been enrolled since 2008. Later she admitted that she had run away, because she couldn’t handle t he s t r e s s t ha t he r l i e was caus ing Despite the fact that this girl was not really abducted, we, residents of La Cañada should not immediately assume that since our community is so safe. All young women shoudl

be careful when running by themselves. The fact of the matter is that there are predators and criminals out there everywhere and we need to be more alert when we are out on those beautiful yet isolated trails we so cherish. There are some simple steps to being a safe jogger. Make sure to choose well lit, populated areas and mix up your routine in order to avoid the risk of being followed. It is best to leave the Ipod at home, but if it’s a must, make sure it’s not too loud, and that you can still hear your surroundings. Another safety rule is to inform of your whereabouts. Fellow joggers out there, this does not mean we have to shy away from our favorite trail runs or skip out on our early morning jogs. It just means that we should consider bringing along a friend, be it canine or human, and letting someone know where you are at all times.We may live in a safe community, but it’s a scary world out there.

Suspicious Disappearance Occurs at Chevy Chase CanyonBy Margo HartleySpartan Staff

Drum Line Comes Back Home as a Champion

The La Cañada High School drum line recently won the American Drum Line

Association Divisional Championships. Out of more than twenty schools, La Cañada placed first. The Spartans scored and impressive 85.4 out of 100, nearly ten points higher than the

second place squad. In preparation for the invi-tational, the squad rehearsed four hours a day for two weeks. The victory is a major turn-around for the line, who placed last the year before.

“We just got used to a higher level of competition,” explained drummer Sean Moriarty.

LCHS is a member the scholastic open division, which is the second highest group. As a result of their victory in the ADLA, the team joined the Southern California Percussion Alliance, which is widely consid-ered one of the hardest circuits in the state. The Spartans placed 7th in their first competition.

The 17-mem-ber line is optimistic for the future; they hope to qualify for world championships, which will be held in Dayton, Ohio next season.

“ We d i d o u r j o b a n d n o w it’s time to step it up even further,” said D r u m L i n e C o a c h B r a d R a n c o u r t .

By Michael BelcherSpartan Staff

Photo by Erica Moore

Every 15 Minutes Continued from Page 1

Firefighters rush in to the scene to rescue the students who were involved in the staged accident. Photo by Paul Lee

“Dead” students who were taken out of class every 15 minutes stood in front of the scene of the accident to remind the students of the gravity of drunk driving. Photo by Paul Lee

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Joseph Ad-dison, American poet, once said, “Educa-tion is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no des-potism can enslave.” Motivated by this incorruptible value of education, The Happily Ever After Club exists to secure the rights of education as far and wide as possible . H e a d e d by President Angela Kim and Vice Presi-dent Henry Chung, the club this year fo-cused on the under-privileged in Africa.

T h r o u g h the hard work of the devoted staff and the club’s many members, the club was able to collaborate with the African Library Proj-ect to donate over 1700 books and es-tablish two complete libraries in Swazi-land and Botswana. “ I ’ m r e -ally happy about this year’s success,” says club president, Angela Kim, “This year, we were able to promote literacy in underprivi-leged areas like Africa. Our plans for this fol-lowing year, however, will be focused on more local endeavors, such as trying to pro-mote literacy within our own and nearby

communities rather than across the world A l t h o u g h some might argue that donating food or water is more beneficial to the starving people of Africa, The Hap-pily Ever After Club disagrees. They ada-mantly stand behind the goal of globaliz-ing education because there are already hun-dreds of foundations that focus on donat-ing food and water around the world. The main difference between material donations and the donation of edu-cation is that educa-tion cannot be stolen. Because of the instability of the African nations, weak

government, and the prominence of war-lords and gangs, food never reaches to those who really need it. When asked about the club’s suc-cess and the direction, Henry Chung said, “I’m really happy about what we were able to achieve in Africa. Most of the world’s problems are caused by ignorance, manifesting itself as fear, prejudice, and recklessness. Through promoting literacy, we gave people the means to arm themselves with knowledge. Like the saying goes, ‘Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.’”

Happily Ever After Club Promotes Literacy

By David RheeSpartan Staff

CLUB NEWS

LiNK Club

In late April, while the blossoming flowers and sweet smell of spring air began to transition into the long awaited summertime, students of La Cañada High School were keenly reminded that this world is not all quite as sweet as daily perceived. Contrary to the hefty houses with great green lawns placed across this city, the tens or hundreds of dollars given as allowance, and the plethora of possessions commonly en-joyed, many third world nations today have citizens that have no permanent shelter but the thin leaves of neighboring trees, inhabitants that make less than twenty dollars a year, and a populace that does not under-stand the meaning of owner-ship. Nations like North Korea. It is distressing to acknowledge that in a world in which such a powerful nation fighting for freedom like the U.S. is at the top of the world, simultaneously, a country ruled under the greedy dictatorship of one man, Kim Jong Il, can exist. With such terrible condi-

tions apparent to the public, it is upsetting to know that such little action is being taken. It is disturbing to know that there are those living without the right to utter a word against authority without fear of be-ing persecuted. However, it is reassuring to know that organizations do exist to fight such oppressiveness: LiNK. LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) is an organization that aims to spread awareness of the current crisis and raise funds to rescue suffering North Koreans. One essential method by which these goals are met is through LiNK clubs at schools, and junior Charles Kim jumped at this opportunity, which he discovered from researching on the Internet. Of the many fun and creative ways to in-form La Cañada High School of the ongoing calamity in North Korea, Charles and his executive board has hosted a Korean BBQ over spring break to raise money and a screening of a documentary shown by actual LiNK members. During the screening, a documentary created by National Geograph-ics explicitly exhibited the

horrors of, as Charles Kim stated, “the poverty, malnutri-tion, oppression, and lack of human rights in North Korea.” Other LiNK mem-bers, who meet up in room 609 every other Friday during lunch, also expressed their concern for the suffering North Koreans. When asked about his activity in LiNK club, junior David Lee stated that “by being a member of LiNK, I feel like I am having a role in providing an opportunity for those who live their lives without any.”

Though somewhat confusing, but no doubt deeply sincere, junior Daniel Ko ar-ticulated that “in the realm of the third world sectors, I en-deavor to create a socialist so-ciety in which I seek to release from the manacles of poverty and depression those who are limited in their opportunities which I seek to give them in a monetary and individualistic reform that LiNK opens up like a wooden door to life.”

But perhaps Presi-dent Charles Kim said it best when asked about the cri-sis in North Korea: “Kim Jong Il is an evil jerk!”

By Ben ChonBusiness Manager

Liberation in North Korea Club raises awareness on the current Crisis in Korea, and hopes to raise money for those who lack human rights.

J u n i o r A m i r Mojarradi recently competed in the Los Angeles Science Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center. This competition included high school students from all across California and is regarded as one of the most competitive science fairs in California of the year. Amir presented, at this competition, a project

LCHS Junior Wins By Ian BalisyArchive Manager that he has spent much time

developing and improving: a Rodin Coil, an alternative electrical power generator. The Rodin Coil wowed the judges, not only with it’s specifically high powered energy, but with it’s incredibly well thought out design and professional integrity. Amir, along with four other competitors, was given research grants and the opportunity to go to many

amazing locations in the world for winning this competition. Amir chose to go to the Amazon to study Coastal Marine Biology. “ I ’ m e x t r e m e l y excited to have this opportunity and the competit ion was incredibly fun!” remarked Amir. This is qui te an accomplishment for a high school student and is an inspiration for all at LCHS.

Science Fair

The Industry Education Council (IEC) held its 31st annual recognition banquet last Monday, May 10. Many students were nominated by their teachers to be honored at the event held at the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel for excellence in ROP classes. The IEC honored students from the Burbank, Glendale and La Cañada school districts where plaques were awarded and dinner was served. Gifts including tickets to Disneyland and coupons for dinner were given away by raffle throughout the night. The following students were honored from La Cañada High School. Matthew Gold-stein (Intro to Computer Programming), Jonathan

Stroud (AP Computer Science), Cameron Meeker (Sports Medicine), Alisha Mahalingam (Forensic Science), Bianca Saleebyan (Stagecraft), Nareh Shanazarian (Retail Marketing), Christopher Gilbert (Sports Medicine), Emily Kim (Advanced Photography), Eledy Vargas (Photography), Madeleine Murdock (Advanced Photography), Weston Doty (Graphic/Web Design), Sam Bald-win (Media Arts), Evanne Friedmann (Advanced Media Arts), Patrick Moore (9-12 Yearbook), Alicia Kim (Spartan Newspaper), Katherine Propper (Business Institute), Goldie Young (Culinary Arts), Daniel Wyatt (Culinary Arts), and Nora Alnasser (Advanced Culinary Arts). The Spartan would like to con-gratulate these students for their achievements!

