Chancellor VOL. 43, ISSUE 2

The ChancellorThomas More Prep-Marian High SchoolHays, KS

December 2012VOL. 43, Issue 2

Lexie Wasinger ‘15

Music Department Celebrates the Holiday Season

“Festival of Les-sons and Carols”, the title of this year’s choir-only concert symbolizes not only the theme of the show, but also another new change to the choir department. With the addi-tion of Thomas More Prep Marian Junior High School, the choir depart-ment has gone through some renovations, includ-ing Mr. Michael Brandel, who directs both the ju-nior high, and high school choirs. Students have learned many things from Brandel, in preparation for the concert. His mu-sic selections are classi-cal in origin, and include

TMP Students, Principal honored by KMEA Fort Hays State University played host to two Mini Convention concerts for the North-west Kansas Music Edu-cators Association. The November 3 concert included mem-bers from the TMP-Mari-an Jr. High Band, Jr. High Choir, and High School Jazz Band. Students repre-senting TMP-Marian included Chloe Zim-merman ‘13 and Tanner Mermis ‘15 in the High School Honor Jazz Band. Torrie Gregg ‘18, Taryn Rupp ‘17, Clara Lee ‘17, Hope Aufdem-berg ‘18, Joseph Whitmer ‘17, Autumn Hohmann ‘18, and Matthew Moeder ‘17 in the Jr. High Honor Band. Lizzie Leiker ‘17, Trae Megaffin ‘18, Erin Muirhead ‘18, Gra-cie Schmidt ‘18, Anna Speno ‘18, Katy Walters ‘18, Tabitha Brandel ‘18, Taylor Drees ‘18, Carson Klaus ‘17, and Elly Lang

‘18 were included in the Jr. High Honor Choir. On December 8th, the High School District Honor Band and Choir performed. The TMP-Marian Band had more students qualify than any other school in the dis-trict. Five TMP-Marian students have been a part of the honor band for 4 years. These students in-clude Hyo Jin Lim ‘13, Hannah Dreiling ‘13, Me-gan Gottschalk ‘13, Chloe Zimmerman ‘13, and Ma-ria Marcotte ‘13. Other members of the High School Hon-or Band were Monica Michaud ‘14, Hannah Michaud ‘ 16, Allison Hohmann ‘14, Jenna Schuckman ‘13, Kaleigh Ummel ‘16, Kayla Hocket ‘16, Jordyn Manhart ‘16, Ryan Hammerschmidt ‘14, Rebecca Befort ‘14, Tanner Mermis ‘15, Me-gan Pfannenstiel ‘14 (1st Alternate), David Moeder ‘14, Roy Schmeidler ‘14,

Nick Schumacher ‘14, and Mason Choitz ‘14. Members of the High School Honor Choir included Jacob Brull ‘14, Adam Flax ‘15, Matea Gregg ‘15, Matt Mind-rup ‘15, Erin Pennington ‘15, Kelli Veach ‘15, and Grace Volker ‘15. High School

TMP Hosts “Be The Match” Drive for Blood Marrow and Stem Cell Donors TMP-Marian Students, Faculty, and Staff have been mourning the loss of Shane Gottschalk ‘09, who lost his battle with cancer just prior to Thanksgiving. In an attempt to honor Shane’s memory and fighting spirit, TMP-Marian hosted a donor drive on December 11 from 3:30-7:30 pm in the Canteen during the first home basketball game. Becoming a part of the database for blood mar-row and stem cell donors was an easy process. Those wishing to join had to be between the ages of 18 and 44 and simply had to swab the inside of the their mouths to get a sample. The donor process was that simple. Complicating the process for the Be the Match Foundation is the cost of running the tests for these donors. Each test costs $100 to process. So in addition to the donor drive, there was also a collection to help offset the cost of these test for the foundation with a goal of raising $2500. Final results of the drive were not available at press time. Please look in the next edition of The Chancellor for an update on results of the drive.

