Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 Vol. 20 • No. 50 www.whsnow.com Happening NOW •Speech: Warrior Invitational Individual Events Tournament 3:30 p.m. today at WHS; Team Debate Sweepstakes Invitational 8 a.m. Saturday at Roosevelt •Show Choir: Mid-Season Weekend Retreat today through Tuesday in auditorium Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Popcorn chicken •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, chef salad, sand- wiches Group Meetings •WHS Book Club: Will meet to discuss “Anatomy of a Misfit” during lunch periods today in the library. See librarian Kerri Smith for details. •All Winter Athletes: For WHS will meet, along with a parent, at 6 p.m. Monday in the gym—all physi- cal/medical consent forms must be turned in prior to first practice. •Freshman-Junior Girls: Interested in winter indoor soccer will meet at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday in A-120. Other Reminders •WHS Library: Will close at 3:30 p.m. today. •Oak View Library: Will host a screening of “Catching Fire” at 1 p.m. Saturday. •Seniors: Pick up any transcripts ordered in the registrar’s office—they will not be mailed. NOW Friday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lexus Paulson and Carson Herbert Assistant Editor: ....... Sydney Arrington Staff: Shemles Megosha, Megan Rose, Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli, Rachel Konrad, Natalie Meyer Editor-in-chief ........... Jack Nachtigal Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . Lizzie Spier Adviser ................... .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service Friday NOW is brought to you by: Today: Partly sunny Breeze shifting to NW High 59° Tonight: Mostly cloudy Low 32° Saturday: Mostly sunny Breezy, cool High 44° Weather Nearly 600 compete in Warrior Invitational today FOLLOW US, WARRIORS! Warrior Nation Events @whsPAC All WHS News @nowatwhs The University of South Dakota By Carson Herbert and Shemles Megosha C urrently, 582 students from South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa are registered to compete in the 33rd Annual Warrior Invitational Individual Events Speech Tournament today at WHS. Debate Coach Travis Dahle said he is looking forward to the huge event. “This is the largest number of entries I have ever had at Washington,” Dahle said. “The fact that we have to use spaces like the band practice rooms and the gym shows how big this tournament has gotten. It’s great to be able to show off WHS to so many students.” A total of 118 judges will be present to judge the 30 teams in the invitational. The event will feature 14 categories of oral interpretation, oratory and extempo- raneous speaking in four rounds. Oral interp coach Michelle McIntyre said she thinks her team is well prepared. “We are very excited to compete and we have a large squad, most of whom are going to be double entered in two events,” McIntyre said. “We are also running our readers theatre for the first time, which was written corroboratively this summer by a team of our senior interp members. We hope to win another George Washington statue this year!” Statues will be presented to first place winners, dream catchers to second place and trophies to third. Individual events speech tournament largest in region By Lexus Paulson Classic Connection (ClaCo) show choir members will attend a four-day retreat at WHS beginning today to pre- pare for their upcoming season. The four-day event will kick-off tonight with the ladies learning how to do their hair and makeup, followed by the whole group watching a sur- prise movie and participating in team-building activities. On Saturday, the retreat will continue when Drew Neneman, a friend of director Kirk Schjodt, will be in town. Neneman has collaborated with Schjodt on past shows and has even written a song for a past Classic Connection show. On Monday, the group will have rehearsal from 6-9 p.m., putting both the singers and the band “Quacko” together. Rounding out the final day will be the group’s two profes- sional choreographers coming on Tuesday to put finishing touches on the show and a sneak-peak for ClaCo parents. The public can get a glimpse of the show Dec. 12 at the Sioux Falls Show Choir Preview Night. Schjodt said he is excited about the upcoming season. “ClaCo is shaping up to be fabulous this year,” Schjodt said. “We have a veteran group and their experience has helped us develop our show this year.” FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRY- MEN: Division and sweepstakes winners will take home a handsome tro- phy today. Show choir hones skills at retreat