IEC Honors Talented LCHS Students

Students pose with their teachers for a picture after the awards ceremony at Marriott Hotel.

By Emily Kim News Editor

Parents help their choldren put their ASB posters up during election week. Photo By Emily Saxe.

Junior President: Sierra KatowJunior Vice President: Kevork Kurdoghlian

Junior Secretary: Karolina DudekJunior Treasurer: Awanda Wojciechowski

ASB President: Patrick MooreASB Vice President: Eirene KimASB Secretary: Alexa BarsamianASB Treasturer: Maanika Keesara

Senior President: Cami LopezSenior Vice President: Elizabeth GreenSenior Secretary: Audry Karbouchian

Senior Treasurer: Derick Abedian

Assistant to Student Affairs Commisioner: Alexandra Vavoulis Activities Commisioners: Claire Shuman and Maddie Fraser

Publicity/Historian: Nikki Segal

Sophomore President: Amy YoungSophomore Vice President: Patrick PataoSophomore Secretary: Aubri Thompson

Sophomore Treasurer: Cameron Aenlle Rocha

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Opinion

The Spartan StaffAlicia Kim

Editor-in-Chief

Denny ChoiManaging Editor

Emily Kim and David MkrtchianNews Editors

Terese Rutkowski and Katherine PropperOpinion Editors

Rebecca Han, Michelle Phillips, Alice Grubb Jones,

Tamar Bezjian, John GreggFeatures Editors

David Choe amd Kevork KurdoghlianSports Editors

Ben ChonBusiness Manager

ReportersGrace Amico, Ian Balisy, Margaret Beesley

David Belcher, Michael Belcher, Christi Choi, Margo Hartley, Ameer Khan, Joseph Kim, Christophe Labelle, Erica Moore,

Krishna Rajagopalan, David Rhee, Joao Teixeira, Alexandra Van Wie, Naima Vogt

Hailey Williams, Gina Yoon

Email: lchsspartan@gmail.comOur Website: lcspartan.com

Student StatsCompiled By Katherine Propper

Opinion Editor

63Number Of Students Suspended

5Number of students who missed more than ¼ of the school year

1812Last Year’s Average SAT Score

28,050Number Of Books in the IRC

1,326Number Of Students with a Facebook

Bravo to free breakfast and senior parking this week. Thank you PTA!

Boo to lying about going to college…for three years. Let’s not pretend to get kidnapped…

Bravo to saving paper this week for ASB elections…be-cause all the main ASB candidates are running unopposed

…It’s like the electins in Iraq!Boo to expensive Prom ticket prices…what was the point of the ASB card again? Did we really need that event planning company to plan our prom? What was the point

of having 5 prom commissioners?Bravo to the end of AP and Star testing…Oh wait, SAT’s,

ACT’s, and finals are in June.Boo to wasting 3 hours on Facebook…more like 6…

Bravo to the end of construction! Oops…that hasn’t happened yet has it?

Boo to getting the same Formspring questions asked 10 times in row.

Bravo to warmer temperatures! Wait, why is it SO cold?

Boo to Mr. Buchanan’s departure. You will be missed!Bravo to upholding cheer traditions. Songies are all

seniors!Boo to Boy’s Tennis, you lost to Temple Shitty. At least

you beat Chan Marino!Bravo to having three women on the Supreme Court. Too bad women still don’t get paid the same as men...

Boo to having such a rigorous and difficult Spanish cur-riculum. Should’ve taken French or German...

Bravo to getting into college! It’s a good thing I applied to a safety!

Boo’s and Bravo’s

LC’s Culture of CheatingWho cheats and why?

Have you ever cheated? Well, I guess it depends on what you consider cheating. Cheating at La Cañada High School has become a mundane and insignificant part of the 8-hour school day for many students. For most, cheating could be as simple as copying homework. For others, it could be asking your friends in earlier periods for the questions on the test. For some, cheating is the more blatant act of bringing in a cheat sheet, looking at your iPhone, or even peeking at someone’s paper. For few, it is even buying the binders or tests of students from past years to know the questions on the test or essay before hand. Because they all give unfair advantages, all these dishonest acts are forms of cheating. Cheating at La Cañada High School is blind. It is sightless to age, sex, race, status, and motivation—there are no boundaries to who cheats at our school. A study done in 1999 by the Public Agenda Survey displayed that most cheaters were lower performing students with less academic ambitions and motivations. Today, however, cheaters consist of lower achieving students and the highest achieving students. In fact, the students with higher aspirations and thus higher academic performances usually have more of an impetus to cheat—these are the students who must get an A. After polling 150 seniors and juniors from La Cañada High School, our study showed that 99% of LCHS students have cheated at least once during high school, especially on homework, and that about 60% have also cheated on a test or a quiz. It seems incongruous that one of the top three public schools in California would have such high rates of cheating. Yet this is really no surprise. Students at La Cañada, similar to students throughout the world, learn that the grade, rather than the actual act of learning, is the most valuable accomplishment. There is too much of an emphasis on GPA, grades, and test scores—a reason for the rise in cheating. Students are told to perform well at the expense of learning. Cramming has replaced thinking. There is so much pressure to look good on paper. It doesn’t matter what you take out of the experience of a class, but rather, what the class looks like on a transcript. Without the AP stamp of approval, classes fail to attract students. Instead, students take on huge workloads they consciously know they are unwilling to devote their time to. This is when cheating occurs. A student determines that a class is either too hard or too mindless to actually allocate time and effort to. This permits students to feel guilt free because they can blame their deception and dishonesty on a “bad teacher,” a “bad class,” or a “bad subject” because we all know that the student is not just being a bad student. Students do not feel remorse over cheating either. Reading the SparkNotes or Cliff Notes is second nature to most. Many do not feel guilty about cheating when it is accessible to everyone on the Internet; it is just another way to compete with others. People also justify their cheating by subconsciously believing that everyone is doing it (which it seems they are). Cheating somehow is better when there are more people involved because than it almost seems fair. Furthermore, even when students do get caught cheating, they are not given deserved punishments. Rather than being reported or having it put on one’s permanent record, the school just sends the cheater to Honor Court, a court

Katherine PropperOpinion Editor

Spartan Asked:What constitutes cheating (define it)?

“Chea t ing i s any t ime you use work tha t y o u d i d n ’t d o f o r y o u r o w n b e n e f i t . ”-Ben Levin 10th

“I think cheating is when you are taking someone else’s efforts, without contributing, and making it your own. Copying in general is also cheating.”-Rebecca Burten 10th

“I see cheating as people being too insecure to trust their own abi l i t ies , or too lazy--which i s w o r s e - - t o w o r k f o r w h a t t h e y w a n t ”-Jason Kim 11th

Why is cheating so prevalent at La Cañada High School?

“Survival of the fittest is obsolete now that man adopted cheating. Who would resort to hunting and gathering when mass production deception sustains life?”-Martin Wolfenbarger 11th

“People cheat because school puts far too much emphasis on the grade, the outcome, rather than the actual act of learning”-Ben Levin 10th

“People are really pressured to do there best and to get into a good college. It’s become a competition. Not only that, but many kids these days have become open about it... more and more students are growing accustomed to it and don’t consider cheating immoral”-Nikki Segal 11th

“They claim that in today’s world, you have to cheat to succeed. But what I find ironic is that they lament that claim, then help make the problem worse. It doesn’t make any sense to me.”Jeff Lewis 12th

“Probably another reason is that for some reason, people equate happiness and success wi th be ing accepted in to a good col lege .”-Jason Kim 11th

“Cheating goes on because the school gives us so much homework that’s usually busy work.”-Ben Clairday 12th

What are your feelings toward cheating?