Students To Attend March for Life Forty Students and Eleven Chaperones made up of TMP-Marian Faculty, Staff, and Parents will be making the trek to Washington, D.C., next month to participate in the March for Life. For some students, this isn’t the first time they have gone. This seems to be a growing tradi-tion within the march itself. According to the March for Life website, the first march consisted of nearly 20,000 people while the the past several marches have consisted of 200,000 people. Not only are more people attending each year, many of those attending are coming back year after year to have their voices heard. Normally the march is held on the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision. In 2013, however, that day falls on a Tuesday, the day after the Presidential Inauguration. Because of those festivities, organizers were not able to secure adequate hotel spaces, so they moved the march to Friday, January 25. Look for more information about the experi-ences from the trip in our February edition of The Chancellor.

selections in French, and Latin, helping students broaden their horizons whether they’ll continue with music or not. also have learned the intricacies of music, and note reading, help-ing them excel through a wide variety of selec-tions. The show contains both classics like Hark the Harold Angels Sing, and foreign favorites like, Two French Noels. This is also the first year the concert was held separately from the annual Christmas under the Stars and the band and Pop Singers concert un-der the direction of Mrs. Kathy Amrein. Brandel decided to hold the concert a week earlier in St. Joseph’s

Church to increase acous-tics and to center the event on God. Throughout the last few months, the choir students have been pre-paring for their night to shine in the huge church, and their hard work paid off. Brandel managed the daunting feat of teaching students lessons through carols, and succeed. If you missed the choral concert on Decem-ber 10, it is not too late to join in the celebration. The annual Christmas Under the Stars followed by band and Pop Singers concert will be held on Monday, December 17th.

Mikaela Flax ‘14 and Kade Megaffin ‘13 conduct an experiment to measure lung capacity in Mr. Clint Bain’s Biology II class. Photo by Jordan Staab ‘13.

Principal Bill DeWitt ‘92 received the Outstanding Admin-istrator award from NWKMEA. Photo courtesy of Donna Lubbers.

sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible to audition for All-State Groups. Auditions for these groups will be held at a later date. Junior High Stu-dents have already audi-tioned, and Tabitha Bran-del ‘18, Shelby Knoll ‘18, and Matthew Moeder

‘17 were selected to the All State Middle School Honor Choir which will perform in February in Wichita. A d d i t i o n a l l y , Mr. Bill DeWitt ‘92 was named the KMEA Out-standing Administrator for the Northwest Dis-trict.

Publication Policy

OpinionPage 2 December 2012

The staff of The Chancellor upholds the following policy in regards to the publication of the stu-dent newspaper. When tragedy or crisis occurs, it will be the decision of the staff whether or not to cover the topic. Pictures are chosen by the staff on grounds of availability and quality. Letters to the staff must include, but are not limited to: cor-rections, suggestions, and personal opinions. Letters must be sub-mitted in type, less than 150 words addressed to the editor and be submitted no later than two weeks before the next publication. All staff mem-bers reserve the right to report any and all subjects that meet the elements of news. The Chancel-lor, being a newspa-per wholly written and produced by students, reserves the right to de-termine the content of the publication. Sug-gestions are accepted, but it is up to the dis-cretion of the staff to determine if coverage is necessary. The publication follows the guideline directed by the Kan-sas Student Publica-tion Act (1992) which, in short, states that: A) content will not be censored only because it contains political or controversial top-ics, B) review of ma-terial is permitted to assure the articles are consistent with high standards of English and journalism, C) li-belous, slanderous, obscene or matter that promotes illegal con-duct is not protected, D) students are respon-sible for determining the content of the pub-lication while publi-cations advisors and other certified employ-ees are responsible for teaching responsible expression and high standards of English and journalism, E) no student publication by students shall be deemed an expression of school policy nor can the employees be held responsible in any civil or criminal ac-tion. The staff rec-ognized its respon-sibility to reflect the mission of Thomas More Prep-Marian, a diocesan Catholic high school, to serve the in-terest and needs of the school community and to provide fair, objec-tive and accurate news, and commentary.

Chancellor StaffEditor-in-ChiefJena Ernsting ‘14

Lead ReportersJin Lim ‘13Maria Marcotte ‘13Jordan Staab ‘13Alexis Wasinger ‘15

AdvisorMrs. Heather Sramek

Intro Beat ReportersKelsie DeWitt ‘16Taylor Dinkel ‘16Taylor Gabel ‘16Matea Gregg ‘15Olivia Herbel ‘16Alyssa Keil ‘15Bailey Rome ‘15Ryan Ruder ‘16Adrianna Staab ‘15Bethany Staab ‘15Lucas Stouffer ‘16Bethany Weber ‘15

The Big “B”...Literally

The Infamous “Penalty Period”

“Penalty periods result from minor and ma-jor violations and are to be served by the student on the day determined by administration…Penalty periods for high school are served from 7:00 am – 7:55 am on Wednesday mornings and normally involve work detail. The accumulation of Penalty Periods may lead to more severe disciplinary ac-tion including suspension and in some cases, ex-pulsion.” –Thomas More Prep-Marian High school Student Handbook Is the penalty pe-riod worth it? When ask-ing this question I stum-bled upon some curious answers. Upon asking a senior with quite the tardy record she replied that having to do the pen-alty period really didn’t

make an impact on her ar-riving to school late. She said she would still con-tinue to arrive at school at whatever time she got there. Many resident stu-dents have to attend pen-alty periods because of ESL violations, English as a Second Language, which means they were not speaking English dur-ing the school day. When asking these students if they would still continue speaking their native lan-guage when they wished, they replied they would, when no teachers were around. For the people that fall asleep in class, are they going to stay awake in the future…probably not. Other reasons stu-dents experience penalty periods are for having cell phones or other elec-tronic devices on their person during the school day, having dress code infractions, or just plain insubordination, which is complete disrespect or in-compliance with what is asked of the student.

Faculty in the building take different approaches to giving out penalty periods. Some teachers hand out pen-alty periods left and right while others like to han-dle the situation within the classroom. What makes a teacher give a penalty pe-riod? For Mrs. Pinkney, who has taught at TMP for six years and given only five penalty periods total, she says that she gave the penalty periods for complete disrespect. Other teachers give penalty periods be-cause the students are “re-peat offenders” to dress code violations or sleep-ing in class. Since some stu-dents do not “get much” out of attending a penalty period, what can be done to help these students un-derstand they are being punished for a reason? This reason being to not repeat whatever they did to get themselves a pen-alty period. The majority of the students questioned

about what the worst part of the penalty period was, answered that wak-ing up and having to get to school early was the worst part. So if the students are not receiving any-thing out of raking leaves or scraping gum off the bleachers, what would help them understand that there are consequences for their actions? The most reason-able solution in response to the complaints of waking up early, may be starting the penalty pe-riods earlier making the student wake up earlier, or by making the penalty period shorter and have it two days in a row instead of one. Maybe it would feel more like a penalty period if the students had to wake up earlier, and complete their assigned task under more strict su-pervision, eliminating the opportunity for students to be on their cell phones, talking to other students, or messing around during their penalty period.

Jena Ernsting ‘14

Everyone talks about it. You first heard the word in kindergarten, when the other kid pushed you on the playground, and the teacher asked you if you were being bullied. In high school it seems like such a joke, but the fact is bullying is every-where. You walk in the hall and hear a couple of girls talking about your best friend’s ugly hair cut, or you see the “cool” guy shoving that sophomore into the lockers. Studies show that 56% of students have personally felt some sort of bulling at school. Be-tween the 4th and 8th grades 90% of students are victims of bullying. How do you act around the 7th and 8th graders? What kind of impression are you making on them? In high school in particular bullying is not as big of deal as it was in grade school, but it still happens. When was the

last time you felt secure telling one of your friends a secret? How afraid are you that telling one per-son a secret will spread to many other people? In the United States bullying can be called verbal ha-rassment, threat, or physi-cal assault. Bullying can be done on the grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. At TMP-Marian specifically both groups of students, resident stu-dents and day students, make fun of each other. For girls the bullies are just groups of popular catty girls who feel in-secure about themselves so they decide to take it out on other girls, and for boys bullies are “tough guys” lacking in moral and social integrity. The stark real-ity of bullying…Even one demeaning comment though innocently spoken can lead to someone com-mitting suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens, result-ing in about 4,500 deaths a year.

Statistics show that for every attempted suicide among young people, bully victims are between two and nine times more likely to fol-low through and kill themselves as opposed to non-victims. (www.bully-ingstatistics.org) What makes peo-ple bully others? The most common reason people, especially younger peo-ple, bully each other is because they are insecure about themselves or have been bullied in the past. So think next time think before you make a rude or foul comment, shove another person into the lockers, or make a hate page for them on Face-book. What will happen because of your decision to make another person feel unimportant or un-wanted? So now is the time to take responsibility for your words and actions along with your friend’s words and actions if you haven’t already.