“It’s really frustrating to work all night on an assignment, then watch people copy it off the next morning and come out with the same grade as you.”-Jeff Lewis 12th

“It’s like this. I do my own authentic homework for 4 hours and 1-2 hours is cheated work.”-Anonymous 12th

“Cheating annoys me but I don’t care too much about it because it amounts to nothing substantial. You get a little letter on a piece of paper, and some random dude reading your transcript a few years later might be impressed by something you didn’t actually do. Whoo hoo. Good job. Hope you’re proud.”-Jason Kim 11th

of previously selected peers who determine the penalty. Is it fair to punish someone for a common practice? Yes.The school chooses to ignore cheating most of the time. The school does not want to make itself or its students look bad; this is why many suspensions at La Cañada get expunged off permanent records and are unreported. So how do we end cheating? Rather than thinking of obscure methods to stop students from cheating or instituting harsher punishments, teachers and parents should stop emphasizing grades and tests. Lying and cheating may help you succeed at a test, but it does not help you learn. If students were graded on how much they expanded their intellect instead of how well they retained information, cheating would be unnecessary. The high rates of cheating at our school just exhibit the fact that students here don’t care about anything else but doing well.

A common occurence: A student uses cheat sheet on test.

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Opinion

If someone were to ask you what you think is the root cause of discord in the Middle East, how would you answer? Here are few of the answers I would expect: The nuclear crazed Iranians! Hezbollah! Hamas! No no, it must be Al-Qaeda and the Taliban! While all of these answers are quasi-truths, they are nevertheless invalid and incomprehensive responses. The cause is possibly the great-est global gaffe in the entirety of the 20th century: the partition of Pales-tine by the United Nations in 1947. Plainly stated, the creation of Israel. Although it is true that the Jews had been persecuted grossly through-out their history. But it is also true that throughout their history, they had been welcomed in to Muslim states with warmth and class. Never had they been persecuted, segregated, or made to feel like second-class citizens under the rule of Muslims. So how do they repay them? Occupy Palestine, declaring the land as theirs, and usurping the Palestinians of every natural right or dignity that John Locke would consider essential for any person to posses. So, do the facts that I present here

make me a raging anti-Semite? That would be a wild accusation at the least. I am sim-ply questioning the logic in disregarding the already extant Palestinian population and creating a new nation in their lands. A unified state, with the two ethnicities liv-ing side by side in harmony, would have been most prudent. But now, there are two states that live most inharmoniously next to one another. The walls that imprison the population of Gaza and the West Bank only perpetuate the animosity of the Palestin-ians. There is a w-a-l-l surrounding Pal-estine. That spells wall. The United States boycotted South Africa because of Apart-heid; they should do the same to Israel. Due to Israel’s ostensible need for protection against the Middle Eastern Arab states, the United States has been Israel’s most significant ally during its short history. Why does our nation need to support this sovereign nation that grossly violates human rights? Israel’s chief military support comes from the United States, and it has the most formi-dable arsenal of weapons in the region. Over the last year, there have been various examples of Israel’s perse-cution of Palestine. In January 2009, the Israeli military occupied Gaza and mas-

sacred over 1,000 innocent men, women, and children. Soldiers interviewed by the Associated Press stated they were to enter homes and “shoot first, ask later.” Israel also cut off humanitarian and medi-cal aid to Gaza. Was there any interna-tional reproach for the crimes in Gaza? No. Fast forward to November of 2009. Just as Vice President Biden arrived in Israel to broker negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a new settlement project that further expanded in to the territory of the West Bank. Mr. Biden and President Obama were deeply upset by this disrespect, yet there was no action. Bearing all this in mind, is it such a wonder that the Arab world hates Ameri-ca? It supports a state that enforces modern day apartheid, a state with the largest arse-nal of nuclear weapons in the region, a state with such a powerful lobby in America that any politician who wishes to have a sound future on Capitol Hill dares not criticize its many injustices. So next time you ask your-self the question, “Why do all those Middle Easterners hate America so much?”, do not think too hard. America’s 30 billion dollar a year Israeli budget bought all that hatred.

An Inharmonious CoexistenceAmeer KhanSpartan Staff

Humans are very intelligent animals who reign supreme to all other animals on planet earth. We are lucky to have evolved with a large brain and frontal lobe, which have enabled us to live the way we do. I believe that with this brain of ours we have a cer-tain duty to ourselves to try and maximize its potential, which can be fairly simple if practiced. Humans are the only animals that are able to contemplate certain aspects of life that no other animals can: our death, our existence, etc. Humans have a duty to themselves to question everything and anything that is not self-evident. Until you question the uncertainties of the world, you limit both your knowledge and your maximum brain potential. Although it is much easier to not question and sense-lessly go about life, ques-tioning and understanding life are much more liberat-ing and self-assuring. The majority of religions are one aspect of life that limits our brain potential. The ma-jority of religions base their understanding of life and our existence on man made, outdated “sacred” books. For the people who believe in religious text, the major uncertainties and questions of our life are based upon these books. The answers found in religion are very primitive, simplistic and leave many questions unanswered. Religion just touches up on the myriad of questions that seem to float around us, and for the most part discourages further questioning of complex topics. Seeking the truth about things is a sure method of exercis-ing our brain to its full potential. Truth can only be derived from fact, which comes from proper questioning and research. For the most part, many religions never adequately investigate the history or claims made by “God” that can be usually easily checked. For example The Book of Mormon claims that millions of civilized people who migrat-ed from Jerusalem (Lamanites and Nephites) lived in America some 2000 years ago. However, there has been no archeological evidence of any early migrants coming to or living in America, and

they have done extensive searches. So on that fact alone, the validity of the Book of Mormon is called in to question. My point is that without questioning and wanting to truly understand certain aspects of our life, we are living in a quasi servile state of mind. However, another question arises: if people are satisfied and can live happily without knowing, why bother? I would guess that the majority of people in the world live this way. The same logic can be applied to politics as well. For a good part of the time, people believe something that is told to them, without finding out the real fact for themselves. The Iraq war is a perfect example of that. The media and president insisted,

“The reason we were attacked was because we are free and Christian,” and “Iraq has weap-ons of mass destruction.” Yet 10 years later, the American people can see that they were blatantly lied to. However at the time, a majority of people actually believed that they were telling the truth. What we all need to do is learn proper reasoning and logical analysis. Back to 9-11.You can believe what the majority of people thought, or you can ask, “What was the motive for the hijacking and the bombing of the twin towers?” Research it, and you will find that they did not bomb us because we are free, but because of our inter-fering foreign policy and our support for Israel. People have become so dependent on others

to tell them everything, from their daily lives to politics, that they accept practically everything as truth. If we practiced this simplistic task, then we wouldn’t have to deal with the consequences of lies. You cannot understand life or truth without questioning the things that are before us. The beauty of it all is that we are all capable of doing this. All we have to do is step out of our bound-aries, and exercise our brains. If you are religious, question your belief as much as you can. Always research and find out the truth regarding politics. Do not believe something just because someone says it. Believe it only if it can be backed with hard proof. So come on people, try to reach your brain’s potential. It ain’t hard. The truth is out there. you just have to begin to question everything!

By David RheeSpartan Staff

When a problem is presented, the accepting tend to forgive, the prideful hold a grudge, and the hotheaded prefer to brawl. These are the resolution constants. They are the same for every one of all age groups. Younger inhabitants of America, such as students often find forgiveness as the only option. School administrations would rather have students forget their troubles and avoid fights through a policy of forgive-ness. Sadly, this isn’t how humans function. Humans don’t easily forget. Enforc-ing forgiveness in our schools as if forgive-ness is secreted out of the skin like sweat is useless and affects society negatively. Holding a grudge is better than false forgive-ness. False forgiveness is not only lying to oneself, but also lying to the person one is forgiving. This creates a false sense of security for the person who committed the wrong and results in complication and misunderstandings. I grew up attending a Lutheran private school. Naturally, I was forced to forgive anytime a problem occurred. Every time a student stole food, threw a ball at someone’s face, or pushed a classmate down, the answer from the teachers would be the same: “Shake hands and make up.” Need-less to say, these mediation methods didn’t work. Furthermore, untended grudges were never forgotten and would continually press upon the cracks of a crumbling friendship. Situations on-and-off the playground or in-and-out of the classroom can be, admit-tedly, discouragingly complex. It is for this reason that administration fails in being an effective mediator. Often, administration will drag the characters of a scene into the office in an attempt to negotiate or clarify. Trying to role-play as the judge of a court, administra-tion doles out punishment it deems necessary. Many students such as Nahum Kim, for exam-ple, disagree with these methods. “It’s impos-sible to straighten out a situation that can have months or years of background in an office within a half an hour. It’s a waste of time and usually ends up the wrong way,” Kim says.These two methods of conflict resolution that are often enforced by the administration not only fails to yield any positive results, it deteriorates confidence and neglects in the preparation of a student for the real world waiting to tear them apart. If one’s wallet gets stolen in the real world, no principal will bring the thief back to have a good talk. Forgiveness is an option, but not the wisest. This leaves taking action - chasing the criminal down and taking your wallet back. Surprisingly, force is probably one of the most realistic forms of conflict resolution in the real world, yet it is vehemently opposed by administration. Sure, it prevents violence in the schoolyard and, most importantly, lawsuits, but what about in the streets? Do we really want to send a bunch of pushover pansies into the real world?Methods of resolution in school are not ef-fective in preparing children for the next stage of their life. Elementary to high school, high school to college, and college to real life – every stage is a new experience in a myriad of ways. Expecting a teacher to swoop in every time a conflict rouses is irrational, wishful thinking that is unfortu-nately supported by school administration.