Jena Ernsting ‘14

PublisherMr. Bill DeWitt ‘92

Crack Down?

#UniformProbz

Many students have been wondering about the “crack down” on dress down days and uniforms. The admin-istration explains that there really has not been a “crack down”. The ad-ministration describes that there have been more uniform violations this year, they are reoccurring which is disappointing due to the administrations relaxation on allowing students to wear school approved jackets, Thurs-days wearing t-shirts, and allowing boots, such as UGGs. Four to five dress code violations a week equal a red light for Mon-day spirit dress, so we, as students, need to figure it out ourselves and be-come less lax in the way we present ourselves. The deal with yoga pants and leggings…they don’t serve a purpose at school, thus students are not be-ing allowed to wear them. First impressions are ev-erything, and TMP-Mar-ian is just preparing us, as students, for real life when we need to present ourselves properly.

FaithDecember 2012 Page 3

Jin Lim ‘13

Breaking Borders: Winter Celebrations

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Students Donate Toys For Tots Executive Student Council officers spend a lot of time trying to come up with ways to motivate students and create inter-esting, yet worthwhile class competitions. For the December class competition, they decided to ask students to bring new toys for the Toys for Tots organiza-tion. However, the offi-cers didn’t want just a few toys. Setting a school-wide goal of 200 toys, they offered a sweats day to the student body and

the opportunity to dress a faculty member as Santa Claus for a day. The win-ning class would receive an additional sweats day. At times in the competition, it looked as if the sophomores would win the class competition, but the school would fall short of the 200 toy goal. However, on the final day, the classes com-bined for a total of 348 toys. The sophomores won the class competi-tion, bring in 210 toys of their own. Overall, the toy

drive was a success, and certainly went beyond the expectations of the execu-tive officers and class ad-visors. The officers and a few members of the soph-omore class delivered the toys to the drop off site on December. 5th. Students were scheduled to vote on the faculty member who would be Santa Claus af-ter press time. However, faculty members were already campaigning for other teachers to be Santa Claus.

Victoria Issa (Mexico)- There’s a tradition of eating twelve grapes be-fore the final countdown for the New Year. The number twelve indicates twelve calendar months. We have to eat one grape at a time before New Year’s Eve and if we do, good luck will follow us for the rest of the New Year.

Andrew Jiang (Korea)- On New Year’s Day, family gathers together for a special rice ball soup called ‘Tdokguk’ at breakfast. In Korea, we gain a year of age on the New Year regardless of our actual birth day. The number of rice balls in the soup has the equal the age of the person eating the soup (e.x. If someone is seventeen then they have seventeen rice balls in their soup.)

Trang Vu (Vietnam)- Family gathers together on New Year’s Day and

shares a big meal. Then kids under 20 dress up in traditional clothing and bow to the elders say-ing “Happy New Year”. Elders, who are parents, aunts and uncles, and grandparents give out money in a red envelop symbolizing luck. The amount of money de-pends on kid’s age. The older they are, the more the money they recieve. It’s the best moment of New Year.

Meng Meng (China)- Like Christmas lights and decorations in the United States, in China lanterns brighten up our streets and houses. The lantern festival, Shangyuan Festi-val, is held on the fifteenth day of the first year on the lunar calendar. There’s food everywhere, espe-cially all kinds of dump-lings. There are people welcoming people who are coming back home, the Dragon Dance, and so many other desirable events.

Religon 3 Students Learn About, Create Icons

Every year the Religion 3 classes make icons. Icons are stylistic painting on wood that are symbolic of the spiritual world and are “written” according to sacred rules. The Religion 3 students were all asked to choose a favorite or inspi-rational Saint and paint it. Icons must be made from four elements, including vegetable, ani-mal, mineral, and human. To incorporate all these elements, Mrs.

Schuler creates her own egg yoke paint which is the animal. The paint is made out of egg yoke, vinegar and water. The vegetable was the wood board the Icon was “written” on. For the incorpo-ration of the mineral, the students painted a finite amount of gold to accent their Icon. The human element is the iconogra-pher, or the “writer” of the Icon. When using Icons we must remember that Icons are invitations of worship and should not

Junior, Monica Michaud begins sketching out her Icon. She chose to “write” Saint Kateri Tekakwitha.