Our Brain PotentialBy Tyler StenzelGuest Writer

ResolutionsSteering us away from the real world

People need to use the full potential of their brains. Photo Credit: Google

6 May 26, 2010 La Cañada High School

FeaturesBow Down to Bowman

Many of you may be surprised to hear that there is a student in our school who has her career all mapped out.

This student is freshmen Dani Bowman. Dani Bowman has her own animation com-pany called Powerlight Studios. Powerlight Studios is an animation and entertainment company founded by a 15-year-old autistic girl with a passion for anime style animation.

Dani started the studio when she was 11 and created illustrated short stories called “Gemstar and Friends” and “The Adventures of Captain Yuron” about a character that accidentally falls through a black hole and ends up in a new world.

In addition to being part of the entertainment industry, Powerlight also tries to communicate a positive message about the special talents that autistic individuals have and promotes their work with the goal that they will become successful adults. Pow-erlight Studios recently partnered with Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Films and Toon Boom Animation to produce a two-week summer animation camp for autistic children. The first camp will be in the summer of 2010.

Dani travels during the summer and teaches computer animation to other students. In addition she illustrated a book that is going to be published this summer. She has expertise in the area of voice over acting and public service announcements.

As for Dani’s future plans, she plans to become a cartooning great with her current animation company. What is really impressive is that Dani illustrates, writes, and voice acts nine different cartoon series each with about 30 unique characters. Her stories and her own story have captured the interest of several pro-duction companies with the huge goal of taking her studio to the network and cable TV. Dani’s creative imagination and her ability to think at a very high level for her age group are loved by kids of all ages and are admired by the adults that have encountered her ingenious talent. Dani may very well be one of the artists showcas-ing her work at the annual Comic-Con event this summer in San Diego. Comic-Con is an event

w h e r e e x -per ts in the area of anime and man-ga showcase their work to the public.

Many of Dani’s series started off with a random piece of scrap paper found around her house. When she was asked about the draw-ings, Dani coolly responded, “Oh that’s my new series” as if it’s very common for a new world of animation to be created on slips of paper that she found. Being that she is an aspiring animator for anime, Dani prides herself in be-ing a fan of Japanese culture, anime and manga style cartoons and also loves sushi which is not surprising considering her love for Japan.

Dani wants to send a special massage to all autistic individuals, which is that they can be as successful and creative as anyone. Statistics show that 1 out of 110 children today are diagnosed with autism. A more alarming statistic is that a startling 87% of autistic adults are unemployed according to the Autism Society of America. In general autistics tend to excel in art. Surprisingly, though, many end up in low skill occupations because of their inability to process information and communicate clearly.

Currently, Powerlight Studios is developing an Autistic Artist’s Network to promote the works of other autistic artists with the goal that they can be self-sufficient.

By Krishna RajagopalanSpartan Staff

“Let’s be honest, that last Relapse CD was ehhh.” An online hater dissing Eminem? No. That is Eminem himself on “Not Afraid,” the new single from his upcoming album Recovery. The new album is planned to be released on June 22.

“I’m not afraid to take a stand Everybody come take my hand

We’ll walk this road together, through the storm Whatever weather, cold or warm”

“Not Afraid” is visibly different from the tracks Eminem introduced in Relapse this past year. As opposed to the psychotic track “3 A.M.” in Relapse, “Not Afraid” is a highly inspirational track packed with a voice of honesty and sincerity. The inspirational message of the song parallels those of 2002’s “Sing for the Moment” or Relapse’s “Beautiful”

Eminem’s skills deserve notice. His lyrics successfully deliver a message that urges the audience to take a bold stand with his help. The hook of the song reflects a more mature version of the now-sober rapper; it is contrasting with his debut album where he versed a long list of drugs that he consumed. His technical skills are still alive, and the wild flows and internal rhymes are still there. The nondescript beat produced by Boi-1da is just okay. In exchange fo r h i s se r ious , inspirational message, Eminem let go of his dramatic, humorous style. The caustic humor that characterized many of his hit songs such as “My Name Is” and “The Real Slim Shady” is now gone. The single is not the only gift from Eminem towards his fans and listeners. He dropped a new freestyle “Despicable” where he raps over Drake’s “Over.” The speedy verse and clever lines serve as a preview of his skills that are to be revealed in his new album.

Eminem is Back

Dani Bowman’s imagination amazes everyone.

Mr. V Dominates Pawns Continued from Page 1

to see how his personality comes through as he is play-ing chess, he is a little bit like Bobby Fischer, who was quoted saying, “I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.” In turn, during the two matches I played, I was like Gary Kasparov, who said, “Chess is mental torture.” He moves his pawns, the basic piece in chess, in a very aggres-sive way, stifling his opponent’s movement and ultimately their pieces. He also has a tendency to create tension and pressure and probe in such a way that the onus is always on the opponents to come up with something. Aside from the chess, Mr. V engages in psychological

warfare as well. Before moving a piece, he as the tendency of rubbing his hands together, as if preparing to devour the feast of pieces assembled for him. When he does begin to pick of your pieces, one by one, he flings them aside with disdain, as if those pieces ought to be ashamed of standing in his way. And finally, there is the obvious intimidation of know-ing the man in front of you is a broad-chested Greek. In retrospect, when I played him it was a David vs. Goliath affair. As we began play-ing, he took control of the center of the board and began dictating play. For every two minutes it took me to come up with a satisfactory move, Mr. V would respond with an

even more brilliant move in 10 seconds. In a rather unnerv-ing way, Mr. V is like a boa constrictor, steadily smother-ing the life of his opponents ever so slowly. As witnesses will testify, I was beginning to show physical symptoms of the trauma of playing Mr. V. My hands began shaking, my palms were sweating, and my stomach began squirming. And slowly but surely Mr. V stran-gled the life out of my pieces. The result of my two games with Mr. V is ultimately insignificant. At the end, win, lose or draw the result remains the same. After you shake hands with Mr.V, and your own hand is engulfed by his, it is self-evident who the real winner is.

by Joseph KimSpartan Staff

La Cañada High School 7La Cañada High School

FeaturesMay 26, 2010

This summer is going to be an awesome one. It’s summer, kind of hard for it to suck. While I’m sure all of you have plenty of grand and elaborate plans for the sum-mer, here’s a few simple tricks to make your days in La Cañada seem not so bland.

So it’s another gorgeous Friday night in Summer 2010, and you’re trying to figure out where you want to go eat. You’re not feeling anything fancy, you just want some good ol’ grub. How about eating a classic cheeseburger and fries? Wanna throw in some homemade pie? You’ll find the perfect mix of all of these American favorites at Pie ‘N Burger, a small little diner in Pasadena.

For six-f i f ty, you get a cheeseburger, an-other three-fifty gets you fries, and a warm slice of homemade p i e o n l y c o s t s three f i f ty-f ive . Sure , i t ’s a l i t -t l e p r i c e y, b u t where else do you get a burger cooked right in front of you as you watch televi-sion on the two flat screens that, while they’re totally awe-some, seem a little out of place in this quaint little place. You get the “small town” feel here, there are only three different waitresses who treat you like royalty and two cooks who always joke around and laugh together. Even though small towns are famous for their lack of privacy, this restaurant is actually perfect for couples that want to have a little alone time while they eat. You can choose to eat at the bar, or at two-person tables scattered throughout the restaurant. If you’re not feeling the cheeseburger and fries, maybe you could head up the coast for dinner in Malibu. Neptune’s Net is the perfect biker joint/bar/outside restaurant right off of Pacific Coast Highway for you to satisfy your seafood craving and feel the mist of the ocean while you eat. Let me warn you, it costs a lot of money for gas to drive all the way up to Malibu, especially just for dinner. You might want to turn this into a day trip just for that reason. And like gas, the food isn’t cheap. Since it’s summer, you might want to find a few ways to make money dur-ing the day so you can treat your date to anything on the menu. Seeming like Mr. Krabs while you’re eating crab is NOT a good impression, no matter what stage you are at in the relationship. After a noisy, but very appetizing, dinner, you and your date can run across the highway

(I kid you not, there are no crosswalks—run fast!) and walk along the beach. This is every girls’ dream date, so don’t screw this one up. Just talk, or if she’s the sporty type bring a Frisbee or a football and throw it around for a while. Stay to watch the sunset, and then head on home. E i t h e r w a y y o u l o o k a t i t , y o u ’ r e b o u n d t o h a v e a n a m a z -ing Fr iday n ight . Who says not go ing anywhere for vaca t ion i s a drag?