Executive StuCo Officers Luke Brull ‘13, Adam Urban ‘13, Ross Werth ‘13, Nick Schmidt ‘13, and sophomores Jorge Murra, Tophy Park, Diego Martin, Eduardo Chavez, Kolby Haselhorst, and Cain Sehl deliver toys. Photo by Pamela Chen ‘15.

be worshiped. Through-out church history there have been many contro-versies about Icons. The Iconoclasm is initially what split the church into the East and the West. Throughout the years many different popes have met with the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox churches to at-tempt to heal the schism, but little has been accom-plished

Jena Ernsting ‘14

Seasonal HappeningsDSNWK Angel Tree Gifts due back to school by Monday, Decem-ber 17th.

Immaculate Heart of Mary CYO partici-pated in “Drive by Prayers”.St. Joseph Life

Teen went Christ-mas Caroling and Gift Wrapped presents at “The Mall”.

St. Nick’s CYO purchased An-gel Tree gifts and made blankets for the women at the Mary Elizabeth Maternity Home.

Resident Stu-dents enjoyed the Christmas Formal Dinner.

High School Christmas Concert Monday, Decem-ber 17th.

Christmas FunPage 4 December 2012

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presentsjesusfeast

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Word Search

You know ___________ (Name), and Dancer, and Prancer, and ___________ (Name), Comet and Cupid, and __________ (Name), and Blitzen. But do you recall the most ___________ (Adj) reindeer of all?

__________ (Name), the _________ (Adj) –nosed _________ (Noun), had a very __________ (Adj) nose. And if you ever _________ (Verb) it you would even say it glows.

All of the other __________ (Noun) used to laugh and call him names they never let poor Rudolph _______ (Verb) in any reindeer games.

Then one_______ (Adj) Christmas eve _______ (Name) came to say, “________ (Name) with your _________ (Body Part) so bright, won’t you ________(Verb) my _______(Noun) tonight?”

Then all the reindeer ________ (Verb) him as they shouted out with glee, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, you’ll go _______ (Adj) in history!!

Christmas Song-LibAsk a friend for words to fill in the blanks with the appropriate part of speech. Then see how your version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer turns out!

Create your own Stocking CompetitionInstructions- By the end of Tuesday December 18th hand in your stocking to Mrs. Sramek at room 103! Then they will be judged by Bailey Rome, Matea Gregg, and Mrs. Sramek on Wednesday December 19th and will be announced on the announcements at the end of the day!Good Luck and Happy Coloring!

“Season tickets to the Kansas City Music Theatre and I want Hannah to get a full scholarship for throwing shot-put in track, so I won’t have to spend money on her.” Mrs. Amrein

“A puppy inside a black Range Rover holding an iPhone.” Hannah Dreiling ‘13

“A record player, a baby monkey, and Shakira.” Skyler Urban ‘14

“One Direction headphones. I would say Harry Styles, but I know he wouldn’t be there and I don’t want to disappoint myself.” Laurel Hageman ‘15

“A trampoline because I like jumping and I’m a natural jumper!” Braiden Werth ‘15

“The Nemo Combo Pack- HD and the fish. Also a new girlfriend.” Lucas Stouffer ‘16

What do I Want Under My Christmas tree?

1 What is Frosty the Snowman’s nose made of?

2 How many reindeer are there?

3 What does the true love give on the tenth day, in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas?

4 What three gifts did the wise men bring to baby Jesus?

5 In A Christmas Carol who is the first ghost to ap-pear to Scrooge?

6 Who wins the decorating contest in A Charlie Brown Christmas?

7 Who got to carve the first piece of roast Beef?

8 What was Scrooge’s first name?

9 In what city did Miracle on 34th Street take place?

10 What is St. Nicholas the patron saint of?

Christmas Trivia

Christmas Trivia Answers

1. Button2. Nine3. Ten lords a Leaping4. Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh5. Jacob Marley6. Snoopy7. Grinch8. Ebenezer9. New York City10. Children

What’s Your Favorite Christmas movie?A Christmas Story - 8%

The Polar Express - 3%

A Charlie Brown Christmas - 3%

Elf - 35%

The Santa Clause - 0%

Home Alone - 27%

How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 10.5%

Miracle on 34th Street - 1%

It’s A Wonderful Life - 1%

A Christmas Carol - 1%

Christmas Vacation - 10.5%Compiled by Alyssa Keil ’15 & Bethany Staab ‘15

Developed by Matea Gregg ‘15 & Bailey Rome ‘15

Created by Ryan Ruder ‘16 & Lucas Stouffer ‘16

Compiled by Taylor Dinkel ‘16 & Kelsie DeWitt ‘16

Created by Bethany Weber ‘15 & Adrianna Staab ‘15

Compiled by Taylor Gabel ‘16 & Olivia Herbel ‘16

FeaturesDecember 2012 Page 5

The University of Kansas’ musical, Into the Woods, was very much a production piece, and had everything a good show should offer. The show started off with a bang, showcas-ing the talents that KU has to offer in vocals, set design, costuming, and lighting and sound ef-fects. Throughout the show, singing is the major form of communication between characters, and with the audience, and spoken dialogue was sel-dom used, something I’d assumed I would dislike. Instead, it helped move the show along, and was a great way to show-case the numerous vocal talents the University of Kansas has to display.

The characteriza-tion of the cast was great, and the characters of Lit-tle Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella’s prince stole the show by completely transforming into incred-ibly believable and realis-tic versions of their char-acters. Also, the cast knew how to fix problems in the show, as any good cast should. A techni-cal malfunction caused a bird prop to “hang” itself on stage and Little Red, had it off before the audi-ence could do more than chuckle. The set design de-serves just as much praise as the actors. It included a rotating stage which held a forest made out of fabrics hung down from the ceiling to look like trees, along with hous-es that could easily be

Lexie Wasinger ‘15

Musical review: Into the Woodsbrought out when needed and didn’t look distract-ing. The queen’s spark shooting staff was great, but the origami birds, and the cow with a handle left more to be desired in the props department. Costuming in this show was either hit or miss. The costumes of the baker and his wife fit their roles to a T, as did the witch, and Little Red Riding Hood’s. The roles of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White were a miss, as you could not tell who they were other than the fact one held an apple and the other yawned. The show overall did its purpose of tell-ing the story of Into the Woods which gives fairy-tales a modern revamp. I felt it was a great show, enjoyable for all ages and frankly fun to watch.

FBLA Launches School Snack Shack

How do you think Santa gets around the world in 1 night?

Pick ‘Em: Who Will Win the BCS Bowl Games?We asked our in-house football authorities. Here are their picks for the big games.

Student Council Plans Lock-In

In a response to student complaints about the new dietary guide-lines for school lunches, and the reality that stu-dent athletes need fuel to sustain them through practices, FBLA has started a Snack Shack after school outside the field house. For $1 per item, students can grab a quick snack before heading off to their various practices. Healthy snacks included Life Water, Gatorade, granola bars, and the like are available for pur-chase. While this is ad-vantageous for the stu-dent-athlete, it is also valuable real-world entrepreneurial experi-ence for the members of FBLA.

Members must handle the monetary transactions, but they are also responsible for track-ing inventory, stocking the inventory, and man-aging the books to make sure everything balances. FBLA will use their profits to help fund their competitions in the Spring. Just in time for Christmas, the Snack Shack is also selling Gift Certificates, available in $1 increments. These could be a great gift for a friend, or a good stocking stuffer for parents to get for their students. If you are inter-ested in purchasing gift certificates, you should contact Mrs. Judy Mitch-ell at TMP-Marian..

For several years, students have been asking through different organizations for a school lock-in. Their wish is finally coming true. The Student Council is planning a lock-in for the evening of January 6th. Doors will open at 10 pm, and students will be dis-missed at 8 am on Janu-ary 7th. Tickets are being pre-sold to this event since it will take place before students return to school following Christmas Break. The cost of a ticket is $3 and a snack or 2-liter of pop, or $5 by Decem-ber 19th. Signed per-mission slips must be turned in when purchas-

ing a ticket. In addition to a wide range of mov-ies, music, and games such as dodgeball and basketball, pizza, pop, snacks, and rolls will be served throughout the lock-in. Students may bring pillows, sleeping bags, or any other per-sonal items. It is important for students and parents to know that there will be zero tolerance for al-cohol, tobacco, or any other drug use or pos-session. All activities will take place on the TMP-Marian Campus. If anyone has questions regarding the lock-in, they should contact Mrs. Kathy Taylor at TMP.