Date Night By Hailey Williams

Neptune’s Net Seafood, 42505 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90265-2221

Joseph KimSpartan Staff

Omgpop.com is a casual online mul-tiplayer gaming website. As the slogan of the website suggests, it is a “place to hang to out, play free online multiplayer games, chat and make friends.” OMGPOP, unlike numerous on-line games, doesn’t force users to sign up; users simply can get invitations from their peers to join

the games and enjoy them without going through complex process of making new accounts. The games are built entire in Flash, so no installation is neces-sary. OMGPOP was placed on TIME Magazine’s 50 Best websites of 2009.

OMGPOP has a basic interface similar to the main screens of most flash-based games. With its large buttons and user-friendly tabs, browsing the different sections of the website is easy. Social net-working is easy as well, and you can chat with other players in the website’s chatroom or send messages via a Private Messaging system. OMGPOP offers a variety of games that players can enjoy casually. Many of the games are familiar to us because many of them are based on clas-sic games. For example, “Balloono” is closely based on the game Bomberman, with very few minor differences and is currently the most played game on OMGPOP in terms of time spent by players. “Draw My Thing” is very simi-lar to the classic game Pictionary; players have 60 seconds to draw an image based on a pre-selected word for up to 7 people to correctly identify. Racing games like “Hover Kart Battle” and “BallRacer” arouse intense competi-tion, and classic games like Connect Four and Checkers are available as well. The fun of OMGPOP doesn’t stop here. The game has a Coin system; you earn coins and experience points as you play the various games in the site. As you accumulate points and coins, you’ll be able to go up in level and thus, unlock more features and buy different decorations like graphics to spruce up your profile picture and custom game items. Whoever is bored, check out the site. You might scream, “OMG, this is so fun!”

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Those words were not only a symbol of the American victory in the space race, but also were believed to usher in a new era of space exploration. But did they? So far, the only major achieve-ment NASA has achieved since Neil Armstrong’s 1969 moon landing has been success in the reusable rocket concept: the Space Shuttle. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, we went from the first American in space to landing on the moon in less than 10 years. But now, NASA has been working on the same project for almost 30 years.

Does space have less interest to the public now than it did in 1969? Did Barack Obama or George Bush give a moving, “We choose to go to the moon,” speech?

No. In fact, Obama seems to have a grudge against NASA. Last February, the 2010 national budget destroyed Bush’s “Moon, Mars and Be-yond” program by getting rid of the ‘Moon’ part. The United States’ return to the moon, or Project Constellation, was cancelled, along with it the Ares 1X rocket that was sup-posed to replace the shuttle.

The only survivor of the budget was the Orion capsule which might depend on Russian rockets to get it into space. A Mars mission, though, is still in the works, which may be the Apollo 11 of our time.

Are engineers getting sloppier? Some people may

have seen the 1950s videos of prototype US rockets launching and exploding, exploding then launching, or not launching at all, followed by an explosion. But space exploration was a new concept at that time. Now, money and materials are falling prey to stupid mistakes. For example, the DARPA HTV-2 hypersonic glider was lost while entering Earth’s outer at-mosphere last month, probably due to ionized gasses interfer-ing with signals from the plane. Surely the involved engineers could have predicted that ions would damage the signals, and that they would be present in the ionosphere. However, there is a booming industry that is benefiting from NASA’s gradual manned spaceflight decline. And that industry is…

Private spaceflight. The era of commercial mis-sions to space for the everyday man was born when Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne became the first civilian space-craft, winning the $10 million Ansari X-Prize in 2004. This event sparked a race between NASA and the private sector, with new rocket builders like Space X, Blue Origin, and Ar-madillo Aerospace saying they can get humans into space more cheaply then NASA. Even so, NASA will likely remain supreme in unmanned inter-planetary missions. Whether government or civilian, man has a dream to escape our atmosphere and explore other worlds, and if Americans don’t do it, somebody else surely will.

The Uncertain Future By John Griffith Guest Writer

Orion is a spacecraft being designed by Lockheed Martin for NASA. Orion development began as part of the Constellation program, where Orion would fulfill the function of a Crew Exploration Vehicle.

8 may 26, 2010 La Cañada High School

Features

It’s College Application Time By Alicia Kim Editor-in-Chief

Sen10rs leave behind wise advice for juniors who will soon be filling out applications.

Continued from Page 1 top GPAs don’t really cut it anymore. Kids need to prove they have a life experience, and not just any volunteer work. You have to show determina-tion and persistence. Of course, on top of maintaining a good GPA” On Personal Statement

The personal statement the part of the college application where you can show the admissions officer who you really are. It’s your time to put your 2D application into 3D, where the reader can really get a feel to your personality and not just your SAT scores. Th i s po r t i on o f t he application is probably the most time consuming and frustrating to most. But there are steps you can take to make sure you’re not overwhelmed.

Senior Amanda Borland said, “It’s important for you to do little things like getting your brag sheet and drafts of essays out of the way. Also, have as many drafts of essays as you can do over summer. I promise you it will make your first semester much more relaxing and it will guarantee that you are sending in you best work.”

Senior Jessie Kim adds,

“As a good amount of people to edit your papers. Everyone will have a different, constructive input and they will catch things that you miss” Time management and editing are probably the tools that will keep you safe from submitting your essays late. You don’t want to be the person who can’t turn in their application on the night before because the website crashed on you. Also, Jessie Kim says “Do something over your summer so you can write about it. This doesn’t mean… go to Russia and feed the poor. You have to reflect on who you are, find your passions, and study your interests. This will help you personalize your essays and find the right college for you.” O n h o w m a n y schools you should apply to Robert Moldafsy said, “Don’t be intimidated by really good schools. Have confidence in yourself when you are young to the process. It will really help a lot!” And ASB President Mary Young adds, “Apply to as many schools as you can, since you will have more options. You never know where you will get in or get rejected. (some of the time…I guess?)” In the end, this college process is a test to see if you can

put down your personality, dreams, goals and achievement onto paper.

I just want to add a couple of things, and then you’ll be ready to start.

When you start off your application process, get a piece of paper and write the 10 things that you are really proud of about yourself. Then make sure that you fit 10 things in your application. Spread it all out evenly. Maybe your volunteer work in your essay, but your sports achievement in your extracurricular section. You can always make sure that your letters of recommendations are written by teachers who really know who you are!

Also, take the college project that Mr. Cartnal and Mr. Mohney assign SERIOUSLY. Writing down all those “busy work” numbers like your social security, address, and SAT scores will really save your time once you begin your real applications.

Finally, everything is at the tip of your hands, and the results will reflect how much work you put in before and during the process. There are so many resources out there that you can take advantage of. There are your counselors, your teachers, and fellow classmates. Make sure that you’re conducting everything and that no one else, not your parents or time, tell you what to do!

Top Ten Cities to Live After College

Thinking About the Future?

Tamar BezjianSpartan Staff

As graduation approaches, the question of what to do after school lingers. Though many of us have not yet decided on majors, those who have a solid idea of what careers they want have a few crucial things to think about- namely, where to live. After college is over and the search for jobs begins, looking for a city to live in that is filled with abundant job opportunities is more

important than ever. So for those of you who are ready to look (way) ahead to the years after college, or are even choosing between which schools to go to for grad-uate degrees: take note. Nathan Lippe, career advisor for CareerRookie.com, offers a consensus of the most promi-nent cities to find financial success in.

This is the average rent of one apartment in these cities.

10) Los Angeles: $13199) Baltimore, Maryland: $10418) Cincinnati, Ohio: $6137) New York, New York: $13666) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: $9385) Boston, Massachusetts: $12754) Dallas, Texas: $7403) Denver, Colorado: $7792) Phoenix, Arizona: $6691) Atlanta, Georgia: $723

If you are looking for a job either now or for the summer, here are a few tips to help you get started:

1) Know what you like. A love of animals can lead to a job at an animal hospital, a good sense of style and a love of people can lead to a job at a clothing store. Being passionate about something boosts your chances of getting hired, ensures more commitment on your part, and decreases the urge to quit early. 2) Keep yourself updated on your city’s business and community news.

3) Follow through. After sending out your resume to several dif-ferent companies, call frequently to see where you’re s tanding.4) Don’t get discouraged. If you do not end up with your preferred job, you can always use your current job to learn skills to take with you to your next job. F o r t h e f u l l l i s t s , g o t o ht tp: / /www.cnn.com/2010/LIV-ING/worklife/05/12/cb.best.cities.n e w. g r a d s / i n d e x . h t m l ? h p t = T 2

Junior Emily Saxe doesn’t have any Dutch roots, nor does she speak the unique Dutch language, but she will be spending all of her senior year studying abroad in the Nether lands. Even though she has only been learning Dutch since January, Emily se-lected the Netherlands for its interesting culture. Emily is fascinated by the Netherlands “because of its rich history and traditions, such as riding bikes to get everywhere!” With the option of graduating early as she has finished almost all of her requirements, Em-ily looked for other op-tions, as she did not feel ready to apply to college.“I’ve lived in La Caña-da my whole life and I want to burst the bub-ble,” Emily explained. She began by simply googling travel abroad programs and finally found a program called AFS (American Field Ser-vice). They had a wide

variety of programs that intrigued Emily. After a long and uncertain ap-

plication process, Emily was accepted to her first choice: the Netherlands. Emily is still unsure where and with whom she will be staying in the Netherlands

but it doesn’t faze her. At an AFS ori-entation on May 15, Emily was given the opportunity to speak with future and past AFS participants. It gave her a better idea of what to expect of the experience. The orien-tation even simulated possible occurrences in

the foreign countries. “The advisors told us to put all of our paper bag lunches on a table and when we came back for lunch all of the food had been mixed up and combined. My salad had been mixed with the

other salads brought my students,” Emily said. “The exercise was meant to teach us to expect the unexpected and not be afraid of new food.” The AFS alum-ni also gave her advice. “They told me to smile and laugh at all my mistakes because if

y o u c a n ’ t speak the language , friendliness is universal, E m i l y r e m i -nisced with a laugh. Emily has trav-eled before, but this experi-ence will be very different.“Even though I’ve traveled a lot, I really am excited about going away because I would rather be assimi-lated to the culture than look at the pretty buildings and leave,” she explained. She has traveled alone, but she has never been away from home for so long. Emily knows that her “parents are sad to see their last kid go but they think that [she] can gain a lot from going abroad.” She even knows that re-gardless of her eagerness to leave, she still will miss parts of La Cañada such as her house and her dog. All she knows is that she is looking for-ward to being fluent “in another language that is spoken by over 25 mil-lion people worldwide!” Emily is even making plans for after she returns. She is applying to

college in the sum-mer before she goes to the Netherlands and when she gets back, that’s where she intends to go. Even in college, she still wants to

study abroad. “I know I won’t be done yet because I have to experience as much of the world as pos-sible,” Emily exclaimed. D e s p i t e t h e

daunting idea of leaving her par-ents and life in La Canada behind, Em-ily is a per-son who likes to try new things and is confident about this new challenge.

Goede Reis, Emily!(That’s Dutch for “Good Trip”)

By Terese RutkowskiOpinion Editor

Junior Emily Saxe is planning to spend her senior year studying abroad in Netherlands.

“I would rather be assimilated to the culture

than look at the pretty buildings and

leave.”

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Featuresmay 26, 2010

It’s College Application Time

Be Really Scared

On e o f the most m e m o -r a b l e h o r r o r

icons is back, from Wes Craven’s “A Night-mare on Elm Street.” The success of this film kept the infamous Freddy Krueger alive in numerous sequels. The remake was re-leased on April 30th. The original movie was released in 1984 and featured a new, young, and up-coming star, Johnny Depp. The film also starred Robert Englund as the fearful villain who is famous for his face contorted with burn scars, knives as fingers, and his red and green striped sweater. The chilling horror flick is about a reoccurring dream of a killer with knives as fingers (Freddy) out to haunt the kids of Elm Street. Not only does he massacre them in their nightmares, but they are killed in reality as well. This remake of the classic horror re-tains the suspense and unpredictability of the original. But unlike oth-er remakes of famous horror movies, this one

does not fall into the same predictable cli-chés that characterize most teen horror films. In the origi-nal film, Craven made the explanation of exactly why Freddy was killed blurry. It wasn’t clear if Freddy just wanted to kill or if he was also a child molester. I feel like this was a better approach for the audience, be-cause they would be kept in the dark and not have to know how sick he really was. H o w e v e r , in the remake, it was much more obvious that Krueger was in fact a perverted sadist. A few scenes in the film made it too clear that he was a sick criminal. I think it would have been better if those scenes were left out just to make it more like the original film and keep his background more hidden to the audience. The mixture of thrill, bloodshed, and chilling suspense topped most, if not all, horror films. Although it is slightly different from the original, it is undoubtedly one of the best teen horror remakes ever made.

By Margaret Beesley Spartan Staff

Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) makes almost $60M by May 24.

400 BitesChoices You Can Make to be Happier

Somehow, anyone who tries to get people to lead better, healthier lives always gets labeled “preachy.” However there is something to be said for those who help the people

around them to be healthier. Recently I heard someone say that they wanted a “snack” and when they were offered fruit, they specified that they wanted a “snack snack.” Obviously the person wanted a bag of chips or candy to tide them over and give them a boost of energy until they could have a substantial meal. Of course, no one can say they haven’t ever bought a bag of Doritos or Cheetos when they were hungry, including myself.

But when you look at what a bag of chips has in it compared to an apple, pear, orange, or banana (even though I don’t personally enjoy bananas), the healthier choice is always a piece of fruit. From a single bag of chips, you can consume 200 to 300 calories of white flour, chemical flavoring, and unhealthy sugars and fats. From a piece of fruit, you can get close to the same amount of calories (it might take two pieces of fruit), but instead of the crap you get from chips and

candy, you get healthy sugars that last longer in your body, vitamins, and the satisfaction of eating something healthy.

A n d q u i t e honestly, it is not as hard as most people think to change their eating habits. The hardest part about it is realizing that the foods that are healthier, often taste better than unhealthy foods. This isn’t to say that all healthy foods taste good, nor that all unhealthy foods taste bad, but you can easily find healthy foods that taste just as good as unhealthy foods.

But anyone can say that people should generally eat healthier. What people don’t say is that teenagers do eat unhealthily. And that’s the bottom line. Nearly every teenager eats crappy food and drinks soda and doesn’t feel bad about it. That’s just what we’ve adopted as a way of life: if everyone is eating cheap, unhealthy

food, it’s ok to do so yourself. So the problem that needs to be fixed is simply teenage attitude. And the only way to do that is individually. Everyone has to take an interest in his or her own well-being.

Movie Review

By Ian Balisy Archives Manager

Take charge of your own eating habits.

Students have a Bash with TACHBy Katherine PropperOpinion Editor

L a s t S a t u r -day, on May 22nd, TACH (Teen’s for the Advance-ment of Children’s Hos-pital) held their annual TACH Bash at Memo-rial Park. The event fea-tured a wide array of activities for attendees. Pres ident of TACH, Estrella Sain-burg commented, “The event was big success. $3,000+ will be donated to the adolescent division of Children’s hospital. Every per-son who came helped the hos-pital in unimaginable ways.” A t TACH Bash , many bands and singers per-formed including “DJ Chubz,” Desolith, The Roads, Mike Faro, Legion, and the Chamber. In addition to the musical per-formances, students could play games at booths, rock climb, jump on the moon bounce, eat high-quality food, and enter in the silent auction. The silent auction offered many desir-able prizes such as tickets to a Lakers’ game and a trip to Mex-ico—which were all donated.

Treasurer of TACH Derick Abedian remarked, “The silent auction made up the larg-est percentage of donations. I worked at TACH bash for more than 12 hours, but it flew by fast

because I knew it was all going to the Children’s Hospital.” The huge number of students who attended TACH bash exemplified the compassion of students at our high school.

Estrella Sainburg explains the rules of the games at the rock wall and bounce house. Photo by Derick Abedian

Students enjoy concert at Memorial Park. Photo by Derick Abedian

News Blurbs

By Terese RutkowskiOpinion Editor

*The 1st Annual Advanced Ceramics Silent Auction will be sold to raise funds for the Ceramics Program at LCHS. From May 24th – June 4th, you can visit to the auction at the IRC. To submit a bid, speak with Ms. Bozzani.