Mr. Meagher Notre Dame Kansas State Florida Stanford

Notre Dame vs Alabama

Kansas State vs Oregon

Florida vs. Louisville

Stanford vs. Wisconsin

Mr. MontgomeryNotre Dame - With visions of Rudy dancing in my head, there is no way I could ever put Bama ahead

Oregon - Would love to root for the home state, but have you seen the Ducks uniforms?!

Florida - Speed kills, and Florida will be too fast and too furious for Louisville

Wisconsin - Stanford has not official mas-cot...unless you call a Tree or the color Cardinal a mascot... so how could they ever com-pete with the mean old Bad-gers of Wisconsin

Mr. Flax Notre Dame Oregon Louisville Wisconsin

Mr. DeWitt

Notre Dame It will be Catholics vs. Cous-ins for the National Champi-onship and the school with the deeper gene pool will win. Go Irish!

Oregon Ironic that this game was originally on K-State’s schedule for this year, but the Bill Snyder Schedul-ing School of Self-Esteem replaced this game in favor of a traditional cupcake op-ponent. As brilliant at Coach Snyder is, he should know not to mess with the football gods. Ducks soar.

Florida - Is Louisville threatening to become a football power? No. Besides, anyone that has Rick Pitino on their payroll is clearly in cahoots with Beel-zebub and doesn’t even know it. The Gators roll the Cardi-nals.

Wisconsin Unfor-tunately for Stanford, SAT stands for Scores A lot of Touchdowns, which is what Wisconsin will do as they are led for one game by former coach Barry Alvarez. The fact that Stanford has a mas-cot that looks like a Christ-mas Tree won’t help them.

Allen Hsu ‘13: “He’s Santa

Claus, he can do anything...

he could even be invisible.”

Chelsea Zimmer-man ‘13: “Time Zones make it pos-sible!”

Skylar Urban ‘14: “He trains hard...CAR-DIO and that’s it. Red Bull, it gives you wings!”

Allison Hohmann ‘14: “I think his sleigh is a rocket-ship and it

goes really fast.”

Mrs. Stacie Lang: “Mir-acles happen every day. Santa is just another miracle.”

Mr. Randy Brull: “There once was

a young lady named Bright,

whose speed was faster than light. She left home one day in a relative

way and re-turned the previ-

ous night.”

Dylan Zimmerman ‘16: “Super turbo jets, and he slows down time”

Penny Chu ‘15: “He throws presents into a hole, the hole sucks the presents, and the hole delivers all of the pres-

ents.

Competitions Page 6December 2012

Chess Team Goes Undefeated Through 1st Semester

Scholars Bowl Looks to Return to State Winning Ways

Wrestling Team Suffers Loss

Chess Team Members Jacob Brull ‘14, Bill Wiebe ‘13, Ryan Hammerschmidt ‘14, Patrick Kepka ‘16, Peak Navanim-itkul ‘16, Justyce Briney ‘16, Joshua Stark ‘16, and Jacob Werth ‘15 show off their 1st place trophy from the North-field Tournament. Photo courtesy of Mr. Randy Brull.

Winning is no stranger to the TMP-Mar-ian Chess team. The team recently brought home their fourth 1st place tro-phy of the semester. The team scored a season-high 16.5 point in their first place finish. Junior Jacob Brull placed 2nd individually with 4.5 points. Placing 3rd was teammate Ryan Hammer-schmidt ‘14, also with 4.5 points. Senior Bill Wiebe scored 4 points to just miss the top ten, placing 11th, and Patrick Kep-ka placed 15th with 3.5 points. In November, the team brought home the championship trophy by scoring 15 points in the Concordia tournament. Justyce Briney ‘16, Wiebe ‘13, and Joshua Stark ‘16 each scored 4 points each. They completed the top ten individually by plac-

Jordan Staab ‘13

Maria Marcotte ‘13 The winning tra-ditions of the TMP-Mar-ian Scholars Bowl is not easily missed in a school focused on academic ex-cellence. After the team failed to make it to State last year to defend it’s ti-tle for the second straight year, the team this year looks to regain it’s former glory. The team placed 4th in the Natoma tour-nament. It was the first time in six years that the team failed to win it’s opening tournament. The team improved greatly in their second tournament at Wichita West, reach-ing the semi-finals before failing to make the cham-pionship round on a tie-

ing 8th, 9th, and 10th re-spectively. In October, the team was awarded the first place prize on a tie breaker over host school Independent. Not only was the team awarded first place, but Brull ‘14 was also the individual champion of the tour-nament with 5 points. Kepka placed 8th with 4 points. The team started competition this year at home in September. While hosting 12 schools, they took away the 1st and 3rd place team tro-phies with Brull and Hammerschmidt placing 7th and 8th respectively in the individual stand-ings. The future looks bright for TMP, as the Monarchs also took 1st place in the junior high division as well. The next outing for the Mon-archs will be Jan. 26 at Onaga.