*Participate in eWaste Day, planned for June 5!The independent eWaste Man-agement Company will be partnering with LCHS to recycle electronics in an environmentally friendly way. On June 5, go to the LCHS parking lot (in front of the North Gym) between 8am-11am and donate the following items: Computers/Notebooks, Moni-tors/LCDs, Printers/Faxes, TVs/Stereo Equipment, Cell Phones/MP3 Players, Small Household Electric Appliances,

Microwaves/Toasters, etc.

*Congratulations to Gabrielle Badie and Nicole Morrison, recipients of the California State PTA Senior High School Scholarship!

*Many thanks to all the supporters of Rinyee Zhang’s “One Love” Benefit Concert! Congratulations to the per-formers for a fantastic performance! All revenue will go to victims of the

Earthquake in China.

* LCHS is now rated the 15th high school in California. Also, we are the number 1 top open enrollment in Southern California, and is the number 5 top open enrollment in California.

* The LCUSD the number 2 district in all of California.

*PTSA is donating $3,000 for the purchase of additional trashcans and recycle bins that will be placed throughout the campus. They will be color coded: brown for trash and green

for recycling.

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Sports

With the return of San Marino’s top players, the Spartans had no chance to claim victory

a second time against the Titans. In doubles play, La Cañada won a bare majority of the sets, taking five out of the nine possible. The Titans’ top pair- Michael Cheng and Derek Wong- won all three of their sets against the Spartans, including seniors Trent Jones and Grayson Frazier, who conceded their first set in league play.La Cañada was entirely dominated in singles, standing no chance against nationally-ranked players like Johnny Wang and James Wade. According to Spartan coach Wil l Moravec, Wang was “ the b ig d i ffe rence” because “nobody can touch him.” Earlier this season, the Spartans managed to end San Marino’s undefeated streak with an 11-7 victory. Finally, they had the chance to win the league title, but defeats at the hands of Temple City and San Marino dashed those hopes. The Spartans will finish third in the standings, but on the bright side, their performance this season leaves open the opportunity to play a weaker top seed in the CIF playoffs.

Doubles Kevin YinJason

Michael ChengDerek Wong

GordonJohn

Trent JonesGrayson Fraizer

6-0 3-6 6-3

Tyler JonesMichael Choi

6-3 2-6 6-2

Matt FaberLeeho Lim

6-4 2-6 4-6

Boys’ Tennis Falls to San Marino 12-6

Singles Johnny Wang* = substitute for Wang played against Arsen

James Wade Michael Moya

Aidan Lynch 1-6 4-6 2-6Greg Lee 0-6 4-6 2-6Josh Kim (Arsen Khatchatryan)

6-3*(Arsen)0-6

1-6On Friday, April 30th, the Spartans split the season series with the Titans and in the process lose a chance at the Rio Hondo League title.By Christophe LaBelleSpartan Staff

Aidan Lynch awaits his opponents serve. Photo by: Christophe LaBelle

Trent Jones slams the ball back to his opponent for a point. Photo by: Christophe LaBelle

On Tuesday, May 18th, the La Cañada High base-ball team took on Costa Mesa in the wild-card round of the CIF playoffs. They ultimately de-

feated the Mustangs 19-2 after a fortunate turn of events. The Spartans jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back. With the game so quickly out of reach, Coach Dennis Ballard took junior pitcher Brendan Shoemake out to save him for the next game.

As senior rightfielder Tim Kim explained, “There’s no need to waste our ace pitcher against a team we’re already going to beat.”

Sophomore Mitch Russell took over on the mound as La Cañada cruised to victory. The last game for the Spartans was on Friday, May 21st, at St. Paul High School. They lost 10-0.

Spartans Bounce Back in CIF 19-2

On Thursday, May 13th, the Spar-tans(12-10 overall, 6-8 in league) played their final league game of the season at Temple City(15-8-1, 11-3) and endured a brutal reality check by the score of 18-0 after a 21-0 romp over Blair earlier in the week. Through the first five innings, La Cañada trailed 6-0, falling further behind as Temple City slowly but surely added a run or two each inning. Then came the sixth inning, where Temple City’s large lead became an insurmountable deficit. The score became 18-0 to the tune of a twelve-run outburst. “We just stopped playing, thinking the game didn’t mean any-

thing,” said senior outfielder Tim Kim.

La Cañada BaseballSpartans End Season on a Sour NoteAgainst league powerhouse Temple City, La Cañada gets destroyed 18-0.

After an 18-0 rout at the hands of Temple City to end the regular season, La Cañada Baseball wins their first playoff game in dominant fashion.

Seniors on the Varsity baseball team are recognized at their last home game. Photo by Christophe LaBelle

Head Coach Dennis Ballard and Blair’s head coach confer on the finer points of the game. Photo by Christophe LaBelle

The atmosphere was cheerful on Tuesday, May 11 th, as La Cañada(11-10 overall, 5-8 in league) took on Blair(2-13, 0-13). The seniors were honored before the game, and they did not disappoint in their final home performance. The Spartans got off to a hot start in the first in-ning, taking a 9-0 lead against the Bears. They followed up this outburst with a moderate three-run second, before finish-

ing off the shortened game with a nine-run third. Meanwhile, junior Sam Baldwin recorded five strikeouts in a one-hit gem. Highlights came in ample supply against the lowly Bears, particularly with the seniors. Leftfielder Troy Maderosian hit an inside-the-park home run, rightfielder Tim Kim had three stolen bases, and outfielder/statistician Jack Gilbert came off the bench to reach base and eventually score a run. There was such

big fanfare over his feat because, according to Kim, “he[Jack] hasn’t swung a bat in years.” It was also Gilbert’s birthday. The game also gave a brief preview of next year’s squad, as juniors Joe Torres, Randy Gartside, Matt Can-nata, Scott Gray, and Alex Lee all had an opportunity to play.

Spartans Thrash Blair 21-0The game ends after three innings as the seniors enjoy their last game at Heavner Field.

All baseball articles were written by Christophe LaBelle, Spartan Staff

On Wednesday, May 19th, La Cañada’s cinderella run came to an end, as top-seeded Palm Des-ert prevailed on the tennis court, winning eleven of eighteen sets.

Originally qualifying for the wild-card round of CIF, the Spar-tans began their playoff run with a 12-6 victory over Anaheim Canyon. They followed up that performance with wins over favorites Chad-wick(11-7) and Beverly Hills(10-8), the Prep League and Ocean League champions respectively. The only wild-card team to advance beyond the first round, the Spartans distin-guished themselves as a team not to be underestimated by their op-ponents. Even against top-ten team Palm Desert, they held their own.

The first flashpoint of the match came in the doubles set be-tween La Cañada’s top pair, Grayson Frazier and Trent Jones, and the Aztecs’ star duo, Blake Eggleston and Jake Felich. Seniors Frazier and Jones lost the set by the slimmest of margins, 6-7, which made it all the more frustrating in the biggest game of the season. Said teammate Aayush Shah, “We had this one.” Ultimately, the difference was what Frazier called “a few unlucky shots.”

Palm Desert dominated doubles play, but La Cañada had the upper hand in singles. The Aztecs’ top two pairs swept their sets, but freshman phenom Josh Kim kept the Spartans competitive with his outstanding play.

Once Palm Desert won its ninth set, a fleeting Spartan

victory was contingent on win-ning the remaining sets by a score of 6-3. But hopes were dashed when Daniel Reinhart and Deric Suarez defeated Frazier and Jones 6-4 to win the clinching tenth set.

Nonetheless, La Cañada finished strongly, taking two of the final three sets in singles. Senior Greg Lee won 6-3, and fellow 2010 graduate Aidan Lynch fought hard in a 4-6 defeat. In the highlight of the match, Josh Kim defeated the vaunted Nick Cummins 7-5 after a relentless back-and-forth duel.

With the departure of five seniors, the emergent Kim’s play will be key to the success of next season’s squad. Tennis pundits across Southern California have identi-fied him as a “player to watch.” As one admirer noted, “He’s improved dramatically in the last six months. He makes the court so much bigger with all the spin he puts on the ball.”

The Spartans were sad to see their great run come to an end, but felt satisfied with this season’s performance. “We wanted to go a bit further, but destiny didn’t go our way,” said Coach Moravec.

Despite the all the ups and downs of the season, the Spartans improved vastly from last year’s team, which failed to qualify for CIF. As head coach Will Moravec put it, “This has been one of the greatest seasons in La Cañada history.” He described the end of the season as “a major turnaround” and had noth-ing but high praise for his players.

“This is the deepest team we’ve ever had in my 18 years here, and we have a lot to build on for next year.”

Boys’ Tennis Departs CIF in Valiant 11-7 LossThe Aztecs of Palm Desert prove too tough for the red-hot Spartans.By Christophe LaBelleSpartan Staff

Scores

“I went out there, I tried it and I liked it,” Luke Sanborn confidently explained of his favorite sports football, hockey, wrestling and shot-put. A junior at La Cañada High, Vice President of French Club, member of concert chorus and men’s chorus, member of the YMCA’s Youth & Government program, Luke Sanborn still finds way than enough time to dedicate himself to each one of his sports year-round – two of which are during the same season.

I t i s h i s ou t s t and ing en -thusiasm, dedication, persistence and teamwork in every athletic field that is most admirable about Luke Sanborn.

“I work really hard, I love sports in ever aspect of them, whether it’s getting ready for them or actually playing them,” he explained. At the age of four,Luke Sanborn started playing sports, when he was on the T-ball team. Since then, he has tried a va-riety of different sportsand currently plays football, shot-put and shot-put in fresh-man year and hockey in sophomore year.

Luke has gone as far as to be rec-ognized as Upper-weight MVP for wrestling, Second Team on Rio Hondo for football along with other previous awards and prizes.

He was exhilarated by his award in football because he didn’t think that he was “going to play at all, and I had to fight for my position, so it’s not a matter of just having an award, it’s more about being recognized for doing so well.”

“I guess it’s the people who have led me, the coaches and captains, that have really helped me out and pushed me to what I have become,” he said about his progress. Sanborn has been called out for his excellent teamwork, and he puts his every effort towards the suc-cess of his team in every sport he plays.

He seems particularly proud of the high morale of the Varsity football

team, “we all work so well together, I don’t want to screw us up, so I try my hardest at every game and every practice. Football is like another family, it makes it that much more fun to play with them.” Indeed, Sanborn admitted that football and wrestling were his two favorite sports to play, even though they are so different from one another.

Luke Sanborn is currently the Varsity football’s offensive line-man, but he is ready to be placed wherever it benefits his team the most. He is also one of the football captains for the friendly off-season games the team plays which tests his leadership and forces him to improve.

He explained that wres-tling requires individual work rather than team work, so “when you win, you won for yourself and when you lose, it’s no one else’s fault but your own.” This summer, Luke Sanborn and his teammates Chris SooHoo, Chris Bache Josh Dong, Daniel Wyatt and Marty Vardanian are all attending Jay Robbinson’s Intensive Camp, a fourteen-week wrestling camp in Oregon recommended by Coach Williams. Sanborn shared his thoughts about the outcome of the camp, “It’s going to be in-

tense, but worthwhile, and it will definitely help me in all the fields, not only wrestling.” Luke is also one of the few La Cañada students on the Ice Hockey team, which he joined in his sophomore year after a recommendation from Nate Eisen-berg. La Cañada’s hockey team has been faced with teams that are more advanced and advantaged than them, resulting in difficult but close games, showing in-creasing improvement after every game.

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The La Cañada Spartan swim team ended their season strongly on Friday, with the boy’s team placing 3rd, and the girls’ team placing 4th. Both teams were undefeated in league, and the Boys’ squad contin-ued the Spartan’s four-year win streak in the Rio Hondo League.

Al though LC d id not win CIF this year, Coach Ar t Lopez s t i l l i s p roud of their accomplishments.

“The boys went out there, and swam their hearts out, even if they didn’t win, to me they are champions.” Lopez said.

Several La Cañada swimmers won their respective events. Katy Campbell won

the 200 and 500-yard freestyle, while Alex Campbell won the 100-yard freestyle. The boys’ 200-yard freestyle, and medley relays also were victorious.

C o a c h L o p e z a t -tributed the wins to strong leadership by the seniors.

“The seniors went out there and swam amazing-ly, I am so proud of them.”

T h e t e a m ’s f i n -ish wasn’t as high as expect-ed, but Lopez is optimistic about our chances next year.

“Our team is ex-tremely young” Lopez stated, “We have some great fresh-men and sophomores coming up, and a diver next year, I wouldn’t be surprised if we win next year or the year after.”

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s to both the Spartan swim squads for a great season!

Sports

batters produced a 4-3 lead for the visitors. Senior Michael Lee stepped in to hold the score to a one run deficit. Despite the sudden role re-versal, the Spartans came right back in the bottom of the fifth. Senior Kyle Gosselin brought in junior Scott Stetson with a base hit to tie the game 4-4. From then on, the game got tighter, every pitch carrying more and more suspense. Both teams brought out the big guns to finish the game on the mound, with the Spartans’ Brendan Shoemake facing off against the Wildcats’ Chris Calver. Shoemake got Lee out of a bases-loaded jam by striking out the Monrovia batter to end the seventh, and then relied on two big outs from his teammates to keep the game even in the eighth. Meanwhile on offense the Spartans were stymied by Calver’s wizardry, as he recorded a strikeout in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings. It took another two remark-able athletic displays by the Spartans to keep the game tied going into the bot-

tom of the ninth. Michael Lee made a diving stop at shortstop and threw out a Monrovia runner at home, while senior rightfielder Tim Kim got himself onto the highlight reel with a diving catch to end the inning. With one last chance to win in regulation, the Spartans failed to muster enough offense to score the winning run. This game was going to extra innings. The tenth featured some good signs for La Cañada. Brendan Shoemake struck out a batter, and freshman catcher Anthony Mizrahi threw out a Monrovia baserunner at second base. But Calver again proved unassailable on the mound. The eleventh proved to be the decisive inning. Monrovia took the lead on a passed ball by Mizrahi, and the Spartans were hardpressed to find an elusive run to tie the game. Calver struck out the first La Cañada batter, but Tim Kim managed to reach base as the possible tying run. Fortune, however, turned against the Spartans when Lee’s line drive was snagged by Monrovia’s first baseman and Kim was caught off base for the game-ending double play.

Monrovia Game Continued from Page 1

LC Swim takes 3rd, 4th at CIF

La CañadaPlayer AB H KA. Overgaard 3 1 1 0 0 1T. Kim 4 1 3 0 2 0M. Lee 3 0 1 2 1 1S. Stetson 2 1 1 0 2 1C. Kendall 2 0 0 1 0 2B. Shoemake 4 0 0 0 0 1K. Gosselin 4 0 1 1 0 1A. Mizrahi 2 0 1 0 1 2T. Maderosian 4 1 2 0 0 1

4 6 10MonroviaPlayer AB H KN. Bueno 3 1 2 0 0 1J. Jiorge 2 1 1 1 1 1R. Nakamura 2 1 0 0 2 1A. Velasco 4 0 2 1 0 1J. De La Nuez 4 1 2 1 1 0A. Murphee 2 0 0 0 0 2J. Bradley 4 0 2 1 0 0T. Norgord 3 1 2 0 1 0

J. Trujillo 3 0 1 0 0 15 5 7

La CañadaIP R ER

M. Russell 4

2/3

9 4 4 1 4

M. Lee 2 2 0 0 1 1B. Shoemake 4

1/3

1 1 0 3 2

Monrovia IP R ERC. Burkholder 1

2/3

3 3 3 6 0

A. Schluter 3

2/3

4 1 1 0 6

C. Calver 5

2/3

0 0 0 0 4

The Duke of Sports’ Glory Road

By Naima VogtSpartan Staff

Junior Luke Sanborn handles his busy schedule with great diligence.

Luke Sanborn participates in many sports and organizations at LCHS. Photo by Naima Vogt

By David BelcherSpartan Staff

La Cañada Swim finishes undefeated in league play for third year in a row.

For the first time in four years, the Boys’ Volleyball team played at CIF on Tuesday, May 11. The Spartans lost (25-19, 25-22, 20-25 W, 28-26) to Ganesha High School from Pomona. On behalf of Boys’ Volleyball,

Patrick Moore wanted to say “thank you to the school for coming out to support the team. Congratulations to Boys’ Volleyball!

Historic CIF Run for Boys’ VolleyballBy Terese RutkowskiOpinion Editor

Go support La Cañada Ice Hockey!

Their last match is on Wednesday, May 26th at the

Toyota Center in El Segundo at 5:30 pm.