breaker. The team’s most recent outing at Col-by came with a second place finish to Goodland. Throughout the season, the progress is showing, and the team hopes to continue with this pat-tern through the regional tournament and securing a spot at State. This year’s team is led by Senior Ross Werth, and Juniors Jacob Brull, Rachel Becker, Justin Raynesford, and Ryan Hammerschmidt. The team is once again coached by Mr. Don Hageman. With the addi-tion of a junior high team, the return to glory is sure to be secured for years to come.

Jordan Staab ‘13 In the season opener at Ellsworth, the team lost to the Bearcats 30-36. At 106#, Lucas Stouffer ‘16 was pinned at the 1:50 mark of the first period, and Ricky Hockett ‘16, wrestling at 120#, was also pinned, but at the 2:35 mark of the second period. Senior Lucas Walker ‘13, wrestling at 138#, was pinned by Ells-worth’s Zach Martin at 2:48 in the second period. Jacob Roth ‘16 was also pinned by the Bearcats at the :52 mark of the first period.

The Monarchs lost 12 points to open weight classes, but gained 6 points, as the Bearcats did not put anyone against Austin Werth ‘13 in the 160# class. Jared Gabel ‘14, at 152#, was able to win via pin at the 1:44 mark in the first period, and David Moeder ‘14, 170#, was able to follow that with another pin at 1:38 in the first period. Nick Schumach-er ‘14 was open at 220#. Mason Lagree ‘16, at 285#, won via pin at 3:28 in the second period. The team most

recently traveled to Min-neapolis and scored 32.5 points, placing 12th out of 14 teams. L. Walker ‘13 placed 3rd in the 132# class. Results from the Riley County Invitational were unavailable at press time. Upcoming wres-tling competitions include the Hoisington Tourna-ment on December 14, MCAA at Larned on Jan-uary 3, Norton Tourna-ment on January 5. The Monarchs will see home action against Russell on Janu-ary 10.

Monarch Basketball Teams Drop Openers in Shootout

Kade Megaffin ‘13 steals the ball from Kearney.

Maria Marcotte ‘13 The season-open-ing tournament did not go as hoped for many Mon-arch fans or players. Both teams faced Kearney, NE, with the boys team leading off the night for a change. The Monarchs struggled with scoring early, and eventu-ally fell in defeat, 44-83. The Lady Mon-archs stayed close in their game against Kearney, but frustration was evi-dent at times, especially as Senior Heather Ruder would be double-teamed. It was clear that teams were taking note of the loss of last year’s seniors Rachel Jacobs and Jenna Lang. Senior Annie Mindrup had great shoot-ing in the first half, and the team looked to be in good form. However, turnovers were the key, and the Lady Monarchs lost the game 36-47. On the second afternoon of the tourna-ment, both teams faced

Great Bend. Once again, the Monarchs were hurt by turnovers from fast-play. Missed passes and throwing into coverage made for some difficult transitions. The Panthers went on to defeat the Monarchs 53-27. The Lady Mon-archscontinued to adjust to the new schemes, set plays, and strategies that come with a new coach and new systerm. The Lady Monarchs would eventually lose in the sec-ond round to the Panthers by a score of 37-58. In the last round of the tournament, Coach Joe Hertel slowed down the offense, and it paid off for the Monarchs. The team forced 27 turnovers from Colby as the Mon-archs took 7th place in the tournament through a 43-33 win over the Eagles. The Lady Mon-archs were not as suc-cessful in the last round, losing 24-33 to the Colby Eagles. Both teams show a

strong capacity for growth and learning. The players have proven themselves at moments in the games, and the key to success will be to continue to ex-pand those moments into full-quarters, halves, and eventually games. The teams were back in action on Tues., December 11 against

Larned. Results were not available at press time. The teams will play in Victoria on De-cember 18th and host Larned on December

20th. The teams will re-turn to action after Christ-mas with a home game versus Abilene on Janu-ary 8